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Medium: Graphite
White Fold Painting - Original Painting - Acrylic and Graphite on Canvas
By Jean Wolff
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting - Acrylic and Graphite on Canvas
White
30" x 30"
2018
Signed on back (verso) in pencil with name and date
Optional framing
JEAN WOLFF is a New York City-based abs...
Category
2010s Minimalist Graphite Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Graphite
Pictorical action #1, Monolith
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
Daniel Berman's production is not only torrential and overflowing but also mutating as if it were a chameleon, it changes to support and scale to explore the possibilities of each te...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Cotton, Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Graphite
Portraits of Androids, Double Sophia
By Lee Wells
Located in New York, NY
Lee Wells
Double Sophia, 2018
Hand embellished monoprint on canvas with projection mapped video
125 x 150 cm
Contact for video link.
Currently on view as part of Sentient Electroics...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Video, Acrylic, Graphite, Monoprint
Orange
By Alyse Rosner
Located in Fairfield, CT
Alyse Rosner 2022
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite
$24,000
"Tradescantia Zebrina I" 2023
By Luke Jackson
Located in New York, NY
Luke Jackson "Tradescantia Zebrina I" 2023
51” x 51” (framed) Graphite, Water, Eraser, on Paper
About the Artist:
Luke Jackson is a visual artist who has been based in Brooklyn, ...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Graphite Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Sostenido 13
Located in New York, NY
Miriam Peralta
Sostenido 13, 2015
Graphite and charcoal on paper
66.90h x 28.30w in
169.93h x 71.88w cm
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Graphite Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Graphite
Sostenido 15
Located in New York, NY
Miriam Peralta
Sostenido 15, 2015
Graphite and charcoal on canvas
65h x 68.10w in
165.10h x 172.97w cm
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Graphite
Sostenido 12
Located in New York, NY
Miriam Peralta
Sostenido 12, 2015
Graphite and charcoal on paper
72h x 28.30w in
182.88h x 71.88w cm
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Graphite Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Graphite
"Garage, " Mixed-Media Painting
Located in Chicago, IL
Entitled “Garage,” this work by Chicago artist Patrick Fitzgerald is one of a series of “track paintings” that materialize the imagined tracks navigated by his miniature soap-box car...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art Graphite Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Mixed Media, Board, Color Pencil, Graphite
PALI : mixed media work of art
Located in New York, NY
Artwork by New York artist Gail Postal.
Graphite, Oil Paint, Swarovski Crystals.
Postal has had two major influences on her work – old hand tinted black and white Japanese photographs...
Category
2010s Graphite Paintings
Materials
Oil, Graphite, Mixed Media
Cecil B. DeMille
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Right by Artist
GRAPHITE SKETCHES - Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) of legendary autocratic motion picture director, Cecil B. DeMille, 8" x 11". 'Fields in ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Bañistas triple sombra (Triple Shadow Bathers), figurative painting, organic
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
The pieces attract by the power of the pictorial gesture materialized in the line, the shape, and the color. For Daniel, each painting contains and transmits the energy that was embo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Acrylic, Graphite
Icebergs Painting in Acrylic, Gouache, Graphite, and Watercolor on Paper, 2021
Located in Orange, CA
Icebergs, 2021
Additional information:
Medium: Acrylic, gouache, graphite, and watercolor on paper
Dimensions: 7 x 10 1/2 in
Todd Hebert (b. 1972 in Valley City, ND)
North Dakota-...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
Chamber Series X (Cathedral) Drawing by Jennifer Gunlock, 2004
Located in Orange, CA
Chamber Series X (Cathedral), 2004
Additional information:
Medium: Mixed media collage, ink and graphite on rag paper
Dimensions: 15 x 11 1/2 in
Jennifer Gunlock (American, b. 1972...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Graphite, Rag Paper
Burning Stone
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
Daniel Berman's production is not only torrential and overflowing but also mutating as if it were a chameleon, it changes to support and scale to explore the possibilities of each te...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Paper, Cotton, Ink, Acrylic, Graphite
30x22 in. Re- Enter - Ink, Acrylic, Graphite on paper, unframed
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a beautiful piece by Alexis Portilla, unframed.
Re-Enter
30x22 in.
Ink, Acrylic, Graphite on paper
Unframed
Framing available
The artist Alexis Portilla obtained his Masters of Fine Arts at Columbia University in 1990. His bold linear lines, use of symbols, pictographs and strong colors create atmospheric abstracts.
