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Pieces
By Tim Yankosky
Located in Fairfield, CT
Materials are often the driving force and inspiration behind the works of art that I create. I have always been drawn to the functional wear and patina of vintage and found objects. Recently, vintage measuring tapes...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Other Medium
Blue Bottles
By Bennett Vadnais
Located in Fairfield, CT
Much of Bennett Vadnais’ subject matter comes from his surroundings in Manhattan and Brooklyn. With a strong background in plein air landscape painting, Vadnais finds an interesting ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Panel
1926 Royal P Typewriter with Pencil
By Christopher Stott
Located in Fairfield, CT
Chris Stott is part of a new generation of representational painters pushing the genre forward in fantastic ways. At first glance, Stott’s paintings are elegantly refined compositio...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Winter by the Lake
By Shivani Dugar
Located in Fairfield, CT
Shivani Dugar was born in Calcutta in 1979, and grew up in Bangalore, India. After completing her degree in finance at Georgetown University, Washington D.C. she decided to pursue he...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Summer by the Bluff
By Shivani Dugar
Located in Fairfield, CT
Shivani Dugar was born in Calcutta in 1979, and grew up in Bangalore, India. After completing her degree in finance at Georgetown University, Washington D.C. she decided to pursue he...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Clouds Sun Love
By Shivani Dugar
Located in Fairfield, CT
Shivani Dugar was born in Calcutta in 1979, and grew up in Bangalore, India. After completing her degree in finance at Georgetown University, Washington D.C. she decided to pursue he...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Moulin Bleu, Framed
By Stephen Magsig
Located in Fairfield, CT
When I think about the conventions of painting -- a tradition I respect immensely -- I notice that my concern has always been with the interplay of light and structure" says artist S...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Milk Glass Vases
By Bennett Vadnais
Located in Fairfield, CT
Much of Bennett Vadnais’ subject matter comes from his surroundings in Manhattan and Brooklyn. With a strong background in plein air landscape painting, Vadnais finds an interesting ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Panel
Sailboat Study No. 2
Located in Fairfield, CT
Born in Spokane, WA (1986), Tamalin Soleil Baumgarten paints quiet landscape scenes with a tonal, melancholic realism. She received her MFA from New York Academy of Art in 2015 and h...
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Sailboat Study No. 1
Located in Fairfield, CT
Born in Spokane, WA (1986), Tamalin Soleil Baumgarten paints quiet landscape scenes with a tonal, melancholic realism. She received her MFA from New York Academy of Art in 2015 and h...
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Cupola Study
Located in Fairfield, CT
Born in Spokane, WA (1986), Tamalin Soleil Baumgarten paints quiet landscape scenes with a tonal, melancholic realism. She received her MFA from New York Academy of Art in 2015 and h...
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Hells Gate
By Roland Kulla
Located in Fairfield, CT
For the past dozen years or so I’ve focused on bridge elements by selecting portions of bridge structures and painting segments in a realist style. Previous shows at the Billis Gal...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
November
By Kurt Solmssen
Located in Fairfield, CT
Gary Faigin says of Kurt Solmssen’s work, “Though a realist, Kurt Solmssen does not so much record what he sees, as use his surroundings as a point of departure for poetic homages to...
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Siesta
By Kurt Solmssen
Located in Fairfield, CT
Gary Faigin says of Kurt Solmssen’s work, “Though a realist, Kurt Solmssen does not so much record what he sees, as use his surroundings as a point of departure for poetic homages to...
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Yellow Boat, 7AM
By Kurt Solmssen
Located in Fairfield, CT
Gary Faigin says of Kurt Solmssen’s work, “Though a realist, Kurt Solmssen does not so much record what he sees, as use his surroundings as a point of departure for poetic homages to...
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
RG and the Yellow Boat
By Kurt Solmssen
Located in Fairfield, CT
Gary Faigin says of Kurt Solmssen’s work, “Though a realist, Kurt Solmssen does not so much record what he sees, as use his surroundings as a point of departure for poetic homages to...
