Alyssa Warren

"Series 9, #03" abstract ink painting of white figures on blue background

2017

I grew up in the United States and completed a BA in literature in Santa Barbara, CA, an MA in literature in Sydney, Australia, and a three-year printmaking diploma in London, where ...

Abstract ink and fibers on paper in black and white. I grew up in the United States and completed a BA in literature in Santa Barbara, CA, an MA in literature in Sydney, Australia, ...

Abstract oil painting in blues, white and gold. At a very young age I started studying and drawing maps. The first maps I ever saw may have been the highway maps stashed in our Ford Country Squire station wagon’s glove box. By my teens I had a map and atlas collection totaling well over a thousand and spent my free time engorged in cartography. My fascination with maps led me to study cartography at UC Santa Barbara and followed with creating maps for faculty at UCLA. Imagine the effect of spending much of a lifetime intimately tracing coasts, rivers, highways and more. Inevitably the visual rhythms of geography largely created my visual sensibility, that is, my sense of what works or does not work visually. I would dare say it has even seeped into my DNA. The interplay of a lifetime of maps and my fine art painting became most apparent in the late 1980’s when I started to create map paintings. Their purpose was not to explain the geography of a place but rather to use the essence of geographic forms to re-express them in an entirely new way. Today my paintings still echo their geographic foundation. Whether it is translating the essence of the sand patterns made by the waves on Baker Beach...

Abstract ink and fibers on paper in black and white. I grew up in the United States and completed a BA in literature in Santa Barbara, CA, an MA in literature in Sydney, Australia, ...

„Free Blue 3317" is an abstract mix media painting on paper, measuring 59,5 x 42 cm, by contemporary Polish artist Monika Widenka. 
It is motion that endures in stillness. The art...

„Free Blue 3330" is an abstract mix media painting on paper, measuring 59,5 x 42 cm, by contemporary Polish artist Monika Widenka. It speaks in vibrations we feel before we understa...

„Free Blue 3331" is an abstract mix media painting on paper, measuring 59,5 x 42 cm, by contemporary Polish artist Monika Widenka. A space where emotions take shape before thoughts c...

Cobalt Blue is the most complex and contradict color. French artist Yves Klein once said "Cobalt blue has no dimensions. It is beyond dimensions," believing that it could take the viewer outside the canvas itself. Painting is 12X17" hand cut heavyweight stock comes custom-framed in a 17X20X1.2" white shadow box Signed, dated and stamped on the front. Ready to hang - great piece on its own or part of a gallery art wall! These white/ cobalt blue paintings...