Younghee Choi Martin

Agustin Bilbao

Marie-Laure Souq

Pinggot V Zulueta

Jean-Luc Bohin

Congratulations to the fifth Group of five artists selected by our panel for “The Best of 123Soho 2005Art Show".

They are Younghee Choi Martin , Pinggot V Zulueta , Agustin Bilbao , Jean-Luc Bohin , and Marie-Laure Souq . Please keep in mind that these were culled from over 1000 works of art, most of which were of very high caliber, and that the submissions were not limited to the United States , but are international in origin.
The order in which the artists are being displayed, is not indicative of the quality of the work.
The next 5 artists will be displayed in june.

Younghee Choi Martin
Younghee Choi Martin has been painting with a singular purpose for the past 25 years. Her body of work attests to her pursuit of the multi- figurative and narrative traditio...
http://www.123soho.com/artists/featured/f_artist_index_artist.phtml?artnum=artidv00102&initial=M

Agustin Bilbao
"El estudio del rostro es para Agustín Bilbao una de las claves de su arte, su vía de expresión más adecuada. Tras una dilatada carrera en la docencia y muchas exposiciones, el getxotarra Agustín Bilbao entra a formar parte de los creadores que exponen sus obras en la revista virtual Almiar, ..." (La Ría del Ocio, abril 2004)
http://www.123soho.com/artists/individual/i_artist_index_artist.phtml?artnum=artidv00971

Marie-Laure Souq
Y oung self-educated artist, the world is for me an inexhaustible source of inspiration.
From Europe in Asia, Africa in America, all me fascine: the dignity of the beings stripped of all collecting the fruits of the ground, the quietude of the islands with their colors and their perfumes enivrants, the variety and the beauty of the landscapes marrying culture and nature.
A way of travelling in imagination while remaining in my workshop. A voyage which I wish to make you divide
http://www.123soho.com/artists/individual/i_artist_index_artist.phtml?artnum=artidv00980

Pinggot V Zulueta
Divina Paredes, Moon over Aotearoa, A Pinoy Artist comes into his own in a New Zealand show of migrant artists, Lifestyle section, Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 25, 2003
http://www.123soho.com/artists/individual/i_artist_index_artist.phtml?artnum=artidv00961

Jean-Luc Bohin
paper, glu, gloss medium & varnish http://www.123soho.com/artists/individual/i_artist_index_artist.phtml?artnum=artidv00977

The panel responsible for the selection of the 30 winners is composed of Chin Chih Yang (Artist and Chief Curator of 123Soho), Heidi Jain (Photographer and former instructor at Mercer County and Brookdale Community College), and Luchia Meihua Lee (Independent curator and formerly Cultural Specialist of the Council for Cultural Affairs, Taiwan, Chief Curator and Director of the exhibition department of the Taiwan Museum of Art, Curator of the Chinese Information and Culture Center, Taipei Gallery, New York) .