James Childs

The Return of Adonis

n.d.

James Childs The Three Ages of Man 1986 Signed and dated, l.r. Oil on canvas 64 x 69.5 inches This painting is offered by CLAMP in New York City.

This oil painting on canvas by James Childs is offered by CLAMP in New York City.

This drawing by James Childs is offered by CLAMP in New York City.

Afterglow 2025 Signed Oil on panel 12 x 9 inches Contact gallery for price

34" x 42" Unframed Original Acrylic on Canvas Hand Signed by Joe Lasker (on back)

This painting depicts two women covered by a colorful blanket. One of them looks directly at the viewer, while the other is lost in her thoughts. It’s about the desire to protect som...

Presenting an exceptional oil painting by Polish/American artist Alexander Rosenfeld 1905-1995. The Garden, is an original oil on canvas, signed, dated 1950, with an image dimension of 38 x 29.5 inches, just arrived from an outstanding West Coast collection, the painting is in excellent original condition, beautifully framed. Please contact our West Hollywood gallery...

Michael Tole says of his work… This work draws a connection between the didactic moralizing tendencies of Neo Classicism (represented in the style of the painting) and Modernism (represented in the architectural setting). Though modern art eschews the naturalistic imagery used by Neo Classicists, both movements pursued a self-important, austere, self-consciously masculine aesthetic that they saw as synonymous with virtue. Set in the MoMA courtyard, a passel of men lounge about, regarding a golden statue which looks terribly out of place in this modernist vitrine. The uncomfortable architectural setting, prisonlike and cold, provides a foil for the odalisque-like young men sprawled on hard stone benches and paying homage to the central idol. In my current work, The Revisionist Histories, I am writing letters to art history, literature, and mythology in an attempt to reflect the social changes that have reshaped our society over the past century.  As part of this agenda, I explore the evolution of gender norms, power dynamics, and representation within Western visual culture and what this implies for the negotiation between pleasure, justice, and our culturally specific discourse on beauty.    The seed for The Revisionist Histories was sewn when I caught a glimpse of my preteen daughters watching music videos on their iPad as I chopped veggies for dinner.  Out of the corner of my eye I caught glimpses of music videos featuring Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Katy Perry, and Doja Cat gyrating across the tiny screen.  A better parent might have snatched the iPad away, but I was overcome with hallucinatory visions of this pop diva...