tenth annual
SNAP
TO GRID:
the
UN-Juried Exhibit
every entry shown!
December 12, 2013-January 4, 2014
Opening Reception Thursday December 12, 7-9pm
in conjunction with the Downtown Art Walk
Gallery Statement:
Every year for 50 years the L.A. Municipal Gallery has held its "Open
Call" exhibit where any artist can show up with their art and an entry
fee (to benefit gallery programs) and the piece is shown. The Los Angeles Center
For Digital Art decided to launch an international experiment of the same nature
where the artists upload images that are printed and hung by the gallery. The
hundreds of works are displayed in a grid like installation (reminiscent of
postcard art shows of the 1980's) where every work submitted is exhibited.
The usual (less than democratic) selection process where only the precious few are chosen is turned on its head in a curatorial anarchy where everyone gets to participate and the viewer is literally left to be the judge. The show represents a snapshot of a current moment in art history when digital imaging has reached the hands of the many, an age where culture belongs to the "mobblogers" around the globe. From Thailand to Texas, amateur to academic, beautiful to banal and beyond the monumental quantity and variety of "Snap to Grid" becomes an aesthetic experience where each individual piece adds to an agglomerative effect that has a life of its own.
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