Macauley Norman

Nude, Flowers, Pitcher, and Fruit

2020

Medium scale vertical contemporary still life oil painting of interior, the artist studio window during the 2020 quarantine. Moody color tones border the sunny window with a sheer white curtain revealing the pastel cityscape behind it. A deep green potted plant in a terracotta planter, slightly askew, sits in front of the window along with quarantine everyday life essentials, including toilet paper rolls and a bottle of kelly green dish soap. The sunny window brings hopeful light into the room from the Philadelphia architectural...

Mixed-Media / Oil Painting / Illustration / Pop and Contemporary Pop / Human Figure / Chess / Comic Books / Video Games / Representations of Everyday Objects / Illustration / Interiors / Figurative Art / Outsider Art / Pop Art From Macauley Norman's solo exhibition, CRYPTIC CLUTTER, "Chess with a Comic Collector" is an incredible figurative, pop surrealist piece made with oil and acrylic and a PLA plastic filament drawing affixed to wood panel. The 3D piece features a "a bearded and bespectacled young man, beer bottle close at hand, cut-outs of the Incredible Hulk...

Mixed-Media / Stickers / Illustration / Pop and Contemporary Pop / Human Figure / Chess / Comic Books / Video Games / Resin / Drawing / Representations of Everyday Objects / Figurative Art / Pop Art From Macauley Norman's solo exhibition, CRYPTIC CLUTTER, "Sticker Painting" is an incredible and unique resin coated pop surrealist painting featuring well over 70 gel pen drawings on sticker paper affixed to a wood panel painted in oil and acrylic paint. Among the illustration images are a panoply of pop culture references from the Eastern, Western, Northern and Southern hemispheres -- birds and other animals, landscapes, UFOs, food items, nineties-era pornography, vehicles, yin yang symbols, skulls, daggers, a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle...

Spree on Fire by Keith Garcia Acrylic on panel The artist's classic highly detailed knolling style narrative painting, this one includes all of the fixings for a perfect heist -- th...

Henk Helmantel (b. 1945) was born and raised in Westeremden. The middle one of five children, he grew up as the child of a couple who had their own nursery in Westeremden, Groningen....

Balconies of the sky II is a unique oil on canvas painting by contemporary artist Joachim van der Vlugt, dimensions are 100 × 130 cm (39.4 × 51.2 in). The artwork is signed, sold unf...

In Chicle de Sal I, (Salted Chewing Gum), María Magán transforms a crumpled condom into a hyper-realistic oil painting that mimics the appearance of a chewed piece of gum. Framed in ...

This framed oil painting presents a transparent condom inflated into a bubble, suspended with poetic tension on a deep black background. Its small format and intimate scale draw the ...