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Period: 1980s
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Located in Henderson, NV
Clifford Singer worked with arcs with straight lines and collinear intersections through the 1980s.
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Abstract Geometric 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Landscape n°88 by Jean Krillé - Oil on wood 100x120 cm
By Jean Krille
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil on wood sold with original red framing
Total size with the frame 115x136 cm
Jean Krillé is a Swiss artist from Geneva, recognized for his significant contributions to contempo...
Category
Neo-Expressionist 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
ABSTRACT WOMAN WITH FLOWERS
Located in Three Oaks, MI
Bookatz's artistic practice embodies a dynamic and multifaceted approach to creation. His canvases resonate with an improvisational interplay, a reflection reminiscent of the nuance...
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Abstract Expressionist 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Lyrical Abstraction Acrylic Painting Ronnie Landfield Color Field Abstract
Located in Surfside, FL
Ronnie Landfield (1947- American)
"Untitled" 1982 Acrylic on Paper
Dimensions: Sheet 30" X 42" Frame 32 X 44
Hand signed and dated lower right
Provenance: Denman Associates, Seattle gallery
Ronnie Landfield (American, 1947-) is an abstract painter. During his early career from the mid-1960s through the 1970s his paintings were associated with Lyrical Abstraction (related to Postminimalism, Color Field painting, and Abstract expressionism), and he was represented by the David Whitney Gallery and the André Emmerich Gallery.
Landfield is best known for his abstract landscape paintings, and has held more than seventy solo exhibitions and more than two hundred group exhibitions.
Born and raised in Pelham Parkway in the Bronx, Landfield first exhibited his paintings in Manhattan in 1962. He continued his study of painting by visiting major museum and gallery exhibitions in New York during the early sixties and by taking painting and drawing classes at the Art Students League of New York and in Woodstock, New York. He graduated from the High School of Art and Design in June 1963. He briefly attending the Kansas City Art Institute before returning to New York in November 1963. At sixteen Landfield rented his first loft at 6 Bleecker Street near The Bowery (sublet with a friend from the figurative painter Leland Bell), during a period when his abstract expressionist oil paintings took on hard-edged and large painterly shapes. In February 1964, Landfield traveled to Los Angeles; and in March he began living in Berkeley where he began painting Hard-edge abstractions primarily painted with acrylic. He briefly attended the University of California, Berkeley and the San Francisco Art Institute before returning to New York in July 1965.
From 1964 to 1966 he experimented with minimal art, sculpture, hard-edge geometric painting, found objects, and finally began a series of 15 - 9' x 6' mystical "border paintings". After a serious setback in February 1966 when his loft at 496 Broadway burned down, he returned to painting in April 1966 by sharing a loft with his friend Dan Christensen at 4 Great Jones Street. The Border Painting series was completed in July 1966, and soon after architect Philip Johnson acquired Tan Painting for the permanent collection of The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery in Lincoln, Nebraska.
In late 1966 through 1968 he began exhibiting his paintings and works on paper in leading galleries and museums. Landfield moved into his loft at 94 Bowery in July 1967; there, he continued to experiment with rollers, staining, hard-edge borders, and painted unstretched canvases on the floor for the first time. Briefly in 1967-1968 he worked part-time for Dick Higgins and the Something Else Press.
Landfield was part of a large circle of young artists who had come to Manhattan during the 1960s. Peter Young, Dan Christensen, Peter Reginato, Eva Hesse, Carlos Villa, William Pettet, David R. Prentice, Kenneth Showell, David Novros, Joan Jonas, Michael Steiner, Frosty Myers, Tex Wray, Larry Zox, Larry Poons, Robert Povlich, Neil Williams, Carl Gliko, Billy Hoffman, Lee Lozano, Pat Lipsky, John Griefen, Brice Marden, James Monte, John Chamberlain, Donald Judd, Frank Stella, Carl Andre, Dan Graham, Robert Smithson, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Kenneth Noland, Clement Greenberg, Bob Neuwirth, Joseph Kosuth, Mark di Suvero, Brigid Berlin, Lawrence Weiner, Rosemarie Castoro, Marjorie Strider, Dorothea Rockburne, Leo Valledor, Peter Forakis...
