Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
NEO-EXPRESSIONIST STYLE
A resurgence of interest in Expressionism, Pop art, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and other movements gained steam among artists of the 1970s and ’80s, in part as a reaction to the austerity of the prevailing minimalism and Conceptual art of the era. A decadent, bold and brash art style called Neo-Expressionism saw painters returning to figural representation, creating highly textured works that were imbued with intensely personal narratives.
Neo-Expressionist paintings are sensuous in nature and highly subjective in meaning. Expressive brushwork, highly pigmented colors and layered forms and materials lent sculptural attributes to the work and were used to depict symbolic narratives from history, mythology and the artist’s personal experience.
Prominent figures such as Jean-Michel Basquiat led the Neo-Expressionist movement in the United States with paintings and prints that were raw, emotional and often violent in nature. In Germany, Die Neuen Wilden (the “New Fauves”) was the name given to a group of postwar artists that included the likes of sculptor Georg Baselitz and Gerhard Richter, a painter and photographer who explored the possibilities of both abstraction and realism, sometimes in a single piece. The work of the New Fauves — labeled as such for its return to Fauvism’s textured brushwork and use of vibrant colors — shares commonalities with Neo-Expressionism, and Baselitz was a pioneer of the movement in Europe. In addition, Willem de Kooning’s pulsating action paintings and Julian Schnabel’s experimentation with the materiality of paintings also took shape during this period.
“I was trying to make paintings different from the paintings that I saw a lot of at the time, which were mostly minimal, and they were highbrow and alienating, and I wanted to make very direct paintings that most people would feel the emotion behind when they saw them,” said Basquiat.
Neo-Expressionism generated some polarizing opinions, with some celebrating the revival of personal subjectivity in art while others criticizing the movement for being too commercially driven and nostalgic. But most experts agree that Neo-Expressionism was a huge commercial success and culturally impactful, paving the way for the postmodern work of artists like Richter and Sigmar Polke.
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Style: Neo-Expressionist
The Renaissance of Neo Expressionisation of Klee: Contemporary Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
A tour de force of a neo-expressionist painting. This work is symbolic and contemporary, offering a bold, almost tribal visual. Klee was a revolutionary artist who used many techniqu...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Things That Don't Belong To Me
Located in Denver, CO
"I am an artist and painter exploring female-centric visions and stories of violence, resistance, and tribulation inspired by women’s complicated history in the American West. Growin...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Big Night Tonight
By Soren Grau
Located in Los Angeles, CA
With cultural icons and world events acting as inspiration, artist Soren Grau strives to communicate meaning through figures and colors. He paints in a stre...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Spike Gold Tooth : Contemporary Neo Expressionist Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Twenty First Century Sharp Edge NYC Style this painting showcases an iconic symbol of popular culture;the gold tooth or teeth. In this piece Berlin has comb...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Untitled
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
So many influences can be seen in this painting, however it is unmistakenly from Sax Berlin's hand. It's a classic work of the renaissance of Neo-Expressionism of which Berlin is at ...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
ALL UNDER THE SAME SUN
By Angel Rivas
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Acrylic painting on canvas
Unframed
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Just The Two Of Us
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Painting
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, this is not a print or other type of copy.
Signed on the front side and accompanied by a Certificate of Auth...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Bob Vylan. Spartan Warrior : Footprint Neo Expressionist Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Berlin has his finger firmly on the pulse of modernity. In this piece he acknowledges the London based punk/grime/rap band Bob Vylan. The social commentary of their lyrics are beau...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
"The Kite Eaters" Mixed media Painting 59" x 43" inch by Emanuele Tozzoli
Located in Culver City, CA
"The Kite Eaters" Mixed media Painting 59" x 43" inch by Emanuele Tozzoli
Mixed media on canvas
59" x 43" inch
150 x 110 cm
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born in Italy in 1989, Emanuele discovered painting in the very first years of his life together with his father, Dario, who is also an artist and has been painting and creating sculptures with all types of material for over 40 years.
At the age of 7, Tozzoli created his first small sculpture by assembling objects, and painted his first informal abstracts, discovering a side of creative and fascinating art.
Deeply attracted by the most intimate nature of artistic research, in the following years, he extended his studies to the field of music, forming adolescence as a sound engineer.
