The Workout is a painting of professional boxer Ali Akhmedov by American artist Dan Beck. This painting was don from a photograph by the premier boxing photographer Mayumi Cabrera when Ali Akhmedov was training at Churchill Boxing in Los Angeles. Ali Akhmedov's record is 17-1-0 with 13 wins by KO.
Dan Beck is a master signature member of the American Impressionist Society. He is the Gold Medal recipient of the 2017 Oil Painters of America Eastern Regional Exhibition and the Gold Medal winner of the 2011 Oil Painters of America National Exhibition. Other awards include nine awards of excellence with Oil Painters of America (five National and four Regional) and five awards with American Impressionist Society (one Second Place and four Awards of Merit). He has also won two consecutive Raymar Art Competition Awards of Excellence, Award of Excellence with Salon International, a first place, a second place and ten finalists with Boldbrush Art competition. Dan has had feature articles in “American Art Collector”, “Southwest Art”, “American Artist”, "Art of the West" “Artists on Art” “Cape Fear Living” magazines and "Art Talk". His paintings were selected for the covers of November 2008 “Southwest Art” and September 2011 “Art of the West”. Dan has been invited to many nationally prominent shows such as “American Art Invitational”, “American Art in Miniature” and “Great American Figurative Show”. He has also exhibited his works in many successful solo and group shows in galleries across the country. His paintings have found collectors in both the private and corporate world on a national level as well as from such diverse places as Canada, Japan and the Middle East. His work is in the permanent collection of the Littleton Historical Museum and he has exhibited with the Phippen Museum, Prescott, Arizona.
Membership:
American Impressionist Society master signature member (AISM)
Oil Painters of America signature member (OPA)
Plein-Air Painters of the SouthEast (PAPSE) member
Awards & Invitationals:
- 5th Annual 2021 AIS Impressions Small Works Showcase, Award of Merit
- OPA Virtual Juried Salon Show 2020, Impressionist Award of Excellence
- 4th Annual 2020 AIS Impressions Small Works Showcase, Second Place
- AIS 2019 Annual Exhibition, Princeton Brushes Award of Distinction
- OPA Eastern Regional Exhibition 2017, Gold Medal – Juried by Howard Friedland
- AIS 2016 National Exhibition, Award of Merit
- OPA Eastern Regional Exhibition 2016, Award of Excellence
- OPA National Exhibition 2016, Best Signature Award of Merit
- OPA National Exhibition 2011, Gold Medal – Juried by Scott Christensen
- AIS 2009 Annual Exhibition, Award of Merit
- Boldbrush Competition:
Finalist, January 2021
Finalist, October 2019
Finalist, January 2013
Best of Show, February 2012
Finalist, January 2012
Finalist, May 2011
Finalist, April 2011
Finalist-Outstanding Abstract, April 2010
Finalist, February 2010
Finalist, January 2010
Finalist, November 2009
2nd Place, June 2009
- Raymar Art Competition 2007-2008 & 2008-2009, Finalist/Award of Excellence
- OPA Regional Show 2009, Silver Medal – Juried by Jeffrey Watts
- OPA National Exhibition 2009, Award of Excellence – Juried by Kevin Mcpherson
- OPA National Exhibition 2008, Award of Excellence – Juried by Ramon Kelley
- OPA Regional Show 2008, Award of Excellence
- OPA National Exhibition 2007, Award of Excellence – Juried by Quang Ho
- OPA Regional Show 2007, Award of Excellence – Juried by Jeff Legg
- American Art Invitational, Saks Galleries, Denver, Colorado 2012
- American Art in Miniature 2008 &2009, Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa Oklahoma
- Settlers West Miniature Show (Invitational) 2007-2012
- Salon International 2007 & 2008, Greenhouse Gallery. Award of Excellence, 2008
- Great American Figurative Show, Invitational, 2007-2012, Waterhouse Gallery, Santa Barbara, California
- Fall Classic Invitational 2001-2012, Hamilton, Montana