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Abstract Art

ABSTRACT STYLE

Beginning in the early 20th century, abstract art became a leading style of modernism. Rather than portray the world in a way that represented reality, as had been the dominating style of Western art in the previous centuries, abstract paintings, prints and sculptures are marked by a shift to geometric forms, gestural shapes and experimentation with color to express ideas, subject matter and scenes.

Although abstract art flourished in the early 1900s, propelled by movements like Fauvism and Cubism, it was rooted in the 19th century. In the 1840s, J.M.W. Turner emphasized light and motion for atmospheric paintings in which concrete details were blurred, and Paul Cézanne challenged traditional expectations of perspective in the 1890s.

Some of the earliest abstract artists — Wassily Kandinsky and Hilma af Klint — expanded on these breakthroughs while using vivid colors and forms to channel spiritual concepts. Painter Piet Mondrian, a Dutch pioneer of the art movement, explored geometric abstraction partly owing to his belief in Theosophy, which is grounded in a search for higher spiritual truths and embraces philosophers of the Renaissance period and medieval mystics. Black Square, a daringly simple 1913 work by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, was a watershed statement on creating art that was free “from the dead weight of the real world,” as he later wrote.

Surrealism in the 1920s, led by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Meret Oppenheim and others, saw painters creating abstract pieces in order to connect to the subconscious. When Abstract Expressionism emerged in New York during the mid-20th century, it similarly centered on the process of creation, in which Helen Frankenthaler’s expressive “soak-stain” technique, Jackson Pollock’s drips of paint, and Mark Rothko’s planes of color were a radical new type of abstraction.

Conceptual art, Pop art, Hard-Edge painting and many other movements offered fresh approaches to abstraction that continued into the 21st century, with major contemporary artists now exploring it, including Anish Kapoor, Mark Bradford, El Anatsui and Julie Mehretu.

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Style: Abstract
Color:  Yellow
Sacred Games, 2018, acrylic on canvas, 35 x 55 cm - yellow abstract painting
Located in Izmir, TR
Painting, Acrylic on Canvas 35 × 55 × 4 cm 13.8 × 21.7 × 1.6 in This is a unique work by Suzan Batu Artist Statement: The unrelenting proliferation of glass and concrete, to name s...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic

"High Dose" Bright Color Abstraction Playful Matisse/Calder Qualites Yellow/Red
Located in Wellesley, MA
This abstraction by NY based artist Margo Margolis has a very sophisticated/playful sensibility with brilliant, intense color (yellow, red, dark green, pink, blue, turquoise, black and white) - the significant attribute of the artist's flashe medium, a water based French paint. Consisting of multiple layers of underpainting and glazing, and the frequent contrasts between hard and soft edges, these paintings not only have associations with Henri Matisse's palette and Alexander Calder's sculptural forms, but also share in these artists' complexities after relatively straightforward initial first takes. Fresh and intelligent exploration into the possibilities for abstraction are Margolis's focus, and these works achieve that rare quality of making abstraction feel new. Margo Margolis "High Dose" 2022 Flashe on Canvas 24 x 18 x 1.25 Inches This painting is unframed and framing is not necessary as the sides are painted white. It is currently on view in an exhibition of the artist's work in Wellesley, MA where it is featured in a group of works of varying sizes, small, medium, and large: 24 x 20 inches, 40 x 32 inches, 72 x 60 inches, and works on paper measuring 30 x 22 inches. Also available are a series of earlier small canvases measuring 14 x 11 inches each which also work well as groupings. Margolis’s continuing commitment to abstract painting dates back to the early 1970s when she began exhibiting with the Brooke Alexander Gallery in New York where she had several shows. In addition her work has been exhibited throughout the country at numerous galleries and institutions including The Pennsylvania Academy of Art, The Renaissance Society, The Munson-Williams Proctor Institute and Halls Walls, among others. In reviewing the artist’s 1993 exhibition in the Beth Urdang gallery for 'The Boston Globe' then chief art critic Nancy Stapen stated: “…eccentric, quasi-geometric forms and initial impression of simplicity belie this artist’s highly sophisticated grasp of paintings. These are multi- layered works concerned with the discipline’s core issues – transluscency and opacity, flatness and illusioinism, line and form, figure and ground, pattern and surface, structure and weightless pictorial space… these paintings may be analyzed up to a point. In the end, their process remains mysterious. Their appeal lies in their engagement with an inventive form language intrinsic to painting, as well as in their deft synthesis of quietude and quirkiness.” June 3, 1993 Current Chief Art Critic for 'The Boston Globe, ' Cate McQuaid, wrote of Margolis’ 2017 exhibition in the gallery: “Her marks grab at you as insistently as a toddler demanding attention. They’re like a language made purely of punctuation, rhythmic and emphatic, let out of the duty of modifying sentences, freed at last to express itself alone.” January 6, 2017 Works are included in numerous public collections including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, Chase Manhattan Bank, Amerata-Hess Corporation, General Mills, Best Products, IBM, Estee Lauder, Miami-Dade College, Chemical Bank, and Wellington Management. She is the recipient of many awards including 2 grants from The National Endowment for the Arts, a New York State Council on the Arts Grant, and Yaddo and MacDowell Residency Grants. Margolis received a BS degree from Skidmore College and an MFA from Indiana University. She lives and works in New York. The artist recently retired as Chairman of the Tyler School of Art's (Philadelphia) Department of Painting. Statement by Margo Margolis: "While text and image combine to tell the story, it is the drawing around the narrative, the space between text and image that I find compelling. In my work, it is the space between, on the periphery, in the margins that has become the foreground. It is the charged environment that has become the subject. Equally significant and transformative have been innovations in process that have evolved. Discrete marks are de-contextualized, reassembled and photocopied. They are further manipulated by exaggerations in scale, repetition and excessive layering. I have introduced 'printerly' processes (carbon tracking and stencils) that combine with marks that are hand-drawn, hand-painted. These are layered over and under transparent veils of paint. The incorporation of printing methods has been critical both formally and conceptually. These processes underline the fact that this is a system based on a 'ready-made' language. They create an identity distinctly different from action painting, gestural painting or any notion that the artists' stroke is assumed to reveal his/her psyche. These are distanced marks and frozen gestures. In combination with what is handmade, they reveal an alternate translation. Importantly, these processes, in allowing direct reproduction point to the semantic mutability of the language. However, most important is the process of building, excessive layering, and the continual dissolution and re-materialization of form. The paintings have a physicality and material presence that affirms the medium and is in contrast to their graphic impact." MARGO MARGOLIS EDUCATION B.S. Degree 1970, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York MFA Degree 1972, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2022 Beth Urdang Gallery, Wellesley, Massachusetts 2019 Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts 2016 Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts 2007 Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts 2001 Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts 1997 Esso Gallery, New York, New York 1993 Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, Mass. 1991 Beth Urdang Gallery, Chicago, IL. 1989 Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, Mass 1987 Richard Green Gallery, New York 1980 Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York 1979 University of Southern Florida, Tampa, Florida 1979 Miami-Dade College, Miami, Florida 1978 Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York 1977 Connecticut College, New London, Ct. 1977 Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2016 Fabulous You, Tiger Stikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, New York 2011 Twin, Twin, Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, New York 2010 Spring Editions, Pelavin Editions, New York 2010 Group Exhibition, Beth Urdang Gallery, Wellesley, Massachusetts 2004 Analog Click-Click, Temple Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa. 2002 