From 2007 he began composing electronic music, carrying out his research in the field of sound.
In the following years, he studied musical composition and played his productions in clubs in Italy and Europe, also published on various underground record labels.
He learned the restoration of antique woodworking...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Triple Halo Lil' Angel of SoHo
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Truly an exceptional, statement piece from Berlin. His Lil’ Angel is perhaps the most eyecatching and iconic of his works depicting the Guardian Angels. The Guardian Angels loomed la...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Esosa
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Painting
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, this is not a print or other type of copy.
Signed on the front side and accompanied by a Certificate of Auth...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The Existential Cyclist human condition humorous male figure on bicycle blue
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Signed and dated on reverse oil on wood panel . This work had a rough surface texture.
Some similarity to Botero quality
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Untitled
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Painting
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, this is not a print or other type of copy.
Signed on the front side and accompanied by a Certificate of Auth...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Family Potrait II
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Painting
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, this is not a print or other type of copy.
Signed on the front side and accompanied by a Certificate of Auth...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Cavaliere rosa" by Enzio Wenk, 2019 -Pink Figure, Acrylic, Neo-Expressionism
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Pink knight".
Acrylic paint on canvas.
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
"The God of Colour " Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Exhilarating flashes of neon colour swirl around the golden mouthed icon image. A painting of movement and meditation from the unique and unmistakable palette of master artist Sax B...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
"Man Wearing Crown in Water", acrylic, paper, myth, loss, humanity, surrealist
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"Man Wearing Crown in Water" is an acrylic paint and mixed media on paper, by Brooklyn, New York artist Dale Williams. It measures 50" high by 38" wide. This artwork is part of a new ongoing series called "Humans Without Warning". Typical of the artist's practice, it is mythic and humanitarian all at once, striking several political and spiritual notes as well.
From Dale Williams – "The figures of Humans Without Warning arrive with little forethought. They soon reveal their troubled and antic states of being. They began at the start of the COVID pandemic and explore shared vulnerabilities in a time of political and social disunity. If I am mindful of any of their attributes as I work on them, it is surely how the figures mirror the losses many of us have experienced over the past two years, and the accompanying trudge which often finds us stumbling into numbness."
From George Del Barrio (2018), Vanderbilt Republic, Brooklyn NY: "Williams acknowledges a large range of influences on his vision: the moral lessons embodied in the works of 17th century engraver Jacques Lagniet, the darkling phantasms and tragic reportage of Goya’s Caprichos and Disasters of War, and the personal mythologizing of the late paintings of Philip Guston. Such works echo throughout Williams social surrealist re-visioning."
Dale Williams has exhibited in the New York City area for over 25 years. He is a 2014 recipient of a Fellowship in Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts from the New York Foundation for the Arts. His recent one-person show, “America Now Suite,” which re-visioned American history in service of the civic imagination, was held at Gowanus Loft, Brooklyn in October 2018. A selection of portraits from “America Now Suite” was included in the BRIC Biennial, Winter/Spring 2019. His portrait of Osip Mandelstam...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper, Mixed Media
Portrait of a Buddha
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Manuel Pardo (1952-2012). Portrait of a Buddha, 1985. Oil on canvas, 16 x 24 inches. Unframed. Signed and dated upper left. Excellent condition.
Manuel P...
Category
1980s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Angel of Manhattan". Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
A large, monochrome painting that maximises Berlin's skill. In this piece, which appears deceptively simple Berlin has channeled his raw energy into a painting that has massive impa...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
"Black Lotus" Mixed media Painting 43" x 31" inch by Emanuele Tozzoli
Located in Culver City, CA
"Black Lotus" Mixed media Painting 43" x 31" inch by Emanuele Tozzoli
Mixed media on canvas
43" x 31" inch
110 x 80 cm
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born in Italy...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
"No King: One Route". Contemporary Neo Expressionist Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Sharp edged and sassy from Sax Berlin.
A bang on trend, urban street painting with an undercurrent of the darkness of the city.
