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Photorealist Paintings

PHOTOREALISM

A direct challenge to Abstract Expressionism’s subjectivity and gestural vigor, Photorealism was informed by the Pop predilection for representational imagery, popular iconography and tools, like projectors and airbrushes, borrowed from the worlds of commercial art and design.

Whether gritty or gleaming, the subject matter favored by Photorealists is instantly, if vaguely, familiar. It’s the stuff of yellowing snapshots and fugitive memories. The bland and the garish alike flicker between crystal-clear reality and dreamy illusion, inviting the viewer to contemplate a single moment rather than igniting a story.

The virtues of the “photo” in Photorealist art — infused as they are with dazzling qualities that are easily blurred in reproduction — are as elusive as they are allusive. “Much Photorealist painting has the vacuity of proportion and intent of an idiot-savant, long on look and short on personal timbre,” John Arthur wrote (rather admiringly) in the catalogue essay for Realism/Photorealism, a 1980 exhibition at the Philbrook Museum of Art, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. At its best, Photorealism is a perpetually paused tug-of-war between the sacred and the profane, the general and the specific, the record and the object.

Robert Bechtle invented Photorealism, in 1963,” says veteran art dealer Louis Meisel. “He took a picture of himself in the mirror with the car outside and then painted it. That was the first one.”

The meaning of the term, which began for Meisel as “a superficial way of defining and promoting a group of painters,” evolved with time, and the core group of Photorealists slowly expanded to include younger artists who traded Rolleiflexes for 60-megapixel cameras, using advanced digital technology to create paintings that transcend the detail of conventional photographs.

On 1stDibs, the collection of Photorealist art includes work by Richard Estes, Ralph Goings, Chuck Close, Audrey Flack, Charles Bell and others.

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Style: Photorealist
Summer Garden Study VI by Dylan Lloyd, Contemporary painting, botanical art
Located in Deddington, GB
Summer Garden Study VI by Dylan Lloyd [2022] original and hand signed by the artist Oil on Linen Board Image size: H:30 cm x W:20 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:30 cm x W:20 c...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings

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Linen, Oil, Board

Between Guests, Tower of London, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
I noticed this lovely young lady in period costume, out of the corner of my eye, at the Tower of London. Whether she was a guide working for the Tower of London or a leader of a priv...
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2010s Photorealist Paintings

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Oil

Vintage Large American Modernist Trompe L'Oeil Rose Flower Still Life Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American super realist oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Possibly signed verso.
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1980s Photorealist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Nocturne I: White Peacock, Black Cockatoo
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Nocturne I: White Peacock, Black Cockatoo Year: 1990 Medium: Acrylic on Panel, with Artist Painted Frame Size: 58 x...
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1990s Photorealist Paintings

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Acrylic

Tres Bolsas de Papel en Diagonal, Oil Painting by Gustavo Schmidt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Gustavo Schmidt Title: Tres Bolsas de Papel en Diagonal Year: 2014 Medium: Oil on Canvas with Varnish, signed l.r. Size: 36 x 48 inches
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2010s Photorealist Paintings

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Canvas, Varnish, Oil

Silver placer., Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Silver placer. Blue water, waves, serene views, ocean shine, glare on the water create an atmosphere of relaxation, romance. Made in the style of realism. Part of a permanent series ...
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2010s Photorealist Paintings

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Acrylic

TULIPS IN CYCLINDER VASE
Located in London, GB
Kate Felton Hall lives and works in Suffolk, East Anglia. She works primarily in oil on linen and paints landscapes, still-life and portraiture. Kate’s floral paintings are all done from life. She captures the light, colour and beauty of each individual bloom with her own unique style. Her Thamesscapes and Harbourscapes are based on the horizon lines of the coastal communities of Suffolk and the Thames in London. Kate creates her flower paintings exclusively for ArtDog London. Kate studied at Reading University, she worked as an advertising Art Director in the Creative Department of Saatchi & Saatchi London, moved into Graphic Design, before going back into Fine Art. She created the original Childline identity with Esther Rantzen; Free John McCarthy...
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2010s Photorealist Paintings

