J. Oscar Molina

Children of the World (mid Night Collection) #2

2021

Inspired by various facets of his own life story, Salvadoran-American artist J Oscar Molina creates work that seamlessly bridges cultures, industries, and feelings. With a commitment...

The gray sky breaks down into subtle shades of ochre, sand, and salmon. The terrain accepts the rain figures falling from the sky.

In a grouping of three cloudlike formations compartmentalized between earth and sky, raindrops seem to emananate from the clouds, adding completion and sustenance to the world below.

Inspired by various facets of his own life story, Salvadoran-American artist J Oscar Molina creates work that seamlessly bridges cultures, industries, and feelings. With a commitment...

Against a tranquil mountain vista, a desert field, arid in appearance, interrupted by studied rain drops in acrid colors.

The beauty of the gold sky emits a hard 'rain' of figures determined to find their true place in the terrain.

Artist Motivation: "By Any Means" is bold, gritty, modern, vibrant and compelling! This "Street Style" Abstract Expressionist painting is raw and captivating! "By Any Means" fits ...

Abstract expressionism traditionally idolizes individual moments. My bold abstractions tell entire stories through vivacious mixed media like acrylic and spray paint with a focus on ...

One of his last available paintings created in Hawaii and inspired by his visit to the lava fields.

An original hard edge abstraction by American artist James Koenig. This work titled "Ribbon Structure #4" is part of the Draw Near exhibition currently on view at Benjaman Gallery

Lotus, 2023 by Yunior Manino Acrylic paint on canvas Mounted on stretcher Signed back by the artist _______ Yunior Marino completed his studies at the Instituto Superior de Artes ...

This recent body of work is informed by my continuing research into the physical and metaphorical nature of archaeological artefacts and votive objects, allied to the referencing of the symbolic forms and materiality of alchemy. Central to this practical investigation has been the use of ‘gold’, and the qualities that the material, with its obvious chromatic and symbolic values, seems to possess. This has driven both the conceptual and pragmatic concerns within the evolution of this work. Gold is an alluring and complex symbol of many, often conflicting meanings, avarice, greed, wealth but also of purity and celebration, and has been used as the adornment of spiritual and religious iconography as a devotional act for millennia. The titles refer to connections I have made with the forms themselves, often when making a painting a word will emerge which acts as a form of poetic catalyst. ‘Parsival’ or Percivale/Peredur was the knight questing for the holy grail...