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Aimee Lee is an interdisciplinary artist working across performance, installation, and book arts media. Aimee is interested in personal storytelling. Her work has covered topics of human intimacy, internal defenses, and the isolating properties of language. Because her work thrives in moments of vulnerability, its manifestations occur subtly and often go unnoticed: a survival kit buried in the

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I was introduced to the art of Andrea Chung while visiting the New Insight exhibit at Art Chicago. Andrea's current artwork explores the relationships between exported goods of the New World, such as sugarcane, rum, allspice and bananas, and the imported laborers and the stories and ideas that these relationships carried. Andrea is currently finishing her studies at the Maryland Institute College

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I was introduced to the art of Michelle Fried while visiting the New Insight exhibit at Art Chicago. New Insight is an exhibition featuring graduate work from the top art schools. Michelle showed some of her recent video work during the exhibit. Michelle has stated that her most recent works start from the confabulation of memory and autobiography. I contacted Michelle and she agreed to discuss

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Peter Gerakaris earned a BFA from Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art and Planning in 2003. Peter studied painting and architecture in Rome under the auspices of Cornell University, and subsequently established a New York City studio. He is currently an MFA painting candidate at the City University of New York’s Hunter College in Manhattan. Gerakaris’ work has appeared in Beijing

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I was introduced to the art of Seth Lower at the New Insight exhibit at Art Chicago. Seth has had solo exhibitions at the Diego Rivera Gallery and the Stilllights Gallery in San Francisco. In 2007, Seth was an Honorable Mention in the Hey, Hot Shot! exhibition at Jen Bekman Gallery in New York. He has been a teaching assistant under the instruction of Harrell Fletcher, Alice Shaw, Henry Wessel

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Fred Nall Hollis, known internationally simply as "Nall," was born April 21, 1948 in Troy, Alabama. Nall was born into old wealth-- a Southern family that originally drew its wealth from a cotton plantation and later, from the oil industry and finance. In many ways, the roots of his artistic exploration are intertwined with the roots of his State of birth-- a message that Nall has taken with him

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Home Sweet Home (detail), Andrea Loefke installation-- HomeBase III. Photo by Douglas Romines. Andrea Loefke is an accomplished German installation artist, who has shown extensively in NY and Germany, and is a Smack Melon resident. Andrea offered her time in order to discuss her installation, Home Sweet Home, which is on display at HomeBase III. Andrea has created a whole room based on the

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764 St. Nicholas Ave @148th st.-- HomeBase III The HomeBase Project, founded and directed by Anat Litwin, is a unique annual public art project devoted to the exploration of Home. The HomeBase Project is currently celebrating its third year (April 27 - May 18). HomeBase III has landed in a historical landmark townhouse in Sugar Hill, Harlem. This years project includes a group of international

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www.artropolischicago.com Chicago's citywide celebration of arts, antiques and culture, Artropolis™ started off with a sexy preview. I describe the preview as sexy because I believe the preview-- as a whole-- was HOT compared to last year. There was a certain energy in the air during the preview... it rejuvenated me after my long drive. In other words, though tired from the drive I was not about

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The art of Lisa Beck is driven by certain preoccupations and obsessions, that can be seen as divided between the earthly - nature, the landscape, elemental forms - and the heavenly - science, astronomy, the universe. Lisa graduated from Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in 1980. Since that time she has had several solo and group exhibits, including exhibits at Feature Inc. and White

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Fred Wessel is a professor at the Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford. Fred teaches drawing, egg tempera painting and lithography. He currently co-directs Workshops in Italy, bringing small groups of artists and art-lovers to Tuscany and Umbria to paint and study the Italian Renaissance. His work is included in many private and public collections including, The Museum of Modern Art,

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Camille Patha has been an important part of the Northwest art scene since 1970, when she was invited to participate with the famous Washington State delegation to the Oska World’s Fair. Her work is in numerous public collections including the Tacoma Art Museum, the Seattle Art Museum, Jundt Art Museum, and the collections of numerous cities in the state of Washington. Accelerant Red, Oil and

