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Medium: Plastic
A. 161-014- abstract geometric black and white ink drawing on mylar
Located in New York, NY
Abstract geometric black and white ink drawing on mylar framed in white wood frame with UV Plexiglass.
For over twenty years now Patrick Carrara has lived in Brooklyn, where he has m...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Archival Ink
Investigations, signed, with Guggenheim Museum & Leo Castelli Exhibition Labels
Located in New York, NY
Robert Morris
Investigations (with Guggenheim Museum Labels), 1990
Graphite drawing on Mylar. Framed with the original Guggenheim Museum label (lent by Sonnabend), & Castelli Gallery...
Category
1990s Minimalist Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Graphite
Portrait of Matt Latham - Large Scale Portrait, Original Charcoal on Mylar
By Mary Borgman
Located in Chicago, IL
Mary Borgman’s work captivates the viewer in several ways. First is their scale. They hang like medieval tapestries, with figures standing as tall as eight feet. There is also their texture – created by using charcoal on Mylar, and the results are richly gestural, with distinct charcoal strokes and eraser marks animating the figure and ground alike. With a flat surface, she creates volume and life. And perhaps the most powerful of all, the viewer is caught be the gazes of the models, who stare forcefully out of the picture. They seem to be examining us every bit as much as we are examining them.
These larger-than-life portraits stem from chance encounters that grow into meaningful connections between the artist and her subject. Most are strangers that she approaches on the street. They capture her attention with expressive eyes that show experience and wisdom, distinctive shapes and a casual body language. “I try to honor the people I am drawing by centering them in the format and shooting from slightly below their eye level. I choose an expression that exudes intelligence, self-awareness and complexity. I try to convey their humanness. I want the viewer to feel this person might be someone interesting to know”, says Borgman of her subjects. The intensity with which she conveys the eyes may stem from her many years of communicating in sign language, which is based on sustained eye contact.
Borgman loves the directness of drawing. It is immediate, there is no lag time. There is no time waiting for the paint to dry. She works solely in charcoal which she can manipulate to achieve varying degrees of darkness and opacity. It is messy and the artist loves that.
Mary Borgman
Portrait of Matt Latham
charcoal on mylar
60h x 40w in
152.40h x 101.60w cm
MBG011
FRAMED DIMENSIONS
62h x 42w x 2.25d in
157.48h x 106.68w x 5.71d cm
[This work is custom framed in shadow box style with non-reflective Tru-Vue Museum Glass]
Mary Borgman
b. October 4, 1959 St. Louis, MO
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2017 Grand Opening: Coming Attractions, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL
2013 SOFA Chicago 2013, Ann Nathan Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL Portraiture Now: Drawing on the Edge, National Portrait Gallery, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
2012 Portraiture Now: Drawing on the Edge, National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
SOFA Chicago 2012, Ann Nathan Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
SOFA NY, Ann Nathan Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Gallery Group Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
SOFA NY, Ann Nathan Gallery, New York, NY
2010 SOFA Chicago 2010: Special Installation at SOFA Café, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
What’s the Buzz on the Playground: Art of Today from St. Louis curated by Mary Sprague...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Charcoal
Portrait of Manop - Monumental Portrait, Original Charcoal on Mylar, Framed
By Mary Borgman
Located in Chicago, IL
* Provenance: This artwork was included in Portraiture Now: Drawing on the Edge, at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC, 2012-2013. The exhibition traveled to the Arkansas Art Center in Little Rock, AR in 2013.
Mary Borgman
b. October 4, 1959 St. Louis, MO
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2017 Grand Opening: Coming Attractions, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL
2013 SOFA Chicago 2013, Ann Nathan Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL Portraiture Now: Drawing on the Edge, National Portrait Gallery, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
2012 Portraiture Now: Drawing on the Edge, National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
SOFA Chicago 2012, Ann Nathan Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
SOFA NY, Ann Nathan Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Gallery Group Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
SOFA NY, Ann Nathan Gallery, New York, NY
2010 SOFA Chicago 2010: Special Installation at SOFA Café, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
What’s the Buzz on the Playground: Art of Today from St. Louis curated by Mary Sprague...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Charcoal
Maelstrom Series 68 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Pigment pencil on Mylar. Unframed.
