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NAKED

Nave Gallery   /   Deadline: 04/12/15

The Nave Gallery Annex (Somerville, MA) invites artists to participate in the curated exhibition, Naked.

"No one view of the nude is the same; in art, as in life, there are no certainties. No blacks and whites, only shades of gray. Writing about the nude is a difficult endeavor. It has been approached in the past by so many different visions and politics, that one thing is certain-there is no one revelation, there is no naked truth. The nude's importance is paramount as a symbol of purity, humanity and sexuality. The body is the vessel that carries us through the world. It is one of the purest forms of nature. The nude affects the way we see and interpret the rest of the world. It is something that goes unnoticed in our lives, but all of humanity, even the puritanical, confront it on a daily basis.

Photography as a medium has no rules or limits. Its politics apply to whoever is making the image; it is vision, it is light and it is sight. The body is like an instrument; it can make an image of pure beauty, with quiet and deep symphonic tones. The body can be loud, sharp & startling! It can be worn, tired and matured. It can be innocent and obscene. It can be tender, sweet and seductive. Naked will be a symphony of these pure human tones, of sadness, excitement, love and lust." - Brett Henrikson

Location

Somerville, MA

Fees

$15

Eligibility

All works with a photographic component may be entered into the show including, but not limited to: Alternative Photo Process, Wet Plate Collodion, Silver Prints, C-Prints, Polaroids, Digital Workflow and Mixed Media.

Requirements

GUIDELINES:

- $15 entry fee payable through PayPal
- A maximum of 5 pieces may be entered for consideration
- Submissions will be accepted through April 12, 2015
- The Nave Gallery will retain a 30% commission for work sold
- Artist is responsible for cost of shipping work to and from the gallery

Considerations

CALENDAR:

- Deadline for entries: Sunday, April 12, 2015
- Notification: Sunday, April 26, 2015
- Artwork drop-off: TBA
- Exhibition dates: May 21 - June 20, 2015
- Opening reception: Thursday, May 21, 2015

Evaluation Criteria

ABOUT THE CURATOR:

Brett Henrikson is an artist-photographer living in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. He received his BFA from RISD in 2011. Photographic processes are his hammer and chisel; they are the tools he uses to approach the world. He uses art and visual language to understand and reinterpret being. His bodies of work vary from work about the intersection of life and death, classical portraiture, nudes and the wet plate collodion process using the physicality of the photographic object in a new and unconventional way. He is based strongly in the craft and alchemy of the process. He believes that the hands on aspects of working in the darkroom and using film or large format gives the artist a real sense of creation over their work. His studio is in Central Falls, RI, in an old mill above a loading dock, where he can blast vinyl symphonies while making prints in the red warm confines of a womb-like darkroom. He is also in the process of opening a new house museum in the city with a focus on photographic works.

Contact Information

Susan Berstler
Somerville, MA

W: http://navegallery.org/wp/naked-cfe/
E: info@navegallery.org

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