Call Detail

Remastered

Call Overview

Entry Deadline: 10/4/25
Days remaining to deadline: 34

Entry Fee (Entry Fee): $20.00
Media Fee(Additional Artwork Submission): $20.00

Work Sample Requirements


Images | Minimum:Min. 1, Maximum:Max. 3
Total Samples | Minimum:Min. 1, Maximum:Max. 3
Call Type: Award
Eligibility: National
State: New York

Call Description

We’re seeking irreverent, creative, and joyfully blasphemous takes on famous artworks for our Fall 2025 group show, Remastered. Think “Dogs Playing Poker” but it’s the Last Supper. Or What if Mona Lisa had a mullet? Or if American Gothic featured a pitchfork-wielding alien and his influencer daughter?

Remastered is an original art show featuring copies, forgeries, ill conceived restorations and imaginative misinterpretations of famous artworks, artists and art movements.

We’re looking for the paint-stroke perfect to amateur best try.

This exhibition challenges the solemnity of the art world by asking: What if irreverence is the sincerest form of flattery?

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Categories

  • Masterpieces Reimagined – Famous masterpieces with an extra helping of inspiration.
  •  Time-Traveling Portraits
 Historical figures redressed or reimagined in modern (or absurdly futuristic) style.
  • Mashups & Collisions
 Combine two or more famous works, movements, or artists into one delightfully confusing piece.
  •  Art School Dropouts
 Purposefully bad or beginner versions of famous paintings (childlike renderings encouraged!).
  • Movement Misfits 
Works that explore or satirize an artist or movement.
  • Show Offs This category is for works that are genuinely well-rendered copies of masterpieces that might fool even the most seasoned art inspector.

Prizes will be awarded in each entry category. There will also be a “People's Choice” visual-art award for the artwork that gets the most votes from visitors to the Remastered exhibit. All prize money will reflect current forged art market value.

Exhibition Schedule


The Ake Gallery
165 South Main Street
Cortland NY 13045

Show Dates: November 7 – December 5, 2025

Submission and Prep

Now Open – Call for Artists

Saturday, October 4 – Submission Deadline
Friday, October 17 – Notification of Accepted Works
October 31–November 2 (Fri–Sun, 12–6 PM) – Art Drop-off & Delivery
(Venue location and delivery instructions will be emailed to accepted artists)

November 3–6 – Installation (Closed to Public)

Exhibition Events

Friday, November 7 – 5 to 9 pm Opening Night Reception. Includes: Live music playing bad cover songs, snacks, questionable wine

Friday, November 14 – 7 to 9 pm - Kara-akey. 3 Hotdog Night hosts an ear splitting evening of karaoke.


Saturday, November 22 – 7 to 9 pm The Art Of Improv - an all art related improvisational show by Ake Gallery resident improv Group, The Comedy Flops

Friday December 5 – Closing Party & Awards
 

Post-Exhibit

Saturdays December 6 and 13 from 12–6 PM – Artwork Pickup
Postage-paid return package is also acceptable if you cannot pickup your piece at the gallery.

Application Requirements

Eligibility Criteria

Accepting

  • Illustration, sculpture, paintings, collage, found objects
  • Parodies, mashups, and gloriously inaccurate tributes to anything canonically famous
  • Human-generated art only. No Neanderthals or AI.