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Style: American Realist
Five Ball Jars with Flowers
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis' Gallery in NYC. Realism as a style has basically remained unchanged since the Renaissance. Realism as a technique, however, has definitely been alter...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Balloons II
Located in Fairfield, CT
Born in 1970, Derek Buckner lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife, novelist Joanna Hershon, their twin sons and daughter. The artist graduated from LaGuardia High School of Music and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
High Street on Hudson
Located in Fairfield, CT
I think of my work as being like a visual journal- observations and interpretations of people, places and things I experience day to day. Translating that experience into two dimensi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Low Season
By Matt Condron
Located in Fairfield, CT
Having spent many years as a photographer, Matt Condron is trained to recognize the importance of a moment or the preciousness of a fleeting opportunity. He is captivated by the idea of emptiness, as both a suggestion of solitude and as a state rife with the possibility of change and fulfillment. As a painter, he seeks out familiar, evocative scenes and concentrates on capturing the stillness of an empty room or vacant chair. His paintings can be seen as solitary, or as simply aberrant pauses between moments of frantic activity.
The works are imbued with a quality of light that brings simple, content-rich objects into sharp focus. Condron attempts to establish not so much a connection to a chair or a room, but the feeling created by the wide embrace of emptiness. Ultimately, Condron creates scenes - part representation of real places, part invention from deep in his mind. The openness of his works invites the viewer to share the moment of quiet with him. By choosing places that seem to have been abruptly vacated, he attempts to awaken a connection to the moment before, or to the quietude he preserves inside himself in the form of memories.
Matt Condron was born in 1967 in Simi Valley...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Norway I, blue tones, seascape and mountain
By Gregory Frux
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Mansard Window, Oil on canvas, cityscape
Sixth Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn
Dr. Rowland S. Russell PhD. writes about his experience directly witnessing Greg's practice as a “plein air” artist:
Whether he’s portraying quiet scenes from Brooklyn’s Prospect Park or the Botanical Gardens, intriguing remnants of New York’s varied industry (grain silos...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Banker's Dream
By Joseph Orr
Located in Missouri, MO
Joseph Orr (b. 1949, Missouri)
"Banker's Dream"
Acrylic on Canvas
Canvas: 9 x 12
Framed Size: approx 12 x 16
Joseph Orr, from Missouri, has been painting p...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Sailboat Study No. 1
Located in Fairfield, CT
Born in Spokane, WA (1986), Tamalin Soleil Baumgarten paints quiet landscape scenes with a tonal, melancholic realism. She received her MFA from New York Academy of Art in 2015 and h...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Cups and Book
By Russ Havard
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NY & LA --The process of endless building and reconfiguring transcends the mere physical and encompasses the spiritual and symbolic. The scars a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
On the Way 2
By Karen Woods
Located in Fairfield, CT
Karen Woods paints a traveler’s view through the window of a moving vehicle rendered in subtly nuanced gestures in oil on canvas or panel. These views from the front seat of a car looking through an often rain-splattered windshield or side window, are always about water: water from above, as a rainstorm, or from below, as a man-made sprinkler system. She is drawn to the interplay of water and light, and how it affects our perception of reality through reflection, distortion, and transformation.
The compositions often include a bit of the car - the edge of a window, a side mirror, the clear curved area left by a windshield wiper - these markers situate the viewer on the journey Woods is on - we are taken inside the vehicle and shown the vignettes that catch Woods’ eye. The paintings reclaim that point in time, explore its detail, and unearth its emotional content.
Woods’ work freezes and compresses a moment of everyday life; then elongates and decelerates it and in so doing, reveals its accompanying emotional weight: its anticipation, reflection, isolation, and longing. Woods is coaxing us to recognize the transcendent experiences offered by the most mundane or ordinary surroundings of our daily lives.
