Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is very pleased to announce that Debra Hill has been selected as one of the four winning artists of the gallery’s recent 24th “Solo Art Series” Art Competition. Debra will now have a month-long solo art exhibition and she will be featured on the gallery’s front page, in the Gallery’s YouTube Channel, as well as in the “Solo Art Series” Archives.
Debra Hill is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning artist based in New York, USA. She will now be promoted by the gallery with an extensive public relations campaign.
For this solo exhibition, the Gallery will distribute, promote and circulate press releases to hundreds of major news outlets with guaranteed inclusion on Google News & Bing News. The Gallery will also provide social media distribution through LST gallery’s broad social media network.
In addition, as part of her award package, Debra will also be featured on the gallery’s YouTube Channel and with an event postcard.
The “Solo Art Series” is a series of monthly solo art exhibitions for established artists who have a body of work to present to the public. Artist participants were asked to submit the following 3 components for the “Solo Art Series” competition: 1. Their art. 2. Their artist biography. 3. Their artist statement. These elements were evaluated and judged, which resulted in the selection of the artists who will be featured in individual month-long solo art exhibitions. This was the 24th “Solo Art Series” Art Competition that the gallery has conducted.
Below are Debra’s Artist Biography, her Artist Statement, along with 18 of her paintings. We hope that you will take the time to read Debra’s information and to take a look at her beautiful “Bather Series” of paintings.
From the intense, diverse energy of New York, Debra creates powerful narrative works drawn from her imagination. Her work is bold, whimsical, colorful and symbolic. Her color palette is inspired by the intense light of the southern hemisphere of her youth. Under vivid blue skies, nature’s colors pulsate with life. She is drawn to the unnatural juxtaposition of images and fantasy. Whimsy is often expressed through symbolic use of native birds. If studied closer these become the energy, the clue as to the tone of the narrative. Debra uses the exotic floral natives, like the Waratah, morphed with the human form to create haunting yet striking images.
Originally from Sydney, Australia, she grew up a bare foot youth exploring nature in all its' forms. A pencil or paintbrush her voice. Debra then went on to study life drawing and portraiture at The Paddington Art School in Sydney. Her fascination with the figure combined with her passion for dance led to dynamic figurative pieces where the subject almost leaps off the canvas. Executed in oil on canvas her stimulating symbolic paintings are rich with vibrant color. Early in her career she took to travel overseas, settling for a year in Mexico to devote to her art. Around that time her work became infused with an almost decorative carnival quality. This led to paintings now held in private collections internationally.
My bather series places an unposed figure in a surreal cocoon of nature. My creative language are the ocean inlets and vegetation of my Australian roots. I chose a vintage bather in my series to reflect a timelessness. There's a longing for a world that used to feel safe. I chose expressive color to enhance the mood of the narrative. The Native Portrait series is an expression of years of being masked. The Australian native birds chosen for each portrait, speaks to the personality of the sitter, their face hidden behind the floral mask.
Debra’s work can be viewed on her website.
To see more “Solo Art Series” winning artists, please visit our Solo Art Exhibition Archives.
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Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is extremely pleased to announce that Anne Gudrun has been named as the Gallery’s new featured artist and she will now be promoted by the gallery for the next 14 days in the gallery’s Artist Showcase.
Anne is an award-winning artist based in North Vancouver, Canada. Anne was selected as 1 of the top twelve finalists in the gallery’s 24th Solo Art Exhibition Series. The placement in this competition qualified her art to be showcased in this feature.
Anne’s Artist Showcase feature will be promoted to hundreds of major news outlets, with inclusion on Google News & Bing News. In addition, the gallery will also be featuring and promoting her artwork in the gallery’s various social media networks for further exposure.
Below are Anne’s Artist Biography, Artist Statement and 5 artworks that were submitted to this competition.
Canadian artist Anne Gudrun grew up in North Vancouver, British Columbia, where she was surrounded by the forest, mountains and ocean and could spend hours day-dreaming out her bedroom window, thinking and just observing life. Her visions and observations naturally made their way onto paper as intricate drawings of abstract form and colours, or life-like sketches of people and nature. She received her first oil paint set when she was nine years old and promptly taught herself to paint. Throughout her school years she excelled in the arts, and at 18 she set off to her ancestral home of Norway, spending a year at a small island art school. It was here that her love for the northern landscape and the beauty of nature took root.
Primarily a self-taught artist, Anne has studied locally with Canadian artists, as well as attending workshops and classes at Emily Carr College of Art and Design. Anne's unique style provides an uplifting and colourful statement piece and her work has been chosen for public art displays, receiving awards and special recognition in select online and international art competitions.
