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SUMMARY:"MATERIALIST"
DESCRIPTION:This group exhibition will feature artworks by regional artist group called “MATERIALIST”!  \nFeatured Artists:\n-Jessie Fisher\n-Melanie Johnson\n-Christopher Lowrance\n-Michael McCaffrey\n-Scott Seebart  \nWe hope you will join us for our opening reception on First Friday\, June 2nd from 5:30pm – 9:00pm! \n—-\nMATERIALIST is a group of painters dedicated to representation\, observation and the expressive material subject. Meaning is embodied in each artist’s vigorous processes and narratives that are at once deeply personal and openly poetic. The revelation of everyday life is drawn\, painted\, collaged and sculpted with an intensity that stems from each member’s direct connection to personal and familial subjects. Close inspection of their work reveals individual methodologies which create captivating haptic and intimate visual experiences.  \nWhile our work is not interchangeable\, each artist shares a love of the material and the gestural and the responsive.  Each of us possesses a strong foundation in the tradition of perceptual painting and drawing\, and approaches the medium as a a meditation on constructing meaning. Working as a collective has augmented our individual practices by highlighting very distinct approaches\, while at the same time revealing striking rhymes in process\, materiality\, and meaning\, often creating new narrative threads when the work is in dialogue. \n—-\nARTIST STATEMENTS/BIOS: \nJessie Fisher’s compositionally dense paintings blur distinctions between empirical fact and perceptual fiction through intimate portraits and surrogate objects. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Visual Arts and Design Academy\, Santa Barbara\, the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts and Studio Art College International\, Florence\, Italy and has lectured on her work at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art\, the International Center for the Arts\, Montecastello di Vibio\, Italy and at the GuangXi Arts Institute\, Nanning\, China among others. She is a recipient of the Ohio Young Painters Prize and a founding member of Studio Nong\, an international sculpture collective and residency program based in southern China. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries in Minneapolis\, Saint Paul\, Iowa\, Ohio\, New York\, Philadelphia\, Los Angeles\, Kansas City\, Italy\, and China. Fisher was a Professor in Painting at the Kansas City Art Institute from 2005-2022 and is currently a co-director of Case | Edgerton Studios in St Paul\, MN and a member of the Prince Street Gallery in New York City.  \n—-\n Melanie Johnson’s immersive large-scale drawings and paintings engage the viewer through carefully observed depictions of the natural environment\, inviting the viewer to linger over a history and meaning that unfolds slowly. Johnson is a recipient of the Tallgrass Artist Residency\, where she worked on the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve\, and the Charlotte Street Residency in Kansas City\, Missouri. Her work has been exhibited in gallery venues in New York\, London\, Philadelphia\, Chicago\, Minneapolis\, Cincinnati\, and Kansas City\, as well as in many academic institutions. In 2022\, her work was featured in “A Changing World: Women to Watch”\, at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.  Johnson is Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of Central Missouri. \n—-\nChristopher Lowrance studied at Indiana University\, Missouri State University\, and the University of Massachusetts and currently lives in Kansas City. Teaching\, writing about art and occasional curatorial ventures complement his studio art practice–making mostly large scale\, invented figure paintings and drawings plus smaller works from direct observation.  \n—-\nMichael McCaffrey’s current paintings\, drawings\, and collages focus on his family history and home; and the interconnection between a father and son. In the winter of 2016\, Michael was awarded a two-week residency at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. Michael exhibits both regionally and nationally. Recently\, at Prince Street Gallery and First Street Gallery in New York\, NY\, Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati\, OH\, The Leedy-Voulkos Arts Center in Kansas City\, MO and the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg\, MS. Michael’s work was published in Manifest Gallery’s International Painting Annual 5 and 9\, and in 2015 he received an international grant from the Elizabeth Greenshields foundation.  Currently\, he is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Visual Art at the University of Kansas where he teaches Painting and Life Drawing.  \n—–\nScott Seebart  merges the tabletop with the allegorical\, painting an arcadian re-enactment of the everyday object set within an extraordinary scene. Seebart has shown in group and solo exhibitions at the Susquehanna Art Museum\, The American Museum of Art in Philadelphia\, Pennsylvania\, Lo River Arts in Beacon\, New York and the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center in Kansas City\, Missouri. He has been a visiting artist at the Mount Gretna School of Art\, The International Center for the Arts in Montecastello di Vibio\, Italy and Studio Nong in Nanning\, China. Seebart is a co-director of Case | Edgerton Studios in St. Paul\, MN and a member of the Prince Street Gallery in New York City.
URL:https://www.reubensaundersgallery.com/exhibit/the-materialists/
LOCATION:Reuben Saunders Gallery\, 3215 East Douglas\, Wichita\, KS\, 67218\, United States
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SUMMARY:WICHITA NATIONAL CERAMIC INVITATIONAL - Call for Entry!
