2009 New England Art Awards ball is Feb. 8

More than 1,880 people have voted in the 2009 New England Art Awards. Now the winners will be announced at the New England Art Awards Ball at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 8, 2010, at the Burren, 247 Elm St., Davis Square, Somerville, Massachusetts. And you are invited!

We are very proud to announce that the event will include music by The Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society Brass Band of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Admission is free. Creative attire is encouraged.

The awards are a contest organized by The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research to honor the best art made in New England and exhibits organized here in 2009. More details about how it works here. Below is the final ballot:

Artists

Book

• Michael Russem of Kat Ran Press in Cambridge and Florence, Mass., publisher of 'The Certainty of Numbers,' written by Bruce Snider and illustrated by Michael Russem.


• Brian Vanden Brink of Camden, Maine, "Ruin"


• Marek Bennett of Henniker, New Hampshire, for "Breakfast at Mimi's" and "Nicaragua: Comics Travel Journal"


• Stephen R. Bissette (art) and Joseph A. Citro (words) "The Vermont Monster Guide."


• James Sturm of White River Junction, VT, Andrew Arnold and Alexis Frederic-Frost, "Adventures in Cartooning: How to Turn Your Doodles Into Comics"

Career survey

• Robert Indiana and the Star of Hope at Farnsworth Museum


• Harold Feinstein of Merrimac, Mass., "A Retrospective" at Panopticon.


• David Aronson at Danforth


• Gerry Bergstein at Danforth


• Sonia Landy Sheridan at Hood Museum of Art


• "Drawings from the Heart: Tomie dePaola Turns 75" at Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art.

Drawing/Printmaking

• Julie Miller at Steven Zevitas Gallery


• Ria Brodell "The Handsome & The Holy" at Rotenberg


• Steve Locke "Rapture/New Work" at Samson.


• June August (no link provided).


• Mary O'Malley in "Economies of Scale" at Miller Block.


• Jo Dery at 5 Traverse


• Jonathan Bonner "Pooms" at 5 Traverse

Installation

• Jesse Kaminsky at Meme.


• Maria Magdalena Campos Pons and the students of her School of the Museum of Fine Arts Installation Art class, "War-room" installation and special projects for "Sleep No More" in Brookline, Mass.


• Michael Bizon of Providence (now LA) at 5 Traverse and golf course.


• Rachel Berwick of Killingworth, CT, "Zugunruhe" at Brown Bell Gallery.


• Raphael Lyon of Providence (now New York) at Stairwell Gallery.


• Douglas Weathersby "ES Inaugural Retrospective and Storage Loft" at Rotenberg.

New Media

• Michael Lewy "City of Work."


• Georgie Friedman "Geyser" at BC as part of Cyberarts Fest.


• Krzysztof Wodiczko "Out of Here" at ICA


• Brian Knep "Exempla" at Tufts University


• Ann Carlson and Mary Ellen Strom "New Performance Video" at DeCordova

Painting

• Raul Gonzalez Lookum Here (It Might Could Have Been).


• Sam Duket in "Homesteady"at Machines With Magnets in Pawtucket.


• Cristi Rinklin at FP3 Gallery.


• Joe Wardwell "Die Young" at LaMontagne.


• Laurel Sparks "Pleasure Dome" at Howard Yezerski


• Linden Frederick"You Are Here: Studies, Paintings," at Center for Maine Contemporary Art


• Mark Wethli at Icon Contemporary Art Gallery in Brunswick.

Performance or spectacle

• The Wed Lock Project at Space 242.


• Iron Guild of Boston and Maine, Halloween Iron Pour at the Steel Yard


• Aaron Stephan "Closer" at Coleman Burke Gallery


• Institute for Infinitely Small Things "Origami Stimulus Package" at Brandeis in April


• Bread and Puppet performances in Vermont, at BCA and Spontaneous Celebrations in Boston.


• Honk Parade


• Boston Caribbean Carnival parade

Photography

• Isa Leshko in "The Boston Drawing Project 10 Years On and Going Strong" at Carroll and Sons, "New England Photograpy Biennial" at Danforth, and Susan Maasch Fine Art in Portland.


• John O'Reilly at Yezerski.


• Harold Feinstein of Merrimac, Mass., "A Retrospective" at Panopticon.


• Joe Deal New Work at RISD Museum


• Nicholas Nixon of Brookline at Carroll and Sons.


• Stewart Martin of Providence at AS220.

Public Exposure

• Andi Sutton and Chris Tonelli "Affects of Gravity" at Topsfield Fair.


• Protests at Rose Art Museum


• Boston Police for arrest of Shepard Fairey


• Anonymous graffiti artist spraypainted dollar signs over Shepard Fairey graffiti on AS220 Mercantile Block building in Providence, May.


• Students at Franklin Avenue Elementary School in Westfield, Mass, "Obaminoes" mural of President Barack Obama made from 2,420 dominoes.


• Lydia Stein "HousEARt" mural at 16 Bernon St., Providence.

Sculpture

• C.W. Roelle's exhibit "Not Just Women In White Dresses" as AS220's Project Space


• Cristin Searles at Bristol Community College Grimshaw-Gudewicz Art Gallery.


