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Monday, December 21, 2009

Cystic Fibrosis Survivor to Hold First Public Art Show on First Thursday

Phoebe Mattera has fought for her activity added than fifty times in her 18 years. Named the Doernbecher Children’s Hospital’s 2005 Hero of the Year, Mattera has battled cystic fibrosis her absolute activity and her adventure acquired Carol Robbins, administrator of Pearl MedSpa, to sponsor Mattera’s aboriginal accessible art show.

“I was so affected and aggressive by Phoebe’s adventure of adventuresomeness and assurance that I acquainted I had to do something to advice her. When I begin that she was an artist, I offered her the business area to authority her aboriginal show. Considering what Phoebe’s been through, she deserves to be helped,” said Robbins.

Fighting for her activity is not new to Phoebe Mattera. At the age of six weeks, she was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis and has been a approved accommodating at Doernbecher’s back the age of five. A allotment of any sales of her art will be donated to Doernbecher Children’s Hospital.

“The doctors and agents of Doernbecher Children’s Hospital are like my added family. They accept adored my activity so abounding times that any little affair I can do I will to ensure added accouchement and families can accept achievement that they too will survive,” said Mattera. “The art alternation I am announcement at Pearl MedSpa is advised to acquaint that the spirit can be able abundant to survive any adversity.”

Cystic fibrosis is currently an incurable, life-threatening ache that causes fungus to body up and clog some of the organs in the body, decidedly in the lungs and pancreas. Currently, over 30,000 Americans are diagnosed with cystic fibrosis.

Robbins stated, “Phoebe is such a adventuresome girl. Seeing the airiness of her anatomy compared to the backbone of her will just affected me to my heart.”

To acquaintance actual an apotheosis of strength, discipline and celebration of the spirit, appear Phoebe Mattera’s art appearance at Pearl MedSpa Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008.

According to Mattera, “My aboriginal art appearance will advertise the backbone of spirit anybody has to survive and accommodate achievement for anyone afflicted by abrogating influences in their lives.”

Wine and aliment will be provided by Pearl MedSpa, ambrosia donated by Julie’s Organic Ice Cream, and airship art performed by nationally acclaimed airship artist, Scott Davis.

Again, Phoebe Mattera’s art display is Thursday, September 4, 2008, at 1339 NW Couch St from 4 PM to 9 PM. Call 503.946.3888 for added advice and appointment www.pearlmedspa.com for admonition to the exhibit.

New, Green Features Enhance Kids' Website

The Imagination Factory shows visitors how to reclaim and recycle solid decay to accomplish art, and the children's website was afresh adapted with a new associates feature. Among the allowances of abutting are acceptance to twenty, new art activities, a annual newsletter, and a abatement on art and accomplished crafts purchased in The Green Gallery.

Created by artisan and abecedary Marilyn J. Brackney, the award-winning website is listed by the American Library Association as one of the best online assets for kids. Since its barrage in 1996, millions of humans accept visited, analytic for bargain art acquaint or means to animate kids to reduce, reuse, and recycle.

Featuring dozens of free, art/reuse activities, The Imagination Factory includes acquaint in drawing, painting, sculpture, collage, cardboard mache, marbling, and crafts. A Trash Matcher links visitors with adapted art activities that use the solid decay they accept available, and a affection alleged The Badge Matcher allows Brownies and Girl Scouts to bound locate projects that advice amuse casting requirements.

Those who accompany The Imagination Factory accept acceptance to twenty, new projects. The acquaint featured in Toys, Games, and Other Fun Stuff appearance how to actualize playthings including a snow globe, folk art doll, and a mancala game. The Holiday Art and Crafts area teaches visitors how to accomplish ability that are acceptable for birthdays and specific holidays such as Mother's Day, Father's Day, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa.

Becoming a affiliate aswell allows visitors to appearance The Re-Source, the site's newsletter. Packed with abounding account for extenuative money, accustomed resources, and landfill space, it covers capacity such as how to acquisition sources of chargeless decay abstracts in one's community, and area to locate artistic atom exchanges throughout the world. Recipes for assorted bootleg art materials, and recommendations of acceptable art books and websites are included.

Finally, associates can appearance and buy recycled art in The Green Gallery, a advertise of art and accomplished crafts created by able artists whose plan includes assemblage, collage, baby making, cilia arts, furniture, jewelry, marbling, metalwork, mosaics, sculpture, and weaving. Imagination Factory Members accept a 20% abatement on their purchases.

In befitting with the site's theme, all art and accomplished crafts displayed in the arcade were fabricated with reused or recycled materials. Turning debris into art may accompany to apperception images of the achromatize canteen pigs of one's youth. However, solid decay in the easily of these professionals has acquired able-bodied above simple art and crafts, and abundant of their plan is collectible.

Mosaic artisan Cappi Phillips and her accomplice Bud Fick are a allotment of abounding of The Green Gallery's exhibitors who are acutely acquainted of the appulse they accept on the environment. In speaking about their work, she says, “We're challenged to reclaim and reinvent abstracts in an attack to appearance others what can be done with society's orphans. Mosaic lends itself by itself to this challenge.” The Imagination Factory is amid at www.kid-at-art.com.

"Living Dead" Featuring Pooch and Paul Torres at Harold Golen Gallery

Pooch (formerly Michael Pucciarelli)

Raised on a diet of Walt Disney World , Ray Harryhausen films, H. P. Lovecraft novels, Comics, and Florida day-tripper traps, Pooch paints images that assume to abide in a affected afterlife. Early on, Pooch was apparent to artists and illustrators, such as Frank Frazetta, MC Escher, Dali, Bosch and HR Giger.

A self- accomplished artist, Pooch owes abundant of his painting abilities to over ten years of circadian tattooing and drawing. His art is a beheld cocktail mix of Far East mysteries, the abracadabra of European painting with a attempt of boom culture, annoyed and stirred, and served up in a gift tiki skull.

Working in altered alternation allows Pooch the abandon to analyze assorted cultural symbols, but aswell keeps him aggressive to dig added into those corresponding subjects. His beforehand works are done in oil, absolute architectural elements and sinuously carved bronze like abstracts in changeless display. Newer works are in acrylic and reflect his acknowledgment to Disney World and Florida affair parks, with surreal carnival ride “facades”(a absorption of the apocryphal fronts of avant-garde society?) busy with allegorical abstracts of afterlife from Tibetan rituals to the Mexican Day of the Dead Festival.

Pooch’s paintings are advised to authority the viewer’s attention, which is absolutely a claiming in today’s TV, blur and computer age. Holding the old masters in top regard, he has a able account for painters of the Flemish age such as Bosch and Van Eyk, and avant-garde artists such as Todd Schorr, Joe Coleman, Mark Ryden and Robe.

Paul Torres
Paul Torres' art embodies a affluent acuteness and is abstemious with amusing annotation and a soulful estimation of accustomed life. Born in Chile, his absorption in art began at age 3 afterwards accepting alien to banana books. He started cartoon anon afterwards and his ancestor assassin a clandestine art babysitter for him. By the age 7 he was already enrolled in an art accord school. Paul aswell became afflicted aboriginal on by Hollywood films and mostly enjoys abhorrence films and Westerns.

At the age of 9, Paul came to the United States for a one-year break and fell in adulation with the art ability here. After casual to the United States assuredly at age 19, he served in the U.S. Army, abounding Otis Parsons Art Institute for two years, and again in 1998 he accustomed his Bachelor of Fine Art in Illustration from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. He has had the advantage to abstraction with actual arresting and arch artists such as Daniel Greene, Albert Handell, Norwegian artisan Jan Saether at Bruchion School in Los Angeles, and Joseph Mendez at the Businessman's Art Institute in Los Angeles. He formed for several years in the action and cine industry while continuing to acrylic for arcade shows and clandestine collections.

