Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is extremely pleased to announce that Marlene Siff 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.
Marlene is an award-winning artist based in Connecticut, USA. Marlene 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.
Marlene’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 Marlene’s Artist Biography, Artist Statement and 5 images that were submitted to this competition.
Marlene Siff was born in Manhattan and raised in the Bronx. She was an art honors student at the eponymous High School of Music & Art (now LaGuardia High School of Music, Art and Performing Arts located near Lincoln Center). She earned a B.A. in Fine Arts from Hunter College where she studied with Richard Lippold, William Baziotes and Raymond Parker. She was also elected to Kappa Pi, the prestigious Honorary Arts Society.
Marlene’s work has been exhibited in museums, galleries and universities throughout the U.S. and abroad, including the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, the Katonah Museum of Art, the New Britain Museum of American Art, the Mattatuck Museum, the Attleboro Arts Museum, Columbia/Barnard University, the University of Texas, the Walsh Art Gallery at Fairfield University, Eastern Kentucky University and The Capitol building in Washington D.C.
Her work is also in the permanent collection of the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury CT, the Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport CT, B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum in Washington D.C. and in the Brian C. Nevin Welcome Center at Cornell University. Her work can also be found in many private collections, including the collection of Ronnie Heyman.
Since 2015 Marlene has been juried into 126 competitions throughout the United States and has won 37 awards. She works in her home-based studio in Westport, CT.
I am concerned with communicating a sense of harmony, balance, order and spirituality. Every day we are confronted with the fragmentation of our non-linear lives, trying, as in a puzzle, to make the pieces fit together to make sense of it all. My paintings, works on paper and sculpture depict imagery of personal and global events and psychological issues. They are a reflection of the world we live in, expressed through geometric shapes, color, light, space, texture, edges and movement, each interplaying with one another engaging the viewer to participate.
The multi-dimensionality and multi-layering of my work reference what one must uncover to penetrate the illusions of reality to reach the mystery and essence of the soul. In my former body of work entitled Elements of Peace, I embarked on a series of white paintings (in addition to the black paintings and paintings in color) that abandoned my signature bold palette. The white paintings pay homage to people who have been affected by war. White is soft, quiet, spiritual, unadorned and full of infinite possibilities. My intention was to create an architectural space for rest, retreat, connection, reflection and identification.
The love of my family, gardens, ballet, music, and a profound interest in world issues have always found their way into my work. In my interactive body of work 7 Finely Tuned + 1. . . I have decided to formally bring back color and embrace music.
Marlene’s website is www.marlenesiff.com.
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Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is very pleased to announce that Jeffrey Friedkin has been selected as one of the four winning artists of the gallery’s recent 22nd “Solo Art Series” Art Competition. Jeffrey 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.
Jeffrey Friedkin is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning fine art and street photographer based in New York City, New York, 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.
Jeffrey’s photos 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 22nd “Solo Art Series” Art Competition that the gallery has conducted.
Below are Jeffrey’s Artist Biography, his Artist Statement, along with 20 of his photographs. We hope that you will take the time to read Jeffrey’s information and to take a look at his photographs.
Jeffrey Friedkin is a fine art and street photographer, specializing in capturing the energy, vibrancy and isolation of New York City. Jeffrey is a juried photography member of the prestigious Salmagundi Art Club in NYC. He served on the Salmagundi board and was Chairman of the Public Relations Committee and assists the Chairman of the Photography Committee for the Salmagundi Art Club.
A multiple award-winning photographer, Jeffrey has widely exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the tristate area in addition to a large national and international presence. His work has been featured on various magazines, advertisements and news sites and is held in private collections, corporate businesses and clubs. A series of his photographs have been acquired by the Yuko Nii permanent collection at the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center in Brooklyn, NY. Corcoran Legends Realty recently obtained numerous photos for their Westchester County offices.
My photography employs a synthesis of the artistic eye and technology. My work focuses on New York life: the streets, people, architecture and nature. The lush rural landscapes and sparkling seascapes of the Hudson River Valley region equally inspire me and my images tell these stories.
Jeffrey’s work can be viewed on his website.
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Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is extremely pleased to announce that Paul Kenens 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.
