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ARTS NEWS: February 20, 2009
 Top Stories I Did Not Forget, I Will Not Forget: Contemporary Art from the Yucel Donmez
Nazim Hikmet Cultural Center, Istanbul, TR Turkey Debut Show Featuring 300+ Artists
Art:Raw Gallery, New York, NY USA United States of America When No One Was Looking: Ken Zeromski
Ico Gallery, New York, NY USA United States of America World Wide New Year Show: Works by 28 International Artists
Gallery Western, Los Angeles, CA USA United States of America Some Product: New Paintings by Liz Neal
Sartorial Contemporary Art, London, UK United Kingdom Call for Artists: 2009 Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts
TransCultural Exchange, Boston, MA USA United States of America | | I Did Not Forget, I Will Not Forget: Contemporary Art from the Yucel Donmez
Nazim Hikmet Cultural Center, Istanbul, TR Turkey The Tevfik Ihtiyar Art Gallery in Istanbul is pleased to host 'I Did Not Forget, I Will Not Forget: Contemporary Art from the Yucel Donmez' from February 17 through March 7, 2009. Again this is the largest exhibition of contemporary art from the Yucel Donmez since his 2005 Antik Art Gallery show. The exhibition includes his most important works from the 2006's to present. Featuring more than 45 objects in a range of media, the show includes painting, sculpture, installations and digital arts. Yucel Donmez has been a Premiere Portfolio artist at absolutearts.com since 2008. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com
| | | Debut Show Featuring 300+ Artists
Art:Raw Gallery, New York, NY USA United States of America Art Raw Gallery in New York is pleased to present for its inaugural exhibit the international works of over 300 emerging artists. The show will run from February 19 to March 21, 2009 with an opening reception Thursday, February 19, 6-9pm. Included in the exhibition is Mary Mansey who has been a Premiere Portfolio Member since 2007. Mansey comments, 'The Mediterranean Sea�with its streams of color, its light, its reflections�has fascinated me since I was a child. Water continues to be the main source of inspiration. Water is constantly changing and I seek to capture its many forms, before they disappear, in my photography. ' - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com
| | | When No One Was Looking: Ken Zeromski
Ico Gallery, New York, NY USA United States of America Ico Gallery is pleased to present 'When No One Was Looking', a solo exhibition of work from artist Ken Zeromski running from February 5 through February 28, 2009 in New York. The show features pieces utilizing iconic imagery of Post World War II American life but with a twist. Dark humor is abundant in his paintings, whether expressed through the image itself, visual cues, or even text. Ken Zeromski has been a Premiere Portfolio Artist at absolutearts.com since 2007. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com
| | | World Wide New Year Show: Works by 28 International Artists
Gallery Western, Los Angeles, CA USA United States of America GALLERY WESTERN presents 'WORLD WIDE NEW YEAR SHOW - International 28 Artists Exhibition' in the gallery in Los Angeles from February 19 through March 11, 2009. GALLERY WESTERN has invited the artists to introduce their diverse tendencies of art in the new year 2009. From the 28 artists, approximately 55 Works of Art will be exhibited. Among those is Edem Elesh who has been a Premiere Portfolio Member at absolutearts.com since 2003. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com
| | | Some Product: New Paintings by Liz Neal
Sartorial Contemporary Art, London, UK United Kingdom Sartorial Contemporary Art is pleased to announce Some Product, Liz Neal's first solo show with the Gallery, and her first solo show in England after three years of worldwide recognition. Some Product confides in us, through fragmentary imagery, the life journey of the artist from her native village in Wales to London, and the journey from the countryside to the city of a generation with no paradigms, those people born in the conjuncture of the 1970's and thrown into the fray of the 1980's without being prepared for the global society. People who grew up with the puritanical Sunday sermon and the weekday discovery of sexuality through pornographic magazines. Sartorial Contemporary Art promotes their artists with a Gallery Portfolio at absolutearts.com - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com
| | | Call for Artists: 2009 Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts
TransCultural Exchange, Boston, MA USA United States of America Looking to jump-start your career? In today�s world - in which ideas, products and information travel freely around the globe - artists need to find ways not only to understand and compete with their international peers, but also to become active participants in this increasingly interconnected and interdependent society. But how to do that? How to find the money, the time and place to go? TransCultural Exchange�s 2009 Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts, which will take place April 3-5 at the Boston Omni Parker House Hotel, can help. http://transculturalexchange.org/conference_2009/overview.htm - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com
| | | The All Saints Show
Barton Gallery, Sacramento, CA USA United States of America TZ Productions presents the All Saints Show at Barton Gallery in Sacramento, a group exhibition, which opened on February 13. The show remains on view through March 8, 2009. The artwork in this show, all by Sacramento artists, runs the gamete from traditional painting and mixed media to digital work and sculpture. Ann Tracy is exhibiting two new digital photo-collages in the show. Tracy has been a Premiere Portfolio Artist at absolutearts.com since 2000. She explains, My work explores identity issues, chance as an element in art and the Dada concept of collage, but on a digital level based on my photography, digital painting and found imagery. I consider digital collage as the alchemy of our day. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com
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Art Store Pencil Index
Jeffrey Andreoni
 I am convinced that the Modigliani exhibit at the Vittoriano Gallery in Rome was curated with one thing in mind: pencils. The only way a stodgy museum gift shop could ever get more than 1 Euro for a pencil is by hosting a name brand artist's exhibition. At the Modigliani exhibit, they were asking 5 euros for one such item. The man was a tubercular caricaturist who did a great Cycladic Idol impersonation. Sure, he did paint a few interesting portraits, but the majority of the wallspace was submerged in wine stained sketches. Recipients of the sketches, which were scribbled in exchange for said wine, probably thought nothing of the indistinct little scraps of barroom genius. Decades later however, the would-be collectors soberly went back to their closets and dug out the sketches when it was established that they were drawn by a bona-fide genius. I paid 7 euros, with a student discount, to see the exhibit. That means I paid close to 1 Euro per square meter of art - prime beachfront property in Vietnam costs about the same. How do they arrive at such sums? Is there an admission to art ratio I am unaware of? The Louvre costs twenty and is not nearly as scant.
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