Call for Entry: Recontextualizing the Found Object

Sean Macmillan of Martha Gault Art Gallery, Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania writes:

Most artists are by nature frugal individuals. More often than not we accumulate stockpiles of materials or seek out objects by visiting garage sales, scrap yards, junk stores etc. We all utilize these materials in vastly different ways. I am looking for your interpretation of found object or found material. Works ranging from high manipulation of salvaged materials to “Traditional” Found Object Assemblage and Collage are welcome.

Juror: Sean Macmillan Application Form and Prospectus are here: Recontextualizing the Found Object Application fee of $20 for up to three works. Checks need to be made out to Slippery Rock University. Applicants may submit up to three images per piece. Some images may be used for publication and advertising purposes.
Works cannot exceed a shipping weight of 40 pounds and must be able to fit through a single person-door. This exhibition is open to all artists, working in any medium. All entries must be original, completed within the last five years and accurately be represented in jpeg images. Works not meeting these criteria will not be exhibited. Post mark deadline for checks, application and images is February 7th, 2011
Notification of artists is February 21st.via All Things Metal Clay

Warning – Too much information in this next post…

So it’s midday friday and I realized I haven’t yet had a chance to post a site 2 see friday.

We’ve been a bit distracted around these parts lately with ceramics of another kind. The little one is extending his education on all things clay to include the use of a toilet, so there you go, that’s where my mind has been the last few days. I figured rather than fight it, it was as good an opportunity as any to show some related work of Robert Arneson.

Sure it’s an old piece, and i’m sure many of you are very familiar with his work. For those of us, well some of us, growing up on the prairies of Central Canada work by Arneson becomes a part of our ceramic history. The influence of Arneson, David Gilhooly, and other artists of the Ceramic Funk Movement was strongly felt particularly in Saskatchewan where I live and grew up. It impacted not only a similarly aged generation of Canadian artists, but I believe aspects of their approach to clay, humor, satire; and arts and culture references still exists in a younger generation of artists here as well.

Anyway you can read more about this piece here.

And to read more about the Funk Years at TB-9 make sure to check out David Gilhooly’s website here.

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