Amanda Joy Brown

PEONY BUNCH - Still-life Painting - Oil on Arches Oil Paper

2021

CHROMASEEDS is a multilayered composition created with paper and tyvek cut-outs painted with oil, acrylic, and gouache, sealed with polyester mesh layers. The plants represented in the piece are Gaillardia flowers, commonly known as blanket flowers, native to North America and often bred for their decorative, ornamental shape. In her creative process, Hartman anthropomorphizes the flowers, paying attention to their dance-like growth movement. Here, their shadows dance in the prismatic light of the rainbow, while the wind catches their seeds, cultivating the garden. The vibrant, rainbow light was achieved by painting a prismatic shape on tyvec and black paper, creating a reverse silhouette...

PIECES OF ME, FOR YOU by Victoria Sauer depicts a subway-tiled bathroom meticulously painted in a photo-representational way with the artist's own hair ...

VERT DE GRIS is an oil on canvas painting by Jered Sprecher and a piece in his series of works depicting grayscale flowers. The initial impulse behind the piece came from the idea of...

"I don’t do enough red paintings. I like red, but somehow it doesn’t end up in my work all that often, or it ends up pretty muted and earthy by the end. When I was lighting the sculpture upon which this painting is based, I knew I wanted to do something with the red lights I had. As with previous work, this painting explores entanglement as both a compositional structure and as an artistic idea. The representational part of the painting is pushed as close to a photographic rendering as I could at the time. Meanwhile, I’ve contrasted that with flat graphic elements. I also wanted to do something interesting with the cast shadow of the form: whereas in some previous works in the series the main form either had a traditional cast shadow grounding the it to the illusion of a ground plane, or no cast shadow which left it floating within the shallow depth of the image, in Untitled Construct 5 I wanted to do something more specific with the cast shadow. The idea came to me to invert it to be pure white. Technically this was a bit of a challenge because the whitest oil paints take months to dry – so this work had quite a bit of ‘sit and wait time’ between layers. Personally, I enjoy the composition of this painting because the red attracts the eye towards the bottom left of the painting, but the contrasting movements in black, gray and white pull the eye up and over...

Carol creates a range of subjects—landscapes, figures, portraits and still life. Whatever the subject, all are imbued with her strong sense of design; luscious brushwork; love for 19...

Oil on birch panel in excellent condition by Robin Reynolds. Abstract floral in vibrant colors, primarily green, with purple, blue and white. Robin Reynolds paints plein-air (outdo...

Oil on birch panel in excellent condition by Robin Reynolds. Abstract floral in vibrant colors, primarily green, with purple, blue and white. Robin Reynolds paints plein-air (outdo...

Oil on birch panel in excellent condition by Robin Reynolds. Abstract floral in vibrant colors, primarily green, with purple, black and white. Robin Reynolds paints plein-air (outd...