Snapshots, Arcadia University Gallery, Glenside, PA, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT 1999 Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, MA 1998 Accrochage in the Gallery, Esso Gallery, New York 1998 Brad Kalhammer, Nicholas Rule, Margo Margolis, Solo Voices, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND 1998 Art Exchange Show, New York 1998 Works on Paper, Galeria Martano, Turin, Italy 1998 Paintings and Monoprints, Cheryl Pelavin Gallery, New York 1997 Esso Gallery in Torino, Villa Buttino, Torino, Italy 1997 Art Exchange Show, New York 1996 Objects by Some Artists and Architects, Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, MA 1996 The Art Exchange Show, New York 1994 Abstract Painting, Carolyn Roy Gallery, New York 1995 Wayne C. Brown DePonton d”Amecourt Collection, Colby College, Waterville, ME 1994 Contemporary Prints, Quartet Gallery, New York 1992 Mentors, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1991 Presenze, Artisti Stranieri in Italia Oggi, Rocca Paolina, Perugia, Italy 1990 Contemporary Painting, Langman Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa. 1989 Very Special Arts Benefit, Christies, New York 1989 Ground Work, Valencia College, Valencia, FL 1989 Group Show, Shea Beker Gallery, New York 1989 Drawings, Lorence Monk Gallery, New York 1989 Monoprints, University of Maine, Orono M 1989 Inadmissible Evidence, SUNY Purchase, New York 1988 Group Show, Bernard Jacobsen Gallery, New York 1986 Mutual Respect, Vanguard Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1984 Nature As Image, OIA, New York 1983 Works on Paper, Bucknell University, A 1982 Group Show, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York 1981 Abstract Painting, Womens Caucus of the CAA, New York 1981 Ten Years Later, Skdmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York 1981 Exchanges III, Louis Abrons Center, New York 1981 Group Show, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York 1981 Sign and Symbol, Jeffrey Fuller Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1981 Five Abstract Painters, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York 1981 Group Show, Marion Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1980 New York, New, Work,”Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, Texas 1979 Group Show, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York 1978 Diamond, Margolis, and Ripps, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York 1978 Contemporary Drawings, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA 1978 Drawings, Pratt Graphics Center, New York 1978 Thick Paint, Curated by Carter Ratcliffe, Renaissance Society, University Of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1978 New Editions, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York 1978 Three New York Painters,” Alice Simsar Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI 1978 Six Contemporary Painters,”curated by Marcia Tucker, Kirkland College Clinton York 1977 Works on Paper, Alice Simsar Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI 1977 Critics Choice,” Joe and Emily Lowe Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, Munson-Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, New York 1977 New Abstract Objects,” Halls Walls, Buffalo, New York 1977 Diamond, Jacquette, Margolis and Ripps-New Work, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York 1977 Painting ’75,’76,’77, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York; American Federation for the Arts, Miami, FL; Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, O 1977 Works on Paper, Vick, Klaus, and Rosen Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1976 Group Exhibition, Towson State College, Towson, MD 1976 “Contemporary Approaches to Painting,” University Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara 1976 “Four Young Artists,” Bykert Gallery, New York 1976 Invitational, OK Harris Gallery, New York PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA Brooklyn Museum, New York IBM Corporation, New York Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA Prudential, New York Rosenthal and Rosenthal, New York Chase Manhattan Bank Collection, New York Ivan Chermayeff, New York Lehman Brothers, New York Miami-Dade College, Miami, FL Amerada-Hess Corporation, New York American Can Company, Greenwich, CT Estee Lauder Corporation, New York General Mills, Minneapolis, MN Freed, Frank, Shriver, New York Chemical Bank, New York Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, TX Best Products, Richmond, VA Skadden, Arps, New York Stephen Paine, Boston, MA Davis, Polk, Wardwell, New York Roger Sonnabend, Boston, MA Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA Zimmerli Archives, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ GRANTS AND AWARDS Temple University Study leave, 1980, 1987,1994, 2002 Visual Arts Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, 1987 Visual Arts Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, 1980 New York State Council for the Arts, 1977 Yaddo Residency Grant, 1976 MacDowell Residency Grant, 1976 Indiana University Fellowship, 1970 CATALOGUES Painting ’75,’76,’77 Critic’s Choice Contemporary Drawing, Philadelphia Thick Paint Margo Margolis, Miami Dade College Exchange III Nature as Image Ground Work Presenze Chemical Bank: An Art Collection in Perspective Margo Margolis, Esso Gallery BIBLIOGRAPHY Richard Lorber, Arts Magazine, September 1976 Art Week, October 23, 1976 Henry J. Seldis, Los Angles Times David Rush, "Paintings with a Sculptural Character," Art Week, October 30, 1976 Allen Ellensweig, Arts Magazine, April 1977 Richard Brugin, New York Arts Journal, September 1977 Mary Delahoyd, "Painting '75, '76, '77" (catalogue essay) 1977 Hayden Herrera, "Critics' Choice," Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse, New York and Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York (catalogue essay) 1977 John Russell, New York Times, June 1978 Carter Ratcliffe, "Thick Paint" University of Chicago, IL (catalogue essay) 1978 Ann Percy, "Contemporary Drawings, Philadelphia," Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (catalogue essay) 1978 Alexandra Anderson, Village Voice, March 26, 1979 Peter Frank, "In One Medium, Out the Other," Village Voice, April 9, 1979 Thomas Lawson, Art in America, October 1979 Karen Valdes, Margo Margolis, Miami-Dade Community College, (catalogue essay) 1979 Print Collector's Newsletter, Spring 1979 Lee Edwards...
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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Mixed Media

BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE (Purple & Yellow - Abstract, Geometric, Encaustic) 2016
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
For many years Susan Squires goal has been to create encaustic paintings as meaningful, evocative experiences for herself and for the viewer. She wa...
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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Oil Crayon, Encaustic, Board

"Domestic Violence", contemporary yellow & red abstract acrylic & spray paint
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This pieces is part of a 22 painting series I created for my MFA thesis in 2017. The abstraction in this series is effected through symbolic gestures, distinctive lines, and organi...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Ionnazol mRNA (white) (Pop Art, Street Art, Urban Art)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Agent X Ionnazol mRNA (white) (Pop Art, Street Art, Urban Art) Digital Print on Archival Paper Year: 2021 Edition: 70 Size: 38 x 31 inch - 96 x 78 CM Signed COA provided Ref.: 924802...
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2010s Abstract Art

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Archival Paper, Digital

#100-15
Located in Los Angeles, CA
According to the artist, "everything in life inspires me, not quite with direct interpretation, but as I see and experience faces, words, gestures, colors and shapes – all of it – I ...
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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Suite Catalana, plate 2
Located in London, GB
Aquatint in colours, 1972, on Guarro paper, signed and inscribed in pencil aside from the edition of 75, published by Editorial Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, 75.7 x 100.5 cm. (29.8 x 39.6...
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1970s Abstract Art

Materials

Aquatint

Indian Contemporary Art by Sumit Mehndiratta - Composition No.309
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on canvas, artwork can be shipped in a tube or framed in a crate Sumit Mehndiratta is an Indian artist born in 1986 who lives & works in New Delhi, India. He has pursued Mas...
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2010s Abstract Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

Indian Contemporary Art By Sumit Mehndiratta - Mandala Series No. 12
Located in Paris, IDF
Five Stainless steel discs measuring 6.75x6.75x1.5 inches each (17x17x4 cms) hung individually on the wall with a 3M velcro tape hanging provision on the back of each disc, can be hu...
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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Stainless Steel

Preludio en el Hospital VS. From "La Música Ausente" series. Abstract Painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Preludio en el Hospital VS. From "La Música Ausente" series. Oil on canvas Image Size: 200 H x 145 W cm. Unframed _______ The paintings of Sergio Bazán have a strong gesture and expr...
Category

1990s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Inversus I
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offeed with a work and authenticity certificate
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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Color Shapes #2
Located in New York, NY
Abstract work of art. Acrylic on canvas.
Category

Early 2000s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

'pulsing energy' abstract expressionist, Scandinavian artwork
Located in Lahti, FI
"Can you see it Feel it We're all made of it Pulsing energy Straight from the Source Creating as we go" 'pulsing energy' is a reminder that with resilience your life is about to change for the better, for good. Get ready to receive abundance of health, wealth, love and success in this lifetime, loving the way you live and surrendering to your glorious destiny. Emmi Granlund is a prolific Scandinavian visual artist, interior architect, designer and musician living in Helsinki, Finland and Nashville, Tennessee. Through her holistic design house Atelier Granlund Oy she creates intuitive abstract...
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2010s Abstract Art

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Canvas, Spray Paint

Moving 5
Located in Fresno, CA
“Moving 5” is 60”x 48”. The vibrant yellow surface tones of this piece are broken in several places allowing random glimpses of Arnold’s dreamlike underpainting for a multi-dimension...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Places in My Soul 2 - quadriptych, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
There are secret places in our souls that we feel we don't know. The feelings that are born there never deceive us and embrace and welcome us. At times we feel that the only truly sa...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic

On and Off the Grid 2 (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
On and Off the Grid 2 (Abstract painting) acrylic and Flashe on wood panel His paintings have an overwhelming presence with their colour and structure, where gestural curves, unco...
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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic, Wood Panel

"GRADIENT_01" Abstract Acrylic painting 40" x 38" by DOT
Located in Culver City, CA
"GRADIENT_01" Abstract Acrylic painting 40" x 38" by DOT ABOUT THE ARTIST: By compiling concepts from multiple philosophies, DOT’s Art seeks to explore an ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

INCA, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Pintura acrilica en bastidor de madera sobre soporte de tela. Lleva una capa de barniz para evitar el polvo y la humedad. Se transporta en caja de madera especial obras de arte. D...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

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Acrylic

SPACIO 10, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Pintura acrilica en bastidor de madera sobre soporte de tela. Lleva una capa de barniz para evitar el polvo y la humedad. Se transporta en caja de madera especial obras de arte. D...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

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Acrylic

"Emergence Series 2" large abstract yellow wire wrapped sculpture
Located in Edgartown, MA
Eric Gushee is a Chicago based artists, who was born and raised in New York City. His interest in art was first found at Marlboro College, where he studied creative writing. But afte...
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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Steel

Tempered Distribution
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Resin coated and mounted to layers of plywood, these digital/mixed media ‘picture objects’ represent interpretations of contemporary visual culture charmed by minimalism, modernism...
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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Resin, Panel, Digital Pigment

Original Portugal ‘Galo de Barcelos’ vintage travel poster.
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Portugal ‘Galo de Barcelos’ vintage travel poster. This Portuguese poster is conservation archival linen backed in very good condition, rea...
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1970s Abstract Art

Materials

Offset

TRES COLORES 14, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Pintura acrilica en bastidor de madera sobre soporte de tela. Se suministra con los cantos acabados listo para ser colgado. Lleva una capa de barniz para evitar el polvo y la humed...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

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Acrylic

SPACIO 14, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Pintura acrilica en bastidor de madera sobre soporte de tela. Lleva una capa de barniz para evitar el polvo y la humedad. Se transporta en caja de madera especial obras de arte. D...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