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Oil, Linen

Calls in the Manitou Passage - Photorealistic Painting of Bald Eagle Screeching
Located in Chicago, IL
A male bald eagle screeches to be heard above the stormy backdrop of Lake Michigan's Manitou Passage in Northern Michigan. Extraordinarily painted with such realistic detail, this majestic bird's feathers beg for the viewer to come in for a closer look at its plumage. The piece is framed in a simple black wooden frame measuring 31 x 51 inches. Rick Pas Calls in the Manitou Passage acrylic on panel 28h x 48w in 71.12h x 121.92w cm RPA022 ARTIST'S STATEMENT Creating is an addiction. With all the highs and lows you would expect. I am interested in the surface textures and creating paintings that portray them in realistic detail. Hopefully a viewer will feel they can run a hand over the feathers and moss, or grasp an object in the painting. This detail is usually composed in an abstract design. The design can occur naturally or be arranged by me. RESUME Rick Pas b. 1958, Flint, MI Education Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI - Bachelor of Fine Arts - Pearson Art Scholarship SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2022 Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL, Take Flight William Baczek Fine Arts, Animal Kingdom & Winter National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, WY, Western Visions Lovetts Gallery, Tulsa, OK, Braveheart 2021 William Baczek Fine Arts, 25th Anniversary Exhibition 2020 William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer Gallery Victor Armendariz, The Palette of Pride 2019 The James Museum, St. Petersburg, FL, Environmental Impact II Lovetts Gallery, Realism, Reveries, & Rhapsody Gallery Victor Armendariz, New Work 2018 Gallery Victor Armendariz, Front and Center Corporate Art Advisory, Chicago, IL, Portraits and Places: Redefining Realism William Baczek Fine Arts, Animal Kingdom Lovetts Gallery, Rear Window 2017 William Baczek Fine Arts, Winter, Animal Kingdom, Summer Lovetts Gallery, The Good, the Bad, and the WTF? & Red 2016 William Baczek Fine Arts, 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Summer, & Landscape Exhibition Monroe Community Church, Grand Rapids, MI, ArtPrize Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL, Group Exhibition Lovetts Gallery, Cauldron 2015 William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer JW Marriott, Grand Rapids, MI, ArtPrize Handwright Gallery, New Canaan, CT, Small Works Ann Brierly Gallery, Winnetka, IL, Ann Nathan Gallery Satellite Exhibition RJD Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY, A Magical Menagerie 2014 William Baczek Fine Arts, Spring & Landscape Exhibition 2013 Canton Museum of Art, Canton, OH, Environmental Impact Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI, Interspecies 2012 Alden B. Dow Museum of Science & Art, Midland, MI, The Nature of Art: An Invitational Exhibition William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer Exhibition Ann Nathan Gallery, Group Exhibition Twisted Fish Gallery, Elk Rapids, MI, A Natural Selection Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City, MI, Art and the Animal Gallery Project, Extremes & Umvelt 2010 William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer Group Exhibition Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey, MI, Juried Fine Arts Exhibition San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego, CA, Art and the Animal 2009 West Michigan Center for Arts & Technology, Grand Rapids, MI, ArtPrize William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI, Michigan Fine Arts Competition Gallery Project, Shrines and Altars Ann Nathan Gallery, Fall Group Exhibition 2008 William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer Group Exhibition Gallery Project, Animal Intelligence Holland Area Arts Council, Holland, MI, The Natural Eye Neville Public Museum, Green Bay, WI, Art and the Animal 2007 William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer Group Exhibition 2006 WARD Gallery, Harbor Springs, MI, New Dimensions in the Natural World Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, VT, Art and the Animal Gallery Project, Nature Reperceived 2005 Light Street Gallery, Baltimore, MD, Animal House Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, VT, Art of the Animal Kingdom The Wildlife Experience, Parker, CO, AMERICAN BIRDS: A Flight Through Time WARD Gallery, Summer Celebration 2004 Fraser Gallery, Washington, DC, Contemporary Realism Hiram Blauvelt Art Museum, Oradell, NJ, Art and the Animal Washington Street Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI, Fifth Year Celebration 2003 Fraser Gallery, Georgetown International 2001 Sioux City...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Panel

"Luminalia" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Mia Bergeron's (US based) "Luminalia" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a candle with a dusky evening sky. Mia Bergeron's interest in art was cultivated early on, b...
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2010s Photorealist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel, Wax