The Maelstrom Series include the most iconic and known of Peerna's works.
Starting from the center on a tilted table, she extends her fingers t...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Color Pencil
Boom, Bust, Repeat - Nick Peña - Contemporary Landscape/Abstract Painting
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
In BOOM BUST REPEAT17, Peña creates a silhouette of house and fills it with sharpe-edged shapes that contain gradients and saturated hues of red, green, and violet. He balances these colors with muted tones of orange and yellow . The viewer can create a house that is yet to be built in between the gaps here. In "Boom, Bust, Repeat", Peña remarks on a house and landscape that has yet to take place. The painting is created with watercolor and acrylic paint on paper. In the foreground we see Sintra board or flattened PVC that has been CNC routed. In the "soil" beneath the house are small circular lines that have been hand drawn with India ink. The Sintra board has been cut to reveal arrows in the negative space pointing upwards as to hint at a boom in the market.
Peña’s works range from painting to multimedia installations that question the ever-changing psychological landscape of America; asking the viewer to re-examine their perceptions of the “American Dream” and the affects that pursuit has on our environment and national psyche.
The realization that both the idealistic pursuit of happiness and the relevance of painting in a technologically driven world informs his practice. With each composition the labor begins with digital composites of a fragmented American landscape in peril —where tension lies in the contrasts between past and present, analog and digital, representation and abstraction, and stability and instability.
In his most recent series the American home (stability) and fragmented and shifting landscape (instability) are veiled by a digitally produced mat. Traditionally a mat is, by definition, a flat, thin piece of paper based material included within the picture frame and serves as additional decoration when framing artwork. He activates this commonly overlooked material by using a non-traditional material, Sintra (flattened sheet of PVC), that has a negative digitally drawn image cut-out. This cut-out might, at first glance, look hand cut however, a more astute viewer would realize the precision is mechanical. The mat has been transformed from inactive decoration to digitally produced veil that represents the technologically anxious precision we surround ourselves with.
Nick Peña...
Category
2010s Contemporary Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
PVC, Wood, Paper, India Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor
Big Melt #16 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Big Melt #16 (Abstract drawing)
Pigment pencil and water on mylar - Unframed.
This work is from a series titled Big Melt. It has been created with pigment pencils and ice. It captu...
Category
2010s Abstract Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Pencil
Storm series (ref. 845) (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Storm series (ref. 845) (Abstract drawing)
Pigment pencil on Mylar. Unframed.
So many different storms, so hard to capture.
Beginning in the wake of hurricanes Irene and Sandy, t...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Pencil, Pigment
Big Melt #16 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Big Melt #16 (Abstract drawing)
Pigment pencil and water on mylar - Unframed.
This work is from a series titled Big Melt. It has been created with pigment pencils and ice. It captu...
Category
2010s Abstract Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Pencil
WINDOW V - Contemporary Abstract Mixed Media Painting, shadow, curtains, blue
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
WINDOW V captures the soft patterned shadow of the trees veiled by a sheer curtain. This painting is is part of an on-going series that explores the light and landscape in Tennessee....
Category
2010s Abstract Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Polyester, Oil, Acrylic, Gouache, Mesh
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
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Pencil, Pigment
POSSIBLE, IMPOSSIBLE, POSSIBLE - Circular, Contemporary Landscape/Abstract
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
In POSSIBLE, IMPOSSIBLE, POSSIBLE, Peña combines representational elements of a bright green landscape in the background with a more abstracted silhouette of a house in the middle gr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
PVC, Wood, Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor
Big Melt #10 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Pigment pencil and water on mylar - Unframed.
