Archival Paper Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

The meticulously rendered symbol for OM and the Ram's head are prominent features of this mandala. In many ancient societies, the ram was a long held symbol of: determination, action...

this is a monochrome blue work on paper from ongoing "explosion" series. informed by Bovasso's "gravity bound mounds", here the work locates the focus into the center and explodes it...

This is a painting on paper from 2019 exploring the theme of Purple Rain. Making literal song titles or lines from songs is a sometime point of departure for making a work. This wor...

This is a painting from 2019 in the ongoing series of anthropomorphized shapes using the dispersed watercolor pigment technique. Painted on Arches Watercolor paper, this unique wo...

This is a painting from 2019 in the ongoing series of anthropomorphized shapes using the dispersed watercolor pigment technique. Painted on Arches Watercolor paper, this unique wo...

A magical little drawing by Francine Fox whose work is centered around the mystical animal and natural world. At 6 x 4 inches, this drawing is tiny, calling the viewer in to examine ...

A meticulously rendered skull surrounded by intricate patterns and tiny planets is at the center of this mandala. This drawing is entirely hand-drawn using only pencil and paper. Fr...

This is a new painting in the ongoing series of anthropomorphized shapes using the dispersed watercolor pigment technique. Painted on Arches Watercolor paper, this unique work is 1...

This is a new painting in the ongoing series of anthropomorphized shapes using the dispersed watercolor pigment technique. Painted on Arches Watercolor paper, this unique work is 1...

Bold Abstract and Figurative Composition in Blue and red Acrylic on Paper Bright and colorful abstracted figural painting by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva (American/Bra...

This is a 30 x 36 inch work on paper created in 2020, which places flowers and "pink subjects" in the clearly dotted, gridded space of the rectangle. Ideas of what Masculine and Femi...

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...

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...

