Carlos Luna

Waiting

2014

"Untitled (Abstract Figure Study)" is an abstract figurative Post War mixed media on paper painting by Hans Burkhardt in 1979. The artwork is 22 1/2 x 15 inches and, with the frame, ...

A painting by Nathan Oliveira. "Nude Stepping from the Carpet" is a contemporary painting, oil on canvas in a palette of reds, greens, and beiges by Bay Area figurative artist Nathan Oliveira. The artwork is signed in the lower right, "N Oliveira 62". During the early years, Oliveira’s lone figures often suggest an existential angst similar to that of Giacometti, but there is also a weightlessness and a transcendent aura that envelopes these figures; they appear as elemental, universal and eternal projections of selfless consciousness better understood within the bodiless realm of metaphysics. These qualities would remain in his work throughout his long career, yet he would find other themes to explore — the natural world where the essential nature of birds and animals exist in equal profundity with their human counterparts, the transient world of evanescent perception when memory must reconstruct momentary experience, and later, the ‘site’ paintings and monoprints that suggest the abandoned remnants of a long-lost civilization or tribe uncovered at an archeological dig. Nathan Oliveira has left us with a legacy of art that will surely remain untarnished by time or changing trends. His work exists within a realm rarely achieved by artists striving in a similar mode of expression. Unclouded by ego or wayward sentiment, it is also in the warmth and humble nature...

A painting by Nathan Oliveira. "Figure with Blue Eyes" is a figurative painting, oil on canvas in a palette of browns and creams with a pop of blue by Bay Area Figurative artist Nath...

A painting by Eric Jon Holswade. "Soda" is a flash on paper painting executed in bright reds, yellows, greens, blues and grays and depicts a billowing smoke stack. Signed in pencil, ...

"Link" Mixed Media Figurative Painting 47" x 24" inch by Karim Abd Elmalak Karim Abdel Malak's layered multi-media works are influenced by the old masters. Abdel Malak textured oil...

"Peace of Mind" Figurative Painting 31.5" x 31.5" inch by Karim Abd Elmalak Karim Abdel Malak's layered multi-media works are influenced by the old ...

"New Soul" Mixed media Painting 71" x 35" inch by Karim Abd Elmalak Karim Abdel Malak's layered multi-media works are influenced by the old masters. Abdel Malak textured oils are a celebration of the female identity in every sense of the word. His beautiful faces and suave figures grace the canvases together embracing our Egyptian architectural...

Mixed media on wood. Composed of 16 3.5" x 3.5" squares.