20th Century Abstract Paintings

Original - Ink on Paper Hand Signed by Tom Russell Drawn With Eyes Closed at Show

Original - Acrylic on Canvas Hand Signed by Tom Russell

Original - Ink on Paper Hand Signed by Tom Russell Drawn With Eyes Closed at Show

Original - Ink on Paper Hand Signed by Tom Russell Drawn With Eyes Closed at Show

"Last Civil War Veteran" is an oil painting on panel made by Larry Rivers in 1961. The artwork size is 9 1/2 x 7 inches. The framed size is 12 3/4 x 10 1/4 x 1 1/2 inches. The work i...

Robots, or "Strange Self-Sufficient Machine" by Giuliano Ghelli ( Florence, 1944- 2014, Chianti). Painting in a wooden frame with glass. Oil on canvas. Dimensions with frame cm 69...

Angel Ortiz (now known as LA Roc or LA II) was 14 years old in 1981 when he began his fateful collaboration with Keith Haring. Haring, who called him "the graffiti king of the Lower ...

Dennis Hollingsworth (American, b. 1956) large scale painting, 1994 "Leaf Blower #15", oil & alkyd on canvas over wood panel, Hand signed and dated verso, Dimensions: 72" X 72" Dennis Hollingsworth, Born 1956 in Madrid, Spain he has lived and worked in Los Angeles, California. He currently lives and works in New York City and Tossa De Mar Spain. He attended Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, USA, 1991, B.A. Architecture, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, USA, 1985 Dennis Hollingsworth is a painter whose works combine abstraction with a pop art sensibility. The newer pieces bring to mind other artists whose work also investigates the structure and support, including Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, Elizabeth Murray, Ron Gorchov, James Hyde, Rosy Keyser, and Fabian Marcaccio. His first exhibition was Painting Beyond The Idea at Manny Silverman Gallery in Los Angeles, CA in 1995, and the most recent exhibition was TEN at Hionas Gallery in New York City, NY in 2021. Dennis Hollingsworth is most frequently exhibited in United States, but also had exhibitions in Germany, Spain and elsewhere. Hollingsworth has at least 27 solo shows and 67 group shows over the last 26 years. Hollingsworth has also been in no less than 14 art fair. A notable show was Dennis Hollingsworth - Wet On Wet at Blum & Poe in Los Angeles, CA in 1996. He was included in the show “Under Erasure” at Pierogi Gallery curated by Heather and Raphael Rubinstein. Artists included: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Mel Bochner, Jane Hammond, Dennis Hollingsworth, Glenn Ligon, Richard Prince, Robert Rauschenberg, Nicole Eisenman and Antoni Tapies. His work was exhibited in 1999 at the Kunsthalle Basel as part of the group show ‘Nach-Bild’, which also featured artists Richard Hamilton and Laura Owens. Other notable shows were at Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery in New York City, NY and Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles, CA. Dennis Hollingsworth has been exhibited with Katharina Grosse and Herbert Brandl. Dennis Hollingsworth’s art is in museum collections, including MOCA Grand Avenue in Los Angeles, CA and Columbus Art Foundation in Ravensburg among others. He is represented by Hionas Gallery, New York, NY 1956, BORN IN MADRID, SPAIN 