The Surprised Wood Duck - Photorealistic Bird Portrait, Yellow Background
Located in Chicago, IL
Painted with such exacting detail it is hard to believe a human hand can be so exacting. This piece is framed in a simple wooden frame measuring 15 x 18 inches. Rick Pas The Surprised Wood Duck acrylic on panel 12h x 15w in 30.48h x 38.10w cm 15h x 18w x 1d in (framed) RPA023 ARTIST'S STATEMENT Creating is an addiction. With all the highs and lows you would expect. I am interested in the surface textures and creating paintings that portray them in realistic detail. Hopefully a viewer will feel they can run a hand over the feathers and moss, or grasp an object in the painting. This detail is usually composed in an abstract design. The design can occur naturally or be arranged by me. RESUME Rick Pas b. 1958, Flint, MI Education Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI - Bachelor of Fine Arts - Pearson Art Scholarship SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2022 Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL, Take Flight William Baczek Fine Arts, Animal Kingdom & Winter National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, WY, Western Visions Lovetts Gallery, Tulsa, OK, Braveheart 2021 William Baczek Fine Arts, 25th Anniversary Exhibition 2020 William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer Gallery Victor Armendariz, The Palette of Pride 2019 The James Museum, St. Petersburg, FL, Environmental Impact II Lovetts Gallery, Realism, Reveries, & Rhapsody Gallery Victor Armendariz, New Work 2018 Gallery Victor Armendariz, Front and Center Corporate Art Advisory, Chicago, IL, Portraits and Places: Redefining Realism William Baczek Fine Arts, Animal Kingdom Lovetts Gallery, Rear Window 2017 William Baczek Fine Arts, Winter, Animal Kingdom, Summer Lovetts Gallery, The Good, the Bad, and the WTF? & Red 2016 William Baczek Fine Arts, 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Summer, & Landscape Exhibition Monroe Community Church, Grand Rapids, MI, ArtPrize Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL, Group Exhibition Lovetts Gallery, Cauldron 2015 William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer JW Marriott, Grand Rapids, MI, ArtPrize Handwright Gallery, New Canaan, CT, Small Works Ann Brierly Gallery, Winnetka, IL, Ann Nathan Gallery Satellite Exhibition RJD Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY, A Magical Menagerie 2014 William Baczek Fine Arts, Spring & Landscape Exhibition 2013 Canton Museum of Art, Canton, OH, Environmental Impact Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI, Interspecies 2012 Alden B. Dow Museum of Science & Art, Midland, MI, The Nature of Art: An Invitational Exhibition William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer Exhibition Ann Nathan Gallery, Group Exhibition Twisted Fish Gallery, Elk Rapids, MI, A Natural Selection Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City, MI, Art and the Animal Gallery Project, Extremes & Umvelt 2010 William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer Group Exhibition Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey, MI, Juried Fine Arts Exhibition San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego, CA, Art and the Animal 2009 West Michigan Center for Arts & Technology, Grand Rapids, MI, ArtPrize William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI, Michigan Fine Arts Competition Gallery Project, Shrines and Altars Ann Nathan Gallery, Fall Group Exhibition 2008 William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer Group Exhibition Gallery Project, Animal Intelligence Holland Area Arts Council, Holland, MI, The Natural Eye Neville Public Museum, Green Bay, WI, Art and the Animal 2007 William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer Group Exhibition 2006 WARD Gallery, Harbor Springs, MI, New Dimensions in the Natural World Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, VT, Art and the Animal Gallery Project, Nature Reperceived 2005 Light Street Gallery, Baltimore, MD, Animal House Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, VT, Art of the Animal Kingdom The Wildlife Experience, Parker, CO, AMERICAN BIRDS: A Flight Through Time WARD Gallery, Summer Celebration 2004 Fraser Gallery, Washington, DC, Contemporary Realism Hiram Blauvelt Art Museum, Oradell, NJ, Art and the Animal Washington Street Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI, Fifth Year Celebration 2003 Fraser Gallery, Georgetown International 2001 Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, IA, 57th Juried Exhibition Wild Wings, Lake City, MN, Fall Festival 2000 Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Birds in Art (Also 1983-85, 1987, 1992, 1994) Center for the Visual Arts, Wausau, WI, Midwest Winter Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown, NY, National 2000 1993 Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wildlife: the Artist's View (Also 1990) 1992 National Park Academy of the Arts, Jackson Hole, WY, Arts for the Parks (Also 1990) 1989 College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Panel

Untitled 030 (Hammer and Iron)
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original diptych painting by American contemporary conceptual painter Bruce Adams from the artist's Untitled series. Each work measure 24" x 24' and comes framed in a silver meta...
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2010s Photorealist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Northwest 1, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Hello, This is my latest work in the Americana/1960s genre. I love the saturated colour and imagery of the Hitchcock films - There will be a lot more in this series.. The work is...
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2010s Photorealist Paintings