This work is from a series titled Big Melt. It has been created with pigment pencils and ice. It captures the moment when solid is turn...
Category
2010s Abstract Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Pencil
Maelstrom Series 68 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Maelstrom Series 68 (Abstract drawing)
Pigment pencil on Mylar. Unframed.
The Maelstrom Series include the most iconic and known of Peerna's works.
Starting from the center on a...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Color Pencil
Screech of ice series 43 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Colored pencil and graphite on plastic paper. Unframed.
Screech of Ice is a new series of drawings made by holding a bunch of pencils in two hands and letting them to do the control...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Plastic, Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Storm Horizontal 82 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Graphite and color pencil on Mylar. Unframed.
So many different storms, so hard to capture.
Beginning in the wake of hurricanes Irene and Sandy, this artwork was made by tightly c...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Color Pencil, Graphite
Donut Dollies
Located in New Orleans, LA
Artwork dimensions (without frame): 60h x 40w inches
During World War II an the Vietnam War, women were encouraged to volunteer to travel to war zones through the Red Cross. They w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Ink
Screech of ice series 43 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Screech of ice series 43 (Abstract drawing)
Colored pencil and graphite on plastic paper. Unframed.
Screech of Ice is a new series of drawings made by holding a bunch of pencils in...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Plastic, Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Tipping Point #5 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Tipping Point #5 (Abstract drawing)
Pigment pencil on Mylar - Unframed.
This work is from a series titled Tipping Point. This drawing has been created eyes closed. It captures an a...
Category
2010s Abstract Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Pencil
Small maelstrom (Ref 855) (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Small maelstrom (Ref 855) (Abstract drawing)
Pigment pencil on Mylar - Unframed.
The Maelstrom Series include the most iconic and known of Peerna's works.
Starting from the cent...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Pencil, Pigment
Screech of ice series 42 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Screech of ice series 42 (Abstract drawing)
Colored pencil and graphite on plastic paper. Unframed.
Screech of Ice is a new series of drawings made by holding a bunch of pencils in...
Category
2010s Abstract Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Plastic, Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Screech of ice series 41 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Screech of ice series 41 (Abstract drawing)
Colored pencil and graphite on plastic paper. Unframed.
Screech of Ice is a new series of drawings made by holding a bunch of pencils in...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Plastic, Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Maelstrom Series 77 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Maelstrom Series 77 (Abstract drawing)
Pigment pencil on Mylar - Unframed
The Maelstrom Series include the most iconic and known of Peerna's works.
Starting from the center on a...
Category
2010s Abstract Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Pencil, Pigment
Storm series (ref. 845) (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Storm series (ref. 845) (Abstract drawing)
Pigment pencil on Mylar. Unframed.
So many different storms, so hard to capture.
Beginning in the wake of hurricanes Irene and Sandy, t...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Pencil, Pigment
Storm Series (Ref 844) (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Storm Series (Ref 844) (Abstract drawing)
Pigment pencil on Mylar. Unframed.
So many different storms, so hard to capture.
Beginning in the wake of hurricanes Irene and Sandy, th...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Pencil
Screech of ice series 42 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Screech of ice series 42 (Abstract drawing)
Colored pencil and graphite on plastic paper. Unframed.
Screech of Ice is a new series of drawings made by holding a bunch of pencils in...
Category
2010s Abstract Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Plastic, Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Storm Series (Ref 844) (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Pigment pencil on Mylar. Unframed.
So many different storms, so hard to capture.
Beginning in the wake of hurricanes Irene and Sandy, this artwork was made by tightly clasping a s...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Pencil
Small maelstrom (Ref 855) (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Pigment pencil on Mylar - Unframed.
The Maelstrom Series include the most iconic and known of Peerna's works.
