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Candle Stick Telephone
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
Path to Salt Pond
Located in Fairfield, CT
Art size is 9x11", framed size is 16x18.5"
Category
2010s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Plumbago
By Peggie Blizard
Located in Fairfield, CT
Realism as a style has basically remained unchanged since the Renaissance. Realism as a technique, however, has definitely been altered and heavily influenced by technology. Most artists have given up “eyeballing” a subject as a drawing technique and have come to rely on photographs instead. Turnaround time for photographs is now virtually instant because of digital cameras...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Pansies in a Jar
By Peggie Blizard
Located in Fairfield, CT
Realism as a style has basically remained unchanged since the Renaissance. Realism as a technique, however, has definitely been altered and heavily influenced by technology. Most art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Octopus Tattoo
By Wes Hempel
Located in Fairfield, CT
A walk through any major museum will reveal paintings that depict or legitimate only certain kinds of experience. Despite the good intentions of critical theorists questioning the validity of the canon, paintings of the old masters on the walls of museums like the Met, the Louvre, Rijks museum still have a certain cache. They're revered not just for their technique but because they enshrine our collective past experience. Of course, it's a selected past that gets validated. Conspicuously absent to me as a gay man...
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Family Circle (COLLABORATION WITH JACK BALAS)
By Wes Hempel
Located in Fairfield, CT
This painting is a collaboration with artist Jack Balas. Jack is Wes Hempel's partner.
A walk through any major museum will reveal paintings that depict o...
Category
2010s American Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lick (COLLABORATION WITH JACK BALAS)
By Wes Hempel
Located in Fairfield, CT
This painting is a collaboration with artist Jack Balas. Jack is Wes Hempel's partner.
A walk through any major museum will reveal paintings that depict o...
Category
2010s American Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hot Afternoon
By Wes Hempel
Located in Fairfield, CT
A walk through any major museum will reveal paintings that depict or legitimate only certain kinds of experience. Despite the good intentions of critical theorists questioning the va...
Category
2010s American Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Curious Gull
By Wes Hempel
Located in Fairfield, CT
A walk through any major museum will reveal paintings that depict or legitimate only certain kinds of experience. Despite the good intentions of critical theorists questioning the validity of the canon, paintings of the old masters on the walls of museums like the Met, the Louvre, Rijks museum still have a certain cache. They're revered not just for their technique but because they enshrine our collective past experience. Of course, it's a selected past that gets validated. Conspicuously absent to me as a gay man...
Category
2010s American Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Riding Home
By Wes Hempel
Located in Fairfield, CT
A walk through any major museum will reveal paintings that depict or legitimate only certain kinds of experience. Despite the good intentions of critical theorists questioning the validity of the canon, paintings of the old masters on the walls of museums like the Met, the Louvre, Rijks museum still have a certain cache. They're revered not just for their technique but because they enshrine our collective past experience. Of course, it's a selected past that gets validated. Conspicuously absent to me as a gay man...
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Last Basket
By Wes Hempel
Located in Fairfield, CT
A walk through any major museum will reveal paintings that depict or legitimate only certain kinds of experience. Despite the good intentions of critical theorists questioning the validity of the canon, paintings of the old masters on the walls of museums like the Met, the Louvre, Rijks museum still have a certain cache. They're revered not just for their technique but because they enshrine our collective past experience. Of course, it's a selected past that gets validated. Conspicuously absent to me as a gay man...
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
After The Last Wave
By Wes Hempel
Located in Fairfield, CT
A walk through any major museum will reveal paintings that depict or legitimate only certain kinds of experience. Despite the good intentions of critical theorists questioning the validity of the canon, paintings of the old masters on the walls of museums like the Met, the Louvre, Rijks museum still have a certain cache. They're revered not just for their technique but because they enshrine our collective past experience. Of course, it's a selected past that gets validated. Conspicuously absent to me as a gay man...
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Stop On The Drive Home
By Wes Hempel
Located in Fairfield, CT
A walk through any major museum will reveal paintings that depict or legitimate only certain kinds of experience. Despite the good intentions of critical theorists questioning the va...
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Birthday Wish
By Wes Hempel
Located in Fairfield, CT
A walk through any major museum will reveal paintings that depict or legitimate only certain kinds of experience. Despite the good intentions of critical theorists questioning the validity of the canon, paintings of the old masters on the walls of museums like the Met, the Louvre, Rijks museum still have a certain cache. They're revered not just for their technique but because they enshrine our collective past experience. Of course, it's a selected past that gets validated. Conspicuously absent to me as a gay man...
