Maria João Salema

Secret Heart

2013

The Lighthouse of Nauplion, 2015 Oil on canvas 25 x 30 cm Nikos Kanarelis was born in Athens, Greece in 1975 where he now lives and works. Βetween ...

Secret Heart, 2013 Oil on canvas 48 x 72 in Maria João Salema (aka JOAO SALEMA) was born, and spent her childhood, in Mozambique, Africa. She later ...

Maria João Salema Is a painter born in Mozambique, she lived and studied in Lisbon, Portugal. Currently living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Represen...

Ketta Ioannidou Excuse Me While I Kiss The Sky II 2020 Oil on canvas 12 x 9 inches Signed and dated on verso Ioannidou’s paintings exist in a dreamlike state, creating a weightless...

Ketta Ioannidou Excuse Me While I Kiss The Sky III 2020 Oil on canvas 12 x 9 inches Signed and dated on verso Ioannidou’s paintings exist in a dreamlike state, creating a weightles...

Ketta Ioannidou Excuse Me While I Kiss The Sky 2021 Oil on canvas 43 x 34 inches Signed and dated on verso Ioannidou’s paintings exist in a dreamlike state, creating a weightless, ...

Collection: Multiple Perspectives Artist Statement Having started my career by painting Rembrandt-like portraits of luminous white roses, I credit my discovery of fractals for transforming my artistic vision, and changing the direction and force of my work. Always working with a single image of a flower, or a component thereof, I have stripped away the mask of the exterior form and magnified the interior thousands of times to depths beyond what is visible to the naked eye. My subject is no longer simply a flower; it is a dynamical system existing in a chaotic universe filled with energy, turbulence, mystery and beauty. Additionally, I have discovered that the system repeats itself through multiple phenomena. This is where I have taken the literal definition of fractals, and put my creative voice to the principles. Though the non-representational work may suggest a natural likeness - a wing, a wave, a shell, or even a human form - my vision invites a fresh dialogue between aesthetics and science. Whether creating evocative representational images or boldly deceptive non-objective work, my focus is always on the choreography of the movement, the organization of the space, the subtlety in the tonal transitions, and the intricacy of the brushwork. Exclusively painting...

Paul Manes was born May 4, 1948 in Austin, Texas. He began his professional career in New York City in the early 1980s. His art has been widely exhibited in America and Europe and hi...

Mar Oil On Canvas 39 x 39 My work is mainly abstract, I would say abstract expressionism. I love painting with oils, they give me many possibilities I do not find in other mediums....

Dualidad Oil On Canvas 43 x 37 My work is mainly abstract, I would say abstract expressionism. I love painting with oils, they give me many possibilities I do not find in other medi...

Libertad Oil On Canvas 47 x 59 My work is mainly abstract, I would say abstract expressionism. I love painting with oils, they give me many possibilities I do not find in other medi...

Summer Feeling Oil On Canvas 36 x 42 My work is mainly abstract, I would say abstract expressionism. I love painting with oils, they give me many possibilities I do not find in othe...