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ARTIST of the DAY: Meghan Stratham

secretive, ISOLATED GIRLS

My own work has been a study in process & a lot of silhouettes these days. It is no wonder that I have completely fallen for the work of today’s Artist of the Day, Meghan Stratman. She has found a way to gives us little glimpse of the lives of folks like us…and not. Dark & sweet & funny & sad; idealized & unearthly people & creatures & those that lie between. I want to own this work. (continues below)

 Mrs White by Meghan Stratman, cut paper
Mrs. White by Meghan Stratman, cut paper

“I am drawn to stories and lore in all forms… Recurring subjects in my art include ghosts, girls, monsters, and animals, and themes of friendship and loneliness. I like to include bright colors and a sense of humor in my art and enjoy combining elements to humorous effect, such as badgers sporting fezzes or weasels wearing rocket packs. I am also drawn to urban decay, abandoned places, and ghost stories: people and places that are lost and forgotten. My art world is populated with secretive, isolated girls and silly creatures that may or may not be wearing space helmets. I create my work with cut, layered paper, which allows for a sense of texture and dimensionality.”

Learn more about Meghan Stratman!

CALL for ENTRIES: For the Love of Animals

Learn more about the For the Love of Animals exhibit from LibertyTown Arts Workshop!old tricks
NEW TREATS

My “pup” will eat anything.  Pepper, my four-legged child, is going to be a pup of ten-years-old soon.  As she gets older, there are fewer and fewer things she should eat.  The food she loves is of the cheapest, most fast-food sort of variety.  We limit her people food to fresh veggies & the occasional egg, but her dog food and treats have taken a huge turn.  The cheapest of food causes the worst of skin allergies, but for the love of this animal, I’ll probably be making her food and treats before long.  This next Call is for the love of animals, not just dogs.  Here’s your chance to make a difference, but they are taking the percentage from their share…

Check out this Call for Entries from LibertyTown Arts (Fredericksburg, VA) for a nat’l juried exhibit, For the Love of Animals.  A percentage of jury fees & gallery’s commission go to the SPCA.  Take a look…

*Editor’s Note: If you have read the personal portion of this post, CALL for ENTRIES: For the Love of Animals, anywhere other than by email subscription or on ArtAndArtDeadlines.com, it has been published without permission and is considered theft.

Learn more about the For the Love of Animals exhibit from LibertyTown Arts Workshop!CALL for ENTRIES:
For the Love of Animals

 

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to artists, age 16+

MEDIA:  Open to all media

DEADLINE:  January 15, 2016 (8pm EST)

NOTIFICATION:  January 18, 2016

ENTRY FEE:  $25 for 1, $5 ea. add’l up to 10. (Members $15 for 1, $5 ea. add’l). 10% of jury fees and 10% of show sales (taken out of the gallery’s commission) will go to Fredericksburg SPCA to support their work in rescuing animals.

AWARDS:  First Place $250, Second Place $150 and Third Place $75

SALES: LibertyTown keeps a commission of 40% on all show sales.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more about the For the Love of Animals exhibit from LibertyTown Arts Workshop!

ARTIST of the DAY: Frédérique Morrel

redemption

The season of mass consumption is upon us.  I will not waste my time trying to dissuade you of the want to give gifts to loved ones. I just want to ask you to consider value.  Does the item you are bestowing add to the recipient’s lives?  Does it help them grow?  Does it better equip them to dispel hate or anger?  Does it convey how you value the one who will receive it?  Mixed media artist Frédérique Morrel, today’s Artist of the Day., has addressed the question of value beautifully, and I offer it to you as yet another perspective.   (continues below)

Ma Biche (My Doe) by Frédérique Morrel (foam, fur & tapastries)
Ma Biche (My Doe) by Frédérique Morrel (foam, fur & tapastries)

“…these neglected tapestries, seen and re-seen along these journeys, suddenly appeared to me as the idealized transference of my own visionary.  These tapestries appeared to be the most accurate material to illustrate my work about modern vanities, loss of the paradise and rebirth in a better world.  These tapestries are the most obvious and literally impicturing vocabulary to depict loss of some values, consequently to the injection of hyper consuming in occidental societies.  These tapestries are telling the stories of these key and essential casualties:

  • loss of sale value : these tapestries are expensive (material & time consuming), but worth peanuts.
  • loss of aesthetic value : these tapestries are considered ugly and out of date, but have their own hidden beauty, particularly for those who are them.
  • loss of emotional value : these tapestries are telling love and family happiness stories, but are abandoned and thrown into mud.

