G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
American, b. 1960
G. Campbell Lyman is a prolific collector of works by lesser heralded artists and an accomplished abstract painter in his own right. Lyman’s own abstract paintings and watercolors comprise repeating patterns of irregular circles, rectangles, whorls and cellular forms painted with thick brushstrokes in vivacious hues.
Lyman grew up in New Orleans, where he started collecting and making his art as a teenager. When he was around 30 years old, he began traveling to discover and sell undervalued art, living in various places in the United States and Europe.
Eventually, he returned to New Orleans and opened Guy Lyman Fine Art on the city’s famous Magazine Street. He operated the gallery for several years before moving his business entirely online in the late 2010s. Lyman divides his inventory into four sections: 19th- and early 20th-century art, modern and contemporary art, New Orleans and Louisiana art, and finally, his own creations.
Lyman cites "painterly" painters like Robert Rauschenberg, Sean Scully, Cy Twombly and Julian Schnabel — as well as movements such as Pop art and Abstract Expressionism — as having influenced his work. He is less concerned about the forms on the canvas and more about the paint’s texture, color and line, as well as the negative space around it. He appreciates and creates art that shows the presence of the artist's hand.
Lyman's work is held in art collections from California and Aspen to London and Beirut. He strives to keep his prices affordable for a broader demographic of collectors.
On 1stDibs, find G. Campbell Lyman paintings, drawings, mixed media and more.
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Artist: G. Campbell Lyman
"The Announcement" - Contemporary Abstract Painting
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Part of the current series of paintings using tar and house paint in addition to more conventional artists' media such as oil and acrylic.
Artist's Statement: "I have been making t...
Category
2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Tar, Oil, Acrylic
Santa Fe Series #6 (Contemporary Abstract Painting)
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Artist's Statement
"College tuitions are headed my way, so I am letting go of some things I held on to from the past. This is from my Santa Fe series, the only one I have left. To m...
Category
1990s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Oil
"Flowers Never Seen #11" - Framed Contemporary Painting
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Artist’s Statement: “I have been an abstract painter for over 30 years, and I can't exactly say what caused me to one night go to the studio and paint flowers, of all things. But of ...
Category
2010s Impressionist G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Acrylic
Gridish #31 (Framed Contemporary Abstract Painting)
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
(NOTE: if you enter "Gridish" into the 1stDibs search field you will see others in this series come up)
(Comes framed in a maple high-profile "floater" frame.)
Artist’s Statement: ...
Category
2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Lacquer, Charcoal, House Paint, Acrylic
"Lost Languages #2" - Contemporary Multimedia Abstract Painting
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Artist’s Statement: “After working on my 'Gridish' series for awhile, I went back to revisit a series of work I did in 2020, where I was putting down successive layers of paint in a ...
Category
2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Lacquer, Charcoal, Acrylic
Aggregate #23 (Abstract Contemporary Painting, Framed)
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
(Comes framed in a maple floater frame, ready to hang.)
This is one of a series we have posted on 1stDibs. The first got more clicks and saves on its first day than any of the many hundreds of artworks we have ever posted. If you search on "G. Campbell Lyman" on 1stDibs you can see others in this series. Here's a recent message from a 1stDibs buyer of a painting in this series, a seasoned collector:
"Love your work. We collect colorists like Wolf Kahn and Jennifer Bartlett, whom I commissioned a piece from that is in the entrance of Mayo Clinic. We are old fans...
Category
2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel, Acrylic, House Paint
Multiverse #22 - Abstract Contemporary Painting, Framed
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Comes framed and ready to hang in black floater frame.
(Note: photographed in natural light which gave the painting a bluish cast; it's more white in person. The picture shot at an ...
Category
2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Lacquer, Charcoal, Wax, Oil, Acrylic, Graphite
Bloom (Framed Contemporary Multimedia Abstract Painting)
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
(Comes framed in a deep-profile maple floater frame, ready to hang.)
