Photography Still-life Paintings

I’ve been an artist all my life. As a kid I was continually creating and was only happy, when I could. That condition persists. I was self taught until attending the University of Ut...

This is an oil on canvas painting depicting a still life with flowers. The piece was made in the 1980s. Framed: 21.5"H 18"W 1"D

Ellipses plays with the nature of awkward interaction and subtle facial expressions. Is it all internal, or can awkwardness feel like a palpable and personified presence? Samantha Van Heest...

Represented by George Billis Gallery. ARTIST STATEMENT: My work delicately renders familiar domestic comforts that we use to feel secure. Examining the identities of heirloom textiles and childhood nostalgia summons conflicting feelings of comfort and insecurity, shelter and confinement, and love and loss. I aim to expose the contradictions within the subjects- to honor their purpose with an honest portrayal, while simultaneously questioning whether the material comforts keep us safe or more vulnerable. ​ Native to Maine, Cindy Rizza...

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...

Oil on board Board size: 10 x 8 inches Framed size: 27.75 x 23.75 inches Signed lower right

BARRIER Gustave (1871-1953) Bunch of Flowers Oil on card signed upper left Old original frame re-gilded with gold leaves Dim card : 56 X 46 cm Dim fr...

A.POURFILET (19th-20th Century) Still life with Peaches and Grapes Oil on card signed low left Old frame gilded with leaves Dim card : 33 X 41 cm Dim frame : 50 X 58 cm

Meghan Gerety lives and works in Marfa, TX and New York City. She received her BA in Studio Art from Barnard College after attending Atelier Clouet in Paris. Her work has been exhibited at Bill Arning Exhibitions, Renyolds Gallery, White Columns, Andrew Kreps Gallery...

The affiliation of two-dimensional objects and their three-dimensional projection is the main topic of Zipora Rafaelov’s relief-like pictures and installations. Common objects which ...

Oil on paper Paper size: 9 x 6 inches Framed Size: 24.75 x 21.5 inches Monogrammed lower left

Meghan Gerety lives and works in Marfa, TX and New York City. She received her BA in Studio Art from Barnard College after attending Atelier Clouet in Paris. Her work has been exhibited at Bill Arning Exhibitions, Renyolds Gallery, White Columns, Andrew Kreps Gallery...

An infinite #2 pencil is depicted within eight square trompe l'oeil floating frames on a blank background. "Ouroboros" refers to the ancient symbol of the snake eating its own tail, ...

A CLOSER LOOK: OBSERVATIONS NOT FAR FROM HOME I have always addressed the details of physical reality in the subjects I choose in order to convey the spirit and feelings that were fi...

"Splash 22" Oil Painting 31.5" x 31.5" inch by Sasha Sokolova SPLASH This series is about those sunny summer days in my dacha (country house) in a small village outside of Moscow, c...

"Landscape" Oil Painting D 43" inch by Egor Plotnikov Egor Plotnikov was born in Kirov (Russia) in 1980. 2000 – graduated from the Rylov Art School of Vyatka. 2006 – graduated from ...

"The Field" Oil Painting 47" x 59" inch by Egor Plotnikov Egor Plotnikov was born in Kirov (Russia) in 1980. 2000 – graduated from the Rylov Art School of Vyatka. 2006 – graduated f...

"Splash 5" Oil Painting 31.5" x 53" inch by Sasha Sokolova SPLASH This series is about those sunny summer days in my dacha (country house) in a small v...

The medium of choice for Do Byung-Kyu, born in Cheonan, Korea, is dolls: they are both his conceptions and his physical expression. At the same time dolls are also the perfect tool for communicating the artist’s inner self. Expressing himself by means of dolls liberates Do from the restrictions of the mundane world. By embodying in the form of dolls his actions and thoughts, dreams and desires, and even the instincts lying in the depths of the subconscious, he transcends the secular boundaries. Dolls are his alter ego, his other self that he can construct precisely the way he wants. Sublimating the experiences and memories from his youth into various subjects of desire, Do uses dolls to paint a descriptive picture of the ambiguous feelings of contradictions from his childhood when he would abuse and kill a plaything, for example a frog, then bury the body in solemn mourning over its death. These sexual or violent games from his childhood are not likely to be limited to Do’s experiences alone. Most of us can vaguely remember indulging in sadistic acts of sexual love against a doll. Rising above a child’s simple curiosity, it is an intuitive game of the senses we play by ourselves. In a number of Do’s paintings, sticky liquid can be observed dripping down a doll’s face. This brings back recollections of the life inside our mothers’ womb where we were also enveloped by mucous waters, like the amniotic fluid. It refuses contact with the anything, and nothing wants to touch it either. The shape of such a mucous liquid is a protective layer sheltering the intrinsic identity and desires of man. It is also a substitution that satisfies the ego’s instincts otherwise suppressed by social norms. The dolls’ eyes...

Sunflowers by Louis Carl Hvasta (1913-1993), Signed on Back Signed and Dated Middle Left Unframed: 24" x 14" Framed: 30.5" x 20.5" Frame was hand made by the artist. A local Califor...

The medium of choice for Do Byung-Kyu, born in Cheonan, Korea, is dolls: they are both his conceptions and his physical expression. At the same time dolls are also the perfect tool for communicating the artist’s inner self. Expressing himself by means of dolls liberates Do from the restrictions of the mundane world. By embodying in the form of dolls his actions and thoughts, dreams and desires, and even the instincts lying in the depths of the subconscious, he transcends the secular boundaries. Dolls are his alter ego, his other self that he can construct precisely the way he wants. Sublimating the experiences and memories from his youth into various subjects of desire, Do uses dolls to paint a descriptive picture of the ambiguous feelings of contradictions from his childhood when he would abuse and kill a plaything, for example a frog, then bury the body in solemn mourning over its death. These sexual or violent games from his childhood are not likely to be limited to Do’s experiences alone. Most of us can vaguely remember indulging in sadistic acts of sexual love against a doll. Rising above a child’s simple curiosity, it is an intuitive game of the senses we play by ourselves. In a number of Do’s paintings, sticky liquid can be observed dripping down a doll’s face. This brings back recollections of the life inside our mothers’ womb where we were also enveloped by mucous waters, like the amniotic fluid. It refuses contact with the anything, and nothing wants to touch it either. The shape of such a mucous liquid is a protective layer sheltering the intrinsic identity and desires of man. It is also a substitution that satisfies the ego’s instincts otherwise suppressed by social norms. The dolls’ eyes...

Peter Lyons’s still lifes self-consciously participate in the tradition of religious icons, which embody a measure of the divinity they depict. The painted...