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Man with a Hat on a Yellow & Blue background with a Red Flag floating
By Jean Sanglar
Located in Miami, FL
Born in the South of France in 1926 and raised by very strict parents, Jean Sanglar was prohibited from playing with same age mates.
Truly talented, as a young boy he drew frequentl...
Category
Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel, Pastel, Oil, Acrylic
The Proposal
By Jean Sanglar
Located in Miami, FL
Jean Sanglar was born in France in 1926. He draws with taste and talent from an early age, however, his family will only consider this a mere hobby. After studying law, he later took...
Category
Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled
By Jean Sanglar
Located in Miami, FL
Jean Sanglar was born in France in 1926. He draws with taste and talent from an early age, however, his family will only consider this a mere hobby. After studying law, he later took...
Category
Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil Pastel
Beach Game
By Jean Sanglar
Located in Miami, FL
Born in the South of France in 1926 and raised by very strict parents, Jean Sanglar was prohibited from playing with same age mates.
Truly talented, as a young boy he drew frequentl...
Category
Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel, Pastel, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
Think
By Jean Sanglar
Located in Miami, FL
Jean Sanglar was born in France in 1926. He draws with taste and talent from an early age, however, his family will only consider this a mere hobby. After studying law, he later took...
Category
Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Nudes on a red sofa
By Jean Sanglar
Located in Miami, FL
Jean Sanglar was born in France in 1926. He draws with taste and talent from an early age, however, his family will only consider this a mere hobby. After studying law, he later took...
Category
Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Emportés par la foule
By Jean Sanglar
Located in Miami, FL
Jean Sanglar was born in France in 1926. He draws with taste and talent from an early age, however, his family will only consider this a mere hobby. After studying law, he later took...
Category
Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
The Dance
By Jean Sanglar
Located in Miami, FL
Jean Sanglar was born in France in 1926. He draws with taste and talent from an early age, however, his family will only consider this a mere hobby. After studying law, he later took...
Category
Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Three nudes
By Jean Sanglar
Located in Miami, FL
Jean Sanglar was born in France in 1926. He draws with taste and talent from an early age, however, his family will only consider this a mere hobby. After studying law, he later took...
Category
Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
GEON Sphere_11aa0
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Medium: Archival pigment print under acrylic glass.
Dimensions: 48 x 48 in.
Depth: 1/4 in.
Signed by the artist.
Edition of 5.
Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Mo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
GEON Sphere_10
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Medium: Archival pigment print under acrylic glass.
Dimensions: 48 x 48 in.
Depth: 1/4 in.
Signed by the artist.
Edition of 5.
Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Mo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Turquoise U
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass.
Dimensions: 36 x 72 in.
Depth: 1/4 in.
Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada.
His lifelong interest in cutti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Turquoise Cars
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass.
Dimensions: 24 x 72 in.
Depth: 1/4 in.
Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada.
His lifelong interest in cutti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Le Jeu des Perles de Verre
By Gonçalo Ivo
Located in Miami, FL
Gonçalo Ivo was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1958. He is the son of Brazilian writer and poet, Lêdo Ivo. His work has been the focus of over 40 solo e...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil, Tempera
Revival Panorama XII
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass.
Dimensions: 24 x 72 in.
Depth: 1/4 in.
Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada.
His lifelong interest in cutti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Le Jeu des Perles de Verre
By Gonçalo Ivo
Located in Miami, FL
Gonçalo Ivo was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1958. He is the son of Brazilian writer and poet, Lêdo Ivo. His work has been the focus of over 40 solo e...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil, Tempera
Revival Panorama VIII
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass.
Dimensions: 24 x 72 in.
Depth: 1/4 in.
Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada.
