Monday, January 19, 2009

myartspace.com London Calling competition


myartspace is sponsoring a competition juried by a world class panel from The Tate Modern, The Hayward Gallery, and the Barbican Gallery all in London. Fifty finalists will be selected and three winners will have their work represented at the Scream London in June 2009. Located in the heart of the West London art district, Scream is just a moment away from Sotheby's, Cork St and the Royal Academy, and rubs shoulders with some of London's most established art galleries in the traditional hub of the capital's art market.
Scream is run by Tyrone Wood as curator. Scream is focused on contemporary art with the Scream Team developing a reputation as an innovative gallery. Scream has exhibited works by Robert Indiana, Matty Small, Ingrid Baars, Rene Ricard, David Montgomery, among other artists. Notable guests and patrons have included Tracey Emin, Claire Danes, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Beverly Knight, Meg Mathews, Ronnie Wood.

Competition Snapshot:
-Deadline for registration and submission is May 15, 2009.
-Competition is open to myartspace members. Membership is free.
-Registration fee is $50, but for early registration by March 31, 2009 the fee is $25.-Jury panel includes Vanessa DesClaux from the Tate Modern, Tom Morton from the Hayward Gallery and Francesco Manacorda from the Barbican Gallery
-Fifty finalists will be selected and announced by the jury panel.
-Three winners will have their art represented at Scream Gallery London, in June 2009. Winners to be announced on May 31, 2009.

Summary:
myartspace, the premier online venue for the contemporary art world, is sponsoring a Juried competition. We want to represent three contemporary artists at a venue in London, England during June 2009. The competition, like others from myartspace, will have world-class jurors reviewing the work of the submissions. Fifty finalists will be selected and three winners will have their work represented at the show.

Info about myartspace.com:
myartspace.com is a social art site for the art world. With over 50,000 members, and more than two years of history, myartspace has been a key force in the art industry at availing opportunity for its rapidly growing community. www.myartspace.com is free to join, and members can upload an unlimited amount of art work, music, video and audio narration.
Myartspace galleries can be embedded on other websites-- one goal of the site is to provide tools that artists can utilize in order to promote themselves online. Members can also utilize the New York Art Exchange (NYAXE)-- www.nyaxe.com is an eCommerce platform for buying and selling art online. New features are regularly implemented as the community continues to grow at an alarming rate.

myartspace.com provides art competitions involving jurors from the Tate Modern, Whitney Museum of American Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and other prestigious institutions. The site also provides a free to enter art scholarship competition that is open to undergraduate and graduate art students throughout the world. The 2008 myartspace scholarship competition involved $16,000 in cash prizes. $8,000 was split between three undergraduate winners and another $8,000 was split between three graduate winners.
The site is home to one of the largest collections of online interviews with artists, art critics, gallerists, and other art world professionals-- with over 500 interviews with artists such as Michael Craig-Martin, James Rosenquist, Sylvia Sleigh, Sarah Maple, Christian Schumann, Julian Stanczak, Aidan Hughes, Thornton Willis, Mark Ryden, Susan Crile, Wafaa Bilal and many others.

For more information about London Calling visit, www.myartspace.com/londoncalling

Tuesday, October 21, 2008