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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
Jo Haran, Light Seeps In, Original Floral Painting, Affordable Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Light Seeps In [2020] Original Flowers Watercolour, gouache and gesso Image size: H:53 cm x W:38 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:56 cm x W:41 cm x D:0.001cm Sold Unframed Please...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Gesso, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache

Contemporary Transparencies Trompe l'oeil. Still Life. Dual Inflated Condoms
Located in FISTERRA, ES
Salt Balloon II is a framed contemporary pop art oil painting that presents two inflated condoms rendered with extraordinary photorealistic precision. Suspended against a deep black ...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Flower Machine - Flowers in Vase Surreal Botanical Still Life Red Pink, 2023
Located in Kent, CT
A futuristic botanical hybrid is the focus of this contemporary fantastical landscape in acrylic ink on canvas by Peter Hamlin. The meticulously detailed flower is whimsical and surr...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Sumach Moon - blue, orange, trees, moon, graphic, pop-art, landscape, acrylic
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Charles Pachter returns to the Canadian wilderness for this painting. The internationally recognized pop artist has chosen to celebrate the sumach, a tree that is native to North America. Pachter’s sumach frames an orange harvest moon which appears in the fall. Farmers often use the light of this full moon to harvest their crops late into the night. Pachter’s moon is small and distant and the thin line of a lake and mountain in the background give the painting a greater depth of perspective. A painter, printmaker, sculptor, designer and author Pachter is a graduate of University of Toronto...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Big Momma's Still Life #2
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Big Momma's Still Life #2 Oil pastel on rag paper, 2007 Signed by the artist lower left: "Sedrick Huckaby III" (see photo) Sheet size: 16 x 12 1/8 inches Frame: 28 x 24 inches Exhibi...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil Pastel

Calla Lily, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
"The most popular calla lily meaning these days is that of purity, faithfulness, and holiness," says artist Jo Galang. "The flower is often depicted in image...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Picturesque Botany (Still Life Painting of Pink Lilies & Roses on Indigo Blue)
Located in Hudson, NY
Realistic still life painting of pastel pink lilies, roses, and foxglove on dark blue Hand-painted cyanotype by Julia Whitney Barnes "Picturesque Botany (Lily, Rose, Cherry Blossom, ...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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India Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper

Black Necked Stilt
Located in Burlingame, CA
Black Necked Stilt, by one of the finest American contemporary realist painters, Willard Dixon, who has painted western landscapes and nature-scenes for 35 years, capturing the undeniable beauty of the West with its grand and humble spirit. This painting depicts a Black Necked Stilt walking through a marsh or bog. It is a quiet and contemplative early morning scene in water grey, blue, white and green-brown. Lovely moving water in this painting. Dixon’s work can be found in numerous distinctive private and public collections, as well as the San Francisco Museum of Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Oakland Museum of California. Signed front - Also signed, dated and titled Verso. oil on canvas - 48 x 58 inches. A wonderful contemporary work of original art by Willard Dixon. Comes framed in a minimal hardwood strip frame. Born: Kansas City MO, 1942 Education: Art Students League, New York, NY Cornell University Brooklyn Museum School San Francisco Art Institute, M.F.A. 1969 Awards and Commissions N.E.A. Fellowship Grant- 1989 California Supreme Court Mural Commission- 1998 Las Vegas Federal Courthouse Commission, G.S.A.-1998 Teaching 1989-90: San Francisco State University 1975: San Francisco Art Institute Realism Seminar 1974-76: Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA 1973-74, 1976: California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA 1971-72: California State University, Hayward, CA One Man Exhibitions 2015: Willard Dixon Portraits College of Marin Fine Art Gallery, Kentfield 2014: SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA. 2008: SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA. 2005: Fischbach Gallery, NYC,NY 2005: Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2004: Fischbach Gallery, NYC, NY. 2002: Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2002: Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA 2001: Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2000: Fischbach Gallery, NYC , NY 2000: Hearst Art Gallery, St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA 1998: Hackett Freedman Gallery, SF, CA 1997: Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1996, 1995: Contemporary Realist Gallery (now Hackett Freedman Gallery) 1994: Fischbach Gallery 1993: Contemporary Realist Gallery 1992: Fischbach Gallery 1991: Earl McGrath Gallery, 454 North, Los Angeles, CA 1990: Fischbach Gallery 1989: William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1988: Gallery 454 North, Los Angeles, CA 1987: Fischbach Gallery 1987: Gallery 454 North 1986: William Sawyer Gallery 1985: Fischbach Gallery 1984: Harris Gallery, Houston, Tx 1984: William Sawyer Gallery 1983, 1982: Fischbach Gallery 1981: William Sawyer Gallery 1980,1979: Tortue Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1976, 1975: William Sawyer Gallery 1973, 1972: William Sawyer Gallery Selected Group Exhibitions 2017: SHIFT / with Elizabeth Barlow, Kim Frohsin, Erin Parrish, Irene Zweig, Andra Norris Gallery, Burlingame, CA 2015: REAL with Elizabeth Barlow Gallerie Citi, Burlingame, CA. 2014: Stillness and Activity / A father and daughter exhibition, Gallerie Citi, Burlingame, CA. 2013: Outwin Boocher Portrait Competition 2013 Exhibition” Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. Hey Everybody / Portraits, Diablo Valley College 2012: Artistic Visions of the Golden Gate Bridge”, George Krevsky Gallery, S.F., CA. Introduction Two/ Gallerie Citi, Burlingame, CA. 2011: California: A Landscape of Dreams/ Fresno Art Museum 2010: Self Portrait Invitational/ Julie Nester Gallery, Park City UT 2009: On Beauty /I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA. 2008: At Water’s Edge / I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA. 2007: San Francisco Scenes/ George Krevsky Gallery, S.F., CA Ten Years- A Retrospective/ Dolby Chadwick Gallery, S.F., CA. 2006: Our Planet, Our Home/ SFMOMA Artists Gallery, S.F. CA 2005: 2005 Spring Group Show/ Earl McGrath Gallery, L.A., CA 2002: H2O’02, Paintings of Water/ Fischbach Gallery, NYC Scene in Oakland 1852-2002 Oakland Museum Oakland, CA The Garden/ Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA The Moving Still Life/ Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY Bay Area Printmakers/ works from Trillium Press, Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA California Landscape Paintings/ College of Marin Art Gallery, Kentfield, CA Bay Area Printmakers/ SF Museum of Modern Art/Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA Visions: Northern California/ Bank of America, San Francisco, CA 2001: Opening Exhibit: Group Show, Fischbach Gallery, NY, NY 2000: Hackett Freedman Gallery Artists/ Shasta College Art Gallery, Redding, Ca 1999: Homage to the Art Institute, Artists Who Transformed American Culture, Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1999: What is Art For? What are Museums For? What are You For? curated Curated for the Oakland Museum by William T. Wiley & Mary Hull Webster, Oakland, CA 1998: Paintings of Marin County Past and Present/ The North Point Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1997: 10th Anniversary Exhibition/ Hackett Freedman Gallery, S.F., CA 1996: Rediscovering the Landscape of the Americas/ Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (traveling exhibition) Contemporary American Realist Painters/ Halls Crown