John Urbain Paintings

A wonderful minimalist black and red mixed media work Circa 1970. Though the artist is unknown this work was acquired along with pieces by well know artists Karel Appel and Robert M...

An original acrylic on canvas by American contemporary conceptual artist Julian Montague from the artist's Semi-Fictions series. The body of work included in Semi-Fictions, a new se...

A wonderful minimalist mixed media work Circa 1970. Though the artist is unknown this work was acquired along with pieces by well know artists Karel Appel and Robert Motherwell from...

An original acrylic on canvas by American contemporary conceptual artist Julian Montague from the artist's Semi-Fictions series. The body of work included in Semi-Fictions, a new se...

An original acrylic on canvas by American contemporary conceptual artist Julian Montague from the artist's exhibition "Semi-Fictions". The body of work included in Semi-Fictions, a...

An original acrylic on canvas by American contemporary conceptual artist Julian Montague from the artist's exhibition "Semi-Fictions". The body of work included in Semi-Fictions, a...

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...

Nature inspires me. One focus of my work is reduced painting in color and texture and add lines. I like to take the viewer on journey of discovery across the painting surface and sen...

Four & Six No. 1 is a significant example of Naohiko Inukai’s hard-edge abstraction from this period. This fresh, graphic work features geometric clarity and crisp, interlocking...

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...

Lyman Kipp Untitled Minimalist Geometric Abstraction, 1978 Acrylic painting on paper Hand signed and dated by the artist on the lower right front Also accompanied by gallery issued C...

Johnnie Winona Ross Deep Creek Seeps 10, 2007 Oil paint on acrylic base burnished on Belgian linen Signed twice, dated and titled on the verso; also bears the original Stephen Haller Gallery label\ Canvas is stretched against wooden backing but no outer frame This work was originally sold by the Stephen Haller Gallery which hosted several critically acclaimed, sell-out shows of New Mexico resident Johniie Winona Ross, whose exquisite Minimalist aesthetic really took hold with collectors. The debt to famous New Mexico resident and Minimalist goddess Agnes Martin is obvious, but Winona Ross has a disctinctive style and technique of his own. The process of creating this work was laborious: Ross typically applies as many as 90-100 layers of paint to each canvas, then scrapes the surface with a straight-edged razor to reveal the many layers (and their chronology), and finally burnishing the surface with a Pueblo pottery stone to achieve a soft gloss. Maureen Mullarkey of Studio Matters wrote in 2010: THE LOVELINESS OF JOHNNIE WINONA ROSS' paintings elude translation into either reproduction or verbal description. In 2011, ArtDaily published this announcement from Stephen Haller, publicizing a later exhibition: "Washington Post critic Stephen Parks characterized Ross’s work in this way: “From a distance his canvases appear to be simple, minimal constructions of horizontal stripes with hints of vertical color in the background. Up close the paintings are seen to be extraordinarily beautiful and complex objects that induce a humming meditative state.” Ross grounds his work in the inspiration of the desert of the American Southwest, and borrows techniques from ancient Native American sources, melding them with a distinctly sophisticated and utterly contemporary vision. His use of the Native American technique of burnishing pigment and minerals with a potter’s stone to create a hard surface with a visually warm sheen creates an effect reminiscent of the softening of marble steps...