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Artists grapple with identity in new downtown Waco exhibit
By Carl Hoover Tribune-Herald entertainment editor
Thursday July 8, 2010
For Austin artist Aaron Sacco, the surprise of judging Croft Art Gallery’s show “SELF” came not in common themes that surfaced from more than 200 entries, but in those individual interpretations.
“I was impressed mostly with the diversity of styles and artistic expressions,” said Sacco, a 2004 Baylor University graduate and student of Baylor artist-in-resident Karl Umlauf. The artist, whose own work involves portraiture and the capturing of a subject’s personality, said “SELF’s” work ranged from graphite self-portrait drawings to abstractions that grappled with personality formation, emotion and individuality.
“I was impressed mostly with the diversity of styles and artistic expressions,” said Sacco, a 2004 Baylor University graduate and student of Baylor artist-in-resident Karl Umlauf. The artist, whose own work involves portraiture and the capturing of a subject’s personality, said “SELF’s” work ranged from graphite self-portrait drawings to abstractions that grappled with personality formation, emotion and individuality.
Gallery owner Katie Croft said the diverse interpretations also were expressed in various media: painting, drawing, video, textiles, photography, mixed media installations and more.
The Society for Friends of Jung in Waco sponsored the show and put up $600 in prize money. Sacco narrowed entries to 40 for the exhibit and chose what he felt were the best. Winners, announced at the exhibit’s July 2 opening reception, were Heather Sincavage, first place for “Architect’s Daughter”; Summer Crenshaw, second for “Avoidance”; and Jim Henson, third for “Self-Divided.”
Winning honorable mentions were Jason Peterson for “Growing Pains,” Heather Hughes for “Layers of My Soul” and Mike Stephens for “Barefoot and . . .” Josh Bryant’s “Deuxieme Partie” won the People’s Choice award.
The Society for Friends of Jung in Waco sponsored the show and put up $600 in prize money. Sacco narrowed entries to 40 for the exhibit and chose what he felt were the best. Winners, announced at the exhibit’s July 2 opening reception, were Heather Sincavage, first place for “Architect’s Daughter”; Summer Crenshaw, second for “Avoidance”; and Jim Henson, third for “Self-Divided.”
Winning honorable mentions were Jason Peterson for “Growing Pains,” Heather Hughes for “Layers of My Soul” and Mike Stephens for “Barefoot and . . .” Josh Bryant’s “Deuxieme Partie” won the People’s Choice award.
Gallery owner Katie Croft said the diverse interpretations also were expressed in various media: painting, drawing, video, textiles, photography, mixed media installations and more.
The Society for Friends of Jung in Waco sponsored the show and put up $600 in prize money. Sacco narrowed entries to 40 for the exhibit and chose what he felt were the best. Winners, announced at the exhibit’s July 2 opening reception, were Heather Sincavage, first place for “Architect’s Daughter”; Summer Crenshaw, second for “Avoidance”; and Jim Henson, third for “Self-Divided.”
Winning honorable mentions were Jason Peterson for “Growing Pains,” Heather Hughes for “Layers of My Soul” and Mike Stephens for “Barefoot and . . .” Josh Bryant’s “Deuxieme Partie” won the People’s Choice award.
The show was Sacco’s first as an exhibit juror. The graphic artist, son of Baptist missionaries to Lebanon and Cyprus, served as an animator on Richard Linklater’s film “A Scanner Darkly,” has created animated commercials for investment service Charles Schwab and won a Best in Show award in 2007 at Austin’s Gallery Lombardi.
In conjunction with “SELF,” the gallery will host a lecture and panel discussion featuring Southern Methodist University adjunct assistant professor Steve Anderson and Baylor University senior lecturer in religion Blake Burleson, a Jungian scholar, from 6- 8 p.m. July 22 and a self-portrait workshop from 2-5 p.m. July 24.
The Society for Friends of Jung in Waco sponsored the show and put up $600 in prize money. Sacco narrowed entries to 40 for the exhibit and chose what he felt were the best. Winners, announced at the exhibit’s July 2 opening reception, were Heather Sincavage, first place for “Architect’s Daughter”; Summer Crenshaw, second for “Avoidance”; and Jim Henson, third for “Self-Divided.”
Winning honorable mentions were Jason Peterson for “Growing Pains,” Heather Hughes for “Layers of My Soul” and Mike Stephens for “Barefoot and . . .” Josh Bryant’s “Deuxieme Partie” won the People’s Choice award.
The show was Sacco’s first as an exhibit juror. The graphic artist, son of Baptist missionaries to Lebanon and Cyprus, served as an animator on Richard Linklater’s film “A Scanner Darkly,” has created animated commercials for investment service Charles Schwab and won a Best in Show award in 2007 at Austin’s Gallery Lombardi.
In conjunction with “SELF,” the gallery will host a lecture and panel discussion featuring Southern Methodist University adjunct assistant professor Steve Anderson and Baylor University senior lecturer in religion Blake Burleson, a Jungian scholar, from 6- 8 p.m. July 22 and a self-portrait workshop from 2-5 p.m. July 24.
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