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Abstract Paintings For Sale
Artist: Bonnie Maygarden
Artist: Paul Reed
"Bend Before" -- Acrylic Painting by Bonnie Maygarden
Located in New Orleans, LA
BONNIE MAYGARDEN is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University. She attended Pratt Institute in New York, where she received her Bachelor's of Fin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Prism II" -- Acrylic Painting by Bonnie Maygarden
Located in New Orleans, LA
BONNIE MAYGARDEN is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University. She attended Pratt Institute in New York, where she received her Bachelor's of Fin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Prism I" -- Acrylic Painting by Bonnie Maygarden
Located in New Orleans, LA
BONNIE MAYGARDEN is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University. She attended Pratt Institute in New York, where she received her Bachelor's of Fin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Astro
Located in New Orleans, LA
BONNIE MAYGARDEN is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University. She attended Pratt Institute in New York, where she received her Bachelor's of Fin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Tuesday
Located in New Orleans, LA
BONNIE MAYGARDEN is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University. She attended Pratt Institute in New York, where she received her Bachelor's of Fin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
OURS
Located in New Orleans, LA
BONNIE MAYGARDEN is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University. She attended Pratt Institute in New York, where she received her Bachelor's of Fin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Sweet
Located in New Orleans, LA
BONNIE MAYGARDEN is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University. She attended Pratt Institute in New York, where she received her Bachelor's of Fin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Shift Shift Shift
Located in New Orleans, LA
BONNIE MAYGARDEN is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University. She attended Pratt Institute in New York, where she received her Bachelor's of Fin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Convergence
Located in New Orleans, LA
BONNIE MAYGARDEN is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University. She attended Pratt Institute in New York, where she received her Bachelor's of Fin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Day Break
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: acrylic on canvas and sheer tulle
__________
BONNIE MAYGARDEN is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University. She attended Pratt Institute...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Fault
Located in New Orleans, LA
materials: enamel on pleather
____________
BONNIE MAYGARDEN is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University. She attended Pratt Institute in New Yo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Flash I
Located in New Orleans, LA
Bonnie Maygarden is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University. The destruction of Hurricane Katrina caused her to take leave of New Orleans to fu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Enamel, Gold Leaf
Cast Shadow
Located in New Orleans, LA
[New Orleans, LA ::: b.1987 - New Orleans, LA]
BONNIE MAYGARDEN is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University. She attended Pratt Institute in Ne...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cotton, Acrylic
Mirage
Located in New Orleans, LA
Maygarden discusses the inspiration for Paradise . . .
Through painting, I seek to create imagery that harkens to the sublime nature of light and color. In creating this body of wor...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Another Season
Located in New Orleans, LA
BONNIE MAYGARDEN is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University. She attended Pratt Institute in New York, where she received her Bachelor's of Fin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Support
Located in New Orleans, LA
[New Orleans, LA ::: b.1987 - New Orleans, LA]
BONNIE MAYGARDEN is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University. She attended Pratt Institute in Ne...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Instant
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: enamel on pleather
[New Orleans, LA ::: b.1987 - New Orleans, LA]
BONNIE MAYGARDEN is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University. She at...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Still Present
Located in New Orleans, LA
[New Orleans, LA ::: b.1987 - New Orleans, LA]
BONNIE MAYGARDEN is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University. She attended Pratt Institute in Ne...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Spaced
Located in New Orleans, LA
Maygarden discusses the inspiration for Paradise . . .
Through painting, I seek to create imagery that harkens to the sublime nature of light and color. In creating this body of wor...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Adjustment
Located in New Orleans, LA
Enamel on iridescent spandex fabric.
Maygarden discusses the inspiration for Paradise . . .
Through painting, I seek to create imagery that harkens to the sublime nature of light a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Flash III
Located in New Orleans, LA
Bonnie Maygarden is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University. The destruction of Hurricane Katrina caused her to take leave of New Orleans to fu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Enamel, Gold Leaf
The Hinge
Located in New Orleans, LA
[New Orleans, LA ::: b.1987 - New Orleans, LA]
BONNIE MAYGARDEN is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University. She attended Pratt Institute in Ne...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Sweet
Located in New Orleans, LA
My work is informed by and reacts to a culture defined by a digital experience, yet the work's imagery is created entirely by hand, using only paint. I seek out natural phenomena and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Mellow Yellow
Located in New Orleans, LA
Bonnie Maygarden is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University. The destruction of Hurricane Katrina caused her to take leave of New Orleans to fu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Connection
Located in New Orleans, LA
Maygarden discusses the inspiration for Paradise . . .
Through painting, I seek to create imagery that harkens to the sublime nature of light and color. In creating this body of wor...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Shade
Located in New Orleans, LA
Maygarden discusses the inspiration for Paradise . . .
Through painting, I seek to create imagery that harkens to the sublime nature of light and color. In creating this body of wor...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Cheap Fix
Located in New Orleans, LA
Maygarden discusses the inspiration for Paradise . . .