Starting from the center on a tilted table, she extends her fingers ...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Pencil, Pigment
Merrymaking
Located in New Orleans, LA
LAURA TANNER GRAHAM's drawings and installations are often discussed as part of the Southern Gothic literary tradition, sharing similar themes with authors such as Flannery O’Connor ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Ink
SHIZEN SERIES II
By Kim Fonder
Located in Tulsa, OK
Kim Fonder, SHIZEN SERIES II, Mixed Media on Handmade Paper , 12.00 X 12.00 in, $600.00, Blue, Red, Pink, White, Abstract, contemporary, fine art
Kim Fonder loves texture and touch....
Category
2010s Contemporary Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Plexiglass, Mixed Media, Handmade Paper
Birch Abstract, dark mixed media, mylar, trees, abstraction, muted colors w gold
Located in Brooklyn, NY
mixed media on mylar
Among the best selling works by Audrey Frank Anastasi are the birch trees, "process-oriented works, drawn and painted in various media.
According to Ms. Anast...
Category
2010s Expressionist Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Mixed Media
SHIZEN SERIES I
By Kim Fonder
Located in Tulsa, OK
Kim Fonder, SHIZEN SERIES I, Mixed Media on Handmade Paper with Plexi, 12.00 X 12.00 in, $600.00, Blue
White, Abstract, works on paper
Kim Fonder loves texture and touch. Her painti...
Category
2010s Abstract Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Plexiglass, Mixed Media, Handmade Paper
SHIZEN SERIES IV
By Kim Fonder
Located in Tulsa, OK
Kim Fonder, SHIZEN SERIES IV, 12.00 X 12.00 in, $600.00, purple, Abstract, contemporary, fine art
Kim Fonder loves texture and touch. Her paintings and furniture reflect her infatua...
Category
2010s Contemporary Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Plexiglass, Pastel, Mixed Media, Handmade Paper
SHIZEN SERIES V
By Kim Fonder
Located in Tulsa, OK
Kim Fonder, SHIZEN SERIES V, Mixed Media on Handmade Paper with Plexi, 12.00 X 12.00 in, $600.00, Blue
Abstract, contemporary, White, mixed media, fine art
Kim Fonder loves texture ...
Category
2010s Abstract Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Plexiglass, Mixed Media, Handmade Paper
Love Affair 6 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Love Affair 6 (Abstract drawing)
Colour pencil on two layers of Mylar — Unframed.
Love Affairs" is a series of drawings on two layers of thin, translucent paper resembling ice. Each...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Color Pencil
Sweet and Salty
Located in New Orleans, LA
Laura Tanner Graham's drawings and installations are often discussed as part of the Southern Gothic literary tradition, sharing similar themes with authors such as Flannery O’Connor ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Ink
Francesca 7: abstract painting, blue & white w/ natural materials on black paper
By Nancy Agati
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This dramatic work-on-paper is an abstract geometric painting that references colors, shapes, and aesthetics that artist Nancy Agati encountered in Italy. The rich, dark background i...
Category
2010s Abstract Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Slate
Francesca 10: abstract painting w/ natural materials on black artist's paper
By Nancy Agati
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This dramatic work-on-paper is an abstract geometric painting that references colors, shapes, and aesthetics that artist Nancy Agati encountered in Italy. The rich, dark background i...
Category
2010s Abstract Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Slate
Francesca 8: abstract painting w/ natural materials on black artist's paper
By Nancy Agati
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This painted work-on-paper is an abstract geometric design that references colors, shapes, and aesthetics that artist Nancy Agati encountered in Italy. The densely layered compositio...
Category
2010s Abstract Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Slate
Sweet Tea
Located in New Orleans, LA
LAURA TANNER GRAHAM’s drawings and installations are often discussed as part of the Southern Gothic literary tradition, sharing similar themes with authors such as Flannery O’Connor and Eudora Welty...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Ink
Cherry / Silver / Lace
Located in New Orleans, LA
artwork dimensions (unframed): 20h x 14w inches
LAURA TANNER GRAHAM’s drawings and installations are often discussed as part of the Southern Gothic literary tradition, sharing similar themes with authors such as Flannery O’Connor and Eudora Welty. As a Georgia native, Graham’s work seeks to understand the ways in which pattern and printed textiles are informed by social and political movements. Her narratives are tightly bound to antebellum traditions while balancing the changing ideals of the new generation of southern society.
