World’s Best Oil Painters / 2023 AMERICAN ART AWARDS: BRETTLER, MILLER, PARAMESWARAN, KUPERMAN, MICHELLE-PENTELBURY, POULIN DUROCHER, LUCANTONI, GAVADE, OPUSUNJU, RANCANO & TAKACHE
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 CANADA, USA, INDIA, PANAMA, ITALY, NIGERIA & LEBANON.
BIO OF 1ST PLACE WINNER: Renee Waldman Brettler
Born in 1956 in Sudbury, Ontario, at the age of two she was moved to Toronto. Her passion for art began with her discovery of colouring books and crayons. Not content however, to merely colour the pictures, she would redraw them on a separate piece of paper. Discovering an ability to capture the likeness of an image was the beginning of her lifelong fascination with art.
In 1981 while pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Toronto, Renee enjoyed her first successful solo art exhibit at the Del Bello Gallery. Her art future seemed promising. However, a failing marriage would compel her to choose between ‘the path of her heart’ and ‘the path of her head’. Ultimately, she opted for economic stability rather than the uncertainty of life as a struggling artist. To that end, she completed a Bachelor of Education and an Ontario Teaching Certificate.
Renee remarried, had 3 children and a successful teaching career that spanned 30 years. As a Visual Arts Specialist, she would always make sure to find creative ways to integrate the Arts into her classroom and school environment.
Since retiring from teaching in 2014, Renee has finally turned her attention to her first love ~ Art! Renee is self-taught and has worked with acrylic, oil paint, graphite, charcoal, coloured pencils and pastels. https://www.reneebrettler.com/
SEE ARTISTS SITES / ARTIST CONTACTS:
1st Place RENEE BRETTLER CANADA https://www.reneebrettler.com/ “A Puddle For Giants” 16x20" Oil on board.
2nd Place — Tie MAXWELL G. MILLER USA www.maxwellgmiller.com “The Journeyman” 14x9" Oil on panel.
2nd Place — Tie RAJASEKHARAN PARAMESWARAN INDIA www.rajasekharan.in “Manilal Padavoor” 23x36" Oil on canvas.
3rd Place — Tie EUGENE KUPERMAN USA www.kuperart.com “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” 36x24” Oil on canvas.
3rd Place — Tie RICHARD MICHELLE-PENTELBURY CANADA www.RichardMichellePentelbury.com “Passing Through Too” 42x72” Oil glazes on canvas.
4th Place — Tie CHANTAL POULIN DUROCHER PANAMA www.chantalpoulindurocher.com “Blue Aura” 76x60’ Oil on canvas.
4th Place — Tie GIUSEPPE LUCANTONI ITALY www.facebook.com/giuseppe.lucantoni/ “Melissa” 40x50cm Oil on extra fine canvas glued on plywood.
5th Place SIDDHARTH GAVADE INDIA https://instagram.com/siddharthgavade?igshid=ZDdkNTZiNTM= “Chirping Butterflies” 34×44" Oil on canvas.
6th Place — Tie PUMA OPUSUNJU NIGERIA pumaopusunju@gmail.com “Eruptions” 24x36” Oil on canvas.
6th Place — Tie CARLOS ANTONIO RANCANO USA www.CarlosRancano.com “9–5” 36x36” Oil on canvas.
6th Place — Tie HICHAM TAKACHE LEBANON www.facebook.com/hicham.takache “Portrait Of Um Saeed” 24x32” Oil, 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.
