Steinfeld Gallery is pleased to announce “Sutured Reality”, an exhibition that invites artists to explore the seams, the places where separate things are forcibly joined, repaired, or held together. The title asks: what realities have been stitched together, and what do the stitches reveal?
A suture implies both damage and the will to hold together, and this exhibition seeks work that lives in that tension. Artists might consider the act of repair itself, the mend that remains visible, the fix that becomes the subject rather than something to conceal. They might turn to the body as a site where trauma is closed but permanently recorded, or to perception itself: the sense that contemporary reality is an assembly of mismatched fragments, manipulated images, reconstructed memories, and competing truths held together by increasingly fragile thread. Others may find the theme in social and cultural seams: borders, hybrid identities, communities stitched back together after rupture, and the scar tissue that forms where things once came apart. Whatever the approach, the through-line is the mark of the join, work that sits between pristine wholeness and pure rupture, where the evidence of joining, breaking, and holding is allowed to show.
Submission Guidelines
Submission Opens on September 14.
All entries due by October 11 (midnight).
Exhibition includes two 1st Saturday ARTwalks –
December 5.
January 2.
JUROR: Meg Jackson Fox, Ph.D
Chief of Curatorial and Convergent Practice, Tucson Museum of Art
A scholar with twenty years of experience in non-profit art organizations and higher education, Meg Jackson Fox, Ph.D., is academically grounded in modern and contemporary art, the histories of photography, critical theory, and museum and curatorial studies. Meg’s role at Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block points to the Museum’s commitment in strengthening connections with artists, institutions, and communities across Southern Arizona. Meg has decades of experience in curation, education, and engagement in the arts, including curatorial, faculty, and senior leadership positions at the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art, the University of Arizona’s Center for Creative Photography, and the University of Denver. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona, an M.A. from Georgetown University co-convened by Sotheby’s Institute-London, an M.A. from the University of Tennessee, and a B.A. from the University of Alabama-Birmingham.
Up to 3 completed works, and in any 2 or 3-dimensional media may be submitted.
