Portland Modern is seeking visual art submissions for its fifth issue, scheduled for release in June 2007. Up to ten artists will be selected for publication in a full color catalog and will participate in a group exhibition in July 2007 at the Portland Art Center. As many as 6000 copies of Portland Modern Issue #5 will be published. Catalogs are distributed free of charge throughout the Portland metropolitan area and are sent directly to institutions, galleries, curators, and clients.The juror for Issue #5, Victor Maldonado. is currently Exhibitions Coordinator at Froelick Gallery, a writer for PDX Magazine and an instructor at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. He has an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago, and recently worked as a preparator for MOCA.

Submission is open to all visual artists currently living and working in Oregon and SW Washington. Work in any medium will be considered including, but not limited to: painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, sculpture, film, fibers, video, installation, performance, etc. There is no theme to guide submission content; rather, artists are encouraged to send up to ten images that best represent their work. The deadline for submitting is March 31. Details about submitting or advertising are available here. To find out more about Portland Modern, click here. Additional questions should be directed to Editor and Publisher Mark Brandau at mark@portlandmodern.org.

I like the return to a fewer # of artists. Hopefully this will result in the dual shows that we saw for each artist in issue #'s 3, 2, 1.

Dual shows gave artists a lot more traction and huge group shows tend to anonymize artists. Im a firm believer that if an artist is worth highlighting they are worth highlighting in a way that allows people to gage their depth. 2 pieces is too few to do that.

Also, Victor is a very good artist himself.