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Pleasure Garden
By Akihiko Sugiura
Located in New Orleans, LA
AKIHIKO SUGIURA is a Japanese painter from Hyogo, Japan whose artistic style mixes purely physical non-representational art with a base of traditional representational painting. A co...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The two
By Akihiko Sugiura
Located in New Orleans, LA
AKIHIKO SUGIURA is a Japanese painter from Hyogo, Japan whose artistic style mixes purely physical non-representational art with a base of traditional representational painting. A co...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Self Portrait as an Old Man
By Akihiko Sugiura
Located in New Orleans, LA
AKIHIKO SUGIURA is a Japanese painter from Hyogo, Japan whose artistic style mixes purely physical non-representational art with a base of traditional representational painting. A co...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
One small complaint may hide a great one
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
materials: acrylic, flashe, spray paint, glitter, paint pen, collage on canvas
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JENNY DAY is a painter who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned an MFA in Painting and Drawi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Glitter, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Miscalibration: sacred profane
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
materials: acrylic, ink, spray paint, airbrush, flashe, collage, colored pencil, paint pen, glitter on canvas
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JENNY DAY is a painter who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earn...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Glitter, Ink, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Color Pencil
Dog
By Starsky Brines
Located in New Orleans, LA
Starsky Brines’s paintings and drawings captivate audiences with their distinctive style and a recurring theme, the search for the nature of humanity. In his bold works, the artist f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Crayon, Acrylic
$13,200
Moonlight Bends Over the Black Silence
By Monica Zeringue
Located in New Orleans, LA
Materials: Graphite and hand-sewn beads on primed linen
MONICA ZERINGUE received her Masters of Fine Arts from the University of New Orleans in 2006, and her BA in 1993. In 1999 she...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Graphite
Sexy Couple Seeking Same - mw4mw - 2130 (Atlanta)
By Carlton Scott Sturgill
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: oil on linen
[New Orleans, LA ::: b.1971 - Cincinnati, OH]
Born in 1971 in Cincinnati, Ohio, CARLTON SCOTT STURGILL received his Masters of Arts (Fine Art) from London’s Ch...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
A Fool
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From Jan Matejko’s Stańczyk, 1862
I’ve heard that in centuries past, the jester – or fool – was often one of the only people able to speak truth to power. Because of their inherent ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
$3,500
A Horrifying Self-Actualization
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From Thomas Eakins’ Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic), 1875
At some point the lying has to stop, right? But when? I’m no longer convinced that any external stimulus...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
An Automated Message
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From a series of paintings by Ed Valigursky.
Our technology is staggering. We now have computers that can lie for us. For proof you only need to head over to any online comment boar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A Platform
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of Ted Turner, founder of CNN and by extension a 24-hour news cycle
I’ll blame everything wrong with America on Ted Turner. Don’t misread me – h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A Tutor
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of Kellyanne Conway
While the statement for this show indicates that there are no formal teachers of proper lying technique, it doesn’t deny that there are individuals ou...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
$4,100
A Willing Ignorance
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From John Singer Sargent’s Gassed, 1919
When considering the factors that are required (or at least helpful) for a lie to succeed, I constantly look to the audience. I constantly tr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A Repetition
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A red-and-green parrot.
For a lie to gain real power, it must continue its existence separate from its creator. If it can be repeated by others, retold in a variety of contexts, it ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
An Audience Unaware
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From Johannes Vermeer’s A Girl Asleep, 1656-57
Learning to lie is a bit like learning how to play a game. There are strategies. There’s an opponent. It can be fun because it’s a cha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A Bit Too Far
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From Thomas Eakins’ Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic), 1875
As we seek this fine line separating safe lying from detrimental misdirection, we often have to cross it...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A Tentative Probe
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From Rembrandt van Rijn’s Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq (The Night Watch), 1642
The search for limits is an ongoing endeavor. Circu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
An Allowance to Try Again
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of the Wizard from The Wizard of Oz, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1939
Whenever I’ve watched The Wizard of Oz, I’ve always been struck by the same thing – that the actor who play...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A False Prophet
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of news anchor Brian Williams
Similar to the regular fall of the Democrats, Brian Williams positioned himself as a figure worthy of our trust nightly. He convinced us tha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A Weak Compromise
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A donkey, symbol of the Democratic Party
Democrats promote themselves as consistently ethical. So, when they inevitably get caught lying, the fault i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A Sense of Guilt
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of Fred Rogers, Mr. Rogers
I suppose I like to believe that liars know they’re lying. I like to believe it’s a controlled activity. And if they...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A Pretty Face and a Nice Body
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of Lance Armstrong
We tend to exercise differing levels of tolerance for different liars. Some people get called out immediately, while oth...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A Role Model
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of Charles Ponzi
When we combine the power of lies to persuade with their ability to establish a false hierarchy, we end up with Charles Ponzi – the eponym of the Ponzi S...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
An Overreach
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From an illustration by Arthur Rackham for Alice in Wonderland – “They all crowded round it panting and asking, ‘But who has won?’” 1907
There’s a fear of inferiority that lies behi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A Seduction