He works with a array of mediums alignment from oil to acrylic, ink and dry mediums, preferring oil. Although he feels actual adequate alive from activity and models, he aswell uses his acuteness accumulated with alive from activity to accompany the plan into a added claimed akin and aiming for abracadabra accuracy abiding in the attitude of the old masters with undertones of avant-garde influences. Paul has been alleged a abstracted artisan and a body artist.

Harold Golen Gallery Temporary Space is amid at 314 North West 24th St. in the Wynwood Art District, Miami, Florida 33127. For added advice log on to www.haroldgolengallery.com, or alarm 305.989.3359.

Press inquiries and angel requests amuse alarm Donnamarie Baptiste 305.904.8393, dbaptiste720@aol.com.

Gregorio Luke, Reputed Mexican Art Expert, Lectures at World Art Vision 2008: Cancun

WORLD ART VISION is a anniversary of abreast art that offers a glimpse of some of the a lot of acid bend art on the all-embracing arena today. Taking abode December 5th to the 14th, 2008 at the Cancun Center Conventions & Exhibitions, Cancun, Mexico, this aboriginal copy of the abreast art exhibition promises to become ascendant to the art arena in the Americas.
It is with the aforementioned activity and contentment that World Art Vision welcomes Gregorio Luke, academician and able on the activity and works of the Mexican masters. Luke will be arch a alternation of admirable conferences featuring mini acquaint in Mexican Art History in which he will altercate the activity and plan of around-the-clock artists like DIEGO RIVERA Monday December 8, FRIDA KAHLO Tuesday 9, JOSE CLEMENTE OROZCO Wednesday 10, DAVID ALFARO SIQUEIROS Thursday 11 and RUFINO TAMAYO Friday 12.

Gregorio Luke, who comes to altercate Mexican art and mark the attendance of the Fridos, aggregation of Frida Kahlo, is alone the aboriginal in a alternation of arresting guests who are accepting presented at World Art Vision. He will be accommodating in contest to which all are accustomed and encouraged to accompany and experience.

Matty Roca, Artistic Director of World Art Vision, said “amongst our aberrant account of guests we accept the amusement of accepting two of the four Fridos; Arturo García Bustos and Arturo Estrada who will be actively accommodating during assorted conferences and will be assortment with the WAV accessible ultimately bringing affidavit to a attitude of masters; this is an interesting, and attenuate befalling in the art world, not to absence for those absent to appear into acquaintance with the roots of Mexican addition in the 20th aeon and its appulse on abreast art”.

World Art Vision is advantaged to accept Rina Lazo, artist, adherent and aide of Diego Rivera, and wife and accomplice of Arturo Garcia Bustos, who will aswell be in acquaintance with the WAV artists and public, crop allotment in the assorted events.

WORLD ART VISION is appreciative to affection this accumulating of conferences accouterment an outstanding aesthetic affidavit to what promises to be a axial accident for all-embracing abreast art in the future.

For added advice accessible to the press, amuse acquaintance the columnist office:
Studio Abba - Corso Italia, 6 - 50123 Florence - Italy
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For artists absorbed in participating, amuse acquaintance the WAV Organisation aggregation at
info@world-art-vision.com http://www.world-art-vision.com

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Fine Art Vs. Stocks: Which has Greater Investment Potential?

A plan of art is a actual asset that you can acknowledge on your bank while it is affectionate in value. On the aforementioned two canicule that Wall Street took it's celebrated 1,000 point bead and some of our better banking institutions collapsed, a above single-artist arrangement at Sotheby's London of abreast works by Damien Hirst brought in abutting to $200 actor — and one of those works was a cow abysmal in a case abounding with formaldehyde. Nobody knows absolutely what is advanced in the accomplished art field, area almanac prices accept been toppling for abounding years in a row, but with the banal bazaar accomplishing bungee all-overs anniversary in and anniversary out, accomplished art as a actual asset and abiding investment is accepting a additional look.

Lou Salerno, buyer of Questroyal Fine Art in New York, and one of 40 galleries accommodating in the accessible 12th anniversary Boston International Fine Art Show (BIFAS), Nov. 13-16, has conducted a absolute appraisal of the investment abeyant of American paintings created above-mentioned to 1950. On Saturday, November 14 as allotment of the "New Collectors' Lecture Series" at BIFAS, he will altercate his allegation in a affairs blue-blooded appropriately, "Art Investment or Art Appreciation?"

Over the endure fifty years, the address states, American art yielded college admixture anniversary allotment than stocks, bonds, or gold, and even beat out the Impressionists and Old Master art. Will these allegation authority accurate in today's art market? Should art be a allotment of your investment portfolio?

In the aforementioned way astute investments in the banal bazaar account from ability in specific industries, ability of the companies authoritative the offerings, annual letters and added research, advance in accomplished art requires connoisseurship in selecting art wisely. However, there are rewards to be acquired in because art both as an adept and banking asset. Mr. Salerno will altercate both the pros and cons of art as an investment.

For those who ambition to access their "art smarts", aswell on the agenda for Saturday, November 15 at 2:00pm is a console blue-blooded "How to Discern Quality in Art", advised to advice ambitious investors and collectors admit above if it comes to painting. When a archetypal figurative, mural or still activity painting can amount $2,000 to $2,000,000 or more, alive how to anticipate above becomes a analytical skill. The console is host by Joshua Rose, editor of American Art Collector magazine, and participants cover acclaimed bounded artisan Joe McGurl, and Steve Diamant of Arcadia Fine Arts and Richard Rossello of Avery Galleries, both exhibitors at BIFAS.

The 12th Annual Boston International Fine Art Show (BIFAS) takes abode Thursday - Sunday, November 13-16, 2008 at The Cyclorama at The Boston Center for The Arts (BCA), aperture with a Gala Preview that allowances the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The alone accomplished art fair of its affectionate in New England, BIFAS appearance 40 galleries from the United States, Europe and Canada, alms added than 3,000 aboriginal works of art in all amount ranges, from museum-quality works to added affordable works by today's arising artists. For added advice alarm (617) 363-0405, or appointment www.FineArtBoston.com.

OPEN 12. International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations

OPEN, the International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations, alcove its twelfth copy with a new developing course, an amphitheater art workshop, area the works themselves are paths that may be followed with the eye or by interaction. Nearly all created distinctively for the exhibition, the sculptures, installations, photographs and canvases that accomplish up this ideal beck of alertness are spaces for absorption in which art renews its astriction appear the indefinite, abstract anatomy and finiteness, to action the company the achievability of cerebration of art chargeless from schemes or contemporary set-ups.

The accident will be captivated from 2 September to 4 October, in alongside to the 66th Venice International Film Festival, at Venice Lido, and for the additional time on the Island of San Servolo. The tree-lined avenues, the brilliant promenade, the terraces and the celebrated hotels that accept hosted Lido’s active cultural activity over the years, and the baroque area of the Island of San Servolo, abounding with memories of their accomplished history, anatomy the accomplishments for the works of art and are at the aforementioned time assemblage of aesthetic and intercultural movements in which they too are protagonists to a assertive extent: the area of the works modifies the observer’s perception, clarification the way the beholder interprets them and authoritative OPEN a different and unrepeatable event.

Conceived and curated by Paolo De Grandis, accordingly organised by Carlotta Scarpa and Arte Communications, in accord with the Department of Culture of the Venice City Council, the exhibition has been awarded the Silver Shield of the President of the Republic and is captivated beneath the advocacy of the Italian Ministry of the Cultural Heritage, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Veneto Region, the Province of Venice and Venice City Council.

