Welcome to the 2024 Aqueous Open International Exhibit!

To see the exhibit online, scroll down and click on the link that says: Enter Exhibition.

Once you enter the exhibition, you can click and drag to rotate the camera angle, and use the up and down arrows to move forward and back.

To purchase a piece:

• click on the image
• click on the i  in the circle at the top right
• click on the link that says "to purchase"
• That will take you to page on this website 
• where you will click on "Add to Cart" 
• click on View Cart and check out. 

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Juror's Statement from Brian J. Lang:

To be invited to jury Pittsburgh Watercolor Society’s Aqueous Open 2024 has been a great honor. I offer my sincere appreciation to this internationally recognized organization for allowing me to select works for this prestigious annual exhibition, pulled from a remarkable roster of artists from multiple countries.

When presented with more than 130 submitted works of such high quality, a juror’s charge is anything but easy. Any juror would be envious of the talent that Aqueous Open attracts, but at the same time, daunted by the task of honing all of the submissions to an exhibition that celebrates, and elevates, the special challenges and rewards of water-based media.  

All of the works selected for this exhibition have three commonalities; an understanding and mastery of watercolor and water-based media, an accomplished sense of color and composition, and finally, an artistic eye that moved the artist’s work from simply rendering a scene or image to the creation of a work of art imbued with the artist’s own imaginative “touch.”  Though I believe all three of these criteria art important, it was the third – the artist eye – that was the grounding force behind my selections.