The Gallery at Mercer County Community College announced the award winners for “Mercer County Artists 2011” at an opening reception on March 9. The exhibit, which runs through April 7, features 120 works by 95 artists who live, work, or study in Mercer County.
The annual exhibit is a collaboration between the college and the Mercer County Cultural and Heritage Commission. The gallery is on the second floor of the Communications Building on Mercer’s West Windsor campus. The exhibit features approximately 80 two-dimensional works and 40 three-dimensional works. Most art media are represented, including oils, watercolors, charcoal, ceramics, wood, handmade paper, acrylics, and mixed media. One-quarter of the selected artists are newcomers.
“Without all of you, our lives would be much less colorful,” Tricia Fagan, the gallery curator and director, told the artists at the awards ceremony. Fagan is a West Windsor resident.
Honorable mentions were awarded to six artists including Dee Gozonsky of West Windsor, a retired art teacher, for her watercolor, “River Bank.” “The exhibit is exemplary and outstandingly diverse,” Gozonsky says. “This show was wonderfully juried.”
Winners of awards from the West Windsor Arts Council included Katarzyna Iwaniec for her oil painting, “Pink Table,” and Ronald W. LeMahieu for his raku-fired ceramic, “Trio” and mosaic “Skull/Black & White.”
Other artists from West Windsor who have works in the exhibit include Ina Brosseau Marx, Tito Cascieri, Louis Cicchini, Ilene Dube, Janet Felton, and Amy Frankel. Also, Renee Kumar, Blanche Lacher, Lori Langsner, Kathleen Liao, Kuen Liao, Glenn Miller, Elizabeth Peck, Mary Ann Weisser, and Andrew Werth. Plainsboro resident J. Marion Simmons also has a work in the exhibit.
Now in its 39th year, the Mercer County Artists show continues to exhibit works in all media (except for photography, which is featured in a separate county show) by both well-established and emerging artists. Gallery hours for the show are Mondays, 6 to 8 p.m.; Tuesdays, 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; Wednesdays, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 4 to 8 p.m.; and Thursdays, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. For more information, call 609-570-3589.
