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 November 7, 2008 |
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Featured Artists //
Dan Price, Dana Maiden, Maureen Keaveny, Jonathan Gitelson, Brookes Britcher, Kim Buck |
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Interviews //
Antonio Puri, Poly Morgan, Matt Small |
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Art News //
Art Auctions fall to earth; Miami Basel Competition from myartspace closes
November 15, 2008. . . |
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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
The deadline for the myartscholarship program has been set to December 16, 2008. $16,000 of cash scholarships are available for student artists. www.myartspace.com/scholarships. |
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At Fall Auctions, Things Aren't Looking Any Better
"French billionaire Francois Pinault attended his company Christie's International's New York auction of impressionist and modern art last night, and watched from a sky box as almost half the lots failed to sell. Buyers passed on 44 percent of the 82 pieces offered. Sales tallied $146.7 million, against the low estimate of $240.7 million. It's the week's third evening auction that missed estimates and a sign the global financial crisis continues to undermine demand for the most-expensive art."
Bloomberg 11/07/08 /span> |
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Fall Auctions Off To A Worrying Start "On Day 2 of the fall auction season, a Russian masterpiece expected to sell for up to $3 million did not find a buyer yesterday, further underscoring the impact of the global financial crisis on the art market... Many other works sold at or below their presale estimates; others did not sell at all."
Philadelphia Inquirer (AP) 11/06/08 |
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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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Dan Price
Dan Price holds a BA from Colrado College and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Before accepting faculty positions at the University of Michigan, Dan Price taught high school in South Africa and completed a two-year course of study as a Core Student at the Penland School of Art and Crafts in North Carolina. He has worked for several design firms including nodesign in New Orleans, and The Glass Project in Jamestown, Rhode Island. A sculptor and video artist, Price has exhibited his work at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, the Triple Candie Gallery and White Columns Gallery of New York City, and the Rhode Island School of Design Art Museum in Providence. |
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Dana Maiden
Dana Maiden lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She earned a BA in Visual Arts, Art History and English from Columbia University and an MFA in Sculpture and Photography from Claremont Graduate University. Using photography as a tool for investigating the way spatial relationships can be perceived, Dana creates sculptures that hover between two and three dimensions. By collapsing the space between disparate objects, perception is destabilized and new correspondences are fused. The flat facades of photography invite the artist to imagine what might happen on the other side, and she often explores the way concrete, everyday objects can serve as models for understanding abstract ideas like space, time and consciousness. |
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Maureen Keaveny
Photographer, installation and new media artist Maureen Keaveny utilizes outdated machines, electronics, photography, and a variety of found and recycled materials to construct large-scale, impermanent landscapes. She constructs reproductions of a nature-based reality that explores the disintegrating layers of what is natural through the formation of cultural objects and imagery. She has won honors for her work at the St. Louis Artists' Guild in Missouri and has received the Albert P. Weisman Memorial Scholarship Fund from Columbia College Chicago. She has exhibited her work in Chicago, New York City, St. Louis, Providence, and in the Museum at Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville, GA. text |
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Jonathan Gitelson
Jonathan received a BA in literature from Marlboro College in 1997 and completed his MFA at Columbia College Chicago in 2004. He is an adjunct faculty member at Columbia College, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and at The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Jonathan’s work has been exhibited throughout the United States, Canada and Europe and is in the permanent collection of various institutions that include The Museum of Contemporary Photography, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, The Milwaukee Art Museum, The Museum of Modern Art New York and The Albert and Victoria Museum in London. He is the recipient of the College Art Association’s Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Fellowship, The Puffin Foundation Fellowship and the City of Chicago Community Arts Assistance Program.
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Brookes Britcher
Brookes Britcher received his MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art and his BS from Drexel University. He is a multi-disciplinary artist that maintains a permanent studio practice at Adaptation. Over the last eight years his work has been exhibited around the country in numerous curated and group shows, and exists in various private collections, most notably J.W. Mahoney of Art In America and the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. and Tim Rollins of Tim Rollins & K.O.S.. Selected exhibitions include the White Box (Nyc, NY), the Curators Office (Washington, D.C.), The Gallery Project (Ann Arbor, MI), the Nexus Foundation (Philadelphia, PA) and the Cranbrook Art Museum (Bloomfield Hills, MI). He has lectured at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI, as well as been a Visiting Critic of Architecture at Lawrence Technical University in Troy, MI. |
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Kim Buck
Kim Buck hails from Adelaide, Australia. After stumbling upon a love of charcoal several years ago, Kim began a Bachelor of Visual Art at the South Australian School of Art in 2007 and is looking forward to continuing with her studies this year. Kim held her first solo exhibition in 2006 and has participated in several local group exhibitions as well as the Adelaide Fringe Festival and the Feast Festival. Her new work, entitled 'Armed and Empty Handed', was be presented at the Chesser St Gallery in August 2008 as part of the SALA Festival. |
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Antonio Puri
Antonio Puri states that his art is his means of identifying with the universe. Puri utilizes symbols, forms, and spatial concern as a means to express his need for universality. His inspiration comes from the unity between the microscopic and the macrocosmic. In a sense, his painting process is also designed to bridge the gap between the known and the unknown... |
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Polly Morgan
Polly Morgan is a British artist who utilizes taxidermy within the context of her work. Polly creates still lives with animals as her subject-- which she places in unexpected scenes. By observing these pieces the viewer is encouraged to look at the animals as if for the first time. The preserved animals are either road casualties or have been donated to the artist by pet owners and vets after natural or unpreventable deaths. Polly Morgan is rapidly becoming a name to watch among a new generation of British artists. Her work can be found in the art collection of Vanessa Branson and Kate Moss.... |
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Matt Small
Matt Small-- also known as Matty-- is a traditional urban artist who paints directly onto used pieces of found metal and other objects. Small’s subjects are taken directly from the streets. They are all filmed without their knowledge at which point the artist uses the documentation as references for his work. The portraits are painted on found- objects such as concrete and metal, using household materials like gloss or poster paint, which he applies very thickly. By giving each portrait names such as Ahmed, Andre and Terry, he gives the ‘anonymous faces of urban youth’ a character. The combination of subject and materials captures the essence of London street life.... |
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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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