His lifelong interest in cutti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
The Couple
By Evelyne Ballestra
Located in Miami, FL
Couple is a painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary painter. This red and blue tons expressionist painting represents a couple from behind, the hand on each other s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Le Jeu des Perles de Verre
By Gonçalo Ivo
Located in Miami, FL
Gonçalo Ivo was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1958. He is the son of Brazilian writer and poet, Lêdo Ivo. His work has been the focus of over 40 solo e...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil, Tempera
Le Jeu des Perles de Verre
By Gonçalo Ivo
Located in Miami, FL
Gonçalo Ivo was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1958. He is the son of Brazilian writer and poet, Lêdo Ivo. His work has been the focus of over 40 solo e...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Tempera, Canvas
The Dance
By Evelyne Ballestra
Located in Miami, FL
Evelyne Ballestra's work with signs, symbols and esoteric spirituality reflects her passion for the ancient past and represents a symbolic return to the ground from which we emerged....
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Madonna
By Evelyne Ballestra
Located in Miami, FL
Evelyne Ballestra's work with signs, symbols and esoteric spirituality reflects her passion for the ancient past and represents a symbolic return to the ground from which we emerged....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cosmical Language
By Evelyne Ballestra
Located in Miami, FL
Evelyne Ballestra's work with signs, symbols and esoteric spirituality reflects her passion for the ancient past and represents a symbolic return to the ground from which we emerged....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Fruit Eyes
By Evelyne Ballestra
Located in Miami, FL
Evelyne Ballestra's work with signs, symbols and esoteric spirituality reflects her passion for the ancient past and represents a symbolic return to the ground from which we emerged....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ellipsis
By Evelyne Ballestra
Located in Miami, FL
Ellipsis is a painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist. This white tons expressionist painting is the artist's perception of the link between planets in our U...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antica Roma
Located in Miami, FL
A. Laurenti has been exhibiting since 1984 universal, visionary and contemporary paintings.
His images bring back to us through his colors, landscapes and personalities that have exi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Oil, Pigment
Zucchini Blossom
By Evelyne Ballestra
Located in Miami, FL
Evelyne Ballestra's work with signs, symbols and esoteric spirituality reflects her passion for the ancient past and represents a symbolic return to the ground from which we emerged....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Astral Landcsape
By Evelyne Ballestra
Located in Miami, FL
Evelyne Ballestra's work with signs, symbols and esoteric spirituality reflects her passion for the ancient past and represents a symbolic return to the ground from which we emerged....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The River Tree
By Evelyne Ballestra
Located in Miami, FL
Evelyne Ballestra's work with signs, symbols and esoteric spirituality reflects her passion for the ancient past and represents a symbolic return to the ground from which we emerged....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vide Médian
By Evelyne Ballestra
Located in Miami, FL
Evelyne Ballestra's work with signs, symbols and esoteric spirituality reflects her passion for the ancient past and represents a symbolic return to the ground from which we emerged....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Aux Confins du Dire
By Evelyne Ballestra
Located in Miami, FL
Evelyne Ballestra's work with signs, symbols and esoteric spirituality reflects her passion for the ancient past and represents a symbolic return to the ground from which we emerged....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mirage
By Evelyne Ballestra
Located in Miami, FL
Evelyne Ballestra's work with signs, symbols and esoteric spirituality reflects her passion for the ancient past and represents a symbolic return to the ground from which we emerged....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dreaming
By Evelyne Ballestra
Located in Miami, FL
Evelyne Ballestra's work with signs, symbols and esoteric spirituality reflects her passion for the ancient past and represents a symbolic return to the ground from which we emerged....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Eternity
By Evelyne Ballestra
Located in Miami, FL
Evelyne Ballestra's work with signs, symbols and esoteric spirituality reflects her passion for the ancient past and represents a symbolic return to the ground from which we emerged. Her work creates a commentary about “beginnings” and the transmission of signs and emotions through visual elements evoking a spiritual essence to our scientific notion of etymology. After studying under Rolf Dürig, Ballestra began her flower...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ivre d'Embruns
