RADICAL IMPERFECTION: 2025 Juried Exhibition
October 18-November 23, 2025
Juror Elizabet Elliott
Executive Director/Curator, Alabama Contemporary Art Center
Saturday, October 18, 2025 6-8 PM: Artist’s Reception
Announcing ATHICA’s 2025 juried exhibition featuring contemporary art in all media that explores or references RADICAL IMPERFECTION, a term that can expressed as wabi-sabi, intentional askew-ness, imbalance, asymmetry, distortion, happy-go-with-it, and the sensation of living today. #RADICAL IMPERFECTION means to embrace uncomfortable, odd, or unexpected outcomes. Our esteemed juror Elizabet Elliott, Executive Director/Curator of the Alabama Contemporary Art Center selected the works from all over the country according to the theme she proposed.
Radical imperfection implies a dedicated effort: to be radical isn’t lazy or accidental. Radical pushes the norm. Imperfect is maybe the only given, so to be aggressively human, aggressively flawed, to be dedicated in our futility is then a theater of humanness itself. I think Radical Imperfection sits beyond the continuum of ideals that celebrates authenticity – it creates new ways of being.
— Elizabet Elliott, Juror
Participating Artists
| Name | City / State | Website or Other URL |
| Andreea Alunei | Bloomington, IN | www.andreea-alunei.com |
| Ash Anderson | Athens, GA | |
| Teresa Bramlette Reeves | Madison, GA | www.teresabramlettereeves.com |
| Jenna Alyse Clark | West Fort Lauderdale, AL | |
| Catie Cook | Saint louis, MO | www.catiecookart.com |
| Jonah Criswell | Kansas city, MO | www.jonahcriswell.com |
| Alyssa Davis | Louisville, KY | www.alyssadavisart.com |
| Gary Duehr | Somerville, MA | www.garyduehr.com |
| Matthew Flores | Surfside Beach, SC | www.matthew-flores.com |
| Richard Gladson | Athens, GA | |
| Christina Habibi | Athens, GA | www.habibiart.com |
| Ali Hval | Iowa City, IA | www.alihval.com |
| Haley Indorato | Athens, GA | www.haleyindoratostudio.com |
| KYLE KYLE | Maitland, FL | www.kylefineart.com |
| Katrina Ohstrom | Winterville, GA | www.katrinaohstrom.com www.swannatopia.com |
| Joey Rose | Athens, GA | |
| Karla Rydrych | Minneapolis, MN | |
| Rial Rye | Atlanta, GA | www.rialrye.com |
| Cassandra Vachon | New Orleans, LA | |
| Marcella Vlahos | Athens, GA | |
| Adam Void | Black Mountain, NC | www.adamvoid.com |
| Kelsey Wishik | Athens, GA | www.worksbywish.com |
RADICAL IMPERFECTION is sponsored in part by The James E. and Betty J. Huffer Foundation, The Georgia Council for the Arts, and The National Endowment for the Arts.
About the Juror
elizabet elliott (she/her/they) is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, curator and community organizer from Mobile, Alabama. Currently the Executive Director/Curator at Alabama Contemporary Art Center, elliott joined the organization in 2018. Prior to coming to Alabama Contemporary she served 5 years at the Mobile Museum of Art, and 4 years as the Founding Director of the Rumor Union, a grass roots community art organization that organized festivals, pop-up exhibitions and events for site-specific installation, performance and new media projects. Elliott has also served on several boards and in community action groups, including 2 years as Vice President of the Creative Wellness Foundation. She consults and volunteers often in founding and strategic planning for grass roots initiatives, coalitions, and DIY museum-making. She received her BFA with First Class Honours from Massey University in Wellington, New Zealand in 2009, and her MFA in Interdisciplinary Art focusing on in Social Practice from Goddard Collage in Port Townsend, WA in 2014. She enjoys action movies and dirty jokes.
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