Flat Rate Contemporary

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Artist juried flat file exhibitions. Affordable contemporary art. Next Open Call: Jan 2027
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🪁FRC22 - link in bio🪁 Aaron Stork WATCH OUT (Ice Cream 2), 2025 Watercolor, acrylic, and graphite on cotton rag paper 20 × 15 in 50.8 × 38.1 cm $500.00 “I am an artist as a wizard. Mostly I make paintings and drawings, but also videos, poems, music and an occasional sculpture. The works I make are for the mystery. I love humanity in all its craziness.” Aaron Storck (b. New York City, 1978) currently lives and works in Lawrence, KS. He received his MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2014, and a BFA from the University of Kansas in 2001. His work has been included in exhibitions at the San Francisco Art Institute, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, as well as numerous artist-run project spaces. Mr. Storck has participated in several residencies including those at Kansas City’s Charlotte Street Foundation and Wassaic Project in Wassaic, NY.
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🪁FRC22 - link in bio🪁 Griffin Allman 2025 - 13, 2025 Graphite, ink, colored pencil, and marker on nujabi paper 9 × 12 in 22.9 × 30.5 cm $300.00 “My artistic practice centers on the creation of drawings, paintings, and assemblages that highlight the daily collection, organization and categorization of marks. Rooted in themes of habit, ritual, and hyperfixation, my work serves as both an iterative and psychological archive - one that seeks to understand how anxiety, fear, obsession, and the compulsive urge to categorize shape our perception of the world and of ourselves. Through repetition, gesture and the integration of text, I build visual systems that become exercises in focus and containment, where the daily practice of mark-making becomes a ritualized act of attributing meaning and reclaiming presence.” Griffin Allman (b. 1997) is an artist and art educator living and working in Milledgeville, GA. Currently teaching full-time at Georgia College & State University, Allman received his BFA in Studio Art and his BA in Art Education from Kent State University in Kent, OH, in 2021, before receiving his MFA with a concentration in Painting & Drawing from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2024. Allman has exhibited work nationwide, including but not limited to First Street Gallery in New York City, Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, MI, and the Candoro Marble Building in Knoxville, TN.
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🪁FRC22 - link in bio🪁 Johnson Folorunso Peace within, 2020 Acrylic on canvas 20 × 16 1/8 in 51 × 41 cm $500.00 Lagos-based multidisciplinary artist Folorunso Johnson combines oil, acrylic, and digital painting to explore reality and inner worlds. With 5 years of experience, his practice merges realism with introspection. Inspired by everyday life, Johnson’s work interprets complex ideas on self and society, inviting viewers to reflect deeply and contemplate. His unique blend of techniques fosters emotional connections, challenging societal norms effectively through art.
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🪁FRC22 - link in bio🪁 Juliette Vaissière Silent Prayer, 2025 Oil on linen mounted on panel 5 × 7 in 12.7 × 17.8 cm $450.00 Juliette Vaissière (b.1995, Avignon, France) draws inspiration from her childhood and the French Rococo period as a means of processing and understanding modern-day consumerism and social tropes. Vaissière’s invented landscapes are populated with crumbling structures and fantastical animals, and her intimate oil paintings combine satirical social commentary with fairytale imagery. She received her MFA from the New York Academy of Art and holds a BFA from the University of North Texas. Vaissière is the recipient of several grants and residencies, most recently attending the Cuttyhunk Island Artist Residency in 2024 and 2025. Her work is included in collections across the United States, and she has exhibited with Harsh Collective (New York, NY), 440 Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), Visionary Projects (New York, NY), and Pulp Gallery (Holyoke, MA) among others. Her work has been featured in New Visionary Magazine, Observer, Time Out, and Hyperallergic. She lives and works in Coventry, Rhode Island.
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Niah McGiff To Those Who Love in Oceans, 2025 Oil on canvas 31 ½ x 23 5/8 in 80 × 60 cm $400.00 Born in 1999, Niah McGiff is a London-based artist whose paintings and poems explore human desire, yearning, and compromise. Drawing inspiration from the language of water, she creates images where bodies and environments appear unstable. Through a surreal approach to figuration, her work reflects on how we see ourselves, one another, and reality itself in an age where screens constantly reshape our sense of connection, and where many long for depth yet find themselves wading in the shallows. She trained at the Essential School of Painting, graduating with distinction from the Foundation Diploma in 2019, and went on to study Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London. Niah grew up in England with a mixed heritage, navigating life within a predominantly white environment. Her work reflects on the complexities of belonging; not only in relation to personal identity, but also within broader contexts of digital culture, politics, and emotional life. She explores the spaces we inhabit, the ways we seek connection, and the challenges of navigating a multifaceted identity.