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Modern Portrait, "Alida Valli" Black & White
Located in Soquel, CA
Expressive and raw large-scale modernist portrait of the timeless film actress Alida Valli (Italian, 1921-2006) by contemporary Barcelona artist Mariona Mi...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Masonite, Acrylic
ONE LOVE
By Angel Rivas
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Acrylic painting on canvas
Unframed
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
SUN HEART SHAMAN
By Angel Rivas
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Acrylic painting on canvas
READY TO HANG
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Looking Glass
By Soren Grau
Located in Los Angeles, CA
With cultural icons and world events acting as inspiration, artist Soren Grau strives to communicate meaning through figures and colors. He paints in a street art-inspired Neo-expressionist style inspired by artists such as Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Grau's work engages the viewer with color and symbolism, inviting each person to unscramble the mystery behind his paintings. He explores social commentary and individuality using bold colors and emotive lines.
This unique 24 inch high by 18 inch wide painting...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Michael Hafftka Figurative Neo Expressionist Oil Pastel Painting The Wave
By Michael Hafftka
Located in Surfside, FL
MICHAEL HAFFTKA
"The Wave"
Hand signed lower right "Hafftka"
Oil and pastel on paper, 30.5" x 22.25". Framed 39" x 31.5".
Michael Hafftka (born 1953) is an American figurative expressionist painter and musician, composer, living in New York City. Hafftka was born in Manhattan, New York (1953) to Eva and Simon Hafftka, European refugees and Holocaust survivors. He was raised in the Bronx and attended public schools. His work is represented in the permanent collections of a number of museums, including: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Carnegie Museum of Art, New York Public Library, McNay Art Museum, Housatonic Museum of Art,
Arizona State University Art Museum, National Gallery of Art, and Yeshiva University Museum.
He was included in the show Jewish Themes/Contemporary American Artists II, The Jewish Museum, New York,
Hannelore Baron...
Category
1980s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Archival Paper
Hard Day
By Soren Grau
Located in Los Angeles, CA
With cultural icons and world events acting as inspiration, artist Soren Grau strives to communicate meaning through figures and colors. He paints in a street art-inspired Neo-expressionist style inspired by artists such as Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Grau's work engages the viewer with color and symbolism, inviting each person to unscramble the mystery behind his paintings. He explores social commentary and individuality using bold colors and emotive lines.
This unique 24 inch high by 18 inch wide painting...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Newsprint
"Vendémiaire", acrylic on paper, myth, humanity, loss, autumn, surrender
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"Vendémiaire" is an acrylic paint and mixed media on paper, by Brooklyn, New York artist Dale Williams. It measures 50" high by 38" wide. This artwork is...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic
ADANNE
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Painting
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, this is not a print or other type of copy.
Signed on the front side and accompanied by a Certificate of Auth...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
"Running To Running From", acrylic, paper, politics, humanity, surrealist dream
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"Running To Running From" is an acrylic paint and mixed media on paper, by Brooklyn, New York artist Dale Williams. It measures 50" high by 38" wide. Thi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic
The Gardener
By ETTE
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"The Gardener" has a story that is as old as time. It begins with a flower, grown naturally in nature, wild and free, but when planted and tended to by humans, its life becomes entir...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"One Waiting Too", acrylic, paper, angels, humanity, loss, myth, surrender
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"Running To Running From" is an acrylic paint and mixed media on paper, by Brooklyn, New York artist Dale Williams. It measures 50" high by 38" wide. Thi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic
TIFE
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Painting
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, this is not a print or other type of copy.
Signed on the front side and accompanied by a Certificate of Auth...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Encoded Language I" Painting 31" x 47" inch by Ahmed Gaafary
Located in Culver City, CA
"Encoded Language I" Painting 31" x 47" inch by Ahmed Gaafary
Nabokov’s Signs Ahmed Gaafary takes Vladimir Nabokov’s phenomenal short story “On Signs and Symbols” as an instigator t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Acrylic
"Land and Lake" Painting 47" x 51" inch by Ahmed Gaafary
Located in Culver City, CA
"Land and Lake" Painting 47" x 51" inch by Ahmed Gaafary
Nabokov’s Signs Ahmed Gaafary takes Vladimir Nabokov’s phenomenal short story “On Signs and Symbols” as an instigator to series of large and medium scale paintings. The fictitious characters in Nabokov’s narrative who act mysteriously around the banal pseudo conflict that faces an urban family –that could be any of us—is transcribed and encrypted by Gaafary on canvas, where lines define accurately shapes and forms that are in themselves flexible and not geometrical. Areas of almost solid colors represent in a diversity of tones and hues the psychological changes that happen to Nabokov’s protagonists in a very well defined space and time. Gaafary’s signs and symbols on another layer resembles mystic ciphers and codes, much reminiscent of Jean Baudrillard’s post-structuralist essays about the subject, in particular his texts addressing mediation, mass communication and the logic of contemporary symbolic exchange inspired and influenced by anthropologist Marcel Mauss and the Canadian philosopher of communication Marshall McLuhan’s work about the nature of social relations determined by the forms of communication that any given society adopts. Ahmed Gaafary navigates his viewers through realms of personal symbols and signs of a personal narrative.