OPEN’s success over the years has been apparent by the attendance of abundant curators who accept brought to the exhibition a analysis focussing on the latest trends in art and ability on both the civic and the all-embracing scene. Among the innovations, there is the accord of Christos Savvidis, administrator of Artbox, art administrator of Art Athina and babysitter of Poets Machine in the 53th Venice Biennale, who will abbey artists from the Mediterranean across with site-specific artworks. A belvedere for allegory and collaboration, such as that proposed by Anna Caterina Bellati who allotment with her activating appearance of Italian art in its abounding aspects. She has alien abundant projects, from works by celebrated masters to the a lot of contempo proposals by able adolescent artists: the aim is to outline contexts, means of activity and alternate proposals, appropriately enabling visitors to accurate their opinions. The acknowledged accord with Chang Tsong-Zung, Enrico Pedrini, Nevia Pizzul Capello is continuing, with the new attendance of Gertrud Kohler-Aeschlimann, administrator of Art-St-Urban the celebrated building of carve in Lucerne.

The important adventure of giving amplitude to new talents in the art apple is continuing: this year the Bologna Academy of Fine Arts is accommodating with a activity curated by Massimo Pulini, housed in the arresting area of the Island of San Servolo.

The absorbed of the exhibition is not to actualize a authentic scene, amid aural specific ambit of style, but to authorize a chat amid adverse elements on the absolute amid representation and the concrete attributes of the work. OPEN presents the chargeless body of abreast art, amid amid new adept capacity and aberrant provocations, amid irony, theatricality and a antic vocation, to redefine the present day through the eyes of forty-two artists from twelve altered countries.

Among the protagonists, León Ferrari, who was already awarded with the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale, will present an important plan in bronze. Also demography allotment will be the masters Ercole Pignatelli and Ugo Riva, the Indian artisan Nataraj Sharma, Andreas Savva with an important site-specific project, Stefano Bombardieri and the Georgian artisan Eteri Chkadua. The adolescent Swiss artists Daniel Glaser and Magdalena Kunz who will present a alluring accession on the terrace of Excelsior Hotel. The aperture day will be aggressive by the achievement of B.Zarro with his accolade to Mario Schifani.

Among the abounding accessible interpretations at this exhibition there is the connected alternation of acuteness in apperception abreast art; there is a fil crimson of accord amid artists, curators and announcement bodies that allotment agitative aesthetic synergies; and the absolutely adorable estimation that traces a aisle through the abundant accomplishment of all those who accept formed to accomplish an accomplished aftereffect if the blind rises on this art show.

The OPEN Prize aswell alcove its ninth edition. This appropriate prize, ancillary with the 66th Venice International Film Festival, is awarded to a administrator demography allotment whose plan shows a able hotlink amid the cinema and the allegorical arts. Founded by Arte Communication and realised in accord with Bellati Editore, this year’s cost is a plan by the Master Ugo Riva.

The exhibition is accompanied by a archive appear by Bellati, absolute comments by critics, presentations by the authorities and the account of the works on show. Available from the Arte Communications lnfopoint at Lido in Piazzale Bucintoro and in Venice in Riva San Biagio, Castello 2145. A video of the exhibition will aswell be produced by Maurizio Cesana.

Press conference
2 September 2009 at 2.00 p.m. / Hotel Des Bains
Light cocktail
2 September 2009 at 4.00 p.m. / Blue Moon
Inauguration cocktail (by allurement only)
2 September 2009 at 7.00 p.m. / Island of San Servolo
Open to the public
3 September - 4 October 2009, every day, access chargeless of charge

Venice Lido
ARGENTINA / León Ferrari
CHINA / Lee Sun-Don, Zhao Guanghui
CYPRUS / Andreas Savva
FINLAND / Hannu Palosuo, Kiba Lumberg
FRANCE / Bernard Pourrière
GEORGIA / Eteri Chkadua
GERMANY / Gabriele Pöhlmann-Grundig, Bertamaria Reetz and Rainer Bonk
GREECE / Venia Bechrakis, Aristotelis Deligiannidis, Under Construction
INDIA / Nataraj Sharma
ITALY / Cosimo Andrisano, B.Zarro, Enrico Benetta, Cristian Biasci,
Stefano Bombardieri, Marilù Cattaneo, Andrea Ciampini, Girolamo Ciulla,
Marco Cornini, Margherita Michelazzo, Ercole Pignatelli, Ugo Riva, Federica Silvi
SWITZERLAND / Heinz Aeschlimann, Daniel Glaser/Magdalena Kunz, Christian Bolt
URUGUAY USA / Jorge Misium
USA / Fulvia Zambon
Island of San Servolo
ACCADEMIA DI BELLE ARTI DI BOLOGNA
Angelarosa Benevento, Francesco Cossu, Luca Freschi, Laura Guerinoni,
Giacomo Lion, Matteo Lucca, Angelo Massaro, Lara Mezzapelle, Fabio Romano, Lucio Terenzi, Linda Vigiani, Davide Vivaldi, Diego Zuell

Information:
Arte Communications
Via P. Orseolo II, 16 - 30126 Venezia Lido / Italy
Tel. +39 041 5264546 - Fax +39 041 2769056
www.artecommunications.com
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Joint Exhibition, Susan Thomson and Liz Watts, at The Colomb Art Gallery, London

In this collective exhibition at The Colomb Art Gallery, London, Susan Thomson and Liz Watts accept accumulated their specialised mediums to actualize an exhibition with an encompassing ambit of works. Both artists display consistently throughout the UK and frequently display together. This is their aboriginal collective exhibition in London.

THE ARTISTS
Liz’s roots in veterinary anesthetic accord an absorbing anatomical bend to her estimation of ‘the attributes of the beast’.

Her called ambit of media allows Liz a accomplishing abandon in the estimation of the image. She exhibits pieces in clay, porcelain, brownish and papier-mâché, application acrylic, stain, glazes, oil acrylic and bottle in the finishes. Liz generally incorporates the accounting or announced chat into a piece. The plan she creates this way is original, abnormal and intriguing.

Her plan can be begin in clandestine and business collections. www.lizwatts.co.uk

Susan advised Graphic Design and formed in advertising, again went on to abstraction Botanical art and watercolour painting in the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh.

Susan has apparent at the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Botanic Garden and the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society, Gardening Scotland 2006 in Edinburgh, in the Westminster Gallery with the Society of Botanical Artists, the Royal Academy of Arts and the Llewellyn Alexander ‘NOT the Royal Academy’ exhibition in London.

She brings calm an all-embracing mix of botanical and clear imaging to actualize an agreeable and ambrosial accumulating of work. She is based abreast Exeter and has her plan in clandestine collections of Botanical art in UK and the USA.

The Colomb Art Gallery is a arch absolute London art arcade for British and International accomplished artists.

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Joint Exhibition at The Colomb Art Gallery, London
2nd – 14th November 2009

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Painter Leisa Collins Re-Emerges into the Art World

After two decades of amusing activism that took her to the four corners of the apple and gave her a actual appearance of assorted cultures and amusing inequities, Leisa Collins (http://www.leisacollins.com), has taken up her paintbrush afresh and alternate to her full-time art career.

Based in the USA, but all-embracing in scope, Leisa is now accumulation her activist and aesthetic abilities beneath the adage of “art with a message.” Her anew appear website stresses the accent of the artisan bringing about amusing change and her “Art in Action” page includes her activities in this regard. Her website aswell includes an on-line gallery, featuring semi-abstract as able-bodied as astute mural and account works. The website comprises a diffuse art commissions page which describes the different access that Leisa takes in this arena. Her website admission endure anniversary included her new Art with a Message Blog (http://leisacollinsartwithamessage.blogspot.com/) and her account email newsletter, Art in the Making.

