Trenton resident Michelle Rothwell stands in front of her work Passion Turbo, the Utrecht Best in Show winner on March 13, 2014.
Princeton resident Ilene Dube stands in front of her work Bowties and Butterflies, which was selected for a Purchase Award from the Mercer County Cultural and Heritage Commission.
Lawrenceville resident Helene Plank’s Self Portrait, made up of approximately 1,700 buttons, won Juror’s Choice and Purchase awards on March 13, 2014.
Princeton resident Ilene Dube stands in front of her work Bowties and Butterflies, which was selected for a Purchase Award from the Mercer County Cultural and Heritage Commission, on March 13, 2014.
Several local artists won awards for work submitted to the Mercer County Artists 2014 exhibition.
The exhibition features 96 works by 75 artists and includes oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, as well as mixed media collages and sculptures in clay, found art and recycled materials.
Gallery director Dylan Wolfe announced award winners with fellow presenters Tricia Fagan and Nora Añanos from the Mercer County Cultural and Heritage Commission during the opening reception on March 13.
The Pennington School Gallery curator Dallas Piotrowski served as judge.
Michelle Rothwell, of Trenton, won the Utrecht Best in Show Prize for Passion Turbo, a pigment ink on paper. Rothwell sculpted forms from a virtual blob of clay using the same 3-D tools used by game designers and film animators.
Princeton resident Mary Atlas and Lawrenceville resident Helene Plank won Juror’s Choice Awards. Plank also won a County Purchase Award.
Jurors awarded County Purchase Awards to Princeton resident Ilene Dube, Hightstown resident Susan Luty, and Churchville resident Kathleen Wallace.
Other featured artists are Ingrid Davis, Paul Mordetsky, Shaomei Wan and Susan Winter (East Windsor); Maurice Galimidi and Caryn Newman (Ewing); Michael Buriani, Larry Chestnut, Salvatore Damiano, Hanneke de Neve, Rob Enggist, Bob Justin, Jane Lawrence, Glenn Moore, Lea Novak, Margaret Simpson, Kyle Stevenson, Katie Truk, Megan Uhaze and Mark Wilkie (Hamilton Township); Catherine Babecki, Bob Barish and Charles McCullough (Hopewell Township); Sue Chiu, Kathleen Green, Deena Miller, Ruthann Perry, Mircea Popescu, Nancy Scott, Harvey Steinberg and Rena White (Lawrence Township); Marina Ahun, Joanne Amantea, Samita Bhatia, Mic Boekelmann, Ron LeMahieu, Diane Maller, Eugene McCray, Libby Ramage, Joel Rudin, Christa Schneider, Alice Sims-Gunzenhauser and Priscilla Snow-Algava (Princeton); Frank Bardachino, Greg Goodwine, Deborah Paglione and Maria Raimondo (Robbinsville Township); Tina Boyer, Ben Colbert, Bill Hoeflich, Arlene Gale Milgram and Michelle Rothwell (Trenton); Susan Ezzo, Janet Felton, Renee Kumar and Leona Rosso-Dzugan (West Windsor).
The exhibition set to be displayed through April 3 at the Gallery at Mercer County Community College.
The Gallery at Mercer is located on the second floor of the Communications Building on the West Windsor Campus, 1200 Old Trenton Road.
More information is online at mccc.edu/gallery.
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