Our Jurors
Quotes from the letters of our competition participants:"I'm thrilled about the prospect of having Peter Frank as the juror. The Riverside Art Museum is in my neck of the woods, so I know his name and reputation well. It would be an honor to have him consider my work for this show." R.R.
"I look forward to getting the Peter Frank frank assessment. I have always appreciated his eye and thoughts about art" C.D.
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PETER FRANK is Senior Curator at the Riverside Art Museum, art critic for Angeleno Magazine and the L. A. Weekly, and past editor of Visions Art Quarterly. He was born in 1950 in New York, where he served as art critic for The Village Voice and The SoHo Weekly News, and moved to Los Angeles, CA in 1988. Frank contributes articles to numerous publications and has written many monographs and catalogues including one-person and group exhibitions. Frank has also organized many theme and survey shows for institutions such as the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid, Spain, the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art in St. Louis, MO, Otis Institute of Art and Design in Los Angeles, CA, the Atlanta College of Art (Atlanta, GA), the Raleigh (North Carolina) City Gallery of Contemporary Art, Artists Space, the Alternative Museum, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, all in New York, NY. |
Frank has taught at colleges and universities on both coasts and has lectured extensively all over North America and Europe. McPherson & Company - Documentext published his Something Else Press: An Annotated Bibliography in 1983. A cycle of poems, The Travelogues, was issued by Sun & Moon Press in 1982. Abbeville Press released New, Used & Improved, an overview of the New York art scene co-written with Michael McKenzie, in 1987.
Interview with Peter Frank about our Competition Criteria
Lark: What principles or criteria did you use to choose the best artists in our competitions?
Peter: "What I am always looking for, while judging art exhibitions - beside the element of surprise, which is the bonus - is art that fulfills it's goals technically and spiritually - the realization or communication of vision.
L: Did you have any preference of styles?
P: No. For me it is more important how an artist has managed to express his/her idea, how interesting and unique is the artist's creative language, how skillfully he/she uses this language, and finally, what depth of experience and sensation his/her art conveys to me.
Technically speaking, it is also important how well art occupies space and time, but it is not just the right combination of colors and lines that the artist may have stumbled upon, but how masterful the artist is in unlocking this right combination within him- or herself. You cannot make what is not within you.
Born in 1961 in Leningrad, International Juror LICKA BRAKHOVSKY received degrees from the Mukhina Art Academy and an Icon Craft Master-Class
led by S.I. Golubev, Chief of the Restoration Department at the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg.
In 1996 Licka Brakhovsky moved to Israel and since 1998, she has been the Director of her private "NICKA" gallery which plays an active role in the Israeli art scene. She also served as curator for solo and international group exhibitions and contributes art criticism and articles to art-related publications and media.
In 2007, in cooperation with the Dutch Company "Christian de Books", Brakhovsky curated an international art exhibition project, "Russian-Israel Interaction," to present the transformation of Russian art-school painting through interaction with Israeli realities. In conjunction with this project she is preparing a series of art exhibitions, with accompanying catalogues, for Europe and the United States.
DAWNE CAMERA is the owner of ZC Gallery, based in Chicago and Portland. In 2006, she founded The Dreaming Zebra Foundation, a charitable organization with a mission of providing art and music supplies, and educational resources to children, schools and other non-profit organizations in need throughout the United States. She continues to serve as the Chairman of the Board for the Foundation today.
Dawne’s vision has always been to combine fine arts and philanthropy in a manner that benefits artists, collectors, educators, and their communities, while striving to contribute to the vibrancy, and accessibility, of arts education in the future.
Prior to starting the Foundation, Dawne served as a Member of the Board of Directors at Northwestern University in Chicago, IL. She is a regular contributor to various media publications, and is currently collaborating with educational leaders and corporate sponsors to complete a national survey regarding the status of elementary and high school grade arts education in the United States.
ILARIA KOSTANDI SILLANGIERRI, director of the Art Germann Gallery on Malaia Grouzinskaia Street in Moscow, was one of organizers of underground, non-conformist art exhibitions before Perestroyka.
These exhibitions were often the scene of spectacular queues and generated a huge amount of interest among the public of the former Soviet Union as political dissidents and ideological non-conformists were attracted to the company of underground painters, poets and musicians and became a crossroads for cultural exchange and discussion.
In 1988 Ilaria Kostandi Sillangierri founded ART GERMANN GALLERY to search for young creative talents representing a variety of original styles in painting and graphics. The Art Germann Gallery today represents world-renowned artists including Sergey Bleze, Jury Mironov, Michael Gelman, Vyacheslav Provotorov, Nikolay Smirnov, Igor Chetvertkov, Vladimir Melnik and Vladimir Isurin, and has organized exhibitions in Dusseldorf, Milan, Rome, Valencia, Bangkok, Cypress and Ukraine.