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Hello, My Name Is: Crab Apple - miniature pictograph painting on paper
By Anthony Mastromatteo
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Anthony Mastromatteo re-introduced himself to the Grenning Gallery with his 2023 exhibition "Hello, My Name Is: Anthony Mastromatteo." The works included in the show were incredibly ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Plastic, Paper, Found Objects, Oil
Hello, My Name Is: Rose - miniature pictograph painting on paper
By Anthony Mastromatteo
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Anthony Mastromatteo re-introduced himself to the Grenning Gallery with his 2023 exhibition "Hello, My Name Is: Anthony Mastromatteo." The works included in the show were incredibly intricate trompe l'oeil oil paintings ranging in size from 7 x 5 inches to 48 x 36 inches. In supplement to the exhibition, Mastromatteo painted 10 pictographs on "Hello My Name Is" nametags and put them in plastic sleeves one would clip on their person for any kind of large function. There is always a bit of tongue and cheek...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Plastic, Paper, Found Objects, Oil
Hello, My Name Is: Shrimp - miniature pictograph painting on paper
By Anthony Mastromatteo
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Anthony Mastromatteo re-introduced himself to the Grenning Gallery with his 2023 exhibition "Hello, My Name Is: Anthony Mastromatteo." The works included in the show were incredibly intricate trompe l'oeil oil paintings ranging in size from 7 x 5 inches to 48 x 36 inches. In supplement to the exhibition, Mastromatteo painted 10 pictographs on the recognizable "Hello My Name Is" nametags and put them in plastic sleeves one would clip on their person for any kind of large function. There is always a bit of tongue and...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Plastic, Paper, Found Objects, Oil
Hello, My Name Is: Nike - miniature pictograph painting on paper
By Anthony Mastromatteo
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Anthony Mastromatteo re-introduced himself to the Grenning Gallery with his 2023 exhibition "Hello, My Name Is: Anthony Mastromatteo." The works included in the show were incredibly ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Found Objects, Plastic
Summer on the Canal - 1999 impressionist oil painting
By Viktor Butko
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Framed Dimensions: 19.75 x 37.75 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Canvas, Oil, Panel
Early Spring, River Hista - 2001 impressionist oil painting of a river
By Viktor Butko
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Framed Dimensions: 25.5 x 36.5 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil, Linen, Canvas
Silvery Sunset - 2023 impressionist oil painting, en plein air in Shelter Island
By Viktor Butko
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Butko paints the natural, sprawling light of early, mid, and late day. In this composition–his largest of 2023—Butko takes on early summer's mid-day light in Northeastern U.S. The cl...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Canvas, Oil
Morning in Friendship - 2023 impressionist oil painting of a dock in Maine
By Viktor Butko
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Butko paints the natural, sprawling light of early, mid, and late day. In this composition–his largest of 2023—Butko takes on early summer's mid-day light in Northeastern U.S. The cl...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Canvas, Oil
Golden Hour over the Harbor - Lupines oil painting done en plein air in Maine
By Viktor Butko
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Butko paints the natural, sprawling light of early, mid, and late day. In this composition–his largest of 2023—Butko takes on early summer's mid-day light in Northeastern U.S. The cl...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Canvas, Oil
Cabin on the Creek - 2023 impressionist plein air oil painting in the woods
By Viktor Butko
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Butko paints the natural, sprawling light of early, mid, and late day. In this composition–his largest of 2023—Butko takes on early summer's mid-day light in Northeastern U.S. The cl...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
Evening Fog - 2023 impressionist plein air harbor and shack oil painting
By Viktor Butko
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Butko paints the natural, sprawling light of early, mid, and late day. In this composition–his largest of 2023—Butko takes on early summer's mid-day light in Northeastern U.S. The cl...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Canvas, Oil
Sunset at Montauk Harbor - 2023 impressionistic plein air oil painting of boats
By Viktor Butko
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Butko paints the natural, sprawling light of early, mid, and late day. In this composition–his largest of 2023—Butko takes on early summer's mid-day light in Northeastern U.S. The cl...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Canvas, Oil
