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Contemporary Animal Paintings

CONTEMPORARY STYLE

Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.

Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.

The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.

Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.

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Style: Contemporary
Ethereal Emotions Elegant Neutral Colors a Contemporary Gestural Horse Painting
Located in Charleston, US
Abbie Gibson's large scale contemporary horse painting, "Between Two Worlds" is inspired by the horse and ethereal qualities surrounding the animal, while focusing on the subjects of...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Oil

Freediver with Lemon Shark
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Like almost all of us, I grew up fearing sharks and hoping never to meet one. We still see it everywhere, the image of the blood-thirsty man eater, stalking us in the shadows. The ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Wood, Oil, Wood Panel

Chinese Contemporary Art by Jia Yuan-Hua - Sightseeing No.8
Located in Paris, IDF
Artwork sold framed: 76 x 76 x 5,5 cm. The Great Wall of China is well known in the world. Tens of millions of tourists from all over the world...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Lightning, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
In swift calligraphic strokes, artist Shao Yuan Zhang paints a jockey riding an energetic stallion thundering through the racetrack. He explores and illustrat...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Acrylic

Welcome to My World, Danny Galieote, Oil on Canvas, Floral & Bird, Americana Pop
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
DANNY GALIEOTE Welcome to My World Oil on Canvas 11 x 14 inches 16.5 x 13.5 inches, Framed Danny Galieote has a propensity for capturing the quintessentials of Americana in works t...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Mark Making (2019) oil on panel, nature art, wildlife landscape, cave animals
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Mark Making (2019) oil on panel, nature art, wildlife landscape, cave animals, cave art, prehistoric art, earth tones "Mark Making" by Alexis Kandra is an or...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Foil

'Two Black Cats, ' by Ewa Miazek-Mioduszewska, Acrylic on Linen Painting
By Ewa Miazek-Mioduszewska
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 39.4" x 31.5" acrylic painting by Ewa Miazek-Mioduszewska, features two black cats facing one another in a bright yellow, blue and green landscape. The landscape is punctuated ...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Acrylic, Linen

Silver Amazone
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Dutch artist Jos de Wit creates both sculptures and paintings. He does not shy away from any subject in his work. Often small gems full of special finds sho...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Adrian Parnell, Modern British Artist, Seascape with seagulls
Located in Harkstead, GB
A really striking image of birds in flight at the edge of the sea, capturing the spectrum of wonderful blues in the sea and sky. Adrian Parnell (b.1952) Seabirds Signed with initial...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Oil, Board

Gardens of Delight LVII - XXI century figurative oil painting, Birds, Colorful
Located in Warsaw, PL
Magdalena Nałęcz (b. 1970) She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in 1995. She received numerous scholarships and prizes: in 1997 the scholarship of the city of Cracow...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Hunt Slonem IO Moths, Unique, Signed painting created for literary publication
Located in New York, NY
Hunt Slonem IO Moths, 2009 Oil paint on canvas painting Hand Signed, titled and dated on the back; also bears artists original label Unique work Provenance: Created by Hunt Slonem e...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Oil, Board

Lavender Ammonite - Gyotaku Style Sumi Ink Painting on Mulberry Paper
Located in Chicago, IL
A 65 million year old sea creature is captured here through the art of Gyotaku by Jeff Conroy. After inking and taking impressions of a reproduction fossil Ammonite shell and combini...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Sumi Ink, Watercolor, Mulberry Paper, Color Pencil

Indonesian Contemporary Art by Kusbudiyanto - Traditional Market
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on canvas Kusbudiyanto is an Indonesian artist born in 1969 who lives & works in Jogjakarta, Indonesia. He started his artistic career in working for a company engaged in th...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