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Oil

Serenity with Tea-original impressionism portrait painting-contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online. "Serenity with Tea" by James Zamora invites viewers into a wor...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings

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Oil, Panel

"Owl/Búho". Contemporary, Realism, hyperrealims, figurative, bright, vivid, anim
Located in MADRID, ES
Contemporary, Realism, hyperrealims, figurative, bright, vivid, animal
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2010s Photorealist Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Reeds by the Shore - original realism seascape oil painting-contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online. Reeds by the Shore by Olga Calado evokes a sense of calm and qu...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

'The Challenge' Contemporary Photorealist painting of a large African Elephant
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
'The Challenge' by Ben Waddams is a Contemporary Realist Wildlife oil painting of an African Elephant. With such incredible detail you can almost feel the leathery skin of the anim...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Tulips III, Painting, Oil on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
Original artwork by Carlos Bruscianelli, Venezuelan Realist painter based in USA. This painting is my fourth consecutive floral work, part of my new collection, something differen...
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2010s Photorealist Paintings

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Oil

'Orange Pumpkin' Photorealist painting of pumpkins, on a blue, teal cloth
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
'Orange Pumpkin' Still Life painting with pumpkins on a blue and teal table cloth. Amazing in any interior setting. Lijftogt was born in Amsterdam and at the age of 19 decided to p...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings

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Oil, Panel

"Bicycles III", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dianne L. Massey Dunbar's (US based) "Bicycles III" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts the layered view of red bicycles and gears, in profile, locked to a bike rack...
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2010s Photorealist Paintings

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Oil

"Mickey Pin" Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Nick Leibee's (US based) "Mickey Pin" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an enamel pin of Mickey Mouse, the beloved Disney character,...
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2010s Photorealist Paintings

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Panel, Oil

Sorcerer Series: Beast Head, Spider Web
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Sorcerer Series: Beast Head, Spiderweb Year: February 1969 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 72 x 48 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Sign...
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1960s Photorealist Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Tulips II, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
My work "Tulips II" is part of a new series of paintings inspired by different types of flowers, it is an opportunity to deeply study their textures and colors. During my career a...
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2010s Photorealist Paintings

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Oil

Shady Hollow Motel, Green River, Utah, US Highway 50
Located in Dallas, TX
This is acrylic on three shaped ragboard panels in artist-made frames.
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2010s Photorealist Paintings

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Acrylic, Rag Paper

Vanitas 15.12.01
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Paul Beliveau, Canadian (b. 1954) Title: Vanitas 05.12.01 Year: 2015 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, signed, titled, and dated verso Size: 30 x 60 inches
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2010s Photorealist Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Joseph Piccillo Dancer Hyperrealism Black and White (Dancer with Chick) Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original graphite, oil paint and collage on canvas by American contemporary artist Joseph Piccillo.
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2010s Photorealist Paintings

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Mixed Media, Oil, Graphite

"Garlic Scapes" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Sheri Farabaugh's "Garlic Scapes" is a handmade, original oil painting that hyper realistically depicts curly sprouts of garlic with a dark background....
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2010s Photorealist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Liesenbruken, Abandoned Train Bridge, Contemporary Photorealist Painting
Located in Chicago, IL
A bridge to nowhere has been taking no one there for almost 70 years. The Liesenbrücken bridge has been rusting with iron will and doing little else since it was abandoned in favor o...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Sparrow and Jumping Mouse Find the Magic Mushrooms
Located in Denver, CO
This cheekily titled scene depicts two woodland creatures encountering a spattering of fungi on the forest floor. This work is rendered in exquisite detail, down to the Sparrows feathers and inquisitive expression and and the soft fuzz on the mouse's small form. "Sparrow and Jumping Mouse Find the Magic Mushrooms" showcases artist Marc Dennis' hyper realistic style and propensity for witty humor. Marc Dennis' paintings merge 19th-century traditional American Western painting...
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2010s Photorealist Paintings

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Linen, Oil

Hampshire Garden I, Dylan Lloyd, Original Floral Oil Painting, Realist Artwork
Located in Deddington, GB
Hampshire Garden I by Dylan Lloyd [2021] original Oil paint on board Image size: H:30 cm x W:24 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:30 cm x W:24 cm x D:2.5cm Framed Size: H:40.5 cm...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings

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Board, Oil

Bird of Paradise, Painting, Oil on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
This is a small work, made with oil paints on a panel, my intention was to analyze the texture of one of my favorite flowers, the Bird of Paradise, the background is a landscape insp...
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2010s Photorealist Paintings

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Oil

Anne Wolff, "Morning Exercise", Photorealist Equine Portrait Oil on Canvas
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This equine racing portrait "Morning Exercise" by artist Anne Wolff is a 24x24 original oil painting on canvas. Depicted is a profile view of a thoroughbred race horse against a blac...
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2010s Photorealist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Ogni Giorno, Painting, Acrylic on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
Brand new painting entitled Ogni Giorno, Italian for Every Day. Inspired by a trip to Agrigento, Sicily. It shows a man working in a supermarket. :: Painting :: Photorealism :: This ...
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2010s Photorealist Paintings

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Acrylic

The eternal summer - K.Husslein Hyperrealistic Still life
Located in DE
This is a beautiful oil painting of an array of flowers in a vase in front of dark background. Reminding us of old master paintings, this is a brand new painting full elegance and ti...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Soul meets Soul on Lover's Lips - K.Husslein Hyperrealistic Still life
Located in DE
This is a beautiful oil painting of an array of flowers in a vase in front of dark background. Reminding us of old master paintings, this is a brand new painting full elegance and ti...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique American Trompe L'Oeil Corn Still Life Original Realist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American school trompe l'oeil corn still life oil painting. Oil on board, circa 1940. Possibly faintly signed lower right. Displayed in a giltwood frame. Image, 22"L x 24"H.
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20th Century Photorealist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

"Strawberry Sundae" Large Photo Realist Ptg., Ice Cream Parfait & Whipped Cream
Located in Wellesley, MA
Mary Ellen Johnson is internationally recognized as one of the top Photo Realist painters working today whose extraordinary area of expertise is large-scale, unimaginably realistic, stunningly beautiful and delightful images of food. Currently available are this gorgeous strawberry parfait sundae, a mouth-watering slice of cherry pie with vanilla ice cream, a delicious slice of cherry cheesecake and bowl of berries with whipped cream: Mary Ellen Johnson "Strawberry Sundae" 2018 Oil on Wood Panel 39.75 x 34.25 Inches Note: This painting is framed in dark wood. The artist has also completed many commissioned food paintings including the Canadian Government's request for images of 5 of Canada's favorite foods which subsequently became stamp images - and The Cheesecake Factory's two commissions for their corporate headquarters and the owners' Malibu beach house. A quote from the artist: “I make the panels large to give a monumental feeling to the painting when viewed. These large images not only confront the viewer with their size but with their tremendous sense of extravagance. My work explores the deep connection that food has with humanity.” Mary Ellen Johnson Johnson further describes herself as a ‘Precision Realist’ whose primary subject is food. Sold works include paintings of PB & J sandwiches, pancakes with blueberries and syrup, banana splits, ice cream, hot dogs, cupcakes, waffles, muscles and sushi, among others. Unequaled for their brilliance and dramatic depictions of mundane subjects with their connotations of nostalgia, comfort and tradition, it is also her scale, cropping and over the top technical skill that renders these works so overwhelmingly appealing! MARY ELLEN JOHNSON Born: 1967, West Long Branch, NJ. Education: 1989, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS: Beth Urdang...
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2010s Photorealist Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

"Engine 101" Dalmatian NYFD Super realism Oil on Canvas, 2020 Fantasy painting
Located in Southampton, NY
When viewing a painting by Matthew Grabelsky you can immediately see the great technical skill required, the sense of humor and the concept of the pa...
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2010s Photorealist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Two Picardie Glasses, colorful, photo realistic
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Doug Newton’s hyper-real paintings observe reality, explore translucency, reflections and luminosity, and dazzle the viewer with all the ways light can transform our perceptions. Hi...
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2010s Photorealist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Driving in the Rain II", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dianne L. Massey Dunbar's (US based) "Driving in the Rain II" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a cascading pattern of rain drops on a car windshield which obscures...
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2010s Photorealist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Chlorine Dreams, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Shattered light, rainbows and bubbles give this piece an dream like feel. The water almost looks like glass made liquid. I wanted to capture the same feeling one gets when submerged ...
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2010s Photorealist Paintings

