3rd Annual PleinAir Salon Judges
Current Judge - Dr. J. Mark Sublette - April/May 2013 Contest
Dr. J. Mark Sublette - photo by Dan Budnik
Dr. J. Mark Sublette, a former physician, is the founder of Medicine Man
Gallery. He is the author of numerous catalogs on Native American subjects and
is an authority on the artwork of Maynard Dixon. Sublette is a contributor for
Western Art Collector and Canyon Road Arts. He is also the author of the Charles
Bloom Murder Mystery series. The first book in the series is Paint by Numbers,
and his second book, Kayenta Crossing, will be released in July 2013. The
photographs featured in his novels are his other love, which he shares on his
website at marksublette.com.
Biography
Robin Knowlton - June/July 2013 Contest
Robin Knowlton opened the Knowlton Gallery in 2005. Knowlton Gallery showcases
contemporary representational landscape and figurative paintings and
photography. The gallery has grown in size and stature with the addition of many
leading California artists, including Ray Roberts, Gil Dellinger, John Cosby,
Kathleen Dunphy, Kim Lordier, Timothy Horn, Clark Mitchell, Dennis Ziemienski,
Deladier Almeida and others. A workshop studio was added to the mix five years
ago. The privilege of working with so many fine artists has greatly enriched
Robin’s life and benefited a loyal national client base. Robin Knowlton is also
involved in the selection, commissioning, and placement of art for private and
corporate clients and can make arrangements for private portrait commissions.
knowltongallery.com
Skip Whitcomb - August/September 2013 Contest
Skip Whitcomb grew up in a hard-working ranching family in Colorado, and his
family instilled in him a deep love and respect for the land. After earning a
B.F.A. from Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, California, in 1971, he
returned to his native Colorado, where fellow painter Ned Jacob introduced him
to the virtues of outdoor painting. Whitcomb is a member of Plein-Air Painters
of America.
skipwhitcomb.com
Nancy Tankersley – October /November 2013 Contest
Artist Nancy Tankersley is known for her singular role in the founding of Plein
Air Easton, as owner of the South Street Art Gallery , and as co-owner and
Director of Easton Studio & School . Starting her career as a portraitist she
has been a professional painter for over 30 years. She began plein air painting
in 2000 and credits that experience as pivotal in her career. Her advice is
frequently sought for fledgling plein air festivals, and she has served as a
jurist for many of those venues. In addition, she exhibits in galleries coast to
coast.
Tankersley is a Signature Member of the Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters, a
juried member of the Washington Society of Landscape Painters and the Salmagundi
Club of NYC, a member of the American Impressionist Society and of the Oil
Painters of America. nancytankersley.com
Scott Shields – December 2013/January 2014 Contest
Associate Director and Chief Curator at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento,
Scott A. Shields holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in art history from the University of
Kansas. He has 18 years of professional experience in museums and has curated
numerous exhibitions and written articles for various scholarly journals,
including the Smithsonian’s American Art. While serving as the Curator of Art at
the California Historical Society, he organized exhibitions with accompanying
publications and co-authored a book on artist Percy Gray, published by the
Carmel Art Association. Shields has developed catalogues for various exhibitions
including Artists at Continent’s End: The Monterey Peninsula Art Colony,
1875-1907, University of California Press. crockermuseum.org
Evelyn Trebilcock - February/March 2014 Contest
Evelyn Trebilcock has served as Curator of Olana, the home and 250 acre designed
landscape of American landscape painter Frederic Church, since 2000. She
organized Olana’s traveling exhibition Treasure from Olana 2005-2007.
In 2009 she co-authored and co-organized the publication and exhibitionGlories
of the Hudson: Frederic Edwin Church’s Views from Olana. She co-curated
Olana’s exhibitionFern Hunting among These Picturesque Mountains: Frederic
Edwin Church in Jamiaica and ‘Rally Round the Flag: Frederic Edwin
Chruch and the Civil War. She organized Maine Sublime Olana’s
current traveling exhibition opening at Olana summer 2013 and scheduled for the
Cleveland Museum of Art for summer 2014. Current projects include restoring the
second floor of Olana and an exhibtion on Lockwood de Forest. Ms. Trebilcock has
a MA in the History of Decorative Arts from the Cooper-Hewitt; a post-graduate
diploma in Works of Art from Sotheby's Educational Studies, London; and a BA in
History from St. Lawrence University. olana.org
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