emerging artist: Kim Luther

 
My
name is Kim Luther and I am a Ceramics Grad at Indiana
University-Bloomington. Currently, I am researching
hysteria; how it has been depicted in art, contrived and medicated by
men and how that is still seen in our culture today wether referenced in
music and cinema or politics.  I have also done some photography with
clay that was more about filling voids, space and female relationships
(mother/daughter or sister).  
 
 
 

Want
to be featured as an emerging artist on musing? All you have to do is
send me some images, a brief write up if you’d like, and a
website if you have it to [email protected] If you could put emerging
artist in the subject header of the email so it doesn’t get lost in my
spam folder that would be great. Thanks!  

Call for entry: American Art Today – Figures

American Art Today: Figures
The Bascom, 323 Franklin Road, Highlands, NC, 28741

Event Dates: 9/7/13 – 1/5/14
Entry Deadline: 7/13/13
Days remaining to deadline: 109

REQUIREMENTS:

Media

Images – Minimum: 1, Maximum: 2

Total Media – Minimum: 1, Maximum: 2

Entry Fee (American Art Today: Figures): $35.00

(per sample over minimum): $

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Juror: Jonathan Stuhlman has been the Curator of American Art at
the Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte, North Carolina since 2006. He was
previously the Anne and Harold Berkley Smith Curator of American Art at
the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL; a McIntire Curatorial
Fellow at the University of Virginia Art Museum; a Curatorial Assistant
in the departments of American Art and Modern and Contemporary Art at
the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; a Research Associate in the department
of American Art at the Art Institute of Chicago; and Assistant Director
of Second Street Gallery in Charlottesville, VA.

At the Mint, Mr. Stuhlman has overseen the presentation of traveling exhibitions including Encouraging American Genius: Master Paintings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art (2006) and has organized numerous in-house and traveling shows, including: Quiet Spirit, Skillful Hand: The Graphic Work of Clare Leighton(2008, with publication); Identity Theft: How a Cropsey Became a Gifford (2009, with extended brochure); From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland (2011, with publication); and Surrealism and Beyond , which is comprised of three exhibitions: Double Solitaire: The Surrealist Worlds of Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy (2011-12, with publication), Seeing the World Within: Charles Seliger in the 1940s (2012, with publication), and Gordon Onslow Ford: Voyager and Visionary (2012, with extended brochure). Before coming to the Mint he organized the traveling exhibition Georgia O’Keeffe: Circling around Abstraction for
the Norton Museum of Art and authored its accompanying catalogue. He
also oversaw the reinstallation of the Mint Museum’s collection of
American Art at its new Uptown facility.

Mr. Stuhlman received his BA with honors in Art History from Bowdoin
College; his MA in Modern and Contemporary Art History, Theory, and
Criticism from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; and is
currently a doctoral candidate (ABD) in Art History at the University of
Virginia where his dissertation focuses on the work of the Surrealist
painter Yves Tanguy.

Awards: $5,500 will be awarded at the discretion of the Juror.
Best of Show-$1,600; 1st -$1,200; 2nd -$1,000; 3rd -$900; 4th -$800. The
Bascom notifies artists of awards September 5 via email. Public opening
and artist reception, Saturday, September 7, 2013, 5-7pm, Juror Gallery
Talk and awards presentation at 6pm.

Eligibility: The Bascom’s American Art Today: Figures is
open to all artists living and working in the United States and over the
age of 18. Works must be original, reflect excellence and a unique
vision of the maker within the genre of the human figure, completed
within the past two years, and not previously exhibited at The Bascom.
The Bascom is the final authority on eligibility

Size Limitations: There are no size limitations

Entry Fee and Procedures: One or two digital images may be
submitted via CaFÉ for a $35 non-refundable entry fee. Secure credit
card payments can be made through CaFÉ. Personal checks or money orders
will be accepted via mail, payable to: The Bascom, memo: American Art Today: Figures. Mailed payments must be postmarked no later than July13, 2013 and mailed to Mary James, The Bascom, 323 Franklin Road, Highlands, NC, 28741.

Image Format: All entries, information and images will only be accepted via the CaFÉ website.
Each entrant may submit two works for consideration. Each work must be
represented by only one image (no detail views or duplicates).

Image formatting details can be found on the CaFÉ website: Media Prep.

Juror’s choices for the Bascom’s American Art Today: Figures will
be announced by email and on the CaFÉ website during the week of August
12, 2013. Invited artists will receive notification via email by The
Bascom with an artist agreement on the week of August 12, 2013.

