2025 Summer Juried Show: The Real

Submit artwork that highlights technical abilities in rendering real life, from realism to hyperrealism.

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Deadline: annual cycle, check dates
Entry fee: Not listed - check the source
Location: Abington Art Center
Exhibition window: Jun 20, 2025 → Jul 28, 2025

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About

Overview

The Real is an exhibition that highlights artists' technical abilities in rendering real life within art, from realism to hyperrealism. Work that exudes this level of realism continues to serve as an impressive art form and calls for both artist and audience to look closely and partake in the thrill of this expertise.

Exhibition Dates

On View June 20 – July 28, 2025
Opening Reception on Friday, June 20 from 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.

Jurors

Amy Cook, Gallery Manager at Abington Art Center and artist based outside Philadelphia, PA; BFA in painting from Tyler School of Art and Architecture (2021); 2021 recipient of the Alec Abels Memorial Award in Painting
Linda Johnson, Director of Studio School and Galleries and ceramics instructor; BFA in Sculpture from Tyler School of Art; ceramic artist based in Huntingdon Valley, PA

Media accepted

ceramicsdrawingmixed mediapaintingphotographyportraitprintmakingsculpturestill life

Theme: The exhibition highlights artists' technical abilities in rendering real life within art, from realism to hyperrealism, celebrating the effect of trompe l'oeil and the boundary-blurring between the physical world and creative plane.

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