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Featured Artists //
Cory Rahmberg, Nic Lyons, Fiona Davies, Michelle McKnight David, Jett van de Lende |
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Interviews //
Maria Kazanskaya, Anastasia Cazbon, Emily Maddigan, Christian M. Benedetto Jr, Valery Koroshilov |
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Art News //
Armory Show in New York Closely Watched; Corporations are tightening their donor belts; MOMA opens up new site; Online Social Network opens physical gallery . . .
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Message Board //
NYAXE Gallery to open in Palo Alto on February 26, 2009. The London Calling Competition early registration deadline is March 31, 2009! |
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| Temperature Check - Armory Show Edition
"The Armory Show, which is on through Sunday March 8th, has always been closely watched for what it has to say about the health of the art market. Scrutiny will be particularly intense this year. And while sales tallies can't be known for some days, observers may perceive advance indicators of distress." The New York Times 03/05/09 |
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| As Deep-Pocketed Donors Cut Back, Arts Are A Tough Sell
"Corporations and wealthy individuals are donating less to nonprofits, with arts groups taking the biggest hit, according to two new studies. Of 158 companies polled by the economic-research group the Conference Board in February, 45 percent said they have reduced their 2009 philanthropy budget and 16 percent are considering it. The survey said 35 percent of the companies will make fewer grants in 2009 and 22 percent are thinking about it." Bloomberg 03/04/09 |
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| With Website Redesign, MoMA Aims To Open Up
"MoMA's new site, which makes its debut on Friday, is an almost complete reconstruction of how the museum presents itself online" as well as an attempt "to transform how the public interacts with an institution that can sometimes seem forbidding and monolithic." Among other things, it will "include what its designers call a 'social bar' at the bottom, which when clicked will expand to show images and other information that users can 'collect' and share." The New York Times 03/05/09 |
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| Online Social Site opems physical presence
The grand opening of the NYAXE Gallery in Palo Alto, CA on February 26th was a great success. The exhibit opened at 6pm and was met with a steady flow of visitors. Art collectors and other attendees observed artwork by 24 members of the myartspace.com community. The exhibit space was filled with good conversation, exquisite music, and powerful works of contemporary art. The event was a meshing between the physical and online art world. Eighteen members of the www.myartspace.com community were represented digitally during the opening of the NYAXE Gallery. Six were physically represented at the gallery." myartspace Blog, February 2009 |
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Cory Rahmberg
Cory Rahmberg holds a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Cory currently resides in Massachusetts. He has recently become a member of myartspace.
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Nic Lyons
Nic Lyons is a Canadian artist and photographer. Her main focus is industrial landscape and architectural photography. In addition to this, she is also a conceptual artist who embraces other mediums in order to produce work including video, installation, handmade objects, performance and painting. In 2001, she graduated with a BFA at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, and received her MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2006. Currently based in San Francisco, Nic Lyons has lived and produced work in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. Nic, in self-describing an aspect of a phototographer "As a photographer, I have no need to draw sketches. The moment of exposure is that sketch, and it can be directly transferred in an unaltered form, through the most basic darkroom work. In a similar manner to the painters that worked within the ideology of the picturesque, there is a possibility of 'perfecting' the image after the photographic sketch has been made. Although photography is valued for its ability to accurately describe a truthful rendition of what it beholds, digital technology can create a different version of reality to what has been recorded on film. Although updated, this new method is very much within the tradition of landscape image making."
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Fiona Davies
Fiona Davies works primarily with ideas of history. How it is constructed, who is excluded and who included and tends to work with the histories of those who have been excluded layering their history back into the dominant story. Fiona Davies was born in Syndney Australia and currently lives there. She holds a Masters in Fine Art (MFA) from Monash University, a Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts) from Western Syndney University as well as a Bachelor of Applied Science (Textile Technology) University of NSW.
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Michelle McKnight Davis
Michelle is completing her MFA from Florida State University in Tallahassee. She also holds a Masters in Education from Middle Tennessee State University and a BFA from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL.
