OENO Gallery Abstract Paintings
to
4
21
33
46
56
257
Overall Width
to
Overall Height
to
35
378
4
14
17
204
204
1
152
140
114
390
334
334
308
302
45
44
41
29
20
139
16
Approach - vivid, blue, green, iridescent abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Alice Teichert
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A field of bright cerulean blue hosts a magnificently bouyant energy orb, which might float out of our frame where the element of green not anchoring it in place. Teichert's painterl...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
A Deep Breath - large, soft, green, grey, gestural abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Lime green washes bleed into soft yellow, pink, grey, and baby blue in this wet-in-wet painting by Milly Ristvedt.
Action Painting, a term coined by the art critic Harold Rosenberg...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Summer Window - large, bright, colourful, yellow, abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Washes of sun yellow are edged in dashes of bright colors - mauve, cerise, lime and rust -- in this monumental color-field canvas by Milly Ristvedt. "Summer Window" from 1973 was cr...
Category
1970s Color-Field Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Rondo 1 - bold colourful, geometric abstraction, modernist, acrylic on canvas
By Burton Kramer
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Kramer’s modern and graphic paintings express lyrical, geometric abstraction via a harmonic interplay of syncopated shapes of various sizes and colours.
Trained at Yale University ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Twelve Panels, Thirty-Six Colors - colourful pairs of painted acrylic panels
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Twelve rectangular panels, each painted alternately in solid colors or solid with tinted vertical stripes, are installed in a precise grid: two high and six across. The artist began ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Green Grid Play - bright, colourful, geometric abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Precisely painted squares and rectangles in orange, rust red, green, yellow, light green, sapphire blue, black and pink dance, overlap and swirl on a washed green-blue ground in this...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Omnipresent - Large format horizontal in blue and mango
By Alice Teichert
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Omnipresent immerses the viewer in fields of soft blue and mango orange. These fields are divided and joined by a tonal grey undulating mass that takes one through the painting like ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Crayon, Wax Crayon, Acrylic
Metamorphosis (DUO) - colourful, lyrical, diptych, abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Alice Teichert
Located in Bloomfield, ON
The grand scale of Metamorphosis Duo has a magnified cellular quality - as though they are strands of DNA recombining and bringing forth new life. The primary colours used here reinf...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Crayon, Wax Crayon, Acrylic
Perpetuum - colourful, music inspired, gestural, abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Alice Teichert
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Soft rays of white pigment filter out from the pulsing line and lead our eyes into fields of colour that are so fresh and so deep that you may have gotten lost in them were it not fo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Crayon, Wax Crayon, Acrylic
Epiphany 6 - bold colourful, geometric abstraction, modernist, acrylic on canvas
By Burton Kramer
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Canadian modernist painter Burton Kramer finds inspiration for his work in the lyrical rhythm of music. Geometric shapes—rectangles, squares, and lines in complementary shades of orange, turquoise and hot pink pop against a chocolate brown background. Kramer explores the language of visual forms and sound much like the 20th century European painter Wassily Kandinsky, renowned for his experiments with colour and music.
