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CALL for ENTRIES: Las Laguna Aqueous 2019

Learn more about the 2019 Aqueous from Las Laguna Gallery!

open up & say A-GUA

I quit smoking six and a half years ago.  I entirely expected to be able to better taste food.  What I didn’t expect was my sense of smell to like a blood hound.  My hearing also wildly improved, but my family believes the timing is just a ridiculous coincidence.  My sense of smell, while appreciated, has consequences.  The trash has to go out more often.  I can smell a soft spot in a potato in dry storage or an overly ripe banana all the way in my bedroom the minute I wake up.  The strangest smell revelation for me is water.  Water should be odorless, but it rarely is.  Tap water almost always reeks of chlorine or sulphur or has an acrid metallic odor. Ugh.

Meanwhile my husband is upfitting a small barn as my new studio, and it doesn’t have running water.  As a watercolorist, I have to have clean water.  As a solution, I designed an inexpensive system that pumps water from exchangeable 5 gallon jugs and a separate complex filter system to allow me to send the gray water out to water the flower beds.  I use non-toxic paints, and my filtration system is meant to capture the pigment, but I am going to plant white flowers… just in case.  This next Call is all about the water soluble media & has fewer guidelines than the society shows.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from the Las Laguna Gallery (Laguna Beach, CA) for Aqueous 2019, a show of work in water-soluble media. $35 entry & 35% commission.  Don’t miss this opportunity…

Learn more about the 2019 Aqueous from Las Laguna Gallery!CALL for ENTRIES:
Aqueous 2019
from Las Laguna Gallery

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

THEME:  This is an open theme exhibition and all subject types will be considered. From Traditional landscapes, Local views, Abstracts, Wildlife, Pets, Figure studies, Seascapes, harbors, and beach scenes, Impressionistic landscapes or more.

MEDIA: Open to water soluble media: watercolor, acrylic, casein, gouache, ink & egg tempera

DEADLINE:  July 9, 2019

NOTIFICATION: June 15, 2019.  If accepted, delivery of work is July 25-30.

ENTRY FEE: $35 for up to 3 

SALES: The gallery will retain 35% commission on all sales.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

 

Learn more from Las Laguna Gallery!

CALL for ENTRIES: Paper Cut

Learn more about the Paper Cut Call for Entries from the MUSA Collective in Boston!

RADishes

Spring is here.  I had a gorgeous, fresh Spring radish salad on Saturday while wearing flip flops in sunny 80° weather.  Today is Monday, I made beef stew while it was snowing, in Tennessee, on April 16th.  So, let me say Spring is here –on paper.  Who knows about tomorrow, but this next Call is also about being on paper.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from MUSA collective (Boston, MA) for Paper Cut.  The artist collective is using this show to raise money for a new flat file. This could be a great to start a relationship with a new venue…

Learn more about the Paper Cut Call for Entries from the MUSA Collective in Boston!

CALL for ENTRIES:
Paper Cut 
from MUSA collective

ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists 18+

MEDIA: Open to 2D work on paper, any medium including but not limited to graphite, ink, gouache, printmaking & collage.

DEADLINE:  May 1, 2018

NOTIFICATION:  June 1, 2018

ENTRY FEE: $10 up to 3

JUROR: Members of MUSA collecive

AWARD:  Juror-members will review the submissions to choose work for this summer exhibition which will run from July 14 to August 25, 2018. Additionally, five artists will be chosen to add artwork to MUSA’s in-house flat file; works from this collection may be included in future exhibitions.

For complete details, Learn more from MUSA!

Learn more from the MUSA Collective in Boston!
 

ARTIST of the DAY: Gyula Sagi

Op. 144, 70x50cm, ink on paper, 2017 by Gyula Sagi
“Op. 144” (ink on paper, 2017) by Gyula Sagi

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“Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify
with the heartbeat, or with walking,
or with breathing.”
Karlheinz Stockhausen

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Portraiture draws me in because I crave the human, the humane. But, aesthetically, the geometric and the abstract are the chosen wallpaper of my life.  I seek out the repetition of strokes and patterns of lines and symbols.   When I came across the work of today’s AAAD Artist of the Day, Gyula Sagi, my thoughts went immediately to the human heartbeat and the comfort found in repetition.
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Find a comforting rhythm in the work
of
AAAD Artist of the Day Gyula Sagi!