Center Gallery, Kansas City, MO 1996: Foundation for the Future: Celebrating 125 Years at the San Francisco Art Institute/ One Bush St., S.F., CA 1996: New Work by Selected Gallery Artists, Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Flower Paintings/ Contemporary Realist Gallery, S.F., CA 1995: Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area / De Young Museum, S.F., CA Contemporary Still Life Painting/ David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI 1994: Still Life/ Fischbach Gallery, New York City, NY New Bay Area Painting/ Contemporary Realist Gallery, S.F., CA A Room with a View/ The North Point Gallery, S.F., CA 1993: Bay Area Painting/ Contemporary Realist Gallery, S.F., CA Vanishing Point: A Look at Contemporary Landscape Painting”, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA Tribute/ William Sawyer Gallery, S.F., CA Revolution: Into the 2nd Century at the San Francisco Art Institute, One Market Plaza, S.F., CA Contemporary Realism: Central and Northern California Landscapes/ Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA The Artist as Native: Reinventing Regionalism/ a traveling exhibition curated by Alan Gussow and Babcock Galleries, N.Y., NY 1992: A Day in the Country, California Landscape Painting / I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA West Art and the Law/ Weat Publishing Co., St. Paul, MN(traveling ex.) The New York Academy of Art, New York, NY In Support of Contemporary Bay Area Artists / One Market Plaza, S.F., CA 1991: The Landscape in 20th-Century American Art: Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art/ New York, NY, National Traveling Exhibit 1990: Contemporary Landscapes/ 21st Anniversary Exhibition Tortue Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. 1990: New Bay Area Painting Contemporary Realist Gallery, S.F., CA 1989: The Modern Pastoral/ Robert Scholekopf Gallery, New York, NY 1988: Images of the Land/ William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1988: Ten Artists from the William Sawyer Gallery / Shasta College Gallery, Redding CA Works on Paper/ William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1987: The Contemporary American Landscape/ Swain Gallery, NJ 1986: Landscape, Seascape, Cityscape/ Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA 1985: The Bay Area Seen/ Bay Area Regionalists Show, Hall of Flowers, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA Large Scale/ Harris Gallery, Houston, TX A City Collects/ Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco, CA American Realism/ William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1984: San Francisco Bay Area Painting/ curated by George Neubert for the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE American Landscape Painting/ California State University, L.A. CA Western Landscape Painters/ The Museum of the West, Houston, TX The Urban Landscape / One Market Plaza, San Francisco, CA 1982: Collectors Gallery 16/ McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX Thirty Approaches to Realism/ William Sawyer Gallery, S.F., CA 1981: Views of California Past and Present/ Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA Landscapes/ Harris Gallery, Houston, TX 110th Anniversary S.F. Art Institute Alumni Group Show/ William Sawyer Gallery, S.F., CA 1980: Realism/ Walnut Creek Civic Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA 1979: Bay Area Artists Exhibition/Sale/ Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA Omnium Gatherum/ Tortue Gallery, Los Angeles, CA California Viewpoints/ Sunne Savage Gallery, Boston, MA 1978: New Work/ Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA Images of the Land/ William Sawyer Gallery, S.F., CA 1977: Contemporary California Artists/ Marshall-Meyers Gallery Alternative to the Whitney Annual/ James Yu Gallery, N. Y, N.Y. San Francisco Art Festival/ ( Airport Competition Purchase Prize) 1977: Eight Young Americans/ Montclair Museum of Art, Montclair,NJ 1976: Three From California/ Francine Sedars Gallery, Seattle, WA Faculty Show/ California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA 1975: Realism in Painting and Ceramics/ Helen Euphrat Gallery, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA 1975: A Tribute to the Art Institute/ Hansen Fuller Gallery, S.F., CA California Artists/ Utah Museum of Fine Art, Salt Lake City, UT 1974: Our Land, Our Sky, Our Water/ by Alfred Frankenstein Expo 74, Spokane, WA A Sense of Place/ curated by Alan Gussow for the Joslyn Museum, Omaha, NE The Discovery Gallery, Montclair, N.J. 1973: College of Marin Gallery, Kentfield, CA California Artists/ Kaiser Center, Oakland, CA 1972: Visiting Artists/ California State University, Hayward, CA 1970: Drawing Invitational/ Emanuel Walter Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, S.F., CA 1970: San Francisco Art Institute Centennial Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, S.F., CA 1967: Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art Annual, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, S.F., CA 1966: California Landscape Painters/ San Francisco Art Institute, S.F. CA. Selected Collections The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Oakland Museum The Utah Museum of Fine Art San Francisco Art Commission Shaklee Corporation Pacific Gas and Electric Company, San Francisco, CA Kemper Insurance Company, Long Grove, Il Morrison and Foerester, San