Contemporary Still-life Paintings
CONTEMPORARY STYLE
Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.
Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.
The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.
Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.
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Style: Contemporary
Kyle Andrew Szpyrka - Unity 1-5, Painting 2020
Located in Greenwich, CT
Oil and Gold Leaf on Canvas
“In a simple way the circle shows us the complete story of creation. In the beginning there was nothing, and then there became consciousness. The conscio...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Kyle Andrew Szpyrka - Unity 1-3, Painting 2020
Located in Greenwich, CT
Oil and Gold Leaf on Canvas
The Unity series is best described by a short story found in the introduction to author Don Miguel Ruiz’s book The Four Agreements.
Three thousand yea...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Kyle Andrew Szpyrka - Unity 2-6, Painting 2020
Located in Greenwich, CT
The space between...
I’ve heard this described as our truest selves.
That our true self, our soul, our essence exists in the space between every cell, atom, and molecule of our bodi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Kyle Andrew Szpyrka - Unity 1-2, Painting 2020
Located in Greenwich, CT
Oil and Gold Leaf on Canvas
The Unity series is best described by a short story found in the introduction to author Don Miguel Ruiz’s book The Four Agreements.
Three thousand yea...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Kyle Andrew Szpyrka - Unity 1-4, Painting 2020
Located in Greenwich, CT
Oil and Gold Leaf on Canvas
Who am I?
What is my purpose?
These are two of the most powerful questions I’ve ever learned to ask myself.
In meditation, the most sure way that I’ve ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Kyle Andrew Szpyrka - Unity 1-7, Painting 2020
Located in Greenwich, CT
Oil and Gold Leaf on Canvas
“Everyone who has drawn a circle knows that this center point must exist for its' construction. This middle point stands for centralized power, the base ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil
"Dripping Dots - Coco Chanel in St. Barths" Contemporary Perfume Bottle Painting
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
This piece is part of an exciting new collection depicting iconic "Coco Chanel" with the artists "Dripping Dots" style. Focused on a pointillistic technique, the paint is able to cap...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Glass, Mixed Media, Oil, Canvas
Peace in the Garden
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Peace in the Garden' by master watercolorist Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intensity, and siz...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Maneuvers", Acrylic Painting
By Josh Talbott
Located in Denver, CO
Josh Talbott's (US based) "Maneuvers" is an acrylic painting that depicts a green army man toy with a bright red hungry hippo and blue marble with random ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
White Irises, Large Painting by Michael Knigin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Michael Knigin, American (1942 - 2011)
Title: White Irises
Year: circa 1989
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 72 x 80 inches
Category
1980s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Zonnige Zee Sunny Sea Still Life Table Beer Wine Party at Beach In Stock
By Juane Xue
Located in Utrecht, NL
Zonnige Zee Sunny Sea Still Life Table Beer Wine Party Beach In Stock
Juane Xue (Hui Xue, Kaiffeng, China, 1962) has been drawing since her childhood.
This helped her to go to the Un...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bougainvillea at Honaunau No. 1
By Peter Loftus
Located in Burlingame, CA
Tranquil tropical scene of blooming bougainvillea by American Realist nature scene oil painter Peter Loftus who is known for captivating color rich scenes through shadow and light th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bromeliads
Located in New York, NY
This piece is a bold and flowing depiction of tropical Bromeliads flowers swirling together in a colorful and expressive nature. The joyful pinks and greens are expressed wonderfully...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Autumn Snow at Fallen Leaf
By Peter Loftus
Located in Burlingame, CA
American Realist nature scene - Pathway to Enchantment - celebrating the color yellow through sunlit fall leaves and trees by celebrated American artist Peter Loftus who is known for captivating color-rich scenes focused on shadow and light through his oil on canvas paintings that breathe life while reflecting natural western environments. Loftus' subject matter includes oceans, mountains, babbling brooks, mountain ridges and their breathtaking vistas; as well as people and figures. This beautiful oil painting glows with natural warm earth tones concentrating on yellow. 44 x 60 inches. oil on canvas. Artist signed, dated and titled.
Peter Loftus was born in 1948, in Washington DC. He received a BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art, in 1971. In 1974, Loftus earned an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. Drawn by the glorious California light, Loftus moved to Santa Cruz in 1975. He has lived and painted there ever since. Loftus taught at both University of California at Santa Cruz and Cabrillo Community College between 1975, through the present (at UCSC). He taught Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Drawing, and Painting, in both oil and aqueous media.
