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]
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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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art presents Ji Dachun: Without a Home on view 19 January – 11 May, 2014. Ji Dachun is best-known for his surrealist, satirical critiques of contemporary China. His works range from his trademark characters that seem to [Read More]
The 19th Biennale of Sydney public program will include artists such as Tacita Dean, Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, Nathan Coley, Hubert Czerepok, Douglas Gordon, Callum Morton and John Stezaker, among others, in addition to numerous visiting curators and academics. Open [Read More]
In 2014, Bétonsalon – Center for art and research is celebrating its ten year anniversary, with a program following different time spans, in cooperation with various local, national and international organizations. Exhibitions The Secession Sessions A project by Eric Baudelaire with Maxim [Read More]
MOSAICS, Missouri Festival for the Arts, announces their Call to Entry for their Annual Arts Festival event, taking place September 19-21, 2014 in Historic St. Charles, Missouri. The 2014 event is the 20th Anniversary of the popular arts festival. Join more than [Read More]