Looking for a place to show your art? 4 Bridges Arts Festival (TN) April 16-18, 2027 /Application deadline 10/31/2026

This one looks like a good place to exhibit  and visit to sell and buy your art and crafts.

4 Bridges Arts Festival (TN) April 16-18, 2027 Application Deadline 10/31/26 APPLY HERE Call to Artists WHAT: 27th Annual 4 Bridges Arts Festival (4BAF) WHERE: First Horizon Pavilion - Chattanooga, TN WHEN: April 16-18, 2027 | Fri. 6-9pm | Sat. 10am-6pm | Sun. 10am-5pm NOTEWORTHY: Limited to 150 artists Estimated attendance 15,000 $15,000 in awards Friday complimentary Artist Dinner Reserved artist parking 24-hour security Booth sitters On-site festival staff Festival program Extensive event marketing and PR Electric available to all booths Jury Fee: $45 (Non-refundable) Booth Fees: Stanard $550 (10’ x 12′) | Corner $650 (10' x 12') Double $1,100 (20' x 12') | Double Corner $1,200 (20' x 12') The number of corner booths and double booths is limited. Organizers assign corner booths and double booths on a first-come, first-paid basis. Preview Party Each year 4BAF makes its debut at the Preview Party. An exceedingly popular community affair, the Preview Party attracts about 1,000 local art enthusiasts: patrons who attend to support the visual arts. Most importantly, the Preview Party is a unique opportunity for artists to promote and sell their work while networking and socializing with passionate advocates and collectors.   The 2027 Preview Party is Friday, April 16, 6-9 pm. Artists must attend and have their booths open for sales at the Preview Party celebration. ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS on ZAPP Application Deadline: October 31, 2026 Artist Notification: November 20, 2026 Booth Fee Deadline: February 28, 2027  For more information, please visit the Website Email inquiries to Sarah Moore, Festival Director at Sarah@AVArts.org or call (423) 265-4282 The Association for Visual Arts (AVA) in Chattanooga, Tennessee, celebrates 40 years of supporting visual artists and building connections between artists, collectors, and the community in 2027 a milestone year that will include the 26th Annual 4 Bridges Arts Festival (4BAF), April 16–18, 2027. A highly anticipated and culturally prominent event, 4BAF is a nationally recognized juried festival offering $15,000 in artist awards. For 26 years, strong community support has helped 4BAF develop an audience of avid and knowledgeable art buyers, from seasoned collectors to those just beginning to build their collections. The three-day weekend begins with artist setup Friday morning, followed by the festive Preview Party Friday evening, giving AVA donors, sponsors, and ticket holders early access to meet the artists and purchase work. The festival opens to the public Saturday and Sunday. One of 4BAF’s distinguishing features is its setting: a sprawling open-air pavilion created from the shell of a former industrial foundry. The roof provides protection from rain and sun while the open sides allow plenty of airflow. Artists also benefit from indoor restrooms, nearby parking, and attentive hospitality throughout the weekend, including snacks, meals, coffee, tea, and beverages. Live local music, a food truck court, and children’s activities add to the festival atmosphere while keeping original art and the artists who create it at the heart of the weekend. Be part of 4 Bridges Arts Festival during AVA’s 40th Anniversary year—and become part of the next chapter of its commitment to visual artists. Visit our Website for more information

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Cooper Cole Gallery Exhibition of Geoff McFrtridge~GrassLands~Closes September 5, 2026

 

Geoff McFetridge  Grasslands Closing Saturday, September 5, 2026 COOPER COLE is pleased to present Grasslands, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Geoff McFetridge. This new body of work extends McFetridge’s ongoing investigation into perception, memory, and the spaces between observation and imagination. Figures, animals, architecture, and landscape elements occupy scenes that feel at once recognizable and elusive, suspended between lived experience and dream. The paintings evoke a cinematic stillness reminiscent of Alex Colville’s psychologically charged scenes, yet they turn westward into a distinctly unreal landscape where narrative remains suspended and unresolved. While rooted in observations of the everyday, the works in Grasslands carry traces of the vast horizons and spatial sensibilities of the Canadian prairies where McFetridge was raised. Familiar motifs appear transformed, existing somewhere between recollection and invention, certainty and dream.   Materially, the exhibition marks a subtle shift in the artist’s approach. Layers of oil paint are applied over graphic acrylic foundations, creating surfaces that feel atmospheric and luminous. Rich colours emerge through veils of softened paint, producing an effect that is both saturated and sun-bleached. Contrast is deliberately reduced, flattening distinctions between foreground and background, and dispersing attention across the entire composition. Rather than directing the viewer toward a central protagonist, the paintings invite a slower form of looking in at which figures and environments exist in quiet relation to one another.     Geoff McFetridge (b. 1971, Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is interested in how images exist in between or outside of language, and in turn how this encourages more open-minded approaches to cognition. In his paintings, images become language; in the artist’s words, “it should feel like something, rather than look like something.” In the pictorial spaces he creates, definitions are less finite and can slip between interpretations. As indicated by their titles, many of his paintings whimsically play with the bodily experience of design, using simplified figures to both think about forms and collective experiences. McFetridge received his BFA from the Alberta College of Art and Design and his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. McFetridge was part of the infamous Beautiful Losers exhibition which debuted in downtown New York in 1991 and went on to tour the world. He has continued to exhibit in international galleries including Cooper Cole, Toronto; Contemporary Calgary, Calgary; Half Gallery, New York; V1 Gallery, Copenhagen; Gallery Target, PlayMountain, Tokyo; and Heath Gallery, Los Angeles. McFetridge has also been included in museum exhibitions at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver; the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Yale University Art Museum, New Haven; Museum of African American Art (MAAA), and The Geffen Contemporary at MoCA; Los Angeles. McFetridge currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California, USA.     Geoff McFetridge  Grasslands Closing Saturday, September 5, 2026   Cooper Cole 1134 + 1136 Dupont St Toronto, Ontario M6H 2A2 Canada Thursday - Saturday: 12-5pm info@coopercolegallery.com +1.416.531.8000   Instagram coopercolegallery.co

