Josh Meillier

Untitled 16, white abstract mixed media painting, orange and yellow

2020

Acrylic and graphite on gessoboard

Acrylic graphite, mica, paper on linen.

Acrylic, graphite, transfer on linen

Acrylic, oil, graphite, transfer on linen

Acrylic, graphite, transfer, spray paint on linen

Acrylic and colored pencil on gessoboard

Artist's statement: "Separate from the tar paintings I have been doing, I am creating a series of work in which I am channeling some of the things I have always loved about Cy Twombly along with qualities of a painting I saw in a local collection by a Cuban painter that I really admired and have thought about a lot since. Of course both share a graffiti quality; Twombly was the first to work with a sort of automatic drawing, beginning in the 1950s, and what he did opened up this new language for countless painters. You still see traces of it in so much contemporary art. Antoni Tapies has been a big influence on me as well, and you can see some of him in this work as well. I limited the color palette in this one as a sort of exercise in discipline, since it is easy to let color get away from you in a painting like this one. There are areas of three-dimensional paint that help flatten the picture plane and restrict the eye from reading depth into the painting; they function in the same way as Barnett Newman's 'zips' and Susan Rothenberg's lines across some of her horse images...

Artist’s Statement: “These paintings are technically challenging, as they combine wax (encaustic), tar, oil, acrylic, powdered graphite and other media. They are painted on fiber pan...

Comes framed and ready to hang in black floater frame. Artist’s Statement: “These paintings are technically challenging, as they combine wax (encaustic), tar, oil, acrylic, powdered...

An original, contemporary, abstract expressionist painting, "Is Anyone Listening?" features dramatic gestural brushstrokes dancing across a layered creamy-white canvas. Soft pastel p...

This is an original mixed media collage by Southern California artist, Kathleen Kane Murrell. It is unframed. The artist protects the canvas with a layer of plexiglass. Its dimension...

Comes framed and ready to hang in black floater frame. (Note: photographed in natural light which gave the painting a bluish cast; it's more white in person. The picture shot at an ...