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ARTIST to LOVE: Megan Elizabeth

Peek-a-Boo, We See You!

Say “Hello” to our newest Artist to Love

Megan Elizabeth
Acrylic, Ink & Spraypaint
Jellies, Painting by Megan Elizabeth
Jellies
Painting
The work of MEGAN ELIZABETH reflects an attitude of experimentation, analysis of the elements of accident & a curiosity regarding the beauty created by the transparency & overlapping of ideas. Washes in the paintings, elements of spontaneity & use of collage are fundamental in many of my works. My inspiration comes from waterscapes, sunsets, bright colors in nature & the silhouettes created by extreme light or darkness. Much of my work has been derived from experiences living in Spain, travels in the Caribbean and in Europe & growing up on the east coast of the US.

FAVORITE FOOD: Chocolate

Are you an Artist to Love? Be sure to let us know!

FEATURED ARTIST: Melody Sage

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and fudge

I seem to be always apologizing for running behind on judging the $5 Art Contest. This time I am just going to say, “Yes, these are the April results.  Let’s move on.”   Think of it like waiting for bread to rise.  Ahhh, did I mention I’m trying to live a wheat-free life now?  Let’s call “carbohydrate-jonesing” a contributing factor to this month’s tardiness while I formulate an excuse for May.

This month’s artist works in intricate detail and with a twist of humor and pun. Watercolor, ink and drawing all come together to give this mechanically organic feel.  The color screams pop art, but the texture often echoes natural forms.

On behalf of ArtAndArtDeadlines.com, I am proud to announce the Featured Artist chosen from the April entries to the $5 Art Contest is Melody Sage, bringing us a little smile, a pop of color and a twist of phrase.

Learn more about our Featured Artist Melody Sage!

Sage’s work made me want to get to know her over cocktails, if for no other reason than to mine for puns.  Inspirational wit

FEATURED
ARTIST:

Melody Sage

 

Melody Sage grew up in a heavily forested area of northern Wisconsin.

“Ecology is magic to me. Following streams to see where they led, keeping grass snakes in jars, drinking tea cups of rain: a barefoot and disheveled child, bowled over by splendor.  Those hours studying intricate textures and forms shaped my sensibility.”

Kiwi Bird by Featured Artist Melody SageSince I am also a writer,
subtext, wit, and narrative
infuse my art.

 

“In my work, I explore the connection between nature and metaphor, color and poetry, pattern and clarity.”

Are you a self-taught artist or have you been formally instructed? “I am self taught.”

“I come from a big eccentric family where if someone had an idea to attach a bed with ropes to the ceiling to turn it into a swing, everybody else would say, ‘Why not? Who cares about dents in the wall?’  From there, becoming an artist was a natural progression.

The Cat Lady by Featured Artist Melody SageTalk to me about the process you use. “Mostly I like to work with ink and paint, things that stain and make mistakes that I then have to improvise and work around.  I like the spontaneity and intractability of tangible materials, the surprises.  The possibility of unredeemable failure at any moment is exciting.”

I notice that you seem to be attracted to portraiture and organic forms.  Tell me why.  How do they work together for inspiration?  “Humans are an indivisible piece of the continuum of nature. I think it is very primal. A disproportionate portion of the brain is dedicated to facial recognition. We are hardwired to see faces everywhere from gnarled trees to Martian geology.  It’s compelling.”

Your work is so diverse that I really had a hard time finding a direction.  Talk to me about writing and the effect it has on your art.  “I am interested in metaphorical leaps, that moment of recognition when an unlikely connection is made.  My writing is imagery rich in style, and my art is often inspired by word play, mythic archetypes, or poetry.”

Skeleton Key by Featured Artist Melody Sage“Another major part of my process is listening to audio-books downloaded from the library. I find it distracts the talkative critical left side of my brain like dangling keys in front of a baby.”

Editor’s note: In my studio it is the white noise of junk TV in an adjacent room.  Just something to break the pressure of silence.