Francisco, CA SSI Container Corporation, San Francisco, CA San Francisco International Airport Oxford Petroleum Company, Houston,TX California First Bank, San Francisco, CA United Pipeline, Houston, TX Security Pacific National Bank, S.F., CA Crocker Bank, Los Angeles, CA Visa Corporation, San Francisco, CA Atlantic Richfield Corporation Shell Oil, Houston, TX First National Bank of Seattle RREEF Corporation, San Francisco, CA Texas Heritage Society Genstar Corporation, San Francisco, CA Sohio Corporation Skidmore Owings and Merrill, N.Y.C., NY Chemical Bank, NY Swissre Corporation, NY The Insurance Company of North America First National Bank of Midland, Texas Commerce Bank AMA Headquarters, Washington, DC Hughes Tool, Houston, TX ATT, NY Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, San Francisco, CA IBM Corporation, San Jose, CA Northern Trust Company, Chicago, IL Smith Kline and French Corp., Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Bank, San Francisco, CA Republic National Bank Chevron Trammel Crow Company, Dallas, CA U.S. Insurance Group, N.J. Southwestern Bell Corp., MO Union Bank Pacific Bell United States Trust Company, NY The United Bank of Denver, CO Cigna Corp., Philadelphia, PA Atlantic Richfield Corp., Los Angeles, CA Show, Pittman, Pots and Trobridge, Washington, DC San Francisco Zen Center Hughes Aircraft Co. Los Angeles, CA Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing (3M), St. Paul, MN Bank of America, NY Commerce Bancshares, Inc., Kansas City,MO Robinson Humphrey/American Express, Atlanta, GA Merrill Lynch, San Francisco, CA Goldman Sachs, NY Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., NY Victoria Bank and Trust, Victoria, TX NYNEX, NY Coca Cola, U.S.A., Atlanta, GA TransAmerica Corporation Pacific Telesis Group Brobeck, Phleger, & Harrison Exxon Corporation U.S. Trust Selected Private Collections Estate of Ahmet Ertegun, New York, NY Mr. Harrison Ford, Los Angeles, CA Estate of Irving Lazarr, Los Angeles, Ca Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Holzer, New York, NY Mr. and Mrs. Peter Asher...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Forest Calm, Bright Landscape Art, Vibrant Woodland Tree Painting, Light Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Nature and forest places are so healing meditative and peaceful. I love walking out to the woods in the summer. The sunlight is iridescent shining through the leaves creating beautiful shadows over the ground. I have always been entranced by the shadows and light in the forest. I create the effects of transient light by harnessing optical mixing and some of the colour theory employed by the impressionists resulting in a semi-abstract contemporary painting. An original artwork, one of a kind, this painting has been created with high quality acrylic paints on a deep edged canvas so no need for a frame. I use impasto techniques applied with a palette knife in multi layers, which creates a contemporary painting and if you look closely you can see the first layers applied in places. Amanda Horvath is a contemporary artist whose works are available at Wychwood Art online and in our gallery. Amanda is influenced by the woods and moors of her home in the Peak District. Achieving a B A Hons (first class) in fine art Amanda went on to lecture in painting and printmaking. Now working full time as an artist from her studio her paintings are informed by the wild landscapes of her home. Renowned for forest scenes Amanda’s paintings are full of colour, texture and contrast, with an emphasis on delicate light effects and dramatic shadows. “I have a close connection to the natural world and painting is a response to the beautiful landscape, I attempt to capture the spirit of the land and the ethereal quality of light filtering through woodlands. Through my work I hope to impart the sense of peace and meditative calm I feel in these quiet places. This affinity with nature has grown from childhood and my past experiences” An important part of the creative process is to be absorbed in nature, so it begins with walking in the landscape making preliminary notes. These form the foundations of the work translated onto canvas in the studio. Harnessing some optical mixing techniques the paintings are created with layer upon layer of highly textured paint, worked expressively using palette knives and brushes, which results in paintings that lie somewhere between abstraction and realism. Her work has found homes...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Dark Horizon
Located in Burlingame, CA
Dark Horizon - The painting was created in 2024 by celebrated American realist artist Willard Dixon, who has captured the undeniable beauty of the west for the past 35 years. Dixon’...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Lily Study III
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Lily Study III' by master watercolorist Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intensity, and size. I...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Voluptuous Panic - Original Figurative Nude Book Art on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Carl Smith is an American artist who has been living in Berlin, Germany, since 2001. He works with a combination of silkscreen printing, collage, and painting to create his urban ins...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Linen, Acrylic, Screen