“Using simple forms and creating swathes of rich texture, Alexis Portilla builds atmospheric abstract paintings that convey a sense of time having passed. Brushy areas of color suggest the indeterminacy of memory, while bold linear forms speak for the present.”
- Meredith Mendelsohn, Art News magazine review.
Influenced by the emotion of artistic expression in music, poetry and literature, the artist finds bold expression in color, lines and shapes that resemble pictographs, and texture.
The artist has shown in group and solo exhibitions nationally for more than 20 years. His works have been commissioned by major corporations, universities and for private collections.
Education
MFA, Columbia University
BFA, Pratt Institute
Selected Public Collections
Penn State University
New York Public Library
Selected Corporate Collections
Harvard Club...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Graphite
"House of Darkness" Story Illustration, Saturday Evening Post
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed "F. R. Gruger" Upper Right
"'I shall count to five before I fire.' said Davidson. 'One!'" Illustration for "House of Darkness" by C. E. Scoggins, published in The Saturday Ev...
Category
1930s Graphite Paintings
Materials
Graphite
MAMADOU : mixed media work of art
Located in New York, NY
Artwork by New York artist Gail Postal.
Postal has had two major influences on her work – old hand tinted black and white Japanese photographs an...
Category
2010s Graphite Paintings
Materials
Oil, Graphite
Arabesque (interlacing)
By Alyse Rosner
Located in Fairfield, CT
Alyse Rosner 2022
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite
Grizzly Adams, Grizzly bear attacks Frontiersman
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
There is a reason why there are few contemporary painters who can paint a portrait of a man and bear this good. It's hard to do. It's easy to throw some paint or spray a mess of graf...
Category
1950s American Realist Graphite Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Graphite
Locked in shadow
By Alyse Rosner
Located in Fairfield, CT
Alyse Rosner 2021
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite
The world I knew
By Alyse Rosner
Located in Fairfield, CT
Alyse Rosner 2022
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite
The space between the finite and the infinite
Located in Fairfield, CT
Graphite on clayboard panel
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Board, Graphite
Into view (verdant)
By Alyse Rosner
Located in Fairfield, CT
Alyse Rosner 2018
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite
Abstract I: Fan-Shaped Series: Deliverance-textured acrylic with paper on canvas
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Living in temples and the countryside with craftsman communities in Japan for over a decade, Majio was deeply influenced aesthetically and by the content of Japanese culture. Her cra...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Paper, Wax, Acrylic, Tissue Paper, Graphite
Star Trek: Next Generation #31 "Foreign Foes" Paperback Book Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed and Dated
Will Riker, Deanna Troi, and Worf are featured on this fantastic painting by Keith Birdsong that was used as the cover for the novel "Foreign Foes" by Da...
Category
1990s Graphite Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Color Pencil, Graphite
Moonlight Bends Over the Black Silence
Located in New Orleans, LA
Materials: Graphite and hand-sewn beads on primed linen
MONICA ZERINGUE received her Masters of Fine Arts from the University of New Orleans in 2006, and her BA in 1993. In 1999 she...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Linen, Graphite
Resilente
Located in BARCELONA, ES
A true testimony that captures the intimate essence of the artist's overcoming, an autobiographical manifesto. The use of vibrant colors and intricately detailed elements makes this ...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Graphite Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic, Watercolor, Graphite
$2,340 Sale Price
20% Off
Oblivion II
By Perry Burns
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist's Statement: "My paintings are an attempt to synthesize and enlighten pursuits of eastern and western art and their traditions. Using the full visual language of abstraction –...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Graphite, Pigment, Watercolor
Robin's Harvest #3, Still-Life Acrylic Painting, 2021
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
End of the season, last of the bounty. Acrylic and graphite on Arches.
About the artist:
Richard Levine, born in Newark, NJ, is a painter and photographer whose professional career has spanned more than 30 years in the graphic arts working for prominent design firms and corporate clients. He studied oil painting for four years with artists Alan Turner and Andrew Lattimore and photography with Gary Winogrand...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Graphite Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Graphite
Xanadu
Located in Napa, CA
Oil, charcoal, wax, pigment, and graphite on canvas.
Alison Haley Paul is a contemporary painter of lavishly textured landscapes full of nuanced color. Her work conjures up connotat...
