Art by Medium: Pigment

There are two Little Oil installations available with 6 sculptures each on top of LED light boxes. Two of the oil can sculptures depicted here are sold. Please contact the gallery for specific prices on individual prices and smaller light boxes sold with the sculptures. Prices range from $675 - $2050 including a small lightbox for individual sculptures. Katherine Jackson has been working with glass and light together for many years, Recently, she's been making glass castings of vintage oil cans, and displaying them -- singly, in small groupings, or in vitrines -- on light boxes. So far she has created about 90, each one unique. The series is called Little Oil, alluding to Big Oil, and sometimes Small Oils, as in oil painting. But “oil” can mean many things. It has been a source of light (sometimes from unconscionable sources) since ancient times as well as a source of eternal light in many faith traditions. Set atop lightboxes, where each work glows from within, these pieces can simply seem like vessels of light itself. At times, they appear to me to transcend their relation to oil altogether, appearing anthropomorphic or creaturely, even biological. These days, I think of them as archeological artifacts, relics of a past, oil-based, civilization. Necropolis is a print of a painting inspired by a map of the necropolis where the terra cotta soldiers...

Part of The Handshake (Käepigistus) Series.

Part of The Handshake (Käepigistus) Series.

Part of The Handshake (Käepigistus) Series.

Modern Art, Portrait Painting, Mixed Media Portrait Art-Lost Between The Lines ABOUT THIS PIECE: “Lost Between the Lines, (Behtyie-A13)” is mixed media portrait art by Addison Jones...

Modern Art, Portrait Art, Black & White Painting-Big Hats And Backgrounds Black A B O U T T H I S P I E C E : “Big Hats and Backgrounds Black (Hannah-A2)” is ...

Portrait Paintings, Black Mixed Media Art, Street Art-Era, You There? A B O U T T H I S P I E C E : “Era, You There?” is mixed media street art by Addison Jones featuring her own po...

In "WEST The American Cowboy", Anouk revisits this enduring iconic symbol of America's pioneering spirit. The new series inspire with a fresh and contemporary perspective of the Amer...

Suzanne McClelland fuses painterly marks with linguistic elements, creating rhythmic canvases that explore both visual and written languages. McClelland often begins with poetic vers...

Inspired by her close connection to nature, and by what she calls “the spirit of investigation and observation of the natural world,” Suzi Davidoff creates mixed-media drawings and p...

Agni Zotis is a multi-disciplinary artist exploring human emotions. Agni studied art at Hunter College, anatomy at the Art Students League and apprenticed with a Serbian monk, learni...