Humor in Art.  An ONLINE exhibition

O'Hanlon Center wants to have an exhibition where it is OK to laugh. Humor helps us make sense of the world and gives us energy to keep going. Does your work convey wit and levity?  Will it make some viewers chuckle?  Art is serious and transforming, but it can also be funny.

A quote from the juror M. Louise Stanley:

“As a child I had two jokes from Mad Magazine on my wall that both confused and entertained me “all that glitters is not gold said the camel urinating in the moonlight” and “Rome wasn’t built in a day, it just looks that way”. They both are visual puns that question the literal. It is dangerous to make art that is humorous. People may not take you seriously. When humor works it often rides a precarious line between the sublime and the downright silly and is often not funny at all. The humor in my paintings comes about unconsciously… it is always there in some form. Humor is the camouflage for the ‘real’ subject and a catalyst or bridge to the darker, more disquieting side of the story. Major influences have been Jacques Tati, Lucille Ball, George Cruikshank and Marcel Carne’s les Enfants du Paradis.”

Each artist may submit up to 3 individual pieces of artwork for consideration into this juried show. Diptychs and Triptychs are considered 1 piece of work. Diptychs and Triptychs must be submitted as one image. Unfortunately, we are not able to accept film or video at this time.

• Submissions fees to O’Hanlon Center for the Arts: $40 for NON-Members
• $30 for O’Hanlon Members – Coupon Codes OH30 at check out.
• Or join as a NEW member now for $95/1 year and get a free submission.  A Coupon Code will be provided after you join.
• Work does NOT need to be for sale.

The deadline for Submissions is Sunday April 3, 2022 11 pm Pacific Time.

Artists will be notified of results by email by Friday April 8,2022 .

There will be a zoomed Roundtable art discussion to celebrate the show on Tuesday April 19 at 4 pm Pacific time open to all.  Zoom link will be emailed to selected artist and available on OHCA Website.

ABOUT THE JUROR:
M. Louise Stanley.  For over four decades, M. Louise Stanley has utilized narrative motifs culled from early Western Art History’s primary subjects – Greek mythology and Christianity – to create scathingly humorous indictments of gender inequity, sexual politics, economic disparity, and everyday instances of bad behavior. Stanley’s pointed criticisms are couched in her absurdist take on storytelling and figuration. Her affinity for satire, visual puns, and the outrageous is rooted in her time as a student at the California College of Arts and Crafts (now California College of the Arts), BFA 1967, MFA 1969. Stanley has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (2), Fleishhacker Foundation, Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation (2), Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. She resides in the Emeryville Artist’s Co-op in the SF, Bay Area and has taught for 20 years at Berkeley City College.

Louise is represented by Anglim/Trimble Gallery.

https://www.anglimtrimble.com

Postcard Art: M. Louise Stanley self portrait 

Application Requirements

Works previously shown at the O'Hanlon Gallery in-house or online are not eligible for consideration.

Eligibility Criteria

Open to all artists ages 16 and better.