Stephen Pitliuk Art

Pop Art American Flag in Handsewn Patchwork Denim. I had another with a label from OK Harris Gallery verso. This one does not have that label or the label Label from Pratt verso (Pratt MFA '75) Not positive of the year Hand signed Genre: Modern Medium: Denim Jean Textile Fabric, Mixed Media Country: United States Dimensions: 14 X 28 inches This is a textile wall hanging tapestry "painting" made from vintage jeans. JJ had a masters (MFA) from Prat and studied at Hunter college for many years. He was a master jeweler and goldsmith for 50 years, a musician and a photographer. He made a living working with photography, jewelry, bronze sculpture and antique restoration. An artwork in denim fabric by a French Post War & Contemporary artist living in New York City, Jean de la Verrière, An untrained, art brut, 'outsider' artist, now 85. He sold some of his denim patriotic flag works through OK Harris gallery in Soho in the 1980s, one went directly to Ralph Lauren, according to the artist. He is also known for sculpture. particularly his working model, fully functional guillotine sculptures. Artist says he was influenced by Pop Art particularly Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns works. He was in the New York art world along with his artist friends Bernar Venet, Arman and Claude Gillie. He fabricated and cast jewelry for some of his friends. This has a Sterling Ruby feel to it but was done a generation earlier. This is assembled like a quilt and was influenced by early American folk art. Jean Jacques De La...

With layers of bright oils and whisking brush strokes, the paint is able to shine and shimmer in a very unique pattern. The artist uses gold leaf with thick textured oils and glass t...

English artist Jonjo Elliot's artworks are a collision of expressionistic fauvism and his collections encourage a youthful candor. Plants thrive in environments the viewer wants to i...

Amy Smith is a self-educated contemporary artist. Born in New Jersey, she moved to Los Angeles where she found inspiration, mentors, and support in the Street Art community. In her...

"Karl Lagerfeld", 2020, 122 x 84 cm, is a mixed media work by German artist Devin Miles. The mixed media work on canvas creates an impressive depth and three-dimensionality due to th...

Swiss artist Marion Duschletta transforms luxury objects and urban landscapes from around the world into unique layered artworks. She combines an intriguing mixture of urban photogra...

With layers of bright oils and whisking brush strokes, the paint is able to shine and shimmer in a very unique pattern. The artist uses gold leaf, thick textured oils, mixed media and, pieces of glass to add a very contemporary, Urban feel. The way the paint blends and washes into other colors gives it a very elegant feel. This style is focused on the simplicity of beauty in the moment; the artist creates a translucent but very colorful pallet with thick use of paint, evoking a result which is clean, fresh and modern. This piece is from the artists Dripping Dots...

"KATE", 2018, 140 x 120 cm, is a mixed media work by German artist Devin Miles. The mixed media work on canvas creates an impressive depth and three-dimensionality due to the artists...

Carl Smith combines his own photographic material with drawings and other fragments of narrative imagery onto canvas. He works with several layout combinations before creating a fini...

This piece depicts famous British model Kate Moss. Done with beautiful expressive colors and a distinctive street art design, this piece pops with energy and romantic beauty. Its com...

This piece is part of an exciting new collection depicting iconic "Coco Chanel" with the artists "Dripping Dots" style. Focused on a pointillistic technique, the paint is able to cap...

