BLACK IS BLACK

BLACK IS BLACK — Where Color Comes Alive

Black makes color impossible to ignore. Reds ignite. Blues deepen. A quiet detail suddenly steals the scene.

Palm Art Gallery invites you to submit work that reveals black’s power to make color sing. A bold outline, a sweeping background, a dramatic shadow, or one perfectly placed accent—black can transform the entire image.

From vibrant abstraction to intimate portraits, landscapes, and unexpected experiments, all styles and media are welcome. Look again at your favorite pieces: where does black make the difference?

Show us the work that makes viewers stop and look.

BLACK IS BLACK

Where Color Comes Alive

A brilliant red. An electric blue. A yellow that seems lit from within. Against black, color can take on a different intensity—more vivid, more immediate, more alive.

For BLACK IS BLACK, Palm Art Gallery invites artists to explore the remarkable relationship between black and color. Despite its title, this exhibition is a celebration of color, light, and visual energy: the ways black helps everything around it find its presence.

Black can set the stage, establish a rhythm, or give the eye somewhere to rest. It can frame a delicate detail, separate competing shapes, or hold an exuberant composition together. Sometimes it creates a dramatic contrast. Sometimes its contribution is almost unnoticed, yet essential to the work’s impact.

Imagine a red dress against a deep background, a luminous flower emerging from shadow, or a bright building outlined against the night. Think of the black contours that give a painting its confidence, the dark spaces between colorful forms, or a single black shape that changes the balance of an entire image.

The possibilities extend from the familiar to the unexpected. A photograph might find its energy in the meeting of sunlight and deep shade. A painting might pair generous passages of black with an explosion of saturated color. A drawing might use a few decisive marks to make a subtle wash feel radiant. A sculptural work might bring dark surfaces into dialogue with colored materials, reflections, or surrounding light.

The mood can be joyful, elegant, playful, intimate, or bold. Black can lend sophistication to a restrained palette or give a riot of color the structure it needs. Even a small accent can have an extraordinary effect: a line, an edge, a silhouette, a shadow.

We welcome both representational and abstract interpretations, across styles and media. Black does not have to dominate the artwork, but it should have a meaningful role in how color is experienced. We are interested in that relationship—whether it produces harmony, tension, surprise, or a sense of light.

Look through your work for the piece where black makes a difference. Perhaps it gives a familiar subject an unexpected intensity. Perhaps it turns an ordinary detail into something impossible to overlook. Perhaps it is the quiet foundation that allows every other color to sing.

BLACK IS BLACK celebrates an artist’s understanding that the strongest presence in a composition is not always the brightest—and that color’s brilliance often depends on what surrounds it.

Artist Benefits Include:

• Lifetime link to your dedicated artist page
• Exposure to over 10,000 art buyers, collectors, and subscribers
• Opportunity to auction selected artwork online
• Featured artist interview to strengthen collector engagement
• Ongoing online visibility and promotional exposure
• 150,000 page views recorded in September 2026 alone

Broad, Inspiring Theme that resonates with every artist. It’s flexible enough to accommodate diverse styles, ranging from realism to abstraction, and from minimalism to maximalism.

Global Visibility – Your work will be showcased in a professional online exhibition, accessible to curators, collectors, and art lovers worldwide.

Inclusive & Welcoming – Whether you’re emerging or established, traditional or digital, all mediums and levels of experience are celebrated here.

Professional Promotion – The show will be marketed across social media, newsletters, and art networks, giving your work exposure beyond your own circle.

Community & Connection – Be part of a vibrant, international group of artists who share a passion for creativity.

Universal Appeal – Unlike niche shows, this theme has timeless, mainstream resonance that continues to attract viewers and buyers.

NEW! You will have a choice to auction your Art on PalmGallery.art. 

Collectors Will Love "BLACK IS BLACK"
Fresh Global Talent – Discover emerging and established artists from around the world, each bringing a unique vision.

Wide Range of Styles & Media – From bold contemporary works to delicate abstractions, paintings to photography, digital art to sculpture — there’s something to resonate with every collector’s taste.

