weekly featured art

weekly featured art > 8.31.07

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Below are a few artists we'd like to call your attention to this week:


Patricia Hagen	Gallery	Patricia Hagen received her MFA with Distinction from the California College of Arts and Crafts. Since then, her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibits around the United States. Her work was also featured in a recent edition of New American Paintings.

Lili Maya	Precipitation - 2007	Lili Maya graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with an MFA in Digital Media and a BFA in Graphic Design. Currently, she is working with drawing, painting, still image, video and sound to build interactive and non-interactive installations. She also teaches at MICA - Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore.

Alex Schreiber	Kunsthandlung	Alex Schreiber lives and works in Vienna, Austria. his work has been featured in exhibits around Europe. The Kunsthandlung gallery shows work from his most recent solo show at SYNDIKart in Vienna.

Jessica Snow	Contemporary Art	Jessica Snow is an artist living and working in San Francisco. She was recently selected for the prestigious American Artists Abroad Program, and will travel to Montevideo, Uruguay, where she is in a group show at the U.S. Embassy. She will participate in workshops, lectures, and exhibitions while there. She has also recieved the Artadia Award and the Cadogan Fellowship.

Nicole S. Fernandez	Sculptures	Nicole S. Fernandez was born in Hollywood, Florida. After receiving her BFA at Ringling School of Art and Design in 2004, Nicole moved to New York City to complete her MFA at the School of Visual Arts. In 2005 she studied Buddhism under Noah Levine and art with Petah Coyne, both of whom greatly influenced her current practice.

Jaap de Vries	Sculptures	Jaap de Vries is an internationally exhibiting artist from the Netherlands. He earned his degree in painting, but is also an accomplished sculptor and film maker. He has an upcoming solo show this September at 20 Hoxton Square in London.

Brian Sherwin, our senior blog editor has been continuing his interview series with artists. Below are a couple of recent highlights:

Kathie Olivas

"Kathie Olivas is a multi-media artist who resides in Tampa, FL. Her work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions across the nation. Inspired by early American portraiture that often depicted children as small adults in an idealized new land, the characters parallel this vision within their own sense of post-apocalyptic conformity, uniquely documenting their own stories in a mysterious brave new world. . . "

Karin Olah

"Karin Olah creates textural abstract paintings that elaborate on the heritage of American quilt making. Her work incorporates materials, aesthetics and symbols borrowed from several regions of the United States. Karin uses fabric, often antique textiles, in a way that mimics the flow of paint from a brush. Translucent layers of cottons, silks, and linens blend with opaque calligraphic brushstokes as graphite lines intersect the surface or fade into the suggestion of a grid.. . . "

Hirst's Skull Sells For $100 Million Damien Hirst's diamond-studded skull has been sold for $100 million to an investment group. "The platinum skull, studded with 8,601 diamonds, has been on the market at least since June 3, when it went on show at London's White Cube gallery." Bloomberg 08/29/07

Will Shaky Stocks Affect Art Market? With the financial markets struggling, will the art market back off its torrid pace? "While some buyers may drop out, auction house executives say, others will step in: the pool of potential buyers has increased as collectors grow more diverse." The New York Times 08/29/07

Controversy In Oz Over Osama/Jesus Art "A print of Osama Bin Laden which morphs into Jesus, and a statue of the Virgin Mary covered in a burqa have sparked furious debate in Australia. The two pieces have gone on display at the National Art School in Sydney after being entered for the prestigious Blake Prize for Religious Art." BBC 08/31/07

Vettriano Success: All About The Market Forces "Self-taught and sneered at by the art establishment, especially in his native Scotland, Jack Vettriano has become arguably one of the best known painters in the world." How does he feel about artists who resent his success? "Artists say, how can I get only X for my work and Vettriano gets X thousand for his? Think, you stupid bugger. It's not a bit about being a better painter than me, it's about market forces." The Times (UK) 08/29/07

Small Utah Town Approves $2 Billion Gehry Project "City officials in Lehi, Utah, on Aug. 28 approved plans by Brandt Andersen, owner of the Utah Flash basketball team, to build an 85-acre Gehry-designed development that includes an amphitheater, hotel, shopping center, restaurants, residences and man-made lakes." Bloomberg 08/29/07

Disputed Pollocks To Go On Display For First Time The Boston College show features about 170 Jackson Pollocks, including paintings, drawings, photographs, and letters. But the most interest will be generated by two dozen paintings which may or may not be by the 20th Century master. "Studied by scientists and argued over by art historians, the paint-spattered pictures will be on view for the first time." Boston Globe 08/26/07

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