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On view at NPG October 23, 2009 – September 6, 2010

2009

Prize Winners

Portrait photograph of a woman wearing a green shirt

Laura

Digital print, 2007

Oil painting portrait of 3 girls wearing dresses, 2 have white paint on them

People's Choice Awardee

Margaret Bowland

Portrait of Kenyetta and Brianna

Oil on linen, 2008

Oil painting portrait of a man with an eye patch, an air tube in hose nose, and a cane

Stanley Rayfield

Dad

Oil on canvas, 2008

Oil painting portrait of a seated woman holding a magnifying lens with a doll on her lap

Agnieszka

Oil on panel, 2008

A man standing in the kitchen and a woman outside the door sitting against a pile of boxes

Yolanda Del Amo

Sarah, David

C-print, 2007

Pastel portrait of a woman in the water with her hands clasped together

Baptismal Self-Portrait

Pastel on paper, c.2006-2007

Oil painting of a woman wearing a shower cap

Showered

Oil on panel, 2007

Finalists

Chalk portrait of a person upside down with a large afro

Rapunzel

Waxy chalk on paper, 2008

Oil painting portrait of a person with a mask on the top of their head and blood on their face and hands

Jason Shawn Alexander

Repeater

Oil on linen, 2008

Portrait of a woman with a distressed look

Untitled (Self-Portrait)

C-print mounted on aluminum, 2008

C-print of a different people in different scenes against a black background

The Mother Series: Panel #1

Digital c-print, 2008

Gouache painting of a young man wearing an oversized shirt

Nicholas

Gouache on museum mounting board, 2008

Oil painting portrait of a man in a barber shop

Donnie Hawley of Hawleywood’s Barber Shop

Oil on canvas, 2008

Acrylic painting portrait close up on a man's smiling face

Armando Dominguez

Always a Scout

Acrylic on board, 2008

Jeanie Dubnau, in Profile

Oil on canvas, 2007

Oil portrait painting of a nude woman

Daniel Mark Duffy

Portrait of Nell

Oil on canvas, 2008

Oil painting portrait of a baby on a gold panel

David Eichenberg

Duchess of Toledo

Oil on panel, 2008

An abstract photographic collage of a man with many arms

Chambliss Giobbi

Portrait of Fisher Stevens I

Photographic collage and Magic-Sculpt on aluminum, 2007

Oil painting portrait of a man wearing a collared shirt

Untitled

Oil on plywood, 2007

Video credits

In Order of Appearance

Video (3:35 minutes), 2007

Oil painting portrait of a nude woman with the edges blurred

Portrait (Second Angel)

Oil on linen, 2006-2007

Portrait of a man's face with a floral background. The text reads Herman oozed charm like a leaky pipe drips water

Patricia Horing

Herman oozed charm like a leaky pipe drips water.

Miss Priss

Oil on panel, 2007

A teenage girl in a field holding up a deer carcass

Deerslayer

C-print, 2007

An oil painting portrait of two women in an embrace against a red background

David Dodge Lewis

Claire and Bev

Oil on panel, 2008

A young man lying on a bed with a phone to his ear and holding a 2 liter bottle of soda

Pillow Talk

Archival pigment print, 2008

Oil painting portrait of a young woman's face against a grayish brown background

Francesco Lombardo

Monique

Oil on panel, 2008

Oil painting portrait of a woman lying on a cluttered floor

Practicalities

Oil on linen, 2007

Silicone sculpture of a bald man from the waist up

Little Big Man

Silicone rubber, pigment, 2008

Woman at a restaurant table stirring a drink

Rachelle at Café Europa

Video and digital media, 2007

Oil painting portrait of a woman sitting in a chair with a book open on her lap

Queen Genie

Oil on linen, 2007

Oil painting of a woman sitting at a desk and typing on a computer

Surrounded by Paper, Surrounded by Water (Eleanor E. Gaver)

Oil on canvas, 2007

Oil painting of many painter's materials with different colored paints on them

Align Through Time: The Painted Muse, The Pixelated Views

Black ink portrait of a bearded man

Samantha Dylan Mitchell

Psychoanalyst One (Tony)

Ink on paper, 2008

Oil painting portrait of a man wearing an Army shirt with extensive facial scarring

Matthew Mitchell

Portrait #23, Rick Yarosh

Oil on canvas and placard, 2008

Acryllic painting of a man with his hand over a woman's mouth

Austin Parkhill

J & H

Acrylic on canvas, 2008

Man standing in a park with his small dog in his arms

Samuel and Thalia, Echo Park

Archival inkjet print, 2007

Abstract oil painting portrait of a person with long brown hair

Cliffton Peacock

Writer

Oil on linen, 2008

Charcoal drawing of a young woman holding a camera with a sculpture bust behind them

Self-Portrait with Hermes

Charcoal on paper, 2008

Egg tempera portrait of an older woman with her index finger touching her lips

Philip Schirmer

The Secret Gardener

Egg tempera on Masonite, 2008

Foam rubber statue of a nude man

The Sad Thing is I’m So Damn Happy

Foam rubber, 2007

A young woman in a crowded apartment with various items strewn about

Tara Cronin

Archival pigment print, 2008

Portrait of a shirtless man with tattoos on his chest, arms, and stomach

Michael A. Smith

Inmates

C-print, 2007

Ink drawing of a nude woman lying down

Jana

Ink on board, 2007

Oil painting portrait of a bald man wearing glasses and a black turtle neck

Chuck Close

Oil on panel, 2008

Acrylic painting portrait of an older man leaning his chin against his clasped hands

Pat

Acrylic on board, 2007

Oil and wax painting of a blurry man's face

Portrait of a Citizen: Mark

Oil and wax on canvas, 2007

Oil painting of a woman standing with a paint brush in her hand

Clarissa Payne Uvegi

Self-Portrait, Standing

Oil on canvas, 2008

Oil painting of a woman sitting in a chair facing the wall

John Randall Younger

Suzanne

Oil on panel, 2008

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