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Polish artists feature! #2

~niepoprawnie:iconniepoprawnie: reports, August 10
Polish artists feature #2 - drawings, artisian crafts etc - you must see this!

8 años de deviantART

*noticias:iconnoticias: reports, August 7
Como muchos ya saben, hoy es el cumpleaños de deviantART. 8 años ya desde que lleva el nombre esta fantástica comunidad. Y es del agrado de toda la Comunidad Hispana felicitar a todos aquellos que hacen posible que esto siga caminando y creciendo al ritmo que lo hace.

Polish artists feature!

~niepoprawnie:iconniepoprawnie: reports, July 31
Polish artists - photography, traditional drawings, digital drawings and many more! :D

deviantART at Siggraph '08

lolly:iconlolly: reports, July 29
deviantART is proud to announce that this year, for our second convention appearance, we will be attending SIGGRAPH 2008 in Los Angeles from Tuesday August 12th through August 14th.

depthCORE XXXIV - 'Idio'

+ekud:iconekud: reports, July 27
The depthCORE.com Collective today releases their thirty-fourth themed exhibition, entitled 'IDIO'. This special edition micro pack focuses on the self, as each artist creates a maximum of two responses to the introspective theme...

deviantArtists at Comic Con!

lolly:iconlolly: reports, July 24
This year for ComicCon San Diego deviantART was presented with a unique gift from our friends at Radical Comics. They generously offered us a prime table in Artist's Alley to use as we see fit.

[ Sciencewerk ] Clonewar 50%

=denzmixed:icondenzmixed: reports, July 13
Clonewar 50% Exhibition: 50% Submission: 50% Science + 50% Art = 100% Sciencewerk

Beautiful Burnout - Underworld ArtJam

$chix0r:iconchix0r: reports, July 8
“Beautiful Burnout” is an astonishing track from Underworld’s 2007 album Oblivion with Bells. It is also the title of the multi-media exhibition on view at Jacobson Howard Gallery during the All Points West Music and Arts Festival running from August 1st to 15th, 2008.

Art Shows & Events News This Week

Arts From Hungary v1.0

~Galeee:iconGaleee: reports, August 26
Check Out How The Hungarians See The World

Graphika Manila Multimedia Design Conference

*PrincessChex:iconPrincessChex: reports, 2d 38m ago
On its third year running, Graphika Manila will once again provide another chance for creative minds to meet and celebrate the industry's successes.

exhibition :: expo :: NEW YORK INSOLITUDES

=audeladesombres:iconaudeladesombres: reports, August 24
Le LUNDI 8 SEPTEMBRE débute une exposition de 4 semaines avec mon carnet de voyage de NEW-YORK.

“Manga and Anime:An Exhibition of Popular Cartoon"

=flyingpeachbun:iconflyingpeachbun: reports, 2d 16h ago
Manga Exhibit at Napa Valley Museum Aug. 15- Sept. 14

You can read more about the exhibit here at this website: [link]

In a collaboration between the Napa Valley Museum and the Nichi Bei Times ( Japanese American Newspaper since 1946 ) in California, many manga and anime inspired works from many different artists ( including me :D ) will be on display in this exhibit from August 15 to September 14. All of the artwork was auctioned off the first night.

If you like manga and are in the area, you should go check it out!

The museum is open daily, except Tuesday, from 10:00 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $4.50 for adults; $3.50 students and Seniors; $2.50 for youth 7-17 years old’ children under seven are free. Mondays are free of charge.

deviantART Artists EB/Meet up | Aug 29-31 | MANILA

~popazrael:iconpopazrael: reports, August 24
visit :icondameat: and :iconglasshousegraphics: booth at the 4th Backdoor Ventures Arts and Music Festival on August 29-31, 2008 at the Megatrade Hall 3, SM Megamall

Zenkaikon 2008

~squiditha:iconsquiditha: reports, 1d 37m ago
Some information about Zenkaikon 2008, an anime convention in Pennsylvania taking place at the Valley Forge convention center.

FULL EVENTS LIST (For Metro Manila, Philippines)

*luwirap:iconluwirap: reports, 12h 55m ago
This event list is best accessible for Metro Manila, Philippines residents only. But if you are from other country or from outer space, you may attend too! See you there!!!

