Cara Roberts our VR Solo Castle artist opens her Solo Show today and the show runs until May 10th. Visit Cara's showroom here:

https://www.hmvcgallery.com/artplacer/

Cara Roberts is a London-based Portrait Artist and Digital Designer with skills in both hand-painted and digital portraiture. Cara graduated from UAL Central Saint Martins in 2021 with a Foundation Diploma in Fine Art and a BA Degree in Graphic Communication Design. The tuition she received allows her to fuse experience in traditional painting with that in modern graphic design resulting in photorealistic 2D digital portraiture using ‘ProCreate’ software. Cara is currently working for a Digital Marketing Agency as a Digital Designer based in The Shard, London. She has been marketing her artwork through an Art Agency based in Manhattan, NYC. Cara has been featured as an artist in two Art Magazines, one based in Japan and another in Germany, and over the past two years, Cara's work has been selected for display at numerous national and international exhibitions.

"I particularly enjoy capturing the hidden strata of the human face, both physical and emotional. My work experience in medical illustration coupled with tuition in life drawing has fuelled my interest in the human form. Instruction on facial anatomy has provided me with an appreciation of how structures that lie beneath the skin manifest externally. I like to make full use of posture, expression, scale, negative space, and semiotics to allow faces to direct narratives. As I see it, a fair world is one in which all people - irrespective of race, social class, or disability - can have a positive self-concept."

For more information visit: https://carafrancesroberts.cargo.site/Home-Set

May Online Group Show!

Abstract painting has been hailed as a celebration of the activity of the painting itself.

Pioneered by Hilma af Klint and Vassily Kandinsky and later perfected by American artists, boldness and experimentation with color are used to describe Abstract art as it is free from the rules of traditional form-focused art practices.

Abstract art’s key elements are the symbolic function of color, the rhythm of forms, and their independence from a subject, resulting in the artist having complete autonomy to express their emotions and showcase their artistic abilities without restrictions.

In the viewer Abstract art is meant to evoke emotions and reactions, so we can come to the conclusion that abstract art is ultimately incredibly flexible in its most basic form.

This time in our April online group art show we celebrate Abstract art. We welcome Abstract artworks from all mediums of visual art, except AI-created art and video/film.

★ Digital entries must be received by April 27th, 2023 before 11:59 pm Eastern Standard Time.

★ Notification of acceptance will be sent by email by April 30th.

★ The show will premiere on May 1st and end on May 31st.

AWARDS:

All Artists participating in the online group show will be featured on our Website and Virtual Gallery platform. All artists will be awarded an HMVC Gallery New York certificate of participation.

We are delighted to announce that we will be giving cash prizes to two talented artists!

Best of show winner: $150

Second place winner: $100

Third place winner: Online Solo Show

★ The winners of Best of Show and Second Place need to have a working PayPal account to receive their prize money. If the winner of the cash prize fails to provide HMVC Gallery New York with a working PayPal account, the winner will be forfeited and HMVC will be entitled to select another winner. The prize will be sent to the winner within 14 days of responding to HMVC.

★ The Third Place winner will have their own online Solo Show at HMVC Gallery New York and the show will run for a month. The Solo Show winner will also receive a HMVC Gallery New York solo certificate recognizing their achievement.

As our community grows, we have received multiple requests for Solo opportunities. You asked and we listened, so now HMVC Gallery New York is offering you the opportunity to have your own solo show on our ArtPlacer virtual platform for a month. Because the artists in our community are at various stages in their careers, we have created three different plans for you to choose from Plan Manor, Plan Palace, and Plan Castle.

This is an excellent opportunity for anyone interested in doing a Solo Show with us.

Visit our ongoing Virtual Solo Shows.

This service is by request only so if you would like to know more you can contact us via the contact form or email us at [email protected]

Kind Regards,

HMVC Gallery New York