Joey Korom was born in Milwaukee in the summer of 1955. He is an Abstract Expressionist painter who has been a practicing artist for 50 years. Korom went on to earn a bachelor of science degree in 1989 from the School of Architecture, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and in 1992, he obtained a master of architecture degree. He experiments with media, colors and textures to produce purely optical artwork, that is, artwork meant to engage the viewer, visually and emotionally, without employing any associations outside of the work itself. Korom is passionate about this expressive type of abstraction, an artistic mode that escapes the rules of perspective and realism. His educational and professional background is in architecture, which he considers to be the father of all arts. The use of line, shape and proportion in Korom’s work is visibly influenced by his experience as an architect, but he seeks to avoid the rigidity involved in architectural draftsmanship. He focuses instead on underlying structure, seductive color and loose brushwork. Korom sees his style as a personal liberation from the demands of architectural drawing and yet, he’s never lost the disciplines he was taught.
Autumn, Abstract Painting
By Joey Korom
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Joey Korom manifests an abstract vision of autumn in this dominantly pastel work. He executes the piece with two main colors, light blue, and sand. Prominent ...
Acrylic
Bleecker Street, Abstract Painting
By Joey Korom
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A modern abstract painting in cool blocks of blues and grays vibrating with brilliant red and pastel yellow. "Like its Manhattan namesake, 'Bleecker Street...
Acrylic
Greens' On Top, Abstract Painting
By Joey Korom
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Joey Korom paints a green abstract composition. He combines unconventional shapes to give the work multiple layers. "Subtle collisions suggest parts of...
Acrylic
October, Abstract Painting
By Joey Korom
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Joey Korom expresses a modern abstraction of the changing colors of October. The yellow-orange field suggests autumn, specifically the middle period of...
Acrylic
Regatta, Abstract Painting
By Joey Korom
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"A boat race is recorded here with colors and shapes," states artist Joey Korom. "Speedy boat movements glide across open waters where fields of various blue ...
Acrylic
Blue Wins, Abstract Painting
By Joey Korom
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
An abstract expressionist painting in vibrant swaths of blue and purple over a soft yellow ground. Artist Joey Korom says he envisioned a sort of competition ...
Acrylic
Dearborn Street Revisited, Abstract Painting
By Joey Korom
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Urban shadows and jumbled street scenes inspire this painting, capturing the energy of Dearborn Street in Chicago’s Loop. With a limited color palette, dark...
Mixed Media
Landscape #1, Abstract Painting
By Joey Korom
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A joyful piece based upon uplifting colors and their compositions expressed by artist Joey Korom. He suggests a cheerful spring, shown through fields of flowe...
Acrylic
Fields of Plenty, Abstract Painting
By Joey Korom
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Joey Korom offers this work as an interpretation of Earth’s landscape from a sky-high vantage point. Joey's use of a subtle color palette works in tand...
Mixed Media
Before the Joust, Abstract Painting
By Joey Korom
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Joey Korom expresses a vision of medieval sport in this mixed-media composition. He attaches strips of cloth to the canvas representing elements of jou...
Mixed Media
Composition with 'Paper', Abstract Painting
By Joey Korom
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Muted pastel tones and textured layers create a soothing abstract composition. Book pages, a barcode, and a music sheet add nostalgia and character. This visu...
Mixed Media
Game of Chance, Abstract Painting
By Joey Korom
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Various materials and textures create depth in this modern abstract composition. Fabric, impasto, and corrugated cardboard form a layered, tactile surface. Co...
Mixed Media
Passage on the Lady Anne, Abstract Painting
By Joey Korom
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
An abstraction of the ship Lady Anne meanders adrift lost at sea in artist Joey Korom's abstract piece. Black, gray, and pale-yellow ...
Acrylic
The Cold Stove, Abstract Painting
By Joey Korom
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Joey Korom envisions an abstract version of a stove. "With paintings, temperatures are conveyed by various colors, a time-tested artistic device," says...
Acrylic
Lightning and Fields, Abstract Painting
By Joey Korom
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"Summer skies are often in tumult, turning and writhing clouds cut with bolts of hot streaks," says artist Joey Korom. "This painting echoes these conditions ...
Acrylic
Conversations, Abstract Painting
By Joey Korom
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"The exchanging of information is abstracted with Conversations," states artist Joey Korom. "The painting of course is silent, yet this art conveys much to th...
Acrylic
Composition With Blue Rectangle, Abstract Painting
By Joey Korom
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Joey Korom creates a collaged abstract with elements of cardboard and fabric. He slathers the paint like butter onto the canvas to create a thick impas...
Mixed Media
Russell Square, Abstract Painting
By Joey Korom
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Joey Korom paints an abstract visualization of London's Russell Square. Three registers define the painting's major spati...
