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Contemporary 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
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Bears, Bunnies, and Liya's Magic
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Floyd Strickland Bears, Bunnies, and Liya's Magic, 2022 Oil On Linen 60 x 72 inches This piece is unique Signed by the artist Framed Currently on display at Art Angels Los Angeles
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Linen, Oil

G
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Flore G, 2022 40 x 80 inches Acrylic and oil stick on canvas This piece is unique Signed by the artist Framed Currently on display at Art Angels Los Angeles
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

"Waiting on Wind, " Contemporary Coastal Painting
Located in Westport, CT
This original contemporary coastal painting by Carol Young features a cool blue palette. It captures a warm, creme-colored dinghy boat d...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"PaperLandscape" Abstract Seascape- Minimal Painting Made in Italy
Located in Agrigento, AG
Landscape mixed media on cotton canvas 100x110 cm 2021 Landscape is a series of artworks inspired by landscape and nature, nature and the passage change over time, we change nature ...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Paper, Oil, Cotton Canvas

Still Life with a Plant and Pears - Interior Scene: Oil Paint on Canvas
Located in London, GB
Of Polish descent and now living in London, Ania Pieniazek creates bold, bright art full of everyday joy and pleasure. Influenced by Gustav Klimt, Paul...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

1963 Cadillac Fender
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Oil and acrylic
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

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Oil, Acrylic

As above, So below
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Acrylic on canvas
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

No Squares In My Circle
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Flore No Squares In My Circle, 2022 Signed by artist Acrylic and oil on canvas 43 inches, unframed This piece is unique Currently on display at Art Angels Flore byflore modern cont...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Punk'd
Located in New York, NY
Nails and thread on wooden panel, comes in plexi glass box. In his latest body of work, the Dutch artist Nemo Jantzen is combining skills obtained in the earlier years of his career...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Textile, Thread, Plexiglass, Mixed Media, Wood Panel

Ojito Twilight
Located in Denver, CO
"By using references to navigational coastal profiling and by borrowing and subverting compositional structures of the 19th century American landscape painters I examine how modern l...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Alkekongen
Located in Denver, CO
"By using references to navigational coastal profiling and by borrowing and subverting compositional structures of the 19th century American landscape painters I examine how modern landscapes came to be spatially constructed. Through a combination of on-site field studies and larger studio pieces I make bodies of work that reflect the individual characteristics of a specific place while retaining a critical awareness of the landscape genre. This practice, while fully absorbed into the cliché of modern landscape painting, is not innocuous. It is rooted in a history of globalism and environmental dominance. Through my work I explore this spatial language at times allowing individual works to teeter into abstraction. The works in Rise look specifically at how we will navigate and view a rapidly changing physical world." Albuquerque artist Beau Carey...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Running Men
Located in Long Island City, NY
Running Men by Krzysztof Kokoryn, Polish (1964) Date: 2002 Oil on Canvas, signed and dated lower margin Size: 31 x 40 in. (78.74 x 101.6 cm) Frame Size: 37 x 45 inches
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Early 2000s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"TOTÉM DE GRITOS", MesoAmerican, Mexico, myth, gods, totem, Aztec, Mayan, dream
Located in Toronto, Ontario
TOTÉM DE GRITOS, an oil painting on canvas by Anna Ortiz, measures 48" high x 40" wide. Totém de Gritos is recent work and characteristic of the artist's practice – the palette is re...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Blue I, Oil on Canvas
Located in San Francisco, CA
"Blue I" is an original oil painting on canvas by the artist Clovis Pareiko. Beauty and aesthetic have always been a major concern for me. I focus my energy on it because I believe ...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Oil

The Sea and the Staircase, Moon Bay, Night - Contemporary, Oil by Keith Grant
Located in London, GB
Signed, inscribed with title and dimensions, and dated 2010 on stretcher.
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The Painting Room - Contemporary, Oil on canvas by Philip Sutton
Located in London, GB
Inscribed verso
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1990s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

