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Art Subject: Hand
Marilyn Chanel Diamond. (Palm White)
Marilyn Chanel Diamond. (Palm White)

Marilyn Chanel Diamond. (Palm White)

By Russell Young

Located in Östermalm, Stockholms län

Unique. Artwork size: 160x122 cm. Frame size 167x130x5 cm. Signed, titled and dated on the back. Acquired directly from the artist. Free shipment worldwide Russell Young, born in 1959 in Yorkshire, is a British-American artist best known for his large scale silk screen paintings...

Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, Linen, Ink, Screen

Eden, Hands Painting
Eden, Hands Painting

Eden, Hands Painting

Located in Miami Beach, FL

Ramonn Vieitez is a self-taught Brazilian artist who primarily utilizes painting as a field of creative possibility exploring themes such as identity, memory, and nature, compulsivel...

Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

Striped Dip, Oil Painting
Striped Dip, Oil Painting

Striped Dip, Oil Painting

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Flowing stripes on the dancer's dress create a bold visual rhythm. The composition crops both figures intentionally, shifting focus to the textures, patterns,...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Exhale" by Brian O'Neill, Oil painting, Male Nude
"Exhale" by Brian O'Neill, Oil painting, Male Nude

"Exhale" by Brian O'Neill, Oil painting, Male Nude

Located in Denver, CO

Brian O'Neill's (US based) "Exhale" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a nude male figure stooped over and keeling on the ground, with his back exposed and bowing his...

Category

2010s Realist Nude Paintings

Materials

Silver, Gold Leaf

Butterfly, Oil Painting
Butterfly, Oil Painting

Butterfly, Oil Painting

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
The cropped composition, which omits the boxer's head and most of his torso, forces attention onto his motion and bright gloves. His muscle, posture, and gestur...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Paradox of St. Sebastian - Contemporary Oil Painting with Graffiti and Shackles
Paradox of St. Sebastian - Contemporary Oil Painting with Graffiti and Shackles

