Southern Exposure's 2013 Annual Entry-Fee-Free Juried Exhibition and Screening of Works by Northern California Artists

DROP OFF DATES:
Friday, November 15, 2013, 12:00 – 7:00 PM
Saturday, November 16, 2013, 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM

JURYING AND NOTIFICATION
Sunday, November 17, 2013
Accepted artists will be notified by 10:00 PM on Sunday evening, November 17, 2013. ONLY accepted artists will be notified by this date. Don't call us. We'll call you! Selected artists will be announced Monday, November 18, 2013!

OPENING AND EVENTS
Opening Reception: Friday, November 22, 2013, 7:00 – 10:00 PM
Screening: Friday, December 6, 2013, 7:00 PM
Exhibition on View: November 22 – December 14, 2013
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 12:00 – 6:00 PM

Exhibition juried by Corrina Peipon, Assistant Curator, The Hammer Museum
Screening juried by Mary Magsamen, Curator, Aurora Picture Show

Southern Exposure is pleased to announce This Will Never Work, our Annual Entry-Fee-Free Juried Exhibition and Screening of Northern California Art. This annual event is the premier showcase of contemporary artwork by promising local talent. With a different open-ended theme each year, artists are encouraged to pursue a broad range of artistic expression across media.

This Will Never Work seeks crazy experiments, doomed plans and quixotic dreams. All ideas and forms will be considered. Unlike many open calls that charge a submission fee, Southern Exposure's juried exhibition and screening is entry-fee free. The exhibition is open to any artist living in Northern California north of King City and south of the Oregon border. Over the course of two days, over 600 Northern Californian artists will bring their physical artwork and proposals for installation, performance, social practice, site-specific and web-based work to Southern Exposure. The final pieces will be selected by exhibition juror Corrina Peipon and screening juror Mary Magsamen, who make their decisions by blind process. For many of the artists selected, this will be their first major exhibition and a vital step forward in their art careers.

About the Jurors

Corrina Peipon is an artist, curator and writer living in Los Angeles. As Assistant Curator at the Hammer Museum, she has organized one-person exhibitions with Carlos Bunga, Maya Hayuk, Alex Hubbard, T. Kelly Mason, Lucy Raven and Jonas Wood, as well as several exhibitions from the Hammer Contemporary Collection. During her tenure at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, she organized Index: Conceptualism in California from the Permanent Collection, a survey of nearly two hundred works from the museum's significant holdings. In 1999, her own artwork was included in Southern Exposure's annual juried exhibition, Nothing But Time.

Mary Magsamen is an artist, curator and educator with a specialty in film/video and interdisciplinary practices. She received a MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. In 2008 Mary joined Aurora Picture Show as the curator. Aurora Picture Show is a non-profit media arts center in Houston, Texas that presents artist-made, non-commercial film and video. Mary is also a practicing artist and collaborates with her husband as Hillerbrand+Magsamen.