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The Recharge New Surrealist Prize

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The $7,000 award was created for painters living in the United States and U.S. Territories who are working in the New Surrealist style.

The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) is proud to announce the creation of the Recharge New Surrealist Prize, a $7,000 award for painters living in the United States and U.S. Territories who are working in the New Surrealist style. The award program, formerly known as the Recharge Foundation Fellowship for New Surrealist Art, will be administered by NYFA with funding provided by the Gu Family of the Recharge Foundation.

CURRENT AWARD CYCLE

Applications for the 2021 award cycle opened on Tuesday, August 10 at 10:00 AM EDT and will close on Tuesday, October 19 at 5:00 PM EDT.

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Thoughts On Contemporary Surrealism

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Some Thoughts on Surrealist Art Today

If you were to sum up the surrealist movement in as few words as possible what would you say? What makes something surrealist?

Surrealism is any artifact that results from an artist’s best attempts at a literal display of their imagination in their medium of choice.

Who is your favorite surrealist artist, and why?

There are too many amazing surrealist artists, or artists that I would consider surreal. Many of them would disagree with this label. It’s also a bit like asking, “who is your favorite musician in the orchestra”?
You want to see the musicians playing in the context of their cohort. Classics would be Mark Ryden, or Beksinski.

I have a post from a few years ago that includes a bunch of artists many people would have never heard of: 17 Mind-Blowing Surreal Artists you Need to Follow on Instagram. I’ve only recently discovered Vincent Fink, Arabella Proffer, and many more, but I cannot pick just one.

What is the last dream you remember?

I dream that we will find the way out. I dream that portals are everywhere. I dream we find them every time we have the courage and the discipline to look.

What do you think is the best way to learn about the surrealist movement?

The internet. Don’t believe the official narrative from art history class is the gospel. It’s good to know, but it’s just one story. I’d also recommend looking for counter-narratives. Another region of the world will have an entirely different cohort canonized. Those artists are every bit as skilled and exciting. It seems the internet has just recently learned (again) about the Chicago Imagists, the Czech Surrealists, Egyptian Surrealists.

Declaring New York City, Paris, or Bejing, “the center of the art world” at any point in time, is boring and lazy. It’s the art historian’s flat earth society. It’s a load-bearing fiction. It may be where a concentration of money is at a point in time, but that doesn’t mean that’s where the interesting stories, art, or ideas are happening.

The dictionary of Obscure Sorrows has a definition for a word Sonder. I’d consider that a good way to think about this.

What is the scene like today/how does modern surrealism differ from its origins?

Many thousands more surrealists artists are now doing as good and better work than has ever been done. And many wouldn’t appreciate the label “surrealist” for any number of reasons.

There is no center of the movement today, no leadership or central ideology. There are just so many amazing artists making great things.

Surrealism.co – a Website Promoting Surrealism

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Surrealism.co

Surrealism.co is a website promoting Surrealism and Surreal Art and Artists.

Introduction

The homepage of the website includes and introduction to the site, and a brief introduction to Surrealism. There are two timelines: a timeline of surreal or fantastic art before Andre Breton Founded the Surrealist Art Movement, and a timeline of surreal and fantastic art after the surrealist art movement was over.

We know there are academics that say surrealism is only those works created by artists in the official movement. But in our opinion the term “surrealism” (without a capital “s”) has come to mean any fantastic, surreal, strange and visionary art that realistically portrays the imaginary or impossible.

Featured Surreal Artists + Artist Submission

The bottom of the contains links to five currently featured artists working in Surrealism. We would like to grow this list. It will take time. You can also submit your surreal art to apply to be included for a small fee.

Feedback

What do you think? Hit us up in the comments below or on twitter or facebook. We’d love to here any suggestions, praise, or thoughts on how to improve the site and better serve imaginative, strange and surreal artists.

Keep The beinArt Surreal Art Collective Alive

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Keep the beinArt Surreal Art Collective alive by funding 3 group shows, 5 years of online expenses and 60 exclusive artist interviews.

Via Kickstarter

About this project

Let’s kickstart the next phase of the Collective’s projects by funding three massive group shows, five years of online expenses and sixty exclusive artist interviews!

The beinArt Surreal Art Collective has had a strong online presence for more than a decade. Jon Beinart has remained at the helm but as the publishing arm (the financial lifeline of the project) winds up, the future sustainability of the Collective is in jeopardy. Without fundraising, Jon will be forced to terminate the project.

Jon is incredibly passionate about this community and hopes that this Kickstarter campaign will allow him to continue this work. The artists of the beinArt Collective have rallied together and contributed an extraordinarily long list of rewards for backers, including original artworks, limited-edition prints and books! These generous, heavily discounted deals will only be available for the duration of the campaign.

So, what exactly are we trying to save?

The beinArt Collective is an international network of highly skilled figurative artists with a shared fascination for surreal and imaginative themes. Over the last decade we have published books, curated successful group exhibitions and expanded our online presence. Through social media alone, we now reach over half a million fellow art fanatics! Our projects have helped generate opportunities for our artists to network, collaborate, share resources and connect with a broader audience. We are thrilled with how far we have come!

Why does the beinArt Collective need help?

Since its inception, the beinArt Collective has been primarily funded through its publishing arm. Regrettably, in 2012, Jon was forced to take an indefinite break from publishing as it was no longer financially viable. Currently, the Collective is surviving on a small amount of income from the remaining books. Without a successful crowdfunding campaign, Jon will be forced to close the website and discontinue all remaining projects.

What will we do if our campaign is funded?

If this campaign is successful, we’ll have enough money to cover five years of website-related expenses, sixty in-depth artist interviews and three large group exhibitions. But what will this look like? You all know what the website looks like, but what about the interviews? We already feature a number of exclusive interviews with artists like Laurie Lipton, Travis Louie, Chris Mars, David Stoupakis and Martin Wittfooth, but if funded, we aim to expand on this. We will transform beinArt into a treasure trove of information with an increased number of translated interviews with international artists to truly reflect our global community. The interviews will continue to be conducted by respected and well-known arts writers.

And, the group exhibitions? The profits from these exhibitions will provide funding for future exhibitions, artist interviews and website-related expenses, beyond the five-year scope of this project. Currently, we’re in the final stages of preparation for a massive beinArt group exhibition at CoproGallery in Santa Monica, which will open on Feburary 20, 2016. This show will feature over 55 artists, including Martin Wittfooth, Travis Louie, Greg “Craola” Simkins, Jana Brike, Esao Andrews, Kikyz1313, David Stoupakis, Pamela Wilson, Chris Mars, Redd Walitzki, Heidi Taillefer and Chet Zar! To be able to hold two more events such as this would provide opportunities for fans and followers to see these works in the flesh and meet the artists in attendance. The benefits from these events for our community of enthusiasts as well as for the Collective are immense. They act as a bridge, bringing us from online to real life.

 

Via Kickstarter