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
$3,800
H 14 in W 15.5 in
Modernist Gestural Abstract Color Field Painting Woman Artist Francine Tint
By Francine Tint
Located in Surfside, FL
Francine Tint (b. 1943) Another Time Thick acrylic impasto on board, 1999, Hand signed 'Francine Tint' titled, dated Inscribed 'To Piri, Enjoy Much Love' on the reverse. 14 x 15 1/...
Acrylic, Acrylic Polymer, Wood Panel
$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
$20,000
H 48 in W 48 in
Havana No 4, Yellow - bold, bright, colorful, abstract, modernist, oil on canvas
By David Sorensen
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A vibrant culture is captured in colour and dynamic form in this lively abstract painting by David Sorensen. After visiting Cuba in 1999, the Canadian artist created a series of paintings. The light, the bright colours and the rich atmosphere of life in Havana inspired Sorensen’s colour palette—a brilliant square of yellow in the center, surrounded by graphic shapes in red, orange, lime green, blue and black. Lines of blue and black create a grid-like pattern that runs both horizontally and vertically across the canvas. “Through the medium of his art, a bridge is built between inner sensation and outer world experience, illusion and reality, what we cannot see and what we see, life and afterlife.” John K. Grande, Montreal poet and writer Born in Vancouver Sorensen (1937-2011) studied at UBC and the Vancouver School of Art. His teachers were renowned—Arthur Erikson...
Canvas, Oil
$555
H 12 in Dm 12 in
Love in Motion XX - Impasto Original Thick Paint Textured Heart Art work on Wood
By Cynthia Coulombe Bégin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Coulombe-Bégin creates dynamic, highly textured paintings that explore identity, emotion, and the human experience. Contrasting colors, spontaneous gestures, and layered materials br...
Acrylic, Resin, Wood Panel
$187Sale Price|25% 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
$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
$1,299
H 15.75 in W 11.82 in D 0.79 in
"Signs of Memory" – Original Mixed Media on Canvas by Marilina Marchica 2019
By Marilina Marchica
Located in Agrigento, AG
Signs of Memory" is a one-of-a-kind abstract artwork by Italian artist Marilina Marchica, created in 2019. This mixed media painting on canvas (30 x 40 x 2 cm) explores the poetic re...
Enamel
$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
$38,000
H 32 in W 149 in
Triptych - bold, bright, colorful, abstract, modernist, tryptic oil on canvas
By David Sorensen
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Painterly bands of bright lemon, aqua, white and verdant green point to beach, sand and sky in this modernist triptych by David Sorensen. Through his painterly modern compositions, celebrated Canadian painter David Sorensen (1937-2011) sought to “give voice to the inner reality.” In the paintings from his last years, Sorensen offers solutions to the nature of abstraction – wresting nature and the horizon from pure form and brilliant colour. Born in Vancouver in 1937, Sorensen studied at UBC and the Vancouver School of Art under Arthur Erickson...
Canvas, Oil
$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