Kate Roebuck

Ink and Watercolor Painting by Kate Roebuck 'Greek Key'

2022

'Waves' 2021 by Kate Roebuck. Ink and watercolor on handmade watercolor paper with decked edge, diptych. 27 x 40 inches, 27 x 20 in each. This colorful ab...

'Untitled' by John Kalymnios, 1999. Pantone ink on paper, 78.5 x 51.25 in. (framed). This geometric op art drawing features bands of concentric circles with the full spectrum colors ...

'Untitled #5' in 2017 by New York City base, French artist Sandrine Kern. Acrylic, oil, and ink on paper, Paper: 14.75 x 21 in. / Frame 19 x 25 in. This abstracted landscape work on paper features colors in blue, purple, pink, red, white, and black. Sandrine Kern's work is indicative of landscapes conjured by memory that communicate residual emotions to her viewers. The thick surfaces of her paintings are built up through her unique alteration of a technique similar to encaustic. Instead of utilizing hot wax in her process, Kern combines oil sticks, oil paint, and cold wax...

'Untitled #6 in 2017 by New York City base, French artist Sandrine Kern. Acrylic, oil, and ink on paper, Paper: 13.25 x 17 in. / Frame 19 x 25 in. This abstracted landscape work on ...

'Untitled (#708)' 2023 by American artist, Clay Johnson. Acrylic on Arches paper, 22 x 30 in. This colorful abstract painting features bands of colors in cobalt blue, light blue, bei...

'Untitled (#721)' 2023 by American artist, Clay Johnson. Acrylic on Arches paper, 20 x 16 in. This colorful abstract painting features bands of colors in red, yellow beige, white, an...

This is a unique work on paper made in 2018 measuring 20 x 25 inches from my ongoing "mound" series. This "Purple Orb" has a "companion" work ,made at the same time, the same size an...

This is a unique work on paper made in 2018 measuring 20 x 25 inches from my ongoing "mound" series. This "Purple Orb" has a "companion" work ,made at the same time, the same size an...

Ink on paper, Acrylic and / or watercolor, signed in the front, framed in a aluminum silver frame, glass. Philip Wittmann work is based on signs. Sign...

Ink on paper, Acrylic and / or watercolor, signed in the front, framed in a thin blond wood frame, glass. Philip Wittmann work is based on signs. Sign...

Ink on paper, Acrylic and / or watercolor, signed in the front, framed in a aluminum silver frame, glass. Philip Wittmann work is based on signs. Sign...

The art of Philip Wittmann is founded on signals. For him, signs serve as a bridge between abstraction, reality and writing, too. When he was 26 years old, he began painting as a hobbyist using 'pure' abstraction. However, he believed his work lacked a solid foundation upon which to grow. ​He discovered a book on the origins of the Chinese alphabet, which origins are essentially signs, in 2008 while taking a calligraphy class. The 26 letters of our Latin alphabet are less pictorial than the Chinese characters as we know them now. He discovered that pictorial representation is more prevalent when examining the origins of alphabets—all alphabets, in fact—because there is frequently a similarity between the sign's true meaning and what it is meant to represent. For instance, the symbol for a turtle in the original Chinese script resembles a turtle. Wittmann loves signs as they leave room for interpretation. For instance, if one writes “the sky is blue”, one will make for themself a mental representation of a blue sky, even if each one-off us will probably have some nuance in our own mental representation of that blue sky. On the other hand, a sign can...