1985, BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE, CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY 1991, MASTERS OF FINE ARTS, CLAREMONT GRADUATE SCHOOL LIVES AND WORKS IN NEW YORK CITY, USA AND TOSSA DE MAR, SPAIN SOLO EXHIBITIONS: GALERIA MIGUEL MARCOS, BARCELONA, SPAIN GALERIE RICHARD, NYC, USA HIONAS GALLERY, NYC, USA FRONT GALLERY, HOUSTON, TEXAS, USA TOMIO KOYAMA GALLERY (HIKARIE),TOKYO, JAPAN MICHAEL KOHN GALLERY, LOS ANGELES, CA, USA CIRRUS GALLERY, LOS ANGELES, CA, USA GALERIA PELAIRES, PALMA DE MALLORCA, SPAIN NICOLE KLAGSBRUN GALLERY, NEW YORK, NY, USA GALERIA ANA SERRATOSA, VALENCIA, SPAIN GALERIE ANDRÉ BUCHMANN, COLOGNE, GERMANY GALERIE TANYA RUMPFF, HAARLEM, NETHERLANDS GALERIE MARK MULLER, ZURICH SWITZERLAND CHAC MOOL GALLERY, LOS ANGELES, CA, USA BRETT/MITCHELL SHAHEEN GALLERY, CLEVELAND, OH BARBARA FARBER/LA SERRE, TRETS FRANCE THE BOX, TORINO, ITALY STEENDRUKKERIJ AMSTERDAM, M.V., HOLLAND BARBARA FARBER/ROB JURKA GALLERY, AMSTERDAM, HOLLAND LAWING GALLERY, HOUSTON, TX, USA SCHMIDT CONTEMPORARY ART, ST. LOUIS, MI MEYERSON & NOWINSKI GALLERY, SEATTLE, WASHINGTON BLUM POE GALLERY, SANTA MONICA, CA, USA SCARABB GALLERY, CLEVELAND, OH BENNETT ROBERTS FINE ART, LOS ANGELES, CA, USA LEE ARTHUR STUDIO, NEW YORK, NY STUDIO RAID GALLERY, LOS ANGELES, CA, USA GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2020 “OEUVRES CHOISIES”, GALERIE RICHARD, PARIS GALERIE RICHARD, NYC, PARIS Rainer Gross, Dennis Hollingsworth, Kim Young-Hun, Jeremy Thomas. “UNTITLED”, GALERIE RICHARD, NYC, PARIS 2019 “LITTORAL”, MUNICIPAL MUSEUM OF TOSSA DE MAR, TOSSA DE MAR, SPAIN “DIVINE INTERVENTIONS”, CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN SAG HARBOR, LONG ISLAND, USA “ANGLES DE REFLEXIÓ”, GALERIE RICHARD VANDERAA, GIRONA, SPAIN 2018 “UNDER/ERASURE”, PIEROGI GALLERY, NYC, USA “COLOR MATTERS”, GALERIE RICHARD, NYC,USA “EVOLUTION”, GALERIA MIGUEL MARCOS, BARCELONA, SPAIN “WORKS FROM THE GALLERY ARTISTS AND THE COLLECTION 3”, TOMIO KOYAMA GALLERY, TOKYO, JAPAN 2012 “NEXUS”, GALERIA MIGUEL MARCOS, BARCELONA, SPAIN “FOR EXAMPLE PAINTING”, GALERIE MARK MÜLLER, ZÜRICH, SWITZERLAND “FRÜHLING”, GALERIE EUGEN LENDL, GRAZ, SWITZERLAND 2011 GROUP SHOW, GALERIE MARK MÜLLER, ZÜRICH, SWITZERLAND “ALUSIONES-ILUSIONES”, GALERIA MIGUEL MARCOS, BARCELONA, SPAIN “THE WORKING TITLE”, BRONX ART CENTER, BRONX, NEW YORK, USA “GREATER LA”, NEW YORK, NEW YORK, USA 2010 25TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW, MICHAEL KOHN GALLERY, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA “CRYSTAL WORLD”, ANDRE BUCHMANN GALLERY, BERLIN, GERMANY GROUP SHOW, TOMIO KOYAMA GALLERY, TOKYO, JAPAN PINTURA SIN TREGUA GALERIE MIGUEL MARCOS, BARCELONA, SPAIN GROUP SHOW, TANYA RUMPFF GALLERY, HAARLEM, NETHERLANDS PALM PAINTINGS, ANDRÉ BUCHMANN GALLERY, BERLIN, GERMANY 2007 “QUIRKY”, WESTPORT ART CENTER, WESTPORT, CONNECTICUT “ROOM 3: ACCROCHAGE”, GALERIE MARK MÜLLER, ZÜRICH, SWITZERLAND “POP ART 1960’S TO 2000’S”, HIROSHIMA CITY MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, HIROSHIMA, JAPAN An important exhibition from Misumi Art Collection of post-war American art, including Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, David Hockney, Christopher Wool, Vic Muniz...

Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: Abstract Figure (ADAM) Year: 1982 Medium: Acrylic on canvas Size: 12 x 9 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed by the artist. PETER MAX (19...

Vintage American modernist portrait of iconic artist Peter Max. Signed. Framed. Original oil on canvas.

Billy Al Bengston Honolulu Watercolor, 1992 Watercolor on handmade paper with deckled edge in artist's hand made frame with studio label verso Signed, titled and dated in pencil lowe...

Interesting Latin American art collage/assemblage of images. bears elements of Arte Povera. it is mounted onto a wood construction. Signed verso and bears label from Stux Gallery. Well Known Brazilian political artist and collector. Showed at Stux Gallery (they showed Doug Anderson and then Mike and Doug...

Larry Rivers LARRY RIVERS (hand signed and inscribed first edition book), 1989 Hardback monograph with a dust jacket (hand signed and inscribed "Enjoy the Matisse" Signed, dated and inscribed by Larry Rivers in red marker on the title page 11 3/5 × 9 4/5 inches Lavishly illustrated hardback monograph with dust jacket on the occasion of the artist's career retrospective. Text is by the distinguished art historian and Princeton professor Sam Hunter. Hand signed, dated and dedicated in red marker on the title page. Inscription reads: To Joanne and Ira Enjoy the Matisse Larry Rivers, April 2, 1992 About the book: Hunter, Sam. LARRY RIVERS. 358 pp. with 400 illustrations, including 155 plates in color. Folio, cloth. New York, Rizzoli, 1989. New York: Rizzoli, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. 358 pages. Retrospective monograph on Larry Rivers. Features text by Sam Hunter. Includes 400 illustrations of which 155 are in color. Publisher's Blurb: Rivers' public persona as an artist combines that of bohemian outsider, sensualist and entertainer. His best-known images of the 1960s--Dutch Masters cigars, French money, cigarette packs--became Pop icons. Eschewing abstraction, he came up with startling, disquieting figures, such as his obese, sagging mother-in-law depicted in the nude with brutal honesty ( Double Portrait of Berdie ). Yet there is more to Rivers than the hipster, as this lavishly illustrated monograph by a former Princeton art historian shows. Hunter makes a case for Rivers as a social realist: witness his powerful construction piece Ghetto Stoop or recent works that include searching portraits of Primo Levi...

Robert Rauschenberg Abstract Composition (Robert Rauschenberg Foundation #88.D109), 1988 Solvent transfer, watercolor, and gouache on Japanese dedication board Hand-signed by artist,...

signed with initials verso and a stamp Kooter Boogers of America. with an intentionally distressed surface. please see photos. Martin Hoffman, a prominent artist whose work in the 1970s was simultaneously identified with high art (gritty realist paintings sold through the O.K. Harris Gallery in New York) and low (illustrations for Playboy magazine). Throughout his career, his style ranged from energetic abstraction and hard-edge pop to photo-based realism and minimalism. In recent years, he created a series of autobiographical paintings in a winsome, cartoon-like style. He also did a series of subtly hued works in which inscrutable words half-disappear into the paint in which they are inscribed. Hoffman’s first job out of college was as art director for the Miami News, a position that he held from 1956 until 1962. Afterward he worked as a graphic designer in Miami while making paintings at home in his spare time. His earliest paintings (which were done, he said, as a “testosterone-driven teenager”) were executed in automotive lacquer on 4 x 8 foot sheets of builder’s hardboard. They combined glossy, visceral surfaces and metallic paints with collaged-on metal shapes and mirrors. In the 1960s, Hoffman’s paintings began to incorporate figures and symbolism with erotic undertones. Through a mutual friend, Sidney Janis saw Hoffman’s paintings and selected one of them for his international “Erotic Art ‘66” exhibition at Sidney Janis Gallery in New York. Others in the show included Pop Art icons Jim Dine, Larry Rivers, James Rosenquist and Tom Wesselman. Hoffman’s painting hung besides an Andy Warhol silkscreen painting of a partially peeled banana. From 1966 to 1992, Hoffman was a freelance Playboy illustrator. He called those years “a wonderful period – it supported my family.” Hoffman painted a series of nudes titled “Woman Eternal” which was featured in Playboy’s December 1972 issue. Through the years, he also created illustrations for books, record albums, movie posters and print ads. Clients included Pfizer, Caesar’s Palace, Harley Davidson Motorcycles and the NASA Art Program, which commissioned a series of works based on activities at the former Kennedy Space Center...

