Solo exhibition opportunity

Exhibition Dates: 2025
Jurors: Chase Cantwell and Kristin Osterberg

The Painting Center, an artist-run non-profit gallery, in the heart of Chelsea, announces a call for submissions for two solo exhibition opportunities in the Project Room space of the gallery. The two solo exhibitions will take place in 2025, and each separate exhibition will have a run time of four weeks. If you are selected to exhibit, there is no additional fee for showing your work in the space. Chase Cantwell and Kristin Osterberg will select the two artists for the two solo exhibitions. We invite visual artists of all disciplines to submit work. Please present strong examples of the works you would include in your solo exhibition if selected for this opportunity.

Submission Dates: January 15 - April 5, 2024

Notification Date: May 15, 2024

Application Fee: $40 for up to three images.

Submission Requirements: Images should be uploaded via SlideRoom and must be high resolution, preferably 300 dpi, and must be under 10MB, as required by SlideRoom. Please submit a clearly written artist statement, and explain the plans for your potential exhibition in the Project Room space at The Painting Center.

Additional Requirements: All works exhibited in the Project Room must be for sale. The gallery takes a 30% commission on any works sold. Artists should be prepared to transport their work to and from the space.

Apply on Slideroom: https://thepaintingcenter.slideroom.com/#/permalink/program/75635

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About the Jurors:

Chase Cantwell grew up in Trenton, NJ, majored in Painting at CW Post College, LIU and received his BFA from there he migrated to New York City in 1978. There Cantwell came to paint storefronts and eventually portraits. Having a day job for 25 years in the music business Cantwell took care of major recording projects and worked for just about every recording label there was. At night he went home to paint in isolation.  Eventually Cantwell would show in 1997 at Gallery Asyl in New York’s burgeoning Chelsea area.  After 9/11 he moved out of the city back New Jersey to raise his two children and then they moved back closer to New York City and he began to find his art community.  Cantwell took up encaustic painting to transform what was going on in oil only to realize that medium was excellent for him to portray an earlier love of geometrical abstraction. Stripes, Walking Lines, Curved, By Inference, and Cubes are all series involving a simple motif like the stripe and evolving it. After a decade of working in encaustic Cantwell turned back to oil to create his Artist Portrait Project where he is painting various artists in his community to be shown February 2023 at The Painting Center in New York City. Cantwell maintains a studio practice in West Orange, NJ and also teaches encaustic privately and at the Visual Art Center of NJ. Cantwell is collected here and abroad. He has been in countless exhibitions throughout the United States.

Kristin Osterberg lives and works outside New York City. She is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and has shown in and around the New York area. Osterberg’s moody, painterly approach sets itself against the insta-compositions of social media. She edits and reimagines. She leaves faces unclear. She invents color palettes. She picks up on implications beyond the photographer’s intentions. These might be images from any family’s past. Her paintings seem to ask, “Remember this?” and invite the response, “Yes. Maybe.” Kristin Osterberg sifts through boxes and albums of old photos to find points of departure. Naively, often clumsily shot, they embody a certain authenticity nonetheless. People dimly recalled. Unidentifiable places occupied by siblings, parents, and grandparents. Forgotten childhood events. They’re springboards into an uncanny gallery of familiar and strange, remembered and forgotten, distinct and blurred.