Frantz Lexy

"Refraction", abstract, beige, brown, blues, reds, greens, yellow, oil painting

2024

Sandra Cohen’s “disinheritance” is a 30 x 24 x .25 inch abstract acrylic painting on tempered hardwood, in pink, green, yellow, tan and black. Flowers, biological forms, spinal bones...

Tatiana Flis’ “Observer Effect” is a 48 x 36 inch abstract acrylic painting created with multiple monoprinting methods on a birch wood panel. A black and white grid of rectangles for...

Tatiana Flis’ “Radio Silence” is a 48 x 36 inch abstract acrylic painting created with a monoprinting process on a birch wood panel. Pastel rainbow tones of blue, purple, red, green,...

Tatiana Flis’ “Shifting Horizons” is a 48 x 36 inch abstract acrylic painting created with multiple monoprinting methods on a birch wood panel. Heavy contrast among the layers evoke ...

So Real, 2013, is a large scale oil painting with a bold saturated palette by abstract geometric artist, Kati Vilim. This abstraction is an optical illusio...

Rosebud, 2013, is a large scale oil painting by abstract geometric artist, Kati Vilim. This abstraction is an optical illusion, with cascading cubical forms in a series of red hues ...

In James' paintings, he explores how uncertainty can lead to meaning and understanding. How harmony can be experienced even within tension and chaos and how the recognizable can rise out of purely abstract form. In his abstract paintings he responds to these phenomena by creating contemporary icons – works meant to encourage contemplation and meditation. James' more recent works have evolved from the romantic representational ideal into the symbolic, abstract archetype. He comes from a classical background inspired by the great romantic landscape painters such as Turner, Lorrain, Friedrich and Moran, his recent work is more influenced by the work of artists like Klee, Miro, Rothko, Pollock, Riley and Richter. James creates complex abstractions layered in familiarity and veiled in mysteriousness. The unorthodox methods he uses to apply and move oil paint allow him to create compositions that are formally beautiful – infused with tension and drama but also expressive of the spiritual, symbolic, mysterious and eternal. James' work counters...

I think of my paintings primarily as landscapes. Recently, these landscapes appear to be more manufactured than organic. At first glance the subjects seem to be monumental forms such...