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On the cover: ‘Lemon Tree, Capri’ by Sonia GrinevaBook design: Cly FowkesTHE TGF ART CHALLENGE TO CELEBRATE VISIONThis book is a compilation of work by amateur and professional artists, each of whom donated their images.We are grateful to them and to all of the people whomade gifts to The Glaucoma Foundation in their honor.Our special thanks to TGF’s board of directors and toKen Mortenson who sponsored this book.This project supports glaucoma research.

DRAWINGS & PAINTINGS

DRAWINGS & PAINTINGS

SoNiA GRiNevACreating art is an integral part of Sonia Grineva’s life.Sonia Grineva was born in Moscow, Russia, and received her B.A. and M.F.A. degrees from the Stroganov Art Institute. (Stroganov Institute was founded in 1825 and is widely considered to be Moscow’s leading art school, famous for its professors Vassily Kandinsky, Kasimir Malevich, Alexander Rodchenko, among others.)After coming to the United States at the age of 20, she studied at the National Academy of Design in Manhattan, where she was awarded a coveted traveling scholarship to Italy and completed a course of study at the British Institute in Florence.Sonia has since traveled extensively, and works on location in the tradition of many “plein air” artists. She has painted some of Europe’s most impressive ports, waterways, and rivers, including those surrounding Venice, La Rochelle, Monte Carlo, Dieppe, and Prague.Ms. Grineva has gained an international reputation for her oil and watercolor landscapes and is well-known locally for her Manhattan cityscapes. In addition, she is adept at a variety of mediums, including printmaking and sculpture. Her work can be seen in galleries in New York, New England, Santa Fe, Georgia, Washington, and Europe and in numerous private, public, and museum collections. She maintains an art studio on Union Square in New York City.Sonia’s work is the permanent collections of numerous institutions, corporations and museums including The White House, Washington, DC; Forbes Foundation, New York, NY; and Smithsonian Institution, Branch New York, NY.soniagrineva@gmail.com | Soniagrineva.com

LemoN TRee, cAPRioil on linen, size 48 x 48 inches

Robert is a retired physician who began painting later in life. His art is intended to catalyze an emotional response to special moments in nature.RobeRT WoRTmANN

JAAN’S bAckyARDPastel inspired by photograph of a sunset over the Pacic Ocean, 2019.

In my retirement, I challenged myself by signing up for pastel painting workshops. These were held near home and also out West. During this time of uncertainty, I nd the time I spend at my easel in search of my creative self is very therapeutic, comforting and rewarding. I have only one disappointment. My husband has glaucoma, and he cannot appreciate my painting.mARyANN GiLmARTiN

FoLLoW THe cReeksoft pastels on 400 grid pastel paperThe photo reference was taken while driving near the border from Vermont to New York.

My name is Jahkori and I am currently a Junior at the Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida. I came to Ringling to enhance my art skills and help me create children’s book illustrations for my future career. My art major is illustration, and the medium I work best in is digital. I enjoy using digital art software such as Adobe Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator. Let’s just say it’s easier to correct digital mistakes rather than those on paper. Although I work best digitally, I am also skilled in using traditional media such as watercolor, oils, and colored pencils. By creating art with various materials, I see what they each have to offer. The art I create has an underlying meaning, a purpose of changing the way people perceive things. I create paintings and character drawings during my leisure time.JAHkoRi DoPWeLL HALL

Room oF eLeGANceRoom of Elegance is a still life gouache painting on chipboard which I completed during my freshman year at the Ringling College of Art and Design. This particular art piece was one of my best works that I completed. It is by far my favorite portfolio piece. The painting captures the reection of light along with the casting of shadows on various objects and drapery in a room. The main focus of the piece is the blue glass vase on the dining table with the surrounding owers, cutting board, and fruit. The artwork includes a variety of colors that all work together. A sense of harmony is expressed in the piece. The most trying part of making this piece was creating the reection of the drapery on the table and reection in the vase.

JAHkoRi DoPWeLL HALLWHiTe STiLL LiFeWhite Still Life is a gouache painting on chipboard completed in 2019 during my Spring Break trip to Europe. This painting depicts a still life setup of strictly white objects I brought with me. I assembled the white objects to create an asymmetrically balanced composition on a white table, against a white wall. The objects used in this setup include a rolled-up white sock, a roll of white masking tape, a bottle of white-out, a cotton swab leaning on a stick of white chalk, a cotton ball, and a shaker of salt on top of a white box. I wanted the bottle of white-out to be the center of the piece with the surrounding items leading your eye toward it. The way I angled the box and cotton swab creates those leading lines. The shadows were enjoyable to create, and I was able to get the correct overall perspective of every object. The most difcult part was making the little accents of color still show through the objects even though they were white.

