21st Century and Contemporary Paintings

ANNA WARDĘGA-CZAJA Graduated from the Painting Department at the Academy of Fine Art in Cracow, Poland in 2021. She's dealing with easel painting, wall painting as well as drawing. F...

The strength and fragility of humanity is revealed in Larisa Safaryan‘s works. The smooth shape of an egg is the artist‘s “canvas” upon which ideas about life, renewal and rebirth ar...

Tracy Wall's "3 Strawberry Scoops" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a white porcelain bowl with a silver spoon and three scoops of pink strawberry ice cream. About the Artist: As an artist, Tracy Wall sheds new light on everyday life, inviting the viewer to see the familiar as if for the very first time. Working with a variety of subjects, Tracy paints interesting viewpoints with compelling value, color, and shapes. Appealing compositions are everywhere, and they make strong impressions from afar even before the subject matter is recognized. She loves to balance representational impressions with more abstracted compositions. Tracy has studied at the Art Students League of Denver under such influential artists as Michelle Torrez, Ken Velastro, Kevin Weckbach, John Lencicki, and Rob Gratiot while also participated in additional workshops from Sally Strand, Carol Marine...

2023 Metallic oil on canvas 30 x 30 in. (76.2 x 76.2 cm) Signed and dated, verso

2023 Oil on canvas 40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm) Signed, titled, and dated on the reverse Framed

The strength and fragility of humanity is revealed in Larisa Safaryan‘s works. The smooth shape of an egg is the artist‘s “canvas” upon which ideas about life, renewal and rebirth ar...

The artist Francien Krieg describes her vision about her work The truth is that I paint myself ... and therefore the battle of my own body with age, my own fears and my fascination...

Leigh Wen’s works reflect her personal and cultural histories. Having grown up on the island of Taiwan, she has a deep affinity for the elemental power of wa...

SHANNON FINLEY Flicker, 2022 Acrylic on linen 15 3/4 x 12 1/2 inches 40 x 32 cm Signed, titled, and dated (verso) -- Over the decades, Shannon Finley has honed his painting proces...

Daisy Patton's series "Forgetting is So Long" uses found photographs to create archival prints on wood panels. Patton sources photographs from around the world, dating from the 1800s...

Inspired by nature and his 60 pet birds, Hunt Slonem is renowned for his distinct neo-expressionist style. He is best known for his series of bunnies, butterflies and tropical birds,...

This painting is a landscape that has been changed into a displaced image, so that elements of the landscape are still present but the displaced sections create other images that are...

Acrylic & pumice on canvas.

Many people are addicted to Facebook, and I am no exception. That's why I decided to produce an artwork that included the symbols and colors of this social network. One figure is esc...

Neill Wright is a multidisciplinary artist based in Johannesburg, South Africa. His satirical work braves the world of social commentary in a bold, colorful and humorous manner. Wrig...

Mulberry paper and acrylic on gauze Xinyi Liu is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York and Beijing. She works with materials that resonate with the thin and silky quality of...

Artist: LYNX Artist statement Each day, I make one million tally marks with ballpoint pen on paper or canvas as an act of self-discipline. One way to accomplish this task is by at...

This piece is round and is 42 inches in diameter. For Dugar, nature is sacred. Dugar mimics this belief in her art by creating a sacred and tactile space. This series of large canva...

This piece is framed which is reflected in the price. Unframed dimensions are 48 x 48 inches. Carol O’Malia’s paintings depict ordinary objects, people, and places and the ephemeral...

"Waltz of Hope" is a geometric abstract painting featuring hues of blue, magenta, orange, yellow and green. Kate Hooray Osmond is inspired by the work of Hilma af Klint and Damien Hirst. “My series of paintings deal with sensation and ultra-color,” Kate explains. “I am considering the concepts of over-consciousness, Horror Vacui and the overlap between joy and terror. In visual art, “horror vacui” (from Latin “fear of empty space”), also kenophobia (from Greek “fear of the empty”), is the filling of the entire surface of a space or an artwork with detail. For this series titled “Gold,” each piece is influenced by a topic of consideration: technology, super-nature, genetics, pharmaceuticals, perception. As Kate studies and meditates on these subjects, her path of investigation grows more and more intense until she teeters between becoming overwhelmed by fear for our future and a euphoria filled with hope and intention. “I feel so much life that I am paralyzed by it, and I am confounded by how sensation and numbness can blend together,” says Kate. “All that glitters is Gold.” Born in 1983, Kate Hooray Osmond earned her MFA in Studio Art from Maryland...

