October 13 – November 16, 2024
Entry Deadline: September 16 · Entry Information
Ethel Sergeant Clark Smith Gallery
Reception & Awards Ceremony, Sunday, October 13 3-5pm
The Figure: Portrait & Narrative - A Juried Exhibition invites submissions in painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, photography and mixed media that explore the overlapping territories of portraiture and visual storytelling created by artists 18+ from PA, NJ, NY, DE, MD, VA and Washington, DC. Entries accepted online through September 16.
Juror Scott Noel
Scott Noel serves as juror for The Figure: Portrait & Narrative – A Juried Exhibition.
After completing undergraduate studies at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, Noel moved to Philadelphia in 1978. His first important solo exhibition was in the Fleisher Challenge Series in 1980. Since that time, he has mounted over 40 major shows across the country. Noel is represented by Gross McCleaf Gallery in Philadelphia and his work is included in numerous private, public and corporate collections including the Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy, the Woodmere Art Museum, the Arkansas Art Center and the Pennsylvania Convention Center. From 1996-2024, Noel taught drawing and painting in the undergraduate and graduate programs at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. His legacy as an educator also includes teaching at The University of the Arts, Arcadia University and Community College of Philadelphia.
“Figure paintings have always wedded specific individuals with narrative roles. Think of Lorenzo de Medici, Hendrickje, Stoffels, Victorine Meurent and Leigh Bowery playing both themselves and characters in the pictorial fictions of Botticelli, Rembrandt, Monet and Lucian Freud. Almost all figure paintings imply a question about the relationship between the model and the role they play even in boardroom portraits of captains of industry. Characterization, analysis, likeness and a sense of drama are entangled in visual art.” – Juror Scott Noel
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