Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 6

Mary Lou Siefker
Still Life 1

About the Item

Small Box Series, Still Life 1, Acrylic on panel Mary Lou Siefker is 87 year old Broward County Artist that has been exhibiting her work since 1977. She has won numerous awards and fellowships. “Her canvases often break the barrier between abstract and representational art by alluding to both without being either. This inferred dichotomy is never contrived, instead, it is blessed with uncommon equilibrium. Each image captures the transcendental moment when essence becomes substance- flux reigns. Seifkers ethereal figures, devoid of recognizable features, posses a universal quality to them. They emote with their bodies in a subtle but, nevertheless, poignant way. Turns of a head, a hunched back, an unexpected void between forms are all crucial to the artists discourse. Siefkers handling of the elements of art is authoritative. Her somber backgrounds are far from dull. The brushwork, expressionistic in nature, energizes them while adding textural highlights. Siefker favors spiky, truncated, uneven lines. Her draftmanship, reminiscent of Moore and Giacometti, possesses a fidgety, calligraphic quality to it. Siefkers foreground palette is acerbic in tone - magentas, purples, and dark greens predominate. Every component in her compositions conjures to project a sense of alienation and displacement. Her oeuvre unequivocally reflects her milieu, a society where self-obsorption, and apathy are widespread.” -Jorge H. Santis, Curator of Collections Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art
More From This SellerView All
  • Oil on Canvas Titled: Red Grass River
    By Nadine Bourgne
    Located in West Palm Beach, FL
    "Originally from Auvergne, the painter Nadine Bourgne was born in Issoire (France) in 1967. In the late 1990s, she combined her passion for abstract expression in her paintings (...
    Category

    21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

    Materials

    Acrylic

  • Painting on Canvas TItled: "Mille pattes"
    By Nadine Bourgne
    Located in West Palm Beach, FL
    "Originally from Auvergne, the painter Nadine Bourgne was born in Issoire (France) in 1967. In the late 1990s, she combined her passion for abstract expression in her paintings (...
    Category

    21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

    Materials

    Acrylic

  • Acrylic on Canvas Titled: Autumn Afternoon
    By William Finlayson Jr.
    Located in West Palm Beach, FL
    acrylic on canvas, can be hung verticle or horizontal Born in Tallahasee Fl, William started his artistic career as a color consultant for his family's Design and Painting company...
    Category

    2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

    Materials

    Acrylic

  • Acrylic Painting on Canvas Titled: "Summer Glow"
    By Mary Lou Siefker
    Located in West Palm Beach, FL
    Acrylic painting on canvas by Mary Lou Siefker Mary Lou Siefker is 87 year old Broward County Artist that has been exhibiting her work since 1977. She has won numerous awards and fe...
    Category

    2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

    Materials

    Acrylic

  • Acrylic Painting Titled: Eye Floaters Cobalt
    By Mirtha Moreno
    Located in West Palm Beach, FL
    Oil and Acrylic on Board (colors: cobalt blue orange Pink, hot pink) art is 26.75 x 40, with frame included size is 29.5 x 42.75 Born in Havana, Cuba, in the late 70s during a well-...
    Category

    2010s Abstract Expressionist Paintings

    Materials

    Acrylic, Oil

  • Oil Painting on Panel Titled "Marbles""
    By Mirtha Moreno
    Located in West Palm Beach, FL
    Born in Havana, Cuba, in the late 70s during a well-documented time of religious and political oppression, abstract expressionist artist Mirtha Moreno, immigrated to the United State...
    Category

