Elena Chestnykh

"You Don't Know Her" Figurative Painting, Oil on Canvas, Foam Board, Nude

2020

"Journey" Oil, Photograph, and Alkyd on Canvas This piece is unique, signed on verso, and includes a certificate of authenticity. Grace Graupe-Pillard has concentrated on portraitur...

Elena Chestnykh was born in Novosibirsk, Russia and currently resides and works in New York. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally, inc...

Celebrated artist Robin Tewes was born in Queens New York in 1950. She received her BFA from Hunter College in 1978 and her MST from Pace University in 2012. She is the Recipient of many notable and prestigious awards, including the 2008 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Painting Award, the 2007 Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Award, and the 2004 and 1989 New York Foundation for the Arts-Painting. Selected solo exhibitions include Wright Gallery, Adam Baumgold Gallery, Headbones Gallery, Klapper Hall Gallery, Bill Maynes Gallery, John Weber Gallery. Some group exhibitions include: at P.S. 1, P.S. 122 Painting Association, The Drawing Center, Aldridge Museum, Whitney Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Hunterdon Museum. Tewes is interested in how much a single narrative moment can tell us about ourselves. Became a founding member of P.S122 Painting Association and now on the Board of Directors. She has been included recently in the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. Her work has been recognized and written about in NY Times, Village...

Elena Chestnykh was born in Novosibirsk, Russia and currently resides and works in New York. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally, including with the Museum of Contemporary Art Erarta (MCAE) in Saint-Petersburg, the Art Center WINZAVOD in Moscow, the State Museum of Novosibirsk, Tomsk, and Kemerovo in Russia, and Nord Art 2010, Rendsburg, Germany. In 2013, “Urban Reflections” traveled to New York Erarta Gallery and became Chestnykh’s first solo exhibition in the United States. Chestnykh has also presented works in New York at SFA projects Gallery...

Grace Graupe-Pillard has concentrated on portraiture since her early charcoal drawings which she exhibited at The Drawing Center, NYC in 1981. Her work, which has been exhibited at notable institutions such as MOMA PS1 and galleries including Cheim & Read Gallery (NY) and Carl Hammer Gallery...

Rebecca Leveille (who is also known for her illustration work under the name Rebecca Guay) received a BFA from Pratt Institute in 1992. Leveille’s art has garnered words of praise from Jerry Saltz, Walter Robinson, and Peter Frank. She has been a guest artist/speaker at Rhode Island School of Design, University of Massachusetts, Savannah College of Art and Design, and Fordham University, a guest instructor at Pratt Institute, and a guest artist by invitation to shows and events in Melbourne Australia, Paris, Nagoya and Osaka (Japan), Valencia, San Fernando, and Torrelavega (Spain). Her work has been featured in Juxtapoz Magazine, American Art Collector, and Hi Fructose among many other publications and is collected internationally. In 2018 she was featured in a solo show at The Untitled Space. Her work has additionally been featured in The Untitled Space group shows “UPRISE / ANGRY WOMEN”, “SHE INSPIRES” as well as "EDEN" (2019) and “(HOTEL) XX" (2018) presented at SPRING/BREAK Art Show. She has been featured at Sotheby’s New York for the annual “Take Home A Nude” exhibit and auction presented by The New York Academy of Art (2017-2019), The Allentown Museum of Art, PA, Delaware Art...

Portrait of a Woman Reading - Bay Area Figurative School Abstract Expressionist Abstracted portrait of a woman reading by San Francisco artist Heather Speck (American, b. 1978). A w...

An enigmatic and psychologically penetrating self-portrait in vivid shades of yellow, green and red. Signed lower right, 'Leonebel Jacobs' (American, 1883-1967) and painted circa 1945. Writer, sculptor, teacher and portrait painter Leonebel Jacobs first studied under Brush and Charles Hawthorne at the University of Oregon. A well traveled artist, Jacobs lived and painted in China, Hawaii, New York City and Los Angeles. She was a member of the American Watercolor Society, the American Federation of Arts, the Municipal Art Commission of New York, the National Association of Women Artists, the New York Watercolor Club and the Pen & Brush Club. Jacobs spent her early years in the Foreign Colony in Peking, China as a portrait artist to nobles and visiting foreigners, including Rabindranath Tagore. Notably, Jacobs painted several portraits of the Emperor and Empress after they fled to Tianjin when Christian General Feng Yu-Hsiang came to power. Additionally, Jacobs's paintings include Hawaiian notables, former First Ladies Grace Coolidge...

Colorful scene of shoppers at a rural farm stand under cloudy skies, by Polish artist Gongor (Polish, 20th Century). Signed "Gongor" lower right. Displayed in a dark gold finish wood...

Beautiful figurative landscape of Basilica Santa Maria della Salute in Venice, Italy with a gondola in the foreground by an unknown artist (Italian, 20th Century). Signed indistinctl...

Beautiful Pointillist depiction of an iconic Venice canal with gondolas by an unknown artist (Italian, 20th Century). Signed indistinctly lower right. Description on verso with indis...

‘Aimi’ was one of my most intense works. I have loved every process, the mix with the colors, and the compositions was definitely a great challenge. A fusion between what we see and ...