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EarthWE Gallery Announces First Solo Exhibit for Celebrity Artist Betsy Clark

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EarthWE Gallery Betsy Clark exhibition installation view

EarthWE Gallery Betsy Clark exhibition installation view

We love that EarthWe thought to send us their latest press release and we are happy to share the details with you. Plus they included the wonderful photo, above, of their Betsy Clark exhibit in their gallery space. EarthWE has an interesting website for you to check out here.

Here is their latest art exhibition news—

EarthWE Gallery of Bergamot Station, Santa Monica is pleased to announce the opening of the first solo exhibit for Celebrity Artist Betsy Clark

“The Exiles” opens January 30 with an artist reception from 6-10 pm, and will run for 6 weeks. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday 11-6 pm.

Born in Seattle, Washington, current Venice resident, Betsy Clark is an actress, painter and mother with a flair for color and a love of elegance. As a child she was enamored of the acting world and the high fashion, style and elegant lifestyles of the Hollywood movie stars. She knew at an early age she wanted to live a glamorous life, and held multiple jobs while in high school, earning her own money to spend on clothing and social activities. While working in the mailroom of a bank, a teller suggested she try modeling, a moment that changed her life forever. Soon she was traveling around the world on high fashion modeling assignments that gave her a taste of that special life she had always envisioned. Once she began acting classes her natural talent was discovered, and national commercials soon followed. While in Paris working she met her soon-to-be husband, Philippe Caland, a film producer, who began casting her in his films, including the cult classic Boxing Helena. Her dreams becoming a reality, she began experimenting with other creative outlets, and painting became her next obsession.

Working in mixed media for the past 15 years, Clark has shown in various group exhibits in Santa Monica, but this will be her first solo show. This series, called “The Exiles” is comprised of 30 portraits from her imagination – predominantly well-dressed women, who look as if they are from another country and era. Says Clark, “I imagine these women have had really hard times, yet they are all so proud and dignified, and have put their best outfit on for some special occasion or party, where they may not really fit in…”

In a style reminiscent of Modigliani, the works are vividly painted in simple poses, stylized with elongated necks, proud features, and dressed in bits of fabric that Clark has collected from her travels. There are no smiles on any of them, yet the work has a decidedly optimistic feeling. Clark reflects, ”I am most proud of putting a smile on peoples faces. My mom and dad use to say to me “”Bets, you are a shining light in the room.” If I can show that through my paintings and have my light shine till the day I die, then I am a happy, grateful woman!”  Come see this exhibit  – and smile – for yourself!

EarthWE is located at 2525 Michigan Avenue, Building D5, Santa Monica, California USA 90404

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DESIGN A MAGAZINE COVER IMAGE FOR ARTREVIEW | OPEN CALL

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This is your chance to let your design skills shine! ArtReview Magazine is famous for featuring contemporary artists on its cover. For our next project, however, we invite you to create and submit alternative cover image designs, which in your mind best represent the ArtReview Magazine, its long history and identity.THE TASK: Create a Venice Biennale themed magazine cover image (La Biennale di Venezia is the contemporary artworld’s biggest annual showcase which opens on the 1 June 2013). You may use existing pictures, create imagery from scratch, use collage, illustration, painting, photography, digital imaging software – any medium you desire. We will publish an online gallery of all of your submissions and at the end of the project select a bronze, silver and gold design.1st PRIZE: Homepage feature for the duration of 1 month, 1 years free subscription to the magazine + an ArtReview bag.

2nd & 3rd PRIZE: Homepage feature for one month + current issue of the magazine + an ArtReview bag.

TIPS: Read the 60th anniversary issue of ArtReview to learn more about ArtReview’s history – the December 2009 issue.

Read all of ArtReview’s special Venice coverage in the June 2013 issue of the magazine and, in the run-up to the fair, find out which artist’s will be showing what, where, in our daily The Venice Questionnaire, on artreview.com.

TERMS: You must have usage rights for the images that you use in your piece. Designs may not contain nudity, offensive material, images of celebrities and copyrighted material such as images, text or logos. To submit your design: please email images of your work to petrapolic@artreview.com by 5pm on the 30th of June 2013 with AR Magazine Cover in the title. Images can be jpeg, png or psd files. We look forward to receiving your cover designs!

This competition is open to artists and designers of any age or nationality.

Visit 4art.com at: http://4art.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network

 
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New York City: Casting For Art Reality TV Show

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CASTING FOR ART REALITY SHOW: NEW LAVORO

New York based artist Dora Budor is looking for participants in art reality show NEW LAVORO, shot in different locations in NYC from April 16 – April 24.

