Christina Mossaides Strassfield is the Museum Director/Chief Curator of Guild Hall Museum in East Hampton, New York.. During her tenure she has transformed what was once a small sleepy museum into a vital Mecca for the visual arts which has been recognized by reviews in The New York Times, Art in America, Art News, New York Magazine, The New York Sun, Newsday and many other publications. The mission statement of the museum is to showcase the artists who have an affiliation with Eastern Suffolk County. Close proximity to NYC has made the Hampton's the summer home for most of the New York Art world. This has allowed Strassfield to forge close relationships with the artist's, dealers and collectors who shape the New York Art World. Christina has curated exhibitions of numerous internationally recognized artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Chuck Close, Eric Fischl, David Salle, Ross Bleckner, April Gornik, John Chamberlain, Larry River, Hans Namuth etc. and most recently Cindy Sherman, Dan Flavin and Billy Sullivan. Each of the artists has formed a bond with the institution in part because of the wonderful experience of working with such a seasoned and generous professional. This holds equally true of her commitment to champion the works of lesser known artists. She has been instrumental in coordinating biannual group invitational's which have led to the discovery of exciting new artists and received acclaim from art critics as well as the general public.
Tulla Booth Tulla Booth is an award winning photographer known both national and internationally. Her work has been exhibited in museums and appears in many well known private collections. Ms Booth's flower photographic studies both celebrate and acknowledge the existence of the beauty of nature. The larger than life presentation is very exciting and allows the viewer to see the most minute details often missed by the human eye. "The brilliant intensity of Ms. Booth's flower studies is said to be a byproduct of her jewelry work as a jewelry designer, and one can certainly see the jewel-like luminosity in the glowing petal of tulips, sunflowers, poppies, roses and other blossoms. In her landscapes views Ms Booth subdues the color and heightens the atmosphere". -Helen Harrison, New York Times, March 5, 1995. Through out her many years as a designer and photographer her reputation as a fine art colorist is renowned. Her newest body of work "Jewels of the Garden" combines both passions the garden and jewels. The Tulla Booth Gallery has been in business going on 7 years. We represent twenty-two fine art photographers both established and emerging. Offering our clients beautiful, timeless and authentic art images that will enhance their lifestyle and surroundings. We visit their homes/businesses to help guide their selections. In essence we help curate their personal Collections. The Gallery is constantly complimented on the great taste level of the work collected and curated by Ms Booth. The Tulla Booth Gallery is located at 66 Main Street, PO Box 547 Sag Harbor, NY 11963. 631-725-3100 /www.tullaboothgallery.com / Artnet.com
Kimberly Goff is an art dealer/curator who went to work for the Elaine Benson Gallery and Sculpture Garden in 1993 and became a partner in the gallery in 1996. The Benson Gallery was started by Emaunuel and Elaine Benson in 1965 and was based in Bridgehampton, Long Island until 2006. Elaine Benson was Kimberly’s mother. Emanuel Benson died in 1971 at which point the gallery became the Elaine Benson Gallery. Ms. Goff succeeded her mother upon her death in 1998 and has now joined Julie Keyes as a partner in “Benson-Keyes Arts” and will be curating under that name.As a community minded activist, Kimberly is involved with local charities and fundraising. She sits on the board of SoFo (South Fork Natural History Museum) and Robert Wilson’s, Watermill Center Community Board. She is a freelance photographer for Dan’s Papers.Ms. Goff is also a painter and is represented by Peter Marcelle. She started painting ‘wearable art” when she owned a boutique in Bridgehampton 1974-1986. She has shown locally in many galleries and contributed to charity auctions including the Plate Auction for the Retreat, the Bird House Auction for the Breast Cancer Coalition, the Cigar Box Auction for East End Hospice, and sneaker auction for Ellen’s Run. She has worked in many forms including ceramics, mixed media, collage, and has taught art workshops for children.Hobbies include fishing, kayaking, gardening, cooking, writing, and foreign travel. Ms. Goff is an ecologist. She is bilingual in Spanish and English. She shares her time between the Baja Peninsula in Mexico and the Eastern end of Long Island. She and her husband also enjoy exploring new territory. She is married to the writer, Owain Hughes.
Gail Altomare currently showing 4 paintings at Chrysalis Gallery in Southampton and recently exhibited12 ceramic sculptures at Bravura Gallery in Southampton. She has also shown at Arlene Burgese Gallery at the Benton Plaza and two of her paintings were chosen at the Parrish Juried show . Ms Altomare has taught Art at Southampton High School for the past 23 years. She paints under the name Gail Miro.
