World’s Best Still Life Photographers: DRYGAS, JO, PARK, HUSSAIN, JOHNSON, OH, SONG, DAVIS & KANG / 2024 AMERICAN ART AWARDS
Artists from 64 countries competed in the 2024 AMERICAN ART AWARDS where 20 of the most revered galleries in the USA were sent 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, will be featured in an upcoming movie and 75 articles.
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Art collectors can see the hundreds of winning artworks and corresponding contact info to the best contemporary artists in the world here: https://americanartawards.com/2024-winning-artists-american-art-awards/
The WINNERS in CATEGORY 44 represent POLAND, USA, PAKISTAN, CANADA & REPUBLIC OF KOREA.
BIO OF 1ST PLACE PHOTOGRAPHER
Renata Drygas is a member of The Association of Polish Artists and Designers. She was born in Wrocław in Poland. In this city, she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts at the Faculty of Interior Architecture and Industrial Design, majoring in Interior Architecture. She defended her diploma in interior design with prof. Michał Jędrzejewski, and the annex to the diploma in painting with prof. Marek Jakubek. She is a scholarship holder of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in 2024, and as part of the scholarship, she is implementing the project “Lower Silesia in myths and legends”.
Renata Drygas deals with painting, computer graphics, photography and drawing with equal success, as well as interior design and arrangement. Her work is thematically diverse, but for years she has been inspired by nature and the fantastic, magical and mysterious world. The artist remains faithful to realism in the way she presents her visions. Her paintings and graphics are in the resources of art collectors in Poland, France, Russia, Germany, Holland, Spain, Austria, Italy, the United States and Australia. She has successes in national and international competitions and takes part in exhibitions.
She says: “For the creator of paintings, it is a kind of responsibility to lead his recipients through art to something good, edifying and valuable. Through my works, I try to stimulate the viewer to reflect, intrigue him, move him into a magical, mysterious world — the World of Imagination, the World of Dreams, and thus move some of his inner strings in him so that it produces a positive sound for the world (the real world, the “here and now”). It is definitely not an easy challenge.”
CONTACT THE ARTISTS:
CATEGORY 44. NONMANIPULATED PHOTOGRAPHY — STILL LIFE
1st Place RENATA DRYGAS POLAND https://art8.pl/ renata.drygas@gmail.com “Sculptures In The Church In Legnica, Poland” Photography.
2nd Place — Tie ANDREW JO USA andrewjo257@gmail.com “Helping Hand” 17x14" Photo.
2nd Place — Tie ZOE PARK USA zparkunicorn2008@gmail.com “Balloon Boy” 17x14” Photography.
3rd Place — Tie MANZAR HUSSAIN PAKISTAN https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557121720566&mibextid= “Red Flower” Photo.
3rd Place — Tie STEVE JOHNSON CANADA https://www.facebook.com/people/Steves-Fine-Art-Splash/61560659775853/ “Can’t Get Enough Darling” 4x6" Photograph.
4th Place — Tie RYAN OH USA ryannoooo11@gmail.com “Convenience” Photography.
4th Place — Tie JOSHUA SONG USA 25songjo@gmail.com “The Revisitation Of Nostalgia: The Locale Of Our Formative Years” 18x24" Digital photography.
5th Place — Tie NICHOL DAVIS USA https://loastudiosre.com/ “Welcome” 26x17” Photo.
5th Place — Tie MANZAR HUSSAIN PAKISTAN https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557121720566&mibextid= “Brown Leaf” Photo.
6th Place — Tie KUN KANG REPUBLIC OF KOREA gunbhang1@gmail.com “Vẽ Bậy, Graffiti” Photography.
In 2024, AMERICAN ART AWARDS had submissions from these 64 countries: Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Canada, China, Congo Democratic Republic, Cyprus, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Korea (Republic, South), Lebanon, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Macedonia, Norway, Pakistan, Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Tobago, Togo, Trinidad, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vietnam, USA, Zambia.
American Art Awards 20 Best Galleries & Museums for 2024 (in alphabetical order by state) asked to score art:
BEST IN ARIZONA: Exposures International Gallery Of Fine Art
BEST IN COLORADO: Mirada Fine Art
BEST IN CONNECTICUT: Fairfield University Art Museum (FUAM)
BEST IN FLORIDA: MAC Art Galleries
BEST IN IDAHO: Capitol Contemporary Gallery
BEST IN ILLINOIS: Jackson Junge Gallery
BEST IN INDIANA: Kuaba Gallery
BEST IN KANSAS: 2010 Gallery
BEST IN LOUISIANA: GRYDER
BEST IN MINNESOTA: Kolman & Reeb Gallery
BEST IN MISSOURI: The Museum of Art and Archaeology
BEST IN NEW HAMPSHIRE: Candita Clayton Gallery
BEST IN NEW JERSEY: Evalyn Dunn Gallery
BEST IN NEW MEXICO: Thornwood Gallery
BEST IN NORTH CAROLINA: Ambleside Gallery
BEST IN PENNSYLVANIA: Morton Contemporary Art Gallery
BEST IN SOUTH CAROLINA: Mary Martin Galleries Of Fine Art
BEST IN UTAH: Modern West
BEST IN VERMONT: The Current
BEST IN WASHINGTON: ArtX Contemporary
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.
