Barn Window, Farm Painting Crimson Red Wood Blue Sky Green Trees Reflection
By Amanda Acker
Located in Kent, CT
A white house with black awning is visible through the window of a red barn, as well as the sliver of the reflection of bright green verdant botany outdoors seen through the opposite...
Oil, Panel
$3,000
H 14 in W 10 in
Light Pillar - Atmospheric Optical Phenomenon, Framed Oil Painitng
By Jeff Aeling
Located in Chicago, IL
In this larger treatment of the light-pillar phenomenon, Aeling demonstrates his mastery of night atmospherics. The bright vertical beam—pure, white, and nearly architectural—cuts through a heavy indigo sky, reflecting the artist’s fascination with moments when the environment becomes momentarily structured by light. His winters in cold climates provided ample opportunities to see such displays, and he painted them with the same meditative intensity he applied to Hawaiian sunsets and surf. In all these subjects, Aeling returned to a central theme: the sky as an evolving organism, capable of sudden, transcendent gestures. Jeff Aeling Light Pillar oil on panel 14h x 10w in 35.56h x 25.40w cm JAE034 Jeff Aeling (1958–2025): The Sky Remembers Through Jeff Aeling’s eyes, the landscape becomes a world shaped as much by air as by earth. In works such as North of Las Vegas, NM and Pond Near St. Cloud, MN, he balances the quiet structure of plains and wetlands with skies alive in constant motion. His mastery of atmosphere is unmistakable in Light Pillars (2023) and Light Pillar (2023), where rare optical events turn night into architecture. Even intimate scenes like Crabapple, Dogwoods, and Red Bud find their emotional power under skies that lend the land its shifting character. Aeling’s winters in Hawaii deepened his sensitivity to movement and weather. Surfing taught him to read the rhythm of the ocean, a knowledge reflected in Wave, Kauai (2018), where a breaking wave becomes a luminous wall of force. In Volcano (2023), he channels the islands’ elemental drama, linking fire, vapor, and sky through the same atmospheric vocabulary found in his plains paintings. Though often compared to American landscape painters like Church and Bierstadt, Aeling’s work engages modernity in subtle ways. He began his paintings with the camera—driving for hours to capture a fleeting alignment of cloud, light, and terrain. In the studio, he removed all traces of people or infrastructure, preserving the landscape as a pure, uncontrollable presence. This blend of tradition and contemporary practice allowed him to honor the past while speaking clearly to the present. Together, these works—whether a crashing wave, a blooming tree, a volcanic plume, or a column of winter light—form a portrait of the world as Aeling experienced it: vast, luminous, and alive with change. The Sky Remembers is both a tribute and an invitation to see the land with the reverence he carried throughout his life. Jeff Aeling (1958-2025) Iowa City, IA Represented in Chicago by Gallery VICTOR Education BFA, Painting and Printmaking, Kansas City Art Institute – Kansas City, MO School of the Art Institute of Chicago – Chicago, IL Solo Exhibitions 2016 Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO 2015 Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO 2014 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Tucson, AZ Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO 2013 Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO 2012 Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO 2011 Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO 2010 Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL Richard Demato Fine Arts Gallery - Sag Harbor, NY William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO 2009 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Tucson, AZ Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO 2008 Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO 2007 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Santa Fe, NM Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO 2006 Tory Folliard Gallery - Milwaukee, WI William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO 2005 Lisa Kurts Gallery - Memphis, TN Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL 2005 Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO 2004 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Santa Fe, NM William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO 2003 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Tucson, AZ Lisa Kurts Gallery - Memphis, TN Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO 2002 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Santa Fe, NM Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL Perimeter Gallery - New York, NY 2001 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Tucson, AZ J Mark Sublette Gallery - Santa Fe, NM Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO 2000 Charlene Cody Gallery - Santa Fe, NM Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO 1999 Charlene Cody Gallery - Santa Fe, NM Elliot Smith Contemporary Art - St. Louis, MO Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO 1998 Charlene Cody Gallery - Santa Fe, NM Elliot Smith Contemporary Art - St. Louis, MO Leedy-Voulkos Art Center Gallery - Kansas City, MO Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL 1996 Grand Arts - Kansas City, MO 1994 Gallery V - Kansas City, MO 1993 Sean Kelly Gallery - Kansas City, MO 1991 Tribal Textile Gallery - Kansas City, MO Selected Group Exhibitions 2022 Kiss Me, It’s Beginning to Snow, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL 2021 2019 Es-Scape, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL Earth Wind & Fire, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL 2018 Portraits and Places: Select works from Gallery Victor Armendariz, curated by Corporate Art Advisory, Metropolitan Capital Bank, Chicago, IL Art Hamptons, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Bridgehampton, NY Front and Center, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL 2004 Art Chicago, Navy Pier...