Karen Woods was born in Seattle, WA, in 1963. She received her BFA from the California College of the Arts (Oakland, CA) in 1987 with additional studies at California Polytechnic State University and Studio Art Centers International, Florence, Italy. Her paintings have been exhibited throughout the United States with solo exhibitions in Los Angeles, New York, and Boston, among others, and her work has been published in New American Paintings, American Art Collector, art ltd, Artweek, Western Art & Architecture, Fine Art Connoisseur, and the Idaho Statesmen. Woods’ paintings are included the public collections of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, UK, James Castle...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Outcropping
By Peter Poskas
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, b. 1939
Prominent 21th Century American landscape artist Peter Poskas has been painting New England for more than three decades. While his earliest pieces were reminiscent of Edward Hopper...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Golden Gate
By Roland Kulla
Located in Fairfield, CT
For the past dozen years or so I’ve focused on bridge elements by selecting portions of bridge structures and painting segments in a realist style. Previous shows at the Billis Gal...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Ziggurat
Located in Fairfield, CT
Every painting begins with a place to stand. Sometimes I find one in seconds; sometimes the hunt goes on for many seasons. A canvas can easily frame the everyday. But my task is to t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Catch n Carry
Located in Greenwich, CT
Still life painting of a basket
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Panel
Summer on 7th St. (Diptych)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- Gary Faigin says of Kurt Solmssen’s work, “Though a realist, Kurt Solmssen does not so much record what ...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Transamerica Building
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
Heller covers monumental and lesser-known works starting with Frank Lloyd Wright and tracing his design principles through his son Lloyd Wright, and students Richard Neutra, Rudolph ...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Realm of Flora, realistic urban architecture detail New York
By Gregory Frux
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Realm of Flora, Oil on canvas, cityscape, Park Slope
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Graffiti and Tank Car
Located in Fairfield, CT
"When asked what kind of paintings I make, I usually call my work "Urban Landscapes" to distinguish them as paintings about areas of human habitation rather than landscapes that refe...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Plumbago
Located in Fairfield, CT
Realism as a style has basically remained unchanged since the Renaissance. Realism as a technique, however, has definitely been altered and heavily influenced by technology. Most artists have given up “eyeballing” a subject as a drawing technique and have come to rely on photographs instead. Turnaround time for photographs is now virtually instant because of digital cameras...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Beach Late Afternoon
Located in Fairfield, CT
Derek Buckner is represented by George Billis Gallery NYC and LA. Born in 1970, Derek Buckner lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife, novelist Joanna Hershon, their twin sons and daug...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Gossips
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- My latest series opening at the George Billis Gallery, “Birth of the Cool,” celebrates the midcentu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Archival Paper
Tyler G. Wilson
By Alex Blas
Located in Fairfield, CT
In his current series, “In Your Room”, Alex Blas explores modern day life by examining the private spaces of his friends. In these paintings, Blas carefully considers the shadows, co...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
His Only Pet
Located in New York, NY
Charles Caleb Ward was born in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, the grandson of a New York Ward who had left for New Brunswick around the time of th...
Category
Late 19th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Madaket Sunset
By Marla Korr
Located in Greenwich, CT
Painting of Madaket on Nantucket at sunset
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Placid Comeback
By Trevor Young
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- Trevor Young is a quintessentially American painter. He makes no bones about his affection for the trappings of car culture, life on...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pansies in a Jar
Located in Fairfield, CT
Realism as a style has basically remained unchanged since the Renaissance. Realism as a technique, however, has definitely been altered and heavily influenced by technology. Most art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Portrait of Four Roses
By Kevin Frank
Located in Fairfield, CT
Kevin Frank statement: For me, combining the techniques of the ancient Greco-Roman painters with those of the old and new masters help to create unique modern images. As with all enc...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Wood Panel
Vase with Peaches
By Kevin Frank
Located in Fairfield, CT
Kevin Frank is represented by George Billis Gallery. Kevin Frank statement: For me, combining the techniques of the ancient Greco-Roman painters with those of the old and new master...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Wood Panel
Construction Site, Cement Blocks
Located in Fairfield, CT
Derek Buckner is represented by George Billis Gallery NYC and LA. Born in 1970, Derek Buckner lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife, novelist Joanna Hershon, their twin sons and daug...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Lloyd Wright, Taggart House
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
Heller covers monumental and lesser-known works starting with Frank Lloyd Wright and tracing his design principles through his son Lloyd Wright, and students Richard Neutra, Rudolph ...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Manhattan Arch – Curled Paper
Located in New York, NY
Anthony Baus is an alumnus and instructor of the Grand Central Atelier in Long Island City, New York. His unique artistic vision, which mines the world of the Old Masters and antiqui...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Schooner
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --Every painting begins with a place to stand. Sometimes I find one in seconds; sometimes the hunt goes on for many seasons. A canvas c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Sailboat Study No. 2
Located in Fairfield, CT
Born in Spokane, WA (1986), Tamalin Soleil Baumgarten paints quiet landscape scenes with a tonal, melancholic realism. She received her MFA from New York Academy of Art in 2015 and h...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Evening Sun
Located in Fairfield, CT
Derek Buckner is represented by George Billis Gallery NYC and LA. Born in 1970, Derek Buckner lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife, novelist Joanna Hershon, their twin sons and daug...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Jigsaw
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --Every painting begins with a place to stand. Sometimes I find one in seconds; sometimes the hunt goes on for many seasons. A canvas can easily frame the everyday. But my task is to trap the exceptional. Whether I am outside on site, or in the studio working from memory, painting is a personal, idiosyncratic process founded in obsession, and wonder.