Artist's Statement: "I was working on my loose, almost graffiti-like "Rosetta" series when this painting took a turn towards formality, and instead of trying to wrench it back into the Rosetta mold I just let it go where it wanted to. Has my usual insane assortment of mediums . . . "
“Lyman’s work evolves restlessly, with the common elements generally being deft and unusual color choices that balance assonance and dissonance, and vestiges of the hand and facture purposely left in the paintings. The negative space is often so meticulously worked that it’s almost as if the objects – usually simple shapes – are there as much to complement the background as vice versa. Despite the often bold colors there is an elegance about his paintings that prevents them from being either loud or decorative. "
Artbeit Zeitschrift
“His paintings are a refreshing departure from the current abstract art world’s seemingly endless parade of fields of color with scribbles providing form, a style that is easily mimicked and has become a sort of “safe,” accessible go-to. There are confident decisions in these paintings appearing as commitments of strongly delineated forms and unexpected collisions of color that give the work a visceral, confident and playful soul, increasingly missing from contemporary expressionist abstraction. They are the paintings of a real painter rather than a decorative artist.”
ArtSeen, 2018
(from a collector):
"Love your work. We collect colorists like Wolf Kahn and Jennifer Bartlett, whom I commissioned a piece from that is in the entrance of Mayo Clinic. We are old fans...
Category
2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel, House Paint, Oil, Acrylic, Paper
"Archonic III" - Large Multimedia Abstract Painting, Framed
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
(Remember to enter "FREESHIP" in the promo code field to get free shipping and insurance on this and other paintings we offer!)
Artist's Statement:
"This recent painting was based ...
Category
2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Wax, Oil, Acrylic, Charcoal
Large Gridish #25 (Large Contemporary Multimedia Abstract Painting)
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
(NOTE: if you enter "Gridish" into the 1stDibs search field you can view other paintings in this series)
Artist’s Statement: “As I often do, I chose a very simple form to work with ...
Category
2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Lacquer, Charcoal, Acrylic
Quorum
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
(Comes framed in a deep-profile maple or black floater frame, ready to hang.)
Artist's Statement: "This painting harkens back to my 'Gridish' series but with more negative space, a broader array of media and more complexity to the oval forms. I have tried to create tension between these iconic forms through the divergence of dissonant and unusual materials, colors and textures. These ovals keep reappearing in my work; they seem almost like groups of silent but sentient beings to me."
“Lyman’s work evolves restlessly, with the common elements generally being deft and unusual color choices that balance assonance and dissonance, and vestiges of the hand and facture purposely left in the paintings. The negative space is often so meticulously worked that it’s almost as if the objects – usually simple shapes – are there as much to complement the background as vice versa. Despite the often bold colors there is an elegance about his paintings that prevents them from being either loud or decorative. "
Artbeit Zeitschrift
“His paintings are a refreshing departure from the current abstract art world’s seemingly endless parade of fields of color with scribbles providing form, a style that is easily mimicked and has become a sort of “safe,” accessible go-to. There are confident decisions in these paintings appearing as commitments of strongly delineated forms and unexpected collisions of color that give the work a visceral, confident and playful soul, increasingly missing from contemporary expressionist abstraction. They are the paintings of a real painter rather than a decorative artist.”
ArtSeen, 2018
(from a collector):
"Love your work. We collect colorists like Wolf Kahn and Jennifer Bartlett, whom I commissioned a piece from that is in the entrance of Mayo Clinic. We are old fans...
Category
2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel, House Paint, Oil, Acrylic, Clay
"Flowers Never Seen #11" - Framed Contemporary Painting
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Artist’s Statement: “I have been an abstract painter for over 30 years, and I can't exactly say what caused me to one night go to the studio and paint flowers, of all things. But of ...
Category
2010s Impressionist G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Acrylic
"Paladin" - Contemporary Multimedia Abstract Painting
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
(Painted on thick gallery-wrapped professional canvas, ready to hang or be framed if you prefer. A video has been included to provide a dimensional view of the piece.)
Artist's Stat...
