Fine Art Magazine Blog

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Call to Artists - St. Louis Bluesweek Festival

St. Louis Bluesweek Festival

Call to Artists

WHAT: Third Annual Art and Craft Festival at St. Louis Bluesweek

WHERE: Downtown St. Louis, MO at Soldier Memorial

WHEN: Friday May 25 4:30-11PM
Saturday May 26 11AM-11PM
Sunday May 27 11AM-11PM

NOTEWORTHY:

*Limited to 50 artists and crafters

*Expected attendance: 30,000

*Drive up to booth space for setup/teardown

*Complimentary artist goodybag daily

*No Jury Fee/Booth fee: $200 for 10x10 on 14' center

*Artist-only restrooms and wash stations

*Electricity provided at no charge

This famed celebration of performing and visual arts attracts huge, vibrant crowds. A fixture among the city's blues genre devotees, it draws knowledgeable, affluent festival attendees who are high-value candidates for artists' sales. Excellent in-town location.

NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS:

Deadline:
May 23, 2012

Notification:

Upon Acceptance

To apply, please visit: http://stlbluesweekartists.com

For More Information: 314-406-9112

Friday, May 18, 2012

Abstract Impressionist Susan Marx will exhibit paintings at the Agora Gallery

Abstract Impressionist Susan Marx

will exhibit paintings at the Agora Gallery

530 West 25 Street, New York, NY, June 12 - July 3, 2012

Opening Reception: June 14, 6 PM - 8 PM

Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 11 AM - 5 PM

Vivid evocative color splashes throughout the transcendent planes of lush paint that characterize Susan Marx’s work. Spontaneous brushstrokes produce a playful sense of the organic and immediate. Her dedication to formalism, combined with her passionate reinterpretation of the world, results in paintings that are as breathtaking as they are compelling. “My art is a result of my radical amazement at the visual world around me and my need to turn that visual experience into paint. Nature may be my starting point, but it is not my end result,” she explains. Her paintings are in conversation with artists such as Monet, Van Gogh, and Joan Mitchell, yet she strikes a unique note, enlightened by her own visual impressions. Marx paints outside, en plein air, and is informed by direct experience of nature, inhaling natural beauty, and exhaling her sensations in a truly impassioned creation of color that epitomizes the current moment.

Exhibited widely throughout the United States, Marx’s work can be found in private collections in the United States and abroad. Susan Marx lives in Orange, New Jersey. She volunteers at the Montclair Art Museum and the Newark Museum