World’s Best Cubists / 2023 AMERICAN ART AWARDS: KANG, ZHANG, NIEWIADOMSKI, CECHOVA, CORVUS, RAHIMI, GAMBARDELLA, DOOC & TERESHKOVA

Thom Bierdz
5 min readNov 1, 2023

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Artists from 72 countries competed in the 2023 AMERICAN ART AWARDS. Twenty of the most revered galleries in the USA were sent around 2,000 online images to score in drawing, painting, sculpture, digital and photography. The 300+ winning works, 1st to 6th Place (and ties) in all 50 categories, can be seen in this series of articles.

USA’s top galleries decided winners in every medium: oil, acrylic, watercolor, charcoal, pastel, realism, impressionism, naïve, abstract, expressionism, human figure, animal, landscape, fantasy, surrealism, pop, portrait, self-portrait, political, erotic, cubism, floral, humor, spiritual, etc..

Art collectors can see all the winning images and corresponding contact info to the best contemporary artists in the world here: https://americanartawards.com/2023-winning-artists-american-art-awards/

Winners in this category are from USA, POLAND, DENMARK, UKRAINE, IRAN, AUSTRALIA, PHILIPPINES & RUSSIA.

BIO OF 1ST PLACE WINNER: Kimin Kang

Current Senior(12th grade) at Northern Valley Regional highschool at Old Tappan. She started art in Sophomore year of high school and continued her passion for art throughout school courses. She moved from South Korea in third grade, and has won sixth place for Futurism last year for the American Art Awards.

She hopes to create art in an efforts to translate those thoughts and feelings into a visual story, promoting empathy and understanding of each special and human experience. She also likes capturing small moments of life, appreciating.

She is now planning to major in Fine Arts and minor in psychology for Art Therapy in a Graduate program in the future.

SEE ARTISTS SITES / ARTIST CONTACTS:

1st Place KIMIN KANG USA alicekang6305@gmail.com “Danger: Fragile” 24x36" Acrylic on canvas.

2nd Place — Tie XUEPING ZHANG USA https://xueping-zhang.pixels.com “Morning Rush” 11x14” Pen and ink.

2nd Place — Tie ANDRZEJ NIEWIADOMSKI POLAND aniewiadomski54@wp.pl “ Transmission” 29x21cm Paper, markers, ink.

3rd Place — Tie KATERINA A. CECHOVA DENMARK www.katerinacechova.com 160x120cm ‘’The 4 Horses Of Apocalypse’’ Oil on canvas.

3rd Place — Tie ARIMAS CORVUS UKRAINE https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064953090065 “Rose Minotaur With Horst” 30x42cm Acrylic, cardboard.

4th Place ALI RAHIMI IRAN Parnian.galleri@gmail.com “Goat Game” 90x80cm Oil on canvas.

5th Place — Tie GIANFRANCO (JOHN) GAMBARDELLA AUSTRALIA http://www.facebook.comGambardella-Original-Art Oil on canvas. “Sunset At Melbourne Docklands” 90x120cm

5th Place — Tie GIANCARLO D. DOOC PHILIPPINES https://642ad59f88f14.site123.me/ “Strange Woman” 18x24" Acrylic on canvas.

6th Place — Tie GIANFRANCO (JOHN) GAMBARDELLA AUSTRALIA Oil on canvas. http://www.facebook.comGambardella-Original-Art 100x100cm “Waiting Clearance At Melbourne Docklands”

6th Place — Tie ELENA TERESHKOVA RUSSIA https://paginadearte.com.ar/elenatereshkova “Happiness Inside” 60x50cm Acrylic on canvas.

6th Place — Tie KATERINA A. CECHOVA DENMARK www.katerinacechova.com “The Lady In Red” 80x60cm Oil on canvas.

In 2023, AMERICAN ART AWARDS had submissions from these 72 countries: Afghanistan, Algeria, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Columbia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, France, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Myanmar, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Scotland, Serbia, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Switzerland, Tobago, Trinidad, Turkey, UK, Ukraine, USA, Viet Nam, Wales, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

USA’s 20 Best Galleries & Museums who were asked to score online art in 2023 were:

American Art Awards 20 Best Galleries & Museums for 2023, in alphabetical order:

BEST IN ARIZONA: Exposures International Gallery Of Fine Art

BEST IN CALIFORNIA: Sparks Gallery

BEST IN COLORADO: Mirada Fine Art

BEST IN FLORIDA: MAC Art Galleries

BEST IN GEORGIA: Black Art In America™ (BAIA)

BEST IN INDIANA: Gallery Forty-Two

BEST IN KANSAS: CityArts

BEST IN KENTUCKY: KMAC Contemporary Art Museum

BEST IN LOUISIANA: Jonathan Ferrara Gallery

BEST IN MAINE: Clarke Gallery

BEST IN MONTANA: Cawdrey Gallery

BEST IN NEBRASKA: Kiechel Fine Art

BEST IN NEVADA: Elena Bulatova Fine Art

BEST IN NEW MEXICO: Thornwood Gallery

BEST IN NEW YORK: Gallery 23 NY

BEST IN SOUTH CAROLINA: Mary Martin Galleries Of Fine Art

BEST IN TEXAS: Ao5 Gallery

BEST IN SOUTH DAKOTA: South Dakota Art Museum

BEST IN VERMONT: Helmholz Fine Art

BEST IN WYOMING: Gallery Wild

American Art Awards https://www.americanartawards.com/ annually awards 20 museums and/or galleries, who agree to score art and award nearly 300+ deserving contemporary artists from 60+ countries: painters, photographers, sculptors and digital artists.

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Thom Bierdz
Thom Bierdz

Written by 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.