Pillow Paintings

Intimate paintings represented by unmade beds and tossed sheets, absent of any human evidence, on intentionally blank, somewhat rough backgrounds. The empty bed in these paintings represents a place for grief, isolation or healing. As such, the work speaks to our shared feeling of grief, with the understanding that while we all suffer in our individual ways, suffering is universal. Source material for this work are photographs the artist has both taken and found, and the intimate size of the paintings references the intimate nature of the subject matter. The backgrounds of the paintings are repeatedly painted and sanded, to create a frame and backdrop for the bedding that is flat, yet rough with work and time. The bedding itself is seen from different perspectives, but still indicates a scene of desolation and despair. While the series began in the fall of 2016, recent events—including the pandemic—have provided a new dimension to the work and have compelled Serpick to consider the themes in light of these events. Our forced isolation and the challenges it has brought to our physical and mental health provides an additional shared experience from which to consider grief and eventual healing. Biography Stephanie Serpick is a painter whose work explores themes of isolation, grief, and healing. Her work has been shown in various exhibitions in the U.S. and internationally, and she is a fellow at several residencies, most notably at the Florence Trust Studios in London, MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts, and the Vermont Studio Center, where she was awarded a full fellowship and stipend to attend. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at Sweet Lorraine Gallery in Brooklyn, the College of Southern Nevada, and a two-person exhibition at The Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute at the Museum of Art at Pratt in Utica NY...

Exquisite Floral Arrangement watercolour on artist paper, stuck in black paper painting: 10 x 12.75 inches provenance: private collection condition: very good and sound condition D...

This work is part of our exhibition Marina Stern Luminary, the artist's first retrospective since 2007. Previously exhibited: 1) An Exhibition of Recent Paintings by Marina Stern, Forum Gallery, New York, NY, February 13 to March 6, 1982, no. 2 (label verso) (see Marina Stern, New York Times, February 19, 1982 “one turns . . . to a couple of indoor paintings, such as Interior with Cabbage, in which Miss Stern skillfully plays off a 'real' purple cabbage on a white tablecloth with a black and white drawing of one pinned up on a canvas stretcher . . . .”); 2) Marina Stern American Precisionist Painter, Santa Fe East Galleries, Santa Fe, NM, November 2 to 20, 1984, and 3) Perception and the Cultural Environment – The Paintings of Marina...

QUIET TIME - This interior still-life painting on canvas combines expressive brushwork with delicate details capturing a warm and inviting atmosphere. Through the use of acrylic, pen...

Samantha Haring "Sic Transit," 2023 Oil on paper on panel 16 x16 in. (hari020)

COMFORT ZONE - This interior still-life painting on canvas combines expressive brushwork with intricate details capturing a warm and inviting atmosphere. Through the use of acrylic, ...

ARTIST STATEMENT: My work delicately renders familiar domestic comforts that we use to feel secure. Examining the identities of heirloom textiles and childhood nostalgia summons conf...

One-of-a-kind Pop Art Original Painting on Canvas by Gardani, hand signed by the Artist front and back, comes with official Gardani Certificate of Authenticity with a unique dollar b...

Original gouache interior painting by celebrated, twentieth-century California landscape painter, Ronald Shap. Vibrant piece of a chair and footstools with bold orange and blue backg...