Deadline for entries: April 22, 2025
Opening Reception: Thursday, Aug 7, 5- 8 PM
Elisa Jensen will be the juror for Bowery Gallery’s 34th annual juried competition. Selected works will be installed in the gallery’s exhibition space in Chelsea, NYC. The opening reception will be held 5-8pm on Thursday, August 7.
Over its 56-year history, exhibitions at Bowery Gallery have been reviewed in The New York Times, The New York Sun, The New Republic, Art in America and many other publications.
Elisa Jensen is a painter who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She has received awards for her work from the New York Foundation for the Arts, The National Academy Museum, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her work has been reviewed and featured in Two Coats of Paint, Hyperallergic.com, Artcritical.com, The New York Sun, and The New York Times. She has shown her work at Pamela Salisbury Gallery (Hudson, NY), David & Schweitzer Contemporary (Brooklyn, NY), The Painting Center (NYC), Kimmel Gallery (NYC), The Royal Danish Consulate General (NYC), and Morsø Kunstforening.
in Denmark. Jensen graduated from Smith College and the New York Studio School. She teaches at the Pratt Institute and the New York Studio School.
ELIGIBILITY: Eligible two-dimensional media include painting, drawing, printmaking, pastel and mixed media. Sculpture, photography and digital art are not eligible. Work may not exceed 36” in height or width, not including frame. Bowery accepts applications from outside the U.S.
SALES: All work will be for sale unless the artist informs the gallery to the contrary. All proceeds from sales will go to the artist.
FEES: $35.00 entry fee allows each artist to submit 1-3 images. Additional images may be submitted for an extra $6.00 per image. Maximum submission: 6 images. Entry fees are paid through the entry form’s Paypal link, which accepts credit cards.
SUBMISSION: Work will be juried from images submitted only through the gallery’s online submission form. Images must be JPGs with minimum width/height of 1000px, maximum size 3MB. Please do not use spaces or special characters (such as @/!”)(:#;%&$) in image file names. An embedded color profile is recommended for accurate color.
DEADLINE: All applications must be submitted before midnight on April 22, 2025.
ENTRY FORM: Click Here to Apply via Entrythingy: