Gary Ruddell

WALKING ON WATER - Figurative Realism / Boat in Water / Children at play

2018

The whimsical elements and casual contemporary references Will Wilson incorporates in his paintings serve to offset their disciplined execution. Each painted subject is steeped in na...

Annette Davidek creates paintings that look like gorgeous biomes full of naturalistic forms, enticing viewers to enter a domain that is as familiar as it is strange. Variously sugges...

Original Painting by Jacob Hicks

Original Painting by Annette Davidek

Original Painting by Annette Davidek

Original Painting by Elizabeth McGhee

The oil paintings of the contemporary Dutch artist Paul Jansen invites the viewer to look beyond the standard picture within the frame. It feels as if the ...

Gwen Wong's work is both painterly and allegorical, caught somewhere in the middle between the representational painter and the narrator. "I am inspired by t...

Grace Graupe-Pillard has concentrated on portraiture since her early charcoal drawings which she exhibited at The Drawing Center, NYC in 1981. Her work, which has been exhibited at notable institutions such as MOMA PS1 and galleries including Cheim & Read Gallery (NY) and Carl Hammer Gallery (Chicago), has evolved from over the years from pastels to large-scale oil paintings and installations of people who she describes as “having not been integrated into mainstream society.” Her more recent paintings, inspired by selfies and iPhone photographs, attempt to convey the vitality and diversity of 21st century contemporary culture while capturing the ineffable moments in our lives. “The sensuality and radiant beauty of youth and ethnic diversity are depicted in my choice of subjects, as well as the ravages of time which are imprinted on our being. All stages of life are filled with humanity that both elevates and dissipates the spirit.” Her work has been written about in The NY Times, Art News, The Village Voice, The Star-Ledger, Newsday, Flash Art...

“Walking and chewing bubble gum at the same time” is a 30 x 40 inch multimedia painting by Frantz Lexy. This landscape shows a green mountain with a rocky brown and beige summit. The...

"By using references to navigational coastal profiling and by borrowing and subverting compositional structures of the 19th century American landscape painters I examine how modern l...

Henk Helmantel probably does not need an introduction to a lot of worldwide art lovers. After all, the artist from Westeremden even has its own museum. ...