Blue
Juror: Joanna Hurley
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Blue is a favorite color of all people, yet it has more complex and contradictory meanings than any other hue. Exhibit Calendar (Subject to Change) Exhibit Opens: 14 August 14 Artists' Reception: 5 September 14 17:00 Exhibit Closes: 7 September 14 Blue
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Throughout the ages, as the natural world's color for water and sky, blue lends itself to spiritual and heavenly leanings. In these modern days, blue is embraced as the color of heaven and authority, denim jeans and corporate logos. Most blues convey a sense of trust, loyalty, cleanliness, and understanding. On the other hand, blue evolved as symbol of depression in American culture. “Singing the blues” and feeling blue” are good examples of the complexity of color symbolism and how the color has been evolved in different cultures.
Juror's Statement: It was interesting and fun to jury a show with such a specific theme. Still I found that I had to narrow down the criteria I used in selecting images. The color blue had to be in there, and while it didn’t necessarily have to predominate, in most cases it did have to stand out and in some way “make” the image. I eliminated many images that had been heavily and obviously filtered or photoshopped, those where the blue was an obvious gimmick, and those that, even mostly blue, could easily have been mostly red, or yellow or some other color. And of course, the image itself had to be strong, so in some cases I chose images that were not necessarily about the blue, but that were powerful, and in which blue was a component. ––Joanna Hurley, July, 2014 |
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Juror's Choice
Katharine Ryals
Nashville, TN USAVision
Honorable Mention
Cary Loving
Richmond, VA USAAlone in the Field
People's Choice
Honorable Mention
George S. Gati
Beekman, NY USA Naturally Blue 2
Honorable Mention
Vicky Stromee
Tucson, AZ USATwilight
Honorable Mention
Wendi Schneider
Denver, Co USAVermont Blue House
Alan Strassman
Weston, MA United states of america Birthday Dress
Amanda Marie Harner
Damascus, Maryland USABeaver Brook Fall
Andrea Waxler
Nashua, New Hampshire USAMontana
Bernie Kubiak
Amherst, MA USA
Betsy Chapek
Underhill Center, VT USABlue Bottles in Window, Helsingor, Denmark
Bob Tetro
Arlington, VA. USAFront Door, Chefchaouen--Morocco's Blue City
Brad Perkins
Chicago, IL USA Chester Vermont in Blue #2
Bryan Ballinger
Huntington, in USAHabana
Camila Jurado
London, United KingdomPompeii
Charolette Stoehr
Salem, Oregon USA Seventeen
Dana West
Chicago, IL USAPoint Arena, A Mood of Blue
David Martin
Clearwater, Idaho USALe Mur Bleu
Deborah Loeb Bohren
White Plains, NY USA Iris
Don Rice
Carbondale, Illinois USAFlores
Don Rice
Carbondale, Illinois USASomes Sound - 9:23PM
Eric A. Bailey
Boxborough, Massachusetts USA Rosenhayn
Geoffrey Agrons
Philadelphia, PA USABlue Glass Fiddle
Geoffrey Agrons
Philadelphia, PA USAJust beyond our sight
James Winkless
Preston Canterbury, Kent UK Morning Light Blue
Jim Gambaro
Belchertown, MA USAVietnamese Waterlily
Jim Squires
St Simons Island, GA United StatesArctic Traveler
Jim Squires
St Simons Island, GA United States The Blue Doors
JOE CALLERI
NORTHCOTE, VICTORIA AUSTRALIAAbebe
Joni Kabana
Portland, OR USAIn Flight over Blue Waters
Judith Monteferrante
Scottsdale, AZ USA Brass Door Knocker
Kathleen Nademus
Fords, NJ USASilent Landscape
Katia Platonova
St.Petersburg, RussiaTriangled Shore / Artist's Proof
Marjorie Nichols
Somerville, MA USA Playground
Mark Indig
Valley Village, CA USADome
Mark Indig
Valley Village, CA USAElectric Blue, Clarksdale, Mississippi
Mark Melnick
Palm Desert, CA USA In Case of Rain, St. Petersburg
Mark Melnick
Palm Desert, CA USAUnder Tanzania Sky
Michael Havice
Whitefish Bay, WI USABlue Dreams
Michael Havice
Whitefish Bay, WI USA Boy, Berlin 2012
Michael Martin
San Jose, California USAHunting Island, South Carolina
michael w. ellison
savannah, georgia USATwin Doors Rt 66
Norma McGehee Woodward
Fredericksburg, VA USA Horizon
Patrizio Cipollini
Roma, RM ItalyHome From School
Paul M. Murray
Jamestown, RI USABlue on White #2
Philip Constant
Salem, OR USA That Mood Indigo
Ricardo de Vicq de Cumpitch
Sao Paulo, SP BrazilAra ararauna
Ricardo de Vicq de Cumpitch
Sao Paulo, SP BrazilSardine, no chips
Ricardo de Vicq de Cumpitch
Sao Paulo, SP Brazil The Blue Room
Richard Burniston
Brighton, East Sussex UKUntitled (Paris)
Robert Schneider
Lexington, MA USACanoe
Robert Schneider
Lexington, MA USA Variations in Blue
ruth sousa
BRASÍLIA, Distrito Federal BrasilBall Bottles Blue
Sally Canzoneri
Washington, DC USAGone Native
Steven Millman
Boynton Beach, FL USA Faith
Steven Millman
Boynton Beach, FL USAThe Rest
Steven Olson
Montrose, CO USASequel
Stilson Snow
Eureka, CA USA Steel Waves
Tara Malone
New York, NY USABlue Book Glass
Thomas Ladd
North Easton, MA USAElectric Blue
Tim Schroll
Carol Stream, Illinois USA
- All selected entries are exhibited in our gallery and included in a full color exhibit catalog.
- Juror's Choice receives a 30x48" vinyl exhibit banner featuring their image, free entry into a future exhibition, and a free exhibition catalog.
- Honorable Mentions receive free exhibition catalogs and free entry in a future exhibition.
- People's Choice gains free entry into a future exhibit.
- We offer free matting and framing of accepted entries for the duration of each of our exhibition, subject to standard sizes. Photographers set their own prices if they wish to sell their work and retain all rights to their photographs.
Juror: Joanna Hurley Joanna Hurley has had a thirty-year career in book publishing working as an editor, publicist, agent, packager and publisher for dozens of photography books as well as books on many other subjects for companies large and small. She is president of HurleyMedia, LLC, which she started in 1994. Previously she was publicity director of Vintage Books, the trade paperback division of Alfred A. Knopf, marketing director of The University of New Mexico Press, and publicity director of the Body Politic Theatre/Community Arts Foundation in Chicago. During the course of her long career, she has worked on projects for a wide variety of photographers and writers ranging from Nick Brandt, Mark Klett, Richard Misrach, Irving Penn, and Eliot Porter to Tony Hillerman, Richard Russo, Thomas McGuane and Richard Ford. She is a co-founder of Radius Books, and board chair of Center, a not-for-profit organization based in Santa Fe that supports and provides opportunity for gifted, committed photographers. |