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Period: Early 2000s
Colorful Expressionist Still Life with Watermelon and Pears
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Vivid watercolor still life with colorful expressionist pink and purple hues, of a bright table with watermelon, pears, and flowers on heavy paper by Monterey artist Les Anderson (Am...
Category
Abstract Impressionist Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$276 Sale Price
35% Off
Cesare Pavese Looking At His Suicide - Drawing by Parimah Avani-2022
Located in Roma, IT
Cesare Pavese Looking At His Suicide is a painting realized by Iranian Painter and Poet Parimah Avani in 2022.
China ink and acrylic on ivory-colored Can...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Acrylic
$427 Sale Price
25% Off
Test Pattern 5 (Grey study)
By Tom McGlynn
Located in London, GB
Test Pattern 5 (Grey study)
Ink, gouache and acrylic on Fabriano paper - Unframed.
Test Pattern series sets up a generic template as a poetic prompt to consider how behavioural res...
Category
Abstract Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Gouache
"Beaver Lake Reflections, " Original Framed Watercolor signed by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Beaver Lake Reflections" is an original watercolor painting on paper by David Barnett, signed in the lower right. The painting is an abstract representation of the lake on which the...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
United with Victorious Rose - Drawing by Parimah Avani - 2022
Located in Roma, IT
United with Victorious Rose is a Drawing realized by Iranian Painter and Poet Parimah Avani in 2022.
China ink and acrylic on ivory-colored paper.
Ha...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Acrylic
Test Pattern 6 (Grey study)
By Tom McGlynn
Located in London, GB
Test Pattern 6 (Grey study)
Ink, gouache and acrylic on Fabriano paper - Unframed.
Test Pattern series sets up a generic template as a poetic prompt to consider how behavioural res...
Category
Abstract Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Gouache
Veiled Series L, Abstract Expressionist Organic Drawing Watercolor Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Dorothy Gillespie (June 29, 1920 – September 30, 2012) was an American artist and sculptor who became known for her large and colorful abstract metal sculptures. Gillespie became best known for the aluminum sculptures she started to produce at the end of the 1970s. She would paint sheets of the metal, cut them into strips and connect the strips together to resemble cascades or starbursts of bright colored ribbon. The New York Times once summarized her work as “topsy-turvy, merrymaking fantasy,” and in another review declared, “The artist’s exuberant sculptures of colorful aluminum strips have earned her an international reputation.Her works are featured at her alma mater (Radford University) in Virginia, where she later returned to teach, as well as in New York (where she was artist in residence for the feminist Women's Interart Center), Wilmington, North Carolina and Florida.
She enrolled both at Radford University near her hometown, and the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. The director of the Maryland Institute, Hans Schuler, helped foster her career in fine art.
On June 5, 1943, aged 23, Gillespie moved to New York City. There she took a job at the B. Altman department store as assistant art director. She also joined the Art Students League where she was exposed to new ideas about techniques, materials, and marketing. She also created works at Atelier 17 printmaking studio, where Stanley William Hayter encouraged to experiment with her own ideas.
She and her husband, Bernard Israel, opened a restaurant and night club in Greenwich Village to support their family. She returned to making art in 1957, and worked at art full-time after they sold the nightclub in the 1970.
In 1977 Gillespie gave her first lecture series at the New School for Social Research, and she would give others there until 1982. She taught at her alma mater as a Visiting Artist (1981-1983) and gave Radford University some of her work to begin its permanent art collection. Gillespie then served as Woodrow Wilson visiting Fellow (1985-1994), visiting many small private colleges to give public lectures and teach young artists. She returned to Radnor University to teach as Distinguished Professor of Art (1997–99).[8] She also hosted a radio program, the Dorothy Gillespie Show on Radio Station WHBI in New York from 1967-1973.
