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Below are a few artists we'd like to call your attention to this week. |
 Noah Landfield |
 Recent Works |
Noah Landfield, born 1979, was raised in New York City. In 2001 he received a BFA with honors in painting from the School of Visual Art in NYC, NY. Since graduating Noah has lived in New York City, working in several different studios, mostly in Brooklyn. Trips to Japan in 2005 and 2006 with his wife Nagisa have been very influential to his current body of work, as well as the changing surface of New York City. Noah is currently an MFA candidate at Hunter College in NYC. |
 Jack Chipman |
 All Natual |
Los Angeles native Jack Chipman received a BFA from Cal-Arts (originally Chouinard Art Institute) in Los Angeles and has exhibited his abstract paintings, collages and witty assemblages throughout California and abroad. His rippings series began in San Francisco in the 1970s, soon after graduation from art school. The paintings were called rippings because they were strips of canvas of various widths that were dyed subtle pastel shades. Curator of Art at the Oakland Museum, George W Neubert mounted a show of this post-minimal painting trend entitled Off the Stretcher that included Chipman along with Ed Moses, Peter Plagens, Tom Wudl and others. |
 Ted Stanugaz |
 New Work |
In his own words "I am an abstract painter and have been an artist from my earliest memories. I do not hope to make images… that they come from anything is a paradox, they rather occur after a fashion. Confronted with the anxiety of the blank canvas and with that resulting energy, I work until I have ruined it, then beginning again I continue working rather lost between the brush strokes until I scrape it off, or some of it, put it back, or some of it, and eventually there is the residue, map, or blueprint of an activity and process that proves the creative activity of one human being. Lines are added that you cannot see because they have been pulverized by light, images surface and vanish. There are no burning babies, no dancing firemen, no gravity or passage of time, yet all these and more are regularly seen by others. Those objects and relationships that seem to exist in the picture plane instead exist in the subversive paradox of this apparent mirror in which the viewer ultimately finds him or her self. 01/02/08 " |
 Susanna Thornton |
 Twilight |
Susanna Thornton is a visual artist - a painter, photographer and filmmaker - currently residing in New York City. She received her B.F.A. degree from the Corcoran College of Art and her work has been featured in several group exhibitions in New York and across the United States. Her work focuses on the transient and abstract nature of light. SusannaÂ?s distinctive use of light and color in both her commercial and artistic work has been remarked by many who have worked with her. Many have referred to her work as atmospheric or dreamy. Currently Susanna is delving into filmmaking and is looking to exhibit her first short film at the end of 2007. |
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Brian Sherwin, our senior blog editor has been continuing his interview series with artists. Below are a couple of recent highlights. |
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It's An Online World, And 45% Of Us Are Living In It " About 38 percent of U.S. consumers are watching TV shows online, 36 percent use their cell phones as entertainment devices and 45 percent are creating online content like Web sites, music, videos and blogs for others, according to a new-media survey..." Yahoo! (Reuters) 12/28/07 Sotheby's, Christie's Pull Even In Auction Sales "Sotheby's sold $5.33 billion of art at auctions, and arranged more than $668 million of private deals outside the public salerooms. That was a 46 percent increase from $3.66 billion a year earlier. Christie's estimated its art sales at about $6 billion last year." Bloomberg 01/03/08 Samsung Head Accused Of $64 Million Art Fraud "Over $64m from a slush fund set up by Lee Kun-hee, chairman of Samsung, was allegedly used to buy art for his wife Ra Hee Hong Lee who is director-general of the Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, according to the Korean corporation's former house attorney. None of the art has been exhibited in Korea and its whereabouts is presently unknown. Samsung denies the allegations..." The Art Newspaper 01/02/08 myartspace launches "Premium Membership for Artists" program - a package of new features to help artists myartspace.com, the premier online social network for the art world, has launched an exciting new offering "Premium Services for Artists ". It's a package of extra features for those myartspace users that want more professional capabilities like their own personal web address (URL), different templates to present their galleries, a more professional personal home page, the ability to generate Adobe PDF documents from galleries and lots more features. .... myartspace News 12/15/07 |
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The recent goings-on. |
| > | myartspace has released Premium Services for Artists, a series of advanced professional capabilities that will be available for an annual subscription fee. myartspace will remain an open, free community with unlimited uploads, galleries and more. It will also, however, introduce features for artists that want to use the myartspace platform as their primary communication and outreach tool, their eCommerce engine to sell their work and their social link to collectors, critics, and peers.info@catmacart.com |
| > | We hope myartspace members are enjoying the new front-end to myartspace. We are working on a huge new project: "Groups" support for myartspace. Anyone from an informal collective to a major museum will be able to make a group site on myartspace with forums, news bulletins, chat, and more. . . If you have any ideas what features you'd like to see, let us know by emailing info@catmacart.com |
| > | We've made some improvements and fixed a few bugs around the site. If you spot a bug, please email us at info@catmacart.com with details! |
| > | If you need technical support with the myartspace, please email us at info@catmacart.com |
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that's it ~ have a great week.
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