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Abstract Expressionist 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Abstract Expressionist Original Gouache on paper Collage style of de Kooning
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract Expressionist Original Gouache on paper and Collage
Abstract Gouache and Paper Collage by Harold Winer (American, 1913-2006).
Image 30"H x 40"W
Slat with white paint .25" ...
Category
Post-War 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board, Laid Paper
Abstract Landscape, original signed oil painting Sable-Castelli Gallery, unique
Located in New York, NY
Lynton Wells
Landscape, 1984
Oil on Canvas (with original Sable Castelli Label back of frame)
Hand signed, titled, dated 1984 with artist's copyright symb...
Category
Abstract 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Figure Sur Rouge (Figure on Red) /// Contemporary French Painting Minimalism Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Pierre Marie Brisson (French, 1955-)
Title: "Figure Sur Rouge (Figure on Red)"
*Signed by Brisson lower right. It is also signed and dated on verso
Year: 1983
Medium: Origina...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paint, Oil, Handmade Paper, Rag Paper, Mixed Media
No. 217, Large Abstract Painting by Jeanick Bouys
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jeanick Bouys, French (1950 - )
Title: No. 217
Year: 1983
Medium: Oil on Canvas, Signed on Verso
Size: 42 x 52 inches (106.68 x 132.08 cm)
Category
Abstract 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Framed Abstract Encaustic Painting by Juhachiro Takada
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Juhachiro Takada
Title: Untitled II
Medium: Encaustic, Sand on Canvas, Signed in pencl
Paper Size: 10.5 x 12.5 inches
Frame Size: 19.5 x 20.5 inches
Category
Abstract 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Encaustic
Untitled
Located in Madrid, ES
ESTEBAN VICENTE (1903-2001)
UNTITLED
signed and dated "1980 Esteban Vicente” (lower right)
collage, watercolor and pencil on cardboard
14 x 17 inches (35.5 x 43 cm.)
framed: 19-3/4 x...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Cardboard
Russian Cubist Portrait of a Woman
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful cubist portrait of a woman by unknown Russian artist. Oil on canvas measures 17 x 25 inches. Signed and dated lower right. Label fragments affixed on verso.
Category
Cubist 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract Expressionist American Modernist Oil Monotype Monoprint Painting
By Larry Brown
Located in Surfside, FL
Larry Brown
Long-time established New York painter as well as faculty member the The Cooper Union, Brown works in oil on canvas and tempera paints on paper. He deals with themes of science and universality.
EDUCATION:
1970 M.F.A. in Painting, University of Arizona
1967 BA in Painting, Washington State University
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
Mixed Company: Women Choose Men, AIR Gallery, New York, NY
Easy Breezy, Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
From Stone and Plate: Contemporary Prints from Tamarind Institute, California State University
Change of View Tamarind Institute Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
Animal As Muse, The Norton Museum of Art, W. Palm Beach, FL
Painting--Larry Brown, Joseph Haske, David Schoffman, Helander Gallery, New York, NY
Paper Houses, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
Curators Choice, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Current Trends in Abstraction-- Larry Brown, Bill Drew...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Monoprint, Monotype
Naturalistic Fanciful Townscape
Located in Houston, TX
Fanciful landscape with buildings that look like castles. Trees fill the landscape with a path that curves through it. The painting is mainly grey and pink tones. The painting has th...
Category
Naturalistic 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cubic Family Figurative Shades of Gray Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3566 Deco style painting
Image size 11x11
Category
1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Walking By The Sea
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Walking By The Sea.
Artist signed lower right corner, canvas size (31 1/2 x 39 1/4in).
Nicola Simbari was born in Italy and grow up in Rome. He studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, and in the 1940s he began devoting himself to painting in a studio at Via del Babuino in central Rome. Simbari's early exposure to the architectural world had a lasting impression on his art, as he incorporated geometric forms and architectural structures into almost all of his paintings. He began to develop a distinct style stemming from impressions of life, nature, and the Mediterranean...
