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2009-07-12T08:57:00.000-07:00

I am privileged to have a review of my artwork by Ed McCormack in Gallery and Studio's June, July, August 2009 Issue. A highly prestigious publication that is the heartbeat of the art scene today. Soo cool!

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Katy Towell ~ A Very Inspired Artist

2009-07-12T08:32:00.000-07:00

Artist, filmmaker, story teller Katy Towell describes her work:

A departure from the usual Children R Scary business.
Story, art, animation, and narration: Katy Towell

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I am a HUGE fan of this artist's creativity; glorious illustration and story telling on the dark side of a child's memory. Brilliant work!

"Never Woke Up"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaAbx1ZTcB0

"The Little Girl Who Was Forgotten"

The tale of a small child who's forgotten by absolutely everyone... even the postman.

Written, illustrated, and animated by Katy Towell,2005.
Narrated by Tim Jones.
Music by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DACkhMdnF-M&feature=channel

When Genevieve Ruled the World

Higher quality version. She's already got a pony. She wants the world. - Story & Art - Katy Towell. Music - Composer: Gwydion Elderwyn. Arranger: Aisha Elderwyn (c) 2005 Gwydion & Aisha Elderwyn. Narration: Aisha Elderwyn. Other Voices - Melanie Aimes and Tim Jones.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24gSLZUaQUE&feature=channel_page

Check out Katy Towell's YouTube channel to view more of her work:

http://www.youtube.com/user/katytowell

New Exhibit Monkdogz New York- "Zepher"

2008-07-26T12:52:00.000-07:00

Press Release:

For Immediate Release Contact: Marina Hadley marina@monkdogz.com

Opening reception on Thursday July 19 Show runs until August 6, 2008

Monkdogz Urban Art’s final show of the season rolls out like a soft cool breeze on the pre-heated summer sidewalks of New York City. It brings together an exciting group of International artists whose work, styles, and interests range from painting, mixed media and sculpture and span the globe in both time and imagination.

Noël Dorado, France Dorado’s work bridges both the eloquence of couture fashion and the fine art of sculpture. With the fine eye of a jeweler, Noël’s dedication to line and detail allow his three dimensional creations to breath and dance within the viewers’ imagination.

Betina Jung, Denmark Jung’s application of paint on canvas brings forth what appear to be mythical creatures searching for the road to connect the erotic instincts of both men and women to society and its pre conceived notion of morals and values, and the individual’s base instinct to seek freedom and acceptance. Within this battle ground conflict the viewer becomes a participant in the understanding they are not alone and the world becomes a warmer, more interesting and accepting place to live.

Joyce DiBona, U.S.A. Texas based DiBona’s life form tattoo sculpture creates a language all its own. Viewed extensively within the United States the work is finding its way into the International community’s collective awareness. Her work using images, symbolism, and the written word tells a story that is both powerful and beautiful. Each work is an exhibition on its own right. Her recent show at Basel in collaboration with Pietro Franesi and the upcoming show at the New York Art Biennial will give viewers more opportunity to see the development of this exciting artist.

Bjørn Eriksen, Denmark Eriksen’s classical figurative human forms, due to the artist’s use of color and structure, at times appear to be almost supernatural and free floating in a space all their own. They reach out and hold the viewer by simultaneously projecting a serious and whimsical expression. As if trying to communicate something that is both profound and irrelevant, leaving the viewer with the feeling of waking up from a dream you can’t quite remember the details of and at the same time desperately feeling the need to remember and understand.

James Armstrong, U.S.A. There is a simple inherent beauty that is captured in Armstrong’s glass sculptors that just touches the viewer’s heart. Although each piece is unique and impressive in structure and design, the work exhibits its own sense of freedom and movement as if watching a natural cloud formation or waves break on a sandy shoreline as the sun rises. There is a feeling of the past with his work; not just with time and history but within the viewer’s own life that is embraced like a warm memory. 547 W 27 Street New York, NY 10001 - 212 216 0030
547 W 27 Street New York, NY 10001 - 212 216 0030

Kasper Holten, Denmark Holten is a master of incorporating fun into highly erotic art. Mixing fetish experience with gnome like creatures thus producing work that is both sublime and extraordinarily unique. The artist is a testament to imagination and self will run riot.

Karina Sala, Argentina A young Buenos Aires counter-culture artist whose works are designed to highlight trends and movements of the X, Y and Z generations in style and attitude. Her current works are morphing into a somewhat more personal reflection of sexuality using the human form to shed pretense and chart self discovery.

Marcus van Soest, Holland Multiple dimensions intertwine themselves to create a psychedelic environment where humor and mysticism live side by side to illustrate his sense of reality. The explosive use of color, symbolism and definition by this artist puts him in league with that of a master story teller.

Randy Thurman, U.S.A. Thurman’s eclectic style of art moves in a multitude of directions from figurative to geometric abstraction and digital expression. Each individual work is driven to build a relationship between the artist, viewer and the expression of the finished work.

Jonna Pedersen, Denmark Pedersen’s structural forms of buildings and man-made products give the viewer a refreshing opportunity to see the everyday, slightly askew and much more interestingly. Her choice of color and line give the works a dream-like quality that seduces the viewer into participating with the work.

