The Artist Space Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of the third Landscapes online Art Exhibition. Along with the selected artists, the jury selected award winners in the following art categories: painting, photography, and mixed media. The show displayed a variety of artistic styles and mediums: oil on canvas, acrylic, watercolor, pastel, ink, stainless steel, digital art and photography. Out of all submissions received 53 artworks were selected to be included in the exhibition.
Best of Show
Holly Boruck
Short Biography and Statement
The Landscape Obscura series of paintings are playful adventures into the realm of deconstructing and reinterpreting the natural environment. Through the use of abstraction, lively hues, rhythm and complicated shapes, I'm interested in creating harmony, balance and emotional connections to a sense of place. Eliciting inspiration from nature's patterns and motifs, my hope is that these paintings will create evocative pathways that take viewers on a magical journey. Holly Boruck lives and works in the Los Angeles area. She has an MFA in Painting from Cal State University Northridge and BFA from California College of the Arts in San Francisco. A common thread in her art making practice is a deep interest in the human psyche and earthly experiences. She is interested in asking questions about the nature of reality and feels a tender sensitivity toward the outcast, shunned and darker corners of who-we-are. She works in painting, drawing and sculpture, feeling most comfortable making work with her hands. Holly has won multiple awards and grants for her work and exhibits at local and international venues. She is an Adjunct Professor at Cal State University Northridge and is a faculty member at the Ryman Arts program.
Painting Prize
Alice Rebechini
Short Biography and Statement
My art is about expression, energy, emotion, color, light, line, and composition. It has an expressive exuberance, intuitive, and bold with threads of inspiration found in nature, the earth, and the cosmos. I seek to engage the viewer in intriguing explorations at one level, while providing a joyful savoring of color, light and complex detail. I enjoy rich and vivid color with both explosive and nuanced images of the sky, water, and light. I also examine nature in detail, delving into the complexities of plants and the environment. I let my mind wander freely to the sensual and portray abstracted expressions of the mind’s eye. My medium is most often watercolor and pastels. Alice was raised in a household of artists. Both parents were graduates of the Art Institute of Chicago. The house had a large studio where her father and grandfather, who was also a sculptor, worked daily. Her mother painted in the same studio. From a young age Alice's daily recreation was drawing. During vacation trips to the American West, she was introduced to watercolor and gouache work guided by her mother. Alice went on to study watercolor, instructed by Peter Bodnar, while an architecture student at the University of Illinois, and gained a lifelong interest in this challenging medium. In recent years, Alice participated in studios with John Herron and Sarah Kaiser, and pursued expanded techniques, expressions, and subjects. Currently, she enjoys painting fully abstract works, as well as continuing with traditional landscapes. Throughout her studies and career Alice has enjoyed life drawing in various mediums, including charcoal and pastels.
Photography Prize
Kuehn Wolfgang
Short Biography and Statement
The artist Wolfgang Kuehn lives and works in Duesseldorf. After professorships at the Asian Institute of Technology and the University of Wuppertal, he now enjoys the artistic freedom to take up exciting topics, try out new creative ideas, develop these further in exciting projects and present the results in juried, solo and group exhibitions. His artistic activities are not fixed on a specific field, technique or medium. As a multidisciplinary artist, Wolfgang Kuehn uses different materials, techniques and media depending on the situation and intention. These range from analog 2D and 3D metalworking to digital techniques that go far beyond pure photography. Wolfgang Kuehn’s intends to keep developing new approaches using different media, analogue and digital as well.
Mixed Media Prize
Yen Hisn Lin
Short Biography and Statement
I woke up very early today and went to the studio around 4 o'clock to sort through old works one by one. I picked out about thirty or forty full-length paintings and threw them away. I just put them in the recycling area of ​​the studio. Then a picture of grass popped up that I thought was not well composed, so I started cutting, pasting, and tearing out some materials from the recycling area. Then with new drawing and painting, this work appeared. Width 132, height 67. I think of these things, like blood from an injury or surgery, and then you reapply them to make it a little better, with only a little bit of future. Recently, my family was curious about whether I could undergo plasmapheresis, which is simply a whole-body blood transfusion. Replace the inflamed blood with the blood of a healthy person, and the white blood cells will shrink a lot. However, Taiwanese medical treatment seems to regard this as a last resort. In other words, people will only take this path if they die. For me, my blood is what my life looks like. Just like the work, I have to tinker with this medicine, and sometimes I need chemotherapy to make myself weak. But this is my life. I may not be a passionate person, but I am a bleeding, broken and fearless person.
Winners