Born In Cairo 1987 Where He Currently Lives And Works. He Received His Bachelor’s Degree In Information Systems In 2008 From The Higher Institute Of Advanced Studies And Followed The Evening Classes (Painting Department)Of Fine Arts Faculty, Helwan University From 2005 To 2007. After His Graduation as an Information System Engineer, He Gave Up His Engineer Practices And Decided To Be An Independent Visual Artist. He Participated In Many Solo And Collaborative Exhibitions,Among Which; Nabokov Signs Exhibition In Etejah Gallery, Palace Of Arts In Cairo Opera House In 2016, Kamal Khalifa Gallery At The Gezira Art Center In 2012. Beit El Umma Gallery At Saad Zaghloul Center In 2012, Engy Aflaton Gallery In Cairo Atelier at 2010, Ahmed Nagy Gallery In Cairo Atelier In 2009, Tahya Halim Gallery In Cairo Atelier In 2008, Salon Of Youth Exhibition In Palace Of Arts From 2008 To 2015, The Mediterranean Symposium In 2010. He Also Participated In The Following Workshops In Cairo In 2008 At The Cairo Opera House, The Fine Arts Sector Cultural
Workshop And In The Mahmoud Mukhtar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Acrylic
Saturated Daze
By Soren Grau
Located in Los Angeles, CA
With cultural icons and world events acting as inspiration, artist Soren Grau strives to communicate meaning through figures and colors. He paints in a street art-inspired Neo-expressionist style inspired by artists such as Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Grau's work engages the viewer with color and symbolism, inviting each person to unscramble the mystery behind his paintings. He explores social commentary and individuality using bold colors and emotive lines.
This unique 24 inch high by 18 inch wide painting...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper
"Encoded Language II" Painting 31" x 47" inch by Ahmed Gaafary
Located in Culver City, CA
"Encoded Language II" Painting 31" x 47" inch by Ahmed Gaafary
Nabokov’s Signs Ahmed Gaafary takes Vladimir Nabokov’s phenomenal short story “On Signs and Symbols” as an instigator ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Acrylic
Cupid Under Construction valentine hearts cupid mythology humorous overtones
Located in Brooklyn, NY
oil on canvas, framing not required.
This painting is part pf a series of tower or totem paintings included in (upcoming) edition of Fluid Magazine
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Street Angel. ( Subway Series ) Contemporary Neo Expressionist Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
1980's NYC; dark and dangerous times. Gangs roamed the streets again, as they did in the 1800's, committing acts of egregious violence upon helpless citizens. But......... there was ...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Canvas
"Transmission I" Abstract Acrylic Painting 37" x 35" inch by Ahmed Gaafary
Located in Culver City, CA
"Transmission I" Acrylic Painting 37" x 35" inch by Ahmed Gaafary
To begin this description, let me start with this question: Is it the internal side of things that is more importa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Figure, colorful, torso, figural
Located in New York, NY
Figurative work, depicting a torso from the back in slightly 3/4 view and cut off at the knees, defined with painterly brush strokes in an earthy palette of browns, greens, and oranges.
Luis Frangella (1944-1990) was a figurative, postmodern painter and sculptor. He earned a masters in architecture at the University of Buenos Aires in 1972 and then attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973. In 1976, he moved to New York City where he painted huge “street” murals on construction site wall, abandoned Hudson River piers and in the nightclubs of the East Village and Tribeca. Situated in these nontraditional spaces, he began working with subversive artists like Wojnarowicz. Luis was a sort of father figure to many younger artists, becoming an influential member of the East Village art scene. Known as a good cook, he fostered a sense of community and caring, often serving impromptu meals in his loft after the late-night club scene...
