Artist Offers Beauty and Inspiration Stimulus Package

June 3, 2009 - PRLog -- John Vias, an award-winning artist known for photographing the urban night landscape, is offering a Beauty and Inspiration Stimulus Package. For a limited time, buyers of his photographs will enjoy discounts of 20%-40%.

Vias said, "In these times, we especially need the beauty and inspiration that only art can give us. We've seen a few signs the economy is picking up and I want to do my part to help it along."

To make it easier to acquire his art, Vias is making two special offers.

First, prints larger than 8"x10" are 20% off, saving patrons up to $400 on each. These include in-stock prints as well as those made to order from existing images. The discount applies to both matted and framed prints.

Second, in-stock 8"x10" matted prints are 40% off, saving the buyer $50 on each.

Vias also offers a screensaver that exhibits his work in a continuous slide show. The screensaver runs on Windows PCs and costs $20.

For the first two weekends in June, Vias's studio will be open to the public from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. as part of East Bay Open Studios. This annual event involves over 400 other artists and draws an audience of thousands of art lovers. More details are available at his website, http://www.johnvias.com.

Vias's studio is also open by appointment.

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John Vias wanders around in the dark taking pictures. His award-winning night photography has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in many galleries and other art venues, including the Pro Arts and Joyce Gordon galleries in Oakland, Canvas Gallery and Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, and the Berkeley Art Center.

Vias’s work has won awards in juried shows and has been reprinted in the press. It hangs in private and corporate collections in the United States and abroad.

John Vias (rhymes with "bias") was born in Evanston, Illinois, in 1965. He earned a Certificate in Photography from University of California Berkeley Extension and a B.A. from the University of Florida. He lives and works in Berkeley, California. You can preview his work at his website, http://www.johnvias.com.