Gillespie began moving away from realism and into the abstraction that marked her career. Gillespie returned to New York City in 1963 to continue her career. She maintained a studio through the 70s and advocate worked towards feminist goals in the art industry, picketing the Whitney Museum, helping to organize the Women's Interart Center, curating exhibitions of women's art, and writing articles raising awareness of her cause. Gillespie numbered among her acquaintances such art-world luminaries as Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Alice Neel, Louise Nevelson and Georgia O’Keeffe. “She had amazing stories that unfortunately are gone,” her son said.
During the 1960s, she built multimedia art installations that made political statements, such as 1965’s “Made in the USA,” that used blinking colored lights, mirrors, shadow boxes, rotating figures and tape recordings to convey a chaotic look at American commercial fads. The floor was strewn with real dollar bills, which visitors assumed were fake.
By the 1980s, Gillespie's work had come to be known internationally. She completed many commissions for sculptures in public places, including Lincoln Center, Rockefeller Center and Walt Disney World Epcot Center in Orlando, Florida. Her work is in many collections across the United States, including the Delaware Museum, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Her sculptures can also be found in the Frankfurt Museum in Germany and the Tel Aviv Museum in Israel.
Group Shows Conceived and Curated by Dorothy Gillespie
Women's Interart Center, New York, NY 1974 included: Betty Parsons, Elsie Asher, Alice Baber, Minna Citron, Nancy Spero, Seena Donneson, Alice Neel, Natalie Edgar, Dorothy Gillespie, and Anita Steckel...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Permanent Marker
Drawing 02-02-16
By Jun Kaneko
Located in Phoenix, AZ
sumi ink and oil stick on Korean paper (72 x 61.5 x 1.5 inches, framed)
b. 1942, Nagoya, Japan
Jun Kaneko’s most recognized sculptural form is the boldly glazed, monumental dango (...
Category
Abstract Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Crayon, Sumi Ink, Handmade Paper
Tutti al mare - Mixed Media Drawing by Maurizio Gracceva - 2008
Located in Roma, IT
Tutti al mare is a beautiful artwork realized by Maurizio Gracceva in the 2008.
Mixed media on paper: ink, spray and watercolor.
Hand signed by the artist.
Author of numerous phi...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
Rimandati (Postponed to Exams) - Original Drawing - 2009
Located in Roma, IT
Rimandati is a beautiful artwork realized by Maurizio Gracceva in the 2009.
Mixed media on paper: graphite, acrylic, spray, pencils.
Hand signed by the artist.
Title, date, techi...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic, Pencil, Graphite
"Backyard Abstractions, " Landscape Watercolor on paper signed by Craig Lueck
By Craig Lueck
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Backyard Abstractions" is an original watercolor on Holbein watercolor paper by Craig Lueck. These petite watercolors that make up Lueck's portfolio serve as windows into the artist...
Category
Abstract Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
(Abstract Mythological Landscape) Untitled, 2001, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
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...
Category
Photorealist Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
$3,080 Sale Price
20% Off
'Amalfi ' Italy. Coastline' original mixed media , signed , c2005
Located in Frome, Somerset
Fine piece by Gradwell on his exenstive tour of Italy.
'Amalfi Caostline' c 2005 signed original painting
mixed media on paper 49cmx 50cm
Glazed frame 68cm x 83cm
Considered one of...
Category
Impressionist Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
Contemporary Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Sculpture', c. 2000 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Blue Water Dots (Abstract Painting)
By Holly Miller
Located in London, GB
Blue Water Dots (Abstract Painting)
Watercolor / work on paper - Unframed
This work on paper is made with thread and watercolor.
It is a “drawing” of color with a brush, line wit...
Category
Abstract Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Thread, Paper, Watercolor
Contemporary Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Space, C. 2000's by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Contemporary Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Sculpture', C. 2007 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Yaddo B (Abstract Expressionism painting)
Located in London, GB
Watercolour on 100% rag hot press paper. Unframed.
