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 January 11, 2009 |
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Featured Artists //
Bob Shore, Tony Hough, Patricia Buckley, Andrew Johann Salgado, Mark Stafford, Emily Maddigan |
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Interviews //
Amanda Palmer, Aidan Hughes, Susan Crile, Blaine Fontana |
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Art News //
Art market going back to the pros; Art Fairs likely to survive in some form ; the hidden world behind the Art Auction . . .
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Message Board //
Winners of the myartspace Scholarship competition will be announced this week. The London Calling Competition is well underway! The New York Art Exchange (nyaxe.com) opened December 2, 2008. |
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| Art Market Reverts To The Pros
"With most of the happy-clappy amateurs driven away from the auction arena by the financial panic, the game is back in the hands of those who buy art in full knowledge. Prices have dropped by 20 or 30 percent in categories where speculation was manifest, and will go further down, but outstanding objects are holding up at every level." International Herald-Tribune 01/09/09 |
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| Art sales: all's fair as crunch bites
"[T]he fair phenomenon, which grew out of the need for dealers to compete with the ever-expanding range of the auction rooms, is now deeply entrenched as a concept for convenient one-stop shopping and has become a key source of income for dealers." While "there may now be too many fairs, and some may fall by the wayside, those that adapt to the new economic reality can survive." The Telegraph (UK) 01/05/09 |
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| Secrets Of The Auction Room
"The art market is often described as the last unregulated financial market in the world. It has remained stubbornly resistant to almost all efforts to bring transparency to its operations, which still mainly function on the basis of highly personal relations and often secretive transactions." Financial Times 01/02/09 |
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Bob Shore
Bob Shore was originally born in Dublin, Ireland. He has done art training in New York and New Jersey. Bob has juried printmaking shows at Printmaking Council of NJ, Hunterdon Museum, Watchung Art Center, Stonemetal Press San Antonio Tx. His work is in various private collections both in the US and India and at the Newark Public Library.
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Tony Hough
Tony Hough hails from the United Kingdom. Tony has a degree in psychology and is a self-taught artist. He has a diverse set of skills -- he has been a roadie for a punk band, museum exhibit restorer, new age traveller, illustrator, community artist, games demonstrator, set/propmaker, TV conceptual designer, factory worker and tattooist, and a father. His work has has appeared in Starlog magazine, White Dwarf, Interzone, Odyssey, in the book Fantasy Art Now (Ilex) and has also been used by Puffin Books, Wizard Books and Fantasy Flight Games
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Patricia Buckley
Patricia holds a Fine Art Degree in Painting from Kingston University in Surrey, the United Kingdom. In her words "I was born in Sussex and studied Art at W.Sussex Art college then came to London where I have lived and painted for many years. I am a figuarative and imaginative artist and after exhibiting a large painting in the round called John and Mary which showed episodes in the life of a suburban ideal couple i decided i was working too much in isolation and attended Kingston University to obtain my degree in painting". Patricia has exhibited extensively throughout the UK.
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Andrew Johann Salgado
Andrew grew up in Regina, Saskatchewan, and graduated in 2005 from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, with an Honors degree in painting and art theory, and a minor in film studies. Andrew currently focuses his work on large scale, obsessively detailed acrylic paintings and pencil drawings. Since 2000, his art has been featured in public and private exhibitions and collections throughout North America, including the United States and Mexico, earning him a reputation as one of Canada's most promising young artists. His work engages many themes and concerns: analyzing mass-media culture and appropriating ‘pop’-iconicity, to elevating the banal and challenging conventionally held ideas of aestheticism. His ever-changing style is diverse and unique, yet strikingly recognizable, and his subject matter explores his relationship to aspects that are at once personal and universal.
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Mark Stafford
Mark holds an 2005 MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia and a BFA from the School of Art, The University of Arizona in Tucson AZ. In his own words, his focus is on "following and depicting the conflict between nature and technology, specifically how it is manipulated by language and organized business.".
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Emily Maddigan
Emily Maddigan received her BFA from Michigan State University and her MFA from California State University Long Beach in 2004.