The winner will get an all expenses paid trip to Venice for the Biennale, accommodation and a position as one of participants in project NEW LAVORO.

The video will be premiered as part of installation in Palazzo Peckham in Venice this year, a brand new venue designed and built for the 55th Venice Biennale, organized by Ollie Hogan (LuckyPDF), Hannah Barry gallery (London), and supported by Club Midnight (Berlin).

ABOUT THE PROJECT
New York based artist Dora Budor is casting for reality show NEW LAVORO. The winner will get a trip to Venice this year (Summer 2013), including accommodation during Venice Biennale, and a position as one of participants in project NEW LAVORO. The video will be premiered as part of installation in Palazzo Peckham in Venice this year, a brand new venue designed and built for the 55th Venice Biennale in the summer of 2013, situated in Castello between the Giardini and the Arsenale. NEW LAVORO is looking for 18 talented participants who are willing to experiment, and go through 7 different contests judged by well-known guest artists. Participants in the show will wear special outfits designed by NY fashion brand Eckhaus Latta. Project is dedicated to exploring relations between creative industry workers and aspirational lifestyles operating behind the curtains of current sustainable economies, and takes different approach than other art reality shows; experiments with production in extreme/realistic living conditions: minimum budgets, borderline use of materials that are ‘non-artistic’, theft or misuse of commercial resources and immaterial production, testing the boundaries of how we can produce art in time of economical crisis and material overload.

ABOUT PALLAZZO PECKHAM
Palazzo Peckham is a new social space created for the 55th Biennale. The Palazzo’s interiors are by Jon Rafman, Dora Budor, Rob Chevasse, Samara Scott, Viktor Timofeev, Simon Werner, Cindie Cheung, Keller/Kosmas, Joe Hamilton and Peles Empire. Designing, art directing, collaborating and curating, each commissioned artist has been selected because of their varied and engaged relationship to working with social space. Open from May 26th, featuring a special programme of talks, performances, classes, workshops and events welcoming artists, curators, collectors and art enthusiasts from all over the world.

By paying special attention to hosting great minds coupled with a dedicated channel for online distribution, Palazzo Peckham will realise a radically diverse and inclusive program called Information Flows (But You Just Sit There). All content will be vigorously documented by in house film crew who will assist in capturing the specially commissioned artist films for the talks, events and performances.

Deadline: April 8th (chosen participants will be informed by April 10th)

Requirements:

Minimum Qualifications

• BFA, MS, MFA, equivalent master’s degree in field of arts, or strong artist portfolio
• in good physical health
• between the ages of 21 and 29
• located in NY area, or able to come for the period of shooting (April 16 – 24)

Preferred Qualifications

• MFA in any art-related field
• strong ability to work in team and individually
• performance background a plus
• Art Assistantship experience preferred
• experience working with individuals from culturally diverse backgrounds

APPLY:
+ 2 pictures
+ brief bio
+ artist portfolio / link to website
+ 2 sentences why you want to participate

Finally, email us at newlavoro2013@gmail.com (subject: CASTING CALL)

Make sure to list your contact information (name, email, phone, location) in the body of the email.

http://www.doraandmaja.com/

Deadline: Tue Apr 16th, 2013

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The Wrong: New Digital Art Biennale

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The Wrong on Art Stack  http://theartstack.com/exhibition/TheWrong-NewDigitalArtBiennale

Duration: 01/11/2013 – 31/12/2013

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Artists– Enter to Win Solo Shows in International Contest

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It’s LIQUID International Contest | Second Edition 2012

Submission Deadline: January 23, 2013

Winners List Released: February 28, 2013

It’s LIQUID International Contest with chances to win a Solo Exhibition in Venice and a Solo Exhibition in Istanbul, leader cities for contemporary art.

Winners will be selected by public vote (which will award the Venice Art Residence, and will start on January 07, 2013) and by professional jurors’vote (which will award one Solo Exhibition in Venice, one Solo Exhibition in Istanbul, Art Residences in Rome, Istanbul and Turin, 1 year of participation in International ArtExpo’s festivals, 1 year of It’s LIQUID Platform services).

 Read full details on the Official website: www.itsliquid.com/contest

 

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Liquid Identities Call for Photo and Video Art, + Your Solo Show in Venice

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Call for Artists

Liquid Identities | Venice (Italy) . September 28-29-30, 2012

Deadline: September 10, 2012

International ArtExpo is selecting all interesting video/short.films and photo works to include in the next 2012 Exhibition:

Liquid Identities – International Videoart Festival and Photo Exhibition at Scoletta di San Giovanni Battista e del SS. Sacramento in Bragora, Venice (September 28-29-30, 2012)

The deadline for applications is September 10, 2012.

