Todd Carpenter

With Sky Peeled Back From The Earth, abstract black and white sky and clouds

2017

"Cast Away From The Mainland" depicts a city near a waterway. These small paintings beckon viewers to draw closer and observe all that artist has been able to convey on such a small ...

"Head in the clouds" depicts skyscrapers and a waterway. This scene is of no particular place, but rather his interpretation and compilation of var...

"Descending Towards Now," oil on wood painting by artist Todd Carpenter depicts a remote landscape of leafless trees being nourished by a running stream. Imagine this is a past route...

"Light Decaying" depicts a winding river through a mountainous terrain, not unlike the many vistas and terrains of Carpenter's adventures into nature. As a painter, I examine how the depiction of light contributes to our experience of paintings. The portrayal of light helps a painting to convey the atmosphere and mood of a scene, and is much of what enables a painting to convey depth and realism. Our perception of lighting features occurs largely through pathways in the brain that carry only black and white information, pathways which are distinct from areas that encode the colors and details we use to delineate specific objects. By painting in grayscale, I try to interact specifically with this region of our visual system, with the hope of conveying some of the spaciousness and emotional significance that light can imbue on scenes. Light, whether as the crisp contrast of a back-lit forest or the gray haze of an industrial landscape, is what defines a scene. Its power to communicate the feel of a place is the principle subject of my paintings. The Blue Azul Collection...

Landscape mixed media on canvas 100x120 cm Ready to Hang original art Marilina Marchica orients her pictorial research to the theme of subtraction, her attention is focused on th...

Untitled 07, 2015-16 Oil on canvas (signed on reverse) 13.77 H x 9.84 W in. 35 H x 25 W cm The notion of “abjection”, which at the beginnings referred to the idea of spirit degradat...

"Without Title - black, white, grey abstract water landscape" is a unique oil on canvas painting of German artist Willi Bucher. It depicts an abstract water landscape in thick oil c...

Landscape B/W Mineral oxide on Fabriano Rosaspina Paper 57x76 cm Original Art Framing Option Available Marilina Marchica, born in 1984, was born in Agrigento, where she lives and ...