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Jette van der Lende
Jette was born in Copenhagen and lives and works in Oslo, Norway. Jette van der Lende is a Norwegian painter for whom the simplest objects can be as meaningful -- and as startling -- as a bottle washed up on a beach with a letter inside. A key found inside a drawer or some corks left on a tabletop are the artist's starting points for journeys into ancient wisdoms. Recently, she wrote me that in Norway they say that to speak is silver but to stay silent is golden. Sometimes she uses this color symbolism, so the viewer must be cautious before leaping to conclusions. I came to know Jette van der Lende's paintings at the Florence Biennale 2005 where they attracted a wide and favorable audience. |
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Maria Kazanskaya
Maria Kazanskaya is originally from the Russian city of Samara, near the Volga river. Kazanskaya studied art at Samara Art College and the famous Stroganoff Institute of Art and Industrial Design in Moscow-- where she studied drawing with Lev Mikhailov and painting with Nina Lordkipanidze. After coming to the United States she exhibited her works in solo and group shows throughout the United States and Canada, including the Museum of Contemporary Russian Art in Jersey City (New Jersey); Triton Museum of Art, Art Museum of Los Gatos, and Bakersfield Museum of Art (California); Union Street Gallery and Mary Bell Galleries in Chicago; the Maryland Federation of Art in Annapolis; Berkeley University YWCA and the Weir Gallery in Berkeley (California). Kazanskaya has also had exhibits at Windwood Gallery and Images Gallery in New York. She has had a solo exhibit at Stanford University...
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Anastasia Cazabon
Anastasia Cazabon (b.1983) is a photographer based in Boston and a graduate of New England School of Photography. She is enrolled at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Her work has been shown in various exhibitions and gallery's including, the Photographic Resource Center's 2007 Members Exhibition, the Griffin Museum of Photography and the Texas Photographic Society's National Show. In 2005 she was awarded Nonprofessional Portrait Photographer of the Year, by the International Photography Awards. Anastasia is a member of the photography collective The Exposure Project and is represented by Photo Edition Berlin....
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Emily Maddigan
Emily Maddigan creates sculptural forms and collages that reflect aspects of her youth-- a childhood of knitting, crocheting, sewing, and beading. However, these forms convey a foreboding sense of decay that is beyond the nightmares and innocence of a child. Her adult-size figures play on our curiosity for the macabre-- while exposing our tendency to be attracted to the tragedy of others where otherwise we would not have cared. Maddigan's artwork invites viewer interpretation-- one can almost imagine peeling away the flesh-like surfaces of her figures in order to investigate their inner-workings. An artist on myartspace.com comment on Maddigan's art, stating, "Familiar and safe objects/materials have never been more eerie." Emily Maddigan received her BFA from Michigan State University and her MFA from California State University Long Beach in 2004...
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Christian M. Benedetto Jr
Christian M Benedetto, Jr. is the CEO of Hopkins Sampson & Brown Equities, LLC. Christian is an avid collector of art. Many of his art purchases are made online. As an online collector of art Christian has had great interest in the development of myartspace.com. He and his wife Suzy live in suburban Morris County, New Jersey with their son Christian III. www.myartspace.com is a networking site for artists, gallerists, art collectors and others involved with visual art. The eCommerce platform for myartspace.com is the New York Art Exchange (NYAXE), www.nyaxe.com. The two sites were founded by Catherine McCormack-Skiba and Brian Skiba. The founders will soon open a brick & mortar gallery in Palo Alto, California. The gallery will feature artists from the myartspace.com community....
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Valery Koroshilov
Art critics have stated that Russian-born Valery Koroshilov has developed his own form of "sophisticated realist painting". Koroshilov is known for creating powerful paintings that reflect compositional skill combined with strict discipline of color. For the last fifteen years Koroshilov has lived in London-- where he has devoted himself entirely to painting. The artist has stated that he finds great inspiration in the paintings of Old Masters, particularly from the Renaissance. Valery Koroshilov has two Studios: One is located in North London, and the other is located on the Greek Island of Samos. Koroshilov has been involved with over 100 exhibitions worldwide. Exhbits have included Roy Miles, Albermarle, The Mall Galleries, Westminster Gallery, West-Eleven, Llewellyn Alexander, Royal College of Art, the BOC Covent Garden Festival and Olympia.....
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myartspace released a number of improvements to the site in the past week. This includes larger image support, including TIFF images, a TWITTER feed, myartspace FORUMS, and a way to change your Login ID!
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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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March 12, 2009
