The Artist Space Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of the first Yellow online 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, colored pencil, ink, resin, photography, digital art. Out of all submissions received 156 artworks were selected to be included in the exhibition.
Best of Show
Renata Szyszlak
Short Biography and Statement
Born in 1974 in Przemyśl. Studies at the College of Pedagogy in Rzeszów – in the field of Artistic Education and in the Field of Fine Arts. Diploma in painting in the studio of prof. Tadeusz Wiktor in 2001. Currently, dr hab. prof. University of Rzeszów in the Department of Shaping Space, Design and Drawing at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Rzeszów. She belongs to the Union of Slovak Artists "C + S". In the artistic output 45 individual exhibitions and participation in dozens of national and international exhibitions and competitions in Poland and abroad, among others in Great Britain, Belgium, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Italy, France, Germany, Russia, Lithuania, Greece, Ukraine, Tunisia and Serbia. For many years she has been taking part in international plein-airs at home and abroad. Winner of several national and international prizes and awards, for example: Grand Prix of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the International Triennial of Painting of the Carpathian Region "Silver Four Square 2012". Here are some just some places where I presented my works: „East Art. Open”, Cueb Gallery, Londyn (2015), „Informelle Eruption”, Galerie Kunsthalle, Bielefeld, Germany (2017), Centrum Kultury, Hajduboszormeny, Hungary (III prize in the international competition, 2016), „Biedermeier C+S”, Galery Sarisska, Preszów, Słowacja (2017), “Autoportret Intymny” - polish-ukrainian projekt, Muzeum Idei, Lwów, Ukraine (2017), na International Triennial of Painting of the Carpathian Region ‘Srebrny Czworokąt / Znaki Europy (2018), „Ex Exhibition- izlozba slika ukrajinskih ipoliskih umjetnika”, Galeria Zadar, Chorwacja (2019), „Art Without Border”, Gallery Yahiya Palmarium, Tunis, Tunezja (2019), Muzeum Vojtecha Loffera, Stare Miasto, Koszyce (2020), Postcards From Poland, Traveling Gallery, San Juan, Portoryko.
Painting Prize
Linda McCord
Short Biography and Statement
I pose my models as if they are for still life paintings. In this way I am totally focused on composition. By doing interiors I have control over the light source, and it can come from various sources which makes it more challenging and exciting to paint. I love light and shadow and the way the light forms to make various shapes. It is these shapes that I focus on in my work. I use mathematical concepts rather than emotion in my work. Linda McCord works in most of the two-dimensional mediums. She was a gallery owner for 10 years, and taught painting and printmaking at her local college. Although self-taught, he has taken numerous international awards, and her art in the collection of museums, churches, hospitals, and colleges. She is a signature member of International Society of Acrylic Painters, Northwest Watercolor Society, Georgia Watercolor Society and California Watercolor Association. McCord’s work has been described as abstract realism. She focuses on light and shadow, composition, and value change. She adapted a method of building layers of paint using resist processes she learned as a printmaker. McCord says, “I design my art around mathematical concepts rather than emotion.”Singapore. Nominated for the "Second Place" Award for "Open" 2022 show by Color of Humanity Art Gallery. (USA) Nominated for "Special Merit Award" for 11th “All Women” Art Exhibition 2022 2022 - Nominated for "MERIT PRIZE AWARD" in ART SHOW INTERNATIONAL GALLERY’s 3rd PORTRAIT competition.
Sculpture Prize
zhiheng gong
Short Biography and Statement
Zhiheng Gong is a multimedia artist, mainly engaged in sculpture, installation, video, projection projection and other art media. The media involved include wood, acrylic board, foam, resin, metal and so on. His recent works present the small details of life, presenting these details with reality in an abstract form, breaking down the barriers between nothingness and substance. His works are dominated by deconstruction and asymmetry, emphasizing that each angle has its own unique appearance, attracting the audience to observe and think about the work from multiple angles. In this way, zhiheng's artwork is deeply concerned with the human heart itself and slow-paced culture; hoping to give the audience a relaxing experienceand much more that sculpturally merge with color and shape in a different way of my other sculptures in alabaster and bronze, which also represent the universal experiences that surround us.
Photography Prize
Quinn M Miller
Short Biography and Statement
Quinn Miller was born and raised in Clewiston, FL. He discovered his love for photography during middle school when exposed to the work of Erik Johansson. This led him to pursuing an education in the arts, where he found himself at South Florida Community College and Florida Gulf Coast University, attaining a Bachelor's in the Arts. He currently resides in Lake Worth, FL and teaches art at the High School level. "As a kid, I always wanted superpowers. Who didn't? My TV screen was flooded with images of X-men and the Justice League. What power would I get? That naivety eventually propelled me to fall in love with photography, my very first superpower: the ability to freeze time with the click of a single button. Eventually, I unlocked another superpower: Photoshop. I was able to bend reality to match the daily ideas that swarmed my head. As a narrator, I can manipulate the story you see before you to manifest my own, even though before that, it had its own. Oftentimes, I use the inquiry of, 'What do thoughts of stress, depression, anxiety, and so on look like as tangible scenes?' My style relies on surreal elements, and the incorporation of obscured faces to promote the idea of anonymity so that viewers can insert themselves into the images."
Winners