Born in Auckland, New Zealand, Leisa boarded aloft academic art training at 17, about afterwards alone a few months she abandoned the classroom, opting to apprentice her ability through capturing on canvas the adorableness of the countryside. Exploring every alcove and breach of New Zealand, she financed her adventures by affairs her plan as she went. She alternate to Auckland and set up her own flat and arcade area she captivated her aboriginal of abounding abandoned exhibitions which mainly featured her New Zealand mural works.

Drawing on her all-around insight, her newest works are generally studies of people. Expressed in semi-abstract swirls, clear-cut caliginosity and aboriginal patterns, her works back raw emotion—whether animated the ablaze on amusing abuse or communicating the ability of the animal spirit.

“Art is a able agency of communication,” states Leisa, “and is accordingly a almighty weapon to accompany about change. Interaction with humans and the ambiance is my aesthetic afflatus and stimulation. It’s about accepting above a message, an emotion, or envisioning a bigger tomorrow. Art for me is something that goes far above the flat and arcade walls.”

Her aesthetic influences ambit from impressionists Monet and Renoir, masters of expressionism van Gogh and Edvard Munch, Picasso, and the bulletin apprenticed works of Francisco de Goya, Andrew Wyeth and John Steuart Curry. She aswell draws on cultural art forms, abnormally African and Polynesian.

Leisa is currently creating new works and advancing for her Across the USA from the Eyes of an Artist bout that launches into action on Sep 1st. Meanwhile she is continuing to plan on amusing issues through her art accompanying projects and receives agency requests from assorted locations of the apple -- a claiming she enjoys immensely.

Artspace To Host Gallery Walk And Reception For Raleigh First Friday Event

Mary Poole, controlling administrator of Artspace (www.artspacenc.org), has appear that the art centermost is blame off the abatement division with a appropriate black during Raleigh’s account First Friday Gallery Walk Sept. 4 from 6-10 p.m. at Artspace, amid at 201 E. Davie St. Gallery Walks are chargeless and accessible to the public. The accident will affection several art exhibitions, including “The Conquerors,” featuring the plan of 5 Lowbrow artists never afore apparent in North Carolina; “Reconsidered: Summer Artists-In-Residence Program, 1999-2008,” a appearance by Susan Martin; and a close-of-residency exhibition from Megan Sullivan. In affiliation with the exhibition, Artspace will host a LoPop Shop, featuring handmade items by bounded artists alive in the LoPop style, including shirts, posters, magazines and aboriginal works. Artspace will host an afterwards affair in Gallery 2 from 10 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. with art, music, dancing and a banknote bar. Tickets for the afterwards affair are $5 each.

Artspace is a nonprofit beheld art centermost amid in city Raleigh committed to accouterment arts apprenticeship and association beat programs, creating an ambiance of added than 100 able artists and presenting nationally acclaimed exhibitions. For added advice about this event, amuse acquaintance Mary Poole, controlling administrator of Artspace, at (919) 821-2787 or e-mail mpoole@artspacenc.org.

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•Mary Poole, controlling administrator of Artspace (www.artspacenc.org), has appear that the art centermost is blame off the abatement division with a appropriate black during Raleigh’s account First Friday Gallery Walk Sept. 4 from 6-10 p.m. at Artspace, amid at 201 E. Davie St.
•Gallery Walks are chargeless and accessible to the public.
•The accident will affection several art exhibitions, including “The Conquerors,” featuring the plan of 5 Lowbrow artists never afore apparent in North Carolina; “Reconsidered: Summer Artists-In-Residence Program, 1999-2008,” a appearance by Susan Martin; and a close-of-residency exhibition from Megan Sullivan.
•In affiliation with the exhibition, Artspace will host a LoPop Shop, featuring handmade items by bounded artists alive in the LoPop style, including shirts, posters, magazines and aboriginal works.
•Artspace will host an afterwards affair in Gallery 2 from 10 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. with art, music, dancing and a banknote bar.
•Tickets for the afterwards affair are $5 each.
•Artspace is a nonprofit beheld art centermost amid in city Raleigh committed to accouterment arts apprenticeship and association beat programs, creating an ambiance of added than 100 able artists and presenting nationally acclaimed exhibitions.
•For added advice about this event, amuse acquaintance Mary Poole, controlling administrator of Artspace, at (919) 821-2787 or e-mail mpoole@artspacenc.org.

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“We are aflame to bang off the abatement division with a appropriate First Friday at Artspace, featuring a LoPop allowance boutique and late-night ball party,” said Poole. “This account accident will action Raleigh association and visitors a admirable black out, abounding with art exhibitions, abide music and refreshments.”

About Artspace
Artspace is a nonprofit beheld arts centermost committed to accouterment arts apprenticeship and association beat programs, creating an ambiance of added than 100 able artists and presenting nationally acclaimed exhibitions. Located in city Raleigh in the celebrated Sanders Ford building, Artspace has been accouterment the association with the befalling to collaborate with alive artists and to participate in hands-on arts apprenticeship back 1986. For added advice about Artspace, exhibitions or membership, amuse appointment www.artspacenc.org.

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Artist and Non-Profit Group Partner on USA Tour for Children and Art

On the eve of her civic tour, Across the USA from the Eyes of an Artist, beheld artisan Leisa Collins (http://www.leisacollins.com) reaffirmed her charge to accouchement and art education, basic a affiliation with Free Arts for Abused Children (http://www.freearts.org), a accumulation committed to accouterment opportunities for accouchement to apprentice and actualize art. The accord was inaugurated at the group’s LA address with Leisa presenting an aboriginal painting advantaged “The Loneliness of Abuse” to the Executive Director of Free Arts for Abused Children, Karrah Lompa. Leisa created the painting to acquaint the affecting abreast and anguish suffered by an abused child, and to accent the important role that the arts can play in healing a child.

Setting out from Los Angeles, the bout promises to be an action-packed adventitious and a arresting appearance of the American canvas from the eyes of an artist. It will culminate in New York abreast the end of September. The adventure marks the re-emergence of Leisa into the art apple afterwards two decades of all-around campaign and amusing activism. The circadian blog for the bout is www.leisacollinsartwithamessage.blogspot.com.

During the bout Leisa will abduction the breathtaking adorableness and humans of America in aboriginal paintings while teaming up with Free Arts for Abused Children accessory groups throughout the country on art lessons, kids art projects and added activities to accession acquaintance and allotment for art education. Her website offers accurate prints of her painting, The Loneliness of Abuse, with 50% of the profits traveling to Free Arts for Abused Children to abutment their advancing projects for accouchement and art.

“Today in the USA, over 40% of elementary academy accouchement don’t accept art teachers. With every accompaniment in the nation adverse banking crisis and account cuts, art is generally one of the aboriginal items slashed,” said Leisa. “This agency that the association - that’s you and me - have to do added to ensure ALL accouchement are accomplished the abilities of observing, imagining, creating and thinking.”

The aboriginal stop of the bout is the acclaimed Grand Canyon in Arizona. Further stops will cover Las Vegas, Death Valley, the Sierra Nevada Mountain Regions of Sequoia and Yosemite. Then San Francisco and the Redwood Forest followed by the city-limits of Eureka, California. Then Salem and Portland in Oregon, Snowden in Washington, Boise in Idaho, Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, The Badlands and Sioux Falls City in South Dakota, Minneapolis/St Paul in Minnesota, Green Bay and Milwaukee in Wisconsin, Chicago in Illinois, Lansing and Detroit in Michigan, Niagrara Falls on the US-Canada border, Buffalo in New York, Allentown and Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, Trenton in New Jersey, and the final destination of the bout – New York City.

Based in the USA, but all-embracing in scope, Leisa is now accumulation her activist and aesthetic abilities beneath the adage of Art with a Message. The absolute bout avenue can be begin on the Art in Action page of her website, www.leisacollins.com, area you can aswell assurance up for her account newsletter, Art in the Making.

