The Artist Space Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of the third Colors Art Exhibition. Along with the selected artists, the jury selected award winners in the following art categories: painting, photography, and sculpture. The show displayed a variety of artistic styles and mediums: oil on canvas, acrylic, watercolor, pastel, gouache, ink tint, photography, digital, porcelain, bronze. Out of all submissions received 67 artworks were selected to be included in the exhibition.
Best of Show
roxa smith
Short Biography and Statement
Roxa Smith is a Brooklyn-based artist working in figurative painting, collage and embroidery. Her oil, acrylic and gouache paintings, paper collages and embroidery over acrylic images of domestic environments, landscapes and everyday objects present familiar yet idiosyncratic off-kilter worlds. Influenced by her Venezuelan upbringing, a passion for lush color and intricate patterns dominate her work and create effervescent meditations on daily life. Smith has an extensive exhibition history In March of 2023, she had a solo exhibition at C24 Gallery, New York City following a sold out show at C24 Gallery in a two-person exhibit the previous year. In 2015, Smith had a solo show at The Focus Gallery of the Sheldon Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska, and a solo show in 2014 at the Rodger Smith Hotel in New York City. She has also exhibited her work at other venues such as: Kenise Barnes Fine Arts (NY), The Conde Nast building (NYC), George Billis Gallery (NYC and LA) and Visage Arte Contemporaneo, Panama. Smith has received a range of awards, residencies and fellowships. In 2021,she was awarded an Artist Grant by the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson,VT. In 2017, Smith was a finalist for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Arts and Design commission. She was awarded the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)-Basil Alkazi Fellowship in 2013 and in 2012, Smith became a NYFA Fellow in Painting. Smith’s work has been featured in publications like the New American Painting Magazine, Studio Visit Magazine, Artspace magazine, the NYFA Newsletter Artspire, The New York Times, and HuffPost. Roxa Smith is represented by C24Gallery in New York City.
Painting Prize
Basha Maryanska
Short Biography and Statement
Education: 1976-1978 - MFA in Fine Arts. 1979-1980 – Louvre, Paris, France. Studying Renaissance. Fellowship: 1986 - Kosciuszko Foundation – New York City, USA. In permanent collections: 1. National Museum of Gdansk, Poland. 2. Kazimir Pulaski Museum Warsaw, Poland. 3. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. 4. Williamsburg Museum of Art Center, NYC. 5. Museum Artistic Books, Lodz, Poland 6. Leopolis Hotel, Krakow, Poland - 35 paintings in permanent collection. Awards, distinctions: Foto Nostrum – International Photography Biennale – 2021, 2023 2022 - Barcelona, Spain - International Photography Biennale. March 2018 –Golden Owl award in Vienna, National Biennale 2015, Hilton Head, NC. Finalist, Artwork sold. EWAAC International Show 2015, London, UK. Distinction.
Sculpture Prize
Jason Shih
Short Biography and Statement
Biography- Jason Shih was born in 1972 in Taiwan. In 1991, he began to specialize in metal sculpture when he was a sophomore in the Fine Arts Dept. of Taipei National University of the Arts. In 2001, he graduated from School for American Crafts, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA, and majored in Metal Sculpture. And then, he served as the metal sculptor Albert Paley's assistant, involved in crafts and public art work practices. Furthermore, he earned his Art Ph. D. from China Academy of Art, China (2015). Now, he lives in Taiwan, and consistently engages in the both areas of sculpture and public art. Artist Statement- Jason Shih's abstract sculptures adopt a simplified aesthetic that uses simplicity to control complexity. Jason Shih is good at translating the aesthetic insights in daily life into profound and timeless elements, gathering pure energy in concise and concise words. His creations start from the delicate humanistic thinking of oriental sentiments and invoke the bright expression techniques of contemporary visual art in form and color. The characteristics of the work are simplicity yet grandeur, attention to detail and full of dramatic tension. In a lively and creative modern style, it elaborates on contemporary humanities. As a professional sculptor, Jason likes to experience the taste of life with perceptual observation in the subtle moments, and also likes the ever-changing situation of game shapes in the poetic imaginary space. For Jason, art creation is to share various moods and stories in daily life.
Photography Prize
Jane Gottlieb
Short Biography and Statement
I have been expressing my joy of art with paint, shapes and colors since I was very young. I started as a painter, evolved into a photographer, and eventually began hand-painting on my Cibachrome photographic prints over 35 years ago. Before Photoshop I found a way to express a unrealistic reality with the vivid, saturated and unrealistic colors I painted into each individual photographic print. For the past 30 years I have been scanning my one-of-a-kind hand-painted prints and my library of 35mm Kodachrome color transparencies taken over the last 50 years of traveling the world. I love to paint, combine and enhance them with Photoshop, creating my own idyllic beautiful colorful world! My art has been shown worldwide in many solo exhibitions including: Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio; Colarinda Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal; MAD Gallery, Milan, Italy; Demenga Gallery, Paris, France & Basel, Switzerland; UCSB AD&A Museum, SB CA Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA; Laguna Art Museum, CA; Petersen Automotive Museum, LA, CA; LA County Natural History Museum, CA; Monterey Museum of Art, CA; Nancy Hoffman Gallery, NYC, NY; L’Image Gallery, Rome, Italy; Louis Stern Gallery, West Hollywood, CA; Wall Space Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA. I have been included in countless group exhibits and Art Fairs/Expos around the world over the last 30 years. My art and my story has been in many magazines, on book covers, two museum exhibition catalogues and two books, Garden Tales and Car Tales.
Winners