Carl McGrady, U.S.A. McGrady’s greatest influence is felt in the Ukyio-e masters of Japan. There is a timeless quality to simple yet eloquent lines of the past. By fusing western materials and historical ideas McGrady captures the best of both worlds.

Paul Rousso, U.S.A. Rousso’s unique ability to take two dimensional works to the next level and create three dimensional sculpted works is amazing in both process and visual experience. Having said that, Rousso may be best known for his commitment to producing some of the most innovative collage work in North America.

Kathy Ostman-Magnusen, U.S.A. Ostman-Magnusen is a multi talented artist whose primary focus encompasses the female subject, covering their dreams, fantasies, and day-to-day lives. Her style of impressionism and realism using a variety of materials from gold, silk, glass and paint allows her to give each work a distinct sense of life and purpose.

Isabelle Ribot, Brazil A French artist living in Brazil for the past seven years, her current work evolved from a series of urban landscapes that produced an alter ego named “Idoru” who is both a reality and virtual reality. As the artist’s work evolves so does Idoru define herself. The genius of this concept is evident in the extraordinary imagination and execution of these powerful works.

Steve Reinhart, U.S.A. It would be easy enough to say Reinhart is one of the more exciting artists to emerge from the New York contemporary arena, but the power and impact of his work gives it a timeless and explosive value all of its own. This is work that really needs to be seen in person to appreciate not only in scope but the details that permeate the canvas texture. Reinhart’s commitment to his work destines him for great things.

Hans Meertens Meertens’ work has the ability to engage, seduce, and haunt the viewer through his raw application of material and reflective imagination. Meertens breathes energy into his figurative forms to the point they command their own identity in a living environment and allowing the viewer an intimate relationship with his subjects that live on long after the encounter with his work.

New York, International Art Exhibit

Art is in the air...especially in New York!

More Info:

To see more about Monkdogz and their artists check out the Monkdogz site of course, but also check out my Monkdogz Squidoo! I have featured works of some of the artists in the Zepher show as well as Jean Marc Calvet, Robert Hogge, Sebastien Aurillion and others. http://www.squidoo.com/newyorkartgalleries

A special congrats to Ed McCormack of "Gallery and Studio" Magazine at the end of this email as well.

Peace,

Kathy

PS.. be sure to forward this onto your friends.. thanks!

AND If you DO go to any of these openings? Plant a big sloppy kiss on Bob! tee hee!

SOME MORE ABOUT THE ARTISTS IN ZEPHER ALONG WITH THEIR LINKS:

Randy Thurman -USA
http://www.thurmanart.org/
http://philbrodieband.com/muso_randy_thurman.htm
http://www.monkdogz.com/chelseagallery/artistart/Thurman/artist_thurman.htm

Randy Thurman is an artist, musician, composer, poet, writer, etc. living and working in rural south east Tennessee. Randy's art has exhibited at Monkdogz Urban Art, Gallery 181 and the
Jay Etkin Gallery just to name a few. Randy's music has traveled throughout the US and broad in London, Belgium, and Australia. "There are two kinds of people in the world, and I am neither." --RT

Isabelle Ribot -France
http://www.isabelleribot.art.br/
http://www.monkdogz.com/chelseagallery/artistart/Ribot/artist_ribot.html

"as longas telas são histórias, misturam imagens, escritas, cores e códigos, descrevem viajens e experiências com um estranho e magnético olhar..."

"The screens are long stories, mixed images, papers, colors and codes, travel and describe experiences with a strange look and magnetic

Kathy Ostman-Magnusen - Hawaii,USA
http://www.kathysart.com
http://www.monkdogz.com/chelseagallery/artistart/Magnusen/artist_magnusen.htm
http://www.monkdogz.com/Monkdogz%20Artist%20Links/artistsO.htm

In every single one of my paintings my objective is to 'feel them breathing'. To let each one reveal their own vision or message. I am often astounded as their presence unfolds & I am met with who they are. I then realize that who 'they' are, defines me as well. My hope is that my paintings & sculptures relate to you, their audience & that they give you the message you need for your own heart and soul.

Other shows Kathy has done with Monkdogz:
"Seven"
"Damez"
"Flashing Flesh"

Joyce DiBona USA
http://www.joycedibona.com

Monkdogz Urban Art in NYC, Art Basel, Miami, NY Biennale 2009

Austin Artist Joyce DiBona: upcoming shows in New York City and collaboration with International Curator/Director Pietro Franesi

Longtime Austin Artist Joyce DiBona will be one of fourteen artists featured at Monkdogz Urban Art in New York City for “Zephyr” July 17 through August 6, 2008. Monkdogz Urban Art is located in the heart of Chelsea, NYC. It is an International Gallery dedicated to showcasing cutting edge established and emerging artists:
“History has dictated that occasionally windows of opportunity open within the art world. In the 1930s, artists like Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock just to name a couple, were afforded a platform to exhibit their work in New York City. The reception worldwide was significant. Again, in the early 1970s, artists like Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring were afforded the same opportunity.We believe that as we go into the 21st century, the window opens once again but this time on a more international scale. The world today is very much a global village. Distances, time zones and different languages are no longer the barriers that they once were.” www.monkdogz.com

Art Basel Miami 2008 : December 4-7, 2008
Joyce DiBona will be collaborating with Pietro Franesi on an installation for Art Basel Miami 2008.

