Winning Artists From the myartspace / Bridge Art Fair Miami Competition Announced

myartspace.com, the premier online venue for contemporary art, concluded the Bridge Art Fair Miami competition on November 19, 2008. After careful deliberation, the jury panel selected 3 winners and 50 finalists. The three winners were Jonathan Brilliant, Beatrix Reinhardt and Douglas Ljungkvist. The four-person jury panel consisted of Elisabeth Sussman, senior Curator of the Whitney Museum, Janet Bishop, Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, JoAnne Northrop, senior curator of the San Jose Museum of Art, and Michael Workman, Founder of the Bridge Art Fair.

Palo Alto, CA (PRWEB) November 25, 2008

myartspace.com, the premier online venue for contemporary art, concluded the Bridge Art Fair Miami competition on November 19, 2008. After careful deliberation, the jury panel selected 3 winners and 50 finalists. The three winners were Jonathan Brilliant, Beatrix Reinhardt and Douglas Ljungkvist. The four-person jury panel consisted of Elisabeth Sussman, senior Curator of the Whitney Museum, Janet Bishop, Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, JoAnne Northrop, senior curator of the San Jose Museum of Art, and Michael Workman, Founder of the Bridge Art Fair.

Catherine McCormack-Skiba, the founder of myartspace and CEO, noted, "We continue to marvel at the quality of work that the community puts up for consideration, and the challenge the jury confronts with such breadth and depth of material. Our goal continues to be to provide great opportunities for artists to have their work recognized by leading curators and the art public. We continue to see a global audience of artists and art appreciators in our community."

Michael Workman, Founder and Director of the Bridge Art Fair, said, "We have always believed the art industry will thrive with new entries, new models and new venues. myartspace.com brings to the table a dramatically new and contemporary way to address the art market. We welcome such innovation from the Internet in the Bridge Art Fair."

Three Top Winners
The three top winners were Jonathan Brilliant, Beatrix Reinhardt and Douglas Ljungkvist. Their work can be viewed at http://www.myartspace.com/miamibasel/winners.

Jonathan David Brilliant describes himself as a Southern Has-been and a British Wanna-Be. He was born in 1976 in Charleston, South Carolina. Brilliant holds a B.A. in studio art from the College of Charleston and an M.F.A. in Spatial arts from San Jose State University. In addition to site specific installations, Brilliant works in video, photography and digital imaging. He currently lives and works in South Carolina.

Beatrix Reinhardt was born in Wolgograd/Russia and grew up in former East Germany. Presently she resides in NYC where she teaches at the College of Staten Island/CUNY. She received her M.F.A. in photography from Illinois State University, her M.A. in Media Studies from the New School for Social Research and her B.A. in New German Literature (minors: linguistics and psychology) from the Freie University, Berlin. She has taught widely in Europe, North America, Australia and Asia.

Douglas Ljungkvist was born in Gothenburg, Sweden. Mr Ljungkvist was a former advertising executive who decided to leave his corporate career to become an artist. Douglas notes of himself "I am a self-taught Brooklyn based photographer, originally from Sweden. Photography for me is all about self expression. My goal is to capture images that leave the viewer with more questions than answers, inviting them to an interactive experience."

Finalists:
Fifty finalists were selected by the jury panel and 3 winners. The fifty finalists are listed below. All their work can be seen on myartspace.com.

Julie Davidow    Corey Escoto    Morgan Slade    Genevieve Quick
Nicola Evans                         Jeffrey Aaronson    Casey Ann Wasniewski    Roland Lusk
Maureen Keaveny    Dana Miller                         Norm Magnusson    Paula Lerner
David Zimmerman    Osama Esid                         Brian Fay                         Joyce Siegel
Megan Bisbee-Durlam    Dan Price                         Ursula Sokolowska    Cindy Ord
Paul Hickey                         Catherine CJ Lan    Christa Donner    Lauren Kalman
Millee TIbbs                         Rebecca Loyche    Dan Grayber                         Vicki DaSilva
Brian Dupont                         Derek Cote                         Colleen Wolstenholme    Mari Richards
James Ford                         Alysia Kaplan    Ghost of a Dream     Jim Zook
Yeni Mao                         Carla Falb                         Julia Morrisroe    Valery GrancherCrystal Schenk    Inka Resch                         Shai Zurim                         Scott Hocking
Vincent Bezuidenhout    Milena Novotny    Dana Mueller                         Eun Woo Cho
Catalina VL de Roda            Zachary Royer Scholz

About myartspace:
myartspace, the premier online venue for contemporary art, is one of the fastest growing and diverse communities on the internet. Its members include more than 50,000 artists, collectors, galleries and other art world professionals from across the globe, and it currently has on display hundreds of thousands of pieces of fine art. Membership is free and artist can upload an unlimited amount of work including images, music and video. Myartspace is created and run by CatMacArt Corporation. CatMacArt Corporation is located in Palo Alto, California. CatMacArt Corporation also is the company behind The New York Art Exchange (nyaxe.com, the premier online marketpace for contemporary art. http://www.catmacart.com.

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