The Arts Council of Southeast Missouri is excited to announce the Call for Artists for the 2015 Regional Juried Exhibit! The two-month exhibition was developed to provide a forum to demonstrate the diversity of this region and the artists who live here and has become one of our favorite annual shows.
We encourage artists to submit works that interpret any aspect of the Southeast Missouri region as well as its bordering states. Work must interpret the people, places, or things that are representational of this 5- state region (MO, IL, AR, KY, TN).
Juror: James F. Wilson Deadline for Entries: October 16, 2015 Entry Fee: $30 (3 entries, Arts Council Members pay $25) Exhibition Dates: December 4, 2015 to January 30, 2016 Opening Reception: December 4, from 5:00 – 9:00 pm Exhibition Location: Gallery 100 & Lorimier Gallery
Arts Council of Southeast Missouri
32 N. Main Street Cape Girardeau, MO 63701
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A native Missourian, James Wilson attended Missouri University and then graduated with honors from the Kansas City Art Institute with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Printmaking. While in Kansas City, he was awarded a Full Fellowship to The Yale University Summer School of Music and Art. He served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam Era, after which he spent a summer in Wilberforce, Ohio in a “Black Studies” program. James received a Teaching Fellowship to the Graduate Program at Boston University where he later received an MFA Degree in Graduate Painting. While there, he received the Presidents Drawing Award and was voted by the faculty as the Outstanding Graduate Painter for two consecutive years.
While in Graduate School James helped start the Bowery Gallery in New York City, where he also exhibited for several years. Allen Frumkin selected James to exhibit in a portrait show in his gallery. James also had one-man exhibitions in the Aaron Berman Gallery and was in many reviewed group exhibitions in such renowned galleries as the Phyllis Kind Gallery, The Blue Mountain Gallery, and the Munson Center for Creative Arts. He has had reviews in The New York Times, Arts Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, among others. He also helped start The Artists Choice Museum and curated the largest exhibition of living figurative artists; 156 artists in eleven galleries.
In 1990, James took a six-month vacation to Alamos, Mexico. In Mexico, his work moved from the explosive competitiveness of New York Art to paintings that were involved with an intimate love of the human condition. James stayed in Mexico for ten years, married, and now has two children. In 2000, James and his wife moved to Missouri to educate their children in a first world nation. Since returning he has exhibited in several one man exhibitions at the Componere Gallery. He now shows at the Kodner Gallery in Clayton Missouri. Other group exhibitions include the Prince Street Gallery in New York City.