4th Arts and Music Festival ( Philippines )

~popazrael:iconpopazrael: reports, August 24
The much anticipated annual event is bound to astonish the crowd once again with a stellar showcase of performances and activities…

The 4th Backdoor Ventures Arts and Music Festival


Now on its 4th year, the BACKDOOR VENTURES ARTS & MUSIC FESTIVAL takes it a notch higher yet again to deliver exactly what its growing and diversifying audience looks forward to – a grander lineup of performances, more exceptional artworks, and an extensive array of workshops & symposia catering to art enthusiasts of all ages. Guests can expect an even more enjoyable tradefair experience with the splendid listing of concessionaires and participating institutions.

Annually gaining more and more momentum, the event draws in more partners who equally support the festival’s advocacy of bringing the arts closer to the people. Among the new event partners are Bose, The Music Source & Friendster. Loyal partners of the event are Argon Animations, Filigrenasia, JB Music – all of which continue to fervently support the festival.

The festival promises to deliver more coverage through the support of its media partners: MTV Philippines, Adobo Magazine, PULP Magazine, The Philippine Star, Bounce Magazine, Playground Magazine, Mangaholix, Jam 88.3, NU 107, 88DB, Musik Lokal & ClickTheCity.com.

Slated to perform at this year’s festival are: The Halili-Cruz Ballet, violinist Denise Santos Huang, Romancing Venus, Joey Pepe Smith, The Dawn, Kjwan, Johnny Alegre Affinity, Sinosikat, Kenyo, Olivia, Kadangyan, Sing India, The Late Isabel, Lala, Reklamo, Mayonnaise, Check, Drip, Julianne, Freestyle, 18th Issue, Pack of Wolvz, Sidewinder, Queso, DJ Crockan of Spain, Timog, Miko Pepito, Nityalila, Four Leaf Clover, Anwind, Bembol Rockers, FMD, Project Ganymede, Eternal Now, Project Fusion, Scarlet Tears, Matilda, The Chongkeys, Chubibo, RJ Jimenez, Tutti, Alakpa, Coffeebreak Island, Skabeche, The Spaceflower Show, Cosmic Love and many more.

“Every year, the Backdoor Ventures Arts & Music Festival just keeps getting bigger and better. As our community continue to grow each year, the closer we get to our goal in bringing the people to back to the arts and the arts back to the people.” says festival director Jay Viriña.

With all these lined up, the 4th BACKDOOR VENTURES ARTS & MUSIC FEST is indeed guaranteed to wow its audience as it has never failed to do in the past years.

"Save the Artist!" Open Studio

*rmmarquett:iconrmmarquett: reports, August 25
"Save the Artist!" Open Studio will be held for 3D, 2D, and Digital Artist, Christian Motola, He has been in the art world for over 20 years and has worked on 3D models for films as well as creating every kind of 2D and 3D Digital art you can imagine from oil paintings to life like, animated robots, people, monsters, etc. Christian is new to the San Francisco Bay Area and is ecstatic about this chance to present and sell his artwork to all of you. Join us for a wonderful night of food, drink, live flute music--by Megan Appletree, and artwork from around the world!

When? Saturday, September 27, 2008 from 6pm to 10pm PST
Where? Downtown San Francisco, California! E-Mail Sinu Etzel at filmmaniadirector@gmail.com and she will add you to the E-Vite List for this event. You will get more details through E-Vite as we get closer to the Open Studio weekend :)

We will also be showing artwork by the following featured artists:
Christian Motola/Starcadius Delacroix (Second Life Name): 2D Artist, 3D Modeler, Painter and upcoming Film Maker.
Renee Marquett/Sinu Etzel (Second Life Name): 2D Artist, Painter and Photographer
Alice Egoyan: Painter, Digital Artist, and Photographer
Susan Chin: Jewelry Maker
Asher Martin: Photographer, Painter, 3D Sculptor
Michael Godard: The Rockstar of the Art World!

A chaotic city in the eyes of its youths

~godit:icongodit: reports, August 26
".... Aditya Fachrizal Hafiz produced a unique video depicting the sounds of traveling vendors calling for customers. The sounds are uniquely composed into a beautiful rhythm.

"This one is interesting as it shows how vendors and customers have somehow reached a consensus on what the sounds mean. A cling on a glass bowl refers to a baso meatball vendor, while a wooden knocking noise signifies a mie goreng seller," project coordinator Indra Ameng said.

Aditya also exhibited two photographs representing the use of urban space by Jakarta youngsters. One of them is a picture of punk teenagers sitting in front of a 24-hour Circle-K......"

