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Medium: Enamel
Beyond Mind and Matter: Peach & Gold Abstract Expressionist Painting
By Bruce Murphy
Located in Hudson, NY
Gestural abstract painting on paper with gold metallic powders and peach, blue, green and yellow colored enamel paint
"Beyond Mind and Matter", made in 2022 by Hudson Valley painter,...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Enamel
Materials
Enamel
Iron Man, Large Abstract Expressionist Painting by William Hewes
Located in Long Island City, NY
A large, dramatic abstract oil painting by Contemporary artist Bill Hewes. William (Bill) Hewes is an American self-taught artist. Hewes was born in Easthampton, Massachusetts in 19...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Enamel
Materials
Enamel
"Wildflower" Contemporary Abstract Orange and Green Concentric Circle Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Orange and green abstract contemporary circular painting by Houston, TX artist David Hardaker. Signed, titled, and dated by the artist on the reverse.
Artist Statement: The work is...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Enamel
Materials
Enamel
Gold Hummingbird
Located in Palm Desert, CA
This composition inspired by the Artist Commissioned
Sculptures. Hummingbird stylized through geometric shapes signifying space,
form, and lines.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Enamel
Materials
Enamel
Exotic Birds
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Exotic Birds, ca. 1960. Enameled steel plate, 6.5 x 12.5 inches; 10 1/8 x 16 1/8 inches framed. Original studio label affixed on verso. Unsigned.
UBALDO CINCIARINI (1940-2020) was an Italian enameller and embosser who studied his craft at the famous Ferruccio Mengaroni Art Institute in Pesaro, Italy before opening the "Studio Cellini...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art by Medium: Enamel
Materials
Enamel, Steel
Paradise of Love
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
Work composed of a wooden frame supported by a high-quality cotton fabric.
I have used acrylic and enamel paints to make the composition and generate relief and shapes. I want to fu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Enamel
Materials
Enamel
Pablo Picasso "Face Plate No. 130"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pablo Picasso 1881 - 1973
Face Plate No. 130
1963
Round Plate A.R White Earthenware clay, decoration in engobes and enamel under glaze in black, red, green, blue and yellow, 25...
Category
1960s Art by Medium: Enamel
Materials
Enamel
American Contemporary Sculpture by Scott Troxel - Convergence Gold
By Scott Troxel
Located in Paris, IDF
Artwork made with Mahogany on MDF painted with metallic gold gloss automotive enamel
The inspiration for this piece in terms of design and color came from the mid century modern mov...
Category
2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Enamel
Materials
Metal, Enamel
An Liang Chamber of Commerce and Industry
By Drew Leshko
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "An Liang Chamber of Commerce and Industry" is original artwork made from paper, inkjet print, enamel, aluminum tube, pastel by Drew Leshko. This piece measures 9"h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Enamel
Materials
Metal, Enamel, Wire
Picador, A.R. 200
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 1953, ceramic Picador A.R. 200 is a round plate of white earthenware clay with oxidized paraffin decoration (brown, green, white) in a stanniferous enamel bath...
Category
1950s Abstract Art by Medium: Enamel
Materials
Enamel
Multifaceted Copper Enamel Tiles Abstract by N.G. Bloome
Located in Soquel, CA
Multifaceted Copper Enamel Tiles Abstract by N.G. Bloome
Enameled Copper panels "Picasso" esq by an unknown artist. N.G. Bloome (American, 20th C).
Uniq...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Enamel
Materials
Copper, Enamel, Wire
PaperLandscape- Abstract Landscape Painting , Large Size, Art Made in Italy
Located in Agrigento, AG
PaperLandscape#
mixed media and collage on canvas
cm 116x89
2016
“My research is closely linked to the relationship between people and nature, memory and time. The landscape is the p...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Enamel
Materials
Enamel
"JAMÓN JAMÓN I (Reliquary Generalife)", ceramic sculpture, porcelain vessel, urn
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"JAMÓN JAMÓN I (Reliquary Generalife)", 2019, sold in the frame shown, is one in a series of ceramic sculptures by artist Andrew Cornell Robinson...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Enamel
Materials
Enamel
Hidden garden 01
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
The color palette is intense and overflowing, with brushstrokes intertwining in a chaotic dance of vibrant tones. Fiery reds, electric blues, and effervescent yellows merge into a vi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Enamel
Materials
Enamel
New York - Photorealistic Sign Painting with Oil and Enamel on Canvas
By Ross Tamlin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ross Tamlin's unique photorealistic compositions merge traditional painting methods with modern industrial techniques to create captivating works of art. Using layers of oil and enamel paint, Tamlin creates an illusion of corrugation that adds depth and texture to his pieces. His use of industrial imagery and found objects is a nod to contemporary art, while his bold color palette and incorporation of text is a nod to the Pop Art movement. Tamlin is a full-time artist living in Kyogle, New South Wales, Australia. He began a Fine Arts Certificate course at Meadowbank TAFE, and then in Brisbane, he completed a graphic arts course before returning to Sydney. His signature corrugated iron paintings combine traditional art genres including still-life and landscape along with graphic art. Influenced by the De Stijl movement, these paintings represent a synthesis of art and function.
Tamlin created a one-of-a-kind, vibrant, and colorful painting that measures 42 inches high by 40 inches wide. The sides of the canvas are painted in a continuation of the front, and the artwork is signed and dated by the artist on the front. It does not require framing, and a certificate of authenticity issued by the gallery is included. Free local delivery is available in the Los Angeles area, and affordable shipping is also available throughout the U.S. and worldwide
Tamlin's innovative compositions are a stunning exploration of industrial materials, as he reimagines their purpose and function to create a new relationship between object and viewer. Through the use of bright colors and primary hues, overlaid with text and glazing, Tamlin creates a landscape that is uniquely his own. His work challenges the traditional notion of landscape painting, as he incorporates familiar places' names and text into his pieces, offering a contemporary take on this classic genre.
“My idea was to transmute traditional Australian corrugated iron into works of modern art. The corrugation in the painting is a visual illusion created by layers of paint. Most people can connect with these panels because corrugated iron is a familiar sight both in suburbia and the bush. However, the sense of seeing the traditional is contradicted by the contemporary signage.”
Tamlin's works are represented by Artspace Warehouse Los Angeles and are held in private collections worldwide, including Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Singapore, the USA, Switzerland, and France. Corporate collections include ING Bank, Babcock & Brown, Barclays Bank, Saville Hotel Group, Savills Property Group, Minter Ellison, Hai Win Shipping, Allkotes Pty Ltd, Blue Scope Steel Pty Ltd, Sieper & Co., A. P. Moller Maersk Group, Grant Thomas Management, Maridan Pty Ltd, Esprit Changeware Pty Ltd, Maritime Transport Ltd, London.
