Works by
Karen Ackoff, Dan Alcaxzar, Keith Amrine, Lisa Baechtle, Barbara Behrmann, Emily Bellinger, Julia Bertussi, Brenda Bluestone, Carol Blum, Max Boyang, Louis Boyang, Gail Brisson, Heidi Brueckner, Nicholas Carbonaro, Karen Catalano, Candace Cima, Stephen Clark, James Cogbill, Victoria Connors, Lynette Cook, Jay Costanza, Kara Daviau, Patty Dawson‑Elli, Brittany Duguay, Cheryl Eggleston, Lori Farist, Caroline Feiveson, Anne Garretson, Emily Gibbons, Laura Glenn, Kent Goetz, Lana Grauer, Abbie Groves, Annemiek Haralson, Marjorie Hoffman, Anders (Andy) Kimmel, Denise Kooperman, Miriam Kurman, Benjamin Lander, Ava Lee, Taina Litwak, Debra La Lomia, Brooke Long, Kathleen Mahoney, Amy Maltzan, Dawn McLaughlin, Becky McNeill, Erika Medina, Barbara Mink, Gabe Morton‑Cook, Erica Norelius, Gail Norwood, Michele OBrien, Sheila Ortiz, Reid Palmer, Tatiana Patrone, Anna Pausch, McClain Percy, Jason Rivard, Michael Rothman, Jo Ann Rothschild, Marie Sanderson, Susan Sarabasha, Gregg Silvis, Lee Sims, Carol Spence, Anna Stunkel, Sarah Tietje‑Mietz, Jennie Toby, Ciera Troy, Elizabeth VanDuyne, Sam Vann, Julie Waltz‑Stalker, Ed Whitmore, Diane Woodhouse, Mark Woodhouse, Leanna Yatcilla, Teresa Yatsko, Mi Young, Stephen Yuen, Hope Zaccagni, and steven piotrowski.

Judge's Award

Heidi Brueckner
Squatters Club, Cuba

Judge's Award

Candace Cima
Waiting For Spring to Wakeup

Judge's Award

Lynette Cook
A Moment in Time

Judge's Award

Dawn McLaughlin
Loss (2021)

Judge's Award

Erica Norelius
Walking Into the Sunset

December 2021 Juried Show

The Annual December Juried Show for 2021 features 82 pieces by artists from all over the country. It appears both online and in the gallery and includes work in all media except photography. The show dates are December 2, 2021–January 2, 2022.

The prize judge was Rick Pirozzolo, Executive Director & Curator, Arnot Art Museum. He awarded $1000 in prizes.

All the accepted entries appear here. However some are not on display in our gallery due to the difficulty of shipping them to Ithaca. These are tagged as online only.

Karen Ackoff

Karen Ackoff • <em>Lewis Chess King</em> • Silverpoint on gouache ground • 14½″× 13″ • $1,500.00 — Lewis Chess King

Dan Alcaxzar

Dan Alcaxzar • <em>Socorro</em> • Oil on wood • 24″× 36″ • NFS — Socorro
online only

Keith Amrine

Keith Amrine • <em>Bronze Maiden</em> • Plastic • 31½″× 16″× 8″ • $2,500.00 — Bronze Maiden

Lisa Baechtle

Lisa Baechtle • <em>Roots of Play</em> • Watercolor on paper • 15″× 11½″ • $650.00 — Roots of Play

Barbara Behrmann

Barbara Behrmann • <em>Watch Your Step</em> • Original artist-dyed fabrics • 40″× 23″ • $875.00 — Watch Your Step

Emily Bellinger

Emily Bellinger • <em>Neon Dreams</em> • Fiber art quilt • 40″× 38″ • $1,200.00 — Neon Dreams

Julia Bertussi

Julia Bertussi • <em>Indisputable Exhaustion</em> • Oil paint on unstretched canvas • 24″× 18″ • $950.00 — Indisputable Exhaustion

Brenda Bluestone

Brenda Bluestone • <em>Moody Grapes with Green Dish</em> • Acrylic on Arches paper • 6″× 8″ • $220.00 — Moody Grapes with Green Dish

Carol Blum

Carol Blum • <em>Lady Gray</em> • Marker on yupo • 11″× 14″× 25″ • $250.00 — Lady Gray

Max Boyang

Max Boyang • <em>Praying Mantis</em> • Quill pen and ink, watercolor, gold leaf • 19″× 24″ • $2,550.00 — Praying Mantis
online only

Louis Boyang

Louis Boyang • <em>Fade</em> • Watercolor, graphite • 18″× 23″ • $2,050.00 — Fade
online only

Gail Brisson

Gail Brisson • <em>Inner Divided Conflict</em> • Hand printed paper, acrylic, ink • 7½″× 9″× ½″ • $75.00 — Inner Divided Conflict

Heidi Brueckner

<span class="award_name">Judge's Award</span>Heidi Brueckner • <em>Squatters Club, Cuba</em> • Oil on recycled bubble paper • 46½″× 78¼″× 2″ • $4,075.00 — Judge's Award
Squatters Club, Cuba
online only

Nicholas Carbonaro

Nicholas Carbonaro • <em>Refugee</em> • Ceramic masks, cotton fabric, plaster, water color, metal wire • 33″× 23″× 13″ • $3,500.00 — Refugee

Karen Catalano

Karen Catalano • <em>Outer and Inner Revolutions</em> • Paper • 10″× 9″ • $300.00 — Outer and Inner Revolutions

Candace Cima

<span class="award_name">Judge's Award</span>Candace Cima • <em>Waiting For Spring to Wakeup</em> • Watercolor on Arches paper • 19″× 13″ • $1,400.00 — Judge's Award
Waiting For Spring to Wakeup

Stephen Clark

Stephen Clark • <em>Borderline Sampler</em> • Oil and graphite on canvas • 16″× 20″× 1″ • $350.00 — Borderline Sampler

James Cogbill

James Cogbill • <em>Transition</em> • Oil on panel • 13″× 13″ • $650.00 — Transition

Victoria Connors

Victoria Connors • <em>Sunflower sundown</em> • Wool, felt, fine fibers, beads. • 24″× 28″ • $1,200.00 — Sunflower sundown

Lynette Cook

<span class="award_name">Judge's Award</span>Lynette Cook • <em>A Moment in Time</em> • Acrylic on canvas • 24″× 24″ • NFS — Judge's Award
A Moment in Time
online only

Jay Costanza

Jay Costanza • <em>Labor Day Sunset</em> • Pastel over watercolor • 9″× 12″ • $450.00 — Labor Day Sunset

Kara Daviau

Kara Daviau • <em>The Salt & the Sea & the Stone</em> • Acrylic on canvas • 24″× 30″ • $3,500.00 — The Salt & the Sea & the Stone

Patty Dawson-Elli

Patty Dawson-Elli • <em>Planetary Motions</em> • Acrylic on wood panel • 24″× 24″× 1½″ • $690.00 — Planetary Motions
online only

Brittany Duguay

Brittany Duguay • <em>canna phasion</em> • Oil on canvas • 48″× 48″ • $20,275.00 — canna phasion
online only

Cheryl Eggleston

Cheryl Eggleston • <em>Tap Shoes</em> • Alkyd paint of gallery wrapped canvas • 24″× 24″× 1½″ • $765.00 — Tap Shoes
online only

Lori Farist

Lori Farist • <em>Fire and Ice</em> • Oil on linen • 11″× 14″ • $500.00 — Fire and Ice

Caroline Feiveson

Caroline Feiveson • <em>Hot Chili Peppers</em> • Cotton fabric, beads, hand embroidery • 18″× 18″ • NFS — Hot Chili Peppers
online only

Anne Garretson

Anne Garretson • <em>Thermophiles</em> • Pieced and quilted cotton • 39″× 38″ • $1,100.00 — Thermophiles

Emily Gibbons

Emily Gibbons • <em>Blackstairs, Co Wexford</em> • Watercolor and pastel • 4″× 4″ • $160.00 — Blackstairs, Co Wexford

Laura Glenn

Laura Glenn • <em>Unriddling</em> • Watercolor, ink, acrylic • 14″× 17″× ¾″ • $350.00 — Unriddling

Kent Goetz

Kent Goetz • <em>Key West Sunset</em> • Acrylic on canvas • 36″× 48″ • $675.00 — Key West Sunset

Lana Grauer

Lana Grauer • <em>Mill in Winter</em> • Pastel • 11″× 14″× 1″ • $400.00 — Mill in Winter

Abbie Groves

Abbie Groves • <em>Garden</em> • Soft pastel on Lux archival sanded paper • 8″× 10″ • $360.00 — Garden
online only

Annemiek Haralson

Annemiek Haralson • <em>Adirondack Skies</em> • Oil on canvas • 24″× 24″ • $525.00 — Adirondack Skies

