Spring 2024 Virtual Show

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Springfield Art Guild – Online Art Show
Spring Virtual Show

April 20 – June 29, 2024

A “Wonder”ful World

This show is open to all Guild members and will be shown exclusively on the Springfield Art Guild website.

All artwork has been selected by the Juror, Bryan Jernigan. There are 1st, 2nd and 3rd place awards and Honorable Mentions, which will be announced at the Zoom reception on May 5th at 3pm.

The theme for this show is A “Wonder”ful World. This is a chance to find or create A “Wonder”ful World. What makes a “wonder”ful world? There is wonder in many things from the small to the large and the realistic to the fantastical.

“I was impressed by the depth and skill of the artists who submitted work for the Wonderful World show. Not only was it clear to me a number of artists were seasoned and their submissions were top notch, I was also so happy to see learning artists submitting work. I always gauge the quality of an arts organization by the enthusiasm of its members and the 59 entries demonstrated that the Springfield Art Guild is full of high quality artists. Narrowing my choices to just 35 was very much a challenge – they were all that good! My goal for this show was to get as many artists represented as possible while still highlighting the quality. Also showcasing a wide variety of mediums was also a goal of mine, so seeing oils, acrylics and watercolors represented was especially pleasing to me, but there was also paper cutting, pastel, collage, cold wax and ink, showing just how broad the interest is from artists in the area. I’m so happy to be able to draw from all of these mediums to create this cohesive and outstanding show.”

Bryan Jernigan

Bryan Jernigan: I grew up in Southwest Oklahoma and attended a public school that was so small we didn’t have high school-level art classes. It wasn’t until I attended undergraduate school at Oklahoma State University that I had formal art training. I graduated from graduate school at Drake University in Des Moines, IA, and while I mastered in communications, all my elective courses were in studio art.

I was very positively impacted by the Washington Color School well before I moved to Washington, D.C. in 1990, and I was privileged to meet and befriend Sam Gilliam, a second-generation Washington Color School painter early on in my artistic career.

I was commissioned by the City of Alexandria to create 50 unique pastel landscapes for an artistic promotion program pre-pandemic and recently, I was commissioned through the Art League to create five oversized paintings for a new-construction condominium community overlooking the Potomac River.

Color is the root of all my paintings. Invented color schemes, interlocking organic forms, and decisive brushwork characterize my work. It comes from a place deep inside. While a bit unconventional, my process has always been to work in one medium (say, pastel landscapes) and then cycle into another (say, acrylic abstraction). I find that one medium takes a certain amount of concentration and then the other allows me to be freer and expressive.

When I am not creating work, I like to foster creation in others by doing demonstrations, teaching workshops and classes. I’ve taught abstract painting classes and workshops for the Art League of Alexandria, Arlington Artists Alliance, Falls Church Arts, Vienna Arts Society, Capitol Hill Art League, PaintSpace NOLA in New Orleans and Hudson River Valley Art Workshops, among others. At the Arlington Artists Alliance, I’ve also served on the board of directors for seven years and for four years as the president of the organization. I’ve taught pastel landscape and still life workshops for many arts organizations regionally, nationally and internationally, taking groups of students to France, Scotland and Mexico, for immersive pastel painting experiences.

https://www.bryanjernigan.com