440 Gallery announces a Call for Artists for the 2022 Annual Theme Show Sequential Synergy: The Art of Comics. Artwork selected for exhibition for the show will be on display at our Brooklyn gallery space July 9 – July 29, 2022. Artists at all levels of professionalism and experience are invited to submit work in all mediums.
Sequential Synergy: The Art of Comics celebrates the diverse ways comics artists, aka cartoonists, utilize the real estate of the blank page. For over a century, artists have been creating comics to tell stories about caped crusaders, historical figures, themselves or something else entirely. Sequential Synergy will explore the forms that comics can be and how they affect us; we will discover that cartoonists are not merely visual artists, but are writers, designers, directors, and most of all, acute observers of human behavior.
Acceptable submissions include, but are not limited to the following types of images: cover art, splash pages, full pages of sequential art. The submitted images may be excerpted from a larger work.
SCHEDULED EVENTS
• OPENING RECEPTION: an invitation for everyone to meet the artists, jurors and local art community at this well-attended party.
• ARTIST TALK: our monthly talk will feature three artists along with the show’s jurors and typically attracts a sizable, energetic crowd to pose questions about the show and the art process.
• COMIC BOOK SALE: timed to coincide with Comic-Con International: San Diego, exhibiting artists will have a chance to sell books onsite at the gallery.
(Note: Events may change due to unforeseen circumstances with COVID protocols, schedules, and weather.)
ABOUT THE JURORS: Dean Haspiel and Whitney Matheson, Co-Founders of Nightwork Studio. Learn more at nightwork.studio
Emmy Award-winning cartoonist Dean Haspiel is best known for creating Billy Dogma and The Red Hook, collaborating with Harvey Pekar and Jonathan Ames, and illustrating for HBO's Bored to Death. His work includes writing and drawing for Marvel, DC, Archie, Image Comics, and Webtoon. In addition, Haspiel is an accomplished playwright and Yaddo fellow.
Whitney Matheson is a journalist, children’s book author, playwright, and cartoonist best known for creating Pop Candy, USA Today’s award- winning pop-culture blog. Her work includes the kids’ book We Make Comics and the comics anthology PANDEMIX. Read her diary comics and subscribe to her newsletter at patreon.com/whitneymatheson.