Reaching Inside: A New Online Competition

For immidiate release: November 7th, 2009

LarkGallery Online announce the new online competition Reaching Inside and the winners of Hidden Treasures competition

"Reaching Inside"
A new LarkGalleryOnline international competition

We are all experiencing the increasing number and often immediate impact of daily events in our lives. How do creative people deal with it. From where do they derive their inspiration?

We think that artists always reach within themselves to tap their creative process even as they are depicting landscape or outside events.
The inner filter through which artist look at the world make each piece of art unique and therefore irreplaceable.

We invite artists to respond to our new theme Reaching Inside by sending us new submissions.
The winners of this competition will have an opportunity to showcase their art online and in brick and mortar exhibition
sponsored by Phantom Galleries.

The winners of "Hidden Treasures" competition

* Monika Steiner, first place

* Kaleeka Bond, second place

* Vered Galor, third place

Each of the three winners will be featured on www.LarkGalleryOnline.com and receive an individually-designed web with one year's free web hosting from Tron Center. Five percent of the funds raised have been donated to The Dreaming Zebra Foundation, a not-for-profit organization that provides young low-income artists with tools and resources to explore and develop their creativity.

The top 10 artists from the "Hidden Treasures" online competition and LarkGallery Online Represented Artists
were invited to present their winning entries at our first brick and mortar exhibition
"Hidden Treasures" by Phantom Gallery at 104 E. 3rd Street, Long Beach, CA 90802.

We are proud to have received entries from so many talented and highly skilled international artists in different media. It made judging the competition both rewarding and difficult for our jurors:

* Peter Frank, Chief Editor of THE magazine

* Liza Simone, Phantom Galleries

* Airom Bleicher, Bleicher/Golightly Gallery

* Liz Gordon, The Loft at Liz Gallery

* Anna Meliksetian, Anais Gallery at Bergamot Station

* Dawne Camera, "Dreaming Zebra Foundation"

The following artists received honorable mention: Peter Bill, Lesley Krane, Tim Gratkowski, Alexander Saibedinov, Alexander Osipov, Thomasin Dewhurst, Helen Youngblood, Cynthia Rogers, Vladimir Avdeev, Djibril Ndoye, Nicole Duet, Helen Berger, Christina Paulos , J Natasha Kostan.

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