RVCC’s Annual Juried Student Art Show on Virtual Display
RVCC Juried Student Art Exhibition
The exhibition website was created by Darren McManus, RVCC Art
Gallery Director and Assistant Professor in the College’s Arts & Design
department.
The virtual exhibition features work by students in the College’s
Arts & Design department dating back to the Fall 2019 semester. Artwork on
display highlights an array of media and disciplines including drawing,
painting, ceramics, printmaking, video, digital media, photography, color
theory, two-dimensional design, sculpture and graphic design.
Each student was permitted to submit up to three pieces of artwork
for consideration. The following students received awards for their submitted
artwork:
Best in Show: Overall
Sofia Mokhor, "Feminine," plastic garbage bags, 72 x 48 x
60 inches (Class: 3D Design, Spring 2020)
Best in Show: Runner Up
Hayley Stricker, "Pomegranates," oil on canvas, 24 x 18
inches (Class: Painting 1, Fall 2020)
Best in Show: Second Runner Up
Sarah Switlyk, "OCD," pen & ink on Bristol board, 18
x 24 inches (Class: Drawing 2, Spring 2020)
Best in Show: Digital & Multi-Media
Sarah Switlyk, "$200 Bounty," digital painting via
Photoshop, 30 x 24 inches (Class: Digital Artmaking, Fall 2020)
Best in Show: Drawing
June Varkoly, "Mask: Red & Blue," oil pastel on paper, 24 x 18
inches (Class: Drawing 2, Summer 2020)
Best in Show: Foundations
Esteban Arias, "Black and White Collage," magazine paper on Bristol board, 14 x 17 inches (Class, Color Theory, Fall 2020)
Best in Show: Graphic Design
Ana Carolina Mitchell, "Bauhaus: History of Graphic Design," InDesign & Photoshop, 18 x 32 inches (Class: Visual Design 1,
Spring 2020)
Best in Show: Photography
Morgan Strus-Allen, "Dollhouse Quarantine," digital photographs, 15 x 14
inches
The guest juror for this year’s exhibition was Los Angeles-based artist Samantha Fields, Professor of Art at California State University, Northridge. Fields evaluated all the entries and made the final selections for the exhibition, including the eight pieces selected for awards.
Samantha Fields has
received numerous awards and recognitions for her paintings, including a
prestigious City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Artist Grant. Fields has an
extensive exhibition history, including shows at The California Museum of
Photography; The Museum of Art and History in Lancaster, CA; Western Project in
Los Angeles; Traywick Contemporary in Berkeley, CA; Melanee Cooper Gallery in
Chicago, IL; Suzanne Hilberry Gallery in Detroit, MI; Lemberg Gallery in
Birmingham, MI; and Galerie Enholm Englehorn in Vienna, Austria. Her work has
been collected by and exhibited at noted public institutions throughout the US.
She is currently represented by Traywick Contemporary in Berkeley, CA.
Due to COVID-19, the RVCC Art Gallery’s physical space is closed
for the Spring Semester. For additional information, contact the Arts &
Design department, 908-218-8876, or visit https://www.raritanval.edu/arts.
Raritan Valley Community College is located at 118 Lamington Road
in Branchburg, NJ. For additional information, visit www.raritanval.edu.