Abstract Geometric Paintings

"Clue #2" is an abstract artwork by Stan Olthuis composed of acrylic paint on reclaimed bicycle inner tube, wrapped on torched and plain reclaimed canvas ...

Brown, Orange, Blue, Pink, Green, Yellow, Red Mary was born in Ohio and has lived in Memphis, Tennessee since the mid-1990s. Following studies in graphic design and painting, she be...

I created this piece through the inspiration I got from the garden I visited, the artwork preaches the essence of nature to magnify the existence of human beings, starting from the a...

In Melisa’s optical and pulsating compositions, the natural world acts as blue-print while she explores the notion of the sublime through blur and precision. The artist develops an a...

"Clue #4" is an abstract artwork by Stan Olthuis composed of acrylic paint on reclaimed bicycle inner tube, wrapped on torched and plain reclaimed canvas stretchers. Clue #4 measures...

Illusion I. Wood based painting is stained and painted with acrylic. Separate LED box light. 24H x 24Wx 3D This series of artwork evokes a novel effect. Light becomes intertwined in...

This series of hand painted acrylic paintings by Natalia Roman are inspired by the colors and textures of Italian terrazzo tiling. The patterns created combine a variety of vivid col...

Brown, Orange, Blue, Pink, Green, Yellow, Red Mary was born in Ohio and has lived in Memphis, Tennessee since the mid-1990s. Following studies in graphic design and painting, she be...

Cloud sculpture. It is made up of a sculpture made of plaster and painted with acrylic and spray paint. The sculpture is assembled to a piece of painted wood, which in turn is assembled to a larger one, composing a single piece with several layers. The artwork is backlit with an LED light box...

Stunning Synchromist abstract by Danish/American artist, Benny Collin (1896-1980). Symphonic Forms, 1955. Oil on wood panel measures 22 x 29 inches. Measures 24 x 31 inches in custo...

"Maybe" is an abstract artwork by Stan Olthuis composed of acrylic paint on polystyrene mounted in a painted wood frame. Maybe measures 26" high by 30" wide by 2.5" deep. Typical of the artist, this minimal geometric abstraction resonates with a rich charge. It's a sculpture and a painting. The circles, the discs, almost touch but not quite. The artist's obsession with geometry and shapes in proximity is a clear gesture here. The eye delights in the formal play of shape and color, while the mind engages the material force of the wood and paint. From Stan Olthuis – "My work has always involved tactility and expressionistic energy. I visualize the story and imagery simultaneously, allowing the work to surprise me and come to life as I work. I am almost careless in how I use color and texture, facing the fear of improvising on-the-fly. I like to leave the obvious raw record of the process visible, but I believe a mystery remains." Stan Olthuis looks for expressive opportunities in found and harvested raw material – wood, stone, metal, rubber – and brings a fabricator's expertise to the work of making minimalist, joyful sculptures. Geometry is key, as are a sense of play and an adept's feel for sacred energies. His work is exhibited and collected internationally, including private and corporate commissions in Canada, United States, France, Japan and Norway. Stan is represented by Gagné Contemporary in Toronto and New York City, and has select works available through the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), and Motokawa Gallery in Japan. Stan Olthuis' formal education began in Chicago with Henk Krijger, the celebrated master printmaker, type designer, painter and sculptor. Back in Toronto, Olthuis graduated (with distinction) with a degree in Experimental Arts at Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD), studying under artists Fred Hagen, Tom Hodgson...

This series of hand painted acrylic paintings by Natalia Roman are inspired by the colors and textures of Italian terrazzo tiling. The patterns created combine a variety of vivid col...

"Inner Self" is an abstract artwork by Stan Olthuis composed of acrylic paint on baltic birch panel. Inner Self measures 30" high by 24" wide by 1" deep. ...

This is the beautiful island Santa Rosa, one of the Channel Islands Sanctuary islands just off the California mainland. This vast stretch is adorned with a variety of fiery wildflowers stretching far and wide, like a musical composition of various themes and in different voices. Santa Rosa is home to an incredible array of birds and marine life. It is a narrow but spreading landscape ribboned with trails, each one seemingly in the manner of a flight or chase, repeating the same melody in a slight variation. The cliffs drop hundreds of feet to the crashing swells of ocean below, home to historic shipwrecks peacefully intact. Torres’ paintings appear on the sets of popular television shows: Big Little Big Lies, Criminal Minds, Chicago Med, Grey’s Anatomy...