What I've Been Waiting For
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Flore What I've Been Waiting For, 2022 Signed by artist Acrylic and oil on canvas 70 x 50 inches, unframed This piece is unique Currently on display at Art Angels Flore byflore mod...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Empire State
Located in Miami, FL
Original work - Unique piece. Additional photos and videos upon request. About the artist: - Patrick Pietropoli (born 31 January 1953) is a self-ta...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Mixed Media

Blue Harlequin. Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Blue Harleking - a beautiful piece from Berlins' Harleking series. This mesmerising painting is cooler and more sculptural in its construct. The sculptural quality & cooler palette d...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Oil

Flower Pot & Apples - Colourful, Patterned Still Life: Acrylic on Canvas
Located in London, GB
Of Polish descent and now living in London, Ania Pieniazek creates bold, bright art full of everyday joy and pleasure. Influenced by Gustav Klimt, Paul Gauguin and Zbyslaw Marek Mac...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Orbital Bliss Going Viral
Located in New Orleans, LA
Born in New Orleans, Horton Humble is a self-taught American painter. His debut show in 2007, entitled Debris, featured a series of paintings using wood from the Hurricane Katrina wreckage centered on themes of a lost city and water as a powerful force. In 2008, he embarked on a one-year journey through Africa for his next series Transit Urban, which included twelve paintings using local traditional fabrics depicting the energy of the people, land and culture. Each piece was drafted on site and later accompanied him on his other travels from Europe to US. Enchanted by the old and mestizo city, he returned to Lisbon in 2012 where he lived for almost three years and created The Lisbon Series influenced by the discovery of a new medium; ceramics and its modeling techniques. After this productive period in Portugal, Humble again returned home and established his studio with a group of fellow artists in New Orleans and co-founded the Level Artist Collective in 2015. At this time, his paintings on wood panels captured his impressions of a post- Katrina city represented inside of human head figures transitioning his previous subject matter into a new territory (US) and its social problematic. In 2017, Horton Humble was a resident artist at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans and named “one of the most talented young painters producing in the South today” by Bradley Sumrall, curator of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art (Curator's Choice, Country Roads Magazine). Through the summer he created his first public sculpture in steel, The Guardian, commissioned by the Helis Foundation for the Pyodras Corridor project- Sculpture for New Orleans. Currently, Humble is creating his most ambitious work, large-scale canvases in which he is releasing the formality of his detail obsession into a more dynamic and expressive work. Horton Humble is a founding member of LEVEL Collective and was a 2015/2017 nominee for the United States Artists Fellowship. His works are included in public and private collections, showcased at the Poydras Corridor, LA; Prizm Art Fair, FL; Atlanta Contemporary Biennial, GA; Ohr-O`Keefe Museum of Art, MS; Luciano´s...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Ink, Oil, Acrylic, Archival Paper

Crying Marilyn on purple haze
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Acrylic on canvas with diamond dust
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Acrylic

Red Drop
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Mixed media artist Paddy Cohn uses different shades of blue to create depth. Pumice mixed with white paint creates texture. Accented with a bold red gesture...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Mixed Media

Carnival
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Mixed media artist Paddy Cohn creates dancing movement with bright colors and bold black lines. Gallery wrapped sides. Framing optional. Ready to hang.
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Mixed Media

Umi III
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My painting is an inquiry. I make images as a way of responding to experiences that are important to me. Experiences that help me to understand why I’m in this world often happens when I am outside in large open spaces. Painted images act as a tool. I respond to the spaces my art suggests. That response is usually non-verbal. I am interested in the experience of non-duality that “getting lost” in big spaces can sometimes produce for me. The paintings have gone through a range of artistic treatments with the recent years seeing a focus on space, light, textures, atmosphere and distance. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove non-essential visual elements. When a work is successful, it must have a sense of poetry. There is nothing “new...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Umi II
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My painting is an inquiry. I make images as a way of responding to experiences that are important to me. Experiences that help me to understand why I’m in this world often happens wh...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Slowlight
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My painting is an inquiry. I make images as a way of responding to experiences that are important to me. Experiences that help me to understand why I’m in this world often happens wh...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Oil, Acrylic, Panel

