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Submit 3-5 high-quality JPEG images of original artwork completed within the last 3 years that interprets the theme of The Sacred Ordinary, along with an artist statement.
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Get matched →Mercury 20 Gallery seeks art interpreting the theme The Sacred Ordinary, which invites artists to explore the beauty, meaning, and quiet significance found in everyday life. This theme considers how the mundane, domestic, familiar, or overlooked can be elevated into something sacred or extraordinary. Through personal experience, memory, ritual, observation, or transformation, artists are encouraged to reveal the wonder that may exist within ordinary moments, objects, places, and routines.
Open to artists 18 and above, both emerging and established, who are able to hand-deliver and pick up their work in Oakland, CA. All submissions must be original artworks completed within the last 3 years.
All 2D & 3D mediums accepted (no video or performance). Maximum 60 inches in any direction; maximum 25 lbs.
Submit 3–5 high-quality JPEG images (minimum 2 MB, maximum 5 MB; 1920 pixels on longest side; 300 ppi). File names must be titled: LastName-FirstName-Title-Dimensions-Medium-Year. Include an artist statement describing how your work relates to The Sacred Ordinary theme. Images must be cropped to artwork only, with no background or borders (unless 3D artwork).
One artist will be selected for a solo exhibition in The Back Room Gallery at Mercury 20 Gallery in 2027.
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Selected artwork must be hand-delivered to Mercury 20 Gallery in Oakland, CA. All art must be dry upon delivery and ready to install. Backs of hung work must have D-rings and be wired with covered wire ends. Special installation instructions should be emailed to [email protected]. The gallery holds a 50% commission on sales of artwork.