Plaster Abstract Paintings

Big Little 117 (Striped Abstract Geometric Painting in Tones of Blue & Red) by Vincent Pomilio Colorful abstract painting on panel made with mixed media in tones of blue & burgundy ...

Becoming Visible reflects my exploration of how inner states take form and become presence. In this painting, I work with the tension between what remains hidden and what insists on ...

"When I walk into my atelier to start a new painting, I look at the white surface, feeling into it, and the first color that comes to mind is where I begin. I start by pouring the pa...

Portrait of a Man — an image that gradually emerges before the viewer’s eyes. The face and figure appear through light and shadow, leaving space for encounter. The man stands frozen ...

False Illusions How alluring are the castles in the air—they look beautiful and cozy, beckoning us with their purity. How we long for the world around us to match the world in our h...

Katherine Bowling (American, b. 1955) Oil on spackle on wood 1988 Hand signed, titled and dated verso, Dimensions: 48"h x 48"w Provenance: From an Important Private Collection, NYC; bears gallery label from Blum Helman Gallery, NYC Notes/Literature: Exhibited: "Earth and Sky: Recent Paintings by Katherine Bowling, Joan Nelson and Ellen Phelan", Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College 1992 Katherine Bowling (born 1955, Washington, D.C.) is a modernist painter known for her layered landscape paintings that draw inspiration from nature in the Hudson Valley. Katherine Bowling grew up in Tidewater, Virginia. She received her BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1978. Bowling's first New York show, as well as her first solo exhibition, was in 1987. Bowling's works tend to be luminous landscape paintings that often feature woods and fields as well as roads. Many of her paintings are based on her photographs of woods and fields surrounding and in Schoharie County, where she rents a house. As Molly O'Neill notes in an essay on Bowling and her work, this area is "fifty miles northwest of the vistas that inspired the Hudson River School painters in the mid-1800s." Bowling focused in particular on the imagery of roads for the theme of her exhibition at Greenberg Van Doren, Divide. As the title implies, writes Lilly Wei in the exhibition's accompanying catalog, Bowling views the roads as "abstract marks in the landscape that divide and order space." Even with roads she has often traveled, Bowling finds something new on closer inspection that alters her perception of the familiar and mundane. Bowling explains that the roads "function as a metaphor for memory and displacement." In 2001, Bowling exhibited a number of seascape paintings. In her essay on the exhibition, art historian and critic Nancy Princenthal writes that, far from being an aberration from Bowling's typically home-based scenes, the ocean paintings are "a return to childhood memories and life long inclinations. A native of Virginia, she spent her first summers at the Atlantic shore and on the Chesapeake Bay." Primarily, however, Bowling's works focus on capturing the play of light and shadow. Art critic Eleanor Heartney notes that "Her paintings, like those of Monet, Pissarro, and Renoir, focus on the ephemeral moment and the fleeting impression, conjuring the flicker of sunlight through the trees, the shifting shadows of early evening, the reflections of clouds and foliage glancing across the rippling surface of a lake." They have a luminist quality to them. O'Neill argues that Bowling additionally "has an innate sense of abstraction and she ranges happy as an uncaged chicken, pecking elements from the Impressionists' obsession with light; from modern photography; and the drip paintings of Jackson Pollock." Bowling is influenced by the use of light in the paintings of European Romantics such as J. M. W. Turner and John Constable as well as by the later work of George Inness:  Her paintings also recall landscapes by Claude Lorraine, Albert Pinkham Ryder and Camille Corot. Bowling is known for her use of spackle. She uses a long process of layering and sanding to create the "back-lit" effect found in her paintings. First, the paintings begin as a photograph which she typically takes near her rented house in the Hudson Valley. Then, she uses these photographs, which serve as her "preliminary drawings," to aid in the painting process. She also paints from memory and direct observation. Bowling paints on square panels of plywood. Bowling considers rectangular pieces to be too horizontal and rife of implications already of landscapes and horizons. She sometimes paints on one of these square and sometimes paints on several square panels together. The seams between these adjoined panels are left visible. Next, Bowling applies layers of spackle. O'Neill remarks that "Inspired, perhaps, by her day job of painting houses, [Bowling] turned to more industrial media: damp vinyl spackle, a building compound that is applied to wooden panels to create a matte, fresco-like surface. Thinned oil pigments are poured, allowed to dry, and then the Sisyphean task of sanding begins."  Initial layers generally correspond with the color of the light—varying from pinks, golds, blues, and oranges. Through this layering and sanding, she creates a luminous quality in her landscapes. Despite rigorous sanding, air bubbles within the spackle layers are revealed occasionally on the surface. Rather than disguise them, Bowling integrates them. Heartney writes that Bowling "allows these irregularities to become part of the painting so that the viewer's perception of the play of light and shadow across the image cannot be separated from an awareness of surface itself." In later stages of painting, Bowling stands above panels to throw, dribble, and splatter paint with a hair dryer, recalling the techniques of Abstract Expressionist artists such as Jackson Pollock. Awards and honors 1991 National Endowment for the Arts Grant 1989 New York State Foundation for the Arts Fellowship 1988 Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Fellowship Notable public collections The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, CA Fisher Landau Center, New York, NY Select exhibitions 2025 PS122 Gallery Lower East Side, New York 2022 Katherine Bowling: Trees Winston Wachter Fine Art, New York 2013 Woods, Lovely Dark and Deep. DC Moore Gallery Chelsea NY Featuring: Eric Aho, Milton Avery, Romare Bearden, Dozier Bell, Jake Berthot, Katherine Bowling, Charles Burchfield, Mary Frank, Noriko Furunishi, April Gornik, Marsden Hartley, Daniel Heidkamp, David Hilliard, Mark Innerst, Max Jansons, Sissel Kardel, Whitfield...