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Boats Stowed for Winter
By Kurt Solmssen
Located in Fairfield, CT
Gary Faigin says of Kurt Solmssen’s work, “Though a realist, Kurt Solmssen does not so much record what he sees, as use his surroundings as a point of departure for poetic homages to...
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Coastline Dr.
By Johnny Robertson
Located in Fairfield, CT
From Robertson's Artist Statement, "Growing up on the plains of west Texas, I understood the notion of wide, open spaces. The tabletop landscape was dotted by the repeating shapes of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Oil
Ocean Ave.
By Johnny Robertson
Located in Fairfield, CT
From Robertson's Artist Statement, "Growing up on the plains of west Texas, I understood the notion of wide, open spaces. The tabletop landscape was dotted by the repeating shapes of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Boat with Sunset Sail
Located in Fairfield, CT
Pedro's sculpture's are whimsical and sophisticated. The sailboat series is affordable for the work involved in creating them. His use of mixed media gives the sculptures a unique ...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Medium Sail Boat
Located in Fairfield, CT
Pedro's sculpture's are whimsical and sophisticated. The sailboat series is affordable for the work involved in creating them. His use of mixed media gives the sculptures a unique ...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Steel
WTF
By Tim Yankosky
Located in Fairfield, CT
Materials are often the driving force and inspiration behind the works of art that I create. I have always been drawn to the functional wear and patina of vintage and found objects. Recently, vintage measuring tapes...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Other Medium
Transamerica Building
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
Heller covers monumental and lesser-known works starting with Frank Lloyd Wright and tracing his design principles through his son Lloyd Wright, and students Richard Neutra, Rudolph ...
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Humphrey's Gouache
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
Heller covers monumental and lesser-known works starting with Frank Lloyd Wright and tracing his design principles through his son Lloyd Wright, and students Richard Neutra, Rudolph ...
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Humphrey's Cadillac
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
Heller covers monumental and lesser-known works starting with Frank Lloyd Wright and tracing his design principles through his son Lloyd Wright, and students Richard Neutra, Rudolph ...
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Alternate Reality
By Ben Schwab
Located in Fairfield, CT
Ben Schwab writes of his work, “the concepts of ‘here’ and “there” have always been interesting to me—particularly the question of what causes us to connect with a space as our ‘here...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Si Tu Disais
By Francis DiFronzo
Located in Fairfield, CT
Born in San Pedro, California in 1969, Francis DiFronzo has been painting and exhibiting his artwork in the United States for more than thirty years.
"I discovered at a young age that art had the ability to transport me out of my world and into the lives of artists I admired. When I looked at paintings by Andrew Wyeth or Edward Hopper, I felt as though I was momentarily living in the worlds they created. I wanted to do the same thing. I wanted my work to have that power."
After receiving his B.F.A in 1994 from California State University, Fullerton, DiFronzo moved to Philadelphia, PA where he continued his studies in drawing and painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. There he worked and learned under the guidance of artists Murray Dessner, Jan Baltzell, Sidney Goodman, Vincent Desiderio and Irving Petlin. Di Fronzo...
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Watercolor, Gouache, Wood Panel
Endless Summer
By Francis DiFronzo
Located in Fairfield, CT
Born in San Pedro, California in 1969, Francis DiFronzo has been painting and exhibiting his artwork in the United States for more than thirty years.
"I discovered at a young age that art had the ability to transport me out of my world and into the lives of artists I admired. When I looked at paintings by Andrew Wyeth or Edward Hopper, I felt as though I was momentarily living in the worlds they created. I wanted to do the same thing. I wanted my work to have that power."
After receiving his B.F.A in 1994 from California State University, Fullerton, DiFronzo moved to Philadelphia, PA where he continued his studies in drawing and painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. There he worked and learned under the guidance of artists Murray Dessner, Jan Baltzell, Sidney Goodman, Vincent Desiderio and Irving Petlin. Di Fronzo...
