Maurizio Battifora

A Piece of Cake

2025

“Liquid Diet” is a striking contemporary oil painting inspired by the 1983 cult classic film “The Hunger,” starring Susan Sarandon and David Bowie. This atmospheric piece fuses gothi...

A poised woman stands with one hand on her hip, radiating elegance and quiet strength. She is dressed in a crisp white blouse paired with a deep red skirt, while a wide-brimmed golde...

In “Hollywood,” Gâteaux & Toiles constructs a seductive yet enigmatic scene where classic Hollywood glamour collides with contemporary pop surrealism. At its center, a striking Maril...

Using a pointillist technique, artist Maurizio Battifora utilizes small dots of color to create patterns forming an image. The swirling background, reminiscent of Van Gogh’s style, i...

Brian Leo Time For Cake 2018 Acrylic tin stretched canvas 20 x 20 inches Brian Leo was born in New Jersey in 1976, and is currently living in New York City. He is a graduate of Rut...

NORA SEE grew up in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where, as a child, she taught herself to draw. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Corcoran College of Art and Design and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of New Orleans. She works and lives in New Orleans. In her oil paintings, Nora See renders framed paintings on walls with which human figures interact. Through her classical painting style and the use of historical visual references, her pieces contrast the past with the present. By combining these temporal elements with the use of frames as containers, she explores themes of consumption, imprisonment, and liberation. Nora’s work has been exhibited in a variety of venues and is also in the personal collection of Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. The artist says of her work... “Good artists borrow. Great artists steal.” A quote oft attributed to various sources that was never actually uttered by any of them. Though Mark Twain elaborated on the sentiment: “Ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms.” In the Framed Series, I use my 1% contribution to combine issues of consumption with my autobiography. I paint copies of copies of paintings within paintings to reference the appropriation, commodification, and altered continuum of art. My paintings of paintings are based on photographs of originals to perpetuate the continual distillation of form, given the ease with which images are presently exchanged and modified. Further, by reducing historically significant paintings to framed objects...

Original oil painting on canvas, still life painting made under natural light. This artwork is painted using high-quality fine linen canvas and sold unframed, already stretched and r...

Suzy Smith's "Let Them Eat Cake" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a portrait of a female nude with a crown set against a backdrop inspired by a Wayne Thiebaud cake...