This year the DAA is thrilled to welcome a highly credential jury panel from all corners of the art world – academia, gallery and renowned artists. Fine Art Judges:  Robert Cipriani, Cathleen Daley and Jason Polins will review the all art work in categories of Oil & Acrylics, Watercolor, Drawing & Pastels, Printmaking and Mixed Media. Kevin Forti will review Photography & Altered Digital Photography and Kim Radochia will review Sculpture/3D.

About the Judges:

Robert Cipriani:

Robert Cipriani is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), and is both a professional artist and a noted graphic designer.  His paintings are represented by numerous galleries, and part of corporate and private collections. Bob has received a variety of awards, including an "Artist of the Year, Painting" designation from the Cambridge Art Association and in the Cape Cod Art Association’s Juried All Cape Cod Show in 2007, the "Directors' Choice: Best Cape Cod Landscape" award.
In March, 2007 he was part of a three person invitational exhibition of nationally known expressionistic artists at The Barrier Island Group for the Arts in Sanibel Florida. In 2009, thirty of his expressionistic paintings were featured in a solo exhibition, curated by Michael Giaquinto, at the Cape Cod Museum of Art in Dennis.  As a designer/creative director he has won over 800 regional, national, and international design awards and was voted New England Art Director of the Year.  Bob is a Duxbury resident and past board member of the Duxbury Art Association.  For more about Bob and his work go to www.robertcipriani.com

 

Cathleen Daley:

Cathleen Daley’s art is inspired by small encounters and unlikely juxtapositions. The temporal quality of time and place are of particular interest as is the resonance of memory in things found. Daley’s work can be a hard won record of a process and journey or a direct, immediate and graphic response to discovery. Daringly empty to richly chaotic, the range of her work embraces the everyday incongruities of the regular and the random - a ball of dust, a spill of wax, the fading loops of a handwritten greeting on an old carton box, a twist of wire, a tangle of thread, the overcast sky breaking to blue in one thin line... any one of a number of observations can elicit a response and a painting begins.  Cathleen Daley’s paintings and installations have been presented in numerous commercial, university and alternative venues, including OK Harris Works of Art in New York, Alden Gallery in Provincetown, MA, Widener Gallery at Trinity College in Hartford, CT, Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA and the Fitchburg and Provincetown Art Museums. Exhibitions of her work have been reviewed in the Boston Globe, Art New England and Art Scope. Daley received her MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She is a recipient of an Artist Resource Trust grant and was awarded a full fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center. Cathleen Daley’s work is represented by Alden Gallery in Provincetown and Kolok Gallery in North Adams, Massachusetts. Her studio is located in Waltham, Massachusetts.   For more about Cathleen and her work go to www.cathleendaley.com

Jason Polins:

Jason Polins is a Bostonian who began his career in his early teens, drawing poster designs for high school plays. Early on he was invited to participate in a college level class to study the figure at Boston University, where he would later go on to attend as a full time undergraduate student.  He received his BFA from Boston University in 1994 and went on to study in Florence Italy at The Florence Academy of Art. During that time he honed his skills as a realist painter, fulfilling his studies in 1997 and receiving their certificate of completion. Upon returning to Boston he has continued painting and studying with various notable painters, such as Nelson Shanks in Philadelphia, and Gary Hoffmann in Boston. Having always felt a strong connection to the heritage of painters of The Boston School of Painting he endeavors to pursue the ideals of strong drawing skills, composition, and color in each of his own works.   He keeps a studio in Somerville, MA where he conducts classes as well as works on his own art. Classes are held weekly and include critiques demonstrations and technique work.   For more about Jason and his work go to www.jasonpolins.com.

Kevin Forti:

Kevin Forti is a 1986 graduate of New England School of Photography, majoring in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography.  His photography has brought him as far as the former Soviet Union, where he documented efforts to bring American businesses to Moscow.  He has provided his photographic skills to many familiar companies including WBZ TV, The YMCA, Bertucci's Restaurant, Gillette, Clean Harbors, FOX 25 TV, and WBCN radio. Currently, he is the photographer for Plymouth Rock Studios, a major film studio being planned in Plymouth, MA.  The sole documentary photographer for the project, for the past two years he has had the privilege of following the ins and outs of building what will be the largest film and television studio complex in the Northeastern United States.  He is also in the process of cataloging photographs of various diverse locations in Massachusetts for consideration for future film and TV projects.

Kim Radochia:

Kim Radochia is a Boston-area artist whose sculptures, installations, drawings, and public works have been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions throughout the United States for the past sixteen years. Her site-specific sculptures are installed in public and private locations, often in nontraditional venues. She has been chosen to design and install public works in residential communities, schools, office buildings, and in neglected urban areas.  Recent exhibitions and installations include a solo exhibition at The Winfisky Gallery at Salem State College and permanent installations at Boston schools, a Florida residential community, and at the Boston Convention Center.  Radochia attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and has studied at the Paul Flurry Foundry in France as well as receiving a certificate in welding. Locally, she was a finalist in the Boston Public Library Mattapan Branch Sculpture project sponsored by the Edward Ingersol Browne Fund in 2009 and the Mother’s Rest Park Project sponsored by the New England Foundation for the Arts and the Boston Parks and Recreation Department in 2007. She was recently awarded an artist residency at the Camac Centre D’Art in France for a proposal called ‘Energy Wisps’.  For more about Kim and her work, go to www.kimradochia.com

 

Over 600 pieces of artwork are expected this year and over 100 volunteers orchestrate the process of bringing the show to the public under the direction of DAA staff, Mary Beth Brown, Jessica Horton and Art Complex Museum staff. Each piece of artwork is registered, labeled, reviewed, sorted, stored and checked out. Winning artwork is transported to the Art Museum Complex for exhibit. Local residents looking for an interesting volunteer opportunity are encouraged to contact the DAA on 781.934.2731 extension 4.