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Watercolor, Gouache, Wood Panel
White Castle II
Located in Fairfield, CT
After a long, successful career with the Eastman Kodak Company as a photojournalist and editorial photographer, Emile Dillon returned to painting in 1998. As a photographer he traveled the United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Europe. While he’d chosen the camera for his profession, he’d grown up with oil on canvas. His grandfather was the Harlem Renaissance painter Frank Joseph Dillon and a favorite uncle was the Latin American artist Felix Vargas.
Dillon’s years behind the camera and days in Soho galleries inspired him to pursue Photorealism as a style. But instead of the landscape of the exotic which he’d experienced in his Kodak travels, he was fascinated by the humble diners, motels, and vintage signs which were vanishing from American towns and cities. To perfect his craft, he studied at the School of Visual Arts and the Art Students League in New York.
In an article on his work in the July 2019 issue of American Art Collector magazine, Dillon comments on his subject matter. “Somebody’s got to save these things…These places may not exist anymore in the next 100 years.”
Dillon’s favorite painting in this exhibition is Dunkin Donuts...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Still Ten Cents
Located in Fairfield, CT
After a long, successful career with the Eastman Kodak Company as a photojournalist and editorial photographer, Emile Dillon returned to painting in 1998. As a photographer he traveled the United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Europe. While he’d chosen the camera for his profession, he’d grown up with oil on canvas. His grandfather was the Harlem Renaissance painter Frank Joseph Dillon and a favorite uncle was the Latin American artist Felix Vargas.
Dillon’s years behind the camera and days in Soho galleries inspired him to pursue Photorealism as a style. But instead of the landscape of the exotic which he’d experienced in his Kodak travels, he was fascinated by the humble diners, motels, and vintage signs which were vanishing from American towns and cities. To perfect his craft, he studied at the School of Visual Arts and the Art Students League in New York.
In an article on his work in the July 2019 issue of American Art Collector magazine, Dillon comments on his subject matter. “Somebody’s got to save these things…These places may not exist anymore in the next 100 years.”
Dillon’s favorite painting in this exhibition is Dunkin Donuts...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The Brooklyn Diner
Located in Fairfield, CT
After a long, successful career with the Eastman Kodak Company as a photojournalist and editorial photographer, Emile Dillon returned to painting in 1998. As a photographer he traveled the United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Europe. While he’d chosen the camera for his profession, he’d grown up with oil on canvas. His grandfather was the Harlem Renaissance painter Frank Joseph Dillon and a favorite uncle was the Latin American artist Felix Vargas.
Dillon’s years behind the camera and days in Soho galleries inspired him to pursue Photorealism as a style. But instead of the landscape of the exotic which he’d experienced in his Kodak travels, he was fascinated by the humble diners, motels, and vintage signs which were vanishing from American towns and cities. To perfect his craft, he studied at the School of Visual Arts and the Art Students League in New York.
In an article on his work in the July 2019 issue of American Art Collector magazine, Dillon comments on his subject matter. “Somebody’s got to save these things…These places may not exist anymore in the next 100 years.”
Dillon’s favorite painting in this exhibition is Dunkin Donuts...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Blue Car in Havana
Located in Fairfield, CT
After a long, successful career with the Eastman Kodak Company as a photojournalist and editorial photographer, Emile Dillon returned to painting in 1998. As a photographer he traveled the United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Europe. While he’d chosen the camera for his profession, he’d grown up with oil on canvas. His grandfather was the Harlem Renaissance painter Frank Joseph Dillon and a favorite uncle was the Latin American artist Felix Vargas.
Dillon’s years behind the camera and days in Soho galleries inspired him to pursue Photorealism as a style. But instead of the landscape of the exotic which he’d experienced in his Kodak travels, he was fascinated by the humble diners, motels, and vintage signs which were vanishing from American towns and cities. To perfect his craft, he studied at the School of Visual Arts and the Art Students League in New York.
In an article on his work in the July 2019 issue of American Art Collector magazine, Dillon comments on his subject matter. “Somebody’s got to save these things…These places may not exist anymore in the next 100 years.”