JAHkoRi DoPWeLL HALLA PAiR oF PeARSA Pair of Pears is an oil on canvas still life painting. This painting was completed during my sophomore year at the Ringling College of Art and Design. The setup depicts two pears on a red ceramic plate. The pears are facing different directions. One pear is turned, facing the viewer and one is standing upright. The two pears were full of warm, earthly colors. The yellow ochre, cadmium yellow, and burnt sienna can be seen on the pears. There are some highlights made with cooler colors like lemon yellow and ake white. I was very pleased with how the end product turned out and someone has already offered to buy it as a centerpiece for their kitchen. Capturing the bevels, reections, and the shine on the plate were the hardest things for me to achieve in this painting.

TeTeRA veRDe Tetera Verde, in English, means Green Teapot. I decided to title the piece in Spanish because it had a nice ring to it. This piece is an oil on canvas painting completed during my sophomore year at the Ringling College of Art and Design. This painting depicts a still life setup of a Magic Hat beer bottle and teapot sitting on folded fabric. Compared to my other artworks, this piece is very small. Working at this size allowed me to add more details to the piece. The values, form, and colors that I chose to match the very scene I observed. The most difcult part of working on this painting was mixing the high saturation of the aqua green teapot, along with the green reection and shadows on the fabric.JAHkoRi DoPWeLL HALL

JAHkoRi DoPWeLL HALLGrandmother is an alla prima oil on canvas portrait of my maternal grandma. I completed the painting during my high school years while taking care of her and residing in her home. My grandma is very special to me and I love her so much. My grandmother is the strongest person I know and has always been there for me. It was my pleasure to paint her. This painting depicts my grandma at 80 years old, however she doesn’t look a day over 50. When she posed for my painting, I captured her in the perfect likeness of joy and love that I saw in her. My grandma’s face is always glowing with that big smile and not a wrinkle in sight. I painted a yellow background to symbolize the cheery and warm energy she radiates each and every day. She likes to tell my siblings and me that we are the ones who gave her gray hairs. The piece captures all of her accessories including her reading glasses, gold earrings and the necklace with her wedding ring. I presented this portrait to my grandmother as a framed gift on Mother’s Day 2017.

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Sharon Hernly’s art incorporates the essence of the West and her travels. Each transports the viewer to times in our country’s past when Native Americans, explorers, miners, settlers, and others struggled to survive. The paintings give insight into inuences on people’s lives and the way they lived. The pleasant colors of her palette, magic of light, her style and technique dene her artwork. Different surface structures and textures beautifully depicted in her art is intended to give one a feeling of living in the place and time. Her art is displayed on walls in private collections across the country. sharonhernlyartist.comSHARoN HeRNLy

TIbeTIAN“AcHA LA”acrylic painton 20”x 16” stretched, gallery wrapped Masterpiece canvas

PAoLo mARTiNezPaolo Martinez is an artist living in Jersey City, New Jersey. https://paolomartinezart.tumblr.com/

oil on canvas, 24” x 30”

When my dear friend encouraged me to participate in this wonderful project, I found myself thinking about symbolic eye/owers encircled around a large letter “G.” Through ascending colors of real daisy like owers, I hope to indicate growth and movement from darkness to light, hopefulness towards the clarity of light. Somehow the patchwork of colorful shapes represents the stages from feeling broken to whole again – the process of healing with the support – a comprehensive whole.I have been allowing and encouraging myself to explore my artistic talent in my years of semi-retirement as a psychiatric nurse practitioner. Abstract is a new form for me as I have been attracted to still life owers, and the human form. So in a way, this project represents cohesion, and tells a story of determination, healing and hope.DR. JeANeTTe beviLAcquA

“G” iS THe WoRDacrylic on canvas 2020

GARy STePHANgarystephanstudio.com

DexTeR 3acrylic on canvas, 2020

My name is Celeste. I am not an artist per se, but I always liked to play with paint. I was attracted to the effect paint created on a canvas. As a retired person, I nd it satisfying to spend time playing with paint and seeing what comes out. ceLeSTe cASTiLLo

RiveR oF FiReIn this painting, I wanted to recreate the look of running lava from an invisible volcano.

