50 REASONS WHY: Your Take on the East End
This open juried exhibition provides artists the opportunity to showcase works that depict their feelings about the East End of Long Island.
Click Here To See 50 Reasons Why Juried Show Winners
WHAT DOES THE EAST END MEAN TO YOU?
This open juried exhibition provides artists the opportunity to showcase works that depict their feelings about the East End of Long Island. To celebrate EEA’s 50th year, the jurors of the 2022 East End Arts Open Juried Exhibition selected fifty seven (hence the “ish”) of the nearly 200 submitted pieces that they felt best conveyed the artists’ intentions, showed originality of vision, and were visually striking for gallery viewers.
Opening reception: Saturday, November 12 | 4PM-7PM
Exhibition held across two galleries:
EEA Main Gallery – 133 E. Main Street, Riverhead
11 West Gallery – 11 W. Main Street, Peconic Crossing, Riverhead
SELECTED ARTISTS
John A. Demmer | Diana Aliberti | Marta Baumiller | Renee Brown | Jody Cukier | Madeline Daversa | Sherry Davis | Kathleen Dwyer | Tracey Elizabeth | Helen Giaquinto | Rainer Gross | Susan Guihan Guasp | Consi Handelsman Bennett | Jerelyn Hanrahan | Ellen Hutchinson | Kenneth Jackson | Paul Johnson | Kathee Shaff Kelson | Karen Kemp | Ellen Kingston | Charlene Lavinia | Ana Martinez Orizondo | Scott McIntire | Mike McLaughlin | Wendy McLaughlin | Glenn McNab | Nancy McSwane | Thomas McSwane | Frankie Neptune | Catharine Norris | Conrad Obregon | Mary O’Connor | Linda Pasca | Mike Remski | Alan Richards | Meredith Rose | Barbara Ruble Stark | Mimi Saltzman | Susan Saunders | Elizabeth Schaeffler | James Slezak | John Stefanik | Eli Stoneman | Adam Straus | Andrew Tarshis | Michael Vivona | Clay Vorhes | Pamela Waldroup | David Warren | Charles Wildbank | John Wittenberg
Hear Gianna Volpe interview painter, curator, aficionado, and 50 Reasons Why juror Franklin Hill Perrell about the artists and pieces in the 50 Reasons Why exhibition on the area’s favorite local radio show, Heart of the East End.
Listen Now (Franklin’s segment starts at approximately 01:10)
50 Reasons Why Juried Show Winners
Top Prizewinners-
Best in Show – $1000: Marta Baumiller, Polynation 1 video projection on silk installation
First Place – $500: Adam Straus, East Marion July 5 6:46PM charcoal diptych
Second Place – $250 Renee Brown, Solitary self-portrait with bird oil
Third Place – Tickets to The Suffolk Rainer Gross, Double Take – North Fork Pumpkins photography
Honorable Mentions-
Frankie Neptune, OWL video
Consi Handelson-Bennett, Pollock & Krasner puppets
Kenneth Jackson, Greatest 61 mosaic
Pamela Waldroup, Riverhead Diner & Grill photograph
Ellen Kingston, The Road Less Traveled painting
Ellen Hutchinson, Beach Still Life painting
John Demmer, A Peconic Dream painting
Paul Johnson, Springs photograph
Curatorial Awards-
Mixed media:
Mimi Saltzman, Fallen Woman
Sherry Davis, Treccine
Verticali Thomas McSwane, Autumn Tillage
John Wittenberg, Untitled
Video:
Conrad Obregon, North Fork nature videos
Sculpture:
Michael Vivona, Iron Horse
Jerelyn Hanrahan, Vertical Pearls
Photography: John Stefanik, Ancient Forest non-digital photograph
Ceramics: Glen McNab, Osprey Return raku fired + Beach Bonfire pit fired
Painting:
Charles Wildbank, Emergence II Scott McIntire, EC-10-22 Clay Vorhes, Montauk Lures
Literary:
Eli Stoneman, Rainy Night in ‘86
Debbie Wells
Franklin Hill Perrell
