The Old Sculpin Gallery was full of lively energy and a crowd of people on Sunday. It was the show for the scholarship winners of the Martha’s Vineyard Arts Association.

This year’s winners are Isaac Hurwitz and Kira Shipway; the alternate is Tova Katzman.

Each of the three recent high school graduates presented an impressive array of work, stretching across mediums and subject matters.

Isaac Hurwitz is a painter and muralist who is attending the San Fransisco School of the Arts. He graduated from the high school early and did his first semester of college this spring. He exhibited a series of intricate pen and paint pictures which impressed the viewer with their sheer complexity and aesthetic balance. Three of his works sold on Sunday.

Kira Shipway is a painter and photographer who will attend New York University next year to study studio arts. Evocative and expressionistic, her work also maintains a technical accuracy that never lets you forget she intended every brush stroke.

She has been painting since she was a child and is very excited to be pursuing art professionally. She was recently in a show at Featherstone Center for the Arts where she sold most of her paintings. “I felt like I can do this, I can be an artist,” she said, “I wasn’t just a kid who likes painting class.”

Tova Katzman is a photographer for now, although she said she will be forced from her comfort zone when she begins at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. The first year at “Mass Art” is a foundation year where everyone engages in the foundation of many artistic mediums. She shoots compositionally excellent photographs of people and places. The three locales where she has shot most of her work are Israel, Chicago and Martha’s Vineyard.

“The biggest compliment I can get is when someone finds humor in my photographs,” she said. “It’s hard to capture sometimes and that’s always one of my goals.”

Gallery manager Nina Gordon said the students did an amazing job arranging the space. “I talked to them about, as they go in, how people will encounter each piece and the flow of the show, but other than that they did it all on their own,” she said, adding:

“They have such a professional looking body of work at this age.”

— Jonah Lipsky