REPRESENTATION
Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA
EDUCATION
1979 – 1981 NZ Certificate of Town Planning (3 Years)
1982 Emigrated to Australia, 1989 Australian citizenship
1985 Fine Arts Certificate (Meadowbank) (not completed)
1987 Graphic Arts Certificate, Brisbane
1988 – 1997 Paint/Colour Laboratory Technician
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 Soho Galleries, Sydney, Australia
2013 Soho Galleries, Sydney, Australia
2012 Paintbox Fineart, Canberra, ACT, “Melange”
2011 Jackman Gallery, St. Kilda, Melbourne, Australia
2010 Harrison Gallery, Paddington, Australia
2008 Rushcutters Bay Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2007 Paintbox Gallery, Braddon, Canberra, Australia
2007 Rushcutters Bay Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2006 Rushcutters Bay Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2005 Rushcutters Bay Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2005 Paintbox Gallery, Braddon, Canberra, Australia
2004 Rushcutters Bay Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2003 Rushcutters Bay Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2002 Rushcutters Bay Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2001 1+2 Artists Studio Gallery, Rozelle
2000 New Aesthetix Gallery, Camperdown, Sydney, Australia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Affordable Art Fair, New York, NY
2023 Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA
2021 “Urban Thoughts”, Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Affordable Art Fair New York
2019 Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong
2019 Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Affordable Art Fair New York
2019 Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, Palm Springs, CA
2018 AAF Hong Kong
2018 New York AAF, NY, USA
2018 Morris Art Prize; Gold Coast, Queensland
2018 Art Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, California
2017 SOHO Galleries, Sydney, group exhibitions
2017 Gallery Beneath, Moolloolaba, Queensland, group show
2017 Whistler Contemporary Gallery, Whistler, BC, Canada
2017 Artspace Warehouse Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2017 AAF New York, NY, USA
2017 AAF Battersea, London, UK
2017 Palm Springs Art Fair, Palm Springs, California USA, represented by Artspace Warehouse
2016 Stockholm AAF 2016, Sweden, represented by Retrospect Planet
2016 Artspace Warehouse Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2016 Kunstwarenhaus Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2016 SOHO Galleries, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2016 Art Hamptons, represented by Artspace Warehouse LA
2016 AAF Hong Kong
2016 New York AAF, USA, represented by Artspace Warehouse LA
2016 Asia Contemporary, Hong Kong
2016 Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, USA, represented by
2016 Artspace Warehouse
2016 Whistler Contemporary Gallery, Whistler, Canada
2016 Caldera Art Exhibition, Murwillumbah, Northern NSW
2015 AAF Singapore
2015 Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, USA
2015 Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, USA, represented by
2015 Artspace Warehouse
2015 London AAF, Battersea, March, represented by
2015 Retrospect Planet
2015 Asian Contemporary, Hong Kong, March, represented by Retrospect Planet
2015 New York AAF, USA, represented by Artspace Warehouse LA
2015 Hong Kong AAF, May, represented by Retrospect Planet
2015 Kunstwarenhaus Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2015 Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington, Brisbane
2015 Stockholm AAF 2015, Sweden represented by Retrospect Planet
2015 Group Show SOHO Galleries, “Realism” Sydney, NSW
2015 Singapore AAF
2015 Hamburg AAF, Germany
2015 Mosman Art Prize, Sydney,
2014 Brussels AAF, Belgium, represented by Retrospect Planet
2014 Milan AAF, Italy, represented by Retrospect Planet
2014 London AAF, UK, represented by Retrospect Planet
2014 Hong Kong AAF; represented by Retrospect Planet
2014 Asian Contemporary (Hong Kong)
2014 Singapore AAF (May)
2014 Stockholm AAF, Sweden (October)
2014 Amsterdam AAF, Netherlands
2014 Hamburg AAF, Germany
2014 Singapore AAF, Singapore
2014 Northern Rivers Kyogle Pop Up exhibition (November)
2014 Soho Galleries, Xmas group exhibition
2013 Brussels AAF, Belgium, represented by Retrospect Planet
2013 Milan AAF, Italy, represented by Retrospect Planet
2013 Hong Kong AAF, Hong Kong, represented by Retrospect Planet
2013 Asian Contemporary Art Show,JW Marriott Hotel, Hong Kong
2013 Melbourne Art Fair, represented by Manyung Gallery,
2013 A Book about Death (international travelling art show) Tweed Art Gallery, Murwillumbah, NSW
2013 Hong Kong Contemporary Art Show, Marriott Hotel, Hong Kong
2013 Stockholm AAF, Stockholm, Sweden
2013 Amsterdam AAF, Amsterdam, Holland
2013 Hamburg AAF , Hamburg, Germany
2013 Singapore AAF, Singapore
2013 Seattle AAF, Seattle, USA, represented by Manyung Gallery
2013 Whistler Village Art Gallery, Whistler, BC, Canada
2012 Redsea Gallery,Group Exhibition, Brisbane
2012 Toowoomba Grammar School Art Show, Toowoomba, QLD
2012 Brussels AAF, Belgium, represented by Retrospect Gallery
2012 New York AAF, New York, USA
2012 Envie D’Art, Paris, France & London UK
2012 Art Melbourne AAF, Melbourne
2012 Hamptons Art Fair, July, New York, USA
2012 Wilson Art Prize, Lismore, Northern NSW
2012 Shanghai Art Fair, China, October
2012 Toronto International Art Fair, Canada
2012 Singapore Affordable Art Fair, represented by Retrospect Gallery
2012 Hamburg Affordable Art Fair, Germany
2012 Border Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art by Medium: Enamel
Materials
Enamel
New Looking Methods: Cobalt Blue & Gold Abstract Expressionist Painting, Framed
By Bruce Murphy
Located in Hudson, NY
Gestural abstract painting on paper with gold metallic powders and cobalt blue, pastel green, and rust colored enamel paint
"New Looking Methods", made in 2022 by Hudson Valley paint...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Enamel
Materials
Enamel
"Study for a Song 8" Contemporary Colorful Abstract Concentric Circle Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Colorful abstract contemporary circular painting by Houston, TX artist David Hardaker. Signed, titled, and dated by the artist on the reverse. Currently on view in "David Hardaker: R...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Enamel
Materials
Enamel
Helen of Troy, Early 20th Century Enamel, Cleveland School Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Edward Winter (American, 1908-1976)
Helen of Troy, 1938
Enamel
Signed and dated lower right
43 x 18 inches
44.5 x 19.5 inches, framed
Exhibited: Cleveland Museum of Art, May Show 19...
Category
1930s Art by Medium: Enamel
Materials
Enamel
"Behind the Moving Elements" (FRAMED) Abstract Painting 60 x 48 in by Yoram Katz
Located in Culver City, CA
"Behind the Moving Elements" (FRAMED) Abstract Painting 60 x 48 in by Yoram Katz
Medium: Mix Media, Acrylic & Enamel on Canvas
Comes in frame
Size framed: 61 x 49 in
ABOUT THE AR...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art by Medium: Enamel
Materials
Enamel
CIRCULAR SYMPHONY CB04
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
Painting done on extra strong cardboard paper. Large painting done with acrylics. The painting wants to represent a symphony in circular forms and lines. It is a very delicate paper ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Enamel
Materials
Enamel
"Study for a Song 5" Contemporary Colorful Abstract Concentric Circle Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Colorful abstract contemporary circular painting by Houston, TX artist David Hardaker. Signed, titled, and dated by the artist on the reverse. Currently on view in "David Hardaker: R...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Enamel
Materials
Enamel
"Blue Mona Lisa'" Contemporary Leonardo da Vinci Inspired Figure Pixel Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary pop art inspired pixelated rendition of a detail from Leonardo da Vinci's renowned painting, the "Mona Lisa."