She lives in North Vancouver where she paints and creates from her studio, spending her summers in Norway and travelling. Her paintings reflect the beauty of nature with bold vibrancy and an innate sense of design.
I’ve always intuitively observed how lines, colours and shapes define the essence and personality of things, so when I paint I begin by breaking down the complete picture into its abstract forms. Whether creating the figurative representation of a person, or the abstraction of a forest or flower, I play with the interactions between the shapes and colours on canvas, each colour and shape becoming its own character and contributing to the work as a whole.
When looking closely at the details of the painting it appears abstract, but standing back you see the complete picture… The apparent random chaos of nature becoming form... The real from the abstract.
As a young girl I read stories of fairy-tale forests, trolls, myths and magic. It’s a world of wonder, adventure, mystery and transformation and it’s that world I want to re-create through my art, opening a doorway to a more brilliant reality.
Anne’s art can be found on her website.
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The gallery’s exhibition for August 2023 is the 5th Annual “Primary Colors” Online Art Exhibition. Both 2D and 3D, artists, from around the world, were asked for their interpretation of the “Primary Colors” theme by submitting their best abstract and/or representational art.
The gallery received 509 entries from 22 different countries from around the world, as well as from 30 different states and the District of Columbia.
The exhibition has been divided into three media categories - Painting & Other Media, Photography & Digital and 3 Dimensional categories. In addition, there is an overall Winning Artists Category, which is the “best of the best” and consists of the twelve (12) best entries comprised from all the media categories.
The gallery also included Special Merit awards and Special Recognition awards for outstanding art. Many of the artists in either of these groups could have easily been included in the upper tier of our winners, as their art was also exceptional.
All winning entries will now be featured on the Light Space & Time website homepage for the 3 months. Thereafter, the artworks will remain online in the Light Space & Time Archives. To see exhibitions prior to January 2022, please visit our LST Archives website.
Congratulations to our artists who made our 5th Annual “Primary Colors” Art Exhibition so successful this month. At any time, we invite our winning artists and other interested visitors to link their websites to the Gallery’s archive page for further ongoing promotion. Scroll down the page to each section to see the artists accepted into the exhibition.
Overall Top 12 Winning Artists & Artworks
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Top 20 Painting & Other Media Artists
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Top 20 Photography & Digital Artists
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Top 4 3 Dimensional Artists
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Painting & Other Media Special Merit Artists
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Photography & Digital Special Merit Artists
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Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is extremely pleased to announce that Maureen Ravnik has been named as the Gallery’s new featured artist and she will now be promoted by the gallery for the next 14 days in the gallery’s Artist Showcase.
Maureen is an award-winning photographer based in Colorado, USA. Maureen was selected as 1 of the top twelve finalists in the gallery’s 24th Solo Art Exhibition Series. The placement in this competition qualified her art to be showcased in this feature.
Maureen’s Artist Showcase feature will be promoted to hundreds of major news outlets, with inclusion on Google News & Bing News. In addition, the gallery will also be featuring and promoting her artwork in the gallery’s various social media networks for further exposure.
Below are Maureen’s Artist Biography, Artist Statement and 5 artworks that were submitted to this competition.
Maureen Ravnik was born and raised in Minnesota. She attended the University of Colorado to pursue a career in sales & marketing. Working and traveling a lot in that discipline opened her eyes to the wonders of the American west and reawakened childhood tendencies to creatively document her discoveries. She began making images of the American west in hopes of preserving the history, the culture, and the dreams that shaped the west. Maureen has placed in the Audubon International Top 250, local, national, international juried photography exhibitions, monthly club competitions, and state park calendars. Her images have been selected for use by the City of Littleton, and National Geographic for publication, as well as several newspapers. She has co-authored 2 books that document the history of the second largest natural area in the country. Maureen has also served as a juror for the Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts in Colorado.
My methods and techniques are largely self-taught. I am deeply inspired by the work of Ansel Adams and Art Wolfe. My work is also derived from my imagination. My greatest satisfaction comes from taking the file from camera to computer to develop composites. The results reflect my personal feelings, beliefs, events, culture, etc. that are best expressed through artistic interpretations. My work is delivered in an array of styles that arc between realism, passionately abstract and doggedly figurative. *This still life series is dedicated to the Native American culture.
Maureen’s art can be found on her website.