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RGR Galleria exhibition for Cesar Paternosto opens September 3, 2026 in Mexico City. Details below!

Paternosto abstractions are viewed from the artists lense inclusive of time spent in the the Americas. Argentina, Mexico, and the US were all home base to Paternosto.  

Galería RGR announces the representation of César Paternosto © Pedro A. Sánchez Tornero The gallery will present César Paternosto: Abstract Stone, the artist's first solo exhibition in Mexico since 1986, curated by Gabriela Rangel. The exhibition opens September 3, 2026, during GAMA Week in Mexico City. Galería RGR is proud to announce the representation of César Paternosto (b. 1931, La Plata, Argentina), a painter, sculptor, and theorist whose work locates the origins of abstraction in the Americas rather than in Europe. The gallery will open Abstract Stone, the artist's first solo exhibition in Mexico since 1986, on September 3, 2026. In 1969 Paternosto began painting on the lateral edges of his canvases, keeping the front a single unbroken color, most often white. He called it la visión oblicua, the oblique vision. The work cannot be taken in from the front alone: the viewer has to move around it, and the painting becomes an object. Lucy Lippard has written on his work since 1981, and in 2020 Hans Ulrich Obrist published a book-length interview with him, introduced by Lippard. César was making this argument long before the field was ready to hear it. He looked at Andean stone and Andean weaving and found a way into abstraction that did not pass through Europe. That is the conversation this gallery has been having since it opened, and he belongs in it. — Ricardo González Ramos, Founder and Director, Galería RGR Beginning in 1977, Paternosto traveled repeatedly to Peru and Bolivia to study Inca stonework and Andean weaving. The research produced both a new body of work and an argument in print: that abstraction has a genealogy in the Americas independent of European modernism. He set it out in Piedra abstracta: la escultura inca, una visión contemporánea, published in 1989 by the Mexican publisher Fondo de Cultura Económica, and expanded it for the English-language edition, The Stone and the Thread: Andean Roots of Abstract Art (University of Texas Press, 1996). The exhibition takes its title from the first of these two books. Transforming the support of painting was a project of the Río de la Plata avant-garde that César Paternosto brought up to date and carried into an important debate with Minimalism. His recovery of the memory of an Andean abstraction that predates the West is another of the layers added to the body of work Paternosto has bequeathed to the History of painting, with a capital H. — Gabriela Rangel, Executive Director, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, and Artistic Director of Galería RGR, 2023–2025 Abstract Stone brings together thirteen works made between 1969 and 2021, most of them acrylic on canvas. The earliest, Tlön, is from 1969, the year Paternosto moved the marks to the edge of the canvas. The exhibition is weighted toward the painting that came out of the Andean research, including Tambo Colorado II (1991), and continues through Cuarteto(2006) and later work. At Galería RGR, Paternosto joins artists with whom he crossed paths over the course of his career. In 1966 he took the first prize at the III Bienal Americana de Arte in Córdoba, Argentina, where Carlos Cruz-Diez won the grand prize from a jury chaired by Alfred H. Barr, Jr. In 1971, Jesús Rafael Soto acquired Paternosto's Discurrimiento (1970) for the collection he was then assembling in Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela, which opened two years later as the Museo de Arte Moderno Jesús Soto. In 1974, all three showed together in Madrid, at Galería Aele. His work will now be shown alongside theirs, in the gallery's exhibitions and at international art fairs. About César Paternosto César Paternosto was born in La Plata, Argentina, in 1931. He lived in New York from 1967 to 2004 and has lived in Segovia, Spain, since then. His painting Duino (1966) is currently on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, in the collection gallery Hard Edges, Expanded Fields, and his work is held by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid and the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires. He has presented recent solo exhibitions at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid (2017) and the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires (2019). In 2026, the Universidad Nacional de La Plata awarded him an honorary doctorate, and its Centro de Arte presented La imaginación geométrica, his first retrospective in the city of his birth. ARTIST PAGE Exhibition Opening Galería RGR General Antonio León 48 San Miguel Chapultepec, 11850 Mexico City Thursday, September 3, 2026 Opening: 11 a.m. Reception: 5 p.m. GAMA Week Hours: Thursday 09/03 - 11:00 – 19:00 Friday 09/04 - 11:00 – 18:30 Saturday 09/05 - 11:00 – 18:30 Sunday 09/06 - 11:00 – 15:00 FOLLOW US GALERÍA RGR Gral. Antonio León 48 Colonia San Miguel Chapultepec Ciudad de México, 11850 México galeria@rgrart.com MX: +52 55 8434 7760 MX: +52 55 8434 7759

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