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From John William Waterhouse’s A Mermaid, 1900
We have a wonderful capacity to impose fictions on others in order to make them desirable. We o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A Frail Attempt
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus, 1484-86
We desire attention, but no one likes a show-off. So, we’ve sharpened our ability to practice false modesty. We pretend to cover ours...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A Bid to Gain Attention
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of Baron Munchausen from The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Columbia Pictures, 1988
The concept of Munchausen Syndrome offers another per...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A Lack of Consequence
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From Rembrandt van Rijn’s Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq (The Night Watch), 1642
Forgive and forget. That’s what we’re taught to do ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A First Apology
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of Mark McGwire
If we are caught lying, it is the suddenly being singled-out that proves most unsettling. We are temporarily relieved of our ability to define our own pub...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
An Opportunity to Test
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From Thomas Eakins’ Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic), 1875
Knowing what we do about insufficient consequences, we will always test the limits of acceptable lying. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
An Attempt at Morality
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From Albrecht Dürer’s Adam and Eve, 1507
Akin to the historical narratives we’re fed in an attempt to steer us away from a life of lies, the narrative of Adam, Eve, and the serpent ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A Counter Example
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of Abraham Lincoln
We’ve assigned a great deal of responsibility to our shared cultural figures when it comes to teaching lessons about truth, fiction, and morality. We u...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A Reliable Pardon
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From Nicholas Poussin’s The Death of Sapphira, circa 1652
As we invariably test the waters of lying, we quickly learn to recognize the more forgiving...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
An Exciting Unknown
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of Sasquatch (Harry from Harry and the Hendersons, Universal Pictures, 1987)
Developing almost simultaneously with my appreciation of mannequins, I fell in love with what...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A Constant, Attractive Artifice
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A mannequin
For some reason, mannequins seemed to be everywhere when I was growing up. Maybe it was growing up during the heyday of malls in America. Nevertheless, with their clearl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A Brush With Justice
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From Nicholas Poussin’s The Death of Sapphira, circa 1652
Sooner or later, we get caught lying. For most of us, it’s incredibly early in life, and the falsehood detected is innocuou...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A Cautionary Tale
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of Pinocchio from Pinocchio, Disney, 1940
Are there any more recognizable stories about the difficulties that can accompany lying than that of Pinocchio? For the puppet-...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Illusion
By Nancee Clark
Located in New Orleans, LA
Nancee Clark grew up in Jacksonville, Florida, with its then lush forests, raw beaches, the St. Johns River and the perfumes of the paper mill and the Maxwell House Coffee plant...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$11,625
Bay View
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Lone Star, True But Whatever
There was I time when I ached for the world. Before cell phones, before social media, I felt the urgency of environmental damage, of social injustice.
Nothing seems to have gotten better. I'm not numb to it, but in some way I've become flip, a resigned humor like a layer of scar tissue between my concerns and the abrasion all around.
Still, I was surprised how playful these paintings became.
Disasters intertwine: Urns, much like the one that held my twin sister's ashes, a familial disaster, come to the forefront, variations of childhood memory. Images from photos I took in Port Aransas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paint, Glitter, Acrylic, Color Pencil
$1,250
End
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Lone Star, True But Whatever
There was I time when I ached for the world. Before cell phones, before social media, I felt the urgency of environmental damage, of social injustice.
Nothing seems to have gotten better. I'm not numb to it, but in some way I've become flip, a resigned humor like a layer of scar tissue between my concerns and the abrasion all around.
Still, I was surprised how playful these paintings became.
Disasters intertwine: Urns, much like the one that held my twin sister's ashes, a familial disaster, come to the forefront, variations of childhood memory. Images from photos I took in Port Aransas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Glitter, Acrylic, Color Pencil
$1,250
Gold Cat
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Lone Star, True But Whatever
There was I time when I ached for the world. Before cell phones, before social media, I felt the urgency of environmental damage, of social injustice.
Nothing seems to have gotten better. I'm not numb to it, but in some way I've become flip, a resigned humor like a layer of scar tissue between my concerns and the abrasion all around.
Still, I was surprised how playful these paintings became.
Disasters intertwine: Urns, much like the one that held my twin sister's ashes, a familial disaster, come to the forefront, variations of childhood memory. Images from photos I took in Port Aransas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Glitter, Acrylic, Color Pencil
$1,250
Orphanage
By Nancee Clark
Located in New Orleans, LA
Nancee Clark grew up in Jacksonville, Florida, with its then lush forests, raw beaches, the St. Johns River and the perfumes of the paper mill and the Maxwell House Coffee plant...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$11,625
Nasty Woman
By Joseph Barron
Located in New Orleans, LA
Joseph Barron graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago with a BFA and MFA. Shortly after graduating, Barron was awarded a Pollock-Krasner foundation Grant that allowed him to crea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
5, 307 nails
By John Adelman
Located in New Orleans, LA
John Adelman was born in a small town in northwest Ohio in 1969. In 1992, he earned a BFA in painting, drawing and printmaking from Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. Upon graduating, he worked first for CM/SNP Printing, a local newspaper print shop, and then for Airwaves Inc. a t-shirt design silk screen-printing manufacturer for ten years, in which, it is estimated he produced over 12 million images during his tenure. In 2006, John earned his MFA from the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas. After moving to Houston, he worked with galleries in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Marfa Texas and Bradbury Gallery at Arkansas State University. John currently has representation by two galleries in Houston and Los Angeles. Adelman has been a finalist for the Hunting Art Prize, awarded by Hunting PLC, 3 times (in 2009, 2012, and 2014).
