Joel Blenz

Pastel 7, lavender mixed media by Joel Blenz

2020

Planeta XVI is a unique small size round contemporary mixed media wall sculpture relief by renowned Polish-Dutch artist Eliza Kopec. This relief is part of a body of work that contin...

Painter Francie Hester, born and raised in Columbus, Ohio, lives and works outside of Washington, DC. In 1999, Hester abandoned the traditional practice of painting on canvas to explore the properties of painting on aluminum...

Andisheh Avini Iranian-American (b. 1974) Untitled III (2007) Collage of Arabic or Persian Islamic calligraphic script texts. Artist shaped frame Signature stamp and I-20 (New York) gallery label verso Image: 25.25" H x 18.5" W; frame: 27.5" H x 21" W x 1.5" D. Andisheh Avini was born in 1974 in New York. Educated at Hunter College in New York, he has shown consistently in solo and group exhibitions since 2002, including locations in New York, Berlin, Los Angeles, Basel, Madrid and Paris. He currently lives and works in New York. Through his abstract paintings, drawings and sculptures he finds the sweet spot where minimalism, Pop Art, and the political collide. Andisheh Avini is known for his patterned silkscreen painting created on carpet and wood, which are informed by the history and culture of Iran. Avini frequently takes familiar political images and recontextualizes them, prompting the viewer to consider Middle Eastern politics from another perspective. Blending the visual vocabulary of his Iranian heritage with aesthetic and material experimentation, Avini’s work offers a meditation on the experiences and memories that shape our identities. He has used a variety of exotic materials including marquetry or Khatam – a traditional Iranian craft of inlaid wood, crystalline protrusions of actual minerals, peacock feathers, mother-of-pearl and parchment often in abstract geometric compositions, mediums associated with traditional Persian craft— with nods towards Minimalism, Abstract Expressionism, and other Western art movements. He has shown in many prominent galleries including solo exhibitions at Marianne Boesky Gallery (New York), Galerie Frank...

White abstract found object painting by Houston, TX artist Tra' Slaughter. The painting features a shoe suspended with string in a painted frame. This piece was included in Tra's sol...

Black abstract found object painting by Houston, TX artist Tra' Slaughter. The painting features a shoe wrapped with string on a painted canvas. This piece was included in Tra's solo...

White abstract found object painting by Houston, TX artist Tra' Slaughter. The painting features a shoe wrapped with string on a painted canvas. This piece was included in Tra's solo...