World’s Best Floral Non-Realists: TOMESKO, SERSTINSKAJA, ZHANG, PENN, LAI, CHONG, FILICHKIN, KIM, MITCHELL, HYLAND, YU, HAFEMAN, ZIILBERMAN, WHITTINGTON, NARIUNAS/ 2022 AMERICAN ART AWARDS Winners

Thom Bierdz
6 min readSep 26, 2022

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20 of USA’s Best Galleries & Museums vote in the AMERICAN ART AWARDS, arguably the most prestigious online art competition. In 2022, painters, sketchers, digital artists, photographers and sculptors from 69 countries submitted JPEGs for the 50 categories — to win gallery affiliation, career launch, high scores, great press and/or $5,000 in prizes.

Here are the winners in CATEGORY 16, FLORAL — NOT REALISM.

1st Place Bio: Julia Tomesko

Graduated from Dnepropetrovsk National University Olesya Gonchara (1997–2002), specialty fine and decorative arts / graduated from the Academy of Realistic Art (2018–2020).

Participant of creative plein airs, collective and personal exhibitions: Plein air of Kiev region artists “Descendants cherish memory” / Exhibition “Four seasons” (Chocolate symphony) (2015) / Exhibition “Altinsky Rosy” (2016) / - 9th All-Ukrainian Exhibition of Fine Arts “Magic Colors of the Dnieper” (2017) / Personal exhibition at the Borispol State Historical Museum (2017) / Personal exhibitions at the National Bank of Ukraine (2018 and 2019) / All-Ukrainian exhibition “Breath of Watercolors” (2020) / Personal exhibition at the National Library of Ukraine the Yaroslav Mudryi (2020) / Permanent participant of exhibitions of the Globus Gallery / Exibition «Art for Ukraine» Poprad Slovakia (2022) / Exibition «Artformacie» Puhov Slovakia (2022) /

Publication in the historical and biographical book “Great Ukraine. 100 years of statehood” 2018.

Julia Tomesko’s works are in private collections in Europe, the USA and other… https://www.instagram.com/juliatomesko_artist/?utm_medium=copy_link

CONTACTS — — — — — CATEGORY 16. FLORAL / NOT REALISTIC

1ST PLACE JULIA / YULIIA TOMESKO UKRAINE https://instagram.com/juliatomesko_artist?utm_medium=copy_link“Blue Irises” 110x90cm Oil on canvas.

2ND PLACE — TIE DANGUOLE SERSTINSKAJA LITHUANIA https://petdrawings.net/ “Light In The Dark” 110x110 cm Ink on panel.

2ND PLACE — TIE XUEPING ZHANG USA https://xueping-zhang.pixels.com/ “Harvest Season” 11x14” Pen and ink.

3RD PLACE — TIE PAKAN PENN USA pakanpenn.com “Scarlet” 36"x36" Oil on canvas.

3RD PLACE — TIE MINGMIN LAI USA coserlmm@gmail.com “Summer Dahlia” 15x22" Watercolor.

3RD PLACE — TIE FU CHONG CHINA 754486490@qq.com “Taste Of Lotus Pond” 80x60cm Oil on linen.

4TH PLACE — TIE TANYA FILICHKIN USA https://tanyafilichkin.artspan.com/ “Irises” 20x20” Acrylic on canvas.

4TH PLACE — TIE JENNA KIM USA jenna75608@gmail.com “Detached” 18x24″ Acrylic on board.

4TH PLACE — TIE RD MITCHELL USA www.rdmitchellcollection.com “Relationship Diptych” 48x33” Oil on panel.

5TH PLACE — TIE JANE HYLAND USA janecatherinehyland.com “Last Spring, I” 32x26” Oil on Masonite.

5TH PLACE — TIE HUAN YU CHINA yhwnn11@163.com “Still Flowers?” 50x50cm Oil on canvas.

5TH PLACE — TIE MARK HAFEMAN USA https://www.markhafemanfinearts.com/ 20x16" “Floral Explosion” Watercolor on canvas.

6TH PLACE — TIE OLGA ZIILBERMAN ISRAEL olga_zilberman@hotmail.com “Poppies” 50x40cm Oil on canvas.

6TH PLACE — TIE RHONDA WHITTINGTON CANADA rhondaspastelpaintings.com “Looking Up” 8x10" Pastel.

6TH PLACE — TIE VALDAS NARIUNAS LITHUANIA https://valdoart.weebly.com/ 32x45cm “Frozen Flowers” Gouache on synthetic paper.

6TH PLACE — TIE HEATHER KIM USA www.instagram.com/studiohesed.art “Butterfly Dream” 16x16" Oriental pigment on mulberry paper.

More winners from USA because more entered from USA.

100 ARTICLES on the 50 CATEGORIES of the 2022 AMERICAN ART AWARDS WINNING ARTISTS will be here: https://www.americanartawards.com/2022-press-on-artists/

COLLECTORS wanting to acquire these pieces or contact the artists can get direct links here: https://www.americanartawards.com/2022-winning-artists/

This is the 14th anniversary for the American Art Awards organization which selects the 20 Best Galleries and Museums each May, who decide the world’s best artists in Autumn.

American Art Awards 20 Best Galleries & Museums for 2022, in alphabetical order of state, who were asked to vote on art submissions:

BEST IN ARIZONA — Exposures International Gallery Of Fine Art

BEST IN ARKANSAS — Fort Smith Regional Art Museum

BEST IN CALIFORNIA — Exclusive Collections Galleries

BEST IN COLORADO — Mirada Fine Art

BEST IN DELAWARE — The Delaware Contemporary

BEST IN FLORIDA — MAC Art Galleries

BEST IN GEORGIA — Westobou Gallery

BEST IN HAWAII — Sunshine Arts

BEST IN INDIANA — Lubeznik Center for the Arts

BEST IN LOUISIANA — Arthur Roger Gallery

BEST IN MICHIGAN — LaFontsee Galleries

BEST IN MISSOURI — Hilliard Gallery

BEST IN NEBRASKA — Kiechel Fine Art

BEST IN NEW HAMPSHIRE — Rochester Museum of Fine Arts

BEST IN NEW MEXICO — Blue Rain Gallery

BEST IN NEW YORK — Center for Exploratory & Perceptual Arts

BEST IN OREGON — Bronze Coast Gallery

BEST IN SOUTH CAROLINA — Mary Martin Galleries Of Fine Art

BEST IN SOUTH DAKOTA — South Dakota Art Museum

BEST IN WEST VIRGINIA — West Virginia State Museum

Among other criteria, gallery & museum selections are based on years established, industry reputation, online interest, location, size, socially relevant exhibits, motivational and educational programs, represented artists as well as artist, client and visitor references.

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

or get a gallery to rate and price your work: https://www.americanartawards.com/gallery-ratings/

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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.