21st Century and Contemporary Paintings

A large scale abstract mixed media painting by German artist Amela Rasi. This piece is presented on a cotton canvas + was created using pigments and oil pastels. 2022. Amela Rasi is...

Steven Colucci’s iconoclastic approach to performance and the visual arts have not only long blurred the boundaries between these disciplines, but have challenged its most basic assumptions. The title of this show references a most rudimentary dance move --the plié --and our assumptions of what to expect in relation to this. Also the suggestion that we can simply press a button and a preconceived outcome will be courteously delivered --a form of prefabricated belief in itself. Steven Colucci’s artwork turns such basic assumptions on their heads. Finding early inspiration in the New York school of abstract expressionists such as Jackson Pollock with his action painting, and then further by his professor --a then young Vito Acconci while studying at the School of Visual Arts, Steven Colucci went from exploring the raw existentialist experimentation of New York’s early painting and performance scenes, to investigating the other end of the spectrum --the rigorously measured and controlled disciplines of pantomime and ballet; studying in Paris under the tutelage of world-famous Marcelle Marceau, and engaging with the concepts of dramatic movement pioneer and intellectual Etienne Decroux. Colucci has explained the difference between the extremes of pantomime and dance as being that pantomime forces movement via an internal capacity --movement directed inward to the core of one’s self --a source requiring extreme mental and physical control. Dance by contrast is an external expression; likewise requiring great precision, although instead an extension of self or sentiment that projects outwardly. While such historical ‘movement’ disciplines serve as foundation blocks for Steven’s artistic explorations, it is the realm in between that he is best known for his contributions --an experimental movement and performance art that simultaneously honors, yet defiantly refutes tradition; rejecting a compartmentalization regarding art and movement, yet incorporating its elements into his own brand of experimental pastiche. Colucci’s performance works manifest as eerily candy-coated and familiar, yet incorporate unexpected jags of the uncanny throughout, exploiting a sort of coulrophobia in the viewer; an exploration of a cumulative artifice that binds human nature against its darker tendencies; highlighting traditions of artifice itself - the fabricated systemologies that necessitate compartmentalization in the first place. It is evident in Steven Colucci’s paintings that he has established a uniquely distinctive pictorial vocabulary; a strong allusion to --or moreso an extension of --his performance works. Colucci’s paintings depict a sort of kinetic spectrum, or as he refers to them “a technical expression of physicality and movement”. Whereas the French performance and visual artist Yves Klein used the human body as a “paint brush” to demarcate his paintings and thereby signify a residue of performance, Colucci’s utilization of nonsensical numbers and number sequences taken from dance scores, as well as heat- induced image abstraction depicting traces of movement likewise inform his vocabulary. In the strand of the choreographed, yet incorporating moments of chance, Colucci’s paintings represent an over arching structure; a rhythm of being and state, yet detail erratic moments --moments that denote a certain frailty --the edge of human stamina. Colucci’s paintings dually represent a form of gestural abstraction --and also the reverse of this --a unique anthropomorphization of varying states of movement – that sometimes present as a temperature induced color field, at others are juxtapositions of movement and depictions of physical gestural images themselves. Colucci’s use of vernacular and found materials such as cardboard evoke his mastery of set design, and also reference a sort of collective experience of urbanity and the ephemeral. Such contradictions seem to permeate not only Steven Colucci’s artwork, but also are reflected in his person – one who grew up in New York’s Bronx during a zeitgeist moment in visual and performing arts in the 1960s – one who shifts with ease from happenings and experiments in New York City, to his meticulously choreographed megaproductions at Lincoln Center or starring in the Paris ballet...

Oil on paper Black gives way for blue By Jan Rose Jan Rose has led an interesting life from The French Foreign Legion, body guard for the star...

A beautiful oil painting on a canvas by the Swedish artist Kjell Falk. The painting is 69 x 59 cm. It is in excellent condition and signed Kjell Falk 00. Kjell Falk (1940-2012) w...

Gerson Leiber "The Gods Love Discord, I Have Plenty in My Bag" Oil on Linen, 2015 Born in Brooklyn in 1921, Gerson showed promise in his high school art c...

A beautiful oil painting on a canvas by the Swedish artist Kjell Falk. The painting is 69 x 59 cm. It is in excellent condition and signed Kjell Falk 00. Kjell Falk (1940-2012) w...

