Brooklyn Artist Takes ArtPrize’s Top Honor

　　GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.—Ran Ortner’s 19-foot-wide oil painting of the ocean’s swelling surface — so realistic that skeptical viewers often get within inches of it to check for brushstrokes — has won the grand prize at the ArtPrize event here.

　　The Brooklyn, N.Y., artist, a surfing enthusiast, is taking home $250,000 from the 16-day competition, which involved 159 venues and had more than 1,200 artists participating. His three-panel Open Water No. 24 was the only two-dimensional work to rank in the top 10. In all, the finalists shared $449,000 in awards.

　　The winners were chosen American Idol-style by the voting public, with their works displayed throughout downtown Grand Rapids. Voters made their choices through the ArtPrize Web site or by sending text messages from cell phones. The $100,000 second prize went to Tracy Van Duinen of Chicago, for her colorful mosaic Imagine That. The third prize of $50,000 went to Eric Daigh of Traverse City, Mich., for Portraits, a series of three pictures created from pushpins.

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