Honor Awards 2019
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- Published on Monday, 20 May 2019 14:02
- Category: Previous Gallery Exhibitions
Honor Awards 2019 June 15 - July 18, 2019. FREE opening reception Saturday, June 15, 5-7 p.m.
Please join Art Saint Louis for Honor Awards 2019 exhibition featuring new artworks by ten Award-winning artists curated from our 2018 juried exhibitions.
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Honor Awards 2019 features recent artworks by ten St. Louis regional artists from Missouri and Illinois. The 49 artworks in this exhibition include ceramics, drawing, mixed media, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture. The exhibit is presented June 15-July 18, 2019. A free opening reception is held Saturday, June 15, 5-7 p.m. Gallery hours are Monday 8 a.m.-4 p.m. and Saturday 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Closed Sundays & holidays. Closed July 4-6 for Fourth of July holiday. Serving as Curator of the Honor Awards 2019 exhibition was St. Louis-based artist Jessica Mannisi. Mannisi earned her Bachelor of Arts in Art History and a post-baccalaureate degree in museum studies from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. She served as Assistant Curator of the William & Florence Schmidt Art Center in Belleville, Illinois from 2009-2017. Her professional experience includes exhibition curation & installation, art conservation & restoration, arts education, and collections management. Jessica is currently working as an independent curator in the St. Louis area and has recently worked on curatorial projects for Houska Gallery and also for Art Saint Louis at the Angad Arts Hotel. Our Honor Awards exhibition is an annual exhibit presented so that our Award of Excellence-winning artists from the previous year's juried exhibitions have an additional opportunity to show their newest or more recent works and potentially have those works curated into a special ten-artist exhibition in the ASL Gallery. Although this is a curated exhibit, it is still highly competitive. For this year's exhibit, 25 St. Louis regional artists were eligible to submit works for curating and consideration—those artists who earned Awards of Excellence in our 2018 juried exhibits here at Art Saint Louis. Exhibit Curator, Jessica Mannisi, considered 150 artworks in all media by 23 (of the 25 eligible) artists, and her main role was to select only ten artists and the specific artworks by those artists to be exhibited for the final show. The ten featured artists in Honor Awards 2019 are: Favian Anello, St. Louis, MO |
Curator’s Statement
“First and foremost, I would like to thank Art Saint Louis for inviting me to jury the Honor Awards 2019 exhibition, and to extend my sincere gratitude to the artists who submitted work for consideration. Though I’ve been a curator for over a decade, my professional experience has generally encompassed executing solo exhibitions. Thus, it is always a special privilege to examine and curate a group of diverse artists and media for inclusion in the same show.
Special considerations must be taken into account when curating a group exhibition. Not only should the artist demonstrate a solid grasp of materials and processes, and exemplify a unique, compelling point of view, but the works must also compliment and/or contrast with other exhibited artists’ works to create a cohesive exhibition. The viewer experience is perhaps especially important with these exhibitions.
The ten chosen artists for this exhibition met all of these criteria, and represent some of the best Art Saint has to offer. As viewers walk through the gallery, I suggest observing the following: Barbara Holtz and Gena Loseto explore the mystery and beauty of the natural world, which contrast with the dystopian themes observed in the works of Mark Appling Fisher and Favian Anello. Ainura Ashirova Barron’s domestic paintings echo a time long-past. The organic forms of Snail Scott’s sculptures are mirrored in the compositions of Ann Miller Titus’ textiles. Song Park’s intimate, yet detached female forms correlate to the political and mental health issues of Deanna Row’s sculptures. And Justin Henry Miller's densely-packed compositions appear to react to them all.
It’s reassuring to see so many talented artists embodying Art Saint Louis’ goals in their capacity to reay something of transcendent meaning and playing an important role in provoking the social and spiritual consciousness of our community. Congratulations to all of the artists.”
— Jessica Mannisi, independent curator, St. Louis, MO
Some of the artworks featured in Honor Awards 2019:
 Favian Anello, St. Louis, MO. "Del Mar." 2016. Ink Transfer, Oil on Canvas, 48”x36”. $1,000. |
 Ainura Ashirova Barron, St. Charles, MO. "Crafting at Night." 2019. Oil, Acrylic on Canvas, 20”x26”. $1,200. |
 Mark Appling Fisher, St. Charles, MO. "Looking Out, Looking In." 2017. Digital Photograph, 30”x40". $750. |
 Barbara Holtz, Clayton, MO. "Last Look at the Mountain." 2017. Oil on Canvas, 60”x48". Not for Sale. |
 Gena A. Loseto, St. Louis, MO. "Unfold." 2018. Watercolor, Gouache on Yupo, 18”x24". $1,050. |
 Justin Henry Miller, Cape Girardeau, MO. "Poseidon." 2018. Acrylic, Aerosol on Paper, 35”x27". Not for Sale*. *Courtesy of Bruno David Gallery.. |
 Song Park, St. Louis, MO. "Metamorphosis." 2017. Oil on Linen, 60”x72”. $1,750. |
 Deanne Row, St. Charles, MO. "(Mental) Labyrinth." 2019. Encaustic, Papier Maché, Magnets, Found Leather, Local Stones, 12”x20”x9”. $800. |
 Snail Scott, Edwardsville, IL. "Synthetic Lifeform 3." 2015. Ceramic, Paint, Resin, LED, 20”x9”x6”. $600. |
Ann Miller Titus, Quincy, IL. "The Things We Carry: We Carry Each Other." 2018. Fiber, 28”x28". $900.
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