Similar to pointillism, the individual hand-painted blocks...
Category
2010s Pop Art Art by Medium: Enamel
Materials
Enamel
Margaret Roleke, Toyland, 2016, children's toys, spray enamel, wood
Located in Darien, CT
In the body of work for “Child’s Play” Roleke has created diminutive worlds in which toys tell the story of consumption, consumerism, war, and the misuse of power and religion. The m...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Art by Medium: Enamel
Materials
Enamel
"Marilyn Monroe Smile" Contemporary Pop Art Inspired Pixelated Portrait Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary pop art inspired pixelated portrait of iconic movie actress Marilyn Monroe. Similar to pointillism, the individual hand-painted blocks of color come together to form the...
Category
2010s Pop Art Art by Medium: Enamel
Materials
Enamel
Pepsi Cola, Enamel Print on Aluminum Panel
By Mel Ramos
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Mel Ramos
Title: Pepsi Cola
Year: 2005
Medium: Enamel Print on Aluminum, signed and numbered in marker
Edition: 999
Size: 16 x 16 x 1 inches; 40.64 x 40.64 x 2.54 cm
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Art by Medium: Enamel
Materials
Enamel, Metal
Landscape, Original Paint on Canvas , Made in Italy By Marilina Marchica
Located in Agrigento, AG
Landscape
Enamel on Canvas
Original Art
30cx40 cm
Marilina Marchica was born in Agrigento, where she works and lives,
After receiving her diploma at Liceo Artistico "Michelangelo" ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Enamel
Materials
Enamel
Paralells worlds Diptych
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
This work consists of two canvases of Diptych
Work composed of a wooden frame supported by a high-quality cotton fabric.
It is a large work of marvelous beauty.
The scene is an evoca...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Enamel
Materials
Enamel
"David Bowie Ziggy Stardust" Contemporary Pop Art Pixelated Portrait Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary pop art inspired pixelated portrait of iconic singer David Bowie Ziggy Stardust. Similar to pointillism, the individual hand-painted blocks of color come together to for...
Category
2010s Pop Art Art by Medium: Enamel
Materials
Enamel
Involved & Obscure: Silver & Gold Abstract Painting with Jewel Tones
By Bruce Murphy
Located in Hudson, NY
Gestural abstract expressionist painting on archival paper mounted to panel with gold and silver metallic powders and accents of blue, burgundy, green, and purple enamel paint
"Invol...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Enamel
Materials
Enamel
Black and White, Feb 10, 2017
Located in Fairfield, CT
Silkscreen in colors with enamel inks and tar-like texture on 2-ply museum board.
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Enamel
Materials
Enamel
Abstract Painted Ceramic Tile Pop Art Painting Italian Neo Figurative Painting
By Italo Scanga
Located in Surfside, FL
This painted ceramic tile by Italo Scanga, epitomizes the characteristics of his oeuvre. Polychrome and vibrant art from the Memphis Milano era.
This is signed with his initials. This is reminiscent of the mid century work of Jean Lurcat and Jean Picart le Doux.
Italo Scanga (June 6, 1932 - July 7, 2001), an Italian-born American artist, was known for his sculptures, prints and, paintings, mostly created from found objects. In his youth in Calabria, Italy he worked as a cabinetmaker's apprentice and studies sculpture with a man who carved statues of saints.
Italo Scanga was an innovative neo Dada, neo-Expressionist, and neo-Cubist multimedia artist who made assemblage, collage, sculptures of ordinary objects and created prints, glass, and ceramic works. Modern Italian abstract geometric folk art.
Scanga's materials included natural objects like branches and seashells, as well as kitsch figurines, castoff musical instruments and decorative trinkets salvaged from flea markets and thrift shops. He combined these ingredients into free-standing assemblages, which he then painted. Although visually ebullient, the results sometimes referred to gruesome episodes from Greek mythology or the lives and deaths of martyred saints.
He considered his artistic influences to be sweepingly pan-cultural, from African sculpture to Giorgio de Chirico. He often collaborated with the sculptor Dale Chihuly, who was a close friend.
Constructed of wood and glass, found objects or fabric, his ensembles reflect a trio of activities—working, eating, and praying. These activities dominate the lives of those who live close to the land, but they are also activities that are idealized by many who contemplate, romantically, a simpler, bucolic life.
Italo graduated from Michigan State University where he befriended fellow artists Richard Merkin and David Pease. He studied under Lindsey Decker who introduces him to welding and sculpture after his initial interest in photography. Also studies with Charles Pollock, the brother of Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock. His first teaching job was at University of Wisconsin (through 1964). where he met Harvey Littleton, a fellow instructor. He later moves to Providence, Rhode Island,I to teach at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Is colleagues with artists Richard Merkin and Hardu Keck. Starts a correspondence with HC Westermann. Spends summers teaching at Brown University; colleague of Hugh Townley. Moves to State College, PA, and teaches at Pennsylvania State University for one year. Meets artists Juris Ubans, Harry Anderson, Richard Frankel, and Richard Calabro, who remain friends throughout his career.
1967: David Pease helps him get a tenure track position at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, PA, . Artists he works closely with include Ernest Silva, Lee Jaffe, Donald Gill, and William Schwedler. Meets graduate student Dale Chihuly while lecturing at RISD and develops a lifelong friendship.
1969: One person exhibition, Baylor Art Gallery, Baylor University, Waco, TX. Works very closely with students Larry Becker and Heidi Nivling (who later run a gallery in Philadelphia, PA), and Harry Anderson. Welcomes many artists into his home including Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, Bruce Nauman (a former student), Vito Acconci, Ree Morton and Rafael Ferrer.
1973: "Saints Glass" at 112 Greene Street Gallery, NYC. Installation at the Institute of Contemporary Art at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. Meets Gordon Matta Clark and contributes to an artist cookbook. Goes to Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA, founded by Dale Chihuly, as a visiting artist. He continues to work there annually through 2001. Works over the years with Pilchuck artists Richard Royal, Seaver Leslie, Jamie Carpenter, Joey Kirkpatrick, Flora Mace, Robbie Miller, Billy Morris, Buster Simpson...
Category
1980s Neo-Expressionist Art by Medium: Enamel
Materials
Enamel
ABSTRACT New Black Lines Artwork by Contemporary Spanish Artist Pol Pintó
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
At Escat Gallery we are committed to maintaining the highest standards of trust and professionalism for our collectors. Every artwork in our collection comes with a Certificate of Au...