"Home" is an abstract artwork by Stan Olthuis composed of acrylic paint on baltic birch panel. Home measures 40" high by 30" wide by 1" deep. Typical of the artist, this minimal geometric abstraction resonates with a rich charge. It's a sculpture and a painting. The lines are elegant. The artist's obsession with geometry and intersecting shapes is a clear gesture here. The eye delights in the formal play of shape and color, while the mind engages the material force of the wood and paint. From Stan Olthuis – "My work has always involved tactility and expressionistic energy. I visualize the story and imagery simultaneously, allowing the work to surprise me and come to life as I work. I am almost careless in how I use color and texture, facing the fear of improvising on-the-fly. I like to leave the obvious raw record of the process visible, but I believe a mystery remains." Stan Olthuis looks for expressive opportunities in found and harvested raw material – wood, stone, metal, rubber – and brings a fabricator's expertise to the work of making minimalist, joyful sculptures. Geometry is key, as are a sense of play and an adept's feel for sacred energies. His work is exhibited and collected internationally, including private and corporate commissions in Canada, United States, France, Japan and Norway. Stan is represented by Gagné Contemporary in Toronto and New York City, and has select works available through the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), and Motokawa Gallery in Japan. Stan Olthuis' formal education began in Chicago with Henk Krijger, the celebrated master printmaker, type designer, painter and sculptor. Back in Toronto, Olthuis graduated (with distinction) with a degree in Experimental Arts at Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD), studying under artists Fred Hagen, Tom Hodgson...

This hand-painted piece by Lucchetta is part of the op art series where he is able to catch movement with his unique technique. Lucchetta is challenging himself. His precise stable h...

Illusion I. Wood based painting is stained and painted with acrylic. Separate LED box light. 24H x 24Wx 3D This series of artwork evokes a novel effect. Light becomes intertwined in...

"Structure Relief 254" is an abstract structural relief painted in earth tones. Throughout his life Barr was interested in engineering, structure, mathematics and nature. Although i...

Dynamic abstract composition by an unknown artist. A swirling ribbon floats over a nine square grid. The ribbon divides sections of the grid into smaller pieces, which are pained dif...

This hand-painted piece by Lucchetta is part of the op art series where he is able to catch movement with his unique technique. Lucchetta is challenging himself. His precise stable h...

"Hip, Hip, Hooray!", hand-carved wooden wall sculpture by Hudson Valley artist, Stephen Walling, made in 2019 24 x 24 x 2.5 inches Carved wood and acrylic paint on panel Signed, ver...

In Melisa’s optical and pulsating compositions, the natural world acts as blue-print while she explores the notion of the sublime through blur and precision. The artist develops an a...

Acrylic on canvas Beige exterior frame Signed on the back Framed dimensions: 134x92(x4)cm

This hand-painted piece by Lucchetta is part of the op art series where he is able to catch movement with his unique technique. Lucchetta is challenging himself. His precise stable h...

Artist/ School: French School, signed, contemporary Title: Geometric Abstract composition Medium: oil painting on canvas, unframed Size: painting: 23.75 x 23.75 inches Provenan...

Nancy is inspired by the works of Carmen Herrera, Deborah Zlotzky and Grazia Varisco. Nancy Talero is an artist and designer whose multi-panel works ch...

"Shore of the Huan He" hand-carved wooden wall sculpture by Hudson Valley artist, Stephen Walling, made in 2014 24 x 36 x 2 inches Carved wood and acrylic paint on panel Signed, ver...

4 carrés (Abstract Painting) Pigmented cement on foam panels. Structural and hanging frame on the back. Auville works with construction cement. Applying techniques used in the cons...

Abstract geometric three-dimensional wood wall sculpture in bright hues of red, peach, pink, maroon, white and beige Piquant, hand-carved wooden wall sculpture by Hudson Valley artis...

Stacker CL [2018] original acrylic on box-mounted MDF panels Image size: H:27 cm x W:22.5 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:27 cm x W:22.5 cm x D:6cm Sold Unframed Please note th...

Geometric figurative abstraction Oil on board Well framed and signed

Abstract Painting. Geometric style. Oils on canvas. About the Artist: I work in a style I call Geometric Surrealism, abstracting physical ...