Acrylic
Seven Hour Game, Abstract Painting
By Joey Korom
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"As this title suggests there is a contest being waged here; propriety, sobriety, and chance have their respective roles to play," says artist Joey Korom. "Ca...
Mixed Media
Trafalgar Square, Abstract Painting
By Joey Korom
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"London’s celebrated public park, Trafalgar Square, faces the National Gallery," says artist Joey Korom. "Trafalgar is the hom...
Acrylic
Public Square, Abstract Painting
By Joey Korom
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Joey Korom utilizes different media to create this compelling abstract collage. Joey carefully layers his materials with mindfulness of proportions, mathematics, and with adept handling of colors and textures. He used five types of cardboard, paper, fabric, sandpaper, the inclusion of antique sheet music...
Mixed Media
Altar, Abstract Painting
By Joey Korom
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"Ideas are rife with this collage and acrylic composition," says artist Joey Korom. "Its intentionally rough surface features the addition of paper, cardboar...
Mixed Media
$1,150
Mirage
By Joey Korom
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Mirage is a serious and contemplative painting. This work can be considered a contemplative piece, a sedate and personal work executed in the best tradition o...
Acrylic
Composition with Paper, Abstract Painting
By Joey Korom
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
The collage incorporates yellowed book pages, fabric, and cotton with layered pastel acrylic paint. The blend of soft colors, simple shapes, and found objects c...
Mixed Media
Hi-Way Diner, Abstract Painting
By Joey Korom
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Inspired by the forms and colors of a rural diner, artist Joey Korom expresses an abstract embodiment of a drive-in restaurant along the highway. "Placards ad...
Acrylic
Badge, Abstract Painting
By Joey Korom
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
An abstract expressionist painting with a strong visual statement. "The 'badge' contributes much as a primary color and it relegates all others to preordaine...
Acrylic
Jardin des Tuileries, Abstract Painting
By Joey Korom
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Joey created this painting as a modernist interpretation of the Jardin des Tuileries in central Paris, bordered by the Ri...
Acrylic
$1,700
H 18 in W 12 in D 2 in
Interior with Pink Rose Against Olive by Ellen Rolli, Contemporary Still Life
By Ellen Rolli
Located in Atlanta, GA
'Interior with Pink Rose Against Olive Green' by Ellen Rolli is a charming still life composition rendered in mixed media on paper. Measuring 18 x 12 in, this piece showcases the art...
Paper, Acrylic
$750
H 12 in W 12 in D 0.75 in
Lavender Field - Abstracted Landscape in Acrylic on Canvas
By Ilana Ingber
Located in Soquel, CA
Lavender Field - Abstracted Landscape in Acrylic on Canvas Vibrant landscape by Ilana Ingber (American, b. 1984). A bold purple field stretches out towards the horizon, where dark t...
Canvas, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars
$3,450
H 51.19 in W 51.19 in D 0.79 in
Ruz Big Square Gold and Black original abstract acrylic painting
By Rafael Ruz
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
A- original abstract acrylic painting , Rafael (Barcelona 1956) While contemplating the painting of Ruz, we are inclined to talk about real ‘psychodrama’, in the same sense that Jul...
Acrylic
$3,450
H 32 in W 25.75 in D 0.75 in
Edward Marecak 1965 Abstract Mixed Media Painting Garden Mid Century Art
By Edward Marecak
Located in Denver, CO
Original 1965 abstract mixed media painting titled “The Garden” by American modernist Edward Marecak (1919–1993), a significant figure in the development of mid-century modern art in...
Crayon, Acrylic
$1,500
H 36 in W 36 in
Aura VI /// Contemporary Abstract Geometric Colorfield Circles Painting Art
By Jack Graves III
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-) Title: "Aura VI" Series: Aura *Signed by Graves lower right. It is also signed, dated, and titled on verso Year: 2024 Medium: Original Acryl...
Canvas, Paint, Acrylic
$6,990
H 70.87 in W 70.87 in D 1.58 in
Quiet moments by Gabriela Azar Schreiner. Contemporary abstract Painting
By Gabriela Azar Schreiner
Located in Mentone, AU
This painting is unstretched and unframed. It will be carefully rolled and shipped in a tube. "Creating large-scale abstract paintings that evoke tranquility and presence in any spac...
Acrylic
$1,250
H 12 in W 12 in
Beach : Winter Skies. Contemporary Abstract Oil painting
By Patricia McParlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Acrylic on Panel Signed lower right Patricia McParlin, is an award winning British artist who lives and works in Wales. She studied at The University of Wales and The West Wales Sch...
Acrylic
Phenomena: Prevailing
By Paul Jenkins
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Paul Jenkins (1923-2012) was a major American abstract painter who formally established his practice in post-war France. Along with artists such as Sam Francis and Jack Youngerma...
