Entries

Entries were displayed on a private web page developed by Leslye Bloom with enlargable thumbnails (screen capture above is rotated 90degrees counter-clockwise). Jeffry emailed his choices, which were then highlighted for confirmation.

September 14, 2009: Jeffry selected thirty works by twenty six artists from 199 entries by 68 artists. Their hometowns are illustrated at the right.

 

Biography

Jeffry Cudlin became the Director of Exhibitions for the Arlington Arts Center in August of 2007. Jeffry is an artist, critic, educator, and independent curator. He is best known in the region as the Washington City Paper’s art critic  - since 2004, he has written features about museum and gallery shows in and around Washington, D.C. In 2008 & 9, the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies recognized him with a First Place award for arts criticism in papers with circulations greater than 50,000. He won third place for the same award in 2006. His visual arts blog, Hatchets and Skewers, is nationally recognized.

As an artist, Jeffry has organized projects in Washington, Baltimore and Richmond. In 2006 he received a grant from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities for his project at Flashpoint Gallery with fellow University of Maryland professors Jefferson Pinder and Christopher Hoeting. That show examined gentrification, race, and identity through collaboration in a variety of media, including painting, performance, and video. Most recently, Jeffry’s mockumentary, Ian and Jan: The Washington Body School, appeared at DCAC and received accolades in the Washington Post. For that project, Cudlin and his collaborator, Meg Mitchell, performed an art-historical intervention by interviewing local art luminaries - including artist Sam Gilliam and former Corcoran curator Jonathan Binstock - and asking them to describe a nonexistent D.C. art movement.

Jeffry has also taught painting, drawing, and art theory since 2003 as an adjunct at The University of Maryland, College Park. While teaching there, he worked closely with the University Union Gallery on a number of projects, including organizing and moderating panel discussions in conjunction with exhibitions, and designing and teaching a theory course funded by the gallery, Contemporary Art: Theory, Markets and Collecting. Jeffry received his M.F.A. from the University of Maryland, College Park, and his undergraduate degree in studio art from the University of Virginia. view Jeffry's website

 

Credits:

Limitations: Works must be original, done without supervision, and completed since January 1, 2007. All 2-D work should be framed, wired, and ready for hanging (no clip frames or sawtooth hangers). Frame size must not exceed 48 in. (h or w), 6 in. deep. 3-D works should not exceed 80 lb., or 5 ft. on longest dimension.

What's a handicraft? Works whose designs were mainly copied by the artist, like paint-by-the-numbers kits, cross stitches from patterns, or works done under supervision are examples. Handicrafts are not original works, and may violate another's copyright.

Reproductions, like Giclee 'prints' of an original oil painting, are similarly ineligible.

Liability:Artists wishing protection should insure their work. New River Art, it's Sponsors and/or the Fine Arts Center for the New River Valley will not be responsible for damaged, lost, or stolen works.

Agreement: Submission of entry materials constitutes an agreement to show any work selected, and to comply with all conditions set forth by the committee. Permission to reproduce images of the entries is assumed. Entry materials will be returned only if self-addressed, stamped envelope is provided.The committee reserves the right to withhold entries from exhibition.This includes delivered works that do not resemble submitted images. No artwork may be removed from the gallery until the pick-up date.

Additional Information: 540-980-7363 or email us at info@facnrv.org