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Magnolia
By Paul Schulenburg
Located in Fairfield, CT
I think of my work as being like a visual journal- observations and interpretations of people, places and things I experience day to day. Translating that experience into two dimensi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
$2,200
Toys Books
By Paul Schulenburg
Located in Fairfield, CT
I think of my work as being like a visual journal- observations and interpretations of people, places and things I experience day to day. Translating that experience into two dimensi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Brooklyn Bridge Evening
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
Rooftops
By Alex Roulette
Located in Fairfield, CT
Alex Roulette’s paintings depict false realities. The artist constructs landscapes from numerous source photographs, which he uses as references to create his finely-tuned oil painti...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Roadside
By Alex Roulette
Located in Fairfield, CT
Alex Roulette’s paintings depict false realities. The artist constructs landscapes from numerous source photographs, which he uses as references to create his finely-tuned oil painti...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Ocean Park Blvd
By Stephen Magsig
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis', NYC and LA galleries -- When I think about the conventions of painting -- a tradition I respect immensely -- I notice that my concern has always been...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rodeo Reflections
By Stephen Magsig
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis', NYC and LA galleries -- When I think about the conventions of painting -- a tradition I respect immensely -- I notice that my concern has always been...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Darkly, and Not
By Eric Hesse
Located in Fairfield, CT
Hesse describes of his work, "encaustic is the perfect paint with which to explore this balance between control and chaos. In trying to wrestle a recognizable image from a fluid and ...
Category
2010s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Wood Panel
An Emptiness I Needed to Know
By Eric Hesse
Located in Fairfield, CT
Hesse describes of his work, "encaustic is the perfect paint with which to explore this balance between control and chaos. In trying to wrestle a recognizable image from a fluid and often incorrigible medium, a tension emerges, echoing the drama outside the window."
Choosing to focus on the Los Angeles landscape, for Hesse, "the act of building is generally considered synonymous with growth and progress. In the cities I’ve called home, construction more often seems the imposition of one will upon another. Visually, the result is a sort of competition; angles wedge their way into vegetation and undaunted, the foliage always pushes back. All it takes is a look out of an airplane window...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Wood Panel
La Vague, Distance
By Eric Hesse
Located in Fairfield, CT
Hesse describes of his work, "encaustic is the perfect paint with which to explore this balance between control and chaos. In trying to wrestle a recognizable image from a fluid and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Wood Panel
About the Crossing
By Eric Hesse
Located in Fairfield, CT
Hesse describes of his work, "encaustic is the perfect paint with which to explore this balance between control and chaos. In trying to wrestle a recognizable image from a fluid and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Wood Panel
Painted Walls
By Alex Roulette
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- Alex Roulette’s paintings depict false realities. The artist constructs landscapes from numerous source photographs, which he uses a...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Smoke Screen
By Alex Roulette
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- Alex Roulette’s paintings depict false realities. The artist constructs landscapes from numerous source photographs, which he uses a...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Under the Surface
By Alex Roulette
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- Alex Roulette’s paintings depict false realities. The artist constructs landscapes from numerous source photographs, which he uses a...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Hudson River #3
By Richard Orient
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery. New Landscapes is a series of landscapes painted over the past year. It includes the artist’s observations of oceans, wooded hills, and ponds in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Resting Fuselage
By Trevor Young
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --Trevor Young is a quintessentially American painter. He makes no bones about his affection for the trappings of car culture, life on ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Panel
Red Hardbody
By Trevor Young
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --Trevor Young is a quintessentially American painter. He makes no bones about his affection for the trappings of car culture, life on the road, and 1960s West Coast art. His main subject is modernism’s footprint on the outposts of Americana—places typified by harsh artificial light and hard shadows on concrete. The show makes clear that for Young, despite the contemporary art world’s preferences for irony, disjunction, and tongue-in-cheek intellectual gamesmanship, painting is at its best when it attempts to offer an unpretentious accounting of where and how we live our day-to-day lives.
The celebrations of urban sprawl offered by artists like Ed Ruscha—who famously took no-nonsense aerial photographs of thirty four LA parking lots in 1967, and created sleek, stripped down paintings of Standard Oil stations—are an obvious point of reference in Young’s work. But Young’s choices seem more personal than Ruscha’s, and his technique is certainly more painterly: His images of gas stations are uneasy amalgamations, cobbled together from his own memories of road trips, photographs, and pure invention, and rendered with a sense of atmosphere and drama seemingly at odds with his use of hard lines and simple geometric shapes.
Painters today tend to lean on pastiche, on art-historical mashups and code-switching. This typically results in images with no unified style and no concern for pictorial space, illusionistic or otherwise. For many contemporary painters, the picture plane is simply a flat, delimited arena in which different types of visual syntax collide, floating freely. This is a non-strategy in which artists make an end run around some of the thornier problems of composition, perception, and cognition.
