Kenny harris Paintings

Please see accompanying video. We are a 1stdibs Platinum Seller with 100% 5-star reviews. One cannot appreciate this painting on a computer screen; in real life, it is absolutely amazing. Because you cannot appreciate it on a computer screen, our gallery has a unique policy. When purchasing from us, the buyer has sixty days to determine if they want to keep the artwork. If not, the buyer returns to piece to us for full refund, and we pay the shipping both ways! A collector should consider several factors when deciding from whom to purchase artwork online. Check the location of the seller. When one buys from a foreign seller, one also has to consider the problems of getting the piece through Customs. There are often delays and considerable fees to pay in order to import the item. When purchasing from us, we ship the same day and you receive it via FedEx the next day, no problems or hassles. 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About Mark Schiff — Animated by photographs that reflect his personal life, Mark Schiff’s paintings are fueled by what makes him happy. Through his open touch and signature blending method, he lends his artistic perception to the original photographic compositions captured on his Leica. Mark’s creative vision has been alive since he was a boy. As a child he spent his summers observing life as he rode the trolley back and forth to art classes at the Pratt Institute. During his future travels to Europe, Mark’s eye for light and photography merged with his passion for painting at the Jeu de Paume in Paris; which triggered his career in photorealism. Mark is well known for painting objects that people can identify and emotionally connect with. His work is distinctly marked by a rich palette and the luminous range of light he paints into his compositions. Each painting is a true extension of his vision and can take up to 200 hours to complete. Mark Schiff’s work has been commissioned by the well-known brands The Hershey Company and Tropicana. His private collectors include A-list celebrities and also corporate collectors in the US and abroad. Possessing a strong philanthropic nature, Mark donates both his time and works to charitable organizations such as Big Brothers Big Sisters, The Ronald McDonald House, Make-A-Wish Foundation, The Humane Society and the Special Olympics. Photorealism is widely viewed as one of this century’s most exciting genres of art. When a photorealistic painting is viewed from afar, it looks like a photograph. Only when getting very close to the art does the viewer realize that it is in fact not a photo, but rather an oil painting. Photorealism can also refer to sculptures. Duane Hanson is known as the greatest photorealistic sculptor of all time. Some of the greatest photorealistic painters include Mark Schiff, Richard Estes, Ralph Goings, Charles Bell and Audrey Flack. Photorealist Mark Schiff was born in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, in a neighborhood known as a kuchalane, a Yiddish word which Schiff defines as a place where everyone (from the Old Country) ended up living on the same street, and most likely knowing each other’s business. His Russian grandfather came to the US before the revolution and both his parents were first generation American. Even at five years of age, Mark showed exceptional talent. In the summer, his mother permitted him to travel by himself on the trolley for art classes at the Pratt institute. He continued studying there until he was eleven and the family moved to Great Neck. Except for a few art classes in high school and playing baritone horn in the band, Mark focused on other things besides art, especially when his mother worried for his financial future, kept insisting “that Jewish boys don’t starve to death.” His father made a good living as a production man in textiles so Mark, who had spent years doing the rounds of knitting mills with his father, decided to major in textile chemistry at North Carolina State. ROTC was mandatory on his campus and he did two years in order to be eligible for officer status. He won the Armed Forces Chemical Association award and thought for sure that he would be assigned chemical work, but instead was made a tank commander and stationed at Fort Knox. Not exactly what his heart yearned for, but a good job awaited him at Sandoz, a Swiss company that made dyestuff. What perfect training for someone who would soon be working in wonderful rich colors on canvas. He went on to receive his MBA degree from Hofstra University, left Sandoz and was hired to sell at a spinning mill. He liked it. In 1976 he joined Bennett Berman Associates and had an opportunity to buy the spinning mill Spun Fibers. But what of art? In the early days, Elsie, his wife of fifty-two years, had a problem with the large amount of space his canvases occupied in their one bedroom apartment. Mark took up photography instead, which only required a small darkroom. Photography was a natural ally for his eventual return to painting in the photorealistic style. It was on his second trip to Europe that Mark fell in love with painting all over again. The impressionistic museum, Jeu de Paume in Paris, renewed his passion and it’s been non-stop since then. Out came the brushes, but this time, he used his love and skill of photography, and built a style based on the photographs he had taken, bringing them to life with paint. Mark was still not painting to sell until in 1990 when someone discovered and desperately wanted his candy bar (Sweet Series) painting. Mark didn’t want to let go of that particular piece, but was finally convinced to sell it and a second candy painting to this ardent art and candy lover. Two years later, Mark was commissioned to make three paintings of this man’s new Ferrari. Some of the artists who have inspired his work are Richard Estes, Sandy Scott, Chuck Close, and Charles Bell. He appreciates the work of Ken Keeley, but unlike Keeley’s hard-lined/tape and ruler style, Mark prefers an open touch, using the blending method. Mark’s subject matters range from candy bars to spice racks to soda cans and soda bottles. He photographs with a Leica M-7 and each painting can take up to 200 or more hours to complete. His palette is rich; his subjects, be it a fire engine or a pretzel cart, take on a luminous quality, always photoreal, but even more beautiful. Mark developed his own technique for working with bottles by painting a canvas all black, so that the transparency of the bottles allows a wonderful range of light to filter through. The same light and reflection can be seen in the black rotary phone...

