3rd Annual Artist’s ChoiceArt ExhibitionAugust 2018

Welcome to Fusion Art’s 3rd Annual Artist’s Choice International Online Juried Art Exhibition for the month of August 2018.

For this open (no theme) competition, both 2D & 3D artists, worldwide, were encouraged to submit their best art and photography in any subject matter and any media. All artists, over the age of 18, regardless of location or experience, were encouraged to submit their best representational or abstract art and photography.

We once again received a diverse collection of quality artwork from artists all around the world including the US, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, Japan, Taiwan, Israel, Belgium and South Africa.

In this monthly themed exhibition Fusion Art presents awards in three categories: Traditional Art, Digital Art & Photography and 3-Dimensional Art. The Artist’s Choice Best in Show winners are Mike Welton for his oil on canvas, “Hotel”, August Naude for his photograph, “No More Judgement” and Rob Lenihan for his porcelain and ash, “Lost Boy.” Mike, August and Rob are Fusion Art’s Featured Artists for the month of August 2018 and, as the Best in Show winners, all three artists are invited to participate in Fusion Art’s 3rd Annual Group Show in Palm Springs in February 2019.

Other award winners include Second Place winners, Kathy Christian for her colored pencil, “Nosey Neighbors”, Codie Moore for her photograph, “Midnight Mist,” and Haimi Fenichel for his hollow sand casting, “Sandbox Series.” Third Place awards were given to Kathleen Giles for her watercolor, “A Sustaining Passion” Nancy Jo Ward for her pastels on archival print on Hahnemühle Paper, “Virginia,” and Gale Rothstein for her mixed media assemblage, “My Life as a Boy.” Fourth Place awards were given to Elizabeth Burin for her watercolor, “Ancient Pueblo (Balcony House)” and Tianran Qin for his archival pigment print, “Logan’s, Enmarket & Chick-fil-A.” Fifth Place awards were given to Gail Lehman for her acrylic on canvas, “Jacob’s Ladder” and Zachary Ruddell for his photograph, “quiet Monument #30.”

Please visit the Monthly Winners Page to learn more about each of these award winning artists and/or to contact them directly about their work.

In addition, this month, twelve honorable mention awards are given as special recognition due to the exceptional quality of the art received for this competition. Honorable Mention awards in the Traditional Art category are given to Toni Silber-Delerive for her acrylic on canvas, “Dusseldorf”, Hossein Edalatkhah for his acrylic on canvas, “Dancing Shadows”, Doreen Wulbrecht for her acrylic on canvas, “Summer Solstice Rose”, M Alexander Gray for his woodcut, “Hardware River Aqueduct II”, Kien Nguyen for his graphite, “Follow Me”, and John Shimmin for his watercolor, “Priceless Junk.”

Honorable Mention awards in the Digital & Photography category are given to Wendy Veugeler for her photographic portrait, “The Cat’s Meow”, Sarco for her digital photograph, “Butting Heads (6920)”, Jake Mosher for his digital photograph, “Kiss the Bride”, Liza Botkin for her silver gelatin print, “Twin Landscapes”, Ryan Chesla for his photograph, “Radiating Fog”, and Jeb Gaither for his digital print on canvas, “ArtByAi #1432 Gold Silver & Copper.”

The remaining finalists in the exhibition all exemplify uniquely creative talents and we’re honored to showcase their artwork on the Fusion Art website.

As always, we’d like to take this opportunity to thank all the competition participants. While not all the artwork that was submitted was selected for inclusion in the exhibition this in not necessarily a reflection on any one artist’s talent and/or skill.  It takes courage for artists to offer up one’s art up for critique by others and all the artists should be applauded for their efforts. We appreciate all of you sharing your extraordinary talent with us.

For anyone interested in purchasing any of the artwork in this exhibition, please contact the artists directly. You will find the artist’s website and/or email information below their work.

Please also visit our YouTube Channel after August 15th to see the compilation videos for the exhibition.

Thank you for visiting our website and enjoy the exhibition!