This is an Open Call for proposals for an exhibition and a full representation in Downtown, Los Angeles, CA, USA. This call is open to artists from all over the world working in all visual media. Proposals for exhibitions by both individuals and collaboration artists will be considered.
The gallery represents and have programs for artists from across the country and around the world. The exhibitions challenge our perspective and stir dialogue with our viewers. The individual or group associated with the chosen proposal will receive a solo exhibition at ADC Contemporary Art Gallery as well as future representation. The artist/s will also receive a stipend and an exhibition catalog.
Please be sure you have completed and included all of the following:
_ Entry form - completed, and signed.
_ $40 check, money order, or online payment via
paypal: adcgallery@gmail.com , make checks payable to ARTDECOLLECTORS
_ Print out of Proposal and CV-
_ CD of images and Proposal / CV
_ Return postage and packaging materials.
Works included in the proposal need not be the final works for the exhibition, but they must accurately show the quality, subject matter, media, installation, and general dimensions of.
Artists may submit up to 15 to 20 images for consideration.
JURY
LISA MELANDRI
Lisa Melandri is Deputy Director for Exhibitions and Programs at SMMoA, where she has served in a managerial and curatorial capacity for ten years. Melandri is the curator or Combustione: Alberto Burri and America (2010, with Michael Duncan), Enigma Variations: Philip Guston and Giorgio de Chirico (2006, co-curator Michael Taylor)
and William Pope.L-Art After White People: Time, Trees and Celluloid...(2007), and is currently organizing monographic projects for SMMoA on multi-media artist Marco Brambilla and post-war artist Salvatore Scarpitta. She will serve as co-curator with SMMoA executive director Elsa Longhauser for the upcoming exhibitions Beatrice Wood: Career Woman and Al Taylor: Wire Instruments and Pet Stains. At SMMoA, she is responsible for the Project Room exhibition series, and has featured such national and International emerging artists, as Simmons&Burke, Nira Pereg, Nicole Cherubini, Virgil Marti, Jeni Spota, Loren Holland, Mariella Bettineschi, and Arnold Mesches.
She was curator of the traveling exhibition Rosamond Purcell: Two Rooms and also has organized such curatorial projects as Mary Cassatt, Alice Neel, Karen Kilimnik: Painted Faces (2001), and Omage: Otis Faculty Exhibition 2008 exhibition and publication (2008). Before joining the Museum in 2001, Ms. Melandri was Acting Artistic Director at the Galleries at Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia. Melandri received her BA magna cum laude at Harvard University and MA in from the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art.
BRENT TURNER
Every creative act should be the perfect marriage of idea and execution. This concept has driven Brent Turner's communications work over the past decade for a distinctive roster of art organizations, events and galleries-including Samuel Freeman, Garboushian Gallery, Los Angeles Art Association, C.O.L.A. Grants, California African American Museum, and the Los Angeles Art Show-and it this concept that continues to draw him to the contemporary art industry. He has curated work for LOOK Gallery at the LA Mart Design Center, is a founding member of Alt|Space LA, and currently runs the communications firm the Campbells in Los Angeles.
EVELYN PENER
An entrepreneurial and successful senior sales executive, has been involved in the establishment and management of International Art Fairs, since 1989. Primarily as domestic and international sales director.
Starting with a fair in Chicago in 1990, Evelyn has worked with fairs in Hong Kong, Palm Springs, Las Vegas and with Art Miami since its inception in 1991 until 2008
Since then she is the sales director of the Los Angeles Art Show.
Her initial dedication to Latin America resulted in obtaining the participation in international fairs, for the first time, of many galleries from that region. In subsequent years her dedication included Europe and Asia, primarily Spain, France, UK, Germany, Mainland China, Korea and Hong Kong.
Laura Feinsilber born in Buenos Aires, Argentina where she lives and works.
LAURA FEINSILBER
Since 1987 weekly contributing editor for the newspaper Ambito Financiero and since 1992 for Arte al Dia.
Since 2005 contributing editor for an art program in Radio Cultura. Sponsor of the Prize Jorge M. Feinsilber on Art Essays published in 1989-1991- 1993 .
Nominated for the prize Fundacion Emilio Pettoruti (1995). Jury in National and International Visual Art Contests. Covers International Art Biennials, Fairs and gives lectures related to art. Member of the Argentine Critics Art Association. Member of the board of Friends of Sivori Museum, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
JAIME ENRIQUE DELFIN VILLAFUERTE
Delfin is an artist and Visual Art director at CEARTE, Center of the Visual Arts in Ensenada, BC, Mexico.
Delfin is an explorer, someone who has found in the art how to approach the understanding of earthly existence. Work with the simple to explore the complex: the human being that is beyond their material existence.
He was working and studying in Mexico and Spain.
"Contemplation is the natural capacity of every human being, but each one is exercised in different degrees." J. Dolphin. More than a painter, James Delfin
Related Links:
