6th Quarterly Open Art Exhibition - April 15, 2018

Welcome to the Open – Fusion Art’s 6th International Quarterly Group Art Exhibition.

For this open (no theme) competition, the gallery invited both 2D and 3D submissions from artists, regardless of their location, experience or education in the art field. All artists, over the age of 18 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, Philippines, Taiwan, New Zealand, Korea, Poland, Hong Kong, Austria, Moldova, Guatemala and Germany.

The Best in Show winners are Nelson Hee for his watercolor, “Mooring 19”, Brigitte Thiele for her digital painting, “A Rose for the Innocents” and Douglas Aja for his bronze sculpture, “Second Chance.” Nelson, Brigitte and Douglas, as the Best in Show winners, are invited to participate in Fusion Art’s 3rd Annual Group Show in Palm Springs in February 2019 and will also be invited to include their artwork in the Fusion Art Gallery on Artsy.net starting in May 2018.

In addition to the Best in Show awards, several honorable mention awards in each category were given. Honorable Mention awards in the Traditional category were given to Marino Nakano for her pen on paper, “Longing”, Candace Cima for her watercolor, “Done Fishing”, Aaron Burks for his oil on canvas, “7th Fleet Requiem”, Michael J. Connor for his acrylic on canvas, “Whalalaland: Point Break”, Anna Bulka for her relief on canvas, “Wolf Woman”, Tubbesing for his acrylic painting, “The Unstrung Ukulele Of Despair”, Chengyi Lu for his acrylic and ink pen on paper, “Broken”, and Joseph Bounds for his oil on canvas, “Untitled.”

Honorable Mention awards in the Digital & Photography category were given to Mandy Adamick for her digital collage, “Eiffel Tower”, Ulrike Unterbruner for her photograph, “Majestic Pelican”, Nicholas Kozis for his digital art, “Heritage 2”, Nick Dale for his photographic print, “Close-up of Right Eye of Grévy’s Zebra”, Esther Byrt for her digital collage, “Justice”, Byeong Rok Lee for his photograph, “Ppajyeodeulda”, Mikayel Karabegov for his digital painting, “Untitled” and Meghan E. Jones for her photograph, “Sasha – Laughter.”

Honorable Mention awards in the 3-Dimensional category were given to Tony Gangitano for his Italian carara marble, “Kindred”, Marlene Siff for her acrylic on linen and wood, “Per Aspera Ad Astra (Through Thorns to the Stars)” and Aiden Dale for his stainless steel, “Arowana.”

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. 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 and artists who submitted were 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 their 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.

Thank you for visiting our website and enjoy the exhibition!