Talk to me about the effect the possibility of sales has on your technique or subject matter. “I never expected to sell my work, and it still feels unreal when it happens. I feel wistful, when I see artists who have a consistent vision, and market themselves with savvy and grace, but that’s not my strong suit.”  ...Segue into the merits of the $5 Art Contest, snicker.

You know we have to talk about food. What is your favorite? “Nectarines.  I know they are basically bald peaches, but I love them to the utmost.  Fresh baked bread used to be my favorite food, until I had to give up wheat as well (sad trombone).”   Sad trombone for us both.  Remind me to give you a recipe for gluten free nectarine scones.  Yum.

Endless Love by Featured Artist Melody SageWhat about snack foods? “Lately, I have been making this recipe for fudge babies about once a week. They are like the love child of a cookie dough ball and a truffle that grew up and went to a liberal arts college.” For the record, I chose Melody BEFORE she sent links to chocolate recipes.  No bribery involved.

So, what’s coming up next for you? More of my life now, fingers crossed.“Brevity is the soul of wit.”  Thank you, Melody (and Shakespeare).

See more of the work of Melody Sage online!

http://melodysage.indiemade.com/

CALL for ENTRIES: Where I Live

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It is all about local food, regardless of where local is.  In South Carolina, it was boiled peanuts and mustard-based barbeque.  In Tennessee, it is Ole Smoky Moonshine and free-range chicken (as in…it wanders around your neighbor’s yard).  Soon for me, it will be blackberries from my backyard.  Local is where YOU are.  This next Call wants to know all about where YOU live.  Be proud…

Check out this Call to Artists for Where I Live from the Linus Galleries (California). The media for this show is a cool mixture, and this could be a great opportunity. Take a look…

*Editor’s Note: If you have read the personal portion of this post, CALL for ENTRIES: Where I Live, anywhere other than by email subscription or on ArtAndArtDeadlines.com, it has been published without permission and is considered theft.

Check out the Call for Entries at the Linus Gallery!CALL for ENTRIES:
Where I Live

What is local to you?

Where do you live?

They are interested in seeing what is in your world, what is your every day local life.

Take the things you see every day and create.

ELIGIBILITY:
Open to all artists.

MEDIA: Photography to paintings in oil, acrylic, watercolor and ink, graphite drawings and fabric work from quilts to stitch work.

Art by Michael Knapstein a Linus Galleries artistDEADLINE:
July 30
, 2012

ENTRY FEE:
$35 for 3 entries,$5 per add’l

AWARDS:

Accepted entries for this online exhibit will be judged again for their collective live show at the Pasadena Gallery in August 2012. $500 will be awarded to the curator’s choice for best artist for the collective show.

SALES: Artwork will be offered for sale at the reception & other days the gallery will be open.

40% commission on all sales.

For complete details, Read the Guidelines!

Learn more about the Beauty Show at the Linus Gallery in Irvine!

CALL for ENTRIES: Botanicals

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expectations

I am getting ready to begin my endeavor to grow my own food. Let’s hope my luck is better with lettuce and root vegetables than it was with tomatoes.  I can look at tomato plants (and ferns), and they simply die.  No kidding.  This next call wants your view on botanicals.  Let your green thumbs show…

Check out this Call to Artists for Botanicals from the Linus Galleries (California). The media for this show is a cool mixture, and this could be a great opportunity. Take a look…

*Editor’s Note: If you have read the personal portion of this post, CALL for ENTRIES: Botanicals, anywhere other than by email subscription or on ArtAndArtDeadlines.com, it has been published without permission and is considered theft.

Check out the Call for Entries at the Linus Gallery!CALL for ENTRIES:
Botanicals

 Nature’s gifts are a great subject in art. Every bloom is sacred in the botanical world.

Flowers! Draw it, paint it,
photograph it, sculpt it.

Just submit your best botanical art
for this future exhibition.

ELIGIBILITY:
Open to all artists.

MEDIA: Photography to paintings in oil, acrylic, watercolor and ink, graphite drawings and fabric work from quilts to stitch work.

