“The Work Party: The Workbench” by Trenton’s David Orban won Best in Show at “Mercer County Artists 2015.”
East Windsor’s Janis Purcell poses with her work “Phoenix Rising” which won a Juror’s Choice Award at “Mercer County Artists 2015.”
Princeton’s Marina Ahun, poses with her work “New York Grand Central Terminal” which won an Honorable Mention at “Mercer County Artists 2015.”
The Gallery at Mercer County Community College held the Awards Ceremony and Opening Reception for the”Mercer County Artists 2015” exhibit on Feb. 4.
The show features 89 works by 63 artists in a variety of media including oil, acrylic and watercolor paintings, sculpture and mixed media collages.
The Utrecht-Blick Best in Show Prize went to David Orban of Trenton for “The Work Party: The Workbench.”
The Juror’s Choice Awards went to Janis Purcell of East Windsor for “Phoenix Rising” and Megan Uhaze of Hamilton for “The Eye.”
Juror’s Honorable Mentions went to Marina Ahun of Princeton for “New York Grand Central Terminal,” Elise Dodeles of Lambertville for “San Francisco Area Fighter A219, Ike O’Rourke”, James Doherty of Lawrence for “Wynwood Walls,” Timothy Fitzpatrick of Mercerville for “Low Tide” and Bill Plank of Lawrenceville for “Birth.”
County Purchase Awards went to Jamie Greenfield of Lawrenceville for “Seven Gold Coins,” Libby Ramage of Princeton for “Incantation,” John Pietrowski of Ewing for an untitled work, Adam Hillman of Pennington for an untitled work, Terri McNichol of Cranbury for “The Baptism” and Cathy Saska-Mydlowski of Hamilton for “South Beach.”
Katherine Liao of Princeton Junction won the West Windsor Arts Council prize for “Quantum Leap.”
Other featured artists include Ingrid Davis, Vijay Sawant and Cathy Tsao of East Windsor; Sean Carney, Marlene Hingstman and Caryn Newman of Ewing; Jamaila Hernandez of Franklin Park; Suzanne Migliori of Groveville; Emily Buchalski, Larry Chestnut, Mary Gilchrist, Kyle Hamilton, Michael Kane, Lea Novak and Dallas Piotrowski of Hamilton; Michael Buriani and Mark Wilkie of Hamilton Square; Susan Winter of Hightstown; Sue Chui, Chris Cooper, Scott Madsen, Elizabeth Pelikan and Larry Steele of Lawrenceville; Lynne Faridy of Levittown, Pennsylvania; Donna Blachford and Michael V. Pascucci of Monroe; Richard Bilotti and Joseph Dougherty of Pennington; Gabi Muenzel and J. Marion Simmons of Plainsboro; Priscilla Snow Algava, Joanne Amantea, Mechtild Bitter, Katja De Rutyer, Mary Dolan, Sejal Krishnan, Ronald A. LaMahieu, Ghislaine Pasteur, Christa Schneider, Judith Tallerman and Ellen Veden of Princeton; Janet Felton and Andrew Werth of Princeton Junction; Sheryl Bassman and Chris DuBois of Robbinsville; NJ DeVico of Titusville; Patricia Cook Rubino, Michael Kember, Arlene Gale Milgram and Mary Yess of Trenton; and Michele Bouchard, Al Chasan and Dee Gozonsky of West Windsor.
The exhibit is on display through Feb. 27.
The Gallery at MCCC is located on the second floor of the Communications Building on the college’s West Windsor campus, located at 1200 Old Trenton Road.
More information is online at mccc.edu/gallery.
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