Art Basel Miami Beach is the most important art show in the United States, a cultural and social highlight for the Americas. As the sister event of Switzerland's Art Basel, the most prestigious art show worldwide for the past 38 years, Art Basel Miami Beach combines an international selection of top galleries with an exciting program of special exhibitions, parties and crossover events featuring music, film, architecture and design. www.artbaselmiamibeach.com

NY Biennale Art 2009: September 27-October 25, 2009
Ms. DiBona will once again collaborate with Pietro Franesi, the Director of the NY Biennale Art 2009, on one of the permanent exhibition projects, “Deus Vult”. http://www.nybiennaleart.org

James M. Armstrong USA

http://www.armstrong-art.com
http://www.monkdogz.com/Monkdogz%20Artist%20Links/artistsA.htm

Glass is the current medium that fuels my creative passion. My interest in glass began when I spent several years working at The Peltier Glass Company in Ottawa, Illinois, U.S.A. There I learned about the versatility and creative potential that glass has to offer. The possibilities are practically limitless. My abstract work in glass is an improvisation in which I seek form and emotion. I want the work to appear to "come alive." I think of it as the transfer of my life energy into the glass. That is what I want others to see and feel. The shapes I create transport my consciousness from the immediate, external world to an inner realm of symbols and emotions. It is there, in my subconscious, where my work derives its meaning.

Bjoern Eriksen -Denmark
http://www.eriksen.be/
http://www.eriksen.be/english.asp
http://www.monkdogz.com/Monkdogz%20Artist%20Links/artistsE.htm

Bjorn Eriksen is a mature artist, born in 1957. At the age of seven he was fascinated by Picasso's Guernica, in which the spirit shaped as a shaken and sad young person with a candle in his hand, together with a terrified, wounded horse, sees how a brutal bull, symbolizing the dominating oppressing powers of our time, has slain the future formed as a child. As a result, the mother cries out her sorrow and anger to the bull's face. The horse is Pegasus of the art and Eriksen has vanished into it and he has never returned. Can you stand beside your time? Yes! You can. You can be neutral. But then, how can you make anything but decorative and abstract geometric art. There is enough of this. But Eriksen has also sensed something: it is about holding on to the light and not give up on reality - though it is tough. The man who has fought the bull on the back of Pegasus is surely lying dead on the ground but with a little flower in his hand. He succeeded in making his art. How does Eriksen's flower look like? He paints in an expressive style that makes a strong impact. It consists of lonely faces. No wonder. Yet they deny to give up. Some hide behind masks. It is difficult to reveal yourself. One is looking to the sky saying "I don't care". But that is not enough for most of his faces.

Karina Sala -Buenos Aires, Argentina
http://www.karingasala.tk
http://www.monkdogz.com/Monkdogz%20Artist%20Links/artistsS.htm

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, her education and career highlights began with her earlier artistic activity in the year 1972 at the sculpture atelier owned by Maria Rosa Frigerio, where she stayed for two years. After that, she studied at Jorge Demerijian's atelier for six years. She studies at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes Prilidiano Pueyrredón with a specialized professorship in painting. For two more years, she studied drawing techniques at the Asociación Estímulo de Bellas Artes with Carlos Terribili. She attends several workshops and art history courses. In the year 2004 she was able to reach top of the world knowledge directly from the kingdom of arts: The city of Paris, in France.

Betina Jung -Denmark
http://www.betinajung.com
http://www.gallerijung.dk/
http://www.monkdogz.com/chelseagallery/artistart/Jung/artist_jung.htm
http://www.monkdogz.com/Monkdogz%20Artist%20Links/artistsJ.htm

Betina Jung is an abstract painter, who paints in forms full of energy, in a directly, raw and strong personal way. Energy, women, hidden bodies and elements of stagnationmoments. The compositions often have more than one center - because it is made in a lot of coating. You can not see it all at first - you have to look closely and discover behind the immediate.

Jonna Pedersen -Denmark
http://www.jonnapedersen.dk

CURRENT EXHIBITION:
THE LOVERS AND THE STREET OF THE CITY

17 May - 15 June 2008

together with Bjørn Eriksen in two places:

KUNSTPAKHUSET
Lilletorv 5, 7430 Ikast

Galleriet Jørgen Østergaard
Østergade 44
7430 Ikast

The lovers and the streets of the city
By Ole Lindboe

The artist couple Jonna Pedersen and Bjørn Eriksen demonstrate their sparkling co-operation with a new exhibition.

There is the city and there is its people. Buildings and bodies. People meet and separate and the buildings stand as meaningful scenes around it all. That is the take-off for the exhibition that Jonna Pedersen and Bjørn Eriksen invites to at Galleri Jørgen Østergaard and Kunstpakhuset in Ikast , Denmark .

The two artists are essentially different. Bjørn Eriksen classical expressive and intense. Jonna Pedersen modern with confident sense of the hidden language of the facades. And yet they meet somewhere in the painting. In a coalision between the inner and outer side of the existence.

World of art
FAMOUS 100 Contemporary Artists
103 selected artists from 56 countries including Jonna Pedersen.
Over 500 works.
2006. 232 color pages.
Text in English, dimensions: 22x22 cm, hardcover
Publisher: World of art
Editor and author: Petru Russu
ISBN 9189685113
List price: (USD): $69.90
For sale via Barnes & Noble, Borders, Amazon, Books-A-Million and Wal-Mart.

Marcus Van Soest -Amsterdam
http://www.monkdogz.com/chelseagallery/artistart/Van%20Soest/artist_vansoest.htm
http://www.monkdogz.com/Monkdogz%20Artist%20Links/artistsS.htm

Eternally searching for a universal language, Marcus describes his inner urge to paint as his ultimate passion... Derived by the inspiration of life and the bizarre times he finds himself a part of. Born and raised in the Hague, he has been expressing himself through his art since he was old enough to hold a pen...Marcus' desire to transform the beholder and elevate them from reality is surely fulfilled through his work...Multiple dimensions mingle and intertwine to create a psychedelic nature where mysticism and humor depicted side by side illustrate his reality...The paintings contain an ever present mystical overtone that draws us unwillingly into his surreal dimension. Each new painting is regarded by Marcus as a fresh challenge ; anything is possible and likely in his vision...although no two of Marcus's paintings are alike, his undeniable style is ever recognizable through his dream-like reality...The language spoken weaves a tale of modern symbolism highlighted by his explosive usage of color...

Steve Reinhart - USA
http://www.stevereinhart.com/http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif
http://www.monkdogz.com/chelseagallery/artistart/reinhart/artist_reinhart.html
http://www.monkdogz.com/Monkdogz%20Artist%20Links/artistsR.htm

" Its not dark yet, but its getting there"
Mixed Mediums on Canvas
7'-0" x 18'-0"
2007

Through the years artists have painted their interpretations of everyday objects, subjects, and countless landscapes by using recognizable shapes and forms to relay their messages. Vincent Van Gogh’s landscapes are truly original and so are Monet’s; each of which have there own distinctive personality, characteristics and purpose. However, one thing has always remained the same regardless of the artist, the use of forms and shapes to create their objects. Some have chosen to abstract their shapes, but the artist is still using recognizable shapes to some degree, to represent a specific image. Status quo.

Most people look at art for something they can recognize and the artist usually abides by painting something familiar to capture the interest of the viewer. A bright summer day for example is painted with a blue sky and round yellow sun. We are all familiar with these shapes and compositions so the artist has left us with just that – a bright summer day, painting. Status quo.

Can the viewer experience this same bright summer day if all recognizable shapes, forms and compositions are left out of the painting? More importantly can an artist represent a specific place or object without the use of form – even if abstracted?

This is my place in art. I have chosen to remove all forms and recognizable shapes as well as traditional tools (paint brushes) from my compositions and create a sense of place or mood and even imagery through the use of color. Freedom.

Noel Dorado-France

http://www.noeldorado.com
http://www.monkdogz.com/Monkdogz%20Artist%20Links/artistsD.htm

“His father, sculptor, transmitted his love for the materials and his mother, a dressmaker, the elegance of her Spanish roots, he has kept the unrestrained impulse to plug banderillas into resignation…”
Dominique Bunuel “Steps magazine”

Noel Dorado is a very talented Parisian Designer whose skills range from tailoring for the Monarchy of Luxembourg or Air France, to painting and sculpting or stylizing gallery openings, convert events… he designs jewelry collection for famous French jewelers, cosmetics for companies like Christian Dior, Jean Paul Gauthier and LVMH.

Much luck and success to Ed McCormack on his review for the Pulitzer Prize! WOW huh?
Mr. McCormack has written several reviews about various Monkdogz artists. Congrats to Ed McCormack! ~ Editor of Gallery and Studio Magazine.

http://www.galleryandstudiomagazine.com/

Aloha!

Kathy Ostman-Magnusen
free art gifts
http://www.kathysart.com

Click HERE to Vote for Ned Wolinska

2007-03-10T08:57:00.000-08:00

Nad Wolinska

Lets support Ned Wolinska wonderful talent!

Vote for Ned!

Check out Ned's request below:

HI!
I am participating in the Saatchi Showdown.
You can help me to be noticed in this contest and change the course of my artistic life.
The winning work will go on display at the new Saatchi gallery in London!

Your Love and Appreciation will count by rating my artwork.
Voting takes place for the next seven days 3/5/07 TO 3/12/07 so please pass on this bulletin to your network.

Let's them known what kind of art you like.

It will take you 2 minutes to cast your vote and rate my art work.

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/showdown/index.php?showpic=2497

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Thanks everybody!

It is always good to support one another as artists.

Aloha, Kathy

Blog About My Entry Today Click HERE

2007-03-08T18:16:00.000-08:00

This is the painting I finished today.

If there is a downside to painting ten paintings at one time.. it is that it is kind of anti-climatic when one is done. I kind of becomes a blur... OK.. NEXT. It feels like my old days of doing 120-160 mugs a day, there is never enough.

I do think that for just about anyone else who has not experienced what it is like to do assembly work that would not be true.

On the bright side however, my goal is to finish the ten and feel a sense of completion then.

I have finished another painting. I will try to take photos of the new ones tomorrow.

ONWARD! Painting is a gift that matches my passion so I do not mean to dampen the experience... I only mean to be honest.