Abstract Geometric square mixed media painting on panel in colorful shades with aqua, yellow, pink, light green, and red on a background of brown with yellow highlights Big Little #1...

Artist: Sam Peacock Title: Bury Materials: Oil, Coffee and Parafin on steel Medium: Mild steel sheet Size: 85 x 35 cm Edition: Original Artwork Year: 2018 ____________________...

On the Verge of Singularity The past dissolves, and the structures that once shaped reality no longer hold. Uncertainty is not a transition—it is the rupture that demands the emerge...

Sanctuary A world that invented itself. It emerged from a deep inner need: to be somewhere you don’t have to be afraid. A space where it’s possible to be alive, trusting, and real. W...

Imprint of Memory This work captures not the event itself, but its bodily imprint — a trace of memory manifested through matter. Forgotten experiences do not vanish without a trace: ...

Highly detailed surrealist composition evoking tribal, abstracted carved stone-like shapes fitting together like a three dimensional sphere shaped puzzle, floating in a sky blue space by Clayton Anderson (American b. 1943). Textured plaster border around the edge of the piece. Signed "Clayton Anderson" along the upper left edge and on verso. Presented in a deep maple box frame. Clayton Anderson (American, b. 1943) studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and worked with Ben Kimihira, Walter...

Born in 1944 in the canton of Fribourg, Gilbert Pauli lived in Geneva, where he devoted himself to painting and sculpture, a passion he developed from his childhood. His favorite the...

Born in 1944 in the canton of Fribourg, Gilbert Pauli lived in Geneva, where he devoted himself to painting and sculpture, a passion he developed from his childhood. His favorite the...

Born in 1944 in the canton of Fribourg, Gilbert Pauli lived in Geneva, where he devoted himself to painting and sculpture, a passion he developed from his childhood. His favorite the...

Born in 1944 in the canton of Fribourg, Gilbert Pauli currently lives in Geneva, where he devotes himself to painting and sculpture, a passion he developed from his childhood. His fa...

John Marak 18x24-05-05-2021 Plaster, Acrylic Year: 2019 Size: 24x18 in Signed by hand COA provided ------------------------------------- John Marak is a seco...

The Joy of a Decision Made That rare moment when anxiety gives way to clarity, and fear turns into relief. The choice has been made, and now all that remains is to breathe in freedom...

Big Little 119 (Striped Abstract Geometric Painting in Tones of Blue & Red) by Vincent Pomilio Colorful abstract painting on panel made with mixed media in tones of Yellow Pink & bu...

When the world feels like it’s falling apart and pain fills every corner around you, dear, breathe. Don’t forget to breathe, because with each new breath, you grow stronger. The cast...

When the world feels like it’s falling apart and pain fills every corner around you, dear, breathe. Don’t forget to breathe, because with each new breath, you grow stronger. The cast...

"What Is Between?" is a visual representation of my journey into the realm of non-binary thinking, sparked during a reflection on "The Non-Normativity of Thought." This artwork embod...

John Marak 24x24-08-08-2019 Plaster, Acrylic Year: 2019 Size: 24x24 in Signed by hand COA provided ------------------------------------- John Marak is a second-generation artist ba...

Daniel Fiorda takes objects such as old typewriters and 35mm cameras: “Discarded remnants of the industrial world,” transforming these objects into high-e...

After making a decisive turn on my life's path, this work emerged as a reflection of the tranquility and lightness that follows. It's titled "Serene Resolve," and it encapsulates the hushed moment of stillness that allows for a brief, peaceful interlude. It represents the pure, silent exhale when the weight of decision lifts, and the soul is allowed to pause, if only for a second, to savor the calm. This piece is my ode...

