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The Next Big Thing 2022

August 6th – September 24th, 2022

 

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’s Awards

Winter Rusiloski

Rainbow Phoenix

First Place

Lisa Roggenbuck

Influenced

Second Place

Carlos Heredia

Casa De Mi Abuela II

Third Place

2022 Juror: David Pagel

David Pagel is an art critic, curator, and professor of art theory and history at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. His reviews and essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Brooklyn Rail, and Artforum. Recent publications include Jim Shaw, Lund Humphries, London, 2019 and Talking Beauty: A Conversation Between Joseph Raffael and David Pagel about Art, Love, Death, and Creativity, Zero+, Claremont, 2018, as well as catalog essays on John Sonsini, Elliott Hundley, Bret Price, and Dane Goodman. Recently organized exhibitions include “re:Socializing—art out of quarantine” and “Kenneth Noland/August Rodin/Ian Trout,” both at Claremont Graduate University. A self-taught diorama builder and an avid cyclist, Pagel is a seven-time winner of the California Triple Crown.

 

Previous Winners:

David Isakson

UPCYCLE

First Place in The Next Big Thing 2021
Juror: Peter Mays

Megan Broughton

Svalbard, 79.75° North: Pack Ice II: State II Shifting

First Place in The Next Big Thing 2020
Juror: Leah Ollman

Gary Aagaard

Blinded by Delight

First Place in The Next Big Thing 2019
Juror: Mat Gleason

Michael Provart

Black Flag

First Place in The Next Big Thing 2018
Juror: Peter Frank

Nicholas Hullibarger

Spatial Binary

First Place in The Next Big Thing 2017
Juror: Tish Greenwood

   

 

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.

View photos from Next Big Thing 2021 here.