Archiver [2020] original Acrylic and emulsion on cradled plywood panel Image size: H:40 cm x W:27 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:40 cm x W:27 cm x D:4cm Sold Unframed Plea...

Artist Commentary: abstract with blocks of expressive colors between crisp lines revealing two modes yin/yang unity yet distinction Words that describe this piece: geometric,grid,a...

Oil on birch panel.

Edward August Landon (1911-1984). Untitled, ca. 1960. Oil on wood panel, 4 x 4 inches. Measures 7 x 7.25 inches framed. Signed lower right. Excellent condition. Minor staining in matting. Birth place: Hartford, CT Death place: Hartford Addresses: NYC, 1947; Weston, VT, 1973 Profession: Printmaker, painter Studied: Hartford Art School; ASL; also with Carlos Merida, Mexico. Exhibited: S. Indp. A., 1940; Nat. Serigraph Soc., 1940-60; Am. Color Print Soc. Ann., 1945-65; Northwest Printmakers Ann., 1950-60; U.S. Info Agency Int. Circulating Exhib., 1952; Boston Printmakers Ann., 1955-70; nationally in print exhibs., since 1941; Doris Meltzer...

Signed lower left. About the artist: Rolph Scarlett was a painter of geometric abstraction during the American avant-garde movement of the 1930s and 1940s. Born in Guelph, Ontario,...

"Sargasso" hand-carved wooden New Brutalism wall sculpture by Hudson Valley artist, Stephen Walling, made in 2013 36 x 40 x 2.5 inches Carved wood and ac...

