Lore Degenstein Gallery's 17th Annual Figurative Art Exhibition

Exhibition dates Saturday October 31–Sunday, December 13, 2026

This is a juried visual art competition and exhibition that is open to two-dimensional figurative artists (referencing the human figure), who are over the age of 18, working in painting, drawing, printmaking, or fiber.

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This year's Juror is Tamie Beldue! 

Born in upstate New York, Tamie Beldue is a contemporary American artist focused in mixed media drawings. Beldue received a BFA from the Columbus College of Art & Design in Lithography and earned her MFA at the University of Cincinnati in Drawing. Beldue has exhibited extensively in the US in group and solo exhibitions, including the Fort Wayne Museum of Art Realism Biennial, Southern Ohio Museum, North Carolina Museum of Art, Mobile Museum of Art, the Arnot Art Museum’s Re-Presenting Representation and the Fontbonne University Fine Arts Gallery. Her works are in the permanent collections of the Arnot Museum of Art, The DeYoung Museum, Howard & Judy Tullman Collection, James T. Dyke Collection of Contemporary Drawings and the Sandy & Diane Besser Collection. Currently she is represented by Blue Spiral Galleries in Asheville, NC and Stanek Gallery in Philadelphia, PA and is currently a Professor of Art at the University of North Carolina Asheville.

Beldue will attend the opening reception on October 31 to give remarks and award prizes.

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Awards: 

Best of Show - $2,000

Second Prize - $1,500

Third Prize - $1,000

Fourth Prize - $750 

Fifth Prize - $500