SPE Southwest

SPE Southwest 2011 Juried Members Exhibition Call for Entries:

Theme: OPEN (The member’s exhibition will display the depth and breadth of photographers in our region!)

Each member is invited to submit up to 5 pieces for adjudication and must be a current member on the deadline date of September 1, 2011. All accepted artists will be contacted via e-mail on September 15, 2011. The show will run from November 4 until November 30, 2011.

All accepted pieces must be framed and shipped to and from the gallery at the artist’s expense. All accepted work is expected to be professionally presented (matted and framed, plexi, mounted etc.) and shipped via FedEx or UPS in a reusable shipping container with prepaid return shipping. All accepted works must arrive at the gallery no later than October 15, 2011.

Please follow the submission guidelines and format carefully.

About the Panel of Jurors:

Steve Fitch
Faculty, Santa Fe University of Art & Design, Photography Department

MA, The University of New Mexico
BA, University of California

Steve Fitch has exhibited his photographs nationally and internationally. His work is included in more than 30 public collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the National Museum of American Art, and the George Eastman House. He has also received many awards, including three National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and the Eliot Porter Fellowship.

Fitch photographs the vernacular of the American West. A traveling exhibition of his photographs was organized in conjunction with the publication of his book Gone: Photographs of Abandonment on the High Plains. Previous books of his photographs include Diesels and Dinosaurs: Photographs from the American Highway; Marks in Place: Contemporary Responses to Rock Art; and Vintage Neon (to which he was a contributor).

Tony O’Brien
Faculty, Santa Fe University of Art & Design, Photography Department

BA, Santa Fe University of Art and Design

Tony O’Brien was born in New York City and has made his home in Santa Fe for the past 30 years. He began his photography career in 1973. His work has appeared in LIFE, Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times Magazine, among many other national and international publications.

He has documented the lives of drug addicts and prostitutes on the streets of Washington, D.C., and New York; the struggle of Afghan rebels fighting the Soviet occupation of their country; and a British expedition climbing Mount Everest. O’Brien spent six months in the Middle East in 1991, covering the Persian Gulf for LIFE. He spent a year documenting the life of Christ in the Desert, a small northern New Mexico Benedictine community. He returned to Afghanistan in 2003 and 2007 to work with filmmaker and co-author Mike Sullivan on their children’s book, Afghan Dreams: Young Voices of Afghanistan, published by Bloomsbury Press in the fall of 2008.

O’Brien’s photography has been exhibited at the National Heritage Museum in Lexington, Massachusetts; The Adham Center, Sony Gallery for Photography in Cairo, Egypt; the Atrium Gallery at the Marion Center of Photographic Arts in Santa Fe; and the Newseum in Washington, D.C., among others.

In 1990, he won the first Eliot Porter Foundation Grant for his work in Afghanistan. He created and was director of the Documentary Studies program at the Marion Center of Photographic Arts, Santa Fe University of Art and Design. O’Brien also teaches photography workshops in Santa Fe and abroad. He is represented by VERVE Gallery of Photography in Santa Fe. He is presently working on two books, one about children along the U.S./Mexico border and another about contemplative life to be published by the Museum of New Mexico Press.

David Scheinbaum
Chair, Santa Fe University of Art & Design, Photography Department

BA, City University of New York

David Scheinbaum worked with the preeminent photo historian Beaumont Newhall and is the co-executor of his estate. His photographs appear in the books Bisti, Miami Beach: Photographs of an American Dream; Ghost Ranch: Land of Light; and Images in the Heavens, Patterns on the Earth: The I Ching.

He has exhibited internationally and is represented in many collections, including the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe; the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas; the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris; the Brooklyn Museum in New York; and the Center of Creative Photography in Tucson. With his wife, Janet Russek, he operates Scheinbaum & Russek Ltd., private fine art photography dealers and consultants in Santa Fe.

About the Gallery:

Marion Center Gallery at Santa Fe University of Art and Design, Santa Fe, NM

The Anne and John Marion Center for Photographic Arts is housed in an exceptional building designed by internationally renowned architect, Ricardo Legorreta. The Marion Center’s facilities and programs provide an opportunity for students interested in photography and photo-based works to study under leading artists and teachers while earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in photography.

Submission Guidelines:

Your submissions must be submitted in the following format for consideration:

Image File Size & Format: 1000 pixels on the longest side at 72 ppi in JPEG format saved at high quality

File Naming Format: lastname_firstname_##.jpeg

Example: smith_john_01.jpeg up to smith_john_5.jpeg

E-mail all submissions to: juriedshow@spesw.org

Please only submit up to 2 images per e-mail!

In the submission e-mail(s) please include the following for each file:

Artists Name:
File Name (i.e. smith_john_01.jpeg):
Title of Work:
Physical Framed Dimensions:
Medium:
Price (or NFS):

Timeline:

Submission deadline: September 1, 2011

Notice of acceptance: September 15, 2011

Framed work due at gallery: October 15, 2011

Show Opening Reception: November 10, 2011, 5pm – 7pm @ Santa Fe University of Art and Design

Show timeline: November 4-30, 2011

Questions?

E-mail us at juriedshow@spesw.org