Second Portrait Competition Launches

The online entry form for the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2009 sprang to life on Monday, June 2. Hundreds of American artists have been e-mailing us this spring, asking questions about acceptable subjects, sizes, media—you name it! One of the many fascinating aspects of this competition—the second in the series—is for viewers to be exposed to the tremendous variety of portraiture created today. We hope to receive works of all kinds: art crafted with traditional media and using traditional formats; works made using traditional media in unusual ways; and also those made with time-based media and mind-stretching combinations of materials and images.

Our goal is to find works of art that answer the question “What is today’s portrait?” Check back soon. We will keep you posted on the numbers of entries received and the approaches that today’s artists are using to explore the dynamic art of twenty-first-century portraiture, reinvented now, just as it has been by artists from Goya to Chuck Close. Don’t forget, the entry form shuts down on July 31, 2008.