Melissa Meyer has created a diverse oeuvre that includes oil paintings, drawings, watercolors, prints and large-scale public commi...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Rag Paper
'Sardinian Cove, Evening Light' original painting c2003 signed
Located in Frome, Somerset
Sardinian Cove in evening light, Costa Smeralda by Andy Gradwell circa 2003.
Mixed media on paper 31cm x 32cm
Silver giltwood glazed frame by Academy Framers ( Royal College of Arts, London) 52cm x56cm.
'Water and Dreams' .A semi abstracted romanticised view of a bay on the Mediterranean Island using expressive color..
Fluid lyrical forms and line work expessive of the flora and mountainous backdrop and ocean...
Category
Expressionist Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
(Abstract Landscape with Angel) Untitled, 2001, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
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 ...
Category
Photorealist Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
$3,080 Sale Price
20% Off
"City - New York" Mixed Media watercolor signed and dated by Dan Muller 2009
By Dan Muller
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In "City-New York" by Dan Muller you can see people dancing, walking, cars driving by, and buildings. Dan Muller's use of mixed media brings to life the chaos and excitement that com...
Category
Abstract Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Laid Paper, Tissue Paper
Yaddo B (Abstract Expressionism painting)
Located in London, GB
Yaddo B (Abstract Expressionism painting)
Watercolour on 100% rag hot press paper. Unframed.
Melissa Meyer has created a diverse oeuvre that includes oil paintings, drawings, water...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Rag Paper
Untitled - 3, Abstract Acrylic and Mixed Media Painting on Paper by Robert Kautz
By Robert Kautz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Robert Kautz, Austrian
Title: untitled - 3
Year: 2008
Medium: Acrylic and Mixed Media on Paper, signed verso
Size: 23.5 in. x 19.5 in. (59.69 cm x...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
Black and White Abstract Mixed Media Drawing with Botanical Elements
Located in Houston, TX
Monochromatic abstract work on paper by Houston, TX artist Vergel Grotfeldt. This piece depicts a black figure of a swan and snail on leaves and tree branches. These figures are drawn on an old letter with signs of wear, purposefully chosen to convey timelessness in this particular work. The piece is signed and dated at the bottom right corner. Framed in a silver-colored wooden frame.
This piece came from an important private collection in Houston, TX.
Dimensions WIthout Frame: H 13.25 in. x W 8 in.
Artist Biography: Virgil Grotfeldt...
Category
Abstract Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Found Objects
Sixteen Street 7.15 (Abstract Expressionism painting)
By Jill Moser
Located in London, GB
Sixteen Street 7.15 (Abstract Expressionism painting)
Gouache on paper - Unframed.
Jill Moser is an American abstract artist whose work explores the intersection of “painting, writ...
Category
Abstract Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
"Up North Wisconsin: Morph Dog, Rabbit, & Beaver, " by David & Sarah Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Up North Wisconsin Series: Morph Dog, Rabbit, & Beaver" is an original mixed media piece by David Barnett and his daughter, Sarah. This colorful piece incorporates watercolor, ink, ...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Rag Paper
Small Maelstrom (Ref 854) (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Small Maelstrom (Ref 854) (Abstract drawing)
Pigment pencil on Mylar. Unframed.
The Maelstrom Series include the most iconic and known of Peerna's works.
Starting from the cente...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mylar, Pencil, Pigment
Zurich at a Glance
Located in New York, NY
Friederike Oeser, a contemporary abstract painter, lives and works in Munich, Germany. For Oeser there is no hierarchy of visual value. It all has import—whether it be a trickle of w...
Category
Abstract Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
Conference of the birds no 40 (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Oil on paper. Unframed.
