Doug Powell

Picasso: "I do not seek, I find" -- 2021

EMBEDDED MESSAGES / TERMS Sing us the song, you’re the piano man / Sing us a song tonight / Well, we’re all in the mood for a melody / And you’ve got us feelin’ alright - BILLY JOEL...

3-d lenticulary photography

Mixed media. Feathers in shadow box, painted with acrylic on top surface of the plexi glass.

Vincent George creates highly refined and modeled 2-dimensional works on wood using pyrography, or wood burning.

Vincent George creates highly refined and modeled 2-dimensional works on wood using pyrography, or wood burning.

Pastel pigment on cork

La palette de l'amour | The palette of love Mixed Media 54 3/4 x 54 3/4 in 139 x 139 cm Unique "I have always been fascinated by motion. What fascinates me with this craft is to cap...

A Grid like Marilyn Mixed Media 113 x 113 cm 44 1/2 x 44 1/2 in "I have always been fascinated by motion. What fascinates me with this craft is to capture the viewers attention. But...

Tout pour mon amour | All my love Mixed Media 54 3/4 x 54 3/4 in 139 x 139 cm Unique "I have always been fascinated by motion. What fascinates me with this craft is to capture the v...

Wood and serigraph; signed Edition size: 15

Wood and serigraph; signed; framed Edition size: 15

Label from Obelisk Gallery verso. Henry C. Pearson (October 8, 1914 – December 3, 2006) was an American abstract and modernist painter. Pearson was born in Kinston, North Carolina, graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1938, and studied theatrical design at Yale University. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps in the Second World War, designing maps for the Okinawa campaign, and then re-enlisted to serve in the US occupation of Japan, where he was influenced by Japanese art and theatre forms. Henry Pearson is perhaps best known for a mildly optical manner of painting, featuring a mutable labyrinth of undulating parallel lines, which somewhat inadvertently linked him to the Op Art movement of the 1960s. Although included in the Museum of Modern Art's landmark exhibition The Responsive Eye in 1965, his work displays an intuitive rhythm and poetic elegance that falls well outside of the calculated, often hard-edged quality normally associated with the Op group of artists. Pearson came late to the visual arts. His first career, in theatre design, was cut short by the Second World War. He entered the U.S. Army in 1942, and at war's end requested duty in occupied Japan, where a prolonged contact with Japanese culture nurtured a passion for painting. Upon his discharge from the army, in 1953, he enrolled in the Art Students League in New York City, where he studied with, among others, Reginald Marsh and Will Barnet. Inspired by Malevich, he turned to rectilinear abstraction, and employed it as the dominant means of expression in his painting between 1954 and 1961. As early as 1959, however, sensing an incipient decadence in his geometric canvases...