Boogie in thoughts - Figurative acrylic painting, Dog, Animal, Blue & purple
Located in Warsaw, PL
WŁODEK WARULIK (born in 1953) Włodzimierz Warulik studied at the Academy of Fine Arts at the Atelier of Painting. He graduated in 1981 from the atalier of profesor Jan Lis. Driven b...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Crossing" Mixed Media Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Aaron Li-Hill's "Crossing" is an original, handmade acrylic and aerosol painting that depicts a stylized monochrome Owl in flight. About the Artist: Li-Hill is a Canadian visual artist currently based out of Brooklyn, who employs painting, illustration, stenciling, and sculptural elements within his works. With a background in graffiti and mural painting and a degree in Fine Arts, his works range from smaller multiples to enormous murals...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Acrylic, Spray Paint

Holding Carm
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Holding Carm" by RU8ICON1 is an oil painting on canvas, from 2021. It is a figurative panting that depicts a girl holding a cat in the kitchen in RU8ICON1's signature time bending ...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Morning Glory No. 1 (Bees, Birch Panel, Botanicals, Butterflies, Floral, Gold)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Katrina Revenaugh Morning Glory No. 1 Archival Pigment Ink, Acrylic and Spray Paint on Birch Panel with a UV Matte Varnish with Natural Wood Edges. Year: 2022 Size: 24×24in Signed: O...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Birch, Oil Pastel, Archival Ink, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Panel

Goldfish
Located in Atlanta, GA
Greg's witty and charming oil painting on aluminum comes framed in a floater frame which adds 1.75 inches all the way around. "Greg Decker is a visionary painter. His work epitomize...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Metal

Nights Flight, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Alana Clumeck presents an image of an elk surrounded by two cockatoos and a kaleidoscope of butterflies. "I was struck by the sheer volume of parrots f...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Acrylic

Abduction of Europe diptych-interior art made in grey, white and black color
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Photographically accurate realism and conceptualism, peacefully coexisting on the canvases of Pavel Polanski. His canvases are gray with different depths of tone, almost monochrome a...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Big Multi Ducks
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Carmine Bilardello’s Big Multi Ducks (2025) is a vibrant and meticulously crafted resin-based artwork that transforms the charm of childhood nostalgia into a sophisticated, contempor...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Resin

Panther Hollow
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Panther Hollow, oil, blue and gold metal foil, big cat, figurative, animal, grid
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Wood, Paper, Oil

High Emotion and Bon Voyage, Set of 2, Original painting, Animal art
Located in Deddington, GB
Original artwork. 'High Emotion' is striking original artwork by Adam Bartlett, hand rendered in acrylic and emulsion paint, featuring his signature Cheetah, beautifully tray framed....
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Enamel

Fluffs and Butterflies 4, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Vibrant butterflies gather around and fly amongst dandelion fluffs floating in the air. Part of artist Natasha Tayles' whimsical series on butterflies. In col...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Acrylic

Moon Cat (2017) Oil & metallic foil on panel, tiger and cat, black, silver, pink
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Moon Cat" (2017) by Alexis Kandra Oil and metal leaf on panel, figurative painting Wildlife painter, domestic and wild animals, tiger, white domestic cat, moon Surrealist juxtaposit...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Silver

Wee One 15 (Hummingbird, Portrait, Storytelling, Oil Painting)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Joseph Broghammer Wee One 15 (Hummingbird, Portrait, Storytelling, Oil Painting) Oil on Canvas Year: 2023 Size: 14x11in Framed: 15x12x1in Signed by hand COA provided Ref.: 924802-190...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Anim
Located in Hudson, NY
This new series of painting is an exciting transition for Kinney as he is best known for assemblage and sculpture. “Anim”, the Latin root word of animal, means life, soul or breath. This exhibition features select large-format monochromatic oil paintings on stretched canvas and wood panels. On view as well are works on paper with Japanese Sumi Ink, which inspired the oil paintings. Kinney has been looking at pre-historic cave paintings as well as animals depicted therein, such as the Chauvet caves in Nice, Southern France. Emerging from the inextricable interplay of light and dark, Kinney’s black and white ink paintings capture the ever-shifting subjectivity shaped by shadow. Cast in Japanese Sumi ink, each unique painting explores the trajectories of human and animal, natural and architectural form- what is revealed or hidden? A variety of hand-torn, heavy weight papers add textural dimension to each mark and brush stroke, as well as through the immediacy of brushstrokes to depict the action within the artwork In his latest collection of works, Kinney explores animal form and meaning as seen in both contemporary and ancient times. In “Savanna (Zebras) ”, a stampede of zebras is depicted through oil paint on wood panel. Animal populations in regions like the horn of Africa today face the loss of their natural habitats due to extreme draught. He explores the deep imprint they leave behind and the interconnectedness of humans and animals in the world. With the balance of nature at stake, Kinney’s paintings underscore the importance of the relationship between the natural environment and civilization. Matt Kinney...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Sumi Ink, Rag Paper

