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Final Birds
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil paint and oil on paper mounted on wood panel. Mostly monochromatic gestural abstraction with multiple bird images.
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Wood Panel
Birch Rabbit II, cheerful bunny, animal painting on panel
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Birch bark on trophy plaque.
Category
2010s Folk Art Animal Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Panel
Precarious, Nude dark colors female nude figure on top of tilting pillows
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
An early work by the artist depicting a Nude posing atop a totem. ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking ...
Category
1980s American Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Pitbulls, glyphic symbols text includes "pitbull" "small penis" dog theme
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Observational painting. Belongs to a series that is reminiscent of New Yorker cartoons. Hand drawn permanent marker on heavy gloss inkjet paper.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Permanent Marker
Mythical Man, male figure w dark skin among birch tree forest earth tones, blue
By Audrey Anastasi
Located in Brooklyn, NY
These collages were created first in the presence of a model, working quickly, in charcoal and pastel, and again, later, alone, furiously tearing and pasting images from magazines, v...
Category
2010s Surrealist Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media, Archival Paper
Trash Talk, seated shirtless male figure parrots & cat yellow & warm green color
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Recent oil on linen canvas mounted on cradled wood panel signed and dated on reverse. Part of an ongoing series by the artist in his humorous observation of humans and their pets
ABO...
Category
2010s Outsider Art Animal Paintings
Materials
Linen, Wood Panel, Oil
Release, female figure on cliff colorful birds in flight dreamlike imagery
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
An oil on canvas from 2017 depicting a young lone woman standing on the edge of a cliff overlooking a deep green sea. She lifts her dress releasing hundreds of colorful birds into a ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bluebird Spring garden setting large female figure soft warm Grey violet yellow
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an oil painting on jute canvas mounted on a cradled wood board. It is signed and dated by the artist on reverse. The texture is rough yet dense with a strong balance of light...
Category
2010s Outsider Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Jute, Wood, Oil, Canvas
A Bird in the Hand is Worth Two Squirrels in a Cactus, animals
By Jenny Toth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an unusual image in the cactus-filled desert of a squirrel reaching towards a human hand that is tenderly holding a small bird. The image is striking because of its strong g...
Category
2010s Modern Mixed Media
Materials
Watercolor, Pen, Woodcut, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
One to Three, colorful super real candy oil painting
By Douglas Newton
Located in Brooklyn, NY
One of a series of paintings of candy, or actually of the wrappers. The cellophane provides transparency, reflections and brilliant color which is a...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Seabrush Romp, colorful, undersea scene, aquatic , whimsical creatures playful
By Philomena Marano
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Seabrush Romp" is a unique combination of precisely cut colored paper layered over painted wood. It is part of a recent series I call "wUNDERsea, which heralds the wondrous beauty ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic
Bird Trainers seated male standing female figure white tropical bird hot color
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Surrealistic, stylized magic realism oil painting of oversize bird and 2 people signed and dated on reverse
ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil pai...
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1000 Years, blue and earth tonehuman face, bark from birch tree, natural element
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Made with the bark of the Paper Birch tree on a repurposed trophy plaque. The title was inspired by the song, "Scott Pilgrim," by the Canadian band, Plum...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Birch, Archival Ink, Mixed Media
Portrait of Artist with Elmo, colorful childhood theme w ironic twist
By Jenny Toth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an oil painting done from life with the artist's young son''s large stuffed red Elmo in repose in front of the mirror.
The painting is both tender and bold. It captures one...
Category
2010s Contemporary Interior Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Bluebirds I, grey and white composition, abstracted with text "Drug of a Nation"
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Birds on repurposed galvanized steel.
