Philip Durbin

Surrealist Mythical Creature's Head

2014

Colorful abstract painting of a surreal orange-toned deer floating in a black starry dream landscape. This piece was recently included in the artist's solo show titled "Two-Headed Tu...

Contemporary animal painting by Houston, TX artist Tra' Slaughter. The painting features a realistically rendered barking dog set against a black background. S...

Modern abstract painting of birds by the iconic Houston based artist David Adickes. The work features a grid of four different Cubist-inspired abstractions of birds set against a tea...

Contemporary abstract painting by local Houston artist Emmanuel Araujo. The work features a pair of birds with green eyes flying over purple and black ...

Stacy D'Aguiar's (US based) "Mystical Metamorphosis I" is an acrylic painting that depicts a colorful and surreal scene of a woman with butterfly wings on a flower. Artist Statement...

Stacy D'Aguiar's (US based) "Mystical Metamorphosis II" is an acrylic painting that depicts a colorful and surreal scene of a woman with butterfly wings on a flower. Artist Statemen...

Stacy D'Aguiar's (US based) "Electrogenesis" is an acrylic painting that depicts a colorful and surreal scene of a fish. Artist Statement: My paintings are channeled, Visual Dreamsc...

J. James Akston Surrealism, Bird with Fish, marine scene Acrylic on Board Frame: 9.75 X 8 Image: 4.5 X 3.25 Joseph James Akston was a Polish American sculptor, painter, known for surrealist abstract painting and Aubusson (for Les Ateliers Pinton Frères, tapisserie, Aubusson) tapestry artist. Born in Warsaw, Poland in 1898 he died in Palm Beach Florida in 1983. During the 1960s and '70s the entrepreneur-artist James Joseph Akston adopted a unique Surreal Expressionist style in order to present his private primordial universe and lampoon its denizens, a ribald cast of animal creatures with human foibles. A successful industrialist, he began his career with General Motors foreign operations and then started his own business. Intermittently he studied painting, first with Jerry Farnsworth in North Truro (Mass.) and then with Jose Clemente Orozco in Mexico. In the early 1960s Akston became publisher-editor of a group of art publications which included The Magazine Arts. Initially an abstract expressionist, Akston had one-man exhibitions at the New York Convention Center and the Corcoran Museum in Washington. Since 2015 the record price for this artist at auction is $12,575 USD for Spheres Aux Triangles Aubusson Tapestry, sold at Bonhams New York in 2019. He was a Graduate of Georgetown University. He sat on the board of the Norton Museum. Exhibitions 1976 Hokin Gallery 1966 Gallery 63 NYC 1960 Gallery 63 Rome , Italy Select Public Collections National Museum, Wshington DC Boca Museum of Art Whitney Museum of Art, NYC Museum of Modern Art, NYC Museum of African Art Washington DC (Now part of Smithsonian Museum) Bibliography: 1962 Art...