We often imagine that the Surrealists worked to create profoundly weird and unconventional work as a matter of course. These artists captured images whose strangeness resulted from the bizarre juxtaposition of everyday objects, made unfamiliar by virtue of unreality. Consider the Daliesque fusion of a lobster into a telephone or the strange scenes of Un Chien Andalou. Surrealism is not simply a period trapped in the past; the surreal persists, manifesting throughout mediums to the present. How does your work transform reality into the lucid realm of the surreal? The Surreal is an international juried group exhibition open to photographers ages 18 years and older. All black and white, color, conventional and non-traditional photographic and digital post-production processes are welcome for submission.
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Beauty in Decay
Beauty is subjective in the eye of the viewer. Societal conventions pressure us to conform in like-mindedness to visual pinnacles, yet the most ethereal craft often originates from divergent work that transgresses tradition. How does your work depict “beauty” in our deconstruction of the captured image? Potential subject matter includes but is not limited to abandoned places, found objects, still life, and the examination of decomposition and demise. Beauty in Decay is an international juried group exhibition open to photographers ages 18 years and older. All black and white, color, conventional and non-traditional photographic and digital post-production processes are welcome for submission.
Photo Shoot: 2022
A juried group photo show with an open theme at Black Box Gallery.
For more info: https://blackboxgallery.com
Mimesis
Free entry│Call for Exhibition
Photographers are invited to submit 1 up to 3 photos addressing the theme.
Group Exhibition in Rome or Milan city. May 2023
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“Mimesis”, Greek word for “imitation”, designates a human and animal behavior aimed at the manifestation of an aesthetic cohesion – figurative and/or behavioral – with another subject or with the environment from which, through linguistic codes, we grasp a certain degree of adhesion and participation.
Imitation and Mimicry recall instinctive behaviors that act as defense and survival mechanisms, but also respond to the desire to establish a connection and approach each other between living beings and the environment. Man, art and technology make this objective manifest, through the production of visual representations, and even through productions that recall the biological processes of the natural world, and social and psychic dynamics.
Photographers are called to present works corresponding to the concept of “Mimesis”, in its representation, documentation and reflection.
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Submissions » http://bit.ly/loosenartcalls
Deadline February, 7th 2023
Photography Call For Art: Share Your Shot – Deadline Extended to August 10
The Huntington Beach Art Center is delighted to partner with photographers Chris Bartolucci, Ed Templeton, and Drake Woodson to present Emerge: Share Your Shot, a new media exhibition featuring original photography. Artists are encouraged to submit film and digital prints for juried selection.
ELIGIBILITY
Participation is open to new media artists 18 years or older. Online submission packet is required for entry. Local, regional, and national artists are invited to participate. Online submissions deadline extended to August 10, 2022.
GUIDELINES
Artwork must be original photography. Artists are limited to two submissions of original artwork completed in the last two years (2020-2022). Work previously exhibited in any HBAC exhibition is ineligible for submission.
GALLERY INSTALLATION & ONLINE EXHIBITION
Emerge: Share Your Shot will be displayed in 3000 square foot galleries in downtown Huntington Beach and presented in a virtual exhibition on the Art Center’s website. A high-resolution JPEG of the artwork is required for submission.
ABOUT THE HUNTINGTON BEACH ART CENTER
The Huntington Beach Art Center is a community exhibition space located in downtown Huntington Beach, California. Annual exhibitions include juried and non-juried exhibitions featuring artists from throughout the Southern California region and around the world.
The Art Center is operated in public/private partnership with the HBAC Foundation, a 501(c)(3) corporation, and the City of Huntington Beach. Art Center staff maintain a sustained practice of creating inclusive environments necessary for a diverse community in which all members are able to participate and grow as artists.
Visit www.huntingtonbeachartcenter.org for more information and to download a complete prospectus.
Night Skies and Astro Imaging
Night Skies and Astro Imaging
Free entry│Call for Exhibition
Photographers are invited to submit 1 up to 3 photos addressing the theme.
Group Exhibition in Rome or Milan city. April 2023
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Since the days of ancient Greece, the contemplation of the night sky has stimulated thoughts on our existence, on our being in the world and on the unknown infinity outside of it.
The evolution of Western thinking lays the foundations of the relationship with the universe according to a philosophical and scientific vision, supported by the technological evolution of the past centuries, have provided answers and shaped the awareness of our being.
From Giotto to Van Gogh and even Anselm Kief in painting, from Henry Draper in the field of astrophotography to Thierry Cohen’s starry skies, the history of images has expressed our relationship with the sky, and these traces through which we are able today to grasp the different interpretations it has been subject to over the centuries. A mysterious space, or according to the ancients a divine kingdom, that reminds us of our origins and our destiny.
On the historical – phenomenological level, an artistic and scientific approach, in which the two aspects are in dialogue with each other, is today increasingly prevalent in the field of research on different scientific-cultural fronts, through new technological-digital tools aimed at stimulating new ways of perceiving and experiencing reality.
For the upcoming Night Skies and Astro Imaging exhibition, curated by Loosenart, photographers are called upon to present works corresponding to the theme.
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Submissions » http://bit.ly/loosenartcalls
Deadline January, 8th 2023