Large abstract geometric painting with intricate line work in pencil and gouache on a bright yellow background "Specifically, Nowhere (Yellow)" made by Hudson Valley artist, Donise English, in 2022 gouache, acrylic, pencil, and colored pencil on paper, mounted on panel 48 x 48 inches unframed, 50 x 50 inches with a dark brown stained wood floater frame Surface is protected with four coats of an archival UV protective varnish Signed, verso Excellent condition and ready to hang This large abstract geometric painting was made by Hudson Valley based artist, Donise English, in 2022. The composition begins with a bright yellow background overlaid with intricate line work in graphite and colored pencil. Thousands of hand drawn lines serve as a backdrop for a bold geometric form in a dusty violet and dark gray gridded pattern that references "an imagined city grid", says the artist. The painting on paper is mounted to wood panel and complemented with a dark stained wood floater frame. It's in excellent condition and ready to hang as is. The surface is protected with four coats of an archival UV protective varnish. More about the work: Donise English emphasizes lines, grids, and fields of subtle color to evoke imagined places and invented structures. While precise lines and straight angles are often associated with themes in architecture and urban planning designs, English conveys a geometric motif guided by intuition rather than a ruler. Variations on grids retain flaws and unmistakable traces of the artists’ hand; her style of draftsmanship shies away from intellectualism and instead makes her compositions feel very personal. Each design is intensely intricate, incorporating gouache, acrylic, pen, graphite, ink and colored pencil. Artist Statement: My work is about the way visual diagrams present information that describes how something is made or the way it is. I am interested in drawing and collaging multiple layers of information that refer abstractly to maps, architectural drawings and blueprints or patterns and structures found in such things as roller coasters, power lines and fences. I use gouache and collaged paper in a series of layers that are a visual and ideological response to the previous layer to define my pictorial space. For each piece I create a set of rules to follow about the use of a limited palette, a grid format, opacity of paper and whether a piece may include curving lines or maintain a rectilinear structure. Artist CV: EDUCATION Master of Fine Arts in Painting Bard College 1986 Bachelor of Science in Art History State University College at New Paltz 1977 Additional Study: New York Studio School (Drawing Marathons) Columbia University, School of Architecture Women’s Studio Workshop TEACHING Professor of Studio Art, Department of Art and Art History, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY Coordinator, Interior Design Program, Florence, Italy campus 1992-present AWARDS NYFA Fellowship in Painting 2018 Invitational Award for Outstanding Contemporary Talent, University of Bridgeport, CT 2000 Purchase Prize, “11th National Juried Exhibition” College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore 1999 First Prize, “Women in the Visual Arts ‘95” Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT 1995 Joseph A. Cain Memorial Purchase Award for Sculpture Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, TX 1994 Honorable Mention, “National Juried Exhibition” University of Bridgeport, CT 1993 Individual Artists Fellowship in Sculpture Dutchess Arts Fund 1992/93 Tallix, Morris, Singer Internship in Sculpture Tallix Foundry, Beacon, NY 1990/91 MEMBERSHIP Royal British Society of Sculptors SELECTED JURIED/INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS 2020 “edu: Art Faculty of the Hudson Valley”, Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill, NY 2019 “Contemporary Abstraction”, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY “Mixed Media”, SITE Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2018 “JuxtaPositions”, The Painting Center, New York, NY “Peculiar Rarities”, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY 2017 “Interlock: Color and Contrast in Abstraction”, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY “Donise English: Encaustics”, Catskill Art Society, Livingston Manor, NY 2016 “Let’s Stay in Touch”, Howard County Center for the Arts, Ellicott City, MD “Under, Over, After Over”, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY 2015 “Off the Grid”, Arts & Culture Program, Albany International Airport, Albany, NY “Gridspace”, KMOCA, Kingston, NY “Abstraction”, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY “Assuming Identity”, NY Institute of Technology, New York, NY 2013 “Modern Artists”, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY “Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region”, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY Stone Canoe/Community Folk Art Center, Syracuse, NY 2012 New York Institute of Technology, New York, NY “Contemporary Painters (Who Just Happen To Be Women)”, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY “Strange Glue: Collage at 100”, Cambridge School, Weston, MA “Dear Mother Nature”, Dorsky Museum, SUNY New Paltz, NY “Fresher Paint”, Rockland Center for the Arts, Nyack, NY Courthouse Gallery, Lake George Arts Project, Lake George, NY 2011 “Process+Content: Donise English”, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY “Donise English-Paintings”,Orange County Community College, Newburgh, NY “Gender Matters/Matters of Gender”, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA 2010 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY “Encaustics: Wax and Image”, Westchester Community College, White Plains, NY “Dots, Lines and Figures”, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY “Spring Awakening”, NY Institute of Technology, New York, NY “Clay City Dreams”, NY Institute of Technology, New York, NY “Texture,Pattern, Fragment”, Krause Gallery, Moses Brown School, Providence, RI 2009 “Collage”, NY Institute of Technology, New York, NY “Working in Wax”, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA “Encaustic 2009”, College of New Rochelle, NY “Three Artists”, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY “Convergence: The Human Experience”,Howard County Center for the Arts, MD 2008 “Suckers and Biters: Love, Lollipops, and Exquisite Corpse” Chashama Gallery, New York, NY Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY 2007 “Patterns and Light”, Blue Hill Gallery, Blue Hill, ME “Suckers and Biters”, AG Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2006 “100 Artists, 100 Watercolors”, Jeannie Freilich Fine Art, New York, NY “On/Of Paper”,Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, NY “The Love Show”, Manchester Community College, Manchester, CT 2005 The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN “Small Tales”, Valdosta State University, Georgia National Juried Exhibition,Art Institute and Gallery Salisbury, MD, Juror: Stephen Haller “Greed, Envy, Jealousy, Fear”, TSL Warehouse, Hudson, NY 2004 “Women in the Middle: Borders, Barriers, Intersections” University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee “Girl Art Now”,Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI 3 Person Exhibition, Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey, CA “The Feminine Eye”, Bradley University, Peoria, IL “Women Painting Women”, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA “Thought Patterns”, Kent Place Gallery, Summit, NJ “Surface, Matter and Artifice”, Dutchess Community College Art Gallery Poughkeepsie, NY 2003 “Beefcake/Cheesecake”,Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA,Juror: Jamie Wilson, Curator Halpert Bienniel, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC Juror: Jeff Fleming, Senior Curator, Des Moines Art Center “The Great White Oak”, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY 2002 “Cat Calls”, Red Clay Arts, Brooklyn “Hudson Valley Regional”, SUNY New Paltz Juror: Sydney Jenkins, Director, Ramapo College Art Galleries 2001 One-Person Exhibition, Davis and Hall Gallery, Hudson, NY “Beyond the Surface”, Womanmade Gallery, Chicago One-Person Exhibition, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY 2000 “Vision 2000...

Abstract Colorado mountain landscape by Eric James Bransby (1916-2020). Pastel on paper in colors of green, orange, blue, and purple. Presented in a custom frame with archival materi...

Finesse and delicacy are what characterize best Antonin Anzil’s artistic practice. Paper as a medium seems incompatible with the idea of engraving or sculpturing; and yet. Using a sh...

Nazanin Moghbeli is an Iranian-American artist with training in Persian calligraphy, miniature painting, and music. She borrows techniques from Irania...

