David Fulton

Abstract Modern Red and Black Square Color Field Drip Edge Canvas Painting

2000s

Contemporary abstract painting by Houston-based artist Virgil Grotfeldt. The work features metallic gold-toned gestural strokes created with acrylic paint and bronze powder. Signed, titled, and dated on the reverse. Currently unframed, but options are available. Artist Biography: Virgil Grotfeldt was born in 1948 in Decatur, Illinois, and studied at Eastern Illinois University and the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. After a brief stay in Chicago, he settled in Houston in 1977, where emerging galleries and alternative spaces such as Diverse Works and the University of Houston Lawndale Annex were fostering a vibrant new art scene. His last teaching position was at Houston Baptist University. Although Grotfeldt frequently collaborated with the Dutch artist (and former student of Joseph Beuys) Waldo Bien beginning in the late 1980s, and remained close to the artist community in Houston, he maintained a deeply personal sensibility. Preferring a monochromatic palette of earth tones, which contributed to his work’s sense of timelessness, Grotfeldt emphasized texture as an expressive device. He experimented with materials, working with coal powder, clay, ground metal, acrylic, and metal dust on paper, which he combined with carbon, watercolor, or oil. He incorporated found letters, antique maps, and nautical charts to initiate a dialogue between conscious systems of order and the expressive freedom of the subconscious. One of Virgil Grotfeldt’s last bodies of work, a series of sixteen oil paintings completed during the final year of his illness, was based on MRI scans of his brain. With utmost clarity, these works document Grotfeldt’s key ambition to make sense of the many forces life entails its contradictions, inflictions, and puzzles. By making the MRI scans his material of choice, he abstracted the records documenting the failing health of his body. But by painting on them as a point of departure, he was able to create something vivid and vibrant, a home for the imagination built by an undeterred spirit. Grotfeldt had numerous national and international solo exhibitions. His work is part of the Menil Collection, Houston; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Chengdu Museum, China; and the Fritz Becht Collection, Amsterdam. In 2003, a major publication of his work, entitled Virgil Grotfeldt, with text by Patrick Healy, an introduction by Walter Hopps...

Colorful abstract acrylic fluid painting that incorporates hues of black, teal, and green. Signed and dated by the artist on the side of the piece. Artist Biography: "I am an artist and native of Houston, Texas. This is my 5th year making fluid art...

Large geometric mixed media collage painting by Texas artist John Pavlicek. The piece features layers of red, yellow, and green paint and paper to create depth. Signed by artist in f...

Blue, red, and yellow modern abstract mixed media painting by Texas artist Carole Myers. The work features expressive strokes of color with the phrase "We...

Blue toned modern abstract mixed media still life painting by Texas artist Carole Myers. The work features expressive strokes of color loosely forming a v...

Colorful abstract three dimensional mixed media collage by contemporary Texas artist Henry David Potwin. The work features a colorful, whimsical landscape created with paint, mirror ...

"Gioia" ("Joy" in Italian) 2023, 72" x 108" large scale acrylics, house paint, oil pastels, wax crayons, and pencils abstract work on canvas by Argentine born artist Karina Gentinett...

"In A Mood" 2023, 72" H x 96" W. Large scale abstract painting consisting of acrylic, pencils, and oil pastels on canvas by Argentine-born artist Karina Gentinetta (featured in Elle ...

"Adagio in Blue" 2023, 72" H x 96" W. Large Scale horizontal abstract painting consisting of acrylic, home paint, pencils and oil pastels on canvas by Argentine-born artist Karina G...

Roman Lang creates analog post-remix art, vibrantly colored neo-constructivism. His works are brain flickers, revealing the moment where long- and short-term memories overlap, layer by layer. They are associative streams of thought,flashes of inspiration, flashbacks, hallucinations, illusions. Fragmented memories sweep across the surfaces of his paintings like geometric ele- ments in a computer game. 2022 upcoming: "German Contemporary", Obscura Gallery, Seoul upcoming: Galleria Marrocco...

Roman Lang creates analog post-remix art, vibrantly colored neo-constructivism. His works are brain flickers, revealing the moment where long- and short-term memories overlap, layer by layer. They are associative streams of thought,flashes of inspiration, flashbacks, hallucinations, illusions. Fragmented memories sweep across the surfaces of his paintings like geometric ele- ments in a computer game. 2022 upcoming: "German Contemporary", Obscura Gallery, Seoul upcoming: Galleria Marrocco...

I tried to escape the farm town i grew up in and moved to the city. the city became home. I then left to start a family. Life happens and things change. I returned to the city, but n...