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 December 18, 2008 |
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Featured Artists //
Scott Ashley, Sarah Beck, Patrick Ballard, Elizabeth Symington, Austin Furtak-Cole, Andy Carey |
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Interviews //
Belinda Eaton, Craig Hawkins, Christina Massey |
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Art News //
Even Damien Hirst work goes unsold today; More Artists taking back control of their work from dealers ; NYAXE launches . . .
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Message Board //
Winners of the myartspace Scholarship competition will be announced in early January. The New York Art Exchange opened December 2, 2008. |
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| Even Damien Hirst Can't Sell In This Art Market
"New York art dealer Christoph Van de Weghe had eight works by Damien Hirst in his booth at the Art Basel Miami Beach fair earlier this month. He sold only two. The unsold works included an $850,000 cabinet filled with cigarette butts and a blue canvas with 15 butterflies." Bloomberg 12/18/08 |
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| More Artists Taking Back Control Of Their Art From Dealers
"Just a few years ago, when the art market was a less complicated place, the artist-dealer relationship was relatively straightforward. But in today's increasingly complex art scene, where many artists are represented by several galleries worldwide and where production costs can spiral, artists say that they are having to ensure they are at the centre of the decision-making process by employing independent agents or setting up their own companies." The Art Newspaper 12/15/08
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| CatMacArt Corporation, the parent company of myartspace, announced the release of The New York Art Exchange in early December. NYAXE is a eCommerce marketplace to buy and sell art. |
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Scott Ashley
Scott Ashley holds an MFA from The Pratt Institute in New York in Sculpture and a Bachelor's of Fine Arts from University of Washington, Seattle. In his own words "In my recent series of sculptures I have taken common everyday objects and transformed them in a way that expresses the psychological, emotional and perceptual attachments we have with the objects that surround us. In some of the works I have made a direct modification that denies the original use of the item rendering it non-functional; asking the viewer to re-evaluate it in its new state. In other works, additions have been made that reflect our own dysfunctions that we often project onto the objects and situations of our daily lives. By re-contextualizing these familiar items the viewer is asked not to rely upon pre-determined definitions but is challenged to use their own personal experience to redefine the object and its meaning." |
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Sarah Beck
Sarah Beck received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from Ryerson University in 1998. Sarah worked as an electrician in Toronto’s film industry before leaving to focus on her art. She launched ODE (visit www.shopode.com) in August 2001 at the Third Avenue Gallery in Vancouver, which continues to travel to various galleries through North America. Sarah was invited to the Banff Arts Centre in spring 2003 to study model building and begin working with new materials. She won the Joseph F. Stauffer prize in 2004 awarded to encourage young Canadians of outstanding promise or potential’ from the Canada Council for the Arts.She uses her art practice to act as a social barometer and cultural activist. With a focus on complicity in the culture of consumption she has used the tools of lifestyle advertising to make her work more widely accessible. She is currently a Master’s student at the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD). |
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Patrick Ballard
Acording to Patrick...We live in a "psycho-sonic" environment dictated by the bluetooth headset and ipod earbud. It is in this time that I feel we must, more than ever, know when we are engaging and disengaging from our environment through the medium of sound. In my work I seek to examine the rhythm and relay of sensorial stimulation faced in contemporary times; how it's structure, tone, and velocity are absorbed phenomenologically to govern our own structures of thought, memory, and imagination. It is important for me to not only work with the medium of sound, but multiple mediums, such as video, performance, painting, drawing, creative writing, and others to completely reimagine cross-sensory relationships stemming from sound. Everything produced in these times is seen through the filter of post-production manipulation. In combination with the constant emergence of multiple musically driven subcultures, there is a fracturing, in every direction, of the unilateral musical teleology. My work, while comfortable drawing off of the dialogues within art, finds equal comfort drawing from a diverse array of musical lineages as well. From contemporary composition, laptop electronic, and experimental jazz, to grindcore, acoustic folk, and noise, I seek to bring together historical aesthetics and contexts to engage the issues of contemporary society rooted in the exploration of the senses and sound. |
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Elizabeth Symington
Elizabeth looks for seemingly dissimilar subjects, like Braille and knitting, and teaches the link between the two with her sculptures. She addresses serious issues in a children’s book style with small words, humor, and color; that way the topic is approachable. She creates with kids’ art supplies, clay and reused materials using traditional techniques in unconventional ways. In December, she will receive a BFA in Sculpture from the Academy of Art University. |
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Austin Furtak-Cole
Austin holds a BFA from Green Mountain College and an MFA in Painting from Stoneybrook. In Austin's own words "My work investigates interpersonal relationships between individuals. I observe people in my immediate surroundings and draw from my own experience to explore the relational tensions that occur amongst us. My examination asks how we, as humans, cope with our existence. My process attempts to find a balance between intuition and thought. The negotiation of what we feel and think is something that we as humans struggle with on a daily basis and has a strong influence on my work. I embrace the idea that our existence is a continual question, and exploration with no solid conclusions. My painting looks at these questions by combining narrative, abstraction and figuration." |
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Andy Carey
Andy Carey is an independent artist working in Los Angeles. Growing up in Greater Boston, Andy demonstrated his artistic sensibilities at an early age while working in everything from clay to pencil to watercolor to acrylic, creating both 2- and 3-dimensional works. One piece would greatly influence Andy’s current work: a recreation of the Beatles "Revolver" album cover, on foam board, which creates a multi-dimensional impression by layering different parts of the illustration. Attending Montserrat College of Art, where he studied both fine art and graphic design, Andy received his BFA in Graphic Design, graduating with Honors. During his studies, Andy explored layering techniques in fine art as well as graphic design. Ultimately, this study led him to his currrent work. |
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Belinda Eaton
Belinda Eaton’s magic realism paintings and portraits evoke a world of colour, vivid characters, swirling spaces, uncontained energy that can’t be trapped by the limits of the canvas, images constantly on the move, living life, dancing, drinking, and eating. Within the canvas there are no boundaries of subject, perspective or reality, just the borrowings from all that she has been exposed to. Belinda Eaton graduated with a B.A. Fine Art from St.Martins School of Art, London, in 1983.... |
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Craig Hawkins
Craig Hawkins is a graduate with a B.F.A in Fine Art from Valdosta State University(2001). Drawing since the age of two, Hawkins grew up in multiple cities including Laurinburg, NC, Greer, SC, Roanoke Rapids, NC and Warner Robins, GA before attending college in Valdosta, GA where he currently lives. Hawkins describes his work as, “the evidence of taking truth and imagining it”. His background includes oil and acrylic painting and charcoal drawing. In his 2D work, Hawkins uses canvas or collage of various papers and masking tape to develop a composition of line and texture in addition to applying his media. Creating a piece that explores depths of truth, mark making, and the love of contrast becomes the foundation of his work... |
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Christina Massey
Christina Massey was born and raised in Northern California where she studied painting and printmaking becoming an award-winning graduate before moving to New York City to pursue her Art career. Described by some as a Neo Conceptualist, her work often uses humor and theatrics to involve the viewer in anti-establishment rhetoric through the use of word play in her titles. Massey has produced multiple series of works including everything from conceptual abstract paintings to public interactive works negating the gallery completely. Works, though often making a statement about Art as a whole, revolve around the subject of painting in particular through her process and use of materials... |
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A major upgrade to the myartspace user interface will begin in January 2009. Please pardon the reconstruction process.
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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 York Art Exchange was launched on December 2, 2008 by CatMacArt Corporation..
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