Paul is an internationally acclaimed award-winning artist based in Belgium. Paul was selected as 1 of the top twelve finalists in the gallery’s 23rd Solo Art Exhibition Series. The placement in this competition qualified his art to be showcased in this feature.
Paul’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 his artwork in the gallery’s various social media networks for further exposure.
Below are Paul’s Artist Biography, Artist Statement and 5 artworks that were submitted to this competition.
Artist Biography
Paul Kenens was born in Brussels (1947), the eldest of six children, without a father. As a 14-year-old and the breadwinner of the family, he found work in a printing house. Updated to a color mixer and offset printer for luxury printing, at the time a specialized craft, he discovered his sense of composition and color. Thirteen years later he left the printing house for a year, but never returned. He no longer wanted to depend on third parties and her started acting. In the same period, he discovered the ceramic craft.
Paul Kenens is passionate about this two disciplines, resulting in two parallel careers. As an independent actor in film, TV and theater, he worked in international theater. As a ceramist, he specialized in color glazes, designed decorations and tile panels, copied old Art Nouveaux panels, made ceramic architectural ceramics for protected monuments and performed artistic ceramics commissions for other artists and architects.
In 2010 he decided to paint and enrolled in the academy. Unaware of the gift or experience gained in painting with ceramic glazes, whose final color is not immediately visible, oil painting is one Revelation: "I can see right now that I do," he says.
He sold the ceramic workshop, stopped acting and devoted himself entirely to the painting. In the academy he was soon given the name of an outsider the passion and use of a detailed painting style. He commutes daily between academy and his own studio. In between he follows a Masterclass at the Brazilian hyperrealist Omar Ortiz
Artist Statement
My work starts with photos of a fixed fashion model and I take a few hundred photos per photo session. Different photos are edited and adapted until a certain image can no longer be recognized. The chaos in the head must be given a direction, the reminiscences that are attached to it at that moment and the intimate feelings that it arouses channeled. Multiple versions are made in an atmosphere of excitement. During the preparation, uncertainty about the future painted version flashes in all directions. One must first fall a little in love with the subject in order to paint.
I paint the first layer as detailed as possible, as if I want to finish the painting in one layer. Then I paint over the entire canvas in the same way. Shapes and colors are adjusted. I like saturated canvases without painting pasty. They bring depth to the color.
Although the starting point is photographic material, it is always a challenge to distinguish between photorealism and a painted image. Each painting is an attempt to increase the distance between the two. The whole of my work is not sterile but emotional, it shows what moves me. I view the painted canvas more critically, each time from a different state of mind or point of view, with correction as a result.
My titles sometimes raise questions, make the viewer think, it gives the viewer the opportunity to fill in their own interpretation. In the end it comes down to the fact that I partly reveal the inner through the choice made.
Paul’s website is www.paulkenens.be.
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The gallery’s competition for February 2023 was the 13th Annual “Cityscapes” Online Art Competition. Both 2D and 3D, artists, from around the world, were called upon to make online submissions for possible inclusion in to the Gallery’s March 2023 online group art exhibition.
Artists were asked for their interpretation of the “Cityscapes” theme by submitting their best abstract or representational art for this competition.
The gallery received 476 entries from 21 different countries from around the world, as well as from 29 different states and the District of Columbia.
The exhibition has been divided into two media categories - Painting & Other Media and Photography & Digital Art. 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.
Congratulations to our artists who made our 13th Annual “Cityscapes” 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.
Overall Top 12 Winning Artists & Artworks
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Please go to the results of the Cityscapes Art Exhibition “Overall Winning Artists” Category to read about each of these artists.
Top 20 Painting & Other Media Winning Artists & Artworks
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To see all the Painting & Other Media artwork accepted into this exhibition, please visit the Cityscapes Art Exhibition “Painting & Other Category” here.
Top 20 Photography & Digital Winning Artists & Artworks
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To see all the Photography & Digital artwork accepted into this exhibition, please visit the Cityscapes Art Exhibition “Photography & Digital Category” here.
Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is very pleased to announce that Heather Coen has been selected as one of the four winning artists of the gallery’s recent 23rd “Solo Art Series” Art Competition. Heather 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” Archive.
