23rd Annual NO DEAD ARTISTS International Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Art
JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY proudly presents the 23rd Annual NO DEAD ARTISTS International Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Art. For the 2019 installment of the exhibition, the gallery will host works by sixteen artists hailing from across the United States, as well as, Germany and Norway.
Each year the gallery invites a panel of renowned arts professionals and collectors to select the newest creative talents for around the world.
::: The 2019 NO DEAD ARTISTS Jury :::
ROBYN DUNN SCHWARZ
Before joining Matthew Clayton Brown in 2006, Robyn was an Assistant Vice President in Impressionist and Modern Art at Sotheby’s for nine years. Prior to Sotheby’s, she worked with George Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles, a leading art dealer specializing in California paintings, and Nedra Matteucci’s Fenn Galleries, Santa Fe. Robyn has been a member of the Appraisers Association of America since 2007 and is certified in the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP). She is also a board member and past president of the Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, trustee of the Metairie Park Country Day School and a member of Art Table and the Director’s Council of the New Orleans Museum of Art.
CARMON COLANGELO
Carmon Colangelo is the inaugural dean of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, bringing together Washington University’s historic Colleges of Art and Architecture and the distinguished Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum into a vibrant creative community. Colangelo is a widely exhibited artist who combines digital and traditional processes to create colorful, mixed-media prints and paintings that explore ideas about the human experience and contemporary condition. He earned a BFA in printmaking and painting from the University of Windsor in Ontario and an MFA in printmaking from Louisiana State University. Colangelo has been featured in more than 40 solo and 150 group exhibitions and his work has been collected by such museums as the National Museum of American Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Saint Louis Art Museum.
NICK KORNILOFF
As Executive Vice President, Partner and Show Director of Art Miami LLC, Korniloff oversees the management and creative direction for Art Miami, CONTEXT, Aqua Art Miami, Art New York, Palm Beach Modern & Contemporary, Art Wynwood, Art Southampton and Art Silicon Valley/San Francisco. He is also one of the founders of LUXE Show Ventures. In 2008, Korniloff took the helm at Art Miami LLC and swiftly revitalized Art Miami, now in its 28th year. By expanding the high-quality and diverse group of international exhibitors, galleries, and institutions, Korniloff reorganized the fair to attract an impressive audience of collectors, dealers, curators and artists. This expansion and move to the Wynwood Arts District successfully repositioned the show as the city’s most important and anchor fair during Art Week, which takes place in early December when thousands descend upon Miami for a flurry of cultural events and fairs. Art Miami is now the number one attended fair in America and second globally it now attracts around 85,000 attendees annually.
Of the approximate 3,000 artworks submitted to this jury by over 600 artists worldwide, only sixteen artists were selected to have their work exhibited at JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY.
::: The 23rd Annual NO DEAD ARTISTS Finalists :::
ABE ABRAHAM - New York, NY
CHRIS BARNARD - New Haven, CT
HALE EKINCI - Chicago, IL
MAGGIE EVANS - Savannah, GA
FELICIA FORTE - Hamtramck, MI
LESLIE FRY - Winooski, VT
JAMMIE HOLMES - Dallas, TX
MOMMA TRIED - New Orleans, LA
KRISTIN MOORE - Austin, TX
MAIDY MORHOUS - Del Mar, CA
ELENA SOTERAKIS - Brooklyn, NY
SUSANNA STORCH - Mainz, Germany
CARLIE TROSCLAIR - New Orleans, LA
HALFDAN WARDEMAN - Oslo, Norway
DEBORAH WASSERMAN - Jackson Heights, NY
TOM WEGRZYNOWSKI - Tuscaloosa, AL
Comprised of painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, printmaking, mixed-media, installation, ceramics, video and new media, NO DEAD ARTISTS continues to exhibit a great diversity in media with a cohesive cross-section of the pulse of Contemporary Art. Presenting just over 30 artworks ranging in media, style and purpose from the augmented reality installation by local artistic duo “Momma Tried” to the voyeuristic canvases of German painter Susannah Storch. Other exhibition highlights include the return of Tom Wegrzynowski’s socio-political paintings which were previously included in the 2014 exhibition, Chris Barnard’s monumental-sized, architectural paintings and Abe Abraham’s figurative video work. For the 23rd year in a row, No Dead Artists showcases the latest trends and talent in Contemporary Art adhering to its mission of giving emerging artists a platform to have their creative voices heard.