Left to right: First, second and third place winners of the 2019 Miami University Young Painters Competition are Kiss by Alex Heilbron; The Healer by Erin Anderson; and Grandmother, Mother and Daughter by Elmi L. Ventura Mata.
Left to right: First, second and third place winners of the 2019 Miami University Young Painters Competition are Kiss by Alex Heilbron; The Healer by Erin Anderson; and Grandmother, Mother and Daughter by Elmi L. Ventura Mata.
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Winners named in 2019 Young Painters Competition for the $10,000 Yeck Award

Winning painting now part of the Miami University 21st Century Painting Collection.

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"Kiss," acrylic on canvas, 65 x 49 inches, is the winner of the 2019 Young Painters Competition.

By Susan Meikle, university news and communications

Alex Heilbron of Los Angeles, California, is the winner of the 2019 Miami University Young Painters Competition for the $10,000 William (Miami '36) and Dorothy Yeck Award.

This national competition for artists ages 25-35 celebrates the current trends in contemporary painting. This year's competition focused on representational/realist painting.

Winners of the competition, sponsored by Miami's Hiestand Galleries, College of Creative Arts, were announced at a ceremony Feb. 8.

Heilbron was selected for her work “Kiss,” which is now part of the Miami University 21st Century Painting Collection.

She is currently a masters of fine arts candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Erin Anderson (Miami ’09) of Riegelsville, Pennsylvania, received the second-place award and $2,500 for her painting, "The Healer.”

Elmi L. Ventura Mata of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, won the third-place award for her work, "Grandmother, Mother and Daughter." She received her master's degree in fine art from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in 2018.

Works by the winners and other finalists will be exhibited through Thursday, Feb. 28, at Hiestand North Gallery.

The 2019 Young Painters Competition was juried by Barry Schwabsky, art critic for The Nation and co-editor of international reviews for Artforum.