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PineRidge Arts Council's 20th Annual Awards Presentations
Opening Reception of Juried Art Show

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PineRidge Arts Council's 2019 Juried Art Show
Jury Notes by Valerie Kent

Angela Hennessy I Promise to Write
LOU SCHNIPPERING AWARD
If “I Promise to Write” were not a painting, but a dance, it would be a majestic waltz. It entrances the viewer onto the dance floor of its strong design.
It is unique: its overall strength is its cruciform composition. Each shape fits from solidity into solidity. It has an armature of values that are clear and strong, with a prominent dark shape, the mid-tone proportionately placed over the picture plane, and all is highlighted by the lace of white light.
The colour choices are subtle, all working together as a unified whole. Further into the dance there are fields of ochre surprised by the reds repeated on the surface, hand-in-hand with the movement created by its obvious and inherent texture, rhythm, pattern.
This painting calls for nothing less, nothing more.

Gerry Herridge The Mighty Oak
ONTARIO POWER GENERATION AWARD
“The Mighty Oak” convolutes into pictorial design, playing dark against light.
It emphasizes an unusual point of view nudging and stretching into the negative space.
It attracts and retains attention with its verticality, balanced by horizontal strokes. The twisted diagonals create an instinctive conflict.
There is a finesse in how the delicate, singular lines converge to wrest themselves free to become a strong, powerful, solid whole.

Rosemary Olivier Woven Woodland
MAYOR’S AWARD
“Woven Woodland” is a symmetrical, horizontal composition.
It is also a statement in sharp, brilliant colour.
The selected colours transition expertly from warm to cool, left to right.
It has a clean, bright colourful center of interest. This work is beautifully realized.

Sheila Davis All That Jazz
ENBRIDGE PIPELINES AWARD
“All That Jazz” plays its music with a rhythm of rectangular, hard-edged snowshaped formations and loose brushstrokes.
Luminous verticals emerge from the warm golden background, then move closer to the foreground, overlapping and layering, by pillowing volumes to lift the snow-laden trees out from the forest.
Negative painting, interspersed with complementary and analogous colour highlights produce both a sense of harmony, and of strong movement.
The lower right quadrant centre of interest compels the viewer into the dynamic design.

Wayne Lovett The Mitsio, Nosy Be, Madagascar Dive Wreck
DURHAMWEST ARTS CENTRE INC. AWARD
This painting sees the world, “from both sides now.”
There is a harmony of colours, yellow, green, blue, purple, juxtaposed with subject matter of momentous discord.
A strong tie exists between the colour, the form, the shapes and lines, all working in tandem.
It is the perspective that entreats the eye beyond the surface but it is the creative energy that carries it.

Glenda Amodeo Mixed Media Abstract #5
ELEXICON ENERGY AWARD
“Mixed Media Abstract #5” is a Mondrianesque, reimagined imagery and incorporates bold colour playfulness.
It is unified, and has the ability to relay feeling within its technical artistry.
This work harbours the puzzle of textures and shapes which are breaking away within its defining constraints.

Ian Winton After the Game
ROTARY CLUB OF PICKERING AWARD
“After the Game” encapsulates fluidity and economy of form, the sparseness glides over the white surface.
The colour selection is subtle, in total harmony with the mode and grace of its expression. Ochre, black, burnt sienna, red and neutral gray are the DNA of the painting. The shapes appear to move and dance, morph and move again.
This is a clean, bright expression of mastery.

Cheryl Bannister WHAZ UP!
AWARD OF EXCELLENCE
“Here is where I stop horsing around and become a work of fine art.”
It is no happy accident that the point of view is unique and the focal area is a finely-crafted nostril. There is a judicious and careful placement of values, order and dimensionality.
The painting achieves individuality, a sense of self, by its brushwork and it is characterized by precision and detail.
It is an artistic glimpse into the mind of a very curious entity.

Marnie Bachuk Untitled
HONORABLE MENTION
Untitled has a pleasing, grainy monochromatic design with a center of interest in the left upper quadrant.
This is a world of texture upon texture, layer over layer, soft mottled passages, overprinted with swirls and lines.
This is where random, unplanned serendipity resides and meets a simulated, abstract and invented surface.

YOUTH AWARDS

Rylie Snedden Unmasked
OPTIMIST CLUB OF AJAX YOUTH AWARD
“Unmasked” is a painting that frames emotion into a portrait of confident technical ability.
It finds a balanced use of light and dark contrasts, appropriate to the mood conveyed.
Expressive strokes, lost and found, hard and soft edges are woven into a transition of values and shapes.
This painting captivates and offers a glimpse into an important hidden message.

Tanya Najib Delicate
MAYOR’S YOUTH AWARD
“Delicate” is a thoughtful work, fresh and eye-catching.
It has a pleasing division of space, a variation in the use of line that is orderly yet innovative.
The expression is one of poignancy, the capturing of a mood in a moment in time.

Afraa Alam Kehlani
YOUTH AWARD OF EXCELLENCE
“Kehlani” is an honest painting of clarity, with a portrait subject of sparkle and style.
The use of colour is warm and pleasing and is consistent with the dramatic flair of the artwork.
Technical ability is strong and confident.

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2019 Juror ~ Valerie Kent, BFA, BEd, MFA

Valerie paints in acrylic, oil, watercolour and mixed media. She enjoys working with and encouraging experimentation in her workshops. Her art is a combination of en plein air and studio work. She loves the landscape and has melded the two in her “The Marketplace Series”. Recently she facilitated workshops in Terrasson Lavilledieu (Dordogne) France, Loyalist College, and Luc's Sculpture Studio where she teaches Pouring Fluid Acrylics, monthly. She teaches Acrylic Painting and Watercolour Painting at the Continuing Education Department at Trent University. Ms. Kent has exhibited in group and solo exhibitions in Canada, France, Italy, Korea, Japan, China. Her work was exhibited at The Seoul District Prosecutor 1F, Naru Display Gallery, Korea.

Valerie is the Director and owner of Cavan Art Gallery & Academy in Cavan, Ontario. 
She writes for ARABELLA, Art, Architecture & Design magazine and for various website journals in Amsterdam, Spain and Italy.

www.valeriekent.com | www.cavanarts.ca | 705 944 9444

With regret we announce that the Juried Art Show for 2020 is Cancelled.
In this time of uncertainty, for the protection of our volunteers and for the protection of our community PineRidge Arts Council wishes to advise the 2020 Juried Art Show is officially cancelled. This decision was made after much consideration and discussion. We thank everyone for their support over the past 20 years and we look forward to "business as usual in 2021".

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95 Magill Drive | Ajax | L1T 3K7