World’s Best Sensual Female Artists Named By America’s 25 Best Galleries: KUNICKAS, MILLER, YANES, SHEVCHENKO, WARD, SELIN, DADURA, WANG, BRUTCHER, MULIER & YOFFE / 2021 AMERICAN ART AWARDS

Thom Bierdz
5 min readSep 30, 2021

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 scored almost 2,000 works in 50 categories from 64 countries.

Winners in this category are from LITHUANIA, USA, SPAIN, UKRAINE, POLAND, CHINA & ISRAEL.

BIO OF 1ST PLACE WINNER: Jonas Kunickas, Born: 1978, Kaunas (Lithuania);

1996–2002 studies of Architecture in Kaunas University of Technology. Graduated as Master of Architecture in 2002;

2002–2012 Working as an architect and interior designer in Lithuania and United Kingdom;

In 2013 gave up previous occupation and started to work as a full time artist-painter… Working on figurative oil paintings ever since.

“I have fallen in love with a painting much earlier than I have started a primary school. I have been drawing and painting for as long as I can remember my self.”

ARTIST CONTACTS FOR ART COLLECTORS:

Category 11. EROTIC — FEMALE

1st Place-Tie JONAS KUNICKAS LITHUANIA www.jonaskunickas.art “Nothing Else” 90x90cm Oil on canvas.

1st Place-Tie JONAS KUNICKAS LITHUANIA www.jonaskunickas.art “Pure Flavour” 60x75cm Oil on canvas.

2nd Place WILLIAM B MILLER JR USA www.billmillerstudio.com “Madam Butterfly- Act One” 50x34.5" Oil on canvas.

3rd Place-Tie MANOLO YANES SPAIN www.manoloyanes.com “Psyche And Sebastianus” 40x60cm Acrylic on gessoed thick cardboard.

3rd Place-Tie ELENA SHEVCHENKO UKRAINE aqwa@ua.fm
“Let Go” 105x100cm Oil on canvas.

4th Place-Tie KATHLEEN WARD USA www.kathleenward.com “Memories in Passion” 14x23.5” Pastel on paper.

4th Place-Tie MARLENA SELIN POLAND marlenaselin@wp.pl
“Creation” 130x75cm Oil on canvas.

5th Place-Tie KAROLINA DADURA POLAND www.facebook.com/Karolina Dadura Malarstwo “Figure05” 120x80" Acrylic.

5th Place-Tie SELINA WANG CHINA 22selinaw@wab.edu
“Consume” 90x120cm Oil paint on canvas.

6th Place-Tie TERESA BRUTCHER SPAIN www.teresabrutcher.com 27.5x23.5 “Nep Tuna, The Fish Whisperer” Oil.

6th Place-TiePICTOR MULIER SPAIN https://pictormulier.com “Jessie Relaxed And Naked” 30x42cm Acrylic.

6th Place-Tie DAVID YOFFE ISRAEL https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/davidyoffe “Nymphs And Fawns” 90x70cm Oil.

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.