{"id":18459,"date":"2017-03-09T20:37:12","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T20:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balcondart.com\/en\/?p=18459"},"modified":"2017-03-09T21:02:58","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T21:02:58","slug":"congratulations-samir-sammoun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balcondart.com\/en\/congratulations-samir-sammoun\/","title":{"rendered":"CONGRATULATIONS SAMIR SAMMOUN!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our own Samir Sammoun was honored at the latest of Artexpo in New York City held a few weeks back.<\/p>\n<p>Le Balcon d&#8217;art would like to congratulate Samir for shining so brightly in the art world!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18460\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/balcondart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/sammoun_art_expo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18460\" class=\"wp-image-18460 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/balcondart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/sammoun_art_expo.jpg\" alt=\"sammoun_art_expo\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/balcondart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/sammoun_art_expo.jpg 768w, https:\/\/balcondart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/sammoun_art_expo-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/balcondart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/sammoun_art_expo-640x427.jpg 640w, https:\/\/balcondart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/sammoun_art_expo-750x500.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18460\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">20th Anniversary Award winner Samir Sammoun with RMG\u2019s Rick Barnett.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><b>2016 Artexpo Award Winners<br \/>\n<\/b>Over a dozen artists and galleries were given special recognition during Artexpo this year for their work that went above and beyond. Here\u2019s a full list of 2016 award recipients:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>SOLO Awards:<\/b>\u00a0Gordon Harrison;\u00a0Peter Gish;\u00a0Eddie Shen<\/li>\n<li><b>FOTO SOLO Awards:<\/b>\u00a0Michael Ezra;\u00a0George Saitas;\u00a0Jan Gordon<\/li>\n<li><b>Best\u00a0International Exhibitor:<\/b>\u00a0Ms. Zheng Hui Rong, American Hairong;\u00a0Oskar Rabenda;\u00a0Tessa Aalbregt<\/li>\n<li><b>Best Sculpture:<\/b>\u00a0Gallery Giuseppe;\u00a0Rodo Padilla Sculpture<\/li>\n<li><b>Best Booth Design:<\/b>\u00a0Mattson\u2019s Fine Art<\/li>\n<li><b>Directors\u2019 Award:\u00a0<\/b>Anna Art Publishing<b><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Best New Exhibitor:\u00a0<\/b>Harvest Mountain<b><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b><\/b><blockquote class='style2'><p><b>20th Anniversary Award:<\/b>\u00a0Samir Sammoun, Sammoun Fine Art<\/p><\/blockquote><\/li>\n<li><b>25th Anniversary Award:<\/b>\u00a0Rami Rotkopf, Smart Publishing<\/li>\n<li><b>30th Anniversary Award:<\/b>\u00a0Victor Forbes, Fine Art Magazine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our own Samir Sammoun was honored at the latest of Artexpo in New York City &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":18460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balcondart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balcondart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balcondart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balcondart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balcondart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18459"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/balcondart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18472,"href":"https:\/\/balcondart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18459\/revisions\/18472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balcondart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balcondart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balcondart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balcondart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}