Sia Aryai

Sphere. V Framed hand hand-painted butterfly, Mixed Media on Canvas

2023

Elegant, heavyweight canvas is treated with multiple layers of varnish, hand painted with metallic chrome ink before and after printing. Aged by sanding to create visual metaphor...

Acrylic / charcoal on canvas. Signed front and back. Textured. Expressive. Certificate of Autenticity. The sides are painted. Vernished. Ready to hang. Shipping included. :: Painting...

Sara Crisp embeds found organic objects such as starfish, butterfly wings and fossils into the wax surfaces of her paintings. They have often been compared to medieval reliquaries, fossilized amber, and naturalist’s journals. Although the placement of the component objects is carefully planned, she comes across these artifacts by chance. This duality between control and spontaneity is prominent in her work. The result is visually seductive and symbolically suggestive, balancing scientific objectivity and romantic subjectivity. Her work comes across as precise, even clinical, at times, their surfaces scored and traversed by carefully measured lines and geometric forms. Carefully fashioned, polygonal sections of mica, a transparent mineral, cover the center of each painting. In addition to celebrating the process involved in creating an object, Crisp’s art...

Artist/ School: French School, indistinctly signed lower right, circa 1970's Title: Giant Butterfly/ Moth Medium: oil painting, on board. Size: frame: 24.25 x 29.25 inches...