2026 Autumn Juried Exhibition
Juror: Lillia Frantin
Juror’s statement:
Based on so many entries of such high quality it was difficult to make my selections but what a pleasure it was to see so many fine works of art. such diversity, such imaginative solutions, truly remarkable. I feel truly honored to have been involved and hope you enjoy the show as much as I did in helping to put it together. So now enjoy!
Award winners
Best of Show: Josh Wald, Modern Cowboy, acrylic, pencil, charcoal
Juror awards
Best Portrait: Rob Moore, Gal-axy with a Planet Earring, foam stress balls on wood panel
Best Cape Cod Scene: Anne Tcherepnin, Summer’s End, oil
Best Landscape: Scott Murphy, Sandwich Boardwalk, oil
Best Abstract: Iria DeValles-Vieira, Quiet Emergence, acrylic/mixed media
Honorable Mentions
Terry Gips, Understudy, photograph
Bonnie Maresh, Line Squall, collagraph
Jean E. Holmes, Falmouth Village Green, needlepoint
Pippa Rose Harriman, Flights of Fancy, acrylic on canvas
Ron Zweig, Colossus, watercolor
David E. Williamson, Spectral Convergence, photograph
Linda Walker, Waiting for a Breeze, oil
Donna Ogelsby, Bog Ballet, photograph
Anita Hodges-Zand, Evening Flight, mixed media
Preston Russell MacAndrews, The Hammer, found objects
Award Comments:
Best of Show: Modern Cowboy
A very well-conceived and executed portrait in mixed media. What I liked best beyond the image itself, a contemporary “bending” of a familiar American icon–the cowboy–was the way the artist used marks and scale and juxtaposed a patch or two of color to create a unique and provocative presence, both serious and ironic. Very refreshing and original!
Best Portrait: Gal-axy with a Planet Earring
Another stunning piece, this time using the most unusual media (soft, multi-colored foam stress balls!) that pushes another familiar image, Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring” into a new way of seeing it: bold, bracing, eye-popping and quite stunning!
Best Cape Cod Scene: Summer’s End
This small painting in oils shows a beautiful use of both lyrical brushwork and a perfectly rendered image–evoking the mood, mystery and transitory pleasures of seated figures on a moonlit bay. Wonderful!
Best Landscape: Sandwich Boardwalk
How amazing that an artist can take a simple scene, the boardwalk in Sandwich, and introduce us to the excitement of experiencing the wide, deep and unending space we all feel when standing in the midst of the sea and sand. Overlapping two paintings of the same place in two different scales–evokes such a grand feeling of time, space and wonder!
Best Abstract: Quiet Emergence
A romantic and ephemeral painting, here combines mixed media–pen and acrylics—line, and amorphous shapes, to create a muted and graceful color field that drips and sways and flows, transforming canvas into air. A lovely piece.
Honorable Mentions
Colossus
Aptly titled, this brilliant, bold and complex watercolor creates more than visual excitement. While structured and controlled, it pricks and kicks up our emotions with wild abandon!
Line Squall
Using the most delicate of line indicating woven planes and shapes and space, this intricate collagraph print, using the simplest notion of black and white and a variety of line, scale and compositional devices, the artist skillfully creates movement, texture and space, implying sea, sky and dunes, seashells and all manner of life with such dexterity we look to find as much as we can. The artist begins and we complete. How wonderful is art!
Falmouth Village Green
An homage to the dream of small-town America, this intricate yet peaceful fiber artwork captures history and the connectedness of village life. A lovely piece of work.
Flights of Fancy
The paint handling, the fluttering shapes, the creamy textures and soft and quiet movement over the canvas’s surface, all so natural and comforting. The painting is about more than butterflies. It is about soft breezes of summer, and the lovely freedom and sweetness we feel when this beautiful creature comes into view.
Bog Ballet
Who hasn’t been delighted, passing by the red bogs of the Cape. And with each of these seasons, reminding us, too, of the living history of the people who “work them”. And surprisingly, a photograph–wonderful and skillfully added to, by the artist.
Understudy
Yet another example of how difficult to see where the evidence of a photograph ends and an artist’s vision begins. Here, the complexity of twigs, branches and grass interweave into a complex web of color, line, texture and yes, design.
Evening Flight
This pastel artwork, not very large, brings so much movement and life to the paper it covers. I loved the magical hidden depths of this piece, the dark darks and the spaces where light seeps thru then the shadows.
Waiting for a Breeze
One of my favorite pieces, this small study embodies so much of American art history, even as it is modest, quiet and humble in subject… a girl sitting on a soft chair. So nicely done.
Spectral convergence
Another well-conceived and beautifully executed image, a photograph! How interesting that photography has been stretched into becoming another inspiring media: taking the original subject, experimenting with it, altering it, making it into something new. Here, boat hulls gathered together, a wonderful design of light, color, shapes, woven into a new way of seeing a familiar sight.
