Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery announces its 13th Annual “Open” (No Theme) Online Art Competition for the month of October 2023. 2D and 3D artists from around the world are called upon to make online submissions for possible inclusion into the Gallery’s November 2023 online group exhibition.
There is No Theme for this art competition so any subject matter and any media are acceptable for consideration.
Artists should submit their best work in any media before the deadline of October 27, 2023.
Here is a link to the “Open” (No Theme) 2022 Online Art Exhibition in order to help artists see what type of art was accepted in the past. Please review our article post which explains the Judging Criteria for Our Juried Art Competitions in order to help you as a guide with your entry submissions.
Lower entry fees are offered from the opening of the competition (10th of the month) until the 1st day of next month (October 1, 2023). The discounted entry fees are as follows; $16.00 for 1 to 2 entries and $24.00 for 3 to 5 entries. After that time, the entry fees revert to the gallery’s normal entry fee amount or $18.00 for 1 to 2 entries and $26.00 for 3 to 5 entries until the deadline of the art competition.
Also, students (who are registered with Submittable and have an email extension of EDU) are able to receive additional lower entry fees for this competition. $12.00 for 1 to 2 entries and $22.00 for 3 to 5 entries.
Light Space & Time encourages artists (including photography & digital arts), regardless of where they reside and regardless of their experience or education in the art field, to apply to this competition by submitting their best abstract and/or representational art. Awards will be given for top 12 places.
| Art Competition Opens | August 28, 2023 | |
| Early Registration & Lower Fees End | October 01, 2023 | |
| Deadline for Receiving Entries | October 27, 2023 | |
| Results Emailed to Artists & Posted | November 01, 2023 | |
| Art Exhibition Opens | November 01, 2023 | |
| Online Art Exhibition Closes & Archived | November 30, 2023 |
Winning artists (12 Overall Category Artists) of the 13th Annual “Open” (No Theme) Art Exhibition will be promoted extensively by the gallery in the following manner:
The #1 overall top winning artist will be the Best in Show winner of the exhibition. The Best in Show winner will receive a cash prize of $100. The cash prize will be paid via PayPal in U.S. dollars. The winner must be able to receive the cash prize via PayPal. If the artist does not have PayPal account, it is easy to set one up HERE.
The top 12 winning artists for this exhibition will be promoted and circulated to hundreds of major news outlets, including syndicated Premium News Outlets (ABC, CBS, CW, Fox & NBC affiliated broadcasting/station websites), with inclusion on Google News & Bing News.
Winning artists will have their art exhibition results posted and promoted on ArtJobs/Artweek.com. Artweek produces 800,000+ page impressions per month, 280,000+ website visitors per month and has 30,000+ newsletter subscribers. 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 artists of this exhibition will receive extensive worldwide publicity in the form of email marketing, event announcements, and wide-spread social media marketing and promotion to make the art world aware of the artists’ achievement.
There will be a video of the winning artists’ artworks on the Light Space & Time YouTube Channel. There will be links back to the artists’ website as part of this achievement package. Winning artists also receive a digital award certificate, digital award ribbon, digital event postcard, and press releases for their art portfolio.
Artists provide us with your best representative and abstract art (Any Subject Matter) before the deadline.
Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery announces their 13th Annual “Nature” Online Art Competition for the month of November 2023. 2D and 3D artists from around the world are called upon to make online submissions for possible inclusion into the Gallery’s December 2023 online group exhibition.
The “Nature” theme is the artist’s interpretation and depiction of nature art. Nature subjects include geographical subjects, landscapes, natural objects, wildlife and natural environments.
Artists should submit their best work in any media before the deadline of November 27, 2023.
Here is a link to the “Nature” 2022 Online Art Exhibition in order to help artists see what type of art was accepted in the past. Please review our article post which explains the Judging Criteria for Our Juried Art Competitions in order to help you as a guide with your entry submissions.
Lower entry fees are offered from the opening of the competition until the 1st day of next month (October 1, 2023). The discounted entry fees are as follows; $16.00 for 1 to 2 entries and $24.00 for 3 to 5 entries. After that time, the entry fees revert to the gallery’s normal entry fee amount or $18.00 for 1 to 2 entries and $26.00 for 3 to 5 entries until the deadline of the art competition.
Also, students (who are registered with Submittable and have an email extension of EDU) are able to receive additional lower entry fees for this competition. $12.00 for 1 to 2 entries and $22.00 for 3 to 5 entries.
