Midwest

May 24, 2016, 10:05am

New American Paintings: Midwest Edition at the Elmhurst Museum

For the second year in a row, EAM is organizing the exhibition New American Paintings: Midwest Edition. Based on the acclaimed juried publication, an exhibition-in-print, this year’s version was selected by Kelly Schindler, associate curator at the St. Louis Contemporary Art Museum, and features an equally diverse group of artists and practices from across the Midwest. The thirty-nine artists participating in this year’s NAP broadly span the spectrum of varying themes in contemporary painting, including figural representation, material studies, optical abstraction and spatial depictions, while continually redefining the limits of formal categorization. EAM’s exhibition includes a combination of works featured in the catalogue and new works by selected artists in an effort to expand our understanding of this most traditional and fluid of artistic mediums.

Issue #119...Cover Artist, Alex Jackson

April 08, 2015, 2:56pm

NAP Midwest Edition Exhibition at the Elmhurst Art Museum

For more than twenty years, the critically acclaimed publication, New American Paintings, has featured the work of more than 3000 painters from throughout the United States, many of whom have gone on to receive international recognition. A lavishly-illustrated exhibition-in-print, each issue of New American Paintings results from a highly selective juried competition and aims to share the work of deserving artists to a wider audience. Selected by Elmhurst Art Museum Chief Curator Staci Boris from more than 400 submissions, the 2014 Midwest Edition features forty of the most promising artists from Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, Indiana, Missouri, Ohio and Iowa working within the context of contemporary painting. For the first time in its history, the New American Paintings publication will jump from the page to the museum as EAM presents the exhibition New American Paintings: Midwest Edition.

Exhibition Dates:
May 17 - August 23, 2015

Click here to see the complete list of exhibiting artists.

Allison Reiums | Circle Drip, 2014. Oil and Gold Leaf on Linen.

January 29, 2014, 8:51am

Midwest Juror Announced: Deadline Feb 28, 2014

New American Paintings Midwest Competition Deadline is February 28th, 2014.

Artists residing in: lllinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Wisconsin

March 02, 2013, 10:30am

New American Paintings Midwest Deadline Extended!

We have extended the deadline to our 2013 Midwest Competition!  If you are an artist residing in:  IL, IN, IA, MI, MN, MO, OH, or WI, this is your last chance to apply

The extended deadline is Friday, March 8th, 2013 (Midnight EST)! Apply online!