Catcher, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Inspired by a feline's love for rolling toys, artist Jeff Fleming demonstrates a charming portrait of a cat playing with a green b...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Oil

Princess with a frog. 2014. Oil on canvas, 20x20 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Princess with a frog. 2014. Oil on canvas, 20x20 cm Dagnia Cherevichnik (1974) Born in 1974 in Riga. Professional education: 1986-1993 – J. Rozentals Riga Art Secondary School; 1995...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

American Southwest, 2019
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Oil and metal leaf, gold foil on wood panel Wildlife of the American Southwest, animal painting, earth tones, pastels, landscape, skyscape Oil paint...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Metal

Death Of My Sister’s House (Hummingbird, Portrait, Storytelling, Oil Painting)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Joseph Broghammer Death Of My Sister’s House (Hummingbird, Portrait, Storytelling, Oil Painting) Oil on Canvas Year: 2022 Size: 44x34in Signed by hand COA provided Ref.: 924802-1893 ...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Wee One 10 (Hummingbird, Portrait, Storytelling, Oil Painting)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Joseph Broghammer Wee One 10 (Hummingbird, Portrait, Storytelling, Oil Painting) Oil on Canvas Year: 2023 Size: 14x11in Framed: 15x12x1in Signed by hand COA provided Ref.: 924802-190...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"A Bull Spins in Time" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Robin Hextrum's (US based) "A Bull Spins in Time" is an oil painting that depicts a lone Bull charging into the abstracted field with a bright yellow background and colored clouds fl...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Ice Cat
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Ice Cat, oil paint, holographic foil, domestic cat, figurative, animal, grid
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Wood, Paper, Oil

Bill the Kid
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Billy the Kid", a unique stained glass shadowbox handmade by TF Dutchman, contains an acrylic painting on canvas set in a stained glass box. The canvas...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Glass, Acrylic

Hunt Slonem "Sky Swoon" Butterflies
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt Title: Sky Swoon Series: Butterflies Date: 2024 Medium: Oil on canvas Unframed Dimensions: 30" x 40" Signature: Signed by Artist on Verso Edition: Unique...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Oil

Sunshine, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Alana's Wallpaper series is a juxtaposition between masculine and feminine. "I wanted to create a unique series that stands apart from traditional nature pai...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Oil

Tortoise, Animal, Acrylic on Canvas, Blue, Green, Contemporary Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Debabrata Basu - Untitled - 46 x 46 inches (unframed size) Acrylic on Canvas Inclusive of shipment in ready to hang form. Style : Debabrata derives his style and theme by introspect...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Japanese Contemporary Art by Teppei Ikehila - Fujiya Hotel 3
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas Teppei Ikehila is a Japanese artist born in 1978 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. He is graduated from Shimane University in 2001. Since 2000, he has held many priva...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Something You'll Never Know
Located in Bozeman, MT
Patrick Oates' work explores the intersection of landscape, identity, and family history. His experimental paintings delve into queer identity, trauma, and the unknown, weaving a com...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"The Cat and I" figurative oil painting girl love trust relax happy time pet
Located in Kowloon, Hong Kong
Clementine believes in the power of colour and the power of healing through art. Her works are often considered therapeutic, offering a quiet corner for meditation where viewers can ...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Oil

