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Below are just a a few artists on the site we wanted to call your attention to this week. Click on their gallery to view their work. Click on their picture to bring up their profile page.


Leon Johnson	Deptford	Leon Johnson, born in Cape Town, produces work in film, performance, and site-specific events. He has an active studio practice, is the proprietor of The Long Bell Press and a founding member of Creative Material Group. He is the recipient of a Pollock/Krasner Foundation Grant for Painting and a Yaddo Residency Fellowship. His film FAUST/FAUSTUS IN DEPTFORD was selected for the KunstFilmBienale in Cologne, Germany and the Raindance Film Festival in London, UK. AFTER, a new film will be published this summer as part of The End of Reality, a DVD and fiction anthology published by Chiasmus Press. Leon is a recipient of the Ersted Award for Distinguished Teaching.

Jovan Villalba	Recent Work	Jovan Villalba in Quito, Ecuador. At the age of fifteen Jovan was accepted into an elite program for students devoted to the arts, New World School of the Arts. He then attened the Cooper Union School of Art in New York City and exhibited at The New York Design Center. After receiving his Bachelors in Fine Arts degree in 1999, Jovan accepted an Art Director position at a leading arts and entertainment advertising agency and acquired a personal art studio in Chelsea, NYC. After six years, Jovan moved his art studio to a larger space at the historic Scalamandre Silks Building in Long Island City, NYC. Since March 2002, he has exhibited paintings at Stricoff Fine Art, SONO Art Gallery and PaulaBarr in New York City, Vincent Gerard Gallery in Los Angeles, Berlinerkunst Project in Berlin, and Laure De Mazieres Gallery during Art Basel in Miami. In 2005-06 Jovan was invited to exhibit at two biennials; Exit Biennial II: Traffic at Exit Art, NYC and Latin Views 06 at The Mystic Art Center, CN.

Steve Hampton	Greatest Hits	Steven Hampton was born in Arcadia, California in 1978. He holds a B.F.A. with Honors from Art Center College of Design and an M.F.A. from Claremont Graduate University. He has shown in both gallery and museum shows around the United States. He has taught classes at Art Center College of Design, and is currently a professor at the Art Institute of Orange County. His work deals with the power of images in contemporary culture.

Sten Are Sandbeck	Domestic Riot	Sten studied industrial design at the Institute of Industrial Design (now at Oslo School of Architecture), Faculty of Design at the University of Essen, Architectural Faculty at Milan Polytechnic University and at Les Ateliers ENSCI School of Design in Paris. Graduation project entitled ”the De-Signed” investigated post-structuralism as a point of departure for a critical design-theory and process. One of the first research-fellowships in the field of visual art in Norway at the National College of Art and Design, also teaching and performing a restructuring of the subject-field of aesthetics. Sten has participated in workshops at the Institute for Spatial Arts in Oslo, Hochschule der Kunste in Berlin, Jaques Lecoq Ecole de Theatre in Paris and the Oslo Academy of Fine Art. Sten also studied at the Art Academy in Bergen during 2000-4 and worked as programme coordinator at the Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA), organising the international visitors programme.

Hollis Cooper	NY NY 2007	Born in 1976 in Jackson, Mississippi, Hollis Cooper grew up in New Orleans and Houston before moving to New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, and finally California. She received her undergraduate degree with high honors from Princeton University, a Post-Baccalaureate certificate from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and an M.F.A. from Claremont Graduate University. She also received a Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant Award nomination from the CGU Art Department in 2006. Her work has been featured in publications such as New American Paintings and Art World Digest, and has recently been included in shows such as Meltdown at Salon Oblique in Marina del Ray, and Modular: New Art from Los Angeles at White Flag Projects in St. Louis. When she is not in the studio, Hollis works as a Lecturer in the Art Department at California State University, San Bernardino.

Tanya Gramatikova	Ivet	Tanya was born in Blugaria. In her words "Photography is painting with light. I do a lot of digital manipulation in my works. In my younger age I used to paint. However, my family encouraged me to receive a more practical education. I graduated from the English Language School, Blagoevgrad, and later entered the economic department of Sofia University "Kliment Ohridski". During my university education I started realising that it was not what I wanted to do with my life- though I still had no idea what I wanted to do. Then I had my first photosessions as a model for an artist. Eventually I proceeded on the other side of the camera...". You can read an interview with her at myartspace blog.

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Damien Hirst The $100 Million Skull : The $100 Million Skull Damien Hirst is selling a diamond-encrusted skull he created for $100 million. "The life-sized platinum skull, studded with 8,601 stones weighing 1,106.18 carats, cost Hirst $20 million to make -- about the same amount of money as Jay Jopling spent to build his new White Cube Mason's Yard gallery." Bloomberg 06/01/07. See also Brian Sherwin's comments in myartspace blog

America Set To Star In London Auctions: If it's June, it's auction month in London. This year American art is front and center. "It used to be the other way around. But this summer half what we are selling in our postwar and contemporary art auction is from the United States, and a third of the consignments for our Impressionist and modern art sale are from America too." The New York Times 06/01/07.

Art Basel: Too many fairs? The pressure of the growing number of art fairs is tough on primary-market dealers. Normally, a dealer will ask an artist to produce a particularly special work to take to a fair. 'But it's hard to say that five or six times a year'." New York Sun 05/30/07.

Credit Card Art "Some consumers have come to see the credit card as an emblem of something other than an albatross of monies owed. A few months ago, a company called CreditCovers started selling "skins," with special designs that consumers can stick over the fronts of their cards, theoretically transforming them from mere financial tools to emblems of identity and potential conversation starters." New York Times Magazine 05/27/07.

-	The first deadline for early registration for the New York, New York Competition 2007 is June 30th. Submission fees go up after that. Save money by registering early. For more details, click here. Several hundred artists from all over the work have signed up and the breadth and depth of work is impressive
-	We've added support for email with your network as well. Members of your network that are also myartspace members will be sent message directly to their messagebox. Those that are not will be sent an email instead.
-	We've added support for narrated galleries. These are galleries that show a stream of painting/images paced by audio narrative. More information will follow this week. Our programming development staff have been burning the midnight oil these past few months. There is very little relief in site. We have some insights into new things upcoming this summer and fall from myartspace. Click here to take a peek.
-	Brian Sherwin has been very busy. Several articles of interest he's writtin include The Splasher: Banksy Strike Again and Damian Herst's new Diamond Scull. He did new interesting interview with Michael Kalki (interview).
-	A tour of myartspace has been added. Click here to see the tour.
-	We improved the tutorial page substantially. Click here to see view the tutorials.
-	Our programmers are fixing some problems we've identified on the site. They should be rolled into the site on Tuesday. Please feel free to report problems to us.
-	If you need technical support with the myartspace, please email us at info@catmacart.com

That's it! Have a great week ahead.

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