Red onion in glass bowl- 21st Century Contemporary Still-life Painting
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Adriana van Zoest Red onion in Glass bowl 65 x 45 cm Framed 73 x 73 cm ( Frame is included in price) Oil paint on wood panel (2024) Various subjects Adriana van Zoest's paintings ar...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Spring Garden (24 x 24 inch oil painting on birch wood panel)
Located in Oakland, CA
Brand-new work completed in June, 2024. This original oil painting on birchwood panel is painted in a creamy pale green and translucent spring green and has a slight sheen. This is t...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Birch, Oil, Wood Panel

Morning Light, Beautiful oil and gold leaf painting, pink & blue floral blossoms
Located in Dallas, TX
"Morning Light" is a beautiful oil painting of pink cherry blossoms on a bright blue background. The texture and color covers the entire 39x39 inch canvas in a stunning composition. ...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Gold Leaf

DongXing Huang Still Life Original Oil On Canvas "Collection 7"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Collection 7 Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 18 x 20 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note: This painting is unstretched Year: 2000 Circa Artist: DongXing Huang...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Interaction Duo Yury Darashkevich, Horizontal contemporary landscape, resin
Located in Atlanta, GA
Yury was born in Belarus. Graduated from the Belarusian State Academy of the Arts. Upon graduation He began a career in the illustration and graphic design field, painting in his spa...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Epoxy Resin, Oil, Board

Daffodils- 21st Century Contemporary Dutch Flower Still-life Painting
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Keimpe van der Kooi Daffodils 70 x 22 cm Framed: 75x 27cm ( This frame is included) Oil on wood panel This Painting is made by Dutch Artist Keimpe van der Kooi. He likes to paint s...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Morning Tea
Located in Wenham, MA
To stand before one of Tim McGuire‘s works is to be immersed in a world of colorful energy and vibrant joy. Common objects sing with lively brushstrokes and unexpected colors. One ca...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil

On His Way to the Top
Located in Columbia, MO
Marie Gardeski grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and her MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, and currently lives i...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Archival Paper, Watercolor, Graphite

Judas Medal- 21st Century Still-life painting of a tin with dry Judas Medal
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
This still-life is made by Dutch painter Erik Zwaga. The painter started in the style of the romantic school, Erik Zwaga began to search more and more for his own visual language...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Flowers in the Round Vase - Oil Painting by Elena Mardashova - 2022
Located in Roma, IT
Oil painting on canvas realized by Elena Mardashova, 40x40 cm. , realized in 2022. Excellent condition.
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Black Cat (Monotype Collage and Oil Painting of Feline Silhouette on wood Panel)
Located in Hudson, NY
Collaged monotype still-life silhouette of a cat. David Konigsberg Black Cat, 2023 15" x 18.5" monotype, collage and oil on panel This contemporary still-li...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel, Monotype

"Gnarly", Elegant oil and gold leaf painting, olive tree, landscape, nature
Located in Dallas, TX
"Gnarly" is a stunning, elegant painting depicting a mystic olive tree in the center, surrounded by a rich golden background. Artist Anastasia Gklava is an expert at applying gold le...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Overdue- 21st Century Contemporary Painting of radish in plastic bucket
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Adriana van Zoest Overdue 65 x 45 cm Framed 77 x 55 cm ( Frame is included in price) Oil paint on wood panel (2024) Various subjects Adriana van Zoest's paintings are not easy to cl...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Infinity Part I- 21st Century Contemporary Painting with still-life subjects
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Ruter Hiemstra Infinity Part I Oil on wood panel 80 x 122 cm In this painting the artist shows all his still-life subjects he likes to paint 'after life' . Now in an other way as h...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

"Soft Water" woman in white bathingsuit glides through the water
Located in Edgartown, MA
"I throw myself into the water almost every day- it grounds me, the body floats and the mind drifts. The "Swimmer series" has followed me over the years, resurfacing and evolving. P...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Golden Flight, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Two American goldfinches fly over blooming sunflowers, their brilliant plumage shimmering in the light. The background features a soft, yellow-striped wallpap...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Sticker Painting
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Mixed-Media / Stickers / Illustration / Pop and Contemporary Pop / Human Figure / Chess / Comic Books / Video Games / Resin / Drawing / Representations of Everyday Objects / Figurative Art / Pop Art From Macauley Norman's solo exhibition, CRYPTIC CLUTTER, "Sticker Painting" is an incredible and unique resin coated pop surrealist painting featuring well over 70 gel pen drawings on sticker paper affixed to a wood panel painted in oil and acrylic paint. Among the illustration images are a panoply of pop culture references from the Eastern, Western, Northern and Southern hemispheres -- birds and other animals, landscapes, UFOs, food items, nineties-era pornography, vehicles, yin yang symbols, skulls, daggers, a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Epoxy Resin, Plastic, Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Archival Ink

