Monday, January 11, 2010

"Open Water #24" winner of the $250,000 top prize in the first "ArtPrize" competition.

A formidable composition of some serious wave chop by Art Prize winner, Ran Ortner. After winning the prize, the painting was purchased by a private collector for $100,000.

From MLive.com:

The group show with five other artists, curated by Nick Cindric, was titled, "He Believes in a Beauty" and was held in the Miami Design District.

"Nick was interested in expressions of beauty, and what I brought down was a rather big, heavy, dark, ominous painting," Ortner said. "One of the more ferocious paintings I ever did.

"I got to be the tough-guy beauty."

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