Art by Medium: Silk

Based in Chicago, IL, contemporary artist Michael Thompson creates unique kites, collages and mixed media works assembled from material fragments of past and present collected in his...

A wonderful, museum caliber painting by Craig Kauffman. Initialed "CK" and dated "82" in the lower right corner. PROVENANCE: Asher Faure Gallery Luther Vandross Luther Vandross Estate Private Collection, New York Private Collection, San Diego, CA EXHIBITED: Asher Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, California, CRAIG KAUFFMAN: NEW PAINTINGS April 23 through May 21,1983 CATALOGUE: Craig Kauffman Estate Archive Number CR No: P.1982.2 The following is from The New York Times, May 15, 2010, By Douglas Martin Craig Kauffman, who in the 1960s helped put Los Angeles on the art map with audacious experiments in molding industrial plastic to create ethereal wall-mounted sculptures — some resembling giant pieces of jelly candy — died Sunday in Angeles City in the Philippines. He was 78. The cause was complications of pneumonia following a recent stroke, said Frank Lloyd, his friend and dealer. Mr. Kauffman was eminent in an eclectic group of artists who reveled in the light, space and energy of postwar Southern California to forge new Minimalist, often glossy artistic approaches. Richard Armstrong, director of the Guggenheim Museum said that these Californians, sometimes called the Cool School — along with Chicago Imagists and Washington, D.C., painters called the Color School — were counterpoints to the Abstract Expressionists who ruled New York. "California was never ashamed of being a new society," Mr. Armstrong said in an interview on Thursday, "it all fit together nicely." Los Angeles was then ascending to the status of a metropolis, with a growing number of major-league sports teams, fresh industries and a surging population. There were new quarters for public galleries and the burgeoning of commercial ones. At the center of the action was the Ferus Gallery, which staged the first solo exhibition of Andy's Warhol's pop art and the first American retrospective of Marcel Duchamp. Mr. Kauffman was a featured artist at the gallery's inaugural exhibition in 1957, "Objects on the New Landscape Demanding of the Eye." Peter Plagens, in his book Sunshine Muse: Art on the West Coast, 1945-1970, (1974, 1999), wrote, "'Culture' meant 'art' and 'art' implied 'new,' and 'new,' as everybody was informed, meant California — particularly Los Angeles." The artists who seized this historic opportunity included Billy Al Bengston, Ken Price and Robert Irwin, among others. In an interview on Wednesday, Arne Glimcher, founder and chairman of Pace Gallery, which had Mr. Kauffman's first New York show in 1967, called the California scene in the late '50s and early '60s "a pressure cooker of ideas." Referring to artistic styles, he said, "It was California perfection against New York messiness." Mr. Kauffman's early paintings were critical in defining this new style. Mr. Plagens called them "the first evidence of a Los Angeles sensibility." Mr. Kauffman's later work blazed splashier trails, as he experimented with the effects of light on works that were painterly yet three-dimensional. "The true power of what he did was his incorporation and then redirection of light inside sculpture," said Mr. Armstrong, who was the curator of a show of Mr. Kauffman's work at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1987. "Many of them glowed," he said. "Others were translucent. Even the supposedly opaque had a noteworthy shimmering quality to them." What Mr. Kauffman made reflected a wide range of inspirations. In a 2008 video interview in conjunction with a show at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena California, he said that the famed lingerie store Frederick's of Hollywood provided artistic nurture. With a smile, he confessed to a "shoe fetish" that had influenced some of his art. Robert Craig Kauffman was born on March 31, 1932, in Los Angeles. He started painting regularly at age 7 and went to theUniversity of Southern California to study architecture in 1950. But art soon won out over architecture, and he transferred to the University of California Los Angeles, to study painting. He earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees there. A breakthrough came in the early 1960s when he experimented with painting on glass, but found it too fragile. He then painted on flat acrylic plastic. His next inspiration came from the plastic packaging increasingly used to wrap merchandise. He sought out craftsmen at commercial factories to learn the technique, Time magazine reported in 1968. The results were several series of three-dimensional wall hangings. Some were inspired by large plastic fruit clusters on the wall of a doughnut shop he frequented in Los Angeles. These lozenge-shaped reliefs were sometimes called "bubbles." Barbara Rose, in a catalog essay for an exhibition at the Washington Gallery of Modern Art in 1967, wrote, "Shaping the brittle sheet plastic into a series of voluptuous curves, Kauffman achieves a kind of abstract eroticism that is purely visual." Mr. Kauffman's work was shown in countless exhibitions and many one-man shows. It has been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Modern in London, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others. In 2006, one of Mr. Kauffman's reliefs fell from a wall of the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, where it was part of an exhibition titled "Los Angeles: Birth of an Art Capital, 1955-1985." It shattered. After storms of publicity, the Pompidou provided technical help and money to make a new version. Mr. Kauffman was married several times. He is survived by his daughters from his marriage to Dana Kauffman, from whom he was separated: Wilhelmina, Vida Rose and Georgia Kauffman. When they started in the 1960s, Mr. Kauffman and his artistic compatriots did not foresee a legacy, much less earning an income, Larry Bell, a prominent artist in the group, said in an interview on Wednesday. "The troops sort of banded together to be our own audience," he said. "Every once in a while, we'd sell...

