Carol Staub ( www.carolstaub.com) began making her purely nonobjective art a decade ago, following a 26-year career in the airline industry. While illustrating proper adhesion techniques at a collage workshop, Staub began Checkmate as a challenge to create a strictly black-and-white painting. The project would prove to be quite a trial.
After prepainting the canvas black and painting the collage pieces on watercolor paper, Staub tried to use white paint directly on the canvas in the negative space left by the papers. She soon realized that matching the white paint with the white watercolor papers was impossible. The artist prefers to think of the error as “a step on the ladder of learning.” Forced to change tactics, she took on the much more challenging task of tucking white watercolor paper in and out of her composition, as opposed to simply painting certain areas.
Finalists Denise Athanas Mt. Pleasant SC Anne Bagby Estill Springs TN Leslie Banta Staunton VA Mel Brunau Berea OH Chica Brunsvold Falls Church VA Maryna Butenko Woodland Hills CA George M. Clark Washington Boro PA Sally Cooper Parkland FL Iosif Derecichei Windsor ON Pat Dews Hobe Sound FL Christian J. Faur Granville OH Kevin Feary Batavia NY Jennifer Gardner North Venice FL
Susan Grace Lawrence KS Deb Grisé Penetanguishene ON Paul Jackson Columbia MO Robert Johnston Toronto ON Jutta Kaiser Vancouver BC J. Lynn Kelly Hurst TX Dusanka Kralj Crescent City CA Lorraine Lawson Campbell CA Richard Lopez Long Beach CA Sandra Phipps MacDiarmid San Jose CA Robert Mazur Bowling Green OH Bill McEnroe Tumwater WA Jackie Myers San Diego CA
Roye Jan Myers
Fairview TX
Chauncey S. Nelson
Orlando FL
Mary Pichette
Carson CA
Stephen JW Reid
Powell OH
Ester Roi
San Juan Capistrano CA
Fred Samuelson
Rockledge FL
Karen Scharer
Lyons CO
Marc Schimsky
Commack NY
Marie Shell
Jacksonville FL
Shin-Young An
West New York NJ
Carol Staub
Port St Lucie FL
Jen Trute
Carlsbad CA
Rosa Ines Vera
Bethesda MD
Donna Watson
Camano Island WA
Zoran Zelic
New York NY
Dolores Ziegler
Whiting NJ
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