Paradox of St. Sebastian - Contemporary Oil Painting with Graffiti and Shackles

By Bruno Surdo

Located in Chicago, IL

This painting is Bruno Surdo’s contemporary reimagining of Saint Sebastian, one of the most enduring subjects in Western art. From Mantegna and Botticelli to Guido Reni and Caravaggio, Sebastian has long been depicted as the bound, arrow-pierced martyr whose physical suffering becomes an image of spiritual transcendence. Surdo clearly situates himself within this lineage: the contrapposto pose, uplifted gaze, and carefully modeled anatomy reflect his atelier training and deep engagement with Renaissance ideals of the heroic nude. The flesh is luminous and sculptural, recalling Michelangelo’s influence on the canon of the male body as both aesthetic and symbolic form. Yet Surdo decisively destabilizes the tradition. The arrows piercing the body are not lethal shafts but rubber suction-cup darts—objects associated with toys and staged play. This substitution transforms martyrdom into performance. The gravity of sacred suffering is undercut by irony, even absurdity. The saint is no longer impaled by instruments of death but by harmless projectiles, suggesting that contemporary suffering may be theatricalized, trivialized, or culturally mediated. At the same time, the figure’s expression remains sincere and emotionally vulnerable; the psychological intensity is real, even if the wounds are not. This tension between authentic emotion and artificial harm introduces a modern critique of spectacle—how pain can be aestheticized, simulated, or consumed. The graffiti-covered urban wall further collapses sacred history into contemporary space. Instead of a devotional landscape or heavenly backdrop, Surdo situates his Sebastian against a chaotic, tagged surface, merging classical beauty with raw urban immediacy. Saint Sebastian has long functioned not only as a symbol of faith but also as an emblem of sensualized male beauty and coded identity in art history. Surdo acknowledges that layered tradition while reframing it through irony and cultural commentary. By replacing deadly arrows with toy darts, he transforms martyrdom into a meditation on vulnerability in an age where suffering may be symbolic rather than fatal—performed, projected, or socially inflicted rather than divinely ordained. As in much of his work, Surdo grounds contemporary psychological tension in the authority of Renaissance form, using the language of history painting to question what sanctity, sacrifice, and spectacle mean today. Bruno Surdo Paradox of St. Sebastian oil on canvas 60h x 36w in 152.40h x 91.44w cm Bruno A. Surdo b. Chicago, 1963 EXHIBITIONS 2018 Liberation, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL Blood Sport, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL Art on Paper 2018, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Pier 36, New York, NY SOFA Chicago 2018, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL 2017 POP!ARAZZI, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL Coming Attractions, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL 2015 SOFA Chicago 2015, Ann Nathan Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL Bruno Surdo: Allegories, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2014 Bruno Surdo: Respond, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Modern Metaphors, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL 2013 Bruno Surdo: Revelations, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Vice + Virtue, Northern Illinois University Museum of Art 2012 Contemporary Realism Biennial, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN 2011 Bruno Surdo, University of St. Francis School of Creative Arts, Fort Wayne, IN Uncensored, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2010 Art Chicago 2010, Ann Nathan Gallery, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL 2009 Art Chicago 2009, Ann Nathan Gallery, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL 2007 Bruno Surdo, Art Institute of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN 2006 Context/Content: Making Meaning with the Figure, University of Arkansas, Conway, AR Creative Imaginings, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL Bruno Surdo: Cycles, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2005 Art Chicago 2005, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2004 Tragedy, Memory, & Honor, Richard M. Daley Center, Chicago, IL Art Chicago 2004, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Group Show, Arcadia Gallery, New York, NY Drawings VII, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, West Hollywood, CA Armory Show, New York Armory, New York, NY 2003 Paintings & Drawings, College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL The Art Show, New York, NY Bruno Surdo: New Work, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Art Chicago 2003, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2003-10 International Show of Contemporary Artists, Chicago Art Open, Chicago, IL 2002 Bruno Surdo: Perception of Appearance, Frye Museum, Seattle, WA Tragedy, Memory, & Honor, Richard M. Daley Center, Chicago, IL Bruno Surdo: Transcendence, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Art Chicago 2002, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Tragedy, Memory, & Honor, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2001 Magic Vision, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR 1998 Evanston and Vicinity Artists, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL 1996 Bruno Surdo: A Personal View, University of Wisconsin, Kenosha, WI 1995 Bruno Surdo: Recent Works, College of Lake County, IL AIDS in Our Society, Loyola University, Chicago, IL Bruno Surdo: Life, Struggle, and Hope, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL 2001 Magic Vision, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR Bruno Surdo: Dualities of Life, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 1999 Group Show, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 1998 Group Exhibition, Fine Arts Building Gallery, Chicago, IL 1995 Spiritual Inquiries, Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL 1994 Recent Works, The 14th Annual Juried Exhibition for Lake County Artists, Grayslake, IL Go Figure, Figurative Works on Paper, Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, Chicago, IL SELECTED COLLECTIONS The Re-Birth of Venus, Temporary Loan, Fort Wayne Museum of Art Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR College of Lake County, Greyslake, IL Flashpoint Academy, Chicago IL John Robert Wiltgen Design Shoemaker Ruud Collection Julie & Thomas Danilek Michael Vozzella and Mike Silver Benjamin Fernandez Tom Braake Betsy Colburn Michael Diemand & Lor LaRose Michael Staab & Kathy Brock Bruce Leep Frank Tzurect Mary Foley Rosalyn Carlson Mimmy Turney Janet Long Halstead Billy Hunt Carol Galli Myles Kerrigan Honorable & Mrs. Edwin Berman Theodore Gage Northrop Art Museum Past Present & Future Company Dr. James & Peggy Kemmler Salvatore Monastero Nix & Virginia Lauridsen Joel Miller David & Marlene Zerkel Ann & Andy Abel Claudia Rush Marc Miller Leonard Goldberg Lawrence Pucci Howard Tullman Collection Susan & Manny Kramer James Rinnert Richar Interiors Michael & Nancy Colt Khalid Altijir Dr. Joe Grodman Beryl & Jack Gore Larry Wolf & Eric Naegle Chuck Wolandi Jack Schwab & David Sandelin Thomas Kaczmarek Marti Dinerstein Craig & Michael Golden...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Random Thought
Random Thought

