Gallery A3 is excited to announce a CALL for ARTISTS for its Annual Juried Show, to be held August 1 - August 31, 2024. The opening reception is on Thursday, August 1, from 5-8 pm and an online Art Forum is scheduled for Thursday, August 15 at 7:30 pm. The juror for this year’s exhibition is Maria Timina. Timina is Curator of Russian and European Art at the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College.
Gallery A3’s 9th Annual Juried Show offers local and regional artists an opportunity to exhibit their work in an active downtown gallery and in turn, gives the community a chance to discover artists who may be living just across town or several towns (or states) away.
A cooperative, contemporary fine arts gallery in downtown Amherst, Gallery A3 is located in the Cinema Complex. Current members include painters, sculptors, photographers, print makers, fiber artists, 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. The Art in Community II outreach program is supported in part by grants from the Amherst, and Springfield Cultural Councils, all local agencies, which are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
THEME
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.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Artists, 18 and older and in Massachusetts, and the surrounding region; Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York and Maine are invited to submit images between May 28-June 28. The fee is $38 for three entries, $7 for one additional entry, up to a maximum of four images. Two dimensional art work must be no wider than 26 inches and no higher than 72 inches. Sculpture (3-D) work must not exceed 18 lbs and 26 inches in any dimension. Jury results will be posted online on July 15, and accepted art should be delivered to the gallery on Sunday, July 28, 2-7 pm or Monday, July 29, 10 am-noon.
JUROR BIOGRAPHY
Before arriving in the United States in January 2023, Timina 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 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, Timina 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).
She recently curated the two-part exhibition “Art in Doubt: A Critical Examination of the Thomas P. Whitney Collection”, a project that delves into questions of authenticity and marks the first scholarly presentation of dubious Russian and Soviet avant-garde art in the United States. The exhibit is on view at the Amherst Center for Russian Culture at Amherst College until June 28, 2024.
