2017
Steven Kinder is a painter who uses geometric abstraction to convey energy, form and movement. Through colors and shapes, he creates tension and elicits an emotional response from his viewers. He has made drawings, paintings and large-scale work for over 40 years expressing these ideas.
Born in Queens, New York, Kinder studied at the Cooper Union in the 1970s. Early in his career, Kinder used flat house paint on raw, unprimed canvas. Unsatisfied, he added warm water, trying to achieve a transparent quality, before discovering raw pigment and linen. Translucent and vivid, the mix of materials allowed Kinder to develop his signature look, giving his geometric shapes new meaning and depth.
He developed a style that involves angular shapes in unison with emotive colors, similar to those used by American abstract painter Mark Rothko. His work also echoes the sorrowful sentiments conveyed by British painter Francis Bacon, a source of inspiration. Kinder’s communication solely through color choice and abstract forms, meanwhile, is an approach akin to that of Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky.
Kinder has several distinctive painting practices, including placing blue painter’s tape around the perimeter of a work to help confine his art to a designated space. The textural difference adds a physical barrier that also catches the end of brush strokes, extending the piece softly over its border.
When translating drawings into monumental projects like murals, he uses the drawing as a reference rather than projecting it or using graphs to scale it. By working free-hand on these large projects, Kinder can adapt his art to a space and play with translucency and color.
Today, he is based in both Brooklyn and Watermill, New York. He is represented by the George Billis Gallery.
On 1stDibs, find a collection of Steven Kinder’s paintings and mixed media pieces.
RD013-17
By Steven Kinder
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NY & LA -- Steven Kinder talks a lot about energy, form and movement and getting at the essence of something. Getting to the middle of it....
Canvas, Mixed Media
RD 021-17
By Steven Kinder
Located in Fairfield, CT
Steven Kinder talks a lot about energy, form and movement and getting at the essence of something. Getting to the middle of it. He wants his work to call out in some way. He is inspi...
Canvas, Mixed Media
RD 011-17
By Steven Kinder
Located in Fairfield, CT
Steven Kinder talks a lot about energy, form and movement and getting at the essence of something. Getting to the middle of it. He wants his work to call out in some way. He is inspi...
Canvas, Mixed Media
RD 022-17
By Steven Kinder
Located in Fairfield, CT
Steven Kinder talks a lot about energy, form and movement and getting at the essence of something. Getting to the middle of it. He wants his work to call out in some way. He is inspi...
Canvas, Mixed Media
RD 020-17
By Steven Kinder
Located in Fairfield, CT
Steven Kinder talks a lot about energy, form and movement and getting at the essence of something. Getting to the middle of it. He wants his work to call out in some way. He is inspi...
Canvas, Mixed Media
RD011-17
By Steven Kinder
Located in Fairfield, CT
Steven Kinder talks a lot about energy, form and movement and getting at the essence of something. Getting to the middle of it. He wants his work to call out in some way. He is inspi...
Canvas, Mixed Media
Along the Way, Abstract Painting
By Linda Shaffer
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A multi-layered mixed-media abstract art combines paints of various colors with hand-printed papers, monoprints, exotic papers, maps, cancelled stamps, handmade...
Mixed Media
Tidal II, Mixed Media on Wood Panel
By Katja Wittmer
Located in Yardley, PA
Encaustic and mixed media on Wooden Panel Tidal Ocean, waves, stormy sea, royal blue, the journey is about to begin. Framed in a metallic wood silver shadow box frame. Katja Wit...
Mixed Media
Abstract Landscape #63, Abstract Painting
By Paul Kirley
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A modern abstract mixing painterly brushwork with clean geometric linework in flowing blues, green and white. Artist Paul Kirley describes the works as "shard...
Acrylic
Beyond Measure, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Cynthia Ligeros
Located in Yardley, PA
Beyond Measure is a luminous meditation on transformation, possibility, and the boundless nature of existence. Inspired by the light of the full moon, it interweaves geometric forms ...
Acrylic
Beginnings - Abstract Geometric Acrylic Painting
By Glenn Fischer
Located in Boston, MA
Beginnings 36.0 x 36.0 x 2.0, 3.0 lbs Acrylic Hand signed by artist Artist's Commentary: "Glenn Fischer is an abstract artist working in collage and painting to create geometric-...
Acrylic
#Instamood, Original Contemporary Abstract Painting
By Michele Krauss
Located in Boston, MA
#Instamood 48 x 48 x 1.5 Oil on canvas Hand signed by the artist Artist's Commentary: "This painting belongs to my series Wired that have been shown and some awarde by curators of MoMa, Whitney among others... By intertwining concepts, feelings, and ideas we can communicate on different levels and in a variety of ways. In these series, I continue juxtaposing planes, symbolizing how we are wired to each other through communication. Being physical, mental or spiritual." About the Artist: Chilean- American artist, Michele Krauss...
Oil