"My subjects are genuine locations. They all have names, and many have familiar and private associations. But my attraction to a particular street or building often comes, in part, from a suspicion that it is also, in a sense, nameless. I nurture enduring relationships with a terrain. But for me, a particular motif resonates when it seems eligible for a larger catalog of spatial forms. My paintings are less portraits of Brooklyn than pages in an expansive, borderless inventory of space and light. Their index-like titles and typically symmetrical or balanced compositions intend to hint at something of the monumental, appropriate to a classifying program.
It is neither the landscape's planning nor its architecture which conjures the shapes I paint. Rather, it is its observation; it is how a place appears that forms a distinct typology. At street level, tight, box-like canyons of space offer motifs best captured in a square format, while aerial, panoramic views from a rooftop invite me to explode them in a wider canvas. When looking around to frame a wider view, the optical distortions of curvilinear perspective weave parallel lines into trajectories mirroring the dome of the sky. And on a clear day, the path of the sun traces analogous curves across it. Only turning achieves a panoramic view, and sky and street are themselves revealed as events. At times, glare, fog, rain and snow are also deliberately organizing factors in my choice of standpoint. I wait for and design with all of them.
Land maps posit an objective viewpoint. But star maps...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Summer Sky
Located in Fairfield, CT
Derek Buckner is represented by George Billis Gallery NYC and LA. Born in 1970, Derek Buckner lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife, novelist Joanna Hershon, their twin sons and daug...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Beach Figures
Located in Fairfield, CT
Derek Buckner is represented by George Billis Gallery NYC and LA. Born in 1970, Derek Buckner lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife, novelist Joanna Hershon, their twin sons and daug...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Cupola Study
Located in Fairfield, CT
Born in Spokane, WA (1986), Tamalin Soleil Baumgarten paints quiet landscape scenes with a tonal, melancholic realism. She received her MFA from New York Academy of Art in 2015 and h...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Crabapples
Located in Fairfield, CT
Realism as a style has basically remained unchanged since the Renaissance. Realism as a technique, however, has definitely been altered and heavily influenced by technology. Most art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Eames Chair and Painting
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- My latest series opening at the George Billis Gallery, “Birth of the Cool,” celebrates the midcentu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Elkins Valley - Elkins Farm, King Ranch"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork.
Signed lower right.
Complemented by a hand carved and gilt frame.
Peter Sculthorpe (b. 1948)
Peter Sculthorpe was born in ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Two Houses on Church Street
By Ron Rizk
Located in Fairfield, CT
Ron Rizk’s paintings depict the intimate personal history of locales from his life. Ethereal and yet grounded in reality, the paintings tell the stories of very real places as seen ...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Resting at Sunset
By Marla Korr
Located in Greenwich, CT
Marla Korr Biography
American, b. 1950
Marla Korr attended Brooklyn College, earning both a B.A. and a M.F.A. There she studied with Philip Pearlstein, Lenna...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Charles Laughton, Time magazine cover Illustration, March 31, 1952
Located in Miami, FL
Archivally Matted to 17.75 x 16.75 inches
Signed lower left
Category
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache
The Flag and Capitol
By Syd Cockell
Located in Missouri, MO
This is an original oil on velvet painting created c. 1942. Syd Cockell was an accomplished American illustrator during World War II.
Category
1940s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
On the Way 1
By Karen Woods
Located in Fairfield, CT
Karen Woods paints a traveler’s view through the window of a moving vehicle rendered in subtly nuanced gestures in oil on canvas or panel. These views from the front seat of a car looking through an often rain-splattered windshield or side window, are always about water: water from above, as a rainstorm, or from below, as a man-made sprinkler system. She is drawn to the interplay of water and light, and how it affects our perception of reality through reflection, distortion, and transformation.
The compositions often include a bit of the car - the edge of a window, a side mirror, the clear curved area left by a windshield wiper - these markers situate the viewer on the journey Woods is on - we are taken inside the vehicle and shown the vignettes that catch Woods’ eye. The paintings reclaim that point in time, explore its detail, and unearth its emotional content.
