Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is proud to announce that George Salter has been selected as one of four winners in Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery's 33rd "Solo Art Series" Art Competition. George’s month-long solo art exhibition will be featured on the gallery’s website, YouTube channel, and in the “Solo Art Series” Archive.
George’s is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning photographer based in Rhode Island, USA. The gallery will now promote him with an extensive online public relations campaign.
Promotion of George’s solo exhibition will include the distribution of press releases to hundreds of major news outlets. The Gallery will leverage Light Space & Time’s extensive social media network to promote George and his art.
George's work will also be showcased on the gallery's YouTube channel, and promoted via an event postcard, award ribbon, and certificate.
The “Solo Art Series” highlights the work of established artists, who have a body of work to showcase, through a series of online monthly solo exhibitions. 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. A careful evaluation of the submissions led to the selection of four artists for month-long solo shows, ensuring a diverse range of artistic styles and approaches would be featured.
Presented below are George's artist biography and statement, together with 25 of his Omo Valley Collection photographs. All of the subjects are all members of the Suri Tribe. We encourage you to peruse his information and admire his art.
Over the past 45 years, George Salter's photography has added new layers to a lifelong fascination with beauty in unexpected places. Early in his career, light and shadow became a central preoccupation, with beauty revealing itself in the geometry and colors of architecture and marine vessels. Drawn to the lines, angles, and textures of architectural features, Salter transformed these details into subjects in their own right, elevating them beyond their role as fragments of a larger structure. This sensibility culminated in his first solo show, Architectural Abstracts, at the EG Photo Gallery in 1992.
Alongside this architectural work, Salter cultivated a parallel love for street photography, an art form long defined by capturing candid moments from a careful, unnoticed distance. That approach shifted fundamentally in 2024, during a trip to Bhutan, where photographing people without their permission is socially unacceptable. There, he began moving physically closer to his subjects — asking permission, building trust, and working collaboratively rather than covertly. As international photographer GMB Akash has observed, "getting close is hard. It asks for courage. It asks for connection. It asks for heart." In that closeness, Salter discovered something new: genuine personal connections with people willing to be vulnerable, to reveal something intimate, to share a fleeting moment of mutual understanding.
This shift redefined his practice. Salter's photographs now dwell in distinctly human territory — where eyes begin to speak and unwritten histories come to life. No longer simply a street photographer, he has become a street portrait photographer, traveling the globe in search of willing collaborators for thoughtful, considered portraits. This pursuit has led him to Cuba, Bolivia, the Philippines, Kenya, South Africa, Egypt, Russia, India, Bhutan, and Ethiopia, with travels to Indonesia and Papua New Guinea planned for 2026.
My street portraits are intended to be a celebration of different ethnicities around the world, sharing a glimpse into the way people relate to their surroundings through unique customs, foods, dress, music and art. Many ethnic groups are losing their unique identities, and I believe it is important to tell their stories now.
Faces tell stories. Meaningful portraits are collaborations between a subject and a photographer, with each contributing something essential. I photograph people who live in challenging places, where struggle is a fact of life, where joys and hardships are etched into each face. Eyes that reflect resilience are what I am trying to capture.
As a street portrait photographer, my attention is drawn to the individual. My approach is slow. I must break down barriers, alleviating fear and mistrust. I make eye contact, smile, and let the interaction develop naturally. I want to get to a moment of connection, of understanding, often without spoken language.
A portrait is successful when the precise moment of connection is captured in such a way that the viewer, too, can experience that moment.
To see more of George’s work, visit his website.
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Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is proud to announce that Yanrong Zhou has been selected as one of four winners in Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery's 32nd "Solo Art Series" Art Competition. Emma’s month-long solo art exhibition will be featured on the gallery’s website, YouTube channel, and in the “Solo Art Series” Archive.
Yanrong Zhou is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning artist based in China. The gallery will now promote her with an extensive online public relations campaign.
