Our next New American Paintings deadline is for the Pacific Coast region, which includes Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington. If you reside in any of these states, now is your chance to apply to New American Paintings. The Deadline is June 30, Midnight, EST. We are happy to have Janet Bishop, Curator of Painting and Sculpture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, as our 2013 juror. We’ll be posting more about Ms. Bishop soon, so stay tuned.
Filed under: Competitions, Pacific Coast | Tags: competitions, Monica Ramirez-Montagut, NAP, Pacific Coast, San Jose Museum of Art
Our next New American Paintings deadline is for the Pacific Coast region, which includes Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington. If you reside in any of these states, now is your chance to apply to New American Paintings. The Deadline is June 30, Midnight, EST. We are happy to have Mónica Ramírez-Montagut, Senior Curator at the San Jose Museum of Art, as our 2012 juror. Learn more about the juror here.
So, what are you waiting for? The last few minutes of June to Apply? PLEASE DON’T (our technical support people thank you)!!! It’s easy to submit work, you just need 4 images, 1200 pixels at their greatest dimension or less, and a credit card for our submission fee. Go here and apply now if you live in AK, CA, HI, OR, WA!
As always, you can learn a little more about the competition on our website. Or, check out our FAQs.
GOOD LUCK!
Filed under: Competitions | Tags: Boston, competition, competitions, Deitsch, Dina Deitsch, Entries, NAP, New York, Northeast
In light of the recent storms that have effected the entire Northeast Region, we have extended the deadline for entry to September 9th, Midnight EST, with no penalty for late entry. We hope that this extension will enable those inconvenienced by the hurricane to apply. If you are an artist residing CT, DE, MA, ME, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, & VT, there is still time to enter The deadline is Thursday, September 9th (Midnight EST)! Apply online!
Dina Deitsch, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Musuem, will be jurying what has become one of our most competitive regions.
Artists can now apply online! Simply visit our competition page and follow the instructions. Submitting is easy! Just have four jpegs, less than 1200 pixels at their greatest dimension, and a credit card for the entry fee. Get online and enter by September 9th!
Be sure to check out our recent Q&A with Ms. Deitsch.
Filed under: Competitions, NAP News | Tags: 2011, Apply!, August 31, competition, competitions, Deadline, deCordova, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Dina Deitsch, New American Paintings, Northeast
It’s summer, and time once again to apply to our Northeast Competition if you are an artist residing CT, DE, MA, ME, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, & VT. The deadline is Wednesday, August 31 (Midnight EST)! Apply online!
Dina Deitsch, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Musuem, will be jurying what has become one of our most competitive regions.
Artists can now apply online! Simply visit our competition page and follow the instructions. Submitting is easy! Just have four jpegs, less than 1200 pixels at their greatest dimension, and a credit card for the entry fee. Get online and enter by August 31st!
Be sure to check out our recent Q&A with Ms. Deitsch.
Filed under: Art World, Boston, Competitions | Tags: competitions, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Dina Deitsch, Evan J. Garza, NEXT, Northeast
It’s time to begin preparations for one of our most anticipated issues of the year, the Northeast Competition! (The deadline to apply is August 31, and the competition is open to artists in CT, DE, ME, MA, NJ, NH, NY, PA, RI, and VT. Apply online!)
For nearly two decades, the Northeast book has featured artists of exceptional promise who have gone on to incredible international success, and NAP alums from the region include such celebrated contemporary artists as Matthew Day Jackson, William Cordova, Eddie Martinez, and countless others.
We are beyond thrilled to feature the perspective of talented curator (and friend) Dina Deitsch, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art for the deCordova Sculpture Park + Museum, Lincoln, MA. Dina’s years of experience working with emerging artists for the museum’s deCordova Biennial and her intensive work with multiple media, make her an incredible candidate for jurying the Northeast Competition.
I chatted with the Cambridge-based curator this week to talk up the competition and her experience with emerging work. She also shares with us her thoughts on recent developments in contemporary painting, which you don’t want to miss. Our conversation is below! More after the jump! —Evan J. Garza, Editor-at-Large
EJG: As the curator for a sculpture park and museum, how do you address painting in the museum’s program?
