World’s Best Oil Figure Artists: KUPERMAN, AKS, BINOVSKA, LEWIS, SUN, MONTILLA, MICHELLE-PENTELBURY EARLEY, CHIHOTA, PILEWICZ & WOS / 2024 Art Collectors Choice Awards
Artists from 62 countries competed in the 2024 ART COLLECTORS CHOICE AWARDS. 20 international art collectors scored 50 categories of online images covering drawing, painting, sculpture, digital and photography.
The winning works will be revealed in this column one category at a time.
The ART COLLECTORS CHOICE AWARDS winners in CATEGORY 1: OIL / FIGURE represent USA, CZECH REPUBLIC, UKRAINE, CYPRUS, CHINA, CANADA, UNITED KINGDOM, ZIMBABWE and POLAND.
BIO OF 1ST PLACE WINNER: Eugene Kuperman is a published and an award winning artist. Eugene’s work is in many private collections including in a private collection of Robert Harris Rothchild who has many notable works in his collection by artists like: Rembrandt, Chagall, Dali, Ernst, Lichtenstein, and many more. Eugene Kuperman studied painting the landscape in the impressionistic style with the Russian painter, Alexander Antonyuk Senior since he was a child and up until his teens. An art catalog came out in 2012 featuring many of those artists as well as the work commissioned from Eugene. Eugene Kuperman studied with a renowned Russian artist Leonid Steele (from 2010 to his passing in 2014) whose works are in many museums in the world, including pieces in the notable Tretyakov Gallery in Russia. One of Leonid’s former teachers was a student of a famous Russian landscape painter: Isaac Levitan and another teacher he had, was a student of the famous Russian artist: Ilya Repin. From the end of 2014 since Leonid’s passing, Eugene studied painting with an award winning artist Lance Richlin until 2016 whose technical lineage goes back to the French Academic Masters of the 19th century and one of the teachers that he studied under taught Norman Rockwell.
Eugene has been exhibiting since 2006. In September 2019, Eugene went back to Italy for further individual studies. He experienced first hand the Medici Tombs designed by Michelangelo as well as many other invaluable Italian works of art which gave Eugene further understanding of art as well as inspiration. Since late 2014, early 2015, Eugene took a new direction in art. He took upon himself to create works of social commentary which to any extent educate, enlighten, and promote a positive change in society. Eugene Kuperman has been published in various art books, magazines, and newspapers. http://www.kuperart.com
ART COLLECTORS can see the hundreds of winning images and corresponding contact info to all the artists here::
CATEGORY 1. OIL — FIGURE
1st Place EUGENE KUPERMAN USA http://www.kuperart.com “Boulevard Of Broken Dreams” 36x24” Oil, canvas.
2nd Place — Tie ATHENA AKS CZECH REPUBLIC
http://www.athena-aks.com/ “Mirek” 80x60cm Oil on canvas.
2nd Place — Tie TATYANA BINOVSKA UKRAINE/CYPRUS www.binovskaya.com “Life Or Existence” 100x75cm Oil on canvas.
3rd Place — Tie GREGORY LEWIS USA https://www.instagram.com/luisifineart/ “My Bandana” 11x13.5” Oil.
3rd Place — Tie YUQIAN SUN CHINA http://www.yuqiansun.com “Gem in Their Eyes №5 / Pink Zoisite” 24x24” Oil on linen.
4th Place — Tie RICKY MONTILLA USA www.rickymontilla.com “Farmer’s Market" 20x30” Oil on canvas.
4th Place — Tie RICHARD MICHELLE-PENTELBURY CANADA www.RichardMichellePentelbury.com “Passing Through Too” 107x183cm Oil glazes on canvas.
5th Place JAMES EARLEY UK www.jamesearleyartist.com “Shame” 36x 49” Oil on canvas.
6th Place — Tie FREDDY CHIHOTA ZIMBABWE “Manipulating The Winnowing Pan” 45x60cm Oil on canvas.
6th Place — Tie ANNA RUTA PILEWICZ POLAND 65x80cm Oil, canvas. www.facebook.com/ferneyeart “Mater, From The Cycle: Black Sun”
6th Place — Tie JON WOS USA www.wosart.com “Foraging For Midnight Oil” 24x48" Oil on canvas.
In 2024, ART COLLECTORS CHOICE AWARDS had submissions from these 62 countries: Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democratic Republic Of Congo, Denmark, England, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tobago, Togo, Trinidad, Turkey, United Arabian Emirates, UK, Ukraine, USA, Vietnam, Wales, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
20 international art collectors asked to score art:
Andrew Cameron & Marcus Hamilton — Australia
Jason Stuckless — Toronto, Ontario
Floyd M. Elwell, III — Rancho Mirage, California
Jan Gold — Roseville, California
Michael Gregg Michaud — Los Angeles, California
Judi Evans — Los Angeles, California
Alec Wilder — Los Angeles / Las Vegas / New Orleans
Eddie Dyer — Los Angeles / Las Vegas / New Orleans
Michelle Foglesong Wilson — Las Vegas
Thomas Zora — Las Vegas
Paul Iacono — Chicago
Ron Lundin — Naples, Florida / Chicago, Illinois / Vail, Colorado
Jay H. Brewer — Orlando, Florida
Celeste Miller — St. Petersburg, Florida
Alan McMullen — Fannettsburg, Philadelphia
Brian Townley — Waco, Texas
Blaine L. Richards-Miller — Wichita Falls, Texas
Aimee Unakis — Georgetown, Illinois
Karen Valentine — Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Mitchell Antesky — Toledo Ohio
