August 6 - 31, 2021
From Echo in Johnston City:
“Echo announces the juried results of its exhibition The Breast Show II. Capturing First Prize is Jenni Belotserkovsky of Plainfield, VT, for Censored, a mixed media work of wool, wire, fabric, and cardboard. Second Prize is awarded to Aletha St. Romain of Austin, TX, for a the acrylic on watercolor paper painting Wash Day. Wilmington, DE, artist Jen Hintz Eggers took Third Prize with an oil on birch panel painting Mammary Study I. Honorable Mentions include: Brenda Thomas of Johnson City, TX, for a work of colored pencil on paper, Kabuki Lady (Reworked). Kristy Lynn Gallup of New Haven, CT, for an oil on paper painting, Boobs 7. Chantal Danyluk of Conway, AR, for an oil on particleboard work, Don’t Be a Pussy. Voting for Visitors’ Favorite will be ongoing until August 30th. Echo Gallery in Johnson City, TX, invites the public to take in the show while it is mounted. Over thirty artists nationwide submitted more than sixty entries to the exhibition, in all visual mediums and aesthetic directions. Forty works were accepted and have been installed. The full amount of entry fees will be awarded to benefit nonprofit organizations that support breastfeeding and women’s health. The exhibition will run throughout August in conjunction with National Breast Feeding Month. There will be an awards reception honoring the participating artists on Thursday, August 19, 2021, at the gallery. The female breast has been a battleground between motherhood and sexuality for too long. An outcome of this exhibition will be to normalize and depoliticize the female breast. This includes the act of breastfeeding in public, where breastfeeding mothers are often met with disdain. Elyse Gonzales, Director of the contemporary art center Ruby City in San Antonio, served as the juror for this exhibition. Prior to her appointment there, she served as Acting Director of the Art, Design & Architecture (AD&A) Museum, UC Santa Barbara. At the AD&A Museum she curated numerous exhibitions incorporating the collections as well as national and international loans including: Chicanismo! The Tomas Sanchez Collection; Common Bonds: Artists and Architects on Community; Ja’Tovia Gary: A Care Ethic; The Schoolhouse and the Bus: Mobility, Pedagogy and Engagement; Two Projects by Pablo Helguera and Suzanne Lacy / Pilar Riaño-Alcalá; The Stumbling Present: Ruins in Contemporary Art (2012); Peake/Picasso (2013); and CB08, 2 the California Biennial (2008). Her curatorial work is balanced by several published essays and exhibition catalogs. Elyse received an MA from Williams College in 2000 and a BA from the University of New Mexico in 1996. The results for the ongoing voting for Visitors’ Favorite will be announced Augusst 31st.
information is available at www.echoinjohnsoncity.com.”
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