Sacramento, CA (1888PressRelease)
July 29, 2008 - Digital artists and photographers are invited to submit work for the National Juried Digital Art & Photography Exhibit at Asylum Gallery, 1719 25th St., Sacramento CA 95816. Entries are limited to original digital art and photography. Offset reproductions, or reproductions of artwork originally produced in another medium will not be accepted. Submitted work may not have been exhibited in any other Asylum Gallery show. September 25, 2008 is the entry deadline. Jurors for this show are Kent Lacin for Digital Photography and Marcelle Wiggins for Digital Art
Notifications of acceptance will be e-mailed October 14, 2008. Work is due by November 5th. The Exhibit will run from November 15 to December 21, 2008. For more details and a prospectus/entry form, please email info ( @ ) asylumgallery dot net, or check the Asylum Blog at http://asylumgallery dot blogspot dot com/ dot
"I'm very pleased to announce this show", said Exhibit Coordinator Ann Tracy. "There are many galleries, not to mention art centers that are looking down their noses at digital art. I’m glad that we are open enough to be able to present this show and to give digital art and photography a little boost in our own small way. People seem to forget that hardware and software are merely tools and it takes an artist to use them to make art. It wasn’t that long ago that photography was not considered “art” either. Now when you pick up a copy of the New Yorker magazine, many of the gallery listings are for photography shows!”
Kent Lacin, photographer and owner of Kent Lacin Media Services, has been a photographer since he was eight and a half when he got an Asahi Pentax for Christmas. After receiving a BA in Fine Art and MFA in Photography/Fine Art from UCD, he made movies and videotapes for a while, then created Kent Lacin Media Services in 1978 specializing in commercial photography for businesses. He has won many awards, both national and local for his work, judged local and statewide shows, exhibits, teaches, and actively shoots both fine art photography and commercial photography currently. He is an avid bicyclist.
Marcelle Wiggins is a Sacramento based artist, who is currently working in the medium of digital art and painting. She received a Bachelor's Degree in painting from Sonoma State University, Master of Arts Degree in painting from California State University Sacramento and Master of Fine Arts Degree in painting from San Francisco Art Institute. She has exhibited throughout the Northern California region since 1982, and has lectured and taught studio art since 1986 at Yuba Community College, San Francisco Art Institute, Sierra College, Cosumnes River College, and California State University Sacramento. Marcelle teaches Drawing, Figure Drawing, Digital Painting & Drawing, Watercolor, Acrylic and Oil Painting at Cosumnes River College and Drawing, Watercolor Painting and Electronic Art at California State University, Sacramento.
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