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Featured Artists //
Hidemi Takagi, Roland Lusk, Jonathan Brilliant, Nuno Nunes-Ferreira, Brad Farwell, Genevieve Quick |
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Richard Mosse, Hollis Cooper, John Westmark, Bruce Noel Mortenson, Saul Chernick, Nikki Willson, Ron Amstutz, Casey Lynch, Kris Knight, Phillip John Charette, Chuck Avery |
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A Freeze At Frieze; Art prices come down; Miami Basel Competition from myartspace closes
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myartspace has launched the Bridge Art Fair/Miami Beach competition. Winners will have their work represetned at the Bridge Art Fair Miami in December. Details can be found at
www.myartspace.com/miamibasel
Details of the myartscholarship program are now available. www.myartspace.com/scholarships. |
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Prices Drop At Frieze Fair
Some dealers appeared to have lowered prices. At London's White Cube, a richly enameled painting by Anglo-Indian star Raqib Shaw was on hold at 575,000 pounds. In June at Art Basel, a similar-sized work by Shaw sold for 750,000 pounds.
Bloomberg 10/20/08 |
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Frozen Frieze "Art is selling at this week's Frieze Art Fair, but nothing like before. After several weeks of financial havoc in stock exchanges across the globe, the feeding frenzy is over... More pervasive was a grim sense that a shake-out of world markets was just beginning, and in the end art would probably be the least of anyone's worries."
The New York Times 10/18/08 |
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| myartspace juried Miami Competition closes November 15, 2008. myartspace juried Miami Competition closes November 15, 2008. -- "myartspace.com has
announced the Bridge Art Fair Miami/myartspace competition. Winners will have their art represented at the Bridge Art Fair Miami venue in early December. The deadline for submissions is November 15, 2008.
The Jury Panel consists of Elisabeth Sussman, Senior Curator, The Whitney Museum; Janet Bishop, Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA); JoAnne Northrup, Senior Curator, San Jose Museum of Art; and Michael Workman, Founder, Bridge Art Fair. |
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| myartspace announces $16,000 of scholarships myartspace.com has announced a scholarship program with $16,000 of scholarships to be awarded to both graduate and undergraduate students in December. Final registration and submission is mid-November. |
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Hidemi Takagi
Ms. Hidemi Takagi was born in Kyoto, Japan. From 1995 until 1997, she worked
as an assistant photographer for commercial Photo studio, in Osaka, Japan. She arrived in the United States in 1997. She attended the International Center of Photography as well as the National Academy of Design, both in New York City. Recent exhibitions have been at: The Bronx Museum (Bronx, NY), The Dollinger Art Project (Tel Aviv, Israel), Hudson Guild Gallery (NYC, NY), Dumbo Arts Center (Brooklyn, NY), and White Columns (NYC, NY). Ms. Takagi was one of 12 photographers selected in AsianLens's juried Photography contest 2002, where she won the opportunity to exhibit with other Asian American artists at Chambers Fine Art (NYC, NY). She was also accepted in the Artists in the marketplace program 2003 (AIM 23) at the Bronx Museum of the Arts and NYFA (The New York Foundation for the Arts)'s Immigrant Outreach program for New York-based immigrant artists. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York
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Roland Lusk
Born and raised in rural Virginia, Roland's scenic and natural surroundings played an integral role in his life and art. As a child and young man, Roland spent much of his time in the outdoors for both work and play. In 2001 Roland graduated from the University of Virginia, and went on to continue his art education at Cranbrook Academy of Art. After earning his M.F.A. in 2005, Roland moved to Brooklyn, New York to pursue his own art career. When not in his own studio, he works as a draftsman for the late Sol LeWittt, traveling and installing wall drawings at museums and galleries around the country. |
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Jonathan Brilliant
Jonathan David Brilliant describes himself as a Southern Has-been and a British Wanna-Be. He was born in 1976 in Charleston, South Carolina. Brilliant holds a B.A. in studio art from the College of Charleston and an M.F.A. in Spatial arts from San Jose State University.In addition to site specific installations, Brilliant works in video, photography, digital imaging and googles himself regularly. He currently lives and works in South Carolina with his wife Brooke and their cat Zero. |
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Nuno Nunes-Ferreira
