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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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Azzaro - large, fashion female model, paper, oil, acrylic, collage in plexiglass
Located in Bloomfield, ON
The theater of high fashion is captured in this imaginative mixed media painting by Canadian artist Peter Hoffer. Part of his couture series, Hoffer features a runway model in the ce...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Plexiglass, Mixed Media

Pink Tulip with Apple Green - small, bright, floral, figurative, still life oil
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A textured ground of light apple green frames a soft pink tulip in this intimate still life composition by Jennifer Hornyak. Framed dimensions are 10 x 8 inches. Inspired by German...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Linen, Oil

The Snow Doesn't Give A Soft White Damn - abstract, oil on canvas over panel
Located in Bloomfield, ON
In this lyrical abstract work by Montreal born Mel Davis organic shapes intersect in a playful composition. Using form and colour--blue, yellow, blush pink, black and snow-white Davi...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Panel

12 Multicoloured Lines No.4 - bold, colorful, contemporary, acrylic on paper
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Calgary artist Aron Hill plays with a full range of bold, bright colours in this series of dramatic minimalist compositions. Bands of colour layered one above the other in blues, gre...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Acrylic, Archival Paper

Dior - acrylic, oil, vintage paper, fashion female model, collage in plexiglass
Located in Bloomfield, ON
In his couture series, Peter Hoffer explores the theater of fashion through a reinterpreted runway. In this mixed media painting, a realistically rendered model for the French fashi...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Plexiglass, Mixed Media

Passage - detailed, textured, figurative, mixed media, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Simply gorgeous! Two canoe-shaped vessels appear to traverse the canvas in this recent series of enigmatic works by Heather Allen Hietala. The natural earth...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Couriers - detailed, textured, figurative, mixed media, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Simply gorgeous! Three canoe-shaped vessels appear to traverse the canvas in this recent series of enigmatic works by Heather Allen Hietala. The natural earthy colour palette of her ...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Evening Bag - Evening Shoes - 9.4" x 11.4" Each, Set Of Two Paintings, Framed
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
Evening Bag - Evening Shoes: This set of two original paintings blend acrylic paint, textile collage and a delicate touch of sparkle. Attention to detail captures a hint of timeless ...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Fabric, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Pencil, Color Pencil

Summering - Expressive strokes of red, blue, yellow and mauve
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Expressive strokes of red, blue, yellow, and mauve float on a soft pink colorfield. And dotted within the colorfield are subtle pea green stains that gently guide the eye through the...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Stil Life (With Red Tablecloth 2) - colorful, abstract, oil on canvas on panel
Located in Bloomfield, ON
In this charming abstract composition by Montreal born Mel Davis, a riot of bright colours in orange, yellow, deep blue, and mauve pop against the background of a red tablecloth...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Panel

Et Dieu créa la femme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Inspired by cinema, photography, music and literature, Monet has a natural connection and sense for the current society and his contemporaries. His signature conceptual assemblage of...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Mixed Media, Panel

Horizon Series: Mauve Brown Sky - contemporary, modernist, oil on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This abstract oil painting by David Sorensen is one of his Horizon series. An important contemporary Canadian artist, David Sorensen’s impressive body of work spanned decades. Influ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Meat #1
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Meat is not what it used to be. Both chemically (through the over-abundant use of hormones and antibiotics in the raising of livestock,) and conceptually, it has morphed under the ba...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Speed - rich, expressive, floral, still life abstract, oil on linen on panel
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Montreal born Mel Davis creates beautiful abstract compositions using traditional themes. In this piece, a harmonious use of colour—bright white, burgundy, yellow and green appear in...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Linen, Oil

Going Deeper - rich, colourful, layered, gestural abstract, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Going Deeper has a novel orientation in relation to the rest of Teichert's Connectivity series and with this orientation she has achieved a distinct feeling of falling - or possibly ...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Oil Crayon, Wax Crayon, Acrylic

