Art by Medium: Epoxy Resin

A contemporary take on Vincent Van Gogh's most famous painting "Starry Night". Darius Yektai, a contemporary painter based in New York's beach enclave The Hamptons, uses resin along ...

Delphiniums in Glass Vase Double Still Life is part of a series debuted in 2023, where Yektai has inculcated nature—employing the late 20th century effect of including ‘found objects” into his paintings. Here we see actual delphinium stems bursting out of the vase in the foreground. Just to remind us of who is king of the canvas, he rakes the whole composition with wide dashes of paint to emphasize each section’s role. We see black dabs to push back the deep green background, wide white marks to bring the table forward and bright red swashes of oil paint on the right to balance out the composition, creating a flag effect out of the whole painting. Real dried flowers...

A representational abstract painting of a lily pond. Airy washes of alizarin paint, built up more opaquely in areas, creates the background of this piece. Epoxy resin covers the aliz...

"Broken Vessels" is a mixed media painting with broken ceramics, sentimental to the artist and his family, savoured and assembled onto the painting, pushing the painting towards scul...

"Blue Fall 2" is a Still Life of falling impasto flowers painted on a canvas of blue and yellow. Darius Yektai was born in Southampton NY, in 1973. H...

An abstracted landscape of the artist's local pond.

A famous French Neoclassical painting by Nicholas Poussin, copied by Darius Yektai on four panels of linen. "Madonna of the Steps" was la...

"Boy Reflection" is an abstract expressionist painting of a boy's reflection onto the surface of a lily pond. An exciting new series out of Darius Yektai’s studio this year, shows r...

"Large Lilies Jute Square" is a still life painting with thickly applied lily flowers on a raw brown canvas and resin. Darius Yektai was born in Southampton NY, in 1973. He lives a...

Abstract oil painting on canvas and resin. This bright piece has a lot of depth, literally! The layers of paint and resin are built upon each other, the upper layers casting shadows ...

A vibrant and reflective floral from abstract expressionist artist, Darius Yektai. Yektai pours epoxy resin over his oil painting and then paints on top of the reflective resin furth...

A rare small painting from contemporary Abstract Expressionist, Darius Yektai. Although titled "pink flowers" the hue of the painting is really more peach, or a light orange. A patte...

"Nasturtium, Diptych" is an abstract diptych painting of two potted plants. On the lefthand canvas the background is painted a thin hookers green and resin was poured over the top. The potted flower is painted over the resin, sitting on a white stippled table with a thick yellow edge. Yellow stipples are painted around the plant. The righthand painting has intentionally exposed canvas soft smudges of green paint through the middle of the canvas and navy up in the upper lefthand corner, at the middle of the composition. A heavy impasto flower...

An oil and resin layered painting from the popular "black table" series by contemporary American artist, Darius Yektai. A modern table plays host to a yell...

An almost sculptural still-life painting by neo-abstract expressionist, Darius Yektai.