Here is a web link to some of the artists and work for the exhibition.
http://www.portraitcompetition.si.ed...st/splash.html
It is interesting to see these pieces and I'm not surprised. What I see is that we are all serious artists, serious about our goals and sense of guidelines that we aspire to. Each of the featured pieces is art and I am moved by all of them, they just serve a different master than I, so to speak.
It is not up to me to judge if they are worthy of the exhibition because they are.
If I were the judge, the show would be different (but probably very boring).