Free Arts for Abused Children is committed to allowance abused, abandoned or at-risk children, as able-bodied as families active in crisis. Through alive art programs Free Arts works to access self-esteem and body absolute appearance by unlocking the acuteness and adroitness of the victims of adolescent bribery and homelessness. The Free Arts website is www.freearts.org.

Art Gallery Hire launches website, London

Unique amidst its peers, Art Gallery Hire promotes baddest all-embracing art galleries and art spaces for appoint from the World’s four primary art regions: UK, USA, France and China.

Progressive, self-promoting artists in seek of different amplitude for their art exhibitions can now acquisition acceptable amplitude with the Art Gallery Hire website and associated arcade directory. Commercial and non-commercial audience can aswell use the Art Gallery Hire services, from individuals analytic for a different clandestine area to all-embracing organisations hosting events.

Philip Short, Managing Director of The Colomb Art Gallery, said today:
“Art Gallery Hire proves that artists and businesses are added in seek of top above art amplitude to display at. As the availability of art spaces increases, artists charge affirmation that their exhibitions are accepting captivated at the a lot of acceptable galleries and venues. Hiring a arcade amplitude can be an big-ticket amount and award a acceptable amplitude is paramount.”

Later in the year it is accepted that added art bazaar locations will be covered by Art Gallery Hire, including Spain and Germany.

Art Gallery Hire is appreciative to be in affiliation with The Colomb Art Gallery, London.

The Colomb Art Gallery
The Colomb Art Gallery is a arch absolute art arcade specialising in British and International paintings and sculpture.

The arcade amplitude is breach amid two floors, anniversary with a audible character and affectionate to the plan exhibited. Regularly alternating exhibitions action a appearance of the gallery’s artists and bedfellow all-embracing and civic artists.

The arcade is centrally amid in the fashionable Marylebone across of Central London, just account from Oxford Street, the Wallace Collection and Selfridges.

Art Gallery Hire
52a George Street
Marylebone
London
W1U 7EA

020 7487 5118

For added data about Art Gallery Hire or The Colomb Art Gallery, amuse blast
020 7487 5118 or email info@artgalleryhire.com

Zoë Sherwood Paints Images of Incredible Depth and Dark Beauty in a Maze of Milieu at Agora Gallery

Chelsea’s Agora Gallery appear they will host a aggregate art exhibition consisting of three locations that is appointed to run from September 8, 2009 through September 29, 2009.

Working primarily with oil acrylic on linen, Sherwood builds up layers of aerial tones absolute by areas of abysmal azure or ablaze crimson. Her access with paint, application a loose, adroit application, which takes on a activity of its own, advance an access over us. Sherwood contrasts this mysterious, angry adept with moments of complete, ad-lib joy. There are couples adequate an aesthetic burst in the amnion or acclaimed groups of midnight dancers appointed in admirable cottony garments; Sherwood has created a claimed anatomy of mythology. "Forests and chastening and oceans accept been places of abstruseness and danger," she reflects, "and they are aswell places I now enjoy." Travel and advancement access with the apple about her is a around-the-clock antecedent of joy. Zoë Sherwood lives and works in New York City.

A Maze of Milieu is an bugged boating through eddying colors, majestic landscapes and bland panoramas that cartel admirers to be swept abroad by the accuracy of the apple about us. Pulsing with active energy, Color Immersion displays the expressive, axial role that an artist’s palette plays in the conception of a painting. Crafting their claimed inspirations in a array of styles, this exhibition appearance a accumulating of painters that are affiliated in their compassionate of the affectionate accord amid blush and emotion. Idiosyncratic Expressions is an exhibition that offers admirers a added adventure through askance sculptures of recycled aluminum, veneers activated to accustomed cuts of copse that appear at aboriginal glance to be paintings, and area Americana and Japanese manga collide. Audiences will be confused by the arresting and characteristic viewpoints presented in the works of art in this amazing collective.

Exhibition Dates: September 8, 2009 – September 29, 2009
Reception: Thursday, September 10, 2009, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Gallery Location:530 West 25th St, New York City
Gallery Hours: Tues – Sat, 11a.m. - 6 p.m.
Event URL: http://www.agora-gallery.com/artistpage/zoë_sherwood.aspx

Featured Artists:
A Maze of Milieu- Urmil Jain, Iva Milanova, Daniel Sewell, Zoë Sherwood, Marc C. Slootjes, Soon Ro Yoon
Color Immersion- Gloria S. Ferreira, Cary Gang, Virginia Hernàndez
Idiosyncratic Expressions- Samantha Churchill, Alla Kosarevskaya, niki.b

About Agora Gallery:
Agora Gallery is a accomplished art arcade amid in the affection of New York City’s Chelsea art galleries commune that was accustomed in 1984 and is acclaimed for showcasing a amazing arrangement of accomplished artists from about the apple and about the corner, while accouterment above and aboriginal art to collectors. The arcade aswell publishes ARTisSpectrum Magazine, a bi-annual annual that is broadcast to museums, galleries, art institutions and art schools about the world. It provides artists, collectors, museums, galleries, art organizations and enthusiasts with acceptance to the plan of internationally accomplished arising and mid-level artists as able-bodied as affection articles, reviews and interviews. Agora Gallery is aswell the sponsor of Art-Mine.com, one of the a lot of absolute assets accessible common to appearance and acquirement accomplished art from emerging, mid-level and absolute artists. Most recently, the arcade launched http://agoraartgalleryblog.com, a blog advised to accommodate accessible advice and admonition for artists while accouterment a appointment for artists to advice one addition by administration their adventures and thoughts.

Bodhtree’s Web 2.0 Technologies to Expand Artflute’s Global Customer Base

Bodhtree Consulting (www.bodhtree.com), a arch provider of avant-garde consulting and technology, today appear “it will ability and supplement Artflute.com (www.artflute.com ), a Global online art community, with its web 2.0 technologies. Bodhtree will addition Artflute.com to aggrandize its online abject and advice ability a added aesthetic association globally. Artflute.com is an online artistic association area you buy and advertise aboriginal art.

Artflute has revolutionized online art by the able use of technology, created by Bodhtree; it has accomplished its eyes of creating a belvedere for artists who would accept called altered vocations contrarily in the absence of a basic athenaeum of art created by Artflute. Artflute enables artists to advertise their works of Art to buyers who appointment Artflute.com at prices uploaded by themselves appropriately ensuring best accuracy and all-around reach. The able use of technology provided by Bodhtree has fabricated Artflute the better aggregator of Indian Contemporary Art in the internet.

“We are acutely blessed to accommodate our web 2.0 technologies to Artflute.com,” said Sanjiv Gupta, chairman, Bodhtree Consulting. “We did advice abounding offline businesses to web accredit their businesses. In the present times the online business mural is different, abnormally if you actualize an online association for aesthetic purposes; our able-bodied web 2.0 technologies will accord Artflute.com a cogent aggressive bend in the abreast art world”.

Artflute.com will accouter web 2.0 technologies from Bodhtree to access its online attendance and basic business of its artistic base, it is committed to bond assorted art lovers above the apple by application the ability of amusing networking; it has a mission to accommodate a top above B2B communication, afar from acclamation the needs of art lovers, artists, art buyers and art dealers.

“Bodhtree has auspiciously addressed our analytical technology needs in the abreast art world, their web 2.0 technology will crop Artflute.com to newer heights by extensive the new communities and ardent art lover from every bend of the Globe” Says Chandini Harlalka, CEO, Artflute.com

Bodhtree will augment Artflute.com to actualize an anytime accretion online art gallery, Web 2.0 technologies will advice Artflute in extensive out to a new association of adolescent art enthusiasts, analyze with them on capacity accompanying to the Arts and actualize a new brand of adolescent collectors on Indian Contemporary Art from above the world.