Random Thought

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

"Random Thought," a captivating creation by artist John Ali, invites viewers into the enigmatic realm of introspection. The artwork features a young man, his head covered with nylon, adorned by an intricate African bead necklace...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

French Contemporary art By Rachel Yedid - Entre un Mi et un Fa

French Contemporary art By Rachel Yedid - Entre un Mi et un Fa

Located in Paris, IDF

Oil on canvas Rachel Yedid is a French multidisciplinary artist born in 1977 who lives and works between Paris, France & Jerusalem, Israel. She grew up marked by a severe autoimmune...

Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

'War and Peace', Mid-Century Belgian Surrealist Oil on Board.
'War and Peace', Mid-Century Belgian Surrealist Oil on Board.

'War and Peace', Mid-Century Belgian Surrealist Oil on Board.

Located in Cotignac, FR

Mid-century Surrealist oil on board depicting War and Peace by Belgian Artist, Willy Smitz. Signed and dated bottom right with his recognisable triangular motif ( initialed WS ), in ...

Category

Mid-20th Century Expressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Tea time, Sweet Home series
Tea time, Sweet Home series

Tea time, Sweet Home series

Located in Zofingen, AG

You will receive this painting stretched, with painted edges and completely ready for hanging. Framing is not obligatory and depends only on your preference. The "Sweet Home" seri...

Category

2010s Contemporary Interior Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Almost Arrived -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Painting, Realism
Almost Arrived -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Painting, Realism

Almost Arrived -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Painting, Realism

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

This painting is a metaphor for a blessing on its way. Also, it captures the quiet edge between waiting and receiving; the moment when nothing has changed, but everything feels diffe...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Liam" (2025) Oil Portrait Painting on Panel
"Liam" (2025) Oil Portrait Painting on Panel

"Liam" (2025) Oil Portrait Painting on Panel

By Jason Walker

Located in Denver, CO

Jason Walker's (CAN based) "Liam" is a masterful photorealist oil portrait that depicts a middle-aged man, in the midst of deep philsophical thought. Jason Walker’s imagery reflects...

Category

2010s Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Down Is The New Up 5  - Contemporary Expressive Figurative Oil Painting
Down Is The New Up 5  - Contemporary Expressive Figurative Oil Painting

Down Is The New Up 5 - Contemporary Expressive Figurative Oil Painting

Located in Salzburg, AT

The inspiration for Daniel Wimmer’s art consistently stems from the human body. He is particularly fascinated by the beautiful colors of the skin and is constantly searching for intr...

Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Fire IV - 21st Century Realistic Figurative Painting
Fire IV - 21st Century Realistic Figurative Painting

Fire IV - 21st Century Realistic Figurative Painting

Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant

Jeanine Donkers Fire IV 20 x 20 cm ( framed included in price) Measurement with included frame: 24 x 24 cm Oil on wood panel Jeanine Donkers' paintings offer a world filled with fa...

Category

2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

"Inner Peace" (2023) by Shana Levenson, Original Oil Painting, Portrait
"Inner Peace" (2023) by Shana Levenson, Original Oil Painting, Portrait

"Inner Peace" (2023) by Shana Levenson, Original Oil Painting, Portrait

Located in Denver, CO

Shana Levenson's (US based) "Inner Peace" is an oil painting that depicts a female wearing a lace covering with a floating origami bird above her outstretched hand. Artist Bio/stat...

