Eric Jon Holswade

Shooting Gallery

2019

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, ...

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...

Lori Larusso’s Flower Painting transforms an ordinary still life into a bold, iconic composition. Set against a calm periwinkle background, a clear glass jar holds four roses—one red...

This painting was inspired by the combination of nature alongside a very modern building. I loved the addition of the straight lines alongside the more organic forms of the landscape...