Predominately monochromatic repeated, patterned, abstracted bird images
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Metal
Girls Play to Win, women's Baseball sports diptych colorful shaped canvases
By Philomena Marano
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Girls Play to Win" is a diptych honoring the poise and strength of the first women's American Baseball league. The AAGPBL (All American Girls Professional Baseball League) was estab...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic
Chicken, lyrical wild bright humorous colorful abstract gesture
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Bold combination of abstract and gestural styles by NYC based designer/artist Fredda Tone
Reminiscent of Clifford Stills, Robert Motherwell style
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Distance Bridged by a Bunny, bright colors
By Jenny Toth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is a painting of a nude woman sitting on a bed with her leg extended and her foot pushed against a mirror behind the head of the bed. She is looking at the sleeping man next to...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Yellow Bouquet seated female figure with flowers soft yellow and pink
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Seated woman in a pink suit strong yet warm color consistent with the artist's palette. It is painted on jute a coarse type of burlap mounted on a cradled wood board . Framing recomm...
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Jute, Wood, Oil
I'm Going to Calm the Hell Down
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Energetic, joyous brushstrokes in this painterly abstraction with birds. Bright colors, dominant whites, blues, with touches of orange and red.
Multi-layered oil paint and painted...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Wood Panel
Back to Step One, white and bright colors organic abstract painting
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Bold combination of colorful floating geometric shapes and gestural styles of abstraction by NYC based designer/artist Fredda Tone
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Phantastical, Meaningful colorful imaginative undersea fantasy aquatic motion
By Philomena Marano
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Phantastical, Meaningful" is a unique combination of precisely cut colored paper layered over painted wood. It is part of a recent series I call "wUNDERsea, which heralds the wondro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Dreams of Red Macaw, bright, colorful abstract work with bird
By Jenny Toth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an oil painting painted from a relief sculpture created by the artist. The image is complex and rich, and depicts a red macaw perched on a branch an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Lizard Tongues and Tears, nude male and lizard, mostly monochromatic w green
By Jenny Toth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The image is 8 x 8 inches, and the paper it is printed on is 15 x 13.5 inches. This is a quirky and tender image of a naked man sitting on the floor holding a giant iguana on his la...
Category
2010s Feminist Nude Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Etching, Watercolor
Strong Champagne . Humorous interior fantasy w red sofa
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is a soft pastel on toned archival paper suitable for framing under glass . The artist has signed and dated the work on the bottom right.
Category
2010s American Modern Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Nessun Dorma (No one sleeps) colorful abstract painting, birds, blue, grey tones
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Multi-layered oil paint, inked paper on repurposed wood panel. Title is from the final act of Puccini's "Turandot."
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Oil, Wood Panel, Archival Paper
Floating collage and painted colorful serene undersea scape
By Philomena Marano
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Artist Philomena Marano is a daughter of Brooklyn. She holds a BFA from Pratt Institute, is an intimate of the visual poetry of Coney Island, created the winning poster for the first...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic
Handbag Twist single female figure with handbags humorous theme soft colors
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Soft pastel on toned archival sanded paper with border suitable for framing under glass. Signed and dated on bottom left hand corner
Category
2010s Feminist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Doll with Pals, childhood toys, realistic oil painting
By Douglas Newton
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Realist artist Doug Newton says, Inspired by a doll and stuffed animals from my grown daughter's childhood. I enjoy painting the textures and patterns of the stuffed animals and the ...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Parade Street Shroud, white abstraction w green tree graffiti elements windows
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil paint and mixed media on canvas. This work is the second painting in a series of trees from Parade St. Park.
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Charcoal, Pastel, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Shady Lady seated female figure warm pastel autumn tones sunglass fashion
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is a soft pastel painting on tones sanded archival paper signed and dated by the artist. It is suitable for framing under glass to protect the pastel medium. The work is part of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
First Bridge, abstract landscape w clouds, atmospheric colors
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil, spray paint, acrylic on canvas. Bridges.
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Masked Woman soft green and black colors touch of crimson
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is a soft pastel on toned archival paper signed on bottom left. It depicts a masked Woman in a courtyard during a masquerade event. Note the jeweled necklace and scar on her upp...
Category
Early 2000s Other Art Style Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Mermaid Reflections imaginative fantasy of women, mirror warm inviting color
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This work is part of an ongoing series of Mermaid by the artist. It is oil paint on linen mounted on wood panel with wooden bars suitable for hanging without framing unless desired. ...
Category
2010s Post-Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Wood, Oil
Pink Panther Bridge, colorful abstract bridge painting w cartoon character
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil paint and mixed media on canvas.