Category
2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Lacquer, Pastel, Acrylic, Graphite, Pigment
The Secret Garden (Abstract Contemporary Painting, Framed)
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
(Comes professionally framed in a solid maple floater frame, ready to hang)
Artist's Statement
"This series of intensely colorful paintings was begun a couple of years back in reaction to the gray oppressive weight that had descended like a pall on the American scene. I wanted to make paintings about nothing but pure delight, in honor of the fact that beneath the fog of germs and political antagonism, we still eat, laugh, love and if we're wise, acknowledge how spectacularly fortunate we are -- at least for now, in this time and place, despite the problems. For me, the colors, forms and brushstrokes here feel exuberant without suggesting an unnerving chaos. I have purposely used unlikely color combinations that despite their dissonance seem to work together. I don't feel this is a time to be making brooding works that reflect the problems we are working our way through; we all know about this. On the contrary, I think it's a time for art...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Lacquer, Charcoal, House Paint, Oil, Acrylic
"Sonata in Three Colors" - Contemporary Multimedia Abstract Painting
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Artist's statement:
"Separate from the tar paintings I have been doing, I am creating a series of work in which I am channeling some of the things I have always loved about Cy Twombly along with qualities of a painting I saw in a local collection by a Cuban painter that I really admired and have thought about a lot since. Of course both share a graffiti quality; Twombly was the first to work with a sort of automatic drawing, beginning in the 1950s, and what he did opened up this new language for countless painters. You still see traces of it in so much contemporary art. Antoni Tapies has been a big influence on me as well, and you can see some of him in this work as well. I limited the color palette in this one as a sort of exercise in discipline, since it is easy to let color get away from you in a painting like this one. There are areas of three-dimensional paint that help flatten the picture plane and restrict the eye from reading depth into the painting; they function in the same way as Barnett Newman's 'zips' and Susan Rothenberg's lines across some of her horse images...
Category
2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Graphite
"Together, Apart" - Large Contemporary Abstract Painting
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Artist's Statement
"This series of intensely colorful paintings was begun in reaction to the gray oppressive weight of the social and political polarization that has descended like...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Acrylic
"Gridish #6" - Contemporary Framed Multimedia Abstract Painting
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
(NOTE: if you enter "Gridish" into the 1stDibs search field you will see others in this series come up)
Artist’s Statement: “As I often do, I chose a very simple form to work with h...
Category
2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Varnish, House Paint, Acrylic
"Lost Languages #2" - Contemporary Multimedia Abstract Painting
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Artist’s Statement: “After working on my 'Gridish' series for awhile, I went back to revisit a series of work I did in 2020, where I was putting down successive layers of paint in a ...
Category
2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Lacquer, Charcoal, Acrylic
"Unshackle" - Contemporary Minimalist Abstract Painting
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Artist's Statement: "I had been making some very colorful paintings based on rings or circles that have been very well received, but my forms and brushstrokes began to tighten and fe...
Category
2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
House Paint, Acrylic
Prediction (Contemporary Multimedia Abstract Painting)
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Painted on deep-profile gallery-wrapped canvas, comes ready to hang.
Artist's Statement:
"A new take on an earlier series of paintings I did called "Aggregate," this time with fewe...
Category
2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper, Tar, House Paint, Oil, Acrylic
"Manna #3" - Framed Abstract Contemporary Painting
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Artist's statement: "This is a series of paintings I have been working on whose subject is the materials of making art themselves. The title refers to the gifts of color, luster, mat...
Category
2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Acrylic
Manna (Contemporary Abstract Painting)
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Artist's statement: "This is a series of paintings I have been working on whose subject is the materials of making art themselves. The title refers to the gifts of color, luster, mat...
Category
2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Acrylic
"Superimposition of Two Forms" - Contemporary Abstract Painting
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Artist's Statement: "I had been making some very colorful paintings based on rings or circles that have been very well received, but my forms and brushstrokes began to tighten and feel a little restrained. So I decided to change both the forms and the strokes, and lose a lot of the color, and do something different for awhile. I stayed with simple forms as in general I am much more interested in surface and color anyway. With this painting, after I had finished the central piece, I felt it lacked gravitas due mostly to size, and so I decided to affix the canvas to an underlying canvas painted in a very flat black color, with texture to it (I actually used house paint for this, which is perfect for what I wanted). So the painting is actually a canvas attached to another, and has three-dimensionality to it. You can see in the close-ups the "strokiness" I was after. I think this painting has a sort of Rothko-ish, iconic quality to it, but without the gravitas."
Recent message from a 1stDibs buyer and seasoned collector about a painting in the prior "ring" series:
"Love your work. We collect colorists like Wolf Kahn and Jennifer Bartlett, whom I commissioned a piece from that is in the entrance of Mayo Clinic. We are old fans...
Category
2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, House Paint
"Large Gridish #14" - Contemporary Multimedia Abstract Painting
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
(NOTE: if you enter "Gridish" into the 1stDibs search field you can view other paintings in this series)
Artist’s Statement: “As I often do, I chose a very simple form to work with ...
