Wax Abstract Paintings

"Moon Shadow" in the "Celeste and Sea" collection is an original painting by San Diego Artist Shima Shanti in the ancient art form of Encaustic. Up to 50 layers of purified beeswax ...

"Down Comes the Sky" in "Urban Peace" collection is an original painting by San Diego Artist Shima Shanti in the ancient art form of Encaustic. Up to 50 layers of purified beeswax m...

"What Is What Really Is" in "A Clearing for Silence" collection is an original painting by San Diego Artist Shima Shanti in the ancient art form of Encaustic. This painting conveys ...

2023, Oil & cold wax on wood panel

LeRone Wilson (1968) is a sculptor and painter living and working in New York. His primary medium is encaustic, the oldest form of painting, used by the ancient Egyptians to fuse hieroglyphics. His sculpted encaustic paintings explore the complexities of the historical and cultural inferences of spirituality, history and identity. His work represents a medley of different textures that stimulate the senses, making the art not just a thing of beauty to be admired from a distance, but something we can feel connected to through the expression of touch. It’s a way of revealing an image without actually being able to control it, letting it come about itself. The work varies in shapes with 1 to 4 inches of wax built up on the surface. Their elegant abstract details invoke minimalist historical references that are surprisingly compelling. The results are unrecognizable surfaces that encourage kind of curiosity as to their function as paintings. Minimalism can be defined as the perfection that an artifact achieves when it is no longer possible to improve it by subtraction. This is the quality LeRone wants to achieve with the texture of the encaustic. Every component, every detail and every function has been reduced or condensed to the essential. The simplicity of his work explores the possibility of working creatively without disrupting the purity of the material. A finalist for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award and winner of Best in Show for the Carroll Harris Sims Award, his works have also appeared in live auctions...

Inspired by occasions that are either joyful or morbid. Occasions that are unwanted and irrevocable. Occasions that are planned or unplanned. Unexpected occasions. Signature: Signed...

A shock of saturated orange dominates the canvas in this dramatic mixed media composition from Ivo Stoyanov. Thickly applied visible brush strokes add texture and the white backgroun...

"Figurative Abstract III" Abstract Painting 16" x 12" inch by Ahmed Farid Born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1950 where he currently lives and works, Farid is an autodidact Egyptian painters...

Contemporary Australian painter Sara Freeman uses multiple layers of egg tempera over a base layer of beeswax to create meaningful, slow art. The linework through the image is made f...

This painting uses cool earth colors and a combination of oil and wax to create a landscape focusing on brushwork, color and form. Like many of the artists paintings the landscape co...

Wissant (Abstract Painting) Beeswax resin, pigment and oil paint on panel — Unframed. This work is from a series of formal trifold compositions of quiet horizontal abstraction, base...

Wainscott (Abstract Painting) Beeswax resin, pigment and oil paint on panel — Unframed. This work is from a series of formal trifold compositions of quiet horizontal abstraction, ba...

Lucerne (Abstract Painting) Beeswax resin, pigment and oil paint on panel — Unframed. This work is from a series of formal trifold compositions of quiet horizontal abstraction, base...

Canadian artist Ivo Stoyanov is internationally recognized for his compelling abstract paintings. This piece, one of a series illustrates Stoyanov’s masterful vision that combines ge...

The allure of deep pink, a colour that evokes feelings of pure joy dominates the canvas in this enigmatic abstract painting by Ivo Stoyanov. The Canadian artist has become internatio...

Signature: Signed on back of painting Varnish: Gamvar satin varnish Medium: Oil and cold wax on Belgian linen in frame BIO Fontaine Scarelli, born in 1987 in Chicago, Illinois, is ...

Lush layers of white paint in expressive brushstrokes form a geometric pattern that plays out across the canvas in this engaging abstract by Ivo Stoyanov. Internationally recognized ...

Amy Meyer studied art at University of Central Missouri, Indiana State University, and Columbia College, where she completed her degree in painting and drawing. Meyer deals in the el...

