Art Buzz, The 2009 Collection, is now accepting entries for inclusion into the premier visual arts showcase, hardcover publication. The competition is open to visual artists, worldwide, who work in any visual art media (must be 18 or older). Art Buzz, the book, is a full color, square format, hardcover “coffee table” type publication that is scheduled for release in late January 2009, with a vigorous distribution and marketing plan. The pages of Art Buzz, The 2009 Collection, are open to all high quality, emerging visual artists including new artists that have yet to venture out for public scrutiny. Art Buzz, founder, artist Tony Blue, knows how important EXPOSURE is and all serious visual artists are encouraged to enter the competition to be included and exposed in this volume, Art Buzz, The 2009 Collection. The Art Buzz selection process is fair, unbiased and based solely on each individual artist’s submitted work. The deadline for entries is September 30, 2008 (early entries discounted). For more information regarding the competition, awards, fee and entry forms, log on to http://www.artbuzz.org/book.html.

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I’m a contemporary abstract painter based in Grantham, Lincolnshire.

Website: Joanne Prince Art
Contact email: jo@joanneprince.co.uk

A stalagmitic, upward-growing liquid creature attempts � sopping � to free itself from the shackles of gravity: A great struggle indeed that strains and ultimately succeeds in forcing the nape of this gelatinously supple humanoid into a horizontal position. Yet tautologically, it depends on the Earth’s attractive force to get into shape, to further continue its tragicomic growth flow and to excrete its pore deep by-products. In psychogrammatic terms, we are not only shown the liberation of the suppressed, but experience the metallic ossification of a dark force defying instrumenttalism, yet fuelling the convulsions of expression. It is something else which urges us to establish contact, yet what?

The cubature of a simple, insulated wooden box condenses into a psychological riddle as to the meaning of open-mindedness and denseness. The box � variously reminiscent of a refrigerator, coffin, laboratory cabinet, toolbox or architectural model � lies as if marooned, on the floor, its six door flaps wide open. Emanating a positive albeit mysterious presence, the cube has landed underfoot like a visitation from another planet, bringing new air and a different light. In this state of hyperventilation, the capsule forfeits its function as a once-useful box, yet paradoxically attains the status of a receptacle for aesthetic subject matters.

The mirror as the very instrument of self-reflection and, if one is fortunate enough, of self-realization, appears in G�gel’s work as an ecstatically crafted vase job. In its shape visibly utilitarian as a mock neoclassicist vessel (perhaps useful as a flowerpot, a champagne bucket, a font, a tennis ball receptacle or a paint brush holder), the object generates optical pandemonium however, as if causing disco and junk recuperated from the Romans by military commander Hannibal to short circuit. In any case, this self-devouring, glass-eating Vorticist vase-flower would garnish perfectly the terrazzo terrace of any German who has been to Italy (’Noodles Make Him Happy’) and who fancies the good life, perhaps even likes to paint. It seems to embody the psycho-ornamental symbiosis of two cultures competing between North and South. Yet naturally, it can offer no more than fragmentary particulars of this mystic union � and of the way we look when we think we’ve got it.

Oliver Kossack, 2008

Sebastian G�gel, born in Sonneberg/Thuringia, Germany, 1978, lives and works in Leipzig. Studied Painting/Graphic Arts, Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, 1997-2002. Master student with Prof. Sighard Gille, 2002-2005. Since 2005: HAGEL - artistic collaboration with Paule Hammer. Current exhibitions: ‘Past-Forward’, Zabludowicz Collection / 176, London; solo exhibition at the GEM, Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hague, The Netherlands (July 12 - Oct. 5, 2008).

Website: Galerie Emmanuel Post, Leipzig
Contact email: info@galerie-post.de

Started painting/ sketching from 1990. But didn’t get much inspiration in field of Arts. As a science student I ‘ve been more influenced by Science…But art have been always close to my heart.
I did Bachelor Of Tech in Electronic & Telecomm in 2005. Studied Wireless & Mobile Computing, Mobile technologies, PSTN networks, Programming languages like Java, J2ME, Linux-scripting & lot of technical stuff…
Enjoyed life a lot..

Website: Exploring mother nature
Contact email: mrtipale@gmail.com

Asarim has studied art and music in Spain and loves to paint and sing.

Website: Asarim
Contact email: eev@pacbell.net