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Michael David (b. 1954) Billie's Tree Signed, Titled, and Dated 1982 Verso. Provenance: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (bears label en verso) where it had been exhibited for nearly two decades. It was also Exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA NYC) just after he won the National Guggenheim Award. The Piece Measures approximately 70" x 71" x 8" Deep. Michael David Singer; born 1954, is an American painter. Born in Reno, Nevada, David's family relocated to Brooklyn, New York, where he was raised. He attended SUNY Fredonia for one year and in 1976 received a B.F.A. from Parson's School of Design. Michael David is classified as an abstract painter, best known for his use of the encaustic technique, a was pigmentation technique which incorporates pigment with heated beeswax. He is also known for his works in mixed-media figure painting, photography and environmental sculpture. He often incorporates religious iconography and symbolism, art historical themes such as the nude, and contemporary politics into his paintings resulting in a critical dialogue between the layered abstraction of the surface and the integrated representational imagery. His work is included in the permanent public collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Jewish Museum in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others. In 1976 David, erotic photographer Roy Stuart and Fredonia friend Richie Stotts formed a band called The Numbers, with David on bass. The group was a fixture in New York's early punk rock music scene, playing in clubs alongside punk pioneers Television, Blondie and the Ramones. David also played bass with punk innovators Jerry Nolan of The New York Dolls, Cheetah Chrome of The Dead Boys, Marky Ramone, Peter Gordon, David Van Tieghem and the free-improvisation noise music group Borbetomagus. In 1977, The Numbers were approached by impresario Rod Swenson, who was seeking musicians to form a backing band for singer Wendy O. Williams, whose radical persona he sought to exploit as punk music and performance art. The Numbers became The Plasmatics but the attention David began to gain as an important voice in the art world caused him to leave the band to pursue his burgeoning painting career. David's first one-man show was in 1981 at the historic Sidney Janis Gallery. That year he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, at the time the youngest artist ever to do so, and in 1982 was awarded an American Academy of Arts and Letters prize. He went on to exhibit at galleries worldwide and was represented by Knoedler & Co. for the next 25 years. David is best known for using the encaustic technique of painting, which uses pigment combined with heated beeswax. David built his early career on abstraction and religious iconography, which formed the bulk of his output until 1999. Since then he has also experimented with representational painting and traditional photography. In 2000, he developed the "Chortens" and "Populations" series, about which prominent art historian and critic Donald Kuspit writes: "They are enigmatic works, all the more so because of the way their innumerable details form singularly monumental, intimidating wholes. Dense yet delicate, awesome yet intimate, they convey the fragility as well as grandeur of sheer being. Layer upon layer of paint piles up like layer upon layer of coral, but the textural result is more epic, not to say startling, than any coral island, and virtually any other existing abstract expressionist painting (upon which they are stylistically founded)." In 2001, David developed bi-lateral neuropathy due to being poisoned by gases released by overheated beeswax used in the encaustic process. The disease left him with partial paralysis of his legs, slowing the production of his painting for a number of years. That year, David began painting one of his best-known series, the "fallen Toreadors", inspired by 19th century French Realist painter Édouard Manet's "The Dead Toreador" of 1864. In 1993, David experimented at the "20x24" Polaroid studio in Manhattan, which resulted in a series of portraits of playwright Edward Albee and of friend Jackie Gross, which would become the ongoing "Jackie" series of mixed-media works. When neuropathy rendered him unable to paint during 2003, he returned to the 20x24 camera and shot large-format Polaroids inspired by Caravaggio; nude men and women dressed as Toreadors, and religious imagery. In 2002, David began to develop The Greenhouse Project, an evolving "architectural construct" based on historical American Antebellum greenhouses built using the actual glass negatives sold to starving farmers in the post-American Civil War South. David has indicated that each greenhouse will, through the display of photography and use of social networking, create a forum and exhibit for ideas and artifacts related to civil and human rights; the specifications of each greenhouse particular to the community in which each is built. David's work was reviewed in Artforum and Art in America, and is considered one of the last links to the New York School of painting. David may be the most innovative master of immediate surface since the abstract expressionists. He has acknowledged his debt to Abstract Expressionism, but he has transformed it. Where the abstract expressionist paintings of the forties and fifties seem like modern cave paintings, as their crude, unfocused, often meandering, turbulent painterliness suggests, and as such to reinstate prehistory, David seems to turn the cave into a temple, as his more considered, concentrated, indeed, dense, contemplative painterliness indicates, so that his paintings have the aura of post history. SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2023 Radiate, Garvey Simon, New York, New York 2021 Selections from NYFA - Courtesy of the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation, New York, New York 2020 Bill Lowe Gallery Presents: Masterworks from the Gallery 2016 The Golem, The Jewish Museum of Berlin, Berlin, Germany In a Post-World: Post-Punk Art Now, The Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, New York 2014 Gallery Artists, Bentley Gallery, Pheonix, Arizona 2011 Post Mammalian Tension: Michael David & Scott Browning, Bill Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia 1999 Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America, Montclair Art Museum, (Jasper Johns, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg etc) Forty Years of American Drawings, Raab Galerie, Berlin, Germany Germany Summertime, Knoedler & Company, New York, New York 1997 Michael David and James Hyde...