Category
2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, House Paint, Acrylic
"Flowers Never Seen #10" - Framed Contemporary Painting
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Artist’s Statement: “I have been an abstract painter for over 30 years, and I can't exactly say what caused me to one night go to the studio and paint flowers, of all things. But of ...
Category
2010s Impressionist G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Acrylic
Aggregate #24 (Abstract Contemporary Painting, Framed)
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
(Comes framed in a maple floater frame, ready to hang.)
This is one of a series we have posted on 1stDibs. The first got more clicks and saves on its first day than any of the many hundreds of artworks we have ever posted. If you search on "G. Campbell Lyman" on 1stDibs you can see others in this series. Here's a recent message from a 1stDibs buyer of a painting in this series, a seasoned collector:
"Love your work. We collect colorists like Wolf Kahn and Jennifer Bartlett, whom I commissioned a piece from that is in the entrance of Mayo Clinic. We are old fans...
Category
2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel, House Paint, Acrylic
Ascent
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Artist's Statement: "Back in 2012/2013 I was making these complex assemblage pieces using foam core slats with oil, wax, tar, chalkboard paint and chalk, all kinds of materials. I f...
Category
2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
"Together, Apart" - Large Contemporary Abstract Painting
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Artist's Statement
"This series of intensely colorful paintings was begun in reaction to the gray oppressive weight of the social and political polarization that has descended like...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Acrylic
"Gridish #6" - Contemporary Framed Multimedia Abstract Painting
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
(NOTE: if you enter "Gridish" into the 1stDibs search field you will see others in this series come up)
Artist’s Statement: “As I often do, I chose a very simple form to work with h...
Category
2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Varnish, House Paint, Acrylic
Ascent
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Artist's Statement: "Back in 2012/2013 I was making these complex assemblage pieces using foam core slats with oil, wax, tar, chalkboard paint and chalk, all kinds of materials. I f...
Category
2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
"Chautauqua" - Large Contemporary Abstract Painting
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Artist’s Statement: “I have decided to make available some work I did back in the 90's that I had put aside because I didn't want to sell it at the time. You can tell that I had been...
Category
1990s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Lacquer, Charcoal, House Paint, Acrylic
Prediction (Contemporary Multimedia Abstract Painting)
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Painted on deep-profile gallery-wrapped canvas, comes ready to hang.
Artist's Statement:
"A new take on an earlier series of paintings I did called "Aggregate," this time with fewe...
Category
2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper, Tar, House Paint, Oil, Acrylic
"Agent" - Large Contemporary Abstract Painting
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
The list of what goes into the making of these large and complex paintings includes everything from precious small-batch oil paints to common house paint, along with tar, acrylic pai...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
"The Announcement" - Contemporary Abstract Painting
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Part of the current series of paintings using tar and house paint in addition to more conventional artists' media such as oil and acrylic.
Artist's Statement: "I have been making t...
Category
2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Tar, Oil, Acrylic
"Chautauqua" - Large Contemporary Abstract Painting
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Artist’s Statement: “I have decided to make available some work I did back in the 90's that I had put aside because I didn't want to sell it at the time. You can tell that I had been...
Category
1990s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Lacquer, Charcoal, House Paint, Acrylic
Archipelago (Abstract Contemporary Painting, Framed)
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
(Comes professionally framed in a solid maple floater frame, ready to hang)
Artist's Statement
"This series of intensely colorful paintings was begun a couple of years back in reaction to the gray oppressive weight that had descended like a pall on the American scene. I wanted to make paintings about nothing but pure delight, in honor of the fact that beneath the fog of germs and political antagonism, we still eat, laugh, love and if we're wise, acknowledge how spectacularly fortunate we are -- at least for now, in this time and place, despite the problems. For me, the colors, forms and brushstrokes here feel exuberant without suggesting an unnerving chaos. I have purposely used unlikely color combinations that despite their dissonance seem to work together. I don't feel this is a time to be making brooding works that reflect the problems we are working our way through; we all know about this. On the contrary, I think it's a time for art...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Lacquer, Charcoal, House Paint, Oil, Acrylic
"Eminences Grises" - Contemporary Abstract Painting
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Artist's Statement: "I had been making some very colorful paintings based on rings or circles that have been very well received and much of that series is already sold, but my forms ...