"Blue harmony", vertical, blue, still life, blue flowers, modern still life
Located in Oslo, NO
There is a calming quality to this rustic still-life composition, titled Blue Harmony, featuring blue and white flowers arranged with a group of ceramic vases. The soft palette of bl...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

#286
Located in New Orleans, LA
As an artist, TIFFANY CALVERT applies contemporary painting techniques to historical imagery. Her recent work uses the seventeenth-century Dutch floral still life as a springboard fo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Inkjet

"Daylight" Bright Colorful Large Scale Floral Oil Painting
Located in East Quogue, NY
Edie Nadelhaft “Daylight” Oil on canvas, 44.5 × 48 inches. Offered unframed. Edie Nadelhaft's bold, large-scale, colorful monolithic oil paintings of bodega flowers were born from h...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Rhododendron (Unframed)
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Rhododendron' watercolor on paper. Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intensity, and size. Intern...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Red Pears, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
This still-life oil painting vividly portrays three overripe pears featuring wrinkled stems and noticeable discoloration on their skins. With the light shinin...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil

"Goldfinch with Sunflower", Contemporary, Bird, Acrylic, Oil Painting, 2014
Located in Natick, MA
Anne Sargent Walker’s "Goldfinch with Sunflower" is part of a series of oil and acrylic paintings celebrating the beauty, complexity, and fragility of the natural world. A bright yellow finch bird...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Citrus Bowl with plums, Original painting, fruit, still life
Located in Deddington, GB
Original work in acrylic paint and ink on canvas textured paper. Inspired by nature and the beauty found in everyday objects. I combine traditional still life subjects with a contemp...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Acrylic

Seaward Window and Gingham Curtains. Contemporary Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
There is a place that is very dear to me and my family;a cottage by the sea left to my mother by my granmother and in turn to me and my siblings. It over looks the bay of St Micheal...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Large Botanical Study Oil Painting "Ikhamanga-XIIV Birds of Paradise Garden"
Located in Cape Town, ZA
A large format, unique oil painting on stretched canvas, ready to hang. The artworks depicts Birds of Paradise trees or Ikhamanga. These old Ikhamanga trees are from a garden in St F...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

French Contemporary Art by M.-P. Autonne - La Valse des Nénuphars
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic & oil on wooden panel Marie-Pierre Autonne is a French artist born in 1960 who lives & works in Angers, France. She studied at Penninghen in Paris, France. She worked for se...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Adrian Parnell, Still life of flowers
Located in Harkstead, GB
Adrian Parnell (b.1952) Jug of flowers, Signed with initials, Inscribed with title and date verso Oil on canvas, 20 x 16 inches A delicate and subtly captured study of summer flowe...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Still Life with Black Bottle
Located in Burlingame, CA
Willard Dixon still life with collection of objects that the artist has painted over the years in this tranquil, grey and neutral oil on canvas painting. "With the perspective affo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

View from a Restaurant - contemporary still-life window landscape room interior
Located in London, GB
Artist Statement: “My career in Film and Television design enabled me to travel extensively in Europe and the West Indies. During these projects I was able to draw and paint many of ...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Acrylic, Board

Carmela
Located in Dallas, TX
David Pryor Adickes born January 1927, Huntsville, Texas) is a modernist sculptor and painter. His most famous work is the 67-foot tall A Tribute ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Acrylic

Aerie II
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...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Pencil

Silent Serenade- 21st Century Stlllife Painting of a Figurine playing Violin
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
This painting by Astrid Ritmeester belongs to a series she has called 'Memories' Ritmeester also works as a costume and graphic designer for theatre productions. Astrid Ritmeester...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Flowers. Gouache Painting, Abstract, Figurative, Floral, Polish art
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary floral still life figurative gouache on paper painting by Polish artist Bozena Lesiak. Painting is in a small format. Bozena Lesiak's art embodies beauty of nature and i...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Framed Contemporary Pop Oil Painting. Transparencies. Condom as Candy Salted Gum
Located in FISTERRA, ES
In Chicle de Sal I, (Salted Chewing Gum), María Magán transforms a crumpled condom into a hyper-realistic oil painting that mimics the appearance of a chewed piece of gum. Framed in ...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

