Kris Cox

HALCYON RING SERIES Mixed Media Abstract Painting

1995

American Artist 1922 – 2012 Served his country as a Sergeant in World War II, both stateside and in the Philippines. After the war, native Chicagoan Ronald Ahlström graduated from the School of the Art Institute, He became a prominent Abstract Expressionist collage assemblage maker working in a style similar to some of the New York school assemblage artists such as Robert Goodnough. Utilizing cutout letters in a concrete poetry style. He frequently exhibited his collages and paintings in the Chicago and Vicinity exhibits of the 1950s and 1960s. He worked as the curator of the Tacoma Art Museum in Tacoma WA during the early 1960s. He showed at Exhibition Momentum in the ’60s, and was selected for the Corcoran Biennial. Together with his colleagues and fellow-abstractionists Robert Nickle, Morris Barazani, Harry Bouras, George Kokines, and George Waite, he exhibited at McCormick Place in an independently produced survey of contemporary Chicagoans, circa 1962, under the banner 12 Chicago Artists. An adept and sensitive painter, Ahlström’s most personal work is as an abstract expressionist collage maker. Using strips of paper, sometimes weathered and beaten into rough hewn surfaces, he creates immaculately layered, lively, gestural compositions. He was the recipient of many art awards and prizes throughout his long career. His works are part of numerous private, corporate and museum collections. His work was published in many national and international art publications including Who's Who in America and Who's Who in American Art. he taught art at both high school and college level. His other passions included history, literature and music. He was an accomplished base fiddle and guitar player and often played professionally in clubs during the late 1940s and 1950s. In 1958, he was awarded the William H. Bartels Prize of five hundred dollars at the Art Institute of Chicago. Education: Art Institute of Chicago University of Chicago DePaul University Exhibitions: Art Institute of Chicago Annuals, Corcoran Biennial in Washington DC, 12 Chicago Artists 50 Chicago Artists European Exhibit at the US Information Agency Collage and Construction, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago Tacoma Art Museum, Washington Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle 50th Northwestern Annual, Seattle Art Museum, Chicago Invitational, University of Illinois One Man Exhibits: Rockford College, Rockford Il. Barat College, Lake Forest Il. Rodger Wilson Gallery, Chicago, Il. Touchstone Gallery, New York, NY. Joseph Faulkner, Main Street Galleries, Chicago, Il. Zriny Galleries, Chicago Il. Awards: Clyde Carr Prize, Art Institute of Chicago William H. Bartels Prize, Art Institute of Chicago James Broadus Clark Prize, Art Institute of Chicago Alumni of Art Institute Prize Singer and Sons Prize, Navy Pier, Chicago Abel Fagan Prize, Festival of Fine Arts, Lake Forest, Il. Ford Foundation Purchase Prize, Seattle, Wa. Collections: Art Institute of Chicago Barat College Tacoma Art Museum, Wa. Phibrook Art Center, Tulsa, Ok. Blue-Cross Collection, Chicago, Il. Atlantic Richfield Collection Illinois Bell Telephone Collection Container Corporation of...

Non-objective collage abstract work depicts the colors, textures and motion that occur in the natural world. Education: Graduate-Boston Museum School of Fine Arts, Boston, MA B.S. Art Education, Tufts University, Boston, MA M.A. Art History, Boston University, Boston, MA Solo Exhibitions: “Color Music” InArt Santa Fe H. Heather Edelman Gallery, New York, NY "New Work" A Muse Gallery, Columbus, OH "New Paintings", Expressions Gallery, Santa Fe, NM “Cantos”, Two Serious Ladies Gallery, Albuquerque, NM “Planes of Obscure Feelings,” Guadalupe Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM “Mindfields”, Guadalupe Fine Art, Santa Fe “Colors of the Canyon,” H. H. Edelman Gallery, New York, NY Ward Nasse Gallery, NYC Michael...

