Figures of Speech Retrospective - Anderson Museum of Art

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Figures of Speech Retrospective

August 2nd – September 22nd, 2019

Our annual Figures of Speech exhibition is on its 8th year! Over the past 7 years we have purchased 21 works of art from this exhibition to add to our permanent collection.

2012 Purchase Awards

Jason Hawk “Grass is Always Greener”, polychromed and copper plated steel

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2013 Purchase Awards

Joe Rohrman “Birds of a Feather Flock Together”, stoneware, underglazes, and hardwood

Lynette K. Waters-Whitesell “Two Down. Two to Go.”, mixed media

Lynette K. Waters-Whitesell “All’s Well That Ends Well”, mixed media

Brent Cole “Silver Lining”, blown glass in the Graal tradition

Stacy Hughes “One Good Turn Deserves Another”, limestone on granite base

2014 Purchase Awards

Becky Grismer “Putting Down Roots”, tree bark, pine tree roots, and polyurethane

Joe Rohrman “Look Before you Leap”, stoneware, underglaze, and wood

2015 Purchase Awards

Joe Rohrman “What Goes Up Must Come Down”, clay and underglaze

Sue Arrends “Iron Out the Details”, acrylic on corrugated cardboard

Carol Griffith “You Can’t Have Your Cake and Eat it Too”

2016 Purchase Awards

Mary Carmichael “Silence is Golden”, collage

Mary Carmichael “Dance Like No One is Watching”, mixed media collage

Janelle Driggs “Cat Nap”, relief print

2017 Purchase Awards

Michael Prater “Raygun #1: Shoot for the Moon”, charcoal and graphite on primed paper

Mary Ellen Bertram “Putting Down Roots”, photographic print on wood

2018 Purchase Awards

David B. Johnson, “Holier Than Thou”,
chine colle, intaglio, and letterpress accordion book

| Best of Show & Purchase Award

W. Joseph Zack “Empty Nest”, wood, resin, copper, paper, and electric light

| Second Place & Purchase Award with funds provided through Star Private Advisory

Joyce Minnick “Putting Down Roots”, mixed media

| Purchase Award

Joyce Minnick “Putting Down Roots”

Kelcey Ervick “Snake in the Grass”, acrylic on wood panel

| Purchase Award

Drawn to Life: Works of Deon Parson & Cameron Kotterman

2019 Open Space: Art About the Land