The Juried Gallery is a gallery of specialized art and includes emerging artists. This gallery includes the work of Daniel Hertel-Cournoyer, Trudy Steinberg, Nancy Brennan,Bernadette McKinney, Brian Edmund Ray, Ram Krishna Agrawal, Karim Ahmadi, Johnathan Jaeger,
Please see museum mission statement in the Juried Gallery which is the first gallery in this series dedicated to emerging artists. We are including artists exhibiting worldwide in this museum gallery.
Daniel Hertel-Cournoyer
The Canadian born artist, Daniel Hertel-Cournoyer speaks French and English fluently and has studied language skills in Chinese written language. His exhibited work expresses successes over great challenges and his personal social expression of important concepts which he recognizes worldwide. Hertel-Cournoyer has achieved the selection of his graphic design for a Canadian postage stamp. His work expresses strengths which reflect extreme challenges that he has met and surpassed. His art is includes use of found object materials with his media for art production.
London:
Antonio Vitulli Gallery
Royal Photographic Society tour Great Britain
Buckingham Palace
London International Contemporary Art Fair
Parallax Art Fair
Complexe Desjardins, Montréal
Artifact/Amsterdam Galleries: NY, Monté Carlo
Auction Houses: Christies (NY) and Sotheby’s (LA)
DelBello Gallery, Toronto
Gallery Z, Bratislava (Slovakia)
Brisbane/Houston Audio video festivals
Memphis Academy of Art / Cleveland State University
Orlando LGBTQ Center, Florida/ ENVISION Denver LGBTQ Benefit
Earth Gallery, Osaka, Japan
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Trudy Steinberg
Trudy Steinberg is a digital photographic artist with exceptional insight into expression of figural studies in imaginative work. She utilizes a broad range of forms and applications and develops studies that show the versatility of photography in digital formats.
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Nancy Brennan
Nancy Brennan has creatively evolved work from photographic inspirations of human form. Her work includes a range of life images from at home experiencea to life’s abstractions portrayed with humor.
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Bernadette McKinney
An emerging artist, McKinney is still forming her personal expressive path, but successfully using expression in fine art as a personal healing medium. She has been moving her artwork into the arena of art therapy using various modalities to open more opportunities to heal using a world of color with her endless ideas of expression. She currently uses color in creative experiences to communicate hope amidst “dreary days.” She uses her creative abilities and understandings of the senses to release intense feelings. She facilitates expression using the process of “simply applying color” with a variety of varied brush applications. McKinney uses art with basic processes to communicate feelings and to share her feelings.….and she uses theoretical understandings to explain her processes. In this way, she relates synaesthetic experience and shares how her work can change moods personally……… such as, “leave me in bliss.” Bernadette McKinley is learning, studying, and researching and consciously growing as she works to understand the human mind on an empathetic level. She relates her new understandings through masses of color. Art therapy is her future in social contributions, and she is unfolding a world of potential for others including encouraging viewers to experience and to feel basic colors. Her preference is blue as a pure primary color. McKinney states her personal perceptions have inspired her to take this path of communicating through art. The empathetic feelings she expresses are built using tones in blue. The artist is growing, and she looks at other artists and connects with their paintings on a deep emotional level. She describes some artists as conveying a deep feeling of love and others sharing great solace and hope. Bernadette McKinney’s unfolding growth is taking her toward making a significant social contribution as she builds her work. The relatively young emerging artist says she wants to feel…………. (Referring to deep emotional levels of love and hope) and that using visual communication in her work, the processes lead to art therapy to help others, “ (so) that I could show others the same (way to express).”
