Santa Fe

Listing Type: Call for Entry
Website: https://www.stratagallerysantafe.com
Cost: $35.00
Deadline: November 20, 2021

IMPORTANT DATES:
- Submission deadline: November 20, 2021
- Notification of accepted works: December 4, 2021
- Works due at the Gallery: December 21, 2021
- Unsold works picked up/returned: February 6, 2022
- Show dates: January 4 - February 5, 2022.

About the Against the Grain:
A core principle of Strata Gallery is to feature artists whose work in some way does not fit into recent or current aesthetic, ideological, thematic, representational or commercial trends within the art world. Against the Grain focuses on work that in some way counters contemporary tendencies or fashions in recent visual art. Such work might be unconventional in terms of materials, format, representational methods, concept, emotional range, predominant mood, visual, cultural or historical references, viewpoint, politics, narrative, expressive impetus, relationship to tradition, motivation, narrative devices, subject matter, or composition.

Against the Grain is a juried exhibition held at Strata Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The event will run from January 4 - February 5, 2022.

Prizes:
$200 - Best of Show (1)
$150 - Director's Choice (1)
$50 - Honorable Mention (3)

Entry Fee:
Submission fee is $35 for three works. $10 per additional entry (maximum of three additional entries. (Overall maximum of 6 works total)
All submissions will be handled through CaFÉ (Submit Here).

About the Juror:
Stephanie Jacinto is the Assistant Director at Strata Gallery and is a second-year MA student in the History of Art at the University of New Mexico where she studies Critical Race Theory and Modern U.S. Art History. Her primary research interests include the representation and reception of identity-based politics in U.S. visual culture.

About Strata Gallery:
Strata Gallery is a non-profit artist member gallery that strives to showcase the work of internationally Established Artists, while also promoting Emerging Artists who may struggle for gallery exposure. Our established artists help validate the promise of those who are still emergent, and the Strata gallery encourages creative partnerships and mentorship between these two groups. Strata Gallery does not favor any distinct style and promotes a range of authentic individual expression embodying diverse material practices, imagery, style, and ethos.

Submission Requirements:

• All artwork must be ready to hang/display with the proper hardware (i.e., paintings framed with wire).
• Media accepted: painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, photography, mixed media.
• Dimensions: Wall mounted work max size is 40x40 inches (12 inches deep for wall mounted sculpture).
• Max Weight: 25 lbs.
• Submitted work must remain available for the duration of the exhibit - January 4 - February 5, 2022.
• No changes to information can be made once submitted.

Image Format Requirements:

1.    Submit image in .jpg format. 

2.    Include the following annotations:

a.    Artist’s name

b.    Title of Artwork

c.     Date of completion

d.    Medium/Media

e.    Size in inches: Height x Width x Depth

f.      Price of artwork
 

Selection Criteria:
All artwork submissions will be reviewed by the juror, Stephanie Jacinto. All artists will receive notice of acceptance or rejection for their submission.

Selection criteria includes:

• Does the artwork comply with the submission requirements? Failure to follow submission requirements will result in immediate disqualification from consideration.
• Uniqueness and originality
• Visual impact
• Demonstrated excellence of technique

Eligibility: 
Artists who work in the following media: painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, photography, mixed media.

Juror: curator Julio César Morales, ASU Art Museum.

Deadline: May 31, 2021, 11:59 pm MDT.

Published: August 2021.

Just breathe. Inhale… exhale… These words might be heard in a yoga class or read in a children’s book. In recent years, the growing popularization of mindfulness has made society more aware of breath as a tool to manage mental and physical health, connect with one’s body, and become cognizant of one’s surroundings.

Breath is unconscious yet foundational to life. The last fourteen months have revealed that breath is not always available to those who need it. Many people ill with COVID-19 were saved by or perished in need of oxygen machines. Breath has become associated with social and racial justice as protesters chant “I can’t breathe.” Further, suffocating wildfires throughout the West and Southwest are annual reminders of climate change and the preciousness of air quality.

Breath has become a symbol in contemporary culture for the value of human life and raises the question, who has the privilege to breathe easy?

For Southwest Contemporary’s next issue, SWC invites artists (18+) living and working in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah to submit work in any media related to the theme “Inhale. Exhale.” Artists are encouraged to think broadly about these ideas.

Three selected artists will receive a profile article written by an SWC contributor accompanied by multiple images. Twelve or more additional artists will receive a two-page spread including two to three images and up to 300 words of text. All selected artists will receive a feature on SWC’s newsletter and social media channels and a complimentary print copy.

JUROR: CURATOR JULIO CÉSAR MORALES

This issue will be juried by Julio César Morales, an artist, educator, writer, and senior curator at the Arizona State University Art Museum in Tempe.

Morales’s curatorial work includes solo exhibitions with Superflex, Suzanne Lacy, Nina Beier, Ivan Argote, Tania Candiani, Miguel Calderon, Claudia Peña Salinas, Yoshua Okon, Koki Tanaka, Jennie C. Jones, Miguel Angel Rios, and Pablo Helguera. His own artwork explores labor, migration, and underground economies, and has been shown at the Lyon Biennale, Istanbul Biennale, Singapore Biennale, and Prospect 3, among others. The recipient of a 2020 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant, his art is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Kadist Foundation, and others.