Current Calls for Entry
Curated by Lisa Rockford
Call for artwork representing our love/hate relationship with consumerism.
Works should align with a maximalist aesthetic and represent a celebration or critique of Materialism; Overindulgence in, or overabundance of: Purchasing, Hunting, Collecting, Amassing, and/or Displaying consumer goods.
Inspiration Board: https://www.pinterest.com/nunsopink/branded-consumption-junction/
The group exhibition is proposed for the ninth annual SPRING/BREAK Art Show, in New York City, as part of Armory Art week 2020. http://www.springbreakartshow.com/
SPRING/BREAK Art Show is an internationally recognized exhibition platform in underused, atypical and historic New York City exhibition spaces to activate and challenge the traditional cultural landscape of the art market during Armory Arts Week. The initiative offers independent curators space within New York City landmarks, past and future. In exchange for no-cost exhibition space, visionary perspectives both established and unknown are charged with engaging these areas under a unifying theme and pushed to extend the boundries of typical market week practices, low overhead and shifting curatorial themes their assets to this end.
All artworks in the show are displayed and available for purchase online, giving artists unknown, emerging, mid-career, and beyond a virtual compliment to their tactile exhibition. The show features around 100 curators and projects, attended by thousands, and has been reviewed by Jerry Saltz, and in Time Out, ArtNews, Time, Vice, Hyperallergic, Nylon, The New York Times, Vernissage TV, and more. The theme for SPRING/BREAK 2020 is IN EXCESS.
Submission requirements:
Show Dates: March 3 - 9, 2020
De-installation: March 10-11, 2020
Before Applying:
APPLY HERE:
https://form.jotform.com/92963977180169
Works should align with a maximalist aesthetic and represent a celebration or critique of Materialism; Overindulgence in, or overabundance of: Purchasing, Hunting, Collecting, Amassing, and/or Displaying consumer goods.
Inspiration Board: https://www.pinterest.com/nunsopink/branded-consumption-junction/
The group exhibition is proposed for the ninth annual SPRING/BREAK Art Show, in New York City, as part of Armory Art week 2020. http://www.springbreakartshow.com/
SPRING/BREAK Art Show is an internationally recognized exhibition platform in underused, atypical and historic New York City exhibition spaces to activate and challenge the traditional cultural landscape of the art market during Armory Arts Week. The initiative offers independent curators space within New York City landmarks, past and future. In exchange for no-cost exhibition space, visionary perspectives both established and unknown are charged with engaging these areas under a unifying theme and pushed to extend the boundries of typical market week practices, low overhead and shifting curatorial themes their assets to this end.
All artworks in the show are displayed and available for purchase online, giving artists unknown, emerging, mid-career, and beyond a virtual compliment to their tactile exhibition. The show features around 100 curators and projects, attended by thousands, and has been reviewed by Jerry Saltz, and in Time Out, ArtNews, Time, Vice, Hyperallergic, Nylon, The New York Times, Vernissage TV, and more. The theme for SPRING/BREAK 2020 is IN EXCESS.
Submission requirements:
- Artists may submit up to 5 works for consideration, plus detail images. (Artworks with multiple pieces may be considered one work).
- All submissions must be original work, created by the applicant, and without violation of copyrighted imagery.
- Any media is acceptable.
- Site-specific installations may be submitted as a detailed sketch with images of past work.
- A $15 Jury fee will be required with the application.
- Artists will be notified at the earliest possible date, or not later than January 2020.
- Artists are not required to be present at the fair, but are encouraged to attend.
- Artworks that are larger than 36" in any direction must be hand-delivered.
- Shipped works cannot exceed 36" in any direction. Artists must be able ship work at their own cost, or hand deliver it, during installation dates, with a return shipping label.
- Any site-specific installation art, or 3D works that have specific installation must be installed by the artist, within the designated installation dates.
- Any works that do not match the appearance of the submitted works may be disqualified at the discretion of the curator.
Show Dates: March 3 - 9, 2020
De-installation: March 10-11, 2020
Before Applying:
- TITLE each artwork image with your Last name, First Name, title, & image # (i.e. Rockford_Lisa-SheMonster-1.jpg)
APPLY HERE:
https://form.jotform.com/92963977180169
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