Fresh Snow (Morning After Snowfall) - 2023 impressionistic plein air landscape
By Viktor Butko
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Butko paints the natural, sprawling light of early, mid, and late day. In this composition–his largest of 2023—Butko takes on early summer's mid-day light in Northeastern U.S. The cl...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Canvas, Oil
Evening at Montauk Harbor - 2023 Impressionistic Harbor - plein air painting
By Viktor Butko
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Butko paints the natural, sprawling light of early, mid, and late day. In this composition–his largest of 2023—Butko takes on early summer's mid-day light in Northeastern U.S. The cl...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Canvas, Oil
Lowtide, Golden Hour - 2023 Impressionistic Harbor - plein air painting
By Viktor Butko
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Butko paints the natural, sprawling light of early, mid, and late day. In this composition–his largest of 2023—Butko takes on early summer's mid-day light in Northeastern U.S. The cl...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Canvas, Oil
Sunset Over the Islands - 2023 Impressionistic Harbor - plein air painting
By Viktor Butko
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Butko paints the natural, sprawling light of early, mid, and late day. In this composition–his largest of 2023—Butko takes on early summer's mid-day light in Northeastern U.S. The cl...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Canvas, Oil
Melting Snow - 2023 Impressionistic snow scene in Vermont
By Viktor Butko
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Butko paints the natural, sprawling light of early, mid, and late day. In this composition–his largest of 2023—Butko takes on early summer's mid-day light in Northeastern U.S. The cl...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Canvas, Oil
Fiery Sunset - 2023 Impressionistic harbor en plein air
By Viktor Butko
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Butko paints the natural, sprawling light of early, mid, and late day. In this composition–his largest of 2023—Butko takes on early summer's mid-day light in Northeastern U.S. The cl...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Panel, Oil
Setauket Harbor
By Tina Orsolic Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Oil painting of a Long Island seascape. A calm bay plays host to a variety of small boats, anchored still in their slots. The horizon is met with distant land, green trees flank eith...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Marc Painting
By Tina Orsolic Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Oil painting of Marc Dalessio Painting in plain air
Artist Bio
Tina Orsolic Dalessio is a figurative painter born and raised in Zagreb, Croatia. She graduated from Florence Academy o...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Koi Carp Sketch
By Amy Florence
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting study of a Koi fish, painted from above. Framed in a custom frame, natural wood wash.
Amy Florence is a London born artist working out of her studio in Florence, It...
Category
2010s Impressionist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Seated Nude
By Beth Rundquist
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Edition 7/22
A resident of East Hampton, New York, Beth Rundquist paints portraits, still lifes, figures and plein air landscapes. Its refreshing to see an academically trained pai...
Category
Early 2000s Academic Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Florida Sky - 2023 American Realist sunset on beach, en plein air oil painting
By Carl Bretzke
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Frame Dimensions 30 x 42in
American realist painter Carl Bretzke is particularly adept at nocturne scenes which ooze in darkness, reminiscent of Edward Hopper. Bretzke remarks: “Wh...
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Canvas, Oil
Unshoveled Sidewalks - Snowy American Realist oil painting of suburbia
By Carl Bretzke
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Contemporary oil painting by American realist painter, Carl Bretzke. A snow covered winter landscape at night. A quaint residential neighborhood appears silent after a heavy snowfall...
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Canvas, Oil
Sun Breaking Through / Port Salerno - 2023 American Realist seascape in Florida
By Carl Bretzke
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
American realist painter Carl Bretzke is particularly adept at nocturne scenes which ooze in darkness, reminiscent of Edward Hopper. Bretzke remarks: “What most people don’t notice i...
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Canvas, Oil
Floating Books and Butterflies - 2023 Surrealist still life and skyscape
By Steven J. Levin
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Another masterful books and butterflies painting from realist painter Steven J. Levin.