Category
2010s Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Wax, Oil, Graphite, Pigment
$12,250
Violet 3
By Liz Barber
Located in Napa, CA
My paintings are layered bursts of energy inspired by nature’s movement, blending the here and now with memories. Forms and lines fall into a sea of emotion. Shapes and reflections d...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic, Graphite
$7,500
Rah-Rah
Located in Lincoln, RI
Rah-Rah is made by casting Hydrocal FGR95 (a very hard plaster) on top of an oil clay pattern. The oil clay is extruded to take on a "noodle form". The composition is laid out on pl...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Foil
$3,800
Grayline
Located in Napa, CA
Oil, Wax, Pigment, Charcoal, and Graphite on Canvas
Alison Haley Paul is a contemporary painter of lavishly textured landscapes full of nuanced color. Her work conjures up connotati...
Category
2010s Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Wax, Oil, Graphite, Pigment
Aerial
Located in Napa, CA
Oil, charcoal, wax, pigment, and graphite on canvas.
Alison Haley Paul is a contemporary painter of lavishly textured landscapes full of nuanced color. Her work conjures up connotat...
Category
2010s Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Wax, Oil, Graphite, Pigment
$7,750
Overcast
Located in Napa, CA
Oil, charcoal, wax, pigment, and graphite on canvas.
Alison Haley Paul is a contemporary painter of lavishly textured landscapes full of nuanced color. Her work conjures up connotat...
Category
2010s Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Wax, Oil, Graphite, Pigment
Much That Undoubtedly Came to Pass Remains Unknown
Located in Fairfield, CT
A painting will, or will not be made. For all the romance involved in creation, there is a pragmatic objectivity at work in the studio… Whatever profundity one hopes for is found in ...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite
Enlightenment
Located in Napa, CA
Oil, charcoal, wax, pigment, and graphite on canvas.
Alison Haley Paul is a contemporary painter of lavishly textured landscapes full of nuanced color. Her work conjures up connotat...
Category
2010s Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Wax, Oil, Graphite, Pigment
Adieu
Located in Napa, CA
Oil, charcoal, wax, pigment, & graphite on canvas
Alison Haley Paul is a contemporary painter of lavishly textured landscapes full of nuanced color. Her work conjures up connotation...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Wax, Oil, Graphite, Pigment
$5,625
“Once or Twice, Like an Ermine Jigsaw, ” Contemporary Abstract painting (red)
By Mark Masyga
Located in New York, NY
28"x36" oil, graphite on canvas, signed on reverse by the artist. This contemporary abstract painting by New York artist, Mark Masyga is visually laid out with painted lines of color intertwined and layered on top of each other. The orange and blues compliment the red-orange ground color, creating a vibrant composition. This painting is featured in a solo show released by the Front Room Gallery...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Graphite
What Ecstatic Danger
By Alex Gingrow
Located in New York, NY
graphite, flashe, ink and gesso on paper, 22"x30" signed by the artist
Alex Gingrow creates text-based paintings and drawings that are at turns witty, sardonic, poetic, self-deprecat...
Category
2010s Conceptual Graphite Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Ink, Graphite
Renglones de Cielo
Located in New York, NY
Miriam Peralta prefers mediums of graphite, ink, pencil or pastel to masterfully render trademark spirals resembling human DNA. Her hand-drawn network of Tangram-like shapes, mingled with calligraphy, trace a visual path that acts as a cognitive exercise of the philosophical rhythm of life, that builds and swells as it calms and returns. Viewers’ eye can instantly disentangle a backlog of information encrypted over time and stored through the process of evolution while viewing her work.
She was awarded with the 1st Prize Winner of the 2018 Premio Trabucco, the Grand Prize for Painting, Banco Provincia; Salon Nacional de Artes Visuales, Palais de Glace...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
Bañistas triple sombra (Triple Shadow Bathers)
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
The pieces attract by the power of the pictorial gesture materialized in the line, the shape, and the color. For Daniel, each painting contains and transmits the energy that was embo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Acrylic, Graphite
Bañistas triple sombra (Triple Shadow Bathers)
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
The pieces attract by the power of the pictorial gesture materialized in the line, the shape, and the color. For Daniel, each painting contains and transmits the energy that was embo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Acrylic, Graphite
Bañistas triple sombra (Triple Shadow Bathers)
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
The pieces attract by the power of the pictorial gesture materialized in the line, the shape, and the color. For Daniel, each painting contains and transmits the energy that was embo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Acrylic, Graphite
Bañistas triple sombra (Triple Shadow Bathers)
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
The pieces attract by the power of the pictorial gesture materialized in the line, the shape, and the color. For Daniel, each painting contains and transmits the energy that was embo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Acrylic, Graphite
Bañistas triple sombra (Triple Shadow Bathers)
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
The pieces attract by the power of the pictorial gesture materialized in the line, the shape, and the color. For Daniel, each painting contains and transmits the energy that was embo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Acrylic, Graphite
All the palm trees IV
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
The pieces presented by Daniel Berman attract by the power of the pictorial gesture materialized in the line, the form, and the color. For Daniel, each p...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Graphite
All the palm trees I
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
The pieces presented by Daniel Berman attract by the power of the pictorial gesture materialized in the line, the form, and the color. For Daniel, each p...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite
Unhappy Winter Cat, Probable Magazine Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Verso with His Jamaica Plain, MA Address
Probably a magazine illustration. In gold stick frame, with integral grey spandrel, glazed.
