Comprised of painting, photography, video, sculpture, ceramics, collage, printmaking, and installation, NO DEAD ARTISTS continues to exhibit a great diversity in media with a cohesive cross-section of the pulse of contemporary art. Presenting forty artworks by fifteen artists, this diverse symposium varies even more greatly in subject and purpose. Exhibition highlights include a wall-mounted paper sculpture by Samuelle Green, whimsical ceramics by Isys Hennigar, and four video works by Ryan Lewis. One of the most prevalent themes in the show is the approach to the figurative, with varying perspectives in the work of: Katie Chance, Ginger Williams Cook, Becca Fuhrman, Skip Hill, Wowser Ng, and Wencke Uhl; each with their own distinct and arresting approaches to rendering the human body. Another common theme of the show is an examination of the mundane and esoteric through the: “word portraits” of Diana Georgie, interactive installations by Thrasyvoulos Kalaitzidis, a photorealist painting by Andrew Leventis, the naturalistic paintings of Robert Minervini, photography by Jacob Mitchell, and sculptures from Regular Concrete.
For the grand prize of the exhibition, one of the selected jury winning artists will be awarded a solo exhibition at JFG in 2024. Previous recipient awardees include: Jenny Day (2017, Santa Fe, NM), Trenity Thomas (2020, New Orleans,LA ), Michael Tole (2021, Tempe, AZ), and Brandon V. Lewis (2022, Baton Rouge, LA). Not only have past finalists received solo shows at the gallery but some have also successfully continued on to exhibit at art fairs in New York, Miami, Basel (Switzerland), Leipzig (Germany), San Francisco, Houston, Seattle, and other traveling exhibitions and museums worldwide. These artists and the NO DEAD ARTISTS exhibition have garnered great interest from curators, museums, and press and have also been acquired by many prominent public and private collections. . . Stay tuned for the announcement of the 2023 winner at the close of the Exhibition.