The Museum homepage • Current Exhibitions The Spartanburg Arts homepage • Sparklenet homepage in the Milliken & Parsons Galleries The Fourth Biennial HUB CITY Regional JURIED ART COMPETITION March 30 - June 17, 2007 in the Burwell & Hallway Galleries Bikers: Expressions of Freedom J. Michael Johnson March 12 - June 24, 2007

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The Fourth Biennial
HUB CITY REGIONAL JURIED ART COMPETITION

selected by Dr. Lisa Wainwright,
Dean of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of Art History, Theory & Criticism
for the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

award winners • view the exhibition • 1 • 2 • 3 • 4

about the show • about the juror • juror's statement

The Award Winners NOTE: If your name appears in this list and you have a permanent website, please send your name and web address here. Indicate that you want your site linked to your name on the Hub City 2005 page.   First Place Mike Baker • York The Look, photography
Second Place Kenny Walker • Lawndale Helen's Gift, color pencil	Third Place Vadim Bora • Asheville Sweet Dreams, Appalachia, oil on canvas	Honorable Mention Debra Kelly • Irmo From the Garden, oil
Merit Award Brandi Criscitiello • Spartanburg F-1, photography	Merit Award Carlton Mullinax • Spartanburg Escaping Obesity Jungle, acrylic	Merit Award Teresa Prater • Campobello Sprite #1 digital
Merit Award In memory of Mr. Andrew Forsythe by Mr. & Mrs J. Michael Kohler, JR. Andrew Blanchard • Spartanburg Head Above Water, Body Down Beneath, silkscreen on wood		Merit Award David Zacharias • Spartanburg Cinder Black Jar, stoneware

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Juror’s Statement This year's Hub City Art Fair represented work from a wealth of conceptual and stylistic orientations by both professional and untrained artists. Indeed, the artwork was so broad in form and idea that it mirrored the pluralism that has come to typify contemporary art. It was an exciting show and the preliminary salon style installation in which work covered almost every inch of wall and floor, gave expression to the vitality of the arts in the region. My first choice was to keep all the art in the show, rather than juror anyone out, as a statement about community, the democracy of many individual voices, and the postmodern suspicion of what and who constitutes aesthetic quality. Alas, my role as juror was constrained and I was obliged to eliminate some of the work. But I wish to congratulate all of the artists who participated in the show and encourage them to continue exhibiting their work in the public space. In the juried show I tried to capture some of the range that so captivated me initially. There is work that is political, about globalism and otherness. There is work that is mystical and transcendental, about the wonder that comes from created things. There is work that is psychological, disturbing and beautifully awkward. And there is great craft in many media and with an array of historical precedents. In this final exhibition depictions of the world of everyday things share the stage with more sublime subjects and forms, for one is dependent on the other. All is visual culture. All is prized. The famous Dadaist, Marcel Duchamp, believed that anyone could be an aritist - if given the opportunity. The Hub City Art Market is a glorious example of the creative spirit to which Duchamp refers - and it is a tribute to the possibility for human expression that only art can provide. Lisa Wainwright, School of the Art Institute of Chicago March 30, 2007