Conflict occurs when value systems clash. In the midst of conflict tension builds and choices between action or inaction, and sometimes even life or death, become focused and amplified. A choice made in a second may have consequences felt for either a few moments or for centuries. Conflict occurs in nature, in societies, between individuals and within oneself.

This exhibit invites artists to submit art showing how the observation of conflict - in their own lives, in nature, between cultures or in society as a whole - and the consequences of those conflicts, manifest in their art. 

One example of this is the artist Katherine Sherwood, who after having a stroke at age 44, and learning to paint left-handed, began making parallels between medical images of her own brain’s arterial paths and King Solomon’s Seals and the Classical Arabic script of the Koran. Consequently she created a beautiful and profound series of paintings.

Edvard Munch created the famous “Scream” after having a severe anxiety attack on a bridge in Oslo, where he felt ‘an infinite scream passing through nature’. Munch made two painted renditions of The Scream, two in pastel, and a lithographic print. Consequently, The Scream had a profound influence on the Expressionist movement and ultimately has become an everyday icon for anxiety and dread.

Consider what work you have, or create something new that you feel expresses “Conflict and Consequences”, be it figurative or abstract, in the medium of painting, drawing, print-making, mixed media, fabric art, and let us present your work in our online exhibition. We are offering three awards: $300, $200 and $100 to artists who best exemplify the theme through originality of expression and craftsmanship.