Curated by Steven Cabral, Lisa Petker Mintz and Christopher Schade.
The Painting Center, an artist-run non-profit gallery in the heart of Chelsea, announces a call for entries for its summer juried exhibition titled “Break of Day, Edge of Night“. The exhibition will run in the gallery space from July 19 – August 12, 2022 and will be featured on Artsy with a catalogue of artists works.
Conceptions of day and night conjure a broad spectrum of emotions and ideas that elicit diverse imagery. This can be an embodiment or meditation on the subjective or perceptual experience of time. One thinks of the serial Haystack paintings of Monet or more recently Byron Kim’s Sunday Paintings. These daily visual shifts echo larger seasonal, and celestial cycles that acknowledge mortality and renewal. Each time evokes a different sensation, ranging from the mystery, vulnerability, and desire of night to the ecstatic and precious clarity of day. Day and night can also suggest light, it’s absence, and how it travels through space. It can be a search for boundaries or an exploration of feeling. In his painting Nighthawks, Edward Hopper conveys the loneliness and isolation of a nighttime urban scene. Artists have sought to capture the spirit of day and night by depicting beauty, decay, rebellion, conformity, the seductive and the strange. We are looking for works of art that are inspired by day and night in all its revelations. Works may be two-dimensional or three-dimensional, including but not limited to mixed media, photography, digital, sculpture and painting.
Exhibition Dates: July 19 – August 12, 2022
Reception: Thursday, July 21, 5 – 8 pm
Deadline for Submission: June 5, 2022
Notification Date: June 15, 2022
Application Fee: $42 for up to five images.
Submission Requirements: JPEGs must be 300 dpi and a professional quality image. Maximum file size for any individual image is 5 MB.
Size Limitation: Artwork that exceeds 36″ in any dimension will not be considered. The size limitation includes the frame, do not exceed 36”.
Additional Requirements: All works submitted must be for sale. (The gallery takes a 30% commission on any works sold).
Artwork Shipping/Delivery Dates: Wednesday, July 13 – Saturday, July 16, 2022 between 11 am and 6 pm.