Learn more about the Botanicals show!DEADLINE:
June 18
, 2012

ENTRY FEE:
$35 for 3 entries,$5 per add’l

AWARDS:

Those accepted artists will be asked to be a part of a collective show in the future months.  Artists will be asked if they wish to submit their artwork for the show.

SALES: Artwork will be offered for sale at the reception & other days the gallery will be open.

40% commission on all sales.

For complete details, Read the Guidelines!

Learn more about the Beauty Show at the Linus Gallery in Irvine!

CALL to ARTISTS: My Loves

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my love

I love my husband more than life itself, but if he was just a meant-and-potatoes guy…we would never have made it.  Relationships have hinged on worse, no doubt.  The idea of a perfect lamb roast or seared piece of ahi gives hime the shivers, and I could not love him more for it.  My loves are my husband, food and art.  This next call wants you to name YOUR loves.  Say it with art…

Check out this Call to Artists for My Loves from the Linus Galleries (California). The acceptable media for this show is a cool mixture, and this could be a great opportunity. Take a look…

*Editor’s Note: If you have read the personal portion of this post, CALL for ENTRIES: My Loves, anywhere other than by email subscription or on ArtAndArtDeadlines.com, it has been published without permission and is considered theft.

CALL for ENTRIES:  My Loves

 

Check out the Call for Entries at the Linus Gallery!Love is in the air. But what is Love to you? What are your loves?  Interpret love, or your desires, or your loves to Linus Galleries in the best art.

ELIGIBILITY:
Open to all artists.

MEDIA:  Photography to  paintings in oil, acrylic, watercolor and ink, graphite drawings and fabric work from quilts to stitchwork.

DEADLINE:  April 12, 2012

ENTRY FEE:  $35 for 3 entries,$5 per add’l

AWARDS: Those accepted artists will be asked to be a part of a collective show in the future months. The artists will be asked if they wish to submit their artwork for the show.

SALES: Artwork will be offered for sale at the reception & other days the gallery will be open. 40% commission on all sales.

For complete details, Read the Guidelines!

Learn more about the Beauty Show at the Linus Gallery in Irvine!

FEATURED ARTIST: Daniel Embree

Learn more about Featured Artist Daniel Embree!

I propose a TOAST!

Many of the artists that submit their work to be featured have deeply personal connections to their work.  In a perfect world, all artists would have that same connection; however, the world isn’t perfect. Giving a voice to artists who have  something to say has become one of the many great joys of this experience blogging experience.

As I often have to remind myself, choosing a Featured Artist is not about separating the good artwork from the bad. It has become about the challenge of picking from amongst ALL of the good work. Picking the right work at the right moment. Thanks, again, for that.  Like many of you, my life is full of chances to walk the walk, not just talk the talk.

 This month’s artist
walks and talks with an aesthetic of hope and celebration.

TClick to learn more about Daniel Embree!he Featured Artist chosen from February’s entries is artist Daniel Embree (pictured right in photo by Howard Romero). Embree’s work is a celebration of acceptance and the happiness that results. The work of Daniel Embree is like a black tie party of self-discovery and getting exactly what you deserve–at least eventually.

FEATURED ARTIST:
Daniel Embree

Though he is an emerging artist in New England, Embree’s pursuits have taken him from his home in Chicago to Utah and Los Angeles before bringing him to Boston, Massachusetts. Embree was raised in a conservative Mormon home in Chicago’s northern suburbs. His parents have always encouraged his love of art.

Dignity - a monotype by Daniel EmbreeMy mom taught me to be creative. I didn’t play with ninja turtle action figures as a kid. I made my own action figures out of clay—lizards, dragons, animals, mermaids, and giant insects. And my parents always praised my art. No matter what I was working on, it was always met with encouragement.”  By the time he was eight he was taking classes at the Art Institute of Chicago with students 3x his age. Exposure to great art and information about artists at the Art Institute fueled his own aspirations.

In the northern suburbs, Embree was also fortunate to have access to one of the best art programs in the region; his high school had eight art teachers. Upon graduating, he had a portfolio that showed breadth, depth, and consistency. Art schools across the country were competing for his attention.

