ArtPrize 2013 Top 25 Juried Short List Entries

GRAND RAPIDS PRESS
By Jeffrey Kaczmarczyk

MICHIGAN---ArtPrize 2013's jurors, charged with awarding $100,000 in prize money, agreed they were looking for art that surprised them. Their surprises were revealed Monday night when jurors each unveiled their five finalists for one of ArtPrize 2013's five Juried Awards. A total of 19 artists and five venues are in the running for one of five medium-based $20,000 awards: best two-dimensional work, best three-dimensional work, best time-based work, best use of urban space and best venue. The finalists were unveiled at ArtPrize's HUB headquarters. [link]

Here is where you can see the 25 finalists for ArtPrize 2013 Juried Awards [link]:

Four SiTE:LAB entries are finalists for the Juried Awards. The four are:

• "Ecosystem" (3D) by Carlos Bunga, of Sant Andreu De Llavaneres, Barcelona
• "The Unfounded Future of the Untold" (3D) by Julie Schenkelberg, Brooklyn, NY
• "Angle of Repose" (Time Based) by Dance In The Annex (DITA), Grand Rapids, MI
• "Sonnet 27" (Time Based) by Arthur Liou, Bloomington, IN

Grand Rapids Art Museum, 101 Monroe Center NW, has three entries as finalists:

• "The Last Post" (Time Based) by Shahzia Sikander, New York, NY
• "Whispers of the Prairie" (Time Based) by Deanna Morse, Grand Rapids, MI
• "Tropical Migrants" (2D) by Alexis Rockman of New York, NY

Kendall College of Art and Design, at 17 Pearl St. NW, has two entries:

• "Through the Skies for You" (3D) by Kevin Cooley and Phillip Andrew Lewis, Chattanooga, Tenn.
• "The world's an untranslatable language II (for Charles Wright" (3D) by Charles Matson Lume, St. Paul, MN

DeVos Place Convention Center, 303 Monroe Ave. NW, has two finalists for Juried Awards:

• "Series 28 Untitled #1" (2D) by Mary Rousseaux, Royal Oak, MI
• "Rick Beerhorst Painting" (2D) by Rick Beerhorst, Grand Rapids, MI

Eight more finalists can be found in eight locations, including at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, an ArtPrize Exhibition Center, and at Cathedral Square of the Diocese of Grand Rapids, an ArtPrize Showcase Venue.

Here's where you can find all eight:

• "Facing Al Aqaba" (Urban Space and Time Based) by Maurice Jacobsen, Al Aqaba, Palestine, at Ah-Nab-Awen Park, adjacent to the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum, 303 Pearl St. NW.
• "Europa and the Flying Fish" (2D) by Kyle Staver, New York, NY, at Grand Rapids Brewing Company, 1 Ionia Ave. SW
• "Three and Four: Red, Yellow and Black" (2D) by Peter Crow, Birmingham, MI, at Cathedral Square, 360 S. Division Ave.
• "Watching" (3D) by Daniel Arsham, Brooklyn, NY, at Meijer Gardens, 1000 E. Beltline Ave. NE
• "Egg Prize" (Urban Space) by David Kail, Grandville, MI, at Van Andel Arena, 130 W. Fulton St.
• "united.states: an everyday people project" (Urban Space) by JD Urban, Brooklyn, NY, at Calder Plaza, 300 Monroe Ave. NW
• "Temporary's Pursuit of Permanence" (Urban Space) by Alexander Hanson and Daniel Feinberg, Minneapolis, MN, on the Gillett Bridge over the Grand River
• "I want to be different … (ladder)" (Urban Space) by Henry Brimmer, East Lansing, above Monroe Center near First Community Bank, 60 Monroe Center NW