2010 Juried Competition
Edward Robinson, LACMA
Max Presneill, Torrence Art Museum
Competition Winners!
LACDA 2010 INTERNATIONAL JURIED COMPETITION
Jurors:
Edward Robinson, L.A. County Museum of Art (LACMA)
Max Presneill, Torrance Art Museum
Rex Bruce, L.A. Center for Digital Art
Congratulations to all of our entrants to the LACDA Juried Competition! You have all made excellent contributions to the pioneering field of digital art and have made art history by participating in a new area of creativity and a new kind of exhibition.
There were so many outstanding artists of all kinds from around the globe that it was very difficult to choose our winners. We endeavored to select winners that each represented the best of a variety of disciplines, cultures and geographical locations. We will continue to maintain a schedule of calls for artists in the future, so we encourage artists to enter again as many will be selected in the future.
First Place Winner:
Sally Dennison
Second Place Winners:
Alexander Reyna
Mare Vaccaro
Jesus Jimenez
Monika Niwelinska
Yuanhung Lan
Our most sincere thanks to all for contributing to the success of digital art!
Sally Dennison is a native New Yorker currently earning her MFA in photography at Parsons The New School for Design. The majority of her work is self-portraiture without the intent to accurately photograph herself, but rather to showcase gender identity issues using herself as a blank canvas that can transmogrify in many subtile directions. She works with digital manipulation with regards to challenging aesthetic paradigms and rejecting imposed standards of beauty for art as well as personal appearance. The blend between the fabric of her garments and the fabric of her surroundings indicates a similar blend between inner and outer 'cultural fabric' that can serve to define us as people. This blend and the deadpan poses in these works also offers a very visually striking series by an artist exhibiting giftedness of a high caliber.
Jesus Jimenez
Mare Vaccaro
Alexander Reyna
Monika Niwelinska
Yuanhung Lan
About the jurors:
EDWARD ROBINSON is the Associate Curator of the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). He curated the Los Angeles presentation of New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape, co-curated The Sum of Myself: Photographic Self-Portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Collection, and is working on the upcoming exhibition William Eggleston: Democratic Camera (Fall, 2010). New media components of these exhibitions include commissioning a video installation by the Center for Land Use Intrepretation on the theme of oil in the landscape; 'Testament' by Nathalie Bookchin, a meditation on the collective self-portrait garnered by on-line vlogging; and the presentation of Eggleston's video work, Stranded in Canton. He contributes regularly to LACMA's blog, Unframed, including a recent series of video interviews with LA-based photographers. He earned his PhD at Oxford University in the History of Art and Photography and his BA in Art History at Brown University. Formerly the Beaumont and Newhall Curatorial Fellow in the Dept. of Photography at MoMA, he initiated and organized over four years a number of exhibitions and programs. He has collaborated with such artists as Reneke Dijkstra, Nan Goldin, Stuart Klipper, Boris Mihailov, Vik Muniz, Mark Steinmetz, and Beat Streuli. He has served as well as the editor of Blind Spot magazine, has published a number of articles on photographic history, and has taught at New York University and Yale University.
MAX PRESNEILL is an artist and the Director and Curator for the Torrance Art Museum as well as the former Founder and Director of Raid Projects (1998-2008) and Director of the Mark Moore Gallery (2005-8). He has extensive experience internationally as a curator having organized exhibitions often including new media and photography for museums, institutes and galleries in London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Mexico City, Sydney, Istanbul, Paris, and other international cities as well as numerous projects in New York and the rest of the US in addition to over 100 exhibitions for Raid Projects. He has worked as an art critic and as a Professor of Fine Art at several universities in the UK and the US. As a practicing artist himself he has shown regularly throughout the US and internationally. He has also sat on the Selection Committee’s for NOVA Young Art Fair (Chicago), PULSE Art Fair (New York/Miami/London) and the PILOT program and publication (London) amongst others, and will be a speaker at the 2010 American Association of Museums Conference.
REX BRUCE is the founder and director of Los Angeles Center for Digital Art. He founded the digital program at Artists Television Access (San Francisco) for which he curated exhibits and created curriculum. He received his masters from SFSU in Interdisciplinary Art where he also taught and developed curriculum for many years. His work has been shown internationally for over twenty years. Most recently he has emerged as a significant artist and organizer in the burgeoning Renaissance in downtown Los Angeles as well as becoming a leader in the exploding international scene revolving around art and technology. Video and photography from his current series have been exhibited at the Centre Pompidou, Laznia Center for Contemporary Art (Poland), Guggenheim Gallery (Chapman University), California Museum of Photography (U.C. Riverside), New Media Center Santa Ana, Found Gallery, Start SOMA San Francisco, Center for Political Graphics (L.A.), Niche.LA Video Art, Silver Lake Film Festival, Downtown Film Festival–Los Angeles, photoLA, photoSF, and LACDA.
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