“We accept able adequacy in Web 2.0 technologies and accessories the aforementioned for Artflute.com is a archetypal archetype of art affair technology in the absolute world,” commented Raghavan VSR Madabhushi, arch of SOA and DW at Bodhtree Consulting.

Artflute.com currently showcases added than 450 accustomed artists and over 1700 accustomed artworks, authoritative it the better Indian Contemporary Art aperture in just beneath 12 months of operation.

About Bodhtree Consulting
Bodhtree is a technology aggregation alms IT casework and solutions back 1999 in the alcove areas of business intelligence, abstracts management, absorb analytics, abstracts warehousing, SOA consulting, CRM Consulting, certificate management, apparent asset administration and brand asset management, testing and artefact development outsourcing. Bodhtree’s chump abject covers healthcare, pharmaceutical, hi-tech, manufacturing, government and media organizations above the world.

Headquartered in India with sales offices in the U.S.A. and the U.K., Bodhtree is a about listed company. It has been the incubator for several companies with interests in added alcove business areas. With aboveboard ally such as Owens & Minor (Spend Analytics for US Healthcare), HP and Confluent (High Tech and SOA), e2e Analytics (Business Intelligence and Analytics on Demand) and Microsoft E-Publishing, E-learning and Mobile Classified Search), Bodhtree has created abounding chump success stories.

About Artflute
Artflute is an online artistic association area you can buy and advertise aboriginal art. It’s an ideal abode to ascertain new aesthetic talent. Artflute has been spearheading the online art arcade amplitude with it’s different initiatives, afar from bringing the art association on to a individual belvedere - above the world. The able use of technology has helped Artflute become India’s better belvedere for affairs and affairs Indian Contemporary Art, all aboriginal works of Indian artists at aboriginal artist’s prices. It is aswell the alone Artspace which is creating a adolescent artistic association of Art lovers, Artists and Art Enthusiasts.

For added information, amuse contact:
Murlidharan, Enright Media, Mobile no: 09885109594, email enright@enrightpr.com / www.enrightpr.com

Mind’s Eye Fine Art Moving and Storage Sponsors the 13th Annual Boston International Fine Art Show

Mind’s Eye Fine Art Moving and Storage is amuse to advertise its advocacy of the 13th Annual Boston International Fine Art Show (BIFAS), which takes abode Thursday - Sunday, November 12-15, 2009 at the Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the Arts. Mind’s Eye will accept the befalling to present their able and technologically beat shipment capabilities and accumulator solutions to even collectors in seek of accomplished art assets in the Boston area. For added advice on Mind’s Eye, amuse alarm 800-428-9800 or appointment www.ImagineMindsEye.com.

The alone appearance of its affectionate in New England, BIFAS appearance 40 baddest galleries, alms both acceptable and abreast accomplished art: paintings, sculpture, drawings, accomplished prints, photography and more. More than 3,000 aboriginal works of art will be on appearance and for auction in all amount ranges, from accomplished aboriginal prints costing just a few hundred dollars to museum-quality masterpiece paintings priced at added than $1 million. For added advice on BIFAS, appointment www.FineArtBoston.com.

Mind’s Eye CEO Howard Goldman will allotment his ability on a console blue-blooded “Appraising, Storing, and Restoring Your Collection” at BIFAS’ accepted New Collectors’ Night on Friday, November 13th at 5:30pm. Other panelists cover assembly from Elizabeth Clement and Associates Fine Art Appraisers and Trefler & Son’s Art Restoration. Lectures and panels are chargeless with appearance admission.

Whether a beneficiary is affective a adored painting to their home, a arcade is alteration account to a show, or a building is affective an display cross-country, Mind’s Eye has the adequacy to agenda busline according to any client’s specific needs. This adeptness gels with Mind’s Eye’s focus on convenience: the company’s arrangement of accomplished art insurance, restoration, and appraisement professionals makes them a one-stop-shop for anyone with accomplished art, antiques or collectibles.

In accession to their shipment services, Mind’s Eye offers accumulator solutions for accomplished art, collectibles, and antiques. Employing the latest aegis and altitude ascendancy technologies, Mind’s Eye custom art vaults action audience secure, reliable, and customizable accumulator options. Private and accessible art vaults are accessible for both abbreviate and abiding storage, with a amount ambit all-around about any budget

About Mind’s Eye
Mind’s Eye Fine Art Moving and Storage offers able crating, transporting, aggressive and showcasing casework for accomplished art and adored antiquities. A specialized analysis of Humboldt Storage & Moving, the aggregation allowances from over 100 years of busline and accumulator experience. Their all-encompassing account of audience includes museums and collectors from both the accumulated and clandestine sectors. Mind’s Eye is certified as an AXA Preferred Partner and a Chubb Masterpiece Preferred Provider. The aggregation operates on one axial fact: “The way we affliction for your art is an art anatomy unto itself.” www.ImagineMindsEye.com.

Editor’s Notes:
• Additional photos are accessible on request.
• Interviews with aggregation assembly available.

Mind’s Eye Fine Art Moving and Storage Sponsors the 13th Annual Boston International Fine Art Show

Mind’s Eye Fine Art Moving and Storage is amuse to advertise its advocacy of the 13th Annual Boston International Fine Art Show (BIFAS), which takes abode Thursday - Sunday, November 12-15, 2009 at the Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the Arts. Mind’s Eye will accept the befalling to present their able and technologically beat shipment capabilities and accumulator solutions to even collectors in seek of accomplished art assets in the Boston area. For added advice on Mind’s Eye, amuse alarm 800-428-9800 or appointment www.ImagineMindsEye.com.

The alone appearance of its affectionate in New England, BIFAS appearance 40 baddest galleries, alms both acceptable and abreast accomplished art: paintings, sculpture, drawings, accomplished prints, photography and more. More than 3,000 aboriginal works of art will be on appearance and for auction in all amount ranges, from accomplished aboriginal prints costing just a few hundred dollars to museum-quality masterpiece paintings priced at added than $1 million. For added advice on BIFAS, appointment www.FineArtBoston.com.

Mind’s Eye CEO Howard Goldman will allotment his ability on a console blue-blooded “Appraising, Storing, and Restoring Your Collection” at BIFAS’ accepted New Collectors’ Night on Friday, November 13th at 5:30pm. Other panelists cover assembly from Elizabeth Clement and Associates Fine Art Appraisers and Trefler & Son’s Art Restoration. Lectures and panels are chargeless with appearance admission.

Whether a beneficiary is affective a adored painting to their home, a arcade is alteration account to a show, or a building is affective an display cross-country, Mind’s Eye has the adequacy to agenda busline according to any client’s specific needs. This adeptness gels with Mind’s Eye’s focus on convenience: the company’s arrangement of accomplished art insurance, restoration, and appraisement professionals makes them a one-stop-shop for anyone with accomplished art, antiques or collectibles.

In accession to their shipment services, Mind’s Eye offers accumulator solutions for accomplished art, collectibles, and antiques. Employing the latest aegis and altitude ascendancy technologies, Mind’s Eye custom art vaults action audience secure, reliable, and customizable accumulator options. Private and accessible art vaults are accessible for both abbreviate and abiding storage, with a amount ambit all-around about any budget

About Mind’s Eye
Mind’s Eye Fine Art Moving and Storage offers able crating, transporting, aggressive and showcasing casework for accomplished art and adored antiquities. A specialized analysis of Humboldt Storage & Moving, the aggregation allowances from over 100 years of busline and accumulator experience. Their all-encompassing account of audience includes museums and collectors from both the accumulated and clandestine sectors. Mind’s Eye is certified as an AXA Preferred Partner and a Chubb Masterpiece Preferred Provider. The aggregation operates on one axial fact: “The way we affliction for your art is an art anatomy unto itself.” www.ImagineMindsEye.com.

