PRICKLY PEAR,
anyone?

I am a bit on the fruity side of normal, and I got there loving extreme fruits–both the botanical variety and the two-legged, human kind.  However, I have somehow managed, to the best of my recollection, to become an artist, gallery director, curator and editor without ever having sketched, drawn, photographed or painted a bowl of fruit.  This Call doesn’t require a bowl of fruit, but a bowl of fruit would certain qualify.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from Working with Artists for Inanimate, a still-life photography show at FLASH Gallery (Colorado).  This show’s entry fee has a unique twist– sell a piece of your work, and they will refund your entry fee.  Cool, eh?

CALL for ENTRIES:
Inanimate

Working with Artists is issuing an international Call for Art Entries / Submissions for Inanimate, an exhibition of still life photography from international artists from June 17 – July 30, 2011 at FLASH Gallery in Lakewood, Colorado.

Inanimate.
Inanimate objects, are, literally:
Objects not in motion.

Still life in art has a long, rich tradition in history.  Still lifes in Egyptian tombs provided food for the deceased.  Allegorical still lifes of the Middle Ages gave way to the natural botanicals of the 16th Century, followed by the depiction of everyday items in the Eighteenth Century.  The 20th Century’s proliferation of artistic movements reimagined the still life in exciting new ways, making them more abstract.

Viewers imbue a still life with a deeper meaning.  In a still life, one looks at an object and begins to fabricate a narrative around the object, charging it with meaning.  Multiple objects placed together—in irony or symbolism, for example–generate layers of complexity as the objects themselves seem to spin a story.  Food in a still life may be more than merely decorative–it might also imply impermanence and death.

For Inanimate, they are seeking the motionless as a way to express wisdom to the living.  Objects that say something about us–about our journey and about how we see, live, work, love, and die in this world.

ELIGIBILITY:  The exhibition is open to all domestic & international photographers of all ages.

MEDIA:  Digital or traditional photography or a combination of both

DEADLINE:  Submissions due no later than 8pm on Friday, May 13th, 2011.

NOTIFICATION:  Selections will be announced no later than Friday, May 20th, 2011.

SUBMISSIONS:  Jpgs can be entered via email or a CD can be mailed to WWA – 445 S. Saulsbury St, Main Gallery, Lakewood CO, 80226.

ENTRY FEE:  An entry fee of $35 for up to three images, and $5 each image thereafter, or $25 for WWA/CLICK! Members, $5 each thereafter shall be included with the entry.  Checks can be made to “WWA” or credit card payments can be made over the phone to 303-837-1341.

JUROR:  Adam Lerner is the Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver and Chief Animator in the Department of Structures and Fictions.  He was the founder and Executive Director of The Laboratory of Art and Ideas at Belmar until The Lab merged with the MCA Denver in March 2009.

Lerner was previously Master Teacher for Modern and Contemporary Art at the Denver Art Museum from 2001 to 2003.  While at the Denver Art Museum, Lerner worked with Director Lewis Sharp and Continuum Partners to conceptualize and create a new contemporary cultural space for the Denver community.  These discussions were the impetus for The Lab at Belmar.

Prior to his arrival in Colorado, Lerner served as Curator of the Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, where he also curated several exhibitions, including new projects with Christian Marclay, Dennis Adams, and Isaac Julien.

Lerner received his Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University and his Master’s from Cambridge University.  He was a Fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum from 1997 to 1998.

SALES:  Commission is 70/30 for Members of WWA or 60/40 for non-members.  Juried artists in the exhibition who make a sale in the gallery will be refunded their full entry fee.

For complete details, visit the website!