Thomai Kontou

Iwona Jankowski

Birsen Ozbilge

Aaron Bartley

Ben Zvi

Congratulations to the sixth Group of five artists selected by our panel for “The Best of 123Soho 2006Art Show".

They are Thomai Kontou, Iwona Jankowski, Ben Zvi, Aaron Bartley, and Birsen Ozbilge. Please keep in mind that these were culled from over 1,557 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.

Thomai Kontou
Category: Paintings
Title: kyanoplasies
Media: oil
Size: 30"x30"
Year: 2000

CURRICULUM VITAE
Thomai Kontou learned sketching from 1971 to 1978 in Athens, in the Vrassida Vlahopoulos and Theodoros Drossos ateliers. She was taught painting by Yannis Tsarouhis, while she learned the Fresco Technique by Dimitris Kostopoulos.
She is continuously present in the Artistic area since 1973 with 20 individual exhibitions and has taken part in 81 group shows in Greece and abroad. She participated in 6 BIENNALES: 1996 in Belgrade, 1998 in Mexico, 1999 and 2001 in Pisa – Italy and in 2002 and 2004 in Poland.
Her works are influenced by the Aegean Sea, its stones and shells, by the Universal flows and the Angels' Plasmas.
Works of her can be found in private collections in Greece, Cyprus, Germany, USA, Italy, Japan, Spain, Brazil. They can also be found in the Navy's collection in the “Averoff” warship and in the following Museums: “Transparent Museum of Art” in Belgrade and the Post “ Denmark Museum of Art” in Copenhagen. Also in Sgourda's Collection “Contemporary artistic èventail”.
The Greek Navy has dedicated to her the 53d special edition of “Navy Intellectual Culture”, while she has been included in the artistic sector of the “Navy Encyclopedia”, in the “Painters meeting” folio, and the Greek Artists' Lexicon edited by “Melissa”.
Under the Auspices of the Organization “Cultural Capitol of Europe – Thessaloniki ‘97”, her folio “Aegean Shells” was edited in June 1997. It contained 10 cards from her paintings.
In 1998 she sketched the scenery and costumes for the play “ Our own yard” by Vangelis Colonas, which was performed in Larissa in cooperation with the “ Theater of Thessaly ”.

Iwona Jankowski
Category: Sculpture
Title: Don
Media: oil
Size: 30x24 inches
Year: 2004

This floral painting is one of my popular Sexy Flowers(TM) series.

Birsen Ozbilge
Category: Paintings
Title: Messenger
Media: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 12
Year: 2005

My passion is to create art objects, to give them life. They represent my world and my inner self in many different ways. To create them, I may get inspired by a friend, a neighbor or a trip to a cactus garden... Anyway, the possibilities are endless!

Aaron Bartley
Category: Drawings
Title: Russian
Media: ink on illustration board
Size: 5"x7"
Year: 2005

Ben Zvi
Category: Mixed Media
Title: Definition of a spirit
Media: Acrylic
Size: 48x48
Year: 1980

created this painting to show the spirit, that has no matter no physical substance and does not occupies space but it still here and still can be observed.

We are currently gearing up for "The Best of 123Soho 2007" art show and thank you for your participation in the 2005 and 2006 exhibit.

Thank you for your participation in “The Best of 123Soho 2006” contest. We are currently gearing up for the 2007 exhibit, scheduled to start on February 1, 2007 . If you would like to participate, here are the requirements:

• You need to have at least 5 images on your Home page.
• Your contact information must be updated!
• We will accept any Media.
• Any work submitted between January 1st , 2006 and Dec. 31st , 2006 will be considered.

The list of participating categories includes: Individual Artists, Feature Artists, and Free Posting.