Category

2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Meditation - 2st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa Dress, Women
Meditation - 2st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa Dress, Women

Meditation - 2st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa Dress, Women

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authent...

Category

2010s Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Fabric, Canvas, Charcoal, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Pencil

Uneasy truce, hands three figures friendship monochromatic abstraction

Uneasy truce, hands three figures friendship monochromatic abstraction

Located in Brooklyn, NY

This acrylic painting on paper can be framed or displayed easily by hanging with magnets. Tatana Kellner’s work is rooted in social issues. She has been exhibited in numerous venue...

Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Archival Paper

Teeth - Original Oil Painting of George Washington's Dentures by William Blake
Teeth - Original Oil Painting of George Washington's Dentures by William Blake

Teeth - Original Oil Painting of George Washington's Dentures by William Blake

By William Blake (b. 1991)

Located in Chicago, IL

George Washington's dentures, painted from historical references. They were made from animal and human teeth. William Blake (b. 1991) Brother’s Bones Beside Exhibition Summary(2025)...

Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Robert Kenneth White "Taking Flight" Signed 2019 Oil Painting of Woman in Wind
Robert Kenneth White "Taking Flight" Signed 2019 Oil Painting of Woman in Wind

Robert Kenneth White "Taking Flight" Signed 2019 Oil Painting of Woman in Wind

Located in Miami, FL

ROBERT KENNETH WHITE – "TAKING FLIGHT" ⚜ Oil on canvas ⚜ Hand signed lower right ⚜ Frameless display FREEDOM AND POISE IN A MOMENT OF LIFT In “Taking Flight,” Robert Kenneth White c...

Category

2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Stimulus - Oil Painting of Scantily Clad Woman with Syringe, 50x53 in
Stimulus - Oil Painting of Scantily Clad Woman with Syringe, 50x53 in

Stimulus - Oil Painting of Scantily Clad Woman with Syringe, 50x53 in

By Rose Freymuth-Frazier

Located in Chicago, IL

This painting is emblematic of Rose Freymuth-Frazier’s sustained use of classical figurative realism to interrogate power, agency, and the cultural framing of the female body. A youn...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Gossamer- Chiaroscuro Lit Painting of a Nude Figure with Golden Hair
Gossamer- Chiaroscuro Lit Painting of a Nude Figure with Golden Hair

Gossamer- Chiaroscuro Lit Painting of a Nude Figure with Golden Hair

Located in Chicago, IL

Gossamer In Gossamer, the body appears almost weightless, held delicately within a field of shadow. The painting emphasizes fragility—of skin, of memory, of presence itself. Hall’s brushwork alternates between precision and dissolution, reinforcing the sense that the figure is both fully there and already receding. Nathan Brad Hall...

Category

2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

The Pearl Fisher
The Pearl Fisher

The Pearl Fisher

Located in Zofingen, AG

The Pearl Fisher (Reflections series) This gesture is the moment of final choice, when in the silence of the morning, a woman defines the measure of her own radiance. In the concludi...

Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Silent Bonds

Silent Bonds

Located in Zofingen, AG

"Silent Bonds" is a touching depiction of human connection. Six graceful hands, illustrated in gentle monochrome tones on a textured white canvas, are entwined by a single red thread...

Category

2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Bardot Thunder-Cloud Blue with Diamond Dust - Framed

Bardot Thunder-Cloud Blue with Diamond Dust - Framed

By Russell Young

Located in New York, NY

Bardot Thunder-Cloud Blue Acrylic, oil based ink screen print and diamond dust on linen - floats in black frame as shown in video. 1/1. About the artist: Born in 1959 in Northe...

Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Calling (study), not framed

Calling (study), not framed

By Wes Hempel

Located in Fairfield, CT

A walk through any major museum will reveal paintings that depict or legitimate only certain kinds of experience. Despite the good intentions of critical theorists questioning the va...