Category
20th Century Graphite Paintings
Materials
Illustration Board, Color Pencil, Graphite
Site
By Alyse Rosner
Located in Fairfield, CT
graphite and fluid acrylic on raw canvas
Category
2010s Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite
$18,000
Tally (red orange yellow)
By Alyse Rosner
Located in Fairfield, CT
graphite and fluid acrylic on raw canvas
Category
2010s Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite
Flare
By Alyse Rosner
Located in Fairfield, CT
graphite and fluid acrylic on raw canvas
Category
2010s Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite
$2,200
NEARBY
Located in New York, NY
The artist is dealing with the fullness of life, while the ground becomes shakier. There is nostalgia for a lush world that never actually existed. Her lighthearted series of drawing...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Photographic Paper, Graphite
Price Upon Request
Premonition Open, with Flesh over Grey
Located in London, GB
Premonition Open, with Flesh over Grey, 1974, belongs to an extended series of works that came to be called the Opens and which came about by a happy accident. Leaning a finished can...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Graphite Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Acrylic Polymer, Graphite
Price Upon Request
The Kiss
Located in New York, NY
Adam Liam Rose “The Kiss”
2023
Signed and titled, verso
Graphite and acrylic on paper mounted to panel
24 x 18 x 1.5 inches (61 x 45.7 x 3.8 cm)
This wor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Panel, Graphite
Price Upon Request
Stages of Fallout (expanding universe)
Located in New York, NY
Adam Liam Rose “Stages of Fallout (expanding universe)”
2022
Signed and titled, verso
Graphite on paper
6 x 4.25 inches
This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Price Upon Request
"300 Yards and a Bullet. That's all I need!, " Graphite and Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Houston, TX
This graphite and acrylic painting on canvas is from a series called "Lovers and Assassins." Here you can see Bhatt playing with the idea of seduction, self-sacrifice, persecution, b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Symbolist Graphite Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Graphite, Canvas
"In Death Shall We Meet?" Graphite and Acrylic on Canvas, Symbolism, Indian Art
Located in Houston, TX
This graphite and acrylic painting on canvas is from a series called "Lovers and Assassins." Here you can see Bhatt playing with the idea of seduction, self-sacrifice, persecution, b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Symbolist Graphite Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Graphite, Canvas
"Be Born From Me #1, " Graphite and Acrylic on Canvas, Symbolism, Indian Artist
Located in Houston, TX
This graphite and acrylic painting on canvas is from a series called "Lovers and Assassins." Here you can see Bhatt playing with the idea of seduction, self-sacrifice, persecution, belief systems, and radicalization.
Amita Bhatt received her BFA from the Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara, India and her MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland. Bhatt’s work has been exhibited at noteworthy venues such as the Bluestar Contemporary Art Center, Walters Art Museum, The Station Museum of Contemporary Art, and The Project Row Houses, all in the United States as well as Museo Pedro de Osma in Peru. Amita Bhatt has also been the recipient of several prestigious awards and recently served as a Grant Panelist on the National Endowment for the Arts. Bhatt's works are included in many important private and public collections.
Bhatt digs deep into world philosophies and mythologies to answer questions pertaining to our political as well as personal belief systems. Unafraid to explore uncomfortable territories, Amita mines from a range of sources to create hybrid creatures that are often symbolic of man’s psychological condition in an angst-ridden zeitgeist.
In exploring issues of identity and violence, Bhatt’s research led her to the beginnings of mankind. Most ancient creation myths claim chaos to be the central truth marking the beginnings of the world. Should turbulence then be viewed as essential to new beginnings? Bhatt’s characters are packed with irony, humor and indifference, and navigate intense color fields, all in search of wisdom and truth. They mirror the tumultuous times we live in, yet they know that there are deep Karmic mysteries that need to be understood and that HOPE in the end is what will sustain them.
Amita Bhatt
"Be Born From...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Symbolist Graphite Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Graphite, Canvas
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