Heather is a nationally award-winning artist based in Phoenix, Arizona, 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 over 550+ throughout the gallery’s press release networks and on art news websites. The Gallery will also provide social media distribution through LST gallery’s broad social media network.
Heather’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. This was the 23rd “Solo Art Series” Art Competition that the gallery has conducted.
Below are Heather’s Artist Biography, her Artist Statement, along with 25 of her paintings. We hope that you will take the time to read Heather’s information and to take a look at her artwork.
Artist Biography
Heather Coen in an award winning artist based in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Her paintings have been recognized and published by every major art magazine in the United States including, Art of the West, Plein Air Magazine, American Art Collector, Colored Pencil Magazine, Southwest Art and others. She began her career by apprenticing to two major artists and then, over the coming years, took classes and workshops to hone her skills. Recently, although her career was halted by a tragedy, she has risen from the ashes and began painting with a vengeance.
She belongs to such prestigious national organizations like Oil Painters of America, Women Artists of the West, National Oil and Acrylic Painters as well as a number of local art venues. She currently has work in three different galleries in two different states including Jackson Hole and Cheyenne, Wyoming and Estes Park, Colorado.
Heather is a landscape, still life and wildlife artist. Her work comes from her many travels all over South America, Canada and the United States. They are created over many months by adding many layers of paint or pastel on a canvas or surface.
Heather believes she is, “Creating a legacy, one original at a time.”
Artist Statement
Having been born with a paint brush in my hand, my mother survived and passed on many of her artistic skills to me. Apprenticed to three master artists over a six-year period, I launched with advantages. I soon became the President of a local art organization and learned the inner workings of shows, exhibits and keeping a herd of cats going in somewhat the same direction. I was the prize coordinator for the Women Artists of the West 50th Jubilee Show which happened to coincide with the outbreak of COVID. The organization could not hold the National Show and everything had to be coordinated and shipped. It took weeks.
Overcoming adversity is a part of every artist's life. I've found that persistence, ethics and just plain being stubborn helps. I have drawers full with awards and ribbons. I became a Master Signature member of Paint America after winning a number of competitions through their venues. It took me eight years to accumulate enough points.
I also have my Signature designation with Plein Air Artists Colorado and Pastel Society of Colorado. Moving from the mountains of Colorado to the hot, dry desert in Arizona, I found that plein air work helped tremendously in changing my palette and way of thinking. It was not an easy transition.
Heather’s website is www.painthewild.com.
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Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery announces their 14th Annual “Abstracts” Online Art Competition. 2D and 3D artists from around the world are called upon to make online submissions for possible inclusion into the Gallery’s April 2023 online group exhibition.
The gallery invites artists (including photography & digital art), regardless of where they reside, to apply to this competition by submitting their best non-objective and/or non-representational art.
The deadline to apply to this art competition is March 27, 2023.
Here is a link to the “Abstracts” 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 the next month (February 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 entries from all 2D & 3D artists regardless of where they reside and regardless of their experience or education in the art field. A group exhibition of the top ten finalists will be held online at the Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery during the month of March 2023. Awards will be for top 12 places.
| Art Competition Opens | January 6, 2023 | |
| Early Registration & Lower Fees End | February 01, 2023 | |
| Deadline for Receiving Entries | March 27, 2023 | |
| Results Emailed to Artists & Posted | April 01, 2023 | |
| Art Exhibition Opens | April 01, 2023 | |
| Online Art Exhibition Closes & Archived | April 30, 2023 |
Winning artists (12 Overall Category Artists) of the 14th Annual “Abstracts” 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 over 550+ 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 abstract art before the deadline.
Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery announces their 13th Annual “Figurative” Online Art Competition for the month of April 2023. 2D and 3D artists from around the world are called upon to make online submissions for possible inclusion into the Gallery’s May 2023 online group exhibition.
The gallery invites artists (including photography & digital art), regardless of where they reside, to apply to this competition by submitting their best abstract or representational art.
The “Figurative” theme is the artist’s interpretation and depiction of the human form and human features. “Figurative” subjects are considered to be figures, forms and faces. The gallery will accept art that is either representational or abstract, and although nude art is acceptable, please, do not submit any erotic art.
Artists should submit their representational and/or abstract best work in any media before the deadline of April 26, 2023.
