Scoli Acosta

Scoli Acosta Large Contemporary Mixed Media Painting LA Artist External Horizons

2004

Signed, dated, and titled "MAX MARRA XXX 2002 verso. Mixed media sculpture painting including acrylic, ink, cord, and wax on shaped canvas, 20 3/4 x 24 in., unframed. Ho viaggiato ...

Judy Rifka, American, 1945 Laborde Head Mixed Media on Canvas (acrylic paint and ink) 1989 Hand signed, titled, and dated verso 30 X 24 inches Provenance: The Estate of Theodore A Bonin. (Ted Bonin was a principal in Alexander and Bonin, a New York gallery known for its diverse slate of conceptual artists. He started at Marlborough gallery London in the 60s, then in partnership with Brooke Alexander. In its stable were a host of esteemed artists: Willie Cole, Rita McBride, John Ahearn, Paul Thek...

Ellen De Meutter Paint 2, 2007 Acrylic, ink and oil on canvas 31.5 x 23.6 in (80.0 x 59.9 cm) Provenance: Secrets & Lies show at her American gallery Roberts & Tilton, LA in 2007 Ellen De Meutter (1981) teaches painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Antwerp. In 2006-2007 she followed the HISK programme in Ghent, in 2013-2014 she did a residency at the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. De Meutter is represented by Tim Van Laere Gallery since 2006. (they represent Tal R, Marcel Dzama, Tomasz Kowalski and Franz West) Her work has been shown in various exhibitions in Belgium, the United States, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany and Japan. In 2010 she had her first solo museum exhibition in Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens. Ellen De Meutter alters her viewer's reality by presenting a language in which she classifies the figures, shapes and colors from her personal world into a captivating utopia. Contrary to current trends in Flemish art, De Meutter is not simply relaying an anecdote; she composes unique imagery that allows her to experiment with the placement of the subject and unique treatments of her medium. De Meutter's repertoire of vivid, semi-neon colors contrast the muted grays blacks and grays on which they lay. These seemingly energetic colors are at once enhanced by the dark undertones of the canvas below, while simultaneously insinuating a concealed gravity of subject. Belgian art critic and curator, Luk Lambrecht remarks on De Meutter's painting: "she folds back 'her' world onto itself, into a solid mass of color from which, very slowly, vague contours emerge, which safeguard our expectations about looking at an image." De Meutter's scenes are reminiscent of schoolyard games, incorporating a series of text and symbols. By combing figurative imagery with basic abstraction, Ellen De Meutter creates wildly successful compositions that allude to her comprehensive understanding of contemporary painting. She was included in the show, Tomorrow is a long time: Ellen De Meutter, Gelitin, Kati Heck, Anton Henning, Friedrich Kunath...

