Experimental Art

Opus 273, ©Johannes Bjorner. ISEA Exhibit 2014.

Our trip to southern California was occasioned by the 23rd Annual International Art Exhibit of the International Society of Experimental Artists. This is a juried show, and Johannes Bjorner, sometime photographer and recorder of events for this and a prior blog, entered a painting and was accepted into the show. Although Johannes has done art for many years now, this was a new group to us both.

ISEA says that art is experimental when the concept, attitude, techniques, or materials--in any combination--are experimental. ISEA artists work in two and three dimensions, and both my artist and I agree that this particular exhibition, which presented 87 works from the 400 or so that were submitted, showed some very creative pieces and was the best overall show that we had ever seen. It was an honor just to be included.

The exhibit is being held at the National Watercolor Society gallery in San Pedro from September 13 through October 12; a view of the gallery can be seen currently on the NWS website. Images of entries and prize works of the ISEA exhibits in 2012 (Gloucester, Massachusetts) and 2013 (Sanibel, Florida) can be seen from links at http://www.iseaartexhibit.org/photo-galleries, and presumably images from the 2014 show will make it there in due course.