Aloha, Kathy

Barebrsush Call For Entries www.barebrsuh.com

2007-03-05T12:11:00.000-08:00

Below is an email from Ilene at Barebrush. If you paint, sculpt or draw nudes Barebrush is a great site.

Aloha, Kathy
www.kathysart.com
for FREE Art Gifts!

Click "HERE" for Kathy's free gifts

Dear Members,

Here is the Call for entries for April 2007. I am very excited about this show. ACA is an 'old-time' well-established gallery with an A-list of collectors. Also in March, barebrush has a 1/3 page ad in the NY Gallery Guide, in addition to the regular impact ad (p 59, big ad & p 43 impact ad).

I'm looking forward to seeing lots of great art for this show.

Regards to all,

Ilene

Deadline March 23. All visual artists are encouraged to submit art of the nude to the barebrush.com for selection by Mikaela Sardo Lamarche, Curator, ACA Galleries, New York, for the April 2007 N*des-of-the-Month exhibition.

New York, NY – March 5, 2007. barebrush.com announces today that Mikaela Sardo Lamarche, curator at ACA Galleries of New York will select and curate the April 2007 N*des-of-the-Month virtual exhibition. The entry deadline for the April 2007 calendar is March 23. Art must be uploaded to barebrush.com on or before March 23 to be eligible for the April exhibition. "I am extremely pleased that Mikaela and ACA Galleries are interested in the barebrush project," says Ilene Skeen, barebrush.com founder and CEO. "ACA has a long history of supporting art of the human condition. Mikaela has a wonderful eye as well as being a terrific person to know. It is a privilege to make this announcement."

About Mikaela Sardo Lamarche and ACA Galleries

ACA Galleries, established in 1932, specializes in 19th and 20th century American Art, Modern and Contemporary paintings, drawings and sculpture including American Impressionism, Stieglitz Circle, Ashcan School, 14th Street School, Regionalism, WPA, American Abstraction, Social Realism and Abstract Expressionism.

Mikaela is responsible for organizing all special thematic and historical exhibitions as well as traveling shows for ACA Galleries. Since 2004 she has curated numerous exhibitions including the first retrospective in over 40 years of the artist, Francis Luis Mora, as well as Continuum: Celebrating the 130th Anniversary of the Art Students League of New York and Masters of Tempera, a survey of 20th century American tempera painters. Currently she has two traveling exhibitions on view; African American Masters at the Morris Museum in Morristown, New Jersey and Jon Schueler: The Sign of the Gale, at the Opalka Gallery of the Sage Colleges in Albany, New York.
When asked to provide some insight into her approach to the April calendar, Mikaela wrote,

"For the April exhibition on barebrush.com, I am looking for originality among the individual artists. I would like to see artworks that enlarge the boundaries of the genre and somehow move beyond the classically inspired and stylized nudes that we typically associate with the genre."

About barebrush.com -- dedicated to the art of the nude

barebrush.com is a start-up website dedicated exclusively to the art of the nude. Membership on the site is free, and entering listing art in the "Art Log" on the site for 30 days is also free. The N*des-of-the-Month is a virtual juried exhibition of the art selected from the entries in the “Art Log” by a different guest art professional each month. The exhibition is presented on the web in a unique calendar format. Also on the site is an “Art News & Events” blog which presents opportunities, events and news in the world of the nude in art. There are some nominally-priced optional extras. For example, a 60-day listing costs $1 and automatically enters the artwork into 2 successive N*des-of-the-Month contests.

The N*des-of-the-Month exhibition series began in September 2006 with an exhibition curated by Brigitte Saint-Ouen, founder and director of Gramercy 32 Fine Arts. All previous calendars are still live in the archives of barebrush.com. The current calendar, March 2007, was curated by Bob Hogge, director of Monkdogz Urban Art.

“I want to increase the acceptability and interest in the art of the nude. Unlike many other websites, barebrush.com recognizes the importance of the dealer in the art process. With barebrush.com, I am trying to widen public awareness of, access to and appreciation for the art of the nude. I want to help artists to find dealers, help dealers to find collectors, help collectors to find enjoyment and help us all find each other.” says Ilene Skeen, a native of NYC, who has a unique background: artist, MBA, business systems designer, and graduate anthropologist. Ilene is a resident artist member of the Salmagundi Club and former chairman of the Curator's Committee.
In February 2007, barebrush experienced a record 360,000 hits and 30,000 page views. Unique visitors exceed 10,000 for 2007. The site is averaging over 12,000 hits daily.

Contact information:

Ilene Skeen
372 Fifth Avenue, Suite 7D
New York, NY 10018
Phone: 917-806-7992
Email: iskeen@barebrush.com
Website:www.barebrush.com
dedicated to the art of the nude

Mikaela Sardo Lamarche
Curator: ACA Galleries
529 West 20th St
Fifth Floor
New York, NY 10001
Website: www.acagalleries.com

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Ilene Skeen
CEO
ILS Designs, LLC
372 Fifth Avenue, Suite 7D
New York, NY 10018

Tel: 917-806-7992

www.barebrush.com
dedicated to the art of the nude

Kathy Ostman-Magnusen
Free Gifts:
http://www.kathysart.com/

www.BareBrush.com

2007-02-28T12:13:00.000-08:00

GOOD NEWS FOR ME!

