Raul de la Torre

Brooklyn: I Think I Was Imagining Night-Swimming

"Birds on Jungle" is a framed oil and acrylic work on canvas by Joshua Brown, depicting 13 birds on thin branches. The paint splattered background emulate...

"Luminous 8" is a framed mixed media work on canvas by Tom Bolles with abstract linear form in shades of red and yellow. The smooth gradient of saturation near the left and right edg...

"Flower Nova" is a framed mixed media work on canvas by Amber Goldhammer, with iconic spray-painted flowers and embellishing drips in black and metallic gold. This piece evokes a pla...

"Sand Castle" is a framed mixed media work on canvas by Maura Segal, with abstract shapes and color blocking. The artist cuts hundreds of paper shapes and adheres them to the canvas ...

Heavily textured abstract in substantial black wood frame.

Heavily textured abstract with heavy black wood frame.

Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work: Oil, pastel, and paper collage on canvas. Signed and dated verso. 52.75 x 47.75 in. 54 x 49 in. (framed) Gilded floater frame. Provenance Compass Rose, Chicago Born Sylvan Irwin Goldberg in 1924 and raised in the Bronx, Michael Goldberg was an important figure in American Abstract Expressionism, who began taking art classes at the Art Students League in 1938. A gifted student, Goldberg finished high school at the age of 14 and enrolled in City College. He soon found New York’s jazz scene to be a more compelling environment, and he began skipping classes in favor of the Harlem jazz clubs near campus. Goldberg’s love of jazz would become a lifelong passion and a key component to his approach to composition in his paintings. From 1940 to 1942, like many of the leading artists of the New York School, Goldberg studied with Hans Hofmann. In 1943, he put his pursuit of painting on hold and enlisted in the U.S. Army. Serving in North Africa, Burma, and India, Goldberg received a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star before being discharged in 1946. After his service, he traveled and worked in Venezuela before returning to the United States, settling back in New York and resuming studies with Hofmann and at the Art Students League. Living downtown and frequenting the Cedar Bar, Goldberg befriended many of the artists of the New York School. In 1951, his work was included in the groundbreaking Ninth Street Show, co-organized by Leo Castelli, Conrad Marca-Relli, and the Eighth Street Club, and featuring the work of - among others - Hofmann, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Franz Kline. In 1953, the Tibor de Nagy...

“Pap Art is the collaborative expression of ex-paparazzi photographer David Koppel and figurative painter John Kiki. In the tradition of it’s predecesso...