Winners Announced for 2017 International Juried Exhibition at The Center for Contemporary Art

BEDMINSTER, N.J. - Nov. 16, 2017 - PRLog -- The Center for Contemporary Art's 2017 International Juried Exhibition is on view through December 23, 2017.

Juror Stephen Westfall selected 51 pieces from 1,112 entries submitted by 386 artists from across the U.S. and Canada, and as far away as China, Cyprus, India, Korea, South Africa and the United Arab Emirates. The exhibition consists of work by 48 artists in a broad range of subject matter and media.

Five artists were selected for awards:

1st Prize: Carrie and Eric Tomberlin (Weaverville, NC)

2^nd Prize: Debra Jayne (Hanover, NH)

3^rd Prize: Robert Crossno (Littleton, CO)

Honorable Mention: Lauren Eve Skelly Bailey (East Meadow, NY)

Artists Mike Cole (Philadelphia, PA) and Jill Kerwick (Fair Haven, NJ) were awarded 2018 solo exhibitions at The Center for Contemporary Art by The Center's Exhibitions Committee.

Executive Director of The Center for Contemporary Art, Elie Porter Trubert stated, "I eagerly anticipate the Juried Exhibition each year. With this many entries, juror Stephen Westfall had an enormous number of pieces of artwork to choose from and limitless ways to design an exhibition. I commend him on his selection, and congratulate all of artists selected for participation!"

Juror Stephen Westfall received his MFA in 1978 from the University of California, Santa Barbara and has been exhibiting in the US and internationally since the 1980s. He has works in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Kemper Museum in Kansas City, the Louisiana Museum in Humlebaek, Denmark, the Munson Williams Proctor Museum in Utica, New York, the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He is currently a professor at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and in the graduate program at Bard University, as well as a Contributing Editor at Art in America.

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