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Amanda Palmer
Amanda Palmer is the lead singer, pianist, and lyricist/composer of the duo known as The Dresden Dolls . Palmer describes the musical style of The Dresden Dolls as "Brechtian punk cabaret". One could say that Palmer, along with Brian Viglione, helped to spur mainstream interest in dark cabaret-- an underground music movement that started gaining momentum in the early 1990s. The Dresden Dolls have performed at Lollapalooza, Britain's Reading and Leeds Festivals, Cyndi Lauper’s True Colors Tour, among other venues. The Dresden Dolls debut network TV appearance occurred on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' performing "Girl Anachronism". The duo are known for meshing aspects of performance and visual art together during their performances. Amanda Palmer has stated that the name was inspired by the firebombing of Dresden, Germany during World War II and the porcelain dolls which were created in mass in pre-war Dresden industry-- among other influences. Amanda Palmer answered a few questions about the influence that visual and performance art has had on her musical direction.... |
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Aidan Hughes
Aidan Hughes, also known by the pseudonym Brute, is a commercial artist from the United Kingdom. Aidan usually works in a very high contrast style, often black and white, but more often black and white accented with one other color. The artist has noted that his influences include the woodcuts of Frans Masereel and Lynd Ward, the comic art of Jack Kirby, the propaganda posters of the Russian Constructivists and Italy's Dynamo Futurista and the paintings of John Martin. His work has been exhibited in group shows alongside Damien Hirst, Shepard Fairey, Yoko Ono, and Gavin Turk-- among others. He is an artist known for crossing mediums as well as boundaries. One could say that his work is a visual fixture of the counterculture scene considering the influence his imagery has had on a new generation of artists. Aidan has maintained his freelance design business, BRUTE! Propaganda, for nearly two decades. BRUTE! Propaganda is probably best known in the United States for its work with the German industrial rock/metal band KMFDM. Aidan has created record sleeves for the band since 1985. In 1993, he produced and directed the KMFDM music video "A Drug Against War," based on several of his covers for the band-- followed by “Son of a Gun" in 1996. Brute! Propaganda is a full service freelance design business with nearly two decades' experience in illustration, design, animated and live video, computer games and multimedia. Past clients have included Warner Bros. Records, TVT Records, Pepsi, The Royal Bank of Scotland, Coors, Bulmers, Blitz, MTV and the BBC.... |
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Blaine Fontana
Blaine Fontana was born in Seattle, Washington and raised on Bainbridge Island. He began his interest in art at a young age. During his teens he commuted to two High Schools in order to study graphic design, photography, sculpture and life drawing. After graduating in 1994, he pursued his education of life in the streets of Seattle and Portland as a graffiti artist. After about 4 years of being in and out of towns and community colleges, Fontana chose to attend Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles in 1998. Four years later Fontana left with a BFA in Communication Art/Design at the top of his class with the “Best in Show” award that is presented upon Graduation in 2002. During School he worked as an Art Director at a design firm, Abound LLC, and also as a Graphic Designer at a Fashion/Lifestyle Magazine, Metro Pop. Fontana has also worked as an Art Director at a young men’s apparel company, Drifter. In January of 2003 Blaine became self-employed as a fine artist and designer. He spent the next 5 years developing his unique style and becoming well known around the So Cal gallery scene and companies as a rising artist and designer. After pursuing his career and vision in LA for 9 years he has recently returned to his roots on Bainbridge Island, Washington.... |
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Susan Crile
Susan Crile was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1942. Earning her Bachelor of Arts Degree at Bennington College, Vermont, Crile also studied at New York University and Hunter College, NYC. Since then she has taught widely, at such institutions as, Princeton University, The School of Visual Arts, Barnard College, The University of Pennsylvania, Sarah Lawrence and Hunter College, where she has been on the faculty since 1982 and a full professor since 1996. Her work is in the collections of The Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum, The Hirshhorn Museum, The Phillips Collection, The Albright Knox, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Denver Art Museum, The Carnegie Institute Museum of Art and The Library of Congress among others, as well as many corporate collections.... |
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