Margery Gosnell-Qua is a painter and ceramicist who lives on the east end of Long Island. She received an MFA in Painting and an MS in Art History from Pratt Institute in 1996, where she traveled abroad to study Painting in Tuscany and Art History in Venice, Italy. Ms. Gosnell-Qua worked as an assistant to painter Mary Buckley (Professor Emeritus, Pratt’s 1992 Institute Distinguished Professor), where she documented Buckley’s colorist sensibility and artistic discovery.
Ms. Gosnell-Qua’s paintings and prints are in private collections in the US and in Europe. Her awards include the “Art League of Long Island Award,” 2001, given at the Annual L.I. Artist’s Exhibit at the Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY. Ms. Gosnell-Qua is an Assistant Professor of art and art history at Suffolk County Community College (SCCC) and Director of The Lyceum Gallery located at the SCCC Eastern Campus in Riverhead.
Doug Kuntz
Juror for “3”
CLIENTS- CBS-60 Minutes, CBS News, ABC News, Fox News Network, NBC Dateline, Smithsonian, Newsweek, Time, Rolling Stone, American Photo, Civilization, French Vogue, People, the Washington Post, the New York Times, Newsday, the New York Post, the New York Observer, the London Times, the Village Voice, Random House, the Wall Street Journal, Collins Harvill, National Fisherman, Aspen, Playboy, Graphis, Self, American Express Publishing Corporation, Womens’ Wear Daily, Offshore, Vanity Fair, Proceedings.
AWARDS- New York State Press Association Award-Best Feature Photograph, 1983, 1984, 1995, 1998. Photographic Excellence, 1998. Best Use of Photography in Advertising, 1984, 1995, 1998. Long Island Press Association-Best Feature Photograph, 1998. Long Island Press Association-Best News Photograph, 1998, 1999, 2000.
EXHIBITIONS- International Center of Photography, New York, Kennedy Center; Harvard University, Boston; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem; East End Arts and Humanities Council, Riverhead, New York; Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York; Empire State Plaza, Albany; East Hampton Town Marine Museum, East Hampton; Gallery East, Amagansett, New York; Gallery North, East Setauket, New York; Sag Harbor Picture Gallery. Photographs from the book, Men’s Lives, traveled extensively throughout the United States and Europe. The complete archive from this project will be available for view at both The Library of Congress and The East Hampton Free Library.
SPECIAL PROJECTS- Men’s Lives was published in 1986. This was a photography book project about commercial fishermen of Eastern Long Island. It began in 1981,
at a time when I was still working as a commercial fisherman. The book was very favorably reviewed on a national level, and was on the Long Island newspaper, Newsday’s Best Seller List for seven weeks. During the course of this project, aside from being a photographer, I coordinated the work of eight photographers, and worked with Peter Matthiessen, who wrote the text. In the winter of 1995, I helped prepare the archive for the Library of Congress, which included a searchable database of over 3000 contact sheets.
EDUCATION- Rhode Island School of Design, Photography Dept., 1982
Best in Show:Meryl Spiegel, 'Fountain Play'
It perfectly fits the theme three.. It feels completely unstaged. It's a decisive moment beautifully captured.
3rd place:Bruce Gualtiere's CI-4.
Doug: It's a mysterious image wherin the 3 major elements of Body, deck and water impact simultaneously in an intriguing way.
Second place:There's a complex collection of 3's, the second set is made by the light coming through the windows creating 'crowns' on the ground.
Juror Doug Kuntz was taken by the impeccable composition and unanswered questions the piece served up.
Michael Viera
Juror for The Contemporary Landscape
Mr. Viera earned an MFA, cum laude, in painting from the New York Academy of Art in New York City, and a BFA in painting from Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts in Connecticut, where he was a visiting instructor of drawing and painting in 2001-2. In 2003, Mr. Viera joined the drawing and painting faculty at Amagansett Applied Arts in Amagansett, NY. In 2007 he launched the East Hampton Academy of Art with sculptor Kimberly Monson. Michael is represented by Peter Marcelle. "I would say art work that has inspired my landscapes would range from paintings by George Inness and John Henry Twachtman to Josef Albers and David Hockney."