"Saturn" Painting 39" x 39" inch by Gosha Ostretsov Acrylic & enamel on canvas Born in 1967, in Moscow Lived in Paris for ten years (1988 - 1998), now lives and works in Moscow. P...

"Venus" Painting 31.5" x 27.5" inch by Gosha Ostretsov Acrylic & enamel on canvas Born in 1967, in Moscow Lived in Paris for ten years (1988 - 1998), now lives and works in Moscow....

"Incomplete Solar System" Painting 55" x 79" inch by Gosha Ostretsov Acrylic & enamel on canvas Born in 1967, in Moscow Lived in Paris for ten years (1988 - 1998), now lives and wo...

Lila Katzen Inside the Black Diamond, 1964 Signed, titled, and dated on the reverse Acrylic on canvas 30 x 24 inches Lila Katzen said of her pieces in all media: “I feel marvelous w...

"New York artist Robert Reitzfeld has a devoted cult following, but his paintings are not nearly as well known as they ought to be....The paintings show a witty merger of Pop art idioms and post-painterly abstraction, like a mutant blend of John Wesley, Michael Bevilacqua and Gerhard Richter. In each of the exuberant compositions, Reitzfeld offers a unique balance of formalist elements and absurdist drama." from David Ebony's Top Ten @ Artnet At first, Robert Reitzfeld's distinctive melange of Ab Ex. Pop, Op and other postwar painting styles appears to be a send-up of the source material. Among the 25 recent paintings and works on paper in this show, a number of pieces, including Minnie Mouse, Olive. Che. Marilyn and others, feature cartoons and familiar Pop-art iconography, Reitzfeld's versions often appropriating passages from Warhol and Lichtenstein. But Reitzfeld's images are very often fragmented, with roughly torn edges in the paper pieces and colorful abstract passages of paint in the canvases obscuring and sometimes rearly obliterating the subjects. Rather than a nihilistic gesture, however, his distortions may be viewed as a kind of archeology of recent art. They also reveal a rather personal relationship with specific works that have inspired the veteran New York artist over the years. 1961, I Was There (2007), for instance, Is a painting featuring Donald Duck in his blue-and-white sailor suit—a fragment of Lichtenstein's 1961 painting Look, Mickey!, partly painted over with layered patches of red and pink acrylic as well as a sprinkling of glitter. The title of Reitzfeld's piece alludes to his attendance at a 1961 opening at New York's Sidney Janis Gallery, where Lichtenstein showed this seminal Pop work. Reitzfeld is at his best here in several relatively large (about 36 inches square) intricate hard-edge compositions, such as TBT 56 (Marriage), 2006, and T8T 63 (2007). The latter contains another Lichtenstein reference: a detail of the Whitney Museum's 1973 Still Life with Crystal Bowl set...

Allan D'Arcangelo Constellation, 1971 Acrylic on paper, mounted to canvas Hand sgned and dated 1971 lower front Frame included Measurements: Framed: 23.75 x 23.75 x 1.25 inches Artwo...

