World’s Best Floral-Nonrealists / 2023 AMERICAN ART AWARDS: PENN, ZENTNER, HRYTSKO, STEELE, KANG, YOON, LEE, WULBRECHT, LAPEYROUSE, EGENOLF, CHUNG & CHANG

Thom Bierdz
5 min readNov 2, 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, AUSTRALIA, UKRAINE, GERMANY & TAIWAN.

SEE ARTISTS SITES / ARTIST CONTACTS:

1st Place PAKAN PENN USA www.pakanpenn.com “Efflorescence” 48x48” Oil on canvas.

2nd Place — Tie LUCILA ZENTNER AUSTRALIA https://www.lucilazentnerart.com “Roses And Flowers On Outside Table” 120x100cm Oil.

2nd Place — Tie LIUDMYLA HRYTSKO UKRAINE lydmilagrycko@gmail.com “Born Of Dews” 50cm diameter Oil on canvas, linen, transparent primer.

3rd Place — Tie LINDA STEELE USA www.facebook.com/LindaSteeleOriginals “Purple Clematis” 15x30” Acrylic over fluid metallic on canvas.

3rd Place — Tie JIN KANG USA jinbeauty66@gmail.com “The Sunflowers” 30x40” Acrylic on canvas.

3rd Place — Tie MONICA YOON USA chrisejroh@gmail.com “Gazing In A Silence” 20x14” Oil.

4th Place — Tie JOHANNA LEE USA myjohanna418@gmail.com “Life In A Glass” 12x16" Acrylic on canvas.

4th Place — Tie PAKAN PENN USA www.pakanpenn.com “Tennessee Blue” 18x24” Oil on canvas.

4th Place — Tie DOREEN WULBRECHT USA www.ArtByDoe.com “Emotional Layers” 48x56" Acrylic on canvas.

5th Place — Tie NICOLE LAPEYROUSE USA nlape001@gmail.com “Memories” 11x14” Acrylic on paper.

5th Place — Tie AMELIE MONIRA EGENOLF GERMANY www.monira-art.de “Pure Joy” 40x40cm Oil on canvas.

6th Place — Tie FENG HUI CHUNG TAIWAN https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1517442094&mibextid=LQQJ4d “Xiaoman Series” 53x44" Oil paint and gold leaf on canvas.

6th Place — Tie JOLING CHANG TAIWAN www.jolingchangart.com “Fascinate” 20x24" Gouache on canvas.

6th Place — Tie DOREEN WULBRECHT USA www.ArtByDoe.com “Golden Moments” 34x34" each/Diptych Acrylic 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

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