Phyllis Palmer

Shaving (Modern Marble Figurative Mosaic of Man Shaving in Neutral Colors)

2007

"Traces 51" by Valerie Hammond Created in 2012 38 x 25 inches unframed Pigment, Color Pencil, wax, glass beads and thread on Japanese paper Valerie Hammond's approach to her art mak...

"Traces 32" By Valerie Hammond Created in 2012 38 x 25 inches unframed Pigment, Color Pencil, wax, glass beads and thread on Japanese paper Valerie Hammond's approach to her art mak...

A Wrestler, His Girlfriend, and Their Dog Academic style figurative oil painting of a young man and woman with their dog in the gym locker room by Mark Beard 68 x 32 inches oil on canvas mounted on Masonite 75 x 39 inches framed This painting represents a segment of a large mural the artist was commissioned to paint for Abercrombie & Fitch's flagship stores. This painting was featured in the Manhattan's towering mural which stretched several floors. Beard worked on the commission in his NYC studio and completed the work in 2005. Painted in a style that evokes the portraits of John Singer Sargent, Mark Beard is a contemporary living artist who paints under the pseudonym, Bruce Sargeant, an English painter who worked during the 1920's and 30's. The contemporary figurative painting, made in a modern Academic style, features a young male athlete wearing a wrestling singlet...

Oil on canvas 44 x 55 x 2 inches Contemporary white artist made floater frame This listing is available from Carrie Haddad Gallery, based in Hudson, NY. A lush shade of dark raspber...

Oil on canvas 44 x 55 x 2 inches Contemporary white artist made floater frame This listing is available from Carrie Haddad Gallery, based in Hudson, NY. Golden color fills the canva...

37" X 32" acrylic on cotton This colorful portrait of a young woman with auburn hair has vivid and bold black outlines that drip and define the sitter's face. She sits in front of a...

Very occasionally a painting invites deep study; nothing exists within it without reason, each form has purpose, every shade has nuance, every line has meaning. Berlin has presented...

Something so special it's hardly ever seen - creative silver and gold leafing. The face passed through seven stages before it was complete and crushed marble is used to adorn her fa...

Berlin's series of remarkable images of mythically, spiritual women is now augmented by this latest work. The Inner Heart to the Dove of Peace is an intense piece, a paean of hope. H...

In these testing times it's become easy to turn inwards rather than looking outwards into the world. In a painting that is archetypical of Sax Berlin Angel of Peace is a reflection ...

Something so special it's hardly ever seen - creative silver and gold leafing. The face passed through seven stages before it was complete and crushed marble is used to adorn her fac...

A figure reclines in a red and yellow-strapped lawn chair. The figure sitting in the chair is activated by Aldrich’s transformation of paint and resin into oozing swaths of skin between the lawn chair straps. The chair, recalling the grid, works as a pattern trying to hold and contain the body resting inside it. -- Building on her previous show, Main Squeeze, which featured bodies pressing through the grid of lawn chairs, in “That Feeling When,” Aldrich expands the excess of materials to large figure paintings and small, overfilled sculptures. Aldrich uses thick materials that protrude from the surface, reminding the viewer that the paintings are not only physical objects in themselves, but also create the illusion of the picture. The work employs a risky excess of material that borders on uncontrollable; becoming metaphoric for barely controlled femininity, the attraction and repulsion of materialism, and the body pressing against constraints. The figures in the paintings are seen from behind or have turned away. The viewer is put in a place of questioning whether they are a voyeur or a co-viewer with the figure of something deeper in the picture plane. The full body paintings...