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Acrylic

SPACIO 3, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Pintura acrilica en bastidor de madera sobre soporte de tela. Lleva una capa de barniz para evitar el polvo y la humedad. Se transporta en caja de madera especial obras de arte. D...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

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Acrylic

SPACIO 7, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Pintura acrilica en bastidor de madera sobre soporte de tela. Lleva una capa de barniz para evitar el polvo y la humedad. Se transporta en caja de madera especial obras de arte. D...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

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Acrylic

SPACIO 6, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Pintura acrilica en bastidor de madera sobre soporte de tela. Lleva una capa de barniz para evitar el polvo y la humedad. Se transporta en caja de madera especial obras de arte. D...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

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Acrylic

Banana
Located in Nashville, TN
"Banana" is a one-of-a-kind hand screen print on canvas by AI artist Tom White. This piece was created using neural networks trained on images of real bananas to create an abstracted...
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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Screen

Pieces of the Universe
Located in Albuquerque, NM
Deborah Sipple, Pieces of the Universe, 2019, colored pencil on paper mounted on board From an early age, Deborah Sipple found her love of color and draw...
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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Color Pencil

Untitled, no 2 - Contemporary Yellow Textured Abstract Landscape Painting
Located in New York, NY
Small Size artwork Mix Media on Canvas. Framing options available. Contact Gallery for Options. BIO Born and raised in the coastal town of Mobile, Alabama, Brad Robertson's earlies...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

All Of A Sudden, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Inspired by the verses of Orhan Veli Kanik: Everything happened all of a sudden. All of a sudden daylight beat down on the earth; There was the sky all of a sudden; All of a su...
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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic

Abstract Red Pink Blue Flowers on Yellow Background by British Landscape Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Painting of Abstract Red, Pink, Orange & Blue Wild Flowers on a Yellow Background by British Landscape Artist, Angela Wakefield. From the 'Spring Burst' Interior Design Series. Frame...
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Early 2000s Abstract Art

Materials

Gesso, Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor

Yellow Composition - Giclée Print by Dadodu - 2010
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions 70 x 70 cm. Yellow Composition is an amazing giclée print realized by the contemporary artist Dadodu in 2010. This original artwork represents a yellow abstract co...
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2010s Abstract Art

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Giclée

"Emergence Series 1", abstract large yellow wrapped wire 3-D wall sculpture
Located in Edgartown, MA
Eric Gushee is a Chicago based artists, who was born and raised in New York City. His interest in art was first found at Marlboro College, where he studied creative writing. But afte...
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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Steel

Untitled - Lithograph by Sam Francis - 1994
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled is an original contemporary artwork realized by Sam Francis in 1994. Lithograph on vélin paper. Hand signed in pencil by the artist. Numbered on the lower margin. Editio...
Category

1990s Abstract Art

Materials

Lithograph

Static in Yellow & Camel, Digital on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Acrylic Abstract Painting, Original artwork created by Ronald Hunter. Static Yellow & Camel from the static serie. Layer upon layer of acrylic paint are applied in firm brush stro...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Digital

Yellow reunion (Lost lights) 2, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Abstract minimalist color field with yellow shades and gloss finish. Created using palette knifes and fine textured layers. Signed in front. Ready to hang I include a certificate ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic

South Beach Life Guard Station in Red, Yellow and Blue
Located in Miami, FL
South Beach's iconic and colorful lifeguard station is a mecca for tourist snapshooters. Veteran color photographer Michell Funk reexamines this subject as an abstract hard-edge col...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