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Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is very pleased to announce that Deimante Bruzguliene has been selected as one of the four winning artists of the gallery’s recent 24th “Solo Art Series” Art Competition. Deimante will now have a month-long solo art exhibition and she will be featured on the gallery’s front page, on the Gallery’s YouTube Channel, as well as in the “Solo Art Series” Archives.
Deimante Bruzguliene is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning, self-taught artist based in the United Kingdom. She will now be promoted by the gallery with an extensive public relations campaign.
For this solo exhibition, the Gallery will distribute, promote and circulate press releases to over hundreds of major news outlets, including premium FOX, CBS, and NBC affiliated sites, with guaranteed inclusion on Google News & Bing News. The Gallery will also provide social media distribution through LST gallery’s broad social media network.
As part of her award package, Deimante will also be featured on the gallery’s YouTube Channel and with an event postcard.
The “Solo Art Series” is a series of monthly solo art exhibitions for established artists who have a body of work to present to the public. Artist participants were asked to submit the following 3 components for the “Solo Art Series” competition: 1. Their art. 2. Their artist biography. 3. Their artist statement. These elements were evaluated and judged, which resulted in the selection of the artists who are featured in individual month-long solo art exhibitions. This was the 24th “Solo Art Series” Art Competition that the gallery has conducted.
Below are Deimante’s Artist Biography, her Artist Statement, along with 14 artworks. We hope that you will take the time to read Deimante’s information and to take a look at her beautiful artworks.
Deimante Bruzguliene was born in Lithuania on May 20, 1980 and came to the United Kingdom in 2004. Her love of all animals started at a very young age. She was always keen to rescue animals. Deimante is an Artist who is completely self-taught. She is breath taking realistic wildlife paintings of animals. Deimante works in a variety of media including acrylic, oil, pastel, watercolour, graphite and mixed media.
“When it is my time to leave this world, I wish to do so knowing that I have left paintings that inspire others to appreciate the beauty of the natural world.”
I have been a lifelong artist. I've been drawing since I can remember. Art class has always been my favourite class. My style is realist, as I am obsessed with detail. I have always had a deep love of animals and nature. I find inspiration in all kinds of creatures, both domestic and wildlife, big, small, or in between.
My favourite subjects are wildlife. I love drawing animals as it is a way of accessing the secrets of the natural world. I can see their souls through their eyes, which I try to capture in my paintings. Animals are as individual as humans, but for me they manifest a purer and more genuine spirit to the outside world than do human beings. I can love animals by painting them, leaving a legacy of their existence and hopefully bringing to the viewer the same joy that I experience painting them.
I would like more people to be able to experience the connection that I have with animals. I wish to take this further to really convey that animals have their own personality and soul. Every portrait I do enriches my life, for the subject enters my heart. We are all connected. Connections are magical, providing an opportunity to nurture patience, compassion, love and caring.
Deimante’s work can be viewed on her website.
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Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is extremely pleased to announce that Lewis Isaac Testa has been named as the Gallery’s new featured artist and he will now be promoted by the gallery for the next 14 days in the gallery’s Artist Showcase.
Lewis is an award-winning artist based in Kingston, New York, USA. Lewis was selected as 1 of the top twelve finalists in the gallery’s 24th Solo Art Exhibition Series. The placement in this competition qualified his art to be showcased in this feature.
Lewis’s Artist Showcase feature will be promoted to hundreds of major news outlets, with inclusion on Google News & Bing News. In addition, the gallery will also be featuring and promoting his artwork in the gallery’s various social media networks for further exposure.
Below are Lewis’s Artist Biography, Artist Statement and 5 artworks that were submitted to this competition.
Art is different to everyone. It can be beautiful or evoke emotions as well as relax you. To Lewis Isaac Testa it has been going on for 50 years now. It has been the one constant in his life that proved to be more valuable that he could have imagined and in turn has changed his life for the better.
He attended the Art Students League in New York for four years and was awarded the Merit Scholarship for the last three years he attended. He studied Fine Art Illustration under Robert E. Shultz as well as Anatomy under Robert Beverly Hale. He also studied Portrait painting under John Howard Sanden. He obtained employment with Edward Fields Inc. An Exclusive handmade rug manufacturer for the “Rich and Famous”. Bill Gates, Frank Sinatra, Madonna as well as the Whitehouse. His Last project was to help design the Oval Room Rug for the Whitehouse for President Bush.
I am an award winning artist who likes to do pet portraits and portraits in Pastels, Graphite and Charcoal.