Here is a link to the “Figurative” 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.
Lower entry fees are offered from the opening of the competition until the 1st day of next month (March 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 entries from all 2D & 3D artists regardless of where they reside and regardless of their experience or education in the art field. A group exhibition of the top ten finalists will be held online at the Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery during the month of May 2023. Awards will be for top 12 places.
| Art Competition Opens | January 28, 2023 | |
| Early Registration & Lower Fees End | March 01, 2023 | |
| Deadline for Receiving Entries | April 26, 2023 | |
| Results Emailed to Artists & Posted | May 01, 2023 | |
| Art Exhibition Opens | May 01, 2023 | |
| Online Art Exhibition Closes & Archived | May 31, 2023 |
Winning artists (12 Overall Category Artists) of the 13th Annual “Figurative” 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 over 550+ 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 figurative art before the deadline.
Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery announces its 24th “Solo Art Series” Online Art Competition. The gallery will judge the Top 12 artists who have the most complete “Body of Work” to show. From that group of 12 artists, the gallery will award 4 monthly Solo Art Exhibitions and the next 8 artists will be awarded and featured in the gallery’s Artist Showcase Section.
The first of the four Solo Art Exhibitions will begin on May 15, 2023, and each solo exhibition will run for approximately 30 days through September 14, 2023. The Artist Showcase features will also begin on May 15, 2023, with one of the 8 artists being shown on the 1st and 15th of each month. The Artist Showcase content will be the artist's Solo Art Series entry package posted on the website and promoted in the gallery’s social media networks.
The gallery invites online submission of 2D and 3D art (including photography and digital art) from artists around the world for possible selection as one of the Gallery’s 4 Solo Art Exhibitions or 8 Artist Showcase Features. The gallery is trying to identify and promote artists who have a complete “Body of Work” to show and it encourages artists, regardless of where they reside, to submit their best abstract and/or representational art.
There is No Theme for this “Solo Art Series” Competition so any subject matter and any media are acceptable for consideration.
This LST Solo Art Series offers emerging and professional artists the opportunity to showcase a full body of their artworks (from 10 to 25 images) in an individual month-long online solo art exhibition.
For guidance as to the type and quality of art that was featured in prior shows, view our prior shows at Solo Art Series Exhibition Archives. The Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery Website also contains several “How To” articles to assist artists with their entry preparation and entry materials (See Our Helpful Articles Below).
How to Write an Effective Artist’s Biography
How to Write the Perfect Artist’s Statement
Comparing an Artist’s CV with an Artist’s Biography
Do You Have a Body of Artwork to Show? – Part 1.
Do You Have a Body of Artwork to Show? – Part 2.
| Solo Art Series Competition Opens | February 26, 2023 | |
| Deadline for Receiving Entries | May 05, 2023 | |
| Results Emailed to Artists & Posted | May 12, 2023 | |
| First Solo Art Exhibition Opens | May 15, 2023 | |
| First Artist Showcase Feature Opens | May 15, 2023 |
The exhibitions and Top 4 winning artists will be marketed and promoted to an international audience extensively through the gallery's website, in hundreds of online press release announcements, email marketing campaigns to over 29,000+ subscribers, gallery directors, art collectors, art consultants and art professionals, in online event calendars, through art news websites including ARTFIXdaily, Artweek/Artjobs, Art Guide and Art.base.co and through our extensive and growing social media network. Those who subscribe to our newsletter bulletins include gallery owners, corporate art representatives, art collectors, and decision makers in the fine arts field.
The 8 Artist Showcase artists will be promoted through hundreds of online press release announcements, in the gallery newsletters and through our extensive and growing social media network.
By having their work on the LST website, winning artists should increase exposure to their work, enhance their professional resume and create a high-quality backlink to their own website.
There will also be a video of the winning artists' artworks on the Light Space & Time YouTube Channel. The gallery’s YouTube Channel has more than 195,000+ video views and thousands of shares. Winning artists also receive a digital Award Certificate, Event Postcard, and Press Release for their art portfolio.
The competitive process will encompass not only the quality and depth of the artist’s artwork but will also include an evaluation of the overall presentation of the artist’s biography and artist’s statement as included in the entry package. The requirement of a complete entry package creates an opportunity for the artist to craft and or to polish their current artist statement and artist biography.
