Pillow Art

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

Louis Durot was born in Paris on April 22, 1939. He was something of an enfant terrible, and managed to be expelled from various schools for bad conduct. His ambition, as stated to his parents, was to earn money without having to work, and for a time, he was an “escort-boy” for a Parisian Grande Dame. He did, however, manage to get a good education in spite of himself, and received his Baccalaureate degree from Lycee Louis Pasteur in 1956. In 1960, he enrolled in the Facultie de Sciences, where he studied mathematics. He terminated his math studies in 1963, and turned his attention to engineering, working for Equipel, where he was responsible for calculating and measuring resistance for prototype nuclear generators. Equipel became a research facility, and offered Durot the opportunity to study organic chemistry. Durot directed numerous research projects for Equipel between 1966 and 1972. During this time, in fact, starting in 1964, he made many friends in the art world, gathering together artists from a variety of disciplines to form an artists commune — the Freelane Studio. Among the members were jazz journalist Gilles Brinnon, and a young painter, Jean Ihallero — a friend of the painter Maxime Defert. Through them, he met the artist Francois Arnal, who was interested in Durots’ engineering expertise for his sculptures. They got on well, and worked together for two years. Also in this circle were the actress Micheline Presle and the actor Daniel Gelin. In 1968, Arnal and Presle created Le Festival de Theatre de Chateauvallon, and through this, Durot became friends with the noted film director Ulysse Reynaud. In 1966, Francois Arnal introduced Durot to the artist Cesar, with the idea that Durot’s talents as a chemical engineer would be useful. Durot spent a year helping Cesar to master the techniques of working with polyurethane foam, with Durot searching for ways to make this fragile and ephemeral substance more stable and permanent, and more amenable to control. Cesars’ first works in this medium were flat, due to the difficulty of controlling the foam, but he went on to create his famous “expansions”. In 1968, Durot conceived a project to create more three-dimensional sculptures following a simple and precise design. It was during this time that Durot made his first polyurethane sculptures — the Champignons and Plantes Carnivores. Also in 1968, he He opened his first technical studio at 35, rue Leon. In order to support this new endeavor,( he needed more space, equipment, time and money), he created La Societe Durgalith. 1971 saw the Durat’s first works exhibited at the Salon Batimat in Paris. With this exhibition, Durot was hoping to attract the attention of architects with whom he could collaborate. Between 1971 and 1974, Durot created sixty sculptures inspired by fantastical “alien” life, mushrooms, and carnivorous plants. In 1974, Durot”s Societie Durgalith ran into problems with the Italian firm that owned Batimat. Credit Lyonnaise seized his studio and many of his sculptures, and quite a number of them were destroyed. This same year, Durot worked with the architects Sloan and Lecouter on an inflatable structure for the Pavillion Franaise in Osaka. Unfortunately, the project was never realized. Durot continued to pursue his research on polyurethanes, and gained world-wide recognition for his developments in this field. In 1977, a “student prank” had un-expectedly bad consequences. Durot was employed as an engineer at L’Usine Francaise de la Monnaie (the French mint) in Pessac. He took three kilos of “blanks”, and used them for playing slot-machines. For this, he spent seven weeks in jail, which was ended by an amnesty granted by Mitterand in 1981. During Durot’s time in prison, he took up weight-lifting, and also designed his next generation of sculptures. The spirals, feet, lips, and a series of erotic chairs...

Coloured Pencils and pastel on Hahnemühle paper - Realistic Figurative original Drawing, Colorful, Interior. Work Title : Intérieur Provence Artist : Gabriel Riesnert...

A mixed media silkscreen by Karel Appel from 1975. An expressionist style image of a brightly colored figure over a silver, reflective underlay. Artist: Karel Appel, Dutch (1921 - ...

Clare Halifax I is for Iguana Limited Edition 3colour screen print Edition of 100 Sheet Size: H 38cm x W 37cm x 0.1cm Sold Unframed Hand printed by the artist onto somerset satin pap...

Valay Shende is an Indian sculptor and video artist born in Nagpur, Maharashtra in 1980. He received his Diploma in Art Education in Nagpur in 2000 bef...

"I Didn't Sleep A Wink" is a framed oil painting on panel by Carol O'Malia, depicting a stack of pillows against a cloudy blue background. O'Malia's still life work often evokes the ...

"Support System" is a framed oil painting on canvas by Carol O'Malia, depicting a stack of pillows against a black background. O'Malia's still life work often evokes the mastery of a...

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...

Mauro Corda’s figurative sculptures maintain a reverence for classical and modernist traditions, while also expressing the artist’s voice. Though born in France, the artist hails fro...

This piece is framed. The price includes the pictured frame. Unframed dimensions are 36 x 72 inches. Carol O’Malia’s paintings depict ordinary objects, people, and places and the ...

The portraits, loaded with symbolic imagery, gaze out at the viewer, with a variety of intensities and emotions. This is to say, each woman has a story, which may not be directly evi...

The portraits, loaded with symbolic imagery, gaze out at the viewer, with a variety of intensities and emotions. This is to say, each woman has a story, which may not be directly evi...

The portraits, loaded with symbolic imagery, gaze out at the viewer, with a variety of intensities and emotions. This is to say, each woman has a story, which may not be directly evi...

Covid Vanitas: The Pandemic Still Lifes On the first day of quarantine I began photographing the people-less quiet of a home and studio in isolation. The still lifes are a visual j...

It took two years of tireless experimentation for me to develop the process of casting paper into bronze, another seven years to perfect, and it continues to evolve today.” - Kevin B...

