Last updated: November 20th, 2011 @ 20:11:10

Selma artists Vicky Stoudenmire and Kristopher Johnson took top honors in the 9^th annual ArtsRevive Juried Art Exhibition held March 18-20.  Their oil painting, “Pancakes,” won Best of Show.

The painting depicts a life-draining, in-the-kitchen collapse of a 1950’s woman who was trying to be the perfect housewife. The artists placed a reprint of the 1955 “Good Wife Guide,” at the base of  the painting. It is said to have been published in a 1955 magazine.

“The Dance,” a drawing of a horse and rider by Selmian Cindy Stoudenmire, received the People’s Choice Award.  Show patrons voted on their favorite art work from Friday’s opening reception through the end of the show on Sunday.

The show, which features Alabama artists, was the first event held in the revitalized Carneal Building. The former automotive service shop that was built next to the Alabama River in the 1920s, closed in 2008 and was purchased by ArtsRevive to become the organization’s headquarters. It will be used as an art gallery, workshop and meeting/reception space.

Click on each image below to view the full-sized photograph of the 2011 Art Show winners.

2nd Place, Photography - "Through the Oaks" by Jennifer Levins	3rd Place - Drawing, "Canyon" by Roger Jones	2nd Place - Oils, "Head Over Heels" by Vicky Stoudenmire	Best of Show - "Pancakes" an oil painting by Vicky Stoudenmire and Kristopher Johnson
3D - First Place, "Old Servants" by Charlie Lucas	Oil - First Place, "Deer Skull Red Bud" by Michael Sims	Photography - First Place, "Ticket Booth" by Jerry Siegel	Watercolor - First Place, "Bronze Flagpole Base" by Michael Sims
3D - Second Place, "Bird in the Stump" by Trey Culpepper	Watercolor - Second Place "A Bronze Ram's Head" by Michael Sims	3D - Third Place "Bed Bugs" by Beryl Chesnutt	Mixed Media - Third Place, "Joy Ride" by Charlie Lucas
Watercolor - Third Place "Evening Shade" by Jack Reed	Drawing - First Place, "Head of a Youth" by Michael Sims	Drawing, Second Place, "Mouflon Skull" by Michael Sims	Mixed Media - Second Place "Friends and Lovers" by Peggy Allison
Photography, third place - "Urban Hive" by Kristopher Johnson	People's Choice - "The Dance" by Cindy Stoudenmire	Mixed Media, First Place, "4 Way" by Charlie Lucas	Oil - Third Place, "Lucy" by Joel Kelly