Sichuan Forest (2019), oil painting, ecosystem, animals, panda, monkey, fauna
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Sichuan Forest (2019), oil painting, ecosystem, animals, panda, monkey, fauna "Sichuan Forest" by Alexis Kandra. Figurative oil painting with pigmented metal foil in metallic green ...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Foil

Nature's Web of Dependency - Large Scale Oil Painting with Animals and People
Located in Chicago, IL
Nothing in nature exists in isolation. Everything is interconnected and interdependent. Bruno Surdo explores this theory in this large scale painting entitled simply "Nature's Web of Dependency". One small part of this web are humans And while nature can survive without humans, we must ask ourselves, can we humans survive without nature?? This painting is unframed. Please contact the gallery for framing options. Bruno Surdo Nature's Web of Dependency oil on canvas 64h x 66.50w in 162.56h x 168.91w cm BRS082 Bruno A. Surdo b. Chicago, 1963 EXHIBITIONS 2021 Ethos + Truth, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL 2020 Realities, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL 2018 Liberation, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL Blood Sport, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL Art on Paper 2018, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Pier 36, New York, NY SOFA Chicago 2018, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL 2017 POP!ARAZZI, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL Coming Attractions, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL 2015 SOFA Chicago 2015, Ann Nathan Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL Bruno Surdo: Allegories, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2014 Bruno Surdo: Respond, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Modern Metaphors, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL 2013 Bruno Surdo: Revelations, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Vice + Virtue, Northern Illinois University Museum of Art 2012 Contemporary Realism Biennial, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN 2011 Bruno Surdo, University of St. Francis School of Creative Arts, Fort Wayne, IN Uncensored, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2010 Art Chicago 2010, Ann Nathan Gallery, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL 2009 Art Chicago 2009, Ann Nathan Gallery, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL 2007 Bruno Surdo, Art Institute of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN 2006 Context/Content: Making Meaning with the Figure, University of Arkansas, Conway, AR Creative Imaginings, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL Bruno Surdo: Cycles, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2005 Art Chicago 2005, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2004 Tragedy, Memory, & Honor, Richard M. Daley Center, Chicago, IL Art Chicago 2004, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Group Show, Arcadia Gallery, New York, NY Drawings VII, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, West Hollywood, CA Armory Show, New York Armory, New York, NY 2003 Paintings & Drawings, College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL The Art Show, New York, NY Bruno Surdo: New Work, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Art Chicago 2003, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2003-10 International Show of Contemporary Artists, Chicago Art Open, Chicago, IL 2002 Bruno Surdo: Perception of Appearance, Frye Museum, Seattle, WA Tragedy, Memory, & Honor, Richard M. Daley Center, Chicago, IL Bruno Surdo: Transcendence, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Art Chicago 2002, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Tragedy, Memory, & Honor, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2001 Magic Vision, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR 1998 Evanston and Vicinity Artists, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL 1996 Bruno Surdo: A Personal View, University of Wisconsin, Kenosha, WI 1995 Bruno Surdo: Recent Works, College of Lake County, IL AIDS in Our Society, Loyola University, Chicago, IL Bruno Surdo: Life, Struggle, and Hope, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL 2001 Magic Vision, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR Bruno Surdo: Dualities of Life, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 1999 Group Show, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 1998 Group Exhibition, Fine Arts Building Gallery, Chicago, IL 1995 Spiritual Inquiries, Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL 1994 Recent Works, The 14th Annual Juried Exhibition for Lake County Artists, Grayslake, IL Go Figure, Figurative Works on Paper, Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, Chicago, IL SELECTED COLLECTIONS The Re-Birth of Venus, Temporary Loan, Fort Wayne Museum of Art Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR College of Lake County, Greyslake, IL Flashpoint Academy, Chicago IL John Robert Wiltgen Design Shoemaker Ruud Collection Julie & Thomas Danilek Michael Vozzella and Mike Silver Benjamin Fernandez Tom Braake Betsy Colburn Michael Diemand & Lor LaRose Michael Staab & Kathy Brock Bruce Leep Frank Tzurect Mary Foley Rosalyn Carlson Mimmy Turney Janet Long Halstead Billy Hunt Carol Galli Myles Kerrigan Honorable & Mrs. Edwin Berman Theodore Gage Northrop Art Museum Past Present & Future Company Dr. James & Peggy Kemmler Salvatore Monastero Nix & Virginia Lauridsen Joel Miller David & Marlene Zerkel Ann & Andy Abel Claudia Rush Marc Miller Leonard Goldberg Lawrence Pucci Howard Tullman Collection Susan & Manny Kramer James Rinnert Richar Interiors Michael & Nancy Colt Khalid Altijir Dr. Joe Grodman Beryl & Jack Gore Larry Wolf & Eric Naegle Chuck Wolandi Jack Schwab & David Sandelin Thomas Kaczmarek Marti Dinerstein Craig & Michael Golden...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Bachman's Warbler (2019) oil on panel, nature, wildlife birds, flowers, tree
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Bachman's Warbler, nature, birds, branches, floral, oil on panel, black, yellow "Bachman's Warbler" by Alexis Kandra is an original oil painting with black metal foil on wood panel ...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Foil

