440 Gallery is excited to announce an open Call for Artists for the 2024 Annual Theme Show. The topic for the national juried exhibition is Artistic Muscles. Artwork selected for exhibition will be on display at our Brooklyn gallery space July 11 – August 2, 2024. Artists at all levels of experience and career stages are invited to submit work in all mediums.

Entries should reflect the artist(s)’s interpretation of the theme as described below:

Artists use their hands, bodies, and brains, sometimes even their feet, hair, and breath, to create their expressions, utilizing these creative muscles to produce their work. Embracing the spirit of athleticism and the history of art alongside the Olympics, Artistic Muscles seeks to create a fun and interactive exhibition exploring the long history of sport and art to create a celebration of the physicality of art making: from the observation and depiction of athletic feats to the emotional aspects of achievement, award, and the sportsmanship of competition, winning and losing. 

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Artistic Muscles
Juried Exhibition
July 11 - August 2, 2024

Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, April 24 at 11:59 pm EST

About the Juror:

Christina Massey is an Artist & independent curator with over a decade of experience in curating exhibitions that focus on and highlight underrepresented female artists. In 2016, she founded WoArt, a platform dedicated to promoting and showcasing the work of female-identifying artists through social media and curated exhibitions.

Her curatorial projects have been displayed in prestigious venues such as the Hunterdon Art Museum, Court Tree Collective, BioBAT Art Space, ISE Foundation, and Cluster Gallery, amongst others. Her projects have been featured in notable publications including Art Net News, Visionary Project, and ABC News.

As an artist, Massey’s work has exhibited extensively in the NYC metropolitan region. She has won multiple awards for her work including most recently a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant in 2023, an FST StudioProject Fund Grant, Brooklyn Arts Fund Grant, and SIP Fellowship at the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop.