Hannah Shea, a junior Animation and Illustration major from Freeville, will be 16 artists featured in the Southern Tier Biennial, a juried art competition that opens Sept. 19 and continues through Oct. 23 at the Olean Public Library and the Center Gallery, located at the Jamestown Community College campus in Olean.
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Opening receptions for the show will be held 3 and 4:30 p.m., respectively, at the Olean library and JCC gallery, and are free and open to the public.
Shea鈥檚 entry, 鈥淪parring Eucharitid Wasps,鈥 was created in the course, Introduction to Illustration, taught by Associate Professor Jill Johnston during the spring semester. 鈥淎ttaining realism in my art has been a major focus throughout my life. I strive to render something as true to life while maintaining a sense of my own style in each piece I create,鈥 Shea explained in her artist鈥檚 statement.
Also chosen accepted for the competition were works by Johnston, who created the HD animation video 鈥淒on鈥檛 Be Afraid of Bears,鈥 and Associate Professor Phil Hastings, also of Fredonia鈥檚 Department of Visual Arts and New Media, who created two digital prints, 鈥淪alacia vitreapirata鈥 and 鈥淧ennulia forameniacaudae.鈥
The Southern Tier Biennial is produced by the Cattaraugus County Arts Council with assistance from the Olean Public Library, Jamestown Community College and the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation, and an endowment from the estate of F. Donald Kenney.
More than 160 works of art by 61 artists were evaluated by two jurors, John Massier, visual arts curator at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, and Bleu Cease, executive director/curator of Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, N.Y.
