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exhibition │No Big Heads, 32nd National Juried Self-portrait Competition, OCT 12-NOV 3rd, 2017, Hugh McPeck Gallery, Anchorage, Alaska, U.S.A.

I am pleased to announce that my work titled "Self-portrait With Mirrors" from "The Art Of Reflection" series has been selected for in person judging, and curated into the 32nd Annual "No Big Heads", national juried self-portrait competition of limited size at the University of Alaska Anchorage. It will be exhibited along with twenty-eight other self-portraits at the Hugh McPeck Gallery in Anchorage, Alaska, U.S.A. from October 12th through November 3rd, 2017.

 

I'm thrilled to see my work among award winners with a Honorable Mention from the Juror.

 

 

ABOUT THE COMPETITION

 

The No Big Heads Self Portrait Exhibition is open to all artists. Works must be no larger than 12 inches by 12 inches in any direction, including framing and hanging materials.

 

JUROR: Christina Seely

Interested in human understandings of time and the natural world, Christina Seely’s expedition based work explores global systems, both built and natural, and finds its home in the conversation between the photographic image and our contemporary relationship with the planet.

Embedded in the work is a dialectic between the surface documentation of representative media and the complex reality that lies beyond that surface – how beauty can suggest the simple and ideal while both subtly reflecting and obscuring an often darker more complicated truth.

An experiential examination of our relationship to time and the natural world makes up the root of her practice. While the work culminates in photographic, textual, collaborative and performative translations it is guided by both the potentials of the photographic medium as an artistic tool and its deconstruction as a dominating cultural syntax.

 

AWARDS

$1000 for Best of Show

$1000 in other cash prizes

 

 

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NB.

All artist accepted into the exhibition were announced on October 11th after Christina Seely's lecture in Arts room 150.

The Opening reception was held on October 12th, 2017.

I got the acceptance notification only on October 13th by e-mail.

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