queen of clubs
i received this email (below) on my website a few weeks ago:
We ran across your website and thought you might be interested in our upcoming Project. We are Art in Hand˙, an arts publisher looking to bring our City Project Decks of cards to the city of Washington, DC. We are seeking 54 artists who are currently living and working in the Washington, DC area to participate in our next City Project Deck.
The Washington, DC Project will be a deck of fully functional playing cards where each individual card in the deck (plus 2 jokers) is rendered in the typical style of the contributing artist. The project will create widespread exposure for participating artists while producing a unique, entertaining, functional and green product for the city of Washington, DC.
We are seeking artists of 2-dimensional art in any style or medium and from as many different neighborhoods and districts within Washington, DC area as possible.
Accepted artists will be assigned one card from the deck and asked to produce an original piece of work that clearly represents their designated card, that represents some aspect (be it overt or subtle) of Washington, DC and that is created in their own unique style.
There will be no fee for participation but accepted artists will be asked to sign a letter of commitment as well as submit a high res TIFF of the image in exchange for a one-time royalty payment in product. Artists are free to keep their original image.
Interested artists should submit an email to info@artinhandcards.com, include a short bio and a link to a website where their work can be easily viewed or 2-3 sample image files representative of their work. Please include the title: Washington, DC Project Artist in the subject line of your email.
If you are accepted to the project, we will contact you asap and send you an information package that should answer all your questions.
For more information or to view other City Projects, please visit our website, www.artinhandcards.com.
Thanks for considering being part of this very fun and unique project.
i replied and was accepted. i was given the QUEEN OF CLUBS as my card;
EXPLANATION OF THIS CARD:
my card is allegorical. it addresses the situation of female political figures (the queen) in the male dominated washington political arena (the clubs). the heads in the corners represents the extremes of the right and left, the physical challenges to women as well as the unreasoned demands and attacks from special interests of all kinds. birds are omens. on an allegorical level, the bird can be seen as either the
embodiment of the disturbing and shattering forces that threaten all female political figures or as a winged messenger of hope. the queen herself lacks any indication of her femaleness (no body, no clothes) – there is too much emphasis on the appearance of female politicians and not enough on their views and accomplishments. and the dancing children-- politics in washington is a game which you need to learn regardless of gender- to be “a player.”
i will, as a surprise (shhhh!), give david a deck or two of cards when it is printed (i think in march). since david is a card player i think he will enjoy this little gift of playing poker with his friends using art cards, of which is mother will be one. don't tell him!
EXHIBITED AT:
Touchstone Gallery
901 New York Ave NW
Washington DC 20001
29 june-29 july 2011
jenniferbeinhacker.com
art outside the edge
queen of clubs
i received this email (below) on my website a few weeks ago:
We ran across your website and thought you might be interested in our upcoming Project. We are Art in Hand˙, an arts publisher looking to bring our City Project Decks of cards to the city of Washington, DC. We are seeking 54 artists who are currently living and working in the Washington, DC area to participate in our next City Project Deck.
The Washington, DC Project will be a deck of fully functional playing cards where each individual card in the deck (plus 2 jokers) is rendered in the typical style of the contributing artist. The project will create widespread exposure for participating artists while producing a unique, entertaining, functional and green product for the city of Washington, DC.
We are seeking artists of 2-dimensional art in any style or medium and from as many different neighborhoods and districts within Washington, DC area as possible.
Accepted artists will be assigned one card from the deck and asked to produce an original piece of work that clearly represents their designated card, that represents some aspect (be it overt or subtle) of Washington, DC and that is created in their own unique style.
There will be no fee for participation but accepted artists will be asked to sign a letter of commitment as well as submit a high res TIFF of the image in exchange for a one-time royalty payment in product. Artists are free to keep their original image.
Interested artists should submit an email to info@artinhandcards.com, include a short bio and a link to a website where their work can be easily viewed or 2-3 sample image files representative of their work. Please include the title: Washington, DC Project Artist in the subject line of your email.
If you are accepted to the project, we will contact you asap and send you an information package that should answer all your questions.
For more information or to view other City Projects, please visit our website, www.artinhandcards.com.
Thanks for considering being part of this very fun and unique project.
i replied and was accepted. i was given the QUEEN OF CLUBS as my card;
EXPLANATION OF THIS CARD:
my card is allegorical. it addresses the situation of female political figures (the queen) in the male dominated washington political arena (the clubs). the heads in the corners represents the extremes of the right and left, the physical challenges to women as well as the unreasoned demands and attacks from special interests of all kinds. birds are omens. on an allegorical level, the bird can be seen as either the
embodiment of the disturbing and shattering forces that threaten all female political figures or as a winged messenger of hope. the queen herself lacks any indication of her femaleness (no body, no clothes) – there is too much emphasis on the appearance of female politicians and not enough on their views and accomplishments. and the dancing children-- politics in washington is a game which you need to learn regardless of gender- to be “a player.”
i will, as a surprise (shhhh!), give david a deck or two of cards when it is printed (i think in march). since david is a card player i think he will enjoy this little gift of playing poker with his friends using art cards, of which is mother will be one. don't tell him!
EXHIBITED AT:
Touchstone Gallery
901 New York Ave NW
Washington DC 20001
29 june-29 july 2011
jenniferbeinhacker.com
art outside the edge