Category
Expressionist 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
1984 Extra-Large Colorful And Vibrant Modern Abstract Painting. Blue, Yellow.
Located in Frederiksberg C, DK
An intriguing and vibrant extra-large contemporary (allegedly) French painting.
In-versio: "Cardaillac", 1984, "Acryl sur papier de chine", "Yellow Orange and Blue".
Not signed.
...
Category
Abstract 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Handmade Paper
Landscape n°92 by Jean Krillé - Oil on wood 80x100 cm
By Jean Krille
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil on wood sold with frame
Total size with frame 94x114 cm
Jean Krillé is a Swiss artist from Geneva, recognized for his significant contributions to contemporary art. Born in the ...
Category
Neo-Expressionist 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Star Fighter
Located in Henderson, NV
Star Fighter evolved out of Clifford Singer's work during the 1980s using arcs and straight lines.
Category
Abstract Geometric 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Ouverture, with Cypress Forms" Stephen Edlich, Abstract Geometric Painting
Located in New York, NY
Stephen Edlich
Ouverture, with Cypress Forms, 1982
Signed, dated and titled on the stretcher
Acrylic paint, mixed media, and burlap on canvas
60 x 40 inches
An artist who worked in the post-cubist and constructivist traditions, Stephen P. Edlich gained a considerable amount of acclaim in the 1970s and 1980s for his collages, sculpture, and paintings. His promising career was cut short due to his untimely death at age 45 in 1989.
Edlich was born in New York City. He received his undergraduate degree with a major in fine arts studies from New York University in 1967. During his college years, he traveled to London, where he met the art dealer Victor Waddington and created his first white on white collage. In that same year, he attended a major exhibition of the work of Ben Nicholson, which would be influential source in his art. Edlich returned to England in 1967, where he met Barbara Hepworth and Patrick Heron in London and traveled to St. Ives, Cornwall, long a favorite artists' haunt. Edlich began creating acrylic reliefs...
Category
Abstract Geometric 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Burlap, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Abstract still life. Oil on cardboard, 85x74 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Aleksandr Rodin (1922-2001)
Painter Born in a family of farmers. Wife Rasma Lace - art scholar. Studied at the Stalingrad School of Art, Saratov Art School, graduated from the Depar...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
'Still Life At Night', Oil on Linen, by Robert Bonaparte
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This framed, 33" x 26" oil on canvas painting was completed by Robert Bonaparte in 1980. The painting presents a composition dominated by dark hues, creating a nocturnal atmosphere a...
Category
Abstract 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
SINCRONIA ROSA - Angelo Palazzini Abstract Oil on Canvas Painting
By Angelo Palazzini
Located in Napoli, IT
Sincronia Rosa - Abstract Oil on Canvas Paintng , Angelom Palazzini, Italy
Angelo Palazzini was born in Lodi in 1953 where he still resides and has his own studio. His encounter wit...
Category
Abstract Geometric 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Feminine Forms: Harmony in Curves', German School (circa 1980s)
Located in London, GB
'Feminine Forms: Harmony in Curves', oil on board, German School (circa 1980s). Two nude figures portrayed in the abstract posture differently. Both are curvaceous and Rubenesque. Re...
Category
Modern 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Large Original Abstract Colorful Oil Painting Israeli Kibbutz Landscape Shemi
By Calman Shemi
Located in Surfside, FL
Life in Nature
Canvas measures 31.5 X 39.5
(I believe this is oil it might also be acrylic.)
Hand signed recto and signed and titled verso.
Calman Shemi, sculptor and painter, was ...
Category
Abstract Geometric 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"St. George and the Dragon" - Large Late 20th Century Framed Painting
Located in New Orleans, LA
You don't have to be a Catholic, or a medievalist, or a Catholic medievalist (Tolkien?) to appreciate this striking image of St. George taking on the dragon. In style it falls somewhere between Cubism and Guernica, to my eye. The limited color palette, with the bold red, gives it the energy of early 20th-century Russian poster...
Category
Cubist 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Marigold Joy
Located in Toronto, Ontario
It is hard to reconcile Gershon Iskowitz's (1921-1988) aesthetic with his personal history.
Born to a religious family in Poland, Iskowitz was allowed to leave Yeshiva (Jewish relig...
Category
Abstract 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Jacob's Well
By Richard Saba
Located in New Orleans, LA
Richard Saba
Birthplace: Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1946
Education: Minneapolis College of Art & Design, B.F.A. 1968
Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, 1967
University of Washington...
Category
Abstract 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Joan Kahn Indigo Denim Blue Color Abstract Expressionist Modernist Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Oil paint on heavy paper. (this might possibly be acrylic paint)
This does not appear to be signed.
Joan Kahn (USA 1953-) grew up in New York City; Princeton, New Jersey; and Vermont; in an environment that patronized the arts. At home her father, a professor, and mother, a state economist and homemaker, collected nineteenth and twentieth century drawings and prints, Middle eastern rugs, and ceramics, pewter, and old tools. Her grandfather, Max Westfield, was an academically trained portrait painter and her great uncle was a well-known gallery owner and art dealer in pre-World War II Germany. One of the influential experiences of Joan’s youth was visiting her grandfather in his studio in Tennessee where the family had first immigrated.
Growing up near New York, and spending a year in Paris during high school, provided formative visits to museums and galleries. Joan was academically talented in grade and high school, but after her father’s death during her first years at university she found herself concentrating on studio and history of art. It was a subject above others absorbed and concentrated her focus.
Influential in Joan’s development and later work are the historic movements of the Bauhaus and Modernist design and architecture, geometric art and design of diverse cultures, Color Field Painting. Many artists have had a impact on her work, such as Paul Klee, Piet Mondrian, Sonia Delaunay, Mark Rothko, Ad Reinhardt, Antoni Tapies, David Smith, John McLaughlin, Tony Smith, Louise Nevelson, Robert Mangold, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, Valerie Jaudon, Jasper Johns, James Turrell, Robert Irwin, Vija Celmins, Caio Fonseca, Peter Halley, Ed Moses, Juan Usle, and Nancy Haynes...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
L’horizon mensonger
Located in PARIS, FR
Georges Mathieu (1921 - 2012)
L’horizon mensonger
Alkyde sur toile / Alkyd on canvas
Signé en bas à gauche, titré au dos / Signed lower left and titles on the back
Circa 1990
Size : ...
Category
Abstract 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Alkyd
Neo Expressionism: On The Corner Sheridan Square
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
East Village Art:
From 1978 for 8 years Berlin worked frenetically,at street level, his finger on the pulse of this great city creating The Manhattan Collection. Living & moving in...
Category
Abstract 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Ink
Geometrical Clouds
Located in Henderson, NV
Clifford Singer worked with arcs and straight lines, collinear intersections during the 1980s.
Category
Abstract Geometric 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Spiral Series
Located in Henderson, NV
Set of 3, Oil Ink Silkscreen on Acrylic on tondo plexiglas. Clifford Singer had produced several Spiral Series pieces in the late 1980s.
Category
Abstract Geometric 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Screen, Plexiglass
"Two Figures, " Louis Stone, Abstract, American WPA Modernism
By Louis Stone
Located in New York, NY
Louis K. Stone (1902 - 1984)
Two Figures, 1980
Mixed media on paper
Sight 52 x 42 inches
Signed and dated lower right
Louis King Stone was born in Findlay, Ohio in 1902 and received...
Category
Abstract 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
"Clump of Trees #82" Modern Abstract Teal & Pink Landscape Painting on Board
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract landscape painting by the iconic Houston based artist David Adickes. The work features a group of green, pink, and blue trees set against a light aqua background. Sig...
Category
Modern 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Good Run - modern, contemporary, abstract, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This colorful contemporary abstract painting was created by Milly Ristvedt.