Artist: Slonem, Hunt Title: Silver Side Date: 2022 Medium: Oil on Canvas Unframed Dimensions: 50" x 60.5" Signature: Signed Edition: Unique

An oil panting on Canvas, inspired by imaginary nature scenes where water, streams, flowers, and skies, assembles in a bright multicolor dance in thick layers of oil paint applied by...

"By using references to navigational coastal profiling and by borrowing and subverting compositional structures of the 19th century American landscape painters I examine how modern landscapes came to be spatially constructed. Through a combination of on-site field studies and larger studio pieces I make bodies of work that reflect the individual characteristics of a specific place while retaining a critical awareness of the landscape genre. This practice, while fully absorbed into the cliché of modern landscape painting, is not innocuous. It is rooted in a history of globalism and environmental dominance. Through my work I explore this spatial language at times allowing individual works to teeter into abstraction. The works in Rise look specifically at how we will navigate and view a rapidly changing physical world." Albuquerque artist Beau Carey...

"By using references to navigational coastal profiling and by borrowing and subverting compositional structures of the 19th century American landscape painters I examine how modern l...

Created with vintage Comic Books featuring the most famous Marvel and other comic book characters, mounted on wood panel with paint and mixed media. One of a Kind! Paul Ecke...

Winter alpine landscape, painted by oil on canvas. Studio painting done after the plain air on the location. :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certifi...

Acrylic on canvas

Leign Wen’s works reflect her personal and cultural histories. Having grown up on the island of Taiwan, she has a deep affinity for the elemental power of water and the forces of nat...

Gerdine Duijsens’ spirited and evocative figures are instantly recognizable and unforgettable. Through lush, bold colors and energetic marks, her paintings emit a sense of pleasure a...

"By using references to navigational coastal profiling and by borrowing and subverting compositional structures of the 19th century American landscape painters I examine how modern l...

With layers of bright oils and whisking brush strokes, the paint is able to shine and shimmer in a very unique pattern. The artist uses gold leaf with thick textured oils and glass t...

Sax Berlin has embarked on a journey through Surrealism. This collection writhes & flows from his "Billion Dollar Hand" creating a complexity of interwoven rhythms. Berlin has been e...

FILIGRANA, an oil painting on canvas by Anna Ortiz, measures 48" high x 40" wide. Filigrana is recent work and characteristic of the artist's practice – the...

"Dawn" is an original oil painting on canvas by the artist Clovis Pareiko. Beauty and aesthetic have always been a major concern for me. I focus my energy on it because I believe th...

"Oh Our Dear Beatles" is a unique kinetic mixed media artwork on panel by a world-renowned French contemporary artist, Patrick Rubinstein. He is famous for his diverse style represen...

