Buckingham Hotel announces winners

novel YORK -- The Buckingham inn "home away from home," to Gotham-bound artists and musical performers, unveiled the three winning paintings at an exhibition and awards rite for the second annual "Buckingham Prize for the Expression of Music from one side Art."

The tavern announced art student Malado Baldwin, of novel York Studio School, as the Grand Prize winner.

"The idea of expressing music in a painting intrigued me immediately, and I rest that the Buckingham Prize was challenging and exciting," says Malado Baldwin. "l ofttimes see music when it's playing; it registers emotionally end colors and shapes. I invented melodies while I created the Buckingham piece, for a like reason you can say that I actually compos it."

Baldwin's piece, "Modulations," a double painted canvas oil diptych that is restoreed in pale blue with waves of dot-like "melodies" moving above the surface, was awarded the grand prize. "Capriccio" by means of Peg McCreary of the renowned Art pupils League, took second place and "Concerning Music," through John Dechamp of Memphis society of Art, third. The work of the winners was unveiled by the agency of Stephen Shapiro, Managing Partner of the Buckingham public-house on Nov. 30.

"Modulations," chooseed from entries from around the region was awarded $7,000 and will be displayed by the agency of the Buckingham Hotel in its grand lobby; additional cash purchase prizes of $2000 and $1000 went to McCreary and Dechamp.

Determination of the finalists of the Buckingham Prize was made by dint of a prestigious panel of justices including Graham Nickson, dean of fresh York Studio School; Ira Goldberg, director of the Art pupils League; Dennis Adams, acting dean, academy of Arts, Cooper Union; Annette Blaugrund, Ph D National Academy Museum and institute of Fine Arts; John Torreano, program director of the MFA program in Studio Art at fresh York University and Barrett White, assistant vice president of Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art.

The Buckingham house of entertainment located across from Carnegie Hall, sponsors this competition because of the musical heritage that is woven over its history; which, when combined with West 57th Street's hold artistic tradition, results in "musical artwork." The characteristic was once home to like luminary musicians as Ignacy Jan Paderewski and Giovanni Martinelli.

"The Buckingham Prize celebrates the extensive musical history of the attribute while honoring West 57th Street's have a title to long-standing artistic traditions," says Stephen Shapiro, the hotel's managing partner. "For three-quarters of a hundred the Buckingham has been residence to world-renowned musicians, performers and artists from across the world, with equal reason the Hotel saw this competition as a fitting contribution to the one and the other the performing and visual arts."

The three paintings have become a part of the Buckingham's permanent collection of musically inspired artwork, that already includes "Bounce Fugue"a multimedia and installation created entirely from musical instruments, which graces the Hotel's entrance hall in eight different display boxe The Buckingham collection also features portraits of Arthur Rubenstein and Mstislav Rastropovich by dint of the late School of Paris painter Arbit Blatas, upon loan by his wife, Regina Resnik, who is individual of the world's greatest living opera performers.

This year's Buckingham Prize is launched in a nationwide partnership with OOK[R]) Art and Picture Hanging Hardware.

For more information, call 888-511-1900; visit www.buckinghamhotel.com.

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