Category

2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Salute

Salute

By Nora See

Located in New Orleans, LA

"Salute" is a salute to the Black Power Salute used as a political demonstration by African-American athletes John Carlos and Tommie Smith during their med...

Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

In This Moment - 21st Century Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Men, Fashion
In This Moment - 21st Century Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Men, Fashion

In This Moment - 21st Century Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Men, Fashion

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About Artist Gob...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Dj Princesse

Dj Princesse

By Jérome Romain

Located in Paris, FR

Jerome Romain lives and works in Montpelier, France He defines his painting as Classic Painting for Contemporary History " The world as a representation " His oil on canvas painting...

Category

2010s Photorealist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Pearls, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Pearls, Painting, Oil on Canvas

Pearls, Painting, Oil on Canvas

Located in Yardley, PA

Hand holding a pearl necklace on a light grey background :: Painting :: Photorealism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Betty and Marion, Painting, Oil on Canvas

Betty and Marion, Painting, Oil on Canvas

By Stephanie Berry

Located in Yardley, PA

Two friends are having a quiet intimate conversation. From another time. This was done with quality oil paints and cold wax on linen. :: Painting :: Contemporary :: This piece come...

Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Connected Souls - Couple Embracing, Floral Background, Original Oil Painting
Connected Souls - Couple Embracing, Floral Background, Original Oil Painting