LA FuGue eNcHANTéeMy work is a perception from reality, oil academic, with arabesques gold pur and Asiatic lacado.I was student at Ebama Montréal to learn Italien méthode. In Francia, I learn lacado painting and paint oil gold lacado on naturel gesso on linen on wood, because to me the reality is between spleen and idea. I am student at Barcelona Academy of Art full-time program to learn French méthode to learn and paint more ne seen from reality. This my site: stephanepannetierlehenaff.comSTéPHANe PANNeTieR Le HeNAFF

My name is Jules. I am an artist and performer. I really like making art.I created this because I love all the colors in the world. Eyes are all different and essential. I was inspired by the different colors of my classmates’ eyes and created this painting.JuLeS FRieDbeRG

PAiNTiNG WiTH mANy eyeSacrylic paint on canvas, South Bay Art Department Redondo Beach CA. June, 2014

Beck. I am Beck. I do stuff and stuff. I created this character study for a comic book I conceptualized during a rainy Thanksgiving with my family in Los Angeles. It is one of a series of several characters I imagined. My dad saved three of the works, the rest are lost to the recycle bin. Hope you enjoy!Have a great day!beck FRieDbeRG

moNSTeR DooDLeS, 2019pen and paper

mAckAyLA HemPeLaged 15

LyDiA ADcockColor is one of the fundamental building blocks of vision. It can be used to convey thoughts or emotions, or make someone feel a certain way. My drawing revolves mainly around color, because I feel that vision isn’t quite complete without it.

meeTooSHMaytar Shapira @meetoosh

my miNDSharpie on paper, 2020

DIGITAL ART & PHoToGRAPHy

DIGITAL ART & PHoToGRAPHy

Dominik is an aspiring character artist with a passion for storytelling through appealing and engaging characters. Having studied computer animation at The School of Visual Arts, Dominik learned a great deal about 3D animation for production and co-directed his own animated short ‘The Misadventures of Chubzilla.’ Ever since, he has been trying to learn something new so that he might be able to push his craft and create more likeable characters that can convey a story with personality. If you would like to see more work by Dominik, his website can be found at domthebomb.artstation.com.DomiNik koSciNSki

evA uNiT 01A digital rendering of a 3D model, inspired by a redesign of a popular anime character.

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bRiGHT LiGHTS, No ciTyPhotographed with Canon EOS R at Vermejo Ranchin New Mexico.Suki SHATTuck

I am a photographer and poet. My photographs explore landscapes using the “permanent” structures created by humans against the ever changing tableau of nature, usually the sky, to document the passage of time.beNJAmiN FRieDbeRG

1428 HRS 07312017Captured this image on an iPhone SE while wandering the West Side of NYC, Summer, 2017.

Bird stalker and pet whisperer... enjoys photographing animals, nature, and random minutia.oLGA mikHLiNA

GReAT eGReTPhotographed with Nikon D5500.

Teresa is an ophthalmologist who lives with her family in New Jersey. She enjoys biking with family, cooking and photography.TeReSA L. bReveTTi

moHoNk SuNSeTChristmas at MMH Photographed with iPhone camera.

With 35 years in the business of design, Charlotte Moss has received numerous honors, including the New York School of Interior Design’s Centennial Medal, Housing Works’ Groundbreaker’s Award, The Royal Oak Foundation’s Timeless Design Award, and is named one of Elle Décor’s Grand Master List of Top Designers. Charlotte has used her experience culled from thirty-ve years of decorating homes to design collections of furniture, fabrics, china, carpets, ceramics, framed photography and clothing. https://CharlotteMoss.comcHARLoTTe moSS

cHâTeAu De bRécyPhotographed at Château de Brécywith Sony-a7, 70mm at f/5, shutter 1/80 ISO100.

https://CharlotteMoss.comcHARLoTTe moSS

FAmiLy oF eLePHANTS iN TANzANiAPhotographed withiPhone 8 plus.86mm f/2.8 ISO 20.

Native New Yorker. Writer and designer. Director of Special Projects at The Glaucoma Foundation. Two beautiful talented sisters, three cats, and a very good dog!https://www.clyfowkes.comcLy FoWkeS

RAveNInspired by a sculpture in Parco Sculture Del Chianti, Pievasciata, Italy. Painted in Photoshop, 2020.