Cheers - a monotype by Daniel EmbreeI had decided I was going to an art school in Boston,” Embree recalls, “My dad took me to Boston and there was a school there that really wanted me. I fell in love with the city instantly. That was where I wanted to live.”

But that year, the Massachusetts Supreme Court legalized gay marriage.

 

“It scared me,” said Daniel, “At that time I was desperately trying to hide the fact that I was gay myself.”  Embree was dedicated to the Mormon Church. “I didn’t just want to be an artist, I wanted to be a Mormon artist. I had grown up with lots of exposure to Mormon art, and my mom was always telling me that I could create better Mormon art—I had every intent to do just that.”

Bow Tie - oil on panel by Daniel EmbreeThe fact that I grew up in a Church that did not tolerate homosexuality, went to a school that institutionalized discrimination, underwent reparative “ex-gay” therapy that didn’t work and ended up being very harmful, and was a missionary, makes my turnaround to acceptance and eventually marrying a man all the more powerful.” In 2009, Embree sought to broaden his scope and address the bigger issues inherent in his work. “I realized that really I was interested in how people treat each other,” he wrote in an artist statement, “I wanted to call attention to both our everyday interactions and how we address difficult situations.”

10 years from now I don’t want to be known as a gay artist, or as an artist who questions religion. It is true that I am a gay artist and that I do question religion, but I feel like the issues I bring into my art are bigger than both of those things, and in the future I would like to pursue them in broader ways to connect to a larger audience. Identity, authority, communication, relationships, personal struggle and acceptance are universal tropes that transcend my unique experiences.

Degradation - a monotype by Daniel EmbreeEmbree’s most recent work has such a painterly effect, I had to ask, are you a print maker or a painter?  “My work lately is definitely printmaking, but I don’t consider myself a printmaker. I am an artist, and I love to draw and paint too. I may be working on a body of paintings in the future, or I may be developing other printmaking techniques. I will work in whatever media inspires and motivates me, and fits the message I’m trying to convey.”

I am always fascinated by the motivation of printmakers to tackle a media, that by its very nature, expects perfection.  But, of course, Embree revels in the lack of perfection–strives for it even.  “The process entails rolling ink onto plexi-glass and then manipulating it before printing the remaining image onto paper. He rolls each color of ink individually and repeats the subtractive process with each color. The layers of ink stack on top of each other to create the final image.

Because the layers don’t always line up perfectlythe figures seem to quiver, as if they are moving.

The subtractive process of wiping the ink is also very gestural, and contributes to a sense of movement in the art.  Embree’s most recent work really reinforces the image of the tuxedo.  After such a struggle for acceptance, why use a shining symbol of celebration?   Initially it was inspired by the tuxedos of my wedding, but 1920’s illustrations of men in tuxedos made him connect the image to something broader.

Pleading - a monotype by Daniel EmbreeThe twenties were a time when society was grappling with a lot of the same issues I grappled with. Americans were dealing with the restrictions of prohibition. They were also coming out of the stuffy Victorian era with a lot of social rules and pressures. Despite all of this, they were discovering new cultural freedoms—questioning gender inequities and roles, social boundaries & authority.  They celebrated the end of struggle after World War I, and the rise of new technologies and prosperity. In a similar way, I am at a time in my life where things are working out and just starting to take off.  By bringing all of that into my work, I think I can share what I feel in a way that can be read by a larger audience.

Shamefaced - a monotype triptych by Daniel EmbreeBut what about the food?  This IS, afterall, a food-themed art blog. I don’t know if I just attract foodie-artists or artistic foodies. Or, maybe artists just think that food is the way to my heart because most of the artists I interview have phenomenal culinary tastes. When Embree way asked? Diplomacy.

“I love too many foods to have a favorite, but I will pick out some flavors that I like. I especially love dishes that combine unlikely or contrasting flavors together. I love the mix of bitter-sweet lingonberries with savory meatballs or sweet mango with salty coconut sticky rice. I’m a sucker for everything bitter or tart—like dark chocolate, cranberry, or grapefruit.”  And he doesn’t snack. I am suspicious of non-snacker. *snicker*

 Learn more about Featured Artist Daniel Embree!