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Year: 2013

Who will be ARTIST of the YEAR?

Enter the $5 Art Contest today!SPRINKLE ME

One of the  joys of writing posts for this blog is the privilege of reviewing entries into the $5 Art Contest.  Choosing a Featured Artist is difficult, but I appreciate the opportunity to do so.  Featured Artists are a little like the sprinkles on top of my art community cupcake.

Once a Featured Artist’s post goes live, their job is simply to promote the post to both the benefit of AAAD and their own exposure.  Comments generated by their posts are counted at the end of the year, and the post wit the largest number of comments is named Artist of the Year.

In 2010, it was Catherine Roach.  She will always have a special place in AAAD’s history.  She keeps in touch, and we are so very proud to be a part of her history.  In 2011 it was the intricate work of weaver Pamela Zimmerman.  Her original interview remains among my favorites.  In 2012, it was mixed media collage artist Stephanie Mead’s portraiture work that took my breath away.

Who will be ArtAndArtDeadlines.com’s
2013 Artist of the Year?

That is all up to you.

Look through the 2013 Featured Artist profiles.  Leave a comment for your favorite…or more than one.  Comments stop being counted after midnight EST on December 31st.

Results will be announced the first week of January!

 

If you would like to be considered for Featured Artist, enter our $5 Art Contest (that can also be entered for free).  Or, if competition isn’t your cup of tea, submit your information to our Artist to Love program and start building a stronger web presence today!

REMINDER: Documentary

Enter the $5 Art Contest today!OOPS

Am I the only one that is grateful no one documents their cooking methods?  Because I enjoy experimenting with food and cooking, things often go a little off course.  When the milk you meant to scald curdles, and the onions you meant to caramelize burn and the pie crust meant to be flaky really just crumbles…well, it is good not to have a record of it sometimes.   This next Call is looking for your take on documentary, and it doesn’t have to be your cooking. Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from F-Stop Magazine for their Documentary #63. There is no entry fee, and you can enter up to 12 images for publication. Be sure to tell them you found F-Stop through ArtAndArtDeadlines.com, and make us proud…

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Learn more from F-Stop Magazine!CALL for ENTRIES:
Documentary


ELIGIBILITY:
Open to all artists

MEDIA:
Documentary Photography

DEADLINE:
January 10, 2014

NOTIFICATION: Publication is February 1, 2014

Learn more from F-Stop Magazine!ENTRY FEE:
None

ABOUT F-Stop: F-STOP MAGAZINE is an online photography magazine featuring contemporary photography from established and emerging photographers from around the world. Each issue has a theme or an idea that the unites the photographs to create a dynamic dialogue among the artists. Founded in 2003 and published online, bi-monthly.

For complete details, Read the Guidelines!

Learn more from F-Stop Magazine!

CALL for ENTRIES: Experimental

Enter the 5 Art Contest today!SUGAR
honey
AGAVE
oh my

I am not a naturally-talented baker.  I can create savory dishes all day, but the precision required for baking is a trying experience for me.  I have been experimenting with a peanut butter cookie recipe for days. It only has 4 ingredients, and I have still made it no less than 12 times to get it exactly right.  My family is tolerant of baking experiments, but not every audience is as forgiving.  This next Call is specifically looking for your experiments, but don’t send peanut butter cookies.  Bribery is frowned upon…

Check out this Call for Entries for Experimental Documentary Films for the 2014 Currents New Media Festival from Parallel Studios.  You can enter for as little as $15 per film.  Take a look…

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Learn more about the Currents New Media Festival!CALL for ENTRIES: Experimental

 

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists (including minors)

MEDIA:  Experimental Documentary film:  short pieces 1-20 minutes & feature pieces 45-90 minutes

DEADLINE:  January 6, 2014

NOTIFICATION:  February 10, 2014

ENTRY FEE: $20 for 1 entry, $15 each for 2, and FREE for those under 18 years old.

VENUES:  The Festival will be held in several venues throughout Santa Fe – El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, Center for Contemporary Art, Digital Dome Facility at the Institute of American Indian Arts, Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, David Richard Gallery, the Railyard Plaza, Santa Fe Art Institute, Axle Contemporary, Warehouse 21 and the Tower Gallery on Pojoaque Pueblo.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more about the Currents New Media Festival!