“My paintings reference dancing feet, jazz, bebop, swing, baroque and folk music...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Vivace 11 - colourful, geometric abstraction, modernist, acrylic on panel
By Burton Kramer
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Modernist Burton Kramer finds inspiration for his abstract paintings in the beauty of a musical beat. In Vivace 11, one of a series, geometric shapes in bright green, golden yellow, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Peach Square - colourful, expressive, abstract landscape, acrylic on canvas
By Pat Service
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This striking abstract painting by Vancouver artist Pat Service was inspired by a watercolour of a lake in summer. Bright orange waters, a band of trees in soft yellow, a cabin in or...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Turquoise Square - colourful, expressive, abstract landscape, acrylic on canvas
By Pat Service
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This striking abstract painting by Vancouver artist Pat Service was inspired by a watercolour of a lake in summer. Bright turquoise waters, a band of trees in soft green, a cabin in ...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Arab Spring - large, dynamic, narrative, surrealist abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Gregor Hiltner
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Inspired by drawings made by children, Hiltner has created a chaotic narrative of surreal figures and animals drawn in red acrylic across an expanse of raw canvas in this over 6 feet wide painting. A central palm tree in red outline with black leaves divides the pyramidal composition that is completed with select sections painted in with red, turquoise, white and periwinkle. The sky is brushed, bright yellow. This work is aptly titled referring to a series of protests that occurred in the Middle East and North Africa that began in 2010 and became known as the Arab Spring...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Turn - bright, colorful, abstract geometric shapes, acrylic on canvas
By Gregor Hiltner
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Begun in 2009 and completed in 2016, this acrylic painting on canvas is an opera of geometric shapes, brushed areas, lines and dots in a collision of colors, yellow, turquoise, orang...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Upward Movement - large, bold, dynamic, modernist, abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Otto Rogers
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Leaf shapes dance across a painterly ground of grey, sand and black in this poised abstract composition by Otto Rogers. Rogers work, rooted in a cubist-constructivist tradition, exp...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Spontaneity - Inspiring shades of pink, fuchsia, and yellow
By Alice Teichert
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This colourfield, awash with peony pink, suspends a grey wave that appears as though it is passing through. Working with a new medium and a new palette, Teichert is communicating wit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Crayon, Wax Crayon, Acrylic
Whitehouse Kennedy - graphic pop-art, cultural America, gilded acrylic on canvas
By Viktor Mitic
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Whitehouse Kennedy inserts itself into dialogue with the pop celebrity style of Andy Warhol and the provocative juxtapositions of portrait and text by Barbara Kruger. Only this time ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Vivace 12 - colourful, geometric abstraction, modernist, acrylic on panel
By Burton Kramer
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Modernist Burton Kramer finds inspiration for his abstract paintings in the beauty of a musical beat. In Vivace 12, one of a series, geometric shapes in blues, pinks, greens and yell...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Chromatose II - blue, green, black, abstract, geometric, tondo, acrylic on panel
By Sylvain Louis-Seize
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This contemporary and colourful abstract tondo painting is by artist Sylvain Louis-Seize.
Lime green and purple pop from the canvas in this new tondo (circular painting) from Canad...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Retinal Swish - orange, pink, black, abstract geometric, tondo, acrylic on panel
By Sylvain Louis-Seize
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Hot pink and bright orange in intriguing shapes swirl around the canvas of this new tondo (circular painting) by Canadian artist Sylvain Louis-Seize.
True to his early street art o...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Initial Trio - black, white, red, lyrical abstract, triptych acrylic on panel
By Alice Teichert
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Paris born Alice Teichert’s ethereal graphic work is inspired by a rich background in art, music and literature. Her love of the old masters is evident in the composition and colours...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic Polymer, Crayon, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Large Blue and Lavender with Fading Sun - colorful, abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Aron Hill
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Strong, simple geometric shapes in bright colours—royal blue, red, navy and lavender create a fresh and fun scene in this new work by Calgary’s Aron Hill. This is one of a series of ...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
Flowers with Violets and Little Squares - orange, blue, green still life oil
By Jennifer Hornyak
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Vibrant orange, purple, and green hues typical of this master of still life abstraction. Mostly known for her fondness for the abstracted still life, Jennifer Hornyak draws inspirati...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Capriccio 2 - bright, colourful, geometric abstract, modernist, acrylic on panel
By Burton Kramer
Located in Bloomfield, ON
In musical terms, a capriccio is a short, lively, free-form piece of music. Modernist Burton Kramer’s Capriccio 2 envisions shapes and colours inspired by beautiful music. In this way Kramer’s work is much like the 20th century European painter Wassily Kandinsky who was renowned for his experiments with colour and music.