Contemporary abstract geometric painting on 12 x 12 inch wood panel with black circles and white linear elements on a green background. Green Mother #2, 2020, by Jeanette Fintz 12 x 12 x 2 inches, acrylic on wood panel Signed verso D-rings on reverse, simple hanging on two nails *See further paintings from this series by Jeanette Fintz The basic form, comprised of rotating circles stems from a geometric configuration created in a large abstraction from 2019 that strongly evoked a maternal quality because of it’s self generating fractal - like growth pattern. Off - shoots of hexagons and rhomboid shapes extend from the circles like building blocks, cellular connections, the underpinnings of unity at the base level of life. Working in a space between planning and chance, Jeanette Fintz presents a series of paintings that fuse gestural and geometric abstraction. This body of work continues Fintz’s use of the circle, ellipse and hexagon; motifs that embody references to nature, architecture and the decorative arts. The small paintings from this series offer a bright burst of form and color that would compliment any modern interior. Jeanette Fintz is an established artist working in the Hudson Valley, NY. She has taught at the School of Design Strategies at Parsons the New School for Design, SUNY Purchase, and Pratt Institute, among other American universities. Her work is collected in both private and corporate collections worldwide. To read more about her career, please scroll down for see her detailed CV and biography. Artist Statement: My paintings evolve in a space between planning & chance, systems & spontaneity, conveying contradictions that I view as metaphors for maneuvering through “real “life. In this work I play a fairly high stakes game of improvisation around a motif. Using a working method akin to jazz, I counterpoint systematically repeated elliptical shapes against gestural pours & drips and something unexpected emerges. I am drawn to create complexity, and challenged to unify multiple layers through the physicality of the paint, which fuses & knits together, as well as, ultimately, through the power of color to stabilize & resolve. The ellipse, which is hypnotic & spatial in repetition, & monumental, but not static as a shape unto itself, embodies references to nature and to the decorative arts which are both alluded to in the paintings. (The egg, the mirror, the vulva, or the shield.) Dynamic visual rhythms, in these pieces, the momentum of the repetitive ellipse, are typical of my work and help to maintain order within complexity. Their sources for me are both musical, notably the poly-rhythms of Latin jazz, Brazilian & East Indian music, and are also derived from the decorative arts, particularly textiles. The latter have been a source of excitement, often contributing a playful aspect to the paintings. I intentionally disturb the regularity of pattern, encouraging discordance & uniqueness, and then bring it back home after finding another by - way to work things through. Color is my most intuitive source of inspiration, connecting me to nature; It is also, ironically, my most passionately calculated element. In the primal struggle among sometimes apparently random components, subtlely modulated color clarifies purpose, builds context, and holds the structure together. The intuitive rhythmic order of Jeanette’s paintings prior to 2009 which featured repetitive lines, circles and ellipses clashing with fluid gestural streams of color have given way fully in the new work to a given crystalline geometric substructure that unifies all visual events. This work embraces and employs the Oneness found in sacred geometry as the underpinning for improvised pathways that give each work its uniqueness. Shapes that are found have a “role” to play, to riff off some of Jeanette’s series titles. The earlier pieces acknowledge through the unexpected visual event, the imperfection of the human condition while the newer geometries strive for the expression of spiritual wholeness and connection. About the artist: Jeanette Fintz is an abstract painter, who resides and paints in Hudson, NY. She is also an arts writer and independent curator. The intermix of being a native New Yorker and now, happily, a resident of the lush Hudson River Valley is evident in her work, which combines an urban edginess with the lyrical influences of her natural surroundings. Ms. Fintz was born in Brooklyn NY, educated at Queens College, The New York Studio School and Boston University. Her personal amalgam of NY School formalist principles, and love of natural light and color was initially forged during her summer at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture where she painted from the Maine landscape. Ms. Fintz lived and worked in the artist communities of Tribeca and Williamsburg, exhibiting regularly in NYC. Jeanette in part, credits the importance of natural light for her decision to transplant home and studio to Surprise. Ms Fintz has filtered nature through her urban sensibility, stretching color motifs towards the heightened and intensified palette often found in the realms of design and fashion. Her pieces have a rhythmic impact stemming both from her enjoyment of jazz and poly-rhythms of Brazilian and Indian origin, which she also sees displayed in the visual rhythms found in textiles and Islamic tile patterns. Jeanette’s involvement with these resources was enhanced by sabbatical travel to Spain’s Andalusia Region (2005 & 2009) to investigate patterning systems found in Moorish tiles and architecture, and to Turkey (2013), where she focused on the Iznik, Byzantine and Greco-Roman tiles and frescoes. Jeanette also had immersed herself in textile patterns and Ikat designs during her yearlong sojourn in Malaysia, where she was founding faculty in a new Parsons School of Design affiliate in Kuala Lumpur (1996-97). Selected Grants and Awards include 2015 EYP Architecture & Engineering Award, Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region 2015 Trustees Award, Albany Institute of History & Art 2013 Sabbatical, Parsons the New School For Design 2008 The Emil & Dines Carlsen Award / Painting, National Academy of Design 2005 Sabbatical, Parsons the New School for School Design 2005 Sudden Opportunity Stipend 2003 Faculty Development Award, Parsons, the New School for School for Design 1995-92 Sudden Opportunity Stipend, NYFA Rensselaer County Council for the Arts 1993 N Y F A, Artists Fellowship / Drawing 1990 E. D. Foundation Grant / Painting 1984 Ludwig Vogelstein Grant / Painting 1980 The Ingram Merrill Award / Painting 1975 Purchase Prize, Painting, Skowhegan School for Painting & Sculpture Ms Fintz has taught as an Assistant Professor of Art & Design, in the School of Design Strategies at Parsons the New School for Design for 17 years. At Purchase College, SUNY, Jeanette taught all levels of painting and drawing for 12 years as Assistant Professor in the BFA conservatory program. She also has taught at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY, The University of Southern Maine, Portland, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, and SUNY, Albany. Jeanette shows her work at the Garvey Simon Gallery, New York, NY, Fox Gallery, New York, NY, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington MA, the Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham NY, Cross Contemporary Gallery, Saugerties, NY. Recent projects include a solo show at Garvey Simon Gallery, NY NY (Sept. 7 - Oct, 2017), and a curatorial project, "The Ritual of Construction," at the Kleinert James Center, Woodstock Byrdcliff Guild (May 19 - July , 2017). Ms Fintz’s Residencies and Fellowships include: The MacDowell Colony, The Millay Colony for the Arts, The Ucross Foundation, and Altos De Chavon & Ossabaw Island Project. Jeanette’s selected Visiting Artist spots include Art New England, Bennington College, Bennington, VT, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva NY. Ms. Fintz received her MFA from Boston Universtiy SFA (1975 ), and her BA from Queens College CUNY (1972). She attended the New York Studio School (1972-73), and received a scholarship to the Skowhegan School in 1975. Ms Fintz’s work can be found in many national & international collections. Collections Par Capital Management Boston MA VYV Apartments, Luxury High Rise, Jersey City, NJ Boca Raton Yacht Club, Waldorf Astoria Resort, Boca Raton, FL Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Boston, MA, and Plano, TX Robert A.M. Stern Architectural Project, Washington DC Capital G Bank Hamilton, Bermuda Brigham & Women's Hospital, Foxboro, MA Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, Boston, MA Posternak Blankstein & Lund, Boston, MA Hale & Dorr, Boston, MA Analysis Group, Boston, MA National Televison, 7 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Christmas Island Phosphate, Singapore Jewish Free Loan Association, Los Angeles CA Rabobank NYC Commerzbank, New York, NY Commerzbank 2, World Financial Center, New York, NY National Television 7, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY Skowhegan School, Skowhegan, Maine Collection of Minister of Agriculture Datuk Effendi & Datin Norwawi Collection of the Former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamed of Malaysia Jim & Debbie Ellickson -Brown, Cultural Attache, American Embassy, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia (1996) Rohana Tan Sri Mahamad, Kuala Lumpur, MY Suherwan Abu, Kuala Lumpur, MY & Singapore Valentine Willie, Kuala Lumpur, MY Aloysious Goh, Singapore Betsey Swan & Chris Calder, Albuquerque NM Carrie Chen & Stanley Cohen Center Hill, Copake, NY Albert & Linda Eskenazi, Montreal, CA Barbel & Peter Starz, Toulouse, FR Clarissa & Jean Kueller, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Mr. & Mrs. Andre Keller, K L, MY & Geneva, Switzerland Shirley Greitzer, Esq. Washington DC Mark Meltzer, Los Angeles & Palm Springs, CA Joel & Fran Soroka, Aspen, Colorado Estate of Hella and Carl Ossenberg, NYC & Palm Beach, FL Estate of Gabriel Laderman, New York, NY Stephen Westfall, New York, NY Dr & Mrs Joseph Delisi, Lake Hopatcong, NJ Dr & Mrs Chris Calder & Besty Swan, Menands, NY Carol & Joachim Frank, NY, NY Mark Pettygrove, Los Angeles, CA George A Schulman, Los Angeles, CA Gerald De Silva, Los Angeles, CA Caryl Horn, Port Richmond, CA Joe & Cathy Plumber, Cold Spring, NY Molly Doland, Esq. Washington DC Bethany Beardslee Winham, Rhinebeck, NY David Fox & Associates, Inc. Briarcliff Manor, NY Eric & Carolyn Egas, Greenviille, NY & Vieques, PR Jin Zeng, New York, NY Selected Solo Exhibitions 2017 “Worldline Schreiber Paintings, plus...," Garvey/Simon Gallery 547 W 27th St, New York, NY 2016 "The Presence of the Invisible Proposition," Koussevitsky Art Gallery, Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield, MA 2012 "Andalusian Shards," The Wall Street Journal Bldg Lobby, New York, NY 2012 "The Plaid Paintings...

