33rd ANNUAL JURIED EXHIBITION

Joseph Clayes III Galley

33rd ANNUAL JURIED EXHIBITION

July 26–October 18, 2025

One of the most prestigious juried shows in San Diego, the Athenaeum’s 33rd Annual Juried Exhibition will be on view this summer and fall, July 26 through October 18, 2025. This year 315 artists entered about 900 works for consideration. Juror Malcolm Warner, art historian and curator, selected the final 29 artists and 29 works to exhibit. Prizewinners, including the recipients of the Leslie Von Kolb Memorial Award, were announced at the opening reception. Free and open to the public.

Artists in the exhibition are Leila Aghdami, Angelo Aguila, Nikusha Beatty, Raymond Brownfield, Ty Caulfield, Dane Conboy, Carolina Danu, Sheeva Davari, James DeLisio, Beth Duggan, Chi Essary, Peter Fay, Ken Goldman, Josie Marlyn Gomez, Lucy Guianan-Helle, Susan Hill, Terri Hughes-Oelrich, Jinhoo Kim, Megan Knobloch Geilman, Elliott Linwood, Martha Martin, Brad Maxey, Lori Mitchell, Elizabeth Rooklidge, Amy Rosenberg, Louise Russell, Neil Shigley, Jeff Steorts, and Paul Woggy.

Malcolm Warner is a British art historian who made his career in the American museum world. He was curator of European art at the San Diego Museum of Art; senior curator of paintings and sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art; senior curator and deputy director at the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth; and executive director at Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach. He curated exhibitions at those institutions as well as the National Gallery of Art, Washington; the National Portrait Gallery, London; the National Gallery, London; and the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. He is an authority on Victorian art, especially the Pre-Raphaelites. He wrote his doctoral thesis on John Everett Millais (Courtauld Institute, 1985) and currently devotes most of his time to completing a catalogue raisonné of Millais’ works.

Awards:

First Prize: Amy Rosenberg, The Circus Master, 2025, Oil, 60 x 36 inches
Second Prize: Elizabeth Rooklidge, How to be Sick, 2025, Video
Third Prize: Lori Mitchell, Waiting, 2025, Watercolor, 23 x 14 inches

Leslie Von Kolb Memorial Awards:

Beth Duggan, Flower & Frame, 2022, Romance novels, 65 x 48 x 45 inches
Jeff Steorts, Intersection of Time and Space, 2021, Wood and metal, 32 x 13 x 8 inches

Honorable Mentions:

Nikusha Beatty, By Looking, You Participate, 2025, Oil on canvas, 40 x 48 inches
Beth Duggan, Flower & Frame, 2022, Romance novels, 65 x 48 x 45 inches
Brad Maxey, At the Timken, 2022, Acrylic on canvas, 28 x 32 inches
Louise Russell, Turbulent, 2024, Photograph on film with white gold leaf, 15.75 x 19.75 inches

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