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| Joel Spector - O. Aldon James - 50 X 34 in., oil |
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| Rose Frantzen - Mrs. Zimmerman - 42 X 50 in., oil |
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| Casey Childs - Biangle (Portrait of Lauren and Everett) - 55 X 42 in., oil |
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| Teresa Oaxaca - Father Time - 54 X 62 in., oil |
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| Patricia Watwood - Fate - 35 X 24 in., oil |
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| Alicia Ponzio - Claudia Regina Del Fiume - 20 X 7 X 10 in., plaster |
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| Jesus Villarreal - The Mirror - 68 X 42 in., oil |
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| Jeremy Lipking - Skylar in Blue - 16 X 12 in., oil |
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| Ardith Starostka - The Bishop - 50 X 36 in., oil |
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| Juan Martinez - Robin - 18 X 12 in., oil |
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| Amy Kann - Berkely - 9 X 9 in., bas relief |
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| William Nathans - Sean - 60 X 36 in., oil |
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| Evert Ploeg - Self Portrait in Bathroom - 44 X 54 in., oil |
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| Ellen Cooper - Defiance of Erebus - 62 X 36 in., oil |
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| David Bowers - The Collector - 38 X 30 in., oil |
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| Scott Burdick - Undercover - 40 X 30 in., oil |
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| James Hill - Contemplation - 22 X 10 X 12 in., ceramic |
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| Thomas Reis - The Twilight Hour - 12 X 16 in., oil |
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| John Seibles Walker - Mary Rinehart - 54 X 36 in., oil |
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| HongNian Zhang - A Hero of Nanjing: The Courage of Minnie Vautrin |
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24 comments:
All I know is I'm glad I'm not a judge in this competition! I could never choose. I do love Lipking's painting . . .
I tryed to check their website to see if I could vote online, but was not able to locate any information. Is it possible? Any links?
Great paintings, all. The one I kept returning to was "Sean". The artist did a marvelous job depicting him and leaving us with questions at the same time.
Lipking's by miles. Though I do very much like Jesus Villareal's and Thomas Reis's work. An amazingly talented group!
Lipking's, Cooper's and Reis'.
Matthew, thanks for coverage of PSOA. Lipkings my top choice and I echo Danielle comments as well as Thomas Reis. Congrats to all.
Have to say all of our votes may change if we saw these paintings in real life. Some of these really large works would gain a certain impact when viewed in person. But from these photos I have to make my pick for number one Jesus Villareals's. The restraint in color and overall composition is very well crafted.
The sculpture pieces. They never get enough credit..
Well I would have to go for Lipkings.
Mainly because it is the only work that does not stink of photographic references.
Defiance Of Erebus FTW.
My vote goes to Jesus Villareal, best piece here.
And by the way it was not done from photo references, it was painted from life using a mirror in his studio.
As a painter I appreciate the skill used in Joel Spector's piece, but Jeremy Lipking's has been my favorite painting since it first came out last year.
wow, that was a tough choice. I liked Villareal's painting the best too but I would have liked to have picked 3 of them! I do like mirror self-portraits.
Buenísimos todos estos retratos. No sabría por cual decantarme. Un saludo.
@ Jim - I'm 95% sure Lipking's was painted from a photo (though he has a lot of alla prima painting knowledge to back up his reference). Works like Frantzen's and Villarreal's are just some of the pieces done from life.
I admire ALL of them purely for their top notch skills in painting photo-realistic quality paintings. Really envious of that skill. Once you get there, you really can't get any better than that on a technical level.
But my biases would have me pick paintings like Lipking, Zhang, Ploeg and Burdick for their expressive brush strokes, like that in Lipking's rendering of hair and Zhang's collage-like story-telling. Zhang's a bit stronger because it goes a bit beyond the portrait theme. To me, that stands out more and tells me that it is a painting and not a photograph.
Just my 2 copper.
Generally speaking, I am not fond of portraits in which the photo reference is too obvious (no matter how skilfully they were rendered). I particularly dislike paintings that have been slavishly copied from photos - warts and all, including the glaring lens aberrations and equally focused areas.
In my view, Alicia Ponzio's and
Jesus Villarreal's pieces are the best.
Evert Ploeg's painting is interesting, as well. I like the brushwork, but it looks as the portrait, not self portrait.
As for the Rose Frentzen -
I was always fond her portraits but I do think that this one would be more powerful without the figure in the mid-ground (or he could have been posed - for the sake of story - in a bit different way).
Having been lucky enough to see these in person, I am thrilled that Ploeg's work took a high honor - I must have stared at that piece for ten minutes, and was also delighted to meet the humble artist in person. Jesus was a charming young man, and his piece was striking in person, an excellent composition. I think Rose's work had the most amazing atmosphere - I really loved it. Congrats to the winners!
http://krystyna81.blogspot.com/2011/04/does-tradition-trump-creativity.html
(my take on the show)
I also saw these in person, and I thought this year's finalists, as a group, were more impressive and interesting (in terms of subject matter) than ever before. My favorites were Ellen Cooper's and Rose Frantzen's.
great work .
who is the artist ?
is he on facebook?
Evert Ploeg's self portrait blew me away! Fantastic!
Joan
@Jaspreet - Many of the 20 finalists are on Facebook, if not all.
Jesus Villareal's work is my choice. @ Jim no need to be nasty sir. But let me just say that I have seen many artists who claim only to work from life but their work lacks originality and imagination.
Ellen Cooper - what understated drama!
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