Daniel Fiorda takes objects such as old typewriters and 35mm cameras: “Discarded remnants of the industrial world,” transforming these objects into high-e...

Gloria Heilman, American (1961 - ) - Self Portrait - High Anxiety, Year: 1996, Medium: Oil and Plaster on Canvas, signed, titled and dated on verso, Size: 48 x 48 in. (121.92 x 12...

In crafting this piece, I poured my soul into each brushstroke, seeking to capture the essence of emotion in a bold yet refined visual language. The work interweaves the dynamism of ...

Seeking the Sound of Cobalt Blue is a series of paintings and sculptures that have been created since the spring of 2014. Using domestic construction materials from her garage, extras from home improvement projects or the garden, have been captured, much like a photogram, but with paint, not silver. By blending photography and painting, Fagan finds that the patterns created with industrial, mass-produced objects around the house and garage, speak to her interest in producing paintings that link to sound. These works are portraits of the artist’s home, its history, and the materials used to build that maintain her home. Ellen Hackl Fagan builds connections between color and sound using installations, interactive games, and collaborative projects that combine color-and-texture saturated paintings with music...

4 Views with Light is a portal, it takes you on a journey. Where do you want to go? 17" x 19.5", initialed and dated lower left. Eleanor Burnette's artistic journey is a testament...

Paolo Valle (born 1948) Venicem Italy, Original mixed media oil painting and cement or plaster on burlap canvas. title: A Sud Di Rio. Depicts abstract forms with a raised text...

Bedfellows refers to partnerships and celebrates relationships. This piece is subtle and beautiful. The pale, purple paint accentuates the carved texture. The piece is framed in wh...

Shawn Dulaney The Virtues III Handmade paint on venetian plaster on paper, signed and titled verso 22 x 30 in. (sheet), 28 1/4 x 36 1/4 in. (frame). Shawn Dulaney’s paintings are layered constructions of color, spacious abstractions that read like cloud banks, flows of water, magnetic fields charged with monumental energy. Dulaney spent her childhood on a vast Colorado plateau looking west to the Rocky Mountains and has travelled widely, immersing herself in landscape. Her work captures the experience and feeling of place. Doug McClemont of ArtNews writes that Dulaney’s paintings “concern the earth, and the unyielding hand of nature”. Her work has been described by William Zimmer of The New York Times as belonging to “a very strong tradition, that of 19 th -century Northern European Romanticism in which nature was seen as corresponding to human emotional states.” He says of her work, “Ms. Dulaney makes it clear that her inner life is very much a part of each painting, and this alone distinguishes it from most abstraction…Shawn Dulaney is deliberately out for grandeur, but she is also out for intimacy. Her paintings take advantage of their innate ambiguity and declare themselves to be very current in the thinking that lies behind them.” "The kind of painting to which Ms. Dulaney's work is most closely related, at least superficially, is the Mark Rothko branch of Abstract Expressionism, in which a sense of deep space is sought." Dulaney makes handmade paints consisting of acrylic medium and powdered pigments allowing her to get a wide range of saturations and transparencies as they spread out on Venetian plaster and linen over panel. “Her surfaces”, as described by Dominick Lombardi-also of The New York Times, are “exquisitely painted and a pleasure to see.” Dulaney continues to travel between New York, the American Southwest, and the United Kingdom, as well as having recently been awarded the Pink House Artist Residency on the Beara Peninsula in Ireland. Her paintings capture the ephemeral and evoke the Celtic notion of a “thin place”, a place of energy where the veil between this world and the eternal is thin. A working artist for over 4 decades, Dulaney is represented by Sears Peyton Gallery, Weber Fine Art, Carrie Haddad Gallery and Beth Urdang Gallery. Exhibited widely, her paintings can be found in extensive public and private collections including those of the Hunterdon Museum of Art in NJ, the Venetia Resort in China, J Crew in NYC, as well as in the private collections of author Annie Proulx, actor Steve Buscemi, talk-show host Conan O’Brien and musician Stuart Copeland. Her work has appeared in episodes of TV’s Enlightened, Portlandia and Sex & the City, and the films It’s Complicated (2009), Interview (2007) and John Wick 3 (2019). Her work has been reviewed in ArtNews and The New York Times, and has been featured in Parabola and New American Paintings. A contemporary, Post war American woman artist. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Select Group Exhibitions 2022 - Sears-Peyton Gallery, Playground, New York, NY 2022 - Weber Fine Arts, Summer Exhibition Renate Aller...

