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2009-10-28T23:01:50.000Z
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The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2009: Awards Ceremony
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Footage from the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2009, awards ceremony, October 22, 2009. The works in the Portrait Competition will be on display at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, until August 22, 2010. To view images of the works, see http://http://www.portraitcompetition.si.edu Dave Woody of Fort Collins, Colorado, has received first prize in the National Portrait Gallerys 2009 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. His photograph, titled Laura (shown on right), was chosen as the winner from a field of more than three thousand entries in every visual arts medium. First prize was a cash award of $25,000 and a commission from the museum to portray a remarkable living American for the NPG permanent collection. Woodys portrait, as well as works from forty-eight other artists, are on display at the National Portrait Gallery, in the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition exhibition on the second floor. Of his work, Woody comments, I am never really attracted to photographing subjects who are totally self-aware or self-confident, as Im more interested in those people who move through this world with a quiet grace. Spending time with friends allows me to see them in a certain light where their mask drops and something soft and inviting is seen, and Ill think of making a photograph of them. Stanley Rayfield of Richmond, Virginia, received second prize for a painting titled Dad, while third place went to Adam Vinson of Jenkintown, Pennsylvania for his oil-on-panel painting titled Dressy Bessy Takes a Nap. Commended artists are Margaret Bowland, for a her painting Portrait of Kenyetta and Brianna; Yolanda del Amo, for her C-print photograph Sarah, David; Gaela Erwin, for her pastel on paper Baptismal Self-Portrait; and Emil Robinson for an oil-on-panel portrait titled Showered. Each was awarded a cash prize. Finalists for the 2009 competition were chosen in early May, and the winners were announced at the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition Awards Celebration on Thursday, October 22. In addition, one exhibiting artist will win the Peoples Choice Award, in which visitors to the exhibition, both online and in the gallery, may cast a vote for their favorite of the forty-nine finalists. Voting for the Peoples Choice Award will close on January 18, 2010. The competition is named for Virginia Outwin Boochever, a former NPG docent and an ardent supporter of the Portrait Gallery. The exhibitions catalog describes Mrs. Boochevers endowment for the portrait competition as a way to benefit artists directly as a unique opportunity to fill a void in the American art world.
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