Graham received her MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a BFA from Florida State University. She has exhibited nationally in both group and solo exhibitions including the Weatherspoon Art Museum, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and the Athens Institute of Contemporary Art. She has also been a visiting artist at Tulane University and Valdosta State University. In 2016, Graham was awarded a fellowship and residency at the Ucross Foundation and the Vermont Studio Center. Graham is currently living and making work in Tucson, AZ.
STATEMENT
Firmly grounded in America’s expansive colonial history, my work interrogates how Southern culture has been idealized as “quintessential America” and the bedrock of traditional American values. Using my familiarity and position within Southern culture, I have created a new visual literacy to demonstrate how America’s nostalgia for tradition has been manipulated in an effort to isolate and disenfranchise. My drawings act as a visual archive of research that examines the consequences of American colonialism and addresses the sense of white fragility that continues to pervade Western culture. In the midst of widespread anxiety over the collective American identity, there has been a revival of many of the country’s unresolved historical battles, including contentious race relations, sexism, nativism, and an ever-growing wage gap. I employ the Americana aesthetic of the old South to parallel historical and contemporary acts of resistance to racial, economic, and gender diversity. Borrowing directly from the decorative arts, the meticulously hand-cut mylar and equally intricate drawing capitalizes on America’s propensity for nostalgia to lure the viewer into confronting injustices through the detached lens of that which has already happened.
Through a combination of appropriated and invented imagery, my work contextually constructs contemporary accounts of systemic marginalization, executed under the guise of leisure, embellishment and luxury. The dense visual language invites investigation into the textured surfaces and leads the viewer to reflect on the social textures of contemporary culture while questioning their own complicity in current social constructs. Sourcing from period- specific textiles, turn-of-the-century advertisements, campaign posters, and found family photographs, the collaged images create a singular narrative composition that document the cyclical and systemic nature of marginalization in America. The methodology with which the drawings are constructed echoes historical layers of rules, regulations and hierarchies that are stitched into dominant white American myths. The resulting drawings are indexical in nature, recording the parallels between topics of current debate and 18th century Western expansionism.
The disconnect between the delicate nature of the work and the unresolved cultural tensions that it reveals provides a visual record of the inconsistencies of American idealism. My current project explores the South as the embodiment of America’s pastoral traditions and values that are at the center of the “Make America Great Again” movement, a movement which has both exploited and is at odds with a social ideal that simultaneously proclaims itself to be “post- racial” and “post- gender” while identifying with a “pull-yourself-up-by-the-boot-straps” mentality. As one of the earliest colonized areas, the South is often portrayed as a region of racial and gender stability in the face of impending change. I am currently working with research institutions in the South to further understand how the architectural structure of the Southern plantation...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Ink
Gallura , Sardinia '. mixed media Signed original painting c 2003
Located in Frome, Somerset
'Gallura ,Sardinia' cira 2003. signed original mixed media.
painting: 27cmx 27cm
glazed oak wood frame : 50cm x 58cm.
