layers &
LAYERS
I find myself craving carpaccio lately, but I’m not much of a meat eater anymore. Carpaccio is typically made using the highest quality, thinly sliced beef sirloin then served raw. But in recent years, the same term is now used in reference to the same treatment of fish and vegetables. The only unifying factor is the dressing of raw ingredients with lemon and olive oil, salt and pepper. Done correctly, the balance of ingredients in like a delicate collage. That beautiful balance is what I really crave. It can’t be done by recipe, only by feel, by taste, by experience. This Call wants the same collage. Take a look…
Check out this Call for Entries from Sweetwater Center for the Arts (Sewickley, PA) for Poetic Logic. Great space. Thematically sound. Talented juror. What’s not to love?
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“In the early 20th century, with the advent of mass production of materials and media artists like Pablo Picasso, George Braque and Kurt Schwitters began developing collage as a way of reappropriating and repurposing materials and images to imbue their works with juxtaposed information that expressed a kind of poetic logic of association. In our current culture of mass information and media it is not surprising that artists are finding a continued purpose in investigating such relevant processes.” –from sweetwaterartcenter.org
ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists residing in the U.S.
MEDIA: Open to collage, assemblage & other processes of incorporating elements of repurposed materials as a way of expressing our contemporary experience
DEADLINE: December 14, 2015
NOTIFICATION: December 28, 2015
ENTRY FEE: $25 for up to 4 works
JUROR: Shawn Watrous is a painter and collage artist from San Francisco who currently lives and works in Pittsburgh, PA. His work has been exhibited locally and nationally including shows at The Painting Center in NYC, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, and the Mattress Factory Museum, among others. Watrous received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and his MFA from Kent State University. He is an Adjunct Instructor at Penn State University teaching an art overview class that focuses on western art history.
