Toby Topek

Contemporary Layered Paper and Ink Abstract Collage

2002

Contemporary abstract geometric colorful patterned painting by Texas-based artist Max Manning. The work features organic and geometric shapes in blue, mag...

Contemporary abstract geometric colorful patterned painting by Texas-based artist Max Manning. The work features organic and geometric shapes in green, magenta, black, and white. Si...

Contemporary abstract geometric colorful patterned painting by Texas-based artist Max Manning. The work features organic and geometric shapes in red, pinks, blues, yellow, black, an...

Contemporary abstract geometric colorful patterned painting by Texas-based artist Max Manning. The work features organic and geometric shapes in orange, y...

Contemporary abstract geometric colorful patterned painting by Texas-based artist Max Manning. The work features organic and geometric shapes in blues, pi...

Contemporary abstract geometric colorful patterned painting by Texas-based artist Max Manning. The work features organic and geometric shapes in yellow, p...

The art of Philip Wittmann is founded on signals. For him, signs serve as a bridge between abstraction, reality and writing, too. When he was 26 years old, he began painting as a hobbyist using 'pure' abstraction. However, he believed his work lacked a solid foundation upon which to grow. ​He discovered a book on the origins of the Chinese alphabet, which origins are essentially signs, in 2008 while taking a calligraphy class. The 26 letters of our Latin alphabet are less pictorial than the Chinese characters as we know them now. He discovered that pictorial representation is more prevalent when examining the origins of alphabets—all alphabets, in fact—because there is frequently a similarity between the sign's true meaning and what it is meant to represent. For instance, the symbol for a turtle in the original Chinese script resembles a turtle. Wittmann loves signs as they leave room for interpretation. For instance, if one writes “the sky is blue”, one will make for themself a mental representation of a blue sky, even if each one-off us will probably have some nuance in our own mental representation of that blue sky. On the other hand, a sign can...

The art of Philip Wittmann is founded on signals. For him, signs serve as a bridge between abstraction, reality and writing, too. When he was 26 years ...

The art of Philip Wittmann is founded on signals. For him, signs serve as a bridge between abstraction, reality and writing, too. When he was 26 years old, he began painting as a hobbyist using 'pure' abstraction. However, he believed his work lacked a solid foundation upon which to grow. ​He discovered a book on the origins of the Chinese alphabet, which origins are essentially signs, in 2008 while taking a calligraphy class. The 26 letters of our Latin alphabet are less pictorial than the Chinese characters as we know them now. He discovered that pictorial representation is more prevalent when examining the origins of alphabets—all alphabets, in fact—because there is frequently a similarity between the sign's true meaning and what it is meant to represent. For instance, the symbol for a turtle in the original Chinese script resembles a turtle. Wittmann loves signs as they leave room for interpretation. For instance, if one writes “the sky is blue”, one will make for themself a mental representation of a blue sky, even if each one-off us will probably have some nuance in our own mental representation of that blue sky. On the other hand, a sign can...

"Iris, Lilies, & Menarda" is an original mixed media piece by David and Sarah Barnett, signed in the lower left. The piece incorporates handmade paper embedded with plant matter, a collaboration between the artist and his daughter. The paper was then scanned and reprinted on archival paper and painted with abstract flowers in watercolor...

Sweet Life, 2022 by a.muse is an abstract watercolor collage․ This work on paper is a collection of memories of summer, fragments of everyday life sequenced...

When I begin my explosion paintings these initial marks and forms tend to get buried under the accretion of marks compiled to form the work. In this suite of 4 works I began with a f...