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Recognition: Prizes, Awards & Honorable Mention

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Leon Sarantos Receives Award for Winter Woods Landscape

Winter Woods   Honorable Mention   I am especially pleased to receive an Honorable Mention award for my painting, Winter Woods, at the regional, juried exhibit:  Indigenous Landscapes: Imprints of the South Shore.  The Winter Woods painting was among six artworks to receive an award, with over 100 artworks on display.     Winter Woods… read more

My Painting, Preacher Man, Featured By Resident Curator of Artists2Artists, 8/27/2012

My Painting, Preacher Man, Featured: Artists2Artists I am very pleased to learn that my painting, Preacher Man, was just selected as a Featured Work by  Kristen T. Woodward who is the resident curator of Artists2Artists.net.  She is a Professor of Art at Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania.  Artists2Artists is a curated web site that provides… read more

My Digital Art Selected For Publication “Art Takes Times Square” 2012

    Blue Flowers at Botany Pond Good news today! My digital art, probably this Blue Flowers at Botany Pond image, was selected for publication in the 2012 art book “Art Takes Times Square.”   I was very honored this week to learn that the editorial committee selected my digital art for publication in the… read more

Special Recognition For Art By Leon Sarantos: International Abstract Art Exhibition, Light Space & Time Art Gallery – July, 2012

Organic Creatures Going To The Beach     I am very pleased that my abstract art, Organic Creatures Going To The Beach, is in the Abstract Art Exhibition this month in the Light, Space & Time Online Gallery.  My painting received a Special Recognition award.  It is part of a series of whimsical, abstract paintings… read more

Honorable Mention For Art By Leon Sarantos: International Figurative Art Exhibition, Light Space & Time Art Gallery – June, 2012

Honorable Mention: Young Lady With Long Pipe     I am pleased and honored that my abstract figurative painting, Young Lady With Long Pipe, won Honorable Mention in the international Figurative Art Exhibition, Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery.  It will be on display throughout June.  This award placed my painting in the top… read more

Lakeside City, Abstract Cityscape by Leon Sarantos, Wins Special Recognition Award At Light Space & Time Art Gallery – April, 2012

Lakeside City   I am pleased and honored that my abstract cityscape painting, Lakeside City, won a Special Recognition Award in the CityScapes International Art Exhibition – April 2012.  Throughout this April, it is on exhibit online at the Light Space & Time Art Gallery.  Lakeside City, is an oil painting inspired by the view… read more

Special Recognition for my Dawn Twilight painting at Online Gallery – Light, Space & Time

Special Recognition for my Dawn Twilight painting I was very pleased to receive Special Recognition for my new triptych painting, Dawn Twilight – The Sun, The Moon, The Stars in The Elements Art Exhibition on the Online Gallery – Light, Space & Time. Dawn Twilight – The Sun, The Moon, The Stars      … read more

Best of Show Award For My Still Life With Mannequin Hand Painting at CornerStone Art Center & Gallery 5-2 to 5-30

Best of Show AwardMy painting, Still Life With Mannequin Hand, won the Best of Show Award at the  Value Volume Variety II exhibit at CornerStone Art Center and Gallery – hosted by 119th Street Artists.Still Life With Mannequin Hand   I am especially pleased that my art was selected in an exhibit curated by Robert… read more

Find Prints of My Paintings on Imagekind – I’m a Featured Artist Today, May 2

My Prints Are Featured Art at Imagekind – Major Web Site for Shopping For Fine Art PrintsI’m pleased to be a Featured Artist today at Imagekind, which is a major web site for prints of art and photograpy.   My art on Imagekind includes a selection from landscapes, still lifes, portraits and figurative paintingsLandscape PaintingsMy landscapes that… read more

My Botany Pond Painting Won 1st Prize At The South Side Impressions Exhibit, Beverly Art Center, Chicago, Open Until 3/31

Botany Pond   I was pleased to learn that my painting of Botony Pond won first prize at the South Side Impressions Group Exhibit at the Beverly Art Center in Chicago.  This cityscape painting is part of my series of art focused on the University of Chicago Quadrangle.       Midwest Regional Art: South Side Impressions Exhibit … read more

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