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Resilience
Located in Fairfield, CT
About the Series:
To be grounded is to feel centered, balanced, no matter the outside circumstances, like a tree with deep roots. Being ungrounded, by contrast, is like being a sap...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
FM321 at 2701
Located in Fairfield, CT
The Stop Sign is painted wood on the canvas. Growing up as an African American kid, I never really saw artwork that represented people of my culture. Most other 70s and 80s babies l...
Category
2010s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Board
Edge of Normalcy
Located in Fairfield, CT
The Tree is painted wood on the canvas.
Growing up as an African American kid, I never really saw artwork that represented people of my culture. Most other 70s and 80s babies like m...
Category
2010s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Board
Homeostasis
Located in Fairfield, CT
Growing up as an African American kid, I never really saw artwork that represented people of my culture. Most other 70s and 80s babies like myself can remember going to granny’s hous...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Board
Tropism
Located in Fairfield, CT
Growing up as an African American kid, I never really saw artwork that represented people of my culture. Most other 70s and 80s babies like myself can remember going to granny’s hous...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Acrylic
Lies in Empty Skies
Located in Fairfield, CT
Growing up as an African American kid, I never really saw artwork that represented people of my culture. Most other 70s and 80s babies like myself can remember going to granny’s hous...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
Hip Hop and R&B
Located in Fairfield, CT
Growing up as an African American kid, I never really saw artwork that represented people of my culture. Most other 70s and 80s babies like myself can remember going to granny’s hous...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Acrylic
Eve Gene
Located in Fairfield, CT
Growing up as an African American kid, I never really saw artwork that represented people of my culture. Most other 70s and 80s babies like myself can remember going to granny’s hous...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Acrylic
Rites
By Christopher Murphy
Located in Fairfield, CT
Christopher Murphy’s paintings exist in a space between real and surreal. This new series is exquisitely painted figurative realism at first glance. At second glance, that reality ...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
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
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
Odetta Holmes
By Raymond Logan
Located in Fairfield, CT
From the artist statement, "When asked about my work, my mantra used to be, “The subject matter of my work is not as important as how I paint it. Whether it be people, places, or thi...
Category
2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Martin Luther King Jr.
By Raymond Logan
Located in Fairfield, CT
From the artist statement, "When asked about my work, my mantra used to be, “The subject matter of my work is not as important as how I paint it. Whether it be people, places, or thi...
Category
2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Coretta Scott King
By Raymond Logan
Located in Fairfield, CT
From the artist statement, "When asked about my work, my mantra used to be, “The subject matter of my work is not as important as how I paint it. Whether it be people, places, or thi...
Category
2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Toni Morrison
By Raymond Logan
Located in Fairfield, CT
From the artist statement, "When asked about my work, my mantra used to be, “The subject matter of my work is not as important as how I paint it. Whether it be people, places, or thi...
Category
2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
John Coltrane
By Raymond Logan
Located in Fairfield, CT
From the artist statement, "When asked about my work, my mantra used to be, “The subject matter of my work is not as important as how I paint it. Whether it be people, places, or thi...
Category
2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Page 207 (Van Dyck Series)
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 Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Judy in Profile, 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 Finocchieto and Monteverdi. Inspired ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Trainyard No. 12
By Sharon Feder
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- Humanity is archival, like the strata that compose the earth. Our structures and art, superfund sites to cathedrals, exist because o...
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
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