The painting by Stephen Carlson of Syracuse won Best in Show prize at Made in NY 2021, an exhibition currently on display at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn. Rochester-area artists swept the Juror's Choice prizes.
Schweinfurth Art Center announces
"Made in NY" prize winners
AUBURN, NY (June 14, 2021) – A Syracuse artist, Stephen Carlson, won Best in Show at “Made in NY 2021,” the 25th annual exhibition at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn, NY. His painting, “Untitled,” shows two chairs on a solid background.
Sharon Draghi of Scarsdale won the Susan E. Spencer Memorial First Prize for her self-portrait photograph “Time Is an Illusion.” And Charles Compo of New York City won Second Prize for his painting “There’s One in Every Crowd.”
The winning pieces were selected by the jurors who picked the artwork for the show: George Afedzi Hughes, an artist and the head of the painting program at the University at Buffalo; Hannah Frieser, executive director of the Center for Photography at Woodstock and former director of Light Work in Syracuse; and Sharon Louden, an artist, educator, and the artistic director of Chautauqua Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institute.
The jurors also chose their own person favorites, who were awarded Juror’s Choice prizes. Three Rochester-area artists were selected:
* Christina Bang of Pittsford for her sculpture “Green and Yellow”
* Lee Hoag of Rochester for his sculpture “Pull It Together”
* Timothy Massey of Spencerport for his drawing “Tumor”
Made in NY 2021 is on display through Aug. 7, 2021, at the Schweinfurth Art Center, 205 Genesee St., Auburn. Also on display are “Threads Across Time,” featuring quilts by Sarah Bond and her foremothers, and “Harriet’s World,” paintings by Terry Plater in a two-part show at the Schweinfurth and the Cayuga Museum of History & Art
The galleries are open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays and 1 to 5 p.m. Sundays. The exhibit is sponsored by the New York State Council for the Arts and WRVO Public Media
