Every open call ends the same way for most artists – with a wait. The submission is sent, and then silence. What happens on the other side of that silence is rarely explained. This article opens that process up. I want to explain how curators select artists for exhibitions at Marea Gallery – not in…
How curators choose art for a curated exhibition? People often ask me this after seeing a Marea Gallery edition go live. The honest answer is less systematic than most expect. There is a process – image quality, theme fit, the balance of the exhibition as a whole – but underneath all of that, there is…
The selection process for a curated open call can feel like a mystery from the outside. You submit your work, you wait, and then you either hear back or you don’t. What happened in between? What was the curator actually looking at? This article opens up that process from the inside. As the curator of…
Getting featured in an online art gallery is something many artists want – and something fewer understand as well as they could. It’s not purely about having the strongest work in the submission pile. It’s about presenting that work in a way that speaks clearly to the curator and fits the context of the exhibition….
Of all the parts of an open call submission, the artist statement is the one artists struggle with most. It’s not because they don’t have things to say about their work – it’s because putting those things into words, concisely and clearly, is genuinely difficult. But the artist statement is also one of the most…