Dennis Hollingsworth (Spanish/American, b. 1956), "Lil' Franklin," 1997, Oil on canvas, Hand signed on stretcher bar verso, Gallery label verso (Bennett Roberts Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA) affixed verso, canvas: 45"h x 42"w, overall (with frame): 46"h x 43"w. Dennis Hollingsworth, Born 1956 in Madrid, Spain he has lived and worked in Los Angeles, California. He currently lives and works in New York City and Tossa De Mar...

Bold, colorful, still life oil painting of a pear. In lush, vibrant color. SUZANNE WALLACE MEARS During college she focused on painting and clay. Then it became photography and clay, then only clay, then kiln formed glass and today its kiln formed glass, painting and plasma cut steel sculpture. She also works in oil paint and encaustic. Reminiscent of the color works of Jim DIne and the fruit paintings of Tom Seghi. She never works with only one medium. She uses color and texture to create energetic, luminous, joyous works with the glass. Bright, bold color using reds, blues, oranges reflect my travels in color saturated countries such as Tibet, Nepal, China and Mexico. At random I use solid color fields as a challenge to my driving love of vibrant color. Her favorite themes are inspired by nature and antiquity. Kiln formed glass uses flat sheets of glass which are cut into shapes, layered and incorporate accessory elements of frits, copper wire and mesh, pieces of sheet copper or brass and dichroic glass fired in a kiln. EDUCATION BA, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, 1964 Graduate School, 44 hours, double major Summer School University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 1963 Master Class, Patty Gray Instructor, tde Glass Furnace, Turkey Master Class, Richard La Londe...

DONALD BAECHLER Untitled painting for ACRIA, 1996 Mixed media with ball point pen, acrylic paint, industrial varnish and paper collage on canvas board Hand Signed and Dated. Framed with official label verso. artist frame included Measurements: Framed: 13.4 inches (vertical) x 10.8 (horizontal) x 1.25 (width) Artwork: 8 inches (vertical) x 6 inches (horizontal) Makes a fantastic gift! This unique signed collage by Donald Baechler is one of a series of unique pieces the artist made to benefit ACRIA a New York-based charity that supports AIDS victims. ACRIA, pioneers of HIV research, prevention & awareness, have now merged with the Gay...

Brad Howe (born 1959) is an American sculptor from California. His work has been exhibited domestically and internationally. This is done in a bold and colorful Pop Art style reminiscent of the work of the Memphis Milano Group. Brad Howe was born in 1959 in Riverside, California. As a student of International Relations at Stanford University, Howe attended the University of São Paulo to specialize in Literature and Economic History. It was there that he discovered his passion for art and architecture that would eventually lead to his first exhibitions. He started his career as a sculptor in Brazil, using stainless steel, aluminum and polyurethane. He credits sculptor Alexander Calder as an early influence in his work. Since then, he has exhibited in over eighteen countries worldwide and his works have been placed in collections in more than 32 countries, including Brazil, Mexico, France, Germany, South Korea and United States. His work can also be found at various universities including Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston, Temple University in Philadelphia, and UCLA. Monumental and Public Art have become a major focus of his career. Over the past ten years, he has completed over 30 public projects in 7 different countries. One of his sculptures can be seen in the city of Palo Alto, California. Moreover, as part of the Beverly Hills Centennial Arts of Palm Installation, he designed four sculptures outside the Beverly Hills City Hall, on North Santa Monica Boulevard in Beverly Hills, California. The Crocker Art Museum (Sacramento, California), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Lancaster Museum of Art and History (Lancaster, California), and the Pasadena Museum of California Art (Pasadena, California) are among the museums holding work by Brad Howe. His work was included in the Arts of Palm exhibition in Beverly Hills, palm trees by prominent artists including Brad Howe, Michael McMillen, Mike Stilkey, Peter Shire, Peter Alexander and Ryan Schmidt. His studio is actively completing site-specific commissions and installations for cities, universities, museums, and private corporations. Brad Howe also actively participates in group gallery shows with smaller works that serve as models, or maquettes, for his large-scale pieces. SELECT GROUP EXHIBITS: On The Road: American Abstraction, David Klein Gallery, Detroit, Michigan Properties of Light, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, California Blur the Lines, Brad Howe and Takashi Murakami, Asian Art Works, Busan, Korea Brad Howe, Zachary Thornton, Lopez-Herrera, Thomas Punzmann Fine Arts, Frankfurt, Germany Gary Komarin and Brad Howe, Galerie Proarta, Zurich, Switzerland Color Balance, Marco Casentini and Brad Howe, Melissa Morgan...

