Recognition
Selected works from The Pastel Society of America’s 50th Annual Exhibition: Enduring Brilliance! exhibited at the Butler Institute of American Art.|
Pastel Journal’s 20th Annual Pastel 100 Competition
Bruce’s Bouquet, 10x8”, pastel on paper
Still Life+Floral Category 5th Place
EXHIBITIONS:
2023 Butler Institute of American Art, Pastel Society of America’s 50th Annual Exhibition, selected work, Youngstown, OH
2022 Pastels Showcase, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY
2022 Pastel Society of America’s 50th Annual Exhibition: Enduring Brilliance!, National Arts Club, New York, NY
2020 International Association of Pastel Societies (IAPS) 37th Juried Exhibition, online show
2020 Allied Artists of America’s 107th Annual Juried Exhibition, online show
2020 Pastel Society of America’s 48th Annual Exhibition: Enduring Brilliance!, online show
2020 Connecticut Pastel Society’s Purely Pastel Juried Online Member Show
2019 Central Mass Pastel Society’s 1st National Juried Show, Online Show
2019 Connecticut Pastel Society’s 26th Annual Juried Exhibition: Renaissance in Pastel!, Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT
2019 Pastel Society of America’s 47th Annual Exhibition: Enduring Brilliance!, National Arts Club, NYC
2019 International Association of Pastel Societies (IAPS) 35th Juried Exhibition - 2019 Webshow
2019 Allied Artists of America’s 105th Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, NYC
2019 Salmagundi 2019 Open Pastel Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY
2019 Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, 122nd Annual Open Juried Exhibition, National Arts Club, New York, NY
2019 Pastel Journal’s 20th Annual Pastel 100 Competition, featured in April 2019 edition of Pastel Journal
2018 International Association of Pastel Societies 33rd Juried Exhibition - 2018 Webshow
2018 Pastel Society of America’s 46th Annual Exhibition: Enduring Brilliance, National Arts Club, New York, NY
AWARDS and HONORS:
2022 Pastel Society of America, Master Pastelist designation
2022 Pastel Society of America’s 50th Annual Exhibition: Enduring Brilliance!, Terry Ludwig Pastel’s Award
2019 Pastel Society of America’s 47th Annual Exhibition: Enduring Brilliance!, Armadillo Art Award
2019 Allied Artists of America’s 105th Exhibition, The North America Pastel Artist’s Association Award for Pastel
2019 Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, CLWAC Medal of Honor for Pastel, 122nd Annual Open Juried Exhibition
2019 Pastel Journal’s Pastel 100 Competition, 5th Place Still Life+Floral Category
2018 Pastel Society of America’s 46th Annual Exhibition:Enduring Brilliance, Jack Richeson Bronze Award
PUBLICATIONS:
2020 Pastel Journal Magazine. June 2020 issue, feature article+ cover image
2019 Pastel Journal Magazine, April 2019 issue, Pastel 100 Competition winners
2019 How To Pastel, Featured Artist - In Their Own Words: “Steph Mouw - Flower Power”, howtopastel.com
2018 How To Pastel, Monthly pick: “Startling Pastels from March”, howtopastel.com
2017 How To Pastel, Monthly pick: “November’s Singular Pastels - Inspiration For Uninspired Days”, howtopastel.com
Stephanie Cohen Mouw, “Rowie’s Towel,” pastel on Canson Mi-Teintes, 8 x 12 in
Thoughts by Gail Sibley from how to pastel
November 2017
From metaphor we come to the solidity of a still life. It’s simple – two bowls and a spoon on a piece of striped cloth. And yet if any of you have painted white and stripes and tried to achieve the differing texture of ceramic and cloth, you know it’s not that simple to portray!
The inclusion of a spoon (beyond its use as a pictorial device) in an empty bowl suggests the end of eating, perhaps at a picnic. And yet the title – Rowie’s Towel – brings to mind a cat or a dog rather than a person. So already the painting intrigues us beyond the appreciation of the representation of the subject matter.
The painting is primarily made up of blues and whites with varying values and slight colour variations. Look closely and you’ll also discover hints of light green, pinks, and purples. These colours compensate for the overall coolness of the piece.
Pastel is applied with direct marks without a need to be perfect or stay within the lines. There’s a spontaneous feeling that suggests the feeling of a moment about to change – a bowl will be picked up, a foot or an animal’s nose will appear, the spoon will be grabbed.
There’s a pleasant tension created between the two bowls, different as they are, by the dividing fold in the cloth. This fold also acts as one of the lines in the ‘X’ shaped composition – the other line being created by the line up of bowls and the direction of the spoon. This pull between the two sides also acts as reinforcement of the notion of movement and things about to happen.
http://www.howtopastel.com/2017/12/novembers-singular-pastels-inspiration/