Oil, Panel
$16,200
H 48 in W 60 in D 2.5 in
The Silence Then the Rain: Contemporary Oil on Panel, Unframed
By Pauline Ziegen
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Pauline Ziegen oil, gold leaf, mixed media on panel coral, pink, white gold, teal, aqua, rust, navy, blue Pauline Ziegen’s earliest landscape paintings were painted outdoors in Kans...
Panel, Oil
Ocean View
By Victoria Veedell
Located in Napa, CA
Victoria Veedell captures the essence of nature by examining the effects of light on form in the natural world in her softly glowing landscape paintings. Inspired by her travels thr...
Paper, Oil, Wood Panel
$500
H 8 in W 8 in D 1.5 in
Threading Horizons 4: Contemporary Oil on Wood Panel, Framed
By Cynthia Young
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Inspired by the drama of nature and light, Cynthia creates abstracted landscapes with oil on canvas or panel.
Oil, Wood Panel
$15,000
H 48 in W 55 in D 2.5 in
As the Light Lies Along the West: Contemporary Oil and Gold Leaf
By Pauline Ziegen
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Pauline Ziegen oil, gold leaf, mixed media on panel coral, pink, white gold, teal, aqua, rust Pauline Ziegen’s earliest landscape paintings were painted outdoors in Kansas where vas...
Gold Leaf
$10,400
H 48 in W 36 in D 2.5 in
Lone Evening Oil Painting on Panel, Contemporary Landscape Art
By Pauline Ziegen
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Pauline Ziegen oil, gold leaf, mixed media on panel coral, pink, white gold, teal, aqua, rust, navy, blue Pauline Ziegen’s earliest landscape paintings were painted outdoors in Kans...
Panel, Oil
$11,200
H 30 in W 60 in D 2.5 in
Stand in the Shadows: Contemporary Oil on Panel Landscape Art
By Pauline Ziegen
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Pauline Ziegen oil, gold leaf, mixed media on panel coral, pink, white gold, teal, aqua, rust, navy, blue Pauline Ziegen’s earliest landscape paintings were painted outdoors in Kans...
Panel, Oil
$16,200
H 48 in W 60 in D 2.5 in
The Sky Falls Asleep: Contemporary Oil and Gold Leaf Landscape
By Pauline Ziegen
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Pauline Ziegen oil, gold leaf, mixed media on panel coral, pink, white gold, teal, aqua, rust Pauline Ziegen’s earliest landscape paintings were painted outdoors in Kansas where vas...
Gold Leaf
$2,200
H 25 in W 19 in D 2 in
Calling In Landscape Painting, Contemporary Oil on Wood Panel, Framed
By Cynthia Young
Located in Santa Fe, NM
lake, water, calm, green, blue, grey, neutral, dusk, lake, trees, reflection, mountains. Inspired by the drama of nature and light, Cynthia creates abstracted landscapes with oil on ...
Wood, Oil, Wood Panel
$4,200
H 16 in W 24 in
Pond Near St. Cloud, MN -Serene Pastoral Landscape with Meandering Water, Framed
By Jeff Aeling
Located in Chicago, IL
Aeling’s Minnesota works reflect his long engagement with the northern Midwest, where wetlands, ponds, and rolling farmland create a quieter but no less captivating atmosphere. In th...
Panel, Oil
$10,900
H 38 in W 50 in D 2.5 in
Yohaku No Bi: The Beauty of Empty Space - Contemporary Oil on Panel
By Pauline Ziegen
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Pauline Ziegen oil, gold leaf, mixed media on panel coral, pink, white gold, teal, aqua, rust, navy, blue Pauline Ziegen’s earliest landscape paintings were painted outdoors in Kans...
Panel, Oil
$13,900
H 48 in W 52 in D 3 in
Contemporary Oil on Panel: The Character of Rain, Unframed Artwork
By Pauline Ziegen
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Pauline Ziegen oil, aluminum leaf, mixed media on panel white, gray, white gold, navy, blue Pauline Ziegen’s earliest landscape paintings were painted outdoors in Kansas where vast ...
Panel, Oil
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H 9 in W 12 in D 1.75 in
Proud Vegetables - Table Still Life White Flowers Lettuce Carrots Pear, 2024
By Amanda Acker
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary botanical still life painting in oil on panel, purple flowers in a glass vase sit on a wooden table with the spoils of an autumn harvest spread across the table,...
Oil, Panel
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H 20 in W 16 in D 1 in
Winter Birds - Still Life Crimson Red Flowers Green White Snow Landscape, 2023
By Amanda Acker
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary still life painting in oil on panel, crimson red flowers with dark green leaves in a golden planter with a face on the side sit on a patterned yellow tablecloth ...
Oil, Panel
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H 9 in W 12 in D 1.75 in
Car Shadow - Contemporary Field Landscape Through Window Blue Sky Clouds, 2024
By Amanda Acker
Located in Kent, CT
A peaceful landscape with a field, blue sky overhead and tree line on the distant horizon is seen through the window of a car in this contemporary oil panting on panel. Framed in a t...
Oil, Panel
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H 8 in W 6 in D 1.75 in
Apple Picking - Contemporary Landscape Red Fruit Green Tree Blue Sky Fall, 2023
By Amanda Acker
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary garden landscape in oil on muslin mounted on panel, ruby red apples and lush green leaves are vibrant against a blue sky, while a hand reaches to pluck one of th...
Muslin, Oil, Panel
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H 8 in W 6 in D 1.75 in
Pale Beauty - Contemporary Insect Painting White Moth on Tree, 2023
By Amanda Acker
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary painting in oil on muslin mounted on panel, a luminous, bright white winged moth is perched on the side of a tree with gray beige tree bark. Signed, dated and ti...
Muslin, Oil, Panel
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H 20 in W 16 in D 1.75 in
Barn Window, Farm Painting Crimson Red Wood Blue Sky Green Trees Reflection
By Amanda Acker
Located in Kent, CT
A white house with a black awning is visible through the window of a red barn, as well as the sliver of the reflection of bright green verdant botany outdoors seen through the opposi...
Oil, Panel
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H 10 in W 8 in D 1.75 in
Wild Asparagus, Yellow Bush in Forest, Trees, Blue Sky, Leaves on Ground
By Amanda Acker
Located in Kent, CT
A bright yellow wild asparagus bush can be seen surrounded by leaves on the ground, barren tree branches framing a pale blue sky. Signed and dated on recto, signed, dated and titled ...
Muslin, Oil, Panel
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H 10 in W 8 in D 1.75 in
Backyard Pear, Yellow Fruit, Green Leaves, Grass, Trees, Blue Sky Clouds, Garden
By Amanda Acker
Located in Kent, CT
Yellow pears hang from a verdant fruit tree in a peaceful backyard surrounded by dark green pine trees beneath a calm blue sky with light wispy clouds, while yellow flowers spring up...
Muslin, Oil, Panel
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H 12 in W 12 in D 1.75 in
August Still, Blonde Female Figure in Mirror, Yellow Sunflowers, Bouquet Flowers
By Amanda Acker
Located in Kent, CT
In this square painting, a botanical still life arrangement on a vanity with a green vase with bright yellow sunflowers, goldenrod and pink and red flowers stands beside a candle with long wax drips and white mirror reflecting a female figure in a blue and white checkered dress. A framed painting on the wall depicts a male figure in a white shirt lying in the grass and a doorknob can be seen to the left of the wooden dresser. Signed, dated and titled on verso and framed in a natural wood float frame. Amanda Acker’s nuanced oil paintings on panel give a glimpse into moments and spaces from real life. The outdoor garden scenes hiss with the buzzing of lawns in summer months, while the interior still life paintings capture quiet moments within the peace of home. On the opposite side of the calendar year, a nighttime view peering out from a covered porch dressed up in twinkling lights...
Oil, Panel
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H 20 in W 16 in D 1.75 in
Spring Chill, Female Figure in Window, House at Night, Blue, Black Tree Branches
By Amanda Acker
Located in Kent, CT
A quiet nighttime scene is set with a view into two upstairs windows of a house, through one of which the silhouette of a female figure is seen starting to pull the window closed. Tw...
Oil, Panel
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H 18 in W 24 in D 1.75 in
Slithering In, Garden Landscape with Snake, Green Grass, White Flowers
By Amanda Acker
Located in Kent, CT
A quiet and inviting garden scene is set with a yellow and black striped snake on a gray stone walkway with verdant greenery, tall grass and white milkweed flowers lining the path. Signed, dated and titled on verso and framed in a natural wood float frame. Amanda Acker’s nuanced oil paintings on panel give a glimpse into moments and spaces from real life. The result is carefully painted, captivating work that is both universally recognizable, reflecting a feeling of the everyday, and deeply personal, evocative of pastimes and lives lived. Born in Illinois, Acker has been featured in The English Room’s Artist Spotlight Series and the MADE Series on Anthow Circus, and has exhibited at The Provincial, Kaleva, MI, and BLK MRKT in Traverse City...
Oil, Panel