American Artist 1922 – 2012 Served his country as a Sergeant in World War II, both stateside and in the Philippines. After the war, native Chicagoan Ronald Ahlström graduated from the School of the Art Institute, He became a prominent Abstract Expressionist collage assemblage maker working in a style similar to some of the New York school assemblage artists such as Robert Goodnough. Utilizing cutout letters in a concrete poetry style. He frequently exhibited his collages and paintings in the Chicago and Vicinity exhibits of the 1950s and 1960s. He worked as the curator of the Tacoma Art Museum in Tacoma WA during the early 1960s. He showed at Exhibition Momentum in the ’60s, and was selected for the Corcoran Biennial. Together with his colleagues and fellow-abstractionists Robert Nickle, Morris Barazani, Harry Bouras, George Kokines, and George Waite, he exhibited at McCormick Place in an independently produced survey of contemporary Chicagoans, circa 1962, under the banner 12 Chicago Artists. An adept and sensitive painter, Ahlström’s most personal work is as an abstract expressionist collage maker. Using strips of paper, sometimes weathered and beaten into rough hewn surfaces, he creates immaculately layered, lively, gestural compositions. He was the recipient of many art awards and prizes throughout his long career. His works are part of numerous private, corporate and museum collections. His work was published in many national and international art publications including Who's Who in America and Who's Who in American Art. he taught art at both high school and college level. His other passions included history, literature and music. He was an accomplished base fiddle and guitar player and often played professionally in clubs during the late 1940s and 1950s. In 1958, he was awarded the William H. Bartels Prize of five hundred dollars at the Art Institute of Chicago. Education: Art Institute of Chicago University of Chicago DePaul University Exhibitions: Art Institute of Chicago Annuals, Corcoran Biennial in Washington DC, 12 Chicago Artists 50 Chicago Artists European Exhibit at the US Information Agency Collage and Construction, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago Tacoma Art Museum, Washington Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle 50th Northwestern Annual, Seattle Art Museum, Chicago Invitational, University of Illinois One Man Exhibits: Rockford College, Rockford Il. Barat College, Lake Forest Il. Rodger Wilson Gallery, Chicago, Il. Touchstone Gallery, New York, NY. Joseph Faulkner, Main Street Galleries, Chicago, Il. Zriny Galleries, Chicago Il. Awards: Clyde Carr Prize, Art Institute of Chicago William H. Bartels Prize, Art Institute of Chicago James Broadus Clark Prize, Art Institute of Chicago Alumni of Art Institute Prize Singer and Sons Prize, Navy Pier, Chicago Abel Fagan Prize, Festival of Fine Arts, Lake Forest, Il. Ford Foundation Purchase Prize, Seattle, Wa. Collections: Art Institute of Chicago Barat College Tacoma Art Museum, Wa. Phibrook Art Center, Tulsa, Ok. Blue-Cross Collection, Chicago, Il. Atlantic Richfield Collection Illinois Bell Telephone Collection Container Corporation of...

Perez Celis (American, Argentinian 1939-2008) Oil and mixed media on canvas 1993 Latin abstract expressionism oil painting depicting a color block and drip motif Hand signed and dated to lower left. In gilt gold frame. Approximate dimensions: canvas h. 14", w. 21"; frame h. 24", w. 31", d. 2.25". Celis Pérez (1939 – 2008) was an Argentine artist usually referred to as Pérez Celis. He earned international recognition for his paintings, sculptures, murals and engravings. Pérez was born in San Telmo on the South side of Buenos Aires, and grew up in Liniers, on the opposite end of town. Working as a newsboy during childhood, he learned the basics of drawing and painting via correspondence classes. In 1954 he entered the Manuel Belgrano National School of Fine Arts, and under the guidance of teachers like Leopoldo Presas, Santiago Cogorno, and Libero Badii, Pérez Celis developed his interest in abstraction. He first exhibited at age 17, at Galería La Fantasma. Following his entry into the professional arts world, he began using his name in a reversed form. At the start of his career he has been influenced by Hungarian artist Victor Vasarely during a 1957 retrospective of the latter's works at the National Fine Arts Museum. Some of his later works bear the influence of Gerhard Richter. He married Sarah Fernández in 1959 and relocated to Uruguay for less than a year invited by Carlos Páez Vilaró . Took part in the "Group of 8" – proponents of abstract art among the normally conservative local audiences. "Grupo de los 8", was a movement of Latin American, Uruguayan and Argentine artists formed in 1958 together with Oscar García Reino, Miguel Ángel Pareja, Raúl Pavlovsky, Lincoln Presno, Américo Sposito, Alfredo Testoni and Julio Verdie in order to promote new tendencies in painting. In 1960 they were invited by art critic Rafael Squirru to join the international exhibition at the Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art (of which he was creator and first director) with artists such as Willem de Kooning, Roger Hilton and Lucio Fontana. He returned to Buenos Aires in 1960, and opened a downtown atelier with the support of Guido Di Tella, his first mecena. Pérez Celis explored geometric art, and builds his first mural, Fuerza América, in 1962. Indigenous patterns and colors would reappear in many of his productions during the 1960s and 1970s, and distinguished him from most other local artists, among whom pop art and figurative art was more influential. His work had a more raw, Art Brut , Brutalist feel to it. He was featured in more than 120 solo shows during his career, notably the Galerie Bellechasse, Anita Shapolsky Gallery New York, (he showed with Agustin Fernandez, Rodolfo Abularach, Giancarlo Puppo and Cuban artist Mario Bencomo) Arteconsult, Boston & Panama, Witcomb, etc. and his art was purchased for many private collections and first-rate museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He received commissions from the Argentine government, which placed his works in the Ministro Pistarini International Airport, from other governments, and from prominent individuals and businesses. In 1977, following his wife's passing in an automobile accident he remarried and lived in Caracas, Paris, New York City, and Miami in subsequent years. He shared his time between Buenos Aires and New York in 1994, a retrospective of his work was hosted at Biblioteca Nacional visited by more than 300000 persons. He continued exhibiting in Latin America, in the Sanyo Gallery in Tokyo, the Anita Shapolsky Gallery in New York City, and at numerous universities. Among his numerous recognitions in later years was the Alba Award at the 61st Salón Nacional de Artes Plásticas Argentino, and he was proclaimed a Distinguished Citizen of the City of Buenos Aires in 2001. He also created several literary illustrations, notably those for Jorge Luis Borges' Spanish-language translation of Walt Whitman's poem Leaves of Grass. A fan of the Club Atlético Boca Juniors football team, he created two murals in 1997 for the team's La Bombonera Stadium in Buenos Aires: "Idolos" (Idols) and "Mito y Destino" (Myth and Destiny), both Venetian mosaics and bronze sculpture on cement. Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York, NY Museum of Modern Latin American Art...