OPEN CALL: Solo Project House

Enter the $5 Art Contest today!DINNER
for one

I prefer not to eat alone.  It isn’t due to all the ridiculous social stigma attached because I dislike eating alone even at home.  When I eat alone, I tend to get sucked into the idea of a gourmet meal which sounds fantastic but takes forever.  In the middle of cooking, I break down and eat a “snack” (often the size of a meal) thereby insuring I won’t be hungry by the time dinner is ready to be eaten.  I may not like to eat alone, but this next Call is for your work–all alone.  And, let’s face it, we all like to SHOW alone…

Check out this Open Call from Solo Project House (Newark, NJ) for 2014-15 Solo Exhibits.  Winners receive a 6 week exhibit in NYC.  Is this one for you?

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Learn more from Solo Project House!
Installation by Jennifer Grimyser. 1 year anniversary party for Solo Project House.

OPEN CALL:
Solo Project House

Solo(s) Project House is a space dedicated to showcasing and elevating creative individuals and or groups that can produce a unified exhibit. Exhibitions focus on the individual and or collective and their strength to utilize a raw space and subsequently to produce a strong “solo” show.

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists

MEDIA:  Open to all media

DEADLINE:  December 20, 2013

ENTRY FEE:  $35 for up to 5 images

 

Learn more about Juror Daniel Patrick Helmstetter
Learn more about Juror Daniel Patrick Helmstetter.

JUROR:  Daniel Patrick Helmstetter is a New Jersey based poet with a paintbrush. His paintings have been featured in galleries, installations, magazines, and academic publications throughout America and Mexico.

James Prez, artist and independent curator, has created at least one piece per day since 1987.  Works have been made utilizing photography, drawing, painting, sculpture, mixed-media, collage, montage, assemblage and frottage.

Lori Zimmer is a writer and curator who works actively in the art world on many facets. Aside from creating and writing Art Nerd New York, she also is the Art Editor for Inhabitat.com, “Art Seen” columnist for Patrick McMullan Magazine, and contributing writer for MutualArt, ArtFetch, art.sy, Flavorpill, WhiteHot, Creem and ArtSlant.

Nick Kline was born in 1968 in Spring Lake, NJ. He received his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan in 1992 and a BFA from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia in 1990.  He resides in New York, NY and is an Assistant Professor, Photography, Rutgers University-Newark. Kline’s work is represented by De La Cruz Projects, San Jose, Costa Rica.

AWARDS:  All SPH 2014-15 selected Solo(s) will be matched with a Manhattan solo exhibition at sister space, S & J Project(s) located at 191 Henry St. New York, NY.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more about the Solo Project House!

 

CALL for ENTRIES: Realform

Click to Learn more about the $5 Art Contest!THE COOKIE
stands alone

I have been meaning to make cookies all week.  I have this great recipe for peanut butter chocolate chip cookies made with chickpeas instead of traditional wheat flour.  They are fantastic; however, every time I start to make them, I don’t quite have enough large chocolate chips.  Everyone in my house grabs a small handful on their way through the kitchen.  I suppose somethings are best all on their own.  This next Call might give YOU the chance to be on your own.  Investigate…

Check out this Call for Entries for The Realform Project from Curator David Gibson to be exhibited at the Court Tree Collective (Brooklyn, NY) from June 5 to July 3, 2014.  The finalists will each received a solo exhibit in a NYC Gallery in the future.  Take a look…

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Check out this previous Realform Project!
Check out this previous Realform Project!

CALL for ENTRIES:
The Realform Project

 

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists

MEDIA:  Open to all media

DEADLINE:  December 15, 2013

NOTIFICATION:  Ongoing

ENTRY FEE:  None

CURATOR:  James Kalm said,David Gibson, one of the hardest working curators in New York, spent five years organizing over 40 shows at what must have appeared as a uniquely self-effacing venue called Realform Project Space, a display window at 218 Bedford Avenue. Despite the presentation area being about the size of a large aquarium, 5 by 7 by 2 1/2 feet, many of the featured artists have gone on to established careers, and several are represented by reputable galleries.”  “Dispatches: Birth of a Notion,” in Dec 2011/Jan 2012 issue of The Brooklyn Rail, New York

AWARDS:  The finalists will each be featured in a solo exhibition at a gallery in New York City.

PROCESS:  Please submit either a link to a website or a dozen or so low res images, an artist’s statement, and a CV to realform.project@gmail.com.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more from The Realform Project!

