Hughes won $250 for the show’s top award. Other cash
prizes ($125 for first, $50 for second and $25 for third
place) were given in each category. Here is a list of
the winners:Michael Hughes’ painting “67 Ranchero, circa 1980” has been chosen as Best of Show in the Lake Norman Art League’s 2006 Fall Show, on display through Nov. 19 at Wooden Stone gallery, 445 S. Main St., Davidson.
The exhibition and sale features artworks submitted by art league members and other local artists, as well as 13 works selected for publication in the 2007 “Images of Home” calendar. The calendar is being sold to raise money for the Davidson Housing Coalition’s HAMMERS emergency home repair service.
Besides Hughes’ painting of an automobile, other works also won prizes in four categories: oil and acrylic painting; watercolor painting; prints, photographs and other two-dimensional work; and three-dimensional work, including sculpture. The awards were announced at a reception Friday, Nov. 10.
Juror for the show as well as the calendar was Charlotte artist Laura McCarthy www.lauramccarthy.net, who studied painting and art history at UNC Charlotte and has a bachelor’s degree from Davidson College.
Hughes won $250 for the show’s top award. Other cash
prizes ($125 for first, $50 for second and $25 for third
place) were given in each category. Here is a list of
the winners:
Best of
Show
-
Michael Hughes, painting, “67 Ranchero, circa 1980”
Acrylics & Oil
- 1st,
Lori Neill, “7 Up”; 2nd Michael Hughes, “Bar.B.Q. Chef”;
3rd, Beth Ybarra, “Watchful Ewe”
Watercolors
- 1st,
Ann Nolan, “Awakening LaRomita”;
2nd
Kathie Kemp, “Grapes of Vine”; 3rd, Sherry
DeFazio, “Memories”
Other
2-Dimensional work
- 1st, David Boraks, photograph, “Sidewalk
Signal”;
2nd,
Tiffany Fox, untitled print; 3rd, Belinda
Armstrong, mixed-media collage, “Summer Fence Line”
3-Dimensional Work
--
1st,
David Kaylor, turned wood, “Oak Burl Vessel”; 2nd,
Melody Rich, necklace, “Dreaming of Africa”; 3rd, Carol
Bruckner, ceramic, “Torn”
Pictured above, David Boraks, LC Neill, Ann Nolan, Juror Laura McCarthy, David Kaylor
Read Juror Laura McCarthy's comments for the winning entries here
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Best of Show - Michael Hughes, painting, “67 Ranchero, circa 1980”
Acrylics & Oil - 1st, Lori Neill, “7 Up”
Other 2-Dimensional work - 1st, David Boraks
Watercolors - 1st, Ann Nolan,
3-Dimensional Work -- 1st, David Kaylor, turned wood, “Oak Burl Vessel”;