SWEET & SOUR
As I frequently shout from the mountain top, I love portraiture. I love faces, specifically. But when I began my Psychomachia project with Arizona artist Jerry Portelli, he challenged me to limit my use of faces and to concentrate on other figurative depictions. The process started on a sour note but has ended up pretty sweet…a lemon drop, if you will.
Maybe “Figuratively Speaking,” the National Call for Entries from the Emerging Young Artist (EYA) Organization and the Village Gallery in Montgomery, AL, will be your lemon drop, too. The entry fee is a reasonable $35, and the Best of Show winner will get a solo show at the Village Gallery. You know you want the show…so go for it.
National Juried Call for Entries: Figuratively Speaking
“Figuratively Speaking” is not limited to the traditional/contemporary aspects of the human forms, conditions, interactions, and abstractions of the human body. “Figuratively Speaking” includes figuration in contemporary design in terms of shapes, lines, and colors.
All artists over 18 years of age, residing in the United States are eligible. Work must have been completed within the last three years.
NO GICLEE COPIES OF ANY KIND. Works must be ready to hang.
They cannot accept free standing sculpture, installation, or video arts. Absolutely no substitutions of accepted works will be allowed. All accepted works must remain in the gallery for the duration of the exhibit.
AWARDS
Best of Show: $200 and A Solo show at Village Gallery (2 weeks duration). If selected artist is unable to participate in a solo show, he or she will be given $350 cash.
Merit awards (3): $50 and a Group show at Village Gallery (2 weeks duration). Is selected artists are unable to participate in a group show, they will be given $80 cash
Honorable Mentions (3)
JURORS
RICHARD MILLS is a native of Knoxville, Tennessee, and received his B.F.A. and M.F.A. from the University of Tennessee. Currently, he is Professor Emeritus of Art at Auburn University at Montgomery.
Richard Mills has had over 30 solo exhibitions including The Auburn University Gallery, Auburn, AL, The Ty Stokes Gallery, Atlanta, GA, and has exhibited in over 30 group and invitational shows including The Pirate, Denver, CO, State of Art- International Watercolor Biennial- East/West , Parkland College, Champaign, IL, and American Watercolor, The Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Republic of China.
Mills has had work accepted in over 90 national and regional juried exhibitions and has won over 30 awards including Watercolor U.S.A., Springfield, MO, The Red Clay Survey, Huntsville Museum of Art (AL), Taos National Exhibition of American Art, Taos, NM, The San Diego Watercolor Society, CA, The New England Watercolor Society, Boston, MA, and the National Watercolor Society, Brea, CA.
CHINTIA KIRANA was born in Jakarta, Indonesia in 1987. Chintia received her B.A. in painting from Auburn University of Montgomery in 2009. She was chosen to be the student Marshall, and Outstanding student from Liberal Arts Department. She currently represented by CAS Gallery in Montgomery, Alabama.
In 2009, she founded EYA (Emerging Young Artists) with the help of her co-founder Iman Serajj- Blanche. Currently, she is the gallery director/curator at Village Gallery in Montgomery, Alabama. Her works has been exhibited nationally and internationally. “To me art is a story, a memory, a passion, a love of creating something beautiful, and a mean to expresses my feelings.”
BARRETT BAILEY earned his MFA 2004 from the New York Academy of Art. Since then he has come back to his hometown of Montgomery, Alabama to use its residents as his subjects in his work.
He is a contemporary figurative artist trained in traditional academic methods. His portraits tell a story that can only be felt. Barrett teaches at surrounding schools and Museums throughout the year.
DANA BICE graduated from Auburn University at Montgomery in 1994, summa cum laude, with a B.A. in Fine Arts (Painting). In 1996, she earned her M.F.A. in Art History from Ohio University. She has also studied art history at The University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill.
For seven years, she has taught art history at A.U.M., and is currently its School of Liberal Arts’ Academic Advisor. Her juror experience includes art exhibitions sponsored by the Montgomery Art Guild, the Selma Art Guild, Montgomery’s Society of Arts and Crafts, and UNC-CH’s International Studies Center. She lives in Montgomery and creates paintings and assemblage art when she is not chasing after her five dogs.
SUZANNE JENSEN was born in Ft. Wayne, Indiana and raised in Indianapolis. Early on, her artistic talents were encouraged by her parents and teachers, who recognized her ability as a painter. As an undergraduate at Indiana State University, she began her first serious explorations in the visual arts working mostly in painting and drawing.
Then she discovered the ceramics studio. It was here that her skills and talents were most focused and challenged. In 1983, she graduated Indiana State with a Bachelor of Fine Arts with ceramics as her focus area. She went on the study ceramics at Tulane University, receiving her Master of Fine Arts in 1985.
She has been teaching in ceramics and sculpture at Auburn University Montgomery since 1987. Her works have been included in numerous national and regional exhibitions, and she has received many awards for her efforts. Ms. Jensen also has work on display in several galleries, most located in the South.
ENTRY PROCEDURE
Digital Files: must be JPEG’s submitted on a CD which can be read by a PC or a MAC. JPEG images should not exceed 1600 pixels in any direction and file size cannot exceed 1 MB.
Please label CD with your name and label each JPEG image as follows: LAST Name, FIRST Name, TITLE and NUMBER that corresponds with that image on the Entry Form. Failure to follow these instructions may result in the nullification of your entry.
Send CD submission to:
EYA (Emerging Young Artists)
Attn: Figuratively Speaking
P. O. Box 231103
Montgomery, Alabama 36123-1103
Send accepted works to:
Village Gallery
107 S. Court Street
Montgomery, Alabama