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Gary Schuster, an attorney with Jacobowitz & Gubits, LLP (Walden , New York), has once again offered his time and knowledge-- this time concerning nonprofit fiscal sponsorship. Brian Sherwin: Gary, what can you tell us about nonprofit fiscal sponsorship? How does it work and what do artists need to know? Gary Schuster: Many arts organizations are structured as tax exempt, not-for-profit

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Vito Acconci has developed a diverse body of work through the decades and has been tagged with just as many labels by art critics-- 'Pioneer of Performance', 'Godfather of Transgression', and 'Master of Conceptualism'... just to name a few. Vito has explored poetry, performance, film and video, sound, sculpture, photography, and architecture. The Brooklyn-based artist is currently focused on

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Connie Noyes is an award winning painter whose work has been exhibited in galleries in Atlanta, Chicago, Washington, DC, Los Angeles and San Francisco, and abroad in London, Florence, and Malaysia. In the 4th Annual Florence Biennale in 2003, she took a 5th place prize in painting from a field of 500 painters. She has been selected for prestigious residencies, including the Emaar International

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Janet Fish is a contemporary realist painter and printmaker. Janet is best known for her still life paintings that reflect aspects of her daily life. These paintings often contain still life objects from her collections of glassware and other objects-- objects that serve as a starting point for her painting. Her richly colored paintings and prints can be found in public and private art

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"My art does not seem to be noticed much online... how can I improve my presence?" This is a common question and one that I've covered before with past answers. I will discuss this issue again since it is a common question and concern for artists utilizing the Internet for exposure. It is simple really... if you want exposure online for your art you must have traffic and in order to get traffic

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Bernard Friendlich-- a veteran of WWII --has dedicated himself to his art for over seven decades. During that time he has focused on revealing the horror of war and the plight of social injustice through his art. Bernard describes his body of work over the last seven decades as "poetic realism". Bernard celebrated his 90th birthday in March of this year-- he continues to create art and explore

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The whole notion of intent is one that fascinates me almost to the point of obsession; when looking at or making artwork I always wonder, what is the artist's intent for this thing that they are making?; what effect, exactly, is it supposed by the artist to have on others? What effect does making it have on the artist? and so on. This question of intentionality is strangely absent from most of

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I am pleased to introduce the second installment of Art Space Law. Gary Schuster, an attorney with Jacobowitz & Gubits, LLP (Walden , New York), has once again offered his time and knowledge to answer a question involving art law and the Internet. Brian Sherwin: Gary , artists are often concerned about people 'stealing' or 'ripping' their art online. The main concern is that someone will still a

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Alex Grey is an artist specializing in spiritual and psychedelic art (or visionary art) that is sometimes associated with the New Age movement. Alex Grey is a Vajrayana practitioner. His oeuvre spans a variety of forms including performance art, process art, installation art, sculpture, and painting. Grey is a member of the Integral Institute. He is also on the board of advisors for the Center

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James Rosenquist is an acclaimed American artist and is considered to be one of the key figures in the Pop Art movement. James has received numerous honors, including selection as "Art In America Young Talent USA" in 1963, appointment to a six-year term on the Board of the National Council of the Arts in 1978, and receiving the Golden Plate Award from the American Academy of Achievement in 1988.

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Bob Smith, formerly known as Patrick Brill, is a British contemporary artist who is also known by the pseudonym 'Bob & Roberta Smith'. Bob studied at the University of Reading and Goldsmiths College. He has had exhibited extensively throughout the UK, including exibits at the Tate Modern, Whitechapel Art Gallery, and The Lux Center. BS: Patrick, you are better known by your pseudonym Bob and

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Chehalis Hegner received her MFA in Visual Arts at the Art Institute of Boston in June, 2005. Her mentors include photographer Arno Rafael Minkkinen, George Fifield (Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park and founder of the Boston Cyber Arts Festival), Jonathan Singer of Singer Editions, Boston, and Franz C. Nicolay. Hegner received her B.A. at Berklee College of Music and is also a graduate of the

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I am pleased to introduce a new series on the Myartspace Blog-- Art Space Law. In this series I will tackle various issues concerning art law. I will focus mainly on issues involving art law and the Internet. For this series I will ask professionals for their opinions. Gary Schuster, an attorney with Jacobowitz & Gubits, LLP (Walden , New York) has offered his time and knowledge about various

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