Linen Still-life Paintings

Two beer glasses sit on a small round table, illuminated by a green sconce and framed by a snowy scene outside the window of the cozy bar in this peaceful, wintry still life by KK Ko...

Peach Lilies (Contemporary Still Life of Vibrant Tiger Lilies, Oil on canvas) by Dan Rupe 22 x 22 inches oil on linen canvas Signed on reverse Artist Dan Rupe paints only from life, his composition ruled by his intuitive sense of formal order. He begins covering his canvas with a deep crimson wash. This ground gives his brilliant pure color , applied with an expressive, direct gesture, an electric charge. No matter how often or how long one looks at a Rupe painting, it is always the present tense. The tone of his palette, the freshness and clarity of primary colors, reflects an optimistic attitude, an intrinsic love of life. In this work, three vibrant peach colored lilies open their blooms amidst bright green grasses. Rupe succeeds at capturing the immediacy of his subjects be it flowers, buildings or people. Read below for an amusing profile written about the artist in 2003: You‘ve likely seen him on the streets of Hudson, seated before his canvas in a multi-colored paint daubed t-shirt and shorts, his straw hat providing shade for all but his tanned forearms and knees. His splattered Technicolor Walkman tape player...

This painting of plants on a porch is from Francis Sills' 2017 series of Flora Paintings. Verdant leafy palms in planters stand behind a wooden table with bright red potted flowers a...

'Backwash' — luminous oil on linen. Dimensions are 60 x 72 inches. French American Frédéric Choisel, is inspired by the cities and countrysides of France, New York, and California'...

The verdant shades of green leaves are lush against the dramatic, brilliant crimson red background in this painting of tropical yucca plants in planters. Signed on recto, signed, dat...

This painting features hues of purple, green and white. Chattanooga-based artist Christina Renfer Vogel’s “Turning Towards the Sun” features paintings that reflect an intentional tu...

This colorful painting of plants and flowers in a backyard is from Francis Sills' 2017 series of Flora Paintings. The verdant shades of green are punctuated by the warmer tones of th...

'Luminous 3' — luminous oil on linen. Dimensions are 31.5 x 31.5 inches. French American Frédéric Choisel, is inspired by the cities and countrysides of France, New York, and Calif...

This painting of plants on a porch is from Francis Sills' 2017 series of Flora Paintings. The verdant shades of green in the leaves are accented by rich brown and purple hues and a b...

"Watershed" by Ann Getsinger, 2019 36 x 48 inches Oil on Linen 39 x 51 inches framed (brown wooden floater frame) Ann Getsinger’s oil paintings have bee...

In "Outpost", Jacobsen’s new body of work records scenes from a year when societal boundaries where crossed and personal dreams set into motion. The paintings in this exhibition continue and expand on the ideas of Jacobsen’s 2014 exhibition, “Lean-to,” which featured artworks that invited viewers to contemplate still-life images of interiors from the artist’s domestic spaces and black and white arrangements from the artist’s workspace. While seemingly traditional still lives, the works served as the artist’s subtle critique of industrialized society. The content and technique speak to Jacobsen’s attempt to insulate himself from this very type of industrial environment and modernist influences. Jacobsen purchased a miner’s cabin in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado just prior to the legalization of marijuana, and the paintings in Outpost serve as documents of his experiments in growing this newly legal plant. In these still lifes, the marijuana plant is the central focus against a dark background, along with wild mushrooms collected on long hikes and crystals gifted from friends. These paintings hearken back to traditional Dutch paintings of tulips, itself a coveted plant in its day. Deploying the technique of lens flare, Jacobsen highlights the importance of the camera, while also referencing the religious, spiritual, and cultist motif of light symbolizing the divine. The usage of this “heavenly” light on these cannabis plants...

"Cow Bone and Peonies" 1996 by Ann Getsinger A still life consisting of a large cow bone created aside a vase of peonies filled with lush blossoms. 20 x...