This depicts civil rights icon MLK, the Statue of Liberty, Iwo Jima, an assemblage of mixed media photographic images and painted collaged elements. A powerful, moving work, an ode to the black civil rights movement. John M. Mitchell is originally from North Carolina, and as an art student at North Carolina Central University, he was involved with the Civil Rights movement including participating and getting arrested at a sit-in protest in Durham in 1963. After graduating, he was one of the first art teachers to take a position at the newly integrated schools in his home state. Mitchell continued his education in the 1990s and earned an MFA in painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 1993. He later served as a professor there from 1998-2006. Of his inspiration to create, Mitchell says: "A lot of my work is based on my experiences during the Civil Rights movement," he says. "I see art making as a 'record' of experiences. My bittersweet past, growing up in the segregated South, inspires the content, focus and narrative of my work." Savannah-based artist John Mitchell believes that a home is more than a simple edifice. Rather, he argues that the sociological, psychological, architectural, and historical associations embedded in the structure “tell us about our culture, our lives. It tells us about where we come from.” Mitchell's signature shotgun house constructions, crafted from found materials and scraps of newspaper headlines, reference his childhood in North Carolina, where such modest architectural structures were once commonplace. In "ALA 1963," he uses the shotgun shape to create a heartfelt memorial to a group of African-American girls killed in a racially motivated church bombing in Alabama nearly 50 years ago. He also incorporates the shotgun symbol in "Victims," a powerful reflection upon crime in Savannah in the early 1990s, which reveals how little has changed over the past two decades. Mitchell's mixed media constructions operate, in many ways, like memory itself. Scraps, fragments and pieces loosely cohere around a central idea, making symbolic and metaphorical connections. In these richly narrative and boldly stream-of-conscious assemblages, the whole truly is greater than the sum of its parts. Mitchell's jazz collages - carefully crafted from scraps of newspaper, sheet music, magazines and tissue paper - celebrate key players in Savannah's jazz scene, from sultry female vocalists to wiry male saxophone players. A tribute to the late jazz bassist Ben Tucker, a true Savannah legend, is especially moving, incorporating a pencil sketch of the standing bass player as well as newspaper clippings of other Savannah jazz musicians. Mitchell grew up in a shotgun house in North Carolina, a style of vernacular architecture that is particularly prevalent in the South. Mitchell fills his sculptural homes with objects of metaphorical and symbolic, iconic, importance. In Home Sweet Home he includes the American flag, a photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, and a china plate depicting The Last Supper, among other items that convey a personal and historical narrative. He notes that making art acts “as a ‘record’ of experiences. My bittersweet past, growing up in the segregated South, inspires the content, focus, and narrative of my work.” While this contains elements reminiscent of folk art and outsider art this is a quite sophisticated tour de force. He was included in the show Complex Uncertainties, Telfair Museum: Modern and contemporary art comprise painting, prints, drawing, photograph, sculpture, and works in new media, representing American artistic achievement from 1945 to the present day. The exhibition includes works by artists such as Bruce Davidson, Elaine de Kooning, Carrie Mae Weems, Sam Gilliam, Ethel Schwabacher, Radcliffe Bailey...

