2025 Summer Juried Exhibition
Stuart Shils, Juror
July 8 - 26, 2025
Opening Reception: Thursday July 10, 5-8 pm
Catalog will be available
Blue Mountain Gallery is pleased to present the work of 41 artists selected by Stuart Shils for this year's summer juried exhibition. The artists, drawn from just over three hundred applicants from across the country, work in a wide range of media, including oil, acrylic, pastel, gouache, and mixed media. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue and will remain on view through July 26, 2025.
EXHIBITING ARTISTS
James Baker, Bob Barnett, Tamie Beldue, Liza Brenner, David Brewster, Victoria Carter, Freddie Jen Cohen, Rick Cole, Francie Cook, Kathleen Craig, Jacqueline Donadeo, Nancy Granda, Sam Green, Jade Haas, Kathleen Hall, Afif Hanna, Olivia Hiester, Shelley Hull, Michelle Jerome, Sam Kelly, Jordan Kornreich, Tucker Love, Joseph Lozano, Darrin Maier, Emily Manning-Mingle, Marina Mozhayeva, Liam Murphy-Torres, Cory Pigeon, Sharony Ray, Pierce Scantlin, Breck Smith, Caroline Sulzer, Judy Terrivel, Basia Tov, Phyllis Trowbridge, Paula Wachsstock, Leah Limpert Walt, Sophie White, Lauren Yandell, Hong Yang, Liliana Zavaleta
ABOUT THE JUROR – STUART SHILS
Stuart Shils painted from direct observation, either outside or looking through windows for 30 years and is still engaged with the idea of or feeling for landscape, only now it’s not so much about looking out as with looking in.
He has had solo shows in New York, Philadelphia, Tel Aviv, Boston, Scottsdale, Richmond, LA, San Francisco, Stuttgart and Cork (Ireland). Shils is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Ballinglen Arts Foundation Fellowship for Residency in Ballycastle, Ireland, and an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Critical review and commentary of his work has appeared in newspapers, journals and magazines, including: The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New York Sun, Ha’aretz, The Jerusalem Post, The Brooklyn Rail, artcritical.com, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, The Boston Phoenix, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Irish Times, Art in America, The New Republic, The New Criterion, Art New England, The Hudson Review and The Philadelphia Daily News.
For more than a decade Shils was an annual visiting critic at the Vermont Studio Center (VSC) and for 15 years was a weekly critic at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) where he also taught painting classes. Years ago he worked with the master class at the Jerusalem Studio School (JSS) in Italy and Jerusalem. Between 1994 and 2006, Shils spent 13 long summers on the northwest coast of Ireland, an extended painting campaign described in the PBS film documentary, “Ballycastle,” which was presented internationally and won numerous awards, including First Place for Documentary Excellence, Society for Professional Journalists.
Shils studied at The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts with Arthur de Costa and Seymour Remenick and at the Philadelphia College of Art (UARTS) with Francis Tucker, Doris Staffel and Eugene Baguskas. He also attended Drew University and Temple University. More information at Stuartshils.com