Category
2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Enamel
Materials
Enamel
"CBGB 2 (Study)" Contemporary Abstract Colorful Concentric Circle Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Colorful abstract contemporary circular painting by Houston, TX artist David Hardaker. Signed, titled, and dated by the artist on the reverse. Currently on view in "David Hardaker: R...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Enamel
Materials
Enamel
Painted Elephant Head Wall Sculpture
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Elephant head wall sculpture crafted in composition and whimsically decorated with enamel.
Category
20th Century Modern Art by Medium: Enamel
Materials
Enamel
Open & Empty: Silver & Gold Abstract Expressionist Painting with Jewel Tones
By Bruce Murphy
Located in Hudson, NY
Gestural abstract expressionist painting on archival paper mounted to panel with gold and silver metallic powders and accents of blue, mauve, and teal enamel paint
"Involved and Obsc...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Enamel
Materials
Enamel
Seeing the Past: Abstract Expressionist Painting in Blue, Silver and Gold
By Bruce Murphy
Located in Hudson, NY
Gestural abstract painting on paper with accents of blue, dark gray, and teal underneath silver and gold metallic powders
"Seeing the Past", made in 2022 by Hudson Valley painter, Br...
Category
2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Enamel
Materials
Enamel
Energy of the heave
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
This painting evokes a mysterious and captivating atmosphere with a blue background that envelops the scene in intriguing shadow. The lines, skillfully drawn, traverse the compositio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Enamel
Materials
Enamel
CIRCULAR SYMPHONY CB03
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
Painting done on extra strong cardboard paper. Large painting done with acrylics. The painting wants to represent a symphony in circular forms and lines. It is a very delicate paper ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Enamel
Materials
Enamel
Bond James Bond v2.1
Located in New York, NY
Oil & Enamel Painted Silkscreen on Recycled Floppy Discs. Mounted on Custom built Panel. Sean Connery as James Bond.
About the artist:
Taylor Smith ...
Category
2010s Pop Art Art by Medium: Enamel
Materials
Enamel
"Landscape" Contemporary Art Made in Italy by Marilina Marchica
Located in Agrigento, AG
Landscape
mixed media on canvas
50x50 cm
2018
Ready to Hang
Marilina Marchica, born in 1984, was born in Agrigento, where she lives and works. She graduated in Painting at the Aca...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Enamel
Materials
Enamel
CIRCULAR SYMPHONY CB02
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
Painting done on extra strong cardboard paper. Large painting done with acrylics. The painting wants to represent a symphony in circular forms and lines. It is a very delicate paper ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Enamel
Materials
Enamel
West Hollywood - Photorealistic Oil and Enamel Vibrant Painting on Canvas
By Ross Tamlin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ross Tamlin's unique photorealistic compositions merge traditional painting methods with modern industrial techniques to create captivating works of art. Using layers of oil and enamel paint, Tamlin creates an illusion of corrugation that adds depth and texture to his pieces. His use of industrial imagery and found objects is a nod to contemporary art, while his bold color palette and incorporation of text is a nod to the Pop Art movement.
Tamlin created this one-of-a-kind, vibrant, and colorful painting measuring 44 inches high by 42.5 inches wide and 1.25 inches deep with oil and enamel paint on canvas. The sides of the canvas are painted in a continuation of the front eliminating the need for framing. In addition to being signed by the artist on the front, the artwork also comes with a certificate of authenticity issued by the art gallery. The certificate guarantees the authenticity and provenance of the artwork. Free delivery is available for those in the local Los Angeles area, and affordable worldwide shipping is available for US and international art collectors.
In this artwork, Tamlin reworks the traditional idea of landscape painting by incorporating text and familiar places' names, such as ski resorts, painted in large letters over the colorful photorealistic painted corrugated metal. This photorealistic painting by Ross Tamlin is so expertly executed that it perfectly mimics the texture and appearance of corrugated metal, even when seen in person. However, upon much closer inspection from the side at a nearly 90-degree angle, the levelness of the canvas is revealed, allowing you to appreciate the skillful brushwork of oil and enamel paint that gives the amazing illusion of depth and texture. With meticulous attention to detail, Tamlin imparts extraordinary depth to the painting, creating a finish that emulates the shine of polished metal and further enhances the piece's realistic appearance. This original artwork stands as a testament to Tamlin's remarkable talent and precision, demonstrated through the inclusion of even the smallest details, such as the masterfully painted rusty rivet holes.
Tamlin's works are represented by Artspace Warehouse Los Angeles and are held in private collections worldwide, including Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Singapore, the USA, Switzerland, and France. Corporate collections include ING Bank, Babcock & Brown, Barclays Bank, Saville Hotel Group, Savills Property Group, Minter Ellison, Hai Win Shipping, Allkotes Pty Ltd, Blue Scope Steel Pty Ltd, Sieper & Co., A. P. Moller Maersk Group, Grant Thomas Management, Maridan Pty Ltd, Esprit Changeware Pty Ltd, Maritime Transport Ltd, London.
Artspace Warehouse has been representing and exhibiting Ross Tamlin's original artworks since 2015. The gallery has been a 1stdibs partner since 2014 with consistently excellent reviews from clients worldwide. The gallery exhibits a large selection of affordable original artworks from established and emerging international artists with diverse backgrounds at high standards. Artspace Warehouse is known to provide accurate descriptions, images, reliable services, communication, and delivery.
The gallery's commitment to customer satisfaction means that clients can invest in art with confidence, knowing they have a reputable and established art gallery backing their acquisition. Artspace Warehouse prioritizes our clients' peace of mind by ensuring a seamless and worry-free art-buying experience.
