Calls for Entry: 12th Annual Juried Exhibition (Philadelphia, PA)

This Deadline Expired: Monday, February 26, 2018

Open call to all professional artists, age 18 and up, who design and produce their own work! Open to all media, this exhibition aims to curate a selection of exemplary contemporary work from artists around the country. A catalog will be published. This year’s juror is Thora Jacobson, executive director of Philadephia Art Alliance.

Application Deadline: February 26, 2018
Application Fee: $35

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Eli Smith

Eli Smith

Eli Smith is a Philadelphia based artist who works with oil paint. Most of his works depict strong emotion through use of…

Eli Smith is a Philadelphia based artist who works with oil paint. Most of his works depict strong emotion through use of the human body and figure, often using black and white pigments and little color,…

Deanna McLaughlin

Deanna McLaughlin

Deanna McLaughlin is a sculptor and designer in Philadelphia. She uses found objects and transforms them into quirky furniture…

Deanna McLaughlin is a sculptor and designer in Philadelphia. She uses found objects and transforms them into quirky furniture pieces. She loves working with a variety of media.…

Kat Black

Kat Black

Lauren Rinaldi

Lauren Rinaldi

Lauren Rinaldi makes figurative oil paintings and drawings of women's bodies exploring self-identity, sexuality, female…

Lauren Rinaldi makes figurative oil paintings and drawings of women's bodies exploring self-identity, sexuality, female objectification and empowerment.…

I spend a lot of time in nature observing plants, the environment, and natures cycles. While in or out of the studio, I'm creating both complex and compact environments that enliven personal residences, gallery walls, and city streets. In work ranging from large scale sculptural installations, and living compilations, to miniature assemblage and mixed media works on paper, nature is my rubric and my compass. This is the way I make connections between human interests and the environment that surrounds us.

Simultaneously, nature is my metaphor and material. Grafting together a variety of flat and dimensional elements is not uncommon in my practice.
In different ways, I'll incorporate earth, vines, flowers, roots, seeds, pigment, and wax into sculpture, and mixed media works on paper, more akin to assemblage. Nature and plants frequently act as metaphors for our human experience as they are passively or overtly layered or stitched amidst found imagery, maps, photographs, and words.

Susan Benarcik

Susan Benarcik

I spend a lot of time in nature observing plants, the environment, and natures cycles. While in or out of the studio, I'm…

I spend a lot of time in nature observing plants, the environment, and natures cycles. While in or out of the studio, I'm creating both complex and compact environments that enliven personal residences,…