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Below are a few artists we'd like to call your attention to this week. |
 Steve Kim |
 Art Workd |
Steve Kim was born in Seoul, Korea and now lives in Los Angeles. In his own words "Although I wish I could say otherwise, my paintings typically begin with an unpretentious, but slightly embarrassing,"Hey, that's neat. That looks fun to paint". If I'm lucky I'll have my camera with me, but more often than not it's something duly noted and set aside. It is with this attitude that I pick out photos to paint from. I browse the ever-expanding collection of pictures I've taken and when one catches my eye—for whatever reason at all—I go ahead and paint it. I don't particularly revel in my use of photography. I am not mediating between its role in the arts or painting specifically. I use it because it's practical, and alternatives do not exactly abound. Luckily, I like photography and post processing, so I happen to know enough to discern how it might influence my painting for better or worse." |
 Alessandra Capodacqua |
 Self portraits |
Born in Naples, she started to photograph in 1977. Currently lives in Florence. Since 1991 she has worked at Fondazione Studio Marangoni, where she teaches photography, darkroom techniques, pinhole photography and alternative printing processes. Her works have been exhibited in Italy and abroad. She is also very active as curator of exhibitions for fsmgallery (FSM new exhibition space), organizer of educational activities and manager of printed matter such as catalogues and books published by FSM. She has curated many exhibitions and Festivals in Italy and abroad, among others the Backlight Triennial Festival of Photography in Tampere, Finland. |
 Kelly Manning |
 Paintings |
Kelly Manning holds a BFA in Studio Art with emphasis in Painting and Drawing and a BA in Economics from the University of Nebraska-Kearney. She is currently an MFA Candidate in Painting at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. |
 Nicolas Wiese |
 nicolas wiese 2008 |
Nicholas Weise was born in Itzehoe, Germany (near Hamburg ) in 1976. He is passionately into drawing and music since his childhood days in the early 1980s. He has been socialized in the 1990s in a sub culture / counter culture context. |
 Rebecca Potts |
 Glacial Melt |
Rebecca was born and grew up in western Montana where she learned to climb trees and cliffs, navigate white water, breathe, and create art. She graduated from Middlebury College in Vermont with a BA in Studio Art & Geography. During her junior year, she studied at the Centre for the Arts at the University of Tasmania in Australia. After college, Rebecca worked as an environmental organizer in Camden NJ for a year and then moved to NY to work at a new small public school. She now lives in St. Louis where she is getting her MFA in visual arts at Washington University. |
 Amanda Joy Calobrisi |
 Paintings |
In Amanda's own words "I compose the shots and pose as the model for my paintings and yet, the people in my finished works are not me. These people are strangers to me, they are emotionally indulgent; they wear their hearts on their sleeves- they are lost in daydreams, playfully biding their time waiting for something to happen. Tied up in the drama of their worlds, they have become so used to performing that they only vaguely acknowledge that they are being watched. They look past us, away or close their eyes in order to avoid eye contact. Meeting the characters in my work differs from the experience of meeting characters in a novel, because you are denied a beginning or an end." |
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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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The recent goings-on. |
| > | myartspace introduced its new scholarship program. Undergraduate and graduate studet Artists can enter a competition and win up to $5000 in a cash art scholarship. |
| > | 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 |
| > | The new message box appears in myartspace now. We expect further refinements to the core site to over the next few months. |
| > | If you need technical support with the myartspace, please email us at info@catmacart.com |
| > | If you haven't already, |
| If you wish to continue to receive this publication, please click on the following link to subscribe to this publication: http://www.myartspace.com/weekly. |
that's it ~ have a great week.
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