Framed Dimensions: 45 x 50.5 inches
Artist Bio
Steven J. Levin - (b. 1964) is a young, classi...
Category
2010s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"December Snow on Cars" 2023 Snowy American Realist painting in Minnesota
By Carl Bretzke
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
American realist painter Carl Bretzke is particularly adept at nocturne scenes which ooze in darkness, reminiscent of Edward Hopper. Bretzke remarks: “What most people don’t notice i...
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
Great Lakes Grandeur - 2023 American Realist Sunset Oil Painting in Minnesota
By Carl Bretzke
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
American realist painter Carl Bretzke is particularly adept at nocturne scenes which ooze in darkness, reminiscent of Edward Hopper. Bretzke remarks: “What most people don’t notice i...
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Canvas, Oil
"Secret Beach, Shadows" 2023 impressionist plein air landscape in Long Island NY
By Ben Fenske
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Secret Beach" is the name Ben Fenske has given to his favorite painting spot in Sag Harbor, NY. A place he can go undisturbed to appreciate and paint the beauty of the East End of L...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
"Boats Moored at Secret Beach" 2023 impressionist plein air landscape in NY
By Ben Fenske
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting of boats at rest as seen from Secret Beach in Sag Harbor. "Secret Beach" is the name Ben Fenske has given to his favorite painting spot in Sag Harbor, NY. A place he ...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
Delphiniums In Glass Vase
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Real dried flowers are secured into this composition by resin—which also gives Yektai's paintings their signature depth, as he paints below and on t...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Epoxy Resin, Oil, Canvas
"Pink Flowers" Abstract Expressionist oil and resin painting of flora polka dots
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A rare small painting from contemporary Abstract Expressionist, Darius Yektai. Although titled "pink flowers" the hue of the painting is really more peach, or a light orange. A patte...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Resin, Epoxy Resin, Raw Linen, Oil
Assilah
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Dalessio depicts a corridored of Assilah, Morocco in this plein air painting. The paint on the buildings mirrors the color of the bright blue sky above. The style of the building at ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
"Italian Street, Oria" contemporary impressionist plein air painting, Ben Fenske
By Ben Fenske
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Framed dimensions: 21.25 x 15.5 inches
Painting is primary market, but frame is an antique.
Painted en plein-air on an old Italian street, Fenske plac...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Long Beach, Sag Harbor 08.05.2023 - American Impressionist Plein Air Painting
By Nelson H. White
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A 2023 painting from the plein air painter, and American Impressionist, Nelson Holbrook White. White depicts one of his iconic red umbrellas on a beach in Long Island, NY.
Framed Dimensions: 13.5 x 17.75 inches
Artist Bio:
Nelson H. White was born in New London, Connecticut in 1932. White has been surrounded by art and artists from the time he was born. He received his earliest art instruction from his grandfather, Henry Cooke White (1861-1952) and his father Nelson Cooke White (1900-1989), both important American artists. The family lived in Waterford, Connecticut and the elder White had been an early member of the art colony in Old Lyme, Connecticut. Known for his paintings of the Connecticut landscape and shoreline, Henry Cooke White became a teacher to his son, Nelson Cooke White. Living with his parents at the Florence Griswold house in Old Lyme, he met some of the most important and influential artists of the day, Childe Hassam, Will Howe Foote and Harry Hoffman.
Later, Nelson White's father began to take his family to summer on Shelter Island and became friendly with many of the artists of the Peconic colony...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Panel, Wood Panel, Oil
Glass Table
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A paintings from contemporary AbEx painter Darius Yektai
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Epoxy Resin, Oil
"Shell Beach" contemporary impressionist painting of Shelter Island beach-scape
By Kelly Carmody
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Artist Bio
Kelly Carmody has exhibited at venues including the Portrait Society of America and the Art Students League. Most recently, she was selected for the 2015 BP Portrait Award...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Panel, Oil
Beach Grass, Twilight
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Artist Bio
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, California. Even in his earliest years, it was evident that his passion was art. In 1989 he started at the University of California at Santa Cruz where he focused on both art and biology. During his time in Santa Cruz, Marc experimented with different schools of painting and spent much of his spare time studying the history and culture of the profession. He finished his outstanding academic career, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, in 1992.
