Sharon Okun

Blue Moon

2024

This piece was inspired by an interior in Florence, Italy. It features the corridor inside of Palazzo Tornabuoni. This corridor lead to a room called the ‘Sala delle Muse’ (the salo...

A study in flight and motion.

Painted in Paris, Ontario in preparation for an exhibition at Scrap Metal Gallery in Toronto, Ontario. The exhibition was cancelled due to the covid pandemic.

Painted in Queenston ,Niagara on the lake. Oil on wood panel.

Sharon Okun painted this work during the covid pandemic. It was intended for an exhibition at Scrap Metal gallery in Toronto, Canada, that was cancelled due to covid. The artists ni...

Abstract realism. Inspired by art nouveau. A painting about flight, disintegration, motion and color,

Sensual in it's style and subject matter, Andrew S. Conklin's still life "Duet II" explores the sexuality in both innate objects and the human form. The female figure is off to the ...

Oil painting depicting a woman in a mirror with an animal backbone visible where her backbone would be, and a giant eye peering on. Expressionist and emotional, the space is engagin...

ABOUT Born in 1967, Piussi was raised in Florence where he studied at the Istituto d’arte, majoring in sculpture and painting and completing his artistic education at Milano’s Brera Art Academy. He lives in Florence, pursuing painting, bas-reliefs in terracotta and in bronze, and bronze sculpture. Piussi presents an ideal, almost childlike world which can be found below everyday events, a step outside the flow of time, yet still a part of contemporary life, with a nod to Alex Katz and David Hockney. The drama, or lack thereof, is played out in simplified, almost abstract spaces. Pure in intent, Piussi’s oeuvre are inspired by the Early Renaissance. Snapshot images of a world reduced to its essence, the apparently comic-book style has echoes of Giotto, Paolo Uccello, of medieval illuminations. Rather than mimicking the appearance of nature, Piussi reaches for its essence, without distracting details. Women stand on the shore of quintessentially peaceful seas, self-contained, at ease, unwitting replicas of classical goddesses - a proud diver echoes Neptune holding a trident. “Queen Kong...

Oil on panel Ilia Balavadze is a Georgian artist born in 1968 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. From 1987 to 1993, he studied the painting at the Tbilisi State Academy of Ar...

Oil on panel Ilia Balavadze is a Georgian artist born in 1968 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. From 1987 to 1993, he studied the painting at t...

Oil on canvas