Madonna Phillips Abstract Paintings

Abstract artist Paul Kirley crafts visual journeys that seamlessly intertwine individuals with their surroundings, evoking the ethereal nature of dreams. Blurring the boundaries betw...

Abstract artist Paul Kirley crafts visual journeys that seamlessly intertwine individuals with their surroundings, evoking the ethereal nature of dreams. Blurring the boundaries betw...

Exploring the purity of the feminine form and the drama of French haute couture, artist Cindy Shaoul creates a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Her spirited composit...

This depicts civil rights icon MLK, the Statue of Liberty, Iwo Jima, an assemblage of mixed media photographic images and painted collaged elements. A powerful, moving work, an ode to the black civil rights movement. John M. Mitchell is originally from North Carolina, and as an art student at North Carolina Central University, he was involved with the Civil Rights movement including participating and getting arrested at a sit-in protest in Durham in 1963. After graduating, he was one of the first art teachers to take a position at the newly integrated schools in his home state. Mitchell continued his education in the 1990s and earned an MFA in painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 1993. He later served as a professor there from 1998-2006. Of his inspiration to create, Mitchell says: "A lot of my work is based on my experiences during the Civil Rights movement," he says. "I see art making as a 'record' of experiences. My bittersweet past, growing up in the segregated South, inspires the content, focus and narrative of my work." Savannah-based artist John Mitchell believes that a home is more than a simple edifice. Rather, he argues that the sociological, psychological, architectural, and historical associations embedded in the structure “tell us about our culture, our lives. It tells us about where we come from.” Mitchell's signature shotgun house constructions, crafted from found materials and scraps of newspaper headlines, reference his childhood in North Carolina, where such modest architectural structures were once commonplace. In "ALA 1963," he uses the shotgun shape to create a heartfelt memorial to a group of African-American girls killed in a racially motivated church bombing in Alabama nearly 50 years ago. He also incorporates the shotgun symbol in "Victims," a powerful reflection upon crime in Savannah in the early 1990s, which reveals how little has changed over the past two decades. Mitchell's mixed media constructions operate, in many ways, like memory itself. Scraps, fragments and pieces loosely cohere around a central idea, making symbolic and metaphorical connections. In these richly narrative and boldly stream-of-conscious assemblages, the whole truly is greater than the sum of its parts. Mitchell's jazz collages - carefully crafted from scraps of newspaper, sheet music, magazines and tissue paper - celebrate key players in Savannah's jazz scene, from sultry female vocalists to wiry male saxophone players. A tribute to the late jazz bassist Ben Tucker, a true Savannah legend, is especially moving, incorporating a pencil sketch of the standing bass player as well as newspaper clippings of other Savannah jazz musicians. Mitchell grew up in a shotgun house in North Carolina, a style of vernacular architecture that is particularly prevalent in the South. Mitchell fills his sculptural homes with objects of metaphorical and symbolic, iconic, importance. In Home Sweet Home he includes the American flag, a photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, and a china plate depicting The Last Supper, among other items that convey a personal and historical narrative. He notes that making art acts “as a ‘record’ of experiences. My bittersweet past, growing up in the segregated South, inspires the content, focus, and narrative of my work.” While this contains elements reminiscent of folk art and outsider art this is a quite sophisticated tour de force. He was included in the show Complex Uncertainties, Telfair Museum: Modern and contemporary art comprise painting, prints, drawing, photograph, sculpture, and works in new media, representing American artistic achievement from 1945 to the present day. The exhibition includes works by artists such as Bruce Davidson, Elaine de Kooning, Carrie Mae Weems, Sam Gilliam, Ethel Schwabacher, Radcliffe Bailey...

Larisa Safaryan has chosen to work with a most unconventional and delicate medium: an eggshell. Without question she is an innovator in what she does.​ The strength and fragility of ...