Category
1980s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Who is the Loneliest Monk?" Contemporary Surreal Figurative Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
Large-scale contemporary figurative abstract on red, evoking the style of Basquiat, by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b.1957), 2008. A man in a tuxedo sips a martini in the foreground, surrounded by chaotic layers of faces and figures in a surreal, dream-like space.
Signed "Michael Paulker...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Permanent Marker, Oil, Canvas, Acrylic
"Homeland" Painting 31" x 47" inch by Ahmed Gaafary
Located in Culver City, CA
"Homeland" Painting 31" x 47" inch by Ahmed Gaafary
Nabokov’s Signs Ahmed Gaafary takes Vladimir Nabokov’s phenomenal short story “On Signs and Symbols” as an instigator to series o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Acrylic
"Il lago nel cielo" Painting 30" x 24" inch by Emanuele Tozzoli
Located in Culver City, CA
"Il lago nel cielo" Painting 30" x 24" inch by Emanuele Tozzoli
Mixed media on board
30" x 24" inch
75 x 60 cm
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born in Italy in 1989, Emanuele discovered painting in the very first years of his life together with his father, Dario, who is also an artist and has been painting and creating sculptures with all types of material for over 40 years.
At the age of 7, Tozzoli created his first small sculpture by assembling objects, and painted his first informal abstracts, discovering a side of creative and fascinating art.
Deeply attracted by the most intimate nature of artistic research, in the following years, he extended his studies to the field of music, forming adolescence as a sound engineer.
From 2007 he began composing electronic music, carrying out his research in the field of sound.
In the following years, he studied musical composition and played his productions in clubs in Italy and Europe, also published on various underground record labels.
He learned the restoration of antique...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
"Due figure" by Enzio Wenk, 2020 -Acrylic on Canvas, Neo-Expressionism
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Two figures".
Acrylic on canvas.
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Stimulus II" Painting 39" x 47" inch by Ahmed Gaafary
Located in Culver City, CA
"Stimulus II" Painting 39" x 47" inch by Ahmed Gaafary
Nabokov’s Signs Ahmed Gaafary takes Vladimir Nabokov’s phenomenal short story “On Signs and Symbols” as an instigator to series of large and medium scale paintings. The fictitious characters in Nabokov’s narrative who act mysteriously around the banal pseudo conflict that faces an urban family –that could be any of us—is transcribed and encrypted by Gaafary on canvas, where lines define accurately shapes and forms that are in themselves flexible and not geometrical. Areas of almost solid colors represent in a diversity of tones and hues the psychological changes that happen to Nabokov’s protagonists in a very well defined space and time. Gaafary’s signs and symbols on another layer resembles mystic ciphers and codes, much reminiscent of Jean Baudrillard’s post-structuralist essays about the subject, in particular his texts addressing mediation, mass communication and the logic of contemporary symbolic exchange inspired and influenced by anthropologist Marcel Mauss and the Canadian philosopher of communication Marshall McLuhan’s work about the nature of social relations determined by the forms of communication that any given society adopts. Ahmed Gaafary navigates his viewers through realms of personal symbols and signs of a personal narrative.
Born In Cairo 1987 Where He Currently Lives And Works. He Received His Bachelor’s Degree In Information Systems In 2008 From The Higher Institute Of Advanced Studies And Followed The Evening Classes (Painting Department)Of Fine Arts Faculty, Helwan University From 2005 To 2007. After His Graduation as an Information System Engineer, He Gave Up His Engineer Practices And Decided To Be An Independent Visual Artist. He Participated In Many Solo And Collaborative Exhibitions,Among Which; Nabokov Signs Exhibition In Etejah Gallery, Palace Of Arts In Cairo Opera House In 2016, Kamal Khalifa Gallery At The Gezira Art Center In 2012. Beit El Umma Gallery At Saad Zaghloul Center In 2012, Engy Aflaton Gallery In Cairo Atelier at 2010, Ahmed Nagy Gallery In Cairo Atelier In 2009, Tahya Halim Gallery In Cairo Atelier In 2008, Salon Of Youth Exhibition In Palace Of Arts From 2008 To 2015, The Mediterranean Symposium In 2010. He Also Participated In The Following Workshops In Cairo In 2008 At The Cairo Opera House, The Fine Arts Sector Cultural
Workshop And In The Mahmoud Mukhtar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Acrylic
Living Man
By Soren Grau
Located in Los Angeles, CA
With cultural icons and world events acting as inspiration, artist Soren Grau strives to communicate meaning through figures and colors. He paints in a street art-inspired Neo-expres...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Newsprint
Au pied levé
By Jean Sanglar
Located in Miami, FL
Jean Sanglar was born in France in 1926. He draws with taste and talent from an early age, however, his family will only consider this a mere hobby. After studying law, he later took...
