Concordians named as finalists in Canadian portrait competition
Noa Ne'eman, a student in the Department of Studio Arts' undergraduate painting and drawing program, Tammy Salzl, a current MFA in Studio Arts student, and Ian Shatilla, MFA 08, were selected as three of the 30 finalists for the Kingston Prize for Canadian Portraiture and the grand prize of $20,000.
Noa Ne'eman, Captain Generous
Tammy Salzl, Fights like a Girl
Ian Shatilla, Lacey Jane Wilburn
The Kingston Prize, founded in 2005 to encourage and reward the creation of contemporary portraits by Canadian artists, is a biennial national competition for contemporary portraits of Canadians by Canadian artists.
Julian Brown, one of the organizers of the prize, notes that throughout the years, Concordia has been "a great source of young artists."
An exhibition of finalists will be shown at the Firehall Theatre in Gananoque, Ontario, October 4 to 20, 2013 and at the Art Gallery of Calgary from November 2 to December 21. The winner will be announced just prior to the Calgary exhibition on November 1.
Click the thumbnail images below to see larger versions of the finalists' work.