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Musical Instrument
By Natasha Tayles
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Canvas is like a "Musical Instrument" to write lyrics with imagination, thoughts and emotions using paints and brushes.
About the Artist
Vibrant co...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Reflections on Crossing XXXVIII
By Anne Subercaseaux
Located in Burlingame, CA
Warm shadows and cascading light are the focus of this sophisticated abstract oil on canvas painting by artist Anne Subercaseaux, whose gleaming oil paintings realistically bridge u...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled" is an oil painting on canvas by noted American artist Ruth Wall, 1917-2009. It is signed in the back by the artist. The canvas size is 10.15 x 20 inches, framed size is 13.85 x 22.75. It is custom framed in a wooden gold frame. The painting is in excellent condition, the frame has some scratches and will be replaced if buyer wish, by a similar (not exactly the same) gold frame when is sold. It will be done at no extra cost. This will bring the over all condition to excellent.
About the artist:
Ruth A. Wall was born in Wyoming on September 10, 1917 but moved to a homestead on an Indian reservation in Uintah, Utah in 1919. After graduating from high school at age 16 she left home to attend college, graduating at age 20 and began teaching high school at age 21.
She moved to Los Angeles where she became an Army materials inspector during WWII. She moved to Northern California and became a pilot, but entered the service as a WAC. Here she trained as a physical therapist and became an officer. She remained in the service until 1949.
In 1950 she entered the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco, studying there until leaving for Paris in 1952 where she moved into the Academie Frochot. Returning to the CSFA in 1955 she worked as an artist until she had to take a job to make a living in 1957. Most of her work in printmaking was done in 1952, before leaving for Paris. They are, for the most part, gestural, Abstract Expressionist lithographs, done on the press at the CSFA at night after everyone had gone home. Her teachers were James Budd Dixon, Robert McChesney and, after 1955, Nate Oliviera and fellow students included James Kelly...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Eclipse
By Javier Arizmendi-Kalb
Located in Burlingame, CA
Mexican-American visual artist Javier Arizmendi-Kalb’s expressive and texturally rich paintings are
nuanced with symbolic and narrative motif in oil a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Sombra de Volcan
By Javier Arizmendi-Kalb
Located in Burlingame, CA
Mexican-American visual artist Javier Arizmendi-Kalb’s expressive and texturally rich paintings are
nuanced with symbolic and narrative motif in oil a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Construct
By Jennifer Davenport
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Construct" 1989 is an acrylic painting on paper laid on cardboard by American artist Jennifer Davenport. It is signed and dater at the lower right corner by the ...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Small Nocturnal #2
Located in San Francisco, CA
This painting by Michasel Tyzack (1933-2007) is a bold composition with an equally bold palette. It measures 36 in x 64 in (91cm x 162 cm) and is composed of acrylic on canvas. The background colors are some kind of wash The piece is titled "Small Nocturnal #2" and dated 1981. It is signed en verso on the stretcher "Michael Tyzack...
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Ether Sans Oiseaux I & II (Ether without Birds) Oil on Linen diptych - CLOUDS
By Frédéric Choisel
Located in Burlingame, CA
Ether Sans Oiseaux I & II (Ether without Birds) Elegant sophisticated whites and creams of the clouds on rich blue sky. Diptych French American Frédéric Choisel, has had multiple so...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Parisian Flip / assemblage painting
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Woman with billowing skirt and french curls in red, blue and black, 'Parisian Fllip' from multidisciplinary visual artist Kim Frohsin, who created the series, 'Dancers and Athletes',...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Photographic Paper
Hana-Bi 5
By Frédéric Choisel
Located in Burlingame, CA
The Hana-Bi 5 — luminous oil on linen. Dimensions are 50 x 50 inches.
French American Frédéric Choisel, is inspired by the cities and countrysides of France, New York, and Californ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Entropy 42 / contemporary color - math + sciene + art
By Jylian Gustlin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Abstract geometric mixed media painting with acrylic, ink, polymers, and layers of complex and beautiful lines and marks that delve into the connection between mathematics and scienc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Epoxy Resin, Acrylic Polymer, Acrylic, Panel
Invitation to the Paradise #11
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Sakurai Takami - Japanese (1928-2016)
Title: Invitation to the Paradise ST#11
Year: circa 1972
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Sight size: 18 x 24 inches.
