Show Calendar / Duration: Tuesday, January 17 – Thursday, February 23, 2023
Artwork Removal: Friday, February 24, 2023 from 12-4 pm and Saturday, February 25, 2023 from 10am-2pm
This year’s exhibit attracted 162 submissions from 65 artists. Out of the 162 entries, 42 pieces of artwork,created by 36 artists, were chosen for the exhibition. This year’s Juror was Marisa Pascucci, Gallery and Collection Coordinator of the Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson Collage, North Carolina. Accepted artwork for the Winter Juried Exhibit includes paintings, drawings and mixed media work and this show will be on display in Mooresville Arts Center Gallery.
Ms. Pascucci had this overall commentary for the exhibit:
“It is important to state the obvious: art is best experienced in person. The intimacy of an exquisite small watercolor, the shading of work in paper, or the texture of a painting can only be felt completely by standing in front of the work of art. While it is near impossible to jury the exhibited of an open-call exhibition in person, it is both easier and more enjoyable
to award the prizes when viewing the works professionally installed in an impressive gallery space.
For 2+ hours on Monday, January 16, I had the Mooresville Arts gallery to myself to truly look at each of the 42 works I juried into the 10th Anniversary Winter Juried Exhibit. As a self-proclaimed art geek, this is a near magical experience for me and one of the perks of being a professional in the art world. As I noted previously, the mark of a successful artwork is
its ability to make the viewer feel something and this occurred repeatedly that morning.
Thank you, Mooresville Arts, for inviting me to jury the 10th Anniversary Winter Juried Exhibit. Bravo to each of the artists and to Mooresville Arts for its continued commitment to and support for the arts!”
Thank you to Ms. Pascucci for lending her time and expertise for this exhibition.
