By Martina Frasca
On Thursday April 18, an Art reception was held in the Broadway Gallery showing works by PCCC Students. Mary Dajnak, Coordinator of Studio Arts, Cecily Mckeown, Coordinator of Graphic Design, and Susan Balik, manager of Cultural Affairs, were in charge of setting everything up while Laura Howson, an art professor, and Jennifer Vaqero served as judges. Out of 70 entries, 40 pieces of art work were chosen for the show. Andry Familia won honorable mention with their photograph piece “Neon Intimacy.” Daniel Facundo, Graphic Design major, who was present at the show won 3rd prize with his digital art piece” Dragon Ball Broly –Alternative Movie Poster.” His art work was inspired by a scene in the movie which he took and converted it into his own. Kelsy Cohen, Psychology major, was present at the show and won 2nd place with her Mixed media piece, “Color Spectrum.” She says she always had a passion for art and is passionate about multicultural and wanted to show that through her painting. Arlenis Perez won 1st prize with their pencil piece “Summer Shade” following after Rebecca Skubisz who won best of show with her color pencil on Gray paper “Self Portrait.”
Other works on display included:
Black Swan –photograph –Andry Familia
NJ’s Sunday –Photograph –Daniel Facundo
The French System –Digital Art –Daniel Facundo
Faces of Africa –Drawing –Maria Angelic Sanschez Capurro
Hope –Painting - Maria Angelic Sanschez Capurro
Dreaming –painting - Maria Angelic Sanschez Capurro
Three Ibises in the Sunset –Acrylin on canvas –Noelle Millner
Girl with a Bottle –Digital Photograph –Noelle Millner
Move on –Pencil, charcoal, pastel, ink –Jaylin Montalvo
Taraji –Photograph –Itati Minaya
Koi Dream –Acrylic –Yulisbeth Rojas
Curves and Shapes –Drawing –Karen Echevarria
Life in Mercury –Pencil and Markers –Ermis Liriano
Sunset in Florida –Photograph –Veronica Viera
Beauty –Photograph –Veronica Viera
Abstract shapes in color –Color pencil –Matthew Morris
Hair Tie –Marker –Jonathan Alarcon
Lion –Graphite –Ashley Flores
Untitled 1 –Acrylic –Ashley Flores
Studies in Black and White –Acrylic –Kristin Sedlacik
The writ –Illustration –Dylan Kraft
Old Woman –pencil –Carol Brown
Untitled –Acrylic –Sunhee Chung
Project #1 –Acrylic –Sunhee Chung
Sweet Love –Charcoal –Sunhee Chung
Blue –Photosensitive Liquid –Blades Correa
Lucidity –Acrylic –Blades Correa
Untitled –Paper cut out –Zachary Allen
I remember Everything –Acrylic on Canvas –Zachary Allen
Life Begins –color pencil –Gabriela Velasquez
Il mio mondo –mixed media –Ermis Liriano
Professor Dajnak was proud of all efforts of students who participated in the event.