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Style: Contemporary
Medium: Plaster
INTO THE WILD - Impasto Painting - A.I. Woman in Wooden Frame
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Disappearing back into the shadows, she leans into the nature of a new existence, wild and free but still so alone..
In INTO THE WILD, Matthew Dutton creates a new work out of conte...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Plaster, Wood, Ink, Watercolor
FLORAL VEIL - Impasto Painting - A.I. Woman in Wooden Frame
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
"Hidden away behind a floral veil, a shield so thin that her own breathe can make it falter, yet shielded enough to regain her bountiful confidence."
In F...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Plaster, Wood, Ink, Watercolor
Pushing Wake
Located in Lincoln, RI
This piece is made by casting Hydrocal FGR95 (a very hard plaster) on top of an oil clay pattern. Once cured, the oil clay is removed, then paint and brass leaf are applied to the su...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Brass
Ethereal Lake
Located in New Orleans, LA
James Henderson’s work explores the concept of memory and nostalgia. Utilizing found imagery as a starting point, he collages and layers his mixed media paintings. The inclusion of imagery from vintage photographs becomes Henderson’s visual language through which to depict the notion of how one’s past experiences, emotions and personal archeology greatly shape one’s identity. Henderson’s new works on paper use plaster and roofing tar to secure the fading images printed on vellum. Henderson has exhibited at the Ogden Museum, LA and Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, LA, and his works have been included in film and television programs such as Bad Girls Club, The Twilight Saga...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Plaster, Charcoal, Tar, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
The Ball and All #2
Located in New Orleans, LA
James Henderson’s work explores the concept of memory and nostalgia. Utilizing found imagery as a starting point, he collages and layers his mixed media paintings. The inclusion of imagery from vintage photographs becomes Henderson’s visual language through which to depict the notion of how one’s past experiences, emotions and personal archeology greatly shape one’s identity. Henderson’s new works on paper use plaster and roofing tar to secure the fading images printed on vellum. Henderson has exhibited at the Ogden Museum, LA and Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, LA, and his works have been included in film and television programs such as Bad Girls Club, The Twilight Saga...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Canvas, Plaster, Charcoal, Acrylic
All on a Mardi Gras Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
James Henderson’s work explores the concept of memory and nostalgia. Utilizing found imagery as a starting point, he collages and layers his mixed media paintings. The inclusion of imagery from vintage photographs becomes Henderson’s visual language through which to depict the notion of how one’s past experiences, emotions and personal archeology greatly shape one’s identity. Henderson’s new works on paper use plaster and roofing tar to secure the fading images printed on vellum. Henderson has exhibited at the Ogden Museum, LA and Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, LA, and his works have been included in film and television programs such as Bad Girls Club, The Twilight Saga...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Plaster, Charcoal, Tar, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
Boys Club
Located in New Orleans, LA
James Henderson’s work explores the concept of memory and nostalgia. Utilizing found imagery as a starting point, he collages and layers his mixed media paintings. The inclusion of imagery from vintage photographs becomes Henderson’s visual language through which to depict the notion of how one’s past experiences, emotions and personal archeology greatly shape one’s identity. Henderson’s new works on paper use plaster and roofing tar to secure the fading images printed on vellum. Henderson has exhibited at the Ogden Museum, LA and Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, LA, and his works have been included in film and television programs such as Bad Girls Club, The Twilight Saga...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Plaster, Charcoal, Tar, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
Stephanie Todhunter, Ellie, Mixed Media, 2019
