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Sunday, August 29, 2010
MYARTSPACE.com has launched the 3rd annual juried MYARTSPACE Art Scholarship competition
Sunday, April 05, 2009
2nd Annual myartspace.com Art Scholarship Competition
www.myartspace.com/scholarshipsMyartspace, the premiere online venue for contemporary art, has launched the 2nd annual art scholarship competition, with $16,000 in CASH prize awards. This merit-based scholarship is intended for students who have a passion for art and demonstrate that passion in their work. Students using all mediums of visual art, including photography, digital media, and sculpture, are encouraged to apply. The program is intended to recognize and award young artists who exhibit exceptional talent.
Myartspace will provide three scholarship prizes for undergraduate students and three scholarship prizes for graduate students. First place winners in each category are awarded a $5000 cash scholarship. Second and Third place winners receive $2000 and $1000 cash awards, respectively. To be considered for a Myartspace scholarship, applicants must be undergraduate or graduate students in an art degree program.
Last year, scholarship applicants hailed from over 1,200 schools worldwide. For more information visit, www.myartspace.com/scholarships.
Last year, scholarship applicants hailed from over 1,200 schools worldwide. For more information visit, www.myartspace.com/scholarships.
View the undergraduate and graduate winners of the 1st annual myartspace.com art scholarship competition below:
Lucy May: 2008 myartspace.com graduate art scholarship first place winner:
Lucy May: 2008 myartspace.com graduate art scholarship first place winner:
“Entering the competition was an excellent way for me to build a high quality gallery of my work online, since I don't yet have my own website. I was aware that the site is vast and diverse, and that there would be many applications for the Scholarship. I am honored that my work was selected and delighted that so many more people will be able to view my work as a result of this competition. I'm also excited about the possibilities that this will open up for me.” -- Lucy May
Justin Lowman: 2008 myartspace.com graduate art scholarship second place winner
Justin Lowman: 2008 myartspace.com graduate art scholarship second place winner
“I don't think one ever imagines winning these things. Of course, I knew I couldn't win unless I tried. I enjoyed putting the gallery together. It gave me chance to take inventory on recent work. My placement at the top has rendered me speechless. Of course, there is a smile.” -- Justin Lowman
Jessica Wohl: 2008 myartspace.com graduate art scholarship third place winner
Jessica Wohl: 2008 myartspace.com graduate art scholarship third place winner
“As I'm sure all applicants were, I was hopeful about the competition, though I figured it was pretty competitive. The word 'scholarship' always makes students excited. My reaction to winning was, of course, surprised and excited! I am really honored. It gives me validation and makes me feel like I'm going down the right path.” -- Jessica Wohl
Sara Sisun: 2008 myartspace.com undergraduate art scholarship first place winner
Sara Sisun: 2008 myartspace.com undergraduate art scholarship first place winner
“I was just checking out the myartspace site and saw the advertisement for the competition; I had my portfolio documented and available so I figured it would be easy to fill out one more application. I was completely shocked to hear that I had won; I thought the winners had already been announced. I’m nervous to hear back from graduate programs, so receiving such encouragement is really great.” -- Sara Sisun
Jessica Brown: 2008 myartspace.com undergraduate art scholarship second place winner
Jessica Brown: 2008 myartspace.com undergraduate art scholarship second place winner
“This was a great opportunity for someone living in a pretty secluded place, such as Alaska, to get my art out there. I am a little shocked that I won a place in the competition because I know how many talented artists entered. Just by participating I feel more connected to the outside, let alone winning!” -- Jessica Brown
Zach Stein: 2008 myartspace.com undergraduate art scholarship third place winner
“I don’t see how an art student can pass up an opportunity like this. You don’t have to pay to join Myartspace. You don’t have to pay to join the competition. You don’t have to get your work to a location. You just take a picture and put it online. It’s a bit of a no-brainer.” -- Zach Stein
Myartspace is one of the fastest growing and diverse communities on the internet. Its members include more than 50,000 artists, collectors, galleries and other art world professionals from across the globe, and it currently hosts the work of nearly 30,000 artists. Membership is free and artists can host their own art galleries with unlimited storage capacity.
Catherine McCormack-Skiba founded the company in 2006. An artist herself, she notes “The Arts are an essential part of our society, and CatMacArt Corporation is proud to once again sponsor a meaningful scholarship program for young artists in undergraduate and graduate studies. A large part of the mission of the community is to provide opportunities for emerging and established artists to develop their careers . Given our record participation levels last year, we are hopeful that we can match the depth and breadth of the art submitted last year. It is a tough benchmark for us.”
