World’s Best Pop Artists / 2023 AMERICAN ART AWARDS: PARK, MONROCK, BETROUW, FILICHKIN, RESKE, JUNG, CHAE, KUCHLER, JAION, BIRCHAM, DAJORE, NATARAJAN, DUMITRESCU & HAWORTH
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, MEXICO, SURINAME, GERMANY, UK, LITHUANIA, SWITZERLAND & ENGLAND.
ARTISTS’ CONTACTS / SEE MORE OF THE ARTISTS’ WORKS:
1st Place SUNGMIN PARK USA hailysm510@gmail.com “Offensive Beauty” 18x18” Acrylic on board.
2nd Place HECTOR MONROY “MONROCK” MEXICO https://www.monrockcollection.com/ “Muhammad Ali” 39x39" Oil, canvas.
3rd Place — Tie FLORIS BETROUW SURINAME https://www.instagram.com/flo_collection_art_sr/ “Self-Defense” 24x24” Hardboard, canvas, paper-mâché, acrylic.
3rd Place — Tie TANYA FILICHKIN USA https://tanyafilichkin.artspan.com/ “All The Woman” 20x20” Acrylic on canvas.
3rd Place — Tie SUSANNE RESKE GERMANY https://www.atelier-kunst-fluss.de/ “Bathing Woman I (Speechless Helpless Homeless…)” 80x80cm Acrylic, tissue paper, graphite on canvas.
3rd Place — Tie LYDIA JUNG USA artistbonkoo@gmail.com “Oops!” 30x20” Acrylic on illustration board.
4th Place ESTHER YEH-RYNN CHAE USA hochae79@gmail.com “My Essentials” 46.5x30cm Acrylic.
5th Place — Tie RALF KUCHLER GERMANY Ralf.kuchler@gmx.de “PopGirl 02” 75x100cm Unique digital print on canvas.
5th Place — Tie ALLEN JAION USA www.AllenJaion.com ‘’Flower Red (Of Artist Zendaya)” 60x48'’ Acrylic on canvas.
5th Place — Tie TANYA FILICHKIN USA https://tanyafilichkin.artspan.com/ “Free Woman. Inspired By Lady Gaga” 20x16” Acrylic on canvas.
5th Place — Tie RUTH BIRCHAM UK https://unimaginableimagery.yolasite.com/ “Taste” 18x40” Acrylic on canvas.
6th Place — Tie AUSRA DAJORE LITHUANIA ausra.dajore@gmail.com “Lips” 75x100cm Silk dyes on silk.
6th Place — Tie PRIYA NATARAJAN USA https://instagram.com/artpurposebypri?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ== “Donut Do It” 5.5x8.5” Watercolor on paper.
6th Place — Tie MONICA DUMITRESCU (MD ANTIDTOT) SWITZERLAND www.antidtot.com “When Happiness Was Cheaper” 50x70cm Acrylic, spray, collage, marker, crayons on cardboard canvas.
6th Place — Tie ROBERT HAWORTH ENGLAND www.iamthebutterflyman.com 8.3x11.7” “The Peace In Me” Acrylic on paper.
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.