Place to Remember. An original abstract still life painting by Diane Whalley. In a white wood frame [2021] original acrylic on canvas Image size: H:80 cm x W:100 cm Complete Size of...

Masaaki Yamada (1929-2010) Work C.87 Executed in 1961 Oil on canvas 65.2 x 45.6 cm. (25 5/8 x 17 6/8 in.) Signed, dated and artist’s seal in Japanese (on the reverse)

"Untitled 13" is a gouache on paper by contemporary Russian artist Dmitry Samygin. Minimalist and geometric drawings.

Masaaki Yamada (1929-2010) Work C.030 Executed in 1963 Oil on canvas 34 x 24.5 cm. (13 ⁷/₆₄ x 9 ⁴¹/₆₄ in.) Signed and dated in Japanese and Western characters (on the reverse)

Electric Jazz. 2018, canvas, oil, 90x110 cm Abstract composition in red, blue, yellow colors Igor Leontiev (1957) - one of the leading independent paint...

Jaled Muyaes (Chilean/Mexican, 1921 - 2007). "Abstracted Still-Life". Pastel drawing. 1951. Signed "Kena" and dated, lower right. Triple matted under glass. Greens, Blues, golden toned yellows, and Oranges predominate. Muyaes always signed his work "Kena," "S. Kena," "Silvestre Kena," or "Silvestre;" or, if initialed, "K." or "S.K.". Cream wove paper. Provenance: From the estate of Estela Ogazon...