Finesse and delicacy are what characterize best Antonin Anzil’s artistic practice. Paper as a medium seems incompatible with the idea of engraving or sculpturing; and yet. Using a sh...

Abstract painting on paper image: 18 x 24 inches paper size: 22 x 30 inches Contemporary minimalist abstract painting on a beautiful thick, creamy white Arches paper, unframed. Ins...

mixed media on paper Image size: 12.75 x 24 inches Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated wi...

This original drawing by Patrick Blake measures 14in x 11.5in and ships float mounted in the pictured simple black custom frame. "Though I work in many different mediums, drawing ...

This is a large unique work on paper in Nina Bovasso's signature diptych format. An intense red field of flowers has an active surface of multicolor dots that are lot mardi Gras bead...

This is a unique work on paper by Nina Bovasso. The dynamic composition of splashy blues and hot red flowers is fresh and energetic and more of an emotional landscape.

This is a unique work on paper in Nina Bovasso's signature diptych format. A Plant-like structure plays on symmetry as well as referencing an open book.

This is a classic Nina Bovasso "gravity bound" mound work on paper from 2024. 9 x 11 1/2 inches This small compressed image packs a large burst of color. Using a dot as an Increment...

Emma's artwork is inspired by the Parisian luxury world of fashion, textures and colour. This blue tone artwork titled "Lagoon 05" works well on it's own or as a grouping. It comes f...

Emma's artwork is inspired by the Parisian luxury world of fashion, textures and colour. "I work on a white surface, usually leaving the background pure, happily playing with the i...

This is a recent unique work on paper, continuing in the ongoing "explosion" series. A controlled chaos, and a strategy to have an action emanating from the center of the work. Rough...

In this meticulously detailed mandala, a delicate crescent moon at the top, planets and intricate patterns suggest the cosmos and infinite continuity of time, a theme alluded to in t...

A meticulously detailed mandala containing tiny vignettes of celestial bodies, planets and miniature landscapes with endless horizons is depicted in carefully applied graphite on pap...

This is a signature Nina Bovasso diptych painting on paper. Using a pigment dispersal technique, floating transparent amoeba like blobs occupy the background of this work. With the t...

This is a unique work on paper using various water based paints on Hahnemühle paper. Part of my explosion series , this work stays in the realm of flowers, thus a celebratory pink fl...

Lita Kenyon was born in Marinette, Wisconsin. She attended Columbia College for her BFA, and earned her MA from Northern Illinois University 1982. She’s been featured in Empty Mirror...

Lita Kenyon was born in Marinette, Wisconsin. She attended Columbia College for her BFA, and earned her MA from Northern Illinois University 1982. She’s been featured in Empty Mirror...

Lita Kenyon was born in Marinette, Wisconsin. She attended Columbia College for her BFA, and earned her MA from Northern Illinois University 1982. She’s been featured in Empty Mirror...

In carefully drawn dots and lines in soft shades of indigo blue with pink, green, yellow and dark red details, this intricate composition is inspired by patterns in nature. This draw...

In carefully drawn dots and lines in soft shades of indigo blue with pink and dark cobalt details, this intricate composition is inspired by patterns in nature. This drawing in ink, ...

In carefully drawn dots and lines in soft shades of indigo blue with light pink flowers, this intricate composition is inspired by patterns in nature. This drawing in ink, watercolor...

Finesse and delicacy are what characterize best Antonin Anzil’s artistic practice. Paper as a medium seems incompatible with the idea of engraving or sculpturing; and yet. Using a sh...

Sometimes, abstract images can more clearly depict scenarios in real life than representational ones. In this drawing we see the simple use of line and space to depict an emotion. Tr...

i remember Family House Title: Fragment Artist: Marilina Marchica Dimensions: Artwork: 72x56 cm Frame:43x60 cm Description: This is an original, non-reproducible piece by Marilina M...

i remember Family House Title: Fragment Artist: Marilina Marchica Dimensions: Artwork: 72x56 cm Frame:43x60 cm Description: This is an original, non-reproducible piece by Marilina M...

i remember Family House Title: Fragment Artist: Marilina Marchica Dimensions: Artwork: 72x56 cm Frame:43x60 cm Description: This is an original, non-reproducible piece by Marilina M...

Emma's artwork is inspired by the Parisian luxury world of fashion, textures and colour. "I work on a white surface, usually leaving the background pure, happily playing with the i...

Black and white, Abstract Geometric, Architectural, XL, Large, Horizontal or Vertical, B&W, Ab-Ex, Geometric Abstraction, deconstructionist drawing by Chicago artist and architect Pa...