Shipping: Accepted artworks must be delivered to Sallie Taylor,
The Bascom, 323 Franklin Road, Highlands, NC, 28741, during operating
hours (9am-5pm, M-F), between August 26-30, 2013. Works must arrive by
August 30, 2013. Shipping and insurance costs to and from the art center
are the responsibility of the artist. The Bascom will insure works
while on the campus of the art center. Works must be shipped in a single
reusable carton or crate. Works must be shipped ready for installation
with clear identification attached to the work. A prepaid return
shipping label must be included with entry. Works will be returned the
week of January 13, 2014.

Sales: Works will be for sale during the exhibition if the artist
desires. Artist sets the retail price. The Bascom will receive a 40%
commission on art work sold during the exhibition. Artists will receive a
check for 60% of the sale within 30 days of the exhibition closing.

Inquiries: Additional information may be obtained by contacting
Bo Sweeny, Exhibitions Coordinator, 828-787-2879, [email protected]
or Sallie Taylor, Curator, 828-787-2899, [email protected].

Tisdale Figurative Invitational @ Red Lodge Clay Center

When I saw this I just about lost my mind and jumped in the car and drove straight there to see it. Then I remembered how far away I am and that we’re expecting a winter storm today….maybe another day. Thank goodness all the images are online.

Patti Warashina

Claire Curneen

Janis Mars Wunderlich

curatorial statement for Tisdale Figurative Invitational


James Tisdale is a Resident Artist and Ceramic Education Coordinator at the Austin Museum of Art. His position with AMOA has allowed him to participate in several residency programs in the US and across the globe, even teaching at the International Ceramic Studio in Kecskemet, Hungary. His allegorical, biographically inspired figures have been exhibited internationally and most recently his work was featured at SOFA Chicago. Red Lodge Clay Center is proud to welcome Tisdale back to Montana after twenty years. We are also excited to have the opportunity to collaborate with him on this exhibition. “Silhouettes” presents an intimate, yet diverse display of contemporary, figurative ceramic sculpture.

The figure has had a pretty interesting run throughout the history of art. More than once this icon has been declared “DEAD”, only to rise again thanks to the undeniable hubris of the human condition. We will always grapple with ourselves and so we will always have need to view ourselves through the varied, external, interpretive lens of the maker. Some of the artists in the exhibit honor the classical rendering of the figure to explore the human condition, while others abstract surface and form to exploit psychological underpinnings or to celebrate frozen moment narratives. Humor, history, mythology, and anthropomorphism inform these objects in a melange that is only possible in modernity. It’s easy to forget that the salon once vilified deviations from the representational figure. Now such deviations are not only accepted, they are the exemplar. Debates between protectors of tradition and those reaching for innovation are applicable to many fields and it is an opportunity to examine our own boundaries.

Humanity has primordial ties with the material of ceramics and a seemingly primordial impulse to recreate our likeness in the plastic mud. The figure serves as human proxy and as divine proxy. The figure functions as icon and catharsis. It is a way for us to try catching lightening in a bottle. The collective “we” can redefine ourselves through the figure. Through the figure we can be immortal. “

Artists in the show: Sunkoo Yuh, Kensuke Yamada, Janis Mars Wunderlich, Paige Wright, Patti Warashina, James Tisdale, Zachary Tate, Richard Swanson, Nan Smith, Esther Shimazu, Deborah Rogers, Gabriel Parque, Richard Nickel, Meg Murch, Melissa Mencini, Tammy Marinuzzi, Beth Lo, Clayton Keyes, Margaret Keelan, Magdalene Gluszek, Debra Fritts, Diana Farfan, Thaddeus Erdahl, Claire Curneen, Andrea Keys Connell, Tom Bartel, Wesley Anderegg, Pavel Amromin

Show runs until April 26th
Red Lodge, MT 59068 Ph. 406.446.3993
redlodgeclaycenter.com/lists.php?eid=181&type=exhibit

Call for entry: 500 Figures in Clay Volume 2

Lark Crafts seeks images to publish in a new collection of figures in clay, to be juried by Nan Smith.
While artwork may be abstract to some degree, each piece must be based
on and recognizable as the human form. Artists may submit images for up
to two original works with three details of each piece. Note that as a
book of new work, no artwork created before 2004 will be considered, and
priority will be given to pieces created within the last five years.
There is no entry fee. We can accept only high-quality digital images.
Artists will receive full acknowledgment within the book, a
complimentary copy, and discounts on the purchase of additional books.
Artists retain copyright of their work.

All submissions must be submitted electronically through Juried Art
Services. Note that there is no fee for using Juried Art Services. The
entry page can be found at the following link: http://www.juriedartservices.com/index.php?content=event_info&event_id=590
Entries must be submitted by February 8, 2013.