Rachel Bergeret, stylist by trade, created her heroine more than 10 years ago. We call it ''La Parisienne'': The wavy hair, the dominance of gold by Gustav Klimt, the audacity of Tou...

"Per Sempre" artwork by artist Raphael Mazzucco. Archival print and mixed media (including keys and gears) encased in beautifully aged resin.

"Coral" archival print, oil paint and mixed media (including coral and bottles) encased in resin artwork by artist Raphael Mazzucco. Text in lower left corner reads: "Madagascar At 5...

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Betsy Enzensberger sculpts works that create a visceral longing and remembrance of the most nostalgic delights from childhood. The artist uses the familiarity of those sweet treats t...

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Black in Gold series, 2017 Camellia leaves and hand dyed thread 12 x 12 inches Hillary Waters Fayle is an artist from Elma, New York. Fayle received an MFA in Craft/Material Stud...

Tokyo and Ceremony II, Diptych 2022, by Hunter & Gatti From The series MY WAY Acrylic and oil wax on fine art paper 255 grs Overall size: 21.5 in H x 35 in W Individual size size: 21...

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Resin Sculpture H38 x W 12 x D12 cm Edition of 35 Custom wooden box included with sculpture

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"Here" is a contemporary modern abstract wall sculpture by UK artist Mari-Ruth Oda. Made from Bath Stone Jesmonite, a fine art composite material based on acrylic resin, fiberglass a...

Growing up on the Ottawa River, Shayne Dark has long been inspired by the natural world that surrounded him—its myriad of shapes, patterns, forms and colours. In this new intriguing ...

"Dissolve" is a contemporary modern abstract wall sculpture by UK artist Mari-Ruth Oda. Made from Bath Stone Jesmonite, a fine art composite material based on acrylic resin, fibergla...

Rachel Bergeret, stylist by trade, created her heroine more than 10 years ago. We call it ''La Parisienne'': The wavy hair, the dominance of gold by Gustav Klimt, the audacity of Tou...

Victoria Kovalenchikova’s abstract artworks are an outlook on the transformation of the world surrounding us; a shout in the cold infinity of cosmos. Kovalenchikova expresses through...

A Connection and a Bond by Lélia Pissarro Mixed media on canvas 65 x 54 cm (25 ⅝ x 21 ¼ inches) Signed Executed in 2008 Literature: Lélia Pissarro, The Colours of Silence, London, 2...

**ANNUAL SUPER SALE TIL APRIL 25th ONLY** *This Price Won't Be Repeated Again This Year - Take Advantage Of It* One of a kind seashells encrusted round mirror. The...

