ARTSPACE111 REGIONAL JURIED EXHIBITION

Artspace111 is pleased to have Andrea Karnes and Ron Tyler as jurors for the 1st Annual Artspace111 Juried Exhibition. The exhibition will be open June 20th through August 15th with an opening reception on the evening of June 20th. Due date for entries is May 30th. All contemporary 2D work in any media is accepted. Please see the prospectus for details. Over $1200 will be awarded to the best works in show.

Juror Ron Tyler

Dr. Ron Tyler was director of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art from 2006-2011. He was director of the Texas State Historical Association from 1986 to 2005 and has served on numerous boards, including the Conference of Southwest Foundations, Eastern National and the Summerlee Foundation. He sat on both the planning and accessions committees for the Blanton Art Museum in Austin and is an elected member of the American Antiquarian Society,  the Philosophical Society of Texas and the Texas Institute of Letters. Tyler is editor and author of more than two dozen books, including Alfred Jacob Miller: Artist as Explorer; Nature's Classics: John James Audubon's Birds and Animals; Visions of America: Pioneer Artists in a New Land; Posada's Mexico; and The Image of America in Caricature and Cartoon. He is the recipient of numerous grants; has delivered many articles for  publication in scholarly journals across the country; organized a number of major exhibitions; and lectured widely on exploration art, American and Western art and history, and John James Audubon.

Juror Andrea Karnes

Andrea Karnes is a curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, where she has worked for more than 20 years. She received her BFA in fine arts at the University of North Texas, and received a master's degree from Texas Christian Universiry in 2000. She is responsible for some of the most celebrated exhibitions at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, including the 2013 exhibition Mexico: Inside/Out, which surveyed contemporary art from Mexico in the last decade.