3rd Annual Skies Art Exhibition - September 2019

Welcome to Fusion Art’s 3rd Annual Skies International Online Juried Art Exhibition for the month of September 2019.

For this competition, both 2D and 3D artists were encouraged to share their best art and photography depicting the sky. The sky is everything that lies above the surface of the Earth, including the atmosphere and outer space. The theme included any depiction of the skies, including clouds, rainbows, aurorae, lightning, precipitation and storms, stars, planets, moon, celestial events, the night sky, the day sky, dusk and dawn – just as long as the sky was the primary focus.

All artists, over the age of 18, regardless of location or experience, were encouraged to submit their best 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, Spain, Ecuador, Guatemala, Slovakia, South Korea, Slovenia,Uganda and New Zealand . Overall the gallery judged 378 entries for the exhibition, which will be featured on the website for the month of September 2019.

In this monthly themed exhibition, Fusion Art presents awards in three categories: Traditional Art, Photography & Digital Art and 3-Dimensional Art. The 3rd Annual Skies Best in Show winners are James Griffin for his oil on canvas, “Nimbus”, Pavlos Evangelidis for his digital photograph, “Palawandering” and Diana Fernández for her bronze sculpture, “Fourth Moon Quarters”. James, Pavlos and Diana are Fusion Art’s Featured Artists for the month of September 2019 and, as the Best in Show winners, all three artists are invited to participate in Fusion Art’s 4th Annual Group Show in Palm Springs in 2020.

Other award winners include Second Place winners, Michael Kraniski for his oil on canvas, “The Storm”, Marcia Berg Haskell for her digital photograph, “Dawn Over Glacier Bay” and Andrea Shearing for her acrylic on MDF sculpture, “Sunset Moonshine”. Third Place awards were given to Fay Biegun for her oil on canvas, “Tropical Sky” and Margaret King for her digital photograph, “Serenity”. Fourth Place awards were given to Douglas Geldart for his oil on canvas, “Sunset Upriver” and Paul Collins for his photograph, “Breaking Dawn”. Fifth Place awards were given to Stephen Estrada for his oil on canvas, “Cape Sable” and Barbara Mierau-Klein for her digitally enhanced photograph, “Arizona Sunset”.

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 were given to Pete Zielinski for his acrylic on wrapped canvas, “But Yet a Memory”, Ann Nall for her acrylic on canvas, “Last Tuesday in PG”, Lonnie Pelletier for his acrylic painting, “Space Warp 5”, Susan Tubens for her oil painting, “Tranquil”, Sherry L. Lupo for her oil on canvas, “Four” and Jeni Bate for her oil on canvas, “Sunrise with Creosote”.

Honorable Mention awards in the Photography & Digital category were given to Peter Connolly for his digital photograph, “Deep Midnight”, Freddie B. for his digital photograph, “Aurora Borealis over Skagsanden Beach, Norway”, Jake Mosher for his photographic print, “Evening at Emigrant Peak”, Athalie Taylor for her photograph, “Manning Sunset”, Brandie Ferguson for her photograph, “Northern Twilight” and Laura Lipke for her digital manipulation, “Forever and a Day”.

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

Fusion Art strives to create interesting and enjoyable art exhibitions with a variety of artistic styles and media represented. The art that is selected is based on the theme of the exhibition and the gallery’s objective is to include, in every Fusion Art exhibition, a broad representation of quality, style, media, creativity, originality and artistic composition. Art tells a story and we strive to select artwork, particularly for awards, that make the viewer think and wonder what story the artist is trying to tell.

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 visit our YouTube Channel to see the Traditional & 3-Dimensional and Photography & Digital videos for the exhibition.

Thank you for visiting our website and enjoy the exhibition!