Category
2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
House Paint, Acrylic
Transigent (Abstract Contemporary Painting, Framed)
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
(Comes professionally framed in a solid maple floater frame, ready to hang)
Artist's Statement
"This series of intensely colorful paintings was begun a couple of years back in reaction to the gray oppressive weight that had descended like a pall on the American scene. I wanted to make paintings about nothing but pure delight, in honor of the fact that beneath the fog of germs and political antagonism, we still eat, laugh, love and if we're wise, acknowledge how spectacularly fortunate we are -- at least for now, in this time and place, despite the problems. For me, the colors, forms and brushstrokes here feel exuberant without suggesting an unnerving chaos. I have purposely used unlikely color combinations that despite their dissonance seem to work together. I don't feel this is a time to be making brooding works that reflect the problems we are working our way through; we all know about this. On the contrary, I think it's a time for art...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Lacquer, Charcoal, House Paint, Oil, Acrylic
Multiverse #13 (Framed Contemporary Abstract Painting)
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Artist’s Statement: “These paintings are technically challenging, as they combine wax (encaustic), tar, oil, acrylic, powdered graphite and other media. They are painted on fiber pan...
Category
2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Lacquer, Charcoal, Wax, Oil, Acrylic, Graphite
"Paladin #2" - Framed Contemporary Multimedia Abstract Painting
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
(Comes float-framed behind glass.)
Artist's Statement: "I was working on my "Gridish" paintings (you can find them in a search on the term "Gridish" on this site) when I became fascinated with certain materials I was working with - a new type of super-flat, super-black paint; powdered graphite; and iron oxide pigment. I had a small canvas ready to go, and shifted my attention to concentrating on just one of the rectangular forms I had been using in the Gridish series, and applying these materials in a way that pleased me. That sort of industrial sheen on the surface of the rectangle is really beautiful to me. This was a second I made, on paper. Quite obviously the mood given off by these works is greatly different from the colorful Gridish paintings that spawned them. My daughter, studying design at RISD, said she found the pic I...
Category
2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Lacquer, Pastel, Acrylic, Graphite, Pigment
"Agora" - Large Contemporary Abstract Painting
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Artist's Statement
"This series of relatively large, intensely colorful paintings was begun in reaction to the gray oppressive weight of the social and political polarization that h...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
"Rhythm a Ning (Thelonius)" - Contemporary Abstract Painting
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Part of the current series of paintings using tar and house paint in addition to more conventional artists' media such as oil and acrylic.
Artist's Statement: "I have been making t...
Category
2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Tar, Oil, Acrylic
"Lost Languages #5" - Contemporary Multimedia Abstract Painting
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
(Note: sorry about the large pic of the full painting; could not get the light right, without reflections from the varnish; in person the negative space is less brownish, lighter. Th...
Category
2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Lacquer, Charcoal, Acrylic
"And All That" - Contemporary Abstract Painting
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
(Apologies for the reflection towards the top of the painting; it's from the varnish)
Artist's Statement
"This series of relatively large, intensely colorful paintings was begun in...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Santa Fe Series #6 (Contemporary Abstract Painting)
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Artist's Statement
"College tuitions are headed my way, so I am letting go of some things I held on to from the past. This is from my Santa Fe series, the only one I have left. To m...
Category
1990s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Oil
Rosetta #3 - (Contest Finalist - Abstract Contemporary Painting, Framed)
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Comes framed and ready to hang in professional wood black floater frame.
This painting was a Finalist in the Grey Cube Gallery's City Art International Art Exhibition:
"Out of all ...
Category
2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Acrylic, Graphite, Watercolor, Spray Paint
Aggregate #24 (Abstract Contemporary Painting, Framed)
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
(Comes framed in a maple floater frame, ready to hang.)
This is one of a series we have posted on 1stDibs. The first got more clicks and saves on its first day than any of the many hundreds of artworks we have ever posted. If you search on "G. Campbell Lyman" on 1stDibs you can see others in this series. Here's a recent message from a 1stDibs buyer of a painting in this series, a seasoned collector:
"Love your work. We collect colorists like Wolf Kahn and Jennifer Bartlett, whom I commissioned a piece from that is in the entrance of Mayo Clinic. We are old fans...
