2024 Annual Members' Show

This year’s Members' Show will be held from Friday, December 6, 2024 through Saturday, January 11, 2025. An Artists’ Reception with an awards ceremony will be hosted on Friday, December 6, 2024 from 5:00 - 8:00 p.m, with awards starting at 6:30 p.m. $1,000 in cash prizes will be distributed! This exhibition features over 200 artists. 

 

ACG’s Annual Members' Show highlights and recognizes a wide range of talented members, bringing together a dynamic cross-section of artists, diverse in medium and degree of expertise. Members range from student and emerging artists to established artists, from painters and photographers to sculptors and mixed media artists. ACG hosts this show as an opportunity for exposure and appreciation of all who have invested their time and energy supporting ACG, so we can continue our mission of highlighting regional creative talents.

 

Check out photos (taken by Jay Zhang) from the Artists' Reception HERE

Check out photos (taken by Michael Joyce) from the Artists' Reception HERE

 

Click HERE to view the exhibition online

 

Award Winners:

ACG Staff Choice Award: Althea Pestine-Stevens’ Aurora on the Lake, Wool 

ACG President’s Choice Award: Mary-Pat Wager’s Influencers, Wood, Light Bulbs, TV Tubes, Avocado skins

ACG Select Award: William Bracken’s Fourth of July, Watercolor

ACG Select Award: Leslie Ford’s This is the Time for Big Poems, Acrylic, Collage

ACG Select Award: Karen Schupack’s Patterns of Injustice, Mixed Media Fiber

Laffer Gallery Award: Irina Kaplan’s Rahil, Watercolor on Aquabord

Golden Artist Colors Award: Shalom Harrison’s Awake, Digital

Honorable Mention: Joel Best’s Book 11, Antique binder with 13 pages, 26 collaged assemblages utilizing text and altered photographs

Honorable Mention: David Brickman’s The Whale - Central Avenue 2024, Color Photograph

Honorable Mention: Page Darrow’s Harlequin, Oil on canvas

Honorable Mention: Patrick Milbourn’s Storm Surge, Acrylic on canvas

Honorable Mention: FRANC PALAIA’s Homage to the Cave Painters, Color photograph, paint, plaster, gravel, spray paint, faux cement on Polystyrene

Honorable Mention: Ivan Ramirez’s Extasis, Oak

Honorable Mention: Julia Rosen’s IF HE HAD TURNED AROUND EVERYTHING WOULD HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT, Watercolor, Gouache

Honorable Mention: Mr. Twogoobs’ Missed Connection, Acrylic & Spraypaint on canvas

 

Exhibiting Artists:

