Stephen Basso

Gravesend urban kitchen interior brooklyn subject elderly female subject

2016

This is a pastel painting done on toned archival paper. The title is taken from an old food network show. The artists sardonic humor is well illustrated in this work. A truly one of ...

Pastel on toned paper Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imagina...

Price and size includes frames (maple wood with white mats). Artwork 58" x 38" Her pastel-on-sandpaper series, "Domestic Threats" and "Black Paintings", both use cultural objects as surrogates for human beings acting in mysterious, highly charged narratives.[9][10] Rachko also has created a series of photographs entitled "Gods and Monsters".[11] In these chromogenic prints, she is "painting with a camera," creating variations that free the camera from being a mechanical recording device of what lies before it. She prints all of these images by hand. The earlier "Domestic Threats" pastel-on-sandpaper paintings used her West Village apartment or her 1932 Sears house in Virginia as a backdrop. The "Black Paintings" series grew directly from "Domestic Threats". In the "Black Paintings," the figures (actors) take center stage. All background details, furniture, rugs, etc. have been eliminated and replaced by intense dark black pastel. Each painting takes months to complete as she slowly builds up as many as 30 layers of soft pastel. Her long-standing fascination with traditional masks progressed in the spring of 2017 when she visited the National Museum of Ethnography and Folklore in La Paz, Bolivia where one exhibition included more than fifty festival masks. The resulting series is entitled “Bolivianos”.[12] She has also written an e-book, From Pilot to Painter[13] and writes a regular blog, Barbara Rachko...

Soft pastel on toned archival paper signed and dated bottom left. Surrealistic expressionist with humorous undertones ABOUT Stephen Basso Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and...

"Home from Work" by Wisconsin artist Robert Richter is an oil painting on wood, signed on the verso. The frame was created and hand-carved by the artist, making it an integral part o...

Signed lower center, in fabrics bowl, 'Ruth Mae McCrane' (American, 1929-2002) and dated upper center, in calendar, February 1989. Ruth Mae McCrane taught...

Highly detailed depiction of a country kitchen by Alice Shaw (American, b. 1943). Full of details and vibrancy, this piece shows a vintage kitchen with a 19...

Ruth Schloss (1922 Nuremberg - 2013 Kfar Shmaryahu), Old Woman at the Table, around 1990. Mixed media on watercolor paper, 32 cm x 24 cm, signed “Schloss” lower left and signed again...