Dillon’s favorite painting in this exhibition is Dunkin Donuts...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The Low Season
By Matt Condron
Located in Fairfield, CT
Having spent many years as a photographer, Matt Condron is trained to recognize the importance of a moment or the preciousness of a fleeting opportunity. He is captivated by the idea of emptiness, as both a suggestion of solitude and as a state rife with the possibility of change and fulfillment. As a painter, he seeks out familiar, evocative scenes and concentrates on capturing the stillness of an empty room or vacant chair. His paintings can be seen as solitary, or as simply aberrant pauses between moments of frantic activity.
The works are imbued with a quality of light that brings simple, content-rich objects into sharp focus. Condron attempts to establish not so much a connection to a chair or a room, but the feeling created by the wide embrace of emptiness. Ultimately, Condron creates scenes - part representation of real places, part invention from deep in his mind. The openness of his works invites the viewer to share the moment of quiet with him. By choosing places that seem to have been abruptly vacated, he attempts to awaken a connection to the moment before, or to the quietude he preserves inside himself in the form of memories.
Matt Condron was born in 1967 in Simi Valley...
Category
2010s American Realist Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Southland Booths
By Matt Condron
Located in Fairfield, CT
Having spent many years as a photographer, Matt Condron is trained to recognize the importance of a moment or the preciousness of a fleeting opportunity. He is captivated by the idea of emptiness, as both a suggestion of solitude and as a state rife with the possibility of change and fulfillment. As a painter, he seeks out familiar, evocative scenes and concentrates on capturing the stillness of an empty room or vacant chair. His paintings can be seen as solitary, or as simply aberrant pauses between moments of frantic activity.
The works are imbued with a quality of light that brings simple, content-rich objects into sharp focus. Condron attempts to establish not so much a connection to a chair or a room, but the feeling created by the wide embrace of emptiness. Ultimately, Condron creates scenes - part representation of real places, part invention from deep in his mind. The openness of his works invites the viewer to share the moment of quiet with him. By choosing places that seem to have been abruptly vacated, he attempts to awaken a connection to the moment before, or to the quietude he preserves inside himself in the form of memories.
Matt Condron was born in 1967 in Simi Valley...
Category
2010s American Realist Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fescue
By Daniel Phill
Located in Fairfield, CT
Daniel Phill’s current paintings are botanical abstractions inspired by the natural world. They are a reimagining of flowers, vegetation and the landscape. He is always on the lookou...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The Vessel
By Leslie Lewis Sigler
Located in Fairfield, CT
In my work I explore family objects as “families” of objects—individual silver heirlooms that are related to one another in a single collection and, collectively, to the individual f...
Category
2010s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Glimmer of Hope 104
Located in Fairfield, CT
For Schmidbauer, artistic abstraction is an approximation of the mind. With even more abstractedness, one can say: abstraction is the approximation of the mental. Changes lead us int...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Glimmer of Hope 103
Located in Fairfield, CT
For Schmidbauer, artistic abstraction is an approximation of the mind. With even more abstractedness, one can say: abstraction is the approximation of the mental. Changes lead us int...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Glimmer of Hope 101
Located in Fairfield, CT
For Schmidbauer, artistic abstraction is an approximation of the mind. With even more abstractedness, one can say: abstraction is the approximation of the mental. Changes lead us int...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Glimmer of Hope 100
Located in Fairfield, CT
For Schmidbauer, artistic abstraction is an approximation of the mind. With even more abstractedness, one can say: abstraction is the approximation of the mental. Changes lead us int...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Glimmer of Hope 102
Located in Fairfield, CT
For Schmidbauer, artistic abstraction is an approximation of the mind. With even more abstractedness, one can say: abstraction is the approximation of the mental. Changes lead us int...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
138
By Russ Havard
Located in Fairfield, CT
RUSS HAVARD
Artist Statement
I'm drawn towards nature imagery that depicts isolated elements in their continual struggle to flourish under desolate circumstances. The seemingly bleak, the empty landscape, speaks to me. It is in this silence that I see the never-ending waves of struggle, wearing down, and rebirth emerging.
