A photographer, draftsman, cinematographer and painter, Frédéric Choisel is a person of many talents. Colors swirl across his canvases as if they’re in motion — his brushstrokes produce unexpected forms and textural heft. And while he’s best known for his abstract paintings, Choisel has created numerous works in a realist style, drawing frequently on the power of nature to produce serene landscapes as well as enveloping depictions of cloudy skies at dusk.
Born in France, Choisel attended Ecole Supérieure d'Etudes Cinématographiques and went on to the University of Paris VII, where he studied painting and other disciplines such as photography (he was shooting with an old Pentax as a child).
Influenced by the Dutch and Spanish Baroque artistic movements, Choisel credits 19th-century French masters Gustave Courbet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot as inspirations. Photography and film are important to his painting, too. The artist initially worked as a filmmaker, and is still actively taking on projects as a cinematographer in the documentary realm. Choisel’s work behind the camera — any camera — is integral to his other endeavors. A still image he captures as part of a film project might find a new life as a subject at his easel.
Choisel has shown his work in solo and group exhibitions in France, Belgium and throughout the United States. He lives and works out of Paris, but also has a studio in Long Island City, New York, and is represented by Andra Norris Art Gallery in San Francisco.
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#6, How hard it is to climb up other people's stairs, The Divine Comedy
By Frédéric Choisel
Located in Burlingame, CA
#6, How hard it is to climb up other people's stairs, The Divine Comedy. The Paradise. monotype with hand coloring in ink. From a new series of 7 monoprints with hand coloring inspi...
Ink, Monoprint
$3,000
#2, I saw more than a thousand splendors coming to me, The Divine Comedy.
By Frédéric Choisel
Located in Burlingame, CA
#2, I saw more than a thousand splendors coming to me, The Divine Comedy, The Paradise . Monotype with hand coloring in ink. Unique. From a new series of 7 monoprints with hand color...
Ink, Monoprint
#7 With a voice one day I'll come back, The Divine Comedy, The Paradise
By Frédéric Choisel
Located in Burlingame, CA
#7, With a voice one day I'll come back, The Divine Comedy, The Paradise. Monotype with hand coloring in ink. Unique. From a new series of 7 monoprints with hand coloring inspired by...
Ink, Monoprint
$3,000
#1, So don't be a like a feather in the wind, The Divine Comedy, The Paradise.
By Frédéric Choisel
Located in Burlingame, CA
#1 ,So don't be a like a feather in the wind, The Divine Comedy, The Paradise. monotype with hand coloring in ink. Unique. From a new series of 7 monoprints with hand coloring inspi...
Ink, Monoprint
$2,800
H 8.75 in W 8.75 in
Fletcher Benton - Balanced/Unbalanced #120 watercolor signed titled 25/25 framed
By Fletcher Benton
Located in New York, NY
Watercolor on paper Pencil titled, editioned and signed with name and printed signature Pencil numbered 25/25 This work is floated in it's original vintage wood frame under UV plexi...
Watercolor
$24,500
H 11.75 in W 20.25 in
Mel Bochner - UNNAMEABLE, Monoprint with collage, engraving & embossment, Signed
By Mel Bochner
Located in New York, NY
Fresh to market - UNIQUE! Mel Bochner UNNAMEABLE Monoprint with collage, engraving and embossment on hand- dyed Twinrocker handmade paper Signed in graphite recto Frame included - he...
Handmade Paper, Engraving, Monoprint
$25,000
H 37.5 in W 57.5 in D 1 in
III-8, Hand painted, signed Monoprint composition of two separate sheets, Framed
By Michael Heizer
Located in New York, NY
Michael Heizer III-8 (two pages), 1983 Monoprint on two individual sheets of white handmade TGL paper, hand colored with colored pencils, paint sticks, and liquid and spray acrylic p...
Paint, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Handmade Paper, Color Pencil, Monoprint, Mo...
$1,980
H 20 in W 16 in D 1 in
Factory XIII: modernist urban architectural collage on monoprint, red, unframed
By Agathe Bouton 2
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is one-of-a-kind, unframed colored pencil & collage on archival pigment print. See image gallery for example of framing possibilities. These pieces work particularly well as a s...
Ink, Archival Paper, Handmade Paper, Monoprint, Monotype
Green Light Go, abstact monotype, abstract
By Mary Chang
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Title -Green Light Go Year- 2011 MonoType / Embossment =They are made by drawing on a plate or glass with a substance such as printer"s ink or oil paint. An impression is infused i...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Monotype
Still Life, abstact monotype, nature
By Mary Chang
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Statement-The emphasis in the work is on color ,motion and emotion. I make paintings that are inspired by aspects of life thus transforming color and movement into their own visual ...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Monotype
M377 (Abstract new media)
By Jesús Perea
Located in London, GB
Digital creation, printed on Hahnemühle Photo Rag de 308 gr - Unframed. Fluctuating between illustration and expressionism, connecting the geometric and biomorphic worlds, Perea co...
Paper, Digital
M252 (Abstract new media)
By Jesús Perea
Located in London, GB
Digital creation, printed on Hahnemühle Photo Rag de 308 gr - Unframed. Fluctuating between illustration and expressionism, connecting the geometric and biomorphic worlds, Perea co...
Paper, Digital
Night Walk, abstract
By Mary Chang
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Monotype Charbonnel Ink Archival paper
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Monotype
The Awakening, abstract monotype, earth tones
By Mary Chang
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Statement-The emphasis in the work is on color ,motion and emotion. I make paintings that are inspired by aspects of life thus transforming color and movement into their own visual ...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Monotype
M272 (Abstract new media)
By Jesús Perea
Located in London, GB
Digital creation, printed on Hahnemühle Photo Rag de 308 gr - Unframed. Fluctuating between illustration and expressionism, connecting the geometric and biomorphic worlds, Perea co...
Paper, Digital
$1,980
H 20 in W 16 in D 1 in
Building V: modernist city architecture collage on monoprint in red, unframed
By Agathe Bouton 2
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is one-of-a-kind, unframed colored pencil & collage on archival pigment print. See image gallery for example of framing possibilities. These pieces work particularly well as a s...
Ink, Archival Paper, Handmade Paper, Monoprint, Monotype
Sold
H 33 in W 26 in D 1.5 in
#5 Brought in the air by the echoes of the heavens, The Divine Comedy
By Frédéric Choisel
Located in Burlingame, CA
#5 Brought in the air by the echoes of the heavens, The Divine Comedy, The Paradise. monotype with hand coloring in ink. From a new series of 7 monoprints with hand coloring inspire...
Ink, Monoprint
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H 33 in W 26 in D 1.5 in
#4, Time, which never stops along the way, The Divine Comedy, The Paradise
By Frédéric Choisel
Located in Burlingame, CA
#3, This is what I say, turned to the light, The Divine Comedy, monotype with hand coloring in ink. From a new series of 7 monoprints with hand coloring inspired by Dante Alighieri...
Ink, Monoprint
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H 33 in W 26 in D 1.5 in
#3, This is what I say, turned to the light, The Divine Comedy
By Frédéric Choisel
Located in Burlingame, CA
#3, This is what I say, turned to the light, The Divine Comedy, monotype with hand coloring in ink. From a new series of 7 monoprints with hand coloring inspired by Dante Alighieri...
Ink, Monoprint
San Francisco Moma SFMOMA (triptych)
By Frédéric Choisel
Located in Burlingame, CA
Monoprint is a single original print, where only one print is produced and afterward the plate used to create the artwork is wiped clean. This is 'San Francisco Moma (triptych)' a wo...
Monoprint