Over the 20th century, doodles or scribbles have increasingly been considered a part of art practice and a means of psychological analysis, where I am thinking about Sigmund Freud, who observed habits, compulsions and outpourings of the doodling mind.
When someone is scribbling down, this is not nervous or just compulsion, these are evolving choreographies of visual thinking. It is the mind flowing, it is when an idea or creative thinking is flowing in space. Scribbling allows something to develop and take shape as a becoming. The becoming often involves certain nature that can be chaotic, noncommittal, ambivalent, tentative, (un)intentional or finished. Is it a flow of energy? A thought forged into matter expressed via the hand of the artist. Is scribbling evolves into an idea, an intuitive and non-thinking product of a mind? A random intuition of mind explorations? How serious can it be? Scribble can be a mindful in the most profound sense of the world, but utterly uncensored? Imagine a scribble to be a final product of art. An intuitive way to access human stream of consciousness. Or does scribble reveal something essential about human? Isn’t that what it is used in the therapy sessions?
A line is a dot taking a walk. — Paul Klee
When scribbling starts, it simply means making random positions, while dark areas of a brain make scribbles quite tight we could say that light areas space it more. A scribble is amazing concept of the brain it promotes drawings as the building blocks of a final composition. Artists trained in this method were regarded as having the requisite intellectual and imaginative heft to lift artwork to a fine art level.
There is an open call for an art submission to a juried group exhibition called “SCRIBBLES” at the Carter Burden Gallery located at 548 W. 28th St, #534, New York, NY. The show is scheduled for June 1-June 28, 2023, imagined to review an interesting, informative survey of what contemporary artists are doing when they scribble.
The jurors will be Amy Cheng a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MFA from Hunter College, City University of New York, she has exhibited her paintings nationally and internationally and Lois Bender holds an MFA from Boston University, and a B.A. from Hunter College, City University of New York. Her art practice interprets nature and botanical themes using painting, mixed media, and printmaking.
Deadline is 7th of March 2023
There is an entry fee there is non-refundable fee of $45 and it is allowed submitting up to 5 works. All artists working in two-dimensional and three-dimensional works, over 18 in the USA are welcome to submit, also artists over the age of 60. Two-dimensional work, including the frame, must not exceed 36 inches in any direction and should be wired, labeled on the back, and ready to hang. Three-dimensional pedestal pieces must not exceed 20 inches in any direction. Three-dimensional standing floor sculptures must not exceed 6 feet in height.
Carter Burden Gallery take no commission on sales.
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https://carterburdengallery.slideroom.com/#/permalink/program/70983