Pine by the Sea
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My painting is an inquiry. I make images as a way of responding to experiences that are important to me. Experiences that help me to understand why I’m in this world often happens when I am outside in large open spaces. Painted images act as a tool. I respond to the spaces my art suggests. That response is usually non-verbal. I am interested in the experience of non-duality that “getting lost” in big spaces can sometimes produce for me. The paintings have gone through a range of artistic treatments with the recent years seeing a focus on space, light, textures, atmosphere and distance. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove non-essential visual elements. When a work is successful, it must have a sense of poetry. There is nothing “new...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Palma
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My painting is an inquiry. I make images as a way of responding to experiences that are important to me. Experiences that help me to understand why I’m in this world often happens when I am outside in large open spaces. Painted images act as a tool. I respond to the spaces my art suggests. That response is usually non-verbal. I am interested in the experience of non-duality that “getting lost” in big spaces can sometimes produce for me. The paintings have gone through a range of artistic treatments with the recent years seeing a focus on space, light, textures, atmosphere and distance. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove non-essential visual elements. When a work is successful, it must have a sense of poetry. There is nothing “new...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Acrylic, Wood Panel, Oil

Muskokan
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My painting is an inquiry. I make images as a way of responding to experiences that are important to me. Experiences that help me to understand why I’m in this world often happens when I am outside in large open spaces. Painted images act as a tool. I respond to the spaces my art suggests. That response is usually non-verbal. I am interested in the experience of non-duality that “getting lost” in big spaces can sometimes produce for me. The paintings have gone through a range of artistic treatments with the recent years seeing a focus on space, light, textures, atmosphere and distance. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove non-essential visual elements. When a work is successful, it must have a sense of poetry. There is nothing “new...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Kaian
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My painting is an inquiry. I make images as a way of responding to experiences that are important to me. Experiences that help me to understand why I’m in this world often happens when I am outside in large open spaces. Painted images act as a tool. I respond to the spaces my art suggests. That response is usually non-verbal. I am interested in the experience of non-duality that “getting lost” in big spaces can sometimes produce for me. The paintings have gone through a range of artistic treatments with the recent years seeing a focus on space, light, textures, atmosphere and distance. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove non-essential visual elements. When a work is successful, it must have a sense of poetry. There is nothing “new...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Cloud Indigo
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My painting is an inquiry. I make images as a way of responding to experiences that are important to me. Experiences that help me to understand why I’m in this world often happens wh...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Mangrove II
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My painting is an inquiry. I make images as a way of responding to experiences that are important to me. Experiences that help me to understand why I’m in this world often happens wh...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Yerba
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My painting is an inquiry. I make images as a way of responding to experiences that are important to me. Experiences that help me to understand why I’m in this world often happens wh...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Windjam II
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My painting is an inquiry. I make images as a way of responding to experiences that are important to me. Experiences that help me to understand why I’m in this world often happens wh...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Windjam
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My painting is an inquiry. I make images as a way of responding to experiences that are important to me. Experiences that help me to understand why I’m in this world often happens wh...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Jade Green with Dusty Pink
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Jennifer Hornyak was born in England, where she studied at the Grimsby School of Art before coming to Canada. For more than forty years, her work has been exhibited in prestigious ga...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Oil

Navy Blue with Pink
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Jennifer Hornyak was born in England, where she studied at the Grimsby School of Art before coming to Canada. For more than forty years, her work has been exhibited in prestigious ga...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Oil

Green with Ice Blue
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Jennifer Hornyak was born in England, where she studied at the Grimsby School of Art before coming to Canada. For more than forty years, her work has been exhibited in prestigious ga...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Oil

Nocturnal System of Winteride
Located in New Orleans, LA
Blueprints in their essence represent a promise, a not fully actualized reality; they are future-gazing documents of urban progress. Tegeder’s work mines tenderly these two “worlds”,...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Jump Forward
Located in Los Angeles, CA
BRENDAN MURPHY Jump Forward, 2021 Signed by artist Oil, acrylic, and gouache on chrome panel 60 x 72 inches This piece is unique This piece is currently on display at Art Angels Gal...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Oil, Acrylic

Before The Storm. Contemporary Seascape Oil Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
North Atlantic Ocean off Cornwall UK Oil on canvas
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Oil