Experimentation with different materials, textures and techniques in each of his paintings has been a point of discovery and a major part of Raul de la Torre’s artwork. In his Fils I Colors series of works, he attempts to find the third dimension through the use of different materials. This colorful mixed media artwork is painted with acrylic on paper. After painting, the artist cuts holes in the paper which he embroiders over with the exact color thread. This original artwork measures 37 inches high by 30 inches wide. This artwork is framed in a modern white frame, the price and size include the frame. Free local Los Angeles area delivery. Affordable U.S. and global shipping available. A certificate of authenticity issued by the art gallery is included. Initially, he removed paint from the artistic equation by slicing the works, combining canvas and paper with selected materials. Gradually, the slicing gained more importance, a reflection, perhaps, of his increased desire to be more aggressive. Embroidery provides another element as it creates thick shadows with organic shapes. When combined with light, these shapes offer different views of the work to various observers. The interaction between the artist, gravity, and the paint is important for the final result. The technique attempts to eliminate the absolute imprint of the artist’s hand. This permits the paint to be a major architect of the final result, giving it a life of its own. It results in infinite and timeless color combinations. In many cases, the different layers of color each represent a temporary state of mind, time, and even places and people. “FILS I COLORS is an attempt to find life, movement and parts that are not static, that change in their interaction with the observer. The different combinations of colors represent different emotions and interpretations for each individual interacting with the works.” – Raul de la Torre The major motivation for the idea behind his series of city artworks “CIUTATS” was Raul’s city, Barcelona, and it's particular infrastructure and architecture which are unique among the cities of the world and which are easily recognizable. His personal attraction to the great cities of the world and the urban life was a true incentive. In this series he portrays the different aspects of the cities as a human creation with their different levels of physical and social existence. “Man created the city and in turn the city has molded the actions and ideas of the human race. I have intended to mold the city, to create my city, to put in order the urban chaos in a reduced physical space, Forget that the cities in which we live have been formed with asphalt, cement, human misery, forgotten revolutions, buried bones and transform them into a conglomeration of texture and color put onto the frontier of canvas and paper.” - Raul de la Torre Artspace Warehouse has been representing and exhibiting Raul de la Torre's original artworks since 2010. The gallery has been a 1stdibs partner since 2014 with consistently excellent reviews from clients worldwide. The gallery exhibits a large selection of affordable original artworks from established and emerging international artists with diverse backgrounds at high standards. Artspace Warehouse is known to provide accurate descriptions, images, reliable services, communication, and delivery. REPRESENTATION Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2023 "Credible Thread", Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA 2022 "Clarifying Color", Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA 2021 825 Gallery, West Hollywood, CA 2021 Pamela Walsh Gallery, Palo Alto, CA 2019 Affordable Art Fair New York 2019 Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles 2019 Merritt Gallery, Baltimore, MD 2019 Art Project Paia, Maui, Hawaii 2018 Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles 2016 Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong 2015 Art Project Paja, Maui, HI 2015 Affordable Art Fair Singapore 2015 FP Contemporary, Culver City, CA 2015 Off Ramp Gallery, Pasadena, CA 2015 Love Art Fair Toronto, Canada 2015 Affordable Art Fair New York, NY 2015 Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, CA 2015 LA Art Fair – Artspace Warehouse – Los Angeles, CA 2014 Red Dot Art Fair – Artspace Warehouse – Miami, FL 2014 Art Toronto – Artspace Warehouse - Canada 2014 Houston Fine Art Fair – Artspace Warehouse - TX 2014 Love Art Fair Toronto – Artspace Warehouse - Canada 2014 AAF New York – Artspace Warehouse - NY 2014 LA Art Fair – Los Angeles, CA 2013 825 Gallery – Out There 2013 - West Hollywood 2013 Bluprint Green Gallery – Modernism - Palm Springs, CA 2013 Gallery Y – Collaboration of Circles and Lines – Los Angeles, CA 2012 825 Gallery – Out There 2012 - West Hollywood, CA 2012 Artspace Warehouse – Los Angeles, CA 2012 Bruce Lurie Gallery – Los Angeles, CA 2012 Launch – Artpad San Francisco, CA 2012 825 Gallery – GEM 2012- West Hollywood 2012 Launch – Los Angeles Art Show 2012 2012 825 Gallery – Versus – West Hollywood 2011 Artspace Warehouse - Colors – Los Angeles 2011 Venice Art Walk and Auction – Venice Beach, CA 2011 Cobalt Studio – In Stitches – Chicago, IL 2011 Launch – Merry Karnowsky Gallery – Solid Stripes - Los Angeles, CA 2010 825 Gallery - Aurora - West Hollywood, CA 2010 Fresh Paint Gallery - Gathering - Culver City, CA 2010 Jon Frum Art Foundation – The Strongest of the Strange - Los Angeles, CA 2010 825 GALLERY - OUT THERE - West Hollywood 2010 VENICE ART WALK AND AUCTION - Venice Beach, CA 2010 825 GALLERY - GEM 2010 - West Hollywood 2010 GALERIA GERALDES DA SILVA - Colectiva de artistas espanhois - Porto, Portugal 2010 ARENA-1 GALLERY – Santa Monica, CA 2010 INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR PURO ARTE - Vigo, Spain 2009 ART VERSUS WALLS - Berlin, Germany 2009 ARENA-1 GALLERY - Santa Monica, CA 2009 GODO GALLERY - Highly Toxic - Glendale, CA 2009 SEYHOUN GALLERY - EUROPE NOW 2009 ROBERT DANIEL GALLERY - Tacoma, Washington 2009 Curator of the show "Europe meets America", Seyhoun Gallery 2009 SEYHOUN GALLERY - FREE IRAN – Los Angeles 2009 825 GALLERY - OUT THERE - West Hollywood 2009 SEYHOUN GALLERY - Los Angeles 2009 EL SEXTO...

In this semi-abstract painting by a.muse cherry blossom branches stand out against a bright blue sky in New York while rooting themselves in the earth. Bright color, pinks, reds, and...

Barcelona native artist Raul de la Torre's vibrant abstract mixed media artworks pay homage to material. De La Torre allows the materials to take over during the process and collabor...

Barcelona native artist Raul de la Torre's vibrant abstract mixed media artworks pay homage to material. De La Torre allows the materials to take over during the process and collabor...