Preview Party & Opening Reception
Saturday, December 10 • 3pm to 5pm

December 10, 2011 to January 29, 2012

Juror • Lee Stoetzel

For the last 14 years Stoetzel has worked as Co-Curator
and Director of the West Collection, a corporate collection
housed at SEI Investments Oaks, PA. The West Collection
includes 3,000 works from 675 contemporary artists. In
recent years, Stoetzel has worked closely on a new initiative,
The West Prize. Now in its third year, the West Prize
has received 8,500 applications from young artists in 79
countries, for the collection's 30 acquisition awards.
In the mid-90s, Stoetzel worked for art dealers in Los
Angeles and New York installing exhibitions by artists
such as Jeff Koons, Robert Irwin, Sandro Chia, and Sal
Scarpitta and later as Director of Tricia Collins Grand Salon
in New York. He graduated from SMU in Dallas with a
Studio M.F.A. in 1993 and continues to pursue his own art
practice.