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Holmstrom Wins Contemporary Art Award

Neumann art professor Glenn Holmstrom has won one of three top awards in the 2007 Members’ Juried Exhibition at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts (DCCA) in Wilmington. Works by a female artists’ cooperative from Ohio and Alabama artist Jamey Grimes took other top honors.

Holmstrom, who lives in Aston, Pennsylvania, submitted two untitled pieces that were selected for the Members’ Award. The wall-mounted wooden frames wrapped in an almost transparent toned cloth “are ethereal and minimalist,” said Susan Isaacs, the DCCA’s adjunct curator, who made the selection. The Erie, Pennsylvania, native has shown his paintings and photographs locally and nationally. In 2003 he received the Neumann College Growth in Scholarship Award.

Alex Baker, curator of contemporary art with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, juried the Members' Exhibition. He chose "Multiply," an audiovisual animation by the female artists' group The Dozens of Hamilton, Ohio, to receive this year's Juror's Award. The Grimes work was selected by Maxine Gaiber, executive director to the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, for the director's award.

The exhibition featured 42 works by 27 artists chosen by Baker, who opened the exhibition to all media and styles, selecting works that encompass all genres and media, ranging from sculpture to photography to "samples of hair and thread that are just as much drawings as they are textiles," he said.

4/27/07