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Item Ships From: Bay Area
Celebrate
By Donna McGinnis
Located in Burlingame, CA
Celebrate, created in 2023 is a sophisticated abstract painting in salmon, yellow and red, that references landscape or water, with its quiet yet complex surface of layered oil paint...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Summer River
By Donna McGinnis
Located in Burlingame, CA
Summer River, created in 2023 is a sophisticated abstract painting in yellow, grey and black, that references landscape or water, with its quiet yet complex surface of layered oil pa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Number 36: Honor
Located in Burlingame, CA
A.L. Woods’ geometric abstract acrylic paintings are developed using a combination of repeating triangular shapes and subtle color variations inspired by nature, including oceanic co...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
S-250
By Pegan Brooke
Located in Mill Valley, CA
Abstract oil painting.
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$8,750
Akua No 1 / oil on linen
By Frédéric Choisel
Located in Burlingame, CA
Red, orange, purple and green appear to move across the canvas that is created with the highest quality linen with unpainted edges, in this beautiful abstract painting that is inspir...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Machete #2
By Charles Eckart
Located in Mill Valley, CA
Abstract oil painting on canvas.
Category
2010s Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Reflections on Crossing XXIV
By Anne Subercaseaux
Located in Burlingame, CA
Shades of blue-grey with rose are at play in Anne Subercaseaux's wonderful
'Reflections on Crossing XXIV', oil on canvas. Anne Subercaseaux finds substance in the insubstantial, in paintings that freeze the ephemeral patterns of reflection and shadow. In her muted, almost monochrome palettes, images seem familiar but still elusive. The precise silhouette of a bridge girder or a windblown branch moves into focus and out again, a fleeting glimpse from the corner of the eye...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Landscape with Mustard Flowers - 48 inch circular canvas
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
Landscape painting with mustard flowers under a warm sky. Created on a circular canvas that is 48 inches across (4 feet in diameter.) The original work of art ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
My Wild Garden #120
By Allison Stewart
Located in Mill Valley, CA
New Orleans artist Allison Stewart has gained national recognition for her paintings expressing the complex and disturbing dialogue between man and nature. Trained as a biologist, St...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
X's and O's
Located in Dallas, TX
oil on canvas
Category
2010s Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Land VII
Located in Dallas, TX
oil on canvas
Category
2010s Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
An Abstraction in the Primary Colors
Located in San Francisco, CA
Modest in life—the artist signed quite discreetly with the initials GAC—but bold on the canvas. This abstract is easy to embrace, depending only on primary colors. (Remember those th...
Category
1970s Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Utopia #6
Located in San Francisco, CA
Sergio Nates
Utopia #6, 2014
Acrylic on canvas
21.75 x 21.75 inches
This one-of-a-kind acrylic painting on canvas is stretched across wooden stretcher bars.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Venice Venus
By Tim Craighead
Located in Mill Valley, CA
Tim Craighead’s work is categorized as abstract, though it inhabits a space between objective and nonobjective painting. Both serve as a matrix for what are essentially autobiograph...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Alkyd
Paintscape No.12
By Charles Eckart
Located in Mill Valley, CA
Growing up in Yosemite Valley in the 50s, Charles Eckart was surrounded by majestic beauty in a place where long hikes and the change of seasons might well turn the creative mind inw...
Category
2010s Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Paintscape No. 4
By Charles Eckart
Located in Mill Valley, CA
Charles Eckart was born in Oakland, California and grew up in Yosemite Valley. He is a painter who started etching with his own press in 1966. The etching has always paralleled the v...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Forget Me Not
By Kim Ford Kitz
Located in Mill Valley, CA
Abstract oil painting on canvas.
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Eclaircie (Clearings)
By Frédéric Choisel
Located in Burlingame, CA
Eclaircie (Clearings) — luminous oil on linen. Dimensions are 63 x 63 inches.
French American Frédéric Choisel, is inspired by the cities and countrysides of France, New York, and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Matin d'Hiver (Winter Morning)
By Frédéric Choisel
Located in Burlingame, CA
Matin d'Hiver (Winter Morning) — luminous oil on linen. Dimensions are 63 x 63 inches.
