Jong-Kie Jeong Paintings

According to Greek mythology, Kalypso, a beautiful nymph, captured Odysseus and held him on her island for seven years. She was deeply in love with him but was forced to let him ret...

Man at Piano Bar, Contemporary Figurative with Primary Colors Modernist painting of pensive man at bar by Michael William Eggleston (American, 20th c.). Fro...

This painting confronts the art world's prejudice towards age. The book on the table is a copy of James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The seated figure is meant to c...

A signed oil painting representing the portrait of a woman in the bath. Contemporary painting. Height 40" x 28" Length

"Nina Alfarera (Child Making Pottery) - Puno" is an original oil painting by Abelardo Marquez.It depicts a young girl holding a baby alpaca or llama. This painting was completed in b...

Contemporary Figurative Abstract, Blonde Woman with Red Bikini Modernist painting of blonde woman in a red bikini by San Francisco artist Michael William ...

Karen Blair lives in Charlottesville, Virginia where the surrounding mountains provide daily inspiration for her work. Her own garden and those of friends inspire the flowers and tre...

"Bodega Mountain," is an original oil painting on wood, signed on the verso. The frame was created and hand-carved by the artist, which makes it an integral part of the work. The ima...

"Nina Ponema - Puno (Young Girl from Puno)" is an original oil painting on canvas by Abelardo Marquez. The artist signed the piece in the lower right. This painting depicts a young g...

"Retablo Excotos (Replica Bride & Groom)" is an original oil painting on tin by Monica Flores Martinez. The artist signed the piece. This artwork features a bride and a groom and an ...

"The Red Barn - Wisconsin Landscape Series" is an original oil painting on canvas by Dan Muller. The artists signed the painting in the lower left....

William Blake’s oil painting asks us to perceive the powerful layers of history that shape both art and memory. In Blake’s painting is a man, but what Blake painted is an idea. Hugh Goffinet stares out from the canvas in the dress of a soldier, without being one. He is a reenactor of an African American volunteer in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. His inspiration is the Lincolns—the battalion’s volunteers—but they are pictured only symbolically, in his dress. Their inspiration was Lincoln, who many decades earlier helped give meaning to the American Civil War, but who is invisible in the painting except by implication—the pose of Hugh Goffinet—which carefully emulates Lincoln’s pose in the celebrated presidential portrait by George Healy. Entirely hidden, at the deepest layer of history, is the true source of inspiration: the human desire for equality and freedom. To understand, honor, and preserve it requires remembrance, in this case with history animating reenactors who animate art that animates memory. Artist, William Blake channels the spirit of Winslow Homer's war imagery, bringing it into the contemporary world, asking us to reflect upon the decisions forced to be made in wartime, some of which will never leave us. As for the paintings, William uses materials and methods of the Civil War era. The linen on which he paints was in use at that time as well as the tubed oil paints. He is one of the few artists who tacks his canvas to the stretchers using similar tacks that would have been used by Winslow Homer. While he leaves the works unframed for this reason, the artwork could certainly be framed. This piece is unframed. Please contact the gallery for framing options. William Blake Salud Johnny, 2023 oil on linen 76h x 36w in 193.04h x 91.44w cm WIL049 Known for his highly charged depictions of Civil War reenactments, William Blake’s powerful paintings show the recursive bodies of reenactors as they gesture across time. Participating in over 40 reenactment events, Blake currently interprets as the artist-correspondent Winslow Homer at these battle reenactments. He immerses himself in the materiality of his own obsession by constructing period clothes, camping on battlefields, and documenting the reenactment similar to Homer’s documentation of the authentic war. The figures in the paintings reverberate the past with respect and with a desire to educate, humble, and play. With each annual iteration of American Civil War reenactments, the reanimation of the past encourages a review of history and aids in its continuous revision. For his second exhibition with Gallery Victor Armendariz, William Blake presents A Great Battlefield, a collection of new paintings depicting US Marines at the Gettysburg National Military Park. A Great Battlefield, takes its title from Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address which poetically looks to the battlefield as a site of rebirth. Following the tradition of nineteenth-century American history painting...