"....One of the works by Kemala Putri conveyed a positive outlook. She used watercolor on paper to paint faces of people laughing in her work All u Need is Laugh. On the concept description it says: "This work is created to encourage audiences to smile..."

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DeviantART's 1st Exhibition: SUBTLE BODIES

`alchemism:iconalchemism: reports, November 29, 2007
DeviantART's 1st Art Exhibition: Subtle Bodies

At DeviantART, everyone is their own professional with the ability to exhibit their works in a personal gallery for the public to view and leave comments. Often in the DA NEWS, we see articles that present a specific genre, or a theme. In many, there are deviations selectively chosen such as 'Landscape Photography', or 'The Best Digital Works'. Given that freedom, I have decided to take a more professional approach to a NEWS Feature, and offer the 'application to exhibit', where choices are juried into a cohesive exhibition here at DeviantART.

As is often the case in the 'real' art world, artists have a much greater form of competition when applying to juried shows, grants and bursaries, and even placement within an art school. These artists have grown to understand that for an art career, they must work hard - as though it were a job. Because of this professional approach,
I have asked artists to submit not only their work, but also an 'ART RESUME' that states their artistic background,
which often includes education, a list of exhibitions, and sometimes awards or publications in magazines. Not only was the high quality of work taken into consideration, but how professional the artist presented themselves as well.

I have put together 6 of the best submissions for this 1st DeviantART Exhibition into a cohesive show: Subtle Bodies.
Below each of the artist's works is a short biography describing their accomplishments at their attempts in becoming
a professional artist, as many of us know isn't the easiest career path.

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DeviantART presents the work of six international artists with a penchant for the human figure and the environments
that they inhabit, whether they are solidified structures or ethereal atmospheres that rely more on the metaphorical
than the concrete. These spaces are not only unified in their wide treatment of the figure, but that they
are painted with a sensitivity that enables their works to be convincing contemporary works of art with immediate relationships between painting and audience.
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SUBTLE BODIES





Laura Findlay (~paintedangel) is currently obtaining her BFA at Concordia University in Montreal. Not only was she included in October's Juxtapoz Magazine, but has exhibited from Victoria BC, to Montreal, and has worked as a teaching assistant in Photography.

Her paintings offer the artist a therapeutic window which is often meditative, and necessary to her sanity as a painter. Findlay often uses meat as an 'endlessly fascinating subject', and creates works with dizzying colour and texture, as though the process is just as crucial to the end-product as the subject itself, and often acts as puzzles the artist must manipulate her way though.

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Kain White (*kainwhite1) states: "In the spirit of traditions now gone from our minds but not from our hearts, my work is a personal journey of seeking to remember what used to be commonplace." With the steady, yet unstoppable speeding up of our lives, Kain finds painting and drawing to be a way for people to commune, while allowing each individual to continue a fulfilling solo journey.

White has exhibited at the Bendigo Art Gallery; Daylesford Pantechnicon Gallery, Castlemaine Art gallery and Melbourne Fitzroy Gallery in Australia. He was awarded Bendigo’s RAW Arts prize in 2005, and also had an entry in the 2007 James Farrell self-portrait prize. Kain also has permanent representation at the Pantechnicon in Daylesford.

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:devamycollaranderson: received her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and an MA (Humanities) from Wright State University in Ohio. Included in the long list of professional exhibitions, Anderson has shown paintings at C-Pop Gallery, Detroit; The Hive Gallery in LA; Young Blood Gallery in Atlanta; and Museum de Giger in Switzerland in a show titled 'Flights of Imagination'. The list is truly too long to print, as it includes international awards and accomplishments.

Anderson lives in a "world-within-a-world"; where patterned rugs lay overlapping on the floor, costumed mannequins observe from the corner, brocade fabrics hang from her easel, plastic-encased bugs refract light in the window, and magazine clippings overlap on striped walls. The juxtaposition of objects and images helps me create new narratives or conjure the memories and dreams that inspire my paintings. The images capture this juxtaposition by appearing simultaneously vintage, yet modern, and beautiful, yet disturbing. I focus on themes of obsession, contrast, containment and control. Her recent work includes small terrariums that also become portable mini-studios allowing her to bring the comfort of her studio wherever she ventures.

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Johanna K. Robinson ~nicodeema received her BFA at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in affiliation with Tuft’s University Boston, MA. She was recently awarded an Artist's Grant and Residency at the Vermont Studio Center. Recent exhibitions of her works include: Suitcase&Street Gallery, Berlin Germany; RHYS Gallery in Boston; at Niagara in NY; and the Hackett Arts Center in NY. She has also worked as a gallery assistant, framer, and fine arts painter for Novo Studios in Carmel, NY.