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Acrylic

Manon Cleary "Rat"
Located in Washington, DC
Photorealist oil painting by Manon Cleary (1942-2011). Painting is signed on reverse "Cleary". Painting is stretched on aluminum stretcher and dates to the 1990s. Manon Cleary had a remarkable ability to draw and paint with photographic fidelity, but she was also known as a charismatic teacher at the University of the District of Columbia and as a free spirit whose exuberant life may have been her most enduring work of art. Since the 1970s, Ms. Cleary had been at the center of a group of artists in Adams Morgan. She exhibited her meticulous artwork throughout the city and around the world, but she also became known for her striking presence, her colorful love life and the rats she kept as pets. As an artist, Ms. Cleary borrowed classical techniques from her deep study of Renaissance masters to create paintings and drawings memorable for their frank realism and sometimes disturbing themes. In addition to her many nude self-portraits, Ms. Cleary made erotically charged paintings of flowers. She took inspiration from a painful personal history in a series of works depicting the terror of rape and, in later years, of not being able to breathe without mechanical assistance. Critics considered her a leading figurative artist of the photo-realist school, in which painters render their subjects with camera-like precision. In fact, Ms. Cleary occasionally won awards for photography when adjudicators didn’t realize her works were free-hand creations. She was “widely acknowledged to be among the best, if not the best, of the city’s figurative painters,” Washington Post critic Michael O’Sullivan wrote in 2006. “There is a tension between the cool, clinical detachment of photography and painting’s warm idealization of form.” Ms. Cleary exhibited her art in galleries and museums from Moscow to Paris to Hickory, N.C., but Washington was her home for the past 42 years. In 1974, she settled in the decrepit Beverly Court apartments on Columbia Road NW, where a coterie of artists soon grew up around her. She painted her walls purple, and her fourth-floor apartment — even with the pet rats — became something of a bohemian salon. “She was a star,” painter Judy Jashinsky told the Washington City Paper in 2004. “She was stunning, beautiful; long, brownish–black hair; real thin; wore . . . little sundresses and sandals. She was just very cool, and there was always a crowd around her.” Ms. Cleary had a long list of male admirers, including several whose confrontational attempts at “performance art” led to their arrests. She had a brief marriage in 1981 to a Danish artist known as Tommy — “just Tommy,” Ms. Cleary said — whom she divorced in less than a year. As a kind of graphic homage to her various lovers, Ms. Cleary made a series of intimately revealing portraits that were featured years later on the HBO program “Real Sex.” She met her second husband after a gallery opening in Baltimore. By way of introduction, Kijek, a dancer, stripped naked at a crowded party, walked up to Ms. Cleary and said, “Wouldn’t you like me to pose for you?” They were married in 2001. In spite of her unconventional life, Ms. Cleary was more than a mere provocateur. After a day of teaching at UDC, she would return to her studio, with its windows painted over to block out sunlight, and work late into the night, with a bottle of Dr Pepper at her side. She took nude photographs of herself from every angle, then painstakingly created lifelike images that seemed alive with the warmth of human flesh. After studying in Rome in her youth, she developed what she called “an obsession” with Caravaggio, an iconoclastic painter who lived from 1573 to 1610. She often copied paintings at the National Gallery of Art and, in her own work, blended Renaissance styles with a distinctly modern sensibility. Manon Catherine Cleary was born Nov. 14, 1942, in St. Louis. Her father was a doctor, and her identical twin sister, Shirley Cleary-Cooper, is an artist in Helena, Mont. She was a 1964 graduate of Washington University in her home town and, for the rest of her life, was proud of having been a member of the Pi Phi...
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1990s Photorealist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Anne Wolff, "Sunlight", Equine Portrait Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This equine racing painting "Sunlight" by artist Anne Wolff is a 12x16 original oil painting on canvas. The black background adds a dramatic note to the painting, and contrasts the ...
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2010s Photorealist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Curious Cloud
Located in Atlanta, GA
Drawn to art since childhood, Jose Antonio Fuentes began his artistic career at a young age in the 1960s. At nine years old the Spanish born artist sold drawings to his neighbors and exchanged paintings for gifts with his classmates. An academically gifted student, he ranked higher than his peers and joined older classmates to enter the baccalaureate program at the age of ten. There he completed additional advanced arts courses. In 1970 Fuentes featured in his first group exhibitions in local and provincial cultural centers. Unfortunately, his academic and artistic career was truncated when his father abruptly left his family, leaving the family in financial difficulty. At the age of fourteen, Fuentes was forced to leave school to begin working and support his family. After years of both working and saving money, in 1978 Fuentes garnered enough savings to enroll in school at La Marina in Spain, where he was first in his class. Whenever circumstances allowed he continued to draw and paint, participate in art contests, and visit all nearby museums and artists' workshops. Fuentes strongly believes that observing other cultures, landscapes, and people is vital to a painter’s understanding of how to portray the world. In the early 1980s Fuentes married and began a family. The domestic and financial obligations to his young family prevented the free time necessary to continue painting. Fuentes notes that the postponement of his artistic career to raise his family is never a source of regret as there is nothing more fulfilling than to see his children grow. As his children grew older in age and required less of Fuentes’s time in the 1990s, he was able to travel more extensively and resumed his cultural tours. He visited cities in Spain such as Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, and Bilbao, and spend countless hours in acclaimed museums and cultural centers including El Prado, Thyssen, Conde Duque, the Sorolla Museum, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the Picasso museum, the Joan Miro Foundation, and the Tapies Foundation in Barcelona. He also extensively attended exhibition openings, artist talks, conferences and workshops where he learns from masters of realism including Toral, Naranjo, Antonio Lopez, Munoz Vera, Macarron, Leon Olmo, Claudio Bravo, Lapayese, Perez Villalta...
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2010s Photorealist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Hotchkiss Storm" contemporary realist Northeastern U.S. water and landscape
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Hotchkiss Storm" is a contemporary realist Northeastern U.S. water and landscape. Frame Dimensions 14 x 16 inches Edward Minoff Graduated with honors from NYU's Tisch School of ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Contemporary Hyperrealist Large Portrait Film Noir Strip Film Still Black White
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original painting by American contemporary conceptual painter Bruce Adams from the artist's new Untitled series. The “Untitled,” series draws from a variety of visual and histori...
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2010s Photorealist Paintings