An Archetypal understanding of the artist's experiences of t...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Impressionist Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, ABS
Barbecue Nation
Located in New Orleans, LA
artwork dimensions (unframed): 59h x 41w inches
LAURA TANNER GRAHAM’s drawings and installations are often discussed as part of the Southern Gothic literary tradition, sharing simil...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Ink
Dead Eye #2
Located in New Orleans, LA
artwork dimensions (unframed): 37.5h x 13.5w inches
Laura Tanner Graham's drawings and installations are often discussed as part of the Southern Gothic literary tradition, sharing s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Ink
Dead Eye #1
Located in New Orleans, LA
artwork dimensions (unframed): 37.5h x 13.5w inches
Laura Tanner Graham's drawings and installations are often discussed as part of the Southern Gothic literary tradition, sharing s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Ink
Natural Lure
Located in New Orleans, LA
LAURA TANNER GRAHAM’s drawings and installations are often discussed as part of the Southern Gothic literary tradition, sharing similar themes with authors such as Flannery O’Connor and Eudora Welty. As a Georgia native, Graham’s work seeks to understand the ways in which pattern and printed textiles are informed by social and political movements. Her narratives are tightly bound to antebellum traditions while balancing the changing ideals of the new generation of southern society.
Graham received her MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a BFA from Florida State University. She has exhibited nationally in both group and solo exhibitions including the Weatherspoon Art Museum, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and the Athens Institute of Contemporary Art. She has also been a visiting artist at Tulane University and Valdosta State University. In 2016, Graham was awarded a fellowship and residency at the Ucross Foundation and the Vermont Studio Center. Graham is currently living and making work in Tucson, AZ.
STATEMENT
Firmly grounded in America’s expansive colonial history, my work interrogates how Southern culture has been idealized as “quintessential America” and the bedrock of traditional American values. Using my familiarity and position within Southern culture, I have created a new visual literacy to demonstrate how America’s nostalgia for tradition has been manipulated in an effort to isolate and disenfranchise. My drawings act as a visual archive of research that examines the consequences of American colonialism and addresses the sense of white fragility that continues to pervade Western culture. In the midst of widespread anxiety over the collective American identity, there has been a revival of many of the country’s unresolved historical battles, including contentious race relations, sexism, nativism, and an ever-growing wage gap. I employ the Americana aesthetic of the old South to parallel historical and contemporary acts of resistance to racial, economic, and gender diversity. Borrowing directly from the decorative arts, the meticulously hand-cut mylar and equally intricate drawing capitalizes on America’s propensity for nostalgia to lure the viewer into confronting injustices through the detached lens of that which has already happened.
Through a combination of appropriated and invented imagery, my work contextually constructs contemporary accounts of systemic marginalization, executed under the guise of leisure, embellishment and luxury. The dense visual language invites investigation into the textured surfaces and leads the viewer to reflect on the social textures of contemporary culture while questioning their own complicity in current social constructs. Sourcing from period- specific textiles, turn-of-the-century advertisements, campaign posters, and found family photographs, the collaged images create a singular narrative composition that document the cyclical and systemic nature of marginalization in America. The methodology with which the drawings are constructed echoes historical layers of rules, regulations and hierarchies that are stitched into dominant white American myths. The resulting drawings are indexical in nature, recording the parallels between topics of current debate and 18th century Western expansionism.
The disconnect between the delicate nature of the work and the unresolved cultural tensions that it reveals provides a visual record of the inconsistencies of American idealism. My current project explores the South as the embodiment of America’s pastoral traditions and values that are at the center of the “Make America Great Again” movement, a movement which has both exploited and is at odds with a social ideal that simultaneously proclaims itself to be “post- racial” and “post- gender” while identifying with a “pull-yourself-up-by-the-boot-straps” mentality. As one of the earliest colonized areas, the South is often portrayed as a region of racial and gender stability in the face of impending change. I am currently working with research institutions in the South to further understand how the architectural structure of the Southern plantation...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Ink
Info-Red Infra-Structure
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: ink on hand-cut mylar
Laura Tanner Graham's drawings and installations are often discussed as part of the Southern Gothic literary tradition, sharing similar themes with aut...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Ink
Low Front IV
Located in New Orleans, LA
[Tucson, AZ ::: b. 1987, Atlanta, GA]
LAURA TANNER GRAHAM's drawings and installations are often discussed as part of the Southern Gothic literary tradition, sharing similar themes ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Ink
Plaything
Located in New Orleans, LA
Plaything, 20”x20”, Ink on Hand-Cut Mylar, 2018
This piece focuses on America's cultural appropriation and exploitation of Mexican culture. Living in the desert Southwest...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Ink
Lithotomy
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: ink on hand-cut mylar
Laura Tanner Graham's drawings and installations are often discussed as part of the Southern Gothic literary tradition, sharing similar themes with aut...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Ink
On the Hunt
Located in New Orleans, LA
Laura Tanner Graham's drawings and installations are often discussed as part of the Southern Gothic literary tradition, sharing similar themes with authors such as Flannery O’Connor ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Ink
Thaw 14 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Thaw 14 (Abstract drawing)
Color Pencil and Graphite on Mylar. Unframed.
