Jay Weiner

"micro/macro" - Abstract Geometric Composition

2006

Bold geometric abstract painting by Nick O'Connor (American, late-20th Century). Signed, numbered, and dated "#1 Nick O'Connor 2002" on verso, with an inscription that reads "Hinduis...

Geometric Abstract with Circles in Acrylic on Canvas Bright and colorful abstract composition by Melvin K. Allen (American, 1922-2012). Several circles are shown overlapping each ot...

Beautiful vivid and fluid large scale abstract painting by Dorothy Hyman (American, 1904-2007). A dark blue object appears to float in a sea of colors, tra...

Bold abstract composition by RH Barnard (American, 20th Century). The backdrop of this piece is composed of rectangular sections of brown, red, blue, and tan. In the center of the composition, there is a black object...

Robert S. Neuman was born in Kellogg, Idaho, in 1926. After an honorable discharge from the Air Force in 1946, he received his BA in 1949 and his MFA in 1951, both from the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland. He moved from the Bay Area to the East Coast in 1957 where he began teaching art at SUNY New Paltz, then at Massachusetts College of Art, Brown University, and Harvard University’s Carpenter Center for Visual Arts. He received a Fulbright Fellowship for Painting in 1953 and the John S. Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 1956. He has been the subject of countless exhibitions, including five solo shows in 2013. Neuman’s work has been on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. His work is included in public collections including the Carnegie Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University. He died in June 2015. During the 1950's, Neuman painted in an Abstract Expressionist style, incorporating the stylistic signifiers of the Bay Area School such as broad surface treatments, a full color palette, and atmospheric light. In the 1960's, Neuman's art evolved into geometric abstraction, fusing form and content that often verged on symbolism. He produced various bodies of works such as the Kandinsky-esque cosmos paintings...

Robert Petrick’s ’Dynographic' is a fusion of meticulous geometry and bold abstract expression. From the artist’s 'Innersections' series, this piece is both timeless and contemporary...

Work on cardboard

Domenick Capobianco (American, born 1928) Abstract Geometric Composition, Mixed Media on Cardboard, acrylic and spray paint, apparently unsigned, "Studio Domenick Capobianco" stamp t...