McKenzie West

Stand Your Ground

2025

“Gather” is an elegant still life by Boston-based artist McKenzie West, capturing a delicate arrangement of shells and crab claws nestled in a dark bowl. This intimate composition ex...

Labyrinth by McKenzie West is a striking oil painting that explores the interplay between history, identity, and reflection. Rendered with meticulous realism, the work depicts an ornate vintage hand mirror...

“Wilmot Rd” by Ken Orton is a powerful original oil painting on canvas, measuring 18 x 36 inches. This work captures the weathered beauty of an abandoned Navy aircraft, resting benea...

"Pasture" by McKenzie West is a captivating 24 x 18 inch oil painting on panel, featuring a young brown calf standing against a softly rendered green landscape. West’s classical oil ...

Nicholas Berger Biography American, b. 1949 In his more than three decades as an artist, Nicholas Berger (b. 1949) has created an outstanding body of work that continues to evolve a...

Medium: Gouache Signature: Signed Lower Right a slave with shackles on the ground behind him appealing to Abraham Lincoln with the Civil War battle s...

Born in San Pedro, California in 1969, Francis DiFronzo has been painting and exhibiting his artwork in the United States for more than thirty years. "I discovered at a young age that art had the ability to transport me out of my world and into the lives of artists I admired. When I looked at paintings by Andrew Wyeth or Edward Hopper, I felt as though I was momentarily living in the worlds they created. I wanted to do the same thing. I wanted my work to have that power." After receiving his B.F.A in 1994 from California State University, Fullerton, DiFronzo moved to Philadelphia, PA where he continued his studies in drawing and painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. There he worked and learned under the guidance of artists Murray Dessner, Jan Baltzell, Sidney Goodman, Vincent Desiderio and Irving Petlin. Di Fronzo...

My paintings begin with a serious sense of play, both in the staging and the creating of the compositions. It is at this beginning stage that I operate under the Dadaist dictate that “anything can be art”, and at the same time I seek out a balanced and harmonious composition by way of line, shape, and color. I work according to my whimsy, sometimes seeking to assert some form of narrative however personal or ambiguous, and other times I am simply satisfied with the hint of a human presence. Once I have my compositions the paintings then very quickly become about work, a very labor intensive work that forces me to focus my mind and slow things down (which I feel is relevant especially in this day and age of high-speed everything). A great amount of effort is spent on trying to get to the highest level of finish that is possible according to my current skill level. For inspiration I have drawn from the past four centuries of object specific paintings, from the ontbijtjes (laid tables) of the 17th Century Dutch masters such as Willem Kalf, Jan Davidsz de Heem, Abraham van Beijeren...