Jennifer Blalack

Window Shopping - Robert Rauschenberg type Abstract in Purple + Yellow

2019

"Swoon" is an original acrylic painting by Washington-based artist Laurie Barmore. As in other works by Laurie Barmore, this piece has a rich palette with visual energy celebrating ...

"Your Words Filled Me With Courage" is an original contemporary painting by Laurie Barmore. With acrylic on canvas, this piece is a symphony of color. B...

"Origins" is a contemporary painting by Bay Area artist Jennifer Blalack. Blalack works this canvas with delicate detail and effort. This painting is...

In this work by Laurie Barmore, the artist's hand is exceedingly present. Using strong strokes of black and magenta creates its own essences of form atop washes of whites and pale pi...

Modern and bright urban abstract in yellow & purple by Carl E. Schwartz (American, 1935-2014), c.1970s. Signed "Schwartz" lower right. Presented in a silver metal frame. Image size: ...

Artist: Roberto D La Renta Medium: Acrylic and Watercolor on Linen Paper Size: 16" x 16"

60"x48" abstract composition in golden yellow with lavender, violet and light cream. Large gestural movements overlay one and other on the on canvas. The painting surface incorporates impasto brushwork and poured paint to give an active composition. This painting is signed on reverse by the artist, Debra Drexler. Debra Drexler maintains studios in both New York and Oahu, Hawaii, and her work is informed by her unique bi-coastal experience. In her luminous, large-scale abstract paintings, she brings the transcendent experience of the Hawaiian landscape to a New York audience. Through her New York based studio and curatorial practices, she is also deeply engaged in critical conversation surrounding new abstraction. She states “Abstraction takes us to a state of timelessness that is primal in its humanity, disconnecting us momentarily from the mediated “now” of our electronic devices, and connecting us to a “now” that gives us a glimpse of the infinite. While our insistent digital projections can take us away from both our animal and spiritual nature, abstract painting reminds us again of what it means to be human. The corporality of the paint mirrors the flesh of the body and transports us into the timeless.” Debra Drexler's paintings are informed both by participating in the contemporary resurgence of abstraction coming out of New York, and by living in the Post Colonial Pacific for close to three decades. In the 21st century, much of our experience is mediated through the screens of our devices. In contrast, the making and viewing of paintings remains a direct, engaging experience in Drexler's paintings. She aims to take us to a state of timelessness that is primal in its humanity, disconnecting us momentarily from the mediated “now” of our electronic devices, and connecting us to a “now” that gives us a glimpse of the infinite. As a colorist, Debra Drexler provokes unexpected color relationships and creates spatial contradictions that come from those interactions. Some of her color choices reference the post digital experience with its highly saturated synthetic color. The luminosity and saturation also mirror the unique quality of light and tropical color interactions in Hawai’i, where Drexler also lives. Her work is driven by an athletic painting...

My work is a visual and increasingly literal patchwork quilt containing little and big pieces of myself and the archetypal imagery developed over the course of my practice. Within the paintings are vintage bed sheets...