Framed size: 21 x 27 inches
Signature: Unsigned. Label on old frame
Condition: Very good
Frame: Framed in original frame. Frame in poor condition
This oil on canvas is by the noted avant garde Japanese artist Sakurai Takami (1928-2016). It was created sometime between 1971, when Takami lived in San Francisco and was a member of and exhibited with the “Konnyaku Commune” and 1978 when he exhibited with the Vorpal Gallery in San Francisco. This painting was purchased from the Vorpal Gallery. The painting is in very good condition. It is unsigned, but the title is on the side of the metal frame. The frame is fine, but the mat is stained and in poor condition. I will include the frame for protection and provenance.
Sakurai was a main member of the avant-garde art group “Kyushu-ha”. Kyushu-ha” created a major trend among contemporary art in post-war Japan, which spread from Fukuoka to the whole country and also France, the United States and other overseas countries. Throughout his life he was very dramatic; his enormous and diverse works are energetic and face us with the true meaning of expression. Initially his main focus was on informal paintings, but it gradually expanded towards anti-artistic objects and performances. His works are characterized by the usage of materials that are connected with the smell of a workers life, such as coal tar, asphalt, woven mats and dungarees (jute bag).
Shortly after Kyushu-ha disbanded in 1968, Sakurai Takami moved to San Francisco. From 1973 onward, he lived in France. The people and faces in Sakurai’s paintings are coloured red, so that the colour, a symbol of heat, becomes a “social sign”. Each person has a life of their own, while at the same time expressing the colourful life of human communities, like the hippies.
His theme may be drawing “humanity and the universe” with a loving embrace of “peace” and “life”.
1953 graduated Fukuoka Liberal Arts University
1955 40th Nika Art Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
1956 Persona Exhibition, outer west side of the Fukuoka prefectural office
1957-68 part of Kyushu-ha
1965 went to the United States (~’67)
1970 “Kanousei e no Ishi“ Kitakyushu Hachiman Museum of Art
Kyushu: Trends in Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Fukuoka Bunka Hall
Sakurai Takami solo exhibition, Fukuoka Bunka Hall
went to the United States for the second time, started working with the konyaku commune (San Francisco)
1971 Konyaku Revolution Art Exhibition (San Francisco)
1973 Nagoya mayor nominating election convention, Azabu public hall
moved to France
1974 formed the group “Kusuguri” (Paris)
1975 7th...
Category
1970s Other Art Style Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Shadow Play
By Anne Subercaseaux
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Shadow Plat' is 40.5 x 37 inches. Anne Subercaseaux's gleaming paintings realistically bridge urban with rural in the form of representational fragmented depictions of contemporary architecture, including city structures, roadways, and bridges as they intersect with natural shadows and light. There is an ethereal quality to her meditative images that celebrate the natural abstract beauty all around us. Artist signed, titled and dated verso. Condition is excellent.
Anne Subercaseaux - Shadow Play...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Agora Project No. 3
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 creat...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Winter Lights / abstract realism, minimalism, calm monochrome
By Anne Subercaseaux
Located in Burlingame, CA
Anne Subercaseaux's resplendent paintings offer calm in an otherwise hurried world. In 'Winter Lights', shades of grey are at play in the 18 x 24 inch vertical oil on canvas painting.
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
Tectonic Plates no. 19
By Stephen Henriques
Located in Burlingame, CA
A bold, intensely color-saturated painting from Stephen Henriques, who is influenced by Bonnard and Vuillard, and the western landscape and its light. When referring to his oil on ab...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Carousels and Cotton Candy (original vibrant colorful abstract)
By Jane Burton
Located in Maricopa, AZ
Original vibrant abstract painting by Jane Burton. Her work can be found in public and private collections all over the country, and also in Canada. The artist uses a variety of tech...
