The Spectrum 23: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art jury has nominated the top five artist works in each of the eight categories for a silver and gold award. David Palumbo, Cynthia Sheppard, Kirk Thatcher, Charlie Wen and Terryl Whitlatch discussed the merits of hundreds of pieces of art before finalizing this list on Saturday, February 27, 2016 at the Flesk Publications offices in Santa Cruz, California.
The winners will be announced at the Spectrum 23 Awards Ceremony held at the Society of Illustrators on Saturday, May 7, 2016.
Congratulations to all of the artists who have been considered!
ADVERTISING CATEGORY
Nico Delort
The Blessing of Athena
Bartosz Kosowski
Discworld
Colin Poole
Vishnu’s Third Avatar
Andrew Thompson
Glitch
Joseph Qiu
24 Hour Movie Marathon
BOOK CATEGORY
Chris Ayers
Munchasaurus Rex
Rovina Cai
Tom, Thom
Donato Giancola
Vesuvius
Karla Ortiz
Sorcerer of the Wildeeps
Annie Stegg Gerard
Renard and the Strawberries
COMIC CATEGORY
Daren Bader
Tribes of Kai, page 41
Gael Bertrand
Island #4 cover
Tyler Crook
Harrow County #1 cover
Nic Klein
Drifter
Paolo Rivera
Hellboy 1953
CONCEPT ART CATEGORY
Mirko Failoni
The Mushroom Forest
Te Hu
Journey to West
The Artwork by Vance Kovacs will be posted on April 15th, after the release of the new Jungle Book film.
Vance Kovacs
King Louie’s Court
Seth Rutledge
Window View
Dejian Wu
Dragon Island
DIMENSIONAL CATEGORY
Akihito
Death Wings
Thomas Kuebler
Adelpha and Her Sister
Patrick Masson
The Blind Death
Forest Rogers
The Morrigan
Dug Stanat
Meeting Master Jones
EDITORIAL CATEGORY
Donato Giancola
Empathy
Tran Nguyen
Traveling To a Distant Day
Greg Ruth
Finnegan’s Field
Chris Seaman
Family Portraithausen: A Tribute to Ray Harryhausen
Sam Weber
The Language of Knives
INSTITUTIONAL CATEGORY
Julie Bell
Behind the Veil
Wesley Burt
Natural Connection
Bill Carman
Medieval Batman
Te Hu
Offering
Tyler Jacobson
Exalted Angel
UNPUBLISHED CATEGORY
Dragan Bibin
Pull
Jaemin Kim
King Under the Mountain
Greg Opalinski
Initiate
Rob Rey
Bioluminescence
Wayne Haag
Dust Devil
Thank you to all of the artists who submitted to Spectrum 23.
Enjoy,
John
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