Hello, friends—
I spent the weekend in Minnesota, first for a stop through Winona, where the Minnesota Marine Art Museum sits along the shores of Mississippi River and presents some really beautifully curated shows in an assuming part of town.
I was interested in a show by Karen Goulet (Ojibwe) and Monique Verdin (Houma) titled Aabijijiwan / Ukeyat yanalleh (It Flows Continuously) for an article I’m working on, plus a stunning photography exhibition by Berlin-based photographer Mustafah Abdulaziz. One gallery was devoted to large-format black-and-white images from Abdelaziz’s travels in the far north, documenting water scarcity and the dramatic effects of climate change in really atmospheric images that convey a sense of uneasy awe.
Then, since I was in that neck of the woods, I headed up to Minneapolis to scout out some supplies and furnishings for a workspace I’m in the process of moving into—the first dedicated office/studio space I’ve had in nearly four years! I’m really excited to have a place where Young Space and Dovetail projects can coalesce and where, eventually, the door will open for some small shows and events. Really stoked to share more about that before too long.
—Kate
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What you’ll find below:
Featured artist: Q&A with Jessica Cannon
Five exhibitions on view this week in Hudson, London, New York, and Paris
Seventeen (!!) opportunities for artists with deadlines coming up soon
Featured Artist: Q&A with Jessica Cannon
Jessica Cannon and I have known each other for several years through our respective curatorial projects. When I met her, it was through Far x Wide, an artist- and charity-focused platform. When we met for the first time IRL to grab coffee in New York, we both immediately warmed to one another, and both of us sort of laughed and admitted to the other, “You weren’t really at all what I was expecting!” We collaborated on a fantastic group fundraiser exhibition called Mirror Eye at Ortega y Gasset Projects in January 2020.
Jessica also makes remarkable paintings. She describes them as “inner worlds” that are shaped by light, space, geometry, and lived experiences. She begins each work with a sketch, then transfers the idea to a larger surface of canvas or linen. I’m excited to be working with her for an upcoming show at David B. Smith Gallery in Denver opening in late May (more news on that soon). As we’ve been chatting about new work in the studio, she took some time to answer a few questions.
When I look at your work I often sense spiritual, sometimes meditative energy. Do you find the process to be meditative in a similar way?
Definitely! At a time when external stimulation can feel overwhelming, I'm grateful that the paintings ask me to slow down. The process holds my attention, most often through repetitive mark-making, and allows my mind to wander away where I sometimes encounter possibilities for future paintings.
Who or what would count among your influences right now, or is there any type of research you do regularly?
I love learning about other artists and enjoy reading about color, physics, and Jungian psychology. I keep track of things I'm noticing or curious about in a studio journal that's always with me.
How important are preparatory sketches to what you do? Or how do you work out ideas before you begin larger pieces?
I often work on quick, intuitive line drawings and small color studies alongside the paintings. The line drawings are from imagination and help me to capture or discover an idea and work out possible compositions. I do those in pencil in my notebook or on scrap paper.
The color studies are playful experiments that allow me to envision the spatial and emotional dimensions of color and make notes on the paint mixtures. They're done on leftover scraps of canvas or linen and are fun to shuffle around to create different groups and juxtapositions.
I begin most paintings by matching a drawing to a color study, but once the painting gets going, it evolves based on what it needs. Depending on where that goes, it often feeds back into future drawings and color studies.
We've talked a bit about our mutual love of road trips and especially the American West, its big skies and landscapes. Do you find that you're drawn to particular regional palettes?
New York City, where I'm from, is very vertical, and because I'm used to that, I feel great awe when I'm on a road trip and oriented toward a horizon. Even though I'm moving through space much faster than I'm used to back home, it feels like time slows down. I look out the window and let my mind wander. There is a present-ness similar to what I enjoy about being in the studio, but it's more relaxed.
The idea of regional color palettes is interesting. I'm not sure that I'm faithful to any in particular, but certain places heighten my ability to observe and experience color in surprising ways. In New York City, I'm immersed in human-made materials - concrete, metal, glass, neon lights, textiles, art, etc., juxtaposed with parks, long shadows, and slices of sky. New York offers unexpected color collisions that tend to be direct and synthetic.
From that perspective, spending six months in New Mexico in 2021 opened up new color pathways in my brain. I loved seeing the soil and rocks against the big skies and discovering how the wind kicks up dust, diffusing the light and making things softer. Subtle color shifts felt more pronounced, and nearly invisible color transitions were easier to see.
Rather than paint specifically from these references, I'm most excited to keep exploring what I learned there, treating color as an elemental force that carries light and unfolds in space.