Category
2010s Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
A Few Weeks
By Ryan Reynolds
Located in Burlingame, CA
Ryan Reynolds’ Continuum series conveys concepts of time and space within a single landscape painting. Reynolds takes his inspiration from Claude Monet’s Rouen Cathedral...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Noonan Junk Sink no. 1
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Noonan Junk Sink no. 1' featured in the historic San Francisco, Pier 70, mixed media painting with mainly acrylic paint. The 'Dog Patch' region in San Francisco is under mass change...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Grey with Red - minimalist meditative quiet
By Irene Zweig
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Nocturne with Red' from Irene Zweig, where intellect, science, mathematics and order are at play in shades of calm blue, silver, grey and white, in the abstract mixed media painting...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor
The Persistence of Impermanence
By Erin Parish
Located in Burlingame, CA
mysterious pale blues with gold and earthly neutral color are at play in this original painting, created in oil and resin with mixed media on canvas by artist Erin Parish between 201...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Resin, Oil, Mixed Media
Metamorphosis no. 3
By Elena Zolotnitsky
Located in Burlingame, CA
Dramatic small-scale painting created with oil on mylar mounted on panel by Russian-American artist Elena Zolotnitsky that depicts a “chair” from her “Extinct series” of paintings that features abandoned chairs. Artwork is 6 x 6 inches, Professionally framed 7 x 7 inches. Elena Zolotnitsky is Inspired by the concepts of beauty, adolescence, and passing time. She seeks to create works that are alive with the raw physicality of paint, to which viewers can relate on an emotional level. Artist signed, titled, and dated verso. The condition is new and excellent. Proudly presented by Andra Norris...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Oil, Panel
Backflipping Stop / assemblage painting
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Diver diving, doing a backflip, in the blue and black, grey and green vertical work of original art, 'Backflipping Stop' from multidisciplinary visual artist Kim Frohsin, who created...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Photographic Paper
Lyric Abstract Watercolor
By June Felter
Located in San Francisco, CA
This abstract watercolor is by June Felter (1919-2019), noted San Francisco Bay Area artist. It measures 18.5 x 22 inches (28.5 x 31 inches framed). It is ...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Paravela
By René Romero Schuler
Located in Napa, CA
René Romero Schuler is an American painter and sculptor who creates powerful images that speak to the complexities of the human condition and the spirit that connects all human being...
Category
2010s Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Summer Breeze
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
Lyrical Series no. 9
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
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
Rich Life
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
Abstract Oil on Paper
By Leon Wall
Located in San Francisco, CA
C. 20th Century - 1940's Abstract Oil on Paper Done by Leon Wall ( 1916 - 1980 )
Category
20th Century Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper
California Dreamin' Number 57 - important painting contemporary pop
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
"California Dreamin' No. 57" from Frohsin's Number's series 2010-2014. Painted in layers of mixed media: acrylic, gouache, pencils, ink on archival ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Crown
By David Shevlino
Located in Burlingame, CA
David Shevlino female figures beautifully link traditional representation with abstraction. Through Shevlino’s sensuous application of paint, his use of broad brushstrokes followed b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Relativity
Located in Burlingame, CA
Artist Jill Keller Peters abstract color-field oil paintings communicate ideas through color. By juxtaposing pure and vivid hues that speak to each other when combined, Keller Peters...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
No Me Lloras Mas
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 creat...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Wiispering (sic) Mama
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Sven Inge Hoglund – Swedish (1935-2008)
Title: Wispering (sic) Mama
Year: unknown. Circa 1990
Medium: Mixed media on Linen
Size: 39.5 x 28.75 inches.
Signature: Signed lower right and reverse
Condition: Very good
This gestural abstract is by Sven Inge Hoglund (aka Sven Inge). It is in good condition, with a highly worked and textured surface. It appears to be primarily oil paint with sand. The edges are painted black. Therefore, I believe the artist intended the painting to be without a frame.
Sven Inge (born Sven Inge Höglund, later Sven Inge Demonér 1995–2006) (February 22, 1935 – November 20, 2008) was a Swedish painter and pop artist who came to some prominence in the late 1960s, doing performed visual experiments with digital technology as an art medium, and coloristic paintings.