After university, Marc moved to Florence, Italy, where he spent the next eight years developing his style and refining his technique. Initially, Marc studied under Svetlan Kracsyna at Il Bisonte International School of Graphic Arts, where he earned a master printmaker degree. From there he went on to train as a portraitist at a small traditional painting atelier.
Marc has emerged as a true master of his craft. Whether his work depicts an Indian landscape or an Italian businessman, the lines and color in his paintings attempt to reveal the nature of his subjects. In his portraits, he works to find the essence of the model, trying to use the true character of the individual to decide the mood of the painting. His plein air landscapes, which range in subject from exotic locations around the world to his own backyard, attempt to capture both the present and the history of the environment, touching the soul with his own unique view of the scenery. In all his works, his dedication to light and color, and the subtly of his subjects, enraptures even the most casual observer.
WORK EXPERIENCE
1997 - 2013 Portraitist
Il Ritratto Gallery, Poggio Imperiale 17, Florence
1998 - 2008 Associate Artist
Portraits Inc., 985 Park Avenue, New York
2003 - 2008 Instructor, Advanced Studio Art and Landscape Painting classes
Florence Academy of Art, Via della Casine 21/R, Florence
1997 - 2002 Instructor, Advanced Portraiture and Landscape Painting classes
Charles H. Cecil Studios, Borgo San Frediano 68, Florence
1996 - 1999 Graphic Designer
Cook Studio, Via Puccinotti 54, Florence
EDUCATION
1993 - 1997 Charles H. Cecil Studios
Florence, Italy
Awarded meritorious scholarship
1992 - 1993 Il Bisonte International School of Graphic Arts
Florence
Master Printmaker Certificate
1989 - 1992 University of California at Santa Cruz
Bachelors degree with Honors in Fine Arts
Phi Beta Kappa
PUBLICATIONS
December 2009 American Artist Magazine “Painting Landscapes in Exact Scale”
June, 2002 La Mia Casa Magazine. Italy. “Ritorna la Voglia di Ritratto”
November, 2001 Town and Country Magazine...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
"Conch Shell" contemporary impressionist oil painting of seashell, peach tones
By Ben Fenske
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Conch Shell" is a contemporary impressionist oil painting of seashell with peach and blue tones. A shell from the East End of Long Island in summer.
Artist Bio
Ben Fenske (b. 1978)...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Division Street at Night - 2023, American realist nocturne by Carl Bretzke
By Carl Bretzke
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
American realist painter Carl Bretzke is particularly adept at nocturne scenes which ooze in darkness, reminiscent of Edward Hopper. Bretzke remarks: “What most people don’t notice i...
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
Early Summer - 2023, impressionist landscape, purple lupines and seascape
By Viktor Butko
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Butko paints the natural, sprawling light of early, mid, and late day. In this composition–his largest of 2023—Butko takes on early summer's mid-day light in Northeastern U.S. The cl...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
The Shadow Kiss - 2023, dark figurative oil painting by Daniela Astone
By Daniela Astone
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Part of Daniela Astone's series of figures in different ethereal and surrealistic spaces. "The Kiss" brings to mind Gustav Klimt's famous 1908 painting of the same name but instead of an abstracted gold background, Astone creates a mysterious creature enveloping and suspending the figure in mid-air. The dark monster looks ominous until you notice the nude figure leaning into her partner, her hands lightly caressing or leaning on the the amorphous creature. Her body is relaxed and her eyes closed. As a classical artist who paints the nude figure everyday, Astone is masterful at depicting women at ease in their natural bodies rather than women self-conscious of their nudity—posing but fearful of exploitation at the same time—a theme in art history that continues today.