During that time, he also sustained a rigorous exhibition schedule, showing regularly on the East and West coasts; in New York at Fischbach Gallery, and San Francisco at William Sawyer Gallery and later Hackett-Freedman Gallery. In addition, Loftus has participated in a number of group exhibitions. These include: American Realism: 20th Century Drawings and Watercolors (and accompanying book), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, New Horizons in American Realism: Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI. Loftus is also included in several publications, including: "The Artist as Native: Reinventing Regionalism" by Alan Gussow...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
G.R.A.S. (4)
By Jane Kim
Located in Burlingame, CA
'G.R.A.S' no. 4' a series of 4 panels framed together into a single painting. The artist created the work using latex and acrylic on an original Collagraph print mounted to wood. Pro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Wood, Mixed Media, Latex, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Still Life with Ribbons - Oil Paint by Gianni Cacciarini - 1970s
By Gianni Cacciarini
Located in Roma, IT
Still life with ribbons is a modern artwork realized by Gianni Cacciarini.
Mixed colored oil on board.
Hand signed on the lower margin.
Includes an elegant frame (with some loss).
Category
1970s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Backwash
Located in Burlingame, CA
'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'...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
White Hydrangea in Tall Vase
Located in Burlingame, CA
'San Francisco Symphony Still Life no. 4' by master watercolorist Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"#1623" horizontal painting of yellow converse, one stacked on top of the other
Located in Edgartown, MA
The work of Santiago Garcia explores the wondrous, colorful and always intriguing world between figuration and abstraction. Through contextualization of reality, the Uruguayan artist...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The Valuable Collection" Sietse W. Jonker 21st Century Contemporary Oil Paint
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Since August 2018 Sietse W. Jonker belongs to the group of artists that we permanently represent in our stock-exposition. In mid-2019, this still-life artist will take part in a group exhibition devoted to still life in painting. His work can be seen all year round and for sale through our gallery. To get to know him, we visited the artist in his studio in Leeuwarden. a centrally located donkey and a window on the Noorderlicht dominate the space together with the still life that he is currently working on. According to the artist, a still life should not be 'made to look', in the final painting it should ultimately be an ordered harmony. The artist himself: That is not always easy and sometimes I am busy with all kinds of objects here in the house. Every now and then something comes up or something is taken away again until I am satisfied. Usually I have a vague idea of what I want, but to give that 'vague idea' a concrete form is quite difficult. The idea then to create a three-dimensional world on a two dimensional level intrigues Sietse Jonker...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Peonies
By Kira Yustak
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
I enjoy gardening. When the peonies come up and begin to bloom every year, I feel like I fell in love with them all over again!
About the Artist
K...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Six Green Apples - Oil Painting by Zhang Wei Guang - 2000s
Located in Roma, IT
Six Green Apples is an original artwork realized in 2006 by Zhang Wei Guang (Mirror).
Beautiful oil painting on canvas.
Hand signed on the lower margin.
Includes frame.
Hand-wri...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Field of Sunflowers in Summertime in France II by Contemporary British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Field of Sunflowers in the Summertime in France II by Contemporary British Artist, Angela Wakefield
Art measures 30 x 20 inches
Frame measures 35 x 25 inches
This painting depic...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic, Board
Yutong Zhao Impressionist Original Oil Painting
Located in New York, NY
Title: Take A Bite oF The Sweetest Middle Part
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 19 x 19 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent co...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
ShouZhang Wang Floral Original Oil On Canvas "Apricot Flower"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Apricot Flower
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 23.5 x 23.75 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excelle...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Canvas House - landscape, abstracted, pop-art, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This particular painting is a play on the form of the Canadian flag, the military history of Canada, the journey implied by the use of the tent, and of course, the primary symbolism of the pyramid. In true Pachter form, he manages to challenge and evoke all these ideas with riveting simplicity.
One of Canada’s leading contemporary artists, Charles Pachter is a painter, printmaker, sculptor, designer, historian, and lecturer. His work is pursued by significant private and public collections.
Born in Toronto, he studied art history at the University of Toronto, French literature at the Sorbonne, and painting and graphics at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan.
His work has been exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Royal Ontario Museum, and the McMichael Gallery. He is represented in public and private collections throughout Canada, and internationally. He has held solo exhibitions in France, Germany, Japan, the UK, and India.