Editor’s Notes:
• Additional photos are accessible on request.
• Interviews with aggregation assembly available.

Paco Dalmau’s Work Seeks to Explore the Human Psyche in Portals of Perception at Agora Gallery

Chelsea’s Agora Gallery appear they will bare a three-part exhibition that is appointed to run from October 27, 2009 through November 17, 2009, featuring plan from Paco Dalmau in Portals of Perception.

Dalmau approaches anniversary painting individually, laying down brushstrokes as the plan demands. Long, angular acclamation of oil acrylic are abutting with anarchic spatters, adventurous impasto abstracts appear from smooth, beaming backgrounds, or assume to cook into a bleared apple area annihilation is certain. His complete administration of blush creates an atmosphere answerable with emotion. Employing a aseptic yet active range, acute blush break through the apparent of his canvases. Dalmau’s enquiring and accordant works abbreviate the activity and dizzying affection with which he creates them.

Born in Spain in 1978, Paco Dalmau’s aboriginal aptitude was aesthetic by his aesthetic training in Barcelona. Currently active and alive in Vila-Real, Dalmau continues to analyze and advance his practice.

Portals of Perception bridges the advanced amplitude of aesthetic possibilities, acquisition calm impressionist, realist, and abstract paintings. What we find, surprisingly, is not the differences but the similarities as these accomplished artists vocalize the inspirations of places, people, and feelings. While the accurate beheld accent may differ, the spirit abaft the works has abounding overlapping areas, because to be animal is to apprehend ourselves aural our brainy and concrete environs. Elements of Abstraction presents audiences with a affluent kaleidoscope of color, form, and arrangement that in affiliation breathes activity into abstract artworks. Whether employing ablaze brushstrokes or adventurous fields of color, nonrepresentational art, with its abridgement of accustomed forms, allows the plan allege to us on an abnormally basal level. Through their acutely claimed forms of expression, these artists action a beauteous glimpse into abreast abstract painting. Altered States of Reality provides a glimpse of the apple as captured through the lens of a camera, technology, and through the artists own close vision. The able artist’s accommodating in Altered States of Reality action us a acumen of the world, as seen, through a complex, ambiguous admixture of affections and abstruse mastery. The old boundaries accept appear aerobatics down and the new absoluteness has been adapted and is always changing. This agitative exhibition allows us to claiming our ideas, parables and perceptions that aggregate our own reality.

Exhibition Dates: October 27, 2009 – November 17, 2009
Reception: Thursday, October 29, 2009, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Gallery Location: 530 West 25th St, New York City
Gallery Hours: Tues – Sat, 11a.m. - 6 p.m.
Event URL: http://www.agora-gallery.com/artistpage/paco_dalmau.aspx

Featured Artists:
Portals of Perception- Albert Barcilon, Paco Dalmau, Susan Marx, Alina Shapiro, Carmen Sotuela
Elements of Abstraction- Oliver Benoit, Alejandrina Calderoni, Magda Dini, Roisin Fitzpatrick, Michael I. Kotler, Rom Lammar, Anti Liu, Alexey Marroquin
Altered States of Reality- Lil Dafonte, Rupert Davis, GISART, Sharon Hickey, Isaac Images, Joblueheart, Eleanor Owen Kerr, David LaBella, Clecio Lira, Uri Mahlev, Lymarie Rodriguez, Toktam Tayefeh, Maria Trezzi

About Agora Gallery
Agora Gallery is a accomplished art arcade amid in the affection of New York City’s Chelsea art galleries commune that was accustomed in 1984 and is acclaimed for showcasing a amazing arrangement of accomplished artists from about the apple and about the corner, while accouterment above and aboriginal art to collectors. The arcade aswell publishes ARTisSpectrum Magazine, a bi-annual annual that is broadcast to museums, galleries, art institutions and art schools about the world. It provides artists, collectors, museums, galleries, art organizations and enthusiasts with acceptance to the plan of internationally accomplished arising and mid-level artists as able-bodied as affection articles, reviews and interviews. Agora Gallery is aswell the sponsor of Art-Mine.com, one of the a lot of absolute assets accessible common to appearance and acquirement accomplished art from emerging, mid-level and absolute artists. Most recently, the arcade launched http://agoraartgalleryblog.com, a blog advised to accommodate accessible advice and admonition for artists while accouterment a appointment for artists to advice one addition by administration their adventures and thoughts.

San Diego Fine Art Society Launches Artist Mentor Program

San Diego Fine Art Society (SDFAS), a bounded non-profit alignment appetite to advance the aesthetic cultural character actuality in San Diego, has launched its Artist Mentor Program. Despite all the artistic action in San Diego, artists, art venues, and collectors are not able-bodied affiliated to anniversary other.

“Often galleries appearance artists as not dependable and artists appearance galleries as added absorbed in money than art. Collectors don’t apperceive about the artists because there is no area to acquaintance their art and artists don’t apperceive area to acquisition collectors for their art,” said April Game, founding controlling administrator of SDFAS. “It is our mission to plan to abolish those barriers and actualize a applicable art community. The Mentor Program is a big allotment of that.”

The Artist Mentor Program is advised for artists to bare their dreams and ascertain what is blocking them from success, to accept area their art avalanche a allotment of their peers’ in the marketplace, to band with adolescent artists in account flat sessions, and to advice artists move advanced with focused tasks that get them afterpiece to their goals.

According to Jon Vencil, appraisal adviser for Nonprofit Management Solutions, there is no commensurable affairs like it in the country. After afterward the Program for the aboriginal three months, Vencil assured that “it has the abeyant to set the accepted for mentor-based art programs in the country.”

The affairs is facilitated by Yoram Gil, an artisan himself with over 35 years acquaintance as a arcade buyer and has accomplished artists in Los Angeles and abroad. He is an experienced, common coach who will drive artists to excel. For added advice about Yoram, amuse appointment www.yoramgil.com.

The amount for artists to participate is $100 per ages and a one-year charge is appropriate that begins with an accelerated three months of mentoring sessions and account accumulation flat visits. To be considered, artists have to email their work, a hotlink to their website and a account about themselves and their plan to april.game@sdfas.org.

Game founded SDFAS with a mission to empower San Diego bounded artists and advance and aggrandize the aesthetic and cultural elements of the region. She envisions a San Diego with a faculty of its own cultural identity, with collectors, curators and citizens who seek out art by San Diegan artists, and a business association that looks for means to embrace and reflect the beheld arts ability of the association that keeps it thriving. Ultimately, putting San Diego on the map as one of the country’s top-ten destinations for arts and culture.

For added advice about SDFAS, amuse appointment www.sdfas.org or alarm 858-205-4354.

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Studying Italian Language in Florence

Florence is an art city, able-bodied accepted all over the apple as “the cradle of the Renaissance”. Here some of the greatest Renaissance artists were born, accept lived and worked.

Walking down the Florentine streets, annular every bend visitors will run into history and culture, advance about admirable squares, arresting churches and adorable museums. No appointment to Florence would be complete after seeing the Duomo, Florence landmark, the Uffizi Gallery, apartment works of Tiziano, Botticelli, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and others artists who wrote the apple art history.

Florence is aswell a city-limits of students, a university centre, abounding of art schools, academies, all-embracing programs and courses of all kinds. It is the basic of Italian Language schools too, as it is considered, calm with Siena, the abode area the Italian Language was complete and area the best accepted Italian is spoken, as for accentuation and grammar correctness.

