Sitar Arts Center is celebrating an evening of art in the community with works by local emerging artists, students, and parents. This year's theme is Red, a color with various definitions and representations.
10th Annual Patricia Sitar Juried Exhibition RED Prospectus THEME – Red– When you think of the color red what comes to mind? Depending on which culture, religion, or field of study you seek to find the answer, you may end up with different responses. The color red has various definitions and representations. Red can signify redemption, joy, passion or evil and aggression. In some cultures red is associated with luck and to others it is associated with death. Work must express the artist’s understanding of what red means.
OPENING RECEPTION AND AWARDS CEREMONY: Thursday November 7, 2019 at 6:30pm
SHOW DURATION: October 28 – December 7, 2019
All are welcomed and invited to join this free reception.
As you view and celebrate unique interpretations of RED from our community, enjoy food and refreshments, and meet the exhibiting artists. More on the jurors below.
My two juried-in entries for the RED theme are:
who do you wish that i am ~ when do you wish me to be?
22x30 acrylic and other media on paper mounted to wooden cradle
i am ~ big life ~ big space ~ big ideas ~ big love
22x30 acrylic and other media on paper mounted to wooden cradle
Jurors
Ray Wright Ray Wright is a self-taught photographer and visual artist based in Washington, DC. She has been photographing for 28 years, and for the past 3 years she has taught “Street Photography” classes, Found Art, and Creative Journaling. Her "Street Walkin" series on Instagram was recently featured on the social media site www.acreativedc.com. She is an award-winning visual artist with a passion for her community and uses creating to bridge past and present, reality and imagination. Through the lens of her camera she is able to capture an ever- changing city that holds a special place in her heart. She is also a visual artist who integrates found objects and reclaimed wood from homes that have either been gutted to renovate or completely knocked down to create something shiny and new. These works are her way of holding onto and honoring our communities and the people that are/were in them.
Pamela Lynne Sorensen is the Founder & President of High Frequency Consulting, LLC, a strategic B2B business development & fundraising consultancy firm. A Penn State grad with a B.A. in Speech Communications, Pamela always found fulfillment in creating art through drawing, painting, music, dance and words since she was 3 years old. She is classically trained in ballet, modern dance, piano, and clarinet. In the summer of 2018, she renewed her passion for painting. Pamela’s intention is to share her zest for living at a “high frequency” on the canvas. A component of her methodology in conceiving her abstract acrylic paintings, is to listen to music across various genres. It acts as a driver to what she leaves on the canvas. Pamela’s intent is to bring out a mood, evoke an emotion, and to inspire her audience. Fans of her paintings appreciate the colors, shapes, and textures she consistently constructs. Some of her commissions and pieces can be found in the headquarters of The Motley Fool Venture Fund (Alexandria, VA) and Digital Global Systems (Tysons Corner, VA) as well as in the homes of clients in the DC region, Huntington Beach, CA and Tribeca in NYC. Pamela has shown at Peacock Café in Georgetown and was featured in Northern Virginia Magazine as well as the Rosslyn BID digital magazine. She was selected as the live event artist for the 2019 SoundImpact Annual Fundraising Soiree at the Mexican Cultural Institute.
Gregory Ferrand received a degree in film from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1997 and promptly headed off to Buenos Aires, Argentina to teach English to business people. While living there, he kept an illustrated journal in which he experimented with different media and recorded his observations about the culture and people around him. In doing so, he came to understand two things about himself: 1). that he was a painter and 2). that he was fascinated by the subtext of human interactions. He returned to the States in early 2000 and began painting seriously. Gregory pulls on influences as wide ranging as comics, Mexican muralists, and 1950's fashion to create paintings that reveal the beauty of living. His background in film is evident in the strong use of narrative he employs to tell stories about characters and situations that do, have, and will exist; gently unmasking the psychological or emotional state of the subject, inviting the viewer to share and/or identify. Gregory has shown at the Adah Rose Gallery, Evoke Contemporary, IA & A at Hillyer, the McLean Project for the Arts, La Luz de Jesus Gallery, and the DCAC. Clients include Saatchi and Saatchi, American Airlines, Cava Mezze Restaurants, and the Mosaic Theater Company of Washington, DC among others.
Gonzalo Ruiz Navarro is an award-winning artist whose work has been exhibited in galleries around the United States and Europe. He has been featured in media such as the New York Times and Fine Art Views, where he has been described as “A master at evoking a mood and a sense of time and place”. Gonzalo is also one of the most popular art instructors in the DC area, conducting regular classes at the Yellow Barn Studio, Maryland. He started his formal education pursuing a Master’s in Fine Arts from the University of Valencia, Spain. This was followed by studies on Drawing and Painting at the University of Toledo, the College of Doctors and Graduates in Madrid and the Taller del Prado Academy in Madrid. Later, Gonzalo had the privilege of working under the personal instruction of noted Spanish portraitist Carlos Moreu Spa and studied figure painting at the Academy of Art and Contemporaneous Artists in Madrid, under the direction of the worldrenown Chilean artist Guillermo Muñoz Vera. His oils and pastels are infused by passion for light and color, following the tradition of the impressionists, in particular the school that developed in Spain and it has its maximum exponent in Joaquin Sorolla. Gonzalo’s love for tradition meets with exquisite use of color, freedom of composition and expressiveness of strokes.