Category
2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel, House Paint, Acrylic
Large Gridish #25 (Large Contemporary Multimedia Abstract Painting)
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
(NOTE: if you enter "Gridish" into the 1stDibs search field you can view other paintings in this series)
Artist’s Statement: “As I often do, I chose a very simple form to work with ...
Category
2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Lacquer, Charcoal, Acrylic
Gridish #31 (Framed Contemporary Abstract Painting)
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
(NOTE: if you enter "Gridish" into the 1stDibs search field you will see others in this series come up)
(Comes framed in a maple high-profile "floater" frame.)
Artist’s Statement: ...
Category
2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Lacquer, Charcoal, House Paint, Acrylic
"Multiverse #16" - Framed Geometric Contemporary Abstract Painting
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Comes framed and ready to hang in black floater frame.
Artist’s Statement: “These paintings are technically challenging, as they combine wax (encaustic), tar, oil, acrylic, powdered...
Category
2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Lacquer, Charcoal, Wax, Oil, Acrylic, Graphite
"Untitled (Nostalgia Series 2)" - Contemporary Multimedia Abstract Painting
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
"From a series of paintings I was doing a few years ago evoking age, weathering and nostalgia. I used all kinds of materials to get these effects, including collage, and lots of laye...
Category
2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Latex, Oil, Acrylic
"Ur" - Framed Contemporary Multimedia Abstract Painting
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Artist's Statement: "This is part of a series of work I created using a complex mix of media to evoke age and tropes and paradigms of human culture. Our obsession with the new somet...
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2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Lacquer, Paper, Charcoal, Tar, House Paint, Acrylic
"Gridish #21" - Contemporary Mixed Media Abstract Painting
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
(NOTE: if you enter "Gridish" into the 1stDibs search field you can view other paintings in this series)
Artist’s Statement: “As I often do, I chose a very simple form to work with ...
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2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Lacquer, Charcoal, Acrylic
Rosetta #11 (Abstract Contemporary Painting, Framed)
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Comes framed and ready to hang.
Artist’s Statement: “I have been working on more formal and restrained paintings lately, and decided to loosen up by revisiting a series I did a few ...
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2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Watercolor, Graphite
Rosetta #8 (Abstract Contemporary Painting, Framed)
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Comes framed and ready to hang in professional wood black floater frame.
Artist’s Statement: “I have been working on more formal and restrained paintings lately, and decided to loos...
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2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Watercolor, Graphite
"Untitled (Nostalgia Series)" - Contemporary Mixed Media Abstract Painting
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
"From a series of paintings I was doing a few years ago evoking age, weathering and nostalgia. I used all kinds of materials to get these effects, including collage, and lots of laye...
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2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Latex, Oil, Acrylic
"Pilgrimage" - Contemporary Multimedia Abstract Painting
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
A large and imposing painting from the recent series combining tar with oil and acrylic, a painting using a limited palette to powerful effect. There are echoes of Robert Motherwell ...
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2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Tar, Oil, Acrylic
"Vessel Series, #13" - Large Contemporary Abstract Painting
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
The list of what goes into the making of these extremely complex paintings includes beeswax, tar, acrylic paint, oil paint, printed tissue, charcoal, pastel, lacquer and modeling pas...
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2010s Contemporary G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
"Visitation" - Contemporary Abstract Painting
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Part of the current series of paintings using tar and housepaint in addition to more conventional artists' media such as oil and acrylic. Free shipping on this piece:
Artist's State...
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2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Tar, Oil, Acrylic
"Choir" - Contemporary Abstract Multimedia Painting
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
From the recent series combining tar with oil and acrylic, a painting using a limited palette to powerful effect. Artist's statement: "After a period of making big, colorful acrylic...
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2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Tar, Oil, Acrylic
Rosetta #7 (Abstract Contemporary Painting, Framed)
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Comes framed and ready to hang in professional wood black floater frame.
Artist’s Statement: “I have been working on more formal and restrained paintings lately, and decided to loos...
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2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Watercolor, Graphite
Quorum
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
(Comes framed in a deep-profile maple or black floater frame, ready to hang.)
Artist's Statement: "This painting harkens back to my 'Gridish' series but with more negative space, a broader array of media and more complexity to the oval forms. I have tried to create tension between these iconic forms through the divergence of dissonant and unusual materials, colors and textures. These ovals keep reappearing in my work; they seem almost like groups of silent but sentient beings to me."
