Graphite Abstract Paintings

Janet Lage’s energetic abstract pieces are loaded with writing (graffiti), color, form and expressionistic brushstrokes. For Lage, the painting process is an alliance of language an...

Janet Lage’s energetic abstract pieces are loaded with writing (graffiti), color, form and expressionistic brushstrokes. For Lage, the painting process is an alliance of language an...

Janet Lage’s energetic abstract pieces are loaded with writing (graffiti), color, form and expressionistic brushstrokes. For Lage, the painting process is an alliance of language an...

This large scale oil painting by Mark Masyga employs a linear abstract composition, on a warm neutral melon orange ground. Masyga's masterful knowledge and background in color field...

28"x35.75" oil, graphite on canvas, signed on reverse by the artist. This contemporary abstract painting by New York artist, Mark Masyga is visually laid out with painted lines of c...

A painting will, or will not be made. For all the romance involved in creation, there is a pragmatic objectivity at work in the studio… Whatever profundity one hopes for is found in ...

A painting will, or will not be made. For all the romance involved in creation, there is a pragmatic objectivity at work in the studio… Whatever profundity one hopes for is found in ...

graphite, flashe, ink and gesso on paper, 22"x30" signed by the artist Alex Gingrow creates text-based paintings and drawings that are at turns witty, sardonic, poetic, self-deprecat...

Charbonnet received an MFA from the University of New Orleans. He has work in the public collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, The Speed M...

Charbonnet received an MFA from the University of New Orleans. He has work in the public collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, The Speed M...

Charbonnet received an MFA from the University of New Orleans. He has work in the public collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, The Speed M...

Charbonnet received an MFA from the University of New Orleans. He has work in the public collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, The Speed M...

Charbonnet received an MFA from the University of New Orleans. He has work in the public collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, The Speed M...

Miriam Peralta prefers mediums of graphite, ink, pencil or pastel to masterfully render trademark spirals resembling human DNA. Her hand-drawn network of Tangram-like shapes, mingled with calligraphy, trace a visual path that acts as a cognitive exercise of the philosophical rhythm of life, that builds and swells as it calms and returns. Viewers’ eye can instantly disentangle a backlog of information encrypted over time and stored through the process of evolution while viewing her work. She was awarded with the 1st Prize Winner of the 2018 Premio Trabucco, the Grand Prize for Painting, Banco Provincia; Salon Nacional de Artes Visuales, Palais de Glace...

Miriam Peralta Sostenido 13, 2015 Graphite and charcoal on paper 66.90h x 28.30w in 169.93h x 71.88w cm

Alyse Rosner 2022

Alyse Rosner 2018

graphite and fluid acrylic on raw canvas

graphite and fluid acrylic on raw canvas

graphite and fluid acrylic on raw canvas

A work by Jane Highstein. This Untitled drawing is an abstract pigment on graphite on paper by contemporary artist Jane Highstein. Signed lower right, "Highstein '92" Jene Highstein...

Premonition Open, with Flesh over Grey, 1974, belongs to an extended series of works that came to be called the Opens and which came about by a happy accident. Leaning a finished can...

In this figurative abstract acrylic painting on canvas, Bhatt explores notions of life and death, the after-life, and reincarnation through the use of ancient Hindu symbolism. Amita Bhatt...

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...

“SCREENS” is a spare, layered, largely monochromatic work that is punctuated by bold colored accents and linear demarcations. Frohman is a mid-career artist based in Chicago creating...

Oil, graphite, ink on canvas

Oil, graphite, ink on linen

oil, graphite, ink on canvas

Graphite, watercolor, and ink on canvas

Graphite, watercolor, and ink on canvas

Part of The Handshake (Käepigistus) Series.

Part of The Handshake (Käepigistus) Series.

From The Handshake (Käepigistus) Series.

Part of The Handshake (Käepigistus) Series.

Part of The Handshake (Käepigistus) Series.

Modern Art, Portrait Painting, Mixed Media Portrait Art-Lost Between The Lines ABOUT THIS PIECE: “Lost Between the Lines, (Behtyie-A13)” is mixed media portrait art by Addison Jones...

“THE UPWARD PATH” is one of the pieces that best represents the ideas and visualizations that are part of the EQUATIONS series. The outer elements both frame (contain) and balance the energy and design of the central square. Mandala designs in traditional Tibetan Buddhist...

Pencil on Panel No. 19 by Norman Mooney Pencil on Aluminum Panel with Clear Coat Norman Mooney is an Irish artist located in New York City and has been exhibiting locally and intern...

‘Camelot’ is a large abstract narrative oil on panel painting created by American artist Doug Frohman in 2016. Featuring a palette made of grey, beige, yellow, blue, red and black, t...