Connected Souls - Couple Embracing, Floral Background, Original Oil Painting

By Bruno Surdo

Located in Chicago, IL

This painting reveals Bruno Surdo’s fluency in merging Renaissance figure painting with Symbolist and Pre-Raphaelite sensibilities. A young woman lies nestled in a field of daisies, wrapped in soft drapery and cradling a red book to her chest, while a monarch butterfly hovers near her hand. The composition recalls the reclining female figures of Titian and Giorgione, yet the setting shifts from mythological landscape to an immersive, almost Edenic field of flowers. Surdo’s atelier training is evident in the sculptural modeling of the body and the careful handling of light across skin and fabric. The figure possesses the volumetric presence of High Renaissance painting, yet she is embedded in a richly detailed natural environment that feels intimate rather than grand. Art historically, the work resonates strongly with the Pre-Raphaelites—particularly artists like John Everett Millais and John William Waterhouse—whose depictions of women in lush floral settings combined realism with poetic symbolism. The daisies traditionally symbolize innocence and purity, while the butterfly evokes transformation, the soul, and ephemerality—motifs frequently explored in Symbolist painting. The red book introduces narrative ambiguity: knowledge, memory, or interior life held protectively against the body. Unlike Surdo’s more theatrical mythological or urban allegories, this composition feels contemplative and inward. Yet it still aligns with his broader practice of grounding contemporary psychological states in the language of art history. The painting becomes a meditation on introspection, metamorphosis, and the quiet tension between innocence and awakening, rendered with the authority of classical draftsmanship and layered with 19th-century poetic symbolism. Bruno Surdo Connected Souls oil on canvas 24h x 36w in 60.96h x 91.44w cm BRS124 Bruno A. Surdo b. Chicago, 1963 EXHIBITIONS 2023 New Work, Gallery VICTOR, Chicago, IL 2021 Ethos + Truth, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL 2020 Realities, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL 2018 Liberation, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL Blood Sport, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL Art on Paper 2018, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Pier 36, New York, NY SOFA Chicago 2018, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL 2017 POP!ARAZZI, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL Coming Attractions, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL 2015 SOFA Chicago 2015, Ann Nathan Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL Bruno Surdo: Allegories, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2014 Bruno Surdo: Respond, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Modern Metaphors, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL 2013 Bruno Surdo: Revelations, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Vice + Virtue, Northern Illinois University Museum of Art 2012 Contemporary Realism Biennial, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN 2011 Bruno Surdo, University of St. Francis School of Creative Arts, Fort Wayne, IN Uncensored, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2010 Art Chicago 2010, Ann Nathan Gallery, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL 2009 Art Chicago 2009, Ann Nathan Gallery, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL 2007 Bruno Surdo, Art Institute of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN 2006 Context/Content: Making Meaning with the Figure, University of Arkansas, Conway, AR Creative Imaginings, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL Bruno Surdo: Cycles, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2005 Art Chicago 2005, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2004 Tragedy, Memory, & Honor, Richard M. Daley Center, Chicago, IL Art Chicago 2004, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Group Show, Arcadia Gallery, New York, NY Drawings VII, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, West Hollywood, CA Armory Show, New York Armory, New York, NY 2003 Paintings & Drawings, College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL The Art Show, New York, NY Bruno Surdo: New Work, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Art Chicago 2003, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2003-10 International Show of Contemporary Artists, Chicago Art Open, Chicago, IL 2002 Bruno Surdo: Perception of Appearance, Frye Museum, Seattle, WA Tragedy, Memory, & Honor, Richard M. Daley Center, Chicago, IL Bruno Surdo: Transcendence, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Art Chicago 2002, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Tragedy, Memory, & Honor, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2001 Magic Vision, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR 1998 Evanston and Vicinity Artists, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL 1996 Bruno Surdo: A Personal View, University of Wisconsin, Kenosha, WI 1995 Bruno Surdo: Recent Works, College of Lake County, IL AIDS in Our Society, Loyola University, Chicago, IL Bruno Surdo: Life, Struggle, and Hope, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL 2001 Magic Vision, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR Bruno Surdo: Dualities of Life, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 1999 Group Show, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 1998 Group Exhibition, Fine Arts Building Gallery, Chicago, IL 1995 Spiritual Inquiries, Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL 1994 Recent Works, The 14th Annual Juried Exhibition for Lake County Artists, Grayslake, IL Go Figure, Figurative Works on Paper, Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, Chicago, IL SELECTED COLLECTIONS The Re-Birth of Venus, Temporary Loan, Fort Wayne Museum of Art Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR College of Lake County, Greyslake, IL Flashpoint Academy, Chicago IL John Robert Wiltgen Design Shoemaker Ruud Collection Julie & Thomas Danilek Michael Vozzella and Mike Silver Benjamin Fernandez Tom Braake Betsy Colburn Michael Diemand & Lor LaRose Michael Staab & Kathy Brock Bruce Leep Frank Tzurect Mary Foley Rosalyn Carlson Mimmy Turney Janet Long Halstead Billy Hunt Carol Galli Myles Kerrigan Honorable & Mrs. Edwin Berman Theodore Gage Northrop Art Museum Past Present & Future Company Dr. James & Peggy Kemmler Salvatore Monastero Nix & Virginia Lauridsen Joel Miller David & Marlene Zerkel Ann & Andy Abel Claudia Rush Marc Miller Leonard Goldberg Lawrence Pucci Howard Tullman Collection Susan & Manny Kramer James Rinnert Richar Interiors Michael & Nancy Colt Khalid Altijir Dr. Joe Grodman Beryl & Jack Gore Larry Wolf & Eric Naegle Chuck Wolandi Jack Schwab & David Sandelin Thomas Kaczmarek Marti Dinerstein Craig & Michael Golden Mike & Jill Rose SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Bruno Surdo: The Method Artist Responds, by Lucia Mauro, June 26, 2014, anitathemovie blog An Exhibition of Exhibitionism: Bruno Surdo’s ‘Respond’, by Carrie McGath, July 1, 2014, The Chicagoist Website, Arts and Entertainment “Inspired Environs: A renowned designer decks out his Loop abode in art and texture” Modern Luxury, Men’s Book, Spring 2014 “Master Class” What’z Up Magazine, Fort Wayne, 2011 ”9/11 Painting will be on Display” Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, 2011 “Illuminated Images” Fort Wayne Reader, 2011 “Two Faces of Beauty” American Art Collector Magazine, Issue #3 and #59, 2006/2010 “Art and Calamity” Art Papers, 2009 “Versions of the Present, Techniques of the Past” American Artist Magazine, 2004 “Living Artists” Crow Book Publishing, Chicago, IL 2004 “The New Master” by Craig Keller, Chicago Social Magazine, 2004. “Tragedy, Memory, and Honor,” by William Hageman, Chicago Tribune, March 28, 2002 “Mural Depicts Tragedy of 9/11” Art Section, Chicago Sun Times, 2002 Review by Dennis Raverty, Art Papers Magazine, July 2001 WTTW Channel 11...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Sexy Blond Falls from Window - Noir Pulp Art
Sexy Blond Falls from Window - Noir Pulp Art

