2020’S BEST ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISTS NAMED BY 25 GALLERIES:

6 min readOct 3, 2020

DANGUOLE SERSTINSKAJA, ANQI TAO, YULIA PILSHCHIKOVA, JL SCHWARTZ, DIVNA PESIC GROZDANOV, DIANN KLINK, JOY HAGEN, CHANTAL LEBLANC, BELOVA MARIA VLADIMIROVNA, RAJUL SHAH, KIMBERLY SHIM, SNEZANA DJORDJEVIC, TONI M REDING

Painters, photographers, sculptors and digital artists from 62 countries competed in the most prestigious online art call, AMERICAN ART AWARDS, https://www.americanartawards.com/, where America’s 25 best galleries and museums score art in 50 categories. In this column, I’ll reveal the world’s best contemporary artists of 2020 one category at a time.

Category 7 winners are from Lithuania, Russia, China, Macedonia, USA, Canada, Singapore and Serbia.

BIO OF FIRST PLACE WINNER:

Danguole Serstinskaja is an award-winning artist from Lithuania. She has been on a lifelong artistic journey, which has included academic, impressionistic and abstract painting. Alongside all of her accomplishments, Danguole has been fighting cancer for 13 years and despite undergoing brain surgery in 2016, she continues to paint and express herself artistically with relentless motivation, hoping that she can serve as inspiration for others to take life’s difficulties head-on and persist on realizing themselves and their visions. www.petdrawings.net

Each May the American Art Awards organization selects the 25 Best Galleries and Museums in America, then in autumn these revered art institutions vote on online art to decide the world’s best contemporary artists.

Last month America’s 25 Best Galleries scored almost 2,000 works in 50 categories from 62 countries: Afghanistan, Armenia, Australia, Bangladesh, Belarus, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Haiti, Hong Kong, India, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mexico, Moldova, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic Of Korea, Romania, Russia, South Korea, Serbia, Singapore, Spain, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Uganda, UK, Ukraine, USA, Venezuela, Zimbabwe.

COLLECTORS wanting to acquire these pieces or contact the artists can get direct links here: https://www.americanartawards.com/2020-winning-art/

Enter here: https://www.americanartawards.com/register-to-enter-3/

CONTACTS FOR CATEGORY 7. ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM

1ST PLACE DANGUOLE SERSTINSKAJA LITHUANIA www.petdrawings.net “Outer Space” 13x18" Gouache on synthetic paper.

2ND PLACE-TIE ANQI TAO CHINA 654370750@qq.com “Dancer” 80x100cm Acrylic.

2ND PLACE-TIE YULIA PILSHCHIKOVA RUSSIA https://www.instagram.com/yla_pil “Attraction” 70cm Resin on board.

2ND PLACE-TIE JL SCHWARTZ USA www.jlschwartzart.com
“Sunrise or Sunset?” 60x48 Acrylic on canvas.

3RD PLACE-TIE DIVNA PESIC GROZDANOV MACEDONIA/USA www.divnapesic.com “Who Make The Bat Bad?” 24x30" Oil on canvas.

3RD PLACE-TIE DIANN KLINK USA www.DiannKlinkFineArt.com
“Gateway” 11x14" Acrylic & pastel on canvas panel.

3RD PLACE-TIE JOY HAGEN USA www.joyhagenart.com “Slash & Burn: Flow” 39x162" Encaustic & detritus from prior works on 9 plywood panels.

4TH PLACE-TIE CHANTAL LEBLANC CANADA www.chantalleblancartiste.com “Leap” 40x40" Mixed media on canvas.

4TH PLACE-TIE DIVNA PESIC GROZDANOV MACEDONIA/USA www.divnapesic.com “World Embrace” 40x30" Oil on canvas.

5TH PLACE-TIE BELOVA MARIA VLADIMIROVNA RUSSIA merissart454@gmail.com “Sensuality” 80x100cm Acrylic, plaster, oil painting, canvas.

5TH PLACE-TIE RAJUL SHAH SINGAPORE www.rajulshahart.com “Kintsugi Earth II” 40x50cm Acrylic, canvas & 23kt gold leaf on board.

5TH PLACE-TIE KIMBERLY SHIM USA dsvdispatcher@cableone.net
“Oneness” 24x24” Acrylic on canvas.

6TH PLACE-TIE SNEZANA DJORDJEVIC SERBIA snezana_976@yahoo.com
“Balkan” 100x50cm Oil on canvas.

6TH PLACE-TIE TONI M REDING USA toni_reding@icloud.com
“When Two Become One, Miracles Occur” 67x49” Acrylic on canvas.

100 ARTICLES and 50 VIDEOS on the 50 CATEGORIES of the 2020 AMERICAN ART AWARDS WINNING ARTISTS will be at this link: https://www.americanartawards.com/press-on-2020-artists/