Mark Gilmore

'Can Hats Favor Fire? Can a Hat Aspire to Higher Things?, ' by Mark Gilmore

2009

This framed 20" x 14" painting in a surrealist style by artist Leonard Kaplan depicts three nude figures crowded together, sitting and standing with a white bird obscured by the dark shadows. Predominant colors are red, orange, black, and cream. The painting is on paper and masonite framed behind glass in a silver metal frame. Leonard Kalan is known for surrealism and figure paintings. He died in California in 2008. Leonard was born January 15, 1922 in New York City and won a scholarship in 1940 to study at the Art Student League under Reginald Marsh and William Pair. He won an art scholarship to New York University in the late 1930's. He studied art at the Henry Street...

This 13" x 13" oil on birch panel painting is by Oklahoma artist, April Dawes. This painting presents a composition centered on a solitary figure, whose arms are raised in an expres...

African-American artist Nathan Lee has brought to life an underwater Botero-esque female nude figure swimming with her small hands brough together in a pray...

Anthony Dyke's "Solarium," a 74 x 48 x 1.25 inch oil on canvas painting, references solar flares in its use of shape and color. The bright values of yellows, reds and blues surround a large red circular shape. The bright color wavelengths give this painting a vibrational energy. Anthony Dyke was born in Norwich, Vermont and attended The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University earning a BFA and MFA in painting. As an artist and arts educator, he relocated from New York City to his down¬town Oklahoma City studio, working there for two decades before returning to Boston in 2020. Coming from VERMONT where the seasons are distinctly different from one another. My shift from a pastoral setting to an urban environment set up a dichotomy in my work, both visual and emotional. I have an extensive education in painting, photography, graphic design and figure sculpture. These mediums intersect in my work through many years of creating artworks and currently speak to my interest in abstract painting. During my senior year in the BFA Program at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, my large painting “Natole” was chosen by Frank Stella (the juror) into the highly competitive and prestigious Dana Pond...

Cherres explores the need for people to believe in a certain god or goddess, the passion, the anxiety, consequences and the blinding worship. He portrays people based on his own yout...

Oil on Mahogany

Mark Acetelli’s oil and mixed media paintings awaken the viewer’s sense of exploration and adventure; they demand a new discovery. His artworks exhibit a chemistry of complexity and ...

Thinking Cap, Frame 01 is an acrylic painting on recycled record cover featured in Dax Norman's "Cinema Graffiti" NFT collection. Hand-signed. The works in this collection of painti...