Thanks to all the artist that participated in this year’s SKYN DEEP competition and thanks to the many fans, sponsors, friends and volunteers that has made this one of the biggest SKYN DEEP events to date. With all the entries of course there can only be so many winners, so we have separated the judging by the following groups.

+ People’s Choice Award was granted to the winner with the most votes online.

+ Judge’s Choice.  A panel of judges are selected each year by EQ to vote on their peer artists.

+ Grand Prize was awarded by the EQ Team.

It was great to have everybody on the EQ Team put a hand into the event. A special thanks goes to our interns, Matt Tobin and Sooji Oh, who shared the workload with us.  Thanks guys! Congrats to Matt for accepting a position at McTigue Financial, we are glad to help you and good luck on your future endeavors!

EQ gift certificates and some 13aked goodies were awarded to all winners.  Their design will also be reproduced in a limited run and sold in all our Chicago locations (AKIN Lincoln Park, AKIN south, RGB Lounge,  Silver Room, The Bike Lane) as well as online.  For every skyn they sell, they have an opportunity to gain commissions.  Support the artist community and buy your favorite SKYN from your favorite artist!

Here are your winners for Skyn Deep’s “FH2T”  or “From There To There” Themed Competition!
(click on images to inspect the details!)

 

+People’s Choice:
IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME

Artist: Txangoblanco
Medium: Mixed media; wheat paste on brick & digital
Location: Chicago, IL USA
Description: You might have or have not seen me from here to there, but I’ve been stuck on many faces in many places. I am a baby, a new face, a sticker, an image with no body but a body is what helps me recreate your image. At times my face has been peeled back only to reveal a new image and the underlying one of the past. I am here to remind you that you were once me, a baby, and as your life goes from here to there remember your past, live your present, and prepare for the future.

+Judges’ Choice:
TO THE DEPTHS

Artist: Scottfree
Medium: Mixed media; pen, watercolor, & acrylic on paper & digital
Location: Chicago, IL USA
Description: The personal journey of images from my depths out into the “physical world” I don’t know where they come from, or when they are going to appear, but they always do, and so I give you a visual document of here, the core of my mind to there, the physical manifestation of thought and creative out pouring.

+EQ’s Choice:
JET SET, GO

Artist: RD4K1
Medium: Digital media
Location: Detroit, MI USA
Description: I wanted to bring a world travel theme, using different locations that represent a general type, as opposed to a specific location taking these sights and blending them together as if painted on a canvas, with the airbus flying over to tie in the whole piece together.

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