David Weiss

Downtown

2021

Easy does it was made to give a calming effect with soft blues and a light feeling

Who Dat was created from my memories of going to college at Tulane in New Orleans.

Xpress Yourself 4 is a series of word paintings. This piece has hundreds of motivational phrases, words from our childhood, music, movies, See if you can find everything!

Freedom of Xpression is a combination of my abstract flags and word art. This piece features hundreds of motivational phrases, music, movies, games, names, etc. See if you can find e...

Abstract expressionist work of art by Joseph Hicks. Joseph Hicks’s works are bright and colorful, full of life and creativity. His canvases are full of energy and dynamism due to t...

Acrylic on canvas. Signed, titled, and dated on verso. 86 x 74 in. 87.25 x 75.25 in. (framed) Please note: Our framing studio could not accommodate the scale of this work, so it is being sold as-acquired. The canvas is housed in an original “studio strip” frame installed by the artist. Please see condition notes below for additional details and an assessment of condition. Provenance Steve Chase Design, Palm Springs, CA Ronnie Landfield was born in the Bronx, NY on January 9, 1947 - the same day as his older brother. As a teenager, he was encouraged to pursue a career as an artist, subsequently creating his first real paintings around the age of 14. He was particularly influenced by a Life magazine article from 1961 on the Abstract Expressionists, most notably: Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Adolph Gottlieb, Hans Hofmann, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Robert Motherwell and Franz Kline. After stints at the Art Students League, the Kansas City Art Institute, the San Francisco Art Institute, and the University of California at Berkeley, Landfield’s professional career as a painter began in New York in 1965. The following year, after completing a major series of hard-edge border paintings, success as a painter began to materialize. The famous architect and collector Philip Johnson and the collector Robert Scull each acquired large paintings works, as did the Sheldon Memorial Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1967, Landfield was invited to participate in the Whitney Annual at the end of the year. His work attracted considerable attention, and he was invited to participate in important group exhibitions at the Bykert, Bianchini, and Park Place Galleries in New York. Landfield joined the David Whitney...

"Octopus's Garden" " is a large-scale modern abstract. Simple organic forms in rich colors express the vibrancy of an aquatic landscape. Its white, blue, coral, and green palette is ...

Represented by George Billis Gallery. When a simple vertical line finds itself in the midst of accidental organic chaos, a sense of directionality and stability is introduced. The l...

Neuberg Osculating Circle is a complex integration of mathematical elements through collinear intersects completing a geometric picture with vivid colors.

The black rain pounds into a distant sky onto a white field. Is it snow?