Represent: 200 Years of
African American Art
Philadelphia Museum of
Art
January 10, 2015 - April
5, 2015
Explore the creative
achievements of African American artists and examine the expression of personal
and collective identities in a nation marked by a history of racial inequality.
Represent: 200 Years of
African American Art highlights
selections from the Museum’s exceptional holdings of African American art and
celebrates the publication of a catalogue examining the breadth of these
noteworthy collections. With work by renowned artists such as Henry Ossawa
Tanner, Horace Pippin, Jacob Lawrence, and Carrie Mae Weems, the exhibition
showcases a range of subjects, styles, mediums, and traditions. Since the
Museum’s acquisition of Tanner’s painting The Annunciation in
1899, its collections of African American art have grown significantly,
especially during the last three decades.
From compelling stories
to innovative methods, Represent explores the evolving ways in
which African American artists have expressed personal, political, and racial
identity. It begins with rare examples of fine and decorative arts made in the
1800s by free and enslaved individuals such as a large storage jar by the
accomplished potter David Drake. As access to artistic training and
opportunities increased, the relationship between creative expression and
identity grew more complex and nuanced. In the early twentieth century, artists
like William Henry Johnson and Elizabeth Catlett embraced modernism by
representing personal experiences or scenes of daily life in vibrant colors and
dynamic compositions.
In the exhibition,
abstract paintings and sculpture from the 1960s through the 1980s by Barbara
Chase-Riboud, Martin Puryear, and others show a desire to balance cultural and
artistic identities, challenging the idea that work by African Americans should
be viewed in primarily racial terms. By contrast, many artists working in the
1990s and since, Glenn Ligon and Lorna Simpson among them, have used pictures
and text to examine the past and make pointed statements about race. Represent culminates
with a wide-ranging array of portraits created by several generations of
artists, from those active over a century ago to those making work today, as
well as audio excerpts of interviews with contemporary artists Moe Brooker,
Barkley L. Hendricks, Odili Donald Odita, Joyce J. Scott, and others.
Contemporary Art Gallery Online (CAGO)
presents:
February Art
Competition and Exhibition:
All Women
Call for Artists -
Deadline: March 1st, 2014
"There is no greater gift you can give or
receive than to honor your calling. It's why you were born."
-Oprah Winfrey
Contemporary Art Gallery Online announces their 1st
Annual “ALL WOMEN” Online Art Competition for the month of February 2015.
Join Us in this glorious celebration of Women!
The gallery announces an international and
national call for entries from artists regardless of where they reside to apply
to this competition by submitting their best representational and
non-representational art.
Celebrate Women's Month by joining an exhibition
that is celebrating the greatness, strength, beauty, and talent of Women.
History has given us great women who have inspired and taught us. Now it is our
time to create, influence, change social and political philosophies, and
nurture.
Become apart of history and join today.
There is No Subject Theme for this Art
Competition. But you need to be a WOMAN to participate.
Contemporary Art Gallery Online encourages
entries from all 2D and 3D artists regardless of their experience
or education in the art field. A group exhibition of all entrants will be held
online at the Contemporary Art Gallery Online during the month of March 2015.
Awards will be for top 5 places. In addition to the winning images, depending
on the amount and the quality of the entries received, Honorable Recognition
awards will also be presented.
Important MUST Knows
Art Exhibition and Competition Opens: February
1, 2015
Deadline for Receiving Entries: March 1,
2015
Competition Results are Posted: March 16,
2015
Opening of Online Art Exhibition: March 2,
2015
Award Certificates Emailed to Artists: March
28, 2015
Online Art Exhibition Closes & Archived: March
31, 2015
ALL WORK MUST BE CREATED BY A WOMAN.
Entry Fees: $15 for 1 to 3 images and $20 for
all images up to 5
The Paypal account name will appear on your
credit card statement as CAGOnline.
It is not necessary to have a Paypal account in
order to use this service.
Eligibility:
· Must be original work to the artist.
· Paintings. Mixed Media will be accepted as long as
75% of the work is a painting.
· The artist must be willing to sell their work
(print or original).
Prizes include Lifetime Memberships to Contemporary Art
Gallery Online, Radio Interviews, Inclusion in the Year End Anthology
Publication, Extensive Marketing and much more. Our Radio Shows have had more
than 100,000 listens and the Gallery receives over 125,000 unique visitors a
year with over 1.86 Million hits in a year. This is exposure you cannot garner
on your own! And finally your entry remains on the Gallery forever.
For More Infomation:
http://www.contemporaryartgalleryonline.gallery/february-2015-art-competition-all-women