Promotion of Yanrong Zhou’s solo exhibition will include the distribution of press releases to hundreds of major news outlets. The Gallery will leverage Light Space & Time’s extensive social media network to promote Yanrong Zhou and her art.
Yanrong Zhou's work will also be showcased on the gallery's YouTube channel, and promoted via an event postcard, award ribbon, and certificate.
The “Solo Art Series” highlights the work of established artists, who have a body of work to showcase, through a series of online monthly solo exhibitions. 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. A careful evaluation of the submissions led to the selection of four artists for month-long solo shows, ensuring a diverse range of artistic styles and approaches would be featured.
Presented below are Yanrong Zhou's artist biography and statement, together with 10 of her acrylic paintings. We encourage you to peruse her information and admire her art.
Over the course of her career, Yanrong Zhou has built a distinguished record of recognition in pastel painting across both national and international exhibitions. Her work first gained attention in 2018, when Looking Up received a Nomination Award and Pulling Weeds earned an Excellence Award at the National Pastel Art Exhibitions held by Suzhou Ming Art Museum. This momentum continued into 2019, when White was selected for the prestigious 47th Annual Exhibition of the Pastel Society of America, and Sublimation claimed another Excellence Award in Suzhou. Her 2022 pastel Sea went on to win Second Prize at the Shanghai Pastel Painting Summer Online Exhibition, further cementing her standing in the Chinese pastel art community.
In the years since, Zhou's work has been consistently recognized at the national level. Not Being the Boss for Years was selected into the 4th National Pastel Exhibition of China in 2023, and Master Wu was featured in the 5th "Xu Beihong Spirit" Chinese Painting and Oil Painting Exhibition in early 2024. More recently, Waiting received an Excellence Award at the 2024 New Year Online Exhibition of 89 Art Community, while Nobody Cares earned a place in multiple 2025 pastel exhibitions. Rounding out her international reach, Looking Up was awarded an Honorary Nomination at the 2025 American Portrait Art Competition and was selected into a female painters invitational exhibition the same year.
I use my brush like a hoe and have worked on my three-foot canvas for over thirty years. I believe true art is not far away but in every breath, and my brush is an honest witness that only paints what I see with my eyes and hold in my heart. What the paint builds up is not perfect technique, but the rough and warm texture of life itself. In an era swept by fast-paced culture, I choose to stick to slowness, letting my colors stay bright and unfading, and I only do one thing: use my brush to fight against forgetting. I think the value of art lies not in depicting grand spectacles, but in finding eternal beauty in the small, ordinary parts of life. Every stroke of color is a quiet whisper between me and the world, and every work is a snapshot of time like amber. In this age of hurry, I am willing to be a slow craftsman, observing the world in a simple way and spending the rest of my life in this sincere dialogue with beauty. My creed is not in words, but in every unfinished painting and the morning light that will rise again tomorrow.
To see more of Emma’s work, she can be reached via Email.
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The gallery’s exhibition for March 2026 is the 16th Annual “Figurative” Online Art Exhibition. Both 2D and 3D artists, from around the world, were asked to submit their best abstract and/or representational art.
The gallery received 455 entries from 24 different countries around the world, as well as from 27 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 March 2022, please visit our LST Archives website.
Congratulations to our artists who made our 16th 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 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 5 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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Painting & Other Media Special Recognition Artists
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Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is very pleased to announce that Paola Magini has been selected as one of the four winning artists of the gallery’s recent 31st “Solo Art Series” Art Competition. Paola 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.
Paola Magini is an internationally acclaimed award-winning artist based in Italy. 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. The Gallery will also provide social media distribution through LST’s broad social media network.
Paola’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, resulting in the selection of the artists who will be featured in individual month-long solo art exhibitions.
Below are Paola’s Artist Biography and her Artist Statement, along with 12 of her paintings. We hope that you will take the time to read her information and to take a look at her mixed media artwork.
