“Wide Open Digital 2” brings viewers the excitement of dynamic works across the full digital spectrum. The images here, which range in discipline from classic digital painting and photography to avant-garde algorithmic and glitch art, are nothing short of stunning.

This exhibit is wide-ranging and truly international, with 436 images by 80 artists from 17 countries. The judges selected 3 works to receive a GOLD STELLAR ART AWARD and 33 works to receive a STELLAR ART AWARD. All images in the show demonstrate excellence. It is a competitive show, and having even one image selected for inclusion is an honor.

I want to thank my fellow judges, both of whom are graphics professionals with long, ac-complished careers. As Art Director of Buddah Records, Elektra/Asylum Records, and 20th Century Fox Records, Glen Christensen was, for many years, a major figure in graphic design in the music industry. He has received two nominations for the prestigious Grammy Award, for Best Album Package. Gary Viskupic has, to his credit, an extensive body of work in editorial illustration, most of it rendered during his long tenure as an editorial artist at Newsday in New York. In addition, Gary’s international freelance work has included many award-winning posters and illustrations. He has been recognized many times by such prestigious organizations as the Society of Illustrators, Graphis, The Society for News Design, and Print magazine. He is currently an instructor of illustration at New York Institute of Technology.

It is now my pleasure to present the “Wide Open Digital 2” exhibit and announce the following GOLD STELLAR ART AWARD winners and STELLAR ART AWARD winners:

GOLD STELLAR ART AWARDS
“Yuki Onna”
CHARLIE TERRELL
Austin, Texas, USA
Digital painting

“Deliberation”
MARIO SANCHEZ NEVADO
Madrid, Spain
Photo manipulation

Untitled (5)
PATRICK GONZALES
Dijon, Burgundy, France
Mixed – 3D, digital painting, photography

STELLAR ART AWARDS
“Immersion”
GREGOIRE A. MEYER
London, United Kingdom
Digital art/3D

“Oasis”
SAN BASE
Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada
Algorithmic generative art

“I printed your dreams in me 01”
CLAUDIA ALVES
Guarapari, Espírito Santo, Brazil
Digital painting

“magik share”
MANITOBA
Biganos, Gironde, France
Digital art

“Gula (Gluttony), Eight Temptations Series”
CATLIN HARRISON
London, England
Scanner art

“The Toy General”
BJOERN DAEMPFLING
Berlin, Germany
Digital drawing/painting

“Visual4”
AURELIA ZACK
Kibbutz Dan, Israel
Mediated contemporary art

“I can watch the city from on top of the hill”
MINE KUCUK
Eskisehir, Turkey
Digital painting

“Study in Biomorphism III”
LILY E. SMERNOU
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Constructed photography with digital photopainting

“Portraity – How the Girl with Pearl Earring Looks at You”
SIMONE CASTROVILLARI
Rome, Italy
Photo manipulation and digital painting

“Dapper Monster”
GARY GRAYSON
Arlington, Texas , USA
Digital vector photo manipulation

“Crazy Woman – Lara Lisa Bella”
MARKO KOPPE
Hamburg, Germany
Collage

“Mermaid”
JAGO
Wadebridge, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Digital painting

“Owl & Pussycat & Portia”
CARRIE WEBSTER
Sydney, Australia
Digitally enhanced photography

“The Dog’s Odyssey” (1)
KAMIL BIALOGRZYWY
Jaworzno, Poland
Digital art

“Copy/Paste Landscape nr.1”
THOMAS DEMUTH (THE POLYGONIST)
Hamburg, Germany
3D rendering (polygonism)

“King of the City”
MARLON PAUL BRUIN
Den Burg – Texel, The Netherlands
Computer-generated art

“Midtown”
PETER L. HAMMOND
San Diego, California, USA
Digital composite

“GESTRÜPP #1”
deskriptiv – CHRISTOPH BADER & DOMINIK KOLB
Emmelhofen, Baden Württemberg, Germany
Generative 3D art

“Papilio Umbram”
ALVARO OCAMPO
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Digital artwork

“Light beyond Sound”
TATIANA PLAKHOVA
Moscow, Russia
Digital illustration

“Bat”
RICHARD ROWNAK
Culver City, California, USA
3D still digital art, computer-generated art

“Famous Art… #Today – n°1”
LAURA TURINA
Brescia, Italy
Digital Illustration

“Foreseeing the Civil War 1”
AFANASSY PUD
St. Petersburg, Russia
Digital painting

“In the Garden of Earthly Delights”
DONNA FARANDA
Ossining, New York, USA
Digital painting, micro-pointillism created in
Corel Painter with underlying collage created in Photoshop

“Sew Tiny”
CYNTHIA DECKER
Asheville, North Carolina, USA
3D rendering

“mm subtle fluid”
DAVID MARK LANE
Santa Barbara, California, USA
Digital painting

“Mother of Dragons”
CHRISTOPHER ABLES
Los Angeles, California, USA
Digital illustration

“mescalarita”
DAZ MELANDER
San Francisco, California, USA
Digital art

“Test Patterns 2”
MICHAEL SUSSNA
La Jolla, California, USA
Fractal art with Photoshop postprocessing

“Brace for Impact”
DAVID WORKS
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Fractals-3D-mixed techniques

“Cyborg I”
MORPHIA13
Muenster, Germany
Digital collage

“Fractal 04”
SERDAR CAMLICA
Istanbul, Turkey
Fractal art

Enjoy the show! (return to exhibit)

Virginia Christensen
Director, Digital Arts: California