Pictued: Michael Provart, Black Flag

The Next Big Thing 201
July 5 – August 18, 2018

PROSPECTUS

Artists are continuously challenging their boundaries and excavating their unique discoveries to create new and bold work. Studio Channel Islands invite you to enter your most recent break-through pieces, the ones that have led you to the horizon of your works next evolution! All media and styles are welcome.

Juror: PETER FRANK

Frank is Associate Editor for Fabrik magazine and is former critic for Angeleno magazine and the L. A. Weekly. He served as Editor for THEmagazine Los Angeles and Visions Art Quarterly, and contributes articles to publications around the world.

Frank was born in 1950 in New York, where he received a B.A. and M.A. in art history from Columbia University and was art critic for The Village Voice and the SoHo Weekly News. He moved to Los Angeles in 1988 where he served as Senior Curator at the Riverside Art Museum, and has organized numerous theme and survey shows for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Venice Biennale, Documenta, and other venues.

Currently Frank is preparing a survey of the artist Tony DeLap for the Laguna [CA] Art Museum. McPherson & Co. Documentext published Frank’s Something Else Press: An Annotated Bibliography in 1983. A cycle of poems, The Travelogues, was issued by Sun & Moon Press in 1982. Abbeville Press released New, Used & Improved, an overview of the New York art scene co-written with Michael McKenzie, in 1987. Frank has written many monographs and catalogues on a wide array of modern and contemporary artists. He has taught and lectured extensively throughout North America and Europe.