“I revitalize them, offering a redemption, beneath animal appearance and covered with this popular language.” –Frédérique Morrel

Learn more about Frédérique Morrel!

ARTIST of the DAY: S.L. Baker

another LANGUAGE

Process can be such an immersive experience.  My own work is focused, often figurative with meaning in the minutia.  I get lost in my own process, but I envy the abstracted expression of painters like S.L. Baker, today’s Artist of the DayThe inclusion of the ensō below perfectly captures the heart of this work and why I love it. (continues below)

Red Enso Landscape by SL Baker Acrylic on canvas, 20 x 24
Red Enso Landscape by S.L. Baker, acrylic on canvas, 20 x 24

“The work that appears on my canvases is a confluence of social, spiritual and familial concern.  Working mostly in acrylic and using my hands instead of brushes, a moment, an injustice, a joy becomes a color, a texture, a line, another language. I do not know the exact meaning other than I find gratitude within the process and believe that it says something.” — S.L. Baker

Learn more about S.L. Baker!

ARTIST of the DAY: Maurice Mbikayi

I love technology; I do. 

Technology is what allows AAAD to offer free resources to artists.  But I have days when I look around the restaurant or library (or my own livingroom) and I wonder at the blue glow of electronic devices on nearly every face in the room.  Is this where & what we want to be?  Have we weighed the positives & negatives of the constant immersion? Today’s Artist of the Day , Maurice Mbikayi, has given us his perspective in a series of works that are definitely worth investigating. (continues below)

Narcisurfing Netizenship by Maurice Mbikayi (computer keys, cables, fibreglass & wood)
Narcisurfing Netizenship by Maurice Mbikayi (computer keys, cables, fibreglass & wood)

“I a dragged into a virtual world of codes daily.  There, an irresistible fascination and a whispering concern transform me into something alien.” –Maurice Mbikayi

Learn more about Maurice Mbikayi!

GETTING a SHOW: Updated Resource

Getting a Show: Avoiding the Pitfalls & Pratfalls by RLGibson

 

ArtAndArtDeadlines.com began as a way to keep track of shows worth entering for artists, friends and peers– beginners, emerging & established. And over the years, I have found that established artists still make many the same mistakes I see from beginners, over and over again. As a gallerist, juror & critic, I am regularly asked why I choose one artist’s work over another.  There is never just one reason, but there are a handful of regular mistakes that influence my decisions NOT to choose work.  The obvious first issue: the art must be good, or at least promising–that should be the most important fact.  But to tell the truth, there’s a gallery or a show out there for most art– the sumptuous & the sour.  But, because the world is full of banana peels, we’ve newly updated one of our artist resources…

Getting a Show: Avoiding the Pitfalls & Pratfalls!

CALL for ENTRIES: Bang Bang

Learn more about the Bang Bang exhibit from On The Ground Floor!SWEET
imposter

White chocolate is not chocolate.  Every year I have to remind a few folks.  Those cocoa bean solids are the defining issue.  I’ll eat just a kiss, or a smooch if you will, of white chocolate each year.  But when I say, “I’m craving chocolate”, the answer is never white-chocolate-macadamia-nut anything.  Just to be clear.  Consider this my yearly white chocolate PSA.  And to be honest, I’d rather have my smooches & kisses a very different way –like this Call.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from On the Ground Floor (Los Angeles) for Bang Bang.  Another great Call from a fantastic venue, $25 Entry & open to all media. Don’t miss this opportunity…

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Learn more from On the Ground Floor!CALL for ENTRIES:
Bang Bang

 

“Brancusi did it. Rodin did it. Even Tamara de Lempicka did it.

“The kiss has left its mark on many works of art, from the stone carvings of Constantin Brancusi to its marble predecessor sculpted by Rodin. With her kiss, Tamara de Lempicka delivered a woman swept off her feet by a high society gentleman, clad in an oily top hat, against the cubist backdrop of a city port. Each kiss carries its own sentiment.

“When lips meet, they promise temporary escape or a lifetime of devotion. When tongues touch, they deliver notes to our lovers, detailing desire or a lack thereof.” –from onthegroundfloor.co

Learn more about the Bang Bang exhibit from On The Ground Floor!ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: Open to all media

THEME:  The kiss –open to interpretation

DEADLINE:  January 3, 2016

ENTRY FEE: $25

CURATOR: Malika Ali is a L.A.-based artist & curator working in multiple media including film & video, installation, photography & the written word. She is an alumna of Howard University & The American Film Institute where she earned a Master of Fine Arts degree.

