Welcome to the Artists Gallery of the Midwest Biennial 2009 Regional Exhibition.

Midwest Biennial 2009 Regional Exhibition Winners

$1,000 Best of Show Award sponsored by davidanthonyhummer.com

Kenneth Steinbach
Shoreview, MN
Title of Work: #36 (calipers)
Artist Website: kennethsteinbach.com
Year Completed: 2009
Size: 2 panels, each 11″ x 13.5″ x 1.5″
Medium: Ink drawings suspended in layers of epoxy resin on aluminum.
Description of Work: The drawings are ink renderings embedded in layers of semi-transparent resin built up on an aluminum ground. The works are created by applying a thin layer of resin to the ground, and drawing on top of the resin. Another layer of resin is then applied over the first, with another layer of drawing. This process is repeated until there are multiple layers of drawings on resin stacked one atop another, making a solid strata of resin in which the drawings are embedded. The resultant works are up to two inches thick, with as many as 70 layers of drawings. The visual space recedes away from the viewer into an atmospheric haze that is highly three dimensional.

 

$500 Second Place Award sponsored by Down to Earth Greenhouse

Tina Blondell
Minneapolis, MN
Title of Work: Urban American Gothic
Artist Website: tinablondell.com
Year Completed: 2007
Size: 38″ x 49″
Medium: Oil on board.
Description of Work: This work is a tribute to ALL families, regardless of religion, ethnicity or gender. All human beings have a right to happiness in every aspect of their lives.

 

$300 Third Place Award sponsored by Wausau Art & Framing

Kim Flora
Cincinnati, OH
Title of Work: moody landscape at 8 degrees
Artist Website: kimflora.com
Year Completed: 2008
Size: 8″ x 8″
Medium: Oil, encaustic & collage on panel.
Description of Work:Abstracted landscape with green/blue band at the top and collaged foreground.

 

$100 First Honorable Mention Award sponsored by ME Employees Credit Union

Rebecca Shewmake
Wausau, WI
Title of Work: It’s Perfectly Safe Down Here
Artist Website: www.beccashewmake.com
Year Completed:
Size: 30″ x 30″
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Description of Work:

 

$100 Second Honorable Mention Award sponsored by Harley Davidson of Wausau

Nate Burbeck
Robbinsdale, MN
Title of Work: Age of Man (Chicago, IL)
Artist Website: www.nateburbeck.com
Year Completed: 2008
Size: 18″ x 60 ”
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Description of Work:This piece is the first in a series of “mural-esque” works that combines my interest in urban life and spirituality through the use of narrative and symbolism. Though the meaning is specific the intention is to allow the view to understand the work through their own interpretations.

 

$50 Third Honorable Mention Award sponsored by Dick Blick Art Materials

Vicky Moliltor
Manitowoc, WI
Title of Work:Sunflowers
Artist Website: vickymolitor.com
Year Completed: 2008
Size: 11″ x 14 ”
Medium:Cyanotype.
Description of Work:Cyanotype of three 120 negatives of a sunflower field.

 

$25 Fourth Honorable Mention Award sponsored by Downtown Grocery

Carrie Thompson
Minneapolis, MN
Title of Work:Eleanor, Nanty Glo, PA
Artist Website: carriethompson.com
Year Completed: 2009
Size: 15″ x 15 ”
Medium:C-Print.
Description of Work:The last 3 years I have been working on a project about my grandparent’s titled, I hope we go together. I hope we go together uses my grandparents as an example of two people at the end of their lives. While my grandparent’s get old and weaken, so does their town. At the same time as my grandfather loses his mind due to Alzheimer’s, the places that he can’t remember are also deteriorating.