Abstract painter Michael David is best known for his use of encaustic, a technique that incorporates heated beeswax and pigment. Considered an inheritor of Abstract Expressionism, David’s abstract work primarily centers on the use of a densely layered surface to facilitate a direct and immediate spiritual experience.
David often incorporates religious iconography and symbolism, art historical themes such as the nude, and contemporary politics into his paintings resulting in a critical dialogue between the layered abstraction of the surface and the integrated representational imagery. Alongside his work on canvas, David has developed a body of studio photography that recreates paintings by Caravaggio, Manet, and Mantegna, among others, in works that confront racism, homophobia, and sexism.
David also works in mixed media and environmental sculpture, still within the horizon of his abiding concerns for sociopolitical questioning through art-making. His work is included in the public collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Denver Art Museum, Jewish Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Edward Albee Foundation and others.
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All Good Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes - Giant Tondo
By Michael David
Located in Phoenix, AZ
encaustic on panel b. 1954, Reno Nevada Michael David is best known for his use of encaustic on large abstract paintings. A practitioner of Abstract Expressionism, David layers bees...
Wax, Encaustic, Oil, Wood Panel
Sand & Sea
By Michael David
Located in Phoenix, AZ
encaustic on panel b. 1954, Reno Nevada Michael David is best known for his use of encaustic on large abstract paintings. A practitioner of Abstract Expressionism, David layers bees...
Wood, Wax, Encaustic, Oil
All Good Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes
By Michael David
Located in Phoenix, AZ
encaustic on panel b. 1954, Reno Nevada Michael David is best known for his use of encaustic on large abstract paintings. A practitioner of Abstract Expressionism, David layers bees...
Wax, Encaustic, Wood Panel, Oil
Speedy Snoopy (Original Artwork On Wood Panel)
By Mauro Oliveira
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
**STORE CLOSURE - UP TO 80% OFF - TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT** ***EVERYTHING MUST GO BY DECEMBER 31ST!*** >>The artist is moving to a new full time venture in 2026<< _________...
Acrylic, Wood Panel
$7,800
H 32 in W 72 in
Set Adrift - Large Moody Atmospheric Abstract Alluring Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Mark Acetelli’s oil and mixed media paintings awaken the viewer’s sense of exploration and adventure; they demand a new discovery. His artworks exhibit a chemistry of complexity and ...
Canvas, Oil
$9,000
H 40 in W 40 in D 0.25 in
"Lost River" - Muted Contemporary Color Field Abstract Painting in Green Palette
By Katheryn Holt
Located in Carmel, CA
Katheryn Holt (American, born 1951) "Lost River" 2022 Oil paint, Wood Panel, Wood The artist signed the back of the painting. Framed: 41" x 41" x 1.25" The upper half of the compos...
Oil, Wood, Wood Panel
$1,600
H 20 in W 16 in
"Leaping Without Annette" (2023) by Amy Hutcheson, Abstract Oil Painting
By Amy Hutcheson
Located in Denver, CO
"Leaping Without Annette" is an original, handmade oil painting on wood cradle, by Amy Hutcheson, that depicts an abstract painting with colorful geometr...
Wood Panel, Oil
$200Sale Price|20% Off
H 12 in W 12 in
Reflections Through The Looking Glass No. 13 - Textural Colorful Abstract Art
By Shiri Phillips
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Impasto-painted strokes of bright colors are the framework of artist Shiri Phillips’ abstract artworks. Her paintings are flooded with texture through the layering of acrylic paint i...
Acrylic, Wood Panel
$40,000
H 72 in W 72 in D 3 in
"Abstract With Pink and Teal" large-scale oil painting, pastel colors, amorphous
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A large scale oil painting - totally abstract, non representational. Largely pink, and blue, with pops of assorted colors peaking up from beneath. Thickly painted globs of paint are ...
Linen, Oil
Andrea Bonfils - Beehive Black, Painting 2021
By Andrea Bonfils
Located in Stamford, CT
Series: Beehives Beeswax and fabric over beehive and honeycomb panels Size: 36” x 26” x 1.5” This Painting will be shipped directly from the artist's studio.
Wax, Encaustic, Oil, Wood Panel
$2,655Sale Price|55% Off
H 13.75 in W 10.75 in D 2 in
Votive, color field, oil on panel, 2020
By Tom Irizarry Studio
Located in Booklyn, NY
“… look into the stains of walls, or the ashes of a fire, or clouds, or mud … you may find really marvelous ideas. The mind of the painter is stimulated to new discoveries … various ...
Underglaze, Oil, Wood Panel
$7,500
H 32 in W 48 in D 1.5 in
"Quarry" by Katheryn Holt - Green and Ochre Tone Color-Field Abstract Painting
By Katheryn Holt
Located in Carmel, CA
Katheryn Holt (American, born 1951) "Quarry" 2022 Oil Paint, Mixed Media, Wood Panel, Wood The artist signed the back of the painting. About the Artist: Katheryn Holt paints memory....
Mixed Media, Oil, Wood, Wood Panel
$853
H 11.82 in W 11.82 in D 1.58 in
Maria Pierides, Nude Lipstick 2, Original Abstract Painting, Affordable Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Nude Lipstick 2 [2021] Original Oil and oil stick on deep edge cradled panel Image size: H:30 cm x W:30 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:30 cm x W:30 cm x D:4cm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look Inspired by a series of haiku poems by poet and mum, Stella Pierides, that were written in response to shared family stories and experiences of lockdown. Maria Pierides...
Oil, Panel
$4,200
H 24 in W 24 in D 2 in
Snow at Dusk (Encaustic Landscape Painting of Wintry Country Forest)
By Regina Quinn
Located in Hudson, NY
Encaustic, abstracted, impressionistic landscape of a wintry forest at evening "Snow at Dusk" made in 2024 by Regina Quinn encaustic, India ink, and oil with wax on panel 24 x 24 x 2...
Wax, Encaustic, Oil, Panel
The Masque of Comus
By Thaddeus Radell
Located in Atlanta, GA
"My work principally consists of deeply abstracted figure compositions--intuitive constructions that begin with random marks establishing larger masses of torsos, heads, and limbs in an undefined setting. The emphasis is almost purely on intuition. The figures are born of their surrounding environment, emerging only partially and fugitively from the layers of pigment. A narrative is evident but never overt. A crown, a shield, a boat, a wheel. Though the subject has recently coalesced around my reading of Dante and Shakespeare, the settings remain extremely vague- a beach, an interior, a woodland. The paintings are, in the end, meditations on the relationship between the protagonists in a wordless drama. In my paintings, I use a cold wax medium combined with dry pigments, oil paint, and embedded fragments of burlap. The surfaces eventually build up into a dense, rugged terrain." --Thaddeus Radell
Jute, Wax, Oil, Wood Panel