Local artist Shirley Rudolf recently received a special recognition award in the “13th Annual Summer Juried Online International Art Exhibition” hosted by Upstream People Gallery. The international exhibition, which received approximately 120 art entries from around the world, recognized 24 artists who were selected by the juror Laurence Bradshaw, professor of art at the University of Nebraska in Omaha.

Rudolf submitted five acrylic and watercolor paintings featuring close-up views of flowers and a bird.

“[Rudolf] shows a kind of Georgia O’Keefe vision and format of close ups of flowers,” Bradshaw said. “Her ‘Peony’ in its asymmetry is quite delicately portrayed.”’

The exhibition will be featured online throughout August at upstreampeoplegallery.com, and will continue indefinitely in the archives section of the website.