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@alexandria.deters.art We made it! So wonderful to see the work finished and in person! Congratulations! #idolworship #smackmellon @smackmellon #explorethecity #fall2019 #lmakfamilytime #loukyslife #nyckids (at Smack Mellon) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5QuEQ4l3gA/?igshid=opcgg3xqchc9

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Latitude Life APS: International Photography Competition

Prizes and Exhibitions in New York and Italy

This year’s open categories for each section are:

1) Students and photographers UNDER 28 years of age 2) Photographers OVER 28 years of age a) Nature/Architecture b) Intimacy c) Culture d) Street photography

Submission Dates: 15th December, 2018 to 15th February, 2019

All entries are free.

The competition will culminate in an International Photographic World Premiere Exhibition at: The New York Film Academy (NYFA), New York, NY, U.S.A. The Mayor’s Villa of the Town Council of Pravisdomini, Italy

Top Prizes:

4K Sony Video Camera Gift Cards from B&H Photo Software Licenses from PHASEONE Capture One Pro 12 4 Instax Cameras from FujiFilm Corporation

To read the Competition Rules and Submit Images, visit: http://www.latitudelife.it/IPC.html 1) COMPETITION RULES: http://www.latitudelife.it/immagini/IPC2018.pdf 2) FULLY FILL OUT YOUR REGISTRATION FORM: http://www.latitudelife.it/immagini/registration_form-2018.pdf 3) UPLOAD PHOTOS AND ALL REQUIRED DOCUMENTS via WeTransfer to the Secretary Office: [email protected]

THE 2018 INTERNATIONAL JURORS COMMITTEE ARE:

Professor DAVID MAGER Chair of the Photography Department, at the New York Film Academy Professor SAUL ROBBINS Professor at the International Center of Photography, New York Vice President of the 2018 Edition of this Competition Professor A.PATRON President and CEO of Latitude Life APS

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Trouble in Eden: Luisa Caldwell at Smack Mellon

by Joy Sperling on Luisa’s exhibition in artcritical

Luisa Caldwell: A Cat in God’s Garden at Smack Mellon

September 29 to November 4, 2018

Luisa Caldwell’s recent exhibition at Smack Mellon, A Cat in God’s Garden, radiated nostalgia for summer, conjuring delicious fantasies of sitting in the garden amongst glorious blossoms with endless time to read. Caldwell’s show exuded such goodwill it was hard to resist, and the artist even installed a beautiful bunch of fresh flowers from her own garden in one corner of the installation and offered visitors a free poster of one of her drawings. But even as I was hypnotized by the shimmering mirage and wished it to be real, I began to see that beneath its heartwarming surface there was much more to this complex, intelligent, deeply imbricated installation.

The show comprised of 210 drawings, each eight and a half by 11 inches, arranged in a grid in two large wall panels, and six hand detailed vases on books stacked on wooden stools or chairs. The drawings of flora from a distance read like decorative ceramic tiles. On closer inspection, however, they revealed a complex intellectual and emotional narrative. Some were composed and rendered to suggest historical botanical drawings, many were even overlaid with geometric shapes and patterns. Other drawings were more compositionally formal with vases and flower arrangements, systematically drawn to suggest the illusion of depth. This alludes to the European and American floral painting tradition and its attendant symbolism, including the memento mori. Others were drawn in the lighter amateur style of nineteenth-century “lady-painters” who used the wholly different symbolism encoded in the “language of flowers” according to species. And still other drawings were flat and illustrative as if in preparation for decorative schemes or designs. Many are filled with such life and energy that they seem to jump off the page into the exhibition space with the over-brilliant color of markers that sing out with bright, glowing fluorescent colors. In among the various panels the sun, as a bright fluorescent highlighter-yellow orb, dances around repeatedly to tie the entire happy, zappy pattern together. And, hidden deep in the foliage of one is a small black cat.

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We closed the evening with the opening of the group exhibition Empathy... curated by #gabrieldeguzman at @smackmellon The girls experiencing the work by @zac_hacmon whose current show at the gallery ended today! But, it won't be taken down until after Thanksgiving! #zachacmon #smackmellon #groupexhibition (at Smack Mellon) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqV4M7JljMs/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=33wsuoqp6je7

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As Far as the Heart Can See September 21 - November 17, 2018

Opening Reception: Friday, September 21, 2018, 6 - 8 PM Artists: Nao Bustamante, Billy X. Curmano, Irina Danilova & Project 59, Beatrice Glow, Ivan Monforte, Linda Mary Montano, Praxis (Delia & Brainard Carey), Elizabeth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle, and Martha Wilson & Franklin Furnace Archive. Curated by: Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Curatorial Fellow: JP-Anne Giera

To celebrate EFA Project Space's 10th year, we return to the heart of the matter with As Far as the Heart Can See, an exhibition that brings art and everyday life together through performance-based acts of care, transgression, and multigenerational collaboration. The show assembles a constellation of artists who have shifted gear, broken away, found shelter in the wilderness, or ventured astray from art-historical validation in order to speak truth.

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A Blade of Grass is now accepting applications for the 2019 ABOG Fellowship for Socially Engaged Art! Deadline: November 16, 2018

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Isla: Regarding Paradise / Joiri Minaya, the previous Smack Mellon's studio artist, in the group show at Towson University, Towson, MD. 

Opening reception: Thursday September 6, 7:30 pm–9 pm

Other Joiri Minava's upcoming events: 

Redecode II: La Dorada September 4, 2018 – June 28, 2019 Artist Talk and Reception: Thursday, September 20, 5:00 p.m. The Miller Theatre lobby at Columbia University 2960 Broadway (at 116th St), New York, NY 10027

Socrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition October 7, 2018 - March 10, 2019 Opening: October 7, 2018, 3 pm - 6 pm Socrates Sculpture Park

32-01 Vernon Boulevard, Long Island City, Queens, NY 11106

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Open call for professional muralists to collaborate on the New York City Mural Arts Project (NYCMAP) from October 2018 to June 2019 in three neighborhoods: East New York (BK), Sunset Park (BK) and Elm Park (SI).

Applications deadline: Sunday, September 9 at 11:59 pm EST, must be submitted to [email protected].