Nuno was born and lives in Portugal. In his words, he states "Seem from afar, barely a tree. Seen close up, each branch, each trunk, each sapling is replete with numerous faces and historic images, like a vast genealogical tree, or a tree with memory. Memory of a history that repeats itself and which rises from the roots to the boughs, from fathers to their children. The materials are numerous canvases painted on their sides. The whole refers to the great libraries where the books retain World History in their memory. The life and death of people in a narrative aiming at an aesthetic of beautiful, but where the horror of images prevails." |
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Brad Farwell
Brad Farwell was born in Northridge, CA in 1975, and grew up a couple hours north in San Luis Obispo. He holds a BA from Yale University and an
MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In Brad's words "Much of my recent work addresses the photograph as a physical object or document, and the two types of distance that it creates: The distance between the tangible piece of paper or film that constitutes the medium and the image that the viewer internally reconstructs, and the distance the camera puts between the person making the photograph and the person or scene in front of them." |
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Genevieve Quick
Genevieve Quick received her M.F.A. in sculpture from San Francisco Art Institute and B.A. in political science from the University of Michigan. She has shown at the Walter and Mc Bean Galleries at San Francisco Art Institute, Gallery Paule Anglim, Villa Montalvo, Headlands Center for the Arts, the Lab, and AOV. She has also been awarded the Louise Bourgeois Residency at Yaddo and the John and Susan Diekman Fellowship at Djerassi. She has also served as a juror for the Diego Rivera Gallery at San Francisco Art Institute and is co-curator for Gold Rush: Artist as Prospector to be exhibited in Ljubljana, Slovenia and Stuttgart Germany in 2008 and San Francisco 2009. |
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Richard Mosse
Richard Mosse's photographs and video work often reveal aspects of horror that focus on the fears of society-- the devastation of a plane crash or war torn streets. However, his work als0 notes the aesthetic value of these scenarios as objects. In a sense, his photographs display the reality of these disasters in a manner that one could describe as commerically voyeuristic. His photographs provide a safe zone for viewers to explore the chaos of these scenarios. Viewers often discover an odd sense of beauty in the images due to Mosse's skill as a photographer and selective process. Richard Mosse has exhibited internationally. He has been involved with group exhibits at the Barbican Art Gallery, Art Chicago, and the Tate Modern. Mosse earned an MFA in Photography at the Yale School of Art. He also studied art at Goldsmiths... |
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Holis Cooper
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... |
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John Westmark
John Westmark's art explores the meshing between man and machine. In a sense, his images serve as both a warning and celebration of this connection. One could say that they reflect the hopes and concerns that surround us within the context of contemporary culture. John has been featured in New American Paintings and Studio Visit magazine. Westmark has been involved with several solo and group exhibits. Including, exhibits at Chelsea Gallery, Gallery Bienvenu, Andrea Schwartz Gallery and Dobbs Gallery. He holds a BFA from Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from the University of Florida.... |
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Bruce Noel Mortenson
Bruce Noel Mortenson firmly believes that art should be exhilarating. He is known for utilizing a playful mixture of biomorphic abstraction and images which are densely packed in surreal compositions. By exploring aspects of his own imagination he strives to make connections with others by creating a window into his imagination-- a place where his visual statement reflects organized chaos. Bruce holds a BA in Studio Arts from the University of Illinois, an MFA in Studio Painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), and a Professional Art Education Certificate Degree from SAIC.... |
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Saul Chernick
I learned about Saul Chernick while reading Paddy Johnson's Art Fag City blog. In many ways Saul Chernick flirts with the basics of why the practice of creating visual art came into being. He explores a unique purposes of art in that artists have long given physical presence-- as in drawings or paintings-- to the thought of metaphysical entities. Chernick is interested in the visual interpretations of such things because they uncover the beliefs and mindset of those who devised them. The artist has stated that many of his ideas originate from depictions of miraculous events and figures-- as they appear in Judeo/Christian mythology-- and that he utilizes drawing to revisit, reinterpret, and reconfigure them. The end result is a body of work that meshes old with new in that contemporary issues and secular viewpoints come together with the convictions of past fears and desires that have remained with us in since the Renaissance... |