PRevAiLPrevail is a mixed media piece created in Adobe Photoshop using a series of different prints. This piece was completed in 2018 and was a collaborative effort between myself and three other students while studying at the Studio Institute. In order to create this piece, my group was given a blank Photoshop canvas and instructed to assemble different prints to make an aesthetically pleasing digital abstract design. The design was commissioned by the Neuberger Berman ofce rm in NYC. First, we chose a sky blue background. Secondly, we implemented paint drip effects in various colors and directions. One of my outstanding contributions to this piece is the purple branch print on the top left corner. The reason this piece is titled Prevail is a result of including the two pink strokes that prevail at the bottom of the piece. Our instructor suggested we remove these strokes after he interpreted them as resembling sh. Since other viewers interpreted these strokes differently, our group decided to leave them in the piece. Upon completion, this piece was printed on a large scale. Copies were distributed and hung throughout the Neuberger Berman ofces worldwide. The piece also made the cover of holiday cards they sent out that year.JAHkoRi DoPWeLL HALL

PRiNTmAkiNG & coLLAGe

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ballpoint & highlighter pens, pencils, tempera paint and collage on paper, 2020

RANDy bRozeNhttps://randybrozen.com/

uNDeR THe SeAmultimedia collage -my photos, handmade paper, iconic images

Amy Friedberg is a Los Angeles based artist. Raised outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Friedberg received her BFA in Sculpture from Tyler School of Art in the 1990’s. She spent almost two decades in New York City working in both art and nance and relocated to Los Angeles in 2014. Friedberg has participated in group and solo exhibitions in Philadelphia, New York City, Los Angeles and Mexico City. She is a former member of the Vox Populi Gallery in Philadelphia – a non-prot artists’ space supporting challenging and experimental work. Friedberg’s work is sculptural and takes multiple forms: drawing, object, installation and project based. She incorporates text, data, found objects and non-traditional materials. Friedberg’s work looks at the personal and political and their intersection.Amy FRieDbeRGGRoW GRASS HeRe Acrylic screen print on handmade paper 22 x 30 inches, edition of 10, 2014 repeating the phrase GROW GRASS HERE in the font style of grocery store advertisements.

ciTyScAPe AT DAyCityscape at Day is an acrylic ink print on black construction paper. Printmaking is the process of creating art by leaving an impression on paper. I completed the print during my time studying at the NYC Studio in a School Institute. To create this print, I drew out my cityscape in reverse, on a sheet of styrofoam. Then I cut out areas such as the windows and crevices in the sidewalk in order to maintain the same color as the paper. The painted areas were the pieces of styrofoam which I rolled the acrylic ink paint on. The orange building contrasts with the blue sky. Choosing these two contrasting colors made the print pop on the black paper. This piece had the honor of being displayed at the Christie’s Auction House in the 2018 Young Visions exhibit.JAHkoRi DoPWeLL HALL

SARAH bLockI am from New York. I studied studio art at Bard College. I have been living in Italy for 25 years. I have been selling my work privately.

HoLocAuSTcollage with chalk and oil pastel

GLASS, meTAL cLAy & FAbRIc

GLASS, meTAL cLAy & FAbRIc

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LiFT me uPpaper clay and copper wiring light sculpture

James Friedberg has worked with glass for over 20 years. During that time, he has trained with multiple masters and traveled the world researching his passion; glass, fabrication, art, and design. Collaboration with multiple noteworthy designers from different backgrounds has helped him grow his brand and repertoire of glass. When Friedberg is not fabricating glass, he is focused on community engagement. He has worked with non-prots creating glass designs for them, teaching, and helping run multiple youth art education programs. James lives, teaches, and makes his glass from his home base in San Francisco, CA. www.JamesFriedberg.comJAmeS FRieDbeRG

ocuLuS hot glass, hot sculpted, 2018

bLue mokumeMokume Gane is a process of layering and shaping different types of metal to achieve wood grain patterns. When this metal working technique is combined with glass wood grain patterns are achieved but other patterns emerge that are wholly new. Friedberg has translated Mokume Gane into glass to create beautiful vessels. Glass brings new life with its colors and translucent nature.JAmeSFRieDbeRG

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STeLLA FRieDbeRGI am an artist and maker. I like to work in a variety of media.

coRALiNe DoLL x JoJo, AuGuST 2020clay, felt, glue, yarn, paint, thread, wire and tinfoilInspired by the lm “Coraline” and my friend Jojo.

