Robert Treece

Layers of Exaggeration

2012

Ajay Kurian Ghost Train, 2014 Clarified butter and acrylic on canvas 32 x 24 inches (81.3 x 61 cm)

Asher Penn Butt, 2014 Acrylic on canvas 36 x 48 inches (91.4 x 121.9 cm)

With quick, gestural brushstrokes, Matthew Chambers paints representational images inspired by pop culture, movies, and art history, as well as abstract works comprising layered stri...

In her painting "Portrait (Bird)," late artist Jackie Saccoccio creates an index of the act of painting, as gestural brushstrokes layered beneath the controlled chaos of paint dripli...

This painting is a bold and tactile abstract composition rendered in oil and mixed media on muslin fabric, a choice that adds a distinctive, almost raw texture to the surface. The mu...

Richmond Burton’s works are known for their kaleidoscopic color, undulating patterns, and lyrical handling of expressionistic mark making. His Visceral, seductive, and organic compositions play with decorative patterning without compromising a conceptual backbone. Their intensity of vision allows for transcendent thought, experience, and connection while challenging any preconceived norms or rules defining abstract painting. “Structure is never absent; it’s just uninsistent, even accidental. The paintings are built up in stages, but never give the impression of being hard-worked. They have a fluid, textural presence, like luxury fabrics printed with overlapping, off-register layers of patterning.” — Holland Cotter, The New York Times (1999). Richmond Burton (b. 1960, Talladega, AL) obtained a BA in architecture from Rice University Houston, TX (1984). He lives and works in Woodstock, NY. Burton has shown extensively both domestically and internationally and has work in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; The Broad, Los Angeles, CA; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; Fogg Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY; and National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, among others. Recent solo exhibitions include venues such as Sarah Moody Gallery of Art at University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL (2015); Silas Marder Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY (2014); Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO (2013); and George Lawson...

"The dream that came true" is the first painting born in my new studio in the Colorado mountains... A song to the craggy spires and valleys of the mind. To the water that runs throu...

This large abstract oil painting is by Dutch contemporary artist and art teacher Rubins J. Spaans. A unique oil painting on the finest quality Belgium linen canvas. The painting is a...