French American Frédéric Choisel, is inspired by the cities and countrysides of France, New Y...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Scopello
By Frédéric Choisel
Located in Burlingame, CA
Taormina 2 — luminous oil on linen. Dimensions are 63 x 63 inches.
French American Frédéric Choisel, is inspired by the cities and countrysides of F...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Study on Board 2309
By Charles Eckart
Located in Mill Valley, CA
Abstract impasto oil painting.
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Red Sphere
By Claudia Marseille
Located in Mill Valley, CA
encaustic and mixed media on panel
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Encaustic, Panel
Asymmetry I
By Anne Subercaseaux
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Asymmetry I' is 45 x 30 inches. Anne Subercaseaux's gleaming paintings realistically bridge urban with rural in the form of representational fragmented depictions of contemporary ar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
City Planes
By Anne Subercaseaux
Located in Burlingame, CA
'City Planes' is 45 x 38 inches. Anne Subercaseaux's gleaming paintings realistically bridge urban with rural in the form of representational fragmented depictions of contemporary ar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Reflections on Crossing VLVIII
By Anne Subercaseaux
Located in Burlingame, CA
Shades of blue-grey and cobalt at play in Anne Subercaseaux's wonderful 'Reflections on Crossing VLVIII', oil on canvas. Anne Subercaseaux finds substance in the insubstantial, in paintings that freeze the ephemeral patterns of reflection and shadow. In her muted, almost monochrome palettes, images seem familiar but still elusive. The precise silhouette of a bridge girder or a windblown branch moves into focus and out again, a fleeting glimpse from the corner of the eye...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
La Voile
By Anne Subercaseaux
Located in Burlingame, CA
Shades of grey are at play in 'La Voile' which is 31.5 x 31.5 inches, and is a clean and minimal oil on canvas painting by artist Anne Subercasea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Study on Board 2307
By Charles Eckart
Located in Mill Valley, CA
Abstract impasto oil painting.
Category
2010s Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Reflections on Crossing XXXIV / abstract realism, architecture, minimalism
By Anne Subercaseaux
Located in Burlingame, CA
Shades of sea blue-green with grey are at play in Anne Subercaseaux's meticulously painted 'Reflections on Crossing XXXIV', oil on canvas. Anne Subercaseaux finds substance in the insubstantial, in paintings that freeze the ephemeral patterns of reflection and shadow. In her muted, almost monochrome palettes, images seem familiar but still elusive. The precise silhouette of a bridge girder or a windblown branch moves into focus and out again, a fleeting glimpse from the corner of the eye...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Kinds of Blue / abstract realism, architecture, minimalism
By Anne Subercaseaux
Located in Burlingame, CA
Shades of sea blue, white and grey are at play in Anne Subercaseaux's meticulously painted 'Kinds of Blue", oil on canvas. Anne Subercaseaux finds substan...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Study on Board
By Charles Eckart
Located in Mill Valley, CA
Abstract impasto oil painting.
Category
2010s Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Green over Lavender
By Charles Eckart
Located in Mill Valley, CA
Abstract encaustic oil painting.
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hana-bi 1
By Frédéric Choisel
Located in Burlingame, CA
The Hana-bi 1 — luminous oil on linen. Dimensions are 47 1/4 x 33 1/2 inches.
French American Frédéric Choisel, is inspired by the cities and countr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Cypher #12
By Tim Craighead
Located in Mill Valley, CA
Framed mixed-media painting on paper.
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Asociacion Rock para Todos
By Claudia Marseille
Located in Mill Valley, CA
In this newest body of work, Claudia Marseille explores what she calls “universal hieroglyphics” using as her inspiration photographs of walls she has taken herself in her many travels around the world. What she discovered is a morphed universal language where something becomes other than it was originally. By incorporating her images with their torn edges of advertisements, posters and graffiti into her encaustic paintings she captures the layered elements of time, communication and tattered bits of popular culture. She takes the scarred beauty...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Encaustic, Panel
Once More for the People in the Back
By Leslie Allen
Located in Mill Valley, CA
Abstract oil painting on canvas over panel.