The process of endless building and reconfiguring transcends the mere physical and encompasses the spiritual and symbolic. The scars and flowers of experience against a backdrop of an endless sea of days transform into a tiny glimpse of what Heaven might be. In what some see as mere desolation, I find a spark of the sublime: a release into a quiet revelry, and a peace that covers it all...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Drawings and Wa...
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Union Street Bridge
By Elizabeth O'Reilly
Located in Fairfield, CT
Having worked from a studio in the Gowanus area of Brooklyn for two decades, Elizabeth O'Reilly is at home in the abandoned precincts of the canal with its solidly geometric shapes. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Water...
Materials
Watercolor
Union Street Bridge & Pylons
By Elizabeth O'Reilly
Located in Fairfield, CT
Having worked from a studio in the Gowanus area of Brooklyn for two decades, Elizabeth O'Reilly is at home in the abandoned precincts of the canal with its solidly geometric shapes....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Water...
Materials
Watercolor
Night Under Expressway
By Elizabeth O'Reilly
Located in Fairfield, CT
Having worked from a studio in the Gowanus area of Brooklyn for two decades, Elizabeth O'Reilly is at home in the abandoned precincts of the canal with its solidly geometric shapes. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Water...
Materials
Watercolor
Hamilton Avenue
By Elizabeth O'Reilly
Located in Fairfield, CT
Having worked from a studio in the Gowanus area of Brooklyn for two decades, Elizabeth O'Reilly is at home in the abandoned precincts of the canal with its solidly geometric shapes. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Water...
Materials
Watercolor
Cars Under Expressway
By Elizabeth O'Reilly
Located in Fairfield, CT
Having worked from a studio in the Gowanus area of Brooklyn for two decades, Elizabeth O'Reilly is at home in the abandoned precincts of the canal with its solidly geometric shapes. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Water...
Materials
Watercolor
Best-Ever 10 Cent
Located in Fairfield, CT
Richard Parker’s paintings are exquisitely rendered portraits of ephemeral objects more often used to create artworks than as the content. With a nod to Pop Art, Parker focuses on t...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pink Pearl
Located in Fairfield, CT
Richard Parker’s paintings are exquisitely rendered portraits of ephemeral objects more often used to create artworks than as the content. With a nod to Pop Art, Parker focuses on t...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cherry Chocolate Cupcake
Located in Fairfield, CT
The bold flowers and repeating geometric patterns in this series of paintings are lushly modeled in oil paint, and are coupled with the use of inlaid wood. Surrounding the colorful and whimsical bouquets and garlands is a border of complimentary colors rife with kaleidoscopic floral images to further entice the eye. Influences of Persian miniatures and French Baroque are prevalent, as well as traditional floral painting which was used to document nature’s beauty. The artist states, “By using subject matter that is historically decorative and painterly, I seek to explore the medium’s more ethereal content.” The paintings become visually intense and hallucinatory as different varieties of flowers and leaves dance and intertwine in the geometry of the surrounding patterns.
Traditionally mysticism was effectively communicated in painting through an assortment of lyrical, painterly indulgences, creating a supernatural, as well as an escapist experience. Matt Jacobs...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Simple Pleasures
Located in Fairfield, CT
The bold flowers and repeating geometric patterns in this series of paintings are lushly modeled in oil paint, and are coupled with the use of inlaid wood. Surrounding the colorful and whimsical bouquets and garlands is a border of complimentary colors rife with kaleidoscopic floral images to further entice the eye. Influences of Persian miniatures and French Baroque are prevalent, as well as traditional floral painting which was used to document nature’s beauty. The artist states, “By using subject matter that is historically decorative and painterly, I seek to explore the medium’s more ethereal content.” The paintings become visually intense and hallucinatory as different varieties of flowers and leaves dance and intertwine in the geometry of the surrounding patterns.
