weekly featured art

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Below are just a a few artists on the site we wanted to call your attention to this week. Click on their gallery to view their work. Click on their picture to bring up their profile page.

John Richey	Animation	John Richey creates works about fear and control. He received a BFA from The University of Arizona in 2001 and a MFA from the University of California, San Diego in 2004, both in visual arts with an emphasis on combined media. His animations have been exhibited nationally and internationally and were mentioned in the "Best of 2004" issue of ARTFORUM International.
Peiman Rezaei	My Works	Peiman Rezaei completed high school studies in 1982. He then rraduated in graphic field in Art Open Classes, Faculty Of Fine arts, Tehran University,(1994). He also rraduted in Graphic & Web Design In Covevdish College in 2001. He works as a graphic designer & persian calligrapher since 1994 and started drawing cartoons in 1997. He has participated in many interational competitions and won awards in Tehran, Turkey, China, Italy, Greece and the Czech Repulic.
Stacia Yeapanis	Glitches are Signs	Stacia Laura Yeapanis is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Chicago, IL. She received her MFA from the Department of Fiber and Material Studies at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2006. Her work can be seen in the Museum of Contemporary Photography’s Midwest Photographers Collection and in the Rhizome Artbase. Stacia is an avid Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan and has two wonderful cats, Gertie and Gloria.
Vicki DaSilva	Fluorescence	Vicki DaSilva became fascinated with single frame time exposure photography while an art student at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania and has worked exclusively with this process since 1982. Her chosen medium is light. She began a series of light graffiti images using incandescent colored bulbs in the early 1980's as a response to the graffiti explosion and visionary art of Keith Haring in the art world during that time. Vicki is a two time Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellowship recipient for photography. She had her first solo show in NYC at Art Gotham in September 2006. Several of her works were included in the 2006 exhibition catalog 'Light Art from Artificial Light', ZKM/Museum for Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany, curated by Peter Weibel.
Janusz Mulak	Paintings - Stripes	Januusz Malak received a diploma with distinction from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw where he studied both painting (with Professors Zofia Kowalska and Bohdan Urbanowicz) as well as architecture with Professor Romuald Gutt. He won an honorable mention at the world competition for fine arts academy students organized by Gramercy Park in New York. Janusz Mulak had collective exhibitions and one-man shows in Paris, Moscow, Berlin, Sofia, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Warsaw, Dusseldorf, Prague, Dallas, Heidelberg, New York, London, Cologne.
Melissa Doherty	Recent Paintings	Melissa Doherty graduated with an Honours Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Waterloo, Canada. She was on the shortlist of 16 artists in 2002 at the RBC New Canadian Painting Competition, and was recently nominated for the Sobey Award. A recipient of grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Ontario Arts Council, her work has been included in exhibitions at Queen's Park, Toronto, the University of Toronto, Art Chicago, Scope Miami, and Arte Contemporaneo,Mexico City. Melissa is a former member of the Red Head Collective, Toronto. Her work is represented in many private and public collections in Canada and the U.S, including the Progressive Art Collection, U.S., the Royal Bank of Canada and the University of Toronto. Melissa is represented by the Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, and the Ashley Gallery in Philadelphia, and has an upcoming exhibition at Art Mur in Montreal in the spring of 2008.

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What becomes of us and our art? A very interesting open debate between two myartspace members has moved to the public between John Gargano (profile) and Sten Are Sandbeck (profile). The debate is covered in depth on the myartspace blog. The debate centers around the real definition of art and whether we as a culture have gone wrong in our definition of art in the last 30-40 years. Good reading and certainly feel free to weigh in your opinion. Non-Profit Arts Economy Grows 50 Percent: "Americans for the Arts' national survey released last month found nonprofit arts yields more than $166.2 billion in annual economic activity throughout the U.S., which represents a 50 percent increase over five years. The study also found that the nonprofit arts industry creates the equivalent of 5.7 million full-time jobs." Backsteag 06/06/07 Who Believes Studies For The Arts? Knute Berger writes that the proliferation of studies purporting to show the economic impact of the arts are inflated. "One of the most study-happy 'industries' is the arts. Local arts groups put out economic impact studies every couple of years. One problem in comparing them is that their focus or methodologies seem to change slightly, so it's difficult to get apples-to-apples comparisons. But the drumbeat is very familiar. It re-enforces a pre-determined mission (the arts matter!), touts the intangibles (quality of life!), takes credit for non-arts related economic activity (what would you do without us?), and elevates the arts to the status aerospace (we're an industry!). CrossCut 06/07/07 Greek Police Raid, Close Art ShowGreek artists and media are protesting government raid and shutdown of an art exhibit. "Featuring work by more than 70 artists and organized under the auspices of the Greek Cultural Ministry, the 13th edition of the Art Athina exhibit included an installation by artist Eva Stefani in which viewers could peer through a peephole and see footage of Greek pornography from the 1960s and 1970s, set to a soundtrack that includes the Greek national anthem." CBC 06/05/07

-	The first deadline for early registration for the New York, New York Competition 2007 is June 30th. Submission fees go up after that. Save money by registering early. For more details, click here. Several hundred artists from all over the work have signed up and the breadth and depth of work is impressive
-	We've made messaging to community members easier. We've added a "Message" capability from the profile page.
-	We should be fixing browser-related problems for those with Mac/Safari and certain cases of Internet Explorer 7 this week. A problem with the "progress indicator" bar has been found with certain security setting on web browsers. We hope to have the new changes in on Tuesday evening.
-	Brian Sherwin, our senior managing editor has been contiuing his interview series with artists. See his interview with Carson Collins, Bruce Samuelson, Mark Sheinkman, and Brad Konick. Of course, there are a number of subjects including the first great public debate between myartspace members is online.
-	A tour of myartspace has been added. Click here to see the tour.
-	We improved the tutorial page substantially. Click here to see view the tutorials.
-	Our programmers are fixing some problems we've identified on the site.  They should be rolled into the site on Tuesday. Please feel free to report problems to us.
-	If you need technical support with the myartspace, please email us at info@catmacart.com

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