Marjorie Hoffman

Marjorie Hoffman • <em>Chrysanthemum</em> • Hand made ceramic tile, stained glass, stone, fossilized coral • 22″× 18″ • $1,500.00 — Chrysanthemum

Anders (Andy) Kimmel

Anders (Andy) Kimmel • <em>Blue Flowers</em> • Oil • 18″× 24″ • $350.00 — Blue Flowers

Denise Kooperman

Denise Kooperman • <em>Atonement</em> • Wool roving, paper • 45″× 40″× ¼″ • NFS — Atonement

Miriam Kurman

Miriam Kurman • <em>Between Ambiguous Loss and Tenuous Hope, No. 3</em> • China marker, acrylic, graphite, and ink on watercolor paper • 9″× 12″ • NFS — Between Ambiguous Loss and Tenuous Hope, No. 3
online only

Debra La Lomia

Debra La Lomia • <em>Simply Be</em> • Acrylic on wrapped canvas • 24″× 24″ • NFS — Simply Be
online only

Benjamin Lander

Benjamin Lander • <em>Unfurling Chestnut </em>(Aesculus glabra)<em></em> • Graphite on paper (Strathmore 500 Bristol) • 9½″× 9″ • $960.00 — Unfurling Chestnut (Aesculus glabra)
online only

Ava Lee

Ava Lee • <em>Immersed</em> • Acrylic • 18″× 24″ • $2,550.00 — Immersed
online only

Taina Litwak

Taina Litwak • <em>News Stream I</em> • Acrylic and newspaper on canvas • 16″× 20″× 1″ • $800.00 — News Stream I

Brooke Long

Brooke Long • <em>Illusive Shift</em> • Acrylic, graphite, ink on wood panel • 48″× 36″× 3″ • $400.00 — Illusive Shift

Kathleen Mahoney

Kathleen Mahoney • <em>East Rockaway Morning</em> • Oil and acrylic on canvas • 36″× 48″ • $1,500.00 — East Rockaway Morning

Amy Maltzan

Amy Maltzan • <em>Love Nature</em> • Giclée print • 10″× 10″ • $116.00 — Love Nature
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Dawn McLaughlin

<span class="award_name">Judge's Award</span>Dawn McLaughlin • <em>Loss (2021)</em> • India ink, gesso, watersoluble pencil on paper • 11″× 14″ • $300.00 — Judge's Award
Loss (2021)
online only

Becky McNeill

Becky McNeill • <em>See Me: A Commentary on Womanhood</em> • Quilted cotton • 53″× 16″× ¼″ • $625.00 — See Me: A Commentary on Womanhood

Erika Medina

Erika Medina • <em>Transcending</em> • Oil on wood with copper and mica • 39″× 10″ • $585.00 — Transcending

Barbara Mink

Barbara Mink • <em>Gorge Walk Spring</em> • Inks and acrylic • 48″× 36″ • $2,100.00 — Gorge Walk Spring

Gabe Morton-Cook

Gabe Morton-Cook • <em>Seismic Glitch</em> • Acrylic on canvas • 24″× 24″ • NFS — Seismic Glitch

Erica Norelius

<span class="award_name">Judge's Award</span>Erica Norelius • <em>Walking Into the Sunset</em> • Oil on canvas • 20″× 16″ • $2,450.00 — Judge's Award
Walking Into the Sunset
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Gail Norwood

Gail Norwood • <em>Merganser Pair</em> • Colored pencil, pastel • 16″× 20″ • $130.00 — Merganser Pair

Michele OBrien

Michele OBrien • <em>Boulders</em> • Collage • 9″× 9″× 1″ • $160.00 — Boulders
online only

Sheila Ortiz

Sheila Ortiz • <em>Tulip Tree</em> • Acrylic on panel • 8″× 8″ • $320.00 — Tulip Tree
online only

Reid Palmer

Reid Palmer • <em>Big Jon</em> • Acrylic on canvas • 24″× 18″ • NFS — Big Jon

Tatiana Patrone

Tatiana Patrone • <em>A girl with a pearl earring</em> • Wire, paperclay, found objects, concrete • 12″× 6″× 6″ • $600.00 — A girl with a pearl earring

Anna Pausch

Anna Pausch • <em>Mums Gone Wild</em> • Oil ink on paper • 48″× 42″ • $175.00 — Mums Gone Wild