 

CALL for ENTRIES: 51st Masur

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CHEESE

I have been telling you for years that I am open to any kind of food at least once.  Turns out, I am a liar.  When faced with the opportunity to try casu marzu, I just couldn’t do it.   I love cheese, but just “no.”  So, I will not eat ANY food, but this next Call will take ANY media.  Give it a try…

Check out this Call for Entries for the 51st Annual Juried Exhibition from the Masur Museum of Art (Monroe, LA). The entry fee is low, and the show is open to all media. Did I mention that there is no commission on sales? I love the Masur, and I will bet that you will love it too!

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Learn more from the Masur Museum!CALL or ENTRIES:
Masur Museum

 

The 51st Annual Juried Exhibition will be held February 27th to June 14, 2014. The Masur Museum of Art Annual Juried Competition showcases contemporary artists throughout the United States of America working in any medium.

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all US artists 18+

MEDIA: Any media

Learn more from the Masur Museum!DEADLINE:  January 12, 2014 (online) and January 9 for postmarked entries

NOTIFICATION:  January 27, 2014

ENTRY FEE: There is a $10 per artwork with a minimum of 2 and a max of 5 entries

JUROR:Kelly Shindler has worked in the field of contemporary art exhibition and programming for over ten years. She is Associate Curator at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (CAM), where she has curated exhibitions with Lari Pittman, Anthony McCall, Ed Ruscha, Rosa Barba, Mika Taanila, and Josh Faught, among others. Her upcoming exhibitions include solo presentations of work by Nicole Eisenman and Takeshi Murata.

Learn more from the Masur Museum!Prior to joining CAM, Shindler was an independent curator, organizing such exhibitions as Chicago-Scope: The Films of Tom Palazzolo 1967-1976 at The Art Institute of Chicago (2010), and curating film and video programs for art spaces and festivals worldwide, including Australian Cinematheque, Brisbane; Sequences Festival, Reykjavik, Iceland; Scandinavia House, New York City; and the Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago. She holds Master’s degrees in Modern Art History, Theory, and Criticism, and Arts Administration and Policy from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

AWARDS: Best in Show is $1,000 and total awards are $3,200.

SALES: The Masur Museum of Art does not receive a commission on sales.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more from the Masur Museum!

FEATURED ARTIST: Michael O’Gorman

Learn more about Featured Artist Michael O' Gorman!‘SHROOM to go

It has been a truly surreal year for me, my personal art, and for many of my readers.  So, with fingers crossed I began reviewing the entries hoping to find a little surrealism.  Honestly, I rarely have surrealists enter, but I was hopeful.  I knew what I wanted, and what-do-you-know, I found it.   It was like finding that random mushroom on your pepperoni pizza just when you were hoping for veggies.  On behalf of AAAD, I am proud to announce this month’s Featured Artist is Michael O’Gorman.  I find this work to be endlessly complicated, but fluid.

The Application of Great Britain to the Earth by Featured Artist Michael O'Gorman!FEATURED ARTIST:
Michael O’Gorman

Michael O’Gorman is an artist from the United Kingdom who specializes in surreal oil paintings of organic and anthropomorphic subject matter, expressed through a unique ’merging’ style. He is obsessed with detail and perfection, and spends many months on a single painting, ensuring that the color gradients are smooth, that all narratives within a composition blend harmoniously, and – most importantly – that each painting is exciting and rewarding to view!

O’Gorman graduated from the University of Warwick in 2006 and works as a freelance artist and writer.  He loves to create complex, detailed artworks whose narratives can be explored and observed forever, with the viewer always discovering something new and exciting.

Memoirs of a Fertile Imagination by Featured Artist Michael O'Gorman!Are you self taught or formally instructed?  “I’m self-taught. I always doodled as a child, but it wasn’t until 2002 – when I was 17 years old – that I tried to create my first serious drawing. Four months of obsessive penciling by lamplight later, and ‘Black Water’ was finished!

“Three years after ‘Black Water,’ I taught myself to paint. I outlined some figures onto canvas with pencil and coloured them with acrylic paints. This was the beginning of my first painting, ‘Perpetual Fluidity,’ which remains my only improvised painting.

“I’m extremely glad that I avoided art lessons, since I cannot understand how surreal artists – artists whose works are assessed on uniqueness of expression – could benefit from an external mentor. I do have a university degree, but it’s in an unrelated field.”

