Arlette Stella

Oppressive Hope

2021

Abstract. Philosophical. Colorful. Tears tell many stories. Happy tears tell stories of joy and even relief. Sad tears tell stories of loss and pain. When you cry, do you know what...

The lines that pierce to the center of the painting represent the pain and struggle that pierces our lives and world. This also represents how it feels to live in a divided world str...

Abstract. Philosophical. Colorful. Greens and blues express and encourage your experience in the differences in the places and times that are presented here in an abstract format. A...

Even when the heaviness and challenge offered in life blocks your view, rise up anyway. This was personal. Each time there is a a challenge, for me to rise u...

Abstract :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Signed: Yes :: Signature Location: bo...

You meet the Spanish artist Alexandro Santana and you think, cripes, can he be for real? So handsome, so flamboyant, so seductive, so amusing -- you’re not sure whether it’s intentional or inadvertent. And then you discover he is the son of a notorious Dominican admiral, that the tyrannical dictator Trujillo was best man at his parents’ wedding, that his mother was a fabled high-society beauty, that he grew up on battleships and estancias before going, inevitably, to Brown. Even more surprisingly, Santana stayed in Providence for graduate studies at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he received his degree in architecture, soon plying his trade in Manhattan and his adopted city of Savannah, where he eventually set up his own firm. Astonishingly, in this era of CAD, he draws every detail entirely by hand. Considering his tweeds, his bow ties, his drawl and debonair dress, it is perhaps not surprising to learn that Santana’s architectural taste is strongly neo-classical, inspired by the vernacular Palladianism of antebellum Georgia, with of course a touch of the Postmodern. Santana’s detailed and decorous architectural plans for his clients are complemented by drawings created for solely for himself -- exotic imaginary cityscapes and urban fantasias, like the dreams of Sir John Soane channeled through Aldo Rossi or John Hejduk...

"Hope" Large gestural abstract by this artist, inspired by Joan Mitchell and created with hope in mind. Hope is seeing light in spite of the darkness. "Never lost hope, my dea...

You are viewing an abstract expressionist painting by American female artist Harrier Holden Nash. Harriet was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and lived with her husband in ...