Woods’ work freezes and compresses a moment of everyday life; then elongates and decelerates it and in so doing, reveals its accompanying emotional weight: its anticipation, reflection, isolation, and longing. Woods is coaxing us to recognize the transcendent experiences offered by the most mundane or ordinary surroundings of our daily lives.
Karen Woods was born in Seattle, WA, in 1963. She received her BFA from the California College of the Arts (Oakland, CA) in 1987 with additional studies at California Polytechnic State University and Studio Art Centers International, Florence, Italy. Her paintings have been exhibited throughout the United States with solo exhibitions in Los Angeles, New York, and Boston, among others, and her work has been published in New American Paintings, American Art Collector, art ltd, Artweek, Western Art & Architecture, Fine Art Connoisseur, and the Idaho Statesmen. Woods’ paintings are included the public collections of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, UK, James Castle...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Made Redundant
By Ron Rizk
Located in Fairfield, CT
Ron Rizk’s paintings depict the intimate personal history of locales from his life. Ethereal and yet grounded in reality, the paintings tell the stories of very real places as seen ...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Fork
By Russ Havard
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NY & LA --The process of endless building and reconfiguring transcends the mere physical and encompasses the spiritual and symbolic. The scars a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
The Dinner Table
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- I paint the reality of the Southern California environment: how structures once revered for their groundbreaking ideas in design and...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Martin Luther King Jr.
Located in Fairfield, CT
From the artist statement, "When asked about my work, my mantra used to be, “The subject matter of my work is not as important as how I paint it. Whether it be people, places, or thi...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oasis
By Ron Rizk
Located in Fairfield, CT
Ron Rizk’s paintings depict the intimate personal history of locales from his life. Ethereal and yet grounded in reality, the paintings tell the stories of very real places as seen ...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Spring Arabesque II
Located in Fairfield, CT
I have been burning images into wood and paper as a means of drawing for over two decades. During that time I have continued to refine and at the same time experiment with the process. Using propane torches I burn, scorch, re-burn, sand and scratch the surface of paper or wood to create my drawings.
My earlier work, the Nocturne Series was inspired by walking at night in the light filled streets of American cities; those drawings were often mistaken for soft focus sepia toned photographs. My present work is a considerable departure in regard to content, execution and appearance - from those dark, abstracted cityscapes, my current drawings are light filled, clearly rendered landscapes. The burning process I use to make my drawings evolved differently for each series. Experimentation (in both bodies of work) is always important to me and always informs the resulting image. In the case of the Nocturnes the image arose from intermixing water with the flame from a large industrial torch. With these new works, I’ve tried to create a visually stimulating accumulation of (often minuscule) marks on the wood surface using the tiny flame from a jeweler’s torch...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Birch, Lacquer
Hemlock Trail, Autumn
Located in Fairfield, CT
I have been burning images into wood and paper as a means of drawing for over two decades. During that time I have continued to refine and at the same time experiment with the process. Using propane torches I burn, scorch, re-burn, sand and scratch the surface of paper or wood to create my drawings.
My earlier work, the Nocturne Series was inspired by walking at night in the light filled streets of American cities; those drawings were often mistaken for soft focus sepia toned photographs. My present work is a considerable departure in regard to content, execution and appearance - from those dark, abstracted cityscapes, my current drawings are light filled, clearly rendered landscapes. The burning process I use to make my drawings evolved differently for each series. Experimentation (in both bodies of work) is always important to me and always informs the resulting image. In the case of the Nocturnes the image arose from intermixing water with the flame from a large industrial torch. With these new works, I’ve tried to create a visually stimulating accumulation of (often minuscule) marks on the wood surface using the tiny flame from a jeweler’s torch...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Birch
Dream House
By Ron Rizk
Located in Fairfield, CT
Ron Rizk’s paintings depict the intimate personal history of locales from his life. Ethereal and yet grounded in reality, the paintings tell the stories of very real places as seen ...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
An Ideal Eclipse, Part I
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis' Gallery in NYC. Realism as a style has basically remained unchanged since the Renaissance. Realism as a technique, however, has definitely been alter...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Toys Books
Located in Fairfield, CT
I think of my work as being like a visual journal- observations and interpretations of people, places and things I experience day to day. Translating that experience into two dimensi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Red Poppies
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --Having worked from a studio in the Gowanus area of Brooklyn for two decades, Elizabeth O'Reilly is at home in the abandoned precincts...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Lavender Petunia
Located in Fairfield, CT
Realism as a style has basically remained unchanged since the Renaissance. Realism as a technique, however, has definitely been altered and heavily influenced by technology. Most art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
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