For greater than 40 years, the Artists Journal Annual Artwork Competitors has known as consideration to at present’s most gifted artists and rising stars. Every year, 15 artists (a first-, second- and third-place winner in 5 classes) are awarded a money prize. These prizewinning artworks—in addition to 25 honorable mention-winning picks—are showcased within the January/February problem of Artists Journal. Important to the method are the 5 distinguished artists who function class jurors. We’re delighted to introduce the 5, fabulous artists who make up the jury for the 41st Annual Artwork Competitors—and to share a number of examples of their very own creative output.
When you’ve created art work you’re pleased with, these artists can be delighted to see it. You could find entry info and different particulars right here. To save lots of on entry prices, enter by the early-bird deadline of June 15, 2024.
Ron Hicks — Portrait/Determine Juror
Denver-based artist Ron Hicks (ronhicks.com) started his profession as a representational artist, utilizing a conventional method modeled after the model of 19th-century masters. His present physique of labor has developed into a mix of disciplines that marries abstraction and realism to create figural artwork that stirs an emotional response. Hicks’ creative acuity was acknowledged in his youth, which led to scholarships to proceed his instructional journey on the Columbus School of Artwork & Design in Columbus, Ohio, and the Colorado Institute of Artwork in Denver, Colorado. The artist has loved numerous solo exhibitions throughout his 25-plus 12 months profession, and his work is a part of collections throughout the U.S. and overseas.
Andy Evansen — Panorama Juror
Andy Evansen started portray as a change of tempo from his profession as a medical illustrator nearly 30 years in the past, and he’s now acknowledged as one of many prime watercolor artists within the nation. He’s a sought-after workshop teacher who paints and teaches internationally. Along with Signature Membership within the American Watercolor Society, Nationwide Watercolor Society and Clear Watercolor Society, he was elected as the one worldwide member of England’s Pure Watercolour Society, in 2022. Evansen’s work have gained quite a few awards, together with the Bronze and Excessive Winds Medals from the American Watercolor Society.
Melissa Hefferlin — Nonetheless Life/Inside Juror
In additional than three a long time as an expert artist, Melissa Hefferlin has centered about half of her inventive consideration on nonetheless life, impressed by her ardour for the formal and narrative prospects of the style. A proponent of each traditional and progressive interpretations of the shape, she admires stunning tableaux and masterful method in any model. Hefferlin’s creative coaching consists of research at Russia’s historic Academy of Artwork, in 1990–91, through the nation’s Soviet interval. She additionally studied at Otis/Parsons Artwork Institute, in Los Angeles, and on the College of Tennessee. The award-winning artist is a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America and the Affiliation of Pastel Painters of Spain, and an Affiliate Member of Oil Painters of America and American Ladies Artists. Along with showing in lots of artwork publications, Hefferlin’s art work—alongside that of her husband and son—is featured in a brand new hardcover guide, Parallel Journeys.
Stan Kurth — Summary/Experimental Juror
Artist and workshop teacher Stan Kurth has drawn and painted most of his life. An aunt, who was an artist and artwork teacher, grew to become a giant affect even earlier than he began college. Kurth lives with the conviction of “worry not” and that very same perspective permeates not simply his life however his artwork. Dedication to his work has earned him quite a few awards in addition to Signature Membership in a number of watercolor societies, together with the Nationwide Watercolor Society (wherein he enjoys Grasp standing), the San Diego Watercolor Society and the Western Federation of Watercolor Societies (the place he additionally holds a Grasp distinction). The artist presently lives in Arizona and travels extensively to show workshops in “intuitive portray” in watermedia and combined media.
Dana Hawk — Animal/Wildlife Juror
Dana Hawk is an oil painter who makes a speciality of animal and figurative work that’s primarily based in realism however leans into magical realism. The artist grew up in rural Missouri and attended Missouri State College, initially as an artwork scholar. She later switched her main to cell and molecular biology and went on to earn an M.S. in bodily remedy from the College of Colorado. She renewed her creative pursuits part-time, in 2003, and finally was capable of commit herself to a full-time artwork profession, in 2012. Hawk has since painted quite a few commissions, and her different work—each figurative and animal—have earned awards from The Portrait Society of America, Stunning Weird journal and the Artwork Renewal Middle, amongst different organizations.