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Spray Paint
Have a Backbone
By Jenny Toth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil painting depicting a woman in a mirror with an animal backbone visible where her backbone would be, and a giant eye peering on. Expressionist and emotional, the space is engagin...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Birds on a Wire
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil paint and mixed media mounted to repurposed stainless steel.
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Stainless Steel
Bread and Cabbage Nude food and seated nude female figure warm earth tones
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Soft pastel on toned archival sanded paper signed and dated bottom right corner. One of many pastel nudes by the artist who has done extensive work in the medium in addition to his o...
Category
2010s Outsider Art Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Memorial, yahrzeit candle, gold leaf, trees
By Audrey Anastasi
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This small-scale, slightly textured, intimate painting could be a Hanukkah or Christmas gift.
Audrey Frank Anastasi is a prolific a visual artist, curator, gallerist, educator, philanthropist, and arts advocate. She works primarily in 2-dimensional mediums: painting, drawing, collage, mixed media, focusing on the human subject. Most of Ms. Anastasi's figurative works are painted with her non-dominant left hand. She has created large bodies of works of birds, animals and birch trees.
She has exhibited in over 20 solo & 200 group shows. Her original “ref-u-gee” series of forced-migration–themed artwork was shown in a solo exhibition from October, 2022 through January, 2023 at the Brooklyn College library gallery in collaboration with the Valentine Museum of Art (VMoA.) Accompanying the show, a limited-edition monograph with over 180 images of passport sized paintings, four 8 foot tall works on panels, and a foreword by Phyllis Braff. The book was printed in 2023 by SIZ Industria Grafica, Verona, Italy.
Additional book and catalog publications include "Stations of the Cross", SPQR press, with an essay by Amir Bey, BREUCKELEN magazine, “Audrey Frank Anastasi” catalog with an essay by renowned feminist art critic Cindy Nemser, and "Collage" with an essay by Giancarlo T. Roma.
Born in a predominantly Jewish suburb of Baltimore, Maryland, Audrey was always drawn to art. Her parents had an innate sense of style. Her father's side of the family were immigrant merchants. They owned what was called, in those days, a junior department store. Audrey’s father would arrange creative window displays. And he was a snappy dresser, looking surprisingly elegant in his patterned or pastel sports jackets.
Audrey’s mother, on the other hand, came from a more rural upbringing. Although her maternal grandmother was from Eastern Europe, her maternal grandfather was born in the USA. “Mr. Jew Arthur,” as he was referred to by locals, owned a tavern in a predominantly African-American community, Fairfield, Maryland. Not only did he sell spirits, he definitely partook of them, as well. While still a teenager, Audrey’s mother, Rose Gussie, changed her name to Joyce and headed to Atlanta, Georgia, and later to New York City to be a cosmetician and hosiery model. She also had an impeccable sense of style. And in her picture albums, beside the photographs, were pages upon pages of charming ink drawings of stylish ladies. Of her own formative years, Audrey expresses, “I'm forever grateful that when I was a child, my mother indulged me with regular outings to the library where I emerged with armloads of books, and weekly visits to the Baltimore Museum of Art. There I would pass the gorgeous bust of Queen Nefertiti and the scary mummies on the way to my art lessons. There isn't a single moment of my conscious life when I didn't think of myself as an artist.” Audrey also studied with a local artist, “Miss Mary,” who soon asked Audrey to become a teaching assistant, instructing other students how to observe shapes and tonalities, while faithfully drawing charcoal drawings of classical plaster casts...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Red Sofa seated female figure with cat and pillows dominant red color
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This painting of a seated woman with her cat is an early work by the artist. It has been held by the artist, exhibited only twice in the 36 years since its creation and is on excelle...
Category
1980s Expressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Looking South. NYC urban landscape Part Mexico city landscape melded together
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an experimental work by the artist combining two different city landscapes. It was created after the artist's return to New York after visiting Mexico
Category
1990s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Jellyfish colorful aquatic, whimsical, undersea, lyrical ocean life
By Philomena Marano
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Well known for her cut paper artwork, and amusement park themes, Ms. Marano’s delightful imagery is included in numerous books and documentaries about Coney Island history.
