Harris Strong

Colorful Geometric Abstract Modern Glazed Ceramic 6 Tile Painting

20th Century

Large blue mixed media abstract painting with colored neon lights by Texas artist Don Foster. Painting is labeled as "untitled", and dated 1979. Artist Biography: Born in 1933, Don...

Modern expressive abstract painting by Mexican artist Juan Sanchez-Juarez. The work features a tan and cream field with large geometric sh...

Dark gray and blue-toned abstract expressionist painting by Louisiana artist William Lee Moreland (William L. Moreland). The piece is framed behind gl...

Contemporary abstract painting by Houston-based artist Virgil Grotfeldt. The work features metallic gold-toned gestural strokes created with acrylic paint and bronze powder. Signed, titled, and dated on the reverse. Currently unframed, but options are available. Artist Biography: Virgil Grotfeldt was born in 1948 in Decatur, Illinois, and studied at Eastern Illinois University and the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. After a brief stay in Chicago, he settled in Houston in 1977, where emerging galleries and alternative spaces such as Diverse Works and the University of Houston Lawndale Annex were fostering a vibrant new art scene. His last teaching position was at Houston Baptist University. Although Grotfeldt frequently collaborated with the Dutch artist (and former student of Joseph Beuys) Waldo Bien beginning in the late 1980s, and remained close to the artist community in Houston, he maintained a deeply personal sensibility. Preferring a monochromatic palette of earth tones, which contributed to his work’s sense of timelessness, Grotfeldt emphasized texture as an expressive device. He experimented with materials, working with coal powder, clay, ground metal, acrylic, and metal dust on paper, which he combined with carbon, watercolor, or oil. He incorporated found letters, antique maps, and nautical charts to initiate a dialogue between conscious systems of order and the expressive freedom of the subconscious. One of Virgil Grotfeldt’s last bodies of work, a series of sixteen oil paintings completed during the final year of his illness, was based on MRI scans of his brain. With utmost clarity, these works document Grotfeldt’s key ambition to make sense of the many forces life entails its contradictions, inflictions, and puzzles. By making the MRI scans his material of choice, he abstracted the records documenting the failing health of his body. But by painting on them as a point of departure, he was able to create something vivid and vibrant, a home for the imagination built by an undeterred spirit. Grotfeldt had numerous national and international solo exhibitions. His work is part of the Menil Collection, Houston; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Chengdu Museum, China; and the Fritz Becht Collection, Amsterdam. In 2003, a major publication of his work, entitled Virgil Grotfeldt, with text by Patrick Healy, an introduction by Walter Hopps...

Contemporary abstract expressionist mixed media painting by Florida-born artist Suzanne McClelland. The work features an explosion of abstract and energetic mark making stemming from...

Textured block painting of lemons and lemon halves. Mainly deep yellow and light browns. The lines appear to be carved into the paint creating a layered affect to the composition. Se...

Sunday Sailing Sails like sentinels, the waves, blue in the afternoon moving on the slackening wind, tacking for home a stripped away memory.

Over the pass We have arrived, not at our destination, nowhere,over the pass. From now on we can see ahead all the way to the next hills. to the next pass.

Part of a new collection of painted porcelain panels by Chinese artist Yuan Lin, “Daydreams” is a luminous meditation on the sun's rays. In this painting, Lin...

Part of a new collection of painted porcelain panels by Chinese artist Yuan Lin, “Suspended” uses deep blues, purples, and reds, to explore Lin’s melancholy e...

Part of a new collection of painted porcelain panels by Chinese artist Yuan Lin, “A World Without Limits” contrasts blues and blacks to point to a deep and di...

Abstract ceramic wall sculpture on panel of black birds and mosaic blue and teal tile 13 x 13 inches Earthenware, ceramic glazes on panel This contemporary ...