REPRESENTATION
Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, USA
EDUCATION
1979 – 1981 NZ Certificate of Town Planning (3 Years)
1982 Emigrated to Australia, 1989 Australian citizenship
1985 Fine Arts Certificate (Meadowbank) (not completed)
1987 Graphic Arts Certificate, Brisbane
1988 – 1997 Paint/Colour Laboratory Technician
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 Soho Galleries, Sydney, Australia
2013 Soho Galleries, Sydney, Australia
2012 Paintbox Fineart, Canberra, ACT, “Melange”
2011 Jackman Gallery, St. Kilda, Melbourne, Australia
2010 Harrison Gallery, Paddington, Australia
2008 Rushcutters Bay Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2007 Paintbox Gallery, Braddon, Canberra, Australia
2007 Rushcutters Bay Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2006 Rushcutters Bay Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2005 Rushcutters Bay Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2005 Paintbox Gallery, Braddon, Canberra, Australia
2004 Rushcutters Bay Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2003 Rushcutters Bay Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2002 Rushcutters Bay Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2001 1+2 Artists Studio Gallery, Rozelle
2000 New Aesthetix Gallery, Camperdown, Sydney, Australia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Affordable Art Fair, New York, NY
2023 Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA
2021 “Urban Thoughts”, Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Affordable Art Fair New York
2019 Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong
2019 Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Affordable Art Fair New York
2019 Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, Palm Springs, CA
2018 AAF Hong Kong
2018 New York AAF, NY, USA
2018 Morris Art Prize; Gold Coast, Queensland
2018 Art Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, California
2017 SOHO Galleries, Sydney, group exhibitions
2017 Gallery Beneath, Moolloolaba, Queensland, group show
2017 Whistler Contemporary Gallery, Whistler, BC, Canada
2017 Artspace Warehouse Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2017 AAF New York, NY, USA
2017 AAF Battersea, London, UK
2017 Palm Springs Art Fair, Palm Springs, California USA, represented by Artspace Warehouse
2016 Stockholm AAF 2016, Sweden, represented by Retrospect Planet
2016 Artspace Warehouse Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2016 Kunstwarenhaus Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2016 SOHO Galleries, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2016 Art Hamptons, represented by Artspace Warehouse LA
2016 AAF Hong Kong
2016 New York AAF, USA, represented by Artspace Warehouse LA
2016 Asia Contemporary, Hong Kong
2016 Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, USA, represented by
2016 Artspace Warehouse
2016 Whistler Contemporary Gallery, Whistler, Canada
2016 Caldera Art Exhibition, Murwillumbah, Northern NSW
2015 AAF Singapore
2015 Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, USA
2015 Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, USA, represented by
2015 Artspace Warehouse
2015 London AAF, Battersea, March, represented by
2015 Retrospect Planet
2015 Asian Contemporary, Hong Kong, March, represented by Retrospect Planet
2015 New York AAF, USA, represented by Artspace Warehouse LA
2015 Hong Kong AAF, May, represented by Retrospect Planet
2015 Kunstwarenhaus Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2015 Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington, Brisbane
2015 Stockholm AAF 2015, Sweden represented by Retrospect Planet
2015 Group Show SOHO Galleries, “Realism” Sydney, NSW
2015 Singapore AAF
2015 Hamburg AAF, Germany
2015 Mosman Art Prize, Sydney,
2014 Brussels AAF, Belgium, represented by Retrospect Planet
2014 Milan AAF, Italy, represented by Retrospect Planet
2014 London AAF, UK, represented by Retrospect Planet
2014 Hong Kong AAF; represented by Retrospect Planet
2014 Asian Contemporary (Hong Kong)
2014 Singapore AAF (May)
2014 Stockholm AAF, Sweden (October)
2014 Amsterdam AAF, Netherlands
2014 Hamburg AAF, Germany
2014 Singapore AAF, Singapore
2014 Northern Rivers Kyogle Pop Up exhibition (November)
2014 Soho Galleries, Xmas group exhibition
2013 Brussels AAF, Belgium, represented by Retrospect Planet
2013 Milan AAF, Italy, represented by Retrospect Planet
2013 Hong Kong AAF, Hong Kong, represented by Retrospect Planet
2013 Asian Contemporary Art Show,JW Marriott Hotel, Hong Kong
2013 Melbourne Art Fair, represented by Manyung Gallery,
2013 A Book about Death (international travelling art show) Tweed Art Gallery, Murwillumbah, NSW
2013 Hong Kong Contemporary Art Show, Marriott Hotel, Hong Kong
2013 Stockholm AAF, Stockholm, Sweden
2013 Amsterdam AAF, Amsterdam, Holland
2013 Hamburg AAF , Hamburg, Germany
2013 Singapore AAF, Singapore
2013 Seattle AAF, Seattle, USA, represented by Manyung Gallery
2013 Whistler Village Art Gallery, Whistler, BC, Canada
2012 Redsea Gallery,Group Exhibition, Brisbane
2012 Toowoomba Grammar School Art Show, Toowoomba, QLD
2012 Brussels AAF, Belgium, represented by Retrospect Gallery
2012 New York AAF, New York, USA
2012 Envie D’Art, Paris, France & London UK
2012 Art Melbourne AAF, Melbourne
2012 Hamptons Art Fair, July, New York, USA
2012 Wilson Art Prize, Lismore, Northern NSW
2012 Shanghai Art Fair, China, October
2012 Toronto International Art Fair, Canada
2012 Singapore Affordable Art Fair, represented by Retrospect Gallery
2012 Hamburg Affordable Art Fair, Germany
2012 Border Art Prize, Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah, NSW
2012 Whistler Village Art Gallery, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada
2011 Redsea Gallery Brisbane
2011 Traffic Jam Gallery, Sydney
2011 Manyung Gallery, Sorrento & Portsea, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria
2011 Baldarchy 2011
2011 A Royal Exhibition,Newcastle, Harrison Galleries in conjunction with Mirvac Residential
2011 Art Melbourne 2011
2011 Retrospect Gallery, Gold Coast,QLD “Fusions”
2011 Brisbane Rotary Art Spectacular Show
2011 Mission to Seafarers Victoria, ANL Maritime Art Prize Show, Melbourne, Victoria
2011 London Art Show ,Battersea, UK
2011 Singapore Art Show, represented by Retrospect Gallery
2011 Balmain Art & Craft Show, Sydney
2010 Art Melbourne 2010
2010 Retrospect Gallery, Byron Bay, NSW
2010 Manyung Gallery, Mt Eliza, Victoria
2010 Paintbox Gallery, Canberra, ACT “Contained”
2010 Gallery Beneath, Mooloolaba, Sunshine Coast, Queensland
2010 Manyung Sorrento Gallery, Mornigton, Victoria
2009 Art Melbourne 09
2009 Retrospect Gallery, Byron Bay, NSW
2009 Manyung Gallery, Mt. Eliza, Victoria
2009 ANL Mission to Seafarers Art Prize
2009 Art Sydney 09
2009 Balmain Art & Craft Show
2008 Stanthorpe Art Prize 08, Queensland
2008 Art Melbourne 08
2008 Art Brisbane 08
2008 Gallery Schubert, Gold Coast, QLD
2008 Art Sydney 08
2008 Manyung Gallery,Mt Eliza,Victoria
2007 Roxy Gallery, Kyogle, He-art Group Show, Northern NSW
2007 Paintbox Gallery, Fulham, London, UK
2007 Melbourne Affordable Art Show
2007 Cape Gallery, Byron Bay, Northern NSW
2007 Art Sydney 07
2006 Melbourne Affordable Art Show, Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton, VIC
2006 Art Sydney 06, RHI and Horden Pavillion, Sydney
2006 “Australia Calling” Dulwich art fair, London, UK
2006 Bentley Art Show, Northern Rivers NSW
2006 Austrade International Global promotion package
2006 London Autumn Art Fair, London, UK
2006 Art Ireland 06
2006 Balmain Art Show, Sydney
2006 Signature of Sydney
2005 Paintbox Gallery, Braddon, Canberra, ACT
2005 Melbourne Affordable Art Show, Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton, VIC
2005 Gallery New Quay, Docklands, Melbourne, VIC
2005 ArtwithHeart, Fine Art Charity Exhibition and Auction, Docklands, Melbourne, VIC
2005 Bruce Wattling Gallery, Newstead, Brisbane, QLD
2005 Bentley Art Show, Northern Rivers NSW
2005 Art Sydney 05, RHI and Horden Pavillion, Sydney
2005 Balmain Art Show, Sydney
2005 Shanghai Biennale,China,represented by Rushcutters Bay gallery
2004 Stanthorpe Arts Festival, Stanthorpe, QLD
2004 Nimbin Autumn Show, Northern NSW
2004 Cape Byron Gallery,Byron Bay, Northern NSW
2004 Melbourne Affordable Art Show,Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton, VIC
2004 Sydney Affordable Art Show, Fox Studios, Sydney
2004 Balmain Art & Craft Show, Sydney
2004 Redhill Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
2004 Emporium Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
2003 Frances Keevil Group Show, White City Tennis Club, Sydney
2003 Sydney Affordable Art Show, Fox Studios
2003 Balmain Art & Craft Show, Sydney
2003 “New Faces-Fresh Paint #3. Made From Australia Galleries...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art by Medium: Enamel
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Enamel
Mixed Nuts, Pop Art Pin-Up Enamel Print by Mel Ramos
By Mel Ramos
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Mel Ramos, American (1935 - )
Title: Mixed Nuts
Year: 2008
Medium: Enamel on Steel, signed and numbered in marker
Edition: 125, 25 AP
Size: 28 in. x 20 in. x 1.5 in. (71.12 c...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Art by Medium: Enamel
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Enamel, Steel
Rebirth 1
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Rebirth" is a compelling artwork created by Dennis Onofua, showcasing a young woman in a standing posture. The title suggests a powerful theme of transf...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Enamel
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Enamel
Ellen Hackl Fagan, ColorSoundGrammar_ASOG, 2010, Enamel, Latex, Ink, Graphite
Located in Darien, CT
Inviting the accidental while painting, the artist's materials continue to reveal limitless possibilities for improvisation, like jazz music. Influenced by scientific theories-both real and imagined, kitsch, music, decorative art and indigenous textiles, Fagan's abstract paintings and interactive performance build connections between color and surface to sound.
