The Therese A. Maloney Art Gallery

Call for Objects

Submissions for Future Exhibitions
Artists are invited to submit their work for each of the upcoming shows. Guidelines for submission are listed below.

Artists are invited to submit up to 5 JPEGs of relevant work for any of the below exhibitions. Labels for the JPEGS must have your last name and then the title of the work on each JPEG. You must also include with your email submission, an object list [with your name, title of the work, date of the piece, medium, size (h x w x d), weight if over 10 lbs., owner, insurance value/and sale price (which must be the same)]; a one-page resume, and an artist's statement about the works that you have submitted.

Please send this by email to Dr. Ginny Butera at artgallery@cse.edu. The title of the exhibition to which you are submitting must be in the subject line of your email. All works submitted must be available for the exhibition and must be completely ready for installation. Please put all of your contact info on each document: full name, address, phone numbers, email address and website. Please send questions about submissions to the above email address. Submissions not following these guidelines will not be considered.

Robes

September 2 – October 16, 2010

Every culture uses “robes” to signify status, power, gender, spirituality, poverty, wealth among many other meanings. Please submit objects in any media that expand our notion of the beauty and tragedy that can be conveyed by these material coverings. (submit by May 30, 2010)

Shards: Documenting Genocide

October 23 – November 24, 2010

In conjunction with our annual Holocaust Week of Remembrance, in November we will install an exhibition in the Maloney Art Gallery that conveys, in bits andpieces, the horror of genocide in various past and present moments. Submissions accepted in all media pertaining to events in any locale where one group sought to completely eradicate another group. These situations of genocide will also be remembered through a concert, a dance performance and films. (submit by July 1, 2010)

Visual Phrasing

January 20 – April 23, 2011

How do artists visually conceptualize the notion of a phrase? Is it through the abstract arrangement of images or colors? Is it through the interaction of words and forms? Is it conveyed in paint, photography, digital film or fabric? Please submit works in any medium that would utilize “phrases” in a new way to convey meaning to our audience. This exhibition is being organized in conjunction with “Image, Sound, and Movement: The Phrase in Art,”a concert, dance performance, and a poetry reading also centered around the importance of the phrase. (submit by August 1, 2010)

"I believe that an Artist's Statement can be a very powerful tool in helping an artist to establish and succeed in a career, but only if the statement is coherently constructed and very well written with proper spelling and grammar. Everyone needs an editor.

A statement could elucidate the artist's vision and experiences and how that vision and those experiences harmonize with or subvert his/her working method, technique, materials, style, imagery, metaphors, and vice-versa. In an artist's statment, an artist has the opportunity to offer insight about specific meanings and facts that relate to the interpretation of the work.

The more vague the statement is, the less important it is.

In addition to being written at the culmination of a body of work, the statement could also be a means of helping an artist think about beginning new work or continuing ideas and themes that still intrigue the artist.

If the statement is not well thought out and well written, it is better not to have one at all."

Virginia Fabbri Butera