Amateur or professional 2D and 3D artists (including photography) with or without prior group or solo art exhibition experience are encouraged to submit their entries to the Solo Art Series.
Artists may only be selected for a solo art exhibition once in a 12-month period. After 12 months, artists may again qualify for a solo art exhibition, but only with different body of work. Artists may qualify and be selected for an Artist Showcase more than once per year, but also only with a different body of work.
Any art that was previously entered and shown on the Light Space & Time website may also be entered for the Solo Art Series.
Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is extremely pleased to announce that Paula Prentice 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.
Paula is an award-winning, self-taught pencil portrait artist based in Brisbane, Australia. Paula 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.
Paula’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 Paula’s Artist Biography, Artist Statement and 5 images that were submitted to this competition.
Artist Biography
Paula Prentice is a self-taught pencil portrait artist based in Brisbane, Australia. She has been drawing almost daily since rediscovering her love of portraiture in 2018. Socially isolated by choice, Paula focuses mostly on self-portraits, exploring the effects of light and shadow in creating mood and narrative. Paula takes and edits her own photos to find the exact look, feel, and story she wants to portray in each drawing. The chiaroscuro quality she achieves evokes an emotional power and depth. Paula is strongly influenced by the work of graphite photorealistic artists such as Dirk Dzimirsky, Cath Riley, and Jessie Babin.
Believing that every portrait is a mirror, Paula's work goes beyond realistic likeness to an exploration of human nature. Her goal is for each drawing to represent an inner truth that is recognisable to the viewer, inviting connection and conversation.
Paula's work has been shown in many exhibitions online and in galleries around Brisbane. In 2020 she was awarded a Special Merit and a Special Recognition in Light Space& Time Online Art Gallery's online Spring/Summer "Created in Isolation" exhibition. In 2019 she received an Honourable Mention in Aspire Gallery's "Foot Square" competition in Brisbane. Her work has also been shown as a finalist at the Royal Queensland Art Society and Lethbridge Gallery in various exhibitions.
Artist Statement
Faces intrigue me. How do we "read" a face? How do we understand what a person is feeling when there are no words? What is the essence of an expression? Where does it lie? These are the questions that drive me to draw my own face over and over again, as if searching for some truth of identity or undefined inner state.
I believe that portraits are more than representations of character. I believe all portraits are mirrors. We look at a face and see ourselves somehow reflected there. That recognition creates a connection that goes beyond space and time.
For someone who is socially isolated by choice, creating this connection is the most powerful conversation I can have with the world, and the most truthful. It is an honesty that reveals and conceals, is both intimate and private, vulnerable and protected. My self-portraits are my way of communicating with the world and with myself. The process of creating them heals me. They also have the potential to heal my broken relationship with society and the world at large. For these reasons, my art is my therapy. I can see my growth and change. I am emerging, not just as an artist, but as a human being.
Online, Paula goes by the pseudonym of Paradoxis. Her work can be found on https://www.instagram.com/paradoxis50/ and https://paradoxisart.webador.com/.
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The gallery’s competition for January 2023 was the 12th Annual “All Women” Online Art Competition. Both 2D and 3D women artists, from around the world, were called upon to make online submissions for possible inclusion in to the Gallery’s February 2023 online group art exhibition.
This art competition had an open theme and was for women artists only. The submission process and competition for the artists began in November 2023 and concluded on January 27, 2023.
The gallery received 893 entries from 24 different countries from around the world, as well as from 36 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.
Congratulations to our artists who made our 12th Annual “All Women” 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.
Overall Top 12 Winning Artists & Artworks
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Please go to the results of the All Women Art Exhibition “Overall Winning Artists” Category to read about each of these artists.
Top 24 Painting & Other Media Winning Artists & Artworks
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To see all the Painting & Other Media artwork accepted into this exhibition, please visit the All Women Art Exhibition “Painting & Other Category” here.
Top 20 Photography & Digital Winning Artists & Artworks
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To see all the Photography & Digital artwork accepted into this exhibition, please visit the All Women Art Exhibition “Photography & Digital Category” here.
Top 16 3 Dimensional Winning Artists & Artworks
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