See more on Jessica’s website and Instagram.
Exhibitions
PARIS | CIACCIA LEVI
Nene Martelli
There’s something so interesting about a solo exhibition in which an artist’s work seems to morph and blend into a spectrum of media types and ideas. The late Nene Martelli (1927 – 2022) explored a fascinating range, and I enjoy what historian and. artcritic Lisa Parola describes as the artist’s aim “to disorientate.”
Runs through March 16
HUDSON | TURLEY GALLERY
Kevin Ford and Daniel Herwitt: you think, you know, and Mark Joshua Epstein: Burgers for Breakfast
In Hudson, New York, a joyous pair of shows in one space, one itself a pairing between Kevin Ford and Daniel Herwitt, and the other a small solo of works on paper by longtime friend of Young Space, Mark Joshua Epstein (pictured).
Runs through March 17
NEW YORK CITY | MORGAN LEHMAN
Emily Kiacz: Braided Horizon
If you’re a formalist at heart, you’ll appreciate Emily Kiacz’s attention to form and color, especially emphasizing the shapes of the canvases.
Runs through March 30
LONDON | MAUREEN PALEY
Kay Donachie: I kept the memory for myself
Loose yet defined, expressive yet guarded, Kay Donachie’s portraits only let on so much about what her subjects might be really thinking or feeling.
Runs through March 31
Artist Opportunities
Young Space emphasizes fully-funded opportunities with low or no entry fees and programs that focus on creative and professional development for visual artists. Deadlines are coming up soon to apply for these grants, fellowships, residencies, and more.
New York State Rural and Traditional Arts Fellowship
Deadline: March 8
This fellowship takes a place-based approach with the goal of inspiring and building lasting connections to rural people and places and to acknowledge and support artists living and working within rural communities. Ten fellows in a wide range of artistic genres will be selected to represent their rural communities across New York State in 2024. Each will receive a $10,000 fellowship.
Submission fee: none
RBSA Portrait Prize 2024
Deadline: March 11
The RBSA’s Portrait Prize provides an opportunity for a wide variety of portrait artists to show their artwork and be rewarded for their talents through a range of prizes. All styles and genres of portraiture made by artists in the U.K. and internationally are eligible for this exhibition. First prize is £1,000, second is £500, and both third prize and a student award are £250.
Submission fee: £19-48 depending on number of entries; 50% discount for artists under 35
Sandra George Archive Commission for Glasgow International
Deadline: March 11
The Glasgow School of Art Exhibitions in partnership with Craigmillar Now are seeking to commission a Scotland-based Black or Person of Colour contemporary photographer / artist / community education worker or curator to engage with the Sandra George Archive at Craigmillar Now and develop an event for Glasgow International (June 7 to 23, 2024) that shares their response to her work. The selected artist will receive £2,352 (incl. VAT), travel costs up to £100, and production costs up to £500.
Submission fee: none
NARS U.S. Artist Residency Open Call
Deadline: March 18
The NARS residency offers artists the use of studio space in New York and multiple opportunities to introduce and share work through artist talks, discussions, screenings, workshops, and performances. One U.S.-based applicant per residency season will be awarded a Full Fellowship, which covers all program fees for the season. Artists must fill out the relevant section on their application to be considered for the Full Fellowship.
Submission fee: $35
Chashama Open Call for Midtown Manhattan Lobby Exhibition
Deadline: March 18
Chashama welcomes proposals for solo exhibitions in five different Midtown Manhattan lobby spaces to be mounted in either May or July depending on the space. New York City-based artists are preferred; artists handle and keep 100% of any sales; and participants receive a $500 stipend.
Submission fee: none
Deveron Projects x Mondriaan Fonds Publics Residency
Deadline: March 21
Deveron Projects' Publics Residency offers an artist based in the Netherlands a funded 3-month residency to further their practice and make new connections in their work. Living and working in rural northeast Scotland, the artist will become a part of the communities that make up Deveron Projects and the wider ecologies of the town and landscape.
Submission fee: none
Art Hub Copenhagen Summerworks 2024 Open Call
Deadline: March 22
Art Hub Copenhagen has joined forces with the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (EFA) to offer four artists a four-week residency at the Academic Guest House in New York. The focus of the residency is graphic production and the expansion of the participants’ networks in an international environment. Professional and graduated artists based in Denmark are eligible to apply. The residency includes roundtrip travel, accommodation, 24-hour access to a communal studio, and a small stipend for production expenses and participation in workshops.