STATEMENT:
My work of drawing on canvas is an exploration of process, rules-based art. This procedure is comprised of a formula of specific actions based upon a variable circumstance and can be rooted in computer based algorithmic if, then statements. These procedural mandates are instituted from the beginning of a work and continue through its completion. The formula can dictate, structure, color, composition, scale and interior or exterior values. The formula not only controls my actions as the artist but likes organizes either the component parts of a (dismantled) object or the component parts of a single used dictionary. When the dictionary is put into play, I transcribe definitions from the 1979 Unabridged Webster's Encyclopedic Dictionary. I create dense, layered images of handwriting or convert letters of the definition into their numeric counterpart and proceed through the formula with the use of that number as a means a moving through the whole of the image. Primarily, the most used component is nails, an extension of the dismantled object, traced and sometimes labeled. Other works have included individual stitches from an entire embroidery, every part of a motorcycle, electric organ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Resurrection, (study)
By Joseph Barron
Located in New Orleans, LA
Joseph Barron graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago with a BFA and MFA. Shortly after graduating, Barron was awarded a Pollock-Krasner foundation Grant that allowed him to crea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
An Unfortunate Series of Distractions
By Joseph Barron
Located in New Orleans, LA
Joseph Barron graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago with a BFA and MFA. Shortly after graduating, Barron was awarded a Pollock-Krasner foundation Grant that allowed him to crea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Draining the Swamp
By Joseph Barron
Located in New Orleans, LA
Joseph Barron graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago with a BFA and MFA. Shortly after graduating, Barron was awarded a Pollock-Krasner foundation Grant that allowed him to crea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Tante Tilly
By Ruth Owens
Located in New Orleans, LA
[ New Orleans, LA :: b.1959, Augsburg, Germany ]
In 1959, Ruth Owens was born to a young German woman and a Black serviceman from Georgia. The nomadic military lifestyle of her chi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$15,000
How?
By Ruth Owens
Located in New Orleans, LA
[ New Orleans, LA :: b.1959, Augsburg, Germany ]
In 1959, Ruth Owens was born to a young German woman and a Black serviceman from Georgia. The nomadic military lifestyle of her chi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$7,500
That Beauty Queen
By Ruth Owens
Located in New Orleans, LA
[ New Orleans, LA :: b.1959, Augsburg, Germany ]
In 1959, Ruth Owens was born to a young German woman and a Black serviceman from Georgia. The nomadic military lifestyle of her chi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Half Brothers
By Ruth Owens
Located in New Orleans, LA
[ New Orleans, LA :: b.1959, Augsburg, Germany ]
In 1959, Ruth Owens was born to a young German woman and a Black serviceman from Georgia. The nomadic military lifestyle of her chi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
trying4u03
By Carlton Scott Sturgill
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: paint chip sample mosaic on panel
Born in 1971 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Carlton Scott Sturgill received his Masters of Arts (Fine Art) from London’s Chelsea Collage of Art in De...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Our Legacy of Engagement
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
after: “La Lutte” by Émile Friant, 1889
Framed: 10h x 8.50w in
As I’ve gotten older, I’ve been particularly struck by the staggering number of unintende...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
If I paint us (in gold) V
By Nikki Rosato
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: gold gouache on paper
The artist says of the inspiration in her latest work . . .
Moving to Washington, DC in 2016 changed me. The unraveling of this country's leadership ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
If I paint us (in platinum) II
By Nikki Rosato
Located in New Orleans, LA
The artist says of the inspiration in her latest work . . .
Moving to Washington, DC in 2016 changed me. The unraveling of this country's leadership elicited a strong, visceral rea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
If I Paint Us (in gold) VI
By Nikki Rosato
Located in New Orleans, LA
The artist says of the inspiration in her latest work . . .
Moving to Washington, DC in 2016 changed me. The unraveling of this country's leadership elicited a strong, visceral rea...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
If I paint us (in gold) I
By Nikki Rosato
Located in New Orleans, LA
The artist says of the inspiration in her latest work . . .
Moving to Washington, DC in 2016 changed me. The unraveling of this country's leadership elicited a strong, visceral rea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Twins
By Skylar Fein
Located in New Orleans, LA
SKYLAR FEIN x MRSA (collaboration)
SKYLAR FEIN was born in Greenwich Village and raised in the Bronx. He has had many careers including teaching nonviolent resistance under the umbr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Plaster, Wood, Mixed Media, Acrylic
$3,800
Shepherd
By Skylar Fein
Located in New Orleans, LA
SKYLAR FEIN x MRSA (collaboration)
SKYLAR FEIN was born in Greenwich Village and raised in the Bronx. He has had many careers including teaching nonviolent resistance under the umbr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Plaster, Wood, Mixed Media, Acrylic
