Postcards From All Over - Biennial exhibit
2002 Results
Postcards from All Over 2002
Curated by joel Sampson
A mail-in postcard exhibition
by the Irving (Texas) Art Association
March 29 - April 26, 2002 at the IAA Center for the Arts
News - The Postcards From All Over is on tour! It's a rotating exhibit withthe schools of the Southern Highlands in Tanzania. The first stop is thecity of Mbeya. Special thanks to Barbara Fields for handling this tour!
It does not seem like it has been two years since the last joel SampsonBiennial, a.k.a. Postcards from All Over! This is the third exhibition,and by far the largest. We received art from 24 states and fourcountries, Japan, England, Sweden and the United States; a total of 397entries.
As usual, the quality was very high, which made my judging difficult.One of the interesting aspects of the show is the trend that happens.There was great patriotic art and quite a few animals. There was not asmuch abstract art this time. The original prints were interesting andquite a few were letterpress, which is having a resurgence as a fine artmedium.
The print making, collage, and painting (which was mostly water media)groups were especially strong. And the student art was outstanding -- andvery encouraging. Keep it up!
A few notes for next time: put on enough postage, print clearly, readand follow the rules.
Special thanks to Judi Sampson, who did the data entry and is always abig help, Calvin Axtell and Asel Art Supply, Inc. -- no one supports art more. And of course, the Irving Art Association and the City of Irving for the great space to hang the show.
Note: We are still planning on touring the exhibit in Africa. Due tothe world situation, we have hit a few snags though. If you have anyideas on exhibition venues, let us know!
The complete List of Entries is on-line, sorted by last name.
And here are a few photos of the opening and the show.
The winners art is on-line in JPEG format. It was scanned in at 72dpi and is life-size. All art is copyright by the artist.
Collage
1: Rosemary Cheney (Richardson, TX), Searching for Ancient Egypt
2: Tim Hall Maria Kebschull (Fort Worth, TX), Displaced
3: Birta Shubin (Irving, TX), The Abstraction of it All
HM: Alex Ambrose (Oakland, CA), untitled
HM: Janet Shaw (Plano, TX), Entry Entry
HM: Rayer Nemec (Dallas, TX), There and Back
Drawing
1: Victoria Chick (Fallbrook, CA), Sated Cats, Joplin, MO
2: Mattie Hinsley (Irving, TX), Summerview Along Alaqska Inside Passage
3: Blou Beard Powell (Longview, TX), That Fall Feeling
HM: Richard Hill (Irving, TX), Comic Girl
HM: Dorothy Blalock (Irving, TX), Canal Walk
HM: Virgil W. Smith (Quinlan, TX), To Water
Painting
1: Vicky Chaney (Dallas, TX), Postcard from Home
2: Takeshi Yokokawa (Japan), Rhythm
3: Harry Shields (Richardson, TX), Bryce Canyon Oz
HM: Sonia Jensen (Gig Harbor, WA), Aurora Barealis
HM: Margaret Jacobs (Irving, TX), Lonesome Joe
HM: Ramona Murphy (Wills Point, TX), Window Peekers
HM: Anne Lorene Bedford (Mabank, TX), A Lovely Bunch of Cocanuts
Painting - critters
1: Gail Delger (McKinney, TX), Evening Supper
2: Sue Lynn Cotton (Arlington, TX), Gourmet Blend
3: Wilson Fields (Irving, TX), Define Ugly
HM: Carmen Kelley (Dallas, TX), Catfish
Photography/Digital
1: Michael Arnold Mages (Lafayette, CO), Blissful Listening
2: Lisa Waldie (Dallas, TX), Exposition
3: Virginia Petrosius (Richardson, TX), My Bleeding Heart
HM: Norman Kary (Dallas, TX), The Crowd is Distracted..."
HM: John Adelman (Westerville, OH), Black Tuesday
Prints
1: Carol Parker (Madison, WI), Another Blue Forest
2: Kristi Meek (Lewisville, TX), Peek-a-boo
3: Arline Manzur (Bridgewater, NJ), From Painting to Relief
HM: Robyn Stoller (Dallas, TX), Unsaid
Student 7-12
1: Denise Galindo (Fort Worth, TX), Alberto
2: Victoria Yanet O.M. (Fort Worth, TX), Tree
3: Eric Robles (grade 8th) (Grand Prairie, TX), Untitled
HM: Karen Robes (grade 7) (Grand Prairie, TX), Untitled
HM: Larry Little (Grand Prarie, TX), Untitled
HM: Soledad Oropeza (Fort Worth, TX), Paradise
HM: Marco Alcantarg (grade 8) (Fort Worth, TX), Iglesia
Student K-6
1: Elizabeth Powers (grade 4) (Fort Worth, TX), Bird
2: Amanda (grade 4) (Argyle, TX), Untitled
3: Tori Moss Desormier (grade 1) (Fort Worth, TX), Bear
HM: Kate Durham (grade 6) (Fort Worth, TX), Leaf
HM: Sydney Schoolfield (grade 2) (Fort Worth, TX), Smile
