3rd Cityscapes Art Exhibition Monthly Winners

Best in Show (Traditional)
Allan Gorman

Allan Gorman is a realistic artist who seeks out the abstract tensions, shapes and contrasts found in manufactured objects – particularly within the confines of architectural structures, machinery, and vehicles.

Gorman’s history includes over 100 showings in museum exhibitions, galleries and major art fairs including: “Hyperrealism” at The Illinois Institute of Art – Chicago; “Re-Presenting Realism” at the Arnot Art Museum (Elmira, NY), ArtPrize7 and ArtPrize8 in Grand Rapids, MI: The ArtHamptons Art Fair; Art Palm Springs; Art Palm Beach; The International Guild of Realism’s Masterworks Traveling Museum Tour; “Something More Than Realism” at Galeria ArteLibre in Zaragisa, Spain;“Industrialism in the 21st Century” at the Nicole Longnecker Gallery; and most recently, “Luster – Realistic and Hyperrealistic Art of Automobiles and Motorcycles”, which made its debut at the Daytona Beach Museum of Art & Science in March 2018, and will be traveling to nine museums throughout the US through 2021.

Gorman was awarded a Fellowship for Painting from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts (2013). In 2011, he was awarded a resident fellowship to Vermont Studio Center and was invited back again in 2014 and 2018. In 2016, he was selected for a fellowship residency by the ESKFF Foundation at Mana Contemporary. His art is included in numerous corporate and private collections.

Please visit Allan’s website if you are interested in seeing more of his work.

Best in Show
(Digital & Photography)
Philip Hopper

Philip Hopper is currently part of the Communication Studies faculty at the University of Northern Iowa. He was a Fulbright Scholar in the West Bank at Al-Quds University during the 2012-2013 academic year, then continued that teaching and research as a visiting professor during 2013-2014 at Al-Quds Bard. He previously worked in New York City and Amman, Jordan. His success as a teacher in those locations is well documented and consistent over time. His award-winning documentaries include The Road Home, about injured soldiers who compete in the New York City Marathon, and The Park in Ramallah, about the safety of children in occupied territories. His long-term, on-going photojournalism project, Images of Conflict and Conflict Resolution in the Public Sphere, includes images and interviews from Belfast, Northern Ireland, the Palestinian West Bank and Israel. This work has emerged in book chapters, peer-evaluated journals and gallery shows. An interactive mapping project that examines public transportation and the difficulty of travel in the West Bank is a work-in-progress. Hopper holds an M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute.

Please visit Philip’s website if you would like to see more of his work.

2nd Place (Traditional)
John Jaster

John works with heavy body acrylics on fairly large canvases with a lot of detail and bold colors. He calls his style ‘realistic impressions’ because, while the overall feel of the work is definitely realism, he offsets the detail with impressionistic splashes of color. Instead of smooth blending, he likes to use puzzle pieces of color to emphasize the complex relationship of light and shadow over form. John’s inspiration comes from the hidden beauty in ordinary objects.

To see more of John’s work please visit his website.

2nd Place
(Digital & Photography)
Jim Tarpo

As a photographer, my particular ability is producing images that can be displayed in sensational quality, detail and size. It is a remarkable feeling to capture a large and beautiful scene in all of its minute detail.

The common way to photograph involves using a wide angle lens to fit the full scene into a single shot. That method does not produce enough pixels to satisfy my thirst for detail in a large print size. Instead, I use an alternate technique of zooming in to acquire the individual portions of a scene, and later assembling them into one. After meticulously adjusting exposure and color levels on a final image that seems the size of a football field on my monitor, the photographs are ready for print.

To see more of Jim’s work please visit his website.

3rd Place (Traditional)
Hilary Burnett Cooper

Hilary is a British Artist best known for her beach scenes and depictions of European cities. Her work is impressionistic and has won her numerous awards.

Her luminous paintings seek out the light wherever it can be found – in a reflection on a lake, in the upraised faces of seaside holiday makers, or slanting over a crumbling Venetian façade. She has always been drawn to compositions featuring the light, especially reflecting on water or on individuals or groups of people, and this is the combination of fascinations is what drew her to painting her subjects of choice

She has paintings worldwide in collections and her works have accepted to show in the magnificent Mall Galleries, London. She also holds exhibition of works at the famous Carrousel de Louvre, Paris where she will also be exhibiting in October 2018.