Canadian artist Milly Ristvedt has been exploring the creative and emotive possibilities of color express...
Category
Abstract 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Portrait of a Woman with Short Hair
Located in London, GB
'Portrait of a Woman with Short Hair', oil on board, by Peter Robert Keil (1983). A wide-eyed woman gazes out to the viewer with a tranquil smile. The colou...
Category
1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Architecture
Located in Genève, GE
Collage, mixed technique
Work on paper
Black wooden frame with glass pane
75.3 x 93.2 x 3.7 cm
Category
Abstract Geometric 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Adhesive, Gouache, Tissue Paper
1988 "Black and White Abstract" Large Painting on Paper
Located in Arp, TX
Artist unknown
"Black & White Abstract"
May 29, 1988
Acrylic on Strathmore paper
25.75"x40.5" unframed
Unsigned
Category
Abstract 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Abstract Composition, oil painting by Pierre Coquet
Located in Montfort l’Amaury, FR
Pierre Coquet – Abstract Composition
Reference number A268
Framed with a natural oak floated frame
55 x 70 cm frame included (50 x 65 cm without frame)
This work is painted with oil on a paper that is mounted on a board and placed in a made to measure wood strectcher. It is signed in the bottom right. Stamp of the signature in the bottom right
Pierre was very sensitive to abstract paintings. He did a lot of abstract works melting colors and shapes in different atmosphere and style. Nevertheless he could come back to figuration and again to abstraction with no precise period of time.
Abstract paintings by Pierre Coquet represent a large part of his production.
The constant search for balance between shapes and colors as well as his passion for Nicolas de Staël, André Lanskoy, Alfred Mannessier… takes him on different paths from what we know of him.
His way of painting is strong and thoughtful, the lines stretch out and the harmonious touches, applied with sobriety, reveal a great sense of color.
Provenance : Workshop of the artist (stamped and numbered on the back)
Pierre Coquet (1926-2021) is a French painter who was born in Limas near Lyon, France.
He entered the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Lyon in 1942 and followed the teaching of Antoine Chartres, Henri Vielly and René Chancrin. He won a prize in 1945 and joined a movement that wanted to be outside of any school whose name ends with “ism”, (like impressionism, cubism…) between figuration and the renaissance of Abstract Art, bringing together young generations under thirty and eager not to submit to any technique. The “Sanzism” (literally without « ism ») will bring together, among others, painters: James Bansac, Roger Bravard, André Chaix, Jean Mélinand, Paul Clair, André Cottavoz, Pierre Doye, Jean Fusaro, Jacques Truphémus, André Lauran...
Category
Abstract 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled
By Roland Ayers
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Roland Ayers (1932-2017). Untitled, 1983. Ink on paper, measures 17 x 23 inches. Unframed and unmounted. Signed and dated lower left. Ayers holds the distinction of having participated in the first important survey of African-Americans, Contemporary Black Artists in America, a 1971 show at The Whitney.
Biography:
Artist and art educator, Roland Ayers was born on July 2, 1932, the only child of Alice and Lorenzo Ayers, and grew up in the Germantown district of Philadelphia. Ayers served in the US Army (stationed in Germany) before studying at the Philadelphia College of Art (currently University of the Arts). He graduated with a BFA in Art Education, 1954. He traveled Europe 1966-67, spending time in Amsterdam and Greece in particular. During this period, he drifted away from painting to focus on linear figurative drawings of a surreal nature. His return home inaugurated the artist’s most prolific and inspired period (1968-1975). Shorty before his second major trip abroad in 1971-72 to West Africa, Ayers began to focus on African themes, and African American figures populated his work almost exclusively.
In spite of Ayers’ travel and exploration of the world, he gravitated back to his beloved Germantown, a place he endowed with mythological qualities in his work and literature. His auto-biographical writing focuses on the importance of place during his childhood. Ayers’ journals meticulously document the ethnic and cultural make-up of Germantown, and tell a compelling story of class marginalization that brought together poor families despite racial differences. The distinctive look and design of Germantown inform Ayers’ visual vocabulary. It is a setting with distinctive Gothic Revival architecture and haunting natural beauty. These characteristics are translated and recur in the artist’s imagery.
