Southern Exposures 15th Annual Entry-Fee-Free Juried Exhibition

November 4, 2005 - December 10, 2005

Juror
Julie Joyce
Gallery Director, Luckman Fine Arts Complex, CSU, Los Angeles

Artists
Alexis Amann
Marisa Aragona
Robert Arnold
Eric Aurandt
Marc Babsin
J.D. Beltran
Caetlynn J. Booth
Michael Brennan
Anita Brey
Thomas Chang
Yin-Ju Chen
Sage Corson
Denise Duffy
Chris Eckert
Scotty Enderle
Miles Epstein
Carlos Everhard
Karle Fried
Erik Friedman
Ron Greystar
Aaron Hawks
Nicole Hayden
Patrick Haywood
Jonn Herschend
Liz Hickok
Whitney Hubbs
Sarrita Hunn
Henrik Kam
Nick Karvounis
Mike Lai
Michelle Mansour
Vanessa Marsh
Kelly Marshall
Michael Elijah Meyer
Linda Michel-Cassidy
Elizabeth Moy
Tom Mueske
Alex Munn
Carson Murdach
NDFTBK
Mark Nobriga
Christian Oittinen
Cynthia Ona Innis
Justin O'Neill
Jennie Ottinger
Zane Peach
Joshua Pieper
Job Piston
Craig Poindexter
Daren Rabinovitch
Kelly Reiling
Lisa Ricci
Natalie Rishe
Nadim Roberto Sabella
Andrew Schoultz
Zachary Scholz
Amanda Schoppel
Tabitha Soren
Weston Teruya
Skye Thorstenson
Jerad Walker
Lindsey White
Marc Williams
Chrstopher Woodcock
Paul Zografakis

Description
Southern Exposure announces Mayhem, the 15th Annual Entry-Fee Free Juried Exhibition of work by Northern California Artists. The annual juried exhibition has become the premiere showcase of cutting-edge contemporary artwork by promising local talent. Unlike many open calls for work that charge a submission fee, Southern Exposure’s juried exhibition does not require artists to pay to enter their work. The exhibition is open to any artist living in Northern California north of King City and south of the Oregon border. In past years, over 700 artworks have been hand-delivered to the gallery for jurying, attesting to the extreme popularity of the show. For many of the artists selected, this is their first major exhibition and an important step in advancing their career.

A different theme is selected every year to inspire and encourage a broad level of artistic expression. By leaving the theme and media open to the artists’ interpretation, the work is conceptually and aesthetically diverse, drawing from as many insights and forms of expression as possible. Southern Exposure's 2005 theme, Mayhem, was conceived as a response to the current political and cultural climate.

Every year, a prestigious curator is chosen to select work for the exhibition. Southern Exposure is proud to announce Julie Joyce as the juror for Mayhem. Joyce is Gallery Director of the Luckman Fine Arts Complex at the California State University, Los Angeles. She has worked at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Santa Monica Museum of Art, and the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation. She has curated numerous exhibitions in the Los Angeles area, as well as five nationally traveling exhibitions including Post Millennial Fizzy-Addressing the Possibility of the Future and Jessica Bronson-Panamint Tilt. Joyce regularly publishes reviews and articles in magazine such as Art issues and Artext magazines.