Jurors Announced for 89th Phillips’ Mill Juried Art Exhibition

The 89th annual Phillips’ Mill Art Exhibition Committee has announced the distinguished group of art experts selected to jury this year’s show. Jurors will have the difficult task of choosing the art to be exhibited in this prestigious annual show. Phillips’ Mill Art Exhibition is the first and most continuous art event exhibiting the works of Delaware Valley artists. This show, which accepts art from artists living within a 25-mile radius of Phillips’ Mill, is an excellent way to view and purchase work from the area’s best artists. This year’s jurors are:

Jurors for painting

Jeffrey Reed is a landscape painter who received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from The Maryland Institute College of Art in 1976. He studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine and received his Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1983. He has participated in more than a dozen solo, two-person and group exhibitions since 1993. Reed is a 12-time returning fellow for the Ballinglen Arts Foundation Ltd Fellowship in Ireland. His paintings are featured in numerous public collections, including Blue Cross of Greater Philadelphia, New York University and Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida. He has served as a visiting artist, lecturer and guest critic for more than a dozen art centers, including Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and Artist for the Environment Foundation.

Margaret Winslow lives and works in Wilmington, Del., where she is Curator of Contemporary Art at the Delaware Art Museum. She has curated for the Neuberger Museum of Art and The Delaware Contemporary and assisted with exhibits for the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. In 2010, she attended Independent Curators International’s Curatorial Intensive in New York and in 2015, she served as juror for Art of the State: Pennsylvania at the State Museum of Pennsylvania. Public presentations include talks at the Beijing American Center in China, the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums, College Art Association, and the University of Delaware. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from the University of Mary Washington and a Master of Arts in Modern and Contemporary Art, Theory, and Criticism from SUNY Purchase College.

Painter Micheal Madigan received a Master of Arts in painting, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. European painters’ influence marked his early works. Artists from the COBRA movement and the Catalan master Antoni Tapies marked a transition in his painting from formal realism to expressionism and a hybrid form of nonrepresentational mixed media painting. Through the 1980s and 1990s his work explored the power of dynamic color and emphasized the evocative potential of nonobjective painting. Madigan’s work is featured in numerous private collections throughout the United States and in Italy, Spain, France, Denmark, Portugal, United Kingdom, Ireland, Austria, Germany, Brazil, South Korea, Israel, Hong Kong and Switzerland. He has been involved in private studio practice for the past 40 years and served as a professor of art at The College of New Jersey from 1998-2006.

Jurors for sculpture

Christoph Spath studied art and architecture (1975-1978) and stone sculpture (1978-1981) in Germany. Since 2012 he has served as the general manager of Antiquity Stone, LLC in Morrisville. Spath has exhibited in nearly three dozen solo and group shows since 1986. Some of his art collections are on display in Chianti Sculpture Park in Pievasciata, Italy; Grounds for Sculpture in Mercerville, N.J.; Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park in Hamilton, Ohio; and at Bristol-Myers Squibb Park, in New Brunswick, N.J.

Katherine Stanek was born in Oak Park, Illinois. She relocated to Philadelphia and held a full-time corporate management position while attending classes part-time at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. In 2002, she resigned her management position and began her career in art at The Pennsylvania Academy receiving a four-year merit scholarship. Immediately upon graduation, Stanek exhibited her work at The Rosenfeld Gallery, as well as museums and sculpture gardens including The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, European Museum of Modern Art MEAM, Barcelona and most recently, she exhibited her sculpture alongside the work of Auguste Rodin in the international exhibition "Rodin and the Contemporary Figurative Tradition" at the Frederick Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park. In November 2015 she opened Stanek Gallery in Philadelphia.

Artist Registration/Entry forms for the 89th Annual Juried Art Exhibition are available online at www.phillipsmill.org. Entries will be accepted at Phillips’ Mill on Sept. 7 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. and on Sept 8 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The 89th annual Phillips’ Mill Art Exhibition will open on Sept. 22 and run through Oct. 28. Phillips’ Mill is located at 2619 River Road 1.5 miles north of New Hope. For further information visit www.phillipsmill.org.