During his childhood, one of the only books in the Ayers household was an illustrated Bible. The images within had a profound effect on the themes and subjects that would appear in his adult work. Figures in an Ayers’ drawing often seem trapped in a narrative of loss and redemption. Powerful women loom large in the drawings: they suggest the female role models his journals record in early life. The drawings can sometimes convey a strong sense of conflict, and at other times, harmony. Nature and architecture seem to have an antagonistic relationship that is, ironically, symbiotic.
A critical turning point in the artist’s career came in 1971 when he was included in the extremely controversial Whitney Museum show, Contemporary Black Artists in America. The exhibition gave Ayers an international audience and served as a calling card for introductions he would soon make in Europe.
Ayers is a particularly compelling figure in a period when black artists struggled with the idea of authenticity. A questioned often asked was “Is your work too black, or not black enough?” Abstractionists were considered by some peers to be sell-outs, frauds or worse. Figurative* work was accused of being either sentimental or politically radical depending on the critical source. Ayers made the choice early on to be a figurative artist, but considered his work devoid of political content.
Organizations such as Chicago’ s Afri-Cobra in the late 1960‘s asserted that the only true black art of any relevance must depict the black man and woman...
Category
Abstract 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Chinese American Abstract Expressionist Zen Space Painting WangMing Color School
Located in Surfside, FL
Wang Ming
"Enter the World of Infinity"
Acrylic paint on Japon paper mounted on canvas
Dimensions: H: 39 inches: W: 25 inches
WANG MING WANG Artist Ming Wang, born November 4, 1921, died peacefully on Sunday, June 26, 2016 in Bethesda. Ming Wang was born in Tianjin, China and was a pilot in Chinese Nationalist Air Force during WWII. Artist Wang Ming's journey began in the 1940s. As he worked as an air traffic controller in Taiwan, he became interested in the beauty of the sky. He was a young man then, having fled from Japanese-occupied China in 1939 at age 18. He came to the US for further military training where he met his first wife, the late Suen Chin. In 1949, Wang went Taiwan to escape the Communist takeover of China. He rejoined his wife and young son in Washington DC in 1951. To support a growing family, Wang founded the National Art and Frame shop in Washington DC. He studied art independently and developed his unique artistic style melding modern art with traditional Chinese calligraphy. His paintings, done with a mixture of inks and acrylics on fine paper, are a happy marriage of traditional Chinese disciplines with Western art as it has been handled by Joan Miro and Paul Klee. His works are minimalist and abstract, marked with good design and extremely sensitive use of color. The influence of 1950s American art and abstract expressionism is also clear in his work, and he exhibited with such Washington Color School luminaries as Kenneth Noland and Gene Davis in the 1960s. He later taught calligraphy at George Washington University. Years before the Hubble Telescope began broadcasting images of rainbow clouds and blood red stars, Ming used art to convey what he imagined space to be. His work captured the attention of James Dean, the National Air and Space Museum's first art collector, who purchased two of his pieces. In the 1960's and 1970's, Wang was represented by the Franz Bader Gallery in Washington DC.
1980: Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
American Drawing in Black & White: 1970-1980, by curator Gene Baro. “The visitors are invited to enjoy the rich variety of marks and means used in attacking subjects that range from meticulous representational rendering to extemporaneous gesture.” Included among many other artists, were Anni Albers, Jasper Johns, Willem De Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg, Jack Tworkov, Robert Motherwell and Andy Warhol.
1982: The Washington Post, by Jo Ann Lewis
“His show at the Marvin Center at George Washington University, where he teaches calligraphy, should help clarify the unique nature of his art . ... ‘Independent Reality,’ in which dramatic curves dance across an opened scroll, taking on a life of their own-in any language. The show is filled with the artist’s very special of visual poetry.”