Paola Magini was born in Siena and dedicated herself to drawing and painting since she was a child, but she received her first artistic training at the Duccio di Buoninsegna Art Institute in Siena.
After a year at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, she learned the technique of fresco and mural paintings with the painter Paolo Graziani, who led her to create numerous private and public works throughout the country, practicing painting at a professional level, participating in exhibitions and winning competitions for the creation of public artworks.
A list of all her exhibitions and public works can be found on her website.
The general style of the works is influenced by various geographical and historical cultural elements, but more accentuated by the decorative elements of Islamic culture, sometimes mixed with graphic elements belonging to the present period and others from Renaissance and Flemish art. The works are formally figurative and realistic, with a dreamlike atmosphere and ‘suspended’ in time.
Some symbolic elements are frequently present in the paintings that refer to the underlying spiritual message. Among these are doors, water or fountains (symbols often present in the Scriptures) as well as other elements typical of the artist’s personal iconography. The people depicted are a synthesis of future and past humanity, dressed in vintage clothes and hairstyles, but full of tattoos and with hair often as colorful as humanity of the present time.
“The purpose of my work, in addition to satisfying the creative need that I have felt since I was a child, consists in wanting to push people to make an in-depth reflection on the importance of spirituality in their lives, as a healthier approach to oppose the rampant materialism in today’s society.
A society that pushes people to the most unbridled individualism and consumerism, a lifestyle that clearly damages people’s mental health. Through the teaching of the Scriptures and a serious meditation on society and its behaviors, one can achieve a new awareness and hope for the future.”
Technically, the paintings are generally made on wood with a mixed technique of oil and acrylic colors, together with gold leaf
To see more of Paola Magini’s work, visit her website.
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Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is proud to announce that Emma Song Yunci has been selected as one of four winners in Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery's 30th "Solo Art Series" Art Competition. Emma’s month-long solo art exhibition will be featured on the gallery’s website, YouTube channel, and in the “Solo Art Series” Archive.
Emma is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning artist based in China. The gallery will now promote her with an extensive online public relations campaign.
Promotion of Emma’s solo exhibition will include the distribution of press releases to hundreds of major news outlets. The Gallery will leverage Light Space & Time’s extensive social media network to promote Emma and her art.
Emma's work will also be showcased on the gallery's YouTube channel, and promoted via an event postcard, award ribbon, and certificate.
The “Solo Art Series” highlights the work of established artists, who have a body of work to showcase, through a series of online monthly solo exhibitions. 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. A careful evaluation of the submissions led to the selection of four artists for month-long solo shows, ensuring a diverse range of artistic styles and approaches would be featured.
Presented below are Emma's artist biography and statement, together with 10 of her acrylic paintings. We encourage you to peruse her information and admire her art.
Emma Song Yunci, born in 1996, emerges as a rising star in the world of freelance art. Her artistic odyssey is a captivating exploration of femininity, rendered exquisitely through the medium of acrylic portraiture.
With a discerning eye, Emma Song Yunci captures the ephemeral, lazy moments of women's daily lives, imbuing them with a soft, dreamlike color palette. These seemingly ordinary instants are transformed into profound expressions of emotional depth, as she delves into the intricate nuances of her subjects' demeanors. Through her art, she masterfully weaves together the threads of natural visual allure and the indomitable inner vitality of women, creating a visual narrative that resonates deeply.
From 2014 to 2018, Emma Song Yunci embarked on an academic adventure at the China University of Geosciences in Wuhan. There, she immersed herself in the study of Jewelry Design, earning a Bachelor's degree. This educational journey not only honed her creative sensibilities but also instilled in her a unique perspective on form, color, and material, which would later inform her artistic practice.
As a freelance artist, my work is deeply rooted in my personal understanding and belief in the transformative power of art. This collection seeks to capture the inherent power and tranquility of life, reflecting the gentle beauty of women as they nurture life, alongside their resilient energy in navigating its highs and lows. My creative philosophy is inspired by the ebbs and flows of existence—life, much like an ocean, is a journey of ups and downs, where we often confront solitude and challenges.