Robinson states: "I attempt to turn the grotesque into the beautiful. Through observing the immediacy of decay on the surface of the fish, and then translating the flesh, scales, and disease into oil paint, I am able to change the nature of the image. I like to play around with color, using colors that would normally be associated with feelings of calmness or happiness, which pose a contradiction to the sometimes violent imagery. The viewer is both compelled to study the surface closer, and simultaneously look away."

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Graeme Balchin ~graemeb recently exhibited work in 'Ode to Nature: Grand & Demure', a group exhibition at The Palm House Gallery in Sydney. Among her highest awards, the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize stands out the most. She was a finalist for the $100,000 portrait-prize which is currently touring Australia. She was published over 10 times in 2005 alone by press and radio stations, and has had coverage throughout 2006 and 2007 with recent shows.

The artist states: "We live in a time where technology has advanced to the point we no longer need a camera to make a great image. For the commercial world, technology is the future, for it has embraced the new mediums with open arms. With this in mind, I am constantly amazed with the amount of artists who still use traditional mediums and methods simply because they wish too. I am one of those people, who has a compelling desire that borders on an insane obsession, to paint and draw. Painting has been and still is a successful way of recording history, but I feel it is also an integral part of human endeavour; the need to achieve excellence in creation."

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Meghan Chalmers-McDonald *Frost-indri received her art education from Houghton College, NY. She has exhibited at numerous locations throughout Rhode Island and New York, and has work in private and public collections throughout the US.

Chalmers-McDonald's work centers on the introspective - on the individuals contemplation of the world and their relationship to it. The natural environment also take precedence, and the relationship between humanity and the sea has long been an accepted symbol of the relationships between people. How we seek to exploit, protect, clean up, exalt in, fear, explore, ignore, expose and hide our refuse in often reflects upon our relationships with each other.

With ceramics, the artist is able to communicate almost subconsciously, bringing in that sense of connectedness by invoking memories and thoughts through texture, form, color and weight. I want people to pick up the works, respond to them, to see a memory or pull out a thought or response buried deep within him or herself.




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The end of this exhibition marks the newest Call for Submissions: ABSTRACTION. As for the Subtle Bodies exhibition,
I ask you to note me a cohesive collection of 4-6 works from your gallery, an Art Resume that lists your artistic
endeavors, accomplishments, awards, or publications, as well as a short statement about the work so that I am able
to understand on a greater depth what your work means.

Thank you to everyone who submitted work for this exhibition - if your work was not chosen,
it did not mean your work or accomplishments were not good enough for Subtle Bodies, but that
it did not quite fit into the mandate of the online exhibition. There will be more, I promise.



Get your submissions together ABSTRACT ARTISTS!
Deadline for submission is January 15th, 2008.

Devious Comments

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~JOFX:iconJOFX: Nov 29, 2007, 8:37:57 AM
I like the ones that got through. nice work guys

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=one-eyed-cat:iconone-eyed-cat: Nov 29, 2007, 9:10:00 AM
...and that is what this place here needs (and would need more) quality, statements and thoughts behind works....it's a pleasure to read and look at all the great art....
thanks for taking the time to put this exhibition together and congrats to all the wonderful artists that are featured here!

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`De-Profundis:iconDe-Profundis: Nov 29, 2007, 10:09:13 AM Mood: Optimism
great job Scott, very professionally done. Some beautiful work presented. Always interesting to find out more about someone in a biography than trying to scrape together information on their DA page. well done.

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=cybergranny:iconcybergranny: Nov 29, 2007, 10:21:37 AM
Nice job and wonderful works.
I'm happy to see great artists on DA and it's very interesting to learn more about them and their artistic life.

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*sterbenlicht:iconsterbenlicht: Nov 29, 2007, 11:16:13 AM
Very well put together. I'm working on looking through all of their work right now. Like `De-Profundis said, it's exciting to have information like that on the people. These are the people that really work hard at what they do, and this is their chance to shine.

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~wilsoninc:iconwilsoninc: Nov 29, 2007, 1:13:08 PM
:love:

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~wilsoninc:iconwilsoninc: Nov 29, 2007, 1:14:09 PM
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~graemeb:icongraemeb: Nov 29, 2007, 1:43:38 PM
Really great to be selected Scott, it's an honour to be in the first DA Exhibition, well done mate.

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