a.muse

Portrait of Paris, Abstract Acrylic Painting on Paper

2019

Down by the River, 2022 by a.muse is a contemporary watercolor collage work on paper. The art on paper is a collection of vibrant images arranged like a patchwork quilt of small imag...

Sweet Life, 2022 by a.muse is an abstract watercolor collage․ This work on paper is a collection of memories of summer, fragments of everyday life sequenced...

Chasing Butterflies, 2022 by a.muse is a work on paper that introduces playful butterfly forms flitting in between fields of green, pink, and yellow wavy lines of colors. The 30" x 20" acrylic, oil stick, and sand art on Japanese washi paper is signed, titled, and dated by the artist on verso (back). Provenance: a.muse Studio *** Artist’s Bio: Mixed-media artist a.muse’s printmaking, collages, drawings, and paintings on paper and canvas tap into serendipity, happenstance, and lucid dreams. For the works on paper, a.muse employs acrylic, watercolor, oil sticks, sand, and organic matter. The abstract paintings on canvas integrate bright colors, found objects, patterns, shapes, and symbols. a.muse has exhibited in public and virtual spaces, including Jewell House NYC (2023), Time Gallery New York (2022), Phyllis Harriman Gallery New York studio shows (2022; 2020), CADAF online art fair (2020), Gallery122 New York pop up show (2019), Curate NY online group show (2013), among others. The artist lives and works in New York City. *** Available at 99Prints...

P After Blue Eyes, 2021 by a.muse is 24" x 18" x 3/16” an acrylic and oil stick painting on canvas mounted on archival board. The work is signed, t...

A metaphor for emotions, experiences and memories, Power Play, 2022 by a.muse is a contemporary abstract acrylic mixed-media painting․ The work is sewn wi...

An acrylic painting on canvas by a.muse introduces play and serendipity. Bright splashes of color create movement for a dance on a cosmic stage. I Feel Like Dancing, 2021 by a.muse ...

Overflowing with imaginative symbolism, Rafael Melendez's Neo-conceptualist work on paper, Foot Head Smoking, 2022, captivates avant-garde enthusiasts seeking a distinctive approach ...

Watercolor, oil pastel, charcoal, ink, salt and Black 3.0 on watercolor paper, 22.25" high x 29.75" wide Pink, red, peach, orange, purple, black Framing available COA available upon...

Anthony Thomas Triano (1928–1997) was an abstract expressionist painter, sculptor, illustrator and teacher. His works feature natural forms, especially the human form, and tend towar...

Street art style figurative abstract of blue face by Bay Area artist, Kelvin Curry (American, 20th Century). Signed "Kelvin Curry" lower right. Unframed. Ima...

Two Faces (Purple and Magenta) in Pastel on Paper Brightly colored faces by Bay Area artist, Kelvin Curry (American, 20th Century). Two faces are shown in profile, looking to the le...

Mercedes Carles Matter (1913 - 2001) Untitled, circa 1937 Pastel on paper 16 x 13 1/2 inches Estate stamped on the reverse Provenance: Estate of the artist Spanierman Gallery, New York Private Collection, Pennsylvania circa 2013 Private Collection, New York, 2021 Mercedes Matter was born in New York in 1913. Her father, the American modernist Arthur B. Carles, had studied with Matisse. Her mother, Mercedes de Cordoba, was a model for Edward Steichen. Ms. Matter grew up in Philadelphia, New York and Europe. She began painting under her father's supervision at age 6, and studied art at Bennett College in Millbrook, N.Y., and then in New York City with Maurice Sterne, Alexander Archipenko and Hans Hofmann. In the late 1930's, she was an original member of the American Abstract Artists organization and worked for the federal Works Progress Administration, assisting Fernand Léger on his mural for the French Line passenger ship company. Léger introduced her to Herbert Matter, the Swiss graphic designer and photographer, whom she married in 1939. The Matters were active in the emerging New York art scene and also traveled frequently to Europe. Their closest friends included Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Franz Kline, Philip Guston, Alexander Calder and Willem de Kooning. They were also close to Alberto Giacometti, who was an important artistic role model for Mrs. Matter and a frequent photographic subject for her husband. Beginning in 1953, Mrs. Matter taught at the Philadelphia College of Art (now University of the Arts), Pratt Institute and New York University. Based on her teaching experiences she wrote an article for Art News in 1963 titled ''What's Wrong with U.S. Art Schools?'' In it, she lamented the phasing out of the extended studio classes required to initiate ''that painfully slow education of the senses,'' which she considered an artist's life work. The article prompted a group of Pratt students to ask her to form a school based on her ideas, which led, in 1964, to the founding of the New York Studio School. Originally in a loft on Broadway, the school gained almost immediate support from the Kaplan Fund, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Ford Foundation. It granted no degrees, had only studio classes and emphasized drawing from life. Its teachers, chosen by the students, included the artists Guston, Bradley Walker Tomlin, Charles Cajori, Louis Finkelstein...