Charles Miesmer

Adieu to the Pleasures

In paintings, drawings and prints, Michael Rich explores the beauty and irascibility of the natural world through an approach to painting that is visceral, physical and colorful. Of...

Polymer Paint on Tissue Paper on Canvas

In paintings, drawings and prints, Michael Rich explores the beauty and irascibility of the natural world through an approach to painting that is visceral, physical and colorful. Of...

Born in New York City, the son of a Czech architect and Viennese writer, Gary Komarin is a risk taker in contemporary painterly abstraction. Komarin’s stalwart images have an epic quality that grip the viewer with the idea that he or she is looking at a contemporary description of something timeless. For painter Gary Komarin, abstraction has never been a formal dead end. Rather, it has allowed him to challenge the limitations of the style - to make painting ‘include more’ precisely because a recognizable image excludes too much. Komarin has been called a “painter’s painter”. His status in this regard is based on the authenticity of his work, its deep connection to the tradition of Modern painting as well as its sustained individuality as an utterly personal voice. Like many of the best artists of his generation he is indebted to the New York School, especially his mentor Philip Guston with whom he studied at Boston University where he was awarded a Graduate Teaching Fellowship. Komarin has been particularly successful at filtering these influences through his own potent iconography. “From these seemingly unlovely methods Komarin gets paintings that vibrate with historical memory, echoing such things as Matisse’s driest most empty pictures. Robert Motherwell’s spare abstractions of the 1970’s, or the early New Mexico and Berkeley paintings...

oil on paper. Framed, $500.

This square edge filled canvas presents a mesmerizing yet relaxing spectrum of perfectly blended pigment. “I'd Slay Another Dragon for You” is from the “Mindfulness Circle” series by artist Ethan Blu...

This square edge filled canvas presents a warm-fuzzy of perfectly blended pigment. “Just Peachy” is from the “Mindfulness Circle” series by artist Ethan Blu,...

Frank Arnold is thought by many to be one of the foremost abstract figurative painters and sculptors of our time. He is a living master whose work is considered to be both personal a...

“Mentor” is 60”x 48” The impasto surface stages a bold sienna figure on a muted blue textured field. Frank Arnold’s paintings exhibit the highest quality materials for a truly archiv...

This square edge filled canvas presents a mono-chrome of perfectly blended pigment, white to black. “Novule Bianche” is from the “Mindfulness Circle” series by artist Ethan Blu...

“Gone 5” is 40”x30” The impasto surface stages muted shades of greys and blue green enveloping the central figure. Frank Arnold’s paintings exhibit the highest quality materials for ...