He was included in the exhibition American Drawing in Black & White: 1970-1980, by curator Gene Baro at the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York. Included among many other artists, were Anni Albers, Jasper Johns, Willem De Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg, Jack Tworkov, Robert Motherwell and Andy Warhol. Wang Ming was also included in the show Asian Traditions/Modern Expressions Asian American Artists and Abstraction, 1945 – 1970 at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey New Brunswick. The senior curator Jeffrey Wechsler reviewed each artist for this traveling group exhibition, including C. C. Wang, Chen chi, Kenzo Okada...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic, Archival Paper
The Challenge, abstract expressionist painting by Cleveland School artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres
American, 1927-2013
The Challenge, c. 1982
acrylic and ink on paper mounted on canvas
signed lower right, signed and titled verso
60 x 41.5 inches
Richard Andres was...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic
Large Julian Schnabel Diptych Painting, 88″H
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Julian Schnabel (b. 1951)
Marking(s); notes: signed, marking(s); 1985
Country of origin; materials: American; oil on map and paper collage
Dimensions (...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Mixed Media
"Mesa Verde", 1980s Original Abstract Landscape Oil Painting, Yellow, Pink, Gold
Located in Denver, CO
This striking original abstract oil painting, titled Mesa Verde, was created by artist Wilma Fiori (1929–2019) on November 17, 1988. The piece is a vibrant...
Category
Abstract 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Landscape. Oil on canvas by Tetsuo Mizu (1987) (abstract geometric painting)
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Tetsuo Mizu (1944)
Landscape
Executed in 1987
Oil on canvas
80.3 x 100 cm (39 3/8 x 31 1/2 in)
Dated and Signed “1987 MIZU” (lower left)
Signed, dated, an...
Category
Abstract Geometric 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Fall of Eden (Garden of Eden)—Untitled
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: The Fall of Eden (Garden of Eden)—Untitled
Year: 1985
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 48 x 24 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Signed, ...
Category
Photorealist 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Four Winds" Blue House with White Roof in Yellow Field Abstract Landscape
By Wolf Kahn
Located in Houston, TX
Abstract drawing of a blue house in a yellow field by German-American painter, Wolf Kahn. Signed and dated by the artist in the lower right corner. Framed and matted in a silver wood...
Category
Abstract 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Large Abstract Expressionist Color Monotype Oil Painting Tom Lieber Mixed Media
By Tom Lieber
Located in Surfside, FL
Tom Alan Lieber, (American, born 1949),
GTW TL-11 1986,
Oil and mixed media on paper,
30.25 x 44 inches,
Hand signed and dated lower right
Provenance: Garner Tullis Workshop, N....
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Monotype
Surreal Tropical Fantasy Landscape #2
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3776 Surreal colorful tropical fantasy set in a black frame
Category
1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Large Plein Air Landscape Oil Painting, Peach & Plenty, Hamptons, Janet Jennings
Located in Surfside, FL
Janet Jennings
Oil Painting on Canvas
Peace and Plenty, 1989.
Hand signed
Dimensions: Canvas, 65 1/2" x W: 59 1/2". framed 68 X 62 inches
Janet Jennings received her BFA from the University of Dayton and attended The Dayton Art Institute, Antioch College and The Art Students League. Her paintings are in numerous corporate and private collections worldwide.
She has exhibited at numerous galleries on Long Island, the Hamptons and New York City including The New York Design Center, Hampton Road Gallery, Pamela Williams Gallery, Folioeast, Lizan-Tops Gallery, Chase Edwards Gallery, Gallery North, Elaine Benson Gallery, Glenn Horowitz Gallery, Mark Humphrey...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Israeli Road Block" - 1980 Original Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
"Israeli Road Block" - 1980 Original Abstract
Rich 1980's abstract oil painting titled "Israeli Road Block" by Bay Area artist Helen Konkoff (American, 1912-1988). Hues of browns, g...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Affection Mixed Media
By Jürgen Görg
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Affection 1989
Artist signed lower right
Oil, graphite on linen canvas 38x30, framed 52x44 inches.
