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 November 17, 2008 |
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Featured Artists //
Mari Richards, James Southard, Chad Hoover, Craig Hawkins, Natasha Rosling |
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Carolyn Ryder Cooley |
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Art News //
The Art Auction Prices are worst than lead to believe; Art demand shifts to Asia; Miami Basel Competition from myartspace closes. . . .
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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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Are Art Auction Prices Even Worse Than Reported?
"Prices announced by the auction houses don't make across-the-board comparisons. "They almost invariably compare the estimate of hammer price to a figure arrived at by adding hammer price to the commission that the auction house charges the buyer. The result is an apples-to-oranges comparison that makes the sale results look better than they actually are."
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| Fall Auctions Off To A Worrying Start
"Of the world's 20 top-selling artists, 13 are from Asia, with 11 coming from China. Asian artists make up six of the top 10 biggest sellers at auction, five of which are Chinese. Experts predict that within a decade, the term 'Asian art' will be as widely used as 'Western art' and will be responsible for most global sales." The Independent (UK) 11/16/08 |
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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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Mari Richards
Mari completed her M.F.A. from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2006 and a B.A. in Studio Art and a B.M. in Piano Performance at St. Olaf College in 1997. Based in Minneapolis, her artwork has been shown locally, regionally, and nationally, with an upcoming show at the Paul Whitney Larson Gallery. She has taught Intro to 2D and 3D design, 3D Foundations, Modern Art History, and Beginning Drawing classes at the College of Visual Arts, the Walker Art Center, MCAD, Globe University, and the Minnesota School of Business. By day, she has been successfully designing toys with Manhattan Toy since 1998, designing over 300 products for an international market, and winning over 30 industry awards. |
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James Robert Southard
According to James "Because of my interest in traditional family ideologies, I have spent the majority of the past few years making artwork that focuses on family and familial co-dependencies. I began by documenting my own family in their most comfortable places, and from there my work began to evolve toward a more universal commentary on how we as humans see and remember our kin. I became interested in the ways people recollect personal events in their lifetimes, and the varying colored veils of nostalgia, sadness, magnification, time, and deep appreciation through which these memories are recalled." |
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Chad Hoover
Chad Hoover was born in Boston, Massachusetts on March 18, 1971. He was exposed to the medical world early in his life by his father, a surgeon. He currently uses medical imagery he collects as the source material for his recent work. Through a series of investigations using x-rays to create instillation, and photographs of operative procedures to make paintings and dry erase board drawings, Hoover challenges the viewer to consider issues concerning mortality and human intervention. In 1996 Hoover obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Ithaca College in Ithaca, NY. From 1998-2000 he studied drawing, painting, and sculpture in the Certificate Program of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art in Philadelphia, PA. Currently, he is a Master of Fine Arts candidate in painting at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, GA. Hoover has participated in several group exhibitions in Philadelphia and Savannah, and was represented by Solstice Gallery, Long Beach Island, NJ from 2003-2007. He lives in Savannah with his wife Rachel, a Physician Assistant, who, along with his father, is the inspiration for his work about surgery. |
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Craig Hawkins
Craig Hawkins, is a graduate with a B.F.A. in Fine Art fromValdosta State University(2001). Hawkins describes his work as,"the evidence of taking truth and imagining it". His background includes oil and acrylic painting, large charcoal drawing, and sculpture. In his 2-D work, Hawkins uses canvas or a collage of various papers and masking tape to develop a composition of line and texture before applying a mixed media of charcoal and/or paint as well as some found objects. Creating a piece that explores depths of truth, mark making, and the love of contrast becomes the integrity of his work. |
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Natasha Rosling
Natasha notes "The meaning of place and space is the decisive factor in the position taken up by an artist. All her life, Natasha Rosling has been visiting many different places and time and again she has had to check both her geographical position and her position in life. Having moved around a lot, she has come to regard one's outlook on life as something which is not fixed right from the start, staying the same forever. The only thing she can hold on to is her own physique, and this she makes emphatic use of in the creation of her work." |
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Carolyn Ryder Cooley
Ryder Cooley is a multi-media artist and musician currently based in Troy, NY, (US). Weaving together chimeric visions with residue of daily life, her work reveals a terrain of lost dreams and phantom memories. Working with found materials and personal mythologies, she creates cinematic performances and installation spaces. Public performances, interventions, murals and collaborations are modes that Ryder employs in order to engage viewers in multi-sensory dialogs. Working resourcefully and sustainably while establishing and maintaining art practices beyond the context of industry and commercial culture is integral to her approach. Exchanges with artists and communities in local and international settings are crucial to her practice.... |
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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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