Instinct - bright, colorful, impasto, abstract expressionist, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A joyful expression of bright colours, ‘Instinct’ is one of a new series of acrylic works by Adam Cohen. The American artist is known for his grand gestural style—a hallmark of abstr...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Capriccio 2 - bright, colourful, geometric abstract, modernist, acrylic on panel
Located in Bloomfield, ON
In musical terms, a capriccio is a short, lively, free-form piece of music. Modernist Burton Kramer’s Capriccio 2 envisions shapes and colours inspired by beautiful music. In this way Kramer’s work is much like the 20th century European painter Wassily Kandinsky who was renowned for his experiments with colour and music. “My paintings reference dancing feet, jazz, bebop, swing, baroque and folk music...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Dock 5 (Tension) - colorful, minimalist, abstract waterscape, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
BC artist Pat Service spent twelve summers at Professional Artist’s Workshops in Emma Lake Saskatchewan. A series of paintings were a result of those rich memories including several ...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Daffodils - flowers, pop-art, spring, iconic, contemporary, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Canadian pop artist Charles Pachter has chosen to showcase flowers in his next series of paintings. Historically, depicting flowers in art was made famous by the Impressionists. In Pachter’s ‘Daffodils,’ the eye is drawn to the delicate yellow and white buds in a simple vase...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Big Red Trip - large, bright, colorful, abstracted landscape, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
BC artist Pat Service has always had a special fondness for the allure of the ‘open road.’ Over the years many road trips across the mountains to the prairies in Saskatchewan have pr...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Solitude - detailed, textured, figurative, mixed media, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Simply gorgeous! Two canoe-shaped vessels appear to traverse the canvas in this recent series of enigmatic works by Heather Allen Hietala. The natural earth...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Racing Toy Horse - detailed, realist, interior, Ukrainian, Israeli, oil/canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A charming old fashioned toy racing horse dominates this classic oil painting by Dmitry Yuzefovich. With every beautifully detailed trompe-l'oeil pie...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

SUNDRESS - 9"x11" Original Artwork On Paper, Summer Dress, Green, White Flowers
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
SUNDRESS - This 5"x7" original artwork on paper captures the essence of summer. A blend of acrylic and oil pastel brings oversized daisies to life, evoking both nostalgia and whimsy....
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Acrylic, Pencil, Color Pencil

Rocks and Sky - large, calming, shoreline, landscape, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Canadian artist Pat Service grew up surrounded by the rugged beauty of the BC landscape—forests, sea and sky. In this, one of her earlier landscape paintings Service has captured a v...
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1990s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Mountie - large, figurative, trees, horse, acrylic and oil painting on jute
Located in Bloomfield, ON
The iconic presence of a Mountie in red serge on a ghostly white horse is set against the backdrop of a mountain landscape. Peter Hoffer's epic paintings evoke nostalgia for classica...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Jute, Oil, Acrylic, Pigment

Take Me Dancing #4 - 14"x14", Original Painting, Dress, Framed Artwork, Women
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
An air of femininity is expressed in this dress painting on art board, capturing a nostalgic nod to timeless glamour. Delicate detail (with a hint of shimmer) blends with a textured,...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Acrylic, Board, Pencil, Color Pencil, Ink

Mission View - large, expressive, colorful, landscape, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This lovely landscape rendered in a tapestry of rich colours was painted by Canada’s Pat Service. The town of Mission sits on the north shore of B.C.’s Fraser River which winds its w...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

The Wrestler with Gold - bright, colorful, abstract shapes, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Inspired by the famed modernists like Jack Bush, Aron Hill creates playful, contemporary artwork. The colours are bold—hot pink, red, yellow, sea blue with black accented by a circle...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Momentum - rich, colorful, lyrical, gestural abstract, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A cloud of furious looped gestures in dove grey advances from a luminous, divided ground of berry red above and brushed grey and orange below in this large mixed media painting. Onto...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Crayon, Acrylic