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lavender Petunia
By Peggie Blizard
Located in Fairfield, CT
Realism as a style has basically remained unchanged since the Renaissance. Realism as a technique, however, has definitely been altered and heavily influenced by technology. Most art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Roses in Warm Light
By Jeffrey Vaughn
Located in Fairfield, CT
Jeffrey Vaughn, from Alton, Illinois, received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1978 from Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, and his Master of Arts degree in 1981, and Master of Fine Arts degree in 1983 from the University of Dallas. Vaughn has focused his energies as an artist working in landscapes for over thirty years. Vaughn approaches his work with a quiet contemplativeness that reflects the serene aspects of the natural world and reveals the underlying spiritual nature that can be found in the environments he portrays. His paintings have been published in New American Paintings and reviewed in the American Arts Quarterly and the St. Louis Post...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Morning Light
By Jeffrey Vaughn
Located in Fairfield, CT
Jeffrey Vaughn, from Alton, Illinois, received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1978 from Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, and his Master of Arts degree in 1981, and Master of Fine Arts degree in 1983 from the University of Dallas. Vaughn has focused his energies as an artist working in landscapes for over thirty years. Vaughn approaches his work with a quiet contemplativeness that reflects the serene aspects of the natural world and reveals the underlying spiritual nature that can be found in the environments he portrays. His paintings have been published in New American Paintings and reviewed in the American Arts Quarterly and the St. Louis Post...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Burgundy, Teal & Pink Study
By Kenny Harris
Located in Fairfield, CT
The artist has traveled around the world, painting on location. He is fascinated with subtle light effects and expressive painterly surfaces, focusing on interiors or cityscapes. His...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Interior Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Panel
Olga
By Alex Blas
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- Privacy and personal space are central themes in the works of painter Alex Blas. His most recent series 'Housesitter' is inspired b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Austin Mueller
By Alex Blas
Located in Fairfield, CT
In his current series, “In Your Room”, Alex Blas explores modern day life by examining the private spaces of his friends. In these paintings, Blas carefully considers the shadows, co...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tyler G. Wilson
By Alex Blas
Located in Fairfield, CT
In his current series, “In Your Room”, Alex Blas explores modern day life by examining the private spaces of his friends. In these paintings, Blas carefully considers the shadows, co...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Daniel Teal
By Alex Blas
Located in Fairfield, CT
In his current series, “In Your Room”, Alex Blas explores modern day life by examining the private spaces of his friends. In these paintings, Blas carefully considers the shadows, co...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Collin Carter
By Alex Blas
Located in Fairfield, CT
In his current series, “In Your Room”, Alex Blas explores modern day life by examining the private spaces of his friends. In these paintings, Blas carefully considers the shadows, co...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bahia de los Muertos
By Derek Buckner
Located in Fairfield, CT
Derek Buckner is represented by George Billis Gallery NYC and LA. During his career the artist has discovered many different themes, but there is one theme in particular that Bucker...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Esteban Hurtado
By Alex Blas
Located in Fairfield, CT
In his current series, “In Your Room”, Alex Blas explores modern day life by examining the private spaces of his friends. In these paintings, Blas carefully considers the shadows, co...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sam Murti
By Alex Blas
Located in Fairfield, CT
In his current series, “In Your Room”, Alex Blas explores modern day life by examining the private spaces of his friends. In these paintings, Blas carefully considers the shadows, co...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Calcareous (Paso Robbles)
By Bruce Everett
Located in Fairfield, CT
Bruce Everett’s landscapes in oil are characterized by bold and often dark compositional forms, dramatic effects of light, and a sense of solitude.The combination of both smooth and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lee
By Alex Blas
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- Privacy and personal space are central themes in the works of painter Alex Blas. His most recent series 'Housesitter' is inspired by...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Three Clovers and Plumbago
By Peggie Blizard
Located in Fairfield, CT
Realism as a style has basically remained unchanged since the Renaissance. Realism as a technique, however, has definitely been altered and heavily influenced by technology. Most art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Shade Adjacent
By Lisa Golightly
Located in Fairfield, CT
Rooted in the concept of memory born from photographs, Lisa Golightly’s paintings are reconstructions of found film photography as seen through the artist’s eye.
Photography remains...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Rituals
By Lisa Golightly
Located in Fairfield, CT
Rooted in the concept of memory born from photographs, Lisa Golightly’s paintings are reconstructions of found film photography as seen through the artist’s eye.
Photography remains...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
High and Low
By Lisa Golightly
Located in Fairfield, CT
Rooted in the concept of memory born from photographs, Lisa Golightly’s paintings are reconstructions of found film photography as seen through the artist’s eye.
Photography remains...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Conversation Poolside
By Lisa Golightly
Located in Fairfield, CT
Rooted in the concept of memory born from photographs, Lisa Golightly’s paintings are reconstructions of found film photography as seen through the artist’s eye.
Photography remains...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Cards
By Lisa Golightly
Located in Fairfield, CT
Rooted in the concept of memory born from photographs, Lisa Golightly’s paintings are reconstructions of found film photography as seen through the artist’s eye.
