News Release
March 1999
The Payne Gallery is pleased to host its Eleventh Biennial
Print Show, a show of original prints created within the last three
years by printmakers from thoughout the United States. The works submitted
range from those created in traditional, centuries-old techniques such
as the woodcut, popularized in the late 1400s by Albrecht Durer, to
those created with cutting-edge computer technology. Printmaking techniques
such as linocut, lithograph, serigraph, etching, intaglio, and monoprint
are also represented. Three Purchase Awards of $500 each were chosen.
These works will be added to the Moravian College Permanent Art Collection.
Three Purchase Awards of $500
were awarded to the following artists:
Mark D. Sisson, Stillwater, OK, for "Portrait of
D. Mills / Goldilocks"
(reduction woodcut)
Tina Madonia, Slatington, PA, for "Hidden Path
II" (monoprint)
Brian Kreydatus, Philadelphia, PA, for "Diane on
Couch" (etching)
The show was juried by Sidney Tillim, a member of the
art faculty at Bennington College for over thirty years. His figurative
paintings have been exhibited at such prestigious venues as the Wadsworth
Atheneum, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Whitney
Museum of American Art. He has been a contributing editor for Arts
Magazine
and Artforum and is the recipient of grants from the Ingram-Merrill
Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
One Director's Choice
Award of $500 was selected by Prof.
Les Reker, Director of Payne Gallery:
Wayne Kimball, Pleasant Grove, UT, "A Tree with
One Wing Can Only Fly in Circles" (lithograph)
Payne Gallery is located on the Church Street Campus
of Moravian College and is open to the public free of charge. The Gallery
is open daily except Monday 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. For further information,
call (610) 861-1680 weekdays or (610) 861-1667 weekends.