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Linen, Oil

Glare on the waves, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Glare on the waves. Blue water, ocean shine, glare on the water, small waves create an atmosphere of relaxation, romance. Made in the style of realism. Part of a permanent series of ...
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2010s Photorealist Paintings

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Acrylic

Cracker Jacks (huge original painting)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on canvas. Hand signed and dated lower front by Doug Bloodworth. Canvas size 48 x 60 x 2 inches (stretched). Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of au...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Anonymous Collaborators", Hyper-realistic, oil painting, graffiti landscape
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Original oil painting on canvas by Jessica Hess measuring 30in x 30in. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Jessica Hess now lives and works in San Francisco, Californ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Iridescence, super realistic oil painting of colorful iridescent ribbons
Located in Brooklyn, NY
colorful ribbons Oil on canvas Doug Newton’s hyper-real paintings observe reality, explore translucency, reflections and luminosity, and dazzle the viewer with all the ways light can...
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2010s Photorealist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Silver Circus, hyper realistic colorful painting w/ abstract qualities
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on canvas Doug Newton’s hyper-real paintings observe reality, explore translucency, reflections and luminosity, and dazzle the viewer with all the ways light can transform our pe...
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2010s Photorealist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

New York Times (large signed giclee on canvas)
Located in Aventura, FL
Giclee on canvas. Hand signed lower right by Doug Bloodworth. Hand numbered 36/150 lower right. Canvas size 44 x 55 inches. Canvas is not stretched. Artwork is in excellent co...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Riders Through Time and Space
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original oil painting on linen by artist Joseph McGurl. Framed.
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings

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Linen, Oil

Silver of the ocean 2., Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Silver of the ocean 2. Power of nature. The ocean ... deep, mysterious. He beckons you to unravel his secrets. ... Silver water, ocean, sun glare on the water, clear sky create an...
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2010s Photorealist Paintings

