“To define is to kill. To suggest is to create.” —Stéphane Mallarmé
As I write this, I’m sitting across a table from my eight-year-old niece, who is coloring pages I printed for her of unicorns and mermaids. She’s spent an hour on a single page of a pegasus reared up on its hind legs, sporting a rainbow tail and mane. She’s been deliberating about whether to color in the sky, and we’ve had a chat about starting another picture and putting that one aside so she can think about it, and perhaps the decision will become more clear after she’s worked on something else for a little while.
I’ve been taking this kind of “wait-and-see” method to heart lately in both work and daily life, especially when I feel like I’ve been looking at something for a long time and a resolution just isn’t coming. For example, I’ve been bouncing between a couple of articles I have deadlines for soon, and for some reason one of them was giving me such a runaround—I was having trouble finding what I think of as a hinge, the connecting piece between a couple of ideas.
I started working on another article, and a few days later, I was able to return to the first article and get through my roadblock without almost any bother at all. Firstly, this is a great argument for not procrastinating! Secondly, I’m just amazed at how sometimes things can feel like they take eons to sort out, and sometimes ideas just flow in a matter of hours or even minutes.
After a pinball machine of a year in 2024, and the new year off to a wild start, to say the least, being conscious of when I need to give something a break or make more space in general is already paying off—and we’re just a few days in!
See you next week.
—Kate
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Featured artist: Jinyong Park
Three exhibitions to see in London, Los Angeles, and Vienna
Twelve opportunities for artists with deadlines coming up soon
Featured Artist: Jinyong Park
I’ve long been a fan of Jinyong Park’s enigmatic abstractions, almost always painted at one of two sizes: 29.7 x 21 centimeters or 155 x 110 centimeters. Vertically formatted, her glyph-like shapes—taking on the form of elipses, fruit, and foliage—appear to fall Tetris-like into piles or dance around one another in tumbling cycles. Park experiments with sequences of shapes that read like stories enacted in an enticingly coded language.
Park’s work is on view in London Calling at Stephane Simoens in Knokke, Belgium, through February 17. website and Instagram.
Exhibitions
VIENNA | CROY NIELSEN GALLERY
Soshiro Matsubara: All in Your Shadow
An immersive installation of small works by Soshiro Matsubara transforms the gallery’s interior, highlighting a range of sculptures and works on paper.
Runs through January 11
LOS ANGELES | BABST GALLERY
Sophia Flood: Sun and Its Living Shadow
“Sophia Flood’s works explore how the passage of time is both experienced by the body and made visible on a landscape. Late afternoon sunlight refracted on her studio floor, for example, or the space under a giant tree outside its door are moments embedded within her paintings, both in form and in feeling. This source material roots Flood’s paintings in the physical world even as it is abstracted and obscured.”
Runs through January 11
LONDON | HANNAH BARRY GALLERY
Sholto Blissett: Life in Deep Time
Blissett’s dreamy landscapes hearken to the history of grand landscape painting while considering our contemporary understanding of the aesthetic of nature. Nocturnal and subterranean scenes exude dreamlike reflections and parallels of form.
Runs through February 8
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 and curators. Deadlines are coming up soon to apply for these grants, fellowships, residencies, and more.
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MARES x Ruins 2025 Residency in Bosco Marengo, Italy
Deadline: January 10
MARES is offering five artists and one curator the opportunity to explore the history and unique character of the Alessandria territory, providing a free space within the Santa Croce Monumental Complex to produce thematic works. This first edition aims to reflect on the connections between the idea of Ruins and contemporary art. The residency is open to emerging artists and researchers in the visual and performing arts, video and digital art, art criticism, and curating. Artists may be based in Italy and internationally. Participants receive working space at the Monumental Complex of Santa Croce in Bosco Marengo; a monthly fee and logistical support; accommodation for the entire duration of the residency at Tenuta La Fiscala, a historic estate in the Fraschetta area; production fee; and a group exhibition to be held in September 2025, along with a related publication.
Submission fee: none
The Derek Hill Foundation – Glenveagh National Park Artists Residency
Deadline: January 10
The Derek Hill Foundation with the Glebe Gallery, Glenveagh National Park (National Parks and Wildlife Service), and Regional Cultural Centre invite an artist to spend three weeks immersed in the remote landscapes of Donegal between March and April 2025. Visual Artists are invited to explore all aspects of Glenveagh including the natural ecology, heritage, culture and local communities. Accommodation is provided in a comfortable cottage and a payment of £2,000 is available to cover expenses. Participating artists will be expected to deliver at least one publicly engaged event as well as written and visual reports of how their time was spent. Artists must be based in the U.K. or Republic of Ireland and have a minimum of 3 years professional practice experience.
Submission fee: none
De Ateliers Open Call for Emerging Artists
Deadline: January 15
De Ateliers is an artists’ institute open to artists at the beginning of their professional career. It offers a two-year studio and tutoring program centered around weekly individual studio conversations, with regular and guest tutors, most of whom are practicing artists. To facilitate and support their stay in Amsterdam, participants at De Ateliers are able to get access to shared housing and stipends to cover basic costs of living. This application is for the next working period, which runs from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2027.