Myartspace launches 2009 cash scholarship competition for graduate and undergraduate students
www.myartspace.com/blog/2009/04/myartspace-launches-2009-cash.html
www.myartspace.com/blog/2009/04/myartspace-launches-2009-cash.html
Myartspace launches major Art Scholarship program for both graduate and undergraduate students
www.myartspace.com/blog/2008/07/myartspace-launches-major-art.html
myartspace announces Winners of 2008 Undergraduate Scholarship Competition
www.myartspace.com/blog/2009/01/myartspace-announces-winners-of-2008.html
The 2008 undergraduate and graduate winners
www.myartspace.com/scholarships/winners
www.myartspace.com/blog/2008/07/myartspace-launches-major-art.html
myartspace announces Winners of 2008 Undergraduate Scholarship Competition
www.myartspace.com/blog/2009/01/myartspace-announces-winners-of-2008.html
The 2008 undergraduate and graduate winners
www.myartspace.com/scholarships/winners
Take care, Stay true,
Brian Sherwin
Senior Editor
myartspace.com
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Monday, December 15, 2008
Finalists of myartspace / Bridge Art Fair Miami competition
Finalists of myartspace / Bridge Art Fair Miami competition
Myartspace, along with Bridge Art Fair sponsored a competition juried by a world class panel from Bridge Art Fair, SF MOMA, San Jose Museum of Art and Whitney Museum of Art. The registration and submission period ran from September 1 through November 15, 2008. Fifty finalists were selected along with three top winners.
The three winners were Jonathan Brilliant, Beatrix Reinhardt and Douglas Ljungkvist. The four-person jury panel consisted of Elisabeth Sussman, senior Curator of the Whitney Museum, Janet Bishop, Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, JoAnne Northrop, senior curator of the San Jose Museum of Art, and Michael Workman, Founder of the Bridge Art Fair.
Catherine McCormack-Skiba, the founder of myartspace and CEO, noted, "We continue to marvel at the quality of work that the community puts up for consideration, and the challenge the jury confronts with such breadth and depth of material. Our goal continues to be to provide great opportunities for artists to have their work recognized by leading curators and the art public. We continue to see a global audience of artists and art appreciators in our community."
Michael Workman, Founder and Director of the Bridge Art Fair, said, "We have always believed the art industry will thrive with new entries, new models and new venues. myartspace.com brings to the table a dramatically new and contemporary way to address the art market. We welcome such innovation from the Internet in the Bridge Art Fair."
This will be a short series of entries acknowledging the fifty finalists. I shall post five at a time:
Paul Hickey -- www.myartspace.com/paulhickey
"My work explores space and colour interaction as central sensuous elements. Attempting a balance between control and chance I use bold industrial colours to achieve a democratic approach towards hue. Focusing on the correlation of the whole to its individual component pieces, I want my work to have a direct dialogue with the architecture and not to be confined by the picture plane but to fully discover architectural limits."
Milee Tibbs -- www.myartspace.com/milleetibbs
"I am drawn to photography because of its ubiquitous presence in our culture and because of the tension between the truth-value photographs infer and their inherent manipulation of reality. Despite our awareness of the mutability of photographic images, we approach them thinking we know what to expect: something that-has-been, a fixed subject inside a frame. If the fundamental nature of photography is the fixing of an image, then it is my goal to create an image whose subject is illusive. I develop my work out of my desire to scratch off the surface of the image and expose its construction. 
Mari Richards -- www.myartspace.com/maririchards
"Our culture is hell-bent on consuming everything around us. In every area of life – from food, to information, to our choice of identity and beyond – we create a concept of self by asking our bodies and minds to incorporate and assimilate our surroundings. This habitual filling assumes that individual bodies can take it all in, and continue in the same oblivious state as they began. But, what is our personalized bodily response to this excess and overfilling? How do we cope – subconsciously and corporeally – with too much input, and no end in sight"
James Robert Ford -- www.myartspace.com/jamesrobertford
James Robert Ford is a contemporary British mixed media and installation artist. James attended Goldsmiths College, London. His artwork is often based around social interaction and include elements of game play, participation, communication and humor, and is recognizable in form by its heavy use of the Internet as a means of creating, displaying and promoting artworks.
Myartspace, along with Bridge Art Fair sponsored a competition juried by a world class panel from Bridge Art Fair, SF MOMA, San Jose Museum of Art and Whitney Museum of Art. The registration and submission period ran from September 1 through November 15, 2008. Fifty finalists were selected along with three top winners.