Pachter worked at Expo 67 in Montreal supervising the installation of 60 contemporary sculptures from around the world. He taught printmaking at the University of Calgary in 1969-70. He spearheaded Toronto’s Queen Street West revival in the 1970s and 80s by restoring 20 old buildings into facilities for arts usage.
He is an Officer of the Order of Canada, a Chevalier of France’s Order of Arts and Letters, a member of the Order of Ontario, and holds honorary doctorates from Brock University, OCAD University, and the University of Toronto where he is a Senior Fellow at Massey College. He is a recipient of the Queen’s Golden and Diamond Jubilee medals.
His images of the queen, moose, and maple leaf flag are icons of Canadian contemporary art. McClelland & Stewart publications include an illustrated book on his life and work, and The Journals of Susanna Moodie, his celebrated collaboration with poet Margaret Atwood. His murals of Hockey Knights in Canada can be seen in Toronto’s College Subway Station.
Mr. Pachter lives and works in downtown Toronto in an award-winning studio designed by Canadian architect Stephen Teeple. His work is on permanent display in his adjoining Moose Factory Gallery. From 2004-2014 in summer he painted in The ICE HOUSE...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Liu Shuang Still Life Original Oil Painting "Yellow Flower"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Yellow Flower
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 24 x 20 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Note: This painting is...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Night Rambler, Navy blue forest scene, oil and gold leaf painting with fox
Located in Dallas, TX
"The Night Rambler" is a beautiful navy blue oil and gold leaf painting of a textured forest scene with an adorable fox hiding in the bottom right side of the painting. The artist us...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
"DRAWING INVENTORY (Bottled Snake Oil Salesmen)", acrylic painting, silkscreen
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"DRAWING INVENTORY (Bottled Snake Oil Salesmen)", 2019, painting in acrylic, charcoal, pencil, oil pastel, silkscreen print on toned cotton rag paper by artist Andrew Cornell Robinson...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Cotton, Paper, Charcoal, Acrylic, Screen, Oil Pastel, Graphite
Cherries - Oil Painting by Zhang Wei Guang - 2006
Located in Roma, IT
Cherries is an original oil painting realized by Zhang Wei Guang (Mirror) in 2006.
Includes frame.
Hand signed and dated on the lower right margin.
Good conditions.
Zhang Wei Gu...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Scripsit Series No 04 - bright, vivid detail, realist, still-life oil on canvas
By Ciba Karisik
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Extraordinary painting of a treasured collection of letters, saved over many years. While not quite photo realism, this painting has a high degree of realism in its depiction of lett...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Oil
«Sh*t Happens» Figurative Oil Painting by Samantha Van Heest
Located in Oslo, NO
Shit happens sometimes. In this piece, the artist wanted to create an unsettling and claustrophobic space where people feel most private and vulnerable. Inspired by artist Tala Madani, she created a cartoon figure to act as the voyeur, a bright and unwelcome disturbance that cannot be ignored.
Samantha Van Heest...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Breakfast - Oil Painting by Zhang Wei Guang - 2007
Located in Roma, IT
Breakfast is an original oil painting realized in 2007 by Zhang Wei Guang (Mirror).
Beautiful oil painting on canvas.
Includes frame 50.5 x 3.5 x 60.5 cm
Hand-signed and dated on...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Head Over Heels #5 - 8"x10", Painting On Canvas, Shoes, Women, Black, Red
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
In this painting on canvas, emphasis is on strong composition and an interplay of textures. The combination of paint and textile collage build up a rough surface adding tone on tone ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Gardenia on Blue floral still life
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Gardenia on Blue floral still life focuses on a single ivory Gardenia blossom. Thick brushstrokes describe the delicate contours of intricate petals and lush leaves, exploring the ma...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Oil, Panel
Cherries on the Table - Oil Painting by Zhang Wei Guang - 2007
Located in Roma, IT
Cherries on the Table is an oil painting realized by Zhang Wei Guang (Mirror) in 2007.
Includes frame.
Hand signed and dated on the lower margin
Very Good conditions.
