Ellarslie Open 35

New Jersey’s Premier Annual Juried Show
Over the years, the Ellarslie Open has become a significant exhibition, drawing on the work of professional artists from the tri-state region and beyond, while encouraging and recognizing emerging artists. Today, the Ellarslie Open serves as New Jersey’s premier annual juried exhibit, with acceptance into the show being highly coveted by area artists.  2017 broke all records for submissions and accepted pieces. From these, the juror created a show with a remarkably diverse aesthetic, including styles from abstract expressionism to Delaware Valley impressionist landscapes to painterly detailed still lifes to Cubism and more.

Heather Campbell Coyle, Juror
Chief Curator, Delaware Art Museum

Heather Campbell Coyle is Chief Curator and Curator of American Art at the Delaware Art Museum. She is the editor and lead author of several catalogues, including Howard Pyle: American Master Rediscovered, Fashion, Circus, Spectacle: Photographs by Scott Heiser, and John Sloan’s New York. A specialist in the art of the Ashcan School, she has also published and curated exhibitions on Leonard Baskin, Harold Edgerton, William Glackens, Gertrude Käsebier, Bruce Katsiff, and the Society of Independent Artists. Dr. Coyle lectures and researches primarily on photography, illustration, and American art from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her projects for 2018 include the exhibitions African American Art: Migration and Modernism, Danny Lyon: Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement, and Drawings of the Montgomery Bus Boycott: Harvey Dinnerstein and Burton Silverman.

 

Thank you to the 277 artists who submitted 516 works.  Congratulations to the artists with accepted work.  And many thanks to Heather Coyle for a fine job as juror.  Our patrons will be delighted by a show full of surprises.

Accepted Works

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