Li Lei Abstract Paintings

James Hoff Social Media Remorse Syndrome, 2012 Oil on canvas 18 x 12 inches (45.7 x 30.5 cm)

This piece, "California Fields" is a 18x24 contemporary oil painting on canvas by artist Deborah Hill. Featured is a view of abstract textured lines that ...

This painting features hues of yellow red, orange, and green. Chattanooga-based artist Christina Renfer Vogel’s “Turning Towards the Sun” featu...

'Adam & Eve" is a figurative painting featuring hues of blue, lime green and yellow. Robert Hightower is inspired by the work of Giotto, Hieronymus Bosch, Jean-François Millet, Roger Brown, Howard...

This piece, "Green Mountain Farm" is a 20x20 contemporary oil painting on canvas by artist Deborah Hill. Featured is a view of abstract textured lines tha...

Victor Wang's highly textured paintings involve thick layers of paint over collaged images from the Tang Dynasty. In "Let Her Go", the foreground shows a modern female figure sitting upon the side of a boat which gives the impression she is wearing wings and about to take flight. Upon closer look, there are various scenes taking place around her in the water - warriors with knives drawn, a jeep in pursuit of some unseen enemy, a cauldron boiling over. Influence by the Renaissance Masters, Titian and Rembrandt for their glazing and layering techniques respectively, the artist builds the surface using heavy paint, swirling and mixing the color on the canvas. The end result is a poetic and emotionally powerful representation of the human form. Victor Wang Let Her Go oil on canvas 48h x 60w in 121.92h x 152.40w cm VWG011 My path through life has been adventurous, exciting, and dream-like. My experience of settling into America in search of better opportunities has been both challenging and inspiring. I use the human face as a vehicle to paint human experiences - worry and wonder, sadness and pleasure - which reflect the emotional stage directly tied to my immigration experiences. I grew up amongst the sunflower fields in northern China. In my childhood years, I played under the bright, yellow sunflowers with my brothers everyday. China’s Cultural Revolution played an important part in my life. During that time, sunflowers were used as political allegories to depict how citizens of China should follow Mao who represented the sun, since sunflowers follow the sun’s movements. People eventually inferred the deception that this symbol masked. After graduating from high school, I was sent to a labor camp in the country for ‘reeducation’ during China’s Cultural Revolution. There, I was subject to grueling farm work. Often, I worked in corn and sunflower fields from sunrise to sunset. Thus, for me, sunflowers evoke both personal joy and sadness. Therefore, to deliver my complex feelings, I use sunflowers as a metaphor to connote my background and emotional stage. My incorporation of collages of figures from China’s Tang Dynasty represents my Chinese heritage and is a constant reminder of where I came from. The texture and earthiness on the canvas’s surface are inspired by the texture of the soil on the farm where I worked in China. Although I often gain great pleasure from the process of painting, it is most important to unfold expressively those feelings within myself. Wang belongs to a generation of immigrant painters from China, whose artistic background was defined by socialist realism but took advantage of their skills and broke away from that tradition to create new subjects in the U.S. “When I was a student during Cultural Revolution, Soviet realism art was among the dominant source of influence and it grabbed us like lightening...

The paintings I create are referential. Through process and symbol, I use heavily affected information as context in which to introduce contemporary concept and question. The p...

​Helen Taylor (Contemporary) The Blanket Oil on canvas 46 x 61 cm Helen Taylor’s practice follows an interest in belonging, connection, and journeys. She spent her formative years...

This painting features hues of green, yellow and white. Chattanooga-based artist Christina Renfer Vogel’s “Turning Towards the Sun” features pa...

Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...

This vibrant and abstract portrait, "Number 2", is a 24x24 mixed media painting on canvas by artist Shawn Faust. Depicted is a stylized silhouette of a race horse and jockey against ...

​Helen Taylor Par Avion Oil on canvas 100 x 76 cm Unframed Helen Taylor’s practice follows an interest in belonging, connection, and journeys. She spent her formative years in the...