Zhang Wei...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lemons and Jug
Located in Columbus, OH
The lemons and paper bag in this oil painting exemplify the ease of Kira Mountjoy-Pepka's painterly style. The blue wall on the left was after the painting was finished to add a cool...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
One to Chew On
Located in Burlingame, CA
'One to Chew On' 14 x 11 inches, 2019. A wonderful original work of art by artist Myron Stephens, who realistically recreates images of people, animals and mundane objects that are m...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
AC Cobra. Contemporary Car Painting
By David Harper
Located in Brecon, Powys
AC Cobra. Classic car in classic David Harper style. One for the enthusiast
Acrylic on canvas
Deep edge box canvas, sides painted black
Signed
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Aegis
By June Glasson
Located in Bozeman, MT
June Glasson is an artist, illustrator, and designer. She lives in New York. Her paintings have been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London, Nature Morte Gallery in Ber...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Pencil
White Flowers, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Carey Parks paints delicate white flowers in a pristine glass vase. Resting atop a chalk-colored table, the flowers harmoniously complement the soft pi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Wild Protection - Studio Giftig 21st Century Contemporary Spray Paint Still-Life
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
"We’re becoming increasingly aware of the fact that we must protect nature, if not only for our own good. But in what way?" Studio Giftig is the name for the artist duo Niels van Swa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint
Louis - 60"x48", Louis Vuitton Painting, Shopping Bag, Brown, White, Blue
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
Living with Louis. Through meticulous detail and strong composition, this painting finds balance between realistic representation and interpretive impressions. Intricate pattern and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Textile, Canvas, Acrylic
Pink Botanical Study Oil Painting "Into the Woods - Amber Season"
Located in Cape Town, ZA
A medium sized, unique oil painting on stretched canvas, ready to hang. The artwork depicts a tree with amber leaves from below, with deep and rich colours.
Framing options are avail...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"3 Lightbringers" Sietse W. Jonker, 21st Century Contemporary oil Painting
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Since August 2018 Sietse W. Jonker belongs to the group of artists that we permanently represent in our stock-exposition. In mid-2019, this still-life artist will take part in a group exhibition devoted to still life in painting. His work can be seen all year round and for sale through our gallery. To get to know us, we visited the artist in his studio in Leeuwarden. a centrally located donkey and a window on the Noorderlicht dominate the space together with the still life that he is currently working on. According to the artist, a still life should not be 'made to look', in the final painting it should ultimately be an ordered harmony. The artist himself: That is not always easy and sometimes I am busy with all kinds of objects here in the house. Every now and then something comes up or something is taken away again until I am satisfied. Usually I have a vague idea of what I want, but to give that 'vague idea' a concrete form is quite difficult. The idea then to create a three-dimensional world on a two dimensional level intrigues Sietse Jonker...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Marshmallows and Candy Canes, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Nicole says these lively Astras in red and white stripes reminded her of candy canes during the holidays. "One would never consider ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Train Stopped" Contemporary Pastel Toned Hyperrealist Urban Landscape Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary pastel toned hyperrealist urban landscape painting of a train at a stop light by Texas-based artist Michael J. Abraham. Recently featured in "Michael J. Abraham: Quasi-R...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Green Apples on Table - Oil Painting by Zhang Wei Guang - 2010s
Located in Roma, IT
Green Apples on Table is an oil painting realized in 2010s by Zhang Wei Guang (Mirror).
Beautiful oil painting on canvas.
Hand signed on lower margin
Includes frame: 40 x 71 cm
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Autumn Reflections no. 2
By Peter Loftus
Located in Burlingame, CA
‘Autumn Reflections no. 2’ oil painting by American Realist artist Peter Loftus, who is known for captivating breathtaking color-rich nature scenes through shadow and light in his oi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nova - 21st Century Contemporary Still-Life Oil Painting of Pionies in a Vase
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Yvonne Heemskerk is in addition to being a 'free' visual artist, commissioned portrait painter. Moreover, she is very active and successful as a teacher of her own "painting school".
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Untitled at Sea", Acrylic Painting
By Josh Talbott
Located in Denver, CO
Josh Talbott's (US based) "Untitled at Sea" is an acrylic painting that depicts a small toy red piano floating suspended in a light blue sea background.
