Guild Hall - MEMBERS SHOW II (LAST NAMES A – L)

East Hampton, NY – From May 10 – June 7, Guild Hall presents Part II of the 70^th Annual Artist Members Exhibition. For 2008, the show has been organized into two parts due to the restoration of the John Drew Theater and less gallery space. However, it means more opportunity for artists since there will be two of every prize awarded. Bloomberg News art critic Linda Yablonksy will be the 2008 Members Show Awards Judge. The exhibition is organized by Michelle Vertucci, Curatorial Assistant/Registrar and installation by Guild Hall Curator Christina Mossaides Strassfield. Entrants may check Guild Hall’s website www.guildhall.org to download all forms and access all information about registration, or call 631 324-0806, or email museum@guildhall.org . Museum Hours: Thursday – Saturday 11:00 am – 5:00 pm and Sunday 12 noon - 5:00 pm.

Guild Hall’s 70th Artist Members Show is the oldest non-juried exhibition on Long Island. This important exhibition allows Guild Hall to directly connect with the artistic community that supports and inspires our arts institution all year long. The two Top Honors winners will each be awarded a solo exhibition at Guild Hall which will be scheduled according to the needs of the Museum. The Winners of the Catherine and Theo Hios Landscape Award will each receive a check for $250. Additionally, there are awards in the following categories: Best Representational Painting, Best Abstract Painting, Best Sculpture, Best Work on Paper, Best Mixed Media, Best Photograph and numerous Honorable Mention citations.

Linda Yablonsky is an art critic for Bloomberg News who also writes for The New York Times, Style Magazine, Art and Auction, ART News, Elle Décor. She also has a popular presence in the “Scene & Herd” column of Artforum.com. Yablonsky is the author of The Story of Junk: A Novel and she is at work on a second book. She lives in New York, where she teaches at School of Visual Arts.

MAY 10- JUNE 7

MEMBERS SHOW II (LAST NAMES A – L)

OPENING RECEPTION ON SATURDAY, MAY 10 4-6 PM

Award recipients will be announced during the opening reception.

Members Show Juror History

2007 Faye Hirsch, Senior Art Editor, Art In America

2006 Magdalena Dabrowski, Special Consultant, Nineteenth-Century,

Modern and Contemporary Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2005 Holly Block, Director of Art in General

2004 Tracy Bashkoff, Associate Curator for Collections, Guggenheim Museum

2003 Carolyn Lanchner, Former Curator, Museum of Modern Art

2002 Amei Wallach, Free-lance Art Critic

2001 Raphael Rubinstein, Senior Editor, Art in America

2000 Lisa Phillips, Director, The New Museum of Contemporary Art

1999 Gail Levin, Professor of Art History, Bernard Baruch College and the Graduate Center, CUNY

1998 Patrick Murphy, Director of The Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania

1997 Arthur C. Danto, Art Critic, The Nation, and Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Columbia University

1996 Dan Cameron, Senior Curator, The New Museum of Contemporary Art

1995 Brooke Kamin Rapaport, Associate Curator, Brooklyn Museum of Art

1994 Thomas McEvilley, Art Critic, Contributing Editor Artforum

1993 Dianne Waldman, Deputy Director and Senior Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

1992 Barbara Haskell, Curator, Whitney Museum of Art

1991 Gary Sangster, Curator, The New Museum

1990 John Perreault, Art Critic

1989 Vivien Raynor, Art Critic, The New York Times

1988 Amei Wallach, Chief Arts Critic, Newsday

Public Programs in The Boots Lamb Education Center

Meet the Gallery Directors

Saturday, May 17th at 3:00pm

An opportunity to ask the Local Gallery Directors the questions that are on your mind.

Meet the Winners of the 70th Annual Artist Members Show, A - L

Saturday, May 31^st at 3:00pm

Curator Christina Mossaides Strassfield interviews winning entrants while touring the show.

Above programs are Free with admission to the museum.

GUILD HALL’S 70TH ANNUAL ARTIST MEMBERS EXHIBITION, PART II (LAST NAMES A – L) MAY 10- JUNE 7

OPENING RECEPTION ON SATURDAY, MAY 10 4-6 PM

Museum Hours: Thursday – Saturday 11:00 am – 5:00 pm and Sunday 12 noon - 5:00 pm

All Guild Hall Museum programming is made possible in part through the generosity of Dorothy Lichtenstein, Lucio and Joan Noto, and Ruth Muelle, and with public funds from the NY State Council on the Arts, a state agency; Suffolk County Department of Economic Development, and the Town of East Hampton.

Guild Hall is accredited by the American Association of Museums.