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...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Red Cabbage-21st Century Contemporary Realistic Stilllife Painting of vegetables
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
We're proud to introduce German artist Bart Koning during the exhibition "Realism 2020". Incredibly clever how the originally Dutch Bart Koning knows how to make all subjects his su...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Single Hummingbird, Original Painting, Bird, Animal, Nature
Located in Deddington, GB
Single hummingbird, oil on panel by Angela Smith Hummingbird on a green background, perfectly painted with lots of detail.  ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Singl...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Pomegranate - Oil Paint by Elena Mardashova - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Original oil painting 'Pomegranate' on canvas 50x50 cm, 2023.
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Topped with Berries, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A luscious tuxedo cake, drizzled with decadent chocolate syrup, rests elegantly on a pristine white pedestal plate. An assortment of berries crowns the top, a...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Dwight Baird-Red, White and Blue from the Baseball Collection
Located in Brooklyn, NY
In his 1993 series For Love of the Game, Canadian artist Dwight Baird pays tribute to America's beloved pastime with a vibrant depiction of 30 baseballs, each adorned with the insign...
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1990s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Still-life with Skull, 21st Century Contemporary Classical Still-life Painting
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Still-life with skull 50 x 80 cm Oil on wood panel Framed (included 62 x 92 cm Ksenya Istomina graduated in 2018 at the 'Imperial Academy of Arts in St Petersburg'. Since her sta...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

American School Still Life Painting 'Study of Citrus Fruits'
Located in San Rafael, CA
American School (20th c.) Still Life Study of Citrus Fruits Oil on canvas Unframed 18in H x 24in W This charming still-life study of lemons, oranges and other citrus exhibits wonder...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Red table - XX Century Still life, Figurative Oil Painting, Bright Colors
Located in Warsaw, PL
MARZENA MISKIEWICZ She graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at UMCS in Lublin. She is a member of ZPAP (Association of Polish Artists and Designers). She is an author of more than...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Summers 3 - Modern Architecture Original Painting on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
English artist Jonjo Elliot's artworks are a collision of expressionistic fauvism and his collections encourage a youthful candor. Plants thrive in environments the viewer wants to i...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

"Ancient Jewels" Painting on wood panel
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Ancient Jewels" is an original artwork made from scrap material on canvas by Keith Garcia. This piece measures 12”h x 12”w. "Ancient Jewels" debuted during Paradigm Gallery's thirteenth anniversary exhibition, "Lucky 13", which featured works that use the...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Acrylic, Wood Panel

Typewriter and Wastebasket - still-life, realist, Ukraine, Israeli, oil/canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
An old-fashioned typewriter sits on its worn green case against ripped and stained wallpaper; a blue mug lays beside it—the coffee spilled across the black and white tile floor. The ...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Mental Structures- 21st Century Contemporary Still-life Painting
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Italian artist Daniela Astone lives and works in Florence. She enjoys working with live models and paints her works from observation, the classical approach she learned at the Academy in Florence and which she now teaches to her students. Daniela Astone graduated in 2004. She had her first solo exhibition shortly afterwards in the United States. Since then, the international attention of the Italian artist has only grown. The classical structure and narrative paintings show a technique that is special. Her style is virtuoso and her subjects are narrative. The keys are loose and subtle. Standing in front of a painting means watching...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Alan Latter, Roberson oils, Cobalt Blue
Located in Harkstead, GB
Alan Latter (born 1961) Cobalt Blue Signed and dated 2021 Oil on board 16 x 12 inches Unframed A charming still life capturing the artist's working materials. Born in Islington in 1961, Alan Latter's work is influenced by Bloomsbury Group artists Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant and Fauvists Henri Matisse and Jean Puy...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

