2010 Jurors: Joan Lyons & John von Bergen

Annual juried exhibition featuring 73 contemporary works of art by 58 New York State artists. Artists in this year's exhibition were selected from 544 submissions by 282 artists. The selected artists come from 34 cities and towns all over NYS from Albany to Fredonia. This eclectic exhibition showcases photography, painting, sculpture, book arts and much more.

Dewey Fladd, Rushville, Finger Lakes Drive In

Special Events

• Artist Reception, Sunday, March 28, 3 - 5pm
• Artist Talk, Wednesday, April 7, 2pm
• Artist Talk, Wednesday, May 5, 2pm 

Jamie Ashlaw

Jozef Bajus

Joan Barrett

Brandy Boden

Stan Bowman

Eunsuh Choi

Patrick Cuffe

Willson Cummer

Marcus DeVoe

Leslie Eliet

Kathleen Farrell

Abraham Ferraro

Jason Flack

Dewey Fladd

Mary T. Giehl

Justin Goetz

Hall Groat II

Jennifer Hecker

Matthew Hotaling

Stephen Houseknecht

Mary Kester

Evelyn Jeanne Kitson

Jared Landberg

Mark Larsen

Judith A. Levy

John Loy

Scott McCarney

Stephen L. Meltzer

David Merkel

Lori Mills

David Mount

Sarah Nesbitt

Barbara Page

Paul W. Pearce

Jen Pepper

Kurt W. Pfeiffer

Paul Porell

Fred Price

Lana Purnell

Ken Ragsdale

Vaughn Randall

Mahine Rattonsey

Jessie Reich

Brett Scheifflee

Kathleen Schneider

Jeanne M. Simpson

Jason Smith

Ruth Sproul

Kala Stein

Aimee Tarasek

John Thompson

Kate Timm

Elisabeth Tonnard

Aspasia Tsoutsoura

Deborah Walsh

Leigh Yardley

Richard Zakin

Sarah Zamecnik

Jessie Reich, Auburn, Spoons

John Thompson, Syracuse, Man Reading a Newspaper

Scott McCarney, Rochester, Face Book

Made in NY 2010 Jurors

Joan Lyons has made work in a variety of media including, and often combining, silver gelatin prints, archaic photographic processes, pinhole photography, offset lithography, Xerography, photo-quiltmaking, and computer-based work grounded in the understanding that photography and print developed simultaneously and in all their myriad permutations are inextricably connected. She has published over 30 editions of her artist’s books.

As Founding Director of the Visual Studies Workshop Press, (1972 – 2004) Lyons was responsible for the production and publication of 450 titles. She is the editor of Artists’ Books: A Critical Anthology and Sourcebook, (1986, ’88, ’91, ’93) and Artists’ Books: Visual Studies Workshop Press 1972 – 2008 (2009). Lyons taught in the M.F.A. Program in Visual Studies and coordinated Artists’ Programs and Residencies at VSW.

John von Bergen, cofounder of Sculpture Space in Utica, lives in Clinton with active studios both in Clinton and Bayside, Maine. He has exhibited his sculpture throughout the Northeast at the Kouros Gallery, NYC, Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute, Everson Museum of Art, Schweinfurth Art Center, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, and Farnsworth Museum and Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, ME. His commissioned sculptures reside in Clinton and Liverpool, NY and Hartford, CT.

His subject matter derives from the marine environment, landscape, the figure, and the physical forces of nature. The welded bronze castings suggest three dimensional drawings of volumetric objects, which and are intended to create a tension between abstraction and representation.