Image: Megan Broughton, Svalbard, 79.75° North: Pack Ice II: State II Shifting, First Place in The Next Big Thing 2021

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

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2020 Juror: Leah Ollman

Leah Ollman writes about the visual arts for the Los Angeles Times, Art in America and numerous other publications. Ollman was a crorrespondent for ARTnews for ten years, she has written over 800 reviews and features for the LA Times and 85 articles for Art in America as well as numerous reviews published in Photograph, Craft, Art on Paper, Ceramics, ARTnews, Art Nexus, Afterimage, High Performance.

Her books and exhibition catalogues include Alison Rossiter: Expired Paper, William Kentridge: Weighing…and Wanting, The Photographs of John Brill, Michal Chelbin: Strangely Familiar, and Camera as Weapon: Worker Photography Between the Wars.

Ollman has been a Hambidge Fellow in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017 and 2018.

Exhibition Installation:

This exhibition is held in our 3,000 square foot gallery and hung by an experienced installation team lead by Bob Privitt, Professor Emeritus at Pepperdine University.