Artist: Michael Knigin, American (1942 - 2011) Title: Private Showing Year: 1990 Medium: Acrylic and Enamel on Canvas on board, signed, titled and dated verso Size: 24 x 52 inches

Artist: Clayton J. Gorder, American (1936 - 1987) Title: Neon Bullseye Year: circa 1974 Medium: Acrylic and Airbrush on Custom Shaped Canvas, signed on label verso Size: 32.5 x 57 x ...

Judy Rifka (American, b. 1945) "Ice Hockey" Acrylic or oil paint on Fabriano paper paintings featuring multiple hockey players executed in yellow, white...

Gary Goldstein’s body of work includes drawings, objects, artist books and paintings. It is informed by Pop Art, Surrealism, Dada and Illuminated Manuscripts. Goldstein’s work draw...

Judy Rifka (American, b. 1945) Oil on linen painting Titled: "Ice Hockey IV 1990" featuring A depiction of hockey players with ice skating rink backdro...

Judy Rifka (American, b. 1945) "Ice Hockey" Acrylic or oil paint on Fabriano paper paintings featuring multiple hockey players executed in yellow, white...

Charles LeClair (1914-2007). La Donna, 1970. Pencil, paint and magazine pages collage on paper. Sheet measures 22 x 30 inches. Framed measurement: 27 x 35.5 i...

This is a mixed media collage with an almost sculpture quality to it. it is hand signed. size includes frame. Hugh O'Donnell is an English painter, printmaker and site-specific artist. Born in London in 1950. From 1968–74 he undertook study at various institutions across England, including the University of the Arts in London, the University College Falmouth in Cornwall, the University of Central England in Birmingham and the University of Gloucestershire. In 1974 he was awarded a fellowship to the Kyoto City University of Arts in Japan, and upon his return completed his thesis on Japanese monumental...

"Early [Newspaper] Edition," an original mixed media on canvas by Linnea Pergola, is a piece for the true collector. Pergola's style is whimsical and she is most well-known for her cityscapes, landscapes, and vivid works on silk. Many artists have copied her cityscape style, but she has been creating these works since the 1980s and was one of Martin Lawrence Galleries...

Elliot Barowitz (b.1937). Little Blue Head, 1965. Oil on canvas, 1965, signed 'E.O. Barowitz', titled and dated on the stretcher. 16 x 16 in., 16 3/4 x 16 3/...

Lowell Nesbitt (American, 1933-1993) Flower, 1978 tempera on board 60 1/2 x 40 1/2 inches. Provenance: Sold: Christie's East, May 18, 1999, Lot 224 Blair Nesbitt is an American painter, draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor. Although he worked in a variety of media and covered a wide range of subjects throughout his career, he is best known for his large, Photorealist botanical paintings. Born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1933, Nesbitt earned a degree from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University. Later, he also studied at London’s Royal Academy of Arts. Working in stained glass and etching and also producing abstract paintings in his early career, a 1962 encounter with artist Robert Indiana led him to steer his aesthetic toward realism. Though he held his first solo show at the Baltimore Museum of Art in 1958, it was his 1964 debut at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. that would truly bring him to the attention of the art world. In this exhibit, his botanical series of paintings, drawings, and prints captivated the art world and public alike. The game-changing Corcoran Gallery show would send his career down the trajectory of sustained success. In 1976, Nesbitt moved from his New York City West 14th Street studio to a massive space located at 389 West 12th Street. The 12,500 square foot living and workspace supplied ample room for creating his enormous paintings...