This exploration has led to creating a series of interactive games with viewers, the most recent being The Alphabet Game. To play, viewers select, from colored squares, the color(s) that best represent each note in the familiar ABC Song melody. Through these playful interventions their thoughts about color and music are explored in-depth. Documenting their responses in the form of photographs and notes in journals, Fagan has compiled the results of fifteen artists who played the Alphabet Game during a lecture on color where the artist was the guest presenter in order to create this particular painting.
Fagan distilled the data gathered and painted this visualization of a color/sound alphabet based on the colors selected by this artist's group. These alphabet paintings introduce a wonderful completion to this pseudo-scientific investigation and celebrate painting...
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2010s Conceptual Art by Medium: Enamel
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Enamel
Duke v2.1
Located in New York, NY
Oil, Enamel, Gold Leaf & Silkscreen on Recycled Floppy Discs Mounted to Custom Built Cradled Panel. Featuring the late great John Wayne.
About the Artist:
Taylor Smith...
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2010s Pop Art Art by Medium: Enamel
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Enamel
"4 White Boxes Illusion Sculpture"
By Sanseviero
Located in Southampton, NY
Sanseviero's metal sculptures fool the eye. His "illusion sculptures" are only 1/16th of an inch thick and yet they appear to be 3 dimensional boxes...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Enamel
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Metal, Enamel
Bhavanga 28
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Verbicky, James
Title: Bhavanga 28
Series: Bhavanga
Date: 2021
Medium: Mixed Media / Enamel & Crystallina on Canvas
Unframed Dimensions: 48" x 48" x 2"
Signature: Sign...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Enamel
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Enamel
Marilyn Portrait (Red)
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Russell Young
Title: Marilyn Portrait (Red)
Portfolio: Marilyn Portrait
Medium: Hand-pulled acrylic and enamel silkscreen on paper
Date: 2014
Edition: 25/25
Sheet Size: 27" x...
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2010s Pop Art Art by Medium: Enamel
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Enamel
Architect Olabuenaga Vintage Cloisonne Enamel Art Necklace Acme studios Necktie
Located in Surfside, FL
Worn like a bolo tie around the neck.
This is new old stock vintage Jewelry from the legendary Acme Studio collection, which created many revolutionary jewelry items. It was handmade in the 1980s using the intricate cloisonné process, an ancient technique for decorating metal; hence any imperfections within the colors are to be expected and inherent which makes it unique and one-of-a-kind.
The Memphis...
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20th Century Pop Art Art by Medium: Enamel
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Metal, Enamel
Urn with Flying Lilies in white
Located in Burlingame, CA
"Urn with Flying Lilies" in white, free standing sculpture. Enamel on aluminum and steel sculpture created by artist Gary Bukovnik that reflects the cascading beauty in his watercolo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Enamel
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Metal, Enamel, Steel
Matisse Blue Nude—Drop a Like - Style Basquiat
Located in OIA, ES
In "Matisse Blue Nude—Drop a Like," Tirigall masterfully bridges classical art and contemporary urban expression. This striking interpretation transforms Matisse's serene figure into...
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2010s Street Art Art by Medium: Enamel
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Enamel
Large King - Enamels on Vinyl
Located in New York, NY
Cool abstract piece with hues of white, yellow, black, silver, red and green. Abstract king is the central focus. Enamels on vinyl.
About the artist:
Michael has been working as a painter and designer for over 20 years. His work has been exhibited in various galleries and museums throughout the country including The Carnegie Museum of Art, The Austin Museum of Digital Art, The Westmoreland Museum of Art, UICA/Michigan, and The Mattress Factory. His paintings have been featured in Atlantic Homes and Lifestyles, Beaux Arts, Table Magazine, Perlora Contemporary Home Magazine, The Wall Street International Magazine and the cover of Housetrends. His work will also be featured in Design Within Reach’s 2019 Catalog.
His clients have included The Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, Nintendo, IBM, Sony Pictures and Panasonic. His work has been published widely in various publications including TIME, The Wall Street Journal, How Magazine, Graphis, London’s Computer Arts, BIg Magazine, The Book of Probes by Marshall Mcluhan (designed by David Carson), Big Magazine and Speak.
His collaboration with José Muniain on the short film installation “Navarro”, which documented his painting process, was a finalist in the D.C. Independent Film Festival. Some recent projects include the main lobby interior collections for Bakery Living and Bakery Living Blue, The Hardy House at Nemacolin Woodlands, large scale works for The PPG Paints Arena and commissioned work for The New York Pro Surf Competition and The Quiksilver Pro France. His work has also featured prominently on the sets of several feature films and television series, including Trouble With The Curve, The Last Witch Hunter...
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2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Enamel
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Enamel
Real 04
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
This abstract painting, created on a cardboard base, presents an explosion of energy and dynamism, characteristic of the action painting style. The use of enamel and acrylic paint pr...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Enamel
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Enamel
Yellow and White, Feb 10, 2017
Located in Fairfield, CT
Silkscreen in colors with enamel inks and tar-like texture on 2-ply museum board.