In 2003 I suffered a stroke due to a spinal fusion, which left me paralyzed on my right side. It took 4 years of intense physical therapy to feel normal again. Art was not in the forecast for the rest of my life. But then my granddaughter was born, and Art came back into my life. All that you see is art after my stroke. I guess you must lose everything to gain what really matters. I consider myself the luckiest man alive.
Lewis’s art can be found on his website.
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Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is extremely pleased to announce that Stephen Mimms has been named as the Gallery’s new featured artist and he will now be promoted by the gallery for the next 14 days in the gallery’s Artist Showcase.
Stephen is an award-winning photographer based in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA. Stephen was selected as 1 of the top twelve finalists in the gallery’s 24th Solo Art Exhibition Series. The placement in this competition qualified his art to be showcased in this feature.
Stephen’s Artist Showcase feature will be promoted to hundreds of major news outlets, with inclusion on Google News & Bing News. In addition, the gallery will also be featuring and promoting his artwork in the gallery’s various social media networks for further exposure.
Below are Stephen’s Artist Biography, Artist Statement and 5 artworks that were submitted to this competition.
Artist Biography
Born in Louisville, Kentucky, moved to Washington, D.C. at an early age, Stephen now resides in Silver Spring, Maryland with his wife and two dogs. Stephen's photographic skills were self-taught, beginning with film. After retiring from the government, he discovered digital photography and the passion for his craft continued.
Artist Statement
I like to combine photography and digital art to produce photo-realism and a painterly style for his artistic vision. His photographic works cover a diverse range of subjects and styles, showcasing various interest in travel, nature, and architecture.
Stephen’s website is www.mimmsphotography.com.
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The gallery’s exhibition for July 2023 is the 13th Annual “Animals” Online Art Exhibition. Both 2D and 3D, artists, from around the world, were asked for their interpretation of the “Animals” theme by submitting their best abstract and/or representational art.
The gallery received 563 entries from 18 different countries from around the world, as well as from 28 different states and the District of Columbia.
The exhibition has been divided into three media categories - Painting & Other Media, Photography & Digital and 3 Dimensional Categories. In addition, there is an overall Winning Artists Category, which is the “best of the best” and consists of the twelve (12) best entries comprised from all the media categories.
The gallery also included Special Merit awards and Special Recognition awards for outstanding art. Many of the artists in either of these groups could have easily been included in the upper tier of our winners, as their art was also exceptional.
All winning entries will now be featured on the Light Space & Time website homepage for the 3 months. Thereafter, the artworks and links to the artist’s websites will remain online in the Light Space & Time Archives. To see exhibitions prior to January 2022, please visit our LST Archives website.
Congratulations to our artists who made our 13th Annual “Animals” Art Exhibition so successful this month. At any time, we invite our winning artists and other interested visitors to link their websites to the Gallery’s archive page for further ongoing promotion. Scroll down the page to each section to see the artists accepted into the exhibition.
Overall Top 12 Winning Artists & Artworks
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Top 20 Painting & Other Media Artists
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Top 20 Photography & Digital Artists
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Top 8 - 3 Dimensional Artists
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Painting & Other Media Special Merit Artists
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Photography & Digital Special Merit Artists
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Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is extremely pleased to announce that Robert Obier has been named as the Gallery’s new featured artist and he will now be promoted by the gallery for the next 14 days in the gallery’s Artist Showcase.
Robert is an award-winning artist based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA. Robert was selected as 1 of the top twelve finalists in the gallery’s 24th Solo Art Exhibition Series. The placement in this competition qualified his art to be showcased in this feature.
Robert’s Artist Showcase feature will be promoted to hundreds of major news outlets, with inclusion on Google News & Bing News. In addition, the gallery will also be featuring and promoting his artwork in the gallery’s various social media networks for further exposure.
Below are Robert’s Artist Biography, Artist Statement and 5 artworks that were submitted to this competition.
Robert Obier is an award winning artist. His work as an architect/designer/illustrator has been featured in numerous exhibitions, magazines and web articles. His high tech sculptural designs have appeared on network television and were selected for a “location shoot” in a major motion picture.
His range of eclectic influences include the organic architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, the explorations of geometry in nature by Andy Goldsworthy and the theatrical creations of Industrial Light and Magic for a time long ago in a galaxy far, far away.
His work explores the intersections and obscures the boundaries between architecture, industrial design and art. Each piece is as much a realization of an abstract design concept as it is a unique work of three-dimensional art. The fabrication combines the "tried and true" techniques of old-fashioned craftsmanship with today's most advanced rapid prototyping technologies such as CAD modeling, 3-D printing, and CNC fabrication. From creation through completion the dichotomy of ‘handmade’ and ‘computer generated’ informs the development and execution of the work.