Dear Kathy,

Congratulations! Your art is showcased in the March 2007 n*des-of-the-month calendar, curated by Chelsea gallery director, Bob Hogge of Monkdogz Urban Art.

The calendar is 'live' in previews to members only and goes 'live' to the public on Mar 1.

Beginning March 1, the link below will lead directly to the March calendar:

http://www.barebrush.com/NOTM

Please feel free to brag -- and if you haven't already done so, consider adding a link on your website to barebrush.com -- after all, you're there and a winner!

Thank you so much for participating. The national press release announcing the March show is scheduled for February 27. All of the artists in the March calendar are mentioned by name.

Have a great March!

Best regards,

Ilene

Ilene Skeen
CEO
ILS Designs, LLC
372 Fifth Avenue, Suite 7D
New York, NY 10018

Tel: 917-806-7992

www.barebrush.com
dedicated to the art of the nude

Note: I include this url info so that if you are an artist and paint nudes you might consider BareBrush. They are great!

Obviously this is an adult only site.

or... just check out their site to see my work that is featured on March 12 in their calendar. My painting "Lap Dancer" is featured then. "Lap Dancer" will be in Monkdogz show "Damez" Arpil 26-June 2nd in New York along with 4 other paintings of mine. YAY!

Gallery and Studio Magazine

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I have a show at Monkdogz Urban Art April 26, 2007 - June 2, 2007 called "Damez"
which will be an all woman show featuring women from around the world. The above painting "Bed of Dreams" 30x40 oil, gold leaf, lace on canvas, will be a part of the show. I will have five painting shown... yay!

Monkdogs Urban Art is located at 547 West 27th Street, New York City

I think you will love reading the interview below with Ed McCormack done by Monkdogz. Gallery and Studio Magazine is fantastic... check out their website!

Kathy

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Gallery & Studio

An International Art Journal

"One thing I learned from working with Andy Warhol, as one of the original contributing editors of Interview, was that visual artists can benefit from publicity just as much as the film stars and popular recording artists I profiled for Rolling Stone. Certainly Andy's own career attests to this..."

Ed McCormack - Managing Editor Gallery & Studio

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Monkdogz' Interview with Ed McCormack, Managing Editor of Gallery & Studio Magazine

Used by permission from Bob @ Monkdogz

Gallery and Studio Magazine:
http://www.galleryandstudiomagazine.com

Now in its sixth year of publication, Gallery & Studio Magazine, published by a former associate of Andy Warhol and his writer/artist wife, has established itself as a presence to be reckoned with by virtue of its lively and informative coverage of the New York art scene. Its relative longevity in an era when it is difficult for small, independent cultural publications to survive for more than a few issues, obviously has much to do with its insightful reviews, often irreverent feature articles, excellent color reproduction of art work and uncluttered, esthetically pleasing design. Even more germane, however is the fact that Gallery & Studio has made its press coverage elsewhere, juxtaosed with articles on more established art world personalities. Recently while Jeannie McCormack, the editor and publisher of G&S, corrected final proofs for an upcoming issue with Pipi, the couple's pet parakeet and the magazine's mascot, perched on her shoulder, we sat down for a Q&A with Managing Editor Ed McCormack.

Q: What made you and Jeannie decide to start an art magazine, of all things, in a time when it's so difficult and expensive to sustain a print publication?
A: Well, for one thing, Jeannie was tired of working in advertising and I was tired of freelance journalism. That's the practical answer. But what really convinced us to give it a go was that we've both been involved with art in various ways for many years and we were acutely aware of what was lacking. A mere handful of well known artists, relatively speaking, seemed to be getting most of the attention in the art press. Nobody was really paying attention to the hundreds of lesser known but equally deserving artists who were having exhibitions every year. They didn't have a prayer of getting noticed by the New York Times or the more established magazines like Artforum unless they were in some big, highly touted survey of "hot new talents" at P.S. 1 or something, and that struck us as a goddamned shame, quite frankly.

Q: Why do you think that is?
A : I think it's because almost every magazine that covers art these days, including the Great Gray Times, has fallen under the spell of the People magazine mentality.

Q: Can you explain what you mean by that?
A: Well, you know: this whole notion of the artist as celebrity. It can be very attractive if you're the one getting that kind of attention, of course, but most artists don't. They work all year in solitude in their studios. Then if they&'re lucky enough to be represented by a gallery, they have a show. And nobody notices. It passes like the wind, without a single review, because they don't happen to hang out with Iggy Pop and Johnny Depp and Paris Hilton or get invited to the kind of parties that get covered in The New York Post.

Q: How did that situation get started in the first place?
A: It started quite a few years back when the term "art stars" came into popular usage in the pressoften to describe very young, very trendy artists who also happened to be good-looking and photogenic. I'm sure you've seen the kind of articles that have become a staple of magazines like New York. They'll run photographs of five or six young artists, male and female, who look like models in a Calvin Klein ad, along with a headline that says, "The Return of Painting!" As if painting ever really went away!