'La Multitud Sodomita Rodea la Casa de Lot' Titled and signed in Spanish. it refers to the biblical story of Lot with the Sodomites. It is a very well executed piece signed Castro an...

Aharon Gluska (b. 1951) Pigment and oil paint, mixed media painting on archival paper. Dimensions (H, W, D): 22.5"h, 13"w image; 32"H, 24"w frame Provenance: Siegel Collection, Florida. The Siegels' collection was acquired under the guidance of Lawrence Salander of Salander-O'Reilly Gallery in New York in the late 1980s. Aharon Gluska (born 1951) is an Israeli–American painter. Gluska was born in 1951 in Hadera, Israel. He studied at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris and Avni Institute of Fine Arts in Tel Aviv. Grants Gluska received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Jackson Pollock- Lee Krasner Foundation. Awards Gluska was one of two winners along with Moshe Kupferman, of the 1996 Zussman Prize for artists dealing with the Holocaust, from the Yad Vashem museum, for his paintings of prisoners at Auschwitz based on photographs of them taken by their Nazi guards. Exhibitions: Bertha Urdang Gallery, NY, USA 1983 Aharon Gluska: Painting and Drawings 1985-1986 Bertha Urdang Gallery, NY, USA 1986 Group Exhibitions The Disciplined Spirit, Exit Art, New York, USA Artists: Nahum Tevet, Micha Ullman, Aaron Gluska, Jacob El Hanani, Moshe Kupferman, Gilad Ophir, Joshua Neustein, Bertha Urdang Gallery, NY, USA Artists: Larry Abramson, Yosef Zaritsky, Zelig Segal...

This sculpture light is a captivating addition to the Art + Light series, where the interplay of light and art creates a unique and fascinating effect. The wooden cube is covered wit...

My sculpture, "Luminous Black Waves," is a unique piece that I created using plaster and acrylic and spray paint. I assembled it onto a wood base covered with aluminum, giving it a modern and sleek appearance. To make it even more striking, I backlit the sculpture with an LED light box...

Code U63 is Mixed Media on Panel, acrylic, collage, spray paint, epoxy resin. Size 48″X32″ Date of creation March 2023 Signed, dated on the reverse. The piece is combination of multiple techniques, multiple layers of acrylic paint, geometric abstract, collage, epoxy on the board. First, artists created an abstract background palette in pink, gold, dust pink, violet. After that, artist created larger scale geometric design - diamonds, lines, patterns. Then - another layer of the smaller scale geometric pattern, and finally - very detailed patterns, designs, geometric combinations. The unique antique art patterns transformed by artist into modern geometric abstract patterns. It can be perfect art for bohemian interior, modern, casual and rustic decor. Art belongs to series Code U (Ukraine). It is series of abstract compositions featuring Ukrainian geometric patterns . Symbols, signs, systems and antique patterns used in fashion embroidery for hundreds years by ancestors of Ukrainians. According to ethnography’ research the embroidery symbols hold special vibrations, strength, and energy. Art pieces from Code U series by Oksana Tanasiv belong to private collections worldwide , and to the following museum collections: -The Museum of Imrich Winter, Bath Piestany, EU -The Ukrainian Art...

Untitled I is a mixed media artwork by French street artist Zenoy. The artist, graffiti specialist, is here declining his name, stylized. Once painted on walls, metros, or trains o...

Untitled I is a mixed media artwork by French street artist Zenoy. The artist, graffiti specialist, is here declining his name, stylized. Once painted on walls, metros, or trains o...

Chicago-based artist Michael Thompson creates unique kites crafted from split bamboo frames covered with stretched muslin and a collage of vintage Asian ephemera—including fragments ...