Exhibition Dates: January 25 – March 2, 2025
Alicia Escott, Juror (Bio Below)
1 Commandant’s Lane, Benicia
Nature is a source of inspiration for artwork of all mediums. Arts Benicia, a non profit art center in Benicia, CA, invites artists to submit artwork for Forma Natura: Nature as Source, a juried exhibition that seeks to showcase artists’ representations of the natural world. As examples, themes may include: the interconnectedness of species with their habitats; environmental change and the fragility of species; the beauty of natural forms,
seasons and change; the strength and sometimes devastating forces of nature: water, wind, cold, heat, fire; as well as other themes or abstract concepts. All 2D and 3D media accepted, and video files. 2D work may not exceed 36” in width or 72” in height, including the frame. 3D work may not exceed a 36” x 36” footprint.
Deadline for Entries: November 8, 2024 (10:59 pm Pacific Time)
Jurying of entries: November 10 – 17, 2024
Notification to artists: November 20, 2024
Hand Delivery of artwork: January 10, 2025
Delivery of shipped artwork: January 7-10, 2025 (no later than January 10)
Members and Exhibition Artists Preview: Thursday, January 23, 2025, 6 – 7 pm
Opening Public Reception: Saturday, January 25, 2025, 4 – 6 pm
Close of exhibition: Sunday, March 2, 2025
In Person Pick-up of Artwork: March 4, 2025 – 4 pm (or by appt)
Return Shipped Artwork: begins March 4, 2025
Juror
Alicia Escott is an interdisciplinary artist based in San Francisco. She/they practices in solidarity with thinkers across fields undoing the construct of “nature” as a thing separated from us and our world. Escott’s work is informed by how we each are intimately negotiating our immediate day-to-day realities and responsibilities amid an awareness of the overarching specter of climate chaos, mass-extinction and the social and political unrest this rapid change, unprocessed grief and latent anxiety produces. Her work seeks to make space for the unspoken individual and collective experiences of loss, heartbreak and grief. She/they approach these issues with an interstitial practice that encompasses writing, drawing, painting, photography, video, sculpture, social-practice, and activism. Escott’s work has been shown in over 100 art institutions, galleries, museums and alternative spaces. and reviewed in Momus, The San Francisco Chronicle and others. Escott is a founding member of 100 Days Action who were a recipient of the 2017 YBCA 100 List Award. She is half of the Social Practice Project The Bureau of Linguistical Reality that have been featured in The Economist, The New Yorker, The San Francisco Chronicle, KQED, ABC News and others. She works nationally, internationally and locally.
GALLERY LOCATION
1 Commandant’s Lane, Benicia, CA 94510
GALLERY HOURS
Thursday – Sunday, 1:00 to 5:00 pm, during exhibitions. The gallery is closed between exhibitions.
CONTACTING ARTS BENICIA
Staff often works remotely. The best way to reach staff is via email or leave a phone message: Jean@artsbenicia.org; 707-747-0131.
Artwork by Andrew Lincoln.