I am thrilled and honoured that my sculpture “The News” was selected for the 2014 Art Kudos International Exhibit, a one year online exhibit.

Celebrating their 10th anniversary, Art Kudos is an annual international juried competition that serves to recognize and honour excellence in the Visual Arts. Artists who are selected as finalists benefit from world-wide exposure in an online-only exhibition.

This year over 1,200 entries were received from 39 countries. From these entries 156 artists were selected as finalists for the 2014 Art Kudos International Juried Competition and Exhibit. The selections were made by awards judge, Graeme Reid. With twenty years of experience in arts management/curatorial work, Graeme Reid is currently Director of Collections & Exhibitions at the Museum of Wisconsin Art. Mr. Reid has curated over 120 exhibitions and has worked on the development and installation of institutional collections. The countries represented in the show include Australia, Austria, Canada, China, Croatia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, Norway, Pakistan, Phillipines, Puerto Rico, Samoa, Slovenia, South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, USA.

You can see the full exhibit at http://www.artkudos.com, but you can see the actual sculpture at the Orange Art Gallery, 291 City Centre Drive in Ottawa or on their website at http://www.orangeartgallery.ca

After a period of one year, the show will be archived for future viewing along with previous Art Kudos exhibitions at www.artkudos.com/archived_exhibitions.html.