Q: Yes, I've seen those articles. They seem to appear from time to time and usually the artists who are featured in them do become this years art stars.
A: Exactly. And to the exclusion of almost everybody else. But don't get me wrong: We love young artists. Probably half the artists we review are young talents who bring a lot of energy into the scene. But, unlike a lot of other publications, we also review older artists. Youthful energy is great, but maturity and experience also count for something in art. You need both. But a lot of dealers and curators have created this kind of youth cult. We've all heard the stories of how they go trawling in the more fashionable art schools, like Yale and Columbia, looking for talent that they can turn into a flashy, marketable commodity with lots of shelf life.
It's what I call the Artist As Rock Star Syndrome.

Q: Speaking of that, besides having been one of the original contributing editors of Andy Warhol's Interview, you were a feature writer for Rolling Stone for years, covering rock stars and popular culture in general. Can you tell us something about that and how it relates to Gallery&Studio.
A: Sure. But first, just so you'll know where I'm coming from, let me make clear that I actually started out as a painter. At the same time, I always had an interest in writing, too, and for a brief time, as a kid, fresh out of school and totally apolitical at that time, I was actually personal copy boy to William Randolph Hearst Jr., who ran his empire out of the Hearst Magazine Building on 8th Avenue and 57th Street that picturesque pinkish castle with the spires that they're building an office tower on top of even as we speak. I was the mick Sammy Glick, always running, who snatched dispatches from the chattering teletypes and sprinted them into the beefy paws of power; the eager beaver who ran downstairs to get coffee for Zsa Zsa Gabor when she visited Hearst. "Tell dem Zsa Zsa vants it in a real cup dollink, no paper," she'd instruct in that accent of hers...But enough about thatYes, I was a painter, but then the whole hippie thing started up in the late sixties, and I sort of got waylaid into making these weird drawings for Changes, this underground cultural journal published by Susan Graham Mingus, the wife of the jazz musician and composer Charles Mingus. I didn't actually intend to become a writer, but in the freewheeling spirit of that time I started writing things on my drawings, cryptic little commentaries and texts that eventually became more and more prominent and somehow I ended up as the managing editor of Changes. It was actually a very hip publication. Fran Lebowitz published her first pieces with us before she and I both started working for Interview and Billy Joel, of all people, wrote a regular column for us called "Diary of a Young Artist"²-all about his struggles trying to get started in the music business...

Q: What was it like working for Warhol?
A: Very weird and very instructive. Andy taught me more about the nature of publicity than anybody else. When I was writing for Interview he'd introduce me to people as "Ed McCormack, the famous writer," and add in that deadpan way of his, "He's faaaahhhhbulous...He's the new Tom Wolfe." Well, obviously I wasn't the least bit famous and I certainly wasn't the new Tom Wolfe but if Andy said it, it must be true, right? And of course that was how he kept people working for him without paying them very much. I mean, I don't know what it's like working for Interview now that it's a big corporate venture, but then it was more like a house organ to The Factory, and Andy was notoriously cheap. Yes, you can have your fifteen minutes, but don't expect a living wage! Still, it was a valuable to see how he operated, even though I have mixed feelings about him, his work, and his influence. It was a wild time, a time when it was sometimes difficult to tell the transvestites from the socialites, the debutantes from the drag queens, and I got to observe the whole Factory menagerie up close: Paul Morrissey, Gerard Malanga, Lou Reed, and all the fabulous flaming creatures like Holly Woodlawn, Jackie Curtis and Candy Darling. But that's a complex subject, more suitable for a book I may write someday than for this interview. Suffice it to say, one thing I learned from Andy was that you had to work hard if you wanted more than your fifteen minutes, and another thing was that simple notoriety could often have the same cash value as honest fame. I mean, I would sometimes write outrageous, unflattering things about him and his cohorts and he'd publish them in Interview anyway. The exception to the rule was when I wrote an article for Oui magazine that they ran with the headline "Andy Warhol, Angel of Death." It wasn't my headline, it was theirs, but needless to say, Andy was upset. But by then, I was already writing for Rolling Stone, anyway.

Q: What was that like?
A: It was like writing for the New Yorker must have been in the thirties and forties. Rolling Stone had one foot in the underground and the other foot in the big time,so while the reporters for Time and Newsweek were waiting out in the hall for their five minutes, you were embedded, so to speak; you had unlimited access because everybody who was part of the whole hip scene wanted to be in Rolling Stone. If you saw the movie "Almost Famous," that pretty much caught it. But besides going barnstorming around the country on those rock and roll robber baron tours with bands like Alice Cooper and Aerosmith, which was like traveling with a psychedelic circus, I wrote a regular column for Rolling Stone called "New York Confidential," all about the Warhol crowd and CBGB's and all that. In fact, although I wouldn't want it carved on my grave stone or anything, I coined the term "³punk rock" in an early article that I did on the scene at CBGB's before they had a name for it. I guess you could say I was like the whacko Walter Winchell of Max's Kansas City. I'd sit there drinking beer and people would slither up and whisper items in my ear, the more scandalous the better. But after awhile, that sort of thing gets really old. Even though you learn a great deal about the underbelly of the culture, about the juncture where certain elements of high and low culture intersect, for me mucking about in popular culture was like a long detour. After awhile, one longs to climb to higher ground, to get back to where you once belonged, to paraphrase the old Beatles song. And that's where Gallery& Studio comes in.