• Jon Laustsen at 5 Traverse


• Randy Regier "Lost & Found: Anna Isaak and the Cabot Mill" at Coleman Burke Gallery in Brunswick and "Now Your Spacecraft Will Be Your Peace" at SPACE Gallery in Portland.


• Darren Foote at Judi Rotenberg Gallery.


• Christy Georg of Boston at Simmons College's Trustman Art Gallery.

Solo show by local artist (or collaborative)

• Raul Gonzalez Lookum Here (It Might Could Have Been).


• Joe Wardwell "Die Young" at LaMontagne.


• Anna Hepler "Intricate Universe" at Montserrat


• Krzysztof Wodiczko "Out of Here" at ICA


• "The Miracle 5 Present 'Holy GJYDhad!' By Yassy Goldie" at Space 242


• Hirokazu Fukawa at Real Art Ways, Hartford


• Matthew Rich at Samson


• Randy Regier "Lost & Found: Anna Isaak and the Cabot Mill" at Coleman Burke Gallery in Brunswick and "Now Your Spacecraft Will Be Your Peace" at SPACE Gallery in Portland.

Standout work by a local artist in a group show

• Georgie Friedman "Spiraling Water" in "H20: Film on Water" in Newport, NH.


• Tory Fair in "The Fair Moon Rejoices" at BCA Mills


• Pelle Cass in New England Photography Biennial, Danforth Museum


• Sand T participated in SHOW #54 at SNO in Sydney, Australia


• Alexi Antoniadis of Newtonville and Nico Stone of Chelsea in "Salt of the Earth" at Montserrat


• David Curcio of Watertown in "Salt of the Earth" at Montserrat

Curators

Concept/theme show

• "H20: Film on Water" curator Cynthia Reeves


• Helen Molesworth and Claire Grace for "ACT UP" at Harvard


• Steven Halpert for "Going Forward, Looking Back," University of New England, Portland.


• Randi Hopkins and Emily Isenberg for "And the fair Moon rejoices" at BCA


• Transcending the Literal at GASP


• James Hull for "Plastic Fantastic" at Laconia Gallery


• "Twilight" at Maine College of Art Institute of Contemporary Art


• "Inappropriate Covers" at Brown Bell Gallery, conceived by Braxton Soderman and Cynthia Lugo and curated by Soderman and Justin Katko.

Group show featuring local artists

• Megan Dickerson and Jed Speare Bumpkin Island Art Encampment


• Add and Subtract by bkprojects at Gallery Kayafas


• Megapolis Audio Festival - Justin Grotelueschen, Nick van der Kolk


• Portland Museum of Art Biennial


• Leonie Bradbury, Shana Dumont et. al "Salt of the Earth" at Montserrat


• Philip Palombo and Julian Penrose "Video Art Exhibition" at Gallery Z


• "De/Construct II," Allison Paschke in Providence loft.

Historical show

• "Art + History" curated by Meg Rotzel and Rosie Branson Gill (may also be Concept) at Nightingale Brown House.


• "First Hand: Civil War Era Drawings" at BC, curated by Judith Bookbinder and Sheila Gallagher.


• Helen Molesworth and Claire Grace for "ACT UP" at Harvard


• "Hans Hoffman: Circa 1950" at Rose, curated by Michael Rush


• Frederick Ilchman for "Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice" at MFA


• "Video Art Exhibition" Philip Palombo and Julian Penrose at Gallery Z


• "Focus on Four," at the Newport Art Museum


• "The Brilliant Line," at the RISD Museum, curator Emily Peters

Local curator of locally-made art

• Bonnie Bastien and Nova Benway: Berwick AIR residency


• Dina Deitch at DeCordova (Andy Mowbray inaugurats Platform series), Ann Carlson and Mary Ellen Strom "New Performance Video" at DeCordova
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• Katherine French for Boston Expressionism (Aronson/Schwartz/Bergstein).


• Philip Palombo and Julian Penrose "Video Art Exhibition" at Gallery Z


• James Hull for Resa Blatman and "Construction: A Group Exhibition of New Sculpture Made in Boston" at Suffolk University Art Gallery; "Plastic Fantastic" at Laconia Gallery; and Cristi Rinklin at FP3 Gallery.


• Maya Allison for "Pixilerations [V.6]: The Great Disruption", "Book as Post Modern Medium" (with Jesse Smith), AS220 print shop


• Steven Halpert "Going Forward, Looking Back," at University of New England, Portland.

Solo show of an artist from Away

• Matthew Day Jackson at MIT


• Jenny Holzer at Montserrat


• Damián Ortega curated by Jessica Morgan at ICA


• Taro Shinoda "Lunar Reflections" at Gardner


• Kirsten Hassenfeld, Jo-Ann Conklin at Brown Bell Gallery


• Lalla Essaydi: Les Femmes du Maroc (local curator?)


• "Virtuelle Mauer/ReConstructing the Wall" by Teresa Reuter and Tamiko Thiel" at the Goethe-Institut Boston.


• "Shepard Fairey: Supply and Demand" at ICA, organized by former ICA curator Emily Moore Brouillet and guest curator Pedro Alonzo.