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Ernestine Tahedl ~ 2011 Juror

Jurors’ Comments: Ernestine Tahedl

First, a warm thank-you to the PineRidge Arts Council, for inviting me to jury the 13 th Annual Juried Art Show.

My warmest congratulations to all of the artists who have been included in this show and I hope you agree that it is an exciting and very versatile one.

I want especially to direct comments to the artists who find that their work was not included. First I know from my personal experience as I have been juried out of several shows over the years myself, one asks why? You know your work is good, strong, done with conviction, so again, why?

Well, the answer is not so simple.

First, you have a juror who tries very hard to be very open minded and multifaceted, but all jurors have some subconscious preferences. Although we, as jurors, try very hard to be impartial to all expressions, it is only natural and to be expected that there are some aspects, particularly if the juror is an artist himself, which are stronger and more positive are influencing his choices than other work.

Technically the work across the board was very professional, so the question arises are there other factors? For choosing a work, my main criteria are that it must bring a personal expression and an original way to formulate a particular theme that opens up a new dimension to the viewer.

The works I gave the awards and honorary mentions have impressed me the most, as they have achieved this mandate.

I hope this will shed some light on my choices. I do hope all of you will continue to search in your own way and follow your own ideas: only on this path will you develop and stay true to yourself and create work which is of value to you and others.

I was delighted to see some entries from the upcoming generation of artists, I encourage those artists to search for their own expression and themes and explore as much as they can new mediums and issues which are important in their lives and try to find a way to express them.

PineRidge Arts Council welcomes Ernestine Tahedl as our 2011 JAS Juror

Ernestine Tahedl was born in Austria and received a Master's Degree in graphic art from the Vienna Academy of Applied Arts. She immigrated to Edmonton Alberta in 1963. Participating in group and traveling shows, she also won acclaim with solo exhibitions in Austria, France, Japan, the USA and this country. Her awards include the Graduation Prize of the Austrian Government 1961 and the Allied Arts Medal of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada 1966. In 1967 she received a Canada Council Arts Award. She was elected a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1977 and of the Ontario Society of Artists 1984. She received the Governor General's Canada 125th Anniversary Medal in 1993, the recipient of the 2000 Arts and Letters Award from the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto, and the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal in 2002. A retrospective of her work covering 60 years was organized by the Varley Art Gallery in Markham in 2006 and toured to several other galleries in Ontario. She is preparing for an exhibition of her work in Vienna for 2012. Her works are shown nationally and internationally and represented in public and private collections in Canada and abroad. Her studio is in King City, Ontario. http://pages.interlog.com/~etahedl/.

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