In this ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
Dragon Bridge, abstract gestural brushwork, bridge interpretation
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil, spraypaint, acrylic on canvas. Storybook bridge.
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Greenland Bridge, abstract bridge image, earth tones
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil, acrylic, spraypaint on canvas. Bridge to a friend of the artist's house.
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Laid Paper
Chiasm, large oil painting abstracted horse image
By Tom Bennett
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Layered, integrated, abstracted horse and figure. Ambiguous symbolic imagery.
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Seahorse Garden hard edge colorful aquatic whimsical undersea
By Philomena Marano
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Seahorse Garden" is surprisingly hard edged and whimsical at once. It is part of my "wUNDERsea" series.
The work aims to bring together the childhood wonder of visits to the aquari...
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
Under the Sea colorful aquatic hard edge playful detailed ocean life
By Philomena Marano
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Under The Sea" was created in collaboration with a poet's words , thus transforming it into visual poetry. The narrative tells of a tiny sea turtle's launch and return from a long j...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic, Paper, Panel
"Under the Wonder, "bold, colorful, playful, arrow, dynamic shaped edges
By Philomena Marano
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Under the Wonder " evokes the sensation of being beneath giant ride in an amusement park plus its title suggests a double entendre; being under the b...
Category
2010s Pop Art Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Acrylic, Archival Paper
Shore Leave Mermaid mythical siren in beach setting bright colors
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is part of an ongoing series of mermaids a subject that has interested the artist for years. He is consistently searching for contemporary observations on a mythical subject tha...
Category
2010s Feminist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Backstage, charcoal and mixed media collage, female performer, dark psychology
By Audrey Anastasi
Located in Brooklyn, NY
These collages were created first in the presence of a model, working quickly, in charcoal and pastel, and again, later, alone, furiously tearing and pasting images from magazines, v...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Lighter than Air large monochromatic charcoal female figure w birds warm Grey
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Large charcoal drawing on Grey archival paper signed and dated bottom left. An unusual departure for the artist who generally works in color. Suitable for framing under glass. The ...
Category
2010s Feminist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
Thing-in-Itself, earthtone abstraction w suggestion of landscape
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Kant's "thing in itself" represents the hidden essence of objects beyond appearances. Painting the thing in itself encourages viewers to look beyond the surface of things and conside...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Pastry chef food cooking theme sweet color figure resembles delicious cakes
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This painting is inspires by the painting of chaim soutine pastry chefs.
Category
2010s Outsider Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Spotlight, seated female figure with plants warm and cool green combinations
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an oil on linen painting signed and dated on reverse.
Category
2010s Expressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Oceancrush Museum of Coral, colorful abstract nature forms
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
C.Dimitri has received fellowships in painting from the Vermont Studio Center and the RI State Council on the Arts. He is represented by Tabla Rasa gall...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Oil, Panel
Sandwich boy food related theme dark muted color
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This painting was done on cradled wood board signed and dated on back. The rough texture is achieved by adding an pumice like material to the painting ground. It is a companion work ...
Category
2010s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Shells, realistic image cool subtle blues and earth tones
By Douglas Newton
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Realist painter Doug Newton says, "Inspired by my collection of sea shells. The subtle colors and textures of the shells are challenging to capture in oil paint. I paint directly fro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
PLAY, colorful, dynamic, kinetic mixed media paint and collage
By Philomena Marano
Located in Brooklyn, NY
To create PLAY the artist reached back and up cycled materials that she had worked with in the past. She combined sections of her archival pigment prints collaged with painted wood ...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Geometric Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic, Wood, Archival Paper
Resistance, strong female figure with trees warm green and yellow colors
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is part on an ongoing series of works by the artist depicting strong allegorical women in various landscapes. The painting is oil on linen canvas signed on reverse
Category
2010s Feminist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Blue Super Moon Over Havana, imaginative large scale abstract cityscape
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil paint and mixed media on repurposed bulletin board.
Note, the wood border is part of the artwork, not to be mistaken for an actual "frame."
Category
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
