Call for Entries
Welcome to Raandesk's calls for entries for our Juried Exhibitions and selected submissions. Participation in any of our open calls to artists will not only bring attention to your artwork from the Raandesk Gallery but from our panels of art world jurors around the world who are museum curators, art professors, gallery owners, art collectors and established artists. For each Juried Exhibition theme we choose the panel of reviewers with the most applicable background for reviewing your work.
We wish you luck with your entries!
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Raandesk Gallery presents its 3rd Annual Optical Juried Competition, in which photographers from around the world are called upon to make online submissions for review by a panel of distinguished art-world experts, including museum or gallery professionals, collectors, and artists. Jurors vote on the photographs that best respond to the annual theme, such as Beauty in the Mundane (2009) and Photography Now (2008). Raandesk encourages entries from photographers residing in any location regardless of experience or education in the field and encourages artists to interpret its annual themes as broadly as they wish. A group exhibition of the top five finalists will be held at Raandesk Gallery in 2011 and special recognition will be given to the "best in show" winner and runner-up at the opening reception. These top two finalists will also receive a stipend award and the opportunity for a future exhibition at Raandesk. This year the Optical theme is Staged. The submission process for photographers ends August 27. Winners are announced in November.
About the Optical 2010 Jurors:
Evan Mirapaul is an art collector who specializes in photography. Since 1989, travel has been a catalyst for this collector. It has become his goal to seek out artists, particularly photographers, and galleries wherever he goes. Highlights of his personal collection include the work of world-renowned American documentary photographer Ray K Metzker (b. 1931, see www.laurencemillergallery.com), young American photographer Tim Davis (b.1969, see www.agvdgallery.com), and Brazilian artist and recent BALTIC exhibitor Vik Muniz. He documents his encounters with photography on his blog, "Fugitive Vision". Mirapaul is the co-chair of the Friends of the Library Committee for the International Center for Photography.
JP Pullos - After studying at the George Eastman House and at ICP, JP Pullos joined Patrick McMullan's team of event and celebrity photographers and has spent the past three years documenting the urban jungle that is New York City. His editorial work has appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, Women's Wear Daily, GQ, the Village Voice, and Time Out New York. More recently, he has turned his attention to teaching photography while simultaneously working on documentary portraiture. Entry Deadline: 08.27.2010 Entry Fee: $35.00 for 3 works, $10.00 for each additional work. |
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In 2008, Raandesk Gallery launched a group of services and a collection of artwork that was specifically priced under $500. This ART2Gift Collection, affordable priced from $35 to $500 was accepted immediately by gift givers everywhere! Since then we have made a commitment to bringing new ART2Gift artworks into the collection each year in November for the annual ART2Gift Exhibition. Because of the large amount of submissions we receive for ART2Gift from around the world we have compiled a team of reviewers this year (members of the art world and beyond) to review the work and make selections for this November's ART2Gift exhibition and the 2011 ART2Gift collection. Criteria:
Entry Fee: $10.00 for 3 works, $5.00 for each additional work. |
