World’s Best Cubists Named By America’s 25 Best Galleries: PURUSHOTHAMAN, VAN DER ZEYP, LISBOA, GOROSHKO, JOHNSON, REGANATO, TERESHKOVA, BRENNAN, PRIMA & BUENVIAJE/ 2021 AMERICAN ART AWARDS

Thom Bierdz
6 min readSep 30, 2021

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.

America’s 25 Best Galleries scored almost 2,000 works in 50 categories from 64 countries.

Winners in this category are from INDIA, BELGIUM, BRAZIL, BELARUS, USA,RUSSIA, GERMANY & PHILIPPINES.

BIO OF 1ST PLACE WINNER: CHAITALI . V. PURUSHOTHAMAN is a Versatile Professional Painter who creates meaningful Positive energy based paintings with strong visuals that have raised the vibrations of homes and work spaces all over the world.

She paints with total awareness of the impact of her Energy on the paintings. She uses Concepts, objects and colours with the most Positive energy and since she is a medium she makes sure to keep her Aura cleansed . Apart from her Skills and Techniques she also uses her INTUITION to create Visuals.

Having spent many years exploring the depth of painting she has understood the importance of Strong visuals Impacting human minds . She strongly believes that Art is Sacred and has the power to uplift the human mind at a conscious , unconscious and subconscious level. This has encouraged her to create Empowering Visuals that can have a Positive influence on people’s lives. Paintings focusing on Colour therapy and Strong Visuals help calm , soothe and empower the minds of Humans.

She has won many International Awards for her work including Awards in the most Prestigious American Art Awards (before 23021 as well) that is juried by the Top 25 Art Galleries in USA . She has also won “Special Recognition Award” in a Prestigious Art gallery “Light Space time” in California.

She is also a winner of numerous National Awards for her Paintings. Apart from this , she has channelized her Creativity to provide illustrations in Various children’s books and also designed Cover Pages.

Her paintings are extremely high Vibrational emitting positivity apart from adding an aesthetic balance to the house .

She caters to a Diverse range of clients residing all over the world . She has provided customized paintings for family homes & offices in places like Seattle, Portland, New Jersey, Atlanta , Mumbai and is also associated with Art Curators and Interior Designers and Decorators. cv.artist.painter@gmail.com

ARTIST CONTACTS FOR ART COLLECTORS:

Category 9. CUBISM

1st Place CHAITALI V. PURUSHOTHAMAN INDIA cv.artist.painter@gmail.com “Shades Of Life Through Music” 24x24" Acrylic on canvas.

2nd Place-Tie IBAN VAN DER ZEYP BELGIUM www.facebook.com/iban.curvisme “Woman With A Book” 15.75x19.70" Acrylic.

2nd Place-Tie JOSÉ LISBOA BRAZIL www.saatchiart.com/joselisboa 60x60cm “Sinfonia Barroca” Assemblage / acrylic.

3rd Place-Tie ROMINA GOROSHKO BELARUS animarr@bk.ru “Shadoofs” 80x100cm Oil, wax on canvas. cubism

3rd Place-Tie JAMAUL JOHNSON USA creativeisanunderstatement1@gmail.com “That Which You Will Become” 14x17" Micron pen, Prisma, copic markers.

4th Place-Tie ANTHONY REGANATO USA www.anthonyjosephartgallery.com “Zootopia” 18x24" Mixed media on canvas.

5th Place JOSÉ LISBOA BRAZIL www.saatchiart.com/joselisboa 100x80cm “Diálogo” Assemblage / acrylic.

5th Place-Tie ELENA TERESHKOVA RUSSIA 50x40cm Acrylic on canvas. https://ru-ru.facebook.com/people/Elena-Tereshkova/100040483670123 “Women Flowers Forget-Me-Not”

6th Place-Tie WILLIAM FRANCIS BRENNAN GERMANY Oil. www.william-francis-brennan.com “Bittersweet” 100x100cm

6th Place-Tie N.PRIMA RUSSIA www.infinityofart.com “Sun In My Hat” 70x30cm Canvas, acrylic.

6th Place-Tie A. BUENVIAJE PHILIPPINES arielbuenviaje@gmail.com “Masayang Pamilya” 36x36" Acrylic on canvas.

Click below to see the relaxing hour-long movie revealing 2021’s hundreds of winning artworks:

Artworks from 59 countries won among the 50 categories: paintings, drawings, photography, digital and sculpture. (Americans won more because Americans entered more since the competition is better known here.)

Number of winners per country: Argentina 1, Australia 12, Belarus 2, Belgium 2, Brazil 3, Bulgaria 2, Canada 30, China 85, Croatia 2, Cyprus 1, Denmark 2, England 2, Finland 1, France 7, Georgia 3, Germany 18, Ghana 1, Greece 3, Hungary 2, Japan 1, India 10, Iran 1, Ireland 1, Israel 1, Italy 14, Kazakhstan 1, Kuwait 2, Latvia 6, Lithuania 27, Macedonia 5, Malaysia 2, Mexico 2, Moldova 1, Morocco 1, Netherlands 3, New Zealand 1, Nigeria 8, Norway 1, Oman 1, Pakistan 1, Philippines 5, Poland 8, Republic Of Korea 12, Romania 2, Russia 45, Serbia 1, South Africa 8, Spain 11, Sweden 3, Taiwan 7, Thailand 1, Turkey 3, Uganda 1, UK 10, Ukraine 5, USA 264, Uzbekistan 1, Zambia 1, Zimbabwe 2.

ART COLLECTORS: all winning images and corresponding contact info of all the artists will soon be uploaded to this page:

This year’s 25 Best Galleries & Museums asked to vote on art were:

BEST IN ARIZONA: Exposures International Gallery of Fine Art

BEST IN CALIFORNIA: Revolver Gallery

BEST IN COLORADO: Mirada Fine Art

BEST IN FLORIDA: Art Fusion Galleries

BEST IN HAWAII: Sunshine Arts

BEST IN ILLINOIS: Trickster Cultural Center

BEST IN IOWA: Moberg Gallery

BEST IN KANSAS: Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery

BEST IN KENTUCKY: E&S Gallery

BEST IN LOUISIANA: Jonathan Ferrara Gallery

BEST IN MASSACHUSETTS: Boston Sculptors Gallery

BEST IN MISSOURI: Hilliard Gallery

BEST IN MONTANA: Dana Gallery

BEST IN NEBRASKA: Kiechel Fine Art

BEST IN NEVADA: Metropolitan Gallery Las Vegas Art Museum

BEST IN NEW JERSEY: Evalyn Dunn Gallery

BEST IN NEW YORK: LIK SOHO

BEST IN NEW MEXICO: GF Contemporary

BEST IN NORTH CAROLINA: The Arts Council of Fayetteville| Cumberland County

BEST IN SOUTH CAROLINA: Mary Martin Galleries Of Fine Art

BEST IN SOUTH DAKOTA: South Dakota Art Museum

BEST IN TENNESSEE: Stanford Fine Art

BEST IN TEXAS: Ao5

BEST IN WASHINGTON: Maryhill Museum of Art

BEST IN WEST VIRGINIA: Parkersburg Art Center

ENTER OR GET AN OFFICIAL GALLERY RATING:

www.AmericanArtAwards.com

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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.