World’s Best Floral Painters Named By America’s 25 Best Galleries: SEITER, ULEVICIENE, CHEN, FISKE, YOUSEF, KRAVCHENKO, FILICHKIN, PETRAITIENE, AMOIA, BARISAUSKIENE, ZI & DIETRICH/ 2021 AMERICAN ART AWARDS

Thom Bierdz
6 min readOct 1, 2021

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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 Best Galleries & Museums scored almost 2,000 works in 50 categories from 64 countries.

Winners in this category are from USA, LITHUANIA, CHINA, RUSSIA, ITALY & CANADA.

BIO OF 1ST PLACE WINNER: Megan Seiter is an American artist specializing in colored pencil still life drawings.

Originally from Rhode Island, she received her BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art, and in 2009 moved to California to pursue her career as an artist.

Megan’s work is distinguished by her attention to fine detail and nuance in color. She works with wax-based and oil-based colored pencils, building layers of color that add depth and luminosity to her works. Each still life drawing reflects her love for color, texture, and subtle value shifts.

ARTIST CONTACTS FOR ART COLLECTORS:

Category 17. FLORAL — REALISM

1st Place MEGAN SEITER USA www.meganseiter.com 11.5x11.5” “Jeannette” Pencil on sanded pastel paper.

2nd Place-Tie RAMUNE ULEVICIENE LITHUANIA 90x70cm www.facebook.com/Ramune-Uleviciene-Paintings-692703667445715 “Downwind With A Dream” Alcohol ink on canvas.

2nd Place-Tie XIAOXIA CHEN CHINA 306881448@qq.com
“Rose In The Rain” 106x68cm Watercolor on paper.

2nd Place-Tie LARRY FISKE USA Larryfiske@gmail.com “Pink With Yellow Butterfly” 16x20" Translucent watercolors, pigments.

3rd Place-Tie ABIR YOUSEF USA www.abiryousefgallery.com “Simplicity” 24x12” Oil on linen.

3rd Place-Tie LARRY FISKE USA Larryfiske@gmail.com 16x20"
“Branch With White” Translucent watercolors, Windsor & Newton pigments.

4th Place IULIIA KRAVCHENKO RUSSIA https://artsale.pro/en/ 90x70cm “Still Life With Maple Leaves” Oil.

5th Place-Tie TANYA FILICHKIN USA https://tanyafilichkin.artspan.com/ “Stellar” 20x16" Acrylic, textured with crackle.

5th Place-Tie NADIEZDA PETRAITIENE LITHUANIA https://www.saatchiart.com/npetra “Jewels Of Nature” 39.4x39.4" Oil on canvas.

5th Place-Tie ANTONIO AMOIA ITALY www.antonioamoia.it amoiant@tin.it “Camelia” 35x50cm Pastels on cardboard.

5th Place-Tie NATALIJA BARISAUSKIENE LITHUANIA natalija.barisauskiene@gmail.com “Amarilis” 41x51cm Oil on canvas.

6th Place-Tie YAN ZI CHINA 634736232@qq.com
“Peach Blossom” 140x160cm Oil on linen.

6th Place-Tie LORRAINE DIETRICH CANADA www.LorraineDietrich.com “Moderato Cantabile” 21x15” Watercolour on Winsor & Newton 140 lb c.p. paper.

6th Place-Tie NADIEZDA PETRAITIENE LITHUANIA https://www.saatchiart.com/npetra “Yellow Bloom” 47.2x27.6" Oil 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.