Jurors' Choice Exhibit

The Jurors' Choice Winners' Exhibit from the biannual CCAC Member Show  
has opened and will be on display through March 27, 2015 at the Jamestown  
Community College Center Gallery at 260 Union Street, Olean, New York. Jurors  
Sharon McConnell, Director of the Fosdick-Nelson Gallery at Alfred  
University, and Sara Zak, a Visual Artist and Community Organizer in Buffalo,  
New York, worked collaboratively to select pieces submitted by 26 member  
artists and then chose the show winners from the exhibit.

It is an inspiring show representing a wide variety of media and techniques  
from the traditional to the computerized. Best of Show winner Heather  
Kanazawa has thirteen oil and wax abstract paintings in this new exhibit.  
Inspired by fleeting dreams and past memories, Kanazawa works in complex  
layers to create a similar, transitory quality in her pieces.

Mikel Wintermantel of Allegany, New York received the Jurors' Choice First  
Place. He has eleven handsome oil landscapes in the exhibit that have been  
created using various substrates - panels, linen, paper and copper. Speaking  
about working on copper, Wintermantel said the metal surface "requires more  
paint. It keeps me awake and makes me work in a more thoughtful way."

William Contino of Alfred, New York, the Second Place recipient, is showing  
five intriguing wood block prints. The images begin as stills from video  
which are manipulated  in PhotoShop, then exported to a laser cutter to etch  
the image into the woodblock. After further editing the woodblock image with  
hand tools, it is printed using oil-based inks on a traditional printing  
press.

Third Place recipient, Bernard Aaron Dolecki of Alfred, New York has three  
distinct media in the exhibit: a series of nudes rendered in five different  
types of computer drawing techniques; a bronze sculpture of rope outlining  
the form of  a cube; and a black and white block print in a birdseye maple  
frame designed and built by Dolecki.

The JCC Center Gallery is located in the College Center, on the second floor.  
Hours are Monday - Thursday 8 a.m. - 7 p.m., Fridays 8 a.m. - 3 p.m. through  
March 27, 2015.