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Enamel
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Enamel
"Elvis", Denied Andy Warhol Silver & Black Pop Art Painting by Charles Lutz
By Charles Lutz
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Elvis, Metallic Silver and Black Full Length Silkscreen Painting by Charles Lutz
Silkscreen and silver enamel painted on vintage 1960's era linen with Artist's Denied stamp of the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board.
82" x 40" inches
2010
Lutz's 2007 ''Warhol Denied'' series gained international attention by calling into question the importance of originality or lack thereof in the work of Andy Warhol. The authentication/denial process of the [[Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board]] was used to create value by submitting recreations of Warhol works for judgment with the full intention for the works to be formally marked "DENIED". The final product of the conceptual project being "officially denied" "Warhol" paintings authored by Lutz.
Based on the full-length Elvis Presley paintings by Pop Artist Andy Warhol in 1964, this is likely one of his most iconic images, next to Campbell's Soup Cans and portraits of Jackie Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Liz Taylor, and Marlon Brando. This is the rarest of the Elvis works from the series, as Lutz sourced a vintage roll of 1960's primed artist linen which was used for this one Elvis. The silkscreen, like Warhol's embraced imperfections, like the slight double image printing of the Elvis image.
Lutz received his BFA in Painting and Art History from Pratt Institute and studied Human Dissection and Anatomy at Columbia University, New York. Lutz's work deals with perceptions and value structures, specifically the idea of the transference of values. Lutz's most recently presented an installation of new sculptures dealing with consumerism at Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater House in 2022.
Lutz's 2007 Warhol Denied series received international attention calling into question the importance of originality in a work of art. The valuation process (authentication or denial) of the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board was used by the artist to create value by submitting recreations of Warhol works for judgment, with the full intention for the works to be formally marked "DENIED" of their authenticity. The final product of this conceptual project is "Officially DENIED" "Warhol" paintings authored by Lutz.
Later in 2013, Lutz went on to do one of his largest public installations to date. At the 100th Anniversary of Marcel Duchamp's groundbreaking and controversial Armory Show, Lutz was asked by the curator of Armory Focus: USA and former Director of The Andy Warhol Museum, Eric Shiner to create a site-specific installation representing the US. The installation "Babel" (based on Pieter Bruegel's famous painting) consisted of 1500 cardboard replicas of Warhol's Brillo Box (Stockholm Type) stacked 20 ft tall. All 1500 boxes were then given to the public freely, debasing the Brillo Box as an art commodity by removing its value, in addition to debasing its willing consumers.
Elvis was "the greatest cultural force in the Twentieth Century. He introduced the beat to everything, and he changed everything - music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution." Leonard Bernstein in: Exh. Cat., Boston, The Institute of Contemporary Art and traveling, Elvis + Marilyn 2 x Immortal, 1994-97, p. 9.
Andy Warhol "quite simply changed how we all see the world around us." Kynaston McShine in: Exh. Cat., New York, Museum of Modern Art (and traveling), Andy Warhol: Retrospective, 1996, p. 13.
In the summer of 1963 Elvis Presley was just twenty-eight years old but already a legend of his time. During the preceding seven years - since Heartbreak Hotel became the biggest-selling record of 1956 - he had recorded seventeen number-one singles and seven number-one albums; starred in eleven films, countless national TV appearances, tours, and live performances; earned tens of millions of dollars; and was instantly recognized across the globe. The undisputed King of Rock and Roll, Elvis was the biggest star alive: a cultural phenomenon of mythic proportions apparently no longer confined to the man alone. As the eminent composer Leonard Bernstein put it, Elvis was "the greatest cultural force in the Twentieth Century. He introduced the beat to everything, and he changed everything - music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution." (Exh. Cat., Boston, The Institute of Contemporary Art (and traveling), Elvis + Marilyn 2 x Immortal, 1994, p. 9).
In the summer of 1963 Andy Warhol was thirty-four years old and transforming the parameters of visual culture in America. The focus of his signature silkscreen was leveled at subjects he brilliantly perceived as the most important concerns of day to day contemporary life. By appropriating the visual vernacular of consumer culture and multiplying readymade images gleaned from newspapers, magazines and advertising, he turned a mirror onto the contradictions behind quotidian existence. Above all else he was obsessed with themes of celebrity and death, executing intensely multifaceted and complex works in series that continue to resound with universal relevance. His unprecedented practice re-presented how society viewed itself, simultaneously reinforcing and radically undermining the collective psychology of popular culture. He epitomized the tide of change that swept through the 1960s and, as Kynaston McShine has concisely stated, "He quite simply changed how we all see the world around us." (Exh. Cat., New York, Museum of Modern Art (and traveling), Andy Warhol: Retrospective, 1996, p. 13).
Thus in the summer of 1963 there could not have been a more perfect alignment of artist and subject than Warhol and Elvis. Perhaps the most famous depiction of the biggest superstar by the original superstar artist, Double Elvis is a historic paradigm of Pop Art from a breath-taking moment in Art History. With devastating immediacy and efficiency, Warhol's canvas seduces our view with a stunning aesthetic and confronts our experience with a sophisticated array of thematic content. Not only is there all of Elvis, man and legend, but we are also presented with the specter of death, staring at us down the barrel of a gun; and the lone cowboy, confronting the great frontier and the American dream. The spray painted silver screen denotes the glamour and glory of cinema, the artificiality of fantasy, and the idea of a mirror that reveals our own reality back to us. At the same time, Warhol's replication of Elvis' image as a double stands as metaphor for the means and effects of mass-media and its inherent potential to manipulate and condition. These thematic strata function in simultaneous concert to deliver a work of phenomenal conceptual brilliance. The portrait of a man, the portrait of a country, and the portrait of a time, Double Elvis is an indisputable icon for our age.
The source image was a publicity still for the movie Flaming Star, starring Presley as the character Pacer Burton and directed by Don Siegel in 1960. The film was originally intended as a vehicle for Marlon Brando and produced by David Weisbart, who had made James Dean's Rebel Without a Cause in 1955. It was the first of two Twentieth Century Fox productions Presley was contracted to by his manager Colonel Tom Parker, determined to make the singer a movie star. For the compulsive movie-fan Warhol, the sheer power of Elvis wielding a revolver as the reluctant gunslinger presented the zenith of subject matter: ultimate celebrity invested with the ultimate power to issue death. Warhol's Elvis is physically larger than life and wears the expression that catapulted him into a million hearts: inexplicably and all at once fearful and resolute; vulnerable and predatory; innocent and explicit. It is the look of David Halberstam's observation that "Elvis Presley was an American original, the rebel as mother's boy, alternately sweet and sullen, ready on demand to be either respectable or rebellious." (Exh. Cat., Boston, Op. Cit.). Indeed, amidst Warhol's art there is only one other subject whose character so ethereally defies categorization and who so acutely conflated total fame with the inevitability of mortality. In Warhol's work, only Elvis and Marilyn harness a pictorial magnetism of mythic proportions.