In my artistic process, I employ soft colors to evoke the tenderness of women, often portraying serene, everyday moments that highlight their natural beauty. Simultaneously, I strive to capture the profound vitality in their expressions, revealing the dynamic essence of life itself. My canvas becomes a medium to infuse visual vitality, softness, and a sense of peaceful stillness—a much - needed balm in a complex and turbulent world. I believe people crave beauty, and this world, in turn, yearns for the healing that beauty can bring.
My art is a journey of redemption, both for myself and for others. Through the slow, deliberate flow of my brushstrokes, I traverse time and space, drawing strength from the act of creation. In this intricate world, I find solace in the beautiful moments I depict. Looking ahead, I envision my future works embracing the lost and downtrodden—those who feel broken or overlooked. I aim to paint their stories, to dust off their weary souls, and to offer them a path forward through the restorative power of art.
To see more of Emma’s work, she can be reached via Email.
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Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is very pleased to announce that Jay Johansen has been selected as one of the four winning artists of the gallery’s recent 30th “Solo Art Series” Art Competition. Jay 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.
Jay Johansen is an internationally acclaimed award-winning artist based in Rancho Santa Fe, California, 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 hundreds of major news outlets. The Gallery will also provide social media distribution through LST’s broad social media network.
Jay’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, resulting in the selection of the artists who will be featured in individual month-long solo art exhibitions.
Below are Jay’s Artist Biography and his Artist Statement, along with 25 of his paintings. We hope that you will take the time to read his information and to take a look at his work.
Jay Johansen draws inspiration from the complexities of human expression, cultural icons, and the shifting moods of nature. Influences from classical portraiture blend with contemporary elements, creating a style that bridges tradition and modernity. His fascination with influential figures, such as Nelson Mandela and John Lennon, reflects his belief in art’s power to capture legacy and emotion. Additionally, the serenity and vastness of the ocean inspire many of his newer works, infusing them with movement and tranquility. Through vibrant color, textured layers, and meaningful subjects, Johansen’s art celebrates the beauty of individuality and the ever-evolving connection between people and their environment.
My art explores identity, emotion, and legacy. Through portraits and oceanic scenes, I capture not just likeness but essence, using bold palettes and textures to evoke nostalgia, intrigue, and reflection inviting viewers to connect with deeper stories.
To see more of Jay Johansen’s work, visit his website.
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The gallery’s exhibition for March 2025 is the 15th Annual “Figurative” Online Art Exhibition. Both 2D and 3D artists, from around the world, were asked to submit their best abstract and/or representational art.
The gallery received 495 entries from 14 different countries 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 will remain online in the Light Space & Time Archives. To see exhibitions prior to March 2022, please visit our LST Archives website.
Congratulations to our artists who made our 15th 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 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 3 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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Painting & Other Media Special Recognition Artists
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Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is extremely pleased to announce that Wanning Liao 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.
Originally from China, Wanning Liao is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning artist based in Ontario, Canada. She was selected as 1 of the top twelve finalists in the gallery’s 29th Solo Art Exhibition Series. The placement in this competition qualified her artwork to be showcased in this feature.
Her Artist Showcase feature will be promoted to hundreds of major news outlets. 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 Wanning Liao’s Artist Biography, Artist Statement and 5 of her watercolor and oil paintings that were submitted to this competition.
Wanning Liao received his MFA in Oil Painting from China's Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts. Liao, a Chinese artist living in Canada, launched her career in 2008 with a successful solo exhibition in Hong Kong, gaining significant recognition in the art world.
With memberships in the Portrait Society of America and the Canada Artists Association, she's achieved international exhibition success and critical acclaim for her art, which frequently explores themes of memory, fragility, and relationship dynamics.