Abstract geometric painting by Houston, Texas artist Philip Durbin. Pink and blue hued painting incorporating geometric stencil-like patterns and abstract figure in a chef's uniform ...

Acquired from the Herminio Iglesias collection, Havana.

Artist/ School: French School, signed and dated 2008 Title: The Tightrope Walker Medium: oil painting on canvas Size: painting: 25.5 x 32 inches Provenance: private collec...

Signed, verso, on stretcher bar, 'Renee Harwin' (Austrian-American, born 1924) and painted circa 2000. A substantial, Post-Painterly abstract comprising hard-edged, geometric forms in primary colors, with ochre and burnt umber, stacked in a vertical composition. Born in Vienna in 1924, Renee Harwin emigrated to the United States with her family to escape Hitler and the Holocaust. She graduated from San Francisco State University in 1970 and went on to receive her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1973. Harwin exhibited widely and with success in the California Bay Area, including at the University of California at Davis, the C.N. Gorman Museum (1993) and at the De Young Museum. Her work combines the influence of Midwest painters such as Clyfford Still and her San Francisco Art Institute instructor, Jack Jefferson...

Oil on canvas, Abstract geometric pattern; minimalism; nonobjective art; golden yellow, light blue, pink, orange, red, burgundy; geometric abstraction Hand-signed by artist Framing ...

Acrylic painting on canvas, 2021. Signed, titled and dated on the back. Ready to hang. The artwork comes directly from the artist's studio. Dimensions: Height 52.72 in ( 133,9 cm ),...

4 carrés (Abstract Painting) Pigmented cement on foam panels. Structural and hanging frame on the back. Auville works with construction cement. Applying techniques used in the cons...

Artist's bio: To watch Sébastien PRESCHOUX work is to agree to oscillate between the serenity of a work that lets itself be built without haste an...

Contemporary abstract geometric painting on 12 x 12 inch wood panel with circles of white and yellow with octagonal shapes throughout the space. Gre...

Abstract geometric three-dimensional wood wall sculpture in shades of blue, green, teal, with contrasts of white "Peekin", made by Hudson Valley artist, Stephen Walling, in 2020 35 x...

Colin Lawson says "I work primarily with oil on canvas. Attention to detail, precision, and accuracy in the application of pigment is my main concern when constructing the surface of...

Artist Bio: To watch Sébastien PRESCHOUX work is to agree to oscillate between the serenity of a work that lets itself be built without haste and t...