Category
Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Large Colorful 1983 Neo Expressionist Roberto Juarez Oil Painting Tron Family
Located in Surfside, FL
Roberto Juarez, (American, 1952- )
Tron Family.
1983. Signed, dated & titled.
Oil and oil stick on canvas.
Provenance: Robert Miller Gallery, NY., Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, CA
Roberto Juarez (born 1952) is an American visual artist known for his paintings, murals, and mixed-media works.
Born in Chicago, (parents of both Mexican and Puerto Rican Latino heritage) Juarez received his B.F.A. at the San Francisco Art Institute (1977) and pursued graduate studies in Television and Film at the University of California, Los Angeles. Juarez frequently employs painterly floral motifs, which are inspired by the traditions of Hispanic, Latin American and non-Western painting. Roberto Juarez has been a significant presence in the art worlds of New York, Miami, Colorado, and beyond since the early 1980s. In 1978, Juarez completed his graduate thesis for UCLA in Paris and decided not to return to L.A. Juarez relocated to New York City, where in 1981, Ellen Stewart offered Juarez a former garage owned by La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club as an artist studio. The space, which had no water or electricity, was offered to Juarez rent-free, provided that he clean and maintain it. He was active in the Neo Expressionist era of the the late 1980's along with Julian Schnabel and David Salle.
Throughout the 80s and 90s Juarez painted the branching forms of trees and flowers. While living in Miami in the 90s, Juarez began to incorporate peat moss, rice paper, and other natural materials in his canvases. Since 2000, and his move from Miami back to New York, Juarez's imagery turned more abstract, typically featuring geometric forms and systems. In a review from this period, art critic Grace Glueck noted that his works feature “a contrast between the softness of the grounds – blends of transparent and opaque materials in muted colors – and their strong geometric-organic motifs." In his use of elements of nature to portray an idyllic unity, Juarez looks back to such early-20th-century painters as Franz Marc and Henri Matisse.
He has done prints with Shark’s Ink Studios in Lyons and Anderson Ranch Arts Center as well as Tamarind Institute.
Roberto Juarez is a visual artist who has been active in the areas of painting, printmaking, drawing, and large-scale public commissions throughout his career.
His work has been exhibited throughout the United States and Mexico, and is included in major museum collections such as the Brooklyn Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, El Museo del Barrio, the Denver Art Museum, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Newark Museum, and the Speed Art Museum. He has completed public art projects and murals for the Miami International Airport, Grand Central Terminal, the Miami-Dade County Courthouse, Whitman College, and the University of Michigan College of Engineering.
Juarez won the Prix de Rome in 1997 and was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2001-2002.
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Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
La MaMa Galleria, New York, NY
Pace Prints New York, NY
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, KS
Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL, Bonnie Clearwater, Curator and Author
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
Galeria Ramis Barquet, Monterrey, Mexico
Richard Green Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Andre Emmerich Gallery, Zurich
Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Canada
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
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2018 May China 2018, China National Academy of Painting, Beijing, China
2017 Love Among the Ruins, 56 Bleecker Gallery and Late 80's New York, Howl! Arts Incorporated, New York, NY
2015 Inside the Episode: curated by Jack Pierson, Launch F18 Gallery, New York, NY
2015 MTA Arts Design Illustrates the City, The Museum of American Illustration at The Society of Illustrators, New York
2015 The Annual; National Academy Museum, New York, NY
2008 One of a Kind; Monoprints & Monotypes, Spencertown Academy Art Center, Spencertown, New York
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