Art News: Barebrush CEO -- “It’s OKAY to enjoy the art of the nude”

New York, NY -- May 31, 2007 -- Barebrush.com announces the publication of its tenth monthly calendar, June N*des-of-the-Month, curated by Kim Foster of Kim Foster Gallery in NYC. The June calendar, 30 artworks (one for each day of the month) by 26 artists was selected from 333 entries submitted by 63 artists world wide. The virtual show includes painting, sculpture, photography, mixed media and drawing. N*des-of-the-Month June 2007 is in previews for members only and viewable by the public beginning June 1, 2007 at www.barebrush.com.

Barebrush, the video, can be seen at the website and also at the popular video site, youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4_cNpkBi6I). CEO Ilene Skeen says, “With the use of video, it’s as if I can tell everyone personally, it’s not pornography, it’s the nude: it’s OKAY to enjoy the art of the nude.”

About Kim Foster and Kim Foster Gallery

Since Kim Foster opened her gallery in 1994 in Soho, she has been known for an adventurous independent vision. She was among the first to migrate to the Chelsea art district where her gallery has occupied the ground floor space in the 529 West 20th Arts Building since 1998.

The gallery has a reputation for exhibiting thoughtful works that are intellectually challenging while maintaining a raw visual appeal. Although there is a great variety in the work of Kim Foster Gallery's artists, there also is a haunting elegance to her exhibitions that exemplifies the gallery's aesthetic. That elegance permeates Foster's affinity for obsessive and eccentric sculpture built from an assemblage of often minutely constructed parts, and requiring massive hand labor.

Kim Foster's vision is focused on enabling her artists to explore and evolve in their extraordinarily different ways, but with remarkable coherence within the gallery's aesthetic.

About the Artists and the Show:

True to character, Kim chose Kasper Holten's stoneware, china and string sculpture, Adventures, to launch the June 2007 calendar. "It's a calendar," she said, "have fun with it."

Kim chose Antonio Petracca's giclee print, Sleep with the Fishes, (June 2nd) from his show, Pompeii Overlay Tagged, as her jury of selection.

June N*des-of-the-Month artists (with day of the month): Oudi Arroni (13), Sebastien Aurillon (18), Stephan Beyst (23), Lia Chechelashvili (29), Roger Cummiskey (14), Dulcie Dee (30), James Dinverno (20, 21), Octavian Florescu (25), Esther Pacht Goldstein (22), Kasper Holten (1), John Woodrow Kelley (19), Nina Kuriloff (27), Tony Lee (26), Jean Marcellino (9), Dan McCormack (8), Jacqui Morgan (7), Hector Olvera (17), Antonio Petracca (2), Peter Ramon (15, 16), Joost Reemus (4), Emily Rich (5, 6), Pedro Ramon Rodriguez (28), Chanit Roston (10), William Stephen Rothstein (11, 12), Ilene Skeen (24), Randy Thurman (3).

About barebrush.com

barebrush.com is an international marketplace dedicated exclusively to the art of the nude. Membership on the site is free, and listing art on the site for 30 days is also free. The N*des-of-the-Month is a virtual juried exhibition of the art selected from the “Art Log” by a different guest art professional each month. The exhibition is presented on the web in a unique calendar format and for each day of the month, the nude of the day is featured on the barebrush home page. Free printable versions of all calendars are available at the website in both one-page-per-month and weekly planner (seven-days-per-page) formats. In addition, calendar shirts and barebrush gear are available for sale.

The N*des-of-the-Month exhibition series began in September 2006 with an exhibition curated by Brigitte Saint-Ouen, founder and director of Gramercy 32 Fine Arts. All the calendars and the details of the art represented are available in the archives of barebrush.com.

Art can be uploaded to barebrush at any time. Art uploaded now will be automatically in consideration for the N*des-of-the-Month July 2007. The official “Call for Entries” along with the announcement of the July guest curator will be released Monday, June 4th

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Contact information:

Ilene Skeen

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New York, NY 10018

Phone: 917-806-7992    

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