Jurors Choose Art Work For Regional Exhibit At Thorne

From Jackie Hooper, Thorne: Works by 61 local artists have been chosen for the 2009 Biennial Regional Jurors’ Choice Exhibition to be displayed from Saturday, January 24, to Thursday, February 26, at the Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery. The Jurors’ Choice honorees will be announced at a 6 p.m. awards ceremony during the opening reception Friday, January 23, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the gallery.

Artists dropped off 329 works of art at the gallery on a snowy Friday and Saturday, December 12 and 13. Jurors Gail E. Sauter from Kittery, Maine, a master pastelist and a Copley artist, and contemporary artist Bert Yarborough from Hartford, Vt., an associate professor of art at Colby-Sawyer College, examined the work and chose 71 pieces for exhibition ranging from traditional landscape paintings and photographs to contemporary sculptures and montages.

The reception and exhibition are free and open to the public. For further information about the Regional Jurors’ Choice Exhibition, visit the Thorne website or call 8-2720.