Q: So you see Gallery&Studio as a truer calling?
A: Yeah, definitely. Visual art was my first love. And I married an artist. Jeannie and I have always looked at art together, so it was the most natural thing in the world to want to combine our talents and publish a magazine together. And we knew exactly how we wanted to go about it. In 2001, after she redesigned the magazine to make it more compact, so it could be more easily placed in hotels and other venues as well as art galleries, Jeannie wrote an eloquent little statement of intentions, in which she contrasted what we do with art writing that was, as she put it, "jargon-filled, pretentious, and needlessly obscure." Since I couldn't possibly paraphrase it as well as she wrote it, I might as well quote directly: "Initially we were encouraged in the daunting task of starting a new art publication by noticing that so much art criticism was so boring. Once, critics who were also poets and artistspeople like Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, James Schuyler, Elaine de Kooning, and Fairfield Porterwrote about art with clarity, wit and enthusiasm. So, we knew from the beginning that there was a precedent for the kind of writing that we wanted to present in G&S. We knew that art writing, in order to be intelligent, did not have to be dull." She went on to say, "We're also determined never to succumb to the tendency of many other art publications to cover only artists who are well known or who fit into some currently trendy category. This strikes us as criminally narrow, not to mention shortsighted. Never before in the history of art has there been such exciting diversity, such delicious uncertainty...such a loose canon,"so to speak." If I can extend the pun, I think Jeannie and I both enjoy being loose cannons, so to speak, in that we don't really play by anybody else's rules.
And from the feedback we get, I think a lot of people appreciate the fact that, as she put it in that piece, ³for many artists who had not yet received the attention they deserved (at least before we wrote about them and other publications, including The New York Times, followed our lead) we have often been the only forum in town."

Q: Why do you think no other art magazine is taking the same approach as G&S?
A: I think maybe they're too worried about being in tune with the latest trends. They really believe in some kind of art world hierarchy that we don't even acknowledge, that we regard as some kind of snobbish joke. In fact, we don't really think much about the art world as an overall entity, only about the art itself. Like anybody else who publishes a magazine, we get tons of invitations, but it's like pulling teeth to get us to go to an opening. We prefer to go to galleries during the day, when there aren't a lot of people with drinks in their hands blocking our view of the paintings. In fact we're such phantoms socially that we sometimes jokingly refer to ourselves as "the Gallery&Studio elves." We sort of duck in and out: now you see us, now you don¹t. But we see you; we don't miss a trick. And it¹s always great when we're making our rounds in Chelsea, Soho, or uptown on 57th Street, to see people walking around carrying the latest issue of Gallery&Studio. It helps, of course, that while you have to subscribe to get the magazine outside the metropolitan area, in the galleries people can pick it up free of charge. In other words, you don't have to go into a store and lay out five or six bucks for it, so that means we really get around. And that's what it's all about, isn't it?

So, we can do things are own way. We don't have to shmooze be effective, as long as we do good work. For example, we recently reviewed the first New York exhibition of a British painter named Steven John Harris, a real working class guy who makes these sort of kinky, erotic paintings .We were the only American art publication to review his show, even though his work is really unusual. We compared him to Francis Bacon and, because it was a lively, funny piece, the review got picked up and quoted extensively by all the English newspapers: The Times, The Independent, The Evening Herald, and a few others. Believe it or not, this guy even had a TV news crew show up unexpectedly on his doorstep with their cameras to interview him about his triumph in New York! I mean, as I said earlier, I know all about publicity, having learned from Andy Warholthe master media manipulator himself...But sometimes the power of the printed word surprises even me.

Monkdogz would like to thank Ed McCormack for his time, talent, commitment, dedication and passion for the arts. The Editor

www.creativeforcesbycarolyn.com

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My friend Carolyn has a great website with wonderful creations like the one above. Check it out!

Carolyn's Artist's Statement:

My fascination with all forms of art started very early............my mother says I created murals on the walls with my crayons when I was about 2 years old. I have always been blessed with amazing "artsy" teachers through out my schooling. My mother has always encouraged me to explore my talents.
I am primarily self-taught. My talents cover many types of media: charcoal, watercolor, jewelry, handpainted glass. Pretty much anything I can get my hands into. And the most wonderful thing has happened! My daughter is not only beautiful, but she is very artistic also. She creates the handmade soaps on the website. We now share the two private shows and sales I have in our home each year.
My work as a sign maker is enhanced by my abilities in art production.
"Artistic creativity is a whirlpool of imagination that swirls in the depths of the mind." ---Robert Toth

"Every child is an artist, the problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." ---Pablo Picasso

Carolyn

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Francoise Nielly's Website

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"Francoise Nielly lives in a world of images. She has explored the different facets of "image" all her life , through painting, photography, roughs, illustrations and virtual, computer generated animated graphics. It is clear now that painting is her direction and her passion. She gets her sense of space and construction from her father, who was an architect. Growing up in the South of France where she lived between Cannes and Saint-Tropez, is never far from the light, the color sense and the atmosphere that permeates the South of France. This is coupled with her studies at the Beaux arts and Decorative Arts, and her sense of humor and of celebration.

Kathysart Note: Don't you just LOVE it? Oh my gosh, what a fantastic use of color Francoise has. My priority in painting is to paint with passion, so of course Francoise's work feeds my soul.

Thank you Francoise!