PEPPER with my TEA

How is it that watercress became girly food?  I don’t know either.  Maybe it is all those images of little girls having tea paries with white gloves and pearls.  The truth is watercress is tangy and peppery and worth of topping any burger you can imagine.  Step across this estrogen / testosterone myth with this Call from a typically all female space.  Take a chance…

Check out this Call for Entries from SOHO20 Gallery Chelsea for their 16th Annual Juried Exhibition in New York.  This show gives you 5 entries for $35 instead of the standard 3, and this is a rare opportunity for men to exhibit in a space dedicated to female artists. Did I mention only 20% commission?

CALL for ENTRIES:
SOHO20 Gallery Chelsea
16th Annual Juried Exhibition

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists.  SOHO2O Gallery Chelsea is a non-profit artist run gallery that has been promoting the work of women artists since 1973 through gallery exhibitions and public programming.  Their annual juried exhibition is open to both men and women.

MEDIA:  Open to all media.

DEADLINE:  Saturday June 4th, 2011

NOTIFICATION:  Notified by June 18th.

ENTRY FEE: $35 for up to 5 images and US $5 for each additional image. Applications must be uploaded online. Please include a brief artist’s statement (limit 500 words) and 1 page resume.  Artists working in video or animation can also include a link to an alternate website for viewing their video.  Please include title, date, medium, dimension, price for each work submitted.  Payment will be accepted using PayPal via their website.

JUROR:  Dean Daderko is a curator based in New York.  Daderko most recent shows include Reflecting Abstraction at Vogt Gallery in New York, and Disconnecting, Reconnecting…Disconnected:  Works by Lawrence Graham-Brown at Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art in Newark, NJ. 

Recently Daderko has also curated the exhibitions Pièce de Rèsistance at Larissa Goldston Gallery, 100 Artists Photograph The Future at Higher Pictures, and Liberty & The Land: Benny Andrews and William Villalongo at Cuchifritos, all in New York. He has also curated exhibitions for Art in General, Artists’ Space, Visual AIDS and The Kitchen in New York, and for the Center for Contemporary Art in Vilnius, Lithuania, and Centro de Investigactiones Artisticas in Buenos Aires, Argentina.  His writing has appeared in publications by Rutgers University, The Studio Museum in Harlem, El Museo del Barrio and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art.

In 2010, Daderko was the Curator of The Americas In-Residence at the Fonderie Darling in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and was the recipient of a 2008-09 Curatorial Research Fellowship from the French American Cultural Exchange which took him to Paris to study the work of the artist and performer Gina Pane. In his practice, Daderko is dedicated to fostering possibilities for productive dialogue between art, artists and audiences.

AWARDS: One artist or artist group will be awarded Best in Show.

SALES: A commission of 20% will be charged on all work sold through the exhibition. Work need not be for sale.

For complete details, visit the SOHO20 Gallery website!