Jurgen Gorg was born in 1951 in, Dernbach Germany. His formative years were spen...
Category
Expressionist 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Graphite
"Changing Seasons" - Red Over Blue Tribute to Mark Rothko in Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Changing Seasons" - Red Over Blue Tribute to Mark Rothko in Acrylic on Paper
A bright abstract painting by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva (American/Brazil, 20th C). Draw...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Last Song: Im Abendrot—In Evening‘s Glow (homage to Richard Strauss)
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Last Song: Im Abendrot (In Evening’s Glow)
Year: 1985-2001
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, with Artist Painted Frame
Size: 47 x 59 inches
Condition: ...
Category
Photorealist 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Abstract Expressionist Painting Black and Red
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3280 Abstract on artist board .Set in a black wood frame with gold stripe. Image size 15.50 H x 17.50 W
Category
1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Colorful Bird Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3623 Oil on artist board set in a vintage frame
Image size 7x10"
Category
1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled (Scottish Pastoral Landscape), circa 1982, Ian Hornak — Painting
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Untitled (Scottish Pastoral Landscape)
Year: 1982
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 16 x 20 inches
Condition: Good
Provenance: Estate of Ian Horna...
Category
Photorealist 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Snake, Large-Scale Visionary Abstract with Mystical Creatures by Barbara Carlson
By Barbara Carlson
Located in Soquel, CA
Snake, Large-Scale Visionary Abstract with Mystical Creatures by Barbara B. Carlson
Large scale abstract with Central America mythological motifs by Barbara B. Carlson an Orinda, Ca...
Category
Neo-Expressionist 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Laid Paper
Large American Impressionist Abstract Framed Modern Flower Still Life Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive large American school modernist flower still life painting. Oil on canvas. Handsomely framed. Signed illegibly. Very nice impasto and color.
Category
Abstract 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Cubic Three Lovers Abstract Figures Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#5-2933a Cubic Figures, oil on artist board displayed in a white wood frame,signed lower left by Jhonson.Image size 17 H x 13.5
Category
1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Patricia Zippin "Tillamook Flight 6 of 12" 1980s Abstract Painting
Located in Arp, TX
Patricia Zippin
Tillamook Flight 6 of 12
1980s
Mixed Media
30.5"x 22.5", unframed
Signed in paint on bottom right and signed and titled on reverse in pen
Patricia Jayne Zippin (1930...
Category
Abstract 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Acrylic, Pencil
Georgia Suite: Symmetry - modern, contemporary, abstract, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A ‘symphony’ of colour neatly framed in pale blue bordered quadrants plays against a wash of yellow in this vivid abstract by Milly Ristvedt. A master colourist, in the 1980s Ristved...
Category
Abstract 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled abstract expressionist oil painting by Cleveland School artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres
American, 1927-2013
Untitled, c. 1980
acrylic and ink on paper mounted on canvas
30 x 34 inches
Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of th...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic
Musicians and dancers from Mallorca oil on board painting Spain
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Josep Coll Bardolet (1912-2007) - Musicians and dancers Mallorca - Oil on panel
Oil measurements 33x41 cm.
Frame measurements 44x52 cm.
Category
Post-Impressionist 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
City Graffiti Abstract Art Oil Painting #1 by S. Mooney
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
4090 An abstract graffiti art, oil on artist board displayed in a custom -made wood frame Image size 12H x 12 W
Category
1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Large Abstract Modernist Monterey Series Mixed Media Monotype Colorful Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Terence La Noue was born in Hammond, Indiana in 1941. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1964. After going to Berlin as a Fulbright Meister Student ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Monotype
Gemini mixed media on canvas painting Abstract Expressionism
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
TECHNICAL SHEET
Title: Gemini
Artist: Svetla Georgieva
Technique: Mixed media (oil and material) on canvas
Dimensions: 21.6 x 18.1 in
Framing: Unframed
Year: 1989
Style: Abstract Ex...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
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