Through painting, I seek to create imagery that harkens to the sublime nature of light and color. In creating this body of wor...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
5 Night Stay
Located in New Orleans, LA
BONNIE MAYGARDEN is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University. The destruction of Hurricane Katrina caused her to take leave of New Orleans to fu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
3 Night Stay
Located in New Orleans, LA
BONNIE MAYGARDEN is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University. The destruction of Hurricane Katrina caused her to take leave of New Orleans to fu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Cotton Canvas
Paradise III
Located in New Orleans, LA
My work is informed by and reacts to a culture defined by a digital experience, yet the work's imagery is created entirely by hand, using only paint. I seek out natural phenomena and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Sunrise
Located in New Orleans, LA
Maygarden discusses the inspiration for Paradise . . .
Through painting, I seek to create imagery that harkens to the sublime nature of light and color. In creating this body of wor...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Rush
Located in New Orleans, LA
Maygarden discusses the inspiration for Paradise . . .
Through painting, I seek to create imagery that harkens to the sublime nature of light and color. In creating this body of wor...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Parallel Moment V
Located in New Orleans, LA
Maygarden discusses the inspiration for Paradise . . .
Through painting, I seek to create imagery that harkens to the sublime nature of light and color. In creating this body of wor...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Parallel Moment II
Located in New Orleans, LA
My work is informed by and reacts to a culture defined by a digital experience, yet the work's imagery is created entirely by hand, using only paint. I seek out natural phenomena and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Day Trip
Located in New Orleans, LA
BONNIE MAYGARDEN is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University. The destruction of Hurricane Katrina caused her to take leave of New Orleans to fu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
Light and Air III
Located in New Orleans, LA
BONNIE MAYGARDEN is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University. The destruction of Hurricane Katrina caused her to take leave of New Orleans to fu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Fake News
Located in New Orleans, LA
New work by Bonnie Maygarden
ARTIST STATEMENT
I create paintings without the aid of technology, yet I am interested in making works that are informed by and react to a culture defi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Memory
Located in New Orleans, LA
Bonnie Maygarden is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University in 2014. The destruction of Hurricane Katrina caused her to take leave of New Orlea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Web
Located in New Orleans, LA
BONNIE MAYGARDEN is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University. The destruction of Hurricane Katrina caused her to take leave of New Orleans to fu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Vicarious I
Located in New Orleans, LA
acrylic on canvas with artist-made oak frame
BONNIE MAYGARDEN is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University. The destruction of Hurricane Katrina...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Insta
Located in New Orleans, LA
BONNIE MAYGARDEN is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University. The destruction of Hurricane Katrina caused her to take leave of New Orleans to fu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Charged
Located in New Orleans, LA
BONNIE MAYGARDEN is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University. The destruction of Hurricane Katrina caused her to take leave of New Orleans to fu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Tuesday
Located in New Orleans, LA
BONNIE MAYGARDEN is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University. The destruction of Hurricane Katrina caused her to take leave of New Orleans to fu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Vicarious II
Located in New Orleans, LA
acrylic on canvas with artist-made oak frame
BONNIE MAYGARDEN is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University. The destruction of Hurricane Katrina...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Parallel Moment
Located in New Orleans, LA
BONNIE MAYGARDEN is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University. The destruction of Hurricane Katrina caused her to take leave of New Orleans to fu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Beneath
Located in New Orleans, LA
BONNIE MAYGARDEN is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University. The destruction of Hurricane Katrina caused her to take leave of New Orleans to fu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Trending
Located in New Orleans, LA
New work by Bonnie Maygarden
ARTIST STATEMENT
I create paintings without the aid of technology, yet I am interested in making works that are informed by and react to a culture defi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Burn Out
Located in New Orleans, LA
BONNIE MAYGARDEN is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University. The destruction of Hurricane Katrina caused her to take leave of New Orleans to fu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Auto Color
Located in New Orleans, LA
New work by Bonnie Maygarden
ARTIST STATEMENT
I create paintings without the aid of technology, yet I am interested in making works that are informed by and react to a culture d...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Orange Circle
By Paul Reed
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed & dated Verso. 1965
Paul Reed in 1970. He favored “staining” untreated canvas.
Paul Reed, the last surviving member of the Washington Color School, who explored the complexities of color and form in vibrant bio-morphic and hard-edge abstract paintings, died on Sept. 26 at his home in Phoenix. He was 96.
His death was confirmed by his daughter, Jean Reed Roberts.
Mr. Reed acquired his public identity as an artist when he was included, along with Gene Davis, Kenneth Noland, Morris Louis, Thomas Downing and Howard Mehring, in “The Washington Color Painters,” a landmark traveling exhibition that began at the Washington Gallery of Modern Art in 1965.