Robert was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana where he now resides. He received a Bachelor of Architecture Degree from LSU in 1981 and a Master of Science Degree in Industrial Design from Art Center College of Design in 2007.
Design is the art of storytelling. Through stories we give meaning and context to this journey we all share. My cause is to create an art that inspires meaning and speaks of some untold story -some distant time - some mysterious place - some unknown tomorrow. This is what I call, “the stuff of dreams”.
A strict and systematic organization of components define the work and reveal a discipline that is unmistakably architectural. At first glance, the geometric forms seem strangely familiar as if seen somewhere before - but where - when? Upon closer examination - perhaps the designs are remnants of some distant and secrete civilization or even an, as of yet, unknown and mysterious future. The forms are intentionally abstract giving shape to a brief moment of design inspiration. Schematic concepts emerge as built objects without the practical or functional restrictions that necessarily accompany the development of an architectural or industrial product.
The final sculpted artwork is derived from an initial “thumbnail” sketch. The preliminary shapes are explored and refined through multiple iterations as 3-d computer models. These varied iterations may serve to refine an idea or may be individually produced as a limited series of sculptural works.
Particular finish applications such as weathering and rust recall an ‘earlier time’ in the story of certain pieces - the scars of a past life. Nevertheless, the work has a timeless quality - seeming to exist in the past, the present and the future - simultaneously.
Robert’s website is obierstudios.com.
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Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is extremely pleased to announce that Neal Smith Willow has been named as the Gallery’s new featured artist and he will now be promoted by the gallery for the next 14 days in the gallery’s Artist Showcase.
Neal is an award-winning artist based in Jalisco, Mexico. Neal was selected as 1 of the top twelve finalists in the gallery’s 24th Solo Art Exhibition Series. The placement in this competition qualified his art to be showcased in this feature.
Neal’s Artist Showcase feature will be promoted to hundreds of major news outlets, with inclusion on Google News & Bing News. In addition, the gallery will also be featuring and promoting his artwork in the gallery’s various social media networks for further exposure.
Below are Neal’s Artist Biography, Artist Statement and 5 artworks that were submitted to this competition.
Neal Smith Willow is an artist working in oils, pastels and watercolors in a representational manner. He paints from a narrative perspective and from his experiences.
Neal admires the vision of the New York Ashcan movement at the beginning of the 20th century. A revolution in American art, it produced an unprecedented vision of the working people in Manhattan as well as the pastimes of the middle class. The Ashcan artists did not stay cutting edge for long, as the wave of abstract art swept away their American-bred realism.
Today the genre of painterly realism, as in the past, invariably includes the environments that sensually surrounded the artist with the new. Heal searches for those moments as he moves about, storing them to accommodate his muse. He wants to be an interpreter, through painterly depictions of memory for impressions of place. This may open a window that invites the viewer to glimpse a moment that was, now washed away by the current of time.
Neal’s paintings have become a distilled narrative attempting to connect to the viewer that sense of a moment and its inevitable passing. Doing the work makes him feel like a child involved with a toy and a man loyal to his dreams.
The premise of my work of is to record my experiences - filtered through sight, and touch - to create images of fleeting moments so that they may remain. Painterly realism strikes me as the best vehicle for that effort, the kind offered by Edgar Degas, Thomas Eakins, and Singer Sargent among many. For the content of my work, I seek out the individuals and places of my times to put to canvas.
Neal’s website is https://neal-smithwillow.pixels.com/.
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The gallery’s competition for May 2023 was the 13th Annual “Seascapes” Online Art Competition. Both 2D and 3D, artists, from around the world, were asked for their interpretation of the “Seascapes” theme by submitting their best abstract and/or representational art.
The gallery received 516 entries from 14 different countries from around the world, as well as from 30 different states and the District of Columbia.
The exhibition has been divided into two media categories - Painting & Other Media and Photography & Digital Categories. Due to a limited number of 3 Dimensional entries, these artworks have been included in the Painting & Other Media category. In addition, there is an overall Winning Artists Category, which is the “best of the best” and consists of the twelve (12) best entries comprised from all the media categories.
The gallery also included Special Merit awards and Special Recognition awards for outstanding art. Many of the artists in either of these groups could have easily been included in the upper tier of our winners, as their art was also exceptional.
All winning entries will now be featured on the Light Space & Time website homepage for the 3 months. Thereafter, the artworks and links to the artist’s websites will remain online in the Light Space & Time Archives. To see exhibitions prior to January 2022, please visit our LST Archives website.