Amy Meyer studied art at University of Central Missouri, Indiana State University, and Columbia College, where she completed her degree in painting and drawing. Meyer deals in the el...

Michael David (b. 1954) Billie's Tree Signed, Titled, and Dated 1982 Verso. Provenance: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (bears label en verso) where it had been exhibited for nearly two decades. It was also Exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA NYC) just after he won the National Guggenheim Award. The Piece Measures approximately 70" x 71" x 8" Deep. Michael David Singer; born 1954, is an American painter. Born in Reno, Nevada, David's family relocated to Brooklyn, New York, where he was raised. He attended SUNY Fredonia for one year and in 1976 received a B.F.A. from Parson's School of Design. Michael David is classified as an abstract painter, best known for his use of the encaustic technique, a was pigmentation technique which incorporates pigment with heated beeswax. He is also known for his works in mixed-media figure painting, photography and environmental sculpture. He often incorporates religious iconography and symbolism, art historical themes such as the nude, and contemporary politics into his paintings resulting in a critical dialogue between the layered abstraction of the surface and the integrated representational imagery. His work is included in the permanent public collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Jewish Museum in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others. In 1976 David, erotic photographer Roy Stuart and Fredonia friend Richie Stotts formed a band called The Numbers, with David on bass. The group was a fixture in New York's early punk rock music scene, playing in clubs alongside punk pioneers Television, Blondie and the Ramones. David also played bass with punk innovators Jerry Nolan of The New York Dolls, Cheetah Chrome of The Dead Boys, Marky Ramone, Peter Gordon, David Van Tieghem and the free-improvisation noise music group Borbetomagus. In 1977, The Numbers were approached by impresario Rod Swenson, who was seeking musicians to form a backing band for singer Wendy O. Williams, whose radical persona he sought to exploit as punk music and performance art. The Numbers became The Plasmatics but the attention David began to gain as an important voice in the art world caused him to leave the band to pursue his burgeoning painting career. David's first one-man show was in 1981 at the historic Sidney Janis Gallery. That year he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, at the time the youngest artist ever to do so, and in 1982 was awarded an American Academy of Arts and Letters prize. He went on to exhibit at galleries worldwide and was represented by Knoedler & Co. for the next 25 years. David is best known for using the encaustic technique of painting, which uses pigment combined with heated beeswax. David built his early career on abstraction and religious iconography, which formed the bulk of his output until 1999. Since then he has also experimented with representational painting and traditional photography. In 2000, he developed the "Chortens" and "Populations" series, about which prominent art historian and critic Donald Kuspit writes: "They are enigmatic works, all the more so because of the way their innumerable details form singularly monumental, intimidating wholes. Dense yet delicate, awesome yet intimate, they convey the fragility as well as grandeur of sheer being. Layer upon layer of paint piles up like layer upon layer of coral, but the textural result is more epic, not to say startling, than any coral island, and virtually any other existing abstract expressionist painting (upon which they are stylistically founded)." In 2001, David developed bi-lateral neuropathy due to being poisoned by gases released by overheated beeswax used in the encaustic process. The disease left him with partial paralysis of his legs, slowing the production of his painting for a number of years. That year, David began painting one of his best-known series, the "fallen Toreadors", inspired by 19th century French Realist painter Édouard Manet's "The Dead Toreador" of 1864. In 1993, David experimented at the "20x24" Polaroid studio in Manhattan, which resulted in a series of portraits of playwright Edward Albee and of friend Jackie Gross, which would become the ongoing "Jackie" series of mixed-media works. When neuropathy rendered him unable to paint during 2003, he returned to the 20x24 camera and shot large-format Polaroids inspired by Caravaggio; nude men and women dressed as Toreadors, and religious imagery. In 2002, David began to develop The Greenhouse Project, an evolving "architectural construct" based on historical American Antebellum greenhouses built using the actual glass negatives sold to starving farmers in the post-American Civil War South. David has indicated that each greenhouse will, through the display of photography and use of social networking, create a forum and exhibit for ideas and artifacts related to civil and human rights; the specifications of each greenhouse particular to the community in which each is built. David's work was reviewed in Artforum and Art in America, and is considered one of the last links to the New York School of painting. David may be the most innovative master of immediate surface since the abstract expressionists. He has acknowledged his debt to Abstract Expressionism, but he has transformed it. Where the abstract expressionist paintings of the forties and fifties seem like modern cave paintings, as their crude, unfocused, often meandering, turbulent painterliness suggests, and as such to reinstate prehistory, David seems to turn the cave into a temple, as his more considered, concentrated, indeed, dense, contemplative painterliness indicates, so that his paintings have the aura of post history. SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2023 Radiate, Garvey Simon, New York, New York 2021 Selections from NYFA - Courtesy of the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation, New York, New York 2020 Bill Lowe Gallery Presents: Masterworks from the Gallery 2016 The Golem, The Jewish Museum of Berlin, Berlin, Germany In a Post-World: Post-Punk Art Now, The Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, New York 2014 Gallery Artists, Bentley Gallery, Pheonix, Arizona 2011 Post Mammalian Tension: Michael David & Scott Browning, Bill Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia 1999 Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America, Montclair Art Museum, (Jasper Johns, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg etc) Forty Years of American Drawings, Raab Galerie, Berlin, Germany Germany Summertime, Knoedler & Company, New York, New York 1997 Michael David and James Hyde...

