2023 WORKS ON PAPER

Welcome to 2023 Works on Paper

Saturday, May 20 -

Tuesday, July 4, 2023

“Works on Paper” 2023, the 25th Annual National Juried Competition and Exhibition, launches our summer season at the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences.

This exhibition is made possible by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.

We are pleased to present the artwork of seventy-six artists who live and work across twenty-seven states in the US. The variety of media eligible for submission and consideration included drawing, painting on paper, hand pulled prints, photographic prints, digital works on paper, and paper constructions completed in the past two years.

Scale, color, texture, light, do not have the same impact when translated to a screen. We need that intimacy and that creative spark that art provides to nourish our souls and imagination. No screen or device can replace the immediacy and “in person” visual experience of seeing a work of art with our own eyes.

The Works on Paper exhibit provides the opportunity to acknowledge the talent, innovation and individuality of eighty art works and the intangible relationship that forms between the work and the viewer.

The LBIF was established in 1948 as an institution whose mission was to foster the highest level of the arts and to bring artists, educators, and patrons together to celebrate art as a passion and a driving cultural force.

Thank you to all the artists whose work we applaud today. They have provided us with reminders of the beauty, complexity, abstraction and a moment in time of the visual world around us.

This year we are honored to have as our juror Marilyn Symmes, Independent Curator. She has a stellar career and extraordinary insights, knowledge and experience in the realm of Drawings and Prints. She has curated countless exhibitions at numerous prestigious institutions. She has provided her exceptional expertise to select the artwork for this exhibition and to the awarding of prizes. We truly thank her for her support and her curatorial vision.

A special thank you goes to Tracey Cameron and Katherine Whitlock for the design and creation of this catalog. In addition, we are grateful to Gail Sidewater as Co-Chair of Arts and Exhibitions and to our Art Exhibition Committee members who work tirelessly to organize and present robust and diverse art exhibitions, lectures and programs each year.

Daniella Kerner Executive Director LBI Foundation of the Arts & Sciences