Brand Associates, in partnership with Brand Library & Art Center, is opening the 47th Brand Annual National Juried Exhibition of Works on Paper, on view from Sept. 7 through Oct. 25. The exhibition includes 89 works of art selected by juror Alma Ruiz from over 1,000 submitted. Artwork is available for sale. Twenty-five percent of the proceeds from art sales benefit the Brand Associates in support of free cultural programming throughout the year.

The exhibit is free and open to the public, and opens on Sept. 7 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Many of the artists and the juror will be present. No RSVP is required. Parking is available in the lot adjacent to the library.

Immediately preceding the public opening there will be a private ticketed reception, Paper preView, from 5:30 p.m. to
7 p.m. This includes the artists’ awards ceremony, a champagne refreshment table, and an opportunity to be the first to see and purchase artwork.  Tickets for Paper preView are $30 and are available at associatesofbrand.org/tickets.

The Annual National Juried Exhibition of Works on Paper has been organized and sponsored by the Brand Associates since 1971 in cooperation with the City of Glendale Library, Arts & Culture Dept. It is one of the region’s most prestigious juried shows, drawing entries from across the country. Over the years the exhibition has evolved to include an increasingly diverse array of three-dimensional artworks as well as an expanding range of approaches to the two-dimensional paper surface. Exhibition chairperson, Debra Thompson, is a director of the Brand Associates and an adjunct assistant professor of Art History at Glendale Community College. This year’s juror, Alma Ruiz, joins a distinguished roster of jurors who have given their time, energy and expertise over the 47 years this exhibition has been mounted.

Ruiz is an independent curator and senior fellow at Sotheby’s Institute of Art/Claremont Graduate University, and a member of the Advisory Committee for the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation in Miami. She is a former senior curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles having curated exhibitions focusing on the postwar Italy and Latin America and emerging artists. She has guest curated the 20 Bienal de Arte Paiz in Guatemala City and  the Fundación Jumex, Mexico City; the Fundación Telefónica, Buenos Aires; the Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv; and in Los Angeles at both the Craft and Folk Art Museum (now the Craft Contemporary) and the Fowler Museum at UCLA.  She is the author of numerous essays and articles.

Brand Library & Art Center, 1601 W. Mountain St., Glendale;
(818) 548-2051; info@brandlibrary.org; www.brandlibrary.org.

Parking is free. Public parking is in the lots available in Brand Park.

Accessible parking is available on the east side of the building by the service road running around the back of the library.

  Myles PETTENGIL