2023 AMERICAN ART AWARDS Submissions (Part 26): Painting, Photo, Home, City, Sentimental, Floral, Collage, Young, Old, More

Thom Bierdz
7 min readSep 3, 2023

If you chase beauty like I do, you’ll love these dozens of articles showing you the beautiful and diverse art entered so far from around the globe in the 2023 American Art Awards, scored soon by 20 of the best galleries in the USA, seen here:

Any sketcher, painter, digital artist, sculptor or photographer can enter online images by [extended deadline September 10]. There will be over 300 winners in 50 categories, who will receive great press. The 6 highest scores will receive cash prizes as well.

Online art images will be placed in the category where they have the best chance to win: oil, acrylic, watercolor, charcoal, pastel, various photography, sculpture, digital, realism, impressionism, naïve, abstract, expressionism, human figure, animal, landscape, fantasy, surrealism, pop, portrait, self-portrait, political, erotic, cubism, floral, humor, spiritual, etc..

ART COLLECTORS: Below are submissions from talented artists around the world. Feel free to browse their sites or contact them if interested in buying their work, which may turn out to be an American Art Awards winner in late October.

GUANGRONG LUO CHINA “Time Remains” 50x40cm Oil on canvas.

JAMES LEE USA “Shirts” Photography.

IVAN BUBENTCOV RUSSIA / USA https://www.instagram.com/gayart_bubentcov “Male Back” 42x29cm Watercolor.

DOYUN KIM USA “Define Beauty” 16x20" Acrylic paint, wood board.

DOYUN KIM USA “Moth To A Flame” 18x24" Acrylic paint, wood board.

DOYUN KIM USA “Have You Eaten?” 18x24" Acrylic paint, wood board.

KIMIN KANG USA “Danger: Fragile” 24x36" Acrylic on canvas.

HEATHER LEE USA “A Unique Beauty” 18x18” Acrylic on canvas.

JOOAHN SUN USA “Ready, Set, Go!” 9x9” Acrylic on board.

JOOAHN SUN USA “Cancerous” 9x9” Acrylic on board.

JOOAHN SUN USA “Radiation” 24x24” Acrylic on board.

GUANGRONG LUO CHINA “The Country House” 40x50cm Oil on canvas.

GUANGRONG LUO CHINA “The Mountain House” 40x50cm Oil on canvas.

CAITLIN YOON USA “Rest In Peace” 12x24" Acrylic on board.

JAMES LEE USA “Sunset” Photography.

JAMES LEE USA “Diameter” Photography.

JAMES LEE USA “Books” Photography.

JAMES LEE USA “Au” Photography.

JAMES LEE USA “City View” Photography.

JAMES LEE USA j“Underground” Photography.

HEATHER LEE USA “Somewhere Only We Know” 16x20in Acrylic on canvas.

HEATHER LEE USA “An Endless Journey” 8x10” Acrylic on canvas.

SUSAN ARYAMANESH USA https://www.instagram.com/susanaryamaneshart/ “Ultimate Vitality” 20x20" Oil on canvas.

SUSAN ARYAMANESH USA https://www.instagram.com/susanaryamaneshart/ “Heavenly Garden” 24x24" Oil on canvas.

SUSAN ARYAMANESH USA https://www.instagram.com/susanaryamaneshart/ “Rebirth Blossom” 20x20" Oil on canvas.

HEATHER LEE USA “Wretched Adoration” 12x18” Acrylic on canvas.

JESSICA KIM USA https://share.icloud.com/photos/0c04eYGNQLj50ny4GxN6B0U-A. “Another World” 18x24” Paint on board.

ESTHER KIM USA “Democratic Utopia” 24.5x8.5” Acrylic and collage on board.

ESTHER KIM USA “Home Away From Home” 18” Acrylic on round board.

ESTHER KIM USA “Interstellar Travel” 18x24” Acrylic and collage on board.

KIMIN KANG USA “Insomnia” 18x24" Acrylic on canvas.

KIMIN KANG USA “Medicinal Or Poisonous?” 20x14" Soft pastel on pastel paper.

KIMIN KANG USA “Cozy Room” 14x17" Graphite on paper.

KIMIN KANG USA “Wish to Go Back” 18x22" Acrylic on canvas

KIMIN KANG USA “Sweet Land” 18x22" Oil on canvas

GAHYUN YOON USA/NEW ZEALAND “Temptation’s Banquet” 24x30” Acrylic on canvas.

GAHYUN YOON USA/NEW ZEALAND “Late Success” 18x24” Acrylic on canvas.

GAHYUN YOON USA/NEW ZEALAND “Don’t Cast Your Pearls Upon the Swine” 20x30” Acrylic on wood.

GAHYUN YOON USA/NEW ZEALAND “Fleeting Youth” 9x12” Pen on paper.

GAHYUN YOON USA/NEW ZEALAND “ Finding Oasis (Hyena At Sunrise)” 12x16” Acrylic on paper.

GAHYUN YOON USA/NEW ZEALAND “Midnight Ingenuity” 12x16” Pencil on paper.

TOUARASS HICHAM MOROCCO https://www.touarassart.com “Love” 80x60cm Oil on canvas.

GINA GIL USA “Workplace Of Modern Witch” 48x61cm Acrylic on paper.

JOOAHN SUN USA “Reflection” 18x24” Acrylic on board.

JOOAHN SUN USA “Over The Counter” 18x18” Acrylic on board.

JOOAHN SUN USA “Forbidden Innocence” 18x24” Charcoal on paper.

JOOAHN SUN USA “Addictive Desire” 12x24” Oil on board.

JOOAHN SUN USA “Rain Art” 12x12” Acrylic on board, finished with resin.

GUANGRONG LUO CHINA “The Century-old House” 50x60cm Oil on canvas.

JULIEN RAILLOT USA “Floral Siblings” Acrylic on board.

ALEX AYJ USA “Alone” 152x51cm Oil on canvas.

ALEX AYJ USA “At Home’’ 152x91cm Oil on canvas.

ALEX AYJ USA “Disobedient” 152x51cm Oil on canvas.

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Thom Bierdz

One of Medium’s TOP ART CONTRIBUTORS, award-winning author, actor, film-maker, painter. 12 books: 6 on art. President of WAA & AAA & ACCA.