Honored to announce my work has been selected for the upcoming Unsolicited Submissions exhibition featuring nineteen artists who work in a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, alternative photographic processes, collage, video, and sound art.
Exhibiting artists include David Aipperspach, Kate Casanova, Emily Cucalon, Mary Olin Geiger, Karen Anne Isaksen Glick, Craig Hill, Michael Dax Iacovone, Ronald Lambert, Cindy Lesperance, Chelsey Luster, ChaeWon Moon, Sarah Nance, Jen Noone, Maureen O’Leary, Ryan Parker, James Reeder, Caroline Elizabeth Savage, Chad Whitaker, andRobert Zurer.
The title of the exhibition acknowledges many galleries’ policy to not accept “unsolicited submissions.” In Ejecta Projects’ first call for entries, the curators sought artists who may be deterred by this exclusivity. While many artists’ submissions to galleries and exhibitions, when rejected, are simply discarded, all artists’ proposals for Unsolicited Submissionshave been color printed, folder bound, and are prominently displayed in the exhibition as a library of artwork. All visitors are encouraged to peruse this library during our normal operating hours.
Among a large number of national and international applicants, the selected artists come from various parts of the country, including New York, Chicago, Texas, Montana, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, DC, and Central Pennsylvania.
Location: Ejecta Projects
Address: 126 W High St., Carlisle, PA
Show Dates: August 17 – September 21, 2019
Opening Reception: August 17, 2019, 5:00-7:00 pm
Had a great time teaching: Introduction to Encaustic with Carol Hamilton this past weekend. Such a talented group of artists! They created some really great work. Big thank you to Governor’s State University and especially Sherri Denault for making this workshop possible.
The following artists will be featured: Amanda Jolley, April South-Olson, Asthon Lacy Jones, Barbara W.F. Miner, Barbara Murphy, Carol Flaitz, Carol Hamilton, Carrie Baxter, Cat Crotchett, Cindy Lesperance, Claire Jorgensen, Donna Kuo, Ivette Kjelsrud, Joe Celli, Jola Soares, Kim Segar, Laura LaRue, Linda Mayer, Lynda Ray, Mandem, Matthew Jones, Regina Quinn, Susan Delgalvis, Susan Paladino, and Tiffany Bodciek.
JURORS:
Kathy Blankley Roman is an award winning artist, whose expressive paintings have appeared in shows nationally, online and in numerous private collections since 2011. Using acrylics, encaustic or oil & cold wax, she is a process painter. Roman prefers a limited palette and works in layers, employing contrasts of texture, opacity and gesture to create tension and a sense of depth and history. Mostly small to medium in scale, her works have been described as "large paintings in a small space". They suggest an intimacy which invites viewers to come close, to explore and experience them through their own personal filters.
Dan Addington is an artist and gallery owner who has been working with wax since 1989 and exhibiting encaustic work professionally since 1992. His work has been featured in-group and solo shows across the US, and is in numerous public and private collections. Dan is owner and director of Addington Gallery, located in Chicago's historic River North art district, and has included encaustic painters in exhibitions there since organizing their first national encaustic exhibition there in 1996. Addington's own figurative work incorporates materials such as fabric, oil, wax, tar, gold leaf and various printed matter. The accumulation and layering of these materials echoes his interest in history and the relationships between the stratification of cultures and the layering of memory. In these constructed, overtly physical pieces, Addington seeks to engage the viewer through their own process of physical and spiritual excavation.