Canvas, Acrylic
$992
H 15.75 in W 20.87 in D 0.79 in
Clouds 15 May 16:45 - Modern Landscape Minimalism Painting, Sky View
By Robert Motelski
Located in Salzburg, AT
Robert Motelski's paintings are exceptional visions of nature, visions of space which surrounds us. They tell about being, fate and passing. They depend on the season of year, the ti...
Canvas, Acrylic
$375
H 12 in W 16 in D 0.63 in
"This is not a place" (I) - Abstracted Landscape
By Devon Brockopp-Hammer
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstracted landscape by California artist Devon Brockopp-Hammer (American, b. 1986). The bold orange underpaint has been allowed to peek through the composition, adding a glowing eff...
Canvas, Acrylic, Paper
$2,750
H 34 in W 26 in D 0.75 in
Edward Marecak X Marks the Spot 1960s Abstract Mixed Media Painting
By Edward Marecak
Located in Denver, CO
“X Marks the Spot” is a compelling abstract mixed media painting from the 1960s by acclaimed Denver modernist Edward Marecak (1919–1993). Executed in acrylic and pastel on paper, the...
Pastel, Acrylic
$3,400
H 57.49 in W 38.19 in D 0.79 in
Ruz Green Red Light Background Abstract Acrylic on canvas Painting
By Rafael Ruz
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Interior Landscapes - Abstract Acrylic on canvas Painting Original work by the Spanish painter Rafael RUZ. Acrylic on canvas . Perfect condition. While contemplating the painting o...
Canvas, Acrylic
Dark Blue Shards, Abstract Painting
By Joey Korom
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Rigid shapes and expressive marks define this abstract work. Artist Joey Korom shares that mathematics and architectural forms play a commanding role in the pro...
Acrylic
Tracey's Pond, Abstract Painting
By Joey Korom
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Joey Korom demonstrates a calming abstract with muted tones of lavender. A subtle and demure artistic approach helps define the work. "The summer surfa...
Acrylic
Broken Wall, Abstract Painting
By Joey Korom
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Joey Korom displays a predominantly neutral-toned abstract in subtly organized structures. He executes the modern piece in adjoining gray shapes suggesting contemporary forms of architecture. The broad, loose strokes manifest his expressive and intense creativity.
About the Artist
Joey Korom is an abstract expressionist painter who has been a practicing artist for 50 years. He experiments with media, colors, and textures to produce artwork that is “purely optical;†that is, artwork meant to engage the viewer, visually and emotionally, without employing any associations outside of the work itself. Joey is passionate about this expressive type of abstraction, an artistic mode that escapes the rules of perspective and realism. His educational and professional background is in architecture, which he considers to be “the father of all arts.†The use of line, shape, and proportion in Joey’s work is visibly influenced by his experience as an architect, but he seeks to avoid the rigidity involved in architectural draftsmanship. He focuses instead on underlying structure, seductive color, and loose brushwork. The artist sees his style as a personal liberation from the demands of architectural drawing, and yet, he’s never lost the disciplines he was taught.
Words that describe this painting: New York School of abstract expressionism, acrylicpaint, de Kooning, Motherwell, Mondrian, abstract, tonal, neutral, abstract, acrylic painting, grey
Broken Wall...
Acrylic
Piano, Abstract Painting
By Joey Korom
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
An abstract expressionist painting in large color blocks of beige, black and white. Hints of green squeeze from the edges of the work and provide a strong, a...
Mixed Media
Late Summer, Abstract Painting
By Joey Korom
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Joey channeled his deep love of Abstract Expressionism in this painting. He applied large color fields with a loose brush, intentionally displaying the brush...
Acrylic
Green Bridge
By Joey Korom
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
With Green Bridge, I sought to capture the strengths of both public architecture and engineering, says Joey Korom. This painting eschews any literal interpre...
Acrylic
Abstract Painting 22
By Joey Korom
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
;Abstract Painting 22; is an important and delicate work featuring a loose interpretation, indeed a serendipity of color fields, forms, and lines. Subtlety is ...
Mixed Media
Abstract Painting 14
By Joey Korom
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
;Abstract Painting 14; highlights the power of large color fields and the combination of geometric forms with smaller, more delicate areas. This is an urban ...
Acrylic
Orange Almost Hidden
By Joey Korom
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Orange Almost Hidden is an aggressive artwork executed in the best tradition of Abstract Expressionism. The painting is asymmetrically composed, with a large ...
Acrylic
The Apartment
By Joey Korom
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Colors are hinted at, as well as teasing structural lines;these attributes help comprise The Apartment. Masterfully executed, this...
Acrylic