Georgia Artists Guild of Albany show opens Sunday in Shellman
Reception set for Sunday-afternoon art exhibit opening
From Staff Reports
SHELLMAN — An opening reception for a show of works by winning Georgia Artists Guild of Albany (GAGA) artists is set for 2-6 p.m. Sunday at the Center for Art and Rehabilitative Energies here.
The invitational exhibition opens Sunday and will continue at the art center, located at 3696 Pearl St. in Shellman, through March 3. The center is open weekends.
The artists, who were winners of the 2018 competition that was announced last fall at the annual GAGA exhibition at the Albany Museum of Art, were invited to include three pieces each for the exhibit.
Each year, GAGA invites its membership, which includes photographers, sculptors and painters from a broad spectrum of media and disciplines, to compete. A curator from the Southeastern region is asked to view the work and award three prizes in each of the art forms. The judge for the 2018 contest was Fred C. Russell of Columbus, curator and exhibit designer for the Gertrude “Ma” Rainey House & Blues Museum in Columbus and former chief curator for the Columbus Museum. A founding member of the Board of Directors of the Pasaquan Preservation Society, Fussell is an independent field researcher, writer and documentary photographer.
The winners of the 2018 invitational exhibition were:
— Photography: first, Chuck Ulm, “Surf’s Up”; second, Meg Tilley Anderson, “Life Teams”; third, Bob Parker, “Boom,” and honorable mention, Martha C. Ivey, “The Cow”
— Painting: first, Ray Pierotti, “Pecan Circles”; second, Jennifer Herrick, “Remedies Cabinet”; third, Janice Rentz, “The Big House,” and honorable mention, Mary Sumners, “Six Feet Tall”
— Sculpture: first, Meg Tilley Anderson, “Dada’s Dead!?”; second, Bonnie Davis, “Happy Feet.”
Each of the winning artists is invited to show three works of their choice in this GAGA exhibition, which is being hosted for the fourth time by the Shellman art center.
The reception and exhibition are open and free to the general public. The exhibition artists will be in attendance Sunday, and light refreshments will be served, center officials said.
The Center for Art and Rehabilitative Energies is located in a renovated onion barn, with off-street parking available next to the barn.
For information about the art center and the GAGA exhibition, visit www.shellmancenter.wordpress.com or call (229) 679-5069 or (229) 679-2070 for reservations and appointments.
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