The Hammer
What beauty in the detritus we so often ignore or call useless or ugly! throwaways… and yet what colors, surprises and important things are in store for us if we only look! This “lowly” thing, this old pile of charred and broken pieces, how much it tells us.
About the Juror: Lillia Frantin
In 1967, I received my Masters from Pratt Institute. I was Professor of Modern Art History and Painting at Brookdale Community College for 20 years until 1991, eventually leaving to paint full time with my artist husband Herb Edwards.
We lived and painted near Abiquiu, NM, exhibiting at Munson Gallery, Santa Fe; and Coda Gallery in Palm Desert, CA until moving to Cape Cod in 1998.
Over the years, I’ve exhibited throughout the Cape — from Edie Bruce’s Woods Hole Gallery to galleries in Chatham, Wellfleet and P’town.
For ten years, I was a featured artist in the Wally Findlay Galleries in NYC and Palm Beach.
Since then, my work has been exhibited at The Christina Gallery, Edgartown, MV, as well as in shows at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum and the Cape Cod Museum of Art in Dennis where I was given a one person show and included in their permanent collection.
More recently, I joined the Gallery at Trees Place in Orleans.
And, of course I’ve participated here at our Falmouth Art Center, including a one-person show, “Variations on a Theme” in 2024, as well as in many group and theme shows.
All along, beginning in the 1980s, Herb and I have been strong supporters of the original Guild–now the Falmouth Art Center that has contributed so much to the arts and culture of Falmouth and beyond.
ALL ACCEPTED WORKS:
Congratulations to these accepted artists.
| Therese | Bilodeau | Tangled | oil on canvas |
| Gary | Boehk | It’s not a Race | oil |
| Gina | Camarra | Rabbit Repose | oil on board |
| Richard | Camarra | Study for Primavera | clay, wax |
| Jeanine | Cappuccino | Pink Lisianthus | oil |
| Iria | DeValles-Vieira | Quiet Emergence | acrylic, mixed media |
| Nancy | Duffany | Windows | collage/mixed media |
| Giovanni | Ferrante | Maine Shoreline | gouache/papers/glaze |
| Alice N. | Galick | Fantasy | monoprint |
| Diana | Ganju | Grand Sunset | acrylic |
| Terry | Gips | Understudy | photograph |
| Pippa Rose | Harriman | Flight of Fancy | acrylic |
| Howard Russell | Hill | Honor Coast Guard Legacy | photograph |
| Anita | Hodges-Zand | Evening Flight | mixed media |
| Jean E. | Holmes | Falmouth Village Green | needlepoint |
| Molly | Johnston | Under Sail | photograph |
| Sarah | Kahn | Come Form | mixed media |
| Stephanie | King | Blue Notes | photograph |
| Michael | Klehm | Parallel Lives | photograph |
| Carol Ann | Knox | Blackbird in the Marsh | tapestry |
| Ken | Kolpan | Black and White | photograph |
| Ruth | Leech | Child’s View | oil |
| Preston Russell | MacAndrews | The Hammer | found objects |
| Suzy | Marden | Chat Sur un Tapis Bleu | acrylic collage |
| Bonnie | Maresh | Line Squall | collagraph |
| Heather | McBride | Sitting by the Dog of the Bay | glass |
| Jo | Mogilnicki | Homestead | ceramic/steel |
| Rob | Moore | Gal-axy with a Planet Earring | foam stress balls on wood panel |
| Andrea | Moore | Daylily | oil on canvas |
| Rebecca | Mountford | Blue Lobster | watercolor |
| Scott | Murphy | Sandwich Boardwalk | oil |
| Tom | Noonan | Sunrise on the Bay | photograph |
| Donna | Oglesby | Bog Ballet | photograph |
| Janet | Picard | Sunset at Falmouth Harbor | oil on canvas |
| Carl | Richards | August Hydrangea | acrylic |
| Philip | Richardson | Friends, San Miguel, Mexico | photograph |
| Beth | Rockwell | My Friend | oil |
| Paula | Romano | Remember When | mixed, pastel and ink |
| Crissey | Safford | Rare Find | stained glass |
| Rowland | Scherman | Aloha | photograph |
| Robert | Scutt | New Beginnings | black cherry |
| Claudia | Smith-Jacobs | Spring in Provence | acrylic |
| Kathleen | Speers | Becket Dawn | mixed media collage |
| Lynne | Stack | Sunset on the Seine | mixed media |
| Clay | Tarver | Tree, Snow, Shadow | photograph |
| Anne | Tcherepnin | Summer’s End | oil |
| Josh | Wald | Modern Cowboy | acrylic, pencil, charcoal |
| Linda | Walker | Waiting for a Breeze | oil |
| David | Williamson | Spectral Convergeance | photograph |
| Cathy | Williamson | Australian White Ibis | fiber |
| Alison | Zaino | Winter on the Way | watercolor |
| Yael | Zakon-Bourke | The Perfect Spot | oil on canvas |
| Ron | Zweig | Colossus | watercolor |
