Thomas John Carlson

Crushed Oil Cans, surrealist, figurative, landscape, oil on linen, 2015

2015

Statue, surrealist, figurative, landscape, oil on linen, 2019

Dream Self Portrait, surrealist, landscape, oil on linen, 2019

Self Destruct, surrealist, landscape, oil on linen, 2019,

Portrait of Mother, surrealist, landscape, oil on linen, 2019

Self Portrait (Island Mt.), surrealist, landscape, oil on linen, 2019

Self Portrait (Arctic Mt.), surrealist, landscape, oil on linen, 2019

PAUL VILLINSKI has created studio and large-scale artworks for more than three decades. Villinski was born in York, Maine, USA, in 1960, son of an Air Force navigator. He has lived and worked in New York City since 1982. A scenic route through the educational system included stops at Phillips Exeter Academy and the Massachusetts College of Art, and a BFA with honors from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1984. He lives with his partner, the painter Amy Park, and their son, Lark, in their studios in Long Island City, NY. His work has been included in numerous exhibitions nationally. A mid-career retrospective, “Farther,” is currently on view at The Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke, VA, through July, 2018. Recent solo exhibitions include “Paul Villinski: Burst” at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, TX and “Passage: A Special Installation,” at the Blanton Museum, University of Texas, Austin. Recent group shows include “Material Transformations” at the Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery, AL; “Re: Collection,” at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY; “Making Mends,” at the Bellevue Museum of Arts, Bellevue, WA; and “Prospect .1,” an international Biennial in New Orleans, LA. “Emergency Response Studio,” a FEMA trailer transformed into an off-the-grid mobile artist’s studio, was the subject of a solo exhibition at Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, TX; the exhibition also travelled to Ballroom Marfa, in Marfa, TX; Wesleyan University’s Zilkha Gallery, Middletown, CT; and the trailer was featured in the New Museum’s “Festival of Ideas for the New City”, in New York, NY. Villinski’s work is widely collected, including major public works created by commission. “SkyCycles,” three full-scale “flying bicycles...

Quotes within painting: "If you don't know a guy on the other side of the world, love him anyway because he is just like you. He has the same dreams the same hopes and fears. It's one world pal, we are all neighbors. A big lesson in life baby, it's never be scared of anyone or anything. I'm gonna live till I die. The best revenge is massive success. Don't hide your scars they make you who you are. Fear the enemy of logic. There is no more debilitating, crushing , self-defeating, sickening thing in this world to an individual or to a nation. It's Billie Holiday who was and still remains the greatest single musical influence on me. You only go around once, but if you play your cards right, one is enough. Fairytales can come true, it can happen to you if you're young at heart. I'm for anything and for everything that bodes love and consideration for my fellow." As an undergraduate Christina Major developed into a portrait painter. Major has been interested in the ways the identity of both artist and subject can coexist in a portrait. Major also has a desire to combine portrait painting with writing (inspired from her Graphic Design studies) as well as to develop methods of using paint to express a merging of herself with the individual depicted in the portrait. Her creative research focuses on the traditional form of the portrait as a powerful form of representing an individual and how meaning can be expanded through scale, brushstroke, color, texture, composition and the many variables that portraiture deals with. Major looks to expand on the traditional portrait painting...

A Gyo-Tako print of large octopus is seen here in Jeff Conroy's work entitled "Orange Crush". To achieve this remarkable painting, the artist inks the octopus using traditional sum...

An original piece from the series “The infinite city”. Oil on thick paper, 35 x 63 cm, 2021. In the contemporary metropolis one can often get the impression that there is no ...

FUTURE RELIC 02 - CANON AE1 Date of creation: 2014 Medium: Plaster and crushed glass Edition number: 074/450 Size: 14.6 × 15.9 × 9.5 cm Condition: In mi...

This is a one of a kind painting, an absolutely spontaneous, vibrant and unique creation by me, Carla Sá Fernandes. This high quality acrylic painting is done on gallery wrapped ...

In the contemporary metropolis one can often get the impression that there is no end, edge, limit or border. The city seems to extend in all directions to the horizon, often with mon...

Black crushed cans on a yellow background :: Painting :: Photorealism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: S...

Mitchell Funk's color photograph of "Crushed Coke Can on Street Asphalt" documents street art created by a pedestrian. Funk transforms it into a graphic a...

We are excited to bring this incredible painting to public attention. Berlin is renowned for his use of colour, pigments and texture but this piece is truly exceptional. Sumptuous in detail and material it glows and shimmers, changing nuances with changing light. When we first saw it, it generated an outpouring of genuine emotion, only great artists can cause such an effect. "A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross; I'll then not give nor hazard aught for lead. What says the silver with her virgin hue?"  says Shakespeares Prince of Morocco in The Merchant of Venice...

"Solar Plexus" by Denver artist and professor Melissa Furness showcases the artist's signature layering techniques. This particular work is from the 2022 series "Romantic Overgrowth....

"Fair Game" by Denver artist and professor Melissa Furness is from the 2022 series "Romantic Overgrowth." Characteristic of the series and Furness's wider practice this particular se...

In Lion in the Kitchen, his second solo exhibition with the gallery, Benn reflected on the textures and potential narratives of domestic space. After spending a season indoors with h...

Tom Mabon was born in 1956 in Kirkcaldy, Fife and trained at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen from 1974 to 1978. He has lived on the Black Isle since 1985, and his paintings are a docu...

Tom Mabon was born in 1956 in Kirkcaldy, Fife and trained at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen from 1974 to 1978. He has lived on the Black Isle since 1985, and his paintings are a docu...

Jane Wormell has been painting and exhibiting her flower paintings for more than thirty years, beginning with botanical studies in watercolour before moving into oils. As well as pai...