“My paintings reference dancing feet, jazz, bebop, swing, baroque and folk music...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Cutout With White and Yellow - colorful, intersecting abstract shapes on canvas
By Aron Hill
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Aron Hill enjoys playing with bold colour and simple form. This abstract composition by the Calgary artist features a white oval ringed in black above a rainbow of colour—arched band...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
Head With Blue Line No 1 - colorful, intersecting abstract shapes on canvas
By Aron Hill
Located in Bloomfield, ON
In this intimate figurative piece by Aron Hill, space, colour and form create a dynamic composition. Above a blue head-like shape, arcs of pure colour—purple, yellow, lime green and turquoise play with space. A blue check mark...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Markings No. 9 - bold, colourful, gestural, expressive abstract, oil on canvas
By Viktor Mitic
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Abstract artist, Viktor Mitic created a series of large oil paintings en plein air called the rain paintings. What distinguishes these emotional landscapes, including Marking No. 9 i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gaze Big Green - large, colorful, geometric abstract, contemporary oil on canvas
By David Sorensen
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Geometric passages in painterly red-orange frame a central green field in this bold abstract painting by David Sorensen. Through his painterly modern compositions, celebrated Canadian painter David Sorensen (1937-2011) sought to “give voice to the inner reality.” In the paintings from his last years, Sorensen offers solutions to the nature of abstraction – wresting nature and the horizon from pure form and brilliant colour.
Born in Vancouver, Sorensen studied at UBC and the Vancouver School of Art under Arthur...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Entry 3: Orange, Yellow, Green, Violet - bold, colourful, abstract oil on canvas
By David Sorensen
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A scaffold of dark violet gives structure to painterly hot orange and teal bands in this confident abstract canvas by David Sorensen. The curated strata of fresh colors points to an ocean horizon at sunrise.
Through his painterly modern compositions, celebrated Canadian painter David Sorensen (1937-2011) sought to “give voice to the inner reality.” In the paintings from his last years, Sorensen offers solutions to the nature of abstraction – wresting nature and the horizon from pure form and brilliant colour.
Born in Vancouver in 1937, Sorensen studied at UBC and the Vancouver School of Art under Arthur...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Triptych - bold, bright, colorful, abstract, modernist, tryptic oil on canvas
By David Sorensen
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Painterly bands of bright lemon, aqua, white and verdant green point to beach, sand and sky in this modernist triptych by David Sorensen.
Through his painterly modern compositions, celebrated Canadian painter David Sorensen (1937-2011) sought to “give voice to the inner reality.” In the paintings from his last years, Sorensen offers solutions to the nature of abstraction – wresting nature and the horizon from pure form and brilliant colour.
Born in Vancouver in 1937, Sorensen studied at UBC and the Vancouver School of Art under Arthur Erickson...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Exuberance - Luminescent and Colorful Abstraction
By Alice Teichert
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Like a moment of inspired creativity when the juices are flowing and everything starts coming together, this painting is on fire. The field of orange metamorphizes into hot salmon pi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Crayon, Wax Crayon, Acrylic
Cycle - warm, vivid, colourful, lyrical, gestural abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Alice Teichert
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Swirling calligraphic marks and symbols swirl at the center of a burnished warm ground in this luminous canvas by Alice Teichert. The artist works with thin layers of acrylic gel and...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Crayon, Acrylic
Graffiti Lines No 2 - colourful, layered, pop art, spray painted study on paper
By Viktor Mitic
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Like the stripes on a beach umbrella, fun, fresh rainbow colours are layered in contrasting ‘waves’ in this delightful pop art painting by Serbian-born artist, Viktor Mitic. This is one in a series of seaside-themed paintings that share the same approach to colour and form as Mitic’s recent playful outdoor...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Archival Paper
TR4 - bright, geometric abstraction, modernist, acrylic on canvas
By Burton Kramer
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A divided green triangle dances with a staccato of geometric shapes in mauve, rose and light blue in this lively composition by Burton Kramer. The painting is framed.
Kramer traine...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Descending Spirit - intimate, abstract, cubist, landscape, canvas
By Otto Rogers
Located in Bloomfield, ON
The diaphanous spirit of a bird rises into a brightening sky in this inspired composition by Otto Donald Rogers. Rogers paintings, rooted in a cubist-constructivist tradition, explor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Persistence of Blue - contemporary, gestural abstraction, acrylic on canvas
By Lynne Fernie
Located in Bloomfield, ON
An ethereal cloud of deep blue floats across the canvas against a backdrop of fiery red, dashes of orange and black paint drips in this vibrant acrylic by Toronto’s Lynne Fernie.
“...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Seeing Through Red - bold, vibrant, gestural abstraction, acrylic on canvas
By Lynne Fernie
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Dashes of charcoal and black dance on a fiery red ground in this emotive acrylic painting by Lynne Fernie.