The selections will be based on the main concept of “Liquid Identities” based on fluidity, motion, changing networks and cities transformations. In contemporary society boundaries are getting more and more fleeting, and also the identity; what makes every person or place a recognizable entity, turns out fluid, multiple, making the cultural, religious, ethnic borders changeable too. This change, this mutation has allowed to cross the inside of the identities creating new possible crossings, new blends. And it’s just this “contemporaneity” that makes our civilization conceived as subjected to a process of continuous evolution and cultural hybridization. There is no more limit between an identity and the other one but it is possible to walk, to cross a passage and to find oneself halfway through it, in a non-place, in a non-identity. This project is about temporary roles in changing rules, thinking about liquid borders in new evolving worlds.

The number of works with which you can participate is unlimited. 

All video works must be on DVD (PAL or NTSC), no matter what the original source medium. The maximum length of videos should be 10 minutes. All photo works on every kind of support are accepted. The maximum dimensions allowed per each image are 100 cm per side. We need also copy of the CV/biography, videography and some still images (only for video artists) and some samples of photo works (only for artists) through one of the following ways:

– by e-mail

The forwarding of all documents and artworks has to be carried out through online transfer services (as for example: wetransfer.com, filecentral.se, yousendit.com or other similar) at lucacurci@lucacurci.com

– by mail to:

International ArtExpo
Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 33
70122 Bari, Italy 

The participation in Liquid Identities requires an entry fee for every artwork submitted and selected. Participation open to: professional artists, architects and designers, associate groups and studios. 

International ArtExpo is a not for profit organization that provides a significant forum for cultural dialogue between all artists from different cultures and countries. ArtExpo is grateful to all of the institutions, corporations, and individuals who support our artistic projects. We work with a number of national and international galleries as well as publishers, museums, curators and critics from all over the world. We help artists through solo and group exhibitions, gallery representation, magazine reviews and advertisements, press releases, internet promotion, as well as various curatorial projects.  

International ArtExpo
Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 33
70122 Bari (Italy)
+39.0805234018
+39.3387574098
lucacurci@lucacurci.com
www.lucacurci.com/artexpo  

Future is now! Set up your own solo show in VENICE

Have you always dreamt about your own solo show in VENICE? Now you can make it real!

International ArtExpo offers you the great opportunity to have an art exhibition in Venice, in the beautiful setting of Scoletta di San Giovanni Battista e del SS. Sacramento in Bragora (nearby San Marco square). This ambitious new project is opened to any kind of artist, in fields of painting, sculpture, photography, video art and performing art.

The Scoletta, close to the famous Vivaldi Church San Giovanni Battista in Bragora, is a three floor buildingopened to painting, sculpture and photography exhibitions, the third floor is ready to video art and performing art shows too.

To realize your own solo show, we will provide the following:

.Opening reception – we will organize an opening reception for your solo show
.Promotional web page – we will create a promotional page announcing your solo show with all your contacts
.Exhibition catalogue – a solo show catalog with your bio/press release and images of your art work
.Invitations by email – invitations to your solo show will be emailed to our Press office mailing list of over 80,000 subscribers
.Invitation cards – we will provide you with color exhibition invitation post cards to be mailed by you, and to a select group of International ArtExpo clients
.Press office – It’s LIQUID Group will cover the press office service. Your solo show will be announced in Italian and International art magazines. The announcement will also appear on our official web site and on various other art-related sites (more details about It’s LIQUID Group at http://www.itsliquid.com)
.Banner advertising – a banner advertising for your solo show will be placed on International ArtExpo website as well as on It’s LIQUID website

It’s LIQUID will manage your relations with the media: print, TV, on-line magazines and will invite critics, writers, curators, dealers and other visual arts professionals to your exhibition.

Make a concrete move to improve your artistic career and share you talent. Spread your work in VENICE!
For more details, contact us to lucacurci@lucacurci.com

International ArtExpo is a not for profit organization that provides a significant forum for cultural dialogue between all artists from different cultures and countries. ArtExpo is grateful to all of the institutions, corporations, and individuals who support our artistic projects. We work with a number of national and international galleries as well as publishers, museums, curators and critics from all over the world. We help artists through solo and group exhibitions, gallery representation, magazine reviews and advertisements, press releases, internet promotion, as well as various curatorial projects.

International ArtExpo
Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 33
70122 Bari (Italy)
+39.0805234018
+39.3387574098
lucacurci@lucacurci.com
www.lucacurci.com/artexpo