Thaw Series is a group of drawings where the artist continues her work touching upon environmental matters...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Plastic, Color Pencil, Graphite
Gushing 3 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Gushing 3 (Abstract drawing)
Pigment and Color Pencil on Mylar. Unframed.
Gushing represents a transition between Peerna’s earlier Maelstrom series based on circular motion, and t...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Plastic, Color Pencil, Pigment
Blue Melt 19 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Blue Melt 19 (Abstract drawing)
Pigment, Ice on Yupo. Unframed.
Blue Melt are works that have been created with pigment pencils and ice. Peerna starts the drawings by first markin...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Plastic, Color Pencil, Pigment
Ablation Zone 6 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Ablation Zone 6 (Abstract drawing)
Pigment And Ice on Yupo. Unframed.
Ablation is a series of drawings that extend the Blue Melt approach into large, long, excessively vertical wo...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Plastic, Pigment
SPINNING PLATES - Circular Landscape Abstract Painting w/ Mid-Century Modern
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Peña’s works range from painting to multimedia installations that question the ever-changing psychological landscape of America; asking the viewer to re-examine their perceptions of ...
Category
2010s Abstract Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
PVC, Acrylic, Watercolor
$2,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Storm Horizontal 82 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Storm Horizontal 82 (Abstract drawing)
Graphite and color pencil on Mylar. Unframed.
So many different storms, so hard to capture.
Beginning in the wake of hurricanes Irene and S...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Color Pencil, Graphite
Maelstrom Series 67 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Maelstrom Series 67 (Abstract drawing)
Pigment pencil on Mylar. Unframed.
The Maelstrom Series include the most iconic and known of Peerna's works.
Starting from the center on ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Pencil, Pigment
Screech of ice series 41 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Screech of ice series 41 (Abstract drawing)
Colored pencil and graphite on plastic paper. Unframed.
Screech of Ice is a new series of drawings made by holding a bunch of pencils in...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Plastic, Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Storm Series (Ref 844) (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Storm Series (Ref 844) (Abstract drawing)
Pigment pencil on Mylar. Unframed.
So many different storms, so hard to capture.
Beginning in the wake of hurricanes Irene and Sandy, th...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Pencil
Plastic drawings and watercolor paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Plastic drawings and watercolor paintings available on 1stDibs. While artists have worked in this medium across a range of time periods, art made with this material during the 21st Century is especially popular. If you’re looking to add drawings and watercolor paintings created with this material to introduce a provocative pop of color and texture to an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of purple, blue and other colors. There are many well-known artists whose body of work includes ceramic sculptures. Popular artists on 1stDibs associated with pieces like this include Laura Tanner Graham, Zachari Logan, Mary Borgman, and Nicolantonio Mucciaccia. Frequently made by artists working in the Abstract, Contemporary, all of these pieces for sale are unique and many will draw the attention of guests in your home. Not every interior allows for large Plastic drawings and watercolor paintings, so small editions measuring 0.79 inches across are also available Prices for drawings and watercolor paintings made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $60 and tops out at $295,000, while the average work can sell for $1,200.
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