Stephen Basso

Artist and Model humorous interpretation of the traditional subject muted color

2022

Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imagination, wry wit and fear...

Soft pastel on archival toned paper signed and dated bottom right corner. Mounted on archival foam board for suitable framing. Part on an ongoing series of Mermaids by the artist.

This soft pastel on toned heavyweight sanded paper is part of an ongoing series by the artist depicting human animal interactions. It is signed and dated on bottom right corner

Pastel on toned paper. Whimsical, imaginative , surreal, humor, folk, vivid, playful, evocative, fantasy, self taught, mentor style of Max Beckmann, Francisco Goya, Willem DeKooning, Philip Guston, Marsden Hartley, Albert Pinkham Ryder...

This is a soft pastel on archival black toned paper signed and dated by the artist on the bottom right corner. This work requires framing under glass for long term preservation.

Soft pastel on toned paper signed and dated by the artist depicting a small child being carried by relatives at what appears to be a funeral parlor.

Pastel on paper pasted on canvas Hand-signed on the back by the artist “At first glance, we are invited to a colorful carnival. Everything is movement here! As if Julien Wolf had tr...

Pastel on paper pasted on canvas Hand-signed on the back by the artist “At first glance, we are invited to a colorful carnival. Everything is movement here! As if Julien Wolf had tr...

Paper measures 21 X 33 inches Born and raised in Mississippi, Alex O'Neal graduated from Rhode Island School of Design and School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In the Eighties, his formal education overlapped regular visits with Mississippi self-taught artists, including Mary T. Smith, Luster Willis, and Son Ford Thomas. He later immersed himself in art brut collections and European art brut in Switzerland, Germany, and France. His work is also inspired by African-American self-taught outsider art. O'Neal's drawings and paintings have been shown at The Drawing Center, New York; BRIC, Brooklyn; P.S.122, New York; Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY; Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta; Tennessee Arts Commission, Nashville; Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS; Centre d’Art des Pénitents Noirs, Aubagne, France; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans; Chicago Cultural Center; Ecomuseu, Valls d'Aneu, Spain; Amory Arts Center, West Palm Beach; Huntsville Museum of Art, AL; Rockefeller Art Center, SUNY Fredonia; ART LA; Field Projects, New York; LOG at Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC; and Linda Warren Projects, Chicago. His work is in volumes 16, 38, and 104 of New American Paintings. His paintings and drawings idiosyncratically depict circumstances that associate Americans, i.e. dysfunction, nature worship, cults, homegrown terrorism, Hollywood, reverence for Native America. There is formal influence from stylization found in Romanesque fresco, early American portrait painting...

Pastel on paper pasted on canvas Hand-signed on the back by the artist “At first glance, we are invited to a colorful carnival. Everything is movement here! As if Julien Wolf had tr...

Original crayon drawing on paper. Hand signed on front by Purvis Young. Artwork size 11 x 8 inches. Frame size approx 17 x 14 inches. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certifica...

Original mixed media drawing on paper. Hand signed on front by Purvis Young. Artwork size 10.375 x 7.875 inches. Frame size approx 16 x 14 inches. Artwork is in excellent conditi...