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The NC Museum of Art invites college students to submit original works for our Park Pictures billboard competition. This year, the theme of the competition is “Interior Worlds,” in reference to the exhibition Candida Höfer in Mexico, on view October 6, 2018 – January 6, 2019. Höfer’s photographic work focuses on grand interior spaces, but a diverse and creative interpretation of the idea of interior space is encouraged. This could include real, imagined, physical, mental, or emotional space. All mediums are welcome.

The deadline is June 16, 2018. Selected entries will be invited to be part of Museum programming and awarded a $500 honorarium.

Procedure for Submission

Students currently enrolled in college (undergraduate or graduate programs) may submit one image by May 30, 2018.  There is no entry fee.

Guidelines

Artists will submit small image files for jury (under 2 MB). If selected, artists will need to send high resolution files upon request. Selected artists should have high resolution images prepared with dimensions of 300 DPI (minimum), 15” x 36” in JPEG format.  Selected submissions will be enlarged to fit the 12’x5’ billboard.

Thanks to everyone who participated in the competition- we had over 20 amazing submissions from all over the state! We hope to see you all November 6th for the NCMA Park Celebration as we celebrate the expansion of the park where the Park Pictures finalists’ work will be featured, as well as November 18th for our 5thAnnual College Night . 

Chris Yuda, ‘Apollo and Dionysus’

Emily Jordan Smith, ‘Metamorphosis’

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Vanessa Murray

UNC Chapel Hill

Yellow Place, 2016

I’m interested in the sensorial experiences we have to particular places in the natural world. I’m fascinated how certain spaces can fill or overwhelm the senses, creating a certain psychological space that we carry with us over time. I think about how this psychological space is transformed through memory and conjures questions of both the sublime and the void. This painting developed from thinking about these ideas and seeking out spaces that invoke awe, wonder and uncertainty in the world around me. The title Yellow Place is inspired by a couple of less well known works by Georgia O'Keefe that I spent a lot of time with at the Art Institute of Chicago as an undergraduate. The first is titled Black Place and another the White Place, both paintings are of the dessert landscape she was surrounded by and at the same time somehow deeply personal.

Valerie Register

Barton College

Swing, 2015

Growing up the majority of kids i knew, as well as,myself loved playing on the swings during recess. It was the first thing that everyone ran to and a staple of anyone’s childhood. As an adult, I still run to a swing every chance I get. This image represents how place affects identity because it shows how we turn back into children when “flying through the air” on a swing. It doesn’t matter where the swing is located, just as long as it lets us feel the wind on our face and brings back the feelings of being a kid again.

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Shauna Caldwell Appalachian State University Fairy Tale, 2016

This photograph represents one of the deepest parts of my being. I have come to know my home and environment in a much more intimate way over the years, as I am bettering myself as an artist and person. This is a Place that I have grown in, creating the rooted sense of self that drives my work. This Place is who I am physically, socioeconomically, and culturally. Since college, I have made it an integral part of my art-making process to go back home to those roots and experience the magnificence that nurtured me with new, much more grateful lenses. This photograph is perfect for the NCMA Park because it creates a visual pathway between art, nature, and the vast sense of Place you wish to instill upon your visitors.

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Lionell S. Thomas Dillard University Title of work: “All Me”, 2016

Artist Staement: The items that are be presented are closely registered things that could be accounted for as much deeper values. I’m a Capricorn, from New Orleans, La and love “love” and how it could be intense at moments. Me being from New Orleans, has definitely makes up most of my composition. It shows my strength and what I strive for on a daily bases. Me being from New Orleans speaks volumes to the masses, and my plan is to show that in every way. My favorite animal is a lion, because of the strength that these magnificent animals have. I’m a strong supporter of world peace and all that it in-tells. Lastly I’m a tech savvy type of guy .

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Lindsay Metivier

UNC Chapel Hill (Studio Art MFA)

Untitled (Ava’s Oranges), 08/16

Artist Statement -

Lindsay’s photographs exhibit a disquieting tension between harmony and chaos, fantasy and reality, darkness and light. Some of them are about love, loss, place, memory, the brutality of time’s passage, loneliness, decendterdness, – the list goes on.  Lindsay is interested in photography’s ability to give the world meaning. The manipulation inherent in the process brings to light questions about the nature of truth and what is real. She’s interested in how these truths are both elastic and seem to reflect basic, universal conditions of humanity. Through photography, she has found a space where she can explore a deeper understanding of both herself and of the world. This space of “inbetweenness” is destabilizing and slightly uncanny. Her images often are rooted in specificity, but evade fact.

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Joy Meyer  UNC Chapel Hill, MFA Graduate Program in Studio Art  “Rooms Within Rooms Within Rooms”, 2015

What’s the connection between art, the phenomenology of place, and your sense of self? This can also extend to a larger cultural identity?

I see this work, Rooms Within Rooms Within Rooms" as a digital painting. The process for making this piece involved photographing layers of a painting as it is being painted. This particular painting was begun outdoors in my open air garage studio prior to graduate study, 2014. To me this image speaks to the memories we hold of the poetics spaces surrounding us and how these spaces refract and amplify in our recall of them.

I created this painting by taking the photographed paintings, layering in Photoshop, then the work is output on an Epson oversized printer. This work engages with a kind of ontological question about the nature of painting in a digital age. Much of my research and my recent studio work interrogates the history of Modern Western painting and raises questions surrounding my status as a woman in a historically male dominated lineage. My other recent art projects include a feminist response to Jackson Pollock’s Lavender Mist. I directly interact with his iconic “drip” by flogging the dripped paint onto canvas with toy floggers while dressed in a wedding gown.  The flogging in the video is sometimes humorously referred to as “whipping the drip.” This 45-endurance painting is captured and displayed on a single-channel video.

• Short bio about the artist -

Joy Meyer is an abstract artist living and working in North Carolina. As a contemporary artist Meyer interrogates the history of painting to explore ideas about love, sexuality, and gender.   As a feminist response to Jackson Pollock’s famous drip paintings the work is made by flogging paint onto the surface of two canvases. As I struggle with the action of painting, the materials begin to slowly cover my body and weigh down the wedding dress I am performing in. Other materials in the piece include milk, flour, eggs, calamine lotion, cotton balls, and lavender and noble blush house paint. She is currently a second year graduate student pursuing a Master of Fine Arts in Studio Arts at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Previously, she received her Bachelor’s Degree in Studio Art and Art History, from the University of Virginia. Graduating with Distinction and Phi Beta Kappa in 2011.

Meyer has exhibited work at The Garage, The Bridge PAI, WTVF/Radio IQ Gallery, New City Arts, Art Works Gallery, The IX Building, and Ruffin Gallery.