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FEATURED ARTISTS:	Andrea Chung, Peter Gerakaris, Max Boufathal, Dom Gray, Nikki Sass.
INTERVIEWS:	Sarah McKenzie, Philip Lee, Joseph Szkodzinski, Yeni Mao, David Stromeyer
ART NEWS:	TThe Assassination of Barack Obama; Competition impacting Sotheby's; A Stolen Money . . .
MESSAGE BOARD:	The Winners of the Hot Shoe International/myartspace Next Perspective Competition have been selected. For more details, click HERE.

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


Andrea Chung	Andrea Chung Art	Born in Newark, NJ 1978, Andrea spent the first 15 years of her life in Houston, Texas with her family, her Jamaican born father and her Trinidadian mother. At the age of 17 Andrea graduated high school a year early and left Houston to study in New York. In 1996 Andrea attended Parsons School of Design. Although her focus of study was illustration, Andrea gravitated towards fine arts. In 1999 she spent a summer abroad studying painting at the Lorenzo de’ Medici Institute of Art in Florence. She graduated from Parsons with a BFA in 2000. Andrea is currently a 2nd year MFA candidate of the Mount Royal School of the Arts graduate program at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland.


Peter Gerakaris	Gerakaris	Peter Gerakaris earned a BFA from Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art and Planning in 2003. Peter studied painting and architecture in Rome under the auspices of Cornell University, and subsequently established a New York City studio. He is currently an MFA painting candidate at the City University of New York’s Hunter College in Manhattan. Gerakaris’ work has appeared in Beijing at Chinese Contemporary Gallery, The Bronx Museum of the Arts (NYC), Scope Art London (UK), and Rocketart Gallery (Australia)-- and several other venues. Gerakaris’ work also appears in various collections in the USA, Europe, China and Mexico.


Max Boufathal	Max Boufathal 2008	Max Boufathel was born in Paris, France. Max's work has been exhibited extensively in France.


Dom Gray	Recent Paintings	Dom Gray was born in West Sussex, England. He holds a BA in Fine Art Painting from the Wimbledon School of Art. In his own words "Making The Paintinhgs is an evolutionary process; each work describes a different place a different statement of form, There is no predestined image just a decision making process.".


Nikki Sass	The Attraction of Lacking	In Nikki's own words "I grew up on the city limits (as in Five Points & 8 Mile for my local friends) of Detroit. The location coupled with climate made for a mostly grey environment. It had a lasting effect on my appreciation for industrial objects, and the textures found on them. As my work has progressed over the last decade I've seen more of these influences surface within it. I came out to California 3 years ago for the ocean. I thought I'd be able to ignore the pastel and candy pallet but, as you can see, it's found its way in. Changing environments and how it effects my work has been an underlying interest. In Detroit I made work reflecting Italy but with local colors. Since moving to San Francisco I find my self looking for small bits of the city that remind me of home. When I do return I spend a couple days photographing Detroit and collecting rusted bits of junk to take back to my studio."

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

Sarah McKenzie

Sarah McKenzie painted aerial views of suburban sprawl for a number of years. In her recent work, she has "zoomed in," to focus on individual tract homes and commercial structures captured in a state of partial construction. These new paintings explore the building process. Upon observation one can discover a metaphor for the activity of painting. Sarah studied at Yale University and the University of Michigan...

Philip Lee

Philip Lee has been exhibiting and performing throughout the UK since November 2000. His installations and performances integrate live body mark-making and sculptural display. Lee uses earth materials in transformations that may be durational or theatrical and usually involve endurance. Installations reflect the performances showing traces of the live event, with video projections or photographs documenting the actions. Philip studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design. He currently lives in Buckinghamshire and works in and around London...

Joseph Szkodzinski

Joseph Szkodzinski is a runner-up in the The Next Perspective photography competition. The Next Perspective competition was sponsored by myartspace and HotShoe International. Joseph's photographs were selected by the contest jury which included Henry Horenstein from the Rhode Island School of Design, Dr. Juliet Hacking from Sotheby's Institute of Art in London and Clare Freestone from the National Portrait Gallery in London. Joseph studied photography and art at the School of Visual Arts in NYC, and graduated in 1981 with a BFA in photography. Since then he has worked as a staff photographer for The Image Bank, Getty Images and the NYPD. He has also did freelance work for newspapers and magazines. Joseph has always found time to shoot his personal work-- many of these images reveal his photographic journey through America from the 70's to the present day...

Yeni Mao

Yeni Mao was born in 1971 in Guelph, Canada to Chinese parents. His childhood was spent in the U.S., Sweden, and Taiwan. Currently, he lives and works in New York City. He holds a BFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, and studied bronze casting at Artworks Foundry in Berkeley, CA. He works in painting, drawing, sculpture and installation. The assembly of images and/or objects, frequently referencing the body and mechanical diagrams, characterizes his work. Natural properties such as mimicry, symmetry, and adaptation are used to investigate larger social issues of extradition, migration, and sexual and cultural hybridism. Yeni Mao’s work has been exhibited extensively in the U.S. and Asia. Currently his work is featured in SEWN, a traveling exhibition of Chilean and Chinese artists at the Yihaodi International Artbase in Beijing and East Asia Contemporary in Shanghai. His work has also been featured at the Pulse Art Fair..

David Stromeyer

Throughout David Stromeyer's long career, he has created both outdoor and indoor sculptures, and has also successfully completed many public commissions. David's preferred medium is steel, which he most often fashions into large scale abstract or semi-abstract works. David's work can be found in the collections at DeCordova Museum, National Building Museum, and the National Museum of America Art. His work is also included in several private and corporate collections throughout the United States...

Drawing A Crowd -- A New York artist looking for a way to shock the public into paying attention to his work appears to have found one after he stenciled "The Assassination of Barack Obama" onto the window of the storefront housing his latest collection. Also paying attention: the NYPD and the Secret Service. Washington Post 06/06/08

Competition Eating Into Sotheby's Profits "Increased competition from Christie's, particularly in the fields of impressionist, modern and contemporary art, contributed to an $18.1m (or 12%) fall in turnover at Sotheby's for the first three months of 2008, compared with the same period last year." The Art Newspaper 6/5/08

Police Recover Stolen Monet -- The paintings were stolen Aug. 5 by gunmen as a handful of visitors milled about the museum in Nice. The stolen paintings were Monet's 1897 "Cliffs near Dieppe," the 1890 "Lane of Poplars near Moret" by fellow Impressionist Alfred Sisley and Flemish master Jan Brueghel the Elder's 17th century "Allegory of Earth" and "Allegory of Water." Together, they are worth about $1.55 million. MSNBC 06/05/08

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