Pioneering artist support organization Creative Capital is now accepting letters of inquiry for awards in Moving Image (formerly Film/Video) and Visual Arts. Artists can apply online at creative-capital.org/apply before February 28. Acting as a catalyst for the development of exceptional and imaginative [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2014
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French artist Sonya Dziabas paints gripping and enigmatic images that mix nostalgic iconography and contemporary figures with seductive and mysterious results. Her acrylic compositions, many of which incorporate collage elements that provoke startling variations in texture, generally feature either female figures or [Read More]
Spanish artist Sola combines three-dimensional elements with vivid color schemes in her abstract pieces to explore the process of transformation and to create a profound metaphor for a changing world. Within each piece she strives to show both what the world is [Read More]
International Surrealism Now began in Coimbra, in 2010, when Santiago Ribeiro conceived a major exhibition which was organized by the Bissaya Barreto Foundation. The event was presented in Conímbriga, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Conimbriga Monographic Museum (second most visited museum [Read More]
Brenda Ness-Cooper’s ultra-modern take on landscape painting pares down the genre’s descriptive aesthetic to find the inner character of each location. Ness-Cooper divides her watercolor work between unknown places of beauty – an empty beach, a private garden – and brand name [Read More]
William Marquina’s invigorating mixed media work is part collage, part fantasy, and an entirely serious trip into the unreal. An artist of many media, Marquina coaxes bas-relief images out of sheets of aluminum using paint and three-dimensional objects, and treating the metal [Read More]
Daelim Museum presents Ryan McGinley Magic Magnifier an exhibition on view through 23 February 2014. Daelim Museum brings together emerging and acknowledged artistic works within our everyday life while informing their values through exhibitions. Looking at McGinley’s past 14 years of works, [Read More]
apexart’s Franchise Program open call is an opportunity for anyone to submit a proposal for an idea-driven group exhibition taking place anywhere in the world—except New York City. Three winning shows will be part of apexart’s 2014–15 exhibition program. Proposals contain up [Read More]
The International Center of Photography presents What Is a Photograph? an exhibition on view from January 31, 2014 through May 4, 2014, exploring the range of creative experimentation that has occurred in photography since the 1970s. This major exhibition brings together 21 [Read More]
Al-Ma’mal Foundation for Contemporary Art / Jerusalem announce the appointment of Basak Senova as curator of the Jerusalem Show VII, to be held from 24 October to 7 November. The Jerusalem Show (‘Ala Abwab Al Janna) encompasses exhibitions, film screenings, performances, talks, [Read More]
What is biomimicry? Derived from the Greek word bios meaning ‘life’ and mimisis, meaning ‘imitate’, biomimicry refers to the copying, emulating and imitating of nature in all its forms and functions. Dedicating an exhibition to highlight the many everyday products, objects and [Read More]
AV Festival 14: Extraction, open 1–31 March 2014, explores the raw materials that create our experience of the world, from their origins deep in the ground, to their extraction, transformation and global exploitation. Everything comes from the ground, digging the earth, pulling [Read More]
The 12th edition of the Swiss Sculpture Exhibition continues the innovative spirit of the format by offering the most radical edition yet. True to its provocative legacy of sixty years, the three-folded exhibition Le Mouvement challenges the very definition of public art [Read More]
Frank To’s art exhibition Afterglow at Alea Glasgow, Springfield Quay, Paisley Road, Glasgow G5 8NP on Friday 7th February from 6.30pm till 10.00 p.m. Frank To is a Glasgow-based artist with a burgeoning international reputation as a leading contemporary figurative painter. The [Read More]