"Art is transformation" Art is the purpose of art as love is the purpose of love.« Heinrich Heine Ines Hildur starts her paintings intuitively, without any preconceived programme. From the subconscious things occur, which she cannot predetermine. The artist does not convert these inner pictures to specific things. With a special feeling for rhythm and through subtile color sounds she tells about free, associative picture stories. The works exude tranquillity, clarity and sensuality. The visible aesthetic sensitivity has a suggestive power, which captivates the observer. If you get involved in these pictures – in the colored moods, the symbolic, fragile lines, symbols – they appear to be the beginning of a story, which the observer can continue in his imagination. At the trans-lation into the terms of language, however, something mysterious remains, which cannot be translated. The painter apparently leaves the processes for the creation of the painting: color layers overlay each other, lines are covered and released again, used papers are stuck onto the work. The artist describes her way of painting like this: » violations at places of change are connected, sewed, covered in a varnishing way, shine through like under a wax layer or can still haptically be realised. Special importance is attached to the picture passages, which appear to be particularly successful, they support their environment – are significant for fringe areas, however, can also lose their function again during the working process and have to be given up – sometimes this is quite painful like the loss of a good friend.« She discovers special beauty in apparently everyday things. This can be a crumbling wall, moss between concrete slabs, traces of transience. Due to this special talent of perception the artist converts her impressions to compact pictures, which sometimes remind me of releasing layers, preserving a certain state, which could quickly disappear: also the forms of cocoon are ambiguous, a cocoon for wrapping something up, giving protection and security – or are they projectiles reaching new shores? In an environment of over-stimulation the artist wants to train our ability of perception to see things in a new way. For several years she has been communicating the interrelation between painting and seeing at the private art school Wameling Richon in Baden near Zurich. The painter and architect Ines Hildur – this is her pseudonym – belongs to the cross-border artists, to whom one attributes a special open view due to the different fields of activity. Since 1991 she has intensively been occupying herself with painting. By encountering the Berlin film-maker and painter Jürgen Böttcher Alias Strawalde, the Vienna painter Gunter Damisch and the artist couple Nancy Spero and Leon Golub at the renowned Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg she received particularly lasting ideas and stimuli. In the meantime the artist, who presently lives in Leipzig, shows her individual and group presentations in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and France. The paintings of Ines Hildur appear to be very open, they invite to discuss about them. Perhaps it will be a dialogue between her expectations and those aspects you can find here. You can take up this trace if you want to come closer to the secret behind the obvious things, which works of art always have for us. Andrea Richter-Mahlo I Art Historian I Leipzig. Ines Hildur is born in Freiberg / Saxonia in Germany She studied architecture at the University Dresden from 1977 to 1982. In 1991 she study Arts in the Arts School of Fine Arts & Design and in the International Summer Academies of Fine Arts Saarbrücken Living and working in Leipzig as an Artist Painter she still working as an Architect and Interior Designer in Dresden, Saarbrücken, Salzburg and Leipzig since 1982 and Temporarily in Saint Paul De Vence - Cote d'Azur Teaching free painting at serval academies of Fine arts since 2002 . Selected Solo Exhibitions 1994 Galerie Filmhaus Saarbrücken 1995 Atelier Studio Silke Wagler Leipzig Galerie Mittelsächsisches Theater Freiberg 1996 Galerie Alcatraz Hallein/Austria 1997 Galerie Hofhaus Saarlouis Galerie Pro Arte Hallein/Austria 1998 Galerie Schubert Neunkirchen Mdr-Galerie Leipzig 1999 City Managment/Galerie Spandow Berlin Galerie Kunst + Objekte Leipzig 2000 Regierungspräsidium Dresden Galerie Hanstein Saarbrücken 2001 Galerie Spandow Berlin 2002 Galerie Wameling Richon, Baden/Suisse 2003 Kunstverein Die Treidler, Frankenthal Galerie Ferry, Paris 2004 Drive - Die Medienagentur, Hannover 2005 Galerie Ferry Paris Galerie Wameling Richon Baden/Suisse Galerie Victoria Wittek Schwalmtal/Rainrod/D 2006 Kunstverein Ebersberg 2007 Nexolab München 2010 Art und Ambiente Leipzig Kunst und Justiz Karlsruhe 2013 Helmaxx Salzburg 2014 Werkschau Salzburg 2015 2018 Galerie Schöllerbank Salzburg Galerie Katapult Basel Galerie Mikhail Nefedov Nizza Galerie der Havilandbank Monte Carlo Selected Group Exhibitions 1994 Galerie Filmhaus Saarbrücken 1996 Galerie am Damm, Dresden Galerie Hanstein, Saarbrücken Galerie Pro Arte Hallein/Austria 1997 Landeskunstaustellung Saar, St. Ingbert 1999 Passages - House of Artists, Saarbrücken Art in the Box - House of Artists, Saarbrücken 2001 Galerie Hanstein, Saarbrücken House of Artists, Saarbrücken 2002 Galerie Hanstein, Saarbrücken Galerie Pro Arte Hallein/Austria 2003 Galerie Hanstein, Saarbrücken Galerie Ferry, Paris 2004 Galerie Wameling Richon, Baden/Suisse Grosse Kunstausstellung, Wasserburg/Inn Galerie Nicole...

Contemporary abstract painting with collage, featuring found object scraps of maps, old stamps, and papers with Asian characters on wood panel by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (Amer...

Larisa Safaryan has chosen to work with a most unconventional and delicate medium: an eggshell. Without question she is an innovator in what she does.​ The strength and fragility of ...

Larisa Safaryan has chosen to work with a most unconventional and delicate medium: an eggshell. Without question she is an innovator in what she does.​ The strength and fragility of ...

Animotion Mixed Media On Reverse Glass 100cm x 80cm Sold Framed Free shipping (Please note that in situ images are purely an indication of how a piece may look). Animotion is an original painting by Adam Bartlett...

Tactile memory #122, by Natasha Zupan Mixed Media on Wood, silk petals, eyelashes, glass, acrylic, and oil Size: 18 in. H x 15 in. W x 3 in D. 2021 __________________________________...

Larisa Safaryan has chosen to work with a most unconventional and delicate medium: an eggshell. Without question she is an innovator in what she does.​ The strength and fragility of ...