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1650
Gallery presents:
Juried
Photography
Exhibition:
Splash
The Fluid World of Water
CALL
FOR ENTRIES
Submission Deadline: Saturday, August 25, 2012
OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION:
Saturday, September 8, 2012
7:30 - 10:30pm
Water... is there any thing else on earth like it? Seemingly plentiful,
yet precious and scarce. It falls from the sky only to hurry beneath
the earth. It's transience confounds us, here today yet gone tomorrow;
literally vaporizing into thin air like youth, innocence and physical
beauty. Water! A bundle of contradictions that would make Ralph Waldo
Emerson proud.
Endlessly fun but dangerous stuff; sometimes there is too little...
sometimes there is too much. It's beauty can take our breath away, and
it's power can wipe our world like the bucket toss of an angry giant.
Like fire, cold and night, water occupies a fundamental place deep in
the root of our collective psyche. We can be "keeping our head above
water" or "drowning our sorrows." Things can be going "swimmingly" or
life can seem to be go "against the tide." In love we can be "showered
with kisses" or wind up "on the rocks."
This month 1650 Gallery invites you to flush the bilge water from your
mind and dive into the deep end for an ocean of fun. Freud said
sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, but Christie Brinkley in a moonlit
motel pool is a whole other thing altogether. So bathe your soul in the
stormy sea of photographic creativity, and remember that although a
river runs through it, it is but a drop in the bucket compared to the
ocean of possibilities that rain down upon us all.
For the future of mankind, the water wars are coming just as those for
oil have entered their twilight, but this summer at 1650, as long as
there is ice for our cocktails, salt water in our pool, and wet
t-shirts on our interns, we proudly command "DAMN the torpedoes, full
steam ahead!!!" We bid you do the same.
Approximately fifty works will be chosen from submitted photographs to
be included in the SPLASH exhibition at 1650 Gallery in the Echo Park
neighborhood of Los Angeles. Additional works may also be selected for
an online gallery exhibition page.
There is an entry fee of $25 for up to 5 images. Additional entries may
be submitted for $5 each.
All accepted entries must submit a high res jpeg (300-360 dpi , minimum
size 5x7") to be included in the printed SHOW CATALOG.
We
offer free matting and framing for accepted photographs that fit our
pre-cut mat sizes for the duration of the exhibition. We have a variety
of frames and mats to choose from.
We will also print your photo for a nominal fee if you are accepted
into the show and would prefer not to mail a print.
Juror: Andrew Overtoom. Andrew Overtoom is
an award winning filmmaker and photographer living in Los Angeles. He
publishes THE UNDEAD NEG photography blog and is currently launching a
quarterly fine art photography journal. He is also the owner/curator of
1650 Gallery in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Selected artists may choose to offer their work for sale. The gallery
retains 50% of the sale price, as well as 8.75% California sales tax.
We offer free matting and framing for accepted photographs that fit our
pre-cut mat sizes for the duration of the exhibition.
Questions? Please email us at 1650gallery@gmail.com
Good luck and hope to see you at the opening reception!
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