HoNoRSTHeSe ARTWoRkS WeRe FAvoRiTeS oF ouR voTiNG AuDieNce.Professional Artist Sonia Grineva, “Lemon Tree”Amateur Artist Jahkori Dopwell Hall, “Grandmother”Young Artist Mackayla Hempel

DoNoRSRichard HershensonTom & Sharon HernlyPatricia HillJoseph HomanLeatrice HomanRobert & Lianne HomanAbigail HunteTatyana IkhelsonHadley JonesPatricia JonesSuki & Les KaplanPaul L. KaufmanEvelyn KayodeLaverne Gwendolyn-KevinJuliya KhodikJames KloekRipi KohliAgata KoscinskaDave LaidlowLeslie Laidlow Lindalee LawrenceMark LesselrothGeri & Ron LiebertJerey M. LiebmannGeorge LongJaan LumiLaura LundyRobert & Marilyn MacLeanWijayaraj & Kumar MahadevaRichard MartulaOlga MikhlinaNeil MitchellConsuella MooreBryan MortensonKen MortensonAnonymousJacqueline AgardDesmond AhokluiJennifer AndersonJohn AndersonHal ArkesGabrielle BambergerJoseph Barba David & Valerie BiernanTeresa BreveCynthia BrozenRandy BrozenKim BryantRené BujardDane BurnhamSimone CambridgeShelby CarsonKhadijah CarterMaria Lopez CastanoAnna ChanSalvatore CiampoTrevor CiampoBrenda CiccioJerry ConleyGayle CowleyCarol CruzWendy DasentBarbara DeHartFrances DeSenaReza DibadjLorea DiLeoDavid Bryan Laidlow DopwellElroy DopwellMaria-Ann DopwellMonique S. DopwellJahkori Dopwell-HallDopwell-Hall SiblingsJoel FainDavid FellowsMurray FingeretBarry & Charloe FriedbergCly FowkesKate Fowkes & Pranab DasDana FritchieSean G.Thomas GarbuDorry Gardner Tracey GarySusanne GarrityAsli GevgililiJohn & Maryanne GilmarnJoseph GiuntaThe Glaucoma Educaon and Research FundLawrence A GraceGwendolyn GreeneSean GumbsBrandee GraGwendolyn GreeneMartha GroverLynden H.Andrew HallIgnaus HallJennifer HallMilton HallDutch & Lynn HandkeCarol HannumGregory K. HarmonShamona HarrisErick HempelEllie & Salvatore MunizzaVincent & Lisa MunizzaNajah MusthafaLiudmila NogovitsynaRonald NortonLaura PaigeJai and Swa ParekhLouis PasqualeJudy PhillipsMarin PietriEvelyn PruiksmaLea RawlsJonathan ReynoldsRobert RitchBaldo Scassella SforzoliniNajam SharifSusan ShauckSheldon SiegelKathy SimpsonKathy SkotedisPatricia SoussloElena SturmanGary SundemJanet SvirskyGrandma SylviaSherry Theus David & Cathalina WalshTanja WatersMark WeshinskeyBill WhitneyIrving & Ilene WolbromBrandee WolfeNicorei Woodson Robert WortmannKevin YoungJohn Yozzo

THe GLAucomA FouNDATIoN

It is estimated that 80 million people around the world have glaucoma, a group of diseases that lead to damage of the optic nerve, in most cases as the result of increased pressure within the eye. Everyone should be concerned about its effects. It is important for each of us, from infants to senior citizens, to have our eyes checked regularly because early detection and treatment of glaucoma are the only ways to prevent vision impairment and blindness.TGF is dedicated to improving the lives of people with glaucoma through education, support, and the advancement of research with the goal to preserve vision.The Foundation identies and encourages basic and applied research in glaucoma and has awarded millions of dollars in seed money for cutting-edge research projects. Research funded by TGF builds a platform for larger complex projects and the requisite support from major organizations such as the National Institutes of Health. TGF’s Annual International Scientic Think Tank brings together some of the world’s top scientists and clinicians. It continues to foster collaboration across disciplines and set the course for new avenues of research.www.glaucomafoundation.org

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