Untitled - Lamb is an artwork realized by the Italian artist Mario Schifano in 1995. Original mixed media, acrylic and enamel. Painting on canvas with sculpture relief. Hand-sign...

Untitled is an artwork (acrylic and Enamel) realized by the Italian artist Mario Schifano in 1995. Original mixed media. Painting on canvas with artistical relief. Hand-signed b...

Artist: Peter Nagy, American (1959 - ) Title: Field of Subsumed Use Year: 1984 Medium: Acrylic and Photocopy Collage on Canvas, signed and titled verso Size: 16 x 20 in. (40.64 x 50....

Artist: Max Epstein, Canadian (1932-2002) Title: Maple Syrup Year: 1976 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, signed and dated Size: 33 x 33 in. (83.82 x 83.82 cm)

Michel YAKOVLEV, known as YAKO was born in New York in 1963, he grew up in Geneva where he made his first graffiti and his first exhibitions in the 80 ', at a time when this culture ...

Hand signed verso, mixed media on two sections of joined canvas Work is titled "Ego Wall with Mess," circa 1983. Provenance: Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, New York. bearing their label verso. 24 x 30 x 3-3/4 inches (61.0 x 76.2 x 9.5 cm) Hand signed on the reverse: Judy Rifka Judy Rifka (born 1945) is an American woman artist active since the 1970s as a painter and video artist. She works heavily in New York City's Tribeca and Lower East Side and has associated with movements coming out of the area in the 1970s and 1980s such as Colab and the East Village, Manhattan art scene. A video artist, book artist and abstract painter, Rifka is a multi-faceted artist who has worked in a variety of media in addition to her painting and printmaking. She was born in 1945 in New York City and studied art at Hunter College, the New York Studio School and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. Rifka took part in the 1980 Times Square Show, (Organized by Collaborative Projects, Inc. in 1980 at what was once a massage parlor, with now-famous participants such as Jenny Holzer, Nan Goldin, Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Kiki Smith, the roster of the exhibition reads like a who’s who of the art world), two Whitney Museum Biennials (1975, 1983), Documenta 7, Just Another Asshole (1981), curated by Carlo McCormick and received the cover of Art in America in 1984 for her series, "Architecture," which employed the three-dimensional stretchers that she adopted in exhibitions dating to 1982; in a 1985 review in the New York Times, Vivien Raynor noted Rifka's shift to large paintings of the female nude, which also employed the three-dimensional stretchers. In a 1985 episode of Miami Vice, Bianca Jagger played a character attacked in front of Rifka's three-dimensional nude still-life, "Bacchanaal", which was on display at the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale. Rene Ricard wrote about Rifka in his influential December 1987 Art Forum article about the iconic identity of artists from Van Gogh to Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, The Radiant Child.The untitled acrylic painting on plywood, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art, demonstrates the artist's use of plywood as a substrate for painting. Artist and writer Mark Bloch called her work "imaginative surfaces that support experimental laboratories for interferences in sensuous pigment." According to artist and curator Greg de la Haba, Judy Rifka's irregular polygons on plywood "are among the most important paintings of the decade". In 2013, Rifka's daily posts on Facebook garnered a large social media audience for her imaginative "selfies," erudite friendly comments, and widely attended solo and group exhibitions, Judy Rifka's pop art figuration is noted for its nervous line and frenetic pace. In the January 1998 issue of Art in America, Vincent Carducci echoed Masheck, “Rifka reworks the neo-classical and the pop, setting all sources in quotation for today’s art-world cognoscenti.” Rifka, along with artists like David Wojnarowicz, helped to take Pop sensibility into a milieu that incorporated politics and high art into Postmodernism; Robert Pincus-Witten stated in his 1988 essay, Corinthian Crackerjacks & Passing Go that "Rifka’s commitment to process and discovery, doctrine with Abstract Expressionist practice, is of paramount concern though there is nothing dogmatic or pious about Rifka’s use of method. Playful rapidity and delight in discovery is everywhere evident in her painting." In 2016, a large retrospective of Rifka's art was shown at the Jean-Paul Najar Foundation in Dubai. In 2017, Gregory de la Haba presented a Rifka retrospective at the Amstel Gallery in The Yard, a section of Manhattan described as "a labyrinth of small cubicles, conference rooms and small office spaces that are rented out to young entrepreneurs, professionals and hipsters". In 2019 her video Bubble Dancers New Space Ritual was selected for the International Istanbul Bienali. Alexandra Goldman Talks To Judy Rifka About Ionic Ironic: Mythos from the '80s at CORE:Club and the Inexistence of "Feminist Art" Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art. She was included in "50 Contemporary Women Artists", a book comprising a refined selection of current and impactful artists. The foreword is by Elizabeth Sackler of the Brooklyn Museum’s Sackler Center for Feminist Art. Additional names in the book include sculptor and carver Barbara Segal...