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Stephanie Todhunter
Title: Ellie
Year: 2019
Size: 8.5"x7"x4"
Material: Plaster of Paris found objects, Spray Paint, alcohol inks
Each piec...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Plaster, Found Objects, Ink
Nuances of Depth 1, 2, 3
Located in New York, NY
Albion Vu is an architect, fashion designer and an abstract painter living between NYC and Martha's Vineyard. Born and raised in Eastern Europe, he moved to the USA after graduating ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Plaster, Paper, Acrylic
Golden Slumbers
Located in Montreal, Quebec
For Nicolas Bourriaud, the flea market is a place where “past production is recycled and switches direction” and where “an object is given a new idea.” On the stalls of the flea market, objects are resurrected and given a second life. This is where Jennifer Small...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Plaster, Acrylic, Plastic
Elutheria
By Ron Reihel
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A sculpture by Ron Reihel. "Elutheria" is an abstract, cast resin, plaster, wood and canvas wall sculpture executed in a deep, glossy black by contemporary artist Ron Reihel. Ron Rei...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Canvas, Plaster, Resin, Wood
$18,000
Memory Wall #4
Located in New York, NY
Trained in traditional venetian plaster, Vincent employs a unique material approach to his work, creating pieces
by carefully layering, carving, coloring, and burnishing. This proces...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Plaster, Wax, Acrylic
Birds of a Feather
Located in Montreal, Quebec
For Nicolas Bourriaud, the flea market is a place where “past production is recycled and switches direction” and where “an object is given a new idea.” On the stalls of the flea market, objects are resurrected and given a second life. This is where Jennifer Small...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Metal
Bird Watcher
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Nicholas Crombach has a BFA from OCAD University with a major in Sculpture and Installation. In 2016-17 he participated in a year-long studio residency at The Florence Trust in Londo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Plaster
Teddy
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Nicholas Crombach has a BFA from OCAD University with a major in Sculpture and Installation. In 2016-17 he participated in a year-long studio residency at The Florence Trust in Londo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Plaster
Hunter #2
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Nicholas Crombach has a BFA from OCAD University with a major in Sculpture and Installation. In 2016-17 he participated in a year-long studio residency at The Florence Trust in Londo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Plaster
BIG LITTLE #156
Located in New York, NY
Trained in traditional venetian plaster, Vincent employs a unique material approach to his work, creating pieces
by carefully layering, carving, coloring, and burnishing. This proces...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Plaster, Wax, Acrylic
Victim
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Nicholas Crombach has a BFA from OCAD University with a major in Sculpture and Installation. In 2016-17 he participated in a year-long studio residency at The Florence Trust in Londo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Plaster
Hunter #1
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Nicholas Crombach is currently an artist in residence at The Florence Trust in London, UK. Crombach graduated from OCAD University’s Sculpture and Installation program in 2012. He h...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Plaster
My father came over from England
By Bevan Ramsay
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Beyond Sociology: The Act of Seeing a Person
Text by Edwin Janzen
It is hardly surprising that in our society perceptions of homeless persons remain two-dimensional, stereotypical, inadequate. Even for the rare administration tackling the problems of homelessness in an effective, meaningful way, the homeless person’s humanity is buried beneath a mountain of endless statistical markers: mental illness, substance abuse, soup-kitchen attendance, etc. The enormous negativity lingering about the resultant profile permits scant room for other, arguably important accoutrements of the human experience—character, emotion, intellect, beauty, relationship to divinity—and leaves homeless persons basically where they already are: on the street, the objects of middle-class loathing or pity.
