Emerson Gallery Opening December 10, 2009

Palo Alto, CA. December 10, 2009 -- MYARTSPACE opened the doors to it's Emerson Gallery location one last time to showcase winners of the NYAXE Gallery Competition. It was a festive evening with great art and lively chatter among old friends and new.

Curator, Nigel, and CEO/Founder Catherine McCormack-Skiba lined the walls with works from the 4 top winners of the competition: Carrie M. Becker, Viviane Vives, Lucio Carvalho, and Pau Guerrero-Prado. 18 more distinguished runners-up had their works displayed digitally accross a wide-screen, HD video platform.


A crowd of local artists, curators, and art lovers were officially welcomed to the exhibit by Carrie M. Becker’s series "Abandoned Farmhouses of mid-Kansas". Abandoned, but not forgotten, through Becker's lense solace and refuge are found amid the rural decay. In addition to her talents with a camera, Becker is working toward an MFA in sculpture.


Alongside Becker were original prints from Viviane Vive’s "Teen Suburbia" collection. Vive's captures the too-cool-for-school attitudes of her female models with a fresh, cinamatic style. Vive's is originally from Barcelona, but speaks five languages has lived all over the world supporting herself as actress/writer/director.


Lucio Carvalho stunned visitors with vibrant photographs of exploding assemblages. For Carvalho, household trinkets and compost scraps translate into something fantastic! Carvalho is a Brazilian artist, fashion designer, and publicity art director with a degree in Industrial Design.



Pau Guerrero-Prado toped off the evening with a selection from his sequence "Sonai" in which a woman poses with a peacock. Guerrero-Prado's subject, composition, and use of light are all exquisite, so it's no surprise his works were a popular topic of discussion.



Art on the video platform also drew a lot of attention. We were proud to represent finalists Michelle Rogers, Eric White, James Shefik, Steven White, Benjamin Eric, Tra Bouscaren, Douglas A Kinsey, Laura Greengold, Olan Montegomery, Michael Maier, Natalia Bazowska, Heejea Namgung, Hijo Nam, Meryl Pataky, Daniel John Gadd, Alma Leiva, Judy Csotsits, and Tamara Hervera.

To learn more about these artists and to see galleries of their works, visit the winners page on our website:
http://www.myartspace.com/nyaxegallery/winners/winnersDec2009.html

myartspace / Aqua Art Miami Beach 2009

myartspace.com shows off winning artists at Aqua Art Miami

The Aqua Art Miami Fair launched with great success on Thursday, December 3rd. myartspace.com was there in force, with the backing of its large and talented community of artists showing off the winners of the most recent competition. You can click on the myartspace gallery below to see some images from the opening day.

The Winners On Display

Works from Kristi Mallakoff, Justin Beckman and Mandy Greer were all prominently on display at the myartspace.com exhibit. In addition, a streaming channel of the 50 finalists were created and are projected on a large wall at the booth. The exhibition is eye-catching and hundreds of art appreciators, collectors and gallerists have stopped by and marveled at the quality work of the myartspace community. To view the myartspace.tv channel with the winners/finalists work, click HERE.

The Top 3 Winners

Kristi Malakoff is a Canadian visual artist who has returned to Canada after time spent living abroad, most recently in Berlin, Germany and previously in Reykjavik, Iceland and London, England where she attended the Chelsea College of Art and Design. She has been selected to do a residency at Proekt Fabrika in Moscow, Russia in the spring of 2010. Malakoff is a 2005 BFA graduate of the Emily Carr Institute in Vancouver, Canada where she was the recipient of many awards and scholarships, among them the Alvin Balkind Memorial Scholarship, the Helen Pitt Award and the Governor General's silver medal for the top Emily Carr Institute graduating student of 2005. Since graduating, she has participated in artist residency programs at the Banff Centre, the Stride Gallery, Calgary, and SIM, Reykjavik, Iceland. She has exhibited in an exhaustive schedule in both group and solo shows throughout Canada and in England, the US, Germany and Mexico.

Justin Beckman received a BFA from Art Center College of design in 1998 and an MFA in sculpture from Central Washington University in 2008. Since December 2001, Beckman has been living and working in the unincorporated town of Thorp, Washington, and is a founding member of PUNCH Gallery in the Pioneer Square area of Seattle. Beckman has exhibited work both locally and nationally including Art Share in Los Angeles, CA; The Museum of Art in Ft. Lauderdale, FL; G.A.S.P. in Boston, MA; Tacoma Art Museum's 8th Northwest Biennial and most recently at the Sguardi Sonori traveling festival of media and time based art in Italy, and Grounds for Sculpture in New Jersey.