Malika Ali has exhibited with The Greater Cleveland Urban Film Festival, Arena 1 Gallery, Upstairs at the Market Gallery, and On The Ground Floor (OTGF), an artist-run space she co-founded in the View Park district of L.A. Her blog converges contemporary art, writing, design, lifestyle, family, culture & politics.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

Learn more about the Bang Bang exhibit from On The Ground Floor!

 

ARTIST of the DAY: Richard Shilling

art of the land, POWERED by the SUN

I live rurally, by choice, and find the environment I live in almost overwhelmingly inspirational.  Today’s Artists of the Day has found a way to put my inspiration to work for him AS art.  Enjoy the gorgeous, ephemeral work of Richard Shilling.  So many of his works are powered by the sun, just like today’s Power It Forward Call. (continues below)

4 Colour Sunwheel by Richard Shilling
4 Colour Sunwheel by Richard Shilling (coloured leaves, dogwood frame & the evening sun)

“Through his ongoing relationship with nature he explores themes to do with time, ecology and the constant flux of the seasons and expresses these ideas through his unique land art images.  Every sculpture is photographed in natural light, using normal camera equipment and without any Photoshop…  Each photo accurately depicts how each sculpture appeared, at its most vibrant moment, before the elements reclaim the materials back to nature.” –from richardshilling.co.uk

Learn more about Richard Shilling!

ARTISTS of the Day: Jason Hallman & Stephen Stum

don’t be BLUE

I know the psychology of color dictates that blue is symbolic of sadness, but it always conjures the quiet of standing water for me.  It is always of surprise to me that blue is the most commonly-claimed “favorite color” (my own is red). But I doubt the popularity of this hue is of any question of today’s Artists of the Day Jason Hallman & Stephen Stum of Stallman Studio.  And it IS the perfect work and hue to feature with today’s Blue Call. (continues below)

"Rising Currents" by Jason Hallman of Stephen Stum of Stallman Studios
Detail of “Rising Currents” by Jason Hallman of Stephen Stum of Stallman Studios

Stallman is pioneering a new technique using paint and canvas as sculpture, naming this body of work Canvas on Edge. They are taking canvas and paint and giving it a creative edge. Now the canvas has the leading role, creating form, highlight and movement. The cut edge of the canvas creates an elevated line drawing and when seen at an angle, fields of color emerge as your perspective to the piece changes.  The hue of the painted canvas reflects on the background creating a spectrum of color. By using reflecting light, pigment and structure they can multiply the hues and tones within each sculpture.–from stallmanstudio.com

Learn more about Stallman Studio!

CALL for ENTRIES: Blue

Learn more about the Blue exhibit from art-competition.net!holiday
BLUES

I have broken my own blue-food rule.  I have ranted & raved for years about food coloring.  I have forever sworn off any faux food colored any shade of blue, but I have given in.  This year will be my very first time in my life that I will have a “real” Christmas tree (living, as opposed to artificial).  So, I decided that all the ornaments and decorations should be “real” too (read handmade or homemade).  I couldn’t resist the most beautiful electric-blue gum drops I have ever seen.  I am testing them out as a sweet garland.  Forgive the hypocrisy, but I promise not to eat them.  This next Call is another non-edible use for all things blue.  Maybe this one’s for you…

Check out this Call for Entries from Art-Competition.net and G25N for Blue. Only $20 to enter. This Call is open to seven different media including digital & fiber art. Take a look

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Learn more about the Blue exhibit from art-competition.net!CALL for ENTRIES:
Blue

 

“The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for the supernatural… The brighter it becomes, the more it loses its sound, until it turns into silent stillness & becomes white.”
— Wassily Kandinsky

ELIGIBILITY: All artists age 18+

MEDIA: Open to all still media: painting, drawing, collage, photography, digital, etc.

THEME: BLUE. The art created of any subject that is enhanced by the use of the color blue, whether it is a single dot of blue or a completely blue image. The color blue should enhance the narrative of the works subject as Blue can imply many emotions, symbolism or feelings, from blue marble to Blues music. Blue can express the future, good feelings, happiness, prosperity, ocean or sky, and we can feel blue, etc. It can be used to enhance, emphasize or be a focal point in the art.

DEADLINE:  January 4, 2016

NOTIFICATION:  January 13, 2016

ENTRY FEE: $20 for 1, $10 each add’l

AWARDS:  Up to Fifteen artists will be selected for a group exhibit, “BLUE” at G25N’s online gallery opening on January 22, 2016.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

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