The three winners were Jonathan Brilliant, Beatrix Reinhardt and Douglas Ljungkvist. The four-person jury panel consisted of Elisabeth Sussman, senior Curator of the Whitney Museum, Janet Bishop, Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, JoAnne Northrop, senior curator of the San Jose Museum of Art, and Michael Workman, Founder of the Bridge Art Fair.
Catherine McCormack-Skiba, the founder of myartspace and CEO, noted, "We continue to marvel at the quality of work that the community puts up for consideration, and the challenge the jury confronts with such breadth and depth of material. Our goal continues to be to provide great opportunities for artists to have their work recognized by leading curators and the art public. We continue to see a global audience of artists and art appreciators in our community."
Michael Workman, Founder and Director of the Bridge Art Fair, said, "We have always believed the art industry will thrive with new entries, new models and new venues. myartspace.com brings to the table a dramatically new and contemporary way to address the art market. We welcome such innovation from the Internet in the Bridge Art Fair."
This will be a short series of entries acknowledging the fifty finalists. I shall post five at a time:
Paul Hickey -- www.myartspace.com/paulhickey"My work explores space and colour interaction as central sensuous elements. Attempting a balance between control and chance I use bold industrial colours to achieve a democratic approach towards hue. Focusing on the correlation of the whole to its individual component pieces, I want my work to have a direct dialogue with the architecture and not to be confined by the picture plane but to fully discover architectural limits."
Milee Tibbs -- www.myartspace.com/milleetibbs"I am drawn to photography because of its ubiquitous presence in our culture and because of the tension between the truth-value photographs infer and their inherent manipulation of reality. Despite our awareness of the mutability of photographic images, we approach them thinking we know what to expect: something that-has-been, a fixed subject inside a frame. If the fundamental nature of photography is the fixing of an image, then it is my goal to create an image whose subject is illusive. I develop my work out of my desire to scratch off the surface of the image and expose its construction.
My recent work is a response to our relationship with mediated images, specifically those of women. I use the transgressive space of self-portraiture to upend the canonical power relationship between photographer and subject. This is a picture of me is an attempt to locate the self in an image. This series both evokes the impossibility of going back to childhood and questions the desire to do so. The act of reenacting these photographs is a gesture meant to question how a woman is expected to present herself.
In present American culture, women are asked to have the body of fourteen year olds, and fourteen year olds are presented as desirable women. There is an obsession with youth and sex, and not coincidentally, there is also an obsession with pedophilia. By reenacting these childhood poses I am asking the viewer to reinterpret them through what I see as our culturally confused and confusing relationship to sexuality."
Mari Richards -- www.myartspace.com/maririchards"Our culture is hell-bent on consuming everything around us. In every area of life – from food, to information, to our choice of identity and beyond – we create a concept of self by asking our bodies and minds to incorporate and assimilate our surroundings. This habitual filling assumes that individual bodies can take it all in, and continue in the same oblivious state as they began. But, what is our personalized bodily response to this excess and overfilling? How do we cope – subconsciously and corporeally – with too much input, and no end in sight"
James Robert Ford -- www.myartspace.com/jamesrobertfordJames Robert Ford is a contemporary British mixed media and installation artist. James attended Goldsmiths College, London. His artwork is often based around social interaction and include elements of game play, participation, communication and humor, and is recognizable in form by its heavy use of the Internet as a means of creating, displaying and promoting artworks.
"My work investigates nationalism, in its broadest sense, and the slippery navigation of belonging. The most current work deals with absence and fullness, the imbuing of a template with desired characteristics, and the potential blankness of identity. Personality is hollow, an amalgamation of characteristics plucked from your heroes and shaped by your chosen environment. This is accomplished through series of works that circulate around this central subject.
The images I choose to work with are either the assembly of smaller wholes to make one larger body and movement, or are a single body that addresses the interior space of the silhouette. The fascination with mutable identity is really a reaction towards the American dream, being anything you want to be- especially relevant to immigrant societies, but widely applicable."
About myartspace:
myartspace, the premier online venue for contemporary art, is one of the fastest growing and diverse communities on the internet. Its members include more than 50,000 artists, collectors, gallerists and other art world professionals from across the globe, and it currently has on display hundreds of thousands of pieces of fine art.
Membership on myartspace is free and artists can upload an unlimited amount of work including images, music and video. Myartspace is created and run by CatMacArt Corporation. CatMacArt Corporation is located in Palo Alto, California. CatMacArt Corporation also is the company behind The New York Art Exchange (www.nyaxe.com) the premier online marketplace for contemporary art.
