Francesca Reyes

Leaving Orange Pt. 1 (2020) Oil on panel sunrise sunset cityscape urban skyscape

2020

"Door #19 (Smile)" (2018) by Francesca Reyes Original oil, acrylic, pastel and graphite on wood panel; measures 8" H x 6" W x 1" D From the artist's door series, depicting doors that...

Self Portrait, Island Mt. (small), landscape, oil and gouache on cradled panel, 2019

Dream Self Portrait (small), surrealist, oil and gouache on cradled wood panel, 2019

318 Fifth (small), surrealist, oil and gouache on cradled wood panel, landscape, 2019

Fossil Fuel (small), surrealist, landscape, oil and gouache on cradled wood panel, 2019

Portrait of Mother (small), landscape, oil and gouache on cradled wood panel, 2019

Urbex is the English acronym for urban exploration and is an activity that consists of searching for and locating abandoned infrastructure with the goal of visiting, photographing and conveying its contents, with particular involvement of methodologies from geography, anthropology, sociology to cultural studies. Her works have been in the past approached to the works of Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945) and Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1770), but in Gullotta's paintings the absence of color makes the spaces particularly ethereal, allowing them to be ideally lifted to new places and to new life. We often speak of a "brain drain," but in this case we are truly happy to be able to say that this is a "return," and an important one: an artist of international caliber who has decided to entrust her return to her homeland to Almach Art...

"Fence Jumper" is an oil painting with chalk and graphite on wood panel, and measures 16" high by 12" wide. It is finished with a clear resin across the surface, lending the artwork a particular warmth and liquidity that is rare and lovely to behold. Typical of the artist, the painting is a mystery despite its apparent simplicity – a boy, a young lad leaps over the fence, seen here mid-flight. It's clearly important to the boy. His focus and sense of achievement ring out. Drawn lines and painterly brushstrokes render the scene, but also note the toned wood coming through as color and texture. All of it held, as if in time, by the resin layer acting as a lens to both transmit this picture and admit light to the picture. A true artifact. From Will Hudson...

Acrylic & oil on wooden panel

Acrylic & oil on wooden panel

Oil paint on wood panel Signed on the back "Incanto" or the enchantment of shifting "Nicolas Kennett revisits the organic world through painted and s...

Esther Schlebos won "The Prix de Norvège" on her graduation in July 2019 for her landscape paintings with which she graduated. Together with Marein Kon...