The entry that was selected is The Egg (All Things Are Alive 29) shown below and found in my gallery here: https://daviddavid.net/artwork/the-egg-all-things-are-alive-29/
This year’s judge is the amazingly talented Carrie Ann Baade who personally selected each work to be included in the exhibition.
Baade is an American painter whose work quotes from, interacts with, and deeply relates to art history. Baade paints in dialogue with relevant masterpieces in order to reclaim them in a surreal narrative that is simultaneously biographical. Baade received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, studied at the Florence Academy of Art in Italy, and received her MFA from the University of Delaware. She works in Tallahassee, where she is a full Professor of Painting and Drawing at Florida State University.
Since 2005, Baade has had more than 20 solo exhibitions at museums and other venues nationally and internationally. Her exhibits include: Mesa Contemporary Museum of Art (2018), the Museum of Contemporary Art in Jacksonville (2012), the Delaware Contemporary (2007), La Luz de Jesus in Los Angeles (2018), and the Ningbo Art Museum in China (2007). Her works have also been exhibited at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, the Harwood Museum in Taos, the Instituto de America de Santa Fe in Granada in Spain, and the Centrum Promocji Kultury Warszawa Praga Południe in Poland.
Each work of art selected for the show will be made available for purchase of $75 in 11″ x 17″ size on white card stock. Sales profits will be split between the artist, OPAL and the Chicago Chapter of Black Lives Matter. The show runs October 6 – October 30.
I currently sell prints of this artwork in my Etsy store at 9″ x 12″ size, while donating all profits to Black Lives Matter. Find it here: https://bit.ly/HonorFloyd
Surreal Salon, the annual exhibition celebrating the growing quality, popularity, and diversity of the pop-surrealist/lowbrow movement, returns to Baton Rouge Gallery for its eleventh year in January 2019. The exhibition, to be held January 3 – 31, 2019, in partnership with the LSU School of Art, will aim to once again feature works from artists around the world, giving audiences a unique multi-sensory experience with one-of-a-kind contemporary art typically not seen in this region.
The art below was selected for the exhibit and will only be available for purchase for a limited time, through the gallery between now and closing of the show.
All Things Are Alive 3 – Selected to appear in the Surreal Salon 11 show at the Baton Rouge Gallery – Center for Contemporary Art
I seek through my art to represent the life and movement that makes up the entire universe. There is no surface or area of space that is not filled with energy and movement; quantum particles pop in and out of existence even in deepest space. It’s the quantum foam of existence. So through my detailed marker drawings, I am representing this endless energy and the unity of animate and inanimate objects—at a subatomic level, it is all one. Matter is just one form of energy. I’m creating a sensation of life through inorganic abstract shapes.
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My publisher, Jason Pettus of CCLaP, interviewed me about many topics including Death by Zamboni, A Greater Monster, The Kickstarter Letters, the Chicago lit scene, self-publishing, and more. You can hear it here.
Also, I have been invited to be a finalist judge for the Chicago Writer’s Association Book of the Year writing contest.
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