For more information visit, www.myartspace.com/miamibasel/winners/winners.html
Take care, Stay true,
Brian Sherwin
Senior Editor
www.myartspace.com
Friday, December 12, 2008
Finalists of myartspace / Bridge Art Fair Miami competition
Finalists of myartspace / Bridge Art Fair Miami competition
Myartspace, along with Bridge Art Fair sponsored a competition juried by a world class panel from Bridge Art Fair, SF MOMA, San Jose Museum of Art and Whitney Museum of Art. The registration and submission period ran from September 1 through November 15, 2008. Fifty finalists were selected along with three top winners.
The three winners were Jonathan Brilliant, Beatrix Reinhardt and Douglas Ljungkvist. The four-person jury panel consisted of Elisabeth Sussman, senior Curator of the Whitney Museum, Janet Bishop, Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, JoAnne Northrop, senior curator of the San Jose Museum of Art, and Michael Workman, Founder of the Bridge Art Fair.
Nicola Evans -- www.myartspace.com/nicolaevans
Maureen Keaveny -- www.myartspace.com/maureenkeaveny
Born St. Louis, MO; 1980. Living and working in Providence, RI. Photographer, installation and new media artist Maureen Keaveny utilizes outdated machines, electronics, photography, and a variety of found and recycled materials to construct large-scale, impermanent landscapes. She constructs reproductions of a nature-based reality that explores the disintegrating layers of what is natural through the formation of cultural objects and imagery.
Keaveny has won honors for her work at the St. Louis Artists' Guild in Missouri and has received the Albert P. Weisman Memorial Scholarship Fund from Columbia College Chicago. She has exhibited her work in Chicago, New York City, St. Louis, Providence, and in the Museum at Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville, GA.
Joyce Siegel --www.myartspace.com/joycesiegel
Joyce Siegel is a working artist with a studio in Long Island City. She recently had a solo show at the Shag Gallery in Chelsea, NY. She also has work at the Pierogi gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. While living in London, Joyce became fascinated with paintings, sculpture and especially drawings. She scoured the galleries and museums in London and New York.
Joyce is primarily a self taught artist and much of what she has learned has come from her interaction and observation of great art. She developed her techniques by taking several art classes at the The New York Studio School, The School of Visual Arts and Anderson Ranch. She has also worked with Jerry Salz, Suzanne Joelson, and more recently with Shazia Sikander and Joan Snyder. Joyce was invited and resided at the artist colony Yaddo, the summer of 2006.
Joyce primarily works with water based products on paper. She is very intrigued by the surface and edges of paper. Joyce has always been fascinated by the creative process; one mark leading to the next mark, as well as one drawing developing into the next drawing. Besides producing her own work, Joyce has also worked with children from The Dalton School, P.S. 6 and the 92nd Street Y Nursery School creating large scale grid drawings. The drawings incorporate sentences, letters, marks and words generated by the children. The entire student body is involved in the drawings which have raised significant funds for these institutions.
Joyce Siegel was born in New York City where she currently resides. She received a B.S. in Economics in 1982 from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and worked on Wall Street for 10 years.
Myartspace, along with Bridge Art Fair sponsored a competition juried by a world class panel from Bridge Art Fair, SF MOMA, San Jose Museum of Art and Whitney Museum of Art. The registration and submission period ran from September 1 through November 15, 2008. Fifty finalists were selected along with three top winners.
The three winners were Jonathan Brilliant, Beatrix Reinhardt and Douglas Ljungkvist. The four-person jury panel consisted of Elisabeth Sussman, senior Curator of the Whitney Museum, Janet Bishop, Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, JoAnne Northrop, senior curator of the San Jose Museum of Art, and Michael Workman, Founder of the Bridge Art Fair.
Catherine McCormack-Skiba, the founder of myartspace and CEO, noted, "We continue to marvel at the quality of work that the community puts up for consideration, and the challenge the jury confronts with such breadth and depth of material. Our goal continues to be to provide great opportunities for artists to have their work recognized by leading curators and the art public. We continue to see a global audience of artists and art appreciators in our community."
Michael Workman, Founder and Director of the Bridge Art Fair, said, "We have always believed the art industry will thrive with new entries, new models and new venues. myartspace.com brings to the table a dramatically new and contemporary way to address the art market. We welcome such innovation from the Internet in the Bridge Art Fair."
