Stars Splinter, Pointed and Wild
By Angela Fraleigh
Located in New York, NY
Unsigned
2010s Contemporary Angela Fraleigh Art
Linen, Oil
Many of Angela Fraleigh’s haunting and carefully staged tableaux feature women drawn from the annals of Baroque and Rococo “boudoir paintings” — titillating scenes meant to fan the ardor of the viewer. But she puts a contemporary twist on this iconography by giving her characters more agency than was typical of earlier eras.
In Fraleigh’s paintings, which can extend to eight feet, group scenes are typically set against a backdrop of lush painterly effects, ranging from pure abstraction to suggestions of flora and fauna. “I want my paintings to be magical and mesmerizing — seductive, while also inspiring the viewer to ask questions about who they are, where they are, what power they have available and how they might use that power,” the artist says.
Adds Ted Holland, a director at Hirschl & Adler Galleries, in New York, which represents Fraleigh’s work: “She examines the roles and depictions of women in art history — as subject, object, artist and muse — and repositions those often-marginalized figures at the center of her own paintings. The mix of figuration and abstraction allows the female figures to exist without the signifiers of time and location, ultimately giving the figures a new power and context.”
But Fraleigh’s practice also has a quieter, more intimate side. She is an exquisite draftsman who has focused on, among other subjects, the animal kingdom and the intricacies of women’s hair, and some of her smaller paintings have a quiet mystery reminiscent of Gerhard Richter’s tender portraits.
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Stars Splinter, Pointed and Wild
By Angela Fraleigh
Located in New York, NY
Unsigned
Linen, Oil
Our story was a ghostly one
By Angela Fraleigh
Located in New York, NY
Signed on verso
Linen, Oil
A Word For What Binds
By Angela Fraleigh
Located in New York, NY
Unsigned
Canvas, Charcoal, Oil
The Circle is Cast, We Are Between the Worlds
By Angela Fraleigh
Located in New York, NY
In Angela Fraleigh’s dynamic paintings, female subjects culled from art history become active protagonists in newly imagined spaces. In their original contexts, these figures were largely painted as docile objects for the male gaze...
Oil, Acrylic
In an Absent Dream
By Angela Fraleigh
Located in New York, NY
Unsigned
Canvas, Charcoal, Oil
Through the half-drowned stars
By Angela Fraleigh
Located in Houston, TX
Angela Fraleigh Through the half-drowned stars, 2015 oil, ink, and synthetic resin on canvas 66 x 90 x 2 in (167.6 x 228.6 x 5.1 cm) Angela Fraleigh (born 1976, Beaufort, SC) earned...
Canvas, Ink, Oil, Synthetic Resin
A Pang of Vivid Light
By Angela Fraleigh
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated (on verso): "Angela Fraleigh 2021"
Linen, Oil
Wait For Me There
By Angela Fraleigh
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated (on verso): Angela Fraleigh 2021
Canvas, Oil, Panel
Splinters of a Secret Sky - Splinters
By Angela Fraleigh
Located in New York, NY
Signed (on verso): AF/2021
Canvas, Acrylic Polymer, Oil, Acrylic
From Sunset to Sunrise
By Angela Fraleigh
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated (on verso): Angela Fraleigh 2021
Linen, Oil
$18,000
Turn Your Eyes to the Heavens and Say Three Times: I do not have to be good
By Angela Fraleigh
Located in New York, NY
Is it discomfort, or excitement, that you feel when you watch these women languidly roust, or subtly drift asleep? Do you happily play the voyeur, seduced by their beauty and the opu...
Oil, Acrylic
Rooted in Constellations
By Angela Fraleigh
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated (on verso): Angela Fraleigh 2021
Linen, Oil
Shaking to Sound the Silent Skies
By Angela Fraleigh
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated (on verso): Angela Fraleigh 2021
Linen, Oil
Tumbling into Light
By Angela Fraleigh
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated (on verso): Angela Fraleigh 2021
Canvas, Oil, Panel
The Stars Rise, the Moon Bends Her Arc
By Angela Fraleigh
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated (on verso): Angela Fraleigh 2021
Linen, Oil
Silent Sparks
By Angela Fraleigh
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated (on verso): Angela Fraleigh 2021
Canvas, Oil, Panel
A late frost drifted back
By Angela Fraleigh
Located in New York, NY
Signed on back
Linen, Oil
$10,182
H 23.63 in W 31.5 in D 1.97 in
Midday nap- 21st century painting of a girl in a red dress on a blue sofa
By Ksenya Istomina
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Ksenya Istomina 'Midday Nap' 60 x 80 cm ( Frame is included in price, size framed in a black frame form the pictures is: Oil on linen, framed Painted after life, the artist always ...
Linen, Oil
$7,500
H 48 in W 30 in
No Pasaran - Lone Soldier Symbolizing the Human Desire for Equality and Freedom
By William Blake (b. 1991)
Located in Chicago, IL
Hugh Goffinet stares out from the canvas in the dress of a soldier, without being one. He is a reenactor of an African American volunteer in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. His inspiration is the Lincolns—the battalion’s volunteers—but they are pictured only symbolically, in his dress. Their inspiration was Lincoln, who many decades earlier helped give meaning to the American Civil War, but who is invisible in the painting except by implication—the pose of Hugh Goffinet—which carefully emulates Lincoln’s pose in the celebrated presidential portrait by George Healy. Entirely hidden, at the deepest layer of history, is the true source of inspiration: the human desire for equality and freedom. To understand, honor, and preserve it requires remembrance, in this case with history animating reenactors who animate art that animates memory. "No Pasaran" - an expression of determination to defend a position against an enemy - channels the spirit of Winslow Homer's war imagery, bringing it into the contemporary world, asking us to reflect upon the decisions forced to be made in wartime, some of which will never leave us. As for the paintings, William uses materials and methods of the Civil War era. The linen on which he paints was in use at that time as well as the tubed oil paints. He is one of the few artists who tacks his canvas to the stretchers using similar tacks that would have been used by Winslow Homer. While he leaves the works unframed for this reason, the artwork could certainly be framed. This piece is unframed. Please contact the gallery for framing options. William Blake No Pasaran oil on linen 48h x 30w in 121.92h x 76.20w cm WIL047 Known for his highly charged depictions of Civil War reenactments, William Blake’s powerful paintings show the recursive bodies of reenactors as they gesture across time. Participating in over 40 reenactment events, Blake currently interprets as the artist-correspondent Winslow Homer at these battle reenactments. He immerses himself in the materiality of his own obsession by constructing period clothes, camping on battlefields, and documenting the reenactment similar to Homer’s documentation of the authentic war. The figures in the paintings reverberate the past with respect and with a desire to educate, humble, and play. With each annual iteration of American Civil War reenactments, the reanimation of the past encourages a review of history and aids in its continuous revision. For his second exhibition with Gallery Victor Armendariz, William Blake presents A Great Battlefield, a collection of new paintings depicting US Marines at the Gettysburg National Military Park. A Great Battlefield, takes its title from Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address which poetically looks to the battlefield as a site of rebirth. Following the tradition of nineteenth-century American history painting...
Linen, Oil
Untitled # 13
By A.J. Fries
Located in Buffalo, NY
A contemporary oil painting on linen by American artist A.J. Fries. Artist’s Statement: These works are an extension of a small series of realistic paintings that I did of graves...
Linen, Oil
$16,576
H 51.19 in W 78.75 in D 1.97 in
Large Expressionist figurative Oil Painting "The Dancer"
By André François van Vuuren
Located in Cape Town, ZA
This large scale oil painting on Belgian linen canvas depicts our perceived inner feelings of the people and situations we encounter through the use of bold shapes and colours. The c...
Linen, Oil
Marilyn Chanel Diamond. (Palm White)
By Russell Young
Located in Östermalm, Stockholms län
Unique. Artwork size: 160x122 cm. Frame size 167x130x5 cm. Signed, titled and dated on the back. Acquired directly from the artist. Free shipment worldwide Russell Young, born in 1959 in Yorkshire, is a British-American artist best known for his large scale silk screen paintings...
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, Linen, Ink, Screen
$2,775
H 40 in W 30 in
I Used to Dream - Original Figurative Vibrant Mixed Media Painting on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Rooted in introspection and emotional nuance, Xenia Gray’s figurative mixed media works capture the quiet tension between solitude and connection. Her paintings often depict the huma...
Canvas, Charcoal, Oil, Acrylic
$4,552
H 25.6 in W 31.89 in
Jacques II by Guillaume Chansarel - Urban landscape painting, Paris, streets
By Guillaume Chansarel (Guiyome)
Located in Paris, FR
Jacques II is a unique painting by French contemporary artist Guillaume Chansarel. The painting is made with ink and acrylic on old book pages mounted on canvas, dimensions are 65 × ...
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic, Magazine Paper
$2,600
H 22 in W 18 in D 2 in
Afterglow (Oil Painting of Male Figure Seated in Art Gallery Near Sunset Scene)
By Judith Wyer
Located in Hudson, NY
Modern academic style figurative painting by Judith Wyer, "Afterglow," 2024 oil on linen, framed 22 x 18 inches with a slim floater frame 21 x 17 inches unframed The artist Judith W...
Linen, Oil
They after Batoni and Hodges
By Derrick Guild
Located in London, GB
Dimensions variable: medium oval 7.5cm x 9.5cm; large oval 9cm x 11cm. Derrick Guild is a Scottish artist whose paintings fragment Old Master works to explore the social fabric bene...
Linen, Oil
$12,728
H 39.38 in W 31.5 in D 1.97 in
Sweet dreams in the Moonlight -21st century interior painting with figures
By Ksenya Istomina
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Ksenya Istomina 'Sweet Dreams in the Moonlight' 100 x 80 cm Oil on linen Painted after life, the artist always works with a real scenery. Her realistic but impressionistic paintings...
Linen, Oil
$1,080Sale Price|20% Off
H 26 in W 32 in D 1.25 in
Four Faces, Contemporary Surreal Figurative Abstract on Black
By Michael Pauker
Located in Soquel, CA
Contemporary surreal figurative oil painting featuring the faces of four men floating in the lower register of a black space Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b.1957). Unsign...
Oil, Linen
$725
H 18 in W 15 in D 0.75 in
Contemporary Portrait of a Woman on Green Background - Original Oil Painting
Located in Soquel, CA
Contemporary Portrait of a Woman on Green Background - Original Oil Painting Beautifully rendered portrait of woman against a green background. This piece blends technical skill wit...
Oil, Linen
Shine
By Angela Fraleigh
Located in New York, NY
Signed on verso
Resin, Oil, Board