Leslie Zelamsky

"Leftovers", abstract, dark colors, mixed media, oil, painting

2015

Painted on deep-profile gallery-wrapped canvas, comes ready to hang. Artist's Statement: "A new take on an earlier series of paintings I did called "Aggregate," this time with fewe...

"Buddha with Wings", contemporary abstract painting by artist Martha Lloyd. Framed dimensions: H: 45.5 x W: 41.5 x D: 2 in. Canvas is framed in a wood ...

Artist's Statement: "This painting harkens back to a series called "Gridish" that I created over the past couple of years, comprising similar rectangular shapes with complex surfaces incorporating tar, house paint, enamel safety paint and other materials. Here, though, the forms are isolated in negative space rather than stacked in a grid, which gives them a more iconic quality." “Lyman’s work evolves restlessly, with the common elements generally being deft and unusual color choices that balance assonance and dissonance, and vestiges of the hand and facture purposely left in the paintings. The negative space is often so meticulously worked that it’s almost as if the objects – usually simple shapes – are there as much to complement the background as vice versa. Despite the often bold colors there is an elegance about his paintings that prevents them from being either loud or decorative. " Artbeit Zeitschrift “His paintings are a refreshing departure from the current abstract art world’s seemingly endless parade of fields of color with scribbles providing form, a style that is easily mimicked and has become a sort of “safe,” accessible go-to. There are confident decisions in these paintings appearing as commitments of strongly delineated forms and unexpected collisions of color that give the work a visceral, confident and playful soul, increasingly missing from contemporary expressionist abstraction. They are the paintings of a real painter rather than a decorative artist.” ArtSeen, 2018 (from a collector): "Love your work. We collect colorists like Wolf Kahn and Jennifer Bartlett, whom I commissioned a piece from that is in the entrance of Mayo Clinic. We are old fans...

Part of the current series of paintings using tar and house paint in addition to more conventional artists' media such as oil and acrylic. Artist's Statement: "I have been making t...

From the recent series combining tar with oil and acrylic, a painting using a limited palette to powerful effect. Artist's statement: "After a period of making big, colorful acrylic...

A large and imposing painting from the recent series combining tar with oil and acrylic, a painting using a limited palette to powerful effect. There are echoes of Robert Motherwell ...

Part of the current series of paintings using tar and housepaint in addition to more conventional artists' media such as oil and acrylic. Free shipping on this piece: Artist's State...

Part of the current series of paintings using tar and house paint in addition to more conventional artists' media such as oil and acrylic. Artist's Statement: "I have been making t...

(Comes framed and ready to hang in a high-profile maple frame.) Artist’s Statement: “I have been working on more formal and restrained paintings lately, and decided to loosen up by ...

Comes framed and ready to hang. Artist’s Statement: “I did some paintings years ago incorporating simple, meditative iconic forms, and they had a quiet, brooding formality about the...