"Purdy" Mixed Media Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Kaitlin Ziesmer's (US based) "Purdy" is an original, handmade AcrylaGouache painting that depicts a pink and black bird in profile wearing a levitating...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Acrylic, Gouache, Wood Panel

"Who's Driving This Thing?", Acrylic Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Josh Talbott's (US based) "Who's Driving This Thing" is an acrylic painting that depicts yellow scorpion appendages with the body of a black car having been released from a glass jar. Bio: Josh Talbott grew up in suburban/rural Georgia in the southern US. His first work as a professional artist was in scenic painting and murals for various production companies. An attempt to deepen his well of possibilities led to New Orleans where as a street artist he sold works to people from all over the world before loosing everything in hurricane Katrina. With short stints in Santa Fe and then Los Angeles Josh arrived in the small coastal city of Los Osos, California where he lives and works today. His curiosity is voracious and interests are many, including scuba/ free diving, sailing, surfing, gardening, geology, rock hounding, rationality, AI, history, and philosophy. In his studio there is always an audiobook on, and outside of the studio there are all manner of activities making there way into his work. He has many private collectors scattered across the globe and murals in San Francisco. ARTIST STATEMENT We live in a time of extreme and accelerated change, growing complexity, and specialization. At every stage in our human trajectory from primitive beginnings crawling out of the sea to the present gauntlet of challenges, our thinking tools and their uses are central to the story of what it means to be human. My work is informed by a fascination with thinking tools and the effects of programming and environment through the different phases of life and our capacity for storytelling. My practice consists of constructing small-scale still life scenarios of toys and other artifacts of human development, then creating photorealistic acrylic paintings of these scenes. The work juxtaposes the familiar and playful with a contemporary, complex, adult world. While I am interested in the science of the mind, and what it means to be a human, my work seldom features the human form, focusing instead on the objects and items that are frequently left behind. As such, the subject of the painting becomes the viewer him or herself because their own humanity is ultimately what is revealed. My work honors toys as thinking tools for small people and the scenes depicted explore the ways in which the culture of our formative years leaves a lasting mark and continues to shape our storytelling. The plastic artifacts of my formative years carry memories of simultaneous confusion and wonder at the world around me. These are sensations and emotions still very much present in my life. What were your imaginings and dramas when you played with toys? Are you living them today? The multileveled still life paintings of familiar toys are bright and accessible and connect to the viewer's nostalgia and playfulness while provoking deeper insights into our current evolutionary, cultural, and technological moment. I place each little curio with care into meaningful relationship to their interlocutors and environment. The plastic dinosaurs often depicted are emblematic of childhood curiosities, of great wonder and speculation at past worlds and the depth of evolutionary time, and yet they are made of a material that illustrates our shortsightedness, a quintessential human quality that makes it quite possible that these plastic creations will outlast us all. I do my best to draw inspiration and resources from everywhere to build a visual language. In my divergent path I find the musical compositions and the story of composer, Philip Glass inspiring. The story of his devotion to his craft and his subsequent successes have encouraged and inspired me. I'm influenced by writers such as Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Sapolsky, and Yuval Noah Harari, the many books by Simon Winchester, Daniel Dennet, Robert Wright...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Narcissus paradigm shift Timothy Archer 21st Century Contemporary painting blue
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint on cvanvas Signed lower left
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