Some of the sweeping strokes of black are inspired by Japanese paintings techniques, and on the lighter areas there are rain drop falling from a blue-grey cloud in the background.
Artist Bio
Daniela Astone was born in Pisa, Italy, in 1980 and raised in Porto Santo Stefano...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Canvas, Oil
Deep Down - 2023, surrealistic oil painting
By Daniela Astone
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
In a continuation of the idea that originally inspired her massive "Milky Way" painting, Astone creates figures floating in an ethereal deep sea. Being a native of Italy, Astone is f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Canvas
"The Painting, As Seen by the Wall" an oil painting of a canvas, framed backward
By Anthony Mastromatteo
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
One of the most confounding paintings in this exhibition is “The Painting, As Seen by the Wall”. Mastromatteo depicts a bare canvas, framed in reverse, turned-around. He presents the...
Category
2010s Post-Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Being and Nothingness" trompe l'oeil & modernist oil painting, red butterflies
By Anthony Mastromatteo
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Being and Nothingness" is a 2023 trompe l'oeil modernist oil painting.
Mastromatteo pays homage to Malevich’s black square, and even positions it at the top left quarter of the canvas. The modernist symbol is austere, and formidable, yet it lays flat on the two-dimensional plane. Outside the square, amidst a wall of white, are little butterflies. Their angled wings...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Wonder, or The Plane of the Invisible - blue trompe l'oeil oil painting
By Anthony Mastromatteo
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
In the trompe l'oeil panel painting, "Wonder, or the Plane of the Invisible," a comic cut-out of Wonder Woman sits between two spatial planes—the top, very flat plane is cut out in the shape of a plane as a play Wonder Woman's famous "Invisible Plane." The silly way the comic book character would sit in an imaginary seat flying through the air would force the artist to wonder, “how do you represent an invisible plane”. Here, we see a bright blue canvas, sprinkled with glittery paillettes; an outline of an airplane beneath an outline of the word “SKY”, an infantile depiction of the sun made of masking tape, and finally, the hero, Wonder Woman, her comic clipping taped onto the invisible plane. A very believable, naturalist blue sky with puffy white clouds is visible through the letters and the invisible airplane. It feels like we can reach into the invisible plane to find the natural world…yet atop the plane is an old cartoon of the first female superhero. She overlaps the realistic atmosphere, and even casts a shadow onto it. The planet’s orbit is dedicated to the sun, and all living things need the light to survive…yet this most important element is made up of a crude array of tape strips, asymmetrical, and even torn in-half. This sun refers back to Pablo Picasso’s sun...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Gesso, Panel, Wood Panel, Board
Felix Culpa, or Must be a Woe - trompe l'oeil oil painting
By Anthony Mastromatteo
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Continuing his affinity for Malevich’s geometric paragon is Felix Culpa or ‘Must be a Woe,” this time, in red. Three red squares hover above Christ suffering on the cross—one of the most recognizable images in art history—yet here, no wooden cross is in sight. Christ simply floats against a white wall. The three “Red Squares” map the edges of the invisible crucifix, and an old violin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
A Portrait of the Artist
By Anthony Mastromatteo
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Framed Dimensions: 16 x 16.75 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Is NOT" 2023, post-modern trompe l'oeil oil painting
By Anthony Mastromatteo
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Is NOT is a present day vanitas still life. A meditation on the ephemerality of life and the things we hold dear. The fragility of the statement "time is not money" is represented in...
Category
2010s Post-Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Lovely Mary Jane" Post-Modern painting inspired by The Bluest Eye, Toni Morison
By Anthony Mastromatteo
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Lovely Mary Jane" is a Post-Modern painting inspired by The Bluest Eye by Toni Morison.