McClain Percy

McClain Percy • <em>IcyHot</em> • Acrylic on gessoed panel • 18″× 18″× 2″ • $800.00 — IcyHot
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steven piotrowski

steven piotrowski • <em>yellow nectarines</em> • Acrylic on panel • 8″× 10″ • $400.00 — yellow nectarines

Jason Rivard

Jason Rivard • <em>Pathways</em> • Utah onyx • 19″× 27″× 4½″ • POR — Pathways

Michael Rothman

Michael Rothman • <em>Jiufotang habitat group reconstruction mural</em> • Acrylics on polyester archival canvas • 72″× 48″ • $6,000.00 — Jiufotang habitat group reconstruction mural

Jo Ann Rothschild

Jo Ann Rothschild • <em>Imaginary Real</em> • Mixed media on canvas • 94″× 115″ • NFS — Imaginary Real
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Marie Sanderson

Marie Sanderson • <em>Forest in January</em> • Watercolor on paper • 20″× 17″ • $300.00 — Forest in January

Susan Sarabasha

Susan Sarabasha • <em>Streaming Meditation</em> • Soft pastel on pastelmat • 8″× 10½″ • $500.00 — Streaming Meditation

Gregg Silvis

Gregg Silvis • <em>Pattern I</em> • Brass rods, acrylic on wood panel • 16″× 16″× 5″ • $1,500.00 — Pattern I

Lee Sims

Lee Sims • <em>Henry at Rest</em> • Pastel on paper • 12″× 9″ • NFS — Henry at Rest
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Carol Spence

Carol Spence • <em>Spring Break</em> • Acrylic, monoprint collage • 16″× 20″ • $475.00 — Spring Break

Anna Stunkel

Anna Stunkel • <em>Copperhead forest floor scene</em> • Colored pencil on watercolor paper • 12″× 9″ • $350.00 — Copperhead forest floor scene

Sarah Tietje-Mietz

Sarah Tietje-Mietz • <em>Syracuse Winter</em> • Oil on canvas • 24″× 36″ • $1,820.00 — Syracuse Winter

Jennie Toby

Jennie Toby • <em>Into the Falls</em> • Oil, pigment stick, mica and cold wax on canvas • 36″× 36″ • $540.00 — Into the Falls

Ciera Troy

Ciera Troy • <em>Noise</em> • Acrylic, plaster on dry wall • 50″× 24″ • $500.00 — Noise
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Elizabeth VanDuyne

Elizabeth VanDuyne • <em>Jetty View, Chemung River</em> • Oil on multimedia board • 11″× 14″ • $350.00 — Jetty View, Chemung River

Sam Vann

Sam Vann • <em>Prince Edward Albatross</em> • Watercolor on paper • 25″× 38″ • $1,500.00 — Prince Edward Albatross

Julie Waltz-Stalker

Julie Waltz-Stalker • <em>Bury it Deep</em> • Oil on canvas • 20″× 16″ • $600.00 — Bury it Deep

Ed Whitmore

Ed Whitmore • <em>Convergence</em> • Oxidized iron copper and bronze metal effects paint on wood • 36″× 36″ • $7,700.00 — Convergence
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Diane Woodhouse

Diane Woodhouse • <em>Big Flats</em> • Watercolor on paper • 13″× 9″ • $350.00 — Big Flats

Mark Woodhouse

Mark Woodhouse • <em>Articles of Order</em> • Water soluble oil on canvas • 48″× 36″ • $1,200.00 — Articles of Order

Leanna Yatcilla

Leanna Yatcilla • <em>Smithsonian Institution (Diptych)</em> • Oil on stretched canvas • 48″× 12″× ¾″ • NFS — Smithsonian Institution (Diptych)

Teresa Yatsko

Teresa Yatsko • <em>Beyond Her Malignancy</em> • Altered book • 14″× 10″× 12″ • $250.00 — Beyond Her Malignancy

Mi Young

Mi Young • <em>Winter Trees</em> • Acrylic • 12″× 18″× 3″ • NFS — Winter Trees
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Stephen Yuen

Stephen Yuen • <em>Kamani Tree at Makua Study no36</em> • Archival Inkjet print. handmade wood frame • 14″× 14″ • $400.00 — Kamani Tree at Makua Study no36

Hope Zaccagni

Hope Zaccagni • <em>Conjunction: 3 Circles</em> • Oil on canvas • 20″× 16″× 1½″ • $500.00 — Conjunction: 3 Circles

Admission to the gallery is free and open to the public.

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