African Elephant, gold, oil, metallic foil, blue, animals, landscape, grid
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"African Elephant" by Alexis Kandra is an original oil painting with gold and black foil measuring 6" H x 6" W x 1" D. figurative, animals, landscape, elephant, blue, gold
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Foil

"The Heart Of America VI" Bison Bull Buffalo Charcoal Drawing, Steffen Bue
Located in Frederiksberg C, DK
Charcoal drawing of a bison bull by Steffen Bue. This portrait of a bison bull is part of Steffen Bue's "The Heart of America" series, an intimate exploration of the bison bull, a cr...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Charcoal, Handmade Paper

Looking At You, 2019, acrylic, colored pencil, wood panel, blue, window, bird
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Looking At You (2019), a collaboration between artists Gigi Chen and Loren Abbate. Acrylic and colored pencil on wood panel depicting a figurative painting of a bird perched on a win...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Acrylic, Wood Panel, Color Pencil

Lockdown Painting III, 21st Century Contemporary Oil Painting by Rineke Engwerda
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Rineke Engwerda is a young artist with a unique style. Even without a signature you can immediately recognize the work of Rineke. In an old school, near the Fanny Blankers Koen stadi...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Acrylic

Duel, Original Elephant Painting, Safari Animal Art, Landscape Wildlife Painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Duel is an original oil painting by Sophie Harden. This wonderful painting of two fighting bull elephants, kicking up the dust as they go has been inspired by Sophie’s travels to Kenya. Painted on dark a blue background, using contrasting white oil to pick out where the light hits the subject gives this painting a huge sense of movement and fluidity. Sophie’s contemporary monochrome technique allows movement to flood the painting, from the explosive energy and grace of animals to the small details that captures a moment in time. Sophie works to accentuate the adaptation of light, making the viewer perceive a 3D object...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Untitled, Oil on Canvas, Yellow, Green, Red Color Contemporary Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Gurucharan Singh - Untitled Oil on Canvas, 14.75 x 12 inches Born 1949 Exhibitions : Selected Solo Exhibitions 2012 'Twilight Tales', The Viewing Room, Mumbai 2008 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai 1989,86 Gallery 7...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil

"Red Storm" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Robin Hextrum's (US based) "Red Storm" is an oil painting that depicts a lone horse rearing up while white birds flee and scatter. Artist Bio: Robin Hextrum is a contemporary oil p...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Mountains
Located in Dallas, TX
Miles Cleveland Goodwin says, "I don’t like to do things I don’t know." Not unlike the spirit of Southern literature and Delta blues music, there is an autobiographical nature to his...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Colonial Dinner" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Robin Hextrum's (US based) "Colonial Dinner" is a monochromatic oil painting that depicts giraffes and landscape with a dining table set together Artist Bio: Robin Hextrum is a cont...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Two Dolphins - Original Acrylic by Robert Lewis - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Two Dolphins is an original contemporary artworks realized by Robert Lewis (1941) in 1990s Acrylic on Canvas. Hand signed on the lower left margin Includes a contemporary white wo...
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1990s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Acrylic

Australian Outback, oil & metallic foil on panel, animals, figurative, landscape
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Australian Outback" by Alexis Kandra is an original oil painting with gold foil on wood panel, measuring 8" H x 8" W x 1" D. animals, figura...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel, Wood Panel

Cat Aesthetics
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Cat Aesthetics" by RU8ICON1 is an oil painting on canvas, from 2021. It is a figurative panting that depicts a girl holding baby cubs in RU8ICON1's signature time bending style. Th...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Cheetah
Located in New York, NY
"Cheetah" oil on wood 8 x 10 inches 2023
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Wood, Oil

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