Acrylic Work on plaster and cement Born in 1944 in the canton of Fribourg, Gilbert Pauli lived in Geneva, where he devoted himself to painting and sculpture, a passion he developed...

"When I walk into my atelier to start a new painting, I look at the white surface, feeling into it, and the first color that comes to mind is where I begin. I start by pouring the pa...

SHORT SPURTS 2021 Paris, France This piece is a visual interpretation of a poem the artist wrote around frenzied, short-sighted behaviors: “That part usually stays hidden. Those colors are not known for blending. Us? We come from a rib. And we tangle ourselves in the traps we set for our prey.” - Nicholas Evans The painting is composed of plaster, oil and acrylic, with the main detail shape, in white, positioned over wood glue, leaving a slightly raised effect. Embracing the unique imperfections of reclaimed objects aged over time, Evans uses antique found...

This piece is made by casting Hydrostone on top of an oil clay pattern. Once cured, the oil clay is removed, then paint and gilding are applied to emphasize the texture on the surfac...

This piece is made by casting Hydrocal FGR95 (a very hard plaster) on top of an oil clay pattern. Once cured, the oil clay is removed, then paint is applied to the surface. The pie...

He. Lost Figure A figure that should have been — but is lost. What remains is only a trace, suspended in memory, evoking both curiosity and quiet pain. He exists as an imprint, not a...

Joseph Lawrence Gardella (American, XX-XXI), Untitled (Abstract Composition in Dark Green), Oil and Plaster on Panel, 1978, signed and dated lower right, estate stamp verso, unframed...

Self-Portrait This is not a portrait of appearance — it is a map of scars, inner cracks, and wounds that remain unseen. I am not a victim, and not a heroine. I simply exist. Alive. ...

Work on plaster and cement

"Existential Matter" This work captures a state where matter becomes the carrier of existential tension. Inner pressure does not find release but condenses into a dense core. Emotio...

Acrylic Work on plaster and cement Born in 1944 in the canton of Fribourg, Gilbert Pauli lived in Geneva, where he devoted himself to painting and sculpture, a passion he developed...

The woods are lovely, dark and deep… A forest in snowfall. A space both shadowed and luminous. It draws you in — quiet, vast, unknowable — and yet calming in its purity. The snow sof...

Born in 1944 in the canton of Fribourg, Gilbert Pauli lived in Geneva, where he devoted himself to painting and sculpture, a passion he developed from his childhood. His favorite the...

Born in 1944 in the canton of Fribourg, Gilbert Pauli currently lives in Geneva, where he devotes himself to painting and sculpture, a passion he developed from his childhood. His fa...

Winter Forest When you step deep into the woods, it is both enchanting and unsettling. It is something wild, untouched by man, and breathtaking in its simplicity. The snow crunches u...

Born in 1944 in the canton of Fribourg, Gilbert Pauli lived in Geneva, where he devoted himself to painting and sculpture, a passion he developed from his childhood. His favorite the...

"Enter Uncertainty" – A state where control dissolves, and the need for stability clashes with the inevitability of change. Fear and hope exist together, shaping what comes next—not ...

"Embrace of Anxiety" – A moment stretched between what was and what will be. A fragile breath before the unknown, where fear and anticipation intertwine. If change is life, then this...

Even in the hardest moments, when darkness seems to engulf everything, if you pause, listen, and look closely — you can find the light. It never disappears, it only fades from sight ...

Collaged Scientific American articles, plaster, acrylic and graphite on handmade wooden panel Artist's Statement: Liquefaction describes the phenomenon whereby a saturated or parti...

This is a one of a kind original painting by southern California artist, Kathleen Kane Murrell. Its dimensions are 36" x 48" x 2". It is acrylic on canvas, glass beads, Japanese pape...

Artwork is exclusive to IdeelArt. Knaut builds her compositions slowly over time, adding layers of colors and materials and then scraping them away, working them over and over. Gest...

When the world feels like it’s falling apart and pain fills every corner around you, dear, breathe. Don’t forget to breathe, because with each new breath, you grow stronger. The cast...

When the world feels like it’s falling apart and pain fills every corner around you, dear, breathe. Don’t forget to breathe, because with each new breath, you grow stronger. The cast...

When the world feels like it’s falling apart and pain fills every corner around you, dear, breathe. Don’t forget to breathe, because with each new breath, you grow stronger. The cast...

When the world feels like it’s falling apart and pain fills every corner around you, dear, breathe. Don’t forget to breathe, because with each new breath, you grow stronger. The cast...

John Marak 12x12-07-12-2021 Plaster, Acrylic Year: 2021 Size: 12x12 in Signed by hand COA provided ------------------------------------- John Marak is a second-generation artist b...