"Red Line" by Steven H. Rehfeld is a vibrant 48" x 36" mixed-media masterpiece that pulses with the raw energy and complexity of abstract expressionism. This artwork is a riot of tex...

Path Upwards is painted with oil and wax on canvas created in 2023. The painting contains layers of oil paint built up to a rich surface of whites and greys. The oil paint mixed with...

Surōdansu and む Diptych, 2022 by On Hansen Oil wax, acrylic, graphite, organic ink, and crayon on Awagami paper Overall size: 35.03 in. H x 51 in. W Individual size: 35.03 in. H x 25...

The new arises from memory and The Promise to Change Diptych, 2022 Oil wax, acrylic, graphite, organic ink, and crayon on Awagami paper Overall size: 35.03 in. H x 51 in. W Individu...

Steven H. Rehfeld's '1994' is a versatile and dynamic 38" x 64" mixed media artwork that resonates with the spirited essence of abstract expressionism. The canvas is a symphony of co...

む, Now, where was I and Surōdansu triptych, 2022 by On Hansen Oil wax, acrylic, graphite, organic ink, and crayon on Awagami paper Overall size: 35.03 in. H x 76.7 in. W Individual s...

"Earth in Repose" in the "Celeste and Sea" collection is an original painting by San Diego Artist Shima Shanti in the ancient art form of Encaustic. Up to 50 layers of purified bees...

"Unbeheld Schema" in "A Clearing for Silence" collection is an original painting by San Diego Artist Shima Shanti in the ancient art form of Encaustic. This painting conveys an unde...

"On the Water XVII: Come Sail Away" is a framed oil and wax work on panel by Jeff Erickson, with an abstract composition with color blocks of cool and royal blue, interrupted by a st...

Passage and Holds the people together Diptych, 2022 by On Hansen Oil wax, acrylic, graphite, organic ink, and crayon on Awagami paper Overall size: 35.03 in. H x 51 in. W Individual ...

This work is about: Screen-paintings aim is to mediate humans interpretations of natural-made objects to think and search for a free-of-toxicity daily life tangible and intangible ma...

This work is about: Screen-paintings aim is to mediate humans interpretations of natural-made objects to think and search for a free-of-toxicity daily life tangible and intangible ma...

Series: Beehives Beehives, Encaustic Beeswax, Fabric, Beehives Size: 18" x 46"/ 46" x 18" Using unconventional hardware - a blow torch, iron and other heated tools - along with pa...

"Efflorescence" in "A Clearing for Silence" collection is an original painting by San Diego Artist Shima Shanti in the ancient art form of Encaustic. Up to 50 layers of purified bee...

Arielle Zamora they/them (b.1990) is a Portland, Oregon-based painter and printmaker. Their painting practice features layers of paint and joint compound as an exploration of line an...