Young bucks this trend. He activates every square inch of his canvases, blocking in large passages of negative space with skeins of scruffy countervailing strokes. He is not a fussy painter, nor is he out to prove his own mastery to an audience. Like Edward Hopper, Young tends to eschew a lot of paint’s seductive properties, preferring to create hard edges and large, gently undulating planes of subdued color.
He draws the viewer into an unpopulated, uncluttered world with a clear horizon line—but one that is also filled with hiccups, discontinuities, and compromises. In Service in the Rear, for example, a shelter for gas pumps in the foreground—closest to the viewer and, therefore, logically a dominant compositional element—is rendered as a hazy silhouette that flagrantly disobeys the rules of linear perspective. This is intentional: The structure is only important to Young in the way that it draws the viewer’s eye below and past it, to the glowing, low-slung building dominating the lefthand side of the picture. Thus Young shows his talent for creating visual tension and drama—and for sidestepping the viewer’s expectations.
Young understands that some might regard his brand of painting as obsolete. He also understands the troubled legacy of modernism, and what the triumph of universal technology has meant for cultures around the globe. Still, for Young, the cold comfort offered by outposts of convenience—gas stations, airports, cheap hotel rooms—is not so easily dismissed. Young shares the strange buoyant optimism of his hero, Jonathan Richman, who, in his early ‘70s proto-punk single, Roadrunner, exults in the simple act of driving past the Stop’n’Shop with the radio on...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
$1,700
Active Runway
By Trevor Young
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --Trevor Young is a quintessentially American painter. He makes no bones about his affection for the trappings of car culture, life on ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Twilight Scene Over Culvert
By Taylor Montague
Located in Fairfield, CT
Taylor Montague describes his work as "explor[ing] the way coastal-suburban spaces are viewed/depicted and, by implication, inhabited. All the works are based on locations in and ar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Knotta Road Glen 2, Framed
By Richard Orient
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --New Landscapes is a series of landscapes painted over the past year. It includes the artist’s observations of oceans, wooded hill...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Departure Beat
By Trevor Young
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- Trevor Young is a quintessentially American painter. He makes no bones about his affection for the trappings of car culture, lif...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Airport Service, Framed
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- I paint the reality of the Southern California environment: how structures once revered for their groundbreaking ideas in design an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Table for Three, Framed
By Paul Schulenburg
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- I think of my work as being like a visual journal- observations and interpretations of people, places and things I experience day t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Thicket 42 Innsbrook, Framed
By Jeffrey Vaughn
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery in New York City. Jeffrey Vaughn, from Alton, Illinois, received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1978 from Washington University, St. Louis, ...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
#3
By Russ Havard
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NY & LA --The process of endless building and reconfiguring transcends the mere physical and encompasses the spiritual and symbolic. The scars a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Fork
By Russ Havard
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NY & LA --The process of endless building and reconfiguring transcends the mere physical and encompasses the spiritual and symbolic. The scars a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Wrench
By Russ Havard
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NY & LA --The process of endless building and reconfiguring transcends the mere physical and encompasses the spiritual and symbolic. The scars a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Meadowland Erections
By Trevor Young
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- Trevor Young is a quintessentially American painter. He makes no bones about his affection for the trappings of car culture, life on the road, and 1960s West Coast art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cruise #1
By Karen Woods
Located in Fairfield, CT
“I do think the big problem in a way…is how you deal with ordinary life—that is not extraordinary, that does not involve heroism, that does not involve crises, really. But the way in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
$3,400
Manhattan III
By Roland Kulla
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- We are creatures of habit. Routines help us organize our lives and provide necessary structure to daily existence. The same holds true in the built environment. The city grid...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$11,700
Mustard
By Nicholas Evans-Cato
Located in Fairfield, CT
Every painting begins with a place to stand. Sometimes I find one in seconds; sometimes the hunt goes on for many seasons. A canvas can easily frame the everyday. But my task is to t...
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Mint
By Nicholas Evans-Cato
Located in Fairfield, CT
Every painting begins with a place to stand. Sometimes I find one in seconds; sometimes the hunt goes on for many seasons. A canvas can easily frame the everyday. But my task is to t...
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Umbrellas
By Nicholas Evans-Cato
Located in Fairfield, CT
Every painting begins with a place to stand. Sometimes I find one in seconds; sometimes the hunt goes on for many seasons. A canvas can easily frame the everyday. But my task is to t...
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Passing Protrusion
By Trevor Young
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- Trevor Young is a quintessentially American painter. He makes no bones about his affection for the trappings of car culture, life on...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Placid Comeback
By Trevor Young
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- Trevor Young is a quintessentially American painter. He makes no bones about his affection for the trappings of car culture, life on...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dark Power
By Eric Hesse
Located in Fairfield, CT
Hesse describes of his work, "encaustic is the perfect paint with which to explore this balance between control and chaos. In trying to wrestle a recognizable image from a fluid and ...