Lynne Fernie is a Toronto-based artist, OCAD University honors graduate an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Renewal - colourful, lyrical, gestural, abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Alice Teichert
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Teichert's undulating line and dot notation are singular this time and rest upon a field of sensual rose. This painting is Renewal and offers a calming impression that we are arrivin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Iceland - cool grey, green, blue, modern cubist, abstract acrylic painting
By Otto Donald Rogers
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Passages of ice blue and grey move upward to flood a central square that contains an ochre line drawing of a single fish. Ovals in ochre and grey and dots in black, rust and green li...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Moog Music 5D2A - geometric abstraction, modernist, acrylic on panel
By Burton Kramer
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Rectangles and squares, large and small, in orange, mauve, blue and more, dance across a light green ground in this vibrant acrylic painting by Burton Kramer. The title of the painti...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Pink Against Yellow with Blue Line - colorful abstract shapes, acrylic on canvas
By Aron Hill
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Calgary’s Aron Hill continues his exploration of colour and form in this fun minimalist painting. Inspired by modernists like Jack Bush, in this piece Hill plays with organic shapes ...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
Garden Music - colourful, geometric abstraction, modernist, acrylic on panel
By Burton Kramer
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A staccato of fine horizontal and vertical dashes in crimson, white and turquoise light up a horizontal composition of pastel blue, pink, yellow and green on a blue-slate ground in t...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Syncopation 2 - bright, geometric abstraction, modernist, acrylic on canvas
By Burton Kramer
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Kramer’s modern and graphic paintings express lyrical, geometric abstraction via a harmonic interplay of syncopated shapes of various sizes and colors. This work includes primary and...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic Polymer
All That Jazz 5.2 - bright, geometric abstraction, modernist acrylic on board
By Burton Kramer
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Kramer’s modern and graphic paintings express lyrical, geometric abstraction via a harmonic interplay of syncopated shapes of various sizes and colours. Trained at Yale University (M...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Judd - large, blue, green, abstract, geometric composition, acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Two columns of horizontal rectangles in alternating colours of forest green and warm white frame a third, central column of warm white and sapphire blue rectangles in this 7.5 foot tall canvas...
Category
1990s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Black - large, yellow, green, blue, geometric abstraction, acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A narrative of hard edged orthogonal shapes in sapphire blue, bright yellow and crimson unfolds across a background grid of washed charcoal black rectangles. The black ground is made more powerful by the size of the six foot tall canvas...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Act of Silence - grids of black, white, orange, red, abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A grid of painterly black and white is balanced with large squares of fiery orange and gold each in this bold canvas by Milly Ristvedt. The edges of the squares pulse back and forth ...
Category
1990s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Hiding Sun with Black - bright, colorful, intersecting abstract shapes on canvas
By Aron Hill
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A brilliant yellow sun peeks out behind hot pink, deep blue and contrasting black shapes in this abstract landscape by Calgary artist Aron Hill. This is one of a series of acrylic paintings they recently created. Conceptually, Hill’s work finds company in the art of famed modernist Jack Bush. The background color shifts and lightens toward the top of the work.
“In the last year I’ve become really comfortable with what I’m doing. I think I stopped asking art...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
Presence in Azure - bright, bold, blue, red, white, abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Paul Fournier
Located in Bloomfield, ON
An expression of beauty. Master colourist Paul Fournier has captured the essence of sparkling azure blue waters and sea life in this lyrical abstract painting. A cluster of yellow, o...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Mott Continuum - large, bright, orange, geometric abstraction, acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Spheres of burnt orange, turquoise and sapphire blue move in a lyrical and jazzy dance across a hot orange ground in this masterful canvas by Milly Ristvedt. The painting demonstrate...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
In Other Worlds - pink, navy blue and turquoise abstraction, acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Milly Ristvedt explores the emotional potential of color and form -- spheres of turquoise and sapphire blue float in a sea of vibrant mauve. A band of light pink divides...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Avenue - contemporary, orange, blue, red, abstract, tondo, acrylic on panel
By Sylvain Louis-Seize
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This contemporary colourful abstract tondo painting is by Sylvain Louis-Seize.