Geometric and gestural abstract painting on canvas in earth tones of beige, tan, and light brown with accents of dark magenta, light sienna, and neon pink Disturbances in the Field, 2019 by Jeanette Fintz 60 x 72 x 2 inches, acrylic on canvas Signed verso Hanging wire on reverse "Disturbances in the Field" is a painting in a series of work created during the year of the pandemic. The artist explains that this painting is about "giving structure to something intangible, ephemeral, in-flux or conversely, revealing the dissolving of structure that has been.” As an abstract artist, Fintz has long been interested in the contrast of hard-edged planar geometry (circles, squares, hexagons) existing within an atmospheric field where shapes can float or hold the plane, in a space that appears expansive, transient and increasingly released from the canvas’s edge. A calculated use of opacity and transparency resulting from fluid washes of acrylic create an atmosphere where fragmented geometry becomes “a vocabulary of gestures”. This work merges white and faintly gold hard edge lines with gentle washes of blue and neutrals. Working in a space between planning and chance, Jeanette Fintz presents a series of paintings that fuse gestural and geometric abstraction. This body of work continues Fintz’s use of the circle, ellipse and hexagon; motifs that embody references to nature, architecture and the decorative arts. Jeanette Fintz is an established artist working in the Hudson Valley, NY. She has taught at the School of Design Strategies at Parsons the New School for Design, SUNY Purchase, and Pratt Institute, among other American universities. Her work is collected in both private and corporate collections worldwide. To read more about her career, please scroll down for see her detailed CV and biography. Artist Statement: My paintings evolve in a space between planning & chance, systems & spontaneity, conveying contradictions that I view as metaphors for maneuvering through “real “life. In this work I play a fairly high stakes game of improvisation around a motif. Using a working method akin to jazz, I counterpoint systematically repeated elliptical shapes against gestural pours & drips and something unexpected emerges. I am drawn to create complexity, and challenged to unify multiple layers through the physicality of the paint, which fuses & knits together, as well as, ultimately, through the power of color to stabilize & resolve. The ellipse, which is hypnotic & spatial in repetition, & monumental, but not static as a shape unto itself, embodies references to nature and to the decorative arts which are both alluded to in the paintings. (The egg, the mirror, the vulva, or the shield.) Dynamic visual rhythms, in these pieces, the momentum of the repetitive ellipse, are typical of my work and help to maintain order within complexity. Their sources for me are both musical, notably the poly-rhythms of Latin jazz, Brazilian & East Indian music, and are also derived from the decorative arts, particularly textiles. The latter have been a source of excitement, often contributing a playful aspect to the paintings. I intentionally disturb the regularity of pattern, encouraging discordance & uniqueness, and then bring it back home after finding another by - way to work things through. Color is my most intuitive source of inspiration, connecting me to nature; It is also, ironically, my most passionately calculated element. In the primal struggle among sometimes apparently random components, subtlely modulated color clarifies purpose, builds context, and holds the structure together. The intuitive rhythmic order of Jeanette’s paintings prior to 2009 which featured repetitive lines, circles and ellipses clashing with fluid gestural streams of color have given way fully in the new work to a given crystalline geometric substructure that unifies all visual events. This work embraces and employs the Oneness found in sacred geometry as the underpinning for improvised pathways that give each work its uniqueness. Shapes that are found have a “role” to play, to riff off some of Jeanette’s series titles. The earlier pieces acknowledge through the unexpected visual event, the imperfection of the human condition while the newer geometries strive for the expression of spiritual wholeness and connection. About the artist: Jeanette Fintz is an abstract painter, who resides and paints in Hudson, NY. She is also an arts writer and independent curator. The intermix of being a native New Yorker and now, happily, a resident of the lush Hudson River Valley is evident in her work, which combines an urban edginess with the lyrical influences of her natural surroundings. Ms. Fintz was born in Brooklyn NY, educated at Queens College, The New York Studio School and Boston University. Her personal amalgam of NY School formalist principles, and love of natural light and color was initially forged during her summer at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture where she painted from the Maine landscape. Ms. Fintz lived and worked in the artist communities of Tribeca and Williamsburg, exhibiting regularly in NYC. Jeanette in part, credits the importance of natural light for her decision to transplant home and studio to Surprise. Ms Fintz has filtered nature through her urban sensibility, stretching color motifs towards the heightened and intensified palette often found in the realms of design and fashion. Her pieces have a rhythmic impact stemming both from her enjoyment of jazz and poly-rhythms of Brazilian and Indian origin, which she also sees displayed in the visual rhythms found in textiles