Work : Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, Unique Work. Ready to Hang with two studs. Medium : Oil on mounted linen on wood. Artist : Gabriel Riesnert Subject : Ciel d'été (Tit...

Brass plate leads to Russian artist Pavel Pavlovich Dzhogin (1834 - 1885). This 19th century oil painting beautifully captures a serene rural scene with travelers on a cart traveling...

Scott Yeskel was raised in the suburbs of Orange County, California after his parents moved from New Jersey when he was a child. The mild weather and suburban sprawl fueled Scott’s interest in the landscape. 

After graduating from high school, he moved to San Francisco to pursue an education in the arts. Yeskel graduated from the Academy of Art College in 2002 where he won first place in the Landscape category at the Academy’s Annual Spring Show. He was quickly picked up by galleries in Philadelphia, Laguna Beach and San Francisco. Since that time, Scott has been the subject of over a dozen solo shows, countless group exhibitions and has been featured in over 20 magazine and newspaper editorials. 

His work speaks to those who identify with the California lifestyle – often romantic but sometimes plagued with frustration. His love/hate relationship with Los Angeles’ freeways, boxy apartments and urban sprawl feed Yeskel’s desire to paint his environment as he sees – a jumble of mixed emotions. Recently, Scott’s work was purchased by prestigious corporate collections including Microsoft and NBC/ Universal. Scott currently teaches an Abstract Workshop at the Kline Academy in West LA and resides with his wife and daughter in Los Angeles. Resume Born, 1977, Montclair, New Jersey 2002 – Graduated Academy of Art College, San Francisco, BFA SOLO SHOWS 2020- Vacant LA, online exhibition. 2016-Summer Days, Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, Ca. Valley Scenes, Valley Performing Arts Center, Cal State Northridge, Ca. 2015- Modern Escape, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, Ca. 2013- Hotel Pools, Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, Ca. 2012- Stop & Go, Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, Ca. 2011 – Wanderlust, Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, Ca. Mapping California, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco Ca. 2009 – L.A. To Ventura and In Between, Vita Art Center, Ventura, Ca 2008 – Disconnections, Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, Ca L.A. to S.F. with Love, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, Ca 2007 – Mass Transit, Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, Ca. 2006 – Maps, Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, Ca. 2005 – Trouble in Paradise, Bedlam Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca. 2004 – Moving On, Pringle Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa. 2003 – Two Roads, Pringle Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa. SELECTED GROUP SHOWS 2021-Summer Salon, Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, Ca 2019- Group Cityscape IX, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca Ashes of Hope, Sky Studios, Los Angeles, Ca 2018-Cityscape VIII, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca Celebration Art, Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle, Wa 2016-House and Home, Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, Ca 2105-Venice Art Walk Auction, Google Headquarters, Venice, Ca 2013-Ryman Arts, ‘An Affair of the Arts’, Los Angeles, Ca. 