About the Exhibitions
The annual Members’ Juried Exhibition is one of the many opportunities the DCCA offers each year to its artist members who live regionally and nationally. The show provides artists with the opportunity to be part of a group exhibition at the DCCA as well as exposure to nationally known leaders in the contemporary arts, such as this year’s juror, author and art critic Eleanor Heartney.
The theme of this year’s exhibition, “beauty,” is a broad theme that may be interpreted in many ways—from the sublime to the ridiculous—from the role of fashion to the post industrial landscape. Artists submitting for the show were free to work in any media and approach the topic from any point of view.
Eleanor Heartney is currently a writer for Art in America and is the author of such books as Critical Condition: American Culture at the Crossroads, Defending Complexity: Art, Politics and the New World Order, and Postmodern Heretics: Catholic Imagination in Contemporary Art. She was the 1992 recipient of College Art Association’s Frank Jewett Mather Award for distinction in art criticism and has also received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Asian Cultural Council. She is a past president of the American section of the International Art Critics’ Association. Participating artists include Robert Anderson, Katie Baldwin, Joseph Barbaccia, Joseph Bennett, Rita Bernstein, Jacklyn Brickman, Lawrence Cromwell, Catherine Drabkin, Alexis Granwell, Cheryl Harper, Lauren Litwa Holden, Johanna Inman, June Julian, Stephanie Knopp, Ava Larkin, Scott Lewis, Gray Lyons, Susan Maguire, Jenee Mateer, Ryan Muldowney, Rosemarie Padovano, Jeffrey Stockbrisge, Robert Straight, Rob Tarbell, Heather Ujiie, Mary Walker, and Linda Wilson.
About the Museum
The DCCA, a non-collecting museum, currently presents nearly
30 exhibitions annually of regionally, nationally, and internationally
recognized artists. In addition to the exhibitions, DCCA commits
to educational and community outreach through various programs,
such as Artist Residencies with underserved community groups
and Contemporary Connections, a model program that fuses art
with schools' core curriculum, offering fresh new ways to
teach subjects such as math and science. The DCCA has partnered
in some way with more than 60 community groups and schools.
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