Struck by this depressing determinism, artist Bevan Ramsay set out to cast portrait busts of homeless persons (one woman, the others men), producing an edition in fine, white statuary Hydrocal plaster mounted on mahogany bases. These portraits, titled Lesser Gods...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Plaster, Wood
BIG LITTLE #160
Located in New York, NY
Trained in traditional venetian plaster, Vincent employs a unique material approach to his work, creating pieces
by carefully layering, carving, coloring, and burnishing. This proces...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Plaster, Wax, Acrylic
BIG LITTLE #163
Located in New York, NY
Trained in traditional venetian plaster, Vincent employs a unique material approach to his work, creating pieces
by carefully layering, carving, coloring, and burnishing. This proces...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Plaster, Wax, Acrylic
MODULAR 52
Located in Tulsa, OK
Kathleen Hope
MODULAR 53
cement, pigment, plaster
8.00 X 8.00 in
$250.00
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Plaster, Mixed Media, Pigment
BIG LITTLE #158
Located in New York, NY
Trained in traditional venetian plaster, Vincent employs a unique material approach to his work, creating pieces
by carefully layering, carving, coloring, and burnishing. This proces...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Plaster, Wax, Acrylic
Souvenirs ancestraux
Located in CHAZELLES-SUR-LYON, FR
“Ancestral Memories” – A Porcelain Plaster Sculpture of Wisdom and Connection
“Ancestral Memories” is a sculpture crafted in porcelain plaster, embodying the majestic elephant, an e...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Plaster
Dark Trellis
Located in New York, NY
Trained in traditional venetian plaster, Vincent employs a unique material approach to his work, creating pieces by carefully layering, carving, coloring, and burnishing. This proces...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Plaster, Wax, Acrylic
Painting & sculpture on old barn door: 'The Riddle of the Horse'
By Joshua Goode
Located in New York, NY
Inspired by amateur archaeologists such as Heinrich Schliemann who discovered Troy and by past elaborate hoaxes like that of the Piltdown Man, Joshua travels the world performing sta...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Metal
Dog on wood palate with twine: 'Speak to Me'
Located in New York, NY
Elizabeth Jordan is an artist working primarily in sculpture and whose work uses multiple materials to produce unique, organic forms. In addition to a solo and group shows at Ivy Bro...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Wire
Memory Wall
Located in New York, NY
Trained in traditional venetian plaster, Vincent employs a unique material approach to his work, creating pieces
by carefully layering, carving, coloring, and burnishing. This proces...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Plaster, Wax, Acrylic
BIG LITTLE #155
Located in New York, NY
Trained in traditional venetian plaster, Vincent employs a unique material approach to his work, creating pieces
by carefully layering, carving, coloring, and burnishing. This proces...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Plaster, Wax, Acrylic
BIG LITTLE #161
Located in New York, NY
Trained in traditional venetian plaster, Vincent employs a unique material approach to his work, creating pieces
by carefully layering, carving, coloring, and burnishing. This proces...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Plaster, Wax, Acrylic
White Flag for Franklin Rosemont (small)
By Skylar Fein
Located in New Orleans, LA
SKYLAR FEIN was born in Greenwich Village and raised in the Bronx. He has had many careers including teaching nonviolent resistance under the umbrella of the Quakers, working for a g...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Plaster, Wood, Ink, Encaustic, Acrylic
Wahrheit, Schönheit, Güte (lighted signs)
By Skylar Fein
Located in New Orleans, LA
SKYLAR FEIN was born in Greenwich Village and raised in the Bronx. He has had many careers including teaching nonviolent resistance under the umbrella of the Quakers, working for a g...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Plaster, Wood, LED Light, Acrylic, Latex
Sisters of Barbarity
By Skylar Fein
Located in New Orleans, LA
SKYLAR FEIN was born in Greenwich Village and raised in the Bronx. He has had many careers including teaching nonviolent resistance under the umbrella of the Quakers, working for a g...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Plaster, Wood, LED Light, Acrylic, Latex
Children II
By Skylar Fein
Located in New Orleans, LA
SKYLAR FEIN x MRSA (collaboration)
SKYLAR FEIN was born in Greenwich Village and raised in the Bronx. He has had many careers including teaching nonviolent resistance under the umbr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Plaster, Wood, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Children IV
By Skylar Fein
Located in New Orleans, LA
SKYLAR FEIN x MRSA (collaboration)
SKYLAR FEIN was born in Greenwich Village and raised in the Bronx. He has had many careers including teaching nonviolent resistance under the umbr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Plaster, Wood, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Shepherd
By Skylar Fein
Located in New Orleans, LA
SKYLAR FEIN x MRSA (collaboration)
SKYLAR FEIN was born in Greenwich Village and raised in the Bronx. He has had many careers including teaching nonviolent resistance under the umbr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Plaster, Wood, Mixed Media, Acrylic
BIG LITTLE #164
Located in New York, NY
Trained in traditional venetian plaster, Vincent employs a unique material approach to his work, creating pieces
by carefully layering, carving, coloring, and burnishing. This proces...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Plaster, Wax, Acrylic
BIG LITTLE #157
Located in New York, NY
Trained in traditional venetian plaster, Vincent employs a unique material approach to his work, creating pieces
by carefully layering, carving, coloring, and burnishing. This proces...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Plaster, Wax, Acrylic
BIG LITTLE #154
Located in New York, NY
Trained in traditional venetian plaster, Vincent employs a unique material approach to his work, creating pieces
by carefully layering, carving, coloring, and burnishing. This proces...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Plaster, Wax, Acrylic
Admiral Byrd Cast Plaster Sculpture by Shelter Serra
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Admiral Byrd by Shelter Serra
2004
13”x9”x7.5” inches
Cast plaster
This plaster sculpture is an homage to classical sculpture and the legacy of Admiral Richard E. Byrd. Overshadowe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Plaster
Reflet (Reflect)
Located in Paris, FR
Sculpture in plaster
Possible to order this sculpture in Bronze.