Hotel Chelsea, New York. Room 128, 2011 Photographs from the photography book entitled Hotel Chelsea (publisher pointed leaf press 2013). C-print archival Size: 40 H x 60 W in. Edit...

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

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

Ana Maria Farina paints using a gun––a tufting gun––along with needles, hooks, and knots. Repurposing a phallic signifier of violence, she conjures vibrant objects of comfort that in...

Ana Maria Farina paints using a gun––a tufting gun––along with needles, hooks, and knots. Repurposing a phallic signifier of violence, she conjures vibrant objects of comfort that in...

Rebecca Skinner’s “Over” was photographed in an abandoned mansion in the Catskill Mountains of New York. Two pillows remain on the bed as if someone has just left this vacant home. T...

'Trailer life', 2020 20x24cm, Edition 1/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, digital C-Print based on a Polaroid, not mounted. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory - PL20...

"Covid Vanitas: The Pandemic Still Lifes" On the first day of quarantine I began photographing the people-less quiet of a home and studio in isolation. The still lifes are a visual ...

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...

Zeal Harris is known for creating seductive, caricaturesque, political, urban-vernacular, story paintings, with a blunt mix of high-brow/low-brow elements. Her micro-narratives offer...

Figural Study, ca. 1949-1959, by Chaim Gross (1902-1991) Ink on fabric 18 x 16 ¼ inches (45.72 x 41.275 cm) 25 x 23 ⅝ inches (63.5 x 60.0075 cm) Inscribed...

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...

Archival pigment print Signed, titled, dated, and numbered on label, verso 11 x 11 inches (Edition of 7) 15 x 15 inches (Edition of 5) This photograph is offered by ClampArt, locat...

Capturing the ephemeral beauty of a pillow recently dimpled with use, Xie Dong’s porcelain pillow sculptures are at once realistic and mysterious. Sculpted with a subtle impression i...

Ana Maria Farina paints using a gun––a tufting gun––along with needles, hooks, and knots. Repurposing a phallic signifier of violence, she conjures vibrant objects of comfort that in...

Ana Maria Farina paints using a gun––a tufting gun––along with needles, hooks, and knots. Repurposing a phallic signifier of violence, she conjures vibrant objects of comfort that in...

CAROL O'MALIA received a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and MFA from University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. Her paintings have caught the attention of both private and corpo...

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...

'Illuminations started in 2002 when a relationship was slowly falling apart. While trying to save it, we rented a large stylish apartment in Stockholm, and then later one in Arles, France, hoping that a change of scene would have a posi-tive effect. The new spaces made the distance between us more acute, and the inevitable break even more obvious. The ritual of making one photograph each night became crucial to me. I left the camera shutter open for 3 to 8 hours in a darkened bedroom, and as the morning light arrived I interrupted the exposure. It is a private journal, documenting time and memory, where present meets past.' Born in Vienna to Swedish and Greek parents and raised in Stockholm, Florence Montmare has an MBA in Design Management from Linnaeus University, Sweden and studied at the School of Visual Arts. A graduate of International Center of Photography, New York, she collaborated with artist Sam Samore...

2010, Serengeti, Tanzania, black and white wildlife art photography Migration of Zebra 15 x 45'' Edition of 50 Drawn from the archives of fine art photographer William Chua, his...

24" x 36" Hahnmühle paper matt fibre 200gr. Archival digital pigment print, unframed. Edition of 5 +2AP Humans are complex. We are made up of many different layers, oftentimes unw...

36" x 24 " Edition of 5 +2AP Hahnmühle paper matt fibre 200gr. Archival digital pigment print, unframed. Humans are complex. We are made up of many different layers, oftentimes unw...

cotton, thread, found objects

Ignacio Gana The Dream Signed and numbered by artist Bronze on granite base 7 x 15 x 15 inches, Edition of 10 This piece is currently on display at Art Angels in Los Angeles.

Rainer Lagemann Brain, 2016 15" x 24" x 15"h Stainless steel sculpture of a human brain Edition of 9 Signed by the artist Currently on display at Art Angels Los Angeles

#3557-y, 2005 - Todd Hido (Colour Photography) Signed, titled and dated on reverse Archival pigment print Available in three sizes: 24 x 20 inches, from an edition of 10 + 3 APs 38 ...

#1447-a, 1994 - Todd Hido (Colour Photography) Signed, titled and dated on reverse Archival pigment print Available in two sizes: 38 x 30 inches, from an edition of 5 + 2 APs 48 x 3...

This photograph is an Edition of 50. Please see additional editions listed below. All editions are signed by the photographer. Larger sizes may be available upon request.

Original platinum print by Ryuijie & Camille Derendinger. Edition of 15. Signed and numbered on the front of the print.Available in 11 x 14 inches approximately. Works come overmatte...

Original platinum print by Ryuijie & Camille Derendinger. Edition of 15. Signed and numbered on the front of the print.Available in 11 x 14 inches approximately. Works come overmatte...

Original platinum print by Ryuijie & Camille Derendinger. Edition of 15. Signed and numbered on the front of the print.Available in 11 x 14 inches approximately. Works come overmatte...

Original platinum print by Ryuijie & Camille Derendinger. Edition of 15. Signed and numbered on the front of the print.Available in 11 x 14 inches approximately. Works come overmatte...

Edition of 7

Edition of 7

Created over the past eight years, "Kin" confronts issues of colonization, racial diversity and economic disparity in Hugo's homeland of South Africa. Through landscapes, portraits a...