Graphite Paintings

Alyse Rosner 2021

Heat 2019

"Day Garden IV" is part of the ongoing series Garden Narratives. Dexheimer, while consistent in her focus on shape, color, texture and form works simultaneously on several projects i...

"Day Garden II" is part of the ongoing series Garden Narratives. Dexheimer, while consistent in her focus on shape, color, texture and form works simultaneously on several projects i...

graphite and fluid acrylic on raw canvas

Amulet, metal object with rust paint mixed media on wood panel, 2020. Amulet, on a wood panel, applied rust and acrylic paint and mixed media, suggests how an object is precious as i...

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...

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 –...

Nancy Lasar’s work is described as “drawing with light”, “condensed energy and flow”, “calm and crazy”, and “organized chaos”. The lines in Lasar’s works that are electrifying. They ...

Nancy Lasar’s work is described as “drawing with light”, “condensed energy and flow”, “calm and crazy”, and “organized chaos”. The lines in Lasar’s works that are electrifying. They ...

Artist Commentary: Made with plastic bags, beeswax, oil paint and graphite Keywords: abstract, colorful Artist Biography: Toby Zallman has always combi...

These works reflect the animism of Japanese culture and Zen training. Living in temples and the countryside with craftsman communities in Japan for over a decade, Majio was deeply in...

Janet Lage’s energetic abstract pieces are loaded with writing (graffiti), color, form and expressionistic brushstrokes. For Lage, the painting process is an alliance of language an...

Janet Lage’s energetic abstract pieces are loaded with writing (graffiti), color, form and expressionistic brushstrokes. For Lage, the painting process is an alliance of language an...

Janet Lage’s energetic abstract pieces are loaded with writing (graffiti), color, form and expressionistic brushstrokes. For Lage, the painting process is an alliance of language an...

Liz Barber pursued painting while obtaining her degree from the Massachusetts College of Art and Moore College of Art. She currently resides in Marietta, Georgia. Barber’s paintings ...

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...

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...

Blurred is the title of this painting. A softer pallet of grays with touched of red gives a more gentle image of the female than her newer works.

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 ...

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 ...

This large scale oil painting by Mark Masyga employs a linear abstract composition, on a warm neutral melon orange ground. Masyga's masterful knowledge and background in color field...

Liz Barber pursued painting while obtaining her degree from the Massachusetts College of Art and Moore College of Art. She currently resides in Marietta, Georgia. Barber’s paintings ...

28"x35.75" 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 c...

Mauricio Sandoval (Aguascalientes, México, 1960) Lives and works in Mexico City Mauricio Sandoval is an abstract painter, one of the best ever in Mexico; he creates his own pictoria...

Collage, acrylic and graphite on paper. This abstract collage by the New York/ Hawaiian artist, Debra Drexler, incorporates cut paper, drawing and impasto brushwork with poured pain...

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...

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...

Alison Haley Paul is a contemporary painter of lavishly textured landscapes full of nuanced color. Her work conjures up connotations and geographical memories: that summer you spent ...

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...

Alison Haley Paul is a contemporary painter of lavishly textured landscapes full of nuanced color. Her work conjures up connotations and geographical memories: that summer you spent ...

Charbonnet received an MFA from the University of New Orleans. He has work in the public collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, The Speed M...

Charbonnet received an MFA from the University of New Orleans. He has work in the public collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, The Speed M...

Charbonnet received an MFA from the University of New Orleans. He has work in the public collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, The Speed M...

Charbonnet received an MFA from the University of New Orleans. He has work in the public collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, The Speed M...

Charbonnet received an MFA from the University of New Orleans. He has work in the public collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, The Speed M...

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...

Quick and loose expressionist portrait of stage and screen actress Paula Laurence Portrait of Paula Laurence (1916-2005). Oil and graphite on linen. Signed top right. Exhibited: "Lil...

Artwork by New York artist Gail Postal. Graphite, and Oil Paint. Postal has had two major influences on her work – old hand tinted black and white Japanese photographs and Eastern ...

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 ...

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...

Graphite on clayboard panel

Graphite on clayboard panel

Alyse Rosner 2022

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...

graphite and fluid acrylic on raw canvas

graphite and fluid acrylic on raw canvas

graphite and fluid acrylic on raw canvas

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...

A work by Jane Highstein. This Untitled drawing is an abstract pigment on graphite on paper by contemporary artist Jane Highstein. Signed lower right, "Highstein '92" Jene Highstein...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

In this figurative abstract acrylic painting on canvas, Bhatt explores notions of life and death, the after-life, and reincarnation through the use of ancient Hindu symbolism. Amita Bhatt...

Robert Motherwell Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 110C 1968 Acrylic and graphite on paper 15.2 x 20.3 cms (6 x 8 ins) Robert Motherwell's Elegies series represent one of the iconic motifs of Abstract Expressionism.  Based on a 1948 ink illustration the artist executed accompanying a Harold Rosenberg poem, “A Bird for every bird,” the drawing shows the hypnotically repetitive patterning of ovoids and vertical beams.  The stark contrast of the black ink on white paper references the symbolic use of the color black by artists such as Goya, Manet and Matisse to convey death, loss, and tragedy.  Motherwell was quite affected by the turbulence of the Spanish Civil War and alludes to the Spanish republic in his Elegies. Motherwell’s plumbing the depths of poetry, history, and primordial art in the Elegies is considered a hallmark of nascent Abstract Expressionist painting in its desire to "excavate" essential imagery of mankind. Motherwell, who originally trained as a philosophy scholar and later became of the great editors of 20th century art documents, grasped very early on the crucial importance that in order to contribute meaningfully to the canon of modern art, one must create a principle of aesthetics. Through the surrealist concept of automatism, the artist finally found the creative principle that eventually governed his extraordinary artistic output and produced the Elegies, one of the most salient, immediate painterly images of 20th century abstract painting. In fact, he has alluded to the fact that each one of his Elegies begins as an automatic drawing, and certain shapes are then blocked to create the signature armature of the vertical bars and ovals. The Elegies seem to possess the power of an archetypal image, an image the mind already grasps on a subconscious level. Motherwell's play of dualities of black and white as well as other dichotomies—the geometric versus the organic, chaos versus order, death versus life—was a condition of living through a tumultuous period in American history. During an interview, he vividly recalled the 1940s as the time when society was ordered by a set of contradictions.  In Motherwell's Elegies, he not only discovered an incredibly elastic pictorial language that would communicate on multiple levels but also acknowledged these contradictions in a manner that would resonate in abstract form.  The present work served as a model for a painting, Spanish Elegy...