Contemporary Arts Center 23rd Annual Juried Show Opens March 23rd, 2012

Online, March 13, 2012 (Newswire.com) - This year the Contemporary Arts Center received over 600 digital submissions for consideration in its annual juried exhibition. Submissions came in from artists located throughout the United States, Europe and parts of Asia, with 47 pieces being selected for final review at the gallery.

Juror, Mat Gleason, is a Los Angeles art critic, curator, commentator and regular contributor to The Huffington Post's art section. He is also a contributor and publisher of the Coagula Art Journal, which he founded in 1992. A pioneer hybrid of tabloid journalism and anti-academic art writing, the magazine has been referred to as "the publication that the art world loves to hate, and loves to read". Mat recently curated 'Avant L.A.', which coincided with the Platform Art Fair, an exhibition which identified the 10 most compelling and important established and emerging artists living and working independently in Los Angeles.

Mat will talk in detail about his selection process during the opening reception but says; "I chose the art I felt was wildest, passionately most extreme and as well executed without being like anything else I had really ever seen." "Art itself is a celebration of the imperfect... I put together art shows to defy those who assert that they cannot."

"If my use of regional metaphors while talking about it is too much, I can only apologize for being too thrilled with the art scene blossoming in my favorite city in the world to say something stuffy about the experience." "Thank you to the CAC for betting on me."

This exhibition is sponsored in part and supported by the Cirque du Soleil® Cultural Action Department; the Wells Fargo Foundation; the Arts Factory and Bar & Bistro; Nevada Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.

See the selected works and hear more from the juror during the show's opening reception on March 23rd from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., with awards ceremony and juror's remarks at 7 p.m. This exhibition runs March 23rd - April 27th, 2012.

The CAC gallery is open Tues thru Sat; 12pm-5pm and by appointment.