By Evelyne Ballestra
Located in Miami, FL
Evelyne Ballestra's work with signs, symbols and esoteric spirituality reflects her passion for the ancient past and represents a symbolic return to the ground from which we emerged. Her work creates a commentary about “beginnings” and the transmission of signs and emotions through visual elements evoking a spiritual essence to our scientific notion of etymology. After studying under Rolf Dürig, Ballestra began her flower...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Le Coeur des Fleurs
By Evelyne Ballestra
Located in Miami, FL
Evelyne Ballestra's work with signs, symbols and esoteric spirituality reflects her passion for the ancient past and represents a symbolic return to the ground from which we emerged....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bush Seeds
Located in Miami, FL
Kathleen (or Kweyetwemp in her Eastern Anmatyerre tongue) Petyarre was born c. 1940 at Atnangkere on Utopia Station, 270km north east of Alice Springs. She first encountered white ma...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
Mountain Devil Lizard
Located in Miami, FL
Kathleen (or Kweyetwemp in her Eastern Anmatyerre tongue) Petyarre was born c. 1940 at Atnangkere on Utopia Station, 270km north east of Alice Springs. She first encountered white ma...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
Mountain Devil Lizard
Located in Miami, FL
Kathleen (or Kweyetwemp in her Eastern Anmatyerre tongue) Petyarre was born c. 1940 at Atnangkere on Utopia Station, 270km north east of Alice Springs. She first encountered white ma...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
Jukurrpa Dreaming
Located in Miami, FL
Paddy Japaljarri Stewart came from Mungapunju in Australia, just south of Yuendumu in the Northern Territory. As a young man he worked on cattle properties at Mount Allen, Mount Dennison and other parts of Australia's 'top end'. He acquired the nickname 'Cookie' while working as a chef in Papunya. At the Yuendumu School he taught both kardiya (non-Aboriginal) and yapa (Aboriginal) children to paint, Jukurrpa (Dreaming), traditional dances, boomerang-making, how to track native animals, how to make wax used in sand painting, and other aspects of traditional culture. He also drove the school bus, participated in the council and joined the Night Patrol, which proved important in policing the community.
Paddy drew and painted for a long time (his works included the Yuendumu School Doors...
Category
Late 20th Century Pointillist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
Urban Utopia
Located in Miami, FL
Inspired by architecture, historical urbanism, passion for creation with intense multicultural experiences thru traveling and living in different parts of the planet, my drawings are...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper
Window to the Light
By Evelyne Ballestra
Located in Miami, FL
Evelyne Ballestra's work with signs, symbols and esoteric spirituality reflects her passion for the ancient past and represents a symbolic return to the ground from which we emerged. Her work creates a commentary about “beginnings” and the transmission of signs and emotions through visual elements evoking a spiritual essence to our scientific notion of etymology. After studying under Rolf Dürig, Ballestra began her flower...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
La Voie des Reliances
By Evelyne Ballestra
Located in Miami, FL
French artist Evelyne Ballestra studied painting in the South of France before moving to Switzerland where she met her mentor, Rolf Dürig, a master of the e...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Aboriginal Painting by Michael Nelson Tjakamarra
By Michael Nelson Tjakamarra
Located in Miami, FL
Michael Nelson Tjakamarra (also cited as: Michael Nelson Jagamarra, or Jakamara) is a Senior Warlpiri Tribesman and an Elder of the Papunya Community in central Australia. Born c. 19...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
Aboriginal Painting by George Ward Tjungurrayi
Located in Miami, FL
George Ward Tjungurrayi was born near Kiwirrkura. It was only in his teenage years that he first encountered Europeans, when a commonwealth wel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Aboriginal Painting by Kathleen Petyarre
Located in Miami, FL
Kathleen (or Kweyetwemp in her Eastern Anmatyerre tongue) Petyarre was born c. 1940 at Atnangkere on Utopia Station, 270km north east of Alice Springs. She first encountered white man in the late 1940s and starting her integration into western society when working on various pastoral leases as she grew up.
In 1969 she was successful in applying for a job at Utopia school where she stayed for 20 years. During that time she worked on batik, and then started painting as part of CAAMA's Summer Project in 1988-89.