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Nikki Willson
Nikki Willson is trained as a sculptor, but has recently started to work as a painter. With her painting she continues to explore issues of figuration, gesture, and identity. Nikki has exhibited in a range of local and interstate public art events and group shows. Her work has been acquired by private collectors. Nikki recently won the second round of Saatchi's SHOWDOWN competition. Her artwork will compete with other SHOWDOWN finalists to find an overall winner after the 12 rounds of SHOWDOWN have been completed...... |
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Ron Amstutz
Ron Amstutz earned an MFA from the University of California in 1997. He has been involved with exhibits at Wallspace and White Columns in New York. His recent solo at Wallspace was titled Right Roads and Wrong Ways. Right Roads and Wrong Ways is a video and photographic installation that represents the culmination of Amstutz's nearly decade-long project of constructing and painting life-size sets that exist as stages for his idiosyncratic performances... |
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Casey Lynch
The art of Casey Lynch is an investigation of different levels of reality, the practices and phenomena that accompany them, and their disparate philosophies, technologies, remedies and lexicons; it is a meditation on teleological systems, epistemology, and existentialism . Through new media, sculpture, installation, drawing and text, Lynch strives to forge new connections between ideas usually seen as incongruent as a way to elucidate the similarities between all things and describe the reality of what it means to be human. Casey Lynch was one of 50 finalist in the Myartspace New York, New York Competition in 2007... |
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Kris Knight
Kris Knight has concentrated on the creation of thematic series of figurative works. These series involve narratives that explore various expressions of duality and test the boundaries of identity. Kris�s visual compositions examine notions of performance inherit in all constructions of identity, whether sexual or asexual. Kris explores themes that often dealt with ambiguity and androgyny, with an emphasis on the notion of hiding and fronting. Thus, the portraits are often a balancing act of concealing identities and desperately wanting to let it go... |
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Phillipe John Charette
Phillip John Charette's masks reflect old traditional Yup'ik cosmology with his own contemporary interpretations and some added twists. Phillip is a member of the Yupiit Nation in Southwestern Alaska along the Kuskokwim River, and is enrolled through the Bureau of Indian Affairs with the Alaskan Native 13th Regional Corporation. His Alaskan Native Yup'ik name is Aarnaquq which means "the one who is dangerous..." The style of Phillip's work is inspired by elements found in traditional ceremonial objects that he has researched in museums. Contemporary materials are incorporated for impact which help to convey ideas that he wishes to express. In spite of the fact that he uses contemporary materials, carving - a Yup'ik tradition - is incorporated in his artistic process... |
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Chuck Avery
Chuck Avery has explored photography for several decades. Most recently he has been concentrating on documenting suburban growth and sprawl -- producing a series titled Landscape of Progress. He has also focused on a project that explores the artificial realities found in tourist attractions. He strives to interject political thought into his work without making it strident or dogmatic. The series was originally titled Architecture of Amusement and has since been titled Popular Culture. Chuck was one of the 50 finalists in the Myartspace New York, New York Competition in 2007. His work can be found in the collection of the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis, MN.... |
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myartspace introduced its new scholarship program. Undergraduate and graduate studet Artists
can enter a competition and win up to $5000 in a cash art scholarship.
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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
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The new message box appears in myartspace now. We expect further refinements to the core site to over the next few months.
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October 21, 2008
