2009 Alumni
Exhibition

2009 Alumni Exhibition
February 20 – March 20
This Exhibiton will honor art department graduates and over thirty-five years
of arts education at Youngstown State University.

Juror: Mary Antonakos, Director of I space Gallery, Chicago  
College of  Fine Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
http://ispace.uiuc.edu/



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Gallery  A





Gallery B





Bridge





Installation Gallery





Raw Space Gallery





Entryway




In 1992 Mary Antonakos helped to establish I space as an off site gallery for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Chicago. She has been the Director of
I space for 17 years where she organizes, developes, and promotes 15 – 20 exhibitions annually working closely with faculty and students in the College as well as outside guest curators.

“The decision to select an outsider to choose work for an Alumni Exhibition is always a bit of a gamble. An outsider doesn’t know the community, doesn’t have a connection to it or any investment in it. So how will this outsider put together an exhibition that will truly reflect the best work by Youngstown State University alumni? After all, a few digital images can’t tell the whole story. But sometimes, this point of view opens up possibilities and opportunities that might be missed by the insider and a new story is created.

The challenge for the outsider is to see what is not there. Each image submitted for review presents information. Clues are there in the composition and materials; but the true color and texture in the painting or drawing can only be suggested in a reproduction. What am I missing? Work must be viewed again and again to try to fill in the gaps, to understand what is there.

Eventually, what results is a story that is both mine as the outsider, and yours as the insider. As the outsider I bring my biases, my point of view, my history. You as the insider bring a wonderful depth and breadth of work. I was impressed by the ceramics, sculpture, and range of work available. I enjoyed learning about your community through your drawings, photographs and collages. Together we have formed an exhibition that reflects who we are, and gives us an opportunity to communicate with each other and a wider audience.”

Mary Antonakos
2009 Alumni Exhibition Juror

Awards Winners

Anthony Bartholomew, Clouds
In Gratitude, Dean Joe Edwards Award $500

Denise Bright, Birdman
The W. E. Bliss Foundation Award, $500

William Danielson, L’arc et café de la Mairie
Stanley Makarski Memorial Award, $300

Ilena Finocchi, Untitled (Crow Feathered Shovels)
Department of Art Award $500

Sherri Hill, Green Grandmother
In Gratitude, Professor Susan Russo Award $300

Georgia Tambasis, Consciousness
McDonough Museum Purchase Award $600

Vaughn Wascovich, Euless, Oklahoma
McDonough Museum Purchase Award $300

Special Thanks
Mary Antonakos, Maryanne Caleris, Catherine Cala, Joy Christiansen-Erb,
Dragana Crnjak, Carl Leet, Christine McCullough, Richard Mitchell,
M. T. Moseley, Susan Russo, Dr. Patricia Sarro, Dr. Stephanie Smith,
Nancy Stromp, William Tomory, Mark Van Tilburg

Accepted 2009 Alumni Works

Armeni, Tony - Sentinella, Rail
Barko Jr., Bob - Those Were the Days…Islay’s, Brier Hill’s Little Italy, Warren, Ohio- Historic Capital of the Western Reserve
Bartholomew, Anthony - A Piano, A lot of Stacked Yellow Bowls, Clouds
Battaglia, John - The Zou (CD Packaging), We are Family 2007
Bishara Bako, Corinne - Artisan
Blackman, Trish - Reflections I, Reflections II
Bright, Denise - Birdman, Spring Tide
Caleris, Maryanne - Window Bowl, Green Bowl, Blue Bowl
Callahan, Joseph - Autographic
Chesakov, Boris - Untitled
Cliff, Jim - Robot, Grid
Connelly-Prample, Rosemary - Untitled I, Untitled II, The Dance
Danielson, William - Le arc, et café de La Mairie
Danklef, Kristina - Nude Study I
Finocchi, Ilena - Untitled (Crow Feathered Shovels), My Own Worst Enemy
Hallahan, Ed - Tree
Hamilton, Henry - Virtual Instructor Poster, FNA Breakfast Poster and Cereal
Hill, Sherri - Green Grandmother, Eureka
Leeper, Chris - Bloom, All Wet
Leonard, Christine - Introspection II, Rendezvous
Lippillo, Dominic - House with Green Windows, Stop Sign, Car Parked by Mailbox Maas, Robyn - Copper Vortex, Nova Series, Copper Lasso
McConnell, Gaylene - Release II
Misavage, Brian - Flying, Landscape and Memory
Owens, Christina - Untitled I, Untitled II
Pandolph, Angela - Found Painting I, Found Painting II
Perdalla, Charles - Untitled I
Rashid, Yasmin - Dream Connections
Rigby, Amy - It’s a Girl, Penny Pentagrass, Milton
Roepke- Applegate, Marcie - A Fresh Morning, Stormy, One For Sorrow
Roloff, Scott - Living Room
Roscoe, Kurt - Singer Steel Capabilities, Goafrey and Wing Website
Rouweyha, Huda - The Dancer
Smith, Kristina - Love, Loss, and What Remains: The Things I Couldn’t Say Aloud Strahm, Paul - Lunch at Novo- San Luis, Obispo, California
Sullivan, Adam - Ecstasy of Hildegard, Self –Portrait in Hell
Szabo, Judith - Bark Abstract, Textured Bark Abstract
Tambasis, Georgia - Reality and Illusion, Consciousness
Turner, Jennifer - Beauty is Mind Deep, Have You?
Van Hoose, R. Jason - Shale and Storm
Wascovich, Vaughn - Paducah, Texas, Euless, Oklahoma, West Texas Elevator Wennberg, Karen - Nembrotha Kubaryana, Cosmograph
Winebold, Jason - 1078, 739
Young, Brent - Chicago Weave