Her artistic accomplishments include winning silver at the 2023 and 2024 INNOART PRIZE International Art Competitions, and three American Art Awards in 2024. Prestigious global venues and publications have exhibited Liao's art, which includes a series featuring old objects and portraits of notable figures like singer Dou Wei.
Two themes I'm currently working on have become interesting.
One is about the creation of old (antique) materials. The reason is that I found several old Chinese paintings from the last century that my grandfather left me when I was a child. Some old German cameras and other objects inspired my interest in antiques collections, and in gradually coming into contact with these old objects, I discovered that different materials emitted different glows and a rich sense of history over the years. My knowledge and my aesthetics have expanded completely differently. Their beauty and charm are far from the existence of modern crafts and art.
Second, it is about two sexual relationship and parent child relationship. Sex relations are eternal human subjects, and everybody can't escape them. Focusing on children's inner and emotional development has become my latest experience and focus. The environment in which children live and their personal fate are closely related to the ecosphere in which they live.
I began to focus on children displaced after the war, on children out of school, on abandoned children, on children whose social problems prevented them from growing up properly. The sad fate of the unfortunate children in the social media is like a sad song that makes me sad, anxious and scared.
To learn more about Wanning Liao and to see more of his art, please visit her website.
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Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is extremely pleased to announce that Mehrnosh Kaecker 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.
Mehrnosh is an award-winning artist based in Germany. She was selected as 1 of the top twelve finalists in the gallery’s 28th Solo Art Exhibition Series. The placement in this competition qualified her art to be showcased in this feature.
Mehrnosh’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 Mehrnosh’s Artist Biography, Artist Statement and 5 artworks that were submitted to this competition.
Mehrnosh Kaecker graduated in 2001 with a communication design degree in Hamburg, Germany. In the following years she has deepened her artistic skills by participating in numerous workshops and seminars of renowned artists. As a communication designer, Mehrnosh Kaecker is committed to portrait and figurative painting and drawing. Her art has been exhibited in exhibitions in New York, Paris Carousel de Louvre, Moscow State Museum, Richmond Virginia, Royal Society Mall Gallery in London, Belgium, Meam Museum in Barcelona, Haegeumgang Theme Museum in Korea, Germany and among others. She has also received national and international awards.
I love to paint and draw realistic portraits. I try to capture the essence of those I paint with their own unique voice. More than simply just replicating my subjects I passionately try to understand them so as to present my artwork powerfully and vividly and expressively. Ultimately there is a truth and timelessness. My chosen subjects are distilled in an exact moment and I patiently reflect on their presence. I share this appreciation of timelessness through painting and see life as it is in artistic representation.
To learn more about Mehrnosh and to see more of her art, please visit her website.
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Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is very pleased to announce that Maureen Scullin has been selected as one of the four winning artists of the gallery’s recent 27th “Solo Art Series” Art Competition. Maureen 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.
Maureen is an international award-winning artist based in Raleigh, North Carolina, 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.
Maureen’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 are featured in individual month-long solo art exhibitions.
Below are Maureen’s Artist Biography, her Artist Statement, along with 24 of her oil paintings. We hope that you will take the time to read Maureen’s information and to take a look at his art.
Maureen grew up in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan. She inherited her artistic abilities from her father, Dick Scullin, who was a well-known commercial artist and who worked for various advertising agencies in Detroit from the early 1960s until 2000. When Maureen was young, she began her artistic education by spending countless hours learning from her father.
After many years of studying with her dad, Maureen moved out on her own and studied at The Parsons School of Design, NYC. Before Maureen even finished college, she was accepting illustration jobs from book publishers, advertising agencies and corporate clients. She had a successful career as an illustrator for many years.
After having a family she moved to Asheville, North Carolina where she enjoyed watching her girls grow up and where her family enjoyed the beautiful mountain scenery.
