2006 Show Results
October 3- 30, 2006
Collierville Town Hall
500 Poplar View Pkwy
Collierville, TN 38017
JUDGE
Paul Edelstein
Best of Show:
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Title: California Dreamin'
Artist: Pam McDaniel
First Place:
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Title: First Catch
Artist: Shelley Hopkins
Second Place:
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Title: Olive Branch Tractor Show II
Artist: Barrie Foster
Third Place:
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Title: There is a Time, There is a Season
Artist: Mary Lawrence Allen
Honorable Mention:
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Title: Collierville Town Series #1
Artist: Wei Emmert
Honorable Mention:
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Title: The Final Turn
Artist: Paul Marsidi
Judge's Award for Creativity:
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Title: Trees #5
Artist: Phyllis Boger
Judge's Award for Creativity
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Title: Horsin' Around
Artist: Betsy Bird
Judge's Award for Use of Color
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Title: Exhausted
Artist: D.A.Y(Deb) Boardman
Judge's Award for Use of Texture
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Title: Deep Waters
Artist: Kathryn Abernathy
Judge for the 2006 Show
Paul Edelstein is one of the Mid-South's best-known artists. Born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1959, Edelstein was raised in Memphis, Tennessee, where he resides today. Edelstein began painting during his early teens. "I felt kind of lonely and depressed as a teenager," he says, "and used painting as therapy."
He later received his Bachelor of Arts in Painting and Russian from the
University of Memphis, Tennessee. Edelstein was a pupil of artists,
Dorothy Sturm (b. Memphis, 1910-1988) and Marjorie Liebman (b. Memphis,
1911), both were at one time with Betty Parsons Gallery in New York.
Betty Parsons was an important art gallery owner who helped start the
careers of some of the most important artists in 20th century American
art. These artists included Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Clyfford
Still, Ellsworth Kelly, and many others. Edelstein's "abstract
figurative style" paintings, which he calls his "day-long obsession"
feature vibrant colors depicting everyday life. Of his paintings Edelstein states "color is my passion"
Paul Edelstein's paintings are in numerous public and private collections including, The Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, Mississippi, The Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi, the West Tennessee Museum, Humboldt, Tennessee. One of Paul's paintings appeared in the 1993 movie "The Firm", and the artist and his painting appeared in the 2003 movie "21 Grams". He currently runs the Paul Edelstein Gallery and Studio in Memphis, Tennessee and gives private lessons in painting.
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