Submission fee: none
Midwest Arts Writers Fellowship Call for Proposals
Deadline: March 27
Sixty Inches From Center is inviting applications for the Midwest Arts Writers Fellowship, a 6-month opportunity for two writers to develop, refine, and publish writings on topics that are resonant and relevant to Indigenous, trans, queer, diasporic, and/or disabled artists and arts workers in the Midwest region. This Fellowship is remote and virtual with possible in-person opportunities and travel to Chicago. The 6-month fellowship includes a $3,000 unrestricted award for each fellow, dedicated editorial mentorship and support throughout the fellowship period, and more.
Submission fee: none
New York Public Library Picture Collection Artist Fellowship
Deadline: March 29
The New York Public Library invites proposals from artists resident in the U.S. for at least three years that explore the NYPL's Picture Collection. Stipends range from $2,000 to $5,000. The amount of the stipend is dependent on the justification and merit of the proposed project. Fellowships periods are determined in consultation with NYPL Picture Collection staff and can start as early as July 1, 2024.
Submission fee: none
Northern Clay Center Warren MacKenzie Advancement Award
Deadline: March 31
The WMAA, founded in 2014, provides an opportunity for students and emerging artists to continue their ceramic research and education for a period of up to twelve consecutive months within the grant year, further expanding their professional development. One cash award, up to $2,000, is made annually for travel, education, or research.
Submission fee: none
Northern Clay Center Early Career Artist Residencies
Deadline: March 31
The Early Career Artist Residency program encompasses two unique fellowships, designed to provide up to four ceramic artists with the opportunity to be in residence at Northern Clay Center for one year, where they can develop their work and exchange ideas and knowledge with other ceramic artists. The Anonymous Artist Studio Fellowship will be awarded to two early career ceramic artists working in a functional, sculptural, relational, or installation-based manner. The BIPOC Studio Fellowship will support one early career ceramic artist of color.
Submission fee: none
Recess Session 2024 Open Call
Deadline: April 1
̌Session provides artists a 1200 sq. ft. workspace in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, and 6 to 10 weeks to develop a new inquiry-based project meant to push the boundaries of their practice. They will receive an artist honorarium, planning meeting fees, project expenses, technical support, and mentorship collectively valued at approximately $22,500 to $25,000.
Submission fee: $40
AIR_Frankfurt Residency in Bangalore
Deadline: April 1
The AIR_Frankfurt program aims to promote contemporary visual arts and international exchange between the city of Frankfurt and emerging art centers worldwide. Artists based in Frankfurt are eligible to apply for the residency in collaboration with Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore, scheduled for October 6 to November 30, 2024. Artists receive €1,000 of monthly financial support, a travel allowance, an additional production budget, accommodation in a studio-apartment, and curatorial support.
Submission fee: none
Bemis Center for Contemporary Art Spring and Summer Residencies
Deadline: April 1
The Bemis residency is a process-based experience–residents have the ability to research, experiment, and explore free from expectations. U.S.-based artists-in-residence receive a $1,250 monthly stipend and an additional $750 travel stipend. Due to the limitations of B2 visas (touring/visiting), international artists-in-residence are eligible to receive reimbursement of qualified expenses, such as airfare, ground transportation, and meals.
Submission fee: $40
Rhode Island Make Art Grant
Deadline: April 1
Make Art Grants support artists to create or continue specific artwork in any discipline. Projects must have specific goals, though completion and public showing of the art is not required. Projects must be artist instigated and organized, outside of institutional support and structures. Open to projects of all arts disciplines, from artists of all levels, funds can be used to support experimentation, materials, space rental, paying collaborators, documentation, and artist stipends. Grants range from $500 to $3,000.
Submission fee: none
Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program
Deadline: April 1
Whitney's tuition-free independent study program in Roy Lichtenstein's former house in Greenwich Village consists of three interrelated parts: Studio Program, Critical Studies Program, and Curatorial Program. The ISP provides a setting within which students pursuing art practice, curatorial work, art historical scholarship, and critical writing engage in ongoing discussions and debates that examine the historical, social, and intellectual conditions of artistic production. Each year fifteen students are selected to participate in the Studio Program, four in the Curatorial Program, and six in the Critical Studies Program.
Submission fee: none
Harvard Ceramics Artist-in-Residence
Deadline: April 5
The Artist in Residence Program through the Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard, offers dedicated artists the opportunity to involve themselves in research and growth, pushing their art in new directions in a dynamic, urban studio connected to the Harvard community. The selected artists receive personal studio space, 7-day studio access, free access to materials, opportunities to take classes and firing workshops within the program, aid teaching opportunities within the program for both community and academic-based classes, and more.
Submission fee: none
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