The Artist Project: What Artists See When They Look at Art by Metropolitan Museum of Art. Publisher Phaidon Press, 2017. 1st Ed hardcover. Artists have long been stimulated and motiv...

Mid-century inspired, contemporary artwork entitled, "Boston Skyline", Mixed Media on Canvas by Shahen Zarookian. Acclaimed American Armenian artist a...

Stunning abstract painting by the french artist Bernadette de Samois (1987). Unique and signed piece. France, 2021.

A fantastic and striking original oil on board painting by the renowned artist John Mackay. This is signed and dated from 2012. It is a great size and b...

Contemporary painting made by the artist Bomberbax from 2021. The painting is made with mixed media and tempera and paint on canvas . Iconographic sign elaborated by the artist on th...

The painting is created by Italian artist Bomberbax in 2021. The painting depicts an artificial intelligence in a futuristic world and from the artist's point of view discopic for th...

Abstract views of landscape are interpreted and painted by the artist. In travels around the world designs and notes are made, which later are abstractly interpreted into paintings, ...

Mid-century inspired, contemporary artwork entitled, "Los Angeles Abstract Skyline", Mixed Media on Canvas by Shahen Zarookian. Acclaimed American Arm...

Mid-century inspired, contemporary artwork entitled, "Harvard Square Newsstand ", Mixed Media on Canvas by Shahen Zarookian. Acclaimed American Armeni...

The painting is created by Italian artist Bomberbax in 2021. The painting the artist created is a sequence of Bits with special relevance to the artificial world. The deliberately in...

Nijinsky as Harlequin. Original life-size painting by Lynn Curlee The great dancer Vaslav Nijinsky in one of his most famous roles as Harlequin in Ca...

Michel Fokine as Harlequin. In Carnaval, 1910. Original life-size painting by Lynn Curlee Fokine was choreographer of the famed Ballets Russes.    

Ivy Lysdal, b 1937. Danish ceramist and painter. Acrylic on canvas. Abstract modernist painting. Colorful palette. Dated 2006 Signed. Canvas measures: 30 x 30 cm. Provenance: T...

Ivy Lysdal, b 1937. Danish ceramist and painter. Acrylic on canvas. Abstract modernist painting. Colorful palette. Dated 2006 Signed. Canvas measures: 30 x 30 cm. Provenance:...

Ivy Lysdal, b 1937. Danish ceramist and painter. Acrylic on canvas. Abstract modernist painting. Colourful palette. Dated 2007 Signed. Canvas measures: 85 x 65 cm. Provenance...

Elena Borup is a young and upcoming Danish artist. Her art is characterized by bright colors and a high degree of details. "Nightlight" expresses the magi...

J. Paramé is considered one of the most talented and promising Portuguese artists of his generation. Born in Lisbon in 1978, he studied at the National Society of Fine Arts in Lisbon...

Under the Blanket Project, Naomi Clark creates what she titles Quilt Paintings. She breathes new life into old wool and cotton camping blankets culled from EBay, flea markets and gar...

Modern oil on canvas painting; titled “The Art of Noises” by Benjamin Rankin, a conceptual fine artist; signed on front bottom right; measuring approximate: 80" H x 70" W x 2” D. Gal...

Night train Original painting by Lynn Curlee This painting was used as an illustration in trains, a picture book for older kids published by Simon & Schuster in 2009. Mr Curlee is...

Owl Original painting by Lynn Curlee, professional artist and author/illustrator of award winning picture books for children. Acrylic on stretched canvas. The canvas is stretched a...

Daniel J O'Keefe quoted by Peter Hastings Falk on "Life Bio" as one of the rediscovered masters. Dan is constantly evolving and continues to surprise his loyal followers with breath...

Woolworth. An original painting by Lynn Curlee This,painting was used as an illustration in skyscraper, an award winning book for children by author/illustrator Lynn Curlee It ...

An original painting on silk by artist Winifred Jagger. Upon spending time in Burma, Jagger was inspired by the techniques and vivid colors of local artists which she has developed into her own unique style. The Tiger is painted with ink on silk...

Large abstract expressionist painting by American Artist, Suzanne Clune, circa 2016 Composition 3 - Black, white and red Measures: 58" W x 47" H x 2" D Acrylic on canvas Canvas wrapped Listed Artist Member- National Association of Women Artists Condition: Excellent, ready to hang. Experience and expertise - Clune Art And Antiques Studio...