Brooklyn
Waterfront Artist Coalition presents:
WIDE
OPEN 6
Call for
Artists - Deadline: March 24th, 2015
We are excited to announce our six annual national juried art show,
Wide Open 6, opening
May 9, 2015. And again this year, we are
privileged to have another of NY's art elite as our juror, Brooklyn
Museum of Art's, Rujeko Hockley, Assistant Curator Contemporary Art.
With her guidance, we look forward to another spectacular show.
Ours is a truly unique gallery – a massive Civil War-era warehouse on
the Red Hook waterfront in Brooklyn, NY. Its enormous space affords us
the opportunity to exhibit really huge work, and we welcome it. We will
be using 8,000 square feet for this show, and look forward to
exhibiting artist’s work from all around the country, work in all
sizes, subjects, and media, except film (it’s almost completely wide
open).
We really love art in all media. As well as looking for skill in the
use of a variety of materials, we look for how well that medium relates
to the concept or movement, and how fully the artist’s intention or
concept is presented and realized. The juror’s awards will reflect that
artistic judgment. Virtually every medium is accepted, including: Oil,
Acrylic, Watercolor, Photography, Pastel, Drawing, Print, Mixed Media,
Sculpture, Assemblage, Installation, Fabric.
Call to
Artists for Submissions
Deadline for submissions: Early Bird March 11 or Final Application
Deadline March 24, 2015
Gallery Exhibition Dates: May 9 – June 14, 2015 weekends 1-6PM.
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 9, 2015 from 1-6 PM.
Juror
Rujeko Hockley is Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn
Museum. She joined the Museum in 2012 and has since worked on
exhibitions including LaToya Ruby Frazier: A Haunted Capital (2013),
The Bruce High Quality Foundation: Ode to Joy, 2001-2013 (2013),
Unfolding Tales: Selections from the Collection (2013), Crossing
Brooklyn: Art from Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, and Beyond (2014), and Kehinde
Wiley: A New Republic (2015). Previously, she worked as Curatorial
Assistant at The Studio Museum in Harlem (2005-07). She received her
B.A. from Columbia University in Art History and is a Ph.D. Candidate
in Art History, Theory, and Criticism in the Visual Arts Department at
the University of California, San Diego.
- BEST of SHOW GOLD:
$1000 At the Opening Reception, the artist whose work is juried as
‘Best of Show’ by Rujeko Hockley will receive a $1000 cash prize.
- BEST of SHOW SILVER:
$500 At the Opening Reception, the artist whose work is juried as ‘Best
of Show’ by Rujeko Hockley will receive a $500 cash prize and a
complimentary one-year BWAC membership.
- PEOPLES’ CHOICE:
$250 The artist whose work is voted ‘Best’ by attendees during the
course of the show will receive a $250 cash prize.
- CURATORS’ CHOICE:
$250 The artist whose work the Show Curators choose for excellence will
receive a $250 cash prize.
- CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION:
$1000 $100 each for ten winners. All selections
will be made by the juror, Rujeko Hockley.
Bonus Offer
Artists accepted into Wide Open 6 can also send one additional work,
ready to hang, that will be exhibited in our Affordable Art area. All
works must be smaller than 12” x 16” (including frame, if framed) and
must be priced for sale at $500 or under.
Show Details
WIDE OPEN 6: The broad theme of “Wide Open 6” encompasses all the
possibilities of knowledge and freedom and love - wide open spaces…arms
wide open…eyes wide open - but as with all things, there is the
inevitable opposite - wide open to attack…corruption…failure. What kind
of fantasy is this? What does it really indicate? This juried show
looks to explore this idea of “wide open” in all the hidden niches of
our collective psyche.
ELIGIBILITY:
This call for submission is open to all residents of the U.S. and its
Territories 18 years of age or older. This is a juried exhibition for
artists working in all traditional and non-traditional 2D and 3D media,
including film/video when part of an installation. All artwork must be
original in concept, design and execution. Note: Crafts, kit work or
reproductions of original works in other media (such as giclee), unless
used as part of a mixed media work, will not be considered.
JUDGING:
All judging will be on-line. Entries that differ significantly from
their digital images may be rejected. Decision of the judges is final.
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