Light Space & Time encourages artists (including photography & digital arts), regardless of where they reside and their experience or education in the art field, to apply to this competition by submitting their best abstract and/or representational art. Awards will be given for top 12 places.
| Art Competition Opens | September 14, 2023 | |
| Early Registration & Lower Fees End | October 01, 2023 | |
| Deadline for Receiving Entries | November 27, 2023 | |
| Results Emailed to Artists & Posted | December 01, 2023 | |
| Art Exhibition Opens | December 01, 2023 | |
| Online Art Exhibition Closes & Archived | December 31, 2023 |
Winning artists (12 Overall Category Artists) of the 13th Annual “Nature” Art Exhibition will be promoted extensively by the gallery in the following manner:
The #1 overall top winning artist will be the Best in Show winner of the exhibition. The Best in Show winner will receive a cash prize of $100. The cash prize will be paid via PayPal in U.S. dollars. The winner must be able to receive the cash prize via PayPal. If the artist does not have PayPal account, it is easy to set one up HERE.
The top 12 winning artists for this exhibition will be promoted and circulated to hundreds of major news outlets, including syndicated Premium News Outlets (ABC, CBS, CW, Fox & NBC affiliated broadcasting/station websites), with inclusion on Google News & Bing News.
Winning artists will have their art exhibition results posted and promoted on ArtJobs/Artweek.com. Artweek produces 800,000-page impressions per month, 280,000 website visitors per month and has 30,000 newsletter subscribers. 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 artists of this exhibition will receive extensive worldwide publicity in the form of email marketing, event announcements, and wide-spread social media marketing and promotion to make the art world aware of the artists’ achievement.
There will also be a video of the winning artists’ artworks on the Light Space & Time YouTube Channel. In addition, there will also be links back to the artists’ website as part of this achievement package. Winning artists also receive a digital Award Certificate, digital Award Ribbon, digital Event Postcard, and Press Release for their art portfolio.
Artists provide us with your best representative and/or abstract art before the deadline.
Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery announces their 13th Annual “All Women” Online Art Competition. 2D and 3D women artists only, worldwide, are called upon to make online submissions for possible inclusion into the Gallery’s January 2024 online group exhibition.
There is no theme for this competition, so any subject matter and any media are acceptable for consideration. Women Artists should submit their best work in any media before the deadline of December 27, 2023.
Here is a link to the “All Women” 2023 Online Art Exhibition in order to help artists see what type of art was accepted in the past. Please review our article post which explains the Judging Criteria for Our Juried Art Competitions in order to help you as a guide with your entry submissions.
Light Space & Time encourages women artists (including photography & digital arts), regardless of where they reside and their experience or education in the art field, to apply to this competition by submitting their best abstract and/or representational art. Awards will be given for top 12 places.
| Art Competition Opens | September 27, 2023 | |
| Early Registration & Lower Fees End | November 01, 2023 | |
| Deadline for Receiving Entries | December 27, 2023 | |
| Results Emailed to Artists & Posted | January 01, 2024 | |
| Art Exhibition Opens | January 01, 2024 | |
| Online Art Exhibition Closes & Archived | January 31, 2024 |
Winning artists (12 Overall Category Artists) of the 13th Annual “All Women” Art Exhibition will be promoted extensively by the gallery in the following manner:
Women Artists please provide us with your best representative and abstract art before the deadline.
Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is extremely pleased to announce that Elizabeth Darlington 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.
Elizabeth is an award-winning artist based in the United Kingdom. Elizabeth was selected as 1 of the top twelve finalists in the gallery’s 25th Solo Art Exhibition Series. The placement in this competition qualified her art to be showcased in this feature.
Elizabeth’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 Elizabeth’s Artist Biography, Artist Statement and 5 artworks that were submitted to this competition.
Elizabeth Darlington grew up in a rural environment where clear night skies prompted her fascination in space. Her natural inquisitiveness grew to explore how all things in the Universe are connected. The natural world was also a significant part of her development; her appreciation of this was an important part of her life.
As a teenager, Salvador Dali was her favourite artist, but studying the Great Masters at A Level and for her Degree, she became particularly interested in the hidden symbology and use of geometry by Leonardo da Vinci. Another significant influence was Turner and his revolutionary use of light.
Elizabeth rarely paints in full light, preferring to lead the viewer from the shadows into the work where the focal point is illuminated. Since early childhood, Elizabeth has experienced ‘visions’. These experiences have imprinted her mind with extraordinary colours, feelings and energy.
