The 35th Chelsea International Fine Art Competition Results, 2020
The following are the results based on the average scores provided by the jurors of the 2020 Chelsea International Fine Art Competition after reviewing the submitted artwork.
Competition Jurors:
Christina Mossaides Strassfield
Museum Director and Chief Curator, Guild Hall Museum
Gwen Chanzit
Curator Emerita, Modern Art and the Herbert Bayer Collection Archive at the Denver Art Museum
Professor of the Practice and Director of Museum Studies in Art History at the University of Denver
Christina Mossaides Strassfield
Museum Director and Chief Curator, Guild Hall Museum
Christina Mossaides Strassfield is the Museum Director/Chief Curator of Guild Hall Museum in East Hampton, New York. She oversees the artistic leadership and overall management of the Museum with an exemplary schedule. The mission statement of the museum is to showcase artists who have an affiliation with Eastern Long Island. Close proximity to NYC has made the Hamptons the summer home for most of the New York Art world. This has allowed Ms. Strassfield to forge close relationships with the artists, dealers and collectors who shape it. She has curated exhibitions of numerous internationally recognized artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Chuck Close, Eric Fischl, David Salle, Ross Bleckner, April Gornik, John Chamberlain, Larry Rivers, Hans Namuth, Cindy Sherman, Dan Flavin, Taryn Simon, Barbara Kruger and Richard Prince. Each of these artists has formed a positive bond with the institution in part because of her. Ms. Strassfield is also very committed to championing the works of lesser known artists.
She curates group invitationals show which has received acclaim from art critics as well as the general public. At Guild Hall she is in charge of overseeing and curating the permanent collection of over 2500 objects. Ms. Strassfield launched the Guild Hall Collector’s Circle and has cultivated many gifts for the collection, overseeing acquisitions and loans, guiding the Museum Committee, and organizing traveling exhibitions. She’s co-chaired a Symposium at Hofstra University on the artist Perle Fine. She’s also a professor at the State University of New York at Suffolk Community College.
Gwen Chanzit
Curator Emerita of Modern Art and the Herbert Bayer Collection and Archive at the Denver Art Museum
Professor of the Practice and Director of Museum Studies in Art History at the University of Denver
Gwen Chanzit is Curator Emerita of Modern Art and the Herbert Bayer Collection and Archive at the Denver Art Museum, and is Professor of the Practice and Director of Museum Studies in Art History at the University of Denver. Over her 36-plus years at the Denver Art Museum, Dr. Chanzit organized more than 30 exhibitions. Some highlights were Figure to Field, Mark Rothko in the 1940s, Herbert Bayer: Berlin Graphics 1928-1938, Fracture: Cubism and After, Joan Miró: Instinct and Imagination, Starring Linda: A Trio of John DeAndrea Sculptures, Overthrown: Clay Without Limits, Herbert Bayer: New York and Aspen Paintings 1938-1974, Gunther Gerzso: A Mexican Master, and Abstract Expressionism from the Denver Art Museum.
Her major curatorial project, Women of Abstract Expressionism, opened at the Denver Art Museum in June 2016 and was on tour for a year. This traveling exhibition received much positive attention in the national and international press. Its comprehensive catalogue is now into its fifth printing.
Dr. Chanzit is regarded as the world expert on Bauhaus artist Herbert Bayer; she has published several books highlighting Bayer’s wide-ranging artistic contributions
Selected to participate in the competition exhibition:
Dorothy Fischer, Kenneth Burton, JC de Bie, Arnaud Feuga, Sabrina Nelson, Kazuhiro Kita, Carmen Verdi, Kiyotaka Ibaraki, Megan Latham, Brut Carniollus, Tania Volobueva, David Mirac, Kristina Kossi, Shubhi Gupta, Malynda Cooper, Andrea Guedella, Jihye Min, Manuel, Mimiroku, Wendy van Boxtel, Lauren Frank, Shokoufeh Malekkiani, Martine Michaud (Mishô), Gerty Vos, Ciera Troy, Dmitry Iv, Parastoo Ahoon, Uma Manasseh and Sarah Ducker, Emmanuelle Sitruk, Roidley Pérez Navarro
Entitled to receive cash prizes of $1000 each:
Violetta Sevostianova, Anna Lax Weichert, Sebastian Mueller-Soppart, Sue Graef, Michael Thron
Entitled to one year of exposure on ART-mine.com, which includes an artist statement composed by ARTmine’s talented art writers:
Babis (Bujar) Arizi, Lisa Hamilton, John Mark Luke, Shane Taremi, Luke David Designs
Entitled to an Honorable Mention and a complimentary entry to the 36th Chelsea International Fine Art Competition:
Thomas Witzke, Moginie Marie-Noelle, George A. Gonzalez, Janine Rivadeneira Malave, Alexandra von Bieler, Naomi Devil, Sandra Veillette, Michael Bourque, Fuki, Carlos Álvarez Maciel
Note: New York Art Competitions is proud to sponsor the competition, but New York Art Competitions and its employees had no input or influence in the selection process. All selection decisions were made by the competition jurors.
Jurors’ Pick – 2020 Selected Artists
OPENING RECEPTION: February 18, 2021
New York Art Competitions presents the following images from the 2020 selected artists of the Chelsea International Fine Art Competition. Note that the images shown below are representative of the selected artists’ works, and do not necessarily reflect the final artwork which will be shown in the Chelsea International Fine Art Competition Exhibition and New York Art Competitions website.
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