Brian Edmund Ray
Insight into the work of Artist Brian Ray gives us a portrait of an Australian artist, who lives in the state of Victoria. Ray, an English-speaking Australian artist, is dedicated to his countryside portrayal of the enjoyment of nature. His concentration in creative expression is on the focus which captivates viewers and makes them feel as though they are in Australia, driving on the wide-open roads, seeing life being calmly enjoyed roadside. He gives viewers connection with the selection of nature and animal life that the artist chooses to portray in the embracing calmness. Brian Ray uses the rural Australia he knows to communicate its basic beauty using paint, color and the simple residential animals that enjoy the very extensive territory in which they live. The surround embracing the animals is the elements of a life that he shares, and he makes each painting feel very much like a visit to the Australian countryside. When we see his work, we expect to experience the roaming cows meandering in the countryside and we feel the energy of a daily life that exists in the rural landscape. The artist demonstrates a connection in feeling that he evidently shares as he paints. This dedication to his personal connection to the countryside influences his creation and how it is perceived. He builds old sheds with paint and inhabits the rural countryside with sheep. He then builds the viewer’s interest in cow groupings that include a calf. The sheep, the red roofed house and cows all show the characteristic feeling of the landscapes in a rural life. As we consciously travel Australian roads in our thoughts and memories of the Australian countryside, we recall that cows can roam across roads ignoring traffic related travelers, and Brian Ray brings us to Australia in a memorable instance of warmth that is the extension of life in calmness.
The artist describes his work: The first painting,3 old sheds and 2 sheep in foreground is titled “Rural Australia 12”, acrylic, the second painting with 4 cows and a calf is “Rural Australia 1” using acrylic, and the third painting with the red roofed house with 4 sheep in foreground is “Rual Australia 2” acrylic.
Exhibitions:
Solo exhibition, Traralgon
Bairnsdale Art Society (multiple exhibitions)
Camberwell Art Show Melbourne
Bayside Art Show Melbourne
Mornington Art Show Melbourne
Australia Countryside
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Ram Krishna Agrawal
Ram Krishna Agrawal speaks both English and Hindi. He is a citizen of India which he refers to as a county of varied landscapes and diverse culture. Ram feels that his work is representative of India in the color and life he feels so deeply in creation. He expresses his view that the cultures and traditions are highly diverse, and that his expressive creative work shows India as a land of versatile culture and traditions. Ram feels his brushes were silent for a two decade period but the Covid lockdown gave rebirth to his art.
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Karin Ahmadi
Ahmadi is a middle eastern artist who feels happiness gained from the response of people to his personal creative expression. Simply liking his work is the personal creative reinforcement that this artist feels brings him full personal satisfaction. He is an emerging fine artist from Afghanistan and he is very appreciative of the simple satisfaction he feels from people liking the work being viewed. The work he shares symbolizes the connection he has in feeling and expression which he relates is his expressionism connecting the sunrise and sunset. He only exhibits in group exhibitions. The viewers need to further understand the role of art in the culture of Afghanistan is not recognized and valued but in fact is prohibited. The artist who expresses personal connection in feeling and color in artistic expression is venturing into the world of culture that is nonexistent in the culture.
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Johnathan Jaeger
Artist’s statement follows: My name is Jonathan Jaeger and I am an Emerging Artist.
“I had some racial issues growing up, sometimes I still do, I am always walking the line between one race or the other and that causes me to feel like I have no identity. ” “There were conflicts with the African American and Caucasian races for riding the fence. Each race accused me for being on their side trespassing for the most part. My art was able to pass through border lines without conflict and sometimes with the added bonus of opening minds of the people that would view my work.
I never believed I deserved to do what I wanted as a career, I had a low self-esteem and self-confidence. I continued to pursue a career in social work and believed it was my calling not my passion. I began working in the helping profession then would work on digital painting as a hobby and share it on the internet. Things at work were not working out, so I decided to do what I was passionate about and do my art full time.
This was my true identity, who I was all along, I was happy immediately when working towards a goal in the art field. Who was I, a black man with white parents, good looking, not perfect, sensitive, and I loved people who were both black, white, yellow, red, the colors of the rainbow. I was going to be me. This reflects in every piece of art I create… you are part of my world and so is every person I know and have known. My art crosses cultural boundaries and shows the harmony of equality and learning that we are all part of the same race, the human race.”
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