Ilias Arahovitis Gallery

Giannis Apostologiannis Gallery

November 1^st – 3^rd, 2011

New York, NY

www.nycfotoworks.com

Photographers & Illustrators: NYCFotoWorks is hosting an exclusively professional portfolio review, bringing an impressive list of reviewers together, including art buyers, creative directors, editors, agents, galleries and design firms to meet 1-on-1 with artists.  Over the last four years, NYCFotoWorks has become a premiere source for professional artists to make personal connections with other creative professionals in the business.  As the NYCFotoWorks Portfolio Reviews have gained traction and proved to be an asset for artists, photographers and illustrators from around the world have started making their way to New York to take advantage of meeting with so many creative professionals over three days.

Smart Artist Andre Miripolsky is being featured as a "Downtown Legend" as a part of Art Share Los Angeles gallery events, honoring five outstanding downtown artists!  Come and catch the last event on August 4: the Downtown Legends Closing Reception and Benefit Auction in LA, where you can meet Andre and view and bid on his work.  

Smart.MAGNA artist Andre Miripolsky's large commissioned public murals will soon be seen not only in Los Angeles, but also in Monterey, California.

In conjunction with the revolutionary redevelopment of Downtown Los Angeles, Andre Miripolsky was commissioned in 2005 by the Central City Association of L.A. to create a large 3-D wall sculpture depicting his vision of the exploding Downtown L.A. skyline.  In 2006 he introduced this image coupled with his phrase “Viva L.A.” which has blossomed to much acclaim and is very well on its way as part of the branding of the renaissance of Downtown Los Angeles.  This renaissance is expected to continue through the next decade.

NYCFotoWorks is quickly becoming the premiere professional networking source for professional and emerging visual artists.  This innovative company helps artists gain the exposure needed to maintain or launch a successful career.  Through Portfolio Reviews and Juried Shows, NYCFotoWorks brings the work of talented photographers and illustrators to the attention of editors, creative directors, art buyers, photo agents and galleries.  This year, Smart Magna will be participating as reviewers in the NYCFotoworks June Portfolio Review.

 

 “This is where professional connections for visual artists happen.”

 

Alex Nowak is the latest artist to join the Smart.MAGNA team. We asked him to talk to us about his life, his style and his thoughts on illustraion:

"My main purpose is to make my living from illustration and design, to learn more with every stroke I draw and to push forward into new fantastic worlds.

Seventy years ago, on 28th March 28th, Adelina Virginia Woolf (née Stephen) put on her coat, filled its pockets with stones, and walked into the River Ouse near her home and drowned. Virginia, who suffered from many years of depression, is considered as one of the most important literary figures of modernism. Her works include, among many others,  Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), Orlando (1928), A Room of One’s Own (1929) and The Waves (1931)

Charles Edmund Brock was an English artist and illustrator, who signed his work C. E. Brock. He illustrated several books, among them some of Jane Austen's novels. The four illustrations that follow are for Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

Kurt van der Basch is the latest artist to join the Smart.MAGNA team. He talked to us about his life, his work and his dreams: "I have always want to be a better storyboard artist, which means always being faster and more concise with a greater ability to visualise cinematic shots and sequences faster and more clearly. This I think comes with self confidence which comes with experience...."