In 1996 Kathleen won the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA) and her painting career blossomed from there. She has been exhibited overseas numerous times and in 2001 had a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
In general, her work is minimalistic and characterised by the fine dotting technique she uses to represent mental maps of her country. Her signature work is the Mountain or Thorny Devil Lizard Dreaming, which gives a unique representation of this small creature's travels across Kathleen's country during the Creation era. Another signature genre is Bush Seeds.
Kathleen Petyarre is a blood sister of the respected artists Gloria, Violet and Ada Bird Petyarre, a great niece of the feted Emily Kame Kngwarreye and skin sister to Jeannie and Rosemary Petyarre. She is extensively exhibited in public and private galleries. Kathleen spent her time between Alice Springs and her home country, Utopia.
Dr Christine Nicholls reported that Kathleen passed away on 24 November 2018 in Alice Springs, surrounded by family and loved ones, at about the age of 80.
Awards and Recognition
2002 Top...
Category
20th Century Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
Aboriginal Painting by Kathleen Petyarre
Located in Miami, FL
Kathleen (or Kweyetwemp in her Eastern Anmatyerre tongue) Petyarre was born c. 1940 at Atnangkere on Utopia Station, 270km north east of Alice Springs. She first encountered white man in the late 1940s and starting her integration into western society when working on various pastoral leases as she grew up.
In 1969 she was successful in applying for a job at Utopia school where she stayed for 20 years. During that time she worked on batik, and then started painting as part of CAAMA's Summer Project in 1988-89.
In 1996 Kathleen won the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA) and her painting career blossomed from there. She has been exhibited overseas numerous times and in 2001 had a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
In general, her work is minimalistic and characterised by the fine dotting technique she uses to represent mental maps of her country. Her signature work is the Mountain or Thorny Devil Lizard Dreaming, which gives a unique representation of this small creature's travels across Kathleen's country during the Creation era. Another signature genre is Bush Seeds.
Kathleen Petyarre is a blood sister of the respected artists Gloria, Violet and Ada Bird Petyarre, a great niece of the feted Emily Kame Kngwarreye and skin sister to Jeannie and Rosemary Petyarre. She is extensively exhibited in public and private galleries. Kathleen spent her time between Alice Springs and her home country, Utopia.
Dr Christine Nicholls reported that Kathleen passed away on 24 November 2018 in Alice Springs, surrounded by family and loved ones, at about the age of 80.
Awards and Recognition
2002 Top...
Category
20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
Hairstring
Located in Miami, FL
Judy Watson Napangardi was born around 1935 at Yarungkanji, Mt. Doreen Station, at the time when many Warlpiri and other Central and Western Desert Peoples were living a traditional ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
Blue Black - Abstract Collection IV
By Fabien Rocca
Located in Miami, FL
Mixed-media contemporary artist from Miami via Corsica, France who has lead national digital art campaigns, most notably for Warner Bros 75 Years of DC Comics, and the development o...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
Leaf
Located in Miami, FL
Abie Loy is the eldest of five children, and was born on Utopia station, about 270km north east of Alice Springs in the Northern Terrirtory. Abie definitely has painting in her blood: being the daughter of Margaret Loy Pula (who won the Wynne Prize in 2012) and Ray Loy Pula. Her aunt is the celebrated artist, Gloria Petyarre and her Grandmother is the equally respected senior woman artist, Kathleen Petyarre.
A very innovative mid-career artist, she began painting at the age of 19. She was mentored by her grandmother Kathleen Petyarre, who taught her the methodology of using details and tiny shimmering dotting to create complex optical effects.
Over the years, Abie further developed her skills as an artist to become an extraordinarily talented colourist and designer, experimenting with elements of line, colour and form.
Abie is a custodian of the Bush Hen Dreaming which she inherited from her Grandfather. At the simplest level, her Bush Hen Paintings...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Acrylic
Aboriginal Painting by Michael Nelson Tjakamarra
By Michael Nelson Tjakamarra
Located in Miami, FL
Michael Nelson Tjakamarra (also cited as: Michael Nelson Jagamarra, or Jakamara) is a Senior Warlpiri Tribesman and an Elder of the Papunya Community in central Australia. Born c. 19...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
Agnangkere Growth
By Gloria Petyarre
Located in Miami, FL
Gloria Petyarre, sometimes referred to as Gloria Pitjara, was one of Australia s most successful and significant female artists. Her depiction of the Kurrajong bush medicine leaves-with her layered, free-flowing, swirling brushstrokes that scatter across the canvas-became her iconic motif.
