Honors and Awards

Honors and Awards

International Recognition:

13th Annual Contemporary Art Juried Online International Art Exhibition.

Artist LOIS SCHLACHTER of SPRING MOUNT, PENNSYLVANIA has received FOUR Special Recognition Awards for her artwork in the "13th Annual Contemporary Art Juried Online International Art Exhibition" hosted by Upstream People Gallery. The exhibition will be featured online at www.upstreampeoplegallery.com during May, 2011 at www.upstreampeoplegallery.com and continue for 12 months, closing April 30, 2012. This international exhibition received approximately 200 entries from around the world and 50 artists were selected by the juror Laurence Bradshaw, Professor of Art at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, U. S. A.

Professor Bradshaw states this about this specially recognized work:

"LOIS SCHLACHTER of Spring Mount, Pennsylvania has a delightful summertime work entitled Seaside showing the surfers and boats on the abstracted water waves with the rather evenly spaced people on the beach in a lighter tonality with the geometric cityscape in the distance. And in a work called Summertime she creates the drama in rich color tonality with the curvilinear movement dominant. Also in The Gardener's she shows the outdoor activity with the nicely stylized tree forms. And in The Pickers she gives a strong and well formed abstraction of the activity of picking fruit from trees. What a great use of imagination and skill."'


Seaside	Summertime	The Gardener's	The Pickers

12th Annual Contemporary Art Juried Online International Art Exhibition

Artist LOIS SCHLACHTER of SPRING MOUNT, PENNSYLVANIA has received TWO Special Recognition Merit Awards for artwork in the "12th Annual Contemporary Art Juried Online International Art Exhibition" hosted by Upstream Gallery. The exhibition will be featured online at www.upstreampeoplegallery.com and continue for 12 months, closing April 30, 2011. This international exhibition received approximately 300 entries from around the world and 54 artists were selected by the juror Laurence Bradshaw, Professor of Art at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Professor Bradshaw states this about this specially recognized work:

LOIS gives the show a boost of delight in her colorful and bouncing portrayal of Family Ties. The dancing movement of curvilinear lines and shapes are quite delightful and upbeat. With the same style she presents dramatic effects in her work Farewell with more color tonality.


Family Ties	Farewell

12th Annual Painting, Drawing, Photography & Print Juried Online International Art Exhibition

Artist LOIS SCHLACHTER of SPRING MOUNT, PENNSYLVANIA has received THREE Special Recognition Merit Awards for artwork in the"12th Annual Painting, Drawing, Photography & Print Juried Online International Art Exhibition" hosted by Upstream People Gallery. The exhibition will be featured online at www.upstreampeoplegallery.com and continue for 12 months, closing October 31, 2011. This international exhibition received approximately 270 entries from around the world and 53 artists were selected by the juror Laurence Bradshaw, Professor of Art at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Professor Bradshaw states this about this specially recognized work:

"LOIS blends acrylic with exceptional skill showing fantasy at its best. "Amusement Park" is delightful in terms of the imagery and the great polychromatic palette. In "Mirror, Mirror" there seems to be a give and take reading as the viewer moves all around with the amazing color and line movements. And with a sense of depth and outstanding color, she creates "Oil Reserves".


Amusement Park	Mirror, Mirror	Oil Reserve

"8th Annual Color: Bold/Subtle Juried Online International Art Exhibition"

Artist LOIS SCHLACHTER of SPRING MOUNT, PENNSYLVANIA has received THREE Special Recognition Merit Awards for artwork in the "8th Annual Color: Bold/Subtle Juried Online International Art Exhibition" hosted by Upstream People Gallery. This international exhibition received approximately 250 entries from around the world and 50 artists were selected by the juror Laurence Bradshaw, Professor of Art at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, U. S. A. The exhibition will be featured online at www.upstreampeoplegallery.com and continue for 12 months, closing November 30, 2011.

Professor Bradshaw states this about this specially recognized work:

"LOIS is great with the curvilinear and polychromatic palette uses in her acrylic paintings. Balloon Fiesta is a nice abstraction of the idea. Clamming is another dynamic piece with the vibrancy and the movement all over. In Links there are areas of rest and then movement with the composition of curvilinear forms. The light and dark in the colors adds greatly."


Balloon Fiesta	Clamming	Links

Local Recognition:

Philadelphia Inquirer

August 20, 2010

Victoria Donohoe

Right for August, "In the Good Old Summertime" at West Chester's Art Trust Gallery features light and breezy works by seven Artists Equity painters. Inspired by warm summer light and cool summer nights, one of the standouts, Lois Schlachter's edgy yet somehow soothing semi-abstractions with figures. Schlachter's painting "Seaside" is featured for the advertisement for this show.


In the Good Old Summertime	Seaside

GoggleWorks' 'Artists Equity' Show

January 20, 2013

The Philadelphia Tri-State Artists Equity is a regional, nonprofit art advocacy instituted to promote professional standards and practices or the working artist.

The organization has been in operation since 1949 and, among other issues, has made significant advances in artists' health, fair guidelines for exhibitions and sponsorship for art education. An expansive exhibition of its members' work, simply titled "Artists Equity," is on display through March 3 at the GoggleWorks Center for the Arts.

At least 60 medium-to-small-sized artworks occupy the entire first floor, filling both sides of the Cohen Gallery.

The exhibit itself, however, is one more example of a group or members' show that is no different, no better, no worse than any other show, juried or not, that passes through the GoggleWorks doors. Many of the artworks, in my opinion, follow and repeat the same old safe methodologies and procedures to offer very little excitement or interest.

There are, however, good works in the show, and it is not surprising that these works are visionary, inventive and a tad subversive. I suppose it should be stated, too, that this is a members' show with nothing said of a selective process, so I will mention a few of the notable artworks. I was especially drawn to a tabletop ceramic titled "Terpsichore #6" by John Costanza.

The artist has joined brightly hued ceramic tiles of increasing and decreasing size to build a multifaceted polygon that sits sideways on a pedestal. A totally realized and colorful work, the piece is an unavoidable eyecatcher and one of the best in the show.

The same can be said of a wall sculpture by Cynthia Minsk titled "Breaking Point," in which a combined painting/object curves over the viewer like a great blue tidal wave. A larger oil painting by Elaine Bass, titled "46th and Broadway," is interesting for its lower center of visual gravity, as if Radio City Music Hall was being seen from a child's point of view. A late-in-the-day holiday narrative, it depicts a cluster of people crossing the street in front of the New York City landmark amid traffic. The forms are simplified and offer a stylized interpretation of metropolitan living. I did get a chuckle out of Joe Szimhart's "Yellow Riders," an expressionist oil painting of two egrets standing placidly on the back of a crocodile.

An exquisite acrylic painting by Lois Schlachter called "Marionette Theater" depicts a symmetric and visionary composition of diamond shapes mingled with images of marionettes performing on a mirrored stage.

A batik on wool, "Taking a Nap" by Laura Pritchard, shows a naked woman on her side in an Arcadian setting with stick figures playing in the background. The theme of Arcadia seems to be showing up more often, I've noticed. Naturally, the installation looks great, and the GoggleWorks staff made for an attractive and easily navigable setup. Overall, the Philadelphia Tri-State Artists Equity does wonderful things for both artists and the arts community and deserves support, but this show was spotty at best and not one of its better presentations.