What Follows
Curated by Bo Young An
ID: Graphic with text and abstract images. Three organic shapes in red, medium pink, and blue, sit in a line from the top left corner to the bottom right. Text reads: “Fresh Eye Gallery; What Follows; Apply by 3.15; Call for Art; Curated by: Bo Young An”
Call for Art
Please read the exhibition statement below carefully. If your work or practice aligns with its themes and framework, we encourage you to apply.
Submission Guidelines
Artists may submit up to 3 images in JPEG or MP4 format.
All accepted 2D work must be wired and ready to hang.
We prefer that accepted work be for sale, though this is not required.
The Gallery’s commission is 35%.
We will not accept AI-generated artwork.
If shipping your artwork, please include a return label.
Exhibition Dates: April 23 - May 31
Opening Reception: April 24, 6-8pm | Masks required hour: 5-6pm
Application timeline
March 22: Application deadline
March 27: Fresh Eye notifies selected artists
April 16-19: Artists drop off work
April 20-22: Installation
The submission fee for this exhibition is pay-what-you-can.
We have a suggested fee of $10 but will consider all submissions regardless of entry fee.
You are encouraged to complete the submission form first and then use the button below to complete your payment.
Exhibition Statement
By Curator Bo Young An
Culture is not inherited intact. It arrives through observation and repetition, lived practices, fragments, and gestures learned without full explanation. Its values are embedded in process rather than instruction. For artists shaped by migration and cultural translation, inheritance is inseparable from change.
What Follows brings together artists who approach cultural preservation as continuation: the practice of creating as something lived forward. The works in this exhibition consider how culture moves across generations, how it is reshaped by migration while adapting to new contexts and ways of living. Inheriting culture, here, is about learning what should be held onto, what can shift, and what is reimagined.
Through cultural translation and speculative storytelling, these artists revisit interrupted histories not as fixed inheritances, but as living material, reshaped in the present and carried into the future through making.
Speculation becomes necessary where archives are incomplete or inaccessible, particularly within immigrant and diasporic contexts where displacement interrupts continuity. Through this process, memory is understood not only as inheritance, but as something continually negotiated while moving between languages and cultures.
The exhibition positions art as an alternative form of historiography, one that resists dominant and linear cultural narratives and reimagines how history can be structured and told. In doing so, it asks how remembering shifts when home is plural and when identity is shaped across borders. Storytelling becomes self-definition, a means of integration and survival.
Art emerges as a site of cultural transmission: a transformation enacted through making. What Follows considers how artists become vessels of cultural continuation, one shaped as much by adaptation as by inheritance.