Denise Dambrackas

"Impenetrable Princess" (2020) By Denise Dambrackas, Original Portrait Painting

2020

Sara Scribner's (US based) "Katie" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a realistic portrait of a blonde feminine figure in profile clutchi...

"Scarlet Serpentines" (2019) by Denise Dambrackas is an original mixed-media painting that depicts a child holding a mouse with a snake coiled around them. This painting measures 25....

Lisa Fricker's "Witness" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a portrait of a young woman. It measures 8 x 8 inches and is unframed but ready to hang.

Shana Levenson's "Rare" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts the artist in a lace dress with butterflies surrounding her. Shana Levenson is an accomplished representa...

Luis Miguel Valdes (Cuba, 1949) 'Victoria I', 2018 oil and acrylic on canvas 61.1 x 41.4 in. (155 x 105 cm.) ID: VAL

"LA PRINCESA" OIL AND ACRILIC ON CANVAS SIGNED, 2013 EXHIBITED MUSEO DEL BANCO CENTRAL DE COSTA RICA 43.5 x 35.25 INCHES Sofía Ruiz was born in 1982. ...

Many cultures imbue ravens with meaning. In Thought and Memory , I reference the Norse god Odin, who daily sent his two ravens into the world to gat...

NORA SEE grew up in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where, as a child, she taught herself to draw. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Corcoran College of Art and Design and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of New Orleans. She works and lives in New Orleans. In her oil paintings, Nora See renders framed paintings on walls with which human figures interact. Through her classical painting style and the use of historical visual references, her pieces contrast the past with the present. By combining these temporal elements with the use of frames as containers, she explores themes of consumption, imprisonment, and liberation. Nora’s work has been exhibited in a variety of venues and is also in the personal collection of Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. The artist says of her work... “Good artists borrow. Great artists steal.” A quote oft attributed to various sources that was never actually uttered by any of them. Though Mark Twain elaborated on the sentiment: “Ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms.” In the Framed Series, I use my 1% contribution to combine issues of consumption with my autobiography. I paint copies of copies of paintings within paintings to reference the appropriation, commodification, and altered continuum of art. My paintings of paintings are based on photographs of originals to perpetuate the continual distillation of form, given the ease with which images are presently exchanged and modified. Further, by reducing historically significant paintings to framed objects...