Lovely Mary Jane is a candy wrapper, taped to a blue wall. It’s trash, glorified. But this is not a political statement about commercialism or recycling. This painting was inspired by one of the top 10 banned books across the country, Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye” which is about a young black girl who wishes she had blue eyes, an envy shaped from her love of her favorite candy, Mary Jane. It’s a heartbreaking notion caused by an ideal of beauty perpetuated by a marketing campaign for a sweet treat. Classical painting also hails a certain ideal of beauty… and one wouldn’t usually find something as insignificant as a candy wrapper as the focal point of their pièce de résistance. However, Mastromatteo is asking us to see that here is power in idealization, especially in something so seemingly throwaway. He’s prodding us to be more aware…to make people aware of the significance of the seemingly insignificant. The one power an artist possesses is that of forcing the viewer to look at something of his choosing…and in this case he’s asking us to look at something that may be garbage. Consider Maurizio Cattelan, whom in 2019 taped a banana to the wall with duct tape, and it later sold for $120,000…art forces the viewer to consider something that everyone is telling you to look at. Mastromatteo’s candy wrapper is taped up to the wall in a similar fashion as Cattelan’s banana…if we look long enough at the tape, we’ll notice it’s resemblance to the “not-equal” sign...
Category
2010s Post-Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"The Three Body Problem" pink comic book trompe l'oeil of physics phenomenon
By Anthony Mastromatteo
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"The Three Body Problem" is a pink comic book trompe l'oeil of a famous physics phenomenon.
Mastromatteo creates a meditation on the "Three Body Pr...
Category
2010s Post-Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"White Picket Fence (Aspirational Memoir)" inspired by Morison's The Bluest Eye
By Anthony Mastromatteo
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"White Picket Fence (Aspirational Memoir)" is inspired by Toni Morison's The Bluest Eye.
The focal point is a bright green square, encased with a picket- fence made of white tape. I...
Category
2010s Post-Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Hello, My Name Is" trompe l'oeil oil painting of nametags and sharpie on blue
By Anthony Mastromatteo
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Hello, My Name Is" is a trompe l'oeil oil painting of nametags and sharpie on blue background.
Anthony Mastromatteo reintroduces himself in his first exhibition with the Grenning ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Banks of the Arno
By Amy Florence
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting of trees along the Arno River in Italy. Bright greens make up the foreground, and a cloudless blue sky makes up the background. One tree stands bare, without leaves. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cloudy Day by the Pond
By Carl Bretzke
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
*Painting is brighter than appears in first image*
"Cloudy Day by the Pond" is a small oil painting, painted en plein air, at this verdant pond on a cloudy day. A single fisherman c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Panel
Haystack
By Viktor Butko
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting of a Haystack in a grassy field. Painted en plein air on Gibson Lane, in Sagaponack, New York, during the summer of 2019. Butko focuses in on one particular haystack,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"Kitchen" Impressionist, friends & family preparing dinner in Tuscan farmhouse
By Ben Fenske
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Friends have brought over their dog to the artist's Tuscan farmhouse, and join in preparing an Italian meal. Fenske, always seeing potential for paintings in everyday life, decided t...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
"Sunflowers" contemporary impressionist still life painting vivid brushstrokes
By Ben Fenske
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting of bright yellow sunflowers standing tall in a slender vase, against a light blue backdrop.
Framed Dimensions: 39.5 x 31.5 inches
Inspired by the French Impression...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
"Spring, Wildflowers" Neo Impressionist still life of red poppies in Tuscany
By Ben Fenske
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting of Tuscan wildflowers (red poppies, chamomile, and daisies), by Contemporary American Impressionist Ben Fenske.
Painting dimensions: 35.5 x 29.5 inches
Framed Dimen...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
"Winter Table" Neo Impressionist rustic still life of fresh Tuscan ingredients
By Ben Fenske
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Winter Table" is a Neo Impressionist rustic still life of fresh Tuscan ingredients. A Fiorentina Steak, Moka pot, red wine, sliced-into cheese, oranges, and artichokes really situat...
Category
2010s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Linen
