San Antonio Art League & Museum
94th Annual Artists Exhibition
April 13 to June 7, 2024
President:
Lyn Belisle Kurtin
Exhibition Committee:
Augusta Rosser (Chair)
Lyn Belisle
Nancy Campbell
Claudia Langford
Norma Jean Moore
Terry Gay Puckett
Stefani Spears
Peter Szarmach
Dona Walston
Claudia White
Nancy Wood
Exhibition Curators:
Nancy Kempf
Vikki Fields
4
Sincere Thanks to Our Financial Supporters
Corporate Sponsors
Art Gallery Prudencia
Frost Bank
H-E-B
McNutt Foundation
Enterprise Holdings
Patron Level Awards
Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Traylor
Col. William Hill, Jr
Ronald C. Keller
Sponsor Level Awards
Ann Griffith Ash
Lyn Belisle Kurtin
Hannah McManus
Bally Studios, Virginia & Andre Bally
Arch & Stella Rowan Foundation
Donor Level Awards
Richard C. Arredondo
Barbara C. Kyse
Pam Slocum
Lifshutz Foundation
Patricia Romines
Fred Loxsom
Beth Eidelberg Watermedia Award
Beth Eidelberg Estate
Contributor Level Awards
Zet Baer
Nancy Bandy
Frankie Boone
Vikki Fields
Joan Fritze
Robin Gara
William E. Kurtin
Claudia Langford
Mark Langford
Virginia Lukefahr
BJ Newman
Norma Jean Moore
Terry Gay Puckett
Brian Row
Judy Row
Hildegarde Slaughter
Cynthia Spencer
Peter Szarmach
Nancy Vandenburg
The San Antonio Art League & Museum thanks our sponsors for their support
5
McNutt FouNdatioN
JUROR’S STATEMENT
Seeing a Sense of Self Through Art
Art can be viewed as a reflection of self-image and of commentary on impactful places, known and unknown. Art has the power to change the way we see ourselves, each other, and the world, awakening us to new perspectives, ideas, and values.
As an expression of self and character, artwork has sometimes hidden truth of what is important to an individual, their experiences, fears, hopes, and desires, portrayed through visual language. In the selection of work for this show, I looked to the historical foundations of the portrait, the landscape, and the still life and through these foundational works and how I could view the artist’s voice and their truth through their work.
Heather K. Lunsford March, 2024
Heather K. Frickenschmidt Lunsford is the 5th generation of a farming and ranching family from Enid, and the Director and Curator of the Nona Jean Hulsey Gallery at Oklahoma City University.
She is also a mixed-media artist who studied watercolor painting and art history at Oklahoma State University and Northern Illinois University. She has a painting in the permanent collection of Oklahoma State University, two in collection of the University Health System of San Antonio and has shown her artwork in galleries in the United States and Spain, where she worked in a contemporary art gallery. She received her Master of Arts in Administration from the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, TX and wrote Spanish and bilingual educational programming at the San Antonio Museum of Art.
Heather also has a certificate from Harvard Business School online in sustainable business strategy and a Master of Legal Studies from OCU, and is a member with the International Society of Appraisers. Previously, Heather was the Director of Art in Public Places for the State of Oklahoma and the Art Director for the Heritage Trust project in Oklahoma City. Heather has served as an arts commissioner for the city of Edmond, is a current Rotarian for Oklahoma City 29, advised OKCPC Academy of Arts, and is on the board of the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition.
6
94th Exhibition Award Winners
Our Juror had the enormous task of choosing 61 artworks from over 500 submissions, but her task did not stop there. While the initial selections are chosen from digital images, the award-winning works are judged in person by the Juror during a very busy weekend. Thanks to the generosity of our Patrons, Supporters, and Members, seventeen awards totaling over $13,000 were available for the Juror to assign.
The prestigious Onderdonk Purchase Prize has been the Exhibition’s major award for most of its history. The San Antonio Art League purchases this chosen piece for its Permanent Collection annually, thus continuing to acquire an example of the best in Texas art every year.
Images of the award-winning artworks are presented on the following pages of this catalog. All the exhibited works are listed after those images. Images of all the accepted works for the 94th Exhibition are available in an online catalog on our website.
8
by scanning
View this catalog online
this QR code
9
Onderdonk Puchase Award $3000
Wes Coke
What Did You Dream?