Ronda Anderson, Fern Apfel, Amber The Artist, Summer Austin, Alison Bachorik, Arlene Baker, Deborah Balcanoff, Marty Bannan, Carol Barre, Deborah Bayly, Peggy Becker, Joel Best, Christine Bianco, Natalie Boburka, Anna Boughtwood, William Bracken, Corinne Brennen, David Brickman, William Broderick, Laura Brodsky, Robert Buck, Berta Burr, Laura Cannamela, Steven Carberry, Michael Cassin, Bryanna Catucci, Fred Coffey, D. Colin, Stephen Condon, Jan Conn, Janet Cooke, Lisa Corporan-Batista, Elinur Danon, Page Darrow, Maggie DAversa, Maria DeAngelo, Lindsey DeBerry, Penny Dell, Chris DeMarco, Robert Durlak, FAR EYE, Christine Festin, Jeanne Finley, Tristana Fiscella, Abigail Fisher, Leslie Ford, Trish Ford, Thomas Fox, Paula Drysdale Frazell, Jay Freud, Connie Frisbee-Houde, Allison Gammon, Pattie Garrett, Megan Gerber, Karen Gerstenberger, Alice M. Gilbert, Gail Giles, Gary Glinski, Elizak Gordon, Ronald Greenberg, John Greenhut, George Guarino, Robert Gullie, Juliana Haliti, Christopher Harrington, Shalom Harrison, Martin Hatcher, Hands Like Hemlock, Ray C. Henrikson, Ali Herrmann, Andrea Hersh, Sina Basila Hickey, M. Suzanna Hicks, Dave Higgins, Clarke Hingeford, Fred Holman, Dorothy Howey, Lynn Huntington, Elizabeth Iadicicco, Tony Iadicicco, Sami Jane, Camille Jobin-Davis, Kiara Johnson, Michael Joyce, Jan Juliano, Paul Jureller, Elissa Kane, Irina Kaplan, Charleen Kavleski, Anita Fina Kierra, Mariah Kitner, Kathy Klompas, Hope Konecny, Steven Rolf Kroeger, Kevin Kuhne, Victoria van der Laan, Lee LaBier, Gary Larsen, Lori Lawrence, Susan LeGere, Barb Lennox, Stephanie Levay, Tina Lincer, Steve Lobel, Tracy Loring, Julie Lundgren, Linda MacRitchie-Graf, Lisl Maloney, Melissa Mansfield, Willie Marlowe, Christine Masi-Layden, Gary Masline, Mark McCarty, Dan McCormack, Drew McDonald, Colleen McWatters, Stephen Mead, Jesse Meenaghan, Julie Mereson, Patrick Milbourn, Chuck Miller, Jeanine Mitchell, René Molineaux, Kevin Mooney, Fred Morris, Christopher Murray, Susan Myers, Gail Nadeau, Aosta Nasutowicz, Frank Nasutowicz, Lucy Newman, Thomasa Nielsen, Rachel Nieves, Steve Nover, John Oberlander, Barbara O'Brien, Ed O'Connell, Alan Opresko, Cris Ortiz, Dorothea Osborn, FRANC PALAIA, Jessica Palden, Philip J Palmieri, Rita Papandrea, Andrew Pellettieri, Althea Pestine-Stevens, Sarah Petrucci, petesig Photography, Stephanie Pirrone, Pam Poquette, Margaret Porter, Ellie Prakken, Maggie Preller, Emily Prosper, Ivan Ramirez, Itter Randazzo, Larry Rappoport, Alice Raymond-Morse, Cynthia Roberts, Ronin, Julia Rosen, Dani Ruf, Jessica Rae Salmon, Jae Schalekamp, Susan Schmader, Mark Schmidt, Virginia Scholz, Karen Schupack, Lisa Schweigert, Kathryn T. Shaffer, Lynn Shanks, Jacob Shen, Iz Singer, Margo Singer, Simi Sinha, SKILLZ & Maria, Lindsay & Matthew Slaughter, Frank Smith, John Smolinsky, Natasha Smolovich, Eleanor Stein, Grace Tatara, Kim Tateo, Art Thorman, Emily Tironi, John Tobison, Israel Tsvaygenbaum, Mr. Twogoobs, Caroline Valites, Michelle Vara, Rose Viggiani, Richard Vitkay, Mary-Pat Wager, Michael Walker, Takeyce Walter, Marsha Lia Walton, Richard Wang, Alex Waters, Michael Watters, Jaida Wesley, Stacey Whiteley, Wayland Whitney, Matthew Wierzbowski, Venlue Williams-Leonard, Joe Wilson, Karina Wojnar, Bruce Wolford, Scrap Wrenn, Kit Kelly Yedinak, Leslie Yolen, Rebecca Zeh

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The exhibition is made possible by ACG Premier Sponsor Kevin Dubner, Partner & Wealth Manager at Steward Partners Global Advisory, LLC. Additional support is provided by BoogieREZ, Son of Egg, Alfredo Medina Jr & Jeannine Trimboli, DJ Trumastr and the New York Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and New York State Legislature. This exhibition is also made possible in part by the Albany for All funding program and the President's American Rescue Plan (ARPA).

 

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