Exclusivity & Access – Many participating artists will offer original works and limited editions available directly through the show, giving collectors first access to new creations.

BLACK IS BLACK is your chance to see what happens when artists get playful with the most essential tools in their toolbox. It’s smart, it’s stylish, it’s sometimes weird — and always full of personality. Perfect for the curious, the creative, and anyone who still gets a thrill from a perfectly drawn curve or an oddly satisfying shape.

Come for the fun. Stay for the inspiration. Leave seeing the world in a different light.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

BLACK IS BLACK is an international online art exhibition that invites painters, digital artists, photographers, and mixed-media creators to explore the emotional, cultural, and visual impact of Line, shape, and form. We welcome your interpretation if you create abstract masterpieces, surreal dreamscapes, or hyperrealistic scenes!

Artworks will be judged based on creativity, originality, quality of work, composition, and overall artistic ability.

-  Selected artworks (up to 3 per applicant) will be exhibited in an international online group exhibition organized by Palm Art Gallery.

- Other awards include a lifelong permanent link to boost artists’ online visibility and intensive exposure for selected artists to showcase their artworks to art enthusiasts, experts, and art collectors.

ENTRY DEADLINE: Submit from now until 11/25/2026

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Lifetime Artist Profile Page
Each selected artist will receive a free online profile page on the Palm Art Gallery platform.

Instagram promotion to boost sales

Duration: November 28 to December 20, 2026

We are confident that your participation will greatly enhance the exhibition and provide you with invaluable exposure and opportunities. We would be honored to feature your work and look forward to the possibility of collaborating with you on this exciting project.

You can enter this competition with a Single Entry of:

• Three art pieces for $32, if you wish to submit only one, submit it 3 times in order to meet the minimum requirement.
• Up to 15 additional art pieces  at $10 each)

Exhibiting artists will be selected based on the quality of their single entry and the overall quality of their work. Exhibiting artists will be announced by  October 7, 2016 If you are selected for this exhibition, details will be provided via email.

Good luck, and I'm happy to see your art very soon

• For artwork of ALL MEDIUMS, STYLES
• For artists from ALL LOCATIONS
• For Artists of ALL CAREER LEVELS
• Open to all visual artists worldwide.

Categories: Original artworks in 2D and 3D media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, digital art, and mixed media.

Styles: All styles are accepted, including abstract and representational.

Size: No size limit.

Creation Year: No limit,

Originality: Artworks must be entirely the entrant’s work without supervision. No copies or derivatives of other works.

Rights: Artists must have all rights to present and publish their artworks internationally.

Photo Requirements: Only the artwork should be visible (no frames or extraneous backgrounds).

Number of Artworks: Up to 9 original pieces can be submitted.

Other Restrictions: Artworks containing pornographic, violent, racist, or religiously hateful content are not admissible.

Fees and Guarantees:

Submission Fee: 

Up to three art pieces for $32, if you wish to submit only one, submit it 3 times in order to meet the minimum requirement.

Up to 15 additional art pieces  at ($10 each)

Selection Fees: No selection fees

Artist Requirements

Artist Data

– Photo

– Full Name

– City and Country of Residence

– Phone

– Email

– Social Media Links (optional)

– Website (optional)

– Artist Statement

Artwork Data:

– Title

– Category

– Medium

– Creation Year

– Size (Width x Height x Depth) in inches

– Artwork Description

– Price in USD

– Photo Specs: JPG, RGB, 300 DPI, min. 1000 pixels wide or tall, max. 5MB file size. Named as Artist’s first and last name, Artwork’s name.

Rewards

Selected Artworks: The chosen pieces will be showcased in our elegant, international online group exhibition, hosted by Palm Art Gallery.

Artwork Sales: Selected artworks will be available for purchase through the exhibition’s online link. If your artwork is not for sale, please specify it IN CAPITAL letters at the beginning of the artwork description.

Life-long Links: Exhibition links and artist pages will remain active indefinitely, enhancing the online visibility of the selected artists. The buy button will be removed if the artwork is sold somewhere else