Natural and mystical processes inspire Ostovany. Informed by a variety of different cultures, Ostovany feels a connection to multiple separate and yet comple...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil
Untitled (F221, G3) - soft pastel color blue yellow abstract geometric drawing
By David Brody
Located in New York, NY
DAVID BRODY
Untitled (F221, G3), 2000
16.8 x 21.75 inches; framed in off white wood frame 20.1 x 25.1 inches
graphite and colored pencil on isometric graph paper
pencil signed and da...
Category
Abstract Geometric Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
"Native American Southwest Series: Purple Rain Love the Earth, " David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Native American Southwest Series: Purple Rain Love the Earth" is an original mixed media piece by David Barnett that incorporates watercolor...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor
French Abstract - Saxophone Player
Located in Houston, TX
French abstract emanating halos of jazz vibrations from repeating images of a saxophone player, 2000s.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Mat fit...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
"Funny Flip Face Amusement Park, " Original Aquacryl on silk by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Funny Flip Face Amusement Park" is an original painting in aquaryl on silk, which is mounted on an acid free foam board. It is signed in the lower left. Thi...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Silk, Other Medium
Ambassade 44 (Abstract Expressionism painting)
Located in London, GB
Ambassade 44 (Abstract Expressionism painting)
Watercolour on hot press paper - Unframed
This work is part of the watercolour series titled Ambassade which was named after a visit ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Muse with a Tear-Stained Face
Located in New York, NY
Friederike Oeser, a contemporary abstract painter, lives and works in Munich, Germany. For Oeser there is no hierarchy of visual value. It all has import—whether it be a trickle of w...
Category
Abstract Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
Untitled (Inspired by a Chinese scroll painting)
By Peter Marks
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Inspired by a Chinese scroll painting)
Collage with ink on 6 paper elements
Unsigned
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 4 x 12 inches
Support...
Category
Abstract Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Test Pattern 4 (Grey Study) (Abstract Painting)
By Tom McGlynn
Located in London, GB
Test Pattern 4 (Grey Study) (Abstract Painting)
Ink, gouache and acrylic on Fabriano paper - Unframed.
Test Pattern series sets up a generic template as a poetic prompt to consider...
Category
Abstract Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Gouache
Nocturne Cave, abstracted earth tones, energetic brushwork
By Tom Bennett
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Monotype on paper
Category
Neo-Expressionist Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Monotype
Flutter (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Flutter (Abstract Painting)
Oil on paper - Unframed
Spielman uses oil paint on canvas, paper and panel in various sizes; she works on up to forty paintings at a time, moving betwee...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil
Untitled
Located in Wien, 9
> signed and dated lower right
Barbara Szüts was born in Bad Bleiberg in Carinthia (AUSTRIA) in 1952. She studied painting with Carl Unger at the University of Applied Arts in Vienn...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Small Clocks #68, Abstract Expressionist Acrylic Painting by Chris Anderson
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chris Anderson
Title: Small Clocks #68
Year: 2006
Medium: Acrylic and Pastel on Paper, Signed and titled in pencil
Image Size: 24 x 25 inches
Siz...
Category
Abstract Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Acrylic
Pions (Abstract work on paper)
Located in London, GB
Watercolour on paper - Unframed.
Artwork exclusive to IdeelArt.
French abstract artist Jérémie Iordanoff blends the visual languages of Western Modernist Abstraction with earlier, ...
Category
Abstract Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Evergreen Lane (Abstract print)
Located in London, GB
Evergreen Lane (Abstract print)
Etching - Unframed.
This print is last in edition.
This etching refers to a Steamboat Springs, Colorado street. It...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Etching
"Is There No End to This?" Jewel Toned Abstract Figurative Painting
By Ron Hoover
Located in Houston, TX
Jewel-toned abstract figurative watercolor painting by Texas artist Ron Hoover. This painting depicts a figure of a man wearing a suit against a split background. Signed and titled b...
Category
Abstract Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Abstract Composition XII -- unique work, 2004 - lithograph, 69x52 cm, framed
By André Verdet
Located in Nice, FR
Lithograph with hand-additions in blue crayon and watercolor, with extensive dedication in pencil, signed lower right, a unique HC (hors-commerce/not for sale) impression outside of ...
