Artist Calls
What is a juried call for entries? video courtesy of Austin-Artists.com
Device by Marc Silva, from the Studio2Gallery exhibit "2×4"
“Artifice" How do you veil your illusion?
a juried call for entries, Juror: Tina Weitz
exhibit: October 16-November 13, 2010
artists' reception: Saturday, October 16, 6:30-8:30pm
Entry deadline September 14, 2010
artifice: trickery, ruse, deception, a clever device, ingenuity
Assuming that you are a good person, consider the possibility, as you partake in Halloween festivities this year and put on a sinister mask, that perhaps the 364 other days of the year are the domain of sinister people who don masks of respectability, warmth and kindness, who conjure superficial fictions but succeed surprisingly often in passing them off as real. Consider the possibility that mainstream consensual ‘reality’ is in fact a thin façade concealing a web of hastily assembled and continually reinforced supports not unlike the back-stage scaffolding at a traveling carnival, with hawkers and performers intent on emptying their patrons’ pockets before the fraud is discovered.
–Excerpt from the art statement of feature artist, Marc Silva
Feature artist, Marc Silva, offers his view of illusion through masterful images of layered perceptions, and worlds merged. Studio2Gallery seeks artworks offering the artificial, illusion, ingenuity or masked perceptions. –Juror and owner, Tina Weitz
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Tree of Wisdom by John Sager
“Library Foliage”
a juried call for entries, Juror: John Mark Sager
exhibit: December 4-January 22, 2010*
artists' reception: Saturday, December 4, 6:30-8:30pm
Entry deadline November 4, 2010
"…We wade through history, and swim in a multitude of ideas, eventually finding the stroke that we can call our own. Cross-pollination has always been a major factor in the arts. Literature, music and architecture have seeded my artwork, sometimes blossoming into fruition, always leaving a trace of growth. …"
- Excerpt from feature artist and juror, John Mark Sager’s Artist Statement
Studio2Gallery and our feature artist and juror, John Sager, open another chapter with this exhibit to share the love for and relationship we have with books. The possible ways a book can be reflected in art is as wide and vast as the stories a book can tell.
We are seeking artworks with a theme of books. Including, but not exclusively, books that have been changed by you, the artist. An altered book is a form of mixed media artwork that transforms a book from its original form into a different form. The book is an object – intimate and public at the same time. So it is with an artwork – a link between self and other. “What is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversations?”
BIOGRAPHY
John Sager’s unique assemblages and collages have been exhibited in New Zealand, Colorado, Oregon, New Mexico and Washington, DC, as well as Texas where he has had five solo shows at Hooks-Epstein Galleries. He has received 16 jurors’ awards, including a major award from the McKinney Avenue Contemporary Museum in Dallas, “Best of Show” at the Waco Art Center and two purchase awards from Concordia University at Austin. He has been selected to display work at the Austin City Hall three times, and this year his work was included in a nationally juried altered book exhibit and catalog in Denver, Colorado.
Sager often explores spiritual themes. The Dadian Galley at Wesley Theological Seminary, HEB Foundation’s Laity Lodge and Seton Family of Hospitals’ spirituality center have shown his work, which has been featured in the Arte Sagrado nationally juried exhibitions. His sculpture was included in a gallery tour of New Zealand to mark the centennial of Joseph Cornell’s birth.
Since 1980, he has been a preparator for the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Art from Texas Lutheran University, where he had a 44-piece retrospective in 2005. He lives in Austin with his wife Joni and cats BeBop and Persephone.
REVIEWS
“Everywhere you turn, other disparate objects — old clock cases, a lunchbox (also rusted), monocles, a decrepit violin bow — are integrated into pieces of spiritually themed art.”
— Jonathan Padget, Washington Post
“Sager has continued to gather the detritus of other people’s lives and to assemble the disparate parts into evocative, thoughtful, and astonishingly elegant constructions.”
— Curator statement by Deborah Sokolove, director of the Dadian Gallery, Washington, DC
Named one of the “Top 10 Artists to Watch in 2004” by the Austin Chronicle
“RECOMMENDED ARTS: Also in Flatbed at the new project space named O2, John Sager crafts his ‘prepared atmospheres’ — nifty quiltlike collages from half-inch squares cut from old National Geographic magazines.”
— Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, Austin American-Statesman
“The Searchers and Birds’ Eye View are two lovely little collages by the consistently superb artist John Sager.”
— Jacqueline May, Austin Chronicle
“John Sager’s memory-laden found object sculpture evokes the nostalgia of past eras as it simultaneously
offers insight to the present.”
— Juror statement by Becky Duval Reese, former director of the El Paso Museum of Art
“John is one of the very best artists that I have seen in the Southwest, and his images are very startling to me. He is a brilliant and original seer, someone who is full of surprises for the viewer.”
— Juror statement by Richard Shaffer, the University of California at Santa Cruz
The Artful Book Browse
A one day book event of artistic publications.
January 15, 2011 from 1-5pm.
Join us for a special presentation featuring artist, Nathan Jensen, discussing his illustrated books for children at 1pm.
We are seeking artists who have published a book and would like to participate in selling their books at this Studio2Gallery event.
More details soon.
Coming March 12-April 2, 2011
A juried exhibit with juror and feature artist, Brenda Ladd
Our call for entries will be out soon, watch for us to celebrate South by Southwest 2011 in Austin, Texas with visual art influenced by music.
