Best Largescale Exterior Mosaic at the Mosaic Arts International Exhibition in Mesa Az
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Contact: Dawnmarie Zimmerman
Dawnmarie@americanmosaics.org
The Annual Mosaic Arts International Exhibition Series (MAI), invigorates a new perspective of mosaic art in numerous contexts and celebrates established as well as emerging artists working in the medium today. The 54 selected works reverberate the multiplicity of the mosaic medium and its endless applications. The serial is comprised of separate juried exhibits featuring the best in contemporary fine fine art, architectural, community, & site-specific mosaics from SAMA'south diverse international membership.
The Fine Art and Architectural & Site Specific exhibition segments were juried equally two separate pools by 2021 Jurors, Julia Lang-Shapiro, Director of Media, Visual and Performing Arts for Long Beach Public Schools and Anabella Wewer, graphic designer and internationally exhibited mosaic creative person.
Every bit a result of the COVID-ten pandemic, SAMA cancelled the 2020 exhibition and is presenting the 2021 exhibition as a virtual experience scheduled to debut Wednesday, February 10, 2021. Attendees of the Virtual American Mosaic Summit, SAMA's kickoff live-streamed conference event were treated to a pre-debut review of the work where the following awards were announced.
Mosaic Arts International 2021 Awards
Jacki Gran was awarded Best in Show for Fire Within
Michael Kruzich was awarded All-time Technical Achievement for Trittico del Pacifico
Donna Van Hooser was awarded the Contemporary Innovation Award for Violet
Bonnie Cohen was awarded All-time Architectural Mosaic for Connect
Ann Wydeven was awarded Best Community Mosaic for La Casa de Esperanza Charter School
Yulia Hanansen was awarded a Juror'due south Choice Award past Julia Lang-Shapiro for Calorie-free as a Moving ridge every bit a Particle
Barbara Uhlenbruch was awarded a Juror'due south Choice Award by Anabella Wewer for Goodbye Erstwhile Life
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Fifty-4 total works were selected including works from artists from throughout the U.s.a., Australia, Canada, Greece, Spain and the United Kingdom. The fully interactive exhibition is on view at mosaicartsinternational.americanmosaics.org. The virtual exhibition was designed by SAMA Executive Manager, Dawnmarie Zimmerman and provides an intimate viewing feel with large images and statements from each artist. The Architectural & Site-Specific Mosaic segment entries feature videos of each installation providing a comprehensive perspective of these big-scale works.
Juror, Julia Lang-Shapiro commented regarding her My Juror's Choice Award selection is the triptych Light as a Wave every bit a Particle created by Yulia Hanansen. "The utilize of colour creates such dynamic move and depth in the piece. The panels are an undulating bounding main of technicolor smalti glass, showcasing the myriad of values plant in the colour spectrum. This piece stood out to me from the beginning moment I saw it."
Anabella Wewer found the process of jurying a mosaic art exhibition challenging her definition of mosaic and fine art. "Our primary directive was to judge each work equally a fine art mosaic. This proved difficult, as I was faced with works that get against what I think of equally mosaic, which is not annihilation made upward of pieces and assembled together. Aggregation and collage are more apt descriptors of that, and divide disciplines. Depending on materials, some works more accurately fall farther into other categories, making it easier to define what mosaic isn't than what it is. Innovation and experimentation, to me, is not about redefining what mosaic is, but rather what mosaic can do; to push button the techniques and materials into new ground without losing the very definition of this aboriginal art course."
Many of the works in the Fine Art segment are bachelor for sale. The exhibition volition remain on view through the exhibition website indefinitely. Zimmerman looks forward to staging exhibitions with museum, art eye and gallery partners in 2022. "Artists who use this medium spend countless hours producing piece of work that is best presented in person for viewers to experience the aspects of texture, color, reflectivity and intricacy of design that is possible with mosaic." The 2020 Mosaic Arts International exhibition was planned for Tucson, Arizona for May, 2020 and was cancelled in March. "Nosotros accept worked to create an intimate digital feel wherein viewers receive large juicy images and longer more than in-depth statements from artists, to create a connection with the viewer. Information technology is a very dynamic and intuitive user feel that like shooting fish in a barrel to navigate and attainable on all devices."
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Contact Dawnmarie Zimmerman for images: Dawnmarie@americanmosaics.org
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Source: https://americanmosaics.org/mosaic-arts-international/virtual-2021/
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