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Acrylic

Contemporary 'Still Life with Limes' Painting of glass, fruit and candle
By Paco Yuste
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Contemporary 'Still Life with Limes' Painting of glass, fruit and candle with drapery. Photorealism at its very best! From his childhood he felt great predilection for drawing. In fact drawing was his favourite pastime. When he was 12 years old his parents moved to Brussels, and he joined an international college where his artistic interests for drawing and music woke up. In this period he passed most of his free time drawing...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Wonder Woman (large signed giclee on canvas)
Located in Aventura, FL
Giclee on canvas. Hand signed lower right by Doug Bloodworth. Hand numbered 24/150 lower right. Canvas size 38 x 50 inches. Canvas is not stretched. Artwork is in excellent co...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Afternoon splendor
Located in Burlingame, CA
The subtle and brilliant work of art is meticulously hand painted by Lynette Cook, who realistically depicts scenes that she sees during her morning walks through the city, yet her p...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Rose of Sharon, super realism, colorful, flowers, food, still life
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Doug Newton’s hyper-real oil paintings observe reality, explore translucency, reflections and luminosity, and dazzle the viewer with all the ways light can transform our perceptions....
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2010s Photorealist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Screaming Young Kestral II - Photorealistic Bird Portrait, Cloud Covered Sky
Located in Chicago, IL
Painted with such exacting detail it is hard to believe it is not a photograph. This piece is framed in a simple wooden frame measuring 27 x 27 inches. Rick Pas Screaming Young Kestrel 2 acrylic on panel 12h x 12w in 30.48h x 30.48w cm RPA016 ARTIST'S STATEMENT Creating is an addiction. With all the highs and lows you would expect. I am interested in the surface textures and creating paintings that portray them in realistic detail. Hopefully a viewer will feel they can run a hand over the feathers and moss, or grasp an object in the painting. This detail is usually composed in an abstract design. The design can occur naturally or be arranged by me. RESUME Rick Pas b. 1958, Flint, MI Education Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI - Bachelor of Fine Arts - Pearson Art Scholarship SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2022 Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL, Take Flight William Baczek Fine Arts, Animal Kingdom & Winter National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, WY, Western Visions Lovetts Gallery, Tulsa, OK, Braveheart 2021 William Baczek Fine Arts, 25th Anniversary Exhibition 2020 William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer Gallery Victor Armendariz, The Palette of Pride 2019 The James Museum, St. Petersburg, FL, Environmental Impact II Lovetts Gallery, Realism, Reveries, & Rhapsody Gallery Victor Armendariz, New Work 2018 Gallery Victor Armendariz, Front and Center Corporate Art Advisory, Chicago, IL, Portraits and Places: Redefining Realism William Baczek Fine Arts, Animal Kingdom Lovetts Gallery, Rear Window 2017 William Baczek Fine Arts, Winter, Animal Kingdom, Summer Lovetts Gallery, The Good, the Bad, and the WTF? & Red 2016 William Baczek Fine Arts, 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Summer, & Landscape Exhibition Monroe Community Church, Grand Rapids, MI, ArtPrize Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL, Group Exhibition Lovetts Gallery, Cauldron 2015 William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer JW Marriott, Grand Rapids, MI, ArtPrize Handwright Gallery, New Canaan, CT, Small Works Ann Brierly Gallery, Winnetka, IL, Ann Nathan Gallery Satellite Exhibition RJD Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY, A Magical Menagerie 2014 William Baczek Fine Arts, Spring & Landscape Exhibition 2013 Canton Museum of Art, Canton, OH, Environmental Impact Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI, Interspecies 2012 Alden B. Dow Museum of Science & Art, Midland, MI, The Nature of Art: An Invitational Exhibition William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer Exhibition Ann Nathan Gallery, Group Exhibition Twisted Fish Gallery, Elk Rapids, MI, A Natural Selection Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City, MI, Art and the Animal Gallery Project, Extremes & Umvelt 2010 William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer Group Exhibition Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey, MI, Juried Fine Arts Exhibition San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego, CA, Art and the Animal 2009 West Michigan Center for Arts & Technology, Grand Rapids, MI, ArtPrize William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI, Michigan Fine Arts Competition Gallery Project, Shrines and Altars Ann Nathan Gallery, Fall Group Exhibition 2008 William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer Group Exhibition Gallery Project, Animal Intelligence Holland Area Arts Council, Holland, MI, The Natural Eye Neville Public Museum, Green Bay, WI, Art and the Animal 2007 William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer Group Exhibition 2006 WARD Gallery, Harbor Springs, MI, New Dimensions in the Natural World Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, VT, Art and the Animal Gallery Project, Nature Reperceived 2005 Light Street Gallery, Baltimore, MD, Animal House Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, VT, Art of the Animal Kingdom The Wildlife Experience, Parker, CO, AMERICAN BIRDS: A Flight Through Time WARD Gallery, Summer Celebration 2004 Fraser Gallery, Washington, DC, Contemporary Realism Hiram Blauvelt Art Museum, Oradell, NJ, Art and the Animal Washington Street Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI, Fifth Year Celebration 2003 Fraser Gallery, Georgetown International 2001 Sioux City...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Panel

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