“Lyman’s work evolves restlessly, with the common elements generally being deft and unusual color choices that balance assonance and dissonance, and vestiges of the hand and facture purposely left in the paintings. The negative space is often so meticulously worked that it’s almost as if the objects – usually simple shapes – are there as much to complement the background as vice versa. Despite the often bold colors there is an elegance about his paintings that prevents them from being either loud or decorative. "
Artbeit Zeitschrift
“His paintings are a refreshing departure from the current abstract art world’s seemingly endless parade of fields of color with scribbles providing form, a style that is easily mimicked and has become a sort of “safe,” accessible go-to. There are confident decisions in these paintings appearing as commitments of strongly delineated forms and unexpected collisions of color that give the work a visceral, confident and playful soul, increasingly missing from contemporary expressionist abstraction. They are the paintings of a real painter rather than a decorative artist.”
ArtSeen, 2018
(from a collector):
"Love your work. We collect colorists like Wolf Kahn and Jennifer Bartlett, whom I commissioned a piece from that is in the entrance of Mayo Clinic. We are old fans...
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2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel, House Paint, Oil, Acrylic, Clay
Bloom (Framed Contemporary Multimedia Abstract Painting)
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
(Comes framed in a deep-profile maple floater frame, ready to hang.)
Artist's Statement: "I was working on my loose, almost graffiti-like "Rosetta" series when this painting took a turn towards formality, and instead of trying to wrench it back into the Rosetta mold I just let it go where it wanted to. Has my usual insane assortment of mediums . . . "
“Lyman’s work evolves restlessly, with the common elements generally being deft and unusual color choices that balance assonance and dissonance, and vestiges of the hand and facture purposely left in the paintings. The negative space is often so meticulously worked that it’s almost as if the objects – usually simple shapes – are there as much to complement the background as vice versa. Despite the often bold colors there is an elegance about his paintings that prevents them from being either loud or decorative. "
Artbeit Zeitschrift
“His paintings are a refreshing departure from the current abstract art world’s seemingly endless parade of fields of color with scribbles providing form, a style that is easily mimicked and has become a sort of “safe,” accessible go-to. There are confident decisions in these paintings appearing as commitments of strongly delineated forms and unexpected collisions of color that give the work a visceral, confident and playful soul, increasingly missing from contemporary expressionist abstraction. They are the paintings of a real painter rather than a decorative artist.”
ArtSeen, 2018
(from a collector):
"Love your work. We collect colorists like Wolf Kahn and Jennifer Bartlett, whom I commissioned a piece from that is in the entrance of Mayo Clinic. We are old fans...
Category
2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel, House Paint, Oil, Acrylic, Paper
"Sonata in Three Colors" - Contemporary Multimedia Abstract Painting
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Artist's statement:
"Separate from the tar paintings I have been doing, I am creating a series of work in which I am channeling some of the things I have always loved about Cy Twombly along with qualities of a painting I saw in a local collection by a Cuban painter that I really admired and have thought about a lot since. Of course both share a graffiti quality; Twombly was the first to work with a sort of automatic drawing, beginning in the 1950s, and what he did opened up this new language for countless painters. You still see traces of it in so much contemporary art. Antoni Tapies has been a big influence on me as well, and you can see some of him in this work as well. I limited the color palette in this one as a sort of exercise in discipline, since it is easy to let color get away from you in a painting like this one. There are areas of three-dimensional paint that help flatten the picture plane and restrict the eye from reading depth into the painting; they function in the same way as Barnett Newman's 'zips' and Susan Rothenberg's lines across some of her horse images...
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2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Graphite
"Sublunary" (Abstract Contemporary Painting, Framed)
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Comes framed and ready to hang in professional wood black floater frame.
Artist’s Statement: “A complete departure from what I have been working on this year - obviously influenced ...
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2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic, Rubber, Paper
Rosetta #5 (Abstract Contemporary Painting, Framed)
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Comes framed and ready to hang in professional wood black floater frame.
Artist’s Statement: “I have been working on more formal and restrained paintings lately, and decided to loos...
Category
2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Watercolor, Graphite
Still, Waiting (Contemporary Abstract Figure Painting)
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Artist's statement:
"Though I am an abstract painter by tradition, I painted this somewhat figurative painting to express the feeling I have developed over the past couple of years ...
Category
2010s Abstract G. Campbell Lyman Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
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