    2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

    Materials

    Oil, Acrylic

You May Also Like
  • Untitled
    By Richard Pousette-Dart
    Located in Miami, FL
    Acrylic on masonite. This is a pivotal work in deep and radiant cobalt blue from 1950. It dipicts calligraphic and hieroglyph structures over a grid and pyramidal base by the first generation abstract expressionist. Provenance: Skinner: November 13, 1992 [Lot 00219}, The entry in the Skinner catalog indicates that the painting came directly from the artist to the family of the consignor to Skinner. Kaminsky Auctions. There is an unbroken paper trail that traces the ownership of the painting from the current owner, through two auction houses to the artist. Perfect unbroken provenance. Pousette-Dart was among the most inventive of the Abstract Expressionist generation, His uncanny talent was to expand the nature of abstraction and still make each mark each element very much his own; a reflection of what he called   "the concealed power of the spirit," he said, “not of the brute physical form."   His was not aiming for a singular, realized aesthetic formula but to expand the possibilities of painting; the transcendental in painting. Typical of such invention and exploration is this  painting  Untitled 1950 when the artist was only 34 years old and represented by one of the champions of the new American painting, Betty Parsons.  
A banner year for Pousette-Dart, the Museum of Modern Art acquired their first painting by the Minnesota born artist.  He worked on easel size works such as this painting an oil on masonite. At the same time Pousette-Dart was also working on larger scale works such as Path of the Hero, running over ten feet in length now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  Both contain fields of color articulated by a highly sophisticated white hieroglyphic vocabulary. Rather than demonstrate an expressionist sensibility, Pousette-Dart harnesses his more cerebral ideas transforming thick areas of paint into a more refined composition of geometric forms akin to the pattern and forms of say a stained glass window. In a way he is looking back at Fugue, 1940 a black and white composition which makes use of a similar format of painting albeit smaller. Color and form are minimal, but what Pousette-Dart has maximized is the rhythmic and syncopated character of painting casting his ideas into purely symbolic terms that one might link to the pictograms of Adolph Gottlieb. Nonetheless, nature is always at the core of Pousette-Dart’s thinking and dreaming. Here he has transformed the local Ramapo Mountains—where he will eventually move with his family to live and work— into a complex series of articulated fragments linked by style, scale and color.  The painting’s imagery built on two large triangles and reduced to just two colors, cobalt blue and white all outlined in black.  Pousette-Dart symbols stacked in horizontal and vertical rows:  blue is ground, white is language, symbolic of light, consciousness and awareness . The painting maintains a mystical character images compounded that formulate a secret code and linked to the series of white paintings Pousette-Dart authored in the first half of the 1950s. Get up close to the picture and you discover images within images a kind of picture puzzle...
    Category

    1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

    Materials

    Masonite, Acrylic

  • Carolina Ponte - No Title (Abstract Painting)
    By Carolina Ponte
    Located in New York City, NY
    CAROLINA PONTE No Title, 2016 60 x 197 inches Acrylic on Linen Message for videos of the piece with more details. The extended present time and the a...
    Category

    2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

    Materials

    Linen, Acrylic

  • Carolina Ponte - No Title (Painting)
    By Carolina Ponte
    Located in New York City, NY
    CAROLINA PONTE No Title, 2016 (Painting) 60 x 197 inches (150 x 400 cm) Acrylic on Linen Message for videos of the piece with more details. The exten...
    Category

    2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

    Materials

    Linen, Acrylic

  • Carolina Ponte - No Title (Large Scale Abstract Painting)
    By Carolina Ponte
    Located in New York City, NY
    CAROLINA PONTE No Title, 2016 60 x 197 inches Acrylic on Linen Message for videos of the piece with more details. The extended present time and the a...
    Category

    2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

    Materials

    Linen, Acrylic

  • Original-Magic Bell in the Night-UK Awarded Artist-Botanical Abstract Expression
    Located in London, GB
    In her latest series, "The Weaver," Shizico explores forms, layers, and time onto canvases. Applying the format of diptychs and triptychs, she creates lyrical narratives, capturing t...
    Category

    2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

    Materials

    Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel

  • Original-Magic Bell Morning Light-UK Awarded Artist-Botanic- Abstract Expression
    Located in London, GB
    In her latest series, "The Weaver," Shizico explores forms, layers, and time onto canvases. Applying the format of diptychs and triptychs, she creates lyrical narratives, capturing t...
    Category

    2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

    Materials

    Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Recently Viewed

View All