Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery announces its 13th Annual “Open” (No Theme) Online Art Competition for the month of October 2023. 2D and 3D artists from around the world are called upon to make online submissions for possible inclusion into the Gallery’s November 2023 online group exhibition.
There is No Theme for this art competition so any subject matter and any media are acceptable for consideration.
Artists should submit their best work in any media before the deadline of October 27, 2023.
Here is a link to the “Open” (No Theme) 2022 Online Art Exhibition in order to help artists see what type of art was accepted in the past. Please review our article post which explains the Judging Criteria for Our Juried Art Competitions in order to help you as a guide with your entry submissions.
Lower entry fees are offered from the opening of the competition (10th of the month) until the 1st day of next month (October 1, 2023). The discounted entry fees are as follows; $16.00 for 1 to 2 entries and $24.00 for 3 to 5 entries. After that time, the entry fees revert to the gallery’s normal entry fee amount or $18.00 for 1 to 2 entries and $26.00 for 3 to 5 entries until the deadline of the art competition.
Also, students (who are registered with Submittable and have an email extension of EDU) are able to receive additional lower entry fees for this competition. $12.00 for 1 to 2 entries and $22.00 for 3 to 5 entries.
Light Space & Time encourages artists (including photography & digital arts), regardless of where they reside and regardless of their experience or education in the art field, to apply to this competition by submitting their best abstract and/or representational art. Awards will be given for top 12 places.
| Art Competition Opens | August 28, 2023 | |
| Early Registration & Lower Fees End | October 01, 2023 | |
| Deadline for Receiving Entries | October 27, 2023 | |
| Results Emailed to Artists & Posted | November 01, 2023 | |
| Art Exhibition Opens | November 01, 2023 | |
| Online Art Exhibition Closes & Archived | November 30, 2023 |
Winning artists (12 Overall Category Artists) of the 13th Annual “Open” (No Theme) Art Exhibition will be promoted extensively by the gallery in the following manner:
The #1 overall top winning artist will be the Best in Show winner of the exhibition. The Best in Show winner will receive a cash prize of $100. The cash prize will be paid via PayPal in U.S. dollars. The winner must be able to receive the cash prize via PayPal. If the artist does not have PayPal account, it is easy to set one up HERE.
The top 12 winning artists for this exhibition will be promoted and circulated to hundreds of major news outlets, including syndicated Premium News Outlets (ABC, CBS, CW, Fox & NBC affiliated broadcasting/station websites), with inclusion on Google News & Bing News.
Winning artists will have their art exhibition results posted and promoted on ArtJobs/Artweek.com. Artweek produces 800,000+ page impressions per month, 280,000+ website visitors per month and has 30,000+ newsletter subscribers. Winning artists will also have their art exhibition results posted and promoted on Art.Base.co. Art.Base produces 100,000+ page views per month, 35,000+ monthly unique visitors and has 10,000+ newsletter subscribers.
In addition to the above, the winning artists of this exhibition will receive extensive worldwide publicity in the form of email marketing, event announcements, and wide-spread social media marketing and promotion to make the art world aware of the artists’ achievement.
There will be a video of the winning artists’ artworks on the Light Space & Time YouTube Channel. There will be links back to the artists’ website as part of this achievement package. Winning artists also receive a digital award certificate, digital award ribbon, digital event postcard, and press releases for their art portfolio.
Artists provide us with your best representative and abstract art (Any Subject Matter) before the deadline.
The gallery’s annual special Summer competition was the 4th Annual “Summer 555” Online Art Competition. This art competition featured an entry fee of $5.00 for artists to enter 5 images of their artworks and the gallery would select 5 overall winning artists.
2D and 3D artists (including photography & digital art) from around the world, were called upon to make online submissions for possible inclusion into the Gallery’s “Summer 555” summer online group art exhibition.
Artists were asked to submit to this open (no theme) competition by providing the gallery with their best abstract or representational art. The submission process and competition for the artists began in April 2022 and concluded on June 15, 2022.
The gallery received 745 entries from 23 different countries from around the world, as well as from 30 different states and the District of Columbia.
The exhibition has been divided into three media categories. Painting & Other Media, Photography & Digital and 3 Dimensional Art categories. In addition, there is an overall Winning Artists Category, which is the “best of the best” and consists of the five (5) best entries comprised from all the media categories.
The gallery also included Special Merit awards and Special Recognition awards for outstanding art. Many of the artists in either of these groups could have easily been included in the upper tier of our winners, as their art was also exceptional.
All winning entries will now be featured on the Light Space & Time website from July 5 through September 5, 2022. Thereafter, the artworks and links to the artist’s websites will remain online in the Light Space & Time Archives.
Congratulations to our artists who made our 4th Annual “Summer 555” Art Exhibition so successful. At any time, we invite our winning artists and other interested visitors to link their websites to the Gallery’s archive page for further ongoing promotion.
Overall Top 5 Winning Artists & Artworks
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Please go to the results of the Summer 555 Art Exhibition “Overall Winning Artists” Category to read about each of these artists.
Top 25 Painting & Other Media Winning Artists & Artworks
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To see all the Painting & Other Media artwork accepted into this exhibition, please visit the Summer 555 Art Exhibition “Painting & Other Category” here.
Top 20 Photography & Digital Winning Artists & Artworks
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To see all the Photography & Digital artwork accepted into this exhibition, please visit the Summer 555 Art Exhibition “Photography & Digital Category” here.
Top 5 3 Dimensional Winning Artists & Artworks
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To see all the 3 Dimensional artwork accepted into this exhibition, please visit the Summer 555 Art Exhibition “3 Dimensional Art Category” here.
Special Merit Award Category
In order to streamline our exhibitions, make them simpler to navigate and give artists fewer pages to visit, the Special Merit Category is being merged into the Painting & Other Media, Photography & Digital and 3 Dimensional Category pages.