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel
Gusty (Breath of a World in Agony)
By Leslie Allen
Located in Mill Valley, CA
Abstract oil painting on canvas over panel.
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel
My Wild Garden #121
By Allison Stewart
Located in Mill Valley, CA
New Orleans artist Allison Stewart has gained national recognition for her paintings expressing the complex and disturbing dialogue between man and nature. Trained as a biologist, St...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Memory
By Devorah Jacoby
Located in Mill Valley, CA
From the beginning, Jacoby’s approach to the canvas has been fearless, following a method akin to the way the subconscious or even unconscious works. She manifests everyday life, po...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Six
By Claudia Marseille
Located in Mill Valley, CA
In this newest body of work, Claudia Marseille explores what she calls “universal hieroglyphics” using as her inspiration photographs of walls she has taken herself in her many travels around the world. What she discovered is a morphed universal language where something becomes other than it was originally. By incorporating her images with their torn edges of advertisements, posters and graffiti into her encaustic paintings she captures the layered elements of time, communication and tattered bits of popular culture. She takes the scarred beauty...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Encaustic, Panel
$10,700
Undertow
By Elena Zolotnitsky
Located in Burlingame, CA
Dramatic oil on mylar on panel painting by Elena Zolotnitsky depicting a chair from her Extinct series of abandoned chairs and their unique histories. Professionally framed in a clea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Mylar, Panel
Summertime / the Grid
By Elena Zolotnitsky
Located in Burlingame, CA
Dramatic oil & archival masking tape - mixed media - on mylar mounted on wood panel painting by Elena Zolotnitsky depicting a vivid floral scene. Professionally framed 26 1/2 x 25 1/...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Venice Series #3
By Tim Craighead
Located in Mill Valley, CA
Tim Craighead’s work is categorized as abstract, though it inhabits a space between objective and nonobjective painting. Both serve as a matrix for what are essentially autobiograph...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Truth about Beauty
By Elizabeth Barlow
Located in Burlingame, CA
For Elizabeth Barlow, painting the intricate details of a flower is a meditation that promotes a deep reverence for all living things. The artist imbues her works with a radiant ligh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Liminal Space
Located in San Francisco, CA
Paula Valenzuela
Liminal Space, 2024
Mixed media on canvas
30 x 40 inches
Paula Valenzuela's signature style consists of the creation of complex layers of paint which are covered an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Agora Project No. 4
By Javier Arizmendi-Kalb
Located in Burlingame, CA
Mexican-American contemporary visual artist and celebrated architect Javier Arizmendi-Kalb created this abstract painting with bold brush stokes creating strong visual zest and appea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Agora Project No. 1
By Javier Arizmendi-Kalb
Located in Burlingame, CA
Mexican-American contemporary visual artist and celebrated architect Javier Arizmendi-Kalb created this abstract painting with bold brush stokes creating strong visual zest and appea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Nightfall
By Tim Craighead
Located in Mill Valley, CA
Craighead's paintings operate somewhere between abstraction and the cognitive world, between the unknown and the known. The works often begin with a general idea. He might be reflect...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
$10,000
Light at the End of the Tunnel
By Javier Arizmendi-Kalb
Located in Burlingame, CA
Mexican-American contemporary visual artist and celebrated architect Javier Arizmendi-Kalb created this abstract painting with bold brush stokes creating strong visual zest and appeal on a small scale. The artist often creates autobiographical paintings that are comprised of both abstract and representational elements that consider the natural world as it intersects with utilitarian and architectural design. 'Light at the End of the Tunnel...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Speed Bars
By Charles Eckart
Located in Mill Valley, CA
Growing up in Yosemite Valley in the 50s, Charles Eckart was surrounded by majestic beauty in a place where long hikes and the change of seasons might well turn the creative mind inw...