All Realities (Abstract Geometric Painting in Orange, Sienna, Yellow on Panel)
Located in Hudson, NY
Contemporary abstract geometric painting on 12 x 12 inch wood panel in colorful shades of orange, burnt sienna, with pops of yellow, grey, and white 'Mistress of All Realities', 2020, by Jeanette Fintz 12 x 12 x 2 inches, acrylic on wood panel Signed verso D-rings on reverse, simple hanging on two nails *There are three other paintings in the series, see REF LU2278336542 to purchase a set of 4 works The basic form, comprised of rotating circles stems from a geometric configuration created in a large abstraction from 2019 that strongly evoked a maternal quality because of it’s self generating fractal - like growth pattern. Off - shoots of hexagons and rhomboid shapes extend from the circles like building blocks, cellular connections, the underpinnings of unity at the base level of life. Working in a space between planning and chance, Jeanette Fintz presents a series of paintings that fuse gestural and geometric abstraction. This body of work continues Fintz’s use of the circle, ellipse and hexagon; motifs that embody references to nature, architecture and the decorative arts. The small paintings from this series offer a bright burst of form and color that would compliment any modern interior. Jeanette Fintz is an established artist working in the Hudson Valley, NY. She has taught at the School of Design Strategies at Parsons the New School for Design, SUNY Purchase, and Pratt Institute, among other American universities. Her work is collected in both private and corporate collections worldwide. To read more about her career, please scroll down for see her detailed CV and biography. Artist Statement: My paintings evolve in a space between planning & chance, systems & spontaneity, conveying contradictions that I view as metaphors for maneuvering through “real “life. In this work I play a fairly high stakes game of improvisation around a motif. Using a working method akin to jazz, I counterpoint systematically repeated elliptical shapes against gestural pours & drips and something unexpected emerges. I am drawn to create complexity, and challenged to unify multiple layers through the physicality of the paint, which fuses & knits together, as well as, ultimately, through the power of color to stabilize & resolve. The ellipse, which is hypnotic & spatial in repetition, & monumental, but not static as a shape unto itself, embodies references to nature and to the decorative arts which are both alluded to in the paintings. (The egg, the mirror, the vulva, or the shield.) Dynamic visual rhythms, in these pieces, the momentum of the repetitive ellipse, are typical of my work and help to maintain order within complexity. Their sources for me are both musical, notably the poly-rhythms of Latin jazz, Brazilian & East Indian music, and are also derived from the decorative arts, particularly textiles. The latter have been a source of excitement, often contributing a playful aspect to the paintings. I intentionally disturb the regularity of pattern, encouraging discordance & uniqueness, and then bring it back home after finding another by - way to work things through. Color is my most intuitive source of inspiration, connecting me to nature; It is also, ironically, my most passionately calculated element. In the primal struggle among sometimes apparently random components, subtlely modulated color clarifies purpose, builds context, and holds the structure together. The intuitive rhythmic order of Jeanette’s paintings prior to 2009 which featured repetitive lines, circles and ellipses clashing with fluid gestural streams of color have given way fully in the new work to a given crystalline geometric substructure that unifies all visual events. This work embraces and employs the Oneness found in sacred geometry as the underpinning for improvised pathways that give each work its uniqueness. Shapes that are found have a “role” to play, to riff off some of Jeanette’s series titles. The earlier pieces acknowledge through the unexpected visual event, the imperfection of the human condition while the newer geometries strive for the expression of spiritual wholeness and connection. About the artist: Jeanette Fintz is an abstract painter, who resides and paints in Hudson, NY. She is also an arts writer and independent curator. The intermix of being a native New Yorker and now, happily, a resident of the lush Hudson River Valley is evident in her work, which combines an urban edginess with the lyrical influences of her natural surroundings. Ms. Fintz was born in Brooklyn NY, educated at Queens College, The New York Studio School and Boston University. Her personal amalgam of NY School formalist principles, and love of natural light and color was initially forged during her summer at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture where she painted from the Maine landscape. Ms. Fintz lived and worked in the artist communities of Tribeca and Williamsburg, exhibiting regularly in NYC. Jeanette in part, credits the importance of natural light for her decision to transplant home and studio to Surprise. Ms Fintz has filtered nature through her urban sensibility, stretching color motifs towards the heightened and intensified palette often found in the realms of design and fashion. Her pieces have a rhythmic impact stemming both from her enjoyment of jazz and poly-rhythms of Brazilian and Indian origin, which she also sees displayed in the visual rhythms found in textiles and Islamic tile patterns. Jeanette’s involvement with these resources was enhanced by