art·i·face ·
art·i·face ·
art·i·face is a juried open call to artists internationally, working with materials in a surprising manner. While most utilitarian objects have a specific use, artists often transform their purpose in a new and surprising way. consider Robert Rauschenberg’s combines where objects are removed from their use and put together into a sculpture-painting hybrid, becoming art itself; El Anatsui’s transformation of bottle caps into installed wall hangings; Ingrid Calame’s paintings featuring shapes traced from forgotten stains on the street; or Rachel Whiteread’s unconventional casting sculptures.
Consider the ways you may have a secondary use or process within your work, using jigs, templates, casts, molds, scraps, detritus, found objects, as a way of working, subject matter, or abstracting.
Submissions are due november 20. The online exhibition will be on-view on december 15. this exhibition is juried by Andrew nordin.
Growing up in Willmar, Minnesota and spending summers at Big Kandiyohi Lake, Andrew Nordin returned to the region after working in the gallery and museum field. He earned BFAs in Painting and Graphic Design from St. Cloud State University and an MFA in Pictorial Arts from San José State University.
An artist and educator, he teaches studio art and art history at Ridgewater College and curates its galleries. With his spouse, visual artist Lisa Bergh, he created public art projects including ARThouse New London and The Traveling Museum. He has exhibited widely with solo and two-person shows at the Washington Pavilion in Sioux Falls, the Carnegie Art Center in Mankato, the Phipps in Hudson, and group exhibitions at the Plains Museum in Fargo.
Nordin lives on a wooded property along the Crow River, where he maintains a studio. His work explores rural architecture, landscape, and abstraction.
He received a 2017 Minnesota State Arts Board award for work on abstraction and rural architecture, along with multiple SMAC regional arts grants. He recently completed a residency at Natthagen Art Center in Julussdalen, Norway, where he focused on folk architecture, design, and craft traditions.
He is represented by Veronique Wantz Gallery in Minneapolis.