Congrats go out to Brooklyn artist, Ran Ortner for walking away with top honors in the Grand Rapids, MI ArtPrize. Besides the bragging rights for beating out over a thousand other entrants, Ran will bring $250,000 back home to Brooklyn.
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Ran Ortner, a painter from Brooklyn, was named the grand-prize winner Thursday night in the ArtPrize, a public competition in Grand Rapids, Mich. Mr. Ortner’s work, “Open Water No. 24,” received the highest number of votes among 10 finalists on display across Grand Rapids, a city of 200,000 in western Michigan. He will receive $250,000. In all, the finalists shared $449,000 in awards.
The 16-day competition, created by the Web entrepreneur Rick DeVos, ended Wednesday night. It took place at 159 venues, with more than 1,200 artists participating. More than 334,000 votes were cast in the competition, open to anyone who registered in person at sites around the city. An initial round of voting ended last week, in which the top 10 were selected.
“Open Water No. 24,” a three-panel depiction of deep blue waves, was the only two-dimensional work to rank in the top 10. Second prize, worth $100,000, went to Tracy Van Duinen of Chicago, for, “Imagine That,” a colorful mosaic installed on the front wall of the Grand Rapids Children’s Museum.
The third prize of $50,000 went to Eric Daigh, of Traverse City, Mich., for “Portraits,” a series of three pictures created from pushpins. Complete results are at www.artprize.org.
An article about the ArtPrize competition is here.
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