Open Call | Ink on Paper

This is the international call for entries for visual artists to submit their artworks in the 10th Printmaking, Drawing, and Painting exhibition of the “Ink on Paper” series  aimed at showcasing artists using these means of expression. The exhibition will be held in a gallery in Athens, Greece in the Autumn.

Eligibility. The exhibition will accept paintings, printmaking, ink drawings on paper, art objects, sculptures, and many sub-techniques such as watermedia, Indian ink, with no restriction on style and technique. For example the artworks could be Line Drawing, Hatching, Pointillism, Wash Drawing, Brush Work, Contour Drawing, Silhouette, Calligraphy, Mixed Media, Printmaking, paper sculpture, collage, stippling, Sumi-e are accepted.

Theme. The exhibition is open-themed and the selection criterion is art excellence in the selected style, regardless of the genre of art, the theme, or the artist’s background.

Who Can Submit. Artists who are 18 years of age or older can submit their works for the exhibition.

Official Languages of the exhibition are Greek and English, and all published materials will be bilingual, including the commemorative catalog of the exhibition and the international online exhibition, parallel to the physical one in Athens.

Framework. Ink is a liquid pigment with multiple applications. It originates from the ancient Greek word “melas” (=black) because the first color used was black. If we claim that “Human history has been written in ink,” most people will think of books. However, much earlier, human memory was painted on cave walls with ink, long before the concept of writing was invented. For 100,000 years, humans first painted and then gradually wrote what needed to be preserved. From the 15th century on, when paper became common in Europe, artists adopted it, and the history of paper and ink merged into a bouquet of arts. Today, artists create works of unique sensitivity, often unexpected, with a great diversity of styles.