GEORGIA ARTISTS GUILD OF ALBANY
26th annual Juried Exhibition
Oct 17, 2019 - Jan 4, 2020 | West Gallery
The 26th annual Georgia Artists Guild of Albany (GAGA) juried competition is exhibiting Oct 17, 2019-Jan 4, 2020 in the Albany Museum of Art’s West Gallery. The show features 19 works by nine Guild members.
Artists whose works are on display in this year's exhibition are Meg Anderson, Alex Davis, Bonnie Davis, Jennifer Herrick, Bob Parker, Ray Pierotti, Janice Rentz, Kay K. Roberts and Mary Sumners.
The juror for the competition was Laurel Robinson, a professor of art since 1978 and department chair since 2007 at Georgia Southwestern State University in Americus. She teaches all levels of drawing and painting at GSW.
A Pittsburgh, Pa., native, Robinson received her BFA in Painting in 1974 and her MFA in Painting in 1977, both from the University of Cincinnati. She has done post-graduate study at UCLA in Paleoecology, Sculpture and Scientific Illustration (1982); the University of Tasmania Centre for the Arts in Semiotics (Australia, 1986); the University of Tel Aviv in Hebrew (Israel, 1988), and a variety of coursework at GSW from Sociology of Religion, Literature, to Math and Culture (1979-2011).
She has taught or presented visiting lectures at a variety of universities. Robinson has exhibited her work at regional, national and international venues. Her work is included in several museum permanent collections, including the Jewish Museum of New York City, the Skirball Museum at New York University, the Cincinnati Museum of Art, List College at Columbia University, NYC Collection, and the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Macon, Ga.
Artists whose works are on display in this year's exhibition are Meg Anderson, Alex Davis, Bonnie Davis, Jennifer Herrick, Bob Parker, Ray Pierotti, Janice Rentz, Kay K. Roberts and Mary Sumners.
The juror for the competition was Laurel Robinson, a professor of art since 1978 and department chair since 2007 at Georgia Southwestern State University in Americus. She teaches all levels of drawing and painting at GSW.
A Pittsburgh, Pa., native, Robinson received her BFA in Painting in 1974 and her MFA in Painting in 1977, both from the University of Cincinnati. She has done post-graduate study at UCLA in Paleoecology, Sculpture and Scientific Illustration (1982); the University of Tasmania Centre for the Arts in Semiotics (Australia, 1986); the University of Tel Aviv in Hebrew (Israel, 1988), and a variety of coursework at GSW from Sociology of Religion, Literature, to Math and Culture (1979-2011).
She has taught or presented visiting lectures at a variety of universities. Robinson has exhibited her work at regional, national and international venues. Her work is included in several museum permanent collections, including the Jewish Museum of New York City, the Skirball Museum at New York University, the Cincinnati Museum of Art, List College at Columbia University, NYC Collection, and the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Macon, Ga.