Photography remains...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Frank Lloyd Wright, Sturges House
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
RM Schindler, Spec House
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
RM Schindler, Falk Apartments
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
Richard Neutra, Lovell House
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
Lloyd Wright, Taggart House
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
Morning Ride
By Wes Hempel
Located in Fairfield, CT
A walk through any major museum will reveal paintings that depict or legitimate only certain kinds of experience. Despite the good intentions of critical theorists questioning the va...
Category
2010s American Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Freeway 2
By Derek Buckner
Located in Fairfield, CT
Derek Buckner is represented by George Billis Gallery NYC and LA. During his career the artist has discovered many different themes, but there is one theme in particular that Bucker...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Freeway
By Derek Buckner
Located in Fairfield, CT
Derek Buckner is represented by George Billis Gallery NYC and LA. During his career the artist has discovered many different themes, but there is one theme in particular that Bucker...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Garden of Eden
By Terry Thompson
Located in Fairfield, CT
Thompson's oil paintings of neon signage explore his appreciation for how these hand-made signs are built. This may be a result of the many years he spent as an equipment engineer in...
Category
2010s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Masquerade
By Craig Carlisle
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- The idea of meditation and contemplation play a major role in the paintings of artist Craig Carlisle. His paintings articulate inde...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
The Slow Dance
By Craig Carlisle
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- The idea of meditation and contemplation play a major role in the paintings of artist Craig Carlisle. His paintings articulate inde...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Silent Prayer
By Craig Carlisle
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- The idea of meditation and contemplation play a major role in the paintings of artist Craig Carlisle. His paintings articulate inde...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Memories
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery. Katie Riesco is a classically trained artist & painter who lives and works in Fairfield, Connecticut. With her cont...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Woman Reading a Letter, Framed
By Kenny Harris
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --Kenny Harris's latest body of work was informed by two recent residencies in Tuscany, at Borgo Finocchiet...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Farewell #4
By Wes Hempel
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- For decades, Wes Hempel has been committed to re-envisioning the depiction of masculinity in contemporary art. By setting psychologically acute portraits of modern-day men against backdrops appropriated from such disparate sources as neoclassical history...
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
After Sunset
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...
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Watercolor, Gouache, Wood Panel
Prepare for Battle
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist Statement Intermundium: space between worlds 2021
In the summer of 2019, I traveled to Ireland for an extended painting trip, renting a cottage for a month on the rugged Sheepshead Peninsula in West Cork...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Dragon Spine
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist Statement Intermundium: space between worlds 2021
In the summer of 2019, I traveled to Ireland for an extended painting trip, renting a cottage for a month on the rugged Sheepshead Peninsula in West Cork...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Boreas
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist Statement Intermundium: space between worlds 2021
In the summer of 2019, I traveled to Ireland for an extended painting trip, renting a cottage for a month on the rugged Sheepshead Peninsula in West Cork, and then driving the circumference of the island for more exploration and painting. Along with my husband, also a painter, I’ve been going abroad...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Kharis I (megálos)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist Statement Intermundium: space between worlds 2021
In the summer of 2019, I traveled to Ireland for an extended painting trip, renting a cottage for a month on the rugged Sheepshead Peninsula in West Cork...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Kharis IV
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist Statement Intermundium: space between worlds 2021
In the summer of 2019, I traveled to Ireland for an extended painting trip, renting a cottage for a month on the rugged Sh...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Eclipse
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist Statement Intermundium: space between worlds 2021
In the summer of 2019, I traveled to Ireland for an extended painting trip, renting a cottage for a month on the rugged Sheepshead Peninsula in West Cork, and then driving the circumference of the island for more exploration and painting. Along with my husband, also a painter, I’ve been going abroad...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Capriole
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist Statement Intermundium: space between worlds 2021
In the summer of 2019, I traveled to Ireland for an extended painting trip, renting a cottage for a month on the rugged Sh...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Apricots
By Randall Mooers
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --Mooers writes of his work, “My paintings begin with a serious sense of play, both in the staging and the creating of the compositions...
Category
2010s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Desire II
By Randall Mooers
Located in Fairfield, CT
My paintings begin with a serious sense of play, both in the staging and the creating of the compositions. It is at this beginning stage that I operate under the Dadaist dictate that “anything can be art”, and at the same time I seek out a balanced and harmonious composition by way of line, shape, and color. I work according to my whimsy, sometimes seeking to assert some form of narrative however personal or ambiguous, and other times I am simply satisfied with the hint of a human presence.
Once I have my compositions the paintings then very quickly become about work, a very labor intensive work that forces me to focus my mind and slow things down (which I feel is relevant especially in this day and age of high-speed everything). A great amount of effort is spent on trying to get to the highest level of finish that is possible according to my current skill level.
For inspiration I have drawn from the past four centuries of object specific paintings, from the ontbijtjes (laid tables) of the 17th Century Dutch masters such as Willem Kalf...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Unexpected Blessing II
By Wes Hempel
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --A walk through any major museum will reveal paintings that depict or legitimate only certain kinds of experience. Despite the good in...
Category
2010s American Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