Oil on Canvas
For The Love of Frida Watercolor
10
Beth Eidelberg Memorial Watermedia Award $1000
Richard Samuel
11
Mr & Mrs Richard C. Traylor Award
$1000
Benjamin Ortiz
Pico de Gallo
Oil on Wood
12
Betty Rihn Keller Memorial Award $1000
Jill Pankey
Line of Ladies Leaning Left Oil on Canvas
$1000
Susan Best Floridays
Acrylic with Paper Collage on Canvas
13
Frank & Cecilia Keller Memorial Award
Watercolor Award
$1000
April Ortiz
Bottle ‘n Bag Liquor ‘n Guns, Uvalde, Texas
Watercolor on Paper
14
Ronald C. Keller
15
Ronald C. Keller Acrylic Award $1000
Suzanne Horner
Turquoise Afternoon
Acrylic on Canvas, Birch Natural Frame, Ceramic Tag
$750
Deported to Danger and Nobody Gives a Damn
Oil on Canvas / Chains to hoist freight frame
16
Richard Conn Memorial Mixed Media Award
Tony Armadillo
The Portal Ceramic Stoneware
17
Andre & Virginia Bally 3-D Art Award
$500
Linda S. Manning
$500
Oil on Board
$400
Oil on Canvas
18
Prudencia Art Gallery Award
Susan Arnim Corazon
Barbara C. Kyse Award
Judi Simon
Tiffany’s Gifts
Hannah McManus Award for Textiles/Ceramics
$500
Suzette Schutze
Lost Canopy II: A Reflection of Dying Forests
Commercial Clay, Wild River Clay, and a dead cedar root system
President’s Award
$250
Nancy Campbell
Ghost Tree
Wool roving, silk, nepps, cheesecloth and inside finished with sea glass shells beads copper
19
20
Richard C.Arrendondo Award for Pastels $250
Kraig Kiedrowski
Mora Fields
Pastel on La Carte pastel card
94th
21
Exhibited Artwork
Juried Artists Exhibition
Greg Allen
A Place Of Faith
Oil on Canvas
$2700
Tony Armadillo
Deported to Danger and Nobody Gives a Damn
Oil on canvas / Chains to hoist freight frame
$6,000
Richard Conn Memorial Mixed Media Award
Susan Arnim
Corazon
Oil on Canvas
$475
Prudencia Art Gallery Award
Olga Aviles
Cavernous Impacts
Glazed ceramic, acrylic wash, air-dry paper clay
$500
Virginia Bally
Sanibel Stoop
Mid-Range porcelain sculpture with Celadon glaze
$350
Lyn Belisle
Cotton Bowl
Fiber, paper, beeswax, twigs, thread, phototransfer
$425
Susan Best
Floridays
acrylic with paper collage on canvas
$850
Madison Branch
Digging In The Orchard, The Earth Burrows Back Into You
Watercolor, Acrylic, Spray Paint, and Pen on Paper
$300
Nancy Campbell
Ghost Tree
Wool roving, silk, nepps, cheesecloth and inside finished with sea glass shells beads copper
$395
President’s Award
Danville Chadbourne
Map Of Unknowable Places
Arylic and ink on wood
$2000
Sherry Christensen
Texas Buttes with Cactus
Foam core shapes, paper fibers, hand sewn beads, yarn, and acrylic embellishments.
$400
Lara Hye Coh
The Bride
Oil on panel
$4800
Wes Coke
What Did You Dream?
Oil on canvas
Onderdonk Purchase Prize
Rita Maria Contreras
Mamá said there’ll be days like this …(when all the parts of the puzzle…)
Oil/cold wax on cradled wood panel
$950
Shelby Criswell
Undulation in the Parlor
Gouache, Acrylic, Tempera, and Paint Marker on Canvas
$400
22
Ron Crouch
Sleeping man with red socks (large version)
Acrylic on canvas
$4000
Shea Daniel-Youngblood
Historic Guadalupe Theatre, Westside San Antonio
Oil on linen panel
$1200
Beth Devillier
Sweet. Sick. Fire.
Inkjet print on Japanese Washi Paper
$500
Jana Donovan
Pink Fork In The Road
Acrylic and graphite pencil on mixed media paper
$435
Victoria Ermler
Salome
Oil on Canvas
$6400
Ed Escobedo
Drink Set
Stoneware
$500
Patrick Flaherty
Moonrise
Reduction Linocut; Oil based ink on Mulberry Paper
$80
Ana Flores
Keeping My Dignity 1/4” steel round rod, yarn, paper, pen, scrapbooking tape, tiny bottles, glitter
$525
Robin Gara
The Mothership
Mixed media on watercolor paper, including acrylic paint, pencil, and collaged pieces of paper.
