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Ecinja accepted in American Juried Art Salon Fall/Winter Show.

(PRWeb) November 25, 2006 -- Janice "Ecinja" McCaskill, a Tampa, Florida resident, has won acceptance into the prestigious American Juried Art Salon's 2006 Fall/Winter show. The work, "Entanglement On Highway 98" was accepted into the Acrylic/Oil Painting division. The art can be viewed at www.artjury.com/Fall-Show-2006, the website of The National Association for Gallery Owners, Directors & Artists who co-hosted the show.

The twice-a-year competition attracts entries from throughout Europe and North America. Jurists are well known college and university art professors in the U.S. and Canada.

About Ecinja

Janice Hall McCaskill (Ecinja) is one of the premier new contemporary artist in the world. Using a mixed medium, vivid characters and powerful colors, she encourages the observer to dream and create their own stories from the paintings before them. As an alternative to the general title of artist, McCaskill prefers the term "colourist", which reflects her mystical command of the color spectrum in her works. McCaskill's paintings display the "colorful" lives of each character in every stroke of paint, allowing the observer to breathe life into the painting with their own imagination and life experiences. Her paintings engender sort of an "emotional dream" for the observer, rather than the typical apathetic response received from most static works of art.

Her bold and unique style has quickly gained worldwide recognition. Her exciting "colourist" expressions have earned her numerous awards over the last few years and art galleries from around the world aggressively seek McCaskill out to display her works.

While working many years as a self-taught artist, she enhanced her artistic skills by earning a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of South Florida College of Fine Arts. Formal art training has helped McCaskill refine her technique and style; enabling her to create powerful "colourist" expressions unlike anyone else in the world.

McCaskill's primary technical focus is on colors and their unique properties from a transparency versus opaque perspective. She constantly experiments with color theory and her own push-pull technique that brings a bold burst of artistic excitement to her paintings.

Recent Exhibitions

- American Juried Art Salon 2006 Plano,TX

- PaintAmerica Top 50 State Finalist 2006 Topeka, KS

- Best of Florida Artist and Artisan 2005, Williamsburg, VA Honorable Mention

- Color III International Exhibition 2005, Period Gallery, Lincoln, NE

- 13th Southeast Regional Fine Arts Exhibition 2005, Fort Walton Beach, FL

- New York International Art Festival 2005, Coconut Grove, FL First Place-Runner-Up

- 16th Annual Art In Gadsden 2004, Quincy, FL Honorable Mention

- Riverside Artfest, Firehouse Gallery 2004, Bainbridge, GA- Catalogue Cover

- Florida Central Credit Union Spring Affair 2004, Tampa, Florida

- 15th Annual Art In Gadsden 2004, Quincy, FL

- 14th Annual Art In Gadsden 2003 Quincy, FL

- USF Art House 2001 Best of Show

Recent Private and Public Collections

- Wilson Collection

- Gallaghly Estates

- Florida Central Credit Union Tampa, Florida

- University of South Florida, College of Medicine

Recent Publications

- University of South Florida HSC NOW June 8, 2005 issue

- Riverside Artfest Catalogue 2004

Website

www.ecinja.com

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