500X Gallery, Texas’ oldest, artist–run, cooperative galleries, is proud to announce the first annual juried LGBTQIA+ Exhibtion. 500X LGBTQIA+ Exhibition is open to all artists over the age of 18 living in Texas. All visual media are eligible, including drawing, painting, sculpture, installation and video. Due to COVID-19 this year will be a virtual exhibition only on 500X.org. Cost of entry is $10 for 5 pieces. The deadline to apply is August 23rd by midnight (CST). Exhibition runs digitally on 500X.org from September 12- October 4, 2020.

This year's jurors are artists, Brian Scott and Brian Keith Jones! On a cold November day in 1990 “Chuck & George“ were born on a cracker. While having lunch at Jim's Diner, UNT art students Brian K Jones & Brian K Scott sat at a table and painted each others portraits on saltines. They then declared themselves “Chuck & George”. Though inspired by longtime art collaborators “Gilbert & George”, the pseudonym was derived by the pairing of each artist's existing imaginary muses. Chuck & George’s over the top collaborations often come in the form of multimedia installations complete with printmaking, painting, ceramics, papier-mâché, electronics,animation, custom furniture, floor and wall coverings and more. Their world is insular and the work self referential, inspired by loved ones, literature, music, movies, kitchen gadgets, politics and parasites. Chuck & George are co-founders and sole operators of the Visual Speed Bump Art Tour (originally the Oak Cliff Drive-By Studio Tour). Established in the year 2000 and heading into its 20th year the tour has grown beyond Oak Cliff to include artists from the West Dallas Tin District. The duos most immersive collaboration is their small 100yr old home. Every surface is hand painted and decorated up seemingly to inspire Pee Wee and Stanley Kubrick The impressive collection of art by a wide range of artists intermingles with their own solo and collaborative art. It is a rave for the eyeballs and open to the public every Spring during the Visual Speed Bump Art Tour “the world of Chuck and George shimmered with regret, compassion, annoyance, frustration, pity and love – usually all at the same time, and never without a pervasive, deeply artistic irony about the near-impossible task of staying true to yourself and to the people who made you who you are.” Julie McGuire Number: Seventy Seven (an independent arts journal) Winter 2014

Digital Exhibition on 500X.org

$10 for up to 5 entries

500X LGBTQIA+ Exhibition is open to all artists living and working in Texas over the age of 18. All visual media are eligible, including drawing, painting, sculpture, installation and video. All work must be ready to show digitally. The exhibition will be viewable on the 500X.org website.