$200
John Garland
Hunter
Oil on Canvas
$1750
Nancy Gerfers
Prairieland
acrylic collage on canvas
$875
Clara Hada
Path To Freedom
Acrylic, paper, fabric
$800
Gloria Hill
Urban Chaos
Acrylic, paper, ink on canvas
$350
Ashley Hinze
Sasquatch Daughter
Graphite, 60lbs Sketch Paper
$375
Rebecca Horan
Remembrances
Acrylic and Oil Mixed Media on gallery wrapped canvas.
625.00
Suzanne Horner
Turquoise Afternoon
Acrylic on canvas, birch natural frame, ceramic tag
$ 900
Ronald C. Keller Acrylic Award
23
Joe Houde
Il pranzo (The Lunch)
Photgraph on paper
$150
Leigh Ann Irish
Simple Pleasures
Pastel on sanded paper
$975
Joe Jackson
Non Dit (unspoken)
Oil on canvas
$4800
Deborah Keller-Rihn
Lone Star Reverie: Dreams of Love
Photograph on German Etching Paper
$400
Taylor Kelsch
The Alley
oil painting, canvas
$2000
Kraig Kiedrowski
Mora Fields
Pastel on La Carte pastel card
$2600
Richard C.Arrendondo Award for Pastels
Katie Mangan
LOOK
Color Pencil on Canvas
$500.00
Linda S. Manning
The Portal
Ceramic stoneware
$1450
André & Virginia Bally 3-D Art Award
Marguerite Moreau McCarthy
Key Lime Pie
Acrylic on Canvas
$800
Sherri Lipman McCauley
Violet13
Commercial cotton fabric, felt backing, and thread.
$700
Thelma Muraida
Remedios
Oil on canvas
$900
Alexandra Nelipa
Halloween night
Acrylic on canvas
$800
Paola Nunez
In the shade
Gouache on paper
$3200
Jon O’Neal
Polo
Digital print
$450
April Ortiz
Bottle ‘n Bag Liquor ‘n Guns, Uvalde, Texas
Watercolor on Paper
$5000
Ronald C. Keller Watercolor Award
Benjamin Ortiz
Pico de Gallo
Oil on Wood
$3500
Mr & Mrs Richard C. Traylor Award
24
Jill Pankey
Line of Ladies Leaning Left
Oil on Canvas
$5000
Betty Rihn Keller Memorial Award
Lenise Perez-Miller
I Use To Be A Roller Derby Queen
Clay, Underglazes, Glazes, Textiles
$1500
Billy Rerick
Mary Magdalene Contemplates Death
Oil on canvas over panel
$2000
Kristina Salinas
Up and Atom
Oil, oil pastel, graphite, charcoal on canvas
$3200
Richard Samuel
For the Love of Frida
Watercolor
$7000
Beth Eidelberg Water Media Memorial Award
Alison Schuchs
Madre Tierra
Oil on Canvas
$1400
Suzette Schutze
Lost Canopy II: A Reflection of Dying Forests
Commercial clay, wild river clay, and a dead cedar root system
$850
Hannah McManus Award for Textiles/Ceramics
Judi Simon
Tiffany’s Gifts
Oil on board
$1200
Barbara C. Kyse Award
Jennye Stubblefield
Nomads
Oil on birch panel
$6700
Peter Szarmach
A Shadow of Themselves
Digital Photo Print
$300
Melissa Torres
Maiden Butterfly
Oil
$825
Dub Weathersby Tourist Ocotillo
100% cotton rag paper
$300
Resa Wohlrabe
Where Winged Horses Fly
Acrylic and gold leafing on canvas
$900
Ernie Wood
Appalachian Aerie
Reduction Linocut, ink on paper
$400
25
26
The San Antonio Art League was organized on March 13, 1912. It was founded by volunteers, and 110 years later continues as a beloved, an all-volunteer organization, carrying on the rich traditions and history of its founders while providing contemporary exhibition opportunities for its member artists. Volunteers also care for the extensive Permanent Collection, an invaluable record of the cultural and social artwork of the city and the region. The San Antonio Art League and Museum is a unique hybrid of past, present, and future. As a volunteer you can help in ways that match your skills and interests. Please join us by giving your time – it’s incredibly rewarding. We’ve been rounding up art for San Antonio since 1912 – we need you on our team. www.saalm.org
27
SAALM is the oldest arts organization in San Antonio and home to an extensive Permanent Collection of works by notable Texas artists.
Contributions are gratefully accepted on our secure website by the San Antonio Art League & Museum, and are tax-deductible under the terms of our 501 (c) (3) arts organization. Thanks so much for your support!
SAN ANTONIO ART LEAGUE & MUSEUM
130 KING WILLIAM
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS 78204 210-223-1140
WWW.SAALM.ORG
