New Contemporaries III

SD Art PRIZE: Recognition of Excellence in the Visual Art

Every year the SD Art Prize Art Notes writers and previous SD Art Prize recipients along with the SD Art Prize committee nominates emerging artists as possible suggestions for the SD Art Prize established artists to mentor. These artists are all featured in the New Contemporaries exhibitions held at local sales galleries.

2010 New Contemporaries III: San Diego Emerging Artists at Project X: Art
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New Contemporaries III at Project X: Art
Opening Reception: Sat. April 24, 6 – 10 pm
Sat., April 24 – Sat., May 22, 2010
320 S. Cedros Ave. Ste. 500 , Solana Beach, 92075
Exhibition hours: Tue - Friday 10 - 5, Saturday 11 – 4 pm
For more info: Chris Martino 858.792.9685

Greg Boudreau nominated by Chris Martin , Project X: Art
Kelsey Brookes nominated by Mark Quint , Quint Contemporary Art
Stephen P. Curry nominated by Robin Bright , artist
Steve Gibson nominated by Laurie Mitchell
Brian Goeltzenleuchter nominated by Teri Sowell, Director of Exhibitions and Collections, Oceanside Museum of Art
Wendell M. Kling nominated by Brian Dick, artist
Heather Gwen Martin nominated by Kim MacConnel, artist and Ann Berchtold, director, Beyond the Borders International Art Fair
Robert Nelson nominated by Tom Noel and Larry Baza, Noel-Baza Fine Art
Julio Orozco nominated by Debra Poteet, collector
Allison Renshaw nominated by Patricia Frischer, coordinator, SDVAN
Lesha Maria Rodriguez nominated by Katherine Sweetman
James Soe Nyun nominated by Tom Driscoll, artist
Stephen Tompkins nominated by Robin Clark, PhD, Curator, The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

Panel discussion with Artists and their Nominatoros
Sat. May 15 from 6 – 8
Katherine Sweetman with Lesha Maria Rodriguez, Kim MacConnel with Heather Gwen Martin, Tom Driscoll with James Soe Nyun, Tom Noel and/or Larry Baza with Robert Nelson, Robin Clark with Stephen Tompkins, Debra Poteet with Julio Orozco
320 S. Cedros Ave. Ste. 500 , Solana Beach, 92075
Exhibition hours: Tue - Friday 10 - 5, Saturday 11 – 4 pm
For more info: Chris Martino 858.792.9685

Spotlight Exhibitions in 2010

San Diego Visual Arts Network is announcing the third year of the New Contemporaries exhibition to be held at Project X in Solana Beach from April 24 to May 22, 2010. Nominations are made by Artists from 2009 SD Art Prize, SD Art Prize Art Notes Writers, the SD Art Prize committee, Project X: Art director Chris Martino.

A special guest nominator was selected from our public call for nominators: Teri Sowell – Director of Exhibitions and Collections, Oceanside Museum of Art . The following criteria were used for this guest nominator:

• All Nominators will be writing about their nominee who is a local Avant Guarde artist i.e. one who is current and important in our day. We see these nominators as Champions of the artist they nominate.
• Nominators have never nominated an artist before for the SD Art Prize or New Contemporaries show
• All nominated artists will be included if they accept our invitation to show at Project X in Solana Beach from April 24 to May 22, 2010.

SPOTLIGHT EXHBIITIONS

We are highlighting the SD Art Prize: New Contemporaries featuring Artist nominated in the emerging category for the SD Art Prize 2009 and we hope that many of you will attend the reception at Noel-Baza Fine Art and see the exhibition. There is a wide range of mediums represented as well as a range of age and experience. The most important point is that not all these names are known to all of us. We are celebrating the excellence of these artists and the high quality of the artwork nominated. We encourage you to see some of these artists with more indpeth exhibitions. Watch for the following shows during 2009.

Emerging artist definition: artist who are emerging with new, fresh ideas. This is not about the age of the artists or the exposure they have had, but what art they are creating now and in the past three to five years. We think of these artists as emerging from the darkness into the light of the public view.

SD Art Prize Mission: Fusing Energy for San Diego Visual Arts: Mentorship, Education, Recognition, Collaboration

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