Category
Abstract Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lithograph
Conference of the birds no 40 (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Conference of the birds no 40 (Abstract painting)
Oil on paper. Unframed.
Natural and mystical processes inspire Ostovany. Informed by a variety of different cultures, Ostovany fee...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil
Sylvaticus Aquaticus, nude water bather blue colors free brushwork
By Tom Bennett
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Monotype on paper
Dramatic imagery from Tom Bennett’s series of monotypes, blending surrealistic mindscapes with stark realism
About Tom Bennett:
With quick brushstrokes, Tom Bennet...
Category
Neo-Expressionist Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Monotype
Untitled 3 2006 (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Untitled 3 2006 (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic , tape on paper - Unframed
This work is part of a series of similar works consisting of adhesive masking tape painted over with acrylic ...
Category
Minimalist Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Tape, Acrylic
11.7 (Abstract Expressionism painting)
By Jill Moser
Located in London, GB
11.7 (Abstract Expressionism painting)
Casein and ink on paper - Unframed
Jill Moser is an American abstract artist whose work explores the intersection of “painting, writing and t...
Category
Abstract Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Casein
Untitled
Located in Wien, 9
> chalk on sandpaper
> signed and dated lower right
Barbara Szüts was born in Bad Bleiberg in Carinthia (AUSTRIA) in 1952. She studied painting with Carl Unger at the University of ...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk
"Spring Green Variation III, " Mixed Media Watercolor signed by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Spring Green Variation III" is an original mixed media piece by David Barnett. The artist signed and dated the piece lower right. This piece depicts a landscape in bright colors.
...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor
11.7 (Abstract Expressionism painting)
By Jill Moser
Located in London, GB
Casein and ink on paper - Unframed
Jill Moser is an American abstract artist whose work explores the intersection of “painting, writing and the animated image.”
Her work is in the...
Category
Abstract Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Casein
Untitled
Located in Wien, 9
Barbara Szüts was born in Bad Bleiberg in Carinthia (AUSTRIA) in 1952.
She studied painting with Carl Unger at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna from 1974 to 1980. From 1986...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
"For Beaver Lake Yacht Club Dinghy, " Original Watercolor
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"For Beaver Lake Yacht Club Dinghy" is an original watercolor painting by David Barnett, signed in the lower left. This piece was designed for the yacht club's dinghy cover in 2003. ...
Category
Abstract Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Veiled Series X , Abstract Expressionist Organic Drawing Watercolor Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Dorothy Gillespie (June 29, 1920 – September 30, 2012) was an American artist and sculptor who became known for her large and colorful abstract metal sculptures. Gillespie became best known for the aluminum sculptures she started to produce at the end of the 1970s. She would paint sheets of the metal, cut them into strips and connect the strips together to resemble cascades or starbursts of bright colored ribbon. The New York Times once summarized her work as “topsy-turvy, merrymaking fantasy,” and in another review declared, “The artist’s exuberant sculptures of colorful aluminum strips have earned her an international reputation.Her works are featured at her alma mater (Radford University) in Virginia, where she later returned to teach, as well as in New York (where she was artist in residence for the feminist Women's Interart Center), Wilmington, North Carolina and Florida.
She enrolled both at Radford University near her hometown, and the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. The director of the Maryland Institute, Hans Schuler, helped foster her career in fine art.
On June 5, 1943, aged 23, Gillespie moved to New York City. There she took a job at the B. Altman department store as assistant art director. She also joined the Art Students League where she was exposed to new ideas about techniques, materials, and marketing. She also created works at Atelier 17 printmaking studio, where Stanley William Hayter encouraged to experiment with her own ideas.
She and her husband, Bernard Israel, opened a restaurant and night club in Greenwich Village to support their family. She returned to making art in 1957, and worked at art full-time after they sold the nightclub in the 1970.
