Suede Contemporary Art

Blossom: A piece of 3D sculptural wall art designed and made from two layers of grey leather, woven together by Louise Heighes. Measurements are 50 x 30 inches or 127 x 77 cm. ...

Grape Hyacinth: A piece of 3D sculptural wall art designed and made from two layers of cream leather, woven together by Louise Heighes. Measurements are 17 x 17 inches or 43 x 43 cm...

This is an incredible large scale Mid-Century Modern signed abstract oil on canvas depicting a seascape. The coloration is so vibrant and will add depth to any design project. It is ...

This beautiful contemporary modern wall art features a unique Olympic style design with three circles displaying athletic figures in the middle of each. The elegant dark black backin...

Postmodern "City Living ?" Art Pottery figural wall sculpture signed "THS 79" featuring an abstract face being devoured by ribbons and string. F...

Signed indistinctly lower left. Several printed fragments including red patterned carpets and printed book pages painted over in olive green tones. The bottom with four painted red a...

Extraordinary Mid-Century Modern cityscape painting with brown and green skyline. The large scale (5 foot) cityscape painting is reminiscent...

Modern art is wonderful for updating any decor! This is a large scale modern abstract signed oil painting completed by Scottish American born Ni...

Media consists of fiber, paint, shellac on a linen canvas. Beautiful wood frame. Frank Faulkner by Philip Herrera, 2006: Born in Sumter, South Carolina in 1946, Frank Faulkner received his B.F.A. from the University of North Carolina in 1968, Phi Beta Kappa, and his M.F.A. from the same institution in 1972. Faulkner’s work quickly won him numerous grants and awards, including an individual artist grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1974. He was selected for the Whitney Biennial in 1975, which prompted him to settle in New York. There, he came to the attention of Dorothy Miller, Curator Emeritus of the Museum of Modern Art with a legendary eye for new talent. Since then, Faulkner has continued to garner acclaim and awards. He has been featured in dozens of one-person exhibitions (not to mention group exhibitions) in this country, as well as in Japan, Switzerland, and Germany. Faulkner’s work is owned by leading museums (the Smith College museum in Northampton, Massachusetts, for example, the National Museum of American Art and the Hirshhorn in Washington, D.C.) and by renowned collectors such as Nelson Rockefeller, Baron Leon Lambert, Phillip Hanes and Abba Eban. What a viewer first notices is the sheer elegance of the pieces, no matter what materials Faulkner uses—metal, wood and fabric as well as canvas and paper. Obvious, too, is the artist’s originality. Faulkner belongs to no school. His work is patterned but is far too intellectual to qualify as so-called “pattern art,” which mainly strives to be merely pretty. Rather, he paints in his own highly organized way, filling the surface without being excessive or boring. Faulkner sets up a system, say, of dots or dashes, then subtly changes the visual rhythms in order to add life and surprise—what he calls “the gymnastics of seeing.” He works and reworks the surfaces of his canvases, often laying down one thin layer of slightly reflective gold, silver or bronze paint upon another until the final work seems to glow with inner light. John Ashbery, a leading critic and poet, has likened Faulkner’s art to minimalist music, which achieves both simplicity and beauty from its obsessive repetitions. The critic Carter Ratcliff describes it more simply as “brilliant artifice.” Faulkner’s current work, a series of paintings on paper, continues and deepens this exploration of the relationship between wrought surface and changing light. Another striking aspect of the work is the influence of the decorative arts. Faulkner has made some paintings on wood that stand independently and fold open like screens. Other pieces resemble large tapestries, and yet others take their inspiration from Art Nouveau inlays...

Vintage 1980s geometric Memphis style painting… capturing the full essence of the era. This large scale painting is the 1980s in a nutshell. Anyone who lived the period immediately gets flashback of Miami Vice, Trapper Keeper...

Wild flower: A piece of 3D sculptural wall art designed and made from two layers of cream leather woven together by Louise Heighes. Measurements are 19.5 x 19.5 inches or 49 x 49...

I love this painting! This is a large scale mid-century signed modern oil on canvas painting. It is signed “Monti”. The strong coloration includes black, blue, green and red.