LOS ANGELES, California, August 1
Opening Reception Thursday September
13, 7-9pm (in conjunction with Downtown Art Walk)
Show your work at our gallery in our
Un-Juried Show: SNAP TO GRID. In our forth annual exhibition
of this kind participants each upload one image to be printed
on high quality paper and hung in a grid in our gallery. The
show will be widely promoted and will include a reception for
the artists.
After the exhibition the images and
artist information will be available to view in our artist
portfolios. Artwork for future exhibits will be selected from
the portfolios, and will also be available for review by area
gallerists, curators and arts journalists. The ultimate
exhibit. The ultimate resume builder. Everybody wins!
Entry fee $30US. Proceeds benefit
gallery programs. Show is international, open to all
geographical locations.
Entrants submit one JPEG file of
original work up to 3mb. All styles of 2D artwork and
photography where digital processes of any kind were integral
to the creation of the images are acceptable. Digital video
stills and screen shots of web/new media are acceptable.
Multiple entries are permitted. $30
registration fee for each additional image. Multiple entries
will be grouped together in exhibition installation.
Affiliated artists may also be grouped together. Exhibit is
limited to space available, early entry is advised.
Prints are 8.5x11 inches on
Heavyweight Matte paper with Epson Archival pigment, allowing
for one inch border.
Gallery Statement: Every year for 50
years the L.A. Municipal Gallery has held its "Open Call"
exhibit where any artist can show up with their art and an
entry fee (to benefit gallery programs) and the piece is
shown. The Los Angeles Center For Digital Art decided to
launch an international experiment of the same nature where
the artists upload images that are printed and hung by the
gallery. The hundreds of works are displayed in a grid like
installation (reminiscent of postcard art shows of the 1980's)
where every work submitted is exhibited. The usual (less than
democratic) selection process where only the precious few are
chosen is turned on its head in a curatorial anarchy where
everyone gets to participate and the viewer is literally left
to be the judge. The show represents a snapshot of a current
moment in art history when digital imaging has reached the
hands of the many, an age where culture belongs to the "mobblogers"
around the globe.
From Thailand to Texas, amateur to
academic, beautiful to banal and beyond the monumental
quantity and variety of "Snap to Grid" becomes an aesthetic
experience where each individual piece adds to an
agglomerative effect that has a life of its own.
Deadline for entries: September 2,
2007
Click here to register:
http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=139377
Source: Los Angeles Center For Digital
Art, 107 West Fifth Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013