A 2023 work of Maki Kuchida. Maki paints with natural mineral pigments and uses aluminum and copper leaves (laminated) on silk. Maki loves to capture the sentiments we feel in our...

JAVIER CALLEJA - I DIDN'T EXIST Date of creation: 2022 Medium: Habotai silk 8mm Edition: 150 Size: 120 x 120 cm Condition: In mint conditions, brand new Scarf made on Habotai silk 8m...

2014 Hand painted vintage paperback book with silkscreen 27 x 20.5 cm Artist Proof - Edition of 2 Framed Excellent condition The Connor Brothers, an artistic duo, are famous for the...

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At our 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 Auth...

Vintage In the center of Mumbai city is an unorganised labyrinthine bazaar of streets trading in commodities right from gold and silver to utensils to costume jewellery, the list i...

Foxy Summer depicts a fox philosopher reclining in a starry Cappadocian cave, sipping tea amid roots and cosmic views— a surreal ode to solitude and freedom. Merging mysticism with e...

Lime Glow, Jo Barker, woven on cotton warp using wool, cotton, linen, silk, embroidery threads, 29" x 30.75" x 1.5", 2010 This colorful contemporary abstract textile is by British...

This framed silk brocade tapestry is one half of a magnificent Qing-dynasty chair panel, or chair strip. Because traditional Chinese seating was not upho...

Chicago-based artist Michael Thompson creates unique kites crafted from split bamboo frames covered with stretched muslin and a collage of vintage Asian ephemera—including fragments ...

"Lyric Space" Korean silk fabric and handmade ramie threads, maple floater frame. This contemporary silk textile piece is by Korean fiber artist, Shin You...

In Buddhist Tibet, patrons and monks commissioned thangka art, or sacred painting, to focus their meditations and prayers. Painted with blue, orange, and r...

Interested in communicating ideas of history, place and nature in her painting practice, Jennifer Wolf utilizes natural dyes and minerals to feature a historically significant palett...

Painting on silk, textile paints Framed, 88 x 91 x 3 cm (wooden frame) Dali Nazarishvili is a Georgian female artist born in 1958 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. Since 200...

Sonia Terk Delaunay ( 1885 - 1979 ) - hand-signed color silk-screen - 80 x 57 cm, 1970 Additional information: Material: Color Silk-screen on pape...

With careful brushwork, this 19th-century painting honors the four treasures of the scholar's studio - paper, calligraphy brush, ink, and inkstone. Essential to his way of life, the ...

Louise Nevelson ( 1899 - 1988 ) - hand-signed Silk-screen on hand-made paper, 1975 Additional information: Material: Silk-screen on hand-made paper Edited in 1975 Limited edition in...

Silkscreen, 1989 Edition : 74/100 Printer : Pesti Muheli (Budapest) 70.00 cm. x 57.00 cm. 27.56 in. x 22.44 in. (paper) 57.00 cm. x 45.00 cm. 22.44 in. x 17.72 in. (image) Handsign...

Bob Stanley (b. 1932 - d. 1997 New York, United States), an American painter renowned for his gritty depictions on canvas, which ingeniously incorporated photographs. His artistic jo...

Imaginative work from this Internationally exhibited Brooklyn based artist. Signed and dated 2007

Marina Abramovic Homage to Frida Kahlo - Portrait with Scorpion (Hand Signed by Marina Abramović), 2014 Silkscreen on 100% Silk (HAND SIGNED in indelible marker by Marina Abramovic) ...

Born in Valencia, Spain, Andrés Ferrandis studied at the University of La Laguna and received his MFA in painting from the University of Seville in 1997. Ferrandis is known for his e...

Brooklyn artist, Molly Herman, creates beautiful, colorful abstract paintings. This is a stunning example with black and bright pink She is most interested in playing with the langu...

Woodcut print on paper. Hand signed and dated by Lyonel Feininger. Unknow edition. Image size approx 3.9 x 3.9 inches. Sheet size 7 x 6.5 inches. Artwork is in excellent conditio...

Silk painting, batik, love, decorative, horizontal "Two on the Shore" is a painting made on a silk canvas in the cold batik style. The finished painting is stretched on white linen ...

Andresen’s work focuses on the art of repair; more specifically how such actions have consequences both intended and unintended. Using a variety of materially driven processes the wo...

Interested in communicating ideas of history, place and nature in her painting practice, Jennifer Wolf utilizes natural dyes and minerals to feature a historically significant palett...

FREE SHIPPING TO WORLDWIDE! Artisan: Eustacia Antonio Mendoza MASTERPIECE: Miniature rug made with Silk and Cotton threads dyeing with anilines, broca...

100% silk, painted batik, stretched on canvas For interior, nude, woman, water. The painting "Water Washes Away Everything" is a meditative image of dissolution, a return to the ori...

Bob Stanley (b. 1932 - d. 1997 New York, United States), an American painter renowned for his gritty depictions on canvas, which ingeniously incorporated photographs. His artistic jo...

