Matt Messinger

"Kite" Contemporary Folk Inspired Abstract Watercolor Painting in Found Frame

2021

Contemporary abstract geometric colorful patterned work on paper by Texas-based artist Max Manning. The work features organic and geometric shapes in pinks, blues, greens, black, an...

Colorful abstract painting by contemporary Texas artist Tina Ruyi. The work features a take out container with noodles spilling out of it set against a maroon background. Woven into ...

Colorful geometric abstract grid painting by contemporary Texas artist Tina Ruyi. The work features an 8x5 grid of colorful shapes in cool toned colors. Signed and dated in the front...

Modern grey and white geometric abstract leaf pattern composition with orange accents by textile designer John Little. The work was created as a proposed design for a wallpaper and features the original color codes in the front lower left corner. Currently hung in a solid black frame with a large white margin. Dimensions Without Frame: H 27.13 in. x W 31.5 in. Artist Biography: A painter and textile designer, John Little is best known for gestural works filled with boldly explosive color that reflect the influences of his teacher Hans Hofmann and for his involvement in the Abstract Expressionist movement in East Hampton, where he moved in the late 1940s. In East Hampton Little congregated with Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and the other artists who were the leading innovators in the New York School. John Little was born in Sanford, Alabama. He left home at the age of fourteen to become an artist, and moved to Buffalo, New York, in 1923. After spending a year working as a stevedore on the docks to save money, he enrolled at the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy and developed an interest in singing. In 1927 he moved to New York City where he continued his vocal work and studied operatic literature. He also became involved in textile design, opening his own store in 1920, called John Little Studios: Fabric and Wallpaper Design. He ran the store until 1950. In 1933 John Little resumed his painting studies at the Art Students League in New York under the guidance of George Grosz (1893-1959). The following year he made his first visit to East Hampton, Long Island, which he would eventually call home. Later in the decade, he traveled to Paris where he became familiar with European modernism. On his return to America, he taught textile design at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. He hired Josephine Watkins to work for him; she later became his wife. Little's textile store and teaching job gave him a financial security that was rare during the Depression, and he never found it necessary to find employment with the Works Progress Administration. At the end of the decade, John Little studied with Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) in New York and Provincetown. Little was greatly influenced by Hofmann, particularly by his views on color theory. In 1942 John Little joined the Navy as an aerial photographer. In the late 1940s he purchased a rundown house on Three Mile Harbor...

Cersis Spring I is a unique Gouache on Paper artwork. It is 5x5 image on 12x12 paper. It is framed to 14 x 14 inches. According to Boston Artist, Nancy Simonds: “I make large-sc...

Viridian Arc is a unique Gouache on Paper artwork. The image is 15 x 15 on 22 x 22 inch archival paper. It is currently framed to 25 x 25 with a white frame. According to Boston A...

Purple and Orange Harvest is a unique Gouache on Paper artwork. The image is 12 x 12 on 22 x 22 inch archival paper. It is currently framed to 25 x 25. According to Boston Artist,...

Grażyna Rigall is a painter, illustrator, author of stage designs and music videos. - The artist is interested in the merging of the world of fauna and flora with the world of man, p...