Mutual Gallery opens Art Fresh 2012 Mar 8 for young artists

Thirteen JAMAICAN artists with less than 10 years exhibiting experience show at Mutual Gallery’s Art Fresh 2012. Big up Gilou Bauer!

Art Fresh 2012 opens March 8. Hosted at Mutual Gallery, it is expressly designed to provide an opening for emerging artists regardless of age to show their work in a gallery setting. Art Fresh is one of the two exhibitions reserved for artists who are at the threshold of their artistic career. Many of the young artists who have shown works in the past during Art Fresh which has replaced the Young Generation exhibition have gone onto becoming successful artists nationally and internationally.

Andrae-Green—A-Tight-Fit-(what-an-interesting-predicament-that-I-have-found-myself-in)-1

Krystal-Dadag—Study-of-Eve-3-The-Seeds-of-Love

The exhibition is open to self-taught artists with less than ten years professional experience since first exhibiting their work and art school graduates who graduated less than ten years ago. The exhibition is open also to artists who might have dropped out of producing work but who wish to make a fresh start. The aim of the exhibition is to encourage artists to produce original artworks and to promote a crop of artists who are genuinely keen in pursuing a career in art making.

The guidelines that have guided the judges in selecting the works shown in the exhibition are authenticity in the creative aspects of the artists’ work and commitment. Artists were asked to enter a minimum of four works produced over the past year. This was to ascertain that they are producing works not just for the exhibition, but are essentially, working artists. The number of entries furthermore represents a body of work that allows for a better appreciation of the artist’s work in the judges’ selection and ultimately for the viewers to become better acquainted with the artists’ work.

Thirteen artists were selected. Of that number nine artists’ works went through a judging process while four were invited artists. This year the three judges were: well-known artist and teacher Tina Spiro; Paula Daley, lecturer at the Edna Manley College for the Visual and Performing Arts; and Gilou Bauer- Curator of the Mutual Gallery.

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