Juror Hoss Haley chose 7 amazing works from a pool of over 50 entries from 16 states.
These works will be exhibited around our newly renovated Owen Hall for the next two years.
Awards totaling $2000 will be announced during the opening reception.
Exhibition dates: October 6, 2022 - September 21, 2024, Owen Hall Sculpture Garden, UNC Asheville
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 6th from 5-7 pm (rain date Friday, October 7th)
Juror's Walk & Awards will begin at 5:30 pm
Artists & Artworks
Kevin Curry
2nd Place Award, Quotidian, 2022, wood, fiberglass, steel, paint
Curry’s work delves into the language of communication and memory, with his newest pieces focusing on the replication of memories through the digitizing and reproduction of experiences in seemingly banal materials. In this work, he embraces the precision and repetitive nature of 3D printers and laser cutters. This work continues his exploration into the found nature of the original and the power of the “do-over.” The tedious and meditative aspect of his hand-built work denies the immediacy of electronic devices with which we capture and ultimately view, display, and relive our experiences.
Lydia J. Musco
3rd Place Award, Seventh Unconformity (Fall), 2020, integrally pigmented hand cast concrete
This piece is the seventh in the "Unconformity" series which was begun in 2020, and the first in a smaller group within the series, influenced by color and form impressions of the four seasons. Each piece in this series is cast from the same mold, but within that form everything changes from piece to piece.
Jim Arendt
1st Place Award, Signals & Warnings, 2022, restored highway message board w/ variable messages
Persistence in difficult times is the art I’m most interested in. I continue to be inspired by the ways in which people make do for themselves. Whether it was a trip to the scrapyard or the back of the pantry, there was usually a way to work around material deficits. I use the shared memories and skills that those around me do out of a need for function, beauty, or survival to honor them, mixing memory and materials to create something of value from nothing. “Fix’n things up” prolongs their worth and I still find some life in the materials, methods, and motivations of those I grew up with.
Tom Scicluna
Scheme, 2020, concrete parking bumpers, rebar
As a practice, Tom Scicluna utilizes readily available materials and processes to create context informed sculptures and architectonic-based installations. Whether specific in geographic, economic or social reference, or more immediate and improvised in outcome and form, the project-based works refer to the situational nature of objects and spaces – associative as well as contradictory – with regards to the given conditions of production and display.
Beau Lyday
Everlasting Arms, 2022, aged tin barn roofing, wood
I wanted to make a piece that embraced people with open arms. Hoping to give them a, safe, calm, strong, meditative space to gather and talk or just to think. The old gospel song, Leaning on the Everlasting Arms, has given me hope since I was a young child. Everyone has a need to be held in loving arms, accepted and comforted.
David Boyajian
Cotyledon Rising, 2019, stainless steel
An iconic form is created in the moments when nature deconstructs itself. A seed caught in the wind. The green shoots of a wildflower pushing through the soil. The thrashing of a river after heavy rains. A surge of energy spurs a separation – a great unfolding. It is these naturally sculptural moments that inspire my work.
Colin Dawson
Gateway, 2022, wood