To see more of Hilary’s work, please visit her website.

3rd Place
(Digital & Photography)
Don Agnello

A long time photographer with a lifelong appreciation for the Arts, and a career as Design Engineer in the construction industry has given Don an interesting background for his Architectural photography.

He states “This series came about, while traveling through some of our most modern cities, I began to notice the repetitive forms and reflective surfaces inherent in many of the high rise structures and glass towers of the urban landscape. I saw these as abstractions which I found interesting and challenging to the eye. I am using the urban architectural landscape to create compositions that are the expression of my vision- details and juxtapositions pulled from the city scape that are present but not readily observed.”

To see more of Don’s work, please visit his website.

4th Place (Traditional)
Cathy Boyer

A San Francisco Bay Area native, Cathy received her Masters of Fine Art in painting from the Academy of Art University in 2015, graduating with honors. She is currently studying figure drawing in the atelier style of the 19th century at Golden Gate Atelier, Piedmont, CA.

Selected Awards since completing her MFA include Jurors Award, California Art Club, Northern Chapter, 2018. In 2017 she received an Honorable Mention, Frank Bette Center for the Arts and Second Prize, New Member Show, Salmagundi Club New York. In 2016 she received an Honorable Mention, Capitola Plein Air; Finalist, The Artist’s Magazine 33rd Annual Art Competition; Finalist, The Art Muse Contest and The Edward Ruhstaller Memorial Award, 59th Stockton Art League at the Haggin Museum, Stockton, CA.

She is an active member of the Oil Painters of America, California Art Club, American Women Artists, Women Artists of the West, American Society of Marine Artists, Salmagundi Club and American Impressionist Society where she is a signature member. She is active in local juried paint outs and alumni art auctions, a fundraiser for art students.

To see more of Cathy’s work, please visit her website.

4th Place
(Digital & Photography)
Trish Hoskin

I’m Trish Hoskin and I call myself a Digital Artist. For many years I worked with watercolour and pastels but had a great love of the immediacy of photography. I mostly taught myself Photoshop and am now able to combine both worlds. Being able to make an artistic piece from a photo gives me a great thrill.

My passion is for working with Architectural Type Images melding them with beautiful backgrounds. I can create the final pieces on canvas or the amazing look on aluminium. I have been working recently with Buildings as a theme and recently visited the amazing city of Launceston in Tasmania where the architecture was wonderful. I loved varied images and collages especially.

To see more of Trish’s work, please visit her website.

5th Place (Traditional)
Raymond Sammak

I began painting as a child at the prompting of a neighbor. Over the years, my style has evolved to encompass realism, ashcan, expressionism and portraiture. I have been inspired by old masters such as Vermeer, Michelangelo and Picasso. I have exhibited my works extensively and have won many awards and accolades. I am a member of the Monmouth Museum and serve as an Elected Member of Allied Artists of America.

To see more of Raymond’s work, please visit his website.

5th Place
(Digital & Photography)
Barbara Mierau-Klein

Barbara Mierau-Klein’s fine art images reflect her fascination with the beauty of color and light in digital compositions. Her artwork covers a wide variety of subjects, sometimes with whimsical elements, at times with a hint of the fantastical, often with elements of nature, always with intriguing color and light effects.

A native of Germany, Barbara lives in the Washington, D.C. area. As a passionate landscape and nature photographer since her teenage years, Barbara is often travelling the world trying to capture the evocative power of beautiful landscapes and nature.

Barbara’s interest in capturing beauty and the emotions it provokes carry over into her digital artwork. She discovered the world of digital photo compositions a few years ago and has been captivated by the endless creative possibilities it opened up for her when digitally blending multiple images, textures and effects.

Barbara’s digital art images have won numerous awards, have been published in “Living the Artistic Life” and “Fine EYE Magazine”, and are on display in select art galleries in the US. You can see more of her work on her website https://www.barbaramierauklein.com