DD: Easily and often! While deCordova is a sculpture park, and a fantastic one at that, we also have a good 5000 sq ft of gallery space that we program with not only sculpture but general contemporary art. One branch of our mission is to collect and promote artists from the New England region, which we do through single-artist PLATFORM projects and our sprawling Biennial program. In that particular program, variety is the name of the game and there’s always room for painting! I also organize group thematic shows that often do and can include or even center on painting, such as the forthcoming show I’m curating with you, Paint Thing (working title), which looks at painting as a spatial art, and where and how it meets sculpture.
Filed under: Art World, Competitions, Los Angeles, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle | Tags: 97, Anne Ellegood, competitions, Hammer Museum, Pacific Coast, Robert Minervini
Robert Minervini, L. A. (sell me something else) | Acrylic on canvas, 50 x 68 inches. Featured in edition #91 of New American Paintings.
Just more than two weeks are left for artists to apply to our annual Pacific Coast competition, one of our most anticipated and highly sought-after books of the year. Jurying the submissions this year is none other than Anne Ellegood, Senior Curator at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. We’re thrilled to have Anne as our Pacific Coast juror for the 2011 competition, and we’re excited to see the work from each of the artists who apply.
The Pacific Coast competition is open to artists living in AK, CA, HI, OR, and WA, and the deadline to apply is Thursday June 30, which is just around the corner, so get cracking.
Artists can now apply online! Simply visit our competition page and follow the instructions. It’s easier than ever to apply. But do it by June 30!
Filed under: Competitions, Q&A | Tags: competitions, Dan Cameron, Evan J. Garza, Jim Gaylord, Prospect New Orleans, Southern Competition
Dan Cameron is single handedly changing the landscape of contemporary art in the Southern United States. So it’s no surprise that we sought him out to be the juror of the current Southern Competition of New American Paintings. (Apply online!)
A curator for more than 30 years and the founder and director of Prospect New Orleans, the largest biennial of international contemporary art in the country, Cameron has introduced audiences in the South to exceptional work from artists across the globe. More importantly, however, Cameron and Prospect have contributed significantly to a new growing contemporary scene in New Orleans and a further revitalization of the Big Easy.
I caught up with Cameron while at his New York office last week to talk Louisiana and emerging work.
The deadline for the Southern Competition is December 31 (open to artists living in AL, AR, DC, FL, GA, KY, LA, MD, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, & WV), so keep the submissions coming! –Evan J. Garza
EJG: You started Prospect New Orleans after Katrina. How long have you been working in New Orleans?
I’d been a visitor and have worked in New Orleans, on and off, for more than 20 years. I started Prospect as a post-Katrina effort to engage the city. It was really something that the artists and the community called on me to do because they knew that I was very close to the city and they knew that I could get a lot of attention for New Orleans, and that’s how the whole process started.
I was working in New Orleans as early as January 2006 on Prospect, but I didn’t form the company until 2007. But because of raising money outside of a museum, and because of the needs of the community, it was not appropriate at all for an outsider like me to start to open up a new charity in New Orleans less than a year after the storm. So I had to be very careful not to compete with other nonprofits in New Orleans, and bring money from outside of Louisiana, so to do that you have to be in a place where there’s a lot of media, and there’s a lot of art, and that happened to be in New York. So I have two homes: an office in New Orleans and an office in New York.
EJG: Have you seen a direct effect that Prospect has had on New Orleans?
Very dramatic. New galleries have opened up, there’s more attention for museums and galleries. Before, you could barely see any mention of [the city] in The New York Times or Art Forum. Nothing had ever happened to New Orleans which was considered newsworthy on a national level, and that’s totally changed.
Now the Whitney has recently bought the work of younger New Orleans artists—that’s totally unheard of. And I think that’s only going to improve over time. More and more New Orleans artists have national and international exposure and New Orleans galleries are able to start showing their work in other parts of the country and also internationally. I would say that the number of co-op galleries in New Orleans has gone from zero in 2007 to something like ten right now. The whole St. Claude arts district, where the co-op galleries are located, has absolutely exploded. It’s far and away the most exciting new addition to the New Orleans art scene that anyone can remember and that’s all really a direct result of Prospect.
Filed under: Competitions, Q&A | Tags: competitions, Evan J. Garza, ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, MFA, MFA Annual, Randi Hopkins
New American Paintings is pleased to announce that Randi Hopkins, Associate Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA), will serve as the juror for the 2010 MFA Annual Competition, Edition #93. (Open to current MFA candidates. The deadline for entry is October 31, 2010. Apply online.)
