EAT my ART
We barrelled right through Memorial Day picnic time, and watermelon season! I love a cold slice of watermelon with a little sprinkle of sea salt and fresh-cracked pepper. I just wish my watermelon could look like the Chef Tashaki masterpiece pictured left. Many of you had an extra day off for the holiday weekend, so don’t waste a short week and miss the opportunity to carve a watermelon AND enter this next Call for Entries. Take a chance…
Check out this Call for Entries from kSpace Contemporary (Corpus Christi, TX) for the Third Coast National exhibition. Enter any media for $35 by August 1 for chance to win a part of the $2500+ in cash awards. Take a chance…
The Third Coast National, now in its fifth year, is a non-thematic, juried exhibition of new works of art from all over the USA. Past jurors include internationally acclaimed artist Trenton Doyle Hancock and Fairfax Dorn, Executive Director of Ballroom Marfa.
ELIGIBILITY: Artists age 18+ living in the USA may enter. Works previously exhibited at K Space Contemporary or K Space Art Studios-Hot Spot are not eligible. Works must be completed within the last 2 years. All works must be for sale.
MEDIA: All visual art forms and media are acceptable. Video must be no longer than 5 minutes. Video is shown with a DVD player and digital projector OR the artist must provide the means for it to be viewed (computer, TV screen, monitor). Complicated installations must be installed by the artist. Failure to comply with the following submission guidelines may disqualify your entry – entry fee will not be refunded.
DEADLINE: August 1, 2011
NOTIFICATION: August 10-12, 2011
ENTRY FEE: $35/non-members (or $30/members) for up to 3 works of art. Each additional entry is $5. Enter online through their website. The Entry fee can be paid online through PayPal or by mailing a check or money order payable to K Space Contemporary to P.O. Box 545, Corpus Christi, TX 78403. Put “3rd Coast” in the memo section of your check when mailing in payment. If your name is different in your PayPal account and your entry name, be sure to make note of it in both the online entry and in the “notes” section of the PayPal payment.
JUROR: Tony Magar. Born in London, England, Magar studied at the Royal Albert School of Speech and Literature before traveling through Africa, China and India. Ending up in New York City, Magar became active in the art scene as one of the founders of the legendary Park Place Gallery (the first gallery in Soho to show abstract art) and as an apprentice to Mark di Suvero. He has participated in notable exhibitions such as “New Forms” at the Martha Jackson Gallery in 1958, where he exhibited side by side with Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, John Chamberlain, Willem De Kooning and Franz Kline, and the “Whitney Sculptural Annual” in 1966 at the Whitney Museum NYC. Both a painter and a sculptor, Magar has an entire chapter devoted to his work in the recent book ‘New American Abstraction 1950-1970′ published by Skira.
AWARDS: $2500+ in Cash awards for Erick Schaudies Memorial Award for Best of Show plus 2nd through 4th places. Honorable Mentions will be given at the juror’s will.
SALES: K Space collects payment and retains 40% commission. Include commission when pricing your work.
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