Sally Smith

Sunflower Seeds No. 3

2021

Artist Commentary: This large minimalist painting is centered around a dot grid made from US dollar bills. The dollar bills were collected fr...

Artist Commentary: This minimalist process piece is made with charcoal from redwood and eucalyptus trees. Chainsaw carburetor gaskets were used to apply the charcoal. This series explores the tension between the native and invasive plants in the Claremont Canyon (near San Francisco) and human involvement in this dynamic. Keywords: ecology art, minimalist, geometric, circles, process art, grid art, environmental art...

Artist Commentary: This minimalist oil painting is created with oil paint and charcoal made from Trump's "Art of the Deal" and Playboy magazines. The calmness belies the blackmail referred to in the title. Trace amounts of human urine are mixed with acrylic medium painted over the charcoal lines. This medium has not color or texture, but is a tool for making the charcoal adhere to the oil primed linen. Keywords: political art, small minimalist painting...

Artist Commentary: This painting is dominated by a sky filled with variegated and undulating storm clouds broken by the light of an unseen sun. The hillside below is scattered with ...

Artist Commentary: This large semi-abstract cityscape celebrates light, pattern, figures and architecture. Keywords: semi-abstract landscape, cityscape, turkish landscape, pattern ...

Artist Commentary: This semi-abstract painting combines suggestions of canopies, windows, pyramids, figures, and patterns to evoke the mystery of travel. Keywords: semi-abstract int...

The view across St Ives harbour.
 Colin Taylor’s expressive paintings are created with oil, acrylic, pastel and charcoal on linen. Wooden Tray Frame Oil Acrylic Paint,Linen, pastel...

Abstract figure swinging on a tree branch in foreground. Seascape, coastline background. Thick, textural brush strokes. Darius's most recent body of work is bright, colorful, wi...

Diana Greenberg’s abstract color field paintings are meditations on rhythm and color found in nature. Her intuitive process begins by taking inspiration from striking color combinat...

The title of the work in English: "Careful! Ideas are thieves of dreams" Artist Statement on “Houseplants” series: The following project began towards the end of 2017. The transition from my previous work (abstract expressionist paintings that explored processes related to my athletic practice) may seem spontaneous, but it was something that happened quite naturally for me after an ankle injury I suffered in June of that year. From a very active daily routine I was forced quite abruptly into a sedentary one. While being inactive was a circumstance that made me feel very uncomfortable and uneasy not only physically, but also emotionally, it was one that is so common - and comfortable - for the ever expanding digital society. Without realizing that I was beginning a new body of work I was drawn by a deep urge to painting humans as some sort of inanimate object. A houseplant I thought, a wild organism domesticated. I had a few ideas for the figures in mind and knew the composition would be set in an environment that can neither be recognized as indoor or outdoor, but without clear ideas of the final pieces. Having only rough pencil sketches to start from allowed the work to have elements of spontaneity and life, but also required perseverance to see them through to an unknown end. I experiment directly on the canvas with form and color until the subjects feel right (not necessarily anatomically, but rather aesthetically). Thereon changes continue until, upon stepping away from the work, the sum of its elements evoke a sense of harmony; sometimes on purpose, sometimes by mistake. This is in many ways a continuation of the processes I practiced in my previous work, only applied to a new subject. By embracing mistakes, and responding to aesthetic decisions on the canvas directly the painting begins to form harmony through trial and error, building simultaneously texture and depth, and maintaining an expressive quality. About the artist: Magdalena Paz...

This painting is part of a series that is influenced by trying to find simplicity and beauty in todays chaotic world. I start each painting with a feeling; be it hope, despair, happi...

This painting reflects upon the experience of being in the California Wildfires of 2018.