Clara Berta

Talking Heads

2020

"Green Deep", acrylic on canvas — 64 x 48 x 2 inches Julia Nee Chu was born in 1938 in Shanghai, China and currently lives and works in Santa Monica, California. Her paintings cal...

This large format canvas makes a stunning visual impact suitable for any environment. Barraguet's gestural painting style compels the viewer to look more closely to experience the expressionistic movement. Barranguet was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. Vicky now lives and works in New York. She was awarded a Merit Scholarship from the Frick Collection...

Lisa Bartleson is a Northern California - based mixed-media artist whose work is inspired by the Light and Space movement from the 1960’s and 1970’s. H...

"Red Loops", acrylic on wood panel — 18 x 17 x 2 inches — 2016. Julia Nee Chu was born in 1938 in Shanghai, China and currently lives and works in Santa Monica, California. Her pa...

Julia Nee Chu was born in 1938 in Shanghai, China and currently lives and works in Santa Monica, California. Her paintings call upon nature, movement and calligraphy. “The focus of ...

"Aqua Top", acrylic on panel — 16.5 x 17.5 x 2 inches. Julia Nee Chu is an internationally acclaimed abstract painter born n 1938 in Shanghai, China and currently living in Los Ang...

Marta Crespo is an Argentinian artist born in 1960. She studied arts in Buenos Aires. Marta participated in workshops with various renowned artists, such as Santa Maria, Eckell, a...

Ides Kihlen (b. 1917) completed this work in 2021 at the age of 104. She is known for her collage work and distinct color palette exhibited in this piece. "Sin Titulo (A) (VCH059)" i...

Arao’s geometric sewn fabric paintings reference woven textiles and ethnic patterns from the Philippines, reinterpreted in kaleidoscopic fabric compositions. Fabric, a material that seemingly begs for human touch, is something we all have a level of familiarity with. Whether it is clothing worn or removed from the body, commercially bought, hand dyed, or recycled weathered canvas, Arao harnesses the tactility and multiple interpretations of fabric, often alluding to its central relationship to the human body. Precisely sewn together into tapestry-like wall works, Arao’s background in painting is evident in his mastery of color and composition. Paired with his conceptual link to his identity as a gay Filipino-American, Arao’s works simultaneously reach back through history and into the future as powerful symbols of representation and beauty. Gathered from disparate sources, carrying the psychic or physical traces of the hands that manufactured or the bodies that wore the textiles used in his fabric paintings, there is a legacy of nuance woven into the fibers of each work. Written into each color choice, use of various types of fabric, and overall composition, is a steadfast trust in process and faith in intuition. Regarding this body of work, Arao states, “ In my sewn paintings, the stability of geometric forms is disrupted through the use of altered patterns and asymmetry, creating a space that’s dynamic and shifting – much like the concept of queerness itself.” Flexible, open-ended, and bounding with vibrant color, Paolo Arao...

As an emerging self-taught artist, Miriam jumps into her art with sheer inquisitiveness and courage, embracing passion and authenticity throughout her work process. “I like to appro...

Modern, elegant, and original mixed media (acrylics, pastel, pencil, and collage) painting on unstretched canvas with an irregular shape. Through overlays and transparencies, the contemporary artist Federica Aiello Pini...

This artwork has been on exhibit at Volta Basel Art Fair 2022 with AC Latin Art. Textured mixed media and collage abstract modern painting inspired by nature and flowers, questioning reality, often playing with inserts to introduce the doubt of something more. In the research of contemporary artist Federica Aiello Pini...