G. Campbell Lyman

"Manna #3" - Framed Abstract Contemporary Painting

2021

Artist's statement: "This is a series of paintings I have been working on whose subject is the materials of making art themselves. The title refers to the gifts of color, luster, mat...

Artist's Statement: "This painting harkens back to a series called "Gridish" that I created over the past couple of years, comprising similar rectangular shapes with complex surfaces incorporating tar, house paint, enamel safety paint and other materials. Here, though, the forms are isolated in negative space rather than stacked in a grid, which gives them a more iconic quality." “Lyman’s work evolves restlessly, with the common elements generally being deft and unusual color choices that balance assonance and dissonance, and vestiges of the hand and facture purposely left in the paintings. The negative space is often so meticulously worked that it’s almost as if the objects – usually simple shapes – are there as much to complement the background as vice versa. Despite the often bold colors there is an elegance about his paintings that prevents them from being either loud or decorative. " Artbeit Zeitschrift “His paintings are a refreshing departure from the current abstract art world’s seemingly endless parade of fields of color with scribbles providing form, a style that is easily mimicked and has become a sort of “safe,” accessible go-to. There are confident decisions in these paintings appearing as commitments of strongly delineated forms and unexpected collisions of color that give the work a visceral, confident and playful soul, increasingly missing from contemporary expressionist abstraction. They are the paintings of a real painter rather than a decorative artist.” ArtSeen, 2018 (from a collector): "Love your work. We collect colorists like Wolf Kahn and Jennifer Bartlett, whom I commissioned a piece from that is in the entrance of Mayo Clinic. We are old fans...

Artist’s Statement: “As I often do, I chose a very simple form to work with in this series of paintings – a grid of rectangles. It was some Sean Scully forms I was thinking of when I...

"I have been painting seriously for somewhere around 35 years, but have only ever sold regionally - most recently, through my gallery on Magazine Street in New Orleans. Through 1stDi...

Artist's Statement: "This painting originally looked different, and though it had 22 saves on it and looked sure to sell there was just something that bothered me about it. So I rep...

Comes framed and ready to hang in professional wood black floater frame. This painting was a Finalist in the Grey Cube Gallery's City Art International Art Exhibition: "Out of all ...

Acrylic and oil stick on acrylic panels Danielle Frankenthal’s paintings focus on light, as she describes, “the most humanly perceivable form of pure energy which allows us sight; a...

Acrylic and oil stick on phosphorescent acrylic panel. This piece glows in the dark. Danielle Frankenthal’s paintings focus on light, as she describes, “the most humanly perceivabl...

Acrylic and oil stick on acrylic panels Danielle Frankenthal’s paintings focus on light, as she describes, “the most humanly perceivable form of pure energy which allows us sight; a...

Acrylic and oil stick on acrylic panels Danielle Frankenthal’s paintings focus on light, as she describes, “the most humanly perceivable form of pure energy which allows us sight; a...

This painting is a minimalist colour work depicting a conjunction, in this case it is an emotional one. This work is painted in the style of abstract expressionism. This work is pai...

This painting is about the alliance between two emotions, such a love and joy, sometimes two emotions enhance each other even though they are entirely different, like the colours pur...