I CANNOT TELL A LIE
I love National and International juried art shows. As much as I love a theme, I also love the sort of County Fair idea of the best and the brightest that the art world has to offer all lined up for the viewer regardless of media, content or technique. I’m not suggesting a low-brow affair or a pie-eating contest. I simply applaud the optimism is takes to put on a show expecting the spectacular arrival of little (and big) gems from parts unknown.
Check out the 14th Annual National Juried Art Show from Gallery West in Alexandria, Virginia–just a stone’s throw from Washington, DC. Here’s a great chance to pay a reasonable entry fee, for your work to be reviewed by a well-respected juror to possibly be shown in a great gallery. It is a perfect combination.
CALL for ENTRIES: 14th Annual National Juried Art Show
Gallery West, Ltd., is pleased to announce its 14th Annual National Juried Fine Arts Competition for 2011. Just across the Potomac River from Washington, D. C., Gallery West is a fine arts gallery located in the heart of Old Town, Alexandria, Virginia.
At their location on King Street, Gallery West is surrounded by high-end boutiques, art galleries, antique shops, fine restaurants and hotels. Gallery West, founded in 1979, is owned and operated by Washington area artists of all media.
REQUIREMENTS: Open to all local or national artists 18+ years. Original fine art in any medium is acceptable. No videos or reproductions. Original 2-D/3D only. Works on paper 24” or larger in the long dimension must be framed behind plexiglas. Clip mounts will not be accepted. Works on canvas may be wrapped around stretchers if painting extends along the sides. Stretchers must be at least 1” deep. Work that is wet will not be accepted. Maximum framed size not to exceed 30” x 40” or 72ui. All two-dimensional works must be ready for hanging with hooks and wire.
ENTRY METHOD: Entry Fee is $35 for up to three works. Additional works, $10 each. Jurying will be from digital images. CD’s must be labeled with artist’s name (last name first), titles, and medium. Digital images should be 72ppi, RGB jpeg format with maximum 600 pixels in any one dimension. File names should be artist’s last name followed by title. Example: JonesBlueSquares. Acceptance of any digital entry is contingent on seeing the real object.
DEADLINE: Received by November 12, 2010.
JUROR: F. Lennox Campello is one of the Mid Atlantic’s best known arts personalities. Educated in art at the University of Washington School of Art, Campello is an award-winning artist, a widely published freelance art critic, and a curator with more than one hundred curated exhibitions under his belt.
A radio and TV personality, he is often heard on NPR, the Voice of America and MHZ TV’s “ArtsMedia News” discussing art issues as a former and charter Associate Dealer for Sothebys.com and one of the internet’s seminal visual arts bloggers. His Daily Campello Art News is one of the web’s earliest and most popular art blogs with nearly a million visitors a year. Campello is also the co-founder of the Fraser Galleries of Washington, DC and Bethesda, Maryland, which he co-owned for ten years until 2006. His work was recently selected by well-known art collector Mera Rubell for the “Cream” auction at the Katzen Art Museum.