Category
2010s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Wood Panel
Closed Gates
By Eric Hesse
Located in Fairfield, CT
Hesse describes of his work, "encaustic is the perfect paint with which to explore this balance between control and chaos. In trying to wrestle a recognizable image from a fluid and ...
Category
2010s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Wood Panel
Sunset Parking Lot
By Eric Hesse
Located in Fairfield, CT
Hesse describes of his work, "encaustic is the perfect paint with which to explore this balance between control and chaos. In trying to wrestle a recognizable image from a fluid and ...
Category
2010s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Wood Panel
Brooklyn Bridge
By Stephen Magsig
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- When I think about the conventions of painting -- a tradition I respect immensely -- I notice that my concern has always been with ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cruise #6
By Karen Woods
Located in Fairfield, CT
“I do think the big problem in a way…is how you deal with ordinary life—that is not extraordinary, that does not involve heroism, that does not involve crises, really. But the way in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
$4,000
Cruise #5
By Karen Woods
Located in Fairfield, CT
“I do think the big problem in a way…is how you deal with ordinary life—that is not extraordinary, that does not involve heroism, that does not involve crises, really. But the way in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
$4,000
Cruise #8
By Karen Woods
Located in Fairfield, CT
“I do think the big problem in a way…is how you deal with ordinary life—that is not extraordinary, that does not involve heroism, that does not involve crises, really. But the way in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
$2,300
1st Avenue
By Karen Woods
Located in Fairfield, CT
“I do think the big problem in a way…is how you deal with ordinary life—that is not extraordinary, that does not involve heroism, that does not involve crises, really. But the way in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
$2,300
Light and Dark
By Karen Woods
Located in Fairfield, CT
“I do think the big problem in a way…is how you deal with ordinary life—that is not extraordinary, that does not involve heroism, that does not involve crises, really. But the way in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Along Broome Street, Framed
By Paul Schulenburg
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- I think of my work as being like a visual journal- observations and interpretations of people, places and things I experience day t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cruise #3
By Karen Woods
Located in Fairfield, CT
“I do think the big problem in a way…is how you deal with ordinary life—that is not extraordinary, that does not involve heroism, that does not involve crises, really. But the way in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
$2,500
Day in Night
By Adam Harrison
Located in Fairfield, CT
I certainly do not start these paintings as abstractions. Rather I am determined to record the anatomy of the place the best I possibly can (which, on an average, can take up to 1-2 ...
Category
2010s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Arizona
By Adam Harrison
Located in Fairfield, CT
I certainly do not start these paintings as abstractions. Rather I am determined to record the anatomy of the place the best I possibly can (which, on an average, can take up to 1-2 ...
Category
2010s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
$11,600
Footbridge, Framed
By Bennett Vadnais
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --Much of Bennett Vadnais’ subject matter comes from his surroundings in Manhattan and Brooklyn. With a strong background in plein ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Aluminum
Clipper Mill Chimney
By Bennett Vadnais
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --Much of Bennett Vadnais’ subject matter comes from his surroundings in Manhattan and Brooklyn. With a strong background in plein air ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Panel
Knotta Road Glen 1, Framed
By Richard Orient
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --New Landscapes is a series of landscapes painted over the past year. It includes the artist’s observations of oceans, wooded hill...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
View From the Highline, Framed
By Paul Schulenburg
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --I think of my work as being like a visual journal- observations and interpretations of people, places and things I experience day to ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cruise #2
By Karen Woods
Located in Fairfield, CT
“I do think the big problem in a way…is how you deal with ordinary life—that is not extraordinary, that does not involve heroism, that does not involve crises, really. But the way in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
$3,200
Yellow Grid
By Trevor Young
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- Trevor Young is a quintessentially American painter. He makes no bones about his affection for the trappings of car culture, lif...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$8,500
Manhattan II
By Roland Kulla
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- For the past dozen years or so I’ve focused on bridge elements by selecting portions of bridge structures and painting segments ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
$12,000
Morning Surf, Framed
By Richard Orient
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- RICHARD ORIENT
Artist Statement
New Landscapes is a series of landscapes painted over the past year. It includes the artist’s obser...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dawn in Central Park 2, Framed
By Karen Woods
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --“I do think the big problem in a way…is how you deal with ordinary life—that is not extraordinary, that does not involve heroism,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
You Thought You Were Dreaming
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
White House by the Bay
By Kurt Solmssen
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- Gary Faigin says of Kurt Solmssen’s work, “Though a realist, Kurt Solmssen does not so much record what ...
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Early Morning in Soho, Framed
By Paul Schulenburg
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- I think of my work as being like a visual journal- observations and interpretations of people, places and things I experience d...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
