Art Center Sarasota Announces Juried Exhibit Winners

announced the top five winners in its juried exhibit, "Material World."

The art is on display through Dec. 31 at the Main Street lobby. There is no admission fee to see the display.

• Jo Proietti of Bradenton won first place for A Kiss For the Satyr Boy. Prioietti is a native Chicagoan and attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago at 13 years old. He traveled to Europe and England to study art and has exhibited at the Royal Academy of Art in London, St. Augustine's Gallery in Middlesex, The Royal Academy of Art in Glasgow and the Academy der Kunst in Berlin.

• Janice Ketley of Sarasota won second place for Play With Me. Ketley was a high school teacher and respiratory therapist before taking up ceramics in 2000 when she lived in California. Ketley and her husband moved to Sarasota in 2010 and has a low-fire studio in her home to continue her work on ceramics.

• Gary Gorman of Sarasota took third place for Gesture Drawing, 10 Seconds. Gorman, a  graduate, developed his drawing skills at the college, where his passion for "working-the-line" took over. Gorman appreciates the instant images of the gesture drawing that captures the moment in less than 30 seconds. Gorman was born in Chicago and attended 
the Art Institute of Chicago, but also went on to study drama at Yale University. When he moved to New York City, Gorman designed a portable theater, and his designs were accepted into a touring show of portable architecture recognized by the Museum of Modern Art and published in Architectural Digest.

• Marianthe Pastore received a merit award for Pushing Up Daisies. Pastore's paintings explore a psychological landscape that contains personal and physical experiences, according to Art Center Sarasota. Her process involves collecting source materials and piecing elements together to create a study, the release states. This study acts as a rough outline for her painting, which is rendered through thin layers of acrylic paint on canvas. Pastore has shown her work at many galleries and art centers in Florida.

• Pat Kaufman of Sarasota also received a merit award for Burka #2. Her work has been shown at the Biennale Internazionale, and galleries from Martha's Vineyard to Osaka, Japan, and in Florida. She is a portrait painter and finds that decoding the outside reveals inner life.