Fall/Winter 2006/2007 Exhibitions

October 8, 2006 – April 29, 2007

Each year the ISC presents an award competition to its member colleges and universities as a means of supporting, encouraging, and recognizing the work of young sculptors.  Professors are invited to nominate their outstanding undergraduate or graduate students to submit digital images to be juried by a panel of art professionals.  This year, 377 graduate and undergraduate students from both national and international colleges and universities were nominated.  Students whose work is chosen by the jury are awarded the opportunity to show their work at Grounds For Sculpture in this group exhibition.  Twenty-two students were selected to exhibit their juried artwork this year—10 additional students received Honorable Mentions.  The Honorable Mentions have been invited to participate in a group exhibition at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey.  In addition, award winners receive a posting of their work, their biography, and a spotlight of their college/university’s art department on the ISC website, and further recognition for their work and school published in Sculpture magazine. 

The twenty-three works showcased in this exhibition demonstrate a wide range of creative thought, artistic skill, and original talent.  The sculptures range in size from the smallest, Evan Blondell’s Lawn Mower at 2.25” x 2.5” x 3.5”, to more massive works such as Vincent Donarski’s Drawing Tool #4/Wheel and Filip Jonker’s Terra Nulius.  Also included are installations whose dimensions are dictated by the exhibition space, for example, Steven Beatty’s Juicy, Carolyn Hopkins’ Wildlife Series, and Penelope Stewart’s Canopy.  Not only are the sculptures in this exhibition comprised of a multitude of different media—syringes, Plexiglas, and geodes made with crystal cast Monopoly houses—the works reflect a cornucopia of statements and personal meanings. 
 
This year, the distinguished jury included three jurors—Lynne Allen, Marsha Moss, and Beverly Semmes.  Lynne Allen, formerly an educator at Mason Gross School of the Arts and Director of the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper at Rutgers University, is now the Director of the School of Visual Arts at Boston University.  Marsha Moss, an independent public art curator and consultant, currently serves as Public Art Consultant for the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia and the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority.  New York artist and educator, Beverly Semmes, is well-known for her larger-than-life size fabric installations.  Her work has been shown extensively in the United States and abroad.

The International Sculpture Center is a member-supported, nonprofit organization founded in 1960.  The mission of the organization is to advance the creation and understanding of sculpture and its unique, vital contribution to society.  The ISC seeks to expand public understanding and appreciation of sculpture internationally, demonstrate the power of sculpture to educate, effect social change, engage artists and arts professionals in a dialogue to advance the art form, and promote a supportive environment for sculpture and sculptors.  The organization continues to fulfill this responsibility through conferences and technical seminars, publication of Sculpture magazine, a comprehensive website, membership services, and educational programs.

2006 ISC Student Award winners
All artwork:  Courtesy of the Artist

Shara Appanaitis
University of Houston, Pasadena, TX
Shed Arias, 2005
mixed media
14” x 6” x 6” (each element)

Stephen Atwood
Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
80 lbs., 2005
fabricated metal
42” x 68” x 60”

Steven Beatty
Portland State University, Portland, OR
Juicy, 2006
mixed media
dimensions variable

Carolyn Hopkins Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO Wildlife Series, 2006 mixed media dimensions variable     Filip Jonker Aki Artez, Enschede, Netherlands Terra Nulius, 2006 wood 136” x 117” x 58”   Nathalie Miebach Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA Boston Tides, 2006 reed 96” x 96” x 35”   Adam Niklewicz SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY Sometime Last January I had Awoken in the Morning with My Hand Up, 2005 fabric, wood, light bulb, rotating device 40” x 32” x 32”     Disnarda Pinilla University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA During the Night, 2006 mixed media 96” x 96” x 82”     Crystal Schenk Portland State University, Portland, OR Have and Have Not, 2006 mixed media 40” x 40” x 24”     Snail Scott Washington University, St. Louis, MO Plans, 2005 blueprints, styrene foam 144” x 180” x 60”   Joshua Smith University of Dallas, Irving, TX The Suburbs of the Emerald City, 2006 mixed media dimensions variable     Penelope Stewart SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY Canopy, 2005 fabric dimensions variable     Gregory Witt Indiana University, Bloomington, IN Untitled (surface with sticks #1), 2005 mixed media 14” x 123” x 25”

Evan Blondell
SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY
Lawn Mower, 2006
mixed media
2 1/4” x 2 1/4” x 3 1/2”

Eamon Brown
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Victoria, 2005
wood
72” x 48” x 48”

Amy Chaloupka
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Wisconsin Range, 2005
paper
24” x 18” x 18”

Vincent Donarski
University of Maryland, Adelphi, MD
Drawing Tools #4/Wheel, 2006
steel
96” x 144” x 84”

Vincent Donarski
Proposal Drawing for Wheel, 2006
pencil on paper
24” x 36”

Jessica Drenk
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Reading Our Remains, 2005
(selection from 130 piece installation)
books, wax
dimensions variable

Samuel Ekwurtzel
University of Hartford, Hartford, CT
go-go, 2006
expandable foam, oscillator
22” x 22” x 11”

Eloisa Guanlao
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Voyage In…Voyage out: Adaptation, 2005
wood
16” x 144” x 14”

Andrew Hadle
University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Picasso and Barbie, 2006
wood, fabric
20” x 12” x 7 1/2”

David Herbert
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Crystal Palace Hidden Fortress, 2006
plexiglass
120” x 60” x 60”