The Winter Show 
December 2, 2022 – January 7, 202

Palos Verdes Art Center / Beverly G. Alpay Center for Arts Education is pleased to present The Winter Show, an annual juried all-media exhibition hosted by Palos Verdes Art Center featuring PVAC members. An opening reception will be held Friday, December 2 at 6pm. Proof of vaccination is required for attendance in accordance with PVAC policy.

BEST of SHOW: Yulia Gasio, My Reflection, 2019, Conte crayon on toned paper

PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD: Rachel Hodgkinson, The Choir, 2022, Ceramic and wood

JUROR: DALE YOUNGMAN

As a curator, Dale Youngman has nearly twenty years of experience curating multiple galleries, producing large independent projects, charity exhibits, and special pop-up art events,  including major exhibits at the Santa Monica Museum at Bergamot Station, the LA Convention Center, Stagecoach Country Music and Art Festival, the Reef at LA Mart, and  as Art Coordinator for LA League of Arts. Her charity exhibits have benefited Art Share LA, Portraits of the Fallen Memorial, Christian Health Centers, Cycle of Lives Cancer Research, and Free Arts for Abused Children.  Since COVID,  she has worked from home as an art marketing and communications consultant,  handling business development, outreach, marketing, PR, content creation, and social media strategies for various artists, galleries, art organizations, and non-profits. She  also functions as Marketing Director and Content Curator for Omni Art Central Marketplace, a new online art platform, where she maintains her newest gallery ArtExcellence, personally representing over 20 international artists.  Dale has been a judge or juror for the Beverly Hills Art Show eight times over the past decade. As a writer covering regional artists, her profiles have been published in ArtReportToday.com, Fabrik Magazine, Art Voices, Art & Cake, Cartwheel Art, and DTLAlife.com. She has twice been the recipient  of “Certificates of Recognition“  from the City of LA for Arts Advocacy and Outstanding Achievements ( 2008, 2015).

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DEBBIE ABSHEAR, AFSOON ADIBÌ, DEREK AHN, ROBIN ANGELIDES, KAT BAUER, DELORA BERTSCH, PAUL BLIEDEN, SARA COE, CHARLES CONKLYN, LINHUI DING, GINGER DONER, BERNARD FALLON, JAMES GARDNER

YULIA GASIO, JOY GONZALEZ, JOANNE GOODMAN, MING H2WU, LYNNE HAGGARD, RACHEL HODGEKINSON, ROBIN JACK SARNER, OLE JOHNSON, DENIS KOCONTES, KARLA KOEHLER, CATHERINE LEE, CAROLYN LIESY, PATRICIA MCCOY, LAURA MILLMAN, MARGARET MOHR, RICK MOULTON

LUCY NEARY, NICOLAS NOMICOS, DAEL PATTON, SHARON RATTERREE, DIANE REEVES, XI REN, MEGAN RIERA, JULIE ROBINSON, CALEY ROBISON, HEIDI RUFEH, EDY SEAVER, NANCY SEWALL

BOBETTE SHAFTON-DAVISON, MICHAEL STEARNS, LYNNIE STERBA, DAVE STREETER, LISETTE THIERY, TIM TRUBY, KASHA VASILESCU, NANCY VEITS, JOYCE WATANABE, KATHLEEN WEIL, JOYCE WELSH, ELIZABETH YOUNG, MAYRA ZARAGOZA, PETR ZAYTSEZ

JUROR STATEMENT

When I am contemplating an exhibit and beginning the curatorial process, I usually have developed a narrative, a thread, or theme that is the backbone for the show. It is the glue that holds the pieces together to create the whole, and the reason why particular pieces are chosen altogether. This show is different – it tells a tale of individual voices, of artists working in solitude with no gallery offering direction, nor answering a call for art that requires a certain point of view.

Rather, they have developed their own stories of circumstance, of hope, positivity, and growth. This exhibit is not based on a common theme, concept, or idea, but rather a coming together of artists with a common goal: to share with you their gift of art and a message of optimism.

There is an element that I discovered as I went through the nearly 300 works to arrive at this tightly edited collection presented here for you. Perhaps it is the “Essence of So Cal,” where artists are inspired by the spirit, color, and energy of this special place we all share. Maybe it’s a moment in time, as artists have moved through common challenges, emerging from the cocoon of COVID isolation to arrive at a place where everything seems brighter, clearer, more interesting, where suddenly even the mundane is worthy of note. The light IS brighter here in So Cal, and I feel the artists moving toward that light.

In examining the submissions, I found the energy and freshness of much of this work to be a bit elevated beyond work created BC (Before Covid). Are artists expressing their joy to be alive, healthy, to be free from masks, or did they simply have more time on their hands to become more fully expressive, contemplate new ideas, techniques, or learn new processes? Whatever the reason, I find these chosen works to be exemplary in their execution, concept, and sense of being. So instead of a narrative to be contemplated as a whole, I hope you will find, as I did, a chorus of individual voices united in a song of beauty, with each piece in this collection worthy of study as the unique works of art that they are, projecting positivity and unity.

Dale Youngman

Juror