The Medicine Tree by Featured Artist Michael O'Gorman!Is your media paint, ink, digital?  Of the twenty-eight artworks I have created to date, two are in pencil, one is in acrylic, and the rest are in oil. It didn’t take me long to graduate from acrylic to oil after completing ‘Perpetual Fluidity.’   Though I appreciated their boldness, I found acrylics a little too shallow for my tastes.  Moreover, their quick drying times maddened me; I’m a perfectionist, and I need to spend hours moving paint around the canvas until the colour gradients are seamless!

I read your method of deriving inspiration from words randomly chosen from the dictionary, but I am also interested in knowing those pieces that have personal meaning to you.  Talk to me about your favorite (non-random) piece.  My favourite piece to date is probably ‘Memoirs of a Fertile Imagination’ since I feel it encapsulates the most unique aspects of my style: An unlimited sense of flow (resulting in a non-existent focal point), anthropomorphism (giving human features to non-human subjects), and a playful tone. Its warmth always brings a smile to my face.” 

The Landscape Painter by Featured Artist Michael O'Gorman!You state that, “Working from life is plagiarism”.  That’s a pretty controversial way of explaining you’re not a fan of representational work.  What does that say about your view of photography?   “I appreciate photography to an extent, and the medium has incomparable value as a historical document. Unfortunately, while not everyone can compose music, write stories, or paint landscapes, everyone can take photographs. Consequently, photography has become the refuge of the amateur, and the online art world is now saturated with unremarkable photos that often eclipse the actual artwork.” Editor’s Note: Ouch.  Just in case you think this contest is rigged or biased, please note this is the second Featured Artist in a row that has, innocently enough, slammed some aspect of how I work.  Geez.  Guess it is good that I’m not thin-skinned.

A Corporate Ladder Deflating an Encapsulated Situation of Its Irony by Featured Artist Michael O'Gorman!What style or school of art do you think your work fits into and why?  “I’m comfortable with the surreal label, since Surrealism is an effective umbrella term for unusual artwork. I also feel that certain artworks of mine have Abstract and Visionary elements to them, though I don’t align myself with those movements.”

What artists (living and/or dead, famous or not) inspire you most?   I’m not a great art lover, and I can’t claim direct inspiration from other artists. That said, I do appreciate the works of Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel, Salvador Dali, Jacek Yerka, and Zdizslaw Beksinski. I like artists whose works are unique and instantly recognisable – artists that don’t need to signature their paintings because no-one can imitate them in the first place.

Interview continues below Perpetual Fluidity.

Perpetual Fluidity by Featured Artist Michael O'Gorman!

You know we have to talk about food. What is your favorite? Though I’m from the UK, my mother is Italian and I was raised in a household where Mediterranean food reigned supreme: Pasta, salads, buffalo mozzarella, bruschetta, pizzas, etc.  Italian food still remains my favourite.

“I’m also a big fan of British desserts, especially fruit scones with clotted cream and homemade strawberry jam (served with English breakfast tea, of course). I honestly think I could eat that every day. In fact, when I’m elderly enough to get away with it, I probably will.”

A Multi-Instrumentalist’s Self-Performance by Featured Artist Michael O'Gorman!What about snack foods? “Probably arancini. They are balls of rice and cheese that have been fried and coated in breadcrumbs.” I have to admit, I have never heard of arancini, much less tasted it.  Fascinating.  That doesn’t happen often.

So, what’s coming up next for you? “In-between creating new artwork, I hope to put my existing artwork on sale for the first time.  I’ll also create a page on my website where people can buy prints of the original work.  After all, is a home truly a home without a framed print of a campfire transforming into a horned beast that writes algebra on an oversized blackboard pulsating with live flesh?  Definitely not!”

Michael, thank you for such a well-defined point of view and for being precisely that for which I was searching this month.

Learn more about Michael O’Gorman online!

Learn more about Featured Artist Michael O Gorman!

