Source: Gallery A3
Gallery A3 announces an open call for artists for its 9th Annual Juried Show, to be held August 1-31, 2024. Submissions will be accepted May 28-June 28, 2024.
Gallery A3’s Annual Juried Show offers local and regional artists an opportunity to exhibit their work in a downtown Amherst gallery and, in turn, gives the community a chance to discover artists who may be living just across town or just across state lines. This year, the theme is Impermanence. “Gallery A3 is seeking art that speaks to the ever-changing, transient, and often cyclical nature of all things as experienced in the realm of human relationships and emotions and as encountered in the material and natural worlds,” explains exhibit coordinator, Paula Hite. The juror, Maria Timina, is the Curator of Russian and European Art at the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College. An Opening Reception is scheduled for Thursday, August 1, from 5-8:00 p.m. at the gallery, 28 Amity Street 1D and an online Art Forum, open to the public, is scheduled for Thursday, August 15, at 7:30 p.m.
Guidelines for Submissions
Artists are invited to submit images May 28-June 28. Entry fees are $38 for three entries, $7 for one additional entry, maximum four entries per artist. Artwork must be no wider than 26 inches. Jury results will be posted online on July 15, and accepted art should be delivered to the gallery on July 28 and 29. For more on how to submit work, go to the gallery website: www.gallerya3.com
Juror Biography
Maria Timina, Juror for Impermanence
Maria Timina is Curator of Russian and European Art at the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College. Before arriving in the United States in January 2023, she was a PhD candidate in art history at Lomonosov Moscow State University and worked as curator at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, a museum that possesses one of the largest world art collections from Ancient Egypt and Greece to our days. Maria has a rich experience in studying and interpreting artworks from different cultures and periods, with a special focus on modern art. As a scholar, she has published and presented papers on the work of radical avant-garde artists from the former Russian Empire and the early Soviet Union. Among her research interests are modern color theories and practices, the evolution of abstract painting, and fakes and forgeries in art. As an expert in the work of the avant-garde artist Ivan Kliun, she assisted the German police in their investigations of suspected forgeries of his work and was recently featured in the BBC documentary “The Zaks Affair: Anatomy of a Fake Collection” (2024).
About Gallery A3
A cooperative, contemporary fine art gallery, Gallery A3 is located in the Cinema Complex in downtown Amherst. Current members include painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers, and mixed media artists. During its 22-year history, A3 has been home to over 60 artists, mounting monthly exhibits and offering cultural events and community collaborations. The Gallery’s opening receptions take place on the first Thursday of every month; Art Forums, free and open to the public, are scheduled on the third Thursday. This Art in Community II outreach program is supported in part by grants from the Amherst Cultural Council and the Springfield Cultural Council, local agencies, which are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.