Sumomo Kanashiwa, an illustrious Argentine women artist with Japanese fascination, has carved a unique niche in the contemporary art world. Born and raised amidst the colorful milieu of Buenos Aires, her artistic journey is a remarkable blend of South American vibrancy and the mystical allure of Japanese manga. Despite her lack of formal art education, Kanashiwa's self-taught skills have blossomed into a distinct style that challenges traditional norms and celebrates creative freedom. Kanashiwa's artwork is a testament to her multicultural heritage, seamlessly merging the bustling energy of Buenos Aires with the whimsical charm of manga. Her signature style is marked by characters with wide, expressive eyes and striking pink hair, set against fantastical, often surreal landscapes. This dreamy aesthetic is vividly portrayed in her acclaimed pieces, "Whispers of the City" (2010) and "Midnight Reverie" (2011), where she exhibits a profound mastery of vibrant hues and deep, thoughtful compositions. Her artistry transcends cultural barriers, appealing to a global audience with its universal themes and innovative storytelling. Drawing from diverse influences such as manga, Argentine folklore, modern literature, and animation, Kanashiwa crafts narratives that delve into the depths of human emotions and experiences. Her distinctive use of pink-haired characters, at once innocent and enigmatic, becomes a powerful medium to explore and express a range of sentiments and life's complexities. By her early thirties, Kanashiwa has already made significant contributions to the international art scene. Her oil paintings, recognized for their harmonious blend of various cultural elements, offer viewers an immersive experience into the realms of fantasy and introspection. The characters in her paintings are not mere figures; they are storytellers, engaging the audience in a dialogue about universal human connections. Based in Buenos Aires, Kanashiwa continues to evolve her artistic expression, constantly pushing the boundaries of creativity. Her work reflects a fusion of different worlds, embodying the limitless potential of imagination unconfined by traditional artistic limits. Embracing the digital era and the burgeoning metaverse, Kanashiwa's art invites us into a captivating exploration of emotion and creativity, transcending physical and cultural barriers.
LSD : Digital Psychedelia or Navigating the Infinite Code
By Sumomo Kanashiwa
Located in PARIS, FR
In LSD : Digital Psychedelia or Navigating the Infinite Code, Sumomo Kanashiwa immerses the viewer in a saturated visual experience where color, identity, and perception dissolve wit...
Oil
Thinking About : Virtual Contemplation or Navigating the Mind's Code
By Sumomo Kanashiwa
Located in PARIS, FR
In Thinking About: Virtual Contemplation or Navigating the Mind's Code, Sumomo Kanashiwa captures an intimate moment of introspection where a young figure appears suspended between t...
Oil
Flying Angel : Binary Serenity or Soaring Through Digital Dreams
By Sumomo Kanashiwa
Located in PARIS, FR
In Flying Angel : Binary Serenity or Soaring Through Digital Dreams, Sumomo Kanashiwa presents a luminous figure suspended in a hybrid universe where fantasy, pop culture, and digita...
Oil
$4,055
H 39.38 in W 39.38 in D 3.94 in
Watch me! -21st Century Oil Painting of a Nude Boy watching you in his Mirror
By David van der Linden
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
This painting is made by Dutch artist/painter David van der Linden. Painted with oilpaint on canvas. David van der Linden studied at the Academ...
Canvas, Oil
$3,000
H 14 in W 10 in
Light Pillar - Atmospheric Optical Phenomenon, Framed Oil Painitng
By Jeff Aeling
Located in Chicago, IL
In this larger treatment of the light-pillar phenomenon, Aeling demonstrates his mastery of night atmospherics. The bright vertical beam—pure, white, and nearly architectural—cuts through a heavy indigo sky, reflecting the artist’s fascination with moments when the environment becomes momentarily structured by light. His winters in cold climates provided ample opportunities to see such displays, and he painted them with the same meditative intensity he applied to Hawaiian sunsets and surf. In all these subjects, Aeling returned to a central theme: the sky as an evolving organism, capable of sudden, transcendent gestures. Jeff Aeling Light Pillar oil on panel 14h x 10w in 35.56h x 25.40w cm JAE034 Jeff Aeling (1958–2025): The Sky Remembers Through Jeff Aeling’s eyes, the landscape becomes a world shaped as much by air as by earth. In works such as North of Las Vegas, NM and Pond Near St. Cloud, MN, he balances the quiet structure of plains and wetlands with skies alive in constant motion. His mastery of atmosphere is unmistakable in Light Pillars (2023) and Light Pillar (2023), where rare optical events turn night into architecture. Even intimate scenes like Crabapple, Dogwoods, and Red Bud find their emotional power under skies that lend the land its shifting character. Aeling’s winters in Hawaii deepened his sensitivity to movement and weather. Surfing taught him to read the rhythm of the ocean, a knowledge reflected in Wave, Kauai (2018), where a breaking wave becomes a luminous wall of force. In Volcano (2023), he channels the islands’ elemental drama, linking fire, vapor, and sky through the same atmospheric vocabulary found in his plains paintings. Though often compared to American landscape painters like Church and Bierstadt, Aeling’s work engages modernity in subtle ways. He began his paintings with the camera—driving for hours to capture a fleeting alignment of cloud, light, and terrain. In the studio, he removed all traces of people or infrastructure, preserving the landscape as a pure, uncontrollable presence. This blend of tradition and contemporary practice allowed him to honor the past while speaking clearly to the present. Together, these works—whether a crashing wave, a blooming tree, a volcanic plume, or a column of winter light—form a portrait of the world as Aeling experienced it: vast, luminous, and alive with change. The Sky Remembers is both a tribute and an invitation to see the land with the reverence he carried throughout his life. Jeff Aeling (1958-2025) Iowa City, IA Represented in Chicago by Gallery VICTOR Education BFA, Painting and Printmaking, Kansas City Art Institute – Kansas City, MO School of the Art Institute of Chicago – Chicago, IL Solo Exhibitions 2016 Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO 2015 Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO 2014 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Tucson, AZ Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO 2013 Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO 2012 Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO 2011 Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO 2010 Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL Richard Demato Fine Arts Gallery - Sag Harbor, NY William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO 2009 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Tucson, AZ Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO 2008 Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO 2007 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Santa Fe, NM Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO 2006 Tory Folliard Gallery - Milwaukee, WI William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO 2005 Lisa Kurts Gallery - Memphis, TN Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL 2005 Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO 2004 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Santa Fe, NM William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO 2003 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Tucson, AZ Lisa Kurts Gallery - Memphis, TN Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO 2002 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Santa Fe, NM Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL Perimeter Gallery - New York, NY 2001 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Tucson, AZ J Mark Sublette Gallery - Santa Fe, NM Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO 2000 Charlene Cody Gallery - Santa Fe, NM Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO 1999 Charlene Cody Gallery - Santa Fe, NM Elliot Smith Contemporary Art - St. Louis, MO Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO 1998 Charlene Cody Gallery - Santa Fe, NM Elliot Smith Contemporary Art - St. Louis, MO Leedy-Voulkos Art Center Gallery - Kansas City, MO Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL 1996 Grand Arts - Kansas City, MO 1994 Gallery V - Kansas City, MO 1993 Sean Kelly Gallery - Kansas City, MO 1991 Tribal Textile Gallery - Kansas City, MO Selected Group Exhibitions 2022 Kiss Me, It’s Beginning to Snow, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL 2021 2019 Es-Scape, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL Earth Wind & Fire, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL 2018 Portraits and Places: Select works from Gallery Victor Armendariz, curated by Corporate Art Advisory, Metropolitan Capital Bank, Chicago, IL Art Hamptons, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Bridgehampton, NY Front and Center, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL 2004 Art Chicago, Navy Pier...
Oil, Panel
$217
H 5.91 in W 5.91 in D 1.19 in
Doughnut Chocolate Pocket Painting 209, original painting, still life
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Chocolate Doughnut (with Sugar Sprinkles) 209 (canvas size 5x5cm) is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale r...
Canvas, Oil
$2,233
H 17.72 in W 24.41 in D 1.38 in
Between sky and sea - Modern Abstract Landscape paint – Original Oil on Canvas
By SOPHIE DUMONT
Located in LANGRUNE-SUR-MER, FR
In Between Sky and Shore, Sophie Dumont presents a pared-down vision of the landscape, reduced to its essential elements. Horizontal strata suggest sky, horizon, and shoreline, formi...
Oil
$3,500
H 30 in W 24 in D 1 in
Backwater Blues - Contemporary Abstract Landscape Pattern Stripes Leaves, 2025
By Gabe Brown
Located in Kent, CT
Contemporary abstract landscape painting in oil on linen mounted on panel with carefully ordered navy leaf patterns, peach geometric shapes and delicate rainbow lines on an atmospher...
Linen, Oil, Panel
$3,000
H 24 in W 20 in D 1 in
Estrella - Contemporary Abstract Landscape Pattern Rainbow Stripes Leaves, 2025
By Gabe Brown
Located in Kent, CT
Contemporary abstract landscape painting in oil on linen mounted on panel with carefully ordered leaf patterns and delicate rainbow lines in a fan shape on an atmospheric layered nav...
Linen, Oil, Panel
Strawflower, Oil Painting
By Mary Pratt
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A singular flower captures a moment of architectural grace. The petals open in broad, structured layers that feel both expansive and controlled. Artist Mary Pra...
Oil
"Gent"
By Michael Carson
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
“My work is first and foremost figurative studies. It’s what I like to paint, my biggest challenge and my greatest payoff. My nondescript surroundings help me create a mood or a stor...
Canvas, Oil
$1,800
H 11 in W 14 in D 1 in
Comet - Contemporary Abstract Landscape Pattern Stripes Leaves Navy Blue, 2026
By Gabe Brown
Located in Kent, CT
Contemporary abstract landscape painting in oil on linen mounted on panel with carefully ordered leaf patterns, geometric shapes and delicate rainbow lines on an atmospheric layered ...
Linen, Oil, Panel
Burnt Sienna Figures
By Otis Huband
Located in Dallas, TX
Born in 1933, and reared in Virginia, Otis Huband began his formal art education after 4 years in the Navy. He earned his BFA and MFA at Richmond Professional Institute of the Colleg...
Canvas, Oil
$876
H 17.33 in W 21.26 in
Contemporary British Naïve Style Animal Oil Painting by Matt Rix - Hanging Sloth
Located in Bristol, GB
HANGING SLOTH Size: 44 x 54 cm (including frame) Oil on board A contemporary painting that presents a whimsical depiction of a sloth suspended upside down from a gently curving tree...
Oil, Board
Esturay Tondo
By Elena Zolotnitsky
Located in Burlingame, CA
A circular landscape set within a luminous gold frame, this work reflects Elena Zolotnitsky’s ongoing meditation on beauty, adolescence, and the passage of time. Her oil paintings ar...
Oil, Wood Panel