Olympio

Trapped

2023

Acrylic on canvas.

Original Soft Pastel on Sandpaper

Oil on canvas.

Oil on canvas

Acrylic on canvas. Organic forms are assembled to create a loud vibrant and boisterous scene in deeply saturated blues, white, and black. Anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figures are s...

Provenance: Venice Institute of Contemporary Art Consigned from Artist Far & Near, ViCA 2019 Edge to Edge, ViCA May 5-June 28, 2019

For Julia Kiryanova, painting is a dialogue – a dialogue which she beautifully facilitates, layering her work with various techniques. At the heart of much of her work an inherent fascination for people lies, intimately displaying abandoned figures seemingly floating in an abstract dream world, where time has stopped everything, but them. Julia Kiryanova has exhibited work at Amsterdam museum, Museum Op Solder and The Holocaust Museum...

Surrealistic abstract figurative painting paying homage to Picasso. Bright and vivid colors. Provenance only artist collection to gallery inventory. Hand-signed by the Artist. Certif...

In several mystical traditions, there are common elements that are needed for spiritual metamorphosis and transitions to another, transcendent dimension. In Sufism, there is also an inner dimension to the law that has to do with repentance, the abasement of desire, and discipline of the self, or the elimination of the ego. Transparent figures emphasize the inner world of pure innocence which is the prototype human being, pure consciousness, one's true identity, to be contrasted with the material human who is bound by one's senses and materialism. Materialism is shown by also patterns in the paintings. The two different layers are against each other in a contradictory way. Feeling the need to go deeper into this inner, imaginative world, I began to set artworks from the past in less familiar contexts such as seas or patterns and combine the figure with them where they seemed to become like elements in some greater dream. With her small paper works, Ece Gauer...

After touring Europe on a motorcycle, he arrived in Berlin in 2012, where he won a residence for artists with a pictorial series on massification and nihilism. In 2014 he was invited...

original painting; acrylic and oil on canvas; mounted on wooden stretcher frame. 27.5x27.5". The sides are painted and it's ready to hang. No additional framing needed.

Most mornings we wake up to a physical reality of sharp contrast and clear-cut edges. Defined outlines help us navigate everyday life and the world around us. But the blurry fringes ...