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COLLAGE 2024

JUROR: ILENE SOVA

DEADLINE: Sunday, Aril 14, 2024, by midnight

All accepted artworks will be included in an online slide show with a playlist and a downloadable publication.

The Aird is delighted to offer our 3rd biennial juried exhibition showcasing collage-based works by contemporary artists.

Derived from the French verb coller, meaning “to glue,” collage refers to both the technique and the resulting work of art in which fragments of paper and other materials are arranged and glued or otherwise affixed to a supporting surface.

Associated Art Movements include Cubism, the DADA, and Surrealism. As a process and an art movement, collage is experiencing a second life today!

 We invite and eagerly await your up-to-date submissions.

JUROR

Ilene Sova identifies as a Mixed-race person with a white settler and Afro-Caribbean ancestry. As an artist who lives with a disability, she passionately identifies with the tenets of intersectional feminism and has dedicated her creative career to art and activism. She holds an honours BFA in painting from the University of Ottawa and an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Windsor and holds the position of Associate professor in the Faculty of Art at OCAD University. Ilene’s art practice focuses on equity and diversity with a feminist focus on creating a dialogue around anti-oppression. She is also heavily involved in arts advocacy, community activation, and promoting pluralism in the arts. Sova founded the Feminist Art Conference and Blank Canvases, an in-school creative arts programme for elementary school students. With extensive solo and group exhibitions in Canada and abroad, Sova’s work has most notably been shown at the Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art, the Department of Canadian Heritage, and Mutuo Centro de Arte in Barcelona and has been featured in a variety of publications including CBC News, Canada AM, the Toronto Star, MSN News, the Globe and Mail, Canadian Art and the Italian Journal Woman-O-Clock.

KEY DATES & DETAILS


DEADLINE
Sunday, April 14, 2024, by midnight

ONLINE EXHIBITION LAUNCH
Late September through December 2024

*Note: Due to the volume of submissions we apologize in advance for any inconvenience caused by our delays. Our juror(s) review every submission carefully and we ask for your patience during this process. Only selected artists will be contacted. Thank you for understanding.

APPLICATION DETAILS

  • Artists can submit up to two works.
  • Image files must be as follow:
    • File names must be labelled Last Name_First Name, Title.jpg
    • Example: Smith_Jane, Morning Doves.jpg
    • Images can be in jpeg/jpg/png format.
    • Should have a max dpi of 200.
    • File size cannot exceed 2MB
  • Submit original works only.
  • Please note that improperly named files may not be recorded or will be lost in our system.

ENTRY FEE
The entry fee is $50 and covers entry up to 2 works per artist. It is non-refundable and can be paid upon submitting your application. Funds collected go towards making this exhibition possible.

SALES
Artists will be informed of sales. The gallery asks for a 30% donation/commission on all sales.

The John B. Aird Gallery is not accepting submissions at this time.

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We welcome applications from local and international artists and curators.

W I L D L I F E 

This project aims to expand the concept of WILDLIFE Art.

JURORS: ANDRÉ LAROCHE AND LOUIS JONCAS

All accepted artworks will be included in an online slide show with a playlist and a downloadable publication.

The Aird Gallerys CALL for WILDLIFE invites entries from contemporary artists from anywhere in the world to submit artwork that kicks at our moment using historical or contemporary art technologies.

For this CALL, we loosely define WILDLIFE as both a broad description of the natural world (flora and fauna) and a source of wonder and inspiration partly because of its mystery and aesthetic value.

Artists are invited to submit works that depict wildlife as a complex natural resource, render the beauty of individual animal species, and/or represent a fluid perception of sexuality through the lens of wildness by exploring how art objects, similar to natural objects, can be more or less wild.

Submissions may include media/techniques as wide-ranging as drawing, painting, sculpture, assemblage, collage, or text. Photo/digital documentation of the natural world seen directly out of cars, trains, or airplanes, or works made using taxidermy and natural materials are welcome, too.

 BIOGRAPHIES

André Laroche studied Art and Communications at McGill University, then moved to New York City in 1982 to complete a BFA in Cinema Studies from New York University TISCH of the Arts. After returning to Montréal, he was a painter for 15 years before starting a gallery in Montréal.

He is the first/principal co-owner of Galerie Laroche/Joncas, established in October 2005 under Projex-Mtl, a two-artist venture by André Laroche and Louis Joncas. In September 2010, the gallery changed its name to Galerie Laroche/Joncas. In July 2023, the gallery decided to move its gallery space at the Belgo for their apartment to rethink the dynamics of their gallery space experience and present art in a more intimate context, working with fewer artists with a more personalized and modest approach.

Their contemporary art gallery was located for 15 years amongst many of the most vibrant Montreal Galleries in the Belgo Building and is renowned for representing influential artists such as Jana Sterbak, Lynne Cohen, Stephen Lack, and Anna Torma. The gallery also presented numerous exhibitions with emerging artists and plans to continue supporting emerging artists along with established ones.

Louis Joncas is a conceptual photo-based artist born in 1959. He holds a BFA from the University of Ottawa and an MFA in photography from Concordia University in Montréal. He is known for utilizing common detritus to create still-life/nature morte tableaux, incorporating advertising lighting and product placement techniques. His photographic Vanitas has been exhibited in Quebec, at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada, New Orleans, and in Aix-en-Provence during the Rencontres de Arles photo festival in France. His work can be found in institutional collections such as the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the New Orleans Museum of Art, and numerous private collections. Joncas shares his time between Montreal and Gabarus, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, where the gallery has a project space called La Shed, which presents seasonal exhibitions while co-directing Galerie Laroche/Joncas.

DRAWING 2024

JUROR: JAMIE WHITNEY

ONLINE EXHIBITION LAUNCH
Late May 2024

The John B. Aird Gallery is celebrating its 25th edition of this annual juried exhibition showcasing drawings by contemporary artists from immediate locations and beyond. For this exhibition, a drawing is defined as an art form used to create a finished work or draft ideas that are further developed in other media. This broad definition is intended to open the exhibition to entries reflecting a wide variety of contemporary drawing materials, techniques, and practices from anywhere in the world that you draw. All accepted artworks will be published as part of an online slide show with a playlist and downloadable PDF catalog.