That’s why foreigners accept been advancing actuality for centuries to abstraction and widen their art and aesthetics knowledge. Consequently visitors can acquisition actuality the a lot of accomplished schools and the a lot of able teachers. The Scuola Leonardo da Vinci is one of these institutions that contributed by abounding appropriate to this able-bodied adapted praise.

It is anchored just in the centre, few account walking from the Duomo, the arty arch of the city-limits basilica overhanging the academy backyard and bushing all the window openings. Along its now continued life, the academy has continuously grown, adapting itself to the requests and needs of the abundant acceptance who consistently accept in every affectionate of courses: Italian language, history of art, painting, drawing, fashion, cooking, opera singing, agreeable instruments and restoration.

The academy organizes, in accord with the Tuscany government, aswell internships in shops, hotels, offices and handcraft ateliers. Why so abounding courses and activities? This comes from the aesthetics of the school: acquirements a accent is not alone studying, it agency accepting in blow with the culture, the art, the handcraft, the way of living, working, thinking. A absolute “full immersion” experience. The academy drives acceptance to abide the city-limits and its amusing life. As a amount of fact, the teachers, as a German apprentice said, “do not allege Italian, they abide Italian”, so as to absorb acceptance in their activities.

Painting, Drawing, Restoration are courses that the academy is aggravating to advance in adjustment to accomplish the accretion appeal for accomplished arts. Many acceptance like to brace acquirements Italian with an activated art course. Learning to acrylic in the citizenry of Michelangelo and Leonardo is an clearly absurd experience. Music courses, in accord with a next aperture able music school, are aswell added and added attended. Italy is in actuality the citizenry of Verdi, Puccini and Rossini.

Florence is not alone ability and art, but ball as able-bodied for adolescent and earlier people. Any day of the anniversary restaurants, cafes, pubs and theatres get bound awash by humans at night and it is so simple to absorb a affable night off with accompany or colleagues. The academy gives affairs of affair people, announcement dinners, aperos and excursions calm with Erasmus and acceptance from all over the world.

Excursions destinations depends on the time of the year, contest and exhibitions that crop place: Venice, the Cinque Terre, Eurochocolate in Perugia, Operas in Verona, wineries in countryside to aftertaste wine, olive oil, cheese and added archetypal products. Don’t absence the befalling of analytic in the absorbing Chianti arena and aftertaste its world-famous wines!

Actually, aliment and wine is addition acumen for advancing to Florence. Due to its actual prime for gastronomy, Tuscany has consistently admiring visitors agog on tasting every affectionate of dishes, wines and products. The academy offers able or amateurs courses all year round, area humans can apprentice advancing the a lot of acclaimed Italian dishes as minestrone, tortellini, lasagne, pizza, tiramisu ecc.

Living in Florence offers addition advantage: it is not a sprawling metropolis, it counts beneath than bisected a actor citizenry and it is a abode simple to escape from, anytime anyone needs apple-pie air and silence. 30 account by bus, 15 account active by car and you get to an acclaimed countryside, southwards able-bodied able in the Chianti region, northwards accustomed and agrarian with mountains, woods, forests, lakes and civic parks. And what about the seaside? One hour driving, one hour by alternation and you are on admirable beaches and rocks.

Florence is a advice hub too, geographically able-bodied centrally situated, anniversary allotment of Italy calmly aural ability by alternation or car. It is the best abode to stay, if visitors plan to appointment abounding added art towns during their stay, like Venice, Milan, Padova, Verona in the north, Rome, Naples, Siena, Assisi, Perugia in the south.

Studying in Florence agency abounding things together: learning, affair people, bistro and bubbler well, but aswell accepting fun and activity at affluence aimless down the arresting Florentine lanes.

Paper Works! A Long Journey Over A Short Distance

Two years ago the artisan realised that an approaching home move would prove to be a aeon of about-face and transience. So, for this aeon he absitively to plan on A3 paper, recording the Physical, Mental and Spiritual aspects of the journey. He awash up, house, flat and appointment and with his ancestors and ample dog set out to acquisition about new.

The adventure became an odyssey, affective four times, accident every penny they had, angry to get it back, assault, robbery, boot and a accomplished host of added trials. He aswell had amazing adventures, met alluring humans and realised what absolutely admirable & admiring accompany and ancestors he had. This adventure has resulted in forty three new paintings.

The exhibition will be running, 23rd November – 5th December 2009 at The Colomb Art Gallery, London

Also featured at the exhibition will be the ‘Useable & Wearable Art’ of ‘andrewflintdesign.com’ taken from the artist’s paintings. From admirable English fabricated tablemats & coasters to bags, stationery, t-shirts, aprons, ambrosial candles, jigsaws and bottle trivets. For added advice appointment www.andrewflintdesign.com

About the Artist
This will be Andrew’s 21st Solo show. He has apparent in abundant alloyed shows and has apparent in the U.S.A., France, Malta, Menorca, Belgium, England and Scotland. He will be assuming in alloyed shows in Cyprus & Greece next year. Andrew is a symbolist painter who loves the ability of colour. He is a abstruse artist, who acerb believes in the ability of positivity, and who sees his works acting as icons.
For added advice or images amuse acquaintance the gallery

The exhibition will be captivated at The Colomb Art Gallery, London
Free Entry | Open Weekdays 9.30-7pm | Saturday: 10-5 pm

Late Night Opening: Thursday 3rd December until 9.00 pm
Nearest Underground Stations: Bond Street or Baker Street

The Colomb Art Gallery exhibits art works by recognised British and all-embracing artists alignment from the acceptable to the contemporary.

Regular exhibitions, contest and clandestine angle are captivated throughout the year. To be included on the arcade commitment account amuse acquaintance the gallery.

The Colomb Art Gallery is partnered with York Fine Arts, a arch North of England accomplished art gallery.

Paper Works! A Long Journey Over A Short Distance

Two years ago the artisan realised that an approaching home move would prove to be a aeon of about-face and transience. So, for this aeon he absitively to plan on A3 paper, recording the Physical, Mental and Spiritual aspects of the journey. He awash up, house, flat and appointment and with his ancestors and ample dog set out to acquisition about new.

The adventure became an odyssey, affective four times, accident every penny they had, angry to get it back, assault, robbery, boot and a accomplished host of added trials. He aswell had amazing adventures, met alluring humans and realised what absolutely admirable & admiring accompany and ancestors he had. This adventure has resulted in forty three new paintings.

The exhibition will be running, 23rd November – 5th December 2009 at The Colomb Art Gallery, London

Also featured at the exhibition will be the ‘Useable & Wearable Art’ of ‘andrewflintdesign.com’ taken from the artist’s paintings. From admirable English fabricated tablemats & coasters to bags, stationery, t-shirts, aprons, ambrosial candles, jigsaws and bottle trivets. For added advice appointment www.andrewflintdesign.com

About the Artist
This will be Andrew’s 21st Solo show. He has apparent in abundant alloyed shows and has apparent in the U.S.A., France, Malta, Menorca, Belgium, England and Scotland. He will be assuming in alloyed shows in Cyprus & Greece next year. Andrew is a symbolist painter who loves the ability of colour. He is a abstruse artist, who acerb believes in the ability of positivity, and who sees his works acting as icons.
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The exhibition will be captivated at The Colomb Art Gallery, London
Free Entry | Open Weekdays 9.30-7pm | Saturday: 10-5 pm

Late Night Opening: Thursday 3rd December until 9.00 pm
Nearest Underground Stations: Bond Street or Baker Street

The Colomb Art Gallery exhibits art works by recognised British and all-embracing artists alignment from the acceptable to the contemporary.

Regular exhibitions, contest and clandestine angle are captivated throughout the year. To be included on the arcade commitment account amuse acquaintance the gallery.

The Colomb Art Gallery is partnered with York Fine Arts, a arch North of England accomplished art gallery.