ART EXPERIENCE '93 OPENS SUNDAY AT GALLERY 100

Art Experience '93, a national art competition exhibiting 52 works selected from 256 entries, will be on display beginning Sunday at Gallery 100.

An opening reception for the show will be held from 2-4 p.m. Sunday. The exhibit will continue through June 30.

The juror for the show is Dan Carver, executive director of the Yeiser Art Center in Paducah. He is a juror for art guilds and organizations all over the tri-state area.

Most of the people whose work was selected for the show are up-and-coming artists seeking recognition for their work. "They're looking for a representative...they're resume-building," said Laura Brothers, chairman of the show.

But a few are well known, among them former Ste. Genevieve artist Mark Elder, who now lives in Denver, John Latimore of Dexter and Irwin Greenburg, a New York artist who won first prize in Galley 100's recent "Minis" show.

The show is offering $800 in prize money, which is derived from the entry fees.

Entries, limited in size and to two-dimensional works, were received from 29 states and Canada in response to ads in the national magazines American Artist and The Artist. They include drawings, screenprints, engravings, lithographs, and paintings in coil, watercolor, egg tempra, acrylic and mixed media.

Brothers said these are works "just about anybody can relate to."

"...A lot of people have the idea that artists are radical. The things we get, they're not radical."

Not everyone will agree with the juror's prize selections, Brothers concedes. "A lot of time I don't agree with the jurors," she said. "That's half the fun for the people who come in."

The gallery is open weekdays from 1-4 p.m.