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    • 2025 Exhibitions >
      • January 2025: 23rd Annual Art Matters Exhibition
      • February 2025: Jenny Braig
      • February 2025: Connie Norman
      • March 2025: 3rd Annual CCSD Student Show
      • April 2025: What's So Funny
      • May 2025: Wyoming Wilderness
    • 2025 Calls for Art >
      • General Exhibit Entry Form
    • Past Exhibitions >
      • 2024 Exhibitions >
        • January 2024: 22nd Annual Art Matters Exhibition
        • February 2024: Anything Goes
        • April 2024: On the Farm
        • May 2024: Built Environment and Awareness of our Impact
        • June 2024: SAQA "WILD!"
        • July 2024: Street Grunt Photography by J.P. Caffee
        • August 2024: Beauty in the Ordinary
        • August 2024: AVA's MINI 5x5 Art Matters Auction
        • September 2024: Ceramics Show
        • September 2024: Mark Wigner Showcase
        • September 2024: Party Line Project
        • November 2024: AVA Members Invitational
        • November 2024: Watercolor Group
      • 2023 Exhibitions >
        • January 2023: 21st Annual Art Matters Exhibit
        • February 2023: Anything Goes
        • March 2023: CCSD Student Show
        • April 2023: Patrick Love and Irene Daly
        • May 2023: Extreme
        • June 2023: John Dumbrill
        • July 2023: Drawing and Painting
        • August 2023: Harvest
        • August 2023: MINI 5x5 Auction
        • September 2023: John Werbelow
        • September 2023: Christopher Amend
        • October 2023: Lettering and Favorite
        • October 2023: Everybody's Photo Club
        • November 2023: Watercolor Group
        • November 2023: Functional Art
        • November 2023: Donated Art
      • 2022 Exhibitions >
        • January 2022: AVA's 20th Annual Art Matters Exhibition
        • February 2022: Wyoming Textile Artists
        • February 2022: Inkteraction: Prints from BHSU
        • March 2022: CCSD Student Show
        • April 2022: Trees
        • May 2022: Behind Our Masks: A Featured Exhibition by Daniel Florin Tomiaga Lerwick
        • May 2022: Donated Art Pop Up-Show >
          • Donated Art Bid Sheet
        • June 2022: Mixed Media
        • June 2022: Embracing Imperfections by Irene Daly
        • June 2022: Propulsion by Rachael Anderson
        • July 2022: Drawing & Painting
        • August 2022: Less is More
        • August 2022: MINI 5x5 Auction
        • September 2022: Florence Alfano McEwin and Bart Fetz
        • October 2022: Edie Reno & Anugraha Norstegaard
        • November 2022: Loved Ones
        • November 2022: Watercolor Group
      • 2021 Exhibitions >
        • January 2021: AVA's 19th Annual Art Matters Exhibition
        • February 2021: Still Life Exhibition
        • February 2021: From Pen to Pencil
        • March 2021: CCSD Elementary Student Show
        • April 2021: Photography Exhibition
        • May 2021: CCSD Senior Student Show
        • June 2021: Mixed Media
        • July 2021: Drawing & Painting Exhibit
        • July 2021: Three Loose Screws
        • August 2021: Chasing Light
        • October 2021: Symbiosis
        • November 2021: Cartoons
      • 2020 Exhibits >
        • April 2020: VAST: Spaces of the West
        • June 2020: Larger than Life
        • July 2020: Man's Best Friend
        • July 2020: Drawing & Painting
        • August 2020: Abstract Invitational
        • September 2020: Mark Wigner
        • September 2020: Watercolor Exhibition
        • October 2020: Haunted
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Best In Show

Mark Paxton is a contemporary artist who is interested in the methods and techniques of oil painting. He is continuing to discover the possibilities involved in working with the medium. His paintings are the products of that ongoing investigation. 

Born: 
Omaha, Nebraska, 1952

Education: 
M.F.A. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. 1984
B.A. Philosophy,  Bellevue University, Bellevue Nebraska.1980
B.F.A. Sculpture University of Nebraska, Omaha. 1979

Recent Exhibitions:
Current Exhibit: Solo Show: Tronies: Dahl Art Center. Rapid City, S.D.
Yellowstone Art Museum, Art Auction, Billings Montana, 2020-2021
Nicolaysen Art Auction 2020,  Best in Show.
Governor's Capitol Art Exhibit,  2020 Cheyenne WY.
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Mark Paxton
The Secret
Oil on Canvas
36" x 36"

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Blanche Guernsey
Wordplay
Oil
24" x 36"

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Raised in Gillette, Wyoming - Blanche Guernsey is a contemporary artist, wife, and mother of five. As an introvert, Guernsey considers her artwork to be a reflection of her experiences and surroundings. She depicts commonplace objects through the lens of a distant memory. Early pieces of work by Guernsey depict family and loved ones in pastel portraits. Now she uses oils to create bold colors, soft edges, and a dream-like presence to inspire a universal feeling of nostalgia.  
 
Guernsey is represented by the AVA Community Art Center in Gillette, WY. She is also the center’s former Gallery, Class, and Party Coordinator. Guernsey is the recipient of awards such as People’s Choice (2014, 2017) for the Local Color Invitational Gala and Volunteer of the Year for AVA Community Art Center (2008). She has been seen on the cover of Livability Magazine (2014) and in a feature for W of Wyoming Magazine (2015).  
 
Many public collections by Guernsey can be found in Gillette, where she lives and creates today. The self-taught artist’s work can also be found in varying galleries and displays across the country. She is represented by Scarlow’s Gallery in Casper, WY, and is a long-time member of SAGE in Sheridan, WY.  You can also find her pieces in the gift shop at the DAHL in Rapid City, SD.  

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"I hope that my images might connect us; in the personal beginnings of selected objects, there is something universal in the stories and memories they evoke. Using bold brushstrokes, I bring nostalgic objects to new life by pulling and drawing out unexpected colors that grab the attention of the viewer."

Third Place

Eileen Nistler was born in the beautiful Inyan Kara area of the Black Hills in Wyoming. The artist left for seventeen years to pursue an education and short career as an architect. Then the magic of Wyoming called her back. She now lives in the house that she drew her first paintings in as a child. She lives on and operates the family ranch that lies between Upton and Sundance, Wyoming. Much of her inspiration comes from living and loving on a working ranch in Wyoming.

Eileen's art has received awards from Artist’s Magazine, International Artist Magazine and Southwest Art Magazine, Colored Pencil Society of America, The Salmagundi Club, the Portrait Society of America, Jack Richeson & Co. and others.

She is a signature member of; the Colored Pencil Society of America (CPSA), the Colored Pencil Society of America Great Explorations (CPX), American Plains Artists (APA), American Women Artists (AWA) and a signature member master status of Paint America (PAA-M).

Do what is meaningful, not expedient. – Jordan Peterson


My colored pencil art is realistic. I strive to portray beautiful moments using dramatic lighting as did Caravaggio and Rubens. My education is in architecture and I strive for exquisite detail and quality craftsmanship.



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Eileen Nistler
Crimson to Violet
Colored Pencil
11" x 24"

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