Sutured Reality

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. A suture is both a medical act of healing and a visible scar; it closes a wound without erasing it. 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 deadline: October 11th (midnight)

Submission Guidelines

1st Saturday ARTwalks:

December 5th - Opening Reception

January 2nd - Second Opening Reception

Sutured Reality

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.

All artists must complete their submission through Jotform to be considered for inclusion in the exhibition.
Up to 3 completed works, and in any 2 or 3-dimensional media may be submitted. 

If accepted, all work must be ready to display and/or framed for hanging - no sawtooth hangers please. Any accepted work that is not in keeping with the original submission and/or is not properly prepared for exhibition will be rejected.

Artists may submit images in JPEG, jpg (minimum 72DPI, no more than 1200 pixels in any direction). Each image file should be labeled with the artist’s last name, first name, and image title.

KEY DATES

Deadline for Submissions:  

Sunday, October 11 (midnight). You may submit up to 3 images. ($40 submission fee).

 
Notification of Acceptance: 

Artists whose work is chosen for inclusion in the exhibition will be notified by October 30 (midnight) via email. We will also post a list of acceptances on our website: www.SteinfeldWarehouse.org

 
Art Drop-Off: 

THURSDAY, November 19 drop off artwork between 4:00-6:00 PM or

FRIDAY, November 20 drop off artwork between 4:00-6:00 PM, or by arrangement.

 
Exhibition Timeline: 

Saturday, December 5 / 4:00-8:00 PM Steinfeld Gallery

Exhibit will remain up UNTIL SATURDAY, January 16.

 
Unsold Art Pick-Up: 

SATURDAY, January 16 / 4:00-6:00 PM, SUNDAY, January 17 / 12:00-2:00 PM or by arrangement with us. If your art isn't picked up by January 31, 2027, then we will donate it to a charity such as Good Will. We simply do not have the space to house the art.

 
Sales & Commissions: 

Artwork is for sale. A 30% COMMISSION TO WAMO, FRIEND OF STEINFELD will be retained by WAMO, for donation to the STEINFELD GALLERY. The 70% Artists price will be sent out to Artists, via Money Order or Check, Money Orders and Checks within 30 days of sales (after completion of a W9 is submitted).