Joey Gonnella

Always Looking for a Paradise Island

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...

Oil on board

ink and pastel on paper

ink and pastel on paper

Dreamy surrealistic style ink drawing by Spanish artist, Jorge Miton, circa 2005. Signed lower right. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Archiv...

"My work principally consists of deeply abstracted figure compositions--intuitive constructions that begin with random marks establishing larger masses of torsos, heads, and limbs in an undefined setting. The emphasis is almost purely on intuition. The figures are born of their surrounding environment, emerging only partially and fugitively from the layers of pigment. A narrative is evident but never overt. A crown, a shield, a boat, a wheel. Though the subject has recently coalesced around my reading of Dante and Shakespeare, the settings remain extremely vague- a beach, an interior, a woodland. The paintings are, in the end, meditations on the relationship between the protagonists in a wordless drama. In my paintings, I use a cold wax medium combined with dry pigments, oil paint, and embedded fragments of burlap. The surfaces eventually build up into a dense, rugged terrain." --Thaddeus Radell

Island for Umberto 06, 2014 Pencil on paper ( Signed and dated front lower-right corner, framed) 11.6 H x 16.5 W in. 29.5 H x 42 W cm "Island for Umberto" has the literary source in...

Untitled is a mixed media drawing by Pennsylvanian outsider artist Joey Tepedino. The paper is signed by the artist himself, and the work is currently housed at Hal Bromm Gallery.