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Four Paintings and a Poem by Stephen Lee Naish

Stephen Lee Naish

mixed media art (detail) by Stephen Lee Naish

Untitled a Coke machine a smile a casual "hi" a walk barefoot in cut grass a door a gas station a pencil a paperclip a desire to be anything you want a bed a … [Read more...]

In Our Veins: Paintings by Amy Guidry

Amy Guidry

Regenerate (detail) painting by Amy Guidry

The premise of my series “In Our Veins” is to explore the connections between all life forms and the cycle of life. Through a psychological, and sometimes visceral, approach, this series investigates … [Read more...]

Silvery Twines, Embracing: Eight Paintings by Cristina Querrer

Cristina Querrer

Sleeping on Earth's Bed (detail) - Cristina Querrer

My work explores the relationship between modern discourse and otherworldly spaces. With influences as diverse as Helen Frankenthaler and Frida Kahlo, new variations are crafted from both mundane and … [Read more...]

Six paintings by Judith Skillman

Judith Skillman

Ice Bone (detail) - Judith Skillman painting

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Twelve artworks by Darrell Urban Black

Darrell Urban Black

Formulation of Human (detail)- Darrell Urban Black

Born March 25, 1964 in Brooklyn, New York, I am Darrell Urban Black, an American visual artist presently living in Frankfurt, Germany. I work in a variety of formats that include pen and ink drawings, … [Read more...]

Some G*ddamn Horses!: paintings by Silas Plum

Silas Plum

The Wild Woman of Karakorum (detail) - Silas Plum

These paintings will be exhibited on October 11, 2019 at Youngblood Art Studio in The Plains, Virginia. All the details are here. … [Read more...]

Seven paintings by Judith Skillman

Judith Skillman

2 Yellow Hills (detail)- painting by Judith Skillman

These are done with oil on canvas; some employ cold wax. I like minimalist landscapes and seascapes. Flowers in groups of two. No people! Rep shots are from the Pacific Northwest, my home for the past … [Read more...]

Certain People by Lita Kenyon

Lita Kenyon

Say When (detail) - Lita Kenyon

Lita Kenyon’s mixed media pieces offer hints at humanity translated through persistent, abstract shapes. Living and working in Tacoma, Washington (near Seattle), collage and drawing is a search for … [Read more...]

Bowls: Six paintings by Kate Brown

Kate Brown

Breath (detail) - painting by Kate Brown

These paintings are each 18 x 24, acrylic on canvas, 2018. … [Read more...]

Utterance: Paintings by Samia Soubra

Samia Soubra

Detachment (detail) - painting by Samia Soubra

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Screenpaintings by Shih Yun Yeo

Shih Yun Yeo

construction1 (detail) screenpainting by Shih Yun Yeo

The artist calls these paintings, created by a combined procedure of screen printing and painting, Screenpaintings. Silk screening technique, as it is used here, is not treating the silkscreen as a … [Read more...]

The cholla garden at Joshua Tree: paintings by William Clarkson

William Clarkson

Electric Cholla - William Clarkson

An appreciation of the Cholla bush representing survival in a harsh environment. … [Read more...]

Memory of Place: 8 paintings by Nathalie Tierce

Nathalie Tierce

No Way Out (detail) by Nathalie Tierce

I start with ripping apart issues of Architectural Digest and create dozens of collages very quickly that I make to capture a certain mood. From these compositions, I select the few that I’ll develop … [Read more...]

Passing Through: Paintings by Sky Pape

Sky Pape

Triangulating Peace (detail) - Sky Pape painting

My abstractions, hybrids of drawing and painting, are made with familiar materials like ink, water, and paper, and often unexpected, improvised tools like palm fronds. My idiosyncratic methods move … [Read more...]

13 poetic watercolors by Jesse M. Bell

Jesse M. Bell

Frustrated Fisherman Bridges Chasm (detail) - Jesse M. Bell watercolor

Inspiration for my work comes from many unassuming place—an errant line, a whirl of handwriting, the prickly thatch of cross-hatched marks, a splatter of ink—each element contributing in its own … [Read more...]

Portals: Paintings by Silas Plum

Silas Plum

Horatio (detail) by Silas Plum

Portals is a series that captures events and people at pivotal moments. Man's introduction to Death. A great battle. The decision to analyze or to act. Each of these influence the future. And the band … [Read more...]

9 mixed-media pieces by Mardi de Veuve Alexis

Mardi de Veuve Alexis

Urban Beat (detail) by Mardi de Veuve Alexis

Mardi’s current body of work is inspired by an evolving local urban environment, urbanization as a condition, and contemporary culture. Working for several years from her Venice, CA studio, she was … [Read more...]

7 mixed-media works by Fierce Sonia

Fierce Sonia

Fierce Sonia

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Mernet Larsen: Getting Measured, 1957-2017

Jean Marie Carey

(detail) Getting Measured, 1999. Acrylic, tracing paper and string on canvas. Collection of The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, the State Art Museum of Florida, Florida State University. ©Mernet Larsen

Mernet Larsen: Getting Measured, 1957-2017. The Tampa Museum of Art, 120 W Gasparilla Plaza, Tampa. On view through 18 February 2018. Curated by Joanna Robotham, Curator of Modern and Contemporary … [Read more...]

Mashups: Canvases from 2013-2017 by Gregg Simpson

Gregg Simpson

Still Life Mashup (detail)

My work is on the border between abstraction and surrealism, formal design and automatism. I begin a work very spontaneously, often with the canvas lying on the ground and soaked with water to make … [Read more...]