"Blue notes", acrylic painting, three, female, figures, blanket, serene, white
Located in Natick, MA
Frantz Lexy’s “Blue notes” is a 40 x 30 inch acrylic painting on canvas. Three female figures are holding on to one another under a white blanket. Their ey...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Emerald Whisper - Summer Trees and Sunlight, Figurative: Acrylic on Canvas
Located in London, GB
framed size: 82 x 82 x 4 cm Ewa Adams is a landscape painter. Her painting is a contemporary take on Pointillism. She builds her images out of circles of pure colour juxtaposted nex...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Cow", Oil on Canvas
Located in Detroit, MI
This "Cow" painting vibrantly pops with hyper-realistic color. It depicts a highly detailed cow standing in against a blue background. Could it be an empty room? Could it be the sky? There is a very playful atmosphere as the cow is holding a dandelion gone to seed and the wonder is whether it will make a wish and blow. Its awash in a cartoonish blue with clouds and cloudy farm animals. This pairs with the lamb painting but is sold separately. Renata Palubinskas was born in 1968 in Kaunas, Lithuania, at the time still in the Soviet Union as the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic. She received her diploma in Fine Art and Restoration from St. Zukas Technium of Applied Arts in 1989. After working at the M.K. Ciurlionis State Museum of Art, she emigrated to the United States in the 1990s, basing herself in Detroit. Renata's work rethinks historic iconography while intentionally addressing the modern world through a new perspective. The characters in her paintings are often caught between the struggle of good and evil. That struggle represents the choice of trying to obtain immediate gratification or realization of the self, and the haunting life experiences with latent possibilities for death. Renata uses schematic compositions with purposefully positioned figures and other visual elements. To attract attention to the most significant figures, she often ornate their garments with intricate patterns. They are typically placed in either a serene landscape or an interior setting with a threatening presence around them. Her work has been exhibited in Collected Detroit...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Oil Crayon

Bedroom II
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Currently on display at Art Angels Michael Callas Bedroom Pink Blue Contemporary Interior Painting
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Stencil, Canvas, Spray Paint

Monotype and collage on paper: '0 (Zero) #5'
Located in New York, NY
The boat evokes a passage. The holding vessel and the deep waters symbolize our first crossing into birth and our last in the ship of death, "leading us back to the swaying, gliding ...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Paper, Monotype

House of Devayne - contemporary animal hummingbird acrylic painting
Located in London, GB
Keng Wai Lee’s gorgeously rich animal impressions are a synergy of decorative tableaux and depiction in paint on canvas of his memories and imagination. “Using acrylic as a medium, ...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Acrylic

Untitled No. 480
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Rather than being purely representational, Jeremy Prim’s oil paintings are emotive and inspired by the Pacific coastline. Known for his evocative minimalist seascapes, the impetus for Prim’s work derives from the beauty of the ocean and the peaceful solitude one feels in its presence. This 38 inch tall by 50 inch wide abstract painting...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Wax, Oil