In 2014, she opened her own gallery, but after just 12 months, she had to close the doors to overcome cancer. Elizabeth has had near-death-experiences several times during her life. One time was during childbirth, when both she and her daughter nearly died. The most recent was in August 2021, when she suffered severe Covid complications, pneumonia and sepsis. During her time in ICU, she experienced many powerful visions assisting with her healing. She has endeavoured to portray these in her artwork since her remarkable recovery.
Each picture is providing the connectivity with nature, each other, and the wider Universe. Over the years, I have experimented with a variety of media including soft pastels, oil pastels, acrylic paints and inks, oils, encaustic wax, poured acrylic medium and texture gels. One of my favourite materials to work with is gold leaf – this is representative that all gold found on Earth (and in her paintings) was once an exploded star, billions of years ago.
I’ve developed my own painting medium by combining acrylic inks with other acrylic based substances, enabling her to vary the viscosity and texture. Words – which I believe have energy - are very much an inherent part of my creations. Many paintings start with words embedded onto the canvas, before I start painting over them. These words are symbolic and emotive. They are never seen as part of the finished work, but their energy becomes part of the work as they are the intentions and emotions felt during the initial creative process.
Each painting is intended to prompt an emotional feeling in the viewer, according to their own mental/emotional state. They are designed to remind the viewer of forgotten aspects of themselves, and open doors in their minds to everything that they need, right there within themselves.
Elizabeth’s art can be found on her website.
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“Blue Nebula No 1”
“The Path of Unexpected Pleasures No 1”
“Enlightenment”
“Heaven No 1”
“Passage Through the Veil”
Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is very pleased to announce that Adam Strange has been selected as one of the four winning artists of the gallery’s recent 25th “Solo Art Series” Art Competition.
Adam will now have a month-long solo art exhibition and he will be featured on the gallery’s front page, on the Gallery’s YouTube Channel, as well as in the “Solo Art Series” Archive.
Adam is an international award-winning artist based in Canada. 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 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 Light Space & Time’s broad social media network.
Adam’s art 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.
Below are Adam’s Artist Biography, his Artist Statement, along with 20 of his digital artworks. We hope that you will take the time to read Adam’s information and to take a look at his artwork.
Adam Strange is a Canadian pixel-based artist plumbing the depths of the human condition, exploring the dark recesses of human behaviour and the effects of societal entropy. He started his art career during the mid-eighties, exhibiting locally in Southwestern Ontario, such as in the 1987 London Ontario exhibition "Homage to Marcel Duchamp on the occasion of the centennial of his birth" at the McIntosh gallery.
Adam graduated from the Ontario College of Art (OCA) in 1992 with a focus on magic-realism and old master technique under the direction and guidance of OCA professor Carmen Cereceda, a Chilean muralist who was once an assistant of Diego Rivera. He was also mentored by his father, an artist and contemporary of Tony Tascona and Takao Tanabe from the Winnipeg School of Art. Adam pursued fine art until around 1996 when he was in demand for his graphic design services full time.
In 2018, Adam refocused his life back to fine art, and has since seen his tools change from traditional materials into the digital realm, but the vision has remained the same… challenging viewers to question the world around them and to live in a world of their own making.
Adam is a member of the National Association of Digital Artists (naDA) and the Canadian Artists’ Representation/Le Front des artistes canadiens (CARFAC). Adam was Publicity Director for the Society of Canadian Artists (SCA) 2022-2023.
These visual artefacts are made in the “Age of Anxiety” where truth and lies are indistinguishable, issues and attitudes are binary, and the perils of conflict and intimacy result in the separation of the self from the physical.
The images reflect our anxious world through a process of digital painting, photomontage or “image dubbing.” These visual narratives are sojourns where time and memory, feelings and perspectives, manifest as physical places or situations showing the “Essentia” - the world as it really is.
Aldous Huxley, the British writer, once wrote, “There are things known, and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.” I create my art in that space between the known and unknown. The space is made of the thin unreliability of memory and shards of lived experience, which are reconstructed into stark forms and landscapes, resulting in nuanced, disturbing and sensual images.
The pieces are journeys from the purely aesthetic to a sacramental vision. There is a discordant beatific vision in the absence of colour, which engenders a lack of visual and emotional information. The removal of this content from the picture requires the viewer to confront a stark reality immediately. Light and shade, and what is revealed from the blackness become the primary language for interpreting the image.
These are images of realism. By turns, demanding, fearful, and disorienting. They are fit representations of the times we live in.
To see more of Adam’s work, please visit his website.
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