Sweeping Green with Vermillion - large green, pink, orange floral still life oil
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Lit with pink and amber this large scale floral still life by Jennifer Hornyak verges on abstraction. Rich passages of indigo, orange and emerald dance on a ground of cerulean and mo...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The Typewriter Under The Bed - realist, interior, Ukraine, Israeli, oil/canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Dmitry Yuzefovich’s charming, intimate and curated compositions often seem hauntingly familiar. His realistic paintings tell a story—this one of a be...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Bronze Leaves with Black and Red - large green, mauve, brown abstract oil
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Expressive layered passages of bronze, periwinkle, red and turquoise with highlights of yellow are framed by dark green foliage in this rich oil on canvas. Poised between abstraction...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Solaris
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Hédy Gobaa combines photography and painting in his production. In 2018, he defended a doctoral thesis at UQAM where he questioned the role of digital devic...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Mind Baubles, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
When our thoughts are runaway ones... :: Painting :: Contemporary :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Signe...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Acrylic

Lake-Junket - warm, expressive, colorful, landscape, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
The colours of summer—pastel yellows, blues, and green are re-imagined in this charming view of Emma Lake, Saskatchewan rendered by BC artist Pat Ser...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Marc - graphic, portrait, pop-art style, cultural, acrylic painting on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Taking caricature portraiture to a new level, Viktor Mitic has portrayed 'Marc' in the guise of a zombified 1950s radio announcer. The bright blocks of co...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Arab Spring - large, dynamic, narrative, surrealist abstract, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Inspired by drawings made by children, Hiltner has created a chaotic narrative of surreal figures and animals drawn in red acrylic across an expanse of raw canvas in this over 6 feet wide painting. A central palm tree in red outline with black leaves divides the pyramidal composition that is completed with select sections painted in with red, turquoise, white and periwinkle. The sky is brushed, bright yellow. This work is aptly titled referring to a series of protests that occurred in the Middle East and North Africa that began in 2010 and became known as the Arab Spring...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Bauhaus No 01 - large, blue, green, architecture, deconstruction, mixed media
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Peter Hoffer’s landscapes have one foot in classic realism and the other in deconstruction. This work, created with clay silicate and pigment on linen, juxtapose the Bauhaus architec...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Clay, Linen, Pigment

Double Black No.1 - bold abstract shapes, marble dust, wax, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
In this arresting abstract composition by Ivo Stoyanov, two jet black angled rectangular blocks sit against a backdrop of gray, black and white. Stoyanov uses mixed media—crushed mar...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media

A Pellucid Whiteness - Botanicals & shapes in mauve, sapphire, yellow and green
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Botanical imagery layered with shapes in mauve, sapphire, yellow and green form a playful narrative in this acrylic painting by Fiona Ackerman. The painting is part of a series inspired by the narratives and botanical drawings of women...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Turn - bright, colorful, abstract geometric shapes, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Begun in 2009 and completed in 2016, this acrylic painting on canvas is an opera of geometric shapes, brushed areas, lines and dots in a collision of colors, yellow, turquoise, orang...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Blossom III
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Born to Sicilian parents in Tübingen, Germany, and raised in the culturally charged cities of Montreal and Sicily, Blandino studied art and design at local colleges in Montreal. He then embarked on a successful career as a freelance illustrator, working with architects, designers and advertising agencies before shifting his focus to the world of fine art. Blandino’s paintings are informed heavily by his Sicilian heritage as well as the baroque style. Where Carmelo Blandino...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

A Little Blue - 16"x16", Floral Landscape Painting, Semi-Abstract, Sky
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
A Little Blue is a floral landscape painting combining intricate floral detail with intuitive abstract brush work. Delicate collage flowers hand cut from textile and paper, add dimen...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Mixed Media, Acrylic, Canvas, Paper