Work on paper, oil and collage. Limited edition. Cerj Lalonde moves smoothly from the canvas to the camera, from computers to installations, producing and showcasing an extraordinarily rich and complex body of work created during the last 30 years. His purpose is to pursue a direct, and, in each case, a different communication with the spectator. It can be said that Lalonde works as a team with himself, not only to develop his artwork, but also to sharpen his personal ideas about contemporary culture, trends... Lalonde is putting a lot of time, energy and thought into his new media and technology productive structure, where he can directly address his issues... His paintings, installations, photographs and web pages, are intended to function each in its own way, as an overt revision and critique of the contemporary art system, as they establish parallel dialogues between the artist, the public, and the curatorial values. "Lalonde, the painter" Cerj Lalonde works his painting with a conceptual approach, as an attempt to restate the validity of painting as a practice per-se. His abstract language ranges from lyric abstractionist pieces to many personal interpretations on art history masterpieces, as specific reflections upon geometric abstract paintings like Malevich´s black square series, or Albers study of color, among others. Lalonde holds many layers as an artist. His years of experience as a painter and thirst for art history and critique have helped him develop into a consciously literate artist. Formally, his domain of techniques ranges from drawing, printing, and primarily acrylic painting by means of a wild contrasting palette. But more than any type of formalism, Lalonde´s work is a strong statement about painting itself and how he approaches abstraction from a conceptual viewpoint. His paintings celebrate the power and meaning of color and texture, the imperative voice of contrast and stridence, and the million of possible solutions for a white canvas. I also see in his artwork a psychoanalytical interpretation of art, and a curiously unintentional approach to oriental philosophy appears throughout his multi sized body of work. In many of his canvas, the presence of the square has been integrated as an element of equilibrium and unity to the soul of the artwork itself. Lalonde is specifically interested in the qualities of painting as a media: “What Painting and only Painting can do”. Of all arts, painting is perhaps the most intimate and personal of art languages. It reaches the viewer at a last phase, in the gallery, or museum, or exhibition space. In the meanwhile, there is a time frame between the moment when the artist finishes his work and it gets shown. This space of time is silence. It can be said that the gap between the act of painting and its way out of the studio has had Lalonde wondering about other strategies of approaching the viewer, the critic, and to challenge the art world as a system. New media's and technology In his body of work related to the Internet, the use of language can be established as the first notable addition where the silent scream that comes from his paintings invades the screen and transforms it into words. We can feel the imperative urge to communicate. Lalonde addresses everyone and no one, and a certain/uncertain dialogue is established between him and the anonymous viewer/Web surfer/browser who reads it. Lalonde has produced multiple web sites. With this media, he has taken over a physical/nonphysical space to express his ideas about the act of seeing, of looking, and getting intoxicated by the gaze, by the sight, by the cognitive look, and the subjective one. Another interesting aspect is the inclusion of his images as an artist in several ways. For example, in SELF PORTRAIT AS A FAMOUS ARTIST he presents himself in all the archetypical attire of the romanticized representation of the artist. Lalonde has reverted all his irony and sarcasm as images that appear as brushstrokes on his Web sites. Another image that frequently appears is the sweet face of a very young woman, who looks at the browser with sweetness and nostalgia. As websites are build through layers, Lalonde has as well, constructed layers of impact, thought, and reflection, by means of the multiplicity of images that appear, ranging from his own paintings, installations, portraits, and text. He is interested in what defines art, who validates artwork, how artist’s success has a strong pull to media and critic dependency. Lalonde points out these issues as loud as a silent scream. Phrases such as the Dominance of Curatorial Ideology, Global Mono Cultural Art Discourse or Hegemony of the Global Curatorial Class are samples of titles that frame parts of his Web visual discourses. In his installations and performances such as THE NO SHOW, and WORKING TO BECOME RICH AND FAMOUS SO YOU CAN LOVE ME FOREVER, Lalonde discusses the notion of the self and identity, the artist as a social figure, and the severe critique of the contemporary art system, and society at large. He questions the validity and the ideology of the curatorial establishment, the marketing methods, and the issues of the self - as he queries the conventional paradigm of the artist. On his Web pages, Lalonde metamorphoses from an anonymous painter in his studio to a more public personae. His gaze looks at the viewer, his open mouth screams and questions the browser constantly, sometimes as an outsider and sometimes from the hypothetical voice of the viewer’s conscience. In SEEING, a photographic installation that can be considered as a milestone in his work, he presents a dark room that has many different sized eyes that are looking at the viewer. An interesting aspect of Lalonde’s digital work is the presence of a perpetual reflection that not only shows the act of seeing itself, but in a more profound way it presents the subconscious mind of the viewer. He inverts his role of an artist and establishes a dialogue with the unconscious of the spectator, both through his installations and digital art work...

Mixed media photography with lime green neon plexi frame. Limited and signed edition, number 3 of 5. Reine Paradis constructs narrative photographs staging herself as the central figure in a surreal landscape. Paradis is dressed in orange in her images and is shown interacting in color filled landscapes. Shot in many locations throughout America, the photo series...