#452
Located in New Orleans, LA
Calvert’s current paintings investigate the relationship between digital media and the reception and perception of images, and utilizes diverse technologies such as fresco, 3D modeling, AI and data manipulation through code. She is especially interested in the evolution of pictorial space. Today we view our screens and the world they occupy as a shallowly layered space of overlapping desktop windows. The picture plane has tilted up again from the flatbed to float in front of our eyes. Calvert’s paintings in turn depict an intermediate space, where the verticality of the still life paintings cohabitate with these digital panes. Dutch floral still life paintings encapsulate multiple concerns. Their subjects were botanical fantasies, emblems of an economic mirage that has contemporary corollaries. Most important to Calvert’s pictorial concerns, they depict ephemeral things in shallow and diagrammatic space - they are all foreground. They contain an abundance of visual information in overwhelming density, creating an allover resolution; a visual field that is equivalent to digital noise. By making painterly interventions into reproductions, Calvert attempts to dissolve the layer between the resolution of the source image and abstraction of the painted mark. ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Tiffany Calvert has exhibited her work in the US and abroad including Lawrimore Project in Seattle, E.TAY Gallery in New York, the Speed Museum in Louisville and Cadogan Contemporary in London. Residencies include the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, I-Park, and ArtOmi International Arts Center where she received a Geraldine R. Dodge Fellowship. Calvert has received grants from the Great Meadows Foundation and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Her work was recently profiled by critic John Yau in the online journal Hyperallergic. Her curatorial projects include “Some Abstraction Occurs” at 65GRAND Gallery in Chicago and “Magic” at Mercer College (featuring work by Chris Martin, Karla Knight...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Inkjet

Spring Garden (24 x 24 inch oil painting on birch wood panel)
Located in Oakland, CA
Brand-new work completed in June, 2024. This original oil painting on birchwood panel is painted in a creamy pale green and translucent spring green and has a slight sheen. This is t...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Birch, Oil, Wood Panel

"Dahlias in Bloom" (2024) By Robin Hextrum, Original Oil Painting on Panel
Located in Denver, CO
Robin Hextrum's (US based) "Dahlias in Bloom" is an oil painting that depicts a blooming white dahlia bush on a black background. This piece measures 22.25 x 18 inches in its frame a...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Panel, Linen

Three Drinks, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Shuxing Fan paints a wine bottle, a water, pitcher, and an old-fashioned glass with dried flowers in classical style. He dep...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Island Garden Border IX, Original Paintings, Landscape, Nature, Plants
Located in Deddington, GB
Dylan Lloyd Island Garden Border IX Island Garden Border IX is an original oil painting by Dylan Lloyd. The hints of plummy autumn tones contrasted with the vibrant green tones give...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Autumn Roses
Located in New York, NY
Stone’s luminous still lifes, private interiors, and large-scale panoramas of figures in motion invite us to look—and then look some more—and relish in the sensuality of the three di...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Linen, Oil

Tulips. Gouache Painting, Abstract, Figurative, Floral, Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary floral still life figurative gouache on paper painting by Polish artist Bozena Lesiak. Painting is in a small format. Bozena Lesiak's art embodies beauty of nature and i...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Venice Beach Pier
Located in Burlingame, CA
Venice Beach Pier - The painting was created in 2022 by celebrated American realist artist Willard Dixon, who has captured the undeniable beauty of the west for the past 35 years. D...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Tulips. Gouache Painting, Abstract, Figurative, Floral, Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary floral still life figurative gouache on paper painting by Polish artist Bozena Lesiak. Painting is in a small format. Bozena Lesiak's art embodies beauty of nature and i...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Urban Harmony, Blue Abstract, Large French artist, Expressionism, Contemporary
Located in LANGRUNE-SUR-MER, FR
This painting, titled "Urban Harmony," is an oil on canvas measuring 80 x 80 cm, created by artist Sophie Dumont. The work features an abstract composition characterized by a variety...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

River Cottage Series (Large) and Hampshire Garden II Diptych, Original painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Diptych comprising of River Cottage Series (Large) and Hampshire Garden II. The size given is the width of the two paintings side by side (105cm).  INDIVIDUAL ARTWORKS: River Cotta...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Board

Blue Leaf Still Life - blue, green, intimate, cubist, collaged acrylic on paper
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Cubist, sliced views of three sides of a potted plant in collaged paper with sapphire blue and green leaves line up on a background of shifting depths. Rogers work, rooted in a cubis...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

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