Turkmen Contemporary Art by Amir Kerr - Important Words Expectation
By Amir Kerr
Located in Paris, IDF
Signed on bottom right Born in Turkmenistan, in the sunny city of Ashkhabad. From his youth was into artistic activities, currently the earlier works are kept in the family archives...
Canvas, Oil
Turkmen Contemporary Art by Amir Kerr - Coke In Flesh
By Amir Kerr
Located in Paris, IDF
Signed on reverse Born in Turkmenistan, in the sunny city of Ashkhabad. From his youth was into artistic activities, currently the earlier works are kept in the family archives. In ...
Canvas, Oil
Turkmen Contemporary Art by Amir Kerr - Blooming Ambitions
By Amir Kerr
Located in Paris, IDF
Great impulses that grew into ambition. They require attention and time, they are eager for the light! Otherwise, the chorus of your own voices, the creative call, they just won't ca...
Canvas, Oil
Turkmen Contemporary Art by Amir Kerr - The Morning News
By Amir Kerr
Located in Paris, IDF
Mass Information is an awfully great way to manipulate mood. We receive information even when we are not looking for it. But we have the freedom to choose the interest for ourselves....
Canvas, Oil
Turkmen Contemporary Art by Amir Kerr - Overprotection Escape
By Amir Kerr
Located in Paris, IDF
Being responsible for a loved one, we, out of great and excessive love, try to control the situation in all manifestations of his life. Forgetting that mistakes sculpting out the cha...
Canvas, Oil
Turkmen Contemporary Art by Amir Kerr - Worm-Martyr
By Amir Kerr
Located in Paris, IDF
They make a long journey to enjoy the warm rain. They help the soil keep it ventilated. They are favorites of fishermen and moles. And they die on the way to their dream. Just to fee...
Canvas, Oil
Turkmen Contemporary Art by Amir Kerr - Wrong Teleport
By Amir Kerr
Located in Paris, IDF
With the seemingly pleasant surroundings, do not allow yourself to be “fed” with the pretense of human-like personalities. Be there where there is more sincerity and less compromises...
Canvas, Oil
Turkmen Contemporary Art by Amir Kerr - Oncoming Rain
By Amir Kerr
Located in Paris, IDF
Signed on reverse Born in Turkmenistan, in the sunny city of Ashkhabad. From his youth was into artistic activities, currently the earlier works are kept in the family archives. In ...
Canvas, Oil
Turkmen Contemporary Art by Amir Kerr - The Blooming
By Amir Kerr
Located in Paris, IDF
Signed on reverse Born in Turkmenistan, in the sunny city of Ashkhabad. From his youth was into artistic activities, currently the earlier works are kept in the family archives. In ...
Canvas, Oil
Turkmen Contemporary Art by Amir Kerr - Inevitable Triangle
By Amir Kerr
Located in Paris, IDF
Signed on reverse Born in Turkmenistan, in the sunny city of Ashkhabad. From his youth was into artistic activities, currently the earlier works are kept in the family archives. In ...
Canvas, Oil
Turkmen Contemporary Art by Amir Kerr - Perception of Perception
By Amir Kerr
Located in Paris, IDF
Born in Turkmenistan, in the sunny city of Ashkhabad. From his youth was into artistic activities, currently the earlier works are kept in the family archives. In 2002 moved to Mosco...
Canvas, Oil
Turkmen Contemporary Art by Amir Kerr - Eggear
By Amir Kerr
Located in Paris, IDF
Oh, Red Carpet, show my favorite animals a way ! Being responsible for a loved one, we, out of great and excessive love, try to control the situation in all manifestations of his l...
Canvas, Oil
Turkmen Contemporary Art by Amir Kerr - Conan Floating
By Amir Kerr
Located in Paris, IDF
Born in Turkmenistan, in the sunny city of Ashkhabad. From his youth was into artistic activities, currently the earlier works are kept in the family archives. In 2002 moved to Mosco...
Canvas, Oil
Turkmen Contemporary Art by Amir Kerr - Girl With A Musk-Deer
By Amir Kerr
Located in Paris, IDF
Signed on bottom left Born in Turkmenistan, in the sunny city of Ashkhabad. From his youth was into artistic activities, currently the earlier works are kept in the family archives....
Canvas, Oil
Turkmen Contemporary Art by Amir Kerr - Infelicitious Present
By Amir Kerr
Located in Paris, IDF
Signed on bottom left Born in Turkmenistan, in the sunny city of Ashkhabad. From his youth was into artistic activities, currently the earlier works are kept in the family archives....
Canvas, Oil
Turkmen Contemporary Art by Amir Kerr - Gone Mushrooming
By Amir Kerr
Located in Paris, IDF
Signed on reverse Born in Turkmenistan, in the sunny city of Ashkhabad. From his youth was into artistic activities, currently the earlier works are kept in the family archives. In ...
Canvas, Oil
Turkmen Contemporary Art by Amir Kerr - Sunny At Midnight
By Amir Kerr
Located in Paris, IDF
Signed on bottom right Born in Turkmenistan, in the sunny city of Ashkhabad. From his youth was into artistic activities, currently the earlier works are kept in the family archives...
Canvas, Oil
Turkmen Contemporary Art by Amir Kerr - Son Of A Man
By Amir Kerr
Located in Paris, IDF
Signed on reverse Born in Turkmenistan, in the sunny city of Ashkhabad. From his youth was into artistic activities, currently the earlier works are kept in the family archives. In ...
Canvas, Oil
Turkmen Contemporary Art by Amir Kerr - Conditional Love
By Amir Kerr
Located in Paris, IDF
Signed on reverse Born in Turkmenistan, in the sunny city of Ashkhabad. From his youth was into artistic activities, currently the earlier works are kept in the family archives. In ...
Canvas, Oil
Turkmen Contemporary Art by Amir Kerr - Dog Days
By Amir Kerr
Located in Paris, IDF
Signed on reverse Born in Turkmenistan, in the sunny city of Ashkhabad. From his youth was into artistic activities, currently the earlier works are kept in the family archives. In ...
Canvas, Oil
$6,949
H 86.62 in W 70.87 in D 1.46 in
Large Contemporary Equestrian Oil Painting. Horse Painting 220 x 180 cm
By Rubins J. Spaans
Located in ALP, ES
This large figurative oil painting is a reinterpretation of a painting by Francisco de Goya, Retrato ecuestre de Fernando VII, 1808. A unique oil painting on the finest quality Belgi...
Canvas, Raw Linen, Oil
$883
H 15.75 in W 18.9 in D 0.79 in
Untitled - Blue Landscape With Trees, XX Century Figurative Oil Painting
Located in Hallein, AT
Alina Dobrowolska - artist from Gdańsk; graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk at the Faculty of Painting. She took part in collective and individual exhibitions in Poland...
Canvas, Oil
$35,000
H 72 in W 91 in
On Stage It's Okay to Be Different - An Homage to the Rocky Horror Picture Show
By Bruno Surdo
Located in Chicago, IL
This crowded theater scene shifts focus from performance to spectatorship, drawing inspiration from the cult spectacle of The Rocky Horror Picture Sho...
Canvas, Oil
$3,500
H 48 in W 36 in D 1 in
Spirit, Mind and Soul - 21st Century. Contemporary, Figurative Modern, Africa
By Aba Linus
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gal...
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Sonnet of Light I
By Gwen Wong
Located in Atlanta, GA
Gwen Wong's work is both painterly and allegorical, caught somewhere in the middle between the representational painter and the narrator. "I am inspired by the idea of a childhood re...
Gold Leaf
Tiny Sanctuary
By Gwen Wong
Located in Atlanta, GA
Gwen Wong's work is both painterly and allegorical, caught somewhere in the middle between the representational painter and the narrator. "I am inspired by the idea of a childhood re...
Canvas, Oil
$3,500
H 48 in W 36 in D 1 in
Little Companion 2 - 21st Century. Contemporary, Figurative Modern, Africa
By Aba Linus
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gal...
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
$9,500
H 62 in W 24 in
The Artist and His Dog, Self Portrait with Black and White Dog, Oil on Canvas
By Bruno Surdo
Located in Chicago, IL
Artists often are alone in their studios with little interaction with the outside world. Bruno is no exception. To ease this loneliness, Bruno brings his most trusted companion wit...
Canvas, Oil
$1,200
H 10 in W 8 in
"Pippin" - Hyperrealist Animal Portrait, Oil Painting on Gallery Canvas
By Carrie Goller
Located in Denver, CO
Carrie Goller's (US based) "Butch (Floriferous Squirrel)" (2025) is an original, handmade oil painting on gallery canvas. This piece measures 10 x 8 inches and is framed at 11.8 x 9....
Canvas, Oil
$8,245
H 19.69 in W 27.56 in D 0.79 in
THE SHADOW II - Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, Women's Portrait
By Jarek Puczel
Located in Hallein, AT
The Polish artist Jarek Puczel catches the calmness of apparently simple and unspectacular situations with an impressive modesty and apparent ease. He creates an interesting and tens...
Canvas, Oil
$15,000
H 64 in W 66.5 in
Nature's Web of Dependency - Large Scale Oil Painting with Animals and People
By Bruno Surdo
Located in Chicago, IL
This painting exemplifies Bruno Surdo’s synthesis of Renaissance figuration, Northern allegory, and psychological symbolism. Female figures twist and overlap beneath a lattice of tree branches, while animals—a lamb, fox, squirrel, hummingbird—inhabit the same compressed pictorial space. The interlocking limbs and diagonals recall High Renaissance and Mannerist strategies of sculptural composition, and Surdo’s atelier training is evident in the anatomical precision and volumetric modeling of flesh. Yet the scene feels intentionally dense and claustrophobic. Rather than a pastoral idyll, the forest becomes charged—alive with tension, concealment, and layered meaning. The symbolic animals situate the work within a long art historical lineage. The lamb evokes innocence or sacrifice; the fox suggests cunning and instinct; birds often signify fragility or spirit; the spider embedded in the branches recalls vanitas traditions of the Dutch Golden Age, where small creatures signal mortality and hidden threat. However, the background introduces an additional, more psychological register: the partially obscured eye and the numbers 3, 5, and 7. These are not naturalistic elements; they intrude like fragments from another realm. Their presence subtly aligns with Jungian thought—an area of interest for Surdo—where numbers function as archetypal structures of order within the psyche. In Jungian symbolism, such numbers carry qualitative meaning rather than mere quantity, suggesting stages, wholeness, embodiment, or cycles of psychic development. Their appearance within the forest—traditionally a metaphor for the unconscious—suggests the mind’s attempt to map or structure instinctual terrain. The eye, half-hidden behind branches, intensifies this reading. It can be understood as a symbol of awareness or consciousness emerging from within the thicket of instinct. Rather than divine omniscience, it feels psychological—an archetypal “watcher” embedded in the natural world. The forest thus becomes more than environment; it reads as psychic landscape. Surdo collapses civilization and instinct, rational structure and animal impulse, into a single visual field. Within his broader oeuvre—often concerned with the tension between performance and authenticity, order and chaos—this work becomes a contemporary myth of the psyche. Renaissance form provides authority and structure, while allegorical animals and Jungian symbols suggest the layered architecture of the unconscious. The result is a painting that feels timeless yet inwardly modern: a meditation on innocence, predation, awareness, and the hidden numerical and symbolic frameworks through which the human mind seeks to understand its own wilderness. Bruno Surdo Nature's Web of Dependency oil on canvas 64h x 66.50w in 162.56h x 168.91w cm BRS082 Bruno A. Surdo b. Chicago, 1963 EXHIBITIONS 2021 Ethos + Truth, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL 2020 Realities, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL 2018 Liberation, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL Blood Sport, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL Art on Paper 2018, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Pier 36, New York, NY SOFA Chicago 2018, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL 2017 POP!ARAZZI, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL Coming Attractions, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL 2015 SOFA Chicago 2015, Ann Nathan Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL Bruno Surdo: Allegories, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2014 Bruno Surdo: Respond, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Modern Metaphors, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL 2013 Bruno Surdo: Revelations, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Vice + Virtue, Northern Illinois University Museum of Art 2012 Contemporary Realism Biennial, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN 2011 Bruno Surdo, University of St. Francis School of Creative Arts, Fort Wayne, IN Uncensored, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2010 Art Chicago 2010, Ann Nathan Gallery, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL 2009 Art Chicago 2009, Ann Nathan Gallery, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL 2007 Bruno Surdo, Art Institute of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN 2006 Context/Content: Making Meaning with the Figure, University of Arkansas, Conway, AR Creative Imaginings, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL Bruno Surdo: Cycles, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2005 Art Chicago 2005, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2004 Tragedy, Memory, & Honor, Richard M. Daley Center, Chicago, IL Art Chicago 2004, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Group Show, Arcadia Gallery, New York, NY Drawings VII, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, West Hollywood, CA Armory Show, New York Armory, New York, NY 2003 Paintings & Drawings, College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL The Art Show, New York, NY Bruno Surdo: New Work, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Art Chicago 2003, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2003-10 International Show of Contemporary Artists, Chicago Art Open, Chicago, IL 2002 Bruno Surdo: Perception of Appearance, Frye Museum, Seattle, WA Tragedy, Memory, & Honor, Richard M. Daley Center, Chicago, IL Bruno Surdo: Transcendence, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Art Chicago 2002, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Tragedy, Memory, & Honor, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2001 Magic Vision, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR 1998 Evanston and Vicinity Artists, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL 1996 Bruno Surdo: A Personal View, University of Wisconsin, Kenosha, WI 1995 Bruno Surdo: Recent Works, College of Lake County, IL AIDS in Our Society, Loyola University, Chicago, IL Bruno Surdo: Life, Struggle, and Hope, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL 2001 Magic Vision, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR Bruno Surdo: Dualities of Life, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 1999 Group Show, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 1998 Group Exhibition, Fine Arts Building Gallery, Chicago, IL 1995 Spiritual Inquiries, Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL 1994 Recent Works, The 14th Annual Juried Exhibition for Lake County Artists, Grayslake, IL Go Figure, Figurative Works on Paper, Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, Chicago, IL SELECTED COLLECTIONS The Re-Birth of Venus, Temporary Loan, Fort Wayne Museum of Art Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR College of Lake County, Greyslake, IL Flashpoint Academy, Chicago IL John Robert Wiltgen Design Shoemaker Ruud Collection Julie & Thomas Danilek Michael Vozzella and Mike Silver Benjamin Fernandez Tom Braake Betsy Colburn Michael Diemand & Lor LaRose Michael Staab & Kathy Brock Bruce Leep Frank Tzurect Mary Foley Rosalyn Carlson Mimmy Turney Janet Long Halstead Billy Hunt Carol Galli Myles Kerrigan Honorable & Mrs. Edwin Berman Theodore Gage Northrop Art Museum Past Present & Future Company Dr. James & Peggy Kemmler Salvatore Monastero Nix & Virginia Lauridsen Joel Miller David & Marlene Zerkel Ann & Andy Abel Claudia Rush Marc Miller Leonard Goldberg Lawrence Pucci Howard Tullman Collection Susan & Manny Kramer James Rinnert Richar Interiors Michael & Nancy Colt Khalid Altijir Dr. Joe Grodman Beryl & Jack Gore Larry Wolf & Eric Naegle Chuck Wolandi Jack Schwab & David Sandelin Thomas Kaczmarek Marti Dinerstein Craig & Michael Golden...
Canvas, Oil
Fire Down Below
By Robert McCauley
Located in Bozeman, MT
"As a human exercising what little political power I might have, I struggle to campaign for nature and to remind all humans of our responsibilities as stewards of this planet. Art be...
Canvas, Oil
Scream
By Amir Kerr
Located in Paris, IDF
Scream, oil on canvas, 100x80cm, 2016, signed on reverse
Canvas, Oil
Black Unicorn
By Amir Kerr
Located in Paris, IDF
Black Unicorn, oil on canvas, 100x80cm, 2017, signed on bottom right
Canvas, Oil
Intolerance Waltz
By Amir Kerr
Located in Paris, IDF
Intolerance Waltz, oil on canvas, 100x80cm, 2018, signed on reverse
Canvas, Oil