Greg Kessler Paintings

Louis Recchia's "Cat Lovers" is an original, handmade mixed media painting using acrylic paint and collaging on plexiglass. Louis Recchia has been producing contemporary art in Denv...

Michael Tole says of his work… This work draws a connection between the didactic moralizing tendencies of Neo Classicism (represented in the style of the painting) and Modernism (represented in the architectural setting). Though modern art eschews the naturalistic imagery used by Neo Classicists, both movements pursued a self-important, austere, self-consciously masculine aesthetic that they saw as synonymous with virtue. Set in the MoMA courtyard, a passel of men lounge about, regarding a golden statue which looks terribly out of place in this modernist vitrine. The uncomfortable architectural setting, prisonlike and cold, provides a foil for the odalisque-like young men sprawled on hard stone benches and paying homage to the central idol. In my current work, The Revisionist Histories, I am writing letters to art history, literature, and mythology in an attempt to reflect the social changes that have reshaped our society over the past century.  As part of this agenda, I explore the evolution of gender norms, power dynamics, and representation within Western visual culture and what this implies for the negotiation between pleasure, justice, and our culturally specific discourse on beauty.    The seed for The Revisionist Histories was sewn when I caught a glimpse of my preteen daughters watching music videos on their iPad as I chopped veggies for dinner.  Out of the corner of my eye I caught glimpses of music videos featuring Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Katy Perry, and Doja Cat gyrating across the tiny screen.  A better parent might have snatched the iPad away, but I was overcome with hallucinatory visions of this pop diva...

Mixed materials on paper Lile Gasviani is a Georgian artist born in 2003 who lives and work in Tbilisi, Georgia. She has been passionate about painting since childhood and has organ...

Mixed media on canvas, Kim Yoon Kyung is a Korean artist born in 1977 who lives and works in Daegu, South Korea. Yoon Kyung studied Art theory at Daegu Catholic University. She late...

Oil on canvas Dondi Schwartz is an Israeli artist born in Canada in 1961 who lives and works in the Kibbutz Beeri, Negev, Israel. Schwartz studied art at the Avni School of Arts in...

Carrie Goller's (US based) "Good Morning" (2024) is an original, mixed media using encaustic and oil on wood panel that depicts a hummingbird and a bumblebee flying towards a sunflow...

Masri Hayssam (Lebanese-Italian, born 1965) "New Expression #42" 2023 Acrylic and oil paint on canvas, stretcher bars Signed in the bottom left corner and on verso. "New Expression ...

Pearls are featured in this engaging interplay of paint, pencil and textile collage. The combination of intricate detail and loose intuitive paint strokes, communicates an ethereal i...

Masri Hayssam (Lebanese, born 1965) "Her" 2022 Oil and acrylic paint on paper adhered to a stretched canvas Signed on the bottom right and back of the painting. "Her" by Masri captu...

Oil paint on canvas Unique work Hand-signed by the artist Stéphane Fauchille, dream anthropologist “Would you, for a moment, like to become the Claude Lévi-Strauss of the aborigin...

Mixed media on canvas, Kim Yoon Kyung is a Korean artist born in 1977 who lives and works in Daegu, South Korea. Yoon Kyung studied Art theory at Daegu Catholic University. She late...

Michele's paintings are about the timeline of human life and its effect on art. For the last 15 years, Michele has been deconstructing the subject matter. In as much as she enjoys ...

To evoke the French Riviera and the light of the South, a sketch made by Andrée de Frémont on the French Riviera has become canvas. It is camping a h...

Masri Hayssam (Lebanese, born 1965) "Disrupted" 2024 Oil Paint, Acrylic Paint, Mixed Media, Canvas, Stretcher Bars The artist signed the bottom right and back of the painting. "Disr...

Hope Hickman says of her work... I am tormented by aesthetic seduction, by what I can only call the romantic. My practice processes, through haptic intuition, the look of wealth, of...