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Below are a few artists we'd like to call your attention to this week. |
 Tom Condon |
 Letting |
Tom was born in Bath, Maine in 1977. Growing up as a military brat provided him with many travels with short stops. Virginia was his place of education and deconstruction. Physically, the temporary loss of his arms and his eyes opened as many doors as they closed. Mentally, Ray Kass and Gary Schneider forced Tom to go outside and play. Tom is currently teaching for VCUarts in the Department of Photography and Film. In the Spring of 2007 he was awarded a Professional Fellowship in Printmaking from the Virginia Museum of Fine Art. He works in LAB 307 with a number of outstanding image makers and space takers. His art is represented by John Pollard at ADA Gallery in Richmond, Virginia. |
 Goran Despotovski |
 Mumbled |
Goran Despotovski was born in Vrsac, Serbia in 1972. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Novi Sad at the Painting Department where he completed his postgraduate studies as well. Goran has had solo exhbitions 19 times,group exhibitions in Belgrade, Nis, Novi Sad, Toronto, Montreal, and St. Petersburgh. He is currently an assistant lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Novi Sad (Serbia). |
 Lynn Digby |
 Paintings |
In her own words "I am a contemporary realist. Much of my work has to do with finding harmony in complexity, and realism serves as my vehicle. Awareness of the paint surface and tactile qualities of brush and canvas are key to my approach. I want my paintings to obviously be what they are without being overly derivative, photographic, or formulaic." |
 MaryKate Maher |
 New 2007-2008 Project |
MaryKate was born in Philadelphia, PA and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. She holds an MFA Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and a BFA Arcadia University. Her work has been exhibited extensively in solo and group shows. |
 Lucy Turnbull |
 Sons & Brothers |
Turnbull studied at Adelaide Central School of Art and regularly exhibits in South Australia. This year she was awarded the Cibo Espresso Emerging Artist Prize and was included in "Curvy 4", a book featuring female illustrators & designers. In 2006 she was the inaugural recipient of the Ed Tweddell Studio at Central Studios and had a solo exhibition 'Sons & Brothers' in the South Australian Living Artists Festival. |
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Brian Sherwin, our senior blog editor has been continuing his interview series with artists. Below are a couple of recent highlights. |
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myartspace launches "Premium Membership for Artists" program - a package of new features to help artists myartspace.com, the premier online social network for the art world, has launched an exciting new offering "Premium Services for Artists ". It's a package of extra features for those myartspace users that want more professional capabilities like their own personal web address (URL), different templates to present their galleries, a more professional personal home page, the ability to generate Adobe PDF documents from galleries and lots more features. .... myartspace News 12/15/07 China Gets Its First Contemporary Art Museum "The museum will help shift the focus away from the art market, says Lu Jie. "Chinese art today is overproduced and overexposed. There are many very good artists working in China who are unknown. In the last month alone, 28 new art magazines launched in China--all of them are market led; none of them contain any art criticism...." The Art Newspaper 12/20/07 Christie's Sees Continued Auction Growth "Our estimates for February so far are 10 percent to 15 percent higher than last year, and there's still a week of art gathering left. We will see growth next year"... Bloomberg 12/19/07 Chinese Art Is Hot - So Where Is Hong Kong? "In terms of the narratives found in its art, it is easy to see how the city fails to grab much attention. With its tiny apartments and relatively stable economic environment, creative statements by Hong Kong artists tend to be more intimate, more personal and intrinsically different from those of the mainland, where the scale is vast and the problems are huge..." International Herald Tribune 12/18/07 |
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The recent goings-on. |
| > | myartspace is gearing up to release Premium Services for Artists, a series of advanced professional capabilities that will be available for an annual subscription fee. myartspace will remain an open, free community with unlimited uploads, galleries and more. It will also, however, introduce features for artists that want to use the myartspace platform as their primary communication and outreach tool, their eCommerce engine to sell their work and their social link to collectors, critics, and peers.info@catmacart.com |
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A great holiday gift idea for an artists is Premium Services for Artists, a subscription service from myartspace. Your relatives and friends can go on myartspace providing they know your login ID and sign you up for 1-2 years. Send them the link: http://www.myartspace.com/premium. |
| > | We hope myartspace members are enjoying the new front-end to myartspace. We are working on a huge new project: "Groups" support for myartspace. Anyone from an informal collective to a major museum will be able to make a group site on myartspace with forums, news bulletins, chat, and more. . . If you have any ideas what features you'd like to see, let us know by emailing info@catmacart.com |
| > | We've made some improvements and fixed a few bugs around the site. If you spot a bug, please email us at info@catmacart.com with details! |
| > | If you need technical support with the myartspace, please email us at info@catmacart.com |
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that's it ~ have a great week.
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