"Call for Artists : Revisiting Beauty"
2010-02-25 until 2010-03-10
Orange County Center for Contemporary Art
Santa Ana, CA, USA United States of America

OCCCA Call For Art - Revisiting Beauty - Juror: Peter Frank - Deadline For Entries: March 10, 2010. The meaning of beauty has been debated by philosophers since the time of the Greeks. Courted or scorned, distrusted, devalued, deconstructed, beauty promises pleasure while provoking awe, admiration and even fear. Beauty quickens the pulse. Attention Contemporary Artists! OCCCA is now accepting submissions of artworks representing ideas of the beautiful. Painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, video, installation, and computer-based New Media projects welcomed. Beauty stirs the understanding, and is the enemy of complacency. Concepts alone can never replace it. Beauty’s provocations are no longer innocent. Exuberant, self-conscious and enigmatic, beauty will stage a stunning comeback at OCCCA, May 2010.

JUROR: Peter Frank
Peter Frank is Senior Curator at the Riverside Art Museum, Associate Editor of FABRIK Magazine, a contributing editor to art ltd. and Art on Paper, former art critic for the LA Weekly and Angeleno Magazine, and former Editor of THEmagazine Los Angeles and Visions Art Quarterly. In his native New York Frank served as critic for the Village Voice and the SoHo Weekly News. He has curated exhibitions for the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid, PS1 and Franklin Furnace in New York, the Biennale di Venezia and Documenta, among other venues.

For Prospectus:www.occca.org

All submissions must be sent outputted on 8.5” x 11” paper, one image sheet for each entry or self playing videos. No slide entries will be accepted. Accepted entries will be notified by email and will be posted on the OCCCA website. CD submissions will not be returned and will be shredded after judging. A 100 word or less statement, written in first person, should accompany your submission in WORD format. Please use Arial font for ease of conversion for catalog.

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