Thomas Downing

Miandrivazo

1972

Walter Darby Bannard (American 1934-2016) "China Psalm" 1975 Acrylic on Canvas Signed & Dated Verso 70" x 43" inches framed 69" x 42" inches unframed A leading figure in the devel...

Acrylic on canvas Signed "Sander 1969" (Typewritten paper label states: LSE #75 Atatapa 1. 1965) Ludwig Sander was a painter of the New York School. He studied under Hans Hoffman and lived and worked in New York City and Sagaponack, Long Island. His work is well represented in many public collections. He was charter member of the Eighth Street Club (The Club) whose artist members included Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Jimmy Rosati, Giorgio Spaventi, Milton Resnick, Pat Passlof...

Signed: Gendron '59

Mario Grimaldi (American 1927-1997) "Untitled" ca. 1980's Oil on Canvas Signed Verso 36.3" x 48.3" inches framed 36" x 48" inches unframed Mario Grimaldi born in NYC in 1927, ea...

Oil on unprimed linen canvas. Angel Santiago Plata is an artist working in Madrid, Spain.

Oil on unprimed linen canvas. Angel Santiago Plata is an artist working in Madrid, Spain.

A great strong-edge painting by Naohiko Inukai, No. 16 is part of a series the artist created in the mid 1960s. Many from this series were shown at Inuk...

"Strengths and Weaknesses" is a portrait exploring several elements and strategies that fascinate the artist – notably the performance anxiety induced by simply being an artist, staring down the freight train of art history as it hurtles toward you every time you pick up a brush. Luck? Talent? Maybe. There are signposts and guides in this painting, of course (Cubism! Surrealism! Brancusi! Guston!), but they can clobber you too if you're not careful. Even the phrase "strengths and weaknesses" smacks of compromises and rationalization – deadly to an artist looking to construct their own integral world. "Strengths and Weaknesses" is an acrylic and charcoal on canvas measuring 54" tall by 54" wide. It was included in the artist's solo show "Comedy Cellar" at Freight + Volume Gallery, New York City in July 2018. (See last photograph for an installation view.) From Daniel Gerwin – "Schenck’s color is vibrant, wild, saturated to the point of overheating, and altogether brilliant in the balancing of hues, temperatures, shapes, and color quantities. The paintings have a remarkable coherence for their dizzying juxtaposition of so many small chromatic passages." (Essay: The Anxiety and the Ecstasy) Peter Schenck...

An original hard edge abstraction by American artist James Koenig titled "Ribbon Structure". This work created in 1971 will be featured in the u...

Our shaped canvas which also is a sculptural form in essence for a wall, is a geometric and forward play of optical illusion. Hinman is an important pioneer of exploration in the co...

acrylic on canvas Dion Johnson’s paintings combine and explore dynamic opposites: expansiveness and compression, surface and depth, and darkness and light. Gradient color fields are...

acrylic on canvas Dion Johnson’s paintings combine and explore dynamic opposites: expansiveness and compression, surface and depth, and darkness and light. Gradient color fields are...