Monumental Large Striking Mixed Media Abstract in Custom Frame

Striking and bold exterior by listed Santa Fe artist JK Lamkin who died last year, having sizzling color palette of purple, magenta, orange, white and turquo...

Fabulously fun and eye grabbing collage on antique maroon and black game board titled “Chairplay”. Subject is an imaginary living room with designer trio of chairs and a very clever...

Fascinating mixed media wall sculpture created on a 3 dimensional rustic wooden mold, fashioned into a sort of shadow box conjuring memories of other generations and titled “Nana”. ...

Richly layered collage on a vintage tin game board having a masculine combination of leather book bindings, text from Shakespeare plays, and decorative...

2021 is a large framed abstract oil painting by Kathi Robinson Frank. This mixed-media painting incorporates oil, acrylic, charcoal, and metallic paint in shades of black, white, gra...

Media consists of fiber, paint, shellac on a linen canvas. Beautiful wood frame. Frank Faulkner by Philip Herrera, 2006: Born in Sumter, South Carolina in 1946, Frank Faulkner received his B.F.A. from the University of North Carolina in 1968, Phi Beta Kappa, and his M.F.A. from the same institution in 1972. Faulkner’s work quickly won him numerous grants and awards, including an individual artist grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1974. He was selected for the Whitney Biennial in 1975, which prompted him to settle in New York. There, he came to the attention of Dorothy Miller, Curator Emeritus of the Museum of Modern Art with a legendary eye for new talent. Since then, Faulkner has continued to garner acclaim and awards. He has been featured in dozens of one-person exhibitions (not to mention group exhibitions) in this country, as well as in Japan, Switzerland, and Germany. Faulkner’s work is owned by leading museums (the Smith College museum in Northampton, Massachusetts, for example, the National Museum of American Art and the Hirshhorn in Washington, D.C.) and by renowned collectors such as Nelson Rockefeller, Baron Leon Lambert, Phillip Hanes and Abba Eban. What a viewer first notices is the sheer elegance of the pieces, no matter what materials Faulkner uses—metal, wood and fabric as well as canvas and paper. Obvious, too, is the artist’s originality. Faulkner belongs to no school. His work is patterned but is far too intellectual to qualify as so-called “pattern art,” which mainly strives to be merely pretty. Rather, he paints in his own highly organized way, filling the surface without being excessive or boring. Faulkner sets up a system, say, of dots or dashes, then subtly changes the visual rhythms in order to add life and surprise—what he calls “the gymnastics of seeing.” He works and reworks the surfaces of his canvases, often laying down one thin layer of slightly reflective gold, silver or bronze paint upon another until the final work seems to glow with inner light. John Ashbery, a leading critic and poet, has likened Faulkner’s art to minimalist music, which achieves both simplicity and beauty from its obsessive repetitions. The critic Carter Ratcliff describes it more simply as “brilliant artifice.” Faulkner’s current work, a series of paintings on paper, continues and deepens this exploration of the relationship between wrought surface and changing light. Another striking aspect of the work is the influence of the decorative arts. Faulkner has made some paintings on wood that stand independently and fold open like screens. Other pieces resemble large tapestries, and yet others take their inspiration from Art Nouveau inlays...

A monumental mixed media painting by Italian artist Mauro Fornari. This layered abstract features a beige background with rich scarlet red, forest green, ochre, and terracotta hues. ...

Original Mixed Media by French artist J Boyer in Archival Frame. A very nice contemporary abstract.