Blazing Blue - large, graphic, figurative, pop-art, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Viktor Mitic’s ‘Blazing Blue’ is part of a series of pop art paintings that illustrates life at the beach. The predominantly royal blue beach scene shows people clad in shorts walkin...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Gold - bold, colorful, minimalist, abstracted waterscape, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
As part of an iconic series inspired by summers at the lake, Pat Service re-imagines the classic form of a rowboat. The boat in golden orange is moo...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Breaking the Surface - bright, airy, abstract expressionist, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Swirling passages and drips of teal, gold and white coalesce at a central point in this action painting by Adam Cohen. Cohen intersects the language of heroic Abstract Expressionism ...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Omnipresent - Large format horizontal in blue and mango
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Omnipresent immerses the viewer in fields of soft blue and mango orange. These fields are divided and joined by a tonal grey undulating mass that takes one through the painting like ...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Oil Crayon, Wax Crayon, Acrylic

Ganas 2 - atmospheric, colourful, abstract landscape, resin and acrylic on panel
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A brilliant mauve opening framed in charcoal burns through the sky in this luminous painting by Jay Hodgins. The artist creates depth and light in the work using multiple layers of a...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Resin, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Venetian Blue - 6"x8", Original Painting, Fortuny Inspired, Figurative Fashion
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
Inspired by the legacy of Fortuny fabrics, this dress painting embraces a minimalistic aesthetic. Tone-on-tone textures are built up with a blend of paint, pencil and an accent of go...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Textile, Pencil

Inner Voice - bright, bold, impasto, abstract expressionist, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Passages and swipes of lemon yellow, silver, white and sapphire blue jostle for space in this dynamic acrylic by Adam Cohen. Cohen intersects the language of heroic Abstract Expressi...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Saucer Of Larks 3 - rich, expressive, colourful, abstract, oil on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Mel Davis is often inspired by nature to create expressive and colourful abstract compositions. This piece uses gestural markings in black to suggest birds in flight against a deep b...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Evening Light - soft, colourful, minimalist, abstract, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
The stunning subtlety of evening light is captured in the wash of colours that flow across the canvas in this contemporary abstract by Milly Ristvedt. The Canadian artist is renowned...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Pine Portrait - large, blue, green, impressionist, acrylic and resin on panel
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A magnificent mature pine tree stands tall in this serene landscape by Peter Hoffer. The rich green of the pine boughs contrast with the deep turquoise blue of the sky and the pastor...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Resin, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Evanescence - Blue Abstraction with pops of turquoise, red and yellow
Located in Bloomfield, ON
An eye-catching acidic green transforms into a deep blue beneath the turbulent gray and black energy field. Through the centre of the field are interwoven lyrical lines that come fro...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Oil Crayon, Wax Crayon, Acrylic

Head Spin - Dark shades with accents of bright blue, green, turquoise, and pink
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A dark, ethereal, plum purple field hosts accents of bright blue, green, turquoise, and pink in this large-scale abstract painting by Milly Ristvedt. Thinly threaded above the field ...
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1980s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Persistence of Blue - bold, vibrant, gestural abstraction, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
An ethereal cloud of deep blue floats across the canvas against a backdrop of fiery red, dashes of orange and black paint drips in this vibrant acrylic by Toronto’s Lynne Fernie. “...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Woman with Print Dress - small teal blue, female portrait figurative still life
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Small, intimate and incredibly emotive portrait of a woman in a blue patterned dress. Hornyak's figurative compositions are built up through a complex technique of rich green, blue, ...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Going by Trees in Spring - small teal green, blue, red, abstract landscape oil
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Layered shapes of a cobbled road, turquoise trees and sky verge on the abstract in this playful landscape by Jennifer Hornyak. Framed dimensions are 19 ...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Mountie III- large, green, blue, Canadian, figurative, mixed media on jute
Located in Bloomfield, ON
The iconic presence of a Mountie in red serge on a white horse is set against a backdrop of a cerulean lake and atmospheric sky. Peter Hoffer's paintings evoke nostalgia for classica...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Jute, Oil, Acrylic, Pigment

Untitled XIII
Located in Toronto, ON
10.5" x 8.5" Unframed Mixed Media on Paper Hand Signed by Rachel Isadora
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

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