A delayed but deserved well done! to Simmie Knox, a Washington area artist who was chosen to deliver the official Clinton portrait.
Interesting to note that none of the area newspapers art critics has written anything about Knox, although regular staff writers have written several pieces and even the mighty New York Times.
Yet our area's otherwise vociferous art critics remain silent... perhaps because Knox is an area artist? I wonder if the portrait artist was from New York, or LA?
Congrats Simmie - well deserved!
Sunday, June 20, 2004
Saturday, June 19, 2004
Following a record number of entries, four artists have been short-listed for the BP Portrait Award 2004, one of Britain's most prestigious and lucrative art prizes.
As discussed here, our own National Portrait Gallery, once it re-opens, will begin its own American Portrait Prize award on a yearly basis.
A couple of years ago, Zygimantas Augustinas, a terrific European painter that we've represented since 1997, won the Second Prize at the BP Portrait Award, and his career skyrocketed in Europe. Hopefully an American Portrait Prize award will have similar impact on the American artist who wins it.
Friday, June 18, 2004
Louis Jacobson reviews the Contemporary Photography show at Fraser Bethesda in this week's City Paper and Bidisha Banerjee reviews Leo Villareal at Conner Contemporary Art.
Tyler Green with some excellent points on the center of the art world and lack thereof...
Kristen Hileman, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden's Assistant Curator for Contemporary Art has just finished jurying the 2004 Georgetown International Art Competition and has selected these artists to exhibit in the show.
Eight of the 21 artists selected are from the area. The rest are from various other states and Europe.
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