| Hudson Valley Artists 2010: "Contemporary Art and Praxis", Call to Artists, March 19, 2010 |
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Dear Fellow Artists/Curators: Attached please find the Call to Artists for the Dorsky Museum's "Hudson Valley Artists 2010: Contemporary Art and Praxis". The deadline for submissions to this year's annual Hudson Valley Artists exhibition is March 19, 2010. The artists and artwork in this exhibition, which runs from June 26 - November 14, 2010, will be selected by Thom Collins, the Director of the Neuberger Museum at Purchase College--our sister SUNY campus to the south. We are very excited to be working with Thom this year! New to the Hudson Valley Artists this year is a purchase award of $3,000 to purchase one or more works for inclusion in the Dorsky Museum's collection. Also new is an expanded area of eligibility---from Westchester County on the southern end to Columbia and Greene Counties on the northern end. Thank you in advance for your interest, and for forwarding this artists' call to anyone whom you think might be interested. Meanwhile, please come and visit The Dorsky to see our new Winter/Spring 2010 exhibitions. For information about the museum's exhibitions and programs, visit www.newpaltz.edu/museum. Sincerely, Sara _________________________ Sara J. Pasti The Neil C. Trager Director Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art 1 Hawk Drive New Paltz, NY 12561-2443 Phone: (845) 257-3846 Fax: (845) 257-3854 Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it URL: www.newpaltz.edu/museum Hudson Valley Artists 2010: Contemporary Art and Praxis CALL FOR ARTISTS The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art invites artists to submit proposals for its annual exhibition of work by regional artists. This year’s exhibition—Hudson Valley Artists 2010: Contemporary Art and Praxis—will be curated by Thomas Collins, Director of the Neuberger Museum at SUNY Purchase. Collins will select work from approximately 20 artists and artist teams from the Hudson Valley for an exhibition that will be on view at the Dorsky Museum from June 26 – November 14, 2010. Artists are invited to submit slides of existing work or to propose new works or site-specific installations. The deadline for submissions is Friday, March 19, 2010. Hudson Valley Artists 2010: Contemporary Art and Praxis will present the work of artists living and working in the Hudson River Valley who are engaged with innovative approaches to art making that demonstrate how creative practice can operate in service of theory to effect changes in the real world. New this year to the Dorsky Museum’s Hudson Valley Artists exhibition series is an expansion of the residency requirement to include artists from Putnam, Rockland, and Westchester Counties. Also new is the introduction of a Hudson Valley Artists Annual Purchase Award of $3,000 to be used to acquire one or more artworks from the exhibition for the Dorsky Museum’s permanent collection. This Purchase Award is made possible through the Alice and Horace Chandler Art Acquisition Fund. Artists whose work was purchased in 2009 are photographer Gilbert Plantinga and painter Thomas Sarrantonio. GUIDELINES / INFORMATION Hudson Valley Artists is open to all emerging and mid-career artists living in Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster, and Westchester Counties who have not yet had a major one-person museum exhibition and who do not have an exclusive contract with a commercial gallery. Students are not eligible. There is no application fee. Artists are invited to submit a maximum of six images of work created in 2006 or later. Artworks created in traditional media as well as audio, video, film, etc., are welcome. Brief proposals (100 words, 1-2 images) for new work, presentations, performances, etc., to be created for this exhibition are also encouraged. We cannot accept submissions via email; we can accept a link to a website that has a CLEARLY demarcated page/area with all the requested submission information; we highly recommend submitting materials by mail/hand; images should be approximately 1 mb each. Work shall be submitted in the form of slides or CDs. For time-based works, a VHS/DVD cued to a two (2) minute sample is recommended. For each work, clearly indicate the artist’s name, artwork name, date, materials, and dimensions. Please send submissions to: Attn: HVA 2010 Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art SUNY New Paltz 1 Hawk Drive New Paltz, NY 12561 EXHIBITION DESCRIPTION “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.” –Karl Marx, Theses on Feuerbach, 1845 Key philosophers from Plato and Aristotle to the Frankfurt School have elaborated the description of and advocated a special category of human action called “praxis.” In praxis, critical theory is wedded to practical activity to yield new cultural “products” ranging from speech to texts, objects, organizations, and environments. The resulting creative products are offered as a form of social activism seeking to improve, or propose a new solution to, an existing set of material, cultural, or social circumstances. Contemporary progressive artists and artist collectives have gone beyond modern abstraction and postmodern investigations of representation to devise new artistic praxes that have real material implications. Drawing on sources as varied as social theory, genomics, psychoanalysis, environmental science, political philosophy, and cybernetics, they have worked locally, nationally, and internationally to place art at the service of the individual and society in an attempt to bring about social, political, and economic change. This exhibition proposes to survey the work of artists living and working in the Hudson River Valley who are engaged with novel approaches to art making that demonstrate how creative practice can operate in service of theory to effect changes in the real world. |