All of the other painters had been shown, the year before, in “Post-Painterly Abstraction,” a 31-artist exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art organized by the critic Clement Greenberg in an effort to write a new chapter in the historic march of abstract art.
Like his fellow Washington artists, Mr. Reed rejected the hot, gestural approach of Abstract Expressionism and explored color and abstract forms in a cooler mode. Working with diluted acrylic paint, in discrete series that methodically explored formal issues, he created luminous fields of color by letting the paint bleed into, or stain, untreated canvas.
“I have a saying: Pollock dripped, Frankenthaler poured,” he told The Washington Post in 2011, referring to the artist Helen Frankenthaler. “Morris Louis poured. Howard Mehring sprinkled. I blot.”
In his first stained series, “Mandala,” color radiated from a circular central image. The nearly 100 paintings in his “Disk” series, which he called “a matrix for exploiting color,” consisted of a central circle and two triangles positioned at the corners of the canvas.
Over the next decade he moved to hard-edge geometric zigzags and stripes in the vertical “Upstart” series, color grids and shaped canvases that allowed for more complex experiments in form and color relations. He also made welded steel sculptures and, in the “Quad” series of the 1980s, collaged photographs.
“Reed was, in a sense, the ‘little master’ of that first batch of Washington colorists,” the critic Benjamin Forgey wrote in The Washington Post in 1997. “He was a latecomer — he didn’t turn seriously to painting until he was in his mid-30s — but he never considered becoming anything other than an abstract painter. And when he was ready to show, in his early 40s, he was a very good abstract painter indeed.”
Mr. Reed gave himself a more modest assessment in an interview with NPR last year. “I’m sort of low man on the totem pole of that group of six,” he said.
Paul Allen...
Category
1960s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Here Again
Located in New Orleans, LA
BONNIE MAYGARDEN is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University. The destruction of Hurricane Katrina caused her to take leave of New Orleans to fu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Merge II
Located in New Orleans, LA
Bonnie Maygarden is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University. The destruction of Hurricane Katrina caused her to take leave of New Orleans to fu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Nightshade
Located in New Orleans, LA
Bonnie Maygarden is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University. The destruction of Hurricane Katrina caused her to take leave of New Orleans to fu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paper, Acrylic
Photo.Copy
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: enamel on pleather
BONNIE MAYGARDEN is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University. The destruction of Hurricane Katrina caused her to tak...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Compress II
Located in New Orleans, LA
Bonnie Maygarden is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University. The destruction of Hurricane Katrina caused her to take leave of New Orleans to fu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Compress I
Located in New Orleans, LA
Bonnie Maygarden is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University. The destruction of Hurricane Katrina caused her to take leave of New Orleans to fu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Merge I
Located in New Orleans, LA
Bonnie Maygarden is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University in 2014. The destruction of Hurricane Katrina caused her to take leave of New Orlea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Dark Daze IV
Located in New Orleans, LA
BONNIE MAYGARDEN is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University. The destruction of Hurricane Katrina caused her to take leave of New Orleans to fu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Original Abstract Paintings for Sale on 1stDibs
Bring audacious experiments with color and textures to your living room, dining room or home office. Abstract paintings, large or small, will stand out in your space, encouraging conversation and introducing a museum-like atmosphere that’s welcoming and conducive to creating memorable gatherings.
Abstract art has origins in 19th-century Europe, but it came into its own as a significant movement during the 20th century. Early practitioners of abstraction included Wassily Kandinsky, although painters were exploring nonfigurative art prior to the influential Russian artist’s efforts, which were inspired by music and religion. Abstract painters endeavored to create works that didn’t focus on the outside world’s conventional subjects, and even when artists depicted realistic subjects, they worked in an abstract mode to do so.
In 1940s-era New York City, a group of painters working in the abstract mode created radical work that looked to European avant-garde artists as well as to the art of ancient cultures, prioritizing improvisation, immediacy and direct personal expression. While they were never formally affiliated with one another, we know them today as Abstract Expressionists.
The male contingent of the Abstract Expressionists, which includes Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Robert Motherwell, is frequently cited in discussing leading figures of this internationally influential postwar art movement. However, the women of Abstract Expressionism, such as Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell and others, were equally involved in the art world of the time. Sexism, family obligations and societal pressures contributed to a long history of their being overlooked, but the female Abstract Expressionists experimented vigorously, developed their own style and produced significant bodies of work.
Draw your guests into abstract oil paintings across different eras and countries of origin. On 1stDibs, you’ll find an expansive range of abstract paintings along with a guide on how to arrange your wonderful new wall art.
If you’re working with a small living space, a colorful, oversize work can create depth in a given room, but there isn’t any need to overwhelm your interior with a sprawling pièce de résistance. Colorful abstractions of any size can pop against a white wall in your living room, but if you’re working with a colored backdrop, you may wish to stick to colors that complement the decor that is already in the space. Alternatively, let your painting make a statement on its own, regardless of its surroundings, or group it, gallery-style, with other works.