Pop Art influenced painting of geometric shapes. The painting is mainly blue, black, pink and green tones. The canvas is framed in a black frame. Dimensions without Frame: H 24 in x ...

4-color lithograph on La Paloma handmade paper. Published and printed by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles. Hand signed and dated lower right margin of sheet beneath image. Edition lower le...

Hand signed, dated and numbered by the artist. Sheet size: 30.125 x 29.875 in. Edition of 60. Published by Gemini, G.E.L., Los Angeles. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certifica...

Michel YAKOVLEV, known as YAKO was born in New York in 1963, he grew up in Geneva where he made his first graffiti and his first exhibitions in the 80 ', at a time when this culture ...

Artist: Michael Knigin, American (1942 - 2011) Title: Bare Essence Year: 1995 Medium: Acrylic & enamel on linen, signed, titled and dated verso Size: 27 x 36 inches

Michel YAKOVLEV, known as YAKO was born in New York in 1963, he grew up in Geneva where he made his first graffiti and his first exhibitions in the 80 ', at a time when this culture ...

Artist: Clayton J. Gorder, American (1936 - 1987) Title: Radio Year: circa 1970 Medium: Acrylic and Airbrush on Custom Shaped Canvas Size: 40 x 26.5 inches Provenance: Arras Gallery...

This painting was created by Canadian artist Max Epstein. Epstein's paintings, like this one, often feature Canadian motifs and bright colors. This painting is signed and titled vers...

Michel YAKOVLEV, known as YAKO was born in New York in 1963, he grew up in Geneva where he made his first graffiti and his first exhibitions in the 80 ', at a time when this culture ...

This painting was created by Canadian artist Max Epstein. Epstein's paintings, like this one, often feature Canadian motifs and bright colors. This painting is signed in the lower ce...

A great painting over a serigraph Peter Max. It reads "There may be better artists than me, but i Doubt it." This is classic Ron English. His Bio reads as follows: Ron English, born...

Michel YAKOVLEV, known as YAKO was born in New York in 1963, he grew up in Geneva where he made his first graffiti and his first exhibitions in the 80 ', at a time when this culture ...

Michel YAKOVLEV, known as YAKO was born in New York in 1963, he grew up in Geneva where he made his first graffiti and his first exhibitions in the 80 ', at a time when this culture ...

American School, Pop Art oil on canvas, unsigned and painted circa 1970. A substantial and period, geometric Pop-Art abstract comprising red, white, and navy linear elements contras...

An oil painting by Paul von Ringelheim. An abstract representational painting of the American flag. Artist: Paul von Ringelheim, Austrian/American (1933 - 2003) Title: American Flag...

An original Oil painting by Westley "Wes" Olmsted. This work is currently featured in the exhibition Man of Extremes at Benjaman Gallery in Buffalo, NY. Westley G. Olmsted (1934-2...