"Ashore the Sea of Peril" in the "Water in Motion" collection is inspired by the rhythm and flow of water derived from San Diego encaustic artist Shima Shanti's own observation and ...

Arielle Zamora they/them (b.1990) is a Portland, Oregon-based painter and printmaker. Their painting practice features layers of paint and joint compound as an exploration of line an...

Arielle Zamora they/them (b.1990) is a Portland, Oregon-based painter and printmaker. Their painting practice features layers of paint and joint compound as an exploration of line an...

"Eternal Return 2" in the "Hikaru" collection is an original painting by San Diego Artist Shima Shanti in the ancient art form of Encaustic. Hikaru—Japanese for Light and Radiance—i...

"Eternal Return I" in the "Hikaru" collection is an original painting by San Diego Artist Shima Shanti in the ancient art form of Encaustic. Hikaru—Japanese for Light and Radiance—i...

Artist Statement My paintings emerge from the emotion I feel in the moment my brush touches a blank surface. I am a very physical and spontaneous painter. Moving back and forth with ...

Vivid, deep blue and abstract…this compelling acrylic and mixed media piece by Ivo Stoyanov illustrates his masterful use of expressive form, colour and texture. The Canadian artist ...

Series: Beehives Beeswax and fabric over beehive and honeycomb panels Size: 36” x 26” x 1.5” This Painting will be shipped directly from the artist's studio.

Yum Three by artist Brenda Zappitell is a pink, blue, and grey, contemporary abstract made of flashe and Acrylic with cold wax on panel 60 x 60 and is priced at $16,000. Brenda Zapp...

Artist Statement My paintings emerge from the emotion I feel in the moment my brush touches a blank surface. I am a very physical and spontaneous painter. Moving back and forth with ...

Artist Statement My paintings emerge from the emotion I feel in the moment my brush touches a blank surface. I am a very physical and spontaneous painter. Moving back and forth with...

Yum II by artist Brenda Zappitell is a pink and light ingigo contemporary abstract made of flashe and Acrylic with cold wax on panel 50 x 50 and is priced at $14,000. Brenda Zappite...

"Tributaries" by Bonnie Zahn Griffith, Oil and Cold Wax Medium on Wood Panel, 18" x 18" unframed, 20" x 20" framed in a modern black frame with hanging wire included. Known for her p...

"Heavenward" in the "Celeste and Sea" collection is an original painting by San Diego Artist Shima Shanti in the ancient art form of Encaustic. Up to 50 layers of purified beeswax m...

"Unified Field" in the "Lay of the Land" collection is an original painting by San Diego Artist Shima Shanti in the ancient art form of Encaustic. Up to 50 layers of purified beeswa...

"On the Water XXIII: Windward" is a framed oil and wax work on panel by Jeff Erickson, with an abstract composition with color blocks of periwinkle and cool blues, interrupted by str...

"On the Water XXIV: Stem the Tide" is a framed oil and wax work on panel by Jeff Erickson, with an abstract composition with color blocks of cool blues interrupted by stripes of vibr...

"Looking For Self Out There" in the "Lay of the Land" collection is an original painting by San Diego Artist Shima Shanti in the ancient art form of Enca...

"Sunset Symphony" is a framed oil and wax work on panel by Jeff Erickson, with an abstract composition of soft lilac and rosy white interrupted by fiery reds and vibrant oranges. Eri...

Laura Culic’s distinct aesthetic is built on her use of cold wax painting to represent natural landscapes, imbued with abstracted elements, where she subverts our expectations of thi...

This stunning artwork by Jeremy Prim is a minimalist masterpiece that exudes tranquility and captures the essence of the Pacific coastline. The painting features a serene blue color ...

This stunning artwork by Jeremy Prim is a minimalist masterpiece that exudes tranquility and captures the essence of the Pacific coastline. The painting features a serene blue color ...

"On the Water XIV: Morning Sail" is a framed oil and wax work on panel by Jeff Erickson, with an abstract composition with color blocks of creamy pink and vibrant cool blues. Erickso...