Thorne People's Choice Awards Announced

From Jackie Hooper, Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery:

Two artists tied for the People’s Choice Award for the first time in the history of the Biennial Regional Jurors’ Choice Competition, which continues through March 10 at the Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery. Mallory Lake of Marlboro, Vermont, and Jon McAuliffe of North Walpole, New Hampshire, will each receive a People’s Choice Commendation and a $100 cash prize from the Friends of the Thorne.

Lake received the award for Night Train, a 2010 pastel painting based on a photograph of a 1950s vintage train from a film clip. McAuliffe’s bright Sunshine, a 2008 oil painting of a flower, was created with encouragement from his fiancée.

Both artists have entered the Thorne’s regional competition in the past, but this is the first time either has won the People’s Choice award from among the 81 pieces by 74 artists chosen for the regional exhibition. The works in the exhibit range from traditional landscape paintings and photographs to contemporary sculptures and montages.

For more on the exhibit and the People’s Choice winners, visit the keene.edu news site.