and Islamic tile patterns. Jeanette’s involvement with these resources was enhanced by sabbatical travel to Spain’s Andalusia Region (2005 & 2009) to investigate patterning systems found in Moorish tiles and architecture, and to Turkey (2013), where she focused on the Iznik, Byzantine and Greco-Roman tiles and frescoes. Jeanette also had immersed herself in textile patterns and Ikat designs during her yearlong sojourn in Malaysia, where she was founding faculty in a new Parsons School of Design affiliate in Kuala Lumpur (1996-97). Selected Grants and Awards include 2015 EYP Architecture & Engineering Award, Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region 2015 Trustees Award, Albany Institute of History & Art 2013 Sabbatical, Parsons the New School For Design 2008 The Emil & Dines Carlsen Award / Painting, National Academy of Design 2005 Sabbatical, Parsons the New School for School Design 2005 Sudden Opportunity Stipend 2003 Faculty Development Award, Parsons, the New School for School for Design 1995-92 Sudden Opportunity Stipend, NYFA Rensselaer County Council for the Arts 1993 N Y F A, Artists Fellowship / Drawing 1990 E. D. Foundation Grant / Painting 1984 Ludwig Vogelstein Grant / Painting 1980 The Ingram Merrill Award / Painting 1975 Purchase Prize, Painting, Skowhegan School for Painting & Sculpture Ms Fintz has taught as an Assistant Professor of Art & Design, in the School of Design Strategies at Parsons the New School for Design for 17 years. At Purchase College, SUNY, Jeanette taught all levels of painting and drawing for 12 years as Assistant Professor in the BFA conservatory program. She also has taught at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY, The University of Southern Maine, Portland, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, and SUNY, Albany. Jeanette shows her work at the Garvey Simon Gallery, New York, NY, Fox Gallery, New York, NY, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington MA, the Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham NY, Cross Contemporary Gallery, Saugerties, NY. Recent projects include a solo show at Garvey Simon Gallery, NY NY (Sept. 7 - Oct, 2017), and a curatorial project, "The Ritual of Construction," at the Kleinert James Center, Woodstock Byrdcliff Guild (May 19 - July , 2017). Ms Fintz’s Residencies and Fellowships include: The MacDowell Colony, The Millay Colony for the Arts, The Ucross Foundation, and Altos De Chavon & Ossabaw Island Project. Jeanette’s selected Visiting Artist spots include Art New England, Bennington College, Bennington, VT, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva NY. Ms. Fintz received her MFA from Boston Universtiy SFA (1975 ), and her BA from Queens College CUNY (1972). She attended the New York Studio School (1972-73), and received a scholarship to the Skowhegan School in 1975. Ms Fintz’s work can be found in many national & international collections. Collections Par Capital Management Boston MA VYV Apartments, Luxury High Rise, Jersey City, NJ Boca Raton Yacht Club, Waldorf Astoria Resort, Boca Raton, FL Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Boston, MA, and Plano, TX Robert A.M. Stern Architectural Project, Washington DC Capital G Bank Hamilton, Bermuda Brigham & Women's Hospital, Foxboro, MA Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, Boston, MA Posternak Blankstein & Lund, Boston, MA Hale & Dorr, Boston, MA Analysis Group, Boston, MA National Televison, 7 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Christmas Island Phosphate, Singapore Jewish Free Loan Association, Los Angeles CA Rabobank NYC Commerzbank, New York, NY Commerzbank 2, World Financial Center, New York, NY National Television 7, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY Skowhegan School, Skowhegan, Maine Collection of Minister of Agriculture Datuk Effendi & Datin Norwawi Collection of the Former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamed of Malaysia Jim & Debbie Ellickson -Brown, Cultural Attache, American Embassy, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia (1996) Rohana Tan Sri Mahamad, Kuala Lumpur, MY Suherwan Abu, Kuala Lumpur, MY & Singapore Valentine Willie, Kuala Lumpur, MY Aloysious Goh, Singapore Betsey Swan & Chris Calder, Albuquerque NM Carrie Chen & Stanley Cohen Center Hill, Copake, NY Albert & Linda Eskenazi, Montreal, CA Barbel & Peter Starz, Toulouse, FR Clarissa & Jean Kueller, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Mr. & Mrs. Andre Keller, K L, MY & Geneva, Switzerland Shirley Greitzer, Esq. Washington DC Mark Meltzer, Los Angeles & Palm Springs, CA Joel & Fran Soroka, Aspen, Colorado Estate of Hella and Carl Ossenberg, NYC & Palm Beach, FL Estate of Gabriel Laderman, New York, NY Stephen Westfall, New York, NY Dr & Mrs Joseph Delisi, Lake Hopatcong, NJ Dr & Mrs Chris Calder & Besty Swan, Menands, NY Carol & Joachim Frank, NY, NY Mark Pettygrove, Los Angeles, CA George A Schulman, Los Angeles, CA Gerald De Silva, Los Angeles, CA Caryl Horn, Port Richmond, CA Joe & Cathy Plumber, Cold Spring, NY Molly Doland, Esq. Washington DC Bethany Beardslee Winham, Rhinebeck, NY David Fox & Associates, Inc. Briarcliff Manor, NY Eric & Carolyn Egas, Greenviille, NY & Vieques, PR Jin Zeng, New York, NY Selected Solo Exhibitions 2017 “Worldline Schreiber Paintings, plus...," Garvey/Simon Gallery 547 W 27th St, New York, NY 2016 "The Presence of the Invisible Proposition," Koussevitsky Art Gallery, Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield, MA 2012 "Andalusian Shards," The Wall Street Journal Bldg Lobby, New York, NY 2012 "The Plaid Paintings...