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It’s always a delightful ‘View’ at Rosewood Gallery

Contributed photo Clockwise from top left: Art by Annette Cargill, George Armstrong and Jonathan Quick.

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By Pamela Dillon, Contributing Writer 7:25 PM Thursday, July 2, 2009

Many arrive; few are chosen. See the cream of the artists’ crop at Rosewood Gallery for the 15th annual “The View,” a popular Ohio landscape competition.

Ninety-seven artists from throughout the state entered 271 pieces; 58 pieces were chosen representing 56 artists. Juror M. Katherine Hurley hails from Gates Mills, a small town in midwest Ohio. Her hometown roots are the reason she is so passionate about landscape painting.

“We all need to be surrounded by this kind of beauty and peace,” Hurley says.

Although Hurley is a well-known pastel landscape painter, she chose a mixed-media work for Best of Show. George Armstrong of Kettering won $250 for “Yellow Springs Farms,” a raku clay, metal and wood sculpture. Rusted metal separates wooden dwellings from undulating rows of cultivated farmland.

“Boating Pleasure” by Yan Sun of Zanesville and “Development (Suburban Landscape Southern Exposure)” by Jonathan Quick of Delaware won $200 Awards of Excellence. Yan Sun’s sumptuous layering of oil paint in the water surrounding the boats creates a realistic, wavelike effect. Quick’s entry is actually one of a series; a very unusual caging of smooth spheres within identical rustic metal and wire “houses.”

Dayton photographer Jacquelynn Buck won a $100 Award of Merit for “Beneath the Smoke — Santa Barbara Fires.” She was there to capture the surreal scene when nearby smoke and flames threatened a beautiful church in California. “Homage to Herbert,” a fiber quilt by Sandra Palmer Ciolino of Cincinnati also won an Award of Merit. Her studied placement of brown, blue and white fabric squares create an illusion of movement in her work.

Honorable Mentions ($50 each) went to Ken Streiff of Middletown for “Evening Sledding;” Richard Malogorski of Dayton for “Spruce Trees, Big Horn Mountains, Wyoming;” Annette Cargill of Troy for “Night Garden;” Joseph Lombardo of Columbus for “Walnut Evening Light;” and Cynthia Matyi of Cincinnati for “Two Cats with Dogwood.”

Other works that catch the eye include “Morning Tracks” by Lisa Foster of Beavercreek, “A New Beginning” by Tom Bradrick of Centerville and “Rail Pole” by Douglas Fiely of Stryker.

“We are seeing more human presence in this particular show. It’s really rich in narrative. It always is to a degree, but it seems like there’s more depth to that element this time around,” said gallery coordinator Amy Anderson.

Contact contributing writer Pamela Dillon at pamdillon@woh.rr.com.