The Artist Space Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of the fourth Colors 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, acrylic, pastel, photgography, watercolor, ceramics digital art. Out of all submissions received 80 artworks were selcted to be included in the exhibition.
Best of Show
Cynthia Correia
Short Biography and Statement
Cynthia Correia graduated from San Diego State University with a B.A. in Art. She is an accomplished artist and designer. Her dimensional paintings reflect her graphic design and building background and her love of color. Cynthia was influenced and inspired early on by Frank Stella and Josef Albers without really understanding the impact that color would have on the rest of her life. Her dimensional paintings and sculptures are painted on wood to give depth and texture to her work as well as a playful sense. At times her work is additive and at other times she invokes subtractive measures to draw you in. Her painting “Merging” is a play on the interaction of colors making the viewer feel an emotion that is soothing or stark. “Lean In“ draws the viewer into an architectural form that speaks to the Mayan culture.
Painting Prize
Young Mee Lee
Short Biography and Statement
ymlee1000@gmail.com
My interest in painting began 30 years ago when I worked as a journalist, interviewing many artists. However, I only began formally studying art 16 years ago when I enrolled at Bellevue College to study interior design. While studying design, I realized that the precision required in working with lines, planes, and spaces—almost like mathematical formulas—didn’t suit me. That’s when I decided to pursue art, a long-held dream of mine.After briefly returning to Korea in 2014, I participated in numerous art competitions to further develop my skills as an artist. In 2023, I was invited as a featured artist at the Hoeryong Art Competition, and in 2024, I became an officially registered member of the Korean Fine Arts Association.
Sculpture Prize
Joel Shapses
Short Biography and Statement
Shapses’ Award winning sculptures are prominently displayed in private collections and public venues throughout North America and Europe. The more, avant garde statements that are made in the mixture of neon, led lights, metal, fused glass and stone media to elicit an excitement that occurs when the artist takes a quantum leap toward ingenuity. Born in New Jersey, he has spent most of his life on the Eastern coast of the U.S. Having an inherent artistic gift, he began sculpting in a primitive way at the age of five. Much of his schooling concentrated on the sciences. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology from C.W. Post College in 1967. After college Joel then completed four years at Temple University where he graduated with the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery in 1971. Soon after his travels, he relocated to South Florida, which has remained his residence since 1972. Joel Shapses practiced general and cosmetic dentistry in the Ft Lauderdale area from 1972 to 2006 creating a dual career, dentistry and sculpture. From a period of over the 60 years Joel has exhibited in many shows and has won over seventy awards and is in collections in North and South America. While in Ft. Lauderdale Shapses owned an Art Gallery (Gallery 421) and created his works in his studio in Ft Lauderdale for over thirty years. To date he has completed over 15 hundred works of art in glass,stone,bronze and aluminum. His studio and gallery studio 6201 Shirley St #12 and Gallery located at the Fairways Trade Village 6240 Shirley St Suite 102 in Naples, FL. 954.980.3156 www.joelshapsesstudio.com
Photography Prize
Brad Rhodes
Short Biography and Statement
brad@eudesco.com
Brad Rhodes (b. 1972) is a visual designer and mostly self-taught photographer, driven by curiosity—about people, places, things and the fleeting moments that define them. His photographic work moves between urban and natural spaces, seeking poetry in the ordinary. Whether capturing stark geometry or focused detail, his images aim to provoke reflection, inviting viewers to pause and reconsider the familiar through a different lens.
Winners