Main Gallery: SPLASH!
Welcome summer with cool water! From the grand source of life on our planet to the simple joy of toddler jumps in puddles – not to mention our beautiful Eastern Shore landscapes – let water inspire your art. Open to all media. Cash awards.
Robinson Gallery: UPCYCLE CHALLENGE
Use your creativity to re-interpret the terms ‘re-use, re-cycle, re-purpose’ and make art with found objects! Open to all media. Cash awards.
Judges: Leslie Belloso & Laura Kelley
Sponsor: The Whaley Family Foundation
Foyer Gallery: Leslie Belloso & Laura Kelley (bios coming soon)
Intake: May 28 & 29, 12 to 5pm
Pickup: July 30 & 31, 12 to 5 pm
3rd Friday Receptions: June 18 & July 16
PROSPECTUS: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WnbfFo7Zfb77Z4nYmAWEKYN_mxvPbsh-/view?usp=sharing
About our Judges!
Two artist-physician-friends are teaming up to judge our upcoming “Splash“ show in June.
Laura Mayer Kelley has changed course after an accomplished three-decade career in medicine and is now focusing on her development as an artist. She grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, and was greatly influenced by the artwork of her father. She has always “painted in her head” and is now grateful for the time to transfer images to canvas. Laura takes her inspiration from the natural beauty of everyday life and has adapted her experience as a physician and mother of four to the artistic appreciation of people and their surroundings. She incorporates the teachings and influences of many historical and contemporary artists in creating her own unique style. Although not formally trained in art, she has studied with several contemporary artists including Louis Escobedo, Peggi Kroll Roberts, and Kevin Weckbach. Her award-winning work has been included in exhibits in Salisbury, Ocean City, Rehobeth, and Chincoteague, as well as in a Harvard University Alumnae exhibit, a George Washington University Faculty show, and has work currently on display at the University of Pennsylvania Health System.
Leslie Belloso – Born in the Philippines, Leslie Belloso moved with her family to the Eastern Shore of Maryland in the 1980s. While she was always artistically inclined, she chose to pursue a career in medicine. She completed her M.D. at the University of Maryland Baltimore in 2000 and practiced internal medicine for several years in the Maryland Veterans Administration Health Care System. While practicing medicine she continued to study painting, taking classes at Maryland Institute and College of Art, Salisbury University and traveling for workshops. In 2009 she stopped practicing primary care in order to focus on raising her family and on painting. In 2017 she completed her M.F.A. at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She currently teaches painting and drawing at Salisbury University, and also at the Art League of Ocean City.
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” -Ferris Bueller
More than ever, so much depends on our sensitivity to beauty. Instinctively, we protect what we find beautiful, and in return, beauty sustains us through the challenges and meanness of life.
Seeing the beauty and the possibilities in one’s surroundings is the basis of all art. My paintings tend to be about fleeting moments of light and brilliance, and being a painter I am receptive to these effects in ordinary, sometimes even dreary settings like an empty hallway or a messy breakfast table. The underlying questions in my observational painting practice are always, “how can I use the shapes, edges, and colors that I see to the most beautiful effect?” Can I show someone else what I see?