Call for Artwork | ART DETOUR

Call to Artists
6 x 6 : A Benefit for Eye Lounge

This March, Eye Lounge will be hosting the very popular 6 x 6 show as an Eye Lounge fundraiser. The money generated by this show will be used to make repairs to the gallery, work on special projects like catalogues or exhibits in other cities, and for general operating expenses. Eye Lounge has hosted these shows in the past with great success. www.eyelounge.com

The way it works is that we invite certain artists to make pieces of artwork in a 6″x6″ format that can hang on the wall. These pieces can be as elaborate or simple as you like. You can make one piece or as many as you wish.

We will hang all the artwork in Eye Lounge for Art Detour. The pieces will be for sale, anonymously, meaning we will not have a label next to the artwork. We are asking you to sign the back of your artwork though, so that when someone does purchase it they know who made it.

We will advertise the show with the names of all the participating artists, in all of the Art Detour publications. We will be making and mailing postcards to our extensive list, marketing on Facebook, and we will pitch the story to all of our contacts in the press. So, participating artists will get great exposure over the busiest weekend in downtown Phoenix. All artwork will be sold for $20 a piece, and the proceeds from the show will be donated to Eye Lounge.

Art Detour Benefit Exhibition & Sale
Admission is FREE
Friday March 16 from 6-9pm
Saturday March 17 from 1-5pm
Sunday March 18 from 11-3pm

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To participate please follow these steps:

1. CREATE one or more original artworks on any material. The artwork must be 6″ x 6″ x 6″. This is a maximum dimension in any direction. If you want to frame your piece the frame should be no larger than 6″ x 6″ x 6″. It must be ready to hang. If it is not prepped for hanging we will hang it with thumb tacks.

2. RSVP email or call and give us your name so we know you will be part of the show and we can include you in all the press. eyelounge@gmail.com (602) 430-1490

3. SIGN and PRINT your name on the back of the artwork only.

4. Carefully package artwork. Suggestion – wrap artwork in wax paper and put between 2 pieces of cardboard.

5. If you need confirmation that we have received your artwork, please include a self-addressed stamped postcard which we will mail back to you.

6. UNSOLD artwork will not be returned unless you include a 6″ x 9″ SASE with your submission.

7. Artists must be 18 years or older to participate.

8. Mail the following, must be postmarked by Friday March 2, 2012
-artwork
-submission form
-confirmation card (optional)
-6″x9″ SASE for return of unsold work (optional)

or

9. Drop off artwork during gallery hours at Eye Lounge:
Friday March 9 from 6-9pm
Saturday March 10 from 1-5pm
Sunday March 11 from 11-3pm

Late work will not be accepted.

SEND TO:
eye lounge: a contemporary art space
6×6 show
419 East Roosevelt Street
Phoenix, AZ 85004

9. AFTER THE EVENT
Artists requesting return of unsold postcards and those requesting information about the collector of her/his artwork will
receive notice in 4-6 weeks. Thanks in advance for your patience and support.

Please email us with any questions at eyelounge@gmail.com

SPRO | WILLIAM LEGOULLON

FEBRUARY 17th – MARCH 11th in the Project Room

Opening Reception:
February 17th, 6-10pm

Closing Reception:
March 2nd, 6-10pm

SALT | CLAIRE WARDEN

FEBRUARY 17th – MARCH 11th in the West Gallery

Opening Reception:
February 17th, 6-10pm

Closing Reception:
March 2nd, 6-10pm

SALT: Studies in preservation and manipulation is the newest exhibition of photographs by Claire A. Warden. In these works, Warden methodically explores the act of preservation by experimenting with botanical specimens crystallized in saltwater and printing each image using a nineteenth-century photographic process. With inspiration drawn from the various botanical illustrations and photographic methods of early herbalists, her work continues to investigate systems of classification and knowledge and ideas of preservation, control and manipulation.

SHENPA | MORGAN MacCALLAM

FEBRUARY 17th – MARCH 11th in the East Gallery
Opening Reception:February 17th, 6-10pm

Closing Reception:March 2nd, 6-10pm
My Shenpa series is my personal memorial to a beloved contemporary street artist. Shenpa inspired me to combine impermanent street art with the archaic permanence of clay. Shenpa is attachment, compulsion, and urge. At the subtlest level, we feel a tightening, a tensing, a sense of closing down. Then we feel a sense of withdrawing, not wanting to be where we are. That’s the hooked quality. That tight feeling has the power to hook us into self-denigration, blame, anger, jealousy and other emotions which lead to words and actions that end up poisoning us. When shenpa hooks us, we’re likely to get stuck. The momentum behind the urge is so strong that we never pull out of the habitual pattern of turning to poison for comfort. We could call shenpa “that sticky feeling.” We’re in the habit of associating whatever we’re doing with relief from our own discomfort. This is the shenpa syndrome.

“Shenpa”
by Morgan MacCallum