Eric Blum Untitled No. 1064, 2025 ink, silk, and beeswax on panel 72 x 48 in. (blum099)

Interested in communicating ideas of history, place and nature in her painting practice, Jennifer Wolf utilizes natural dyes and minerals to feature a historically significant palett...

Silksreen, 2014 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 28/50 Publisher : Galerie-F Edition 84.50 cm. x 61.50 cm. 33.27 in. x 24.21 in. (paper) 65.50 cm. x 50.00 cm. 25.79 ...

Eric Blum Untitled No. 1005, 2023 ink, silk, and beeswax on panel 60 x 48 in. (blum096)

Alexander Calder (after) Paper Ball, 2001 100% silkscreen on silk scarf 33 inches × 35 inches - fully opened (unfolded) Unframed Published by Powerball, with special authorization from the Estate of Alexander Calder In 1949 Calder was commissioned by the New York firm Laverne Originals to create two designs for use as fabric and wallpaper. This design - Paint Ball, a beautiful silk scarf...

Ricardo Mazal Biosa Te (Violet), 2023 Acrylic on natural silk, hand-dyed with cochineal grain and indigo, mounted on aluminum panel 18 x 19 inches RM531 Ricardo Mazal is perhaps bes...

A late 20th century watercolour on silk on handmade paper of an antique Caucasian 'Kuba' rug by French artist La Roche Laffitte. Faintly signed to the bottom right. This is one of a ...

Marina Abramovic Homage to Frida Kahlo (Self Portrait with Scorpion), 2014 Silkscreen on 100% Silk Shawl/Scarf Limited Edition of 50 (unnumbered) With original label from publisher in collaboration with Marina Abramovic Institute (MAI) Unframed The exquisite silk work...

Interested in communicating ideas of history, place and nature in her painting practice, Jennifer Wolf utilizes natural dyes and minerals to feature a historically significant palett...

Chicago-based artist Michael Thompson creates unique kites crafted from split bamboo frames covered with stretched muslin and a collage of vintage Asian ephemera—including fragments ...

Hsiao Chin 蕭勤 - Nuvola - hand-signed Silk-screen on paper - 130 x 160 cm, 1980 Additional information: Material: Silk-screen on paper, edited in 1980 Limited edition of 75 copies pl...

Chicago-based artist Michael Thompson creates unique kites crafted from split bamboo frames covered with stretched muslin and a collage of vintage Asian ephemera—including fragments of fabric, scrolls, drawings, and books collected during his travels. In “Feng Shui...

Large size Contemporary Art Avant- Garde Original Painting Ready to Hang Artist: Ara Tevkantz Title: The Shape of Sound Medium: Oil on Silk Year: 2020 Style: Abstract Art, Avant-Gard...

A Japanese embroidery from the Edo Period. “Figure of a Beauty” is a portrait embroidery, silk and gold thread in golds and grays. Provenance: Priv...

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This framed 24" x 23" watercolor on silk by an Unknown Chinese artist depicts a coastal mountain landscape. This work features several mountain clus...

Among the most well-known West African textiles is kente cloth, woven by the Ewe and Asante peoples of Ghana. The word kente is not used by the Asante people; it may be derived from ...

Interested in communicating ideas of history, place and nature in her painting practice, Jennifer Wolf utilizes natural dyes and minerals to feature a historically significant palett...

Doggy Surfing is a surreal coastal silk print by Natalia Kolpakova, featuring a DJ dog riding a pufferfish amid partying sea creatures in teal underwater paradise. Evoking Cornwall s...

Opera is a fantastical silk print by Natalia Kolpakova, featuring a regal Saint Bernard and fox in Chinese opera garb amid pagodas, optical illusions, and celestial motifs on vibrant...

Deep Sea is a surreal marine silk print by Natalia Kolpakova, centering a tentacled mask-deity amid swirling sea life and baroque motifs in emerald and gold. Evoking quiet depths and...

Spontaneous Connections is a surreal cosmic silk print by Natalia Kolpakova, where celestial beings orbit a red vortex in blissful ignorance of an impending universal shift. Blending...

Modern Geometric Green & White Kimono, Abstract Expressionist Collagraph Plate #3 Stunning modern minimalism meets abstract expressionism with green, white and black in this unique ...

Silkscreen Handsigned by the artist in pencil 70.00 cm. x 50.00 cm. 27.56 in. x 19.69 in. (paper) 60.00 cm. x 40.00 cm. 23.62 in. x 15.75 in. (image) The Nanas series was born i...

Silkscreen, 1969 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 120/250 Publisher : Fondation Vasarely, Château de Gordes Printer : Arcay, Paris Catalog : Benavides 167 72.00 cm. x ...

This Rug Star rug comes from Berlin star designer Jürgen Dahlmanns. The RUG STAR brand stands for quality that meets the highest standards. It combines the most modern cutting edge d...

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...

State of Mind, Contemporary Woven Tapestry, Abstract Textile Wall Sculpture, Viscosed silk, cotton cloth, jersey dots, 102” x 95”, 2016 by textile artist, Ane Henriksen...