Current Exhibition

Our eight Art competition “Colors” started in May 2025 and concluded on June 19, 2025. Art Room Gallery received entries from many countries around the world: Hungary, China, USA, Canada, South Korea, Germany, New Zealand, Taiwan, Ireland, Cyprus and Netherlands. The Colors theme in this competition included a diversity in types, styles and mediums (oil, acrylic, photography, digital art, colored pencil, watercolor, stone sculpture). The following evaluation criteria has been used for judging the artwork: creativity, interpretation of the theme, originality and quality of art, overall design, demonstration of artistic ability, and usage of medium. Jury decided to select 60 artworks for inclusion in the exhibition. Aside from First, Second, and Third place Jury also presented Merit awards and Honorable Mention awards.

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Statement:

Cher Pruys, ASAA SCA, IGOR, AAPL, CSAA, AMS, LMS, OSA, MAA, CFA, NOAPS, PSOA, AWA., AAOA. "To take my inner visions with my hands and create a work of art for you the viewer .... That is the ultimate in self expression." Cher Pruys was born in Regina. Over the years she lived in many places including Saskatoon, Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa, Fort Frances, settling into her present home in Devlin, on the banks of the Rainy River with her husband Mark, and pets. By age three, Cher was seldom found without a drawing tool in hand. She worked in pencil, charcoal and ink over the years, picking up a paintbrush at the age of 35. Beginning with oil paints, she found her chosen mediums in acrylic, watercolor and gouache, and her passion for hyperrealism. Although self-taught, her dedication and talent has seen her work juried into 800 International exhibits. She has won 1221 awards for her work in the International Juried Exhibits. Her work has graced the covers of 3 books, 43 magazines, including The Best Of Acrylic Fall 2021, cover of the May 2022 Arabella Magazine, #20 Hyperrealism Magazine with “Girls Girls Girls”, & #21 with “The Young Cowboy”, Artists & Illustrators March 2024 Artistonish 2024 July edition, Observica Elite 2024,Art Closeup Magazine#26 Jan. 2025, & The back cover of Novum Artis #007, 2025. She has been featured in over 630 International publications. Cher's works have found a permanent home in private and public collections worldwide.

Statement:

Born in Heidelberg in 1953, I used every free minute during my studies of social work at the Mannheim University to study art, and then concentrated entirely on the fine arts after completing my degree. I have been living and working as a freelance visual artist (self-taught) in Heidelberg since 1981. After years of studying colour and its effects, I have now been able to develop an approach that shows colour in an unusual role. Through the combination, the synthesis of my experience as a painter and my knowledge as a photographic artist, I create pictures that assign colour a special expressive value. This means that colour is not only chromatically effective, but also through its physical, essential appearance. It has an all-encompassing material, tangible effect, almost as if it were following an organic choreography. I see further research into this potential as an important, enriching task for the future, because colour is light, colour is life and its diversity can hardly be surpassed.

Statement:

Eric M Renard (www.ericrenardphotography.com) is one of California’s leading contemporary Fine Art Photographers. His work has found its way into art galleries in London, Budapest, Greece,Mexico, Brazil and across the Unites States. Eric’s photography has received numerous awards and been published in books and photography magazines, including the cover of Black & White magazine. He is on the board of directors for several fine art non-profits in the Los Angeles area, helping to organize and promote local artists. Eric Renard’s recent exhibitions “Slice of Light”, “Nobody Walk in L.A.”, “Soul of a City” and “Urbanity in Black and White” focus on high contrast, urban cityscapes, reflecting an eerie sense of peace and tranquility. The cityscape is the hero of these photographs, with the people in them subject to the power of their surroundings. Wrapped in our daily cocoon of routine, we obliviously move past cityscapes painted by light and shadows. At a recent awards ceremony, renowned L.A. art critic, Edward Goldman stated “I wouldnt be surprised if the Getty Museum would like to have this work in their collection”.