Traditionally mysticism was effectively communicated in painting through an assortment of lyrical, painterly indulgences, creating a supernatural, as well as an escapist experience. Matt Jacobs...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Devotion
Located in Fairfield, CT
The bold flowers and repeating geometric patterns in this series of paintings are lushly modeled in oil paint, and are coupled with the use of inlaid wood. Surrounding the colorful and whimsical bouquets and garlands is a border of complimentary colors rife with kaleidoscopic floral images to further entice the eye. Influences of Persian miniatures and French Baroque are prevalent, as well as traditional floral painting which was used to document nature’s beauty. The artist states, “By using subject matter that is historically decorative and painterly, I seek to explore the medium’s more ethereal content.” The paintings become visually intense and hallucinatory as different varieties of flowers and leaves dance and intertwine in the geometry of the surrounding patterns.
Traditionally mysticism was effectively communicated in painting through an assortment of lyrical, painterly indulgences, creating a supernatural, as well as an escapist experience. Matt Jacobs...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Cupcakes and Trees
Located in Fairfield, CT
The bold flowers and repeating geometric patterns in this series of paintings are lushly modeled in oil paint, and are coupled with the use of inlaid wood. Surrounding the colorful and whimsical bouquets and garlands is a border of complimentary colors rife with kaleidoscopic floral images to further entice the eye. Influences of Persian miniatures and French Baroque are prevalent, as well as traditional floral painting which was used to document nature’s beauty. The artist states, “By using subject matter that is historically decorative and painterly, I seek to explore the medium’s more ethereal content.” The paintings become visually intense and hallucinatory as different varieties of flowers and leaves dance and intertwine in the geometry of the surrounding patterns.
Traditionally mysticism was effectively communicated in painting through an assortment of lyrical, painterly indulgences, creating a supernatural, as well as an escapist experience. Matt Jacobs...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Three Vases and a Lid
By Bennett Vadnais
Located in Fairfield, CT
Much of Bennett Vadnais’ subject matter comes from his surroundings in Manhattan and Brooklyn. With a strong background in plein air landscape painting, Vadnais finds an interesting ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Panel
Fiesta
Located in Fairfield, CT
"I have always been a creative who thinks "outside the box". Art is easiest for me; it flows from whatever I've been thinking about, emotion, and soul and takes shape — from intrinsi...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The Heart of the Matter
Located in Fairfield, CT
"I have always been a creative who thinks "outside the box". Art is easiest for me; it flows from whatever I've been thinking about, emotion, and soul and takes shape — from intrinsi...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Fantasia
Located in Fairfield, CT
"I have always been a creative who thinks "outside the box". Art is easiest for me; it flows from whatever I've been thinking about, emotion, and soul and takes shape — from intrinsi...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Jupiter's Infatuation
Located in Fairfield, CT
"I have always been a creative who thinks "outside the box". Art is easiest for me; it flows from whatever I've been thinking about, emotion, and soul and takes shape — from intrinsi...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Jupiter's Folly
Located in Fairfield, CT
"I have always been a creative who thinks "outside the box". Art is easiest for me; it flows from whatever I've been thinking about, emotion, and soul and takes shape — from intrinsic importance to physical reality.… From nothingness comes something to share. My paintings are bright, colorful, and invigorating and I’ve been told and seen firsthand that they lift people’s spirits. A visitor to one of my shows commented, "Your paintings are so happy" and I responded, "that’s because I’m happy when I’m painting them".
I work passionately, and intuitively and I refuse to follow others’ rules. People have told me that the colors I’ve used others don’t dare put together because they’re "not supposed to", and then when I do it, they exclaim, "it works". You can call me an "intuitive painter" or "a colorist" or "an abstract-surrealistic organic and geometric anarchist". Whatever you call me, I hope you like what you see. " – Karen Kirshner
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Journey Beneath the Surface
Located in Fairfield, CT
"I have always been a creative who thinks "outside the box". Art is easiest for me; it flows from whatever I've been thinking about, emotion, and soul and takes shape — from intrinsi...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