Bio:
Josh Talbott grew up in suburban/rural Georgia in the southern US. His first work as a professional artist was in scenic painting and murals for various production companies. An attempt to deepen his well of possibilities led to New Orleans where as a street artist he sold works to people from all over the world before loosing everything in hurricane Katrina. With short stints in Santa Fe and then Los Angeles Josh arrived in the small coastal city of Los Osos, California where he lives and works today. His curiosity is voracious and interests are many, including scuba/ free diving, sailing, surfing, gardening, geology, rock hounding, rationality, AI, history, and philosophy. In his studio there is always an audiobook on, and outside of the studio there are all manner of activities making there way into his work. He has many private collectors scattered across the globe and murals in San Francisco.
ARTIST STATEMENT
We live in a time of extreme and accelerated change, growing complexity, and specialization. At every stage in our human trajectory from primitive beginnings crawling out of the sea to the present gauntlet of challenges, our thinking tools and their uses are central to the story of what it means to be human. My work is informed by a fascination with thinking tools and the effects of programming and environment through the different phases of life and our capacity for storytelling.
My practice consists of constructing small-scale still life scenarios of toys and other artifacts of human development, then creating photorealistic acrylic paintings of these scenes. The work juxtaposes the familiar and playful with a contemporary, complex, adult world. While I am interested in the science of the mind, and what it means to be a human, my work seldom features the human form, focusing instead on the objects and items that are frequently left behind. As such, the subject of the painting becomes the viewer him or herself because their own humanity is ultimately what is revealed.
My work honors toys as thinking tools for small people and the scenes depicted explore the ways in which the culture of our formative years leaves a lasting mark and continues to shape our storytelling. The plastic artifacts of my formative years carry memories of simultaneous confusion and wonder at the world around me. These are sensations and emotions still very much present in my life. What were your imaginings and dramas when you played with toys? Are you living them today?
The multileveled still life paintings of familiar toys are bright and accessible and connect to the viewer's nostalgia and playfulness while provoking deeper insights into our current evolutionary, cultural, and technological moment. I place each little curio with care into meaningful relationship to their interlocutors and environment. The plastic dinosaurs often depicted are emblematic of childhood curiosities, of great wonder and speculation at past worlds and the depth of evolutionary time, and yet they are made of a material that illustrates our shortsightedness, a quintessential human quality that makes it quite possible that these plastic creations will outlast us all.
I do my best to draw inspiration and resources from everywhere to build a visual language. In my divergent path I find the musical compositions and the story of composer, Philip Glass inspiring. The story of his devotion to his craft and his subsequent successes have encouraged and inspired me. I'm influenced by writers such as Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Sapolsky, and Yuval Noah Harari, the many books by Simon Winchester, Daniel Dennet, Robert Wright...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"The Knower", Acrylic Painting
By Josh Talbott
Located in Denver, CO
Josh Talbott's (US based) "The Knower" is an acrylic painting that depicts a human brain encased in a tank of purple pink liquid reminiscent of medical specimen...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Mae, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Inspired by a hike with a friend in New Gloucester, Maine, artist Joyanna Margo paints a colorful field of wildflowers. "When the pine-carpeted trail opened i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Little Jar of Sunshine, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Vibrant yellow-orange sunflowers on verdant stems, rustically arranged in a small glass jar. Soft light accentuates the curling, pointed ends of the blossoms. Painted on Arches heavyweight oil primed paper, which can be framed with our without glass.
About the Artist
Words that describe this painting: sunflowers, floral, bouquet, flowers, still life, still life, flora, representational, oil painting, green
Little Jar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Peace Cones: Debate '68
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Peace "traffic" Cones inspired by the 1068 Peace Talks: Gore Vidal vs William F. Buckley Jr. Cautionary Tales series, which considers the true price of progress in the name of technological advancement. Created from mixed media with mainly acrylic paint o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Orange Zinnia (Contemporary Colorful Still Life of Simple Flower on White)
Located in Hudson, NY
Oil on canvas
44 x 55 x 2 inches
Contemporary white artist made floater frame
This listing is available from Carrie Haddad Gallery, based in Hudson, NY.
Golden color fills the canva...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Still Life with Cherries - Oil Painting by Zhang Wei Guang - 2000s
Located in Roma, IT
Still life with cherries is an original oil painting realized by Zhang Wei Guang (Mirror) in 2000s.
Includes frame.
Very Good conditions.
...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Dripping Dots - Chanel in St. Tropez" Oil On Canvas Chanel Perfume Bottle
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
This piece is part of an exciting new collection depicting iconic "N°5 Chanel" with the artists "Dripping Dots" style. Focused on a pointillistic technique, the paint is able to capt...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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