Earlier this week we featured a Q&A with Evelyn Rydz, featured in editions #68 and #86 of New American Paintings and included as a finalist for the 2010 James & Audrey Foster Prize at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA). The exhibition was organized by Randi Hopkins, the juror for the 2010 MFA Annual Competition of New American Paintings, and we sat down to talk with her this week about the exhibition and the forthcoming competition. —Evan J. Garza
EJG: You have a lot of experience working with emerging artists, from running Allston Skirt Gallery to now being at the ICA, to being on the selection committee for Artadia Boston, and now you just put together the 2010 James and Audrey Foster Prize show built entirely of emerging artists.
I think that’s a place where I really offer artists something, and I enjoy that. It’s interesting for me to all of a sudden be on a different stage. Putting on a show at a museum is really different than putting on a show at a gallery, but working with artists is always this great process.
EJG: What do you enjoy about working with emerging artists?
I think it’s really that there’s a collaborative feeling, and a feeling of trying to see the world through their eyes, see their work, often brand new work—like the Foster Prize show… These are nine really different artists and trying to get each of them to look as good as possible in their own vocabulary. It’s really fun. It’s like a little bit of an adventure, and a journey for me, into their world.
EJG: Are you looking forward to going through MFA Annual competition submissions?
Very much so! I think that for someone who likes to look at things as much as we all do, why would you do this if you didn’t love to look at things? The idea of looking at something that’s new—not just in the sense of being novel but in the sense of seeing something taken in a new direction or seeing something reinvented in an interesting way—is really exciting. It’s something I really enjoy.
I feel about looking at this work that you really are looking at both something that’s grounded in something, and also to be going off in an inventive direction, that’s fun. You never know what you’re going to see or what’s going to feel strong to you.
EJG: I think what’s been the most remarkable thing for me, since becoming editor-at-large last year, has been creating a dialogue about exactly where painting exists now in contemporary art-making practices, because so many artists are working in several mediums, and how those practices inform their painting.
I also think it seems like New American Paintings has always thought in a broad way about what painting is as a concept. In some ways, a focus like this on a single medium, in this day and age, is really rare and so to be able to take a deep look at what that means is really, really interesting.
Filed under: Competitions | Tags: competitions, Laura Hoptman, New Museum, Northeast
Northeast (CT, DE, ME, MA, NJ, NH, NY, PA, RI, VT) Entry Deadline Extended: September 10, 2010 (midnight). Juror: Laura Hoptman, Kraus Family Senior Curator, New Museum, New York, NY.
Late entry fee applies. Please see below.
To apply online, artists will need four jpegs of their work (no larger than 1200 pixels at their greatest dimension) and a credit card for the late entry fee of $55. All styles and media are welcome, as long as the work is singular and two-dimensional. Online Submission Deadline: September 10, 2010 (midnight).
Click here to register and submit your entries to the Northeast Competition 2010, juried by Laura Hoptman, Kraus Family Senior Curator, New Museum, New York, NY. As the country’s largest and most important series of artist competitions, we’re thrilled to feature Laura’s unique perspective. With the deadline extended to September 10th, keep those submissions coming!
New American Paintings is pleased to announce that Laura Hoptman, Kraus Family Senior Curator at the New Museum in New York, will serve as the juror for the 2010 Northeast Competition, Edition #92. (Open to artists living in CT, DE, MA, ME, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI and VT. The deadline for entry is August 31, 2010. Apply online.)
Previously, Hoptman was Curator of Contemporary Art at Carnegie Museum of Art where she organized the 54th Carnegie International exhibition as well as a survey of the drawings of Robert Crumb that appeared at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London and the Boijmans van beuningen in Rotterdam. As a Curator of Drawing at The Museum of Modern Art from 1995-2002, she organized exhibitions including Drawing Now: Eight Propositions (2002) and Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama (1998). At the New Museum, she team-organized the opening exhibition Unmonumental, (2007); The Generational: Younger Than Jesus (2009) and has curated survey exhibitions of paintings by Tomma Abts (2007), and Elizabeth Peyton (2008), a project by the British artist Jeremy Deller (2009), and a retrospective of the multi-media work of Brion Gysin (2010). In 2011, she will present a survey of the painter George Condo, a project co-organized with Ralph Rugoff of the Hayward Gallery in London.
Photo: Mary Barone