2012-Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, Palm Springs, Ca. artMRKT San Francisco, SFDC Concourse Exhibition Center, S.F., Ca 2011 – L.A. Art Show, Los Angeles Convention Center, L.A. Ca. Palette to Palate, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, Ca. artMRKT San Francisco, SFDC Concourse Exhibition Center, S.F. Ca 2010 – Art San Diego, Hilton San Diego Bayfront, San Diego, Ca. 2009 & 2010 – L.A Art Show, Los Angeles Convention Center, L.A., CA 2008 – Auction 100, Laguna Beach Art Museum, Laguna Beach, Ca. Aqua Art Miami, Aqua Hotel, Miami, Fla Red Dot Fair, Park South Hotel-New York City, New York 2006 – Venice Art Walk Juried Auction, Bergamont Station, Santa Monica, Ca. Fin, Bedlam Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca. 2005 – Create-Fixate, Spring Arts Tower, Los Angeles,Ca. 2004 – Meet the Artists IV, The Pacific Club, Newport Beach, Ca. Group Cityscapes, Greenwood Chebithes Gallery, Laguna Beach, Ca. Getting to Know You, Backstreet Gallery, Santa Monica, Ca Scott Yeskel / Brandon Smith, Hotel Biron Gallery, San Francisco, Ca. 2003 – Around Town, Pringle Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa. 2002 – Academy Spring Annual, Academy of Art, San Francisco, Ca. 1998 – Juried Luggage Show, Luggage Store...

"Coffee, Fireworks, and Amphetamines" is an oil painting of the titled items, a to-go coffee cup is the focal point, a few red firecrackers resemble miniature dynamite sticks. Pills scattered about the tabletop in capsules and tablet forms. A single match with a red tip rests along the table's edge, ready to ignite a spark. A diagonal shadow dissects the composition. A hole in the wall can be found on the upper right. Painting dimensions: 11 x 14 inches Framed dimensions: 13.5 x 16.5 inches Matthew Weigle...

A 20th-century American School oil painting on board featuring American banker and financier J.P. Morgan (1837-1913) seated at his desk. Light streams through the window, casting th...

"Two Sisters" is a contemporary realist painting of two young women sitting at a bar. One sister looks a bit reserved, her hair down, clasping her hands in...

Very well executed mid-18th century artwork, rather oil study, depicts resting family sheltering from the scorching midday sun in grotto shape arch in ruined part of town. Mother fee...

Provenance Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist Artist Statement "I loved the atmospheric light effect of this scene from Sonoma county in northern California. The back...

Vibrant, colorful still-life of fruit arranged in front of a bowl and pitcher by Joseph Yeager (American, 20th Century). Circa 1940. This piece is partially incomplete. Unsigned, but...

Mid-century oil on panel by Robert Perniaux , Belgian artist, signed and dated 1952 bottom right. Robert Perniaux , born in Grez-Doiceau in 1906 and died in 1973, was a Belgian architect, painter, ceramicist and illustrator. He trained from 1923 to 1929 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. His work as a ceramicist, illustrator, watercolourist and painter had a characteristic style, which according to Paul Piron was "close to popular art " . He illustrated many books with his unique style of art. Robert Perniaux was the husband of the painter Georgette Devroye with whom he came to settle in La Ciotat...

Provenance Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist Artist Statement "Rockpile is a favorite surfing spot for the local surfers in Laguna Beach. The rocky reefs create a nic...