Today, Maureen is a full-time artist in the Raleigh, NC area. She concentrates on creating commissioned portraits, fine art landscapes, still life paintings, and figurative artwork. “I love painting almost every day and I enjoy learning new skills and methods to apply to my artwork,” Maureen says. “There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t want to be in my studio. It’s where I feel most at home.
My art journey began in Detroit with my father’s influence. He was a commercial artist who spent countless hours teaching me about art. I moved to the NYC area and I attended Parson’s School of Art. I then became an illustrator creating book covers, magazine illustrations, as well as art for Ad agencies. Later, I turned my focus to pursuing fine art. I continually try to improve my skills by attending artist workshops and studying the great masters. There is no “safe point” for me when I feel I know all and feel comfortable and confident in my work. There’s always more to learn. It’s a bit of an anxiety ride, but worth the journey. If I can step back, look at one of my paintings and feel that I might be getting somewhere…it’s worth the ride!
To see more of Maureen’s work, please visit her website.
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The gallery’s exhibition for March 2024 is the 14th Annual “Figurative” Online Art Exhibition. Both 2D and 3D artists, from around the world, were asked to submit their best abstract and/or representational art.
The gallery received 568 entries from 20 different countries around the world, as well as from 27 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 March 2022, please visit our LST Archives website.
Congratulations to our artists who made our 14th 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 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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Painting & Other Media Special Recognition Artists
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The gallery’s exhibition for November 2023 is the 13th Annual “Open” Online Art Exhibition. Both 2D and 3D, artists, from around the world, were asked for their interpretation of the “Open” theme by submitting their best abstract and/or representational art.
The gallery received 683 entries from 23 different countries from around the world, as well as from 32 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 “Open” 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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Painting & Other Media Special Recognition Artists
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Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is very pleased to present Xiong Yanteng, who has been selected as one of the four winning artists of the gallery’s recent 25th “Solo Art Series” Art Competition. Xiong Yanteng 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.
Xiong Yanteng is an internationally acclaimed award-winning artist based in San Francisco, California, 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 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. Xiong Yanteng’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 and resulted in the selection of the artists who will be featured in individual month-long solo art exhibitions. This was the 25th “Solo Art Series” Art Competition that the gallery has conducted.
Below is Xiong Yanteng’s Artist Biography and his Artist Statement, along with 16 of his artworks. We hope that you will take the time to read Xiong Yanteng’s information and to take a look at his artwork.
Xiong Yanteng is a member of the American Artists Professional Alliance and a member of Portrait Society of America. His hyperrealistic award-winning pieces have garnered recognition and coverage in various media outlets in both the United States and China. His works have been selected for multiple online and physical exhibitions, including the American National Exhibition and a showcase at Superfine Los Angeles. His art continues to captivate audiences worldwide, transcending cultural boundaries and inspiring all who come across it.
I am Xiong Yanteng, a young artist who began my journey in the world of painting at the age of 5. I hold a degree from the Oil Painting Department at the Academy of Fine Arts, Minzu University of China. My passion has always revolved around Western classical oil paintings, and in 2015, I took a significant step in my artistic journey by pursuing further studies in the United States.
My artistic style is characterized by an unwavering attention to detail. I have a knack for creating intricate, true-to-life portraits, painstakingly rendering even the finest of details, such as individual hairs and eyebrows. My work goes beyond mere photography, aiming to achieve a level of realism often associated with the classical Western oil painting tradition.
To see more of Xiong Yanteng’s work, he can be reached via his Email.
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The gallery’s exhibition for October 2023 is the 7th Annual “Patterns, Textures & Forms” Online Art Exhibition. Both 2D and 3D, artists, from around the world, were asked for their interpretation of the “Patterns, Textures & Forms” theme by submitting their best abstract and/or representational art.
The gallery received 448 entries from 20 different countries from around the world, as well as from 31 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 7th Annual “Patterns, Textures & Forms” 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 Photography & Digital Artists
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Top 8 3 Dimensional Artists
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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 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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