World’s Best Still Life Impressionists: ZIYI, WATERS, URAKOV, MINN, TSONEVA, JUNG, WELMAN, ALEKSANDROVA, JINGYU, PARK, ZHANG, HAN/ 2022 AMERICAN ART AWARDS Winners

Thom Bierdz
5 min readSep 26, 2022

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20 of USA’s Best Galleries & Museums vote in the AMERICAN ART AWARDS, arguably the most prestigious online art competition. In 2022, painters, sketchers, digital artists, photographers and sculptors from 69 countries submitted JPEGs for the 50 categories — to win gallery affiliation, career launch, high scores, great press and/or $5,000 in prizes.

Here are the winners in CATEGORY 23, IMPRESSIONISM — STILL LIFE.

1st Place Bio: Ziyi Chen

The girl who grew in the 80s, under the influence of scholarly family, has developed a hobby and talent for painting and calligraphy since childhood. She began to specialize in watercolor painting in 2017 and good at realistic works of flowers and plants.

It is inevitable to fall in love with painting. Painting is the poetry and distant place in life, let it meet another self.

AWS Member of the American Watercolor Society / NWS Member of the National Watercolor Society / Member of Missouri Watercolor Society, Member of Melbourne Watercolor Society, Australia / Member of Hunan Young Artists Association / Member of the Committee of Chinese Watercolor Pastel Artists Union / Researcher of Shaanxi Contemporary Watercolor Pastel Research Institute / Signed Painter of China Watercolor Mall…

Exhibits and collectors in numerous countries.

CONTACTS — — — — — CATEGORY 23. IMPRESSIONISM / STILL LIFE

1ST PLACE CHEN ZIYI CHINA 1109018@qq.com “Trace” 73×55cm Watercolor on paper.

2ND PLACE — TIE SUSAN D. WATERS USA www.susandwaters.com “Crying Time” 10x8” Oil on canvas.

2ND PLACE — TIE SUSAN D. WATERS USA www.susandwaters.com “Vine-Ripened” 11x14” Oil on canvas.

3RD PLACE — TIE BAKHTIYAR URAKOV UZBEKISTAN https://nikolaurakov592.wixsite.com/artnikk “Meeting” 110x85cm Oil on canvas.

3RD PLACE — TIE KATE MINN USA kateminn@gmail.com “Reflection” 17x22” Charcoal.

4TH PLACE — TIE DILYANA MARCHEVA TSONEVA BULGARIA www.dilyannnnatsoveva@gmail.com “Green Fruits On Green Tablecloth” 24x30cm Oil on canvas.

4TH PLACE — TIE LYDIA JUNG USA artistbonkoo@gmail.com “Oops!” 18x24” Acrylic on canvas.

5TH PLACE — TIE YVONNE WELMAN NETHERLANDS www.yvonne-welman.com “My Parents Daughter & Hypercube” 96x130cm Acrylic on canvas.

5TH PLACE — TIE TANIA ALEKSANDROVA BULGARIA https://www.behance.net/taal2 “Purple Day With Some Red Tomatoes” 26x31cm Watercolor on paper.

5TH PLACE — TIE YANG JINGYU CHINA 15294667@qq.com “Twigs And Leaves” 72x53cm Watercolor on paper.

6TH PLACE — TIE SEJIN PARK SOUTH KOREA luna251124@gmail.com 42x59.4cm “Coexistence Of Organic And Manmade” Oil paint on watercolor paper.

6TH PLACE — TIE DONGYU ZHANG CHINA www.zhangdongyu.com “Grey Wall” 144x24” Oil on canvas triptych.

6TH PLACE — TIE ZOE HAN USA zoehan323@gmail.com “Wanderlust” 24x18” Acrylic on board.

More winners from USA because more entered from USA.

100 ARTICLES on the 50 CATEGORIES of the 2022 AMERICAN ART AWARDS WINNING ARTISTS will be here: https://www.americanartawards.com/2022-press-on-artists/

COLLECTORS wanting to acquire these pieces or contact the artists can get direct links here: https://www.americanartawards.com/2022-winning-artists/

This is the 14th anniversary for the American Art Awards organization which selects the 20 Best Galleries and Museums each May, who decide the world’s best artists in Autumn.

American Art Awards 20 Best Galleries & Museums for 2022, in alphabetical order of state, who were asked to vote on art submissions:

BEST IN ARIZONA — Exposures International Gallery Of Fine Art

BEST IN ARKANSAS — Fort Smith Regional Art Museum

BEST IN CALIFORNIA — Exclusive Collections Galleries

BEST IN COLORADO — Mirada Fine Art

BEST IN DELAWARE — The Delaware Contemporary

BEST IN FLORIDA — MAC Art Galleries

BEST IN GEORGIA — Westobou Gallery

BEST IN HAWAII — Sunshine Arts

BEST IN INDIANA — Lubeznik Center for the Arts

BEST IN LOUISIANA — Arthur Roger Gallery

BEST IN MICHIGAN — LaFontsee Galleries

BEST IN MISSOURI — Hilliard Gallery

BEST IN NEBRASKA — Kiechel Fine Art

BEST IN NEW HAMPSHIRE — Rochester Museum of Fine Arts

BEST IN NEW MEXICO — Blue Rain Gallery

BEST IN NEW YORK — Center for Exploratory & Perceptual Arts

BEST IN OREGON — Bronze Coast Gallery

BEST IN SOUTH CAROLINA — Mary Martin Galleries Of Fine Art

BEST IN SOUTH DAKOTA — South Dakota Art Museum

BEST IN WEST VIRGINIA — West Virginia State Museum

Among other criteria, gallery & museum selections are based on years established, industry reputation, online interest, location, size, socially relevant exhibits, motivational and educational programs, represented artists as well as artist, client and visitor references.

Enter here: https://www.americanartawards.com/register-to-enter-3/

or get a gallery to rate and price your work: https://www.americanartawards.com/gallery-ratings/

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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.