Congratulations to our artists who made our 13th Annual “Seascapes” Art Exhibition so successful this month. At any time, we invite our winning artists and other interested visitors to link their websites to the Gallery’s archive page for further ongoing promotion. Scroll down the page to each section to see the artists accepted into the exhibition.
Overall Top 12 Winning Artists & Artworks
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Top 20 Painting & Other Media Artists
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Top 20 Photography & Digital Artists
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Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is extremely pleased to announce that Elli Milan has been named as the Gallery’s new featured artist and she will now be promoted by the gallery for the next 14 days in the gallery’s Artist Showcase.
Elli is an award-winning artist based in Georgia, USA. Elli was selected as 1 of the top twelve finalists in the gallery’s 24th Solo Art Exhibition Series. The placement in this competition qualified her art to be showcased in this feature.
Elli’s Artist Showcase feature will be promoted to hundreds of major news outlets, with inclusion on Google News & Bing News. In addition, the gallery will also be featuring and promoting her artwork in the gallery’s various social media networks for further exposure.
Below are Elli’s Artist Biography, Artist Statement and 5 artworks that were submitted to this competition.
Elli Milan is a visionary artist, author, educator, inspirational speaker, and founding owner of Milan Art Institute and Art Social – an online art education program, social learning, and art patronage platform. She is passionate about empowering artists and has transformed the lives of thousands of artists worldwide, helping them find their voice and turn their passion for art into a profession.
Elli began her professional career in 1996 and has been making her mark on the art scene ever since. Her education at Savannah College of Art and Design and the University of Georgia refined her skill and passion for art. She has been successful in the traditional and decorative art markets selling over 10,000 paintings. Elli is married to artist John Milan, raised four artist children, and together, created the foundation of Milan Art Institute. With her visionary approach and revolutionary art programs, Elli is a leading voice of the current Art Renaissance.
She currently lives near Atlanta, Georgia on the campus of Milan Art. Her days are divided between painting, hosting Art Social podcasts and workshops, and empowering individuals to step into their destiny through inspirational speeches. In the future, Elli would like to establish a permanent art studio in Greece. There she hopes to honor her Greek heritage and inspire emerging art students to persevere through their own artist odyssey, set against the backdrop of one of the greatest art cultures in history.
My paintings are mythical, deeply rooted in a place of spirituality, capturing the symbolism of animals and light. Distinguished by bold marks and contrast, as well as jewel-toned colors and the appearance of light, many of my works look as if they are glowing from within. The boldness of my process combined with the use of symbolic imagery and the juicy richness of the oil paint create art that exudes spirituality and the ethereal.
I want my artwork to inspire wonder and help you connect with what makes you powerful. If my paintings can illuminate the passions and destiny that stir within you, I have fulfilled my purpose. You have value and worth and your life has profound significance. May my artwork remind you that you are a magical being who can change the world.
Elli’s website is www.ellimilan.com.
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The Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is pleased to announce the winning artists of the gallery’s recent 24th “Solo Art Series” Art Competition.
The “Solo Art Series” competition closed on May 5, 2023. 12 artists were selected as finalists. From that selection, 4 artists were chosen to receive individual month-long solo art exhibitions. The remaining 8 artists were awarded Artist Showcase features.
The Solo Art Series took place within an extremely competitive atmosphere. The task of selecting only four top winning artists from the 65 artists who entered was extremely challenging. The high quality of submissions made creating the final rankings extraordinarily difficult.
The competitive process considered not only the quality and depth of the artist’s work but also the overall entry presentation, including the artist’s biography and artist’s statement. The following are the 4 winning Solo Series Artists and the schedule of their solo art exhibitions.
| Patrick Egger | May 15, 2023 to June 14, 2023 | |
| James Su | June 15, 2023, to July 14, 2023 | |
| Deimante Bruzguliene | July 15, 2023, to August 14, 2023 | |
| Debra Hill | August 15, 2023, to Sept. 14, 2023 |
As part of the selection process, the other 8 artists who were in the top 12 have been awarded an Artist Showcase feature. The artists who were selected for the Artist Showcase features (with one Artist Showcase being be posted every 2 weeks beginning on May 15th are:
| Elli Milan | May 15, 2023 to May 31, 2023 | |
| Neal Smith Willow | June 1, 2023 to June 14, 2023 | |
| Robert Obier | June 15, 2023 to June 30, 2023 | |
| Stephen Mimms | July 1, 2023 to July 14, 2023 | |
| Lewis Isaac Testa | July 15, 2023 to July 31, 2023 | |
| Maureen Ravnik | August 1, 2023 to August 14, 2023 | |
| Anne Gudrun | August 15, 2023 to August 31, 2023 | |
| Lyn Darlington | Sept. 1, 2023 to Sept. 14, 2023 |
Out of the 65 artists who submitted to this Solo Art Series art competition, 27 were eliminated due to deficiencies in their Biography, Artist’s Statement or with their art. From the 38 artists who were left, 17 artists were then selected as finalists. 12 artists were selected from the 17 final artists and any of the finalists could have been included in the final 12.