Category
2010s Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Orchard Series, July
By Tim Craighead
Located in Mill Valley, CA
Craighead's paintings operate somewhere between abstraction and the cognitive world, between the unknown and the known. The works often begin with a general idea. He might be reflec...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Alkyd, Linen, Oil
In the Woods
Located in Burlingame, CA
Artist Jill Keller Peters is a colorist whose abstract color-field oil paintings communicate ideas through color. By juxtaposing pure and vivid hues that speak to each other when combined, Keller Peters choreographs rhythm and space through a poetic visual language. Her geometric abstract work is informed by keen observations of nature and years of realist landscape painting and photography. Utilizing a full-spectrum radiance of light, which is both, practical and inspirational, her traditional oil on canvas paintings delight the senses while celebrating light as the source of all energy and sustenance for life, itself.
Here is 'In the Woods...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Coffee Bean, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Victoria Kloch
Located in Yardley, PA
Coffee Bean, 36"x24"x .078" Buyer, please advise if you want this to hang horizontal or vertical. Shapes inspired by nature. This is a spinoff of my small black ink pod and see...
Category
2010s Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Dreams of Adventure 6
By Ann Shogren
Located in Napa, CA
Abstract expressionist Ann Shogren depicts vivid landscapes and paints tapestries of colors that have simultaneously calming and rejuvenating effects on her audiences. Having lived i...
Category
2010s Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
White Oak, Abstract Painting
By Sheila Grabarsky
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
I was excited with the discovery of forms that evolved to compose a cohesive composition, feeling as if under the shade of an old oak to me.
About the Artist
Sheila Grabarsky is known for her bold, gestural nature scenes. Her fluid paintings have been compared to those of Vasily Kandinsky, the Russian painter and art theorist referred to as the father of abstraction. And, like Kandinsky, the essence of inner beauty and the potency of the human spirit are key factors in her art. Sheila's art carries an air of spontaneity, however, the work develops in many layers and takes a long time to come together. "I search for evolving forms within the composition, look for 'eye flow' and use my color intuition," she explains. "This is the mystery I love about abstraction - always evolving and birthing itself." Sheila draws energy and inspiration from living near water, and says she rarely travels because she does not like to be away from painting. In her studio, she is usually accompanied by three animal friends and an eclectic playlist of Janis Joplin, blues, reggae and classical. In 2016, Sheila's art was featured in the movie American Pastoral, starring Ewan McGregor and Dakota Fanning.
Words that describe this painting: impasto, colorful, green, tree, heavy duty, extra deep, forest, abstract, non-representational, acrylic painting, white, green
White Oak...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Hyannis Port - blue abstract geometry
Located in Burlingame, CA
Artist Jill Keller Peters is a colorist whose abstract color-field oil paintings communicate ideas through color. By juxtaposing pure and vivid hues...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Resurgence
Located in Burlingame, CA
Artist Jill Keller Peters is a colorist whose abstract color-field oil paintings communicate ideas through color. By juxtaposing pure and vivid hues that speak to each other when com...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Raraskadeedle, Abstract Painting
By Courtney Jacobs
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
This piece was inspired by the vibrant cheerful colors. Metallic and interference colors were used to create a vibrant effect. This piece is on gallery wrapp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Raraskadoot, Abstract Painting
By Courtney Jacobs
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
This piece was inspired by the vibrant cheerful colors. Metallic and interference colors were used to create a vibrant effect. This piece is on gallery wrapped canvas and the painting continues around the sides. It comes varnished and ready to hang.
About the Artist
Courtney Jacobs...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Mirror Reflection
By Craig Mooney
Located in Napa, CA
Craig Mooney makes paintings of dramatic moments and heightened emotionality that are known for being expansive and expressive. Though a representational painter, the artist incorpor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Reflections on Crossing XXXVI
By Anne Subercaseaux
Located in Burlingame, CA
Shades of cool clear pool blue, aqua grey - with refreshing colors of water in Anne Subercaseaux's wonderful 'Reflections on Crossing XXVI, oil on canvas. Anne Subercaseaux finds sub...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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