Please contact Parisian Parrots for further information, prices and delay.
The sculpture comes with its varnished clear wood plinth that brings a beautiful contrast with the white Plaster sculpture
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Wool, Plaster
Gatorade
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A mixed media piece by Donna Huanca. "Gatorade" is a contemporary plaster and 3D paint on canvas in a palette of white by process-oriented, American artis...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Canvas, Plaster, Paint
$40,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Coversation
By Ron Reihel
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A sculpture by Ron Reihel. "Conversation" is an abstract, plaster, wood and canvas sculpture, executed in black by contemporary artist Ron Reihel. "Conversation" depicts a group of t...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Canvas, Plaster, Wood
$12,000
The Ball and All #3
Located in New Orleans, LA
James Henderson’s work explores the concept of memory and nostalgia. Utilizing found imagery as a starting point, he collages and layers his mixed media paintings. The inclusion of imagery from vintage photographs becomes Henderson’s visual language through which to depict the notion of how one’s past experiences, emotions and personal archeology greatly shape one’s identity. Henderson’s new works on paper use plaster and roofing tar to secure the fading images printed on vellum. Henderson has exhibited at the Ogden Museum, LA and Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, LA, and his works have been included in film and television programs such as Bad Girls Club, The Twilight Saga...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Canvas, Plaster, Charcoal, Acrylic
The Ball and All #1
Located in New Orleans, LA
James Henderson’s work explores the concept of memory and nostalgia. Utilizing found imagery as a starting point, he collages and layers his mixed media paintings. The inclusion of imagery from vintage photographs becomes Henderson’s visual language through which to depict the notion of how one’s past experiences, emotions and personal archeology greatly shape one’s identity. Henderson’s new works on paper use plaster and roofing tar to secure the fading images printed on vellum. Henderson has exhibited at the Ogden Museum, LA and Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, LA, and his works have been included in film and television programs such as Bad Girls Club, The Twilight Saga...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Plaster, Charcoal, Canvas, Acrylic
Shoes
Located in Palm Desert, CA
An abstract sculpture by Post War artist Tim Hawkinson depicting yellow shoes encased in plaster in a red shoe box. Signed underneath, "Tim Hawkinson, Tim...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Found Objects, Plaster, Cardboard
$24,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Now look at Barack Obama and Bill Cosby
By Bevan Ramsay
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Beyond Sociology: The Act of Seeing a Person
Text by Edwin Janzen
It is hardly surprising that in our society perceptions of homeless persons remain two-dimensional, stereotypical, inadequate. Even for the rare administration tackling the problems of homelessness in an effective, meaningful way, the homeless person’s humanity is buried beneath a mountain of endless statistical markers: mental illness, substance abuse, soup-kitchen attendance, etc. The enormous negativity lingering about the resultant profile permits scant room for other, arguably important accoutrements of the human experience—character, emotion, intellect, beauty, relationship to divinity—and leaves homeless persons basically where they already are: on the street, the objects of middle-class loathing or pity.