DESCRIPTION:“Wichita National Ceramics Exhibition”\nOctober 6 – October 28\, 2023\nApplications due June 30\, 2023 \n—– \nSUBMIT YOUR ENTRY HERE:\nhttps://wichitaceramicsnational2023.artcall.org/ \n———-\nCall for Entries!\nReuben Saunders Gallery seeks applicants for the “Wichita Ceramics National Exhibition”\, a juried group exhibition that seeks to showcase the work of emerging and early-career artists working with clay and to elevate the visibility of ceramics as a diverse and vibrant field. \nEligibility:\n• Entry is open to regional\, national\, and international artists 18 years or older working with clay as a primary material\, including utilitarian\, sculptural\, traditional and/or experimental work.\n• All submitted pieces must be original artworks made by the applicant within the last\ntwo years.\n• All submitted pieces accepted for the exhibition must be for sale. \nJUROR: Chotsani Eliane Dean – Artist and Assistant Professor of Ceramics at the University of Minnesota. Born in Hartford\, CT\, Chotsani received her BFA in Ceramics from Hartford Art School and Master’s of Fine Arts from Sam Fox School of Art at Washington University in St. Louis. \nAWARDS:\n•1st Place: $1500\n•2nd Place: $1000\n•3rd Place: $500\n•Red Lodge Clay Center Award: “Residency Award” for a two-week residency scheduled in the following year! This residency includes housing and an additional $1\,500 stipend to offset standard residency costs. Please see https://www.redlodgeclaycenter.com/residency-info/short-term-artist-in-residency/ for general information about RLCC residencies. \nSubmission Requirements:\n• Entry fee: $10 for three (3) entries; a set of pieces may be submitted as a single entry.\n• Multiple views may be submitted for each entered piece or set.\n• All entries must be submitted through the “Call for Entries” on Artcall.org \nCalendar:\n• Submission deadline: June 30\, 2023\n• Notifications begin: July 17\, 2023\n•Artist confirmation deadline: July 31\, 2023\n• Shipments/deliveries of work: Sept 1-15\, 2023\n• Opening reception: October 6\, 2023\n• Exhibition on display: October 5 – 28\, 2023\n• Return shipments begin: October 30\, 2023 \nTerms and Conditions:\n•Exhibiting artists agree to donate two (2) bowls\n• Reuben Saunders Gallery reserves the right to exclude any incomplete or\nincorrect submissions from the jury process.\n• Reuben Saunders Gallery reserves the right to exclude from exhibition any works\nthat arrive at the venue in unstable or damaged condition\, or that differ from the\nsubmitted entry images or information.\n• Entry fees are non-refundable.\n• Accepted artwork may not be withdrawn prior to the closing date of the exhibition.\n• Artists agree to allow the Reuben Saunders Gallery to use images of their artwork in\npromotional materials.\n• Artwork left at the gallery for more than 90 days following the closing of the exhibition\nwill become the property of Reuben Saunders Gallery. Reuben Saunders Gallery reserves the right to sell\,\ndonate\, or dispose of abandoned exhibition artwork. \nSales of Artwork:\n• Artwork accepted for the exhibition must be for sale.\n• 50% of sales are retained by the artist. 50% will be retained by Reuben Saunders Gallery with 25% sales commission for each piece sold to be donated to Empty Bowls Wichita and the other 25% retained by the Gallery. \nShipping and Delivery:\n• Artists are responsible for all shipping\, delivery\, and insurance costs for accepted\nartworks to exhibition venue.\n• Reuben Saunders Gallery will assume responsibility for return shipping of unsold works.\n• All accepted entries must be in sturdy\, reusable packaging such as boxes or crates\,\neven those that are hand-delivered. Artists should follow standard double-boxing\nprocedures for shipping fragile work.\n• Reuben Saunders Gallery is not liable for any damage or loss incurred in transit.\n• Any claims on shipping damage must be reported by the artist to the carrier upon\nreceipt. Artists must retain all original packing materials for inspection by the carrier\nuntil the claim is resolved.\n• All works must be display ready\, any hanging devices or special hardware needed for installation are the responsibility of the artist.\n• Crated or boxed works must be able to pass through a standard single doorway.\n• Settlement for any artworks damaged in transit will be the responsibility of the artist and\nthe carrier.\n• All works must be shipped by the specified shipment deadline\, or they may be\nexcluded from the exhibition.\n• Artists agree to coordinate any hand-delivery and/or hand-pickup of artworks with Reuben Saunders Gallery. \nItems must be shipped to arrive at the gallery no later than Friday\, September 15\, 2023. \nMail to:\nReuben Saunders Gallery\n3215 East Douglas Ave.\nWichita\, KS 67218\n316.682.1481 \nAbout the Gallery:\nA welcoming hub for art appreciators and collectors\, Reuben Saunders Gallery is an integral part of Wichita’s art scene\, bridging artists and the creative community regionally and nationally. Founded by Reuben Saunders in 1978\, our gallery is a go-to destination for Wichita’s First Friday art walks. Known especially for consigned and estate art\, we proudly present diverse offerings of artists\, representing a broad range of genres and media types. \nContact:\nTrish VanOsdel\, Co-Owner and Gallery Director at Trish@reubensaundersgallery.com
URL:https://www.reubensaundersgallery.com/exhibit/wichita-national-ceramic-invitational-call-for-enty/
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