Mandy Greer is a sculptor & mixed-media installation artist with an MFA in ceramics from the University of Washington (99'), where she held a Jacob K. Javitz National Graduate Fellowship. Mandy received a BFA in ceramics and a BA in English from the University of Georgia (96') and went Phi Beta Kappa. In Washington, she has shown her work at The Bellevue Art Museum, The Tacoma Art Museum, The Kirkland Arts Center; and in Seattle at The Henry Gallery, 4Culture Gallery, Soil Gallery, Consolidated Works and Priceless Works Gallery. She has also shown at the Tampa Museum of Art, Fl and Bucheon Gallery in SF. Her work is included in the books The Best of New Ceramic Art (1997), Fashion is Art (2003), as well as Soil Gallery, 10 Years (2005). Mandy's work is featured in the video.

After having announced the MyArtspace winners for the Miami 2009 show, we are excited to exhibit the winners, see other great art/artists, and get together with the rest of the art world for the Aqua Art Fair.

http://www.myartspace.com/miamibasel/winners/winners2009.html

If you are there, please come by the MyArtspace booth at the Aqua Art Fair, and email me and Catherine if you'd like to come by for a brunch preview on Thursday as our guests!

Community Meeting in London with MyArtspace

While it's pretty short notice, we'd like to invite any and all artists, art appreciators, and MyArtspace community members to cocktails in London!

If you are in London on Monday Nov 23rd, and would like to meet us co-founders of MyArtspace, please come by!

This is the first meet-up in a series that we plan to do around the world. We'd like to meet the community, get feedback, and tell you about some new opportunities for artists to make money and get recognition on MyArtspace.

For anyone who comes by, we will be providing a complimentary 3 month Premium MyArtspace membership! Existing members who attend may also get an additional 3 month extension to their membership, as well.


Chelsea Bar
Ground Floor, World's End Distillery,
459 Kings Road,
Chelsea, London,
SW10 0LR
Monday Nov 23
7:30-8:30pm

For the sake of saving some space at the bar, if you think you will come by, please email:

erikka@gmail.com

Hope to see you Monday!
Catherine

Scholarship.Com, a site for art students to check out...

For those college students in the MyArtspace community, they should check out www.scholarships.com for additional sources of scholarships. Of course, we also recommend you look to enter our scholarship program as well! We hand out $16,000 in cash awards each year to art students!




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The Booth Location at Aqua Art Miami

As they always say, there's three things that matter -- Location, Location and Location. We think we've scored very well on that count for the upcoming Aqua Art Miami Exhibition where we'll be showing the winners of our Miami 2009 competition. As you can see, our booth is located right at the entrance to the show, and should get incredible attention from collectors and art appreciators as they enter the hall!




For more information on our Miami 2009 Competition, see:
http://www.myartspace.com/miamibasel

NYAXE GALLERY: Autumn Opening

The opening of the the Autumn Exhibition for the NYAXE Gallery in Palo Alto kicked off on Thursday evening to a large cadre of art appreciators and technology movers-and-shakers in Silicon Valley.



In attendence were some of Silicon Valley's rising stars including Michael Arrington, Editor of TechCrunch; Craig Hughes, CTO at NewCo, Inc and former Co-Founder of GumStix; Normal Liang, former executive of Photobucket; Luke Winter, CEO Galaxy Granola; Geoffrey Arone, CEO of DanceJam and Flock; Terry Angelos, Co-Founder & CPO, TrialPay; Tom Conrad, CTO of Pandora; Irene McGee, CEO of No One is Listening; and Paul Guely, Founder & CEO of Arma Partners.



Kimia Ferdowski, one of the winning artists was in attendance with one of her subjects.



Twenty MyArtSpace artists were represented at the show including Penelope Caldwel, Takefumi Hori, Kimia Ferdowsi, Cara Thayer & Louie Van Patten, Beverley McQuillan, Barbara Diener, Rebecca Fontaine-Wolf, Eline Peek, Mikhail Gubin, Emily Maddigan, Chris Dunker, Jeanne Wilkinson & Andrew Yonda, Bill Bosler, Christopher Savage, Dan Atkins, Yuval Shalgi,
Pearl Van Geest, Renata Fernandez and Chanil Hong.




Catherine McCormack-Skiba, CEO and Founder of MyArtSpace with Paul Noel Guely, Founder of Arma Partners.



Craig Hughes, CTO of NewCo, Inc and former CTO of Gumxtix and Loca.com



Nigel Evans, myartspace's resident curator, preparing the show having flown in from London.




The Autumn Exhibition will run at the NYAXE Gallery until the end of December. The Winter Exhibition is then planned to open on December 10th.