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TEXAS NATIONAL Art Competition and Exhibition is celebrating its 16th year on the national scene. It was created in 1995 by the Department of Art at Stephen F. Austin State University (SFA) as an annual event for artists living and working in the United States. Jurors for each year's event have been internationally known artists including: Leon Golub, Faith Ringgold, Doug and Mike Starn, Martha Erlbacher, James McGarrell, The Art Guys, Donald Sultan, Sandy Skoglund, Jerry Uelsmann and Maggie Taylor, Ed Moses, James Surls, Paul Brach, MANUAL, Roger Shimomura, and Mel Chin. The juror for 2010 is Judy Pfaff.
Participants are eligible for $3,500 in awards, and each will receive an illustrated catalog. Works may be of any medium (except video or performance).
On average 800 artists enter the competition. Entries are received from all fifty states and the District of Columbia. The juror selects the exhibition from slides, and then attends opening events, selecting the prize winners, presents a lecture, and visits informally with art students and faculty.
"TEXAS NATIONAL 2010" juror Judy Pfaff was born in London, England in 1946. She received a BFA from Washington University, Saint Louis (1971) and an MFA from Yale University (1973). Balancing intense planning with improvisational decision-making, Pfaff creates exuberant, sprawling sculptures and installations that weave landscape, architecture, and color into a tense yet organic whole. A pioneer of installation art in the 1970s, Pfaff synthesizes sculpture, painting, and architecture into dynamic environments in which space seems to expand and collapse, fluctuating between the two- and three- dimensional. Pfaff’s site-specific installations pierce through walls and careen through the air, achieving lightness and explosive energy. Pfaff’s work is a complex ordering of visual information composed of steel, fiberglass, and plaster as well as salvaged signage and natural elements such as tree roots. She has extended her interest in natural motifs in a series of prints integrating vegetation, maps, and medical illustrations, and has developed her dramatic sculptural materials into set designs for several theatrical stage productions. Pfaff has received many awards, including a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Award (2004); a Bessie (1984); and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1983) and the National Endowment for the Arts (1986). She has had major exhibitions at the Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison (2002); Denver Art Museum (1994); St. Louis Art Museum (1989); and Albright- Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (1982). Pfaff represented the United States in the 1998 São Paolo Bienal. Pfaff lives and works in Kingston and Tivoli, New York. More information about Judy Pfaff and her work.
Entries due February 1, 2010.
Please proceed to CALLFORENTRY.ORG
to apply to TEXAS NATIONAL 2010.
VIEW TEXAS NATIONAL ARCHIVES
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
- Path For Pain Archival—Laura Bennett of Pearland, TX
- Knockoff—Naushon Hale of Portland, ME
- Untitled—Soomin Jung of San Antonio, TX
- List of Goals for 2009, Lenova #1, and 5/2/08—Christie Blizard of Lubbock, TX