LI-1 Size 24″X24″X2" Light Installation Art. Materials: acrylic, silver acrylic frames, epoxy, natural stones, LED light. Year of Creation: 2022 This art is installation of plexigl...

Yayoi Kusama Yellow and Black Pumpkin Snow Globe Dome, 2019 Glass, polyresin, water 3 1/10 × 2 3/5 × 2 3/5 in | 8 × 6.5 × 6.5 cm

Perfectly Imperfect by Danielle Duer is a beautiful mixed media portrait. The intricate detail of the ultramarine blue hue and floral pattern evoke themes of nature and tranquility.

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Artist Statement My paintings emerge from the emotion I feel in the moment my brush touches a blank surface. I am a very physical and spontaneous painter. Moving back and forth with ...

Artist Statement My paintings emerge from the emotion I feel in the moment my brush touches a blank surface. I am a very physical and spontaneous painter. Moving back and forth with...

Nayla Saroufim creates installations that challenge the traditional notion of the passive viewer. Nayla’s art is a rich mix of media. She was always captivated by the dialogue betwee...

MIXED MEDIA ON PANEL - HIGH GLOSS RESIN FINISH "Kollabs is a collaborative project between artists Luis Garcia Nerey and Anke Schofield. In our work, we create compositions juxtapos...

**ANNUAL SUPER SALE TIL APRIL 25th ONLY** *This Price Won't Be Repeated Again This Year - Take Advantage Of It* The "Lucky Baby Elephants" series is exclusive of Ar...

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...

"Captured" by artist Raphael Mazzucco. Archival print, oil paint and mixed media encased in resin and a distressed wooden frame. "Je suis no nouvelle de vie - l'amour est ternal et c...

"Closing In" by artist Raphael Mazzucco. Archival print of a nude female, oil paint and mixed media encased in resin in a rustic wooden frame. Signed in front lower right corner.

"Face to Face" by artist Raphael Mazzucco. Archival print, acrylic paint and mixed media (including plants) enclosed in beautifully aged resin and framed in a wooden frame.

SET OF 9. Black and White, Line Drawing, 2022 From the Series Line Drawings Parachute Lines and Epoxy on paper Size: 224 H x 179 W cm. Unique Frame Unpacked: 27 kg Approx. Hand-sign...

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...

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...

Victoria Kovalenchikova’s abstract artworks are an outlook on the transformation of the world surrounding us; a shout in the cold infinity of cosmos. Kovalenchikova expresses through...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"Gypsy" by artist Raphael Mazzucco. Archival print, oil paint and mixed media, including red thread, encased in resin, and framed in a rustic white frame. Signed on front lower right...

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...

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...

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...

"Miami Life" by Raphael Mazzucco. Archival print and mixed media, including a feather, encased in resin and framed in a rustic frame. Signed on front lower right corner.

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...

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...

As a big wave is born from a small wave, so a thought gives birth to a great human creation. Everything starts with a fleeting idea... It's a dance of chaos and grac...

"Fire" by artist Raphael Mazzucco. Archival print of a female nude in the desert with oil paint and mixed media (including a feather) encased in beautifully aged resin and framed in ...

"Blue Rocks" by artist Raphael Mazzucco. Archival print and mixed media encased in resin in a rustic wooden frame. Signed in lower right front corner. Includes signed Certificate of ...

MIXED MEDIA ON PANEL - HIGH GLOSS RESIN FINISH "Kollabs is a collaborative project between artists Luis Garcia Nerey and Anke Schofield. In our work, we create compositions juxtapos...

"Amazonian Pastel" by Raphael Mazzucco. Archival print of a female nude under a tree with mixed media encased in beautifully aged resin in a wooden frame.

This series of works by the Danish artist Peter Kramer (Roskilde, 1959) with numerous exhibitions between Spain and Denmark are entitled "365 urns", in which the artist works with ti...