The crowd was the biggest
ever we have seen at a San Diego Art Institute reception and the energy was
very high for this international show that was a selection of 104 photos from
17,000 entries, 3,700 photographers representing 33 countries. Julian
Cox from the Fine Art Museum of SF was the curator and enthusiastic
supporter for this show. He pointed out how incredible the effort by Stephen
Churchill, Lisa Smith and the whole team has been to build this into such a
major world wide venue in just 10 years.
Churchill produces a
wonderful catalog and works hard to make sure this is a quality product all
around. Changes this year that I saw was a choice to include as many images as possible for the space and thus the
decision to make the format smaller. My feeling is that the image and artist
determine the image size. Some need a small intimate scale that pulls you in, other
need a grand stage to be fully expressed. In a juried show like this it is
always a challenge to give the viewers some way into the art and several mini
group selections were made that combined colors or subjects or even angles so
that you paused to see the comparison of works near by. I had not seen that
done as evidently before and found it rather charming. There are 200 images on the online gallery well worth
checking out.
The
winner of the largest grant of $2000 was Aglae Cortes from Mexico. Ten
thousands dollars in grants was awarded during the opening reception.
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| Julian Cox |
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| Stephen Churchill |
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| Aglae Cortes, Mexico, Process 1 |
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| Krisztina Fazekas-Kielbassa, Hungarian, Holofernes Eran Gilat, Israeli, Untitled |
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Top: William godwin, American , Peppermint Shrimp in Vase Sponge
Bottom: Jeroen Berends, Dutch Eggs Frozen Right: Sandra Elkin, American, It Was Wishful Thinking of Her To Sauce It |
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