December 2, 2023 – January 20, 2024
Vidinghoff Gallery
Exhibition Reception and Juror’s Talk: December 19, 2023 4:30-6:30pm
Juror of Selection: Marianne Mitchell
Wayne Art Center is pleased to present an exhibition of large abstract paintings by our adult students and WAC community members in Attraction to Abstraction 2023. This exhibition will hang in the Vidinghoff Lobby and WAC Lobby Galleries during CraftForms and The CraftForms Companion Show.
Marianne Mitchell serves as Juror of Selection.
Marianne Mitchell earned a BFA in painting from Washington University in Saint Louis, with post-graduate work in Japan, China, and at the Vermont Studio Center. A Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Fellowship recipient, Mitchell has shown work nationally in New York, Washington DC, Philadelphia, Santa Monica, San Francisco, Denver, and internationally in Scotland and Germany. Her work hangs in many important collections including The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Pew Charitable Trust, and Sloan Kettering Cancer Research Center. The artist’s paintings are held in private collections across the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia.
A lifelong Philadelphian, Mitchell and her husband lived in Denver, Colorado from 2011 to 2019 at which time they returned to the Philadelphia-area and now reside in a historic Pennsylvania farmhouse. She is the founder/owner of Whole Artist Mastery.
Participating Artists
Kassem Amoudi
Lori Banks
Andrew Chalfen
Jim Conner
Paulo Correa-Meyer
Richard Daddario
Laura Ducceschi
Karen Fogarty
Ona Hamilton
Heidi Hendrickson
Sarah Kowalski
Melanie Landrith
Sandi Neiman Lovitz
Lee Muslin
Joseph Palmerio
Jill Pearson
Judeth Pekala Hawkins
Jean Plough
Heather Block Reilly
Susan Rheiner
Val Rossman
Denise Sedor
Mary-Fatimah Weening