Overlapping shapes and patterns in dazzling colors are arranged like a puzzle in this dynamic tondo by...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Panel
Inner Voice - bright, bold, impasto, abstract expressionist, acrylic on canvas
By Adam Cohen
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Passages and swipes of lemon yellow, silver, white and sapphire blue jostle for space in this dynamic acrylic by Adam Cohen. Cohen intersects the language of heroic Abstract Expressi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
White Rabbit - bright, impasto, abstract expressionist, acrylic on canvas
By Adam Cohen
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Rapid passages, drips and lines in pink, yellow, pastel green and dove gray are an extension of the artist's brush in this dynamic action painting by Adam Cohen.
New York based art...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Sirocco - earthy, impasto, colourful, abstract expressionist, acrylic on canvas
By Adam Cohen
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Layered impasto swaths in a palette of orange, pink, white and grey are incised with dynamic sharp lines in this powerful composition by Adam Cohen. The painting is aptly titled Siro...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Above the Beach No 5 - blue, green, abstract landscape, acrylic on canvas
By Rick Rivet
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Above the Beach No 5 is a part of a series in which Rick Rivet is probing the environmental crisis in Arctic regions. The polar territories of Canada are under serious and imminent threat resulting from pollution, global warming, and poor resource management. Sport hunting is depleting animal resources that local populations need to survive, global warming is melting the polar icecaps threatening polar bear populations, and lead pollution is resulting in poisonous biomagnification levels in some sea animals while plastic pollution is trapping and suffocating others. The major degradative pollution began in the 1950s from nuclear testing which introduced radioactive isotopes produced by nuclear fission into plant and animal life, the effects of which are lethal and long-lasting. The melting resulting from global warming has increased to such a degree that the previously, and notoriously, challenging Northwest passage has opened wide now allowing tourist ships to glide through, further contributing to oil pollution and environmental wear and tear.
The red horizon line in Above the Beach No 5 sketching the intersection of the land with the sky demarcates the pollution that is penetrating every pore of our environment. The snaking cream-coloured lines in the foreground indicate the different paths taken, the journeys that were cut short, the short-sighted policies that taxed the land and fell flat leaving no solutions, the hunting paths, the lack of direction and clear vision. Nevertheless, this painting is not about doom it is about hope. The shock of bright green grass edging the bottom is flecked with yellow from the radiating sun. The sun, high in a cold blue arctic sky, is twice hallowed by a glow of white suggesting reverence for its ability to regenerate life and for us to carry forward together if we build a sustainable and long-sighted path together.
Richard James Rivet was born in the remote area of Aklavik in the Northwest Territories of Canada in 1949. His early years were spent growing up in the delta in a Metis family which made their living by trapping, hunting and fishing. Of Metis background, Rivet's Indigenous roots, and his experience in growing up in Canada's North, have been important factors in his development as an artist. Since 1989, Rivet has worked fulltime on his artwork, mainly concentrating in acrylic painting, mixed media and collage on canvas, with some drawing.
Influences in his artwork are varied and derive from Shamanistic imagery of ancient peoples the world over (North American Indian, Inuit, Australian Aborigine, Norse, Oceanic, Siberian). Equally influential are Western and contemporary influences from various artists and art movements (such as: Edvard Munch, German Expressionism, Abstract Expressionism, Antoni Tapies, and Paterson Ewen...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Ocean No. 7 - large, muted, gestural abstract, landscape, oil on canvas
By Viktor Mitic
Located in Bloomfield, ON
At once expressive and ephemeral, this beautiful abstract landscape was created en plein air by Viktor Mitic. As part of the artistic process, Mitic exposed this oil painting to the ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Light - rich, colorful, lyrical, gestural abstract, acrylic, gel on canvas
By Alice Teichert
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Many rich layers of acrylic and acrylic gel create a depth in this painting. The colors and light shift as the viewer moves around the painting. Rich reds, golds, bold gestural marks...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic Polymer, Crayon, Acrylic
Momentum - rich, colorful, lyrical, gestural abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Alice Teichert
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A cloud of furious looped gestures in dove grey advances from a luminous, divided ground of berry red above and brushed grey and orange below in this large mixed media painting. Onto...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Crayon, Acrylic