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: (Abstract Landscape with Angel) Untitled Year: 2001 Medium: Ink on archival paper Size: 9 x 12 inches Condition: Good Provenance: Estate of Ian ...

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: (Abstract Landscape with Trees) Untitled Year: 2001 Medium: Ink on archival paper Size: 11 x 14 inches Condition: Good Provenance: Estate of Ian...

This work on paper is from Nina Bovasso's signature style diptych series. The artist began making the diptychs in 1995. These works are asymmetrical playing off of symmetrical pairin...

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: (Abstract Mythological Landscape) Untitled Year: 2001 Medium: Ink on archival paper Size: 11 x 14 inches Condition: Good Provenance: Estate of I...

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: (Abstract Tropical Landscape) Untitled Year: 2001 Medium: Ink on archival paper Size: 9 x 12 inches Condition: Good Provenance: Estate of Ian Ho...

This is a work on paper by Nina Bovasso from her ongoing "explosion" series. Bovasso began making the explosion works in 2004. They are a direct response from the artist's signature ...

this work on paper imagines a flat slice from a spherical shaped earth. sort of like a round disco floor. Created on a sheet of black Hahnemühle paper.

The eerie timeless Flat Iron building stands silhouetted against a winter sky one day in NYC. Tom was struck by the severe geometry of an historic b...

This is a large painting on paper from 2020 that makes an optical pulsing with marks emanating from a central point exploring the vortex theme....

This is one-of-a-kind, unframed colored pencil & collage on archival pigment print. See image gallery for example of framing possibilities. These pieces work particularly well as a s...

Original watercolor on archival paper by the American artist, Lloyd Raymond. Signed lower left by the artist and dated 1963. Condition is excellent. Presently unframed. Framing op...

Surrealist proto-Afropunk drawing by African-American artist, Roland Ayers (1932-2014). Animal Capers, ca. 1970 . Ink on illustration board, image measures 20 inches. inches; illustration panel measures 21.5 inches. Unsigned. Minor staining evident in detail photos Artist and art educator, Roland Ayers was born on July 2, 1932, the only child of Alice and Lorenzo Ayers, and grew up in the Germantown district of Philadelphia. Ayers served in the US Army (stationed in Germany) before studying at the Philadelphia College of Art (currently University of the Arts). He graduated with a BFA in Art Education, 1954. He traveled Europe 1966-67, spending time in Amsterdam and Greece in particular. During this period, he drifted away from painting to focus on linear figurative drawings of a surreal nature. His return home inaugurated the artist’s most prolific and inspired period (1968-1975). Shorty before his second major trip abroad in 1971-72 to West Africa, Ayers began to focus on African themes, and African American figures populated his work almost exclusively. In spite of Ayers’ travel and exploration of the world, he gravitated back to his beloved Germantown, a place he endowed with mythological qualities in his work and literature. His auto-biographical writing focuses on the importance of place during his childhood. Ayers’ journals meticulously document the ethnic and cultural make-up of Germantown, and tell a compelling story of class marginalization that brought together poor families despite racial differences. The distinctive look and design of Germantown inform Ayers’ visual vocabulary. It is a setting with distinctive Gothic Revival architecture and haunting natural beauty. These characteristics are translated and recur in the artist’s imagery. During his childhood, one of the only books in the Ayers household was an illustrated Bible. The images within had a profound effect on the themes and subjects that would appear in his adult work. Figures in an Ayers’ drawing often seem trapped in a narrative of loss and redemption. Powerful women loom large in the drawings: they suggest the female role models his journals record in early life. The drawings can sometimes convey a strong sense of conflict, and at other times, harmony. Nature and architecture seem to have an antagonistic relationship that is, ironically, symbiotic. A critical turning point in the artist’s career came in 1971 when he was included in the extremely controversial Whitney Museum show, Contemporary Black Artists in America. The exhibition gave Ayers an international audience and served as a calling card for introductions he would soon make in Europe. Ayers is a particularly compelling figure in a period when black artists struggled with the idea of authenticity. A questioned often asked was “Is your work too black, or not black enough?” Abstractionists were considered by some peers to be sell-outs, frauds or worse. Figurative* work was accused of being either sentimental or politically radical depending on the critical source. Ayers made the choice early on to be a figurative artist, but considered his work devoid of political content. Organizations such as Chicago’ s Afri-Cobra in the late 1960‘s asserted that the only true black art of any relevance must depict the black man and woman...

Lita Kenyon was born in Marinette, Wisconsin. She attended Columbia College for her BFA, and earned her MA from Northern Illinois University 1982. She’s been featured in Empty Mirror...