Struck by this depressing determinism, artist Bevan Ramsay set out to cast portrait busts of homeless persons (one woman, the others men), producing an edition in fine, white statuary Hydrocal plaster mounted on mahogany bases. These portraits, titled Lesser Gods...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Plaster
Venturi Scott Brown Design for Gianni Versace, architecture, sun, interiors
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Venturi Scott Brown Design for Gianni Versace" (2023) by artist Julia Policastro is a sculptural oil painting on canvas with three dimensional columns in the foreground, set in fron...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Canvas, Plaster, Oil, Foam Board
Sun by Julia Policastro
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Sun" (2023) by artist Julia Policastro is a sculptural oil painting on canvas with a bright orange sun as its focal point. From the sun's center, the rays radiate outward in an oran...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Canvas, Plaster, Oil, Foam Board
Price Upon Request
The Great Sun Hall, geometric, architecture, sunshine, yellow rays, arches
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"The Great Sun Hall" (2023) by artist Julia Policastro is a sculptural oil painting on canvas with a central sunburst, shining through the center of a hall of nested architectural ar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Canvas, Plaster, Oil, Foam Board
"Dear, " - Figurative Mixed Media painting
Located in Houston, TX
This precious work that is dedicated to Long’s first wife, Connie, who passed away from cancer, is an acrylic painting on canvas encapsulated in a custom, hand-made, plaster frame - characteristic of many classic Long works...
Bert L. Long Jr., was self-taught artist, was born in 1940 in Texas, grew up the Houston’s historic Fifth Ward and received his formal education from UCLA. Following a career as a successful master chef, Long decided to devote himself entirely to art in the late 1970’s. He began to explore folk art and assemblage to create a unique body of work, attracting the attention of Jim Harithas, then Director of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and artists John Alexander, Salvatore Scarpitta and James Surls. His life spanned an era of radical change in the American social climate, the influence of which can be seen clearly in his work.
Long’s paintings and sculptures incorporate a high level of skill and sophisticated knowledge of art history, along with complex philosophical and social issues. Long describes the philosophy behind his work as "a quest to help people diagnose their inner self," believing his art to be "the vehicle to help facilitate the process."
“As artists we have the obligation to provide the world with art which communicates as truth. I believe that art has the power to heal our souls of their afflictions. I try to create art which helps to diagnose the prevalent conditions within our societies, hopefully providing an insightfulness which will help us all become brothers and sisters united in equality and compassion”
- Bert L. Long, Jr.
The late Peter Marzio, former Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, said of Bert Long during the major retrospective of Long’s work at the museum:
“Bert Long does not avert his gaze from that which is painful, but as [his artworks] testify, he also brings a spirit of joy and redemption to his art. We can all learn from this great artist.”
Over Long’s 33-year career as a painter, sculptor, and photographer, he had several solo exhibitions at respected museums and was awarded many significant awards including the National Endowment for the Arts Grant in 1987 and the prestigious international Prix de Rome fellowship in 1990. Other notable awards of Long’s include the Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts Artist of the Year Award in 2009, the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Emergency Assistance Grant in 1997, the Houston Art League Texas Artist of the Year in 1990, the NEA Visual Artists Fellowship Grant, 1987 and the Bemis Foundation Residency in 1998. His work can be seen in over 100 private and public collections worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Houston Museum of Fine Art, the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, the El Paso Museum of Art, and the Instituto de Bachillerato in Spain.
With a recent solo exhibition at the Houston Museum of African American Culture and an exhibition overseas which is pending featuring his work, plus interest from several national museums, Bert L. Long Jr. continues to be recognized as an important African American artist throughout Texas, nationally and internationally.
Bert L. Long, Jr.
"Dear"
1989
Acrylic on Canvas with Painted Plaster Frame...
