Hank Auderer
San Antonio, Texas
Cafe, Oaxaca

Captivar La Luz: A Latino Experience Accepted Entries
Click Here to view a Gallery of the Projects Accepted.
Click Here to view a Gallery of Individual Images Accepted.

Congratulations to the 10 Project photographers and 24 Individual photographers whose work was selected for this exhibition. We had 129 photographers submit 1,196 images.

The exhibit opens at Blue Star LAB Gallery, an annex of Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, and a venue that allows for expanded exhibitions from the Blue Star Main Campus, as well as the promotion of experimental work. This gallery was generously made possible by Zurich International Properties, Inc. Blue Star Contemporary Art Center is a non-profit, non-collecting contemporary art center in San Antonio, Texas that advances the growth and understanding of contemporary art, artists and the curatorial process. Through exhibitions and a variety of programs, Blue Star is an active participant in the development of regional, national and international contemporary art and provides a lively forum for the visual arts dialogue. www.bluestarartscomplex.com/index.php.

The exhibit will open with an artist reception on October 13, 2010 from 5pm tp 8pm. Captivar La Luz is expected to travel for two years.

Please follow the directions for sending in your prints very carefully or we will not be able to exhibit your work.
If you have any problems or questions, please contact us. We look forward to an outstanding exhibition and will keep all informed about the exhibit. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.

Sincerely,
D. Clarke Evans

Captivar La Luz Calendar

September 30
Prints due in San Antonio.

October 13
Show opens at Blue Star LAB Gallery, 114 Broadway, San Antonio, TX.

October 13
Artist Reception with Kathy Vargas, 5p-8p.

November 30
Show closes at Blue Star LAB Gallery.

If Your Work is Accepted:

Please follow the directions for sending in your prints very carefully or we will not be able to exhibit your work.

1. Send one exhibition print for each accepted photograph.

2. Prints must be mounted and overmatted using white matte board to 16"x20" or 20"x24" with at least 2" of border showing on all sides of the print. We are only accepting final mattted and mounted sizes of 16"x20" or 20"x24".

3. Include return postage for prints to be shipped back to you after the exhibition. Prints WITHOUT Return Postage will not be returned. We will not be accepting FedEx numbers because of reoccuring issues in the past. Prints will be returned in the container in which they were received. Do NOT frame the print.

4. Send $5 for each print accepted to defray exhibition expense.

5. When packing your print – Do NOT use Styrofoam peanuts or your box will be thrown away. And please be considerate of our space when selecting your packaging.

6. The print must reach us by September 30, 2010.

Send your print to:

Texas Photographic Society
6338 N. New Braunfels #174
San Antonio TX 78209
Questions? Call Clarke at 210-824-4123

Sales
TPS encourages the sale of exhibited photographs. The commission charged will be 50% of the sales price. Print your name, address, telephone numbers (work and home), and sales amount on the back of each matt board. If your print is Not-For-Sale (NFS) state so, but list a dollar amount for insurance. If you do not list a dollar amount, the art work will be listed as Not-For-Sale.

Liability
TPS will exercise all due care in handling slides and prints, but will not be responsible for loss or damage or replacement. Please submit duplicate slides and prints.

Reproduction
TPS retains the right to display, project and reproduce work accepted for this exhibition for publicity and promotional purposes only. Individual photographers retain Copyrights to their individual works.

Individual Accepted Images

Click Here to view a Gallery of the Projects Accepted.
Click Here to view a Gallery of Individual Images Accepted.

Juror's Pre-Jurying Comments:
“Latino” is a broad category, and I have eclectic tastes. Rather than define or limit what I think “Latino” should be, I want the artist/photographer to be able to address the topic without reference to the juror’s specifications. What I will look for in these photographs is what I look for in all photos: the insightful moment; the perfect confluence of form and content; the unique expression. Whatever and however a photographer wishes to represent a theme, the best photographs will make people of all backgrounds gasp in awe.

Kathy Vargas
Professor of Photography
Incarnate Word University

About the Juror:
Artist/photographer Kathy Vargas has had one person exhibits at Sala Uno in Rome, Galeria Juan Martin in Mexico City, Centro Recoleta in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a retrospective at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas. Group shows include "Hospice: A Photographic Inquiry" a national traveling exhibit commissioned by the Corcoran Gallery, Washington D.C., and “Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation (CARA)”. She is in the collections of the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum, the Toledo Art Museum, the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago, and the Sprint Collection. She was named 2005 Texas Two-Dimensional Artist of the Year by the Texas Commission on the Arts. Ms. Vargas is associate professor and Chair of the Art Department at the University of the Incarnate Word.

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