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IN THIS ISSUE  
FEATURED ARTISTS: Jonathan James, Nelson Navarro, D.W. Johnson, Nathan Eastwood and Alysia Kaplan.
INTERVIEWS: Mark Jenkins, Gabriel J. Shulinder
ART NEWS: London Market comforts art investors; Banksy Art sells big with Kate Moss Portrait; Picasso transaction implies strong market. . .
MESSAGE BOARD: Next Perspective, a juried Photography Competition was launched this week jointly by Hotshoe International and myartspace. Details for the competition can be found at http://www.myartspace.com/hotshoe...
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Below are a few artists we'd like to call your attention to this week.
   

Jonathan James
Recent 2007-2008		 In his own words "The images selected for my galleries at Myartspace were chosen primarily based on the ability that these images have to capture and release their viewers. In so many ways you can become fully engaged in a section of the pieces leading on to newer more densely occupied areas and thrown simultaneously through the entire composition in a matter of moments. These fleeting moments grab the viewer intensely therein occupying the viewer in a macro and micro universe as you focus and un-focus throughout the piece. The leading lines and entrancing spirals cause that connection of interest that will either draw you so far into the composition or explode outward to you. Either way you are left with that feeling of intense energy that was used to create the work itself."
   

Nelson Navarro
NN		 Nelson Navarro is a relatively new member to myartspace. You can also view his home page on myspace -- http://www.myspace.com/anaerobio.
   

D.W. Johnson
Early 2008		 D.W. Johnson was born in Oakland, California. He lives with his wife and 4 dogs today.
   

Nathan Eastwood
Paintings		 In his words "My current paintings are part of an ongoing series based on transitory/semi-public places. They record the boredom, and silence, where one is waiting, (time passing in a space, waiting time). My interest’s lies in making paintings which depict the commonplace/the everyday art that illuminates social life. I consider the home which we occupy, car park, railway station, and launderette we occupy as transitory places/a type of passage of time that we traverse through. I paint using a sombre palette of cold industrial colours to represent industrial space where people go to wait. These paintings emphasise the dullness of the furniture and decoration. I build the surface of the paintings in layers of marks indicating the process of time passing/continues time. I do not perceive that one can paint an intuitive experience of a given space."
   

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Alysia Kaplan
Million Dollar House		 Alysia Kaplan is this week's featured premium subscriber artist. Her work is appreciated and viewed frequently on myartspace.
   
Brian Sherwin, our senior blog editor has been continuing his interview series with artists. Below are a couple of recent highlights.

Mark Jenkins

"Mark Jenkins is an American artist most widely known for the street installations he creates using packing tape. His work has been featured in various newspapers and magazines including Time Out: New York, The Washington Post, The Independent, the book Hidden Track: How Visual Culture is Going Places, and on the street art blog Wooster Collective. Mark has shown indoors in galleries in the U.S., Europe and Brazil and is represented by Lazarides gallery in London. He maintains the website www.tapesculpture.org and teaches his tape casting process in workshops in the cities he visits. He was born in Fairfax, VA and currently lives in Washington DC..."

Gabriel J. Shuldiner

"Gabriel J. Shuldiner's painting is largely about process, both intentional and intuitive. Gabriel establishes deliberate boundaries, parameters and recurring themes, which he then violates as he examines surface, depth, scale and support as numerous materials, multiple layers and diverse textures and techniques confront (and sometimes oppose) each other through subtle variations in tone, sheen, luminosity and color. Homemade tools and modified paints help to make each mark, scratch and chip as intentional and vital as the brushstroke, while light reflected off the varied black pigments yields additional shades of grays and whites..."



Art News by Art News Journal
 


London Auctions Assuage A Nervous Market "Reassurance. That's what motivated so many dealers and collectors from around the world to flock here this week for the big February art auctions. Reassurance that, despite the shaky state of world financial markets, there are still plenty of people willing to spend millions of dollars to put Impressionist, Modern or contemporary art on their walls." The New York Times 02/08/08


Banksy Moss Portrait Sells For $191K "English graffiti artist Banksy's screen print of supermodel Kate Moss sold for $191,000 at a street-art auction in London. The work, inspired by Andy Warhol's iconic portrait of Marilyn Monroe, was one of 75 pieces of 'urban art' on sale." San Francisco Chronicle (AP) 02/08/08


Picasso Sale Suggests Strong Market Continues "A Picasso painting of his mistress Dora Maar fetched 5.7 million pounds ($11.3 million) at a Christie's International auction last night in London as dealers said demand held up in the year's first test of the impressionist and modern art market." Bloomberg 02/04/08


Next Perspective Photo Competition Launched "myartspace and Hotshoe International launched the Next Perspective Photo Competition this week. Grand Prize is $2000 cash and a portfolio feature in an upcoming issue of HotShoe International..." PRWEB 01/16/2008




The recent goings-on.
> myartspace and Hotshoe International have launched "Next Perspective", a juried photo competition. The competition is open to all myartspace members. Registration and submission fee is $20. The final date for submissions is April 12, 2008. For further details, see http://www.myartspace.com/hotshoe.
> myartspace has released 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
> 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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