Hudson Valley MOCA 5th Annual Juried Exhibition

‘SO YOU THINK I’M TOO OLD TO…’: A LOOK AT HOW OLDER ARTISTS EXCEL AS THE YEARS PROGRESS.

Open call through CAFÉ to artists 62 years of age and older

Café Posting: November 8, 2024
Feb. 1, 2025: Opening Reception 3-5 PM
Exhibition: February 2, 2025 - May 3, 2025

 

There is a story, not sufficiently touted, of artists finding their best creative energy as they enter their senior years. Arguably, Louise Bourgeois created her best works, her spiders and cells, well into her 80’s, after leaving behind the totemic works that so mimicked her male counterparts.   Is it the freedom offered by a lifetime of observation and integration of the interior psyche with outer data?  Is it the freedom that age offers to be introspective, to not bow to external critique and judgement.

HVMOCA is an institution first to show over a hundred artists who then came to renown., mostly of course younger artists.

But it has also taken great pride in  championing the work of artists who came to the fore much later such as Phyllida Barlow, hitting her stride in her late 60’s.

Now, in for its 5th Annual Juried Exhibition, HVMOCA seeks to feature works by artists 62 and older, culled from an open RFP on CAFE, and placed within the context of art history.  We are especially interested in the  works by artists who reached their prime in their more advanced years

Consider Georgia O’Keefe, dubbed the Mother of American Modernism, looked to the beauty of a blossom, to a desert for inspiration, Joan Jonas, still going strong at 88 with her pioneering performance and video works, Roz Schneider who at 91 gave her last lecture and presentation here at Hudson Valley MOCA, speaking to her nature based films and paintings,

I recall that one event where Stanley Kunitz, Age 97, read a poem of a slap from his father, felt 60 years later, and Aaron Birnbaum, tailor turned artist, age 102, at his first museum exhibition at the Aldridge Museum.

And now you!!!


Entry Fee: $75.00 for non- members, $50.00 for Hudson Valley MOCA Artist Members

Deadline for entries: December 6, 2024


Critical Dates:

  • Notifications go out to artist applicants: January 6, 2025

  • Art work delivery:  January 16-20, 2025

  • February 1, 2025 1-3 PM Saturday Artist Talk: ‘Dedicated to artists who enter the art world late in life or as a second career, to others who hit their stride later in life: Shared challenges, successes, frustrations and benefits to being older in this highly competitive world- OR DOES ONE EVEN CARE!’

  • Saturday, February 1, 2025 3-5 PM: Exhibition opens


Upcoming:

  • March 8, 2025: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM:  Portfolio Review: $150.00. (Must be a Hudson Valley MOCA Artist member)