5 paintings by Ishay Rossano

Ishay Rossano

painting (detail) by Ishay Rossano

Art is the reflection of the artist in the Well of Wishes A good art grasps the spirit of the times (time and place) with its fingernails, and the spirit of the creative artist, and rises up into … [Read more...]

Traveling Home: watercolors by Mattina Blue

Mattina Blue

watercolor (detail)- Mattina Blue

"Traveling Home" is a series of floating, totem-like forms, which emerged in the process of painting as if excavated from deep in my subconscious. They're moving with the waves, currents and … [Read more...]

All These Sensations: 11 artworks by Lita Kenyon

Lita Kenyon

Fighting Chance (detail) - LIta Kenyon

Painting With abstract painting I'm interested in a process which operates within a personal narrative in concert with the unexpected. I paint, remove paint and repaint striving to bring forward … [Read more...]

4 paintings by Moses Hawk

Moses Hawk

Charleston (detail) - Moses Hawk painting

On the Road Stripped down bare. Art is an expression of the artist’s personality which could be a representation of their emotions, motivations, and intentions. Channeling the void, opening the … [Read more...]

Three Literary-Themed Paintings by Warren J. Cox

Warren Cox

Warren J Cox - Homage to Bobbie Ann Mason (detail)

Warren J. Cox paints mainly in an objective abstract vein. His pieces frequently imply the presence of system and strong synergy, and sometimes surrealist elements or pareidolia. As with these works, … [Read more...]

12 Paintings by Doug Gilbert

Doug Gilbert

Confluence (detail) by Doug Gilbert

As I see it, an artwork presents an intermediate reality between the natural sense-perceived world and the non-sensual interior objects of consciousness. The work itself is, of course, a … [Read more...]

Seven Cloud Paintings by William Clarkson

William Clarkson

Popcorn Clouds (detail), William Clarkson

I have explored a number of painting styles and techniques over many years of making art works. One subject that I keep returning to is clouds. To me they are a vehicle of imagination. At the age of … [Read more...]

8 new mixed-media pieces by Claudio Parentela

Claudio Parentela

I like to discover myself little by little ... a little every day ... every instant ... in the time following the time … following the moon with my feet ... following the most distant planets with my … [Read more...]

Son of Daedalus: poem with 2 paintings by Joost de Jonge

Joost de Jonge

Son of Daedalus 1. I await your stirring of emotion in the needle bushes beside the tree my path like a burning daemon touches no ground to honor your reality is like darkness the … [Read more...]

Painted Poetry and Painterly Poetics, an ekphrastic notion part 3: Palimpsest

Joost de Jonge and John Fuller

Joost de Jonge

Now Now is not past, but will be soon, With everything that is to come Under the stars and the white moon. An argued choice we make at noon By midnight sees us drained and dumb. Now is not … [Read more...]

Alec Clayton: Abstract Paintings from the Retrospective

Alec Clayton

Blood Twister by Alec Clayton

Alec Clayton will have a retrospective exhibition at the gallery at Tacoma Community College, Tacoma, WA, from June 28-August 10, 2017, representing 44 years of painting both abstract and figurative … [Read more...]

Motiv Eternal: Paintings by Neco Beth

Neco Beth

(detail) Neco Beth painting

The motif of my paintings buoys me up as a person. My thoughts, in part pure expressionist, Are soaked in a language that is purely stone-age, For its signs, symbols, its fauna, its surfaces. I … [Read more...]

Blue Heart Jazz: Paintings by Rachel Davis and Poems by Sam Silva

Rachel Davis and Sam Silva

Blue Heart Jazz (detail) by Rachel Davis

MIDNIGHT CALLS A POEM Midnight calls a poem for empty prayers or empty praise and now I am alone in the shell of the dark after that bored terror of the days ...and soon I will be a bird, … [Read more...]

Icarus: Paintings by Joost de Jonge

Joost de Jonge

1Icarus (detail) - Joost de Jonge

daredevil it felt as if he was made out of gold his head rested upon his shoulders weightless, his father called for him but Icarus seemed hypnotised lost in a curve of endless blue the … [Read more...]

The Enfolded: Collage Paintings by Ginnie Gardiner

Ginnie Gardiner

Giinnie Gardiner - Aerial (detail)

My working method since the mid-1990s has been to create equivalent color palettes from my collage and montage studies for translation into the medium of oil paint. In all of my paintings, I have … [Read more...]

New paintings by Barry Johnson

Barry Johnson

Barry Johnson - Insomnia (detail)

I am not an artist. I am not a painter, sculptor, filmmaker, or content creator. Everything I've made was done so to maintain my sanity and health. Not creating physically pains me. All … [Read more...]

Almost There: Paintings by Lauralee Sikorski

Lauralee Sikorski

Lauralee Sikorski

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3 Paintings by Merlin Flower

Merlin Flower

dangle (detail) - merlin flower

You I made a self-portrait. the chin was longer the bushy eyebrows the same. Friend said it looked like an orange. I thought it was you. not the jaw, not the eyes, not the face. You. … [Read more...]

The Mists of Youth: Oil Paintings

Rodica Miller

Caving with Malcom (detail) - Rodica Miller

Artist's statement: The series of works presented here portrays the state of alienation as a pervasive human condition, in particular, the one that engulfs parents and children … [Read more...]

Paintings by Abstract Painter Joost de Jonge

Joost de Jonge

Artist's statement: I proclaim the freedom of abstract art to be self-referential. To be a joyous play of form and color, rhythm is at the heart of my compositions, the pulse which is hidden there, … [Read more...]

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