Call for Entry: Lone Tree Art Exhbition
2010's Best in Show: "The Force and the Flow VI" by Sheri Farabaugh
The Tenth Annual Lone Tree Art Exhibition and Sale is presented by the Lone Tree Arts Commission and the City of Lone Tree. This juried exhibition runs from November 12 to December 31, 2011 at the Lone Tree Arts Center, 10075 Commons Street, Lone Tree, Colorado.
Artists, age 18 and older, are eligible to submit up to three pieces of artwork via CaFÉ™ by October 7, 2011. The juried Exhibition is limited to high quality original works in the following categories: Oil, Water Media, Pastels, Mixed Media and Sculpture. The artwork must be original in concept and designed and executed by the artist’s own hand. The artwork should be non-offensive to a general audience of all ages. Artwork must have been completed within the last three years, not shown in a previous Lone Tree Art Exhibition and available for purchase.
Interested artists may simply search www.callforentry.org (CaFÉ™) alphabetically for the Lone Tree Art Exhibition and Sale. Please visit www.lonetreeartscenter.org for more details and frequently asked questions. You may also find information at www.cityoflonetree.com/artexhibition.
Prizes
Cash awards are estimated at $4,000. Best in Show winner will receive 30 days of gallery space for up to 10 images at the Lone Tree Arts Center following the Art Exhibition.
Juror
Pat Fostvedt is a signature member of the Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Society and of the Colorado Watercolor Society. She has served as juror for numerous art exhibits, performs critiques for art groups, conducts workshops and has taught classes in oil, pastel, casein, gouache, transparent watercolor and mixed watermedia. Ms. Fostvedt’s experience also includes 10 years as an illustrator for Botanical Interests, Inc.
Entries due by October 7th!
Contact: Kirstin Bomgardner, Kirstin.bomgardner@cityoflonetree.com or 303.708.1818.
Artist Interview: Denis Roussel
Artwork Network’s Denis Roussel was recently featured in the UK photo magazine “Fuzion”. Check out the online version to see his “From the Compost” series – a collection of rather stunning Wet plate collodion photographs.
Also mark your calendars for October! We’ll be exhibiting Roussel’s “Collodion 365” project in the Artwork Network Gallery & Event Center, beginning First Friday, October 7th!
Jessica’s Friday Favorite
"Sunflowers #5" by Eugene Tanski
Eugene Tanski’s photographs are often wrought with drama, and “Sunflowers #5″ is a perfect example. It’s a powerful image of huge, rolling storm clouds (coming or going, I wonder?) hanging above a sea of cheery flowers. The vivid, beautiful colors make a wonderful accent to any room — I have a print hanging in my office, and it is a constant topic of conversation. Prints start at $45, so it’s easy enough to add a little drama (the good kind) to your office, too.
Denver’s Art District on Santa Fe
Visit Denver has released a fun new video (from a series called “Know What the Locals Know”) featuring the Art District on Santa Fe. A lot of the scenes you see are of the Artwork Network Gallery and Event Center, too.
Be sure and join us every month for the First Friday Art Walk – the next one is October 7th, 2011!
How to Photograph Fall Color in Colorado
"Lonely Cabin" by Randall K Roberts
Artwork Network artist member Randall K. Robert’s has just published a few handy guides on how to photograph fall colors (and where to find them).
Here’s a snippet:
Autumn in Colorado is a photographer’s dream. Visitors come from all over the world to experience our golden aspens, dramatic mountain scenery and rustic mining towns. Colorado natives are lucky to live just a weekend drive away from these stunning photo opportunities.
What do you do if you’re photos look the same year after year?
Here are some ways to improve your fall photography and show your friends from Texas what they’re missing…
Sara’s Friday Favorite
"Pop Fossil" by Mark Goodman
This week’s Friday Favorite is brought to you by Sara Chojnacki, the Artist Coordinator at Artwork Network.
Today seems like a good day to get in touch with my inner child. The bright colors and whimsical feel of Mark Goodman’s, “Pop Fossil” brings me back to the days of finger painting and block forts. Whether you want to let your inner child out, or want to share your love of paleontology with the world, you can’t go wrong with this piece by Mark Goodman. And honestly, who wouldn’t love to come home from a stressful day at work and be greeted by a triceratops?! It’s yours for $800!
Artist Interview: Allen Thornton
HGTV’s Color of the Month: Indigo
This month, HGTV cited their newest Color of the Month was surrounded in debate. Indigo, they said, was “east of blue, west of violet”. Not quite navy, not quite purple, but testaments from HGTV staff such as “Indigo is nautical navy’s sexy, mysterious cousin” (Liz Gray, Senior Editor) and my favorite, “Indigo reminds me of brand new blue jeans on the first day of school, when the weather just starts to turn cooler” (Marianne Canada, HGTV Home Studio).
So what is indigo to you? Here are a few pieces I’d call “just east of blue”, with some “navy” mixed in for comparison:
"Blue Mass" by Kyle Goodrich
"Intermediaty" by Michele Brower
"Nights in Rio" by Silvana Ravena
"Oxbow Turnout" by Susan France
"A Way Opens" by Helen Braider
"Tree Vines" by Linda Everson
German Art Scam
Steve Martin paid almost $850,000 for this alleged Heinrich Campendonk painting, later discovered to be a fake.
German forgers recently pulled a $23 million scam that fooled big shot auction houses like Sotheby’s and Christie’s, and art buyers like actor Steve Martin. How? This artistically talented group of forgers composed 40+ fake masterpieces from “second-tier” artists (whose works had not been cataloged with minute detail), and composed complete provenances and convincing wormwood frames. Ultimately they were found out when scientists examined one the pieces and saw it contained a blue pigment that wouldn’t be invented until some 27 years after the supposed creation date. I can’t decide if I’m more shocked the forgers got away with it, or the fact that overlooked such detail when everything else had been so meticulous. Fascinating! The trial began last week.
Read more on the Telegraph.co.uk.
Jona’s Friday Favorite
"Big Country Pomscape" by Gus Harper
This week’s Friday Favorite is brought to you by Jona Carlbom, the Marketing Coordinator at Artwork Network.
You may need a ‘how to’ explanation of how to de-seed a pomegranate to get to those hidden juicy bursting little seeds. L.A. artist Gus Harper gives you a stain free option to this fascinating fruit with ‘Big Country Pomegranate’ part of his series ‘Signs of a Benevolent Universe’. It has an energy of life in it that makes me want to stare. Put it in any room of your house to liven up the conversation and please your eyes! This series is going fast, take it home for $3,000 before I do!