Sexy Blond Falls from Window - Noir Pulp Art

By Harry Barton

Located in Miami, FL

There is plenty of B-movie-like pulp illustration art out there to consider. This work, however, is fundamentally different. The main point about the Harry Barton...

Category

1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Illustration Board

Taken Away (original painting on metal)
Taken Away (original painting on metal)

Taken Away (original painting on metal)

By Snik

Located in Aventura, FL

Original hand cut stencil and spray paint on metal panel. Hand signed on verso by Snik. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonable of...

Category

2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Metal

Contemporary Rock and Roll Gesture Painting with Organic Hand Vegetal Form
Contemporary Rock and Roll Gesture Painting with Organic Hand Vegetal Form

Contemporary Rock and Roll Gesture Painting with Organic Hand Vegetal Form

By Natasha Lelenco

Located in FISTERRA, ES

In Always in Rock Mode, the iconic rock and roll hand gesture — a sign of rebellion, affirmation and performative identity — is reimagined through an organic, vegetal form, displacin...

Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Board

Moth Finder - Male Couple Embracing, Piercing Blue Eyes, Original Oil Painting
Moth Finder - Male Couple Embracing, Piercing Blue Eyes, Original Oil Painting

Moth Finder - Male Couple Embracing, Piercing Blue Eyes, Original Oil Painting

By Bruno Surdo

Located in Chicago, IL

This painting reflects Bruno Surdo’s continued exploration of intimacy, identity, and psychological tension through the lens of classical technique. Two figures embrace closely, yet ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Panel, Oil

Boss Madam - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa Women
Boss Madam - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa Women

Boss Madam - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa Women

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About Artist Ade...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Bountiful Harvest -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Painting, Realism
Bountiful Harvest -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Painting, Realism

Bountiful Harvest -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Painting, Realism

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

This painting is a metaphor for a blessing on its way. Also, it captures the quiet edge between waiting and receiving; the moment when nothing has changed, but everything feels diffe...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Signed Family Oil and Acrylic Painting on Fine Linen Canvas, 60x160 cm
Signed Family Oil and Acrylic Painting on Fine Linen Canvas, 60x160 cm

Signed Family Oil and Acrylic Painting on Fine Linen Canvas, 60x160 cm

Located in Zofingen, AG

Original oil and acrylic painting on canvas, made under natural light. This artwork is painted using high-quality fine linen canvas and sold unframed. Signed on the front and back of...

Category

2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Hold On II, 2025, Ritchelly Oliveira
Hold On II, 2025, Ritchelly Oliveira

Hold On II, 2025, Ritchelly Oliveira

Located in Porto, 13

“Hold On II” (2025) Charcoal and Acrylic on Canvas 100 x 70 cm / 39.3 x 27.6 in Original work by Ritchelly Oliveira (Brazil, b. 1993) “Hold On II” is a compelling exploration of emo...

Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic

Georgian Contemporary Art by Natia Sapanadze - Secret L500ife

Georgian Contemporary Art by Natia Sapanadze - Secret L500ife

Located in Paris, IDF

Oil on canvas, Natia Sapanadze is a Georgian artist born in 1999 who lives & works in Tbilisi, Georgia. Natia's alternative profession is a philologist, besides she has started ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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