Blood Orange Review — Artwork (general submissions)

Overview
Blood Orange Review operates an online exhibition space that runs alongside its literary volumes, positioning visual art not as illustration but as a parallel and independent register within each digital issue. The journal's editorial structure pairs art with literary submissions while also displaying selected works in their own right, a curatorial decision that treats the image as a primary text rather than an accessory. This call is for general submissions, meaning there is no single presiding theme; the journal's stated openness to any subject matter, style, or medium is genuine, though it notes a preference for two-dimensional formats suited to digital publication. Selected artists receive placement within a digital volume of Blood Orange Review, where their work is presented to the journal's readership in an exhibition context. The journal asks for 3–5 high-quality digital reproductions with titles, a short bio of 50–100 words, and an artist's statement of 250–500 words. This request for a substantial statement signals that the editorial team reads images in relation to an artist's articulated concerns; the statement is not a formality but a component of the submission's evaluative weight. The curatorial vision here is one of adjacency and equivalence: art and literature sharing a volume without one subordinating the other. Artists working in two-dimensional media—painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, collage, and digital work among them—are the most natural fit, though the journal does not exclude other formats. The $3 fee is modest and consistent with the operating costs of a small literary and arts journal.