Her career took off when she won the coveted 'Wynne Prize for Landscape' at the New South Wales Gallery in 1999. It was a triumph for Aboriginal art. Gloria became the first Indigenous Australian artist ever to win a major art prize at the Gallery of New South Wales.
The painting was an extraordinary new artistic statement, quite unlike any other Aboriginal artwork at that time. A huge, gold and green abstract work, it was made up of swirling leaf shaped brush strokes positioned close together on a black background. It brilliantly captured the energy and flow of leaves being scattered by a fitful wind, seaweed swirling in a change of tide, or grass billowing in the wind.
So much did this artwork fascinate the essentially nature-loving people of this country, that it was to become one of the most popular styles in Aboriginal art, bringing many a devotee to the genre because of its resonance with the viewer.
Gloria continued to paint this style for the next 20 years until her retirement in 2019 due to health issues. During that time and subsequently, the style has been adopted and adapted by several generations of her family members. However, Gloria was and is credited with being the creator of this popular style and its most collectable proponent.
Gloria's origins are in a region called Utopia, covering an area approximately 230 - 300km from Alice Springs, itself a remote town to many people.
Many of Australia's foremost Indigenous artists spring from this area, including Gloria's renowned aunt, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, deceased since 1996, and the most famous and accomplished female Indigenous Artist Australia has produced.
Gloria, her family members and her skin family, first became interested in art making by participating in the Utopia Women's Silk Batik Group introduced in 1977 and initiated by CAAMA (the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association). Both Gloria and Emily were founding members of the group.
With up to 80 members at a time, the Batik and Tie-die project became the seeding inspiration for the artists, and its tremendous success both in Australia and overseas led to another successful project introduced in 1988, again by CAAMA.
This time, the artists were to paint on primed, stretched canvas, and many of the women took to the new medium with ease and enthusiasm, finding it more exciting to work with than the silk and batik techniques they had hitherto used.
The resulting works were exhibited at the S.H.Erwin Gallery in Sydney and several other notable galleries across Australia. It was the beginning of the Utopian Art Movement, and it was impressive enough to gain international attention. Gloria was one of the artists at the very centre of it.
As demand for Utopian art grew, so did Gloria's career. She travelled with her art to many countries and exhibited in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, the USA and Japan, and of course in regional and commercial galleries throughout Australia.
It would be easy to think that Gloria's works were limited to bush medicine leaves works, so popular were they. In fact she had quite a number of Dreamings in her portfolio. She painted the 'Thorny Mountain Devil Lizard Dreaming', a pattern of swirling coloured lines which imitate the tracks made in the sand by the lizard's tail.
Yam Dreaming, popularly executed by her aunt Emily, was also one of her commonly painted stories. She also painted Grass Seed, Pencil Yam, Emu, Bean, Small Brown Grass and Body Paint Dreamings. This breadth of subject matter and style has made her an extremely versatile artist.
Later in her career, Gloria began to paint massive 'Big Leaf' paintings, expressionistically rendered with giant brush...
Category
1990s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Agnangkere Growth
By Gloria Petyarre
Located in Miami, FL
Gloria Petyarre, sometimes referred to as Gloria Pitjara, was one of Australia s most successful and significant female artists. Her depiction of the Kurrajong bush medicine leaves-with her layered, free-flowing, swirling brushstrokes that scatter across the canvas-became her iconic motif.
Her career took off when she won the coveted 'Wynne Prize for Landscape' at the New South Wales Gallery in 1999. It was a triumph for Aboriginal art. Gloria became the first Indigenous Australian artist ever to win a major art prize at the Gallery of New South Wales.