Peter Marcelle
Juror for The Creative Process
Peter Marcelle has been in the business of art since he was 16 years old. While still in his teens he became acquainted with Andrew Wyeth and later brokered the “Helga” paintings. Today, Mr. Marcelle owns and runs Peter Marcelle Contemporary Galleries in Southampton and on 72nd Street in New York. His personal tastes in art are quite eclectic, ranging from Andrew and Jamie Wyeth to Ellsworth Kelly. He is also a big admirer and owner of Jean Michelle Basquiat and Bo Bartlett’s work. His main concern is that art be original. Peter has a website you can visit at: www.petermarcellecontemporary.com
Robert Armetta
Juror for The Face
Robert Armetta has studied extensively throughout the United States and Europe, at schools including Columbus College of Art and Design, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Atelier Lack, the Florence Academy of Art, the New York Academy of Art, and the Water Street Atelier.
He has exhibited at the Allen Sheppard Gallery, Grenning Gallery, Arcadia Gallery, John Pence Gallery, Nabi Gallery, and Seraphin Gallery, National Academy of Design, in New York City, and the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, in Indiana.
He has taught drawing and painting at Long Island University, Southampton, and currently teaches drawing and painting at the New York Academy of Art and the Long Island Academy of Fine Art, in Riverhead, New York, which he founded in 2000. His own studio is in Brooklyn, where he lives with his wife and daughter.
The works of art that he admires are numerous, and span the last several hundred years, from the Renaissance portraits of Raphael to the twentieth-century portraits of Pietro Annigoni. Armetta believes that sound draftsmanship, form, and color are among the key elements of successful painting.
Ruth Stevens Appelhof, Ph. D.
Juror of The Face
With over two decades of museum and art world experience, Ruth Appelhof, Ph.D. is one of the leading museum and public-programming advocates in the United States. Since her introduction to museums as a Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1980, she has served as a chief curator, executive director, and program consultant for public institutions and private collectors across America. Since 1999, Dr. Appelhof has been the executive director of Guild Hall in East Hampton, a nationally respected museum, theater and educational facility. This diverse arts institution is located on the East End of Long Island, in a region well known as an artists’ colony (since Winslow Homer visited in the 1800’s) and as a playground for some of the great talents of our time.
Dr. Appelhof was the chief curator of the Lowe Art Gallery at Syracuse University; she held the same position at the Birmingham Museum, where she was instrumental in developing an important contemporary art collection as well as one of the most comprehensive holdings in photography in the south. Art museums in Roanoke, Virginia and St. Paul, Minnesota experienced ‘turn-arounds’ as a result of Dr. Appelhof's artistic vision, strong fundraising ability, and professional management practices. In addition, significant donations and targeted purchases from leading auction houses and galleries made possible major additions to the permanent collections of these various institutions.
Museums have all benefited from Dr. Appelhof's talents as a curator, advisor and lecturer. Writing scholarly essays and selecting works for exhibitions has been a life-long pursuit; as one of the most outstanding curators in this country, Dr. Appelhof has launched a number of new ideas into the art world. Among them is the identification of the influence of Kandinsky and the Fauves on the work of the artists in the Stieglitz Circle, such as Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, and Georgia O'Keeffe.
As a professor at the State University of New York at Auburn and then at Syracuse University, Dr. Appelhof taught art history, museum management, curatorial methodology and collections development for public institutions on both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
In the areas of twentieth century American and European art, Dr. Appelhof has published over thirty essays, as well as her dissertation on the American Modernist movement. Her curatorial insights into the art of the New South shaped the 1999 Millennium Exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts titled Voices Rising. She is featured in Who's Who In American Art and Who's Who In America.
At Guild Hall, Dr. Appelhof is leading a 77 year-old institution with a growing reputation as a launch pad for contemporary artistic endeavors. Engaging a large number of the artists and actors in the area, Guild Hall provides both a historical reference to the art of the past and an experimental approach to visual and performing arts.
Karel De Leeuw
Juror for Food
Born and educated in the Netherlands, Mr. De Leeuw has been a collector of paintings for over three decades. He lives in Southwest France during the winter, where he studies painting. Always interested in art history, he has conducted tours of the Netherlands, Belgium and France that focused predominantly on classic artists and their work. He opened Flowers at the Greenery, a flower shop/art gallery, twenty years ago in Westhampton Beach. He takes great pride in providing talented painters from the Netherlands, France and the United States an opportunity to exhibit their work during the summer season.
Elisca Jeansonne
Juror for Food
East Hampton artist Elisca Jeansonne was educated at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she studied alongside innovators James Hamilton and Scott DuPont. Following her graduation, she spent many years as an artist, while working at different galleries and picture-framing establishments both in New York and California. In 2001, she opened Gallery Merz (the name of which was inspired by the work of German artist Kurt Schwitters), which has been celebrated in the local press on a number of occasions, and has continued to promote her interest in the fine arts.
