Kara Greenwell

The Instructions are Missing

2022

An original, fine art, abstract painting, "Drowning Out the Crowd" is a neutral, contemporary work with mixed media layers of intrigue. Featuring a primarily monochromatic cream pale...

A contemporary, abstract painting, "Welcoming the Wellspring" features colorful markings across a layered, creamy white mixed media background. It is an original work painted in 2022 by abstract expressionist artist Kara Greenwell. The contemporary painting features bold turquoise, navy, red, yellow and lime green geometric abstract shapes and gestural markings that sit atop layers of handmade paper and magazine pages obscured by white and cream acrylic paint. Hidden messages in graphite, charcoal and crayon play across the work's surface. Measuring 24 inches by 24 inches, this abstract painting is an ideally sized modern statement piece to adorn any wall. The artist continued the painting extending around the edges of this gallery wrapped canvas, ensuring visual interest from all angles. This contemporary abstract expressionist work is hand signed by the artist on both front and back and is sealed with Archival, UV-resistant varnish. The painting can be hung a nail or picture hook...

A fine art, contemporary painting in the abstract expressionist style, "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" features vibrant blue, soft cream, rich tan and pale pink acrylic paint atop l...

A fine art, contemporary abstract painting, "intimate Invasion" features vibrant red and gold acrylic combined with neutral brown, beige, cream and black, all sitting atop layers of up-cycled paper. It is an original, contemporary painting created in 2022 by abstract expressionist artist Kara Greenwell. Measuring 40 inches by 30 inches, this abstract painting is the perfect modern statement art to hang on any wall. The artist continued the painting extending around the edges of this gallery wrapped canvas, ensuring visual interest from all angles. This contemporary abstract expressionist work is hand signed by the artist on both front and back and is sealed with Archival, UV-resistant varnish. The painting can be hung a nail or picture hook...

An original, fine art, abstract expressionist painting, "Lizard Brain" combines vibrant teal, turquoise, and red paint with neutral cream, beige, white and black. Up-cycled paper, dr...

An abstract, contemporary, mixed media painting, "Pattern Play" features bold orange, green, pink and gold paint frolicking among up-cycled paper and comic book pages. A celebration ...

"Hey Did We Scratch?" - Abstract Expressionist Composition Detailed and layered composition by Leroy W. Parker (American, 1941). This piece is divided into a checkerboard, with a variety of overlaid patterns and textures. There are several types of handmade paper applied to the canvas, likely made by Parker himself. Signed "Leroy Wheeler Parker" in the lower right corner. "#1" and an up arrow are written on verso. Tag on verso with artist info, title, media, and date. No frame, but the edges of the canvas are painted for a frame-less display. Leroy W. Parker (American, b. 1941) is an artist from Oklahoma who now resides in Lafayette, California. Parker earned his BFA in painting from the California College of Arts and Crafts in 1966, and then went on to earn his MFA in 1968 from the same institution. He is a Professor of Art at San Jose State University. He has taught classes in fine arts, life drawing, ceramics, paper making (which he instituted in 1984), and sculpture since 1969. Parker has also served on the State Art Commission for sculptural grants. One of his pieces is held in the San Jose Museum of Art. Selected Exhibitions: Drawings and Paintings - ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, CA - 1974 “Artistry in Clay” - Forge Patio Art Gallery, Lafayette, CA - 1980 “A Most Elegant Show” - Sunshine Art Gallery, Fair Oaks, CA - 1982 “Flora” - Harcourts Contemporary, San Francisco, CA - 1983 Idea Gallery, Sacramento, CA - 1985 “Multi-Media Man” - Sacramento Center for Textile Arts, Sacramento, CA - 1994 “The Art of the Family” - Works Gallery, San Jose, CA - 1999 Artist’s Statement: I was born in Eagletown, Oklahoma to Southern Baptist parents, and my father was a preacher. We were two boys and six girls in the family. The most mundane things were magical and special to me. I liked to draw, color, make things, and plant things. I loved the woods and the earth, and watching storms with thunder and lightning. We moved from Oklahoma when I was 11. In the late 1950s, I attended Oakland Technical High School where I met artist Sam Richardson...

Robert Motherwell Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 110C 1968 Acrylic and graphite on paper 15.2 x 20.3 cms (6 x 8 ins) Robert Motherwell's Elegies series represent one of the iconic motifs of Abstract Expressionism.  Based on a 1948 ink illustration the artist executed accompanying a Harold Rosenberg poem, “A Bird for every bird,” the drawing shows the hypnotically repetitive patterning of ovoids and vertical beams.  The stark contrast of the black ink on white paper references the symbolic use of the color black by artists such as Goya, Manet and Matisse to convey death, loss, and tragedy.  Motherwell was quite affected by the turbulence of the Spanish Civil War and alludes to the Spanish republic in his Elegies. Motherwell’s plumbing the depths of poetry, history, and primordial art in the Elegies is considered a hallmark of nascent Abstract Expressionist painting in its desire to "excavate" essential imagery of mankind. Motherwell, who originally trained as a philosophy scholar and later became of the great editors of 20th century art documents, grasped very early on the crucial importance that in order to contribute meaningfully to the canon of modern art, one must create a principle of aesthetics. Through the surrealist concept of automatism, the artist finally found the creative principle that eventually governed his extraordinary artistic output and produced the Elegies, one of the most salient, immediate painterly images of 20th century abstract painting. In fact, he has alluded to the fact that each one of his Elegies begins as an automatic drawing, and certain shapes are then blocked to create the signature armature of the vertical bars and ovals. The Elegies seem to possess the power of an archetypal image, an image the mind already grasps on a subconscious level. Motherwell's play of dualities of black and white as well as other dichotomies—the geometric versus the organic, chaos versus order, death versus life—was a condition of living through a tumultuous period in American history. During an interview, he vividly recalled the 1940s as the time when society was ordered by a set of contradictions.  In Motherwell's Elegies, he not only discovered an incredibly elastic pictorial language that would communicate on multiple levels but also acknowledged these contradictions in a manner that would resonate in abstract form.  The present work served as a model for a painting, Spanish Elegy...

This series of works by the Danish artist Peter Kramer (Roskilde, 1959) with numerous exhibitions between Spain and Denmark are entitled "365 urns", in which the artist works with ti...

This series of works by the Danish artist Peter Kramer (Roskilde, 1959) with numerous exhibitions between Spain and Denmark are entitled "365 urns", in wh...

Artist : Kory Twaddle Title : Nerve Center Materials : Acrylic, gouache, postage stamps, and mixed media on paper Date : 2018 Dimensions : 24 x 36 x 0.3 inches Kory Twaddle is a Ka...

Artist : Kory Twaddle Title : Map from Home to Kaz's Gallery Materials : Oil, acrylic, charcoal, conté crayon, oil pastel, pastel, paper, marker, and mixed media on paper Date : 200...