sabbatical travel to Spain’s Andalusia Region (2005 & 2009) to investigate patterning systems found in Moorish tiles and architecture, and to Turkey (2013), where she focused on the Iznik, Byzantine and Greco-Roman tiles and frescoes. Jeanette also had immersed herself in textile patterns and Ikat designs during her yearlong sojourn in Malaysia, where she was founding faculty in a new Parsons School of Design affiliate in Kuala Lumpur (1996-97). Selected Grants and Awards include 2015 EYP Architecture & Engineering Award, Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region 2015 Trustees Award, Albany Institute of History & Art 2013 Sabbatical, Parsons the New School For Design 2008 The Emil & Dines Carlsen Award / Painting, National Academy of Design 2005 Sabbatical, Parsons the New School for School Design 2005 Sudden Opportunity Stipend 2003 Faculty Development Award, Parsons, the New School for School for Design 1995-92 Sudden Opportunity Stipend, NYFA Rensselaer County Council for the Arts 1993 N Y F A, Artists Fellowship / Drawing 1990 E. D. Foundation Grant / Painting 1984 Ludwig Vogelstein Grant / Painting 1980 The Ingram Merrill Award / Painting 1975 Purchase Prize, Painting, Skowhegan School for Painting & Sculpture Ms Fintz has taught as an Assistant Professor of Art & Design, in the School of Design Strategies at Parsons the New School for Design for 17 years. At Purchase College, SUNY, Jeanette taught all levels of painting and drawing for 12 years as Assistant Professor in the BFA conservatory program. She also has taught at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY, The University of Southern Maine, Portland, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, and SUNY, Albany. Jeanette shows her work at the Garvey Simon Gallery, New York, NY, Fox Gallery, New York, NY, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington MA, the Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham NY, Cross Contemporary Gallery, Saugerties, NY. Recent projects include a solo show at Garvey Simon Gallery, NY NY (Sept. 7 - Oct, 2017), and a curatorial project, "The Ritual of Construction," at the Kleinert James Center, Woodstock Byrdcliff Guild (May 19 - July , 2017). Ms Fintz’s Residencies and Fellowships include: The MacDowell Colony, The Millay Colony for the Arts, The Ucross Foundation, and Altos De Chavon & Ossabaw Island Project. Jeanette’s selected Visiting Artist spots include Art New England, Bennington College, Bennington, VT, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva NY. Ms. Fintz received her MFA from Boston Universtiy SFA (1975 ), and her BA from Queens College CUNY (1972). She attended the New York Studio School (1972-73), and received a scholarship to the Skowhegan School in 1975. Ms Fintz’s work can be found in many national & international collections. Collections Par Capital Management Boston MA VYV Apartments, Luxury High Rise, Jersey City, NJ Boca Raton Yacht Club, Waldorf Astoria Resort, Boca Raton, FL Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Boston, MA, and Plano, TX Robert A.M. Stern Architectural Project, Washington DC Capital G Bank Hamilton, Bermuda Brigham & Women's Hospital, Foxboro, MA Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, Boston, MA Posternak Blankstein & Lund, Boston, MA Hale & Dorr, Boston, MA Analysis Group, Boston, MA National Televison, 7 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Christmas Island Phosphate, Singapore Jewish Free Loan Association, Los Angeles CA Rabobank NYC Commerzbank, New York, NY Commerzbank 2, World Financial Center, New York, NY National Television 7, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY Skowhegan School, Skowhegan, Maine Collection of Minister of Agriculture Datuk Effendi & Datin Norwawi Collection of the Former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamed of Malaysia Jim & Debbie Ellickson -Brown, Cultural Attache, American Embassy, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia (1996) Rohana Tan Sri Mahamad, Kuala Lumpur, MY Suherwan Abu, Kuala Lumpur, MY & Singapore Valentine Willie, Kuala Lumpur, MY Aloysious Goh, Singapore Betsey Swan & Chris Calder, Albuquerque NM Carrie Chen & Stanley Cohen Center Hill, Copake, NY Albert & Linda Eskenazi, Montreal, CA Barbel & Peter Starz, Toulouse, FR Clarissa & Jean Kueller, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Mr. & Mrs. Andre Keller, K L, MY & Geneva, Switzerland Shirley Greitzer, Esq. Washington DC Mark Meltzer, Los Angeles & Palm Springs, CA Joel & Fran Soroka, Aspen, Colorado Estate of Hella and Carl Ossenberg, NYC & Palm Beach, FL Estate of Gabriel Laderman, New York, NY Stephen Westfall, New York, NY Dr & Mrs Joseph Delisi, Lake Hopatcong, NJ Dr & Mrs Chris Calder & Besty Swan, Menands, NY Carol & Joachim Frank, NY, NY Mark Pettygrove, Los Angeles, CA George A Schulman, Los Angeles, CA Gerald De Silva, Los Angeles, CA Caryl Horn, Port Richmond, CA Joe & Cathy Plumber, Cold Spring, NY Molly Doland, Esq. Washington DC Bethany Beardslee Winham, Rhinebeck, NY David Fox & Associates, Inc. Briarcliff Manor, NY Eric & Carolyn Egas, Greenviille, NY & Vieques, PR Jin Zeng, New York, NY Selected Solo Exhibitions 2017 “Worldline Schreiber Paintings, plus...," Garvey/Simon Gallery 547 W 27th St, New York, NY 2016 "The Presence of the Invisible Proposition," Koussevitsky Art Gallery, Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield, MA 2012 "Andalusian Shards," The Wall Street Journal Bldg Lobby, New York, NY 2012 "The Plaid Paintings...
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2010s Abstract Art

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Acrylic, Wood Panel

Vivid 50, 2020, 2019, plexiglass on aluminum 24x24 in
Located in Atlanta, GA
Orit Fuchs / vivid 50, 2019, plexiglass on aluminum,3 of edition of 8,24”/24” Orit Fuchs lives and works in Tel Aviv‭, ‬a storyteller with a deep‭, ‬pure, and unquenchable appetite...
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2010s Abstract Art

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Metal

In and Out, mid-century figural abstract vibrant yellow geometric painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) In and Out, 1963 Acrylic on paper Signed and dated lower right 22 x 30 inches Figural abstract vibrant yellow geometric painting. Cl...
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1960s Abstract Art

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Acrylic

Large abstract oil painting - Yellow Makes the Moves - architectural, color
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a beautiful piece in a vibrant yet harmonious balance of geometry and color. Oil Painting - Yellow Makes the Move 35x35x2 in. Oil paint, cold wax medium and marble dust on c...
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2010s Abstract Art

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Oil

Yellow Trees
Located in Quogue, NY
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Upside 1
Located in Bloomington, IL
"Upside 1" is a unique monoprint. The artist's graphite drawing made on translucent film was etched into a copper plate using the technique of photogravure, and the plate became a re...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

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Photogravure, Monotype

Composition #1820, etching and drypoint by Renaud Allirand
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed and numbered in pencil, from the edition of 10. Complementary to similar etching series the artist has completed in blue, and black and white. R...
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2010s Abstract Art

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Etching, Monoprint

The Yellow Ribbon
Located in Lawrence, NY
One of the "Women of Abstract Expressionism" Caradoc Ehrenhalt would often accompany his mother, the artist Amaranth Ehrenhalt, on her visits to the Louvre in Paris and the Metropoli...
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1960s Abstract Art

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Oil

HaLo XXV
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Hyun Ae Kang is a famous South Korean Artist, who combines traditional Korean painting with Western abstract imagery using natural materials to create innovate mixed-media works that...
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2010s Abstract Art

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Canvas, Resin, Mixed Media, Oil, Board

Yellow Light Trees, Oil Painting , Framed, Houston Arboretum, Buffalo Bayou
Located in Houston, TX
Yellow Light Woods is an oil painting on canvas painted by Texan painter Steve Parker. This painting is of the woods in the back of the Houston Arboretum on Woodway Drive in Houston...
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2010s Abstract Art

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Canvas, Oil

MP03312, Colorful Yellow Abstract Painting, 2019
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary: My paintings are as much about the primacy of the moment in which they were made as they are the materials they are made with. Starting with a very deliberate setu...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

Indian Contemporary Art by Sumit Mehndiratta - Exploflora Series No.96
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on canvas, artwork can be shipped in a tube or framed in a crate
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2010s Abstract Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

UnderCover Cork No. 14, Painting, Acrylic on Other
Located in Yardley, PA
My cork series is a statement of my Portuguese origins. It's a coming back to nature, to raw, to minimalism, to simplicity... This is a one of a kind painting, an absolutely spon...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

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Acrylic

San Miguel Puzzle
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary: "San Miguel Puzzle" Inspiration from my recent trip to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico in Jan 2018 Colorful Homes, Doors, Windows encompass this Magical City Keywor...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

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Acrylic

Over Under (Yellow)
Located in Atlanta, GA
Archival pigment inks with hand-varnish on Innova 315 gsm paper
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2010s Abstract Art

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Varnish, Archival Pigment

Andre Lanskoy Abstract Limited Edition Signed Print from La Genese
Located in San Rafael, CA
Andre Lanskoy (French / Russian 1902-1976) Untitled from the portfolio La Genese, 1966 Color lithograph on wove paper Signed 'Lanskoy' lower right Edition 11 of 30. Numbered lower ri...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Art

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Archival Paper, Lithograph

Lumo
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Resin coated and mounted to layers of plywood, these digital/mixed media ‘picture objects’ represent interpretations of contemporary visual culture charmed by minimalism, modernism, technology and futurism. Recalling the colour-field and the elemental geometry of mid to late twentieth century post painterly abstraction, minimalism and op-art, these works use digital imaging as a means to navigate the territory between photography and painting, mixing references to photography, painting and television...
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2010s Abstract Art

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Resin, Panel, Digital Pigment

Where Dreams Are Made #4
Located in Deddington, GB
Where Dreams Are Made #4 By Lucy Moore [2022] original Acrylic on canvas Image size: H:60 cm x W:60 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:60 cm x W:60 cm x D:1.5cm Sold Unframed Plea...
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2010s Abstract Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

Abstract Oil and Wax Painting by Linda Touby 'Pigeons 312'
Located in White Plains, NY
“Pigeons 312” by Linda Touby, circa 2010. Oil and wax on canvas, 36 x 36 inches. This painting features textural stripes of bright pigments including yellow, orange, blue, black, and...
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2010s Abstract Art

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Canvas, Wax, Oil

Papolilas, Original Abstract Painting, 2020
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary: I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being From Khwaja Shams-ud-Din Muhammad Hafez-e-Shirazi A beloved Pe...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

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Paper, Acrylic

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