Tim Craighead

Common Ground

2024

Tim Craighead’s work is categorized as abstract, though it inhabits a space between objective and non­objective painting. Both serve as a matrix for what are essentially autobiograph...

Craighead's paintings operate somewhere between abstraction and the cognitive world, between the unknown and the known. The works often begin with a general idea. He might be reflect...

Craighead's paintings operate somewhere between abstraction and the cognitive world, between the unknown and the known. The works often begin with a general idea. He might be reflec...

abstract painting on canvas

Horizontal minimalist abstract acrylic painting in color fields of aqua, deep blue and black. oil and alkyd on canvas in a Larson Juhl black wood recessed framed Inspired by stones, stains from nature, erosion and artists such as Rothko and Sam Francis, Snow produces meditative fields of brilliant aqua, blue and black color by layering oil paints with a fast drying alkyd medium. The network of layers are bound to a complex under-painting with broad bands of pigment while the rapid drying alkyd allows Snow to continue the succession quite quickly, revealing beautiful boundaries of color. With his painting Snow strives for purity, seeking depth without illusion, using horizons of colors as a harmonious language to create chords, scales and tones. The artist has exhibited extensively in the New England region and has shown with Carrie Haddad Gallery for more than ten years. Surface texture of this painting is incredibly smooth due to the combination of paint and chemicals used. Palette is a brilliant aqua and...

Gaza, a Provocative and haunting figurative work painted with warm golden and burgundy red hues. ‘Gaza’ takes its inspiration from images of women in turmoil that the artist has seen...

An oil and alkyd on canvas depicted in abstracted geometric shapes of glossy black, yellow green and yellow red by David Row. Signed verso, "#400, 1996, Oil/Alkyd/Canvas, an arrow up...

Magdalena Pela deals with the signs of everyday life. In her works, she refers to the category of palimpsest, blurring traces, illegibility. She is fascinated by the mystery of the ...