Maggie Siner

E With Pink Shawl

2016

This exceptional piece is a shining example of her signature "Looking Out the Window" series. With its vivid palette and masterful interplay of light, the painting invites viewers in...

Contemporary surreal figurative oil painting featuring the faces of four men floating in the lower register of a black space Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b.1957). Unsign...

This large scale oil painting on Belgian linen canvas depicts our perceived inner feelings of the people and situations we encounter through the use of bold shapes and colours. The c...

David Mellen's work is not easily defined, vacillating between human flesh and metaphoric representation, the paintings beg you to look deeper and to consider their physical properties. Duchamp, de Kooning, Bacon, Giacometti, Rothko are all direct influences for Mellen, yet he can not be strictly categorized as a representational or an abstract artist. Mellen paints forms reminiscent of human bodies, building them one day at a time for the duration of several months. An endless process of addition and subtraction is at work as the loosely defined figures emerge in sharp contrast with precisely executed geometric backgrounds of neutral colors. The juxtaposition between exposed canvas, well-defined geometric background and a form as the subject of the painting is a motif that has followed Mellen’s work through the years. The entities in Mellen’s work reference actions rather than concrete characters. For example, in Descent (2020) a fall from grace...