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IN THIS ISSUE  
FEATURED ARTISTS: Erin Stellmon, Sergei Petrov, Scott Hocking, Joey Podlubny, Crystal Hartman, Genna Gurvich
INTERVIEWS: Bernard Friendlich, Alex Grey
ART NEWS: Chinese Art Auction suprises all with it's strength. But should the west have a human rights conscience about Chinese Art? . . .
MESSAGE BOARD: myartspace unveiled On-Demand Printing for artists. They can select any image in their "Image Library" and make a 16 X 24 inch digital print of the image through a special offering from myartspace. $20/print
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Below are a few artists we'd like to call your attention to this week.
   

Erin Stellmon
Shangri-La at Main Gallery 		Erin Stellmon is from Portland, Oregon. She attended Parsons School of Design in New York City, received her BFA and became an amateur arm wrestler. After 11 years she left New York to attend University of Nevada Las Vegas and receive her MFA. When not in the studio, Erin is an adjunct professor in the UNLV art department and the Media Coordinator at the Neon Museum.
   

Sergei Petrov
Retrospective		 Born in Moscow in 1953, Sergei Petrov graduated from the elite Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. His professional photographic career started in 1978 when Sergei left his position as a researcher in the Soviet defense industry and began working for leading Russian publishing houses. He photographed sculpture and paintings in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg. In 1981 Sergei Petrov became a dissident, first coming to international attention in 1982 when he spent 50 days on a hunger strike trying to win permission to emigrate. While unable to leave the Soviet Union, Sergei completed a number of assignments for western magazines including Architectural Digest, Discover, New York Times Magazine, and Le Figaro. His photo journalistic work, critical of the old Soviet regime, appeared in The Washington Post and The New York Times.
   

Joey Podlubny
Street Life Project		 Joey holds a Photojournalism Diploma. He began his career as a newspaper photojournalist, self published author of "83 cents". A photo documentary book of street people living in Calgary Alberta. He is now a Magazine photographer for JuneWarren Publishing.
   

Scott Hocking
Ziggurat (in progress)		 "Hocking's approach has always been a varied one, but consistently emanating from a deep commitment to making use of existing derelict materials and finding beauty in decay. He's worked in rust - gaudily framing with the reverence of old master paintings, enshrined objects found in abandoned buildings, even constructed a pyramid of old tires. For the International Shrinking Cities project, he documented aspects of the lives of the scrapper subculture, and from his vast experience with Detroit's abandoned spaces, he's been giving unique Detroit tours to visiting artists...While Hocking maintains that his work is often motivated by irritation at something or other, it would seem it really stems from compassion: compassion for forgotten places and those things we'd rather keep out of sight, and hence out of mind." --Nick Sousanis, Editor - www.thedetroiter.com
   

Crystal Hartman
2008 Installations		 Crytal was born in Colorago. She earned a Batchelor of Fine Arts in December 2005 at the University of Colorado at Boulder with an emphasis in Printmaking and International Affairs.
   

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Genna Gurvich
Emptyness		 Genna was born in Kiev, Ukraine and currently lives in Baltimore. She attended St Petersburg State Academy of Art & Design St. Petersburg, Russia and the Kiev Art & Design College, Kiev, Ukraine. Her work has been exhibited extensively in the former Soviet Union countries and the USA
   
Brian Sherwin, our senior blog editor has been continuing his interview series with artists. Below are a couple of recent highlights.

Bernard Friendlich

"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 new mediums. I would like to personally thank Bernard's daughter, Valerie Rush, for her assistance during this interview and for introducing me to his art..."

Alex Grey

"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 for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics, and is the Chair of Wisdom University's Sacred Art Department. He and his wife Allyson Grey are the co-founders of the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, aka CoSM, a non-profit institution supporting Visionary Culture in New York City....."



Art News by Art News Journal
 


Sales at Auction of Chinese Art Exceed Estimate "Sotheby's Hong Kong auction of Chinese contemporary art brought in nearly $18 million on Wednesday afternoon... More than 100 works from the Estella Collection, which Sotheby's has called the largest and most important trove of Chinese contemporary art, were on the block." The New York Times 04/09/08


Should We Really Be Celebrating Chinese Art? Jonathan Jones says that the clamor for Chinese art in the West should be tempered by a serious consideration of the Chinese government's abysmal record on human rights. "Isn't it a bit rich that a regime once more revealed, by the outrages in Tibet, as what it has never actually denied being - an authoritarian mono-cultural state - is being so assiduously courted by so many museums and galleries?" The Guardian (UK) 04/10/08




The recent goings-on.
> myartspace introduced "On-Demand" printing capability. Artists can take any image from their image library and create a higher solution digital print for $20 with out special offer (16" X 24").
> The Next Perspective Photographic Competition sponosored by myartspace and Hotshoe International will be coming to a close next week. The competition is open to all myartspace members. Registration and submission fee is $20. The final date for submissions is April 12, 2008. For further details, see http://www.myartspace.com/hotshoe.
> 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'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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