April 2026 Show
Theme: In Bloom: Growth and Renewal
Judge: Lester Marks
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1st Place Larry Spitzberg Late Bloom; New Bloom It's a perfect work. I can just feel this older gentleman just contemplating where is his next step going to be and what is he going to find when he gets there. The lighting, the way it continues across the top [from] to here, here, to here, to here. Everything just works, the scale, the softness. Really, it's gentle. It's a complex work, but there's a gentleness to it at the same time. And I think that complexity and that gentleness work together to create the tension I mentioned. And to me, it was the first-place work.
2nd Place Rodrigo Aguilera Bocolo It speaks for itself - the composition, I have been to Venice. I have been on the gondola. I felt like I was there. There's no area of this work that's not perfection. I mean, you can even see the little bubbles, and you can see the little decay. I feel like I'm back.
3rd Place Jessie Meeks Eden in Color This is what you just call drop-dead gorgeous. I don't know what I need to say about it. There's luminosity. There's layering of color, and each layer shines through. There's no muddiness. The colors are like, wow - not on this earth, which is interesting because [the artist told me] this is the Garden of Eden. The inspiration was what God saw. Judge's Comments appear in italics, | Honorable Mentions
Margit Gergely Rebirth Under the Moon What I like most about this piece, and I tend to be a contemporary kind of guy. I thought that the figurative sky and the more contemporary ground create a tension between each other. I'm always looking for tension. I just found the detailing here to just be really exquisite.
Fontaine Jacobs Beauty and the Beast To be able to create this so lifelike is just magnificent.
Irene Sheytman Wisteria This piece just made me want to be there. Coming out of the Houston traffic to get here, the wisteria, just the garden, who wouldn't want to be there?
Regina West Heart Beat I just think the colors and the way that it comes in and out and in and out, that's what really catches me the most. It seems to almost have a pulsating life of itself. Beautiful.
Motoko Yasue The Observer I like the beautiful swirling movement of the painting and the adorable cat peeking out. |
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Plein Air for Members Piers 19 & 21 in Galveston Alla Adams, Coordinator April 25 11 am - 3 pm Saturday WAS-H Members Only |
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