Kingston gallery hosts media jury, artwork on display through June 9

May 29, 2012

Photos Courtesy SCAA

South County Art Association All Media Open Juried Exhibition will be displayed through June 9.

KINGSTON - The gallery of Kingston’s South County Association is hosting multi-media art displays during the The South County Art Association Open Media Juried I, which runs through June 9.

SCAA’s quaint New England showrooms brim with a various assortment of entries from two-dimensional media such as paintings and photography, as well as intricately detailed sculptures and models.

One of the artists whose works are on view and entered in the Association’s Media Jury on May 17 is Lenny Rumpler. His photograph entitled “Buoys Reflecting” garnered second place in the Media Jury. Rumpler is a seasoned veteran of the photography trade and, for a lengthy stretch of his career, almost exclusively photographed bridges that “very few people have ever seen with their own eyes.” His artwork has been previously featured in Portsmouth and Newport art showings. Rumpler said the first decades of his picture taking were done in the old school film style. “My photography involved nothing but black and white films prints and a darkroom,” he said of his early days.

Another highlight of the exhibit is Marc Jaffe’s ominous photograph “Golden Boys”, which seemed to glimmer on the far wall. The piece depicted rather well-dressed, gold painted manikin staring blankly into (or rather facing) a distorted full-length mirror. Much less surreal but miles more captivating was Jaffe’s third prize-winning photograph of a sunlit St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland. Claudia Flynn’s mixed media display, “Barbie Meets Bambi Hybrid”, looked something like an oversized, blue-eyed doll head welded to the body of a decorative plastic deer. Flynn’s composition was by far the most bizarre work of the gallery and, as a direct result of its undeniable weirdness, one of the most eye-catching. Judy Salvadore in a discussion about her photograph “Gold Finch Valentine”. Salvadore explained that the sudden death of a songbird on her home windowsill provided the inspiration for the picture; She decorated a small funeral arrangement consisting of flower petals and leaves for the deceased finch when she felt compelled to “memorialize the beautiful little animal.” Salvadore added that the work will serve as “the start to a large project series involving animals.” Judy Salvadore is an active member of the Warwick Animal Shelter.

Colleen Holloran’s pencil and acrylic illustration of a young girl entitled In The Medicine Cabinet took the Media Jury’s first prize.

If you go

The South County Art Association is located at 2587 Kingtown Road, Kingston. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. For more information call 783-2195 or visit www.southcountyart.org. The SCAA’s All Media Open Juried Exhibition will continue until June 9.