"Untitled, " Acrylic and Paper Collage on Canvas
Located in Houston, TX
This work was one of Long’s earliest compositions as an artist. Even earlier in his artistic career, Long was interested in exploring the intersection of various media, branching out into new innovative spaces. This work demonstrates the technique and forms at play that have since germinated into Long’s signature style. Bert L. Long Jr., was self-taught artist, was born in 1940 in Texas, grew up the Houston’s historic Fifth Ward and received his formal education from UCLA. Following a career as a successful master chef, Long decided to devote himself entirely to art in the late 1970’s. He began to explore folk art and assemblage to create a unique body of work, attracting the attention of Jim Harithas, then Director of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and artists John Alexander, Salvatore Scarpitta and James Surls. His life spanned an era of radical change in the American social climate, the influence of which can be seen clearly in his work. Long’s paintings and sculptures incorporate a high level of skill and sophisticated knowledge of art history, along with complex philosophical and social issues.  Long describes the philosophy behind his work as "a quest to help people diagnose their inner self," believing his art to be "the vehicle to help facilitate the process." “As artists we have the obligation to provide the world with art which communicates as truth. I believe that art has the power to heal our souls of their afflictions. I try to create art which helps to diagnose the prevalent conditions within our societies, hopefully providing an insightfulness which will help us all become brothers and sisters united in equality and compassion”                                       - Bert L. Long, Jr. The late Peter Marzio, former Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, said of Bert Long during the major retrospective of Long’s work at the museum: “Bert Long does not avert his gaze from that which is painful, but as [his artworks] testify, he also brings a spirit of joy and redemption to his art. We can all learn from this great artist.” Over Long’s 33-year career as a painter, sculptor, and photographer, he had several solo exhibitions at respected museums and was awarded many significant awards including the National Endowment for the Arts Grant in 1987 and the prestigious international Prix de Rome fellowship in 1990. Other notable awards of Long’s include the Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts Artist of the Year Award in 2009, the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Emergency Assistance Grant in 1997, the Houston Art League Texas Artist of the Year in 1990, the NEA Visual Artists Fellowship Grant, 1987 and the Bemis Foundation Residency in 1998. His work can be seen in over 100 private and public collections worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Houston Museum of Fine Art, the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, the El Paso Museum of Art, and the Instituto de Bachillerato in Spain. With a recent solo exhibition at the Houston Museum of African American Culture and an exhibition overseas which is pending featuring his work, plus interest from several national museums, Bert L. Long Jr. continues to be recognized as an important African American artist throughout Texas, nationally and internationally. Bert L. Long, Jr. "Untitled" 1977 Acrylic and Paper Collage on Canvas...
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1970s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Chaos and its devolution
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: acrylic, colored pencil, paint pen, Flashe, ink on canvas JENNY DAY is a painter who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Arizona, a BFA in Painting from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a BA in Environmental Studies from the University of California Santa Cruz. Her exhibition record most recently includes the Phoenix Art Museum, Blue Star Art Museum, in San Antonio, TX, Arte Laguna in Venice, Italy, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art in Korea, and Elmhurst Museum in Chicago, IL. Day's work has been supported by an Elizabeth Greenshields Grant in 2018, Contemporary Forum Artist Grant from the Phoenix Art Museum in 2017, a Barron Purchase Award in 2016 and through participation at the Ucross Foundation, the Jentel Foundation, Playa Foundation For The Arts, Kimmel Harding Nelson Art Center, and the Armory Art Center. Jenny Day represented at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery. The artist says of her work... I walked in the Mohave desert. Listened to the bees as they hummed and sucked from yellow creosote flowers. I watched the desert blur by as I drove eighty-miles per hour on I-40. I couldn’t hear the bees. The Mohave backdropped a science-fiction film I watched from my couch...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

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Ink, Canvas, Acrylic, Color Pencil

Blue Hands
Located in New Orleans, LA
Barbara Friedman’s painting process is exploratory. She paints to discover and likes to be surprised by her work. She sometimes paints over her old paintings while retaining certain ...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Foot in the Garden
Located in New Orleans, LA
Barbara Friedman’s painting process is exploratory. She paints to discover and likes to be surprised by her work. She sometimes paints over her old paintings while retaining certain ...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Peacock Descending A Staircase
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Acrylic on canvas.
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

'Twin Palms' Oil on Canvas, Contemporary Painting
Located in Rye, NY
This is a painting from Karen's Lynn's West Coast, Palm Desert architectural series where she includes typical contemporary homes, swimming pools, beautiful blue skies and palm trees...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Oil

Monday [Bathtub]
Located in San Francisco, CA
Monday [Bathtub] is a unique artwork by Brazilian artist Dario Del Toro. He is a self-taught painter whose career evolved from street art in the favelas to fi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

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Resin, Acrylic

Happy Mouse
Located in San Francisco, CA
Happy Mouse is a mixed media edition piece by Israeli artist Dganit Blechner. She expresses a unique perspective on urban life and pop culture through her vivid mixed media artworks....
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Going Home
Located in Kansas City, MO
Katherine Bello Title : Going Home Materials : mixed media on canvas Date : 2020 Dimensions : 36"x36"x1.5" Signed and Dated by Hand COA Provided Katherine Bel...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Board

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