The ICON13 Gallery Show is a juried exhibition featuring work by ICON attendees—including your heroes, your peers, and you! This year’s exhibition, Viewfinder, explores perspective, and how we frame the world around us. A viewfinder is the tool you look through to compose an image. It’s a decision-making device: what to include, what to leave out, and how to shape what’s seen. It’s also a curated lens, like the handheld ViewFinder, offering a sequence of images shaped by a specific point of view.

For this exhibition, Viewfinder acts as a guiding idea rather than a strict theme.

We invite you to submit work that reflects how you see. Whether that’s personal, observational, political, surreal, quiet, loud, or somewhere in between. Show us something that feels like your specific lens on the world. And is open to interpretation.

The Gallery Show will be on Friday, July 17, from 8 PM to 10 PM at the Fanny Fox Decker Gallery at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), located on the first floor of the Fox building, to the right of Cafe Doris.