The painting was an extraordinary new artistic statement, quite unlike any other Aboriginal artwork at that time. A huge, gold and green abstract work, it was made up of swirling leaf shaped brush strokes positioned close together on a black background. It brilliantly captured the energy and flow of leaves being scattered by a fitful wind, seaweed swirling in a change of tide, or grass billowing in the wind.
So much did this artwork fascinate the essentially nature-loving people of this country, that it was to become one of the most popular styles in Aboriginal art, bringing many a devotee to the genre because of its resonance with the viewer.
Gloria continued to paint this style for the next 20 years until her retirement in 2019 due to health issues. During that time and subsequently, the style has been adopted and adapted by several generations of her family members. However, Gloria was and is credited with being the creator of this popular style and its most collectable proponent.
Gloria's origins are in a region called Utopia, covering an area approximately 230 - 300km from Alice Springs, itself a remote town to many people.
Many of Australia's foremost Indigenous artists spring from this area, including Gloria's renowned aunt, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, deceased since 1996, and the most famous and accomplished female Indigenous Artist Australia has produced.
Gloria, her family members and her skin family, first became interested in art making by participating in the Utopia Women's Silk Batik Group introduced in 1977 and initiated by CAAMA (the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association). Both Gloria and Emily were founding members of the group.
With up to 80 members at a time, the Batik and Tie-die project became the seeding inspiration for the artists, and its tremendous success both in Australia and overseas led to another successful project introduced in 1988, again by CAAMA.
This time, the artists were to paint on primed, stretched canvas, and many of the women took to the new medium with ease and enthusiasm, finding it more exciting to work with than the silk and batik techniques they had hitherto used.
The resulting works were exhibited at the S.H.Erwin Gallery in Sydney and several other notable galleries across Australia. It was the beginning of the Utopian Art Movement, and it was impressive enough to gain international attention. Gloria was one of the artists at the very centre of it.
As demand for Utopian art grew, so did Gloria's career. She travelled with her art to many countries and exhibited in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, the USA and Japan, and of course in regional and commercial galleries throughout Australia.
It would be easy to think that Gloria's works were limited to bush medicine leaves works, so popular were they. In fact she had quite a number of Dreamings in her portfolio. She painted the 'Thorny Mountain Devil Lizard Dreaming', a pattern of swirling coloured lines which imitate the tracks made in the sand by the lizard's tail.
Yam Dreaming, popularly executed by her aunt Emily, was also one of her commonly painted stories. She also painted Grass Seed, Pencil Yam, Emu, Bean, Small Brown Grass and Body Paint Dreamings. This breadth of subject matter and style has made her an extremely versatile artist.
Later in her career, Gloria began to paint massive 'Big Leaf' paintings, expressionistically rendered with giant brush...
Category
1990s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Lotus
By Evelyne Ballestra
Located in Miami, FL
Lotus is a painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist. This piece is a part of a flower series, defined by their distinct bright colors, satiny, silky, vibratin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tide
By Evelyne Ballestra
Located in Miami, FL
Tide is a painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist. This blue, purple and green tons expressionist painting is inspired from horses walking on the beach, alon...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Flying Carpet
By Jean Sanglar
Located in Miami, FL
Jean Sanglar was born in France in 1926. He draws with taste and talent from an early age, however, his family will only consider this a mere hobby. After studying law, he later took...
Category
Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Follow Me
By Patrice Breteau
Located in Miami, FL
Follow Me is a resin sculpture made by Patrice Breteau, a French contemporary artist. This piece is available in eight different colors, all resistant to UV ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Resin
Cache Cache
By Jean Sanglar
Located in Miami, FL
Jean Sanglar was born in France in 1926. He draws with taste and talent from an early age, however, his family will only consider this a mere hobby. After studying law, he later took...
Category
Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Peace Bird
By Evelyne Ballestra
Located in Miami, FL
Peace Bird is an abstract painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary painter. This light tons expressionist painting is the artist's idea of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Rice Paper
Gstaad
Located in Miami, FL
Inspired by architecture, historical urbanism, passion for creation with intense multicultural experiences thru traveling and living in different parts of the planet, my drawings are...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Canvas, Ink