Bruce Helander Road Runner (Beep, Beep) Mixed Media Artwork Hand signed and dated This is a unique work and is not numbered. Frame: 31" X 21.25" Image: 29.5" X 19.5" This appears to be glitter and paint over a printed background on canvas. Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner are a duo of cartoon characters from the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated cartoons, first appearing in 1949. The characters were created for Warner Bros in 1948 by animation director Chuck Jones and writer Michael Maltese Bruce Helander (1947 -) is an art critic, arts writer, curator and artist whose specialty is collage and assemblage. He has a master’s degree in painting from the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design, where he later became the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs of the college. He is a former White House fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts and has won the South Florida Cultural Consortium fellowship for professional achievement in the visual arts. He is one of two 2014 inductees to the Florida Artists Hall of Fame, Florida’s most prestigious arts and culture honor (the other is musician Tom Petty). Helander is the former Editor-in-Chief of The Art Economist magazine and recently exhibited his work at Georgia Scherman Projects (Toronto), Corzine Fine Art (Los Angeles), Peter Marcelle Gallery (Bridgehampton, New York), Cornell Museum of Art (Delray Beach), and ArtHouse 429 (West Palm Beach). Most currently, his work was shown by Arcature Fine Art at Art Miami and Art Miami New York/Pier 94 and by Tansey Contemporary at Art Wynwood. Helander had a retrospective of his collages and paintings for the Coral Springs Museum of Art, scheduled for 2017, and his collages are included in “Open This End,” a five-year traveling museum show of works from the celebrated Blake Byrne collection in Los Angeles, currently at the Nasher Museum of Art. It included Pop art and Conceptual Art, Minimalism, body-oriented performance art, the Pictures Generation, identity politics and psychologically-inflected figurative works. Andy Warhol, Ed Ruscha, John Baldessari, Cindy Sherman, Louise Lawler, Rita McBride, Bruce Helander, Marlene Dumas, Albert Oehlen, Glenn Ligon, Mark Bradford and more. His work is in over fifty museum permanent collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, the Montreal Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the White House and the Vatican in Rome. His collages have been the subjects of over one hundred exhibitions in North America and Europe, with reviews in leading magazines such as ARTnews and Art in America. Helander's work is in numerous private collections, including actors Martin Mull and Dennis Hopper, musicians David Byrne and Jimmy Buffett and fashion designer Todd Oldham, as well as numerous corporate commissions. Prominent artists who collect his work include Dale Chihuly, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist and Larry Rivers. Football great Dan Marino, Senator Howard Metzenbaum and author Tom Wolfe own Helander work. City Link magazine called Bruce Helander "arguably the most recognized and successful collage artist in the country.". "If there was a Pulitzer Prize for collage, Helander would surely win it," observed Kenworth Moffett, the former director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, in a feature article in the November 2001 issue of Gold Coast magazine. His collages appear nationally in leading print media, including The New Yorker magazine. He was commissioned by the United Nations in August 1999 to design a first day postal cover design and limited edition print, which was presented in the General Assembly Building. He has produced prints for the Washington Opera, Ballet Florida and the Palm Beach and Boston Film Festivals. He has written extensively on contemporary art and in 2007 Grassfield Press will publish a book, titled Fire & Ice, of one hundred of his favorite reviews. He writes a monthly columns in South Florida Times magazine. Select Exhibitions 2013 Zadok Gallery, 20 Shades of Grey, Miami 2011 Dennis Hopper Estate Sale Exhibition, Christie’s, 2001 Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, A Painting Over the Sofa (that is not necessarily a painting), Miami, Florida 2001 Society of the Four Arts, 63rd Annual National Exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings, Palm Beach, Florida 2000 ArtWest Gallery, RISD on the Road—Printmaking 2000 Woods-Gerry Gallery, RISD on the Road—Printmaking & Photography, Providence, Rhode Island 1999 Armory Art Center, Figurative Small Works, West Rhode Island School of Design, Art in a Box, Providence, Rhode Island 1995 Norton Museum of Art, Group show, West Palm Beach, Florida 1995 Marisa del Re Gallery, Summer group show 1993 Philharmonic Center for Contemporary Art, Greetings From Florida, Naples, Florida (included Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Larry Poons, Jules Olitski and Hanson) 1992 Museum of Art, Stars in Florida, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (curated by David Miller; included Larry Rivers, John Chamberlain, Richard Anuszkiewicz) 1991 O. K. Harris Works of Art, Centennial Biennial Invitational, New York, New York 1986 Diane Brown Gallery, RISD in New York, New York, New York (included Jedd Garet, Italo Scanga, Jim Sullivan, Dale Chihuly, Stuart Diamond, Heide Fasnacht) 1986 Forum Gallery, Collages, New York, New York (included Romare Bearden, Varujan Boghsian, Buster Cleveland...