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YESSSSS!!! 👁️🦋👁️ My painting ‘mothmeal’ is featured in @flatratecontemporary ’s flat file right now, and for sale for the first time. Ah honor to be a part of this flat file with so many other great artists. This painting was my attempt to recollect a vision I had where the flapping wings of moths were eating away every illusion until nothing, but the blackness of their closed wings remained. Drop a comment if you want a print before this bb finds its forever home. 🫧 #featuredartist #flatratecontemporary #painting
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🪁FRC22 - link in bio🪁 Kevin O’Hara Passing, 2025 Oil on paper 11 × 9 in 28 × 22.8 cm $500.00 “My work is about the fabric of reality and how we create meaning through stories and symbols. I work from observation, photo reference, memory and imagination equally as they are inextricably intertwined in creating our perception of reality. My practice is driven intuitively but I pursue my ideas with a methodical rigor. I make use of illusions and play with creating realities as a way of exploring the authenticity of experience. I think of my works as poems, problems to be solved, or games of my own creation. I’m not interested in providing answers with my work, I’m inviting others to explore with me.” Originally from Colorado, Kevin O’Hara Received a BFA in Drawing in painting in 2013 from the University of Colorado, Boulder. In 2017 Kevin moved to New York where he has lived and worked since. He made his New York solo debut with the show Colossus at Marvin Gardens Gallery. Followed by group exhibitions with Deana Evans Projects, Field of Play, The Royal Society of American Art, Incubator gallery, Techne Art Center, Gallery Tutu, and Survey Survey curatorial project. His work has been featured in WAPOZI magazine and ran the curatorial Johnny Utah project from 2021 until 2023.
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🪁FRC22 - link in bio🪁 Haoting Wu Caressing the Anchor - 3, 2025 Laser engraving, acid dye, and screen print 19 5/8 × 9 ¼ in 50 × 23.5 cm $200.00 Haoting Wu is a London-based textile designer and artist, who graduated from the Royal College of Art in London. She has exhibited in the United Kingdom, China, France and Canada. Her practice is motivated by occurrences in life; she treats fabric and print as a visual diary, an intimate space to process memory, and emotional presence. She integrates and combines different materials and techniques to deliver sentiment, includes fabric dyeing, laser engrave and screen printing.
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🪁FRC22 - link in bio🪁 Madeline Rupard Ridgewood Walk, 2024 Acrylic on paper mounted on board 8 × 6 in 20.3 × 15.2 cm $400.00 Madeline Rupard is an artist and educator based in Utah. She received an MFA in Painting (‘19) from Pratt Institute and a BFA in Studio Art (‘16) from BYU, where she returned as a Visiting Professor from 2020-2021. She has attended the Vermont Studio Center Residency (2016) as well as the Ora Lerman Soaring Gardens Residency (2019). Her work has appeared in SPRING/BREAK, Booooooom, New American Paintings, and at Lorin Gallery in Los Angeles and Room 57 Gallery in New York. Her paintings consider the American landscape as one who has moved through it frequently and traveled across long distances. A sense of wonder and solitary, transient observation is instilled in her pictures—you are not here to stay, but always passing through.
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FRC22 is live! 🫧 Click the link in our bio to view 9 artworks by 9 artists, all priced at $500 or less. Featuring work by: @madelinerupard @haoting.print @kev__oh @juliettevaissiere @niah_mcgiff @quinceelark @j.folorunso @griffwallman @aaronstorck #affordableart #contemporaryart #collectart
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It’s the final week of FRC21! Twelve artists, twelve works, each $500 or less! Works by @alexparistokyo @alibrooksart @al1sega1le @andrew.william.allison @annienorbeckart @arinaheinze @biba_duffyboscagli @cassie_taylor @macaulaycullen @em.xhaxho @kenseykendall @unapiel Special thanks to @varsity_player_99 for the accompanying essay “Organizing Principle” Thank YOU fo supporting working artists! #contemporaryart #affordableart #artistrunspace #collectart #artcollector
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Click the link in our bio to read “Organizing Principle,” a stellar essay by Hanna Andrews (@varsity_player_99 ) about FRC21! Hanna Andrews is a writer from Southern California. She holds a BA in Creative Writing and Education Studies from Columbia University, where she served as Co-Editor-in-Chief of The Columbia Review. She lives in Brooklyn, NY. The essay examines works by: @al1sega1le @alibrooksart @annienorbeckart @arinaheinze @andrew.william.allison @cassie_taylor @em.xhaxho @kenseykendall
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