Submission fee: none
ChaNorth International Writers + Artists Residency
Deadline: January 15
ChaNorth is Chashama's international upstate artist residency has been located in the Hudson Valley since 2006. The program offers networking, exhibition and teaching opportunities and promotes awareness and understanding of visual arts in a rural community through engagement with the artists. ChaNorth also sustains a successful partnership with McEnroe Organic Farm to supply healthy, fresh produce for the artist residency through a work exchange program. Seven sessions run between April and November 2025. Four-week sessions are $1,300; a new two-week session in April will be $650. Fellowship and exhibition opportunities include a solo show award; an annual curated alumni show; one fellowship award, per season, for a young artist under 30; and one Paradice Palase fellowship (for an existing member of at least 6 months).
Submission fee: none
The Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant
Deadline: January 15
The Foundation wishes to encourage artists who have dedicated their lives to developing their art, regardless of their level of commercial success. These grants are available only to individual painters, sculptors, and printmakers who have worked in a mature phase of art for 20 years or more. In addition to the maturity requirement, eligibility for an Individual Support Grant is determined by the applicant’s current financial need. Each applicant must complete the financial disclosure section in full and must submit the appropriate financial documentation.
Submission fee: none
Women's Studio Workshop Art-in-Ed Book Residency Grant
Deadline: January 15
The Art-in-Education (AIE) Artist’s Book Grant is a residency awarded to two artists to create a new artist’s book and teach young people in WSW’s studios. Generally, the resident dedicates their first month to producing a limited edition artist’s book, which is hand-printed and bound in the studio. During the second half of the residency, the artist works with young people in WSW’s studios, teaching one to two days per week for three to four weeks, and visiting the students twice in school. This grant includes a stipend of $350 per week for up to ten weeks, up to $1,000 for materials, up to $250 for travel, free onsite housing, and 24/7 studio access during non-AIE sessions.
Submission fee: none
Women's Student Workshop Artist's Book Residency Grant
Deadline: January 15
The Artist’s Book Grant is a six- to eight-week residency for artists to produce a limited edition book work. Working intensively in WSW's studios, artists print and bind their own books, and are encouraged to create an edition size no larger than 100 and no smaller than 50. The grant includes a stipend of $350 per week, up to $1,000 for materials, up to $250 for travel within the Continental U.S., free onsite housing, and 24/7 studio access.
Submission fee: none
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art Artist’s Book Residency Grant for Indigenous Artists
Deadline: January 15
This residency at Women's Studio Workshop is a ten-week residency for North American Indigenous artists to produce a limited edition book work. Working intensively in WSW's studios, artists print and bind their own books, and are encouraged to create an edition size no larger than 100 and no smaller than 50. The grant includes a stipend of $350 per week, up to $1,000 for materials, full travel reimbursement, free onsite housing, and 24/7 studio access.
Submission fee: none
Abbey Awards for Painting at the British School at Rome
Deadline: January 15
Abbey Awards offers residencies for painters who are U.S. and U.K. residents and citizens at the British School at Rome. An Abbey Award allows artists the opportunity to focus on their practice, free from everyday pressures and distractions, with accommodation, meals and stipends all provided. Abbey Fellows and Scholars live and work within the BSR’s vibrant international research community, in the most fascinating city of the ancient and modern world.
The residencies offer accommodation in studio live/work ateliers, within a community of independent researchers and practitioners in the fields of Fine Art, Archaeology, Architecture, the Humanities and Social Sciences. Two opportunities are available:
Abbey Fellowships are 3-month residencies with a stipend of £1,500 per month (three fellows selected annually)
The Abbey Scholarship is a residency of 9 months and Scholars receive a stipend of £1,250 per month (one scholar selected annually)
Submission fee: none
Open Call for Community Arts Initiative: The Artist Project (Boston)
Deadline: January 17
The Artist Project is a collaboration between the MFA and twelve after-school community organizations in the Boston area. The Artist and the children create a collaborative work of art inspired by the Museum’s encyclopedic collection. Each year, a new experienced artist with a passion for community arts plans and leads a project with children between the ages of six and twelve. The role of the Lead Artist is to guide the children and steer the work of art into its final exhibited shape. The MFA provides the selected artist with a stipend of $50,000 and a budget of $5,000 for materials.
Submission fee: none
Hnatyshyn Foundation Young Curator Residency 2025 on Fogo Island
Deadline: January 20
Fogo Island Arts and The Hnatyshyn Foundation are seeking applications from young Canadian curators for a six-week residency in 2025. Established in 2014, the Young Curator Residency program provides opportunities for emerging Canadian curators between the ages of 25 and 30 to participate in a residency with Fogo Island Arts. This opportunity offers rich cross-disciplinary dialogue and an exploratory immersion within Fogo Island’s unique physical and cultural landscape. A place-based experience, this residency provides uninterrupted time for creative experimentation, research, and reflection.
Submission fee: none
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