With Marilyn Monroe, whom Warhol depicted immediately after her premature death in August 1962, he discovered a memento mori to unite the obsessions driving his career: glamour, beauty, fame, and death. As a star of the silver screen and the definitive international sex symbol, Marilyn epitomized the unattainable essence of superstardom that Warhol craved. Just as there was no question in 1963, there remains still none today that the male equivalent to Marilyn is Elvis. However, despite his famous 1968 adage, "If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings" Warhol's fascination held purpose far beyond mere idolization. As Rainer Crone explained in 1970, Warhol was interested in movie stars above all else because they were "people who could justifiably be seen as the nearest thing to representatives of mass culture." (Rainer Crone, Andy Warhol, New York, 1970, p. 22). Warhol was singularly drawn to the idols of Elvis and Marilyn, as he was to Marlon Brando and Liz Taylor, because he implicitly understood the concurrence between the projection of their image and the projection of their brand. Some years after the present work he wrote, "In the early days of film, fans used to idolize a whole star - they would take one star and love everything about that star...So you should always have a product that's not just 'you.' An actress should count up her plays and movies and a model should count up her photographs and a writer should count up his words and an artist should count up his pictures so you always know exactly what you're worth, and you don't get stuck thinking your product is you and your fame, and your aura." (Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again), San Diego, New York and London, 1977, p. 86).
The film stars of the late 1950s and early 1960s that most obsessed Warhol embodied tectonic shifts in wider cultural and societal values. In 1971 John Coplans argued that Warhol was transfixed by the subject of Elvis, and to a lesser degree by Marlon Brando and James Dean, because they were "authentically creative, and not merely products of Hollywood's fantasy or commercialism. All three had originative lives, and therefore are strong personalities; all three raised - at one level or another - important questions as to the quality of life in America and the nature of its freedoms. Implicit in their attitude is a condemnation of society and its ways; they project an image of the necessity for the individual to search for his own future, not passively, but aggressively, with commitment and passion." (John Coplans, "Andy Warhol and Elvis Presley," Studio International, vol. 181, no. 930, February 1971, pp. 51-52). However, while Warhol unquestionably adored these idols as transformative heralds, the suggestion that his paintings of Elvis are uncritical of a generated public image issued for mass consumption fails to appreciate the acuity of his specific re-presentation of the King.
As with Marilyn, Liz and Marlon, Warhol instinctively understood the Elvis brand as an industrialized construct, designed for mass consumption like a Coca-Cola bottle or Campbell's Soup Can, and radically revealed it as a precisely composed non-reality. Of course Elvis offered Warhol the biggest brand of all, and he accentuates this by choosing a manifestly contrived version of Elvis-the-film-star, rather than the raw genius of Elvis as performing Rock n' Roll pioneer. A few months prior to the present work he had silkscreened Elvis' brooding visage in a small cycle of works based on a simple headshot, including Red Elvis, but the absence of context in these works minimizes the critical potency that is so present in Double Elvis. With Double Elvis we are confronted by a figure so familiar to us, yet playing a role relating to violence and death that is entirely at odds with the associations entrenched with the singer's renowned love songs. Although we may think this version of Elvis makes sense, it is the overwhelming power of the totemic cipher of the Elvis legend that means we might not even question why he is pointing a gun rather than a guitar. Thus Warhol interrogates the limits of the popular visual vernacular, posing vital questions of collective perception and cognition in contemporary society.
The notion that this self-determinedly iconic painting shows an artificial paradigm is compounded by Warhol's enlistment of a reflective metallic surface, a treatment he reserved for his most important portraits of Elvis, Marilyn, Marlon and Liz. Here the synthetic chemical silver paint becomes allegory for the manufacture of the Elvis product, and directly anticipates the artist's 1968 statement: "Everything is sort of artificial. I don't know where the artificial stops and the real starts. The artificial fascinates me, the bright and shiny..." (Artist quoted in Exh. Cat., Stockholm, Moderna Museet and traveling, Andy Warhol, 1968, n.p.). At the same time, the shiny silver paint of Double Elvis unquestionably denotes the glamour of the silver screen and the attractive fantasies of cinema. At exactly this time in the summer of 1963 Warhol bought his first movie camera and produced his first films such as Sleep, Kiss and Tarzan and Jane Regained. Although the absence of plot or narrative convention in these movies was a purposely anti-Hollywood gesture, the unattainability of classic movie stardom still held profound allure and resonance for Warhol. He remained a celebrity and film fanatic, and it was exactly this addiction that so qualifies his sensational critique of the industry machinations behind the stars he adored.
Double Elvis was executed less than eighteen months after he had created 32 Campbell's Soup Cans for his immortal show at the Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles in July and August 1962, and which is famously housed in the Museum of Modern Art, New York. In the intervening period he had produced the series Dollar Bills, Coca-Cola Bottles, Suicides, Disasters, and Silver Electric Chairs, all in addition to the portrait cycles of Marilyn and Liz. This explosive outpouring of astonishing artistic invention stands as definitive testament to Warhol's aptitude to seize the most potent images of his time. He recognized that not only the product itself, but also the means of consumption - in this case society's abandoned deification of Elvis - was symptomatic of a new mode of existence. As Heiner Bastian has precisely summated: "the aura of utterly affirmative idolization already stands as a stereotype of a 'consumer-goods style' expression of an American way of life and of the mass-media culture of a nation." (Exh. Cat., Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie (and traveling), Andy Warhol: Retrospective, 2001, p. 28).
For Warhol, the act of image replication and multiplication anaesthetized the effect of the subject, and while he had undermined the potency of wealth in 200 One Dollar Bills, and cheated the terror of death by electric chair in Silver Disaster # 6, the proliferation of Elvis here emasculates a prefabricated version of character authenticity. Here the cinematic quality of variety within unity is apparent in the degrees to which Presley's arm and gun become less visible to the left of the canvas. The sense of movement is further enhanced by a sense of receding depth as the viewer is presented with the ghost like repetition of the figure in the left of the canvas, a 'jump effect' in the screening process that would be replicated in the multiple Elvis paintings. The seriality of the image heightens the sense of a moving image, displayed for us like the unwinding of a reel of film.
Elvis was central to Warhol's legendary solo exhibition organized by Irving Blum at the Ferus Gallery in the Fall of 1963 - the show having been conceived around the Elvis paintings since at least May of that year. A well-known installation photograph shows the present work prominently presented among the constant reel of canvases, designed to fill the space as a filmic diorama. While the Elvis canvases...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Art by Medium: Enamel
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Enamel
Real 08
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
This abstract painting, created on a cardboard base, presents an explosion of energy and dynamism, characteristic of the action painting style. The use of enamel and acrylic paint pr...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Enamel
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Enamel
Ellen Hackl Fagan, Seeking the Sound of Cobalt Blue_20 Moons, 2014, Enamel, Ink
Located in Darien, CT
Ellen Hackl Fagan is an interdisciplinary abstract painter who believes that synaesthesia can be taught. Through interactive tools and crowd sourcing, Fagan is developing a correspo...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Enamel
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Enamel
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