Sven Inge was born in Umeå in 1935 and grew up in a small village in Västerbotten in northern Sweden. From early age, he was interested in drawing and became involved in experimental art after moving to Sundsvall, and later to Stockholm by the early 1960s. At the end of the 1960s, he gained notability co-producing, together with Ture Sjölander and Lars Weck, the experimental video performances Monument (1968) and Space in the Brain (1969), both made for Swedish Television. In addition to video performances, he worked with static images of science fiction and space travel, as well as a number of monumental paintings. In 1972, Inge created the photographic work Glesbygdare, and in 1973 Kronotorpare. Later, Inge worked with computerized holographic art...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil
The Dreamers of the Dreams / acrylic and resin on canvas - blue triptych
By Erin Parish
Located in Burlingame, CA
Clear sea blue abstract oil and resin painting by Erin Parish, whose trademark works of art are marked by the repetition of circular forms and the influence of her diverse set of int...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Resin, Epoxy Resin, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Metamorphosis no. 4
By Elena Zolotnitsky
Located in Burlingame, CA
Dramatic small-scale painting created with oil on mylar mounted on panel by Russian-American artist Elena Zolotnitsky that depicts a “chair” from her “Extinct series” of paintings that features abandoned chairs. Artwork is 6 x 6 inches, Professionally framed 7 x 7 inches. Elena Zolotnitsky is Inspired by the concepts of beauty, adolescence, and passing time. She seeks to create works that are alive with the raw physicality of paint, to which viewers can relate on an emotional level. Artist signed, titled, and dated verso. The condition is new and excellent. Proudly presented by Andra Norris...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Oil, Panel
Abstract Composition #226
Located in San Francisco, CA
This vibrant abstract painting is immediately recognizable as the work of Hawaii-based artist Elan Vital. Vital’s art is unique not only in appearance, but ...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
$2,000 Sale Price
50% Off
Metamorphosis no. 5
By Elena Zolotnitsky
Located in Burlingame, CA
Dramatic small-scale painting created with oil on mylar mounted on panel by Russian-American artist Elena Zolotnitsky that depicts a “chair” from her “Extinct series” of paintings that features abandoned chairs. Artwork is 6 x 6 inches, Professionally framed 7 x 7 inches. Elena Zolotnitsky is Inspired by the concepts of beauty, adolescence, and passing time. She seeks to create works that are alive with the raw physicality of paint, to which viewers can relate on an emotional level. Artist signed, titled, and dated verso. The condition is new and excellent. Proudly presented by Andra Norris...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Oil, Panel
Number 38: Blue
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
Catalina Current 3
By Chase Langford
Located in Napa, CA
Inspired by cartography from an early age, Chase Langford’s abstract paintings transform the familiarity of cities and maps into fluid visions, evoking the feeling of the location wi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Melange II
By Irene Zweig
Located in Burlingame, CA
Geometric and serene in its complexity - abstract contemporary painting created with impeccable attention to detail by deconstructing original watercolors into dime sized rectangle c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Prayer Flags
Located in Burlingame, CA
Artist Jill Keller Peters abstract color-field oil paintings communicate ideas through color. By juxtaposing pure and vivid hues that speak to each other when combined, Keller Peters...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Melange III
By Irene Zweig
Located in Burlingame, CA
Geometric and serene in its complexity - abstract contemporary painting created with impeccable attention to detail by deconstructing original watercolors into dime sized rectangle c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Letters of Love and Longing 1 - Contemporary Painting (Pink+White+Blue)
By Laurie Barmore
Located in Gilroy, CA
"Letters of Love and Longing 1" is an original acrylic & mixed media painting by Washington-based artist Laurie Barmore. As in other works by Laurie Barmore, this piece is exploding...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
$2,500 Sale Price
20% Off
Synergy - celebrating reds
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
Untitled
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Julius Njau – Tanzanian (1961- )
Title: Untitled
Year: 1987
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Sight size: 27.5 x 36.5 inches.
Framed size: 29 x 38 inches
Signature: Signed, dated lower right
Condition: Very good
Frame: Framed in original frame. Frame in fair condition
This colorful painting of figures is by the well-known Tanzanian artist Julius Njau. It is in very good condition and signed “Julius N” and dated 1987 in the lower right. The frame is simple unfinished wood. It has a few small scratches
Tanzanian artist Julius Njau was born in 1961 Marangu, Moshi in Tanzania. He attended the Primary School Kilimanja. In 1972, a serious fracture of the leg caused him to spend two years in hospital where he began to paint and his career as an artist commenced. Julius was encouraged by a Finnish radiology specialist who supplied him with material and purchased his works. She also organized his first exhibition in Finland in 1983. The first works of Njau are very representative, inspired by the nature and the traditional aspects of his country. In 1984 his technique changed and his style transformed. Julius Njau paintings are characