Dan Levinson Paintings

Original painting on canvas. Hand signed, titled and dated on verso by Lowell Nesbitt. Canvas size 74 x 58 inches. Frame size approx 76 x 60 inches. Artwork is in excellent condi...

The abstract diptych Petunia is a visual metaphor for lightness, motion, and warmth. Inspired by the natural sway of petunia blossoms in the breeze, this artwork transforms fleeting ...

Maura Petersen (American, born 1956) "The Dining Room" 2025 Acrylic Paint, Canvas, Stretcher Bars The artist signed the bottom right of the painting. In "The Dining Room," Maura Pet...

Signed on reverse Andrea Vandoni is an Italian artist born in 1972 who lives and works in Novara, Italy. The artist studied and trained at the School of the Archaeologists and the S...

"Still life with apples and strawberries" oil on canvas by Elena Narkevich This artist is very close to naif art. Dimension framed: 57 H x 49 W x 4 D cm Dimension not framed: 35 H x ...

Split in two, this composition by Andrée de Frémont offers on the left a bouquet of blue, extinct orange and of Naples yellow, on the right, the blac...

Fabian Jean graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Concordia University. He has had solo exhibitions in Montreal, Toronto and Halifax and has been included in several group exhi...

Fabian Jean graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Concordia University. He has had solo exhibitions in Montreal, Toronto and Halifax and has been included in several group exhibitions throughout Canada including, recently, Rideau Hall, Ottawa. Jean’s work can be found in public and private collections, including the Department of External Affairs (Canadian Embassy – The Hague), Musée du Québec, Royal Bank of Canada, Summit Maritime and the Royal Victoria...

Josh Talbott's (US based) "Life is Like a Rubber Chicken" is an acrylic painting that depicts a vibrant rubber chicken with a blue background. Bio: Josh Talbott grew up in suburban...

Brian Leo Cookie 2018 Acrylic on stretched canvas 10 x 10 inches Brian Leo was born in New Jersey in 1976, and is currently living in New York City. He is a graduate of Rutgers’ Ma...

One day, the son of the artist Planted a medlar pit in the garden in front of their house. Becoming Medlar, it stood out in the view of the workshop window till it became an inspiration of the artist. One summer, when it was covered day after day with countless medlars, it became the subject of a botanical canvas by Andrée de Frémont...

Josh Talbott's (US based) "Entropy" is an acrylic painting that depicts an overturned blue glass jar with clock hands spilling out onto a white background. Bio: Josh Talbott grew up in suburban/rural Georgia in the southern US. His first work as a professional artist was in scenic painting and murals for various production companies. An attempt to deepen his well of possibilities led to New Orleans where as a street artist he sold works to people from all over the world before loosing everything in hurricane Katrina. With short stints in Santa Fe and then Los Angeles Josh arrived in the small coastal city of Los Osos, California where he lives and works today. His curiosity is voracious and interests are many, including scuba/ free diving, sailing, surfing, gardening, geology, rock hounding, rationality, AI, history, and philosophy. In his studio there is always an audiobook on, and outside of the studio there are all manner of activities making there way into his work. He has many private collectors scattered across the globe and murals in San Francisco. ARTIST STATEMENT We live in a time of extreme and accelerated change, growing complexity, and specialization. At every stage in our human trajectory from primitive beginnings crawling out of the sea to the present gauntlet of challenges, our thinking tools and their uses are central to the story of what it means to be human. My work is informed by a fascination with thinking tools and the effects of programming and environment through the different phases of life and our capacity for storytelling. My practice consists of constructing small-scale still life scenarios of toys and other artifacts of human development, then creating photorealistic acrylic paintings of these scenes. The work juxtaposes the familiar and playful with a contemporary, complex, adult world. While I am interested in the science of the mind, and what it means to be a human, my work seldom features the human form, focusing instead on the objects and items that are frequently left behind. As such, the subject of the painting becomes the viewer him or herself because their own humanity is ultimately what is revealed. My work honors toys as thinking tools for small people and the scenes depicted explore the ways in which the culture of our formative years leaves a lasting mark and continues to shape our storytelling. The plastic artifacts of my formative years carry memories of simultaneous confusion and wonder at the world around me. These are sensations and emotions still very much present in my life. What were your imaginings and dramas when you played with toys? Are you living them today? The multileveled still life paintings of familiar toys are bright and accessible and connect to the viewer's nostalgia and playfulness while provoking deeper insights into our current evolutionary, cultural, and technological moment. I place each little curio with care into meaningful relationship to their interlocutors and environment. The plastic dinosaurs often depicted are emblematic of childhood curiosities, of great wonder and speculation at past worlds and the depth of evolutionary time, and yet they are made of a material that illustrates our shortsightedness, a quintessential human quality that makes it quite possible that these plastic creations will outlast us all. I do my best to draw inspiration and resources from everywhere to build a visual language. In my divergent path I find the musical compositions and the story of composer, Philip Glass inspiring. The story of his devotion to his craft and his subsequent successes have encouraged and inspired me. I'm influenced by writers such as Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Sapolsky, and Yuval Noah Harari, the many books by Simon Winchester, Daniel Dennet, Robert Wright...