In 1977 Gillespie gave her first lecture series at the New School for Social Research, and she would give others there until 1982. She taught at her alma mater as a Visiting Artist (1981-1983) and gave Radford University some of her work to begin its permanent art collection. Gillespie then served as Woodrow Wilson visiting Fellow (1985-1994), visiting many small private colleges to give public lectures and teach young artists. She returned to Radnor University to teach as Distinguished Professor of Art (1997–99).[8] She also hosted a radio program, the Dorothy Gillespie Show on Radio Station WHBI in New York from 1967-1973.
Gillespie began moving away from realism and into the abstraction that marked her career. Gillespie returned to New York City in 1963 to continue her career. She maintained a studio through the 70s and advocate worked towards feminist goals in the art industry, picketing the Whitney Museum, helping to organize the Women's Interart Center, curating exhibitions of women's art, and writing articles raising awareness of her cause. Gillespie numbered among her acquaintances such art-world luminaries as Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Alice Neel, Louise Nevelson and Georgia O’Keeffe. “She had amazing stories that unfortunately are gone,” her son said.
During the 1960s, she built multimedia art installations that made political statements, such as 1965’s “Made in the USA,” that used blinking colored lights, mirrors, shadow boxes, rotating figures and tape recordings to convey a chaotic look at American commercial fads. The floor was strewn with real dollar bills, which visitors assumed were fake.
By the 1980s, Gillespie's work had come to be known internationally. She completed many commissions for sculptures in public places, including Lincoln Center, Rockefeller Center and Walt Disney World Epcot Center in Orlando, Florida. Her work is in many collections across the United States, including the Delaware Museum, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Her sculptures can also be found in the Frankfurt Museum in Germany and the Tel Aviv Museum in Israel.
Group Shows Conceived and Curated by Dorothy Gillespie
Women's Interart Center, New York, NY 1974 included: Betty Parsons, Elsie Asher, Alice Baber, Minna Citron, Nancy Spero, Seena Donneson, Alice Neel, Natalie Edgar, Dorothy Gillespie, and Anita Steckel...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Permanent Marker
Dolphin Dance 17 (Abstract painting)
By Ellen Priest
Located in London, GB
Dolphin Dance 17 (Abstract painting)
Gouache on rag tracing vellum - Unframed.
This work on paper is part of a series of collaged paintings titled “Jazz: Herbieʼs ʻDolphin Danceʼ #...
Category
Abstract Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Vellum
"Feeding the Multitude" Pastel Toned Abstract Figurative Symbolist Drawing
Located in Houston, TX
Symbolist abstract pastel drawing by artist Bentzion Ben Yosef Yakov in the style of Marc Chagall. The work features the first miracle performed by Jesus known as the feeding of the ...
Category
Symbolist Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
1.20 (Ref 09) (Abstract Expressionism painting)
By Jill Moser
Located in London, GB
1.20 (Ref 09) (Abstract Expressionism painting)
Gouache on paper - Unframed
Jill Moser is an American abstract artist whose work explores the intersection of “painting, writing and...
Category
Abstract Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Jazz: Miles ʻSomeday My Princeʼ 8 (Abstract Painting)
By Ellen Priest
Located in London, GB
Jazz: Miles ʻSomeday My Princeʼ 8 (Abstract Painting)
Papers, oil, flashe, pencil, MSA gel. Unframed.
This piece is part of a series based on trumpeter Miles Davisʼ lyrical jazz v...
Category
Abstract Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil
Test Pattern 2 (Grey Study) (Abstract Drawing)
By Tom McGlynn
Located in London, GB
Test Pattern 2 (Grey Study) (Abstract Drawing)
Ink, gouache and acrylic on Fabriano paper - Unframed.
Test Pattern series sets up a generic template as a poetic prompt to consider ...
Category
Abstract Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Gouache
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