Metro Montage XXII People’s Choice Award Winner!
“This painting began with a beautiful photo I saw on Flickr. The photographer told me it was taken first thing in the morning, as the windows face east in this Gothic-style reading room at Duke University. I removed two enormous armchairs that were blocking the foreground view, but then had to face the task of replacing the carpet revealed by the elimination of those chairs.”
The Winners of Metro Montage XXII
First Place Prize: Robert Meredith’s Studio Mirror (2018). This oil painting on a panel carved by Robert Meredith exemplifies Meredith’s masterful understanding of technique and subject matter; a personal narrative is imbued into an expertly executed trompe-l’oeil painting. Meredith succeeds in creating a work of art that is not only awestriking in its impressive and clean application of oil paint, but it also directly connects the artist to the viewer. Meredith literally allows viewers a glimpse into his life and artistic practice.
Second Place Prize: Crystian Hopper’s Scarlet (2022). Crystian Hopper’s larger-than-life colored pencil work on Bristol paper is an immaculate effort in photorealism. The artist is able to capture highlights and shadows, subtle variations in texture, and to even evoke a sense of movement, despite the subject matter being inanimate. The intense, striking shades of red capture the attention of the viewer. It is then upon a closer and more deliberate inspection that it becomes clear that the piece of art is a hand-drawn, meticulously rendered still life.
Third Place Prize: Suzy Schultz’s Falling Leaves (2022). In watercolor, Suzy Schultz paints a stunning portrait of a woman amongst a flurry of leaves that descend from above. Schultz’s use of watercolor paint to create stunning realism, as well as the more abstracted background, displays the artist’s unique style. Schultz leans into the aqueous nature of watercolor with the dripping background and explores fields of colors in varying opacities. She also, however, has skillfully implemented shadow and light, texture, compositional balance, and mood by way of the human figure portrayed.
Opening Reception from 6:00 to 8:00 PM on Saturday July 9, 2022. Free for MCMA members and $10 for guests—admission paid upon entry. Cash bar and hors d’oeuvres served. Membership can be purchased at the event.
Metro Montage is the Marietta Cobb Museum of Art’s annual juried exhibition featuring all types of genre, medium, style, subject matter, concept, and technique in art from across the country. Metro Montage XXII features works of fine art by contemporary artists that showcase the diversity and skill within our nation’s culture. Metro Montage XXII will be exhibited throughout the Museum’s galleries on both floors.
Chad Awalt
Jeffrey Babine
Donna Barnhart
Ramses H. Batista
Leon Borchers
Claudia Botwin Goodman
Anne Bradham
Karen Bradshaw
Jenny Brahm
Moira Brennen
Caleb Brown
Alice Burnette
Philip Carpenter
Diane Clapes
Donna Colebeck
Jessica Cook
Mary Belle Cordell
Valentina Custer O’Roark
Nikki Davidson
Sonia Diaz-Batson
Terri Dilling
Steve Dininno
Jan DiPietro
Allison Doke
William Dooley
Vincent Drake
Judson Duke
Cecelia Dunn
Melanie Eberhardt
Barbara Edwards
Kathy Erickson
Jeffrey Fibus
Lisa Finlayson
Clay Fisher
Allison Frink
Eloisa Gallegos Hernandez
Joseph Gargasz
Laurie Gooseff
Luke Graves
Justin Groom
Anne Emerson Hall
TJ Haugh
Michael Heffernan
Leah Hopkins Henry
Saul Hernandez
Crystian Hopper
Heidi Hunt
Sara Jones
Elizabeth Kayl
Bryan Kennelly
Mickey King
Beth Krah
Karl Kroeppler
Lisa Lang
J. (Jie) Li
Joe Loehr
Nancy Jeanette Long
Arline Mann
Crystal Marshall
Jane Martin
Lynn Mayes
Julie Mazzoni
Candace McCollough
Becca McCoy
Robert McDonald
Shane McDonald
Shannon Meadows
Mary Means
Robert Meredith
Fran Milner
Dale Molnar
Eric Moore
Katherine Moore
Martie L Moore
Ellen Moore-Osborne
Amy Nelder
Marilyn Nolan-Johnson
Donna Outwater
Krys Pettit
John Pickering
Doug Pisik & Robert G. Burch
Marla Puziss
Paula Reynaldi
Mandy Robinson
Korey Rowswell
Suzy Schultz
Lisa Schwendemann Smith
Charles Scogins
Mwasaa Sherard
Alyssa Smith
Joel Sobelson
Jane Springfield
Stella Spyrou
Carve Stone
Janet Suarez
Jerome Tarpley
Melvin Toledo
Debra Wade-Eulau
Julia Washburn
Susan Duke Waters
Gail Wegodsky
Jeffrey Wilcox Paclipan
Susan Winchester
Debra Yaun
Don Yaun