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.

Christopher Reiger	Hysterical Transcendentalism	Originally from rural Virginia, Christopher Reiger is an artist and writer currently living and working in New York City. He attended the College of William and Mary (B.A. Studio Arts, 1999) in Williamsburg, Virginia, before moving north. Since graduating from the MFA program at the School of Visual Arts in 2002, he has participated in numerous group exhibitions and, in 2006, had his fist solo exhibition. Additional work can be seen at http://www.christopherreiger.com. Essays on art and ecology can be read at http://hungryhyaena.blogspot.com.
Jane Jin Kaisen	Indonesia International Performance Art Event	Jane Jin Kaisen is a visual artist working interdisciplinary with video, performance, text, and photography. In an attempt to deconstruct narration and reading, she uses reversed strategies, and multi-layered approaches in her use of language and medium. She is part of Chamber of Public Secrets, a mobile art apparatus, producing video documentaries and broadcasting independent news for TV-TV and organizing “Made In Video” International Festival of Video Journalism, Denmark. She was co-curator of “International Adoptee Gathering Exhibition” in Seoul 2004, and co-founder of UFOlab (Unidentified Foreign Object Laboratory) 2004. Jane has performed at festivals and done street performances in Denmark, South Korea, Indonesia (National Gallery 2005-6), China (Open Art Festival and DaDao Intl Live Art Festival), and Hong Kong and is initiator of a series of 24 Hours Projects set up in various locations, providing an open platform for collective creative production and knowledge sharing.
Rebecca Hamm	NY Submission	Born in 1961, in Claremont, California, Rebecca Hamm received her MFA in painting from the Claremont Graduate University in Claremont and her BA from California Polytechnic University at Pomona, California. Currently, she is Program Director for First Street Gallery Art Center and an adjunct Art Instructor at University of LaVerne, Cal Poly Pomona and Azusa Pacific University. After 20 years of splitting her creative energy between music performance and exhibiting her visual art, Rebecca now focuses primarily on visual art production. Her studio is located near Claremont.
Olivie Ponce	New Work	Olivié Ponce is a Mexican artist whose work is centred in the sense of the chaotic and influenced by an urban environment weighed down by the continuity of the daily routine. Any city, large or small, conserves its own magic and equality. Its bloodstream never changes. What Olivié aims to do is to receive that urban magic, be it white or black, and to transmit it to the viewer, be it in the form of a concrete landscape or merely forms resembling a landscape. In many of his paintings the colour white invades the canvas, reflecting a minimalist interpretation and a process of exploration and ability to synthesise his perception of the urban space. He essentially uses enamel to give his work delicacy and flexibility. The final result is a series of modern paintings with a seductive visual impact. Already established as a prolific artist, Olivié exhibits his paintings and photography throughout Mexico, the USA and the UK. In addition, he holds regular workshops in contemporary abstract painting techniques.
Alexander Sutulov	New York, New York Competition 2007	Alexander Sutulov was born in Concepción, Chile, in 1962. He attended the Institute of Contemporary Art in Santiago from 1980 to 1984 and continued his study of art at the University of Utah from 1985 to 1987 with emphasis in painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture. Since his return to Chile in 1994, the artist has been part of a variety of corporate and institutional art projects such as: History of Concepción Mural Project commissioned by the Bío-Bío North Ream Urban Development Project, Gasco Energy Sculpture Project commissioned by Gasco gas company in Santiago and the recently inaugurated History of Chilean Mining Mural, 3 story digital mural commissioned by Chilean Bureau of Mines and the University of Concepción.
Jonas Everets	Fine Art Gallery	A graduate from The School of The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and holding a Masters of Fine Arts degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York, Jonas began his career as an artist showing paintings in galleries across the Northeast. His paintings have been featured in film and television as well as displayed in private homes. He was selected as the "Best Emerging Artist" in Painting and Drawing at the 2005 GLAAD auction. Using ideas previously developed in his paintings, Jonas began creating products by drawing on his developed senses of color, surface, layering, materials and the ornamental. Working steadily and consistently towards uniting his creative interests in fine art and design, he founded his namesake company in 2003.

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More Art Records Set To Fall "Three shimmering paintings by Monet and a portrait by Lucian Freud expected to set a world record for the artist are among the stars of sales predicted to smash European auction records next week. More than GBP 200m-worth of art is for sale over three days at Christie's, and a further GBP 250m at its rival Sotheby's." The Guardian (UK) 06/15/07 Is The Art Market Due For A Correction? This spring's art auction boom has been an undeniably wild ride, with records being set seemingly every time an auctioneer's gavel falls. But "privately, many are saying of the current auction boom that price is not always a reflection of quality. With records being set so frequently, people are also beginning to wonder whether the bubble will burst -- as it did in the early '90s -- and whether the current market is sustainable." The Age (Melbourne) 06/15/07 Russians Driving High End Art Higher An auction of Russian art at Christie's of London has set a sales record as Russian collectors continue to put their stamp on the art market. "When Russian collectors want something of top quality, money is meaningless for them: They will pay crazy prices." Bloomberg 06/14/07 Basel Good And Bad "In the lexicon of modern and contemporary art fairs, collectors recognize Art Basel as the biggest and the best. By the time the fair ends on Sunday some 60,000 visitors will have flocked here to see an international array of some 300 galleries showing more than 2,000 artists. Many will also peruse art in the coinciding smaller art fairs and institutional exhibitions here. But not everyone is upbeat. Dealers are complaining that it has become difficult to sell great works. Collectors are grumbling about the scarcity of top-quality art." The New York Times 06/14/07 Video Art: Problems, Potential, and Future: It is no secret that video art is one of the hottest mediums of our times. Perhaps the popularity of video art is due to the fact that it is a reflection of our technology-driven lives or maybe people relate to it because the pieces often demand the viewers attention. However, video art has many problems and a lot of potential regardless of the reasons it is enjoyed. myartspace blog. 6/16/07)

-	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 a number of changes on the image upload/galleryWizard part of the code to address browser problems for Mac Users and some Windows users. We also added a more advanced and visual tag cloud. By Tuesday of this week users can select a tag from the "top-50" list, from the "entire tag list", or create one on their own.
-	We have written a more extensive documentation on the two ways in which you can build a gallery -- either through the automated "GalleryWizard" or through the more manual process. To read the PDF document that covers this, click here.
-	Brian Sherwin, our senior managing editor has been continuing his interview series with artists. See his interview with Catrina Lira Pereira. Brian has also written on a number of interesting subject areas this week.
-	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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