This will be a short series of entries acknowledging the fifty finalists. I shall post five at a time:
Julie Davidow -- www.myartspace.com/juliedavidow
Julie Davidow was born in Miami and attended New World School of the Arts in Miami from 1996-1999 on scholarship. Her work has been exhibited at The National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC; The Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art; The Tampa Museum of Art; the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, N.C., and numerous local and national galleries.
Davidow's work is included in the permanent collection of the Miami Art Museum, the Girl’s Club Collection in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, and many private collections nationwide. She is recipient of a Florida Artist Enhancement Grant, Dade Community Foundation’s Leo and Raye Chestler Contemporary Visual Arts Award, and was a four year juried artist-in-residence at the ArtCenter / South Florida on Miami Beach. In addition, Julie is the coauthor of the book MIAMI Contemporary Artists.
Nicola Evans -- www.myartspace.com/nicolaevans
Maureen Keaveny -- www.myartspace.com/maureenkeavenyBorn St. Louis, MO; 1980. Living and working in Providence, RI. Photographer, installation and new media artist Maureen Keaveny utilizes outdated machines, electronics, photography, and a variety of found and recycled materials to construct large-scale, impermanent landscapes. She constructs reproductions of a nature-based reality that explores the disintegrating layers of what is natural through the formation of cultural objects and imagery.
Keaveny has won honors for her work at the St. Louis Artists' Guild in Missouri and has received the Albert P. Weisman Memorial Scholarship Fund from Columbia College Chicago. She has exhibited her work in Chicago, New York City, St. Louis, Providence, and in the Museum at Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville, GA.
Joyce Siegel --www.myartspace.com/joycesiegelJoyce Siegel is a working artist with a studio in Long Island City. She recently had a solo show at the Shag Gallery in Chelsea, NY. She also has work at the Pierogi gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. While living in London, Joyce became fascinated with paintings, sculpture and especially drawings. She scoured the galleries and museums in London and New York.
Joyce is primarily a self taught artist and much of what she has learned has come from her interaction and observation of great art. She developed her techniques by taking several art classes at the The New York Studio School, The School of Visual Arts and Anderson Ranch. She has also worked with Jerry Salz, Suzanne Joelson, and more recently with Shazia Sikander and Joan Snyder. Joyce was invited and resided at the artist colony Yaddo, the summer of 2006.
Joyce primarily works with water based products on paper. She is very intrigued by the surface and edges of paper. Joyce has always been fascinated by the creative process; one mark leading to the next mark, as well as one drawing developing into the next drawing. Besides producing her own work, Joyce has also worked with children from The Dalton School, P.S. 6 and the 92nd Street Y Nursery School creating large scale grid drawings. The drawings incorporate sentences, letters, marks and words generated by the children. The entire student body is involved in the drawings which have raised significant funds for these institutions.
Joyce Siegel was born in New York City where she currently resides. She received a B.S. in Economics in 1982 from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and worked on Wall Street for 10 years.
Megan Bisbee-Durlam was born in Minneapolis in 1983 and grew up in Vermont. She received her Bachelor of Fine Art from Alfred University in 2005. She has exhibited at such venues as Lohin Geduld Gallery in New York City, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center in Buffalo, Tampa Museum of Art, Bleu Acier Gallery and Covivant Gallery in Tampa, FL, and Flinn Gallery in Greenwich, CT, and was a finalist for the 2005, "Albright Knox: Western New York and Beyond."
Megan's work was published in the Northeastern edition #56 of New American Paintings and will be included in the upcoming publication RiseUp: Vol. III. Reviews and announcements of shows she participated in have appeared in such publications as Art in America, Buffalo News, The Gay City News, The Tampa Tribune, and Tampa Creative Loafing. Megan was invited to give an in-class presentation of her work as a visiting artist at the University of South Florida. She has studied art abroad while living in Paris and Florence. Megan currently lives and works in Anan-cho, Japan, learning Japanese and indulging in Japan's truly unique visual landscape.
About myartspace:
myartspace, the premier online venue for contemporary art, is one of the fastest growing and diverse communities on the internet. Its members include more than 50,000 artists, collectors, gallerists and other art world professionals from across the globe, and it currently has on display hundreds of thousands of pieces of fine art.
Membership on myartspace is free and artists can upload an unlimited amount of work including images, music and video. Myartspace is created and run by CatMacArt Corporation. CatMacArt Corporation is located in Palo Alto, California. CatMacArt Corporation also is the company behind The New York Art Exchange (nyaxe.com), the premier online marketplace for contemporary art.
For more information visit,
www.myartspace.com/miamibasel/winners/winners.html
Take care, Stay true,
Brian Sherwin
Senior Editor
www.myartspace.com
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