Mixed media photography with lime green neon plexi frame. Limited and signed edition, number 3 of 5. Reine Paradis constructs narrative photographs staging herself as the central ...

Resin sculpture. Limited and signed edition, number 6 of 8. Richard Orlinski is a French artist born in Paris (France) in 1966. Sculptor since 2004, his work, conceived around the concept “Born Wild” in a style and with contemporary materials available for a large audience, including children. His creations act on our archaisms. His works are exhibited both at FIAC on the slopes of Courchevel and in 90 galleries worldwide Since 2011, he is ranked in the Top 10 of the best selling French artists in the world by Art Price. Art Price 2015 New Ranking Contemporary Artists: Richard Orlinski is ranked number 1 of the best selling French artists. Analysis of the work Rooted in his time, Richard Orlinski uses materials like resin and aluminum, but also marble, stone and bronze. He works on the brilliance and dullness, transparency and opacity of the materials. The Born Wild concept The stake for Richard Orlinski through the concept "Born Wild" is to transform negative emotions into positive vital impulses, to shift from archaic instinct to a civilized emotion. The vectors of this transformation are the aesthetics of the work, the pursuit of perfection as a sculptor and the viewer's perception. Engaged in making art accessible to all, Richard Orlinski draws on popular imagery of the icons that serve his purpose. Wild Kong Open Mouth on menacing fangs, the resin gorilla...

"Feeling Good" is a collage painting on canvas by LA-based street artist Amy Smith. She is best known for her empowering images of women and motivational text pieces. You can see her...

"Dare to Be" is a collage painting on canvas by LA-based street artist Amy Smith. She is best known for her empowering images of women and motivational text pieces. You can see her m...

My paintings serve as records of a process of disclosure, drawn from my own life events, literature, and dreams. Finding inspiration in the movementsof color-based and action paintin...

It is often impossible to represent the fury of an ocean storm without it seeming slightly tame on canvas. Penny uses textured layers and strong jagged lin...

Acrylic & mixed media on sustainably sourced wooden gesso panel. Tondo

Katherine Bello Title: Shine a Light on It Oil on board Year: 2021 Dimensions: 12"x12"x1" Signed by hand Framed in a white floater frame COA provid...

Oil and oil crayon on canvas.

Oil and oil crayon on canvas.

With layers of bright oils and whisking brush strokes, the paint is able to shine and shimmer in a very unique pattern. The artist uses thick textured oils to add a very contemporary...

With layers of bright oils and whisking brush strokes, the paint is able to shine and shimmer in a very unique pattern. The artist uses thick textured oils, glass, with gold flakes t...

Colorful abstract painting of the patrons of a restaurant. While a fairly everyday scene, the figures making eye contact with the viewer add an element of surrealist unease. This pie...

Vibrant and moody, "Family Time" combines strong abstract elements with bold splashes of complimentary colors. Additionally, the rough textural treatment across the surface of the ca...

Gel ink on canvas 18 x 14 in unstretched

Mikael Olson's (US based) "Feather" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a loose striped brown feather floating in a sky of blue and white.

Shoko Okumura paints with the classic Japanese technique - she prepares the paper with silver leaf, then paints on top with mineral pigments. For this ap...

In Ivan’s "Room" series, we see the impression of a human figure against a background composed of imagery suggesting the dressings of an interior space. The treatment of the backgrou...

"Amphibious Dollar" is an artwork which truly exemplifies the precision and craftsmanship that Olga Tobreluts brings to her practice. Pain-stakingly rendered by hand in her iconic ge...

Deborah T Colter is a contemporary abstract painter who lives on the Island of Martha’s Vineyard. Deborah graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a Bachelor Degree of ...

This artwork features some reliefs of matter. This painting is not framed. Jean Soyer does not name his works, but gives them a number. This item is listed as "E07". Jean Soyer is a rising French artist, mostly influenced by Nicolas de Staël, Georges Mathieu and Fabienne Verdier.