April Online Group Art Show: “Flower Power!”

While ”Flower Power” was a slogan used by Hippies opposing the Vietnam War in the 1960s and 70s America, we want to use it to celebrate Flowers & Art in our April online group art show.
Throughout history, humans have used flowers to communicate their emotions and to commemorate various occasions. Still-life paintings of wilting flowers were meant to capture the fleeting nature of human life. In France and England, the aristocrats covered their palaces with floral wallpaper.
Botanical illustrations brought art and science together dating this art practice to the 1st Century B.C. In the Victorian era, the Pre-Raphaelite artists filled their paintings with hidden botanical symbolism. And we shall not forget Vincent Van Gogh’s iconic sunflowers.
Flowers have a lot of other historical significance across the globe so to welcome the arrival of Spring our April online group art show celebrates flowers. We welcome artworks depicting Flowers from all mediums of visual art, except video/film.

★ Digital entries must be received by March 28th, 2023 before 11:59 pm Eastern Standard Time.

★ Notification of acceptance will be sent by email by March 31st.

★ The show will premiere on April 1st and end on April 30th.

AWARDS:

All Artists participating in the online group show will be featured on our Website and Virtual Gallery platform. All artists will be awarded an HMVC Gallery New York certificate of participation.

We are delighted to announce that we will be giving cash prizes to two talented artists!

Best of show winner: $150
Second place winner: $100
Third place winner: Online Solo Show

The winners of Best of Show and Second Place need to have a working PayPal account to receive their prize money. If the winner of the cash prize fails to provide HMVC Gallery New York with a working PayPal account, the winner will be forfeited and HMVC will be entitled to select another winner. The prize will be sent to the winner within 14 days of responding to HMVC.
The Third Place winner will have their own online Solo Show at HMVC Gallery New York and the show will run for a month. The Solo Show winner will also receive a HMVC Gallery New York solo certificate recognizing their achievement.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:

To be considered for the online group show artists must provide the jurors with high-quality images of their artwork as befitting the theme, an Artist Bio, and an Artist Statement. Artists can submit up to 3 artworks for the jurors’ consideration. In the end, one artwork from each selected artist will be included in the group show. If your application is lacking or if your work is misrepresented, we reserve the right to refuse to feature your artwork in the show.
All properly prepared entries (refer to submission form) will be viewed and judged by the jurors, Heini Mika and Vincent Chang. The decision of the jurors is final.
We accept the following Image Formats: JPG, JPEG, PNG, GIF, SVG, and WEBP. Dimensions: 1200 pixels or greater on the longest side. We may have to readjust your dimensions after entry to fit the limitations. Image Size: under 2 MB.
At the moment we welcome artworks from all mediums of visual art, except video/film.

MEDIA & MARKETING:

By submitting images, the artist agrees that the images are the artist’s own work and they own all rights to the images. If the artist’s work gets accepted, they grant HMVC Gallery New York the right to use their image on our website, social media, and online to help promote our online exhibitions. Full credit and copyright will remain with the artist. We will promote the show and the artists in our Newsletter and individually on our Instagram page @hmvcgallery.

APPLICATION FEE:

The Submission fee is $40 for 3 images and it is non-refundable and does not guarantee acceptance.