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CALL for ENTRIES: Digital

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and temp

When I moved recently, I pared down some unnecessary kitchen gadgets–all digital.  Among the things I ditched were a digital meat thermometer and a digital kitchen timer.  I just prefer the non-digital ones.  I never quite trust the digital ones.  I’m always concerned about whether the batteries are on the fritz.  This next Call, although digital, isn’t one to ditch…

Check out this Call for Entries from Unframed for Digital.  Unframed is an online gallery dedicated to the celebration of art and creativity–for artists, by artists.  It is brand new!  In fact, this is their first juried show.  Take a look

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Learn more from unframed!CALL for ENTRIES:
Digital

 

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: Open to all digital art, including but not limited to:  digital painting, computer illustration, digitally manipulated photography, computer generated art, digital manipulations of traditional art, digital collages, fractal art, computer printed sculpture,  algorithmic art, app art, etc.

DEADLINE: December 15, 2013

NOTIFICATION: Ongoing

ENTRY FEE: $20 for up to 3 images

JURORS:  Entries will be juried by a selected panel from unframed’s staff.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more from the unframed online gallery!

REMINDER: 2014 Nat’l Juried

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more about

STINKY CHEESE

You never know until you try it. Food can look fantastic and taste terrible (chicory coffee–I don’t know how people drink it).  Food can smell awful (Muenster) and taste like heaven.  Sometimes you just never know until you try it. This next Call is from a fantastic arts organization. I know because I tried it. I hope you’ll try it to…

Check out this Call for Entries from The Arts & Culture Alliance for the National Juried Exhibition of 2014. This is a great show run by a great organization. I’ve shown here several times. Take a look…

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Learn more from the Arts and Culture Alliance!CALL for ENTRIES:
Nat’l Juried Exhibition 2014

 

The Arts & Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville announces a call for entries for its National Juried Exhibition of 2014. The Arts & Culture Alliance’s National Juried Exhibition was developed to provide a forum for artists to compete on a national scale and display their work. Approximately 40-50 fine art works encompassing all styles and genres from both emerging and established artists will be selected by the juror, Paul Collins, for exhibition in the main gallery.

ELIGIBILITY: All artists 18 years and older living in the US.

Learn more from the Arts and Culture Alliance!MEDIA: Entries must be original works completed within the last two years in the following categories: Painting (oil, watercolor, acrylic, pastel, digital, and mixed media), Graphic Arts (pencil, charcoal, pen and ink, conte, colored pencil, and printmaking), 3D (sculpture, ceramic, and fibers), and Photography.

DEADLINE: December 8, 2013

NOTIFICATION: Mailed January 6, 2014

ENTRY FEE: $40 for up to three works. Up to 3 additional entries may be submitted for $7/ea. Diptychs and triptychs are considered one work. Works are juried by digital images only. Each 2D work may be represented by one digital image, and each 3D work may be represented by up to three separate digital images: two full views and one detail view.

Learn more from the Arts and Culture Alliance!JUROR: Paul Collins is a multidisciplinary artist and curator from Nashville, TN. Paul makes drawings, paintings and sculpture that combine humor, tactility and observation to examine the world around us. Paul has an MFA from Yale and has been a resident at Skowhegan, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, and the Vermont Studio Center.

Paul is an enthusiastic collaborator and has curated shows or organized artist projects for a wide range of artists. Paul lives in Nashville, TN & works as Gallery Director and Asst Professor of Art at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville.

AWARDS: At least $1,000 in cash awards as designated by the juror

SALES: 25% commission (20% for check/cash).

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Download the Prospectus from the Arts and Culture Alliance!

CALL for ENTRIES: Stigmart

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cubed

There has to be a place for experimentation in the kitchen AND in the studio.  I recently tripped across the Experimental Food Society, an organization for the top UK culinary creatives.  Who wouldn’t love a fruit Rubik’s Cube (from the launch of Bompas & Parr’s new book Tutti Frutti, Image by Shaguta Ahmed.) And the Atlantic Ocean gets in my way AGAIN.  Maybe one day. 🙂 This next Call could be the home for experimentation in film though.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from Stigmart Press (online) for VideoFocus14.  There is no fee to enter, and it could be a great opportunity for experimental cinema.  The deadline is just around the corner…

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Learn more about VideoFocus!CALL for ENTRIES:
Stigmart

 

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists

MEDIA:  Work that breaks the boundaries between videoart and avant-garde cinema

DEADLINE:  November 30, 2013

ENTRY FEE:  No entry fees are required. Only selected artists will pay a life-long 10€ (approx $13.55 USD) contribution to Stigmart.10.

AWARDS:  Each selected artist will be featured in the Stigmart 2014 video net-issue.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more from Stigmart!