Category
1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Canvas, Plaster, Acrylic
Price Upon Request
"Madness, " - Figurative Mixed Media painting
Located in Houston, TX
This work features an acrylic painting on canvas suspended between two wooden planks. The treatment of the painting appears visceral and rambunctious - congested with abstract and sy...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Canvas, Plaster, Acrylic, Mirror
Price Upon Request
"Rivers of Blood, " - Figurative Mixed Media painting on Wood
Located in Houston, TX
This work consists of an acrylic painting on canvas laid in a handmade frame of plaster and pine. The imagery of the painting, as implied by the title and crucifix near the center of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Canvas, Mirror, Plaster, Acrylic, Wood
"Passion, " Acrylic Paint, Wood Elements, Icepick and Painted Plaster Heart
Located in Houston, TX
This three-dimensional work incorporates an acrylic painting on canvas laid in a handmade red frame, adorned with scorched wooden planks, a stylized plaster heart, and an ice pick. The painting is a monochromatic depiction of icebergs protruding from the surface of water. While the imagery of the painting speaks to the visible outcome of artistic production, the frame and its adornments implore the viewer to consider the requisite materials necessary for creative actualization.
Bert L. Long Jr., was self-taught artist, was born in 1940 in Texas, grew up the Houston’s historic Fifth Ward and received his formal education from UCLA. Following a career as a successful master chef, Long decided to devote himself entirely to art in the late 1970’s. He began to explore folk art and assemblage to create a unique body of work, attracting the attention of Jim Harithas, then Director of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and artists John Alexander, Salvatore Scarpitta and James Surls. His life spanned an era of radical change in the American social climate, the influence of which can be seen clearly in his work.
Long’s paintings and sculptures incorporate a high level of skill and sophisticated knowledge of art history, along with complex philosophical and social issues. Long describes the philosophy behind his work as "a quest to help people diagnose their inner self," believing his art to be "the vehicle to help facilitate the process."
“As artists we have the obligation to provide the world with art which communicates as truth. I believe that art has the power to heal our souls of their afflictions. I try to create art which helps to diagnose the prevalent conditions within our societies, hopefully providing an insightfulness which will help us all become brothers and sisters united in equality and compassion”
- Bert L. Long, Jr.
The late Peter Marzio, former Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, said of Bert Long during the major retrospective of Long’s work at the museum:
“Bert Long does not avert his gaze from that which is painful, but as [his artworks] testify, he also brings a spirit of joy and redemption to his art. We can all learn from this great artist.”
Over Long’s 33-year career as a painter, sculptor, and photographer, he had several solo exhibitions at respected museums and was awarded many significant awards including the National Endowment for the Arts Grant in 1987 and the prestigious international Prix de Rome fellowship in 1990. Other notable awards of Long’s include the Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts Artist of the Year Award in 2009, the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Emergency Assistance Grant in 1997, the Houston Art League Texas Artist of the Year in 1990, the NEA Visual Artists Fellowship Grant, 1987 and the Bemis Foundation Residency in 1998. His work can be seen in over 100 private and public collections worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Houston Museum of Fine Art, the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, the El Paso Museum of Art, and the Instituto de Bachillerato in Spain.
With a recent solo exhibition at the Houston Museum of African American Culture and an exhibition overseas which is pending featuring his work, plus interest from several national museums, Bert L. Long Jr. continues to be recognized as an important African American artist throughout Texas, nationally and internationally.
Bert L. Long, Jr.
"Passion"
2012
Acrylic Paint, Wood Elements...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Canvas, Plaster, Acrylic, Wood
ROME
Located in New York, NY
acrylic and gold metal leaf and lime plaster on wood
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Gold Leaf
Price Upon Request
Division
Located in New Orleans, LA
The recipient of numerous awards including fellowships from the American Academy in Rome and the National Endowment for the Arts, Deutsch’s work is marked by an ease of understanding...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Plaster
Materials
Terrazzo
Price Upon Request
Plaster art for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Plaster art 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 art 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 blue, purple, orange, pink 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 Kathleen Hope, Gilbert Pauli, Skylar Fein, and Vincent Pomilio. Frequently made by artists working in the Contemporary, Abstract, 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 Plaster art, so small editions measuring 0.01 inches across are also available