For each solo art exhibition, the gallery will distribute, promote and circulate press releases to hundreds of major News Outlets, art news websites and social media distribution through LST gallery’s broad social media network.
Each of the 8 Artist Showcase feature artists will also be promoted to hundreds of major News Outlets, art news websites and social media distribution through LST gallery’s broad social media network.
Winning artists will have their solo art exhibition results posted and promoted on ArtWeek. Artweek produces 800,000-page impressions per month, 280,000 website visitors per month and has 30,000 newsletter subscribers.
The winning artists will also have their art exhibition results posted and promoted on Art.Base.co. Art.Base produces 100,000 page views per month, 35,000 monthly unique visitors and has 10,000+ newsletter subscribers.
In addition to the above, the winning solo artists receive a YouTube Video presentation of their Body of Work, Event Postcard and a Press Release for their art portfolio. There will also be links back to the artists’ website as part of this achievement package.
Here is a link to the gallery's Solo Art Series Archives. The gallery’s next Solo Art Series competition will open for entries in July 2023.
Thank you for everyone's participation and interest in our Solo Art Series and congratulations to the winners.
The gallery’s competition for April 2023 was the 13th Annual “Figurative” Online Art Competition. Both 2D and 3D, artists, from around the world, were asked for their interpretation of the “Figurative” theme by submitting their best abstract and/or representational art.
The gallery received 605 entries from 23 different countries from around the world, as well as from 34 different states and the District of Columbia.
The exhibition has been divided into three media categories - Painting & Other Media, Photography & Digital and 3 Dimensional categories. In addition, there is an overall Winning Artists Category, which is the “best of the best” and consists of the twelve (12) best entries comprised from all the media categories.
The gallery also included Special Merit awards and Special Recognition awards for outstanding art. Many of the artists in either of these groups could have easily been included in the upper tier of our winners, as their art was also exceptional.
All winning entries will now be featured on the Light Space & Time website homepage for the 3 months. Thereafter, the artworks will remain online in the Light Space & Time Archives. To see exhibitions prior to January 2022, please visit our LST Archives website.
Congratulations to our artists who made our 13th Annual “Figurative” Art Exhibition so successful this month. At any time, we invite our winning artists and other interested visitors to link their websites to the Gallery’s archive page for further ongoing promotion. Scroll down the page to each section to see the artists and artworks accepted into the exhibition.
Overall Top 12 Winning Artists & Artworks
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Top 20 Painting & Other Media Artists
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Top 20 Photography & Digital Artists
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Top 8 3 Dimensional Artists
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Painting & Other Media Special Merit Artists
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Photography & Digital Special Merit Artists
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3 Dimensional Special Merit Artists
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Painting & Other Media Special Recognition Artists
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Photography & Digital Special Recognition Artists
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3 Dimensional Special Recognition Artists
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Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is extremely pleased to announce that April Lund has been named as the Gallery’s new featured artist and she will now be promoted by the gallery for the next 14 days in the gallery’s Artist Showcase.
April is an award-winning artist based in Canada. April was selected as 1 of the top twelve finalists in the gallery’s 23rd Solo Art Exhibition Series. The placement in this competition qualified her art to be showcased in this feature.
April’s Artist Showcase feature will be promoted to over 350+ major news outlets, with inclusion on Google News & Bing News. In addition, the gallery will also be featuring and promoting her artwork in the gallery’s various social media networks for further exposure.
Below are April’s Artist Biography, Artist Statement and 5 artworks that were submitted to this competition.
Born in Saskatchewan, Canada, April spent most of her life as a Calgarian, with forays to Penticton, Edmonton (twice), Halifax and Victoria. Currently retired from the 9 to 5 cycle, she is now thoroughly enjoying the freedom retirement has to offer and embracing the easy lifestyle of the East Kootenay Rockies.
An avid explorer with brush, pencil and clay throughout childhood and her public school years, she entered the University of Calgary’s Fine Arts Program right out of high school. However, the siren's call of a regular paycheck and family that followed soon after, kept her firmly anchored (mainly in the area of law) for the next 35 years. After a second brush with serious illness and a week-long immersion in the finest galleries of London, Edinburgh and Glasgow, April decided it was time to revisit her previous passion and took a course at the Alberta College of Art and Design aptly titled "Painting for the Utterly Intimidated".
Having been fortunate enough to have lived on both of Canada’s beautiful coasts and at the foot of the Rockies, the myriad facets of water and mountains have and will be a recurring theme in her art. Working primarily in acrylic (having the patience of a gnat when it comes to waiting out drying times), April is slowly experimenting with oils. She has also turned her hand to works in wood and mixed media sculpture.
Carly Clements wrote that the artist's statement is written "to tell someone who I am, what my art is all about and why I created it".
Quite frankly, "who, what and why" are constantly evolving. Every painting forces both left and right brains to shake hands. It is, for me, simultaneously meditative, stimulating, contemplative and surprising. Each painting develops a life of its own. The process of creating a painting is eternally fascinating to me.
For years, I have had a favorite photograph of a seagull perched on a piling with the surf swirling in the background. I have looked at this simple photograph countless times but not until I decided to consider it as a subject for a painting did I notice the tiny chick tucked between the lower pilings. That is what art is about to me - the epiphany of finally "seeing" and the joy of putting my personal twist on what I saw.
April can be reached via her Email.
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Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is very pleased to announce that Nathan Wilson has been selected as one of the four winning artists of the gallery’s recent 23rd “Solo Art Series” Art Competition. Nathan will now have a month-long solo art exhibition and he will be featured on the gallery’s front page, in the Gallery’s YouTube Channel, as well as in the “Solo Art Series” Archives.
Nathan Wilson is an award-winning artist based Iowa City, IA, USA. He will now be promoted by the gallery with an extensive public relations campaign.
For this solo exhibition, the Gallery will distribute, promote and circulate press releases to over 550+ major News Outlets, including Premium FOX, CBS, and NBC Affiliated Sites, with guaranteed inclusion on Google News & Bing News. The Gallery will also provide social media distribution through LST gallery’s broad social media network.
In addition, as part of his award package, Nathan will also be featured on the gallery’s YouTube Channel and with an event postcard.
The “Solo Art Series” is a series of monthly solo art exhibitions for established artists who have a body of work to present to the public. Artist participants were asked to submit the following 3 components for the “Solo Art Series” competition: 1. Their art. 2. Their artist biography. 3. Their artist statement. These elements were evaluated and judged, which resulted in the selection of the artists who will be featured in individual month-long solo art exhibitions. This was the 23rd “Solo Art Series” Art Competition that the gallery has conducted.
Below are Nathan’s Artist Biography, his Artist Statement, along with 16 of his paintings. We hope that you will take the time to read Nathan’s information and to take a look at his beautiful artworks.
Born in the summer of 1980 in Iowa City, IA, Nathan has been interested in art his entire life. His earliest memories are of laying on his bedroom floor drawing pictures of people, nature, and copying pictures from magazines. He is blessed to maintain his childhood sense of awe and wonder when creating and experiencing art he loves.
Through studying 17th and 18th century oil painting techniques Nathan has developed the process of beginning all of his paintings with rough graphite drawings to establish scale and perspective. He then proceeds with multiple under-paintings of umber and grey tones, then finally complete the work with many thin glazes of color.
In 2011, Nathan graduated from the University of Iowa with a BFA in painting and drawing. Upon graduating he worked in Austin, TX and NYC managing print shops until he moved back to Iowa City to dedicate himself to painting full time. He finds inspiration in everyday people and situations, attempting to see the sublime in the mundane. Art is a way to find inspiration and to drive towards something higher than the self to access the pure bliss that lies behind prosaic surfaces. He hopes his art work offers the viewer a glimpse of that bliss.
I create my paintings as a meditation on being and non-being. I am interested in the thin grey area between diametrically opposed positions, thoughts or behaviors, the more these two objects differ, the more similar they become. Painting is a practice that opens up a space to interrogate this transcendent grey are. My primary materials are pigments, linseed oil, damar varnish, turpentine, sable brushes, a glass palette, cotton duck canvas, etc. Josef Albers' book on color theory, as well as, The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques, a reference book by Ralph Mayer, became my bibles in college and I continue to use them as my fondest wells of knowledge.
Nathan’s work can be viewed on his website.
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