First Street Gallery is  pleased to announce and congratulate the 2010 National Juried Competition finalists chosen by Juror Lance Eslund. The chosen works will be on exhibition at First Street Gallery from June 23, 2010 through July 17, 2010. The opening reception for the show is Saturday, June 26th from 3 - 5 PM.

This year's winning artists come from almost every region of the United States. The finalists, listed in alphabetical order, are: Amy Boras, Brooklyn, NY; Stephen Burt, Portland, ME; John Donovan, Nashville, TN; Sjoerd Doting, New York, NY; Brett Eberhardt, Macomb, IL; Nicholas Evans-Cato, New York, NY; Mary Hallab, Warrensburg, MO; Margaret E. Lethen, Wilmington, DE; Jeremy Long, Ithaca, NY; Kurt Markgraf, Dumont, NJ; Diane McLeod, Seal Beach, CA; Kathy A. Moore, Casstown, OH; Greg Pfarr, Corvallis, OR; James Patrick Reid, Madison, NJ; Meryl Ruth, Portland, ME; Barbara Segal, New York, NY; Diane Batson Smith, New York, NY; Sarah Stone, Madison, WI; David Ter-Avanesyan, Astoria, NY; Anne Wedler, Jacksonville, AL; Monica Welborn, Jersey City, NJ;  Deborah Wyatt, Charlottsville, VA; Sharon D. Yates, Lubec, ME.

About the juror:

Lance Esplund is an art critic for the Wall Street Journal, senior art critic for the New York publication City Arts, and the former chief art critic of the New York Sun. His essays have appeared in numerous journals including Art in America, The New Criterion, The Yale Review, The New Republic, Harper’s, and Modern Painters, where he served on the editorial board.