Call for Artists: Los Angeles Art Association's 2024 Open Show

LAAA's nationally renown survey exhibition featuring the very best in emerging art. 

Juried by Paula Kroll, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 

Deadline to submit: September 15, 2024

 Open to all artists of all media 

 ONLINE SUBMISSION ONLY

Show Runs: December 14, 2024 – January 10, 2025 at Gallery 825. The 2024 OPEN SHOW will also be featured online during this time.

Location: Gallery 825 - 825 N. La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles CA 90069 

Delivery of Accepted Work: Saturday, December 7, 2024 10 am to 5pm 

Pick-up Unsold Work: Saturday, January 11, 2025, 10 am to 5 pm 

PLEASE READ ALL GUIDELINES AND APPLICATION PROCESS CAREFULLY  

ELIGIBILITY: Competition open to all artists living in the U.S. of all media. Entries must be work created within the last three years and presented professionally. No craft or functional pieces. Accepted video artists must provide their own equipment/ monitors, projectors, DVD player, etc. Videos must be set up and looped for continuous play.

ENTRY FEES: Non-members: $50 for up to 5 entries. LAAA Members: $25 for up to 5 entries. Limit of 5 entries per person. Details (optional) of work limited to 1 per entry. Entry fees are non-refundable. 

ENTRY SUBMISSION:  CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT 

Each image should be no larger then 2MB. Submitted images of accepted work may be used by LAAA for press and promotional materials. 

 DEADLINE TO SUBMIT: September 15, 2024 by 5 PM.

Notification of accepted work will be sent via email by October 23, 2024.   

DELIVERY OF ACCEPTED WORK:

·     Accepted work must be available between December 7, 2024 through January 13, 2025.

·     Accepted work must be delivered to Gallery 825 on Saturday, December 7 between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. Drop off dates are firm! 

·     Unsold work must be picked up on Saturday, January 11, 2024, 10 am to 5 pm 

·     Shipping arrangements must be greed to by Gallery 825. Please call 310.6528272 if you wish to ship.If you live outside California, work must arrive no later than Dec. 4. 

·     Artists are responsible for all shipping costs and arrangements to and from the gallery. All other arrangements must be made in advance and approved by the gallery. 

·     All work must be properly framed and/or ready to hang.

·     Works requiring specific hardware must be provided when work is delivered. At the juror's discretion, work that is dirty, in disrepair or otherwise deemed unfit for display may be excluded from the show. All decisions of the juror are final. 

·     Work must be unwrapped by artist upon delivery. LAAA will not store any packing materials. 

SALES:All work will be offered for sale. All work must be priced to include LAAA's 40% commission. Artists will receive 60% commission on artwork sold. Payment for sales will be sent to artists within 45 days after the close of the show.

LIABILITY: Neither LAAA, staff, board nor anyone connected to the exhibition is responsible for any loss, damage, breakage or theft of artwork while at the gallery. Your entry into this exhibition constitutes agreement with these terms and conditions as set in this prospectus.

CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT

About Los Angeles Art Association's OPEN SHOW: Since 2006, Los Angeles Art Association's OPEN SHOW has grown into a renown international survey exhibition of emerging art mounted by the organization whose mission is to serve emerging artists. LAAA's OPEN SHOW is perhaps best known for its prestigious curators and jurors and has been featured on NPR. Past Open Show jurors have included MoCA Director Jeremy Strick, PAMM Director Franklin Sirmans, Hammer Museum Director Annie Philbin, LACMA curator Rita Gonzalez and MASSMoCA Curator Susan Cross. LAAA is thrilled to add Paula Kroll to this distinguished list of curatorial talent.

About the Juror: Paula Kroll is a curator and art historian who has been a curatorial assistant at MOCA since 2022. She is the co-curator of Paul Pfeiffer: Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom (2023), a retrospective of twenty-five years of Pfeiffer’s practice which will travel to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in November 2024, and has assisted with the organization of Ordinary People: Photorealism and the Work of Art since 1968 (opening November 2024), Long Story Short (2023), and Tala Madani: Biscuits (2022). Kroll studied in the master’s program in Modern and Contemporary Art: Critical and Curatorial Studies at Columbia University, receiving her MA in 2019, with a thesis focused on contemporary art from Central and Eastern Europe in relation to theories of trauma and memory. Between 2019 and 2021, Kroll was a researcher at David Zwirner, where she contributed to exhibitions and publications, including Diane Arbus Documents (2022; David Zwirner Books), a groundbreaking anthology of writing on Arbus from 1967 to the present.

About Los Angeles Art Association: (LAAA) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide opportunities, resources, services and exhibition venues for emerging Los Angeles artists of all media. LAAA began as a civic art institution in the 1920s, connecting elite art interests to Hollywood collectors, emerging after World War II as the center of Los Angeles modernism and finally becoming the city's nexus for emerging artists of all media. LAAA serves as a dynamic force for contemporary ideas, outreach, and community. Gallery 825 and Los Angeles Art Association are located in the heart of La Cienega Boulevard's Restaurant Row at 825 North La Cienega Bl., Los Angeles, CA 90069. Gallery hours are by appointment. Please call 310.652.8272 or visit www.laaa.org