ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú hosts its annual Young Painters Competition
From February 6-10, Hiestand Galleries put on one of its most exciting weeks of the year – The ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University Young Painters Competition.
From February 6-10, Hiestand Galleries put on one of its most exciting weeks of the year – The ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University Young Painters Competition.
It annually recognizes three 25-35 year-old painters across the nation with a third-place of $2,000, a second-place of $2,500, and finally, the $10,000 Yeck Purchase.
The 2023 $10,000 William and Dorothy Yeck Purchase Award
Tyler Griese, Tulsa, Oklahoma
MFA, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
BFA, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, Kentucky
Artwork: Dissonance, 2021
oil on canvas, 60 x 40 inches
2nd Place Award, $2,500.00
Meghan Murray, Waltham, Massachusetts
MFA, Boston University, Boston Massachusetts
BS, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
Artwork: Atom Rockets Declared Ready For Combat Use (Dec.21, 1952), 2022
oil on linen, mounted on panel, 50 x 39 inches.
3rd Place Award, $2,000.00
Lauren Petrick Brooks, Baltimore, Maryland
MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
BFA, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Artwork: (w)here I, 2022
oil on linen on panel, 26 x26 inches
ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú announced the winners at the reception and award ceremony on Friday, February 10 from 4:30-5:30 p.m.
This year’s juror was John Yau, a renowned art critic and poet, who met with graduate art students and guest-lecture for ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú’s Contemporary Art Forum Course in the Art Building room 100 at 5:50 p.m.
, an MFA from Yale University, took home theYeck Purchase Award in 2022 and discussed and critiqued graduate students’ art at 1:15 p.m. in Richard and Carole Cocks’ Art Museum on February 9. Her solo work, “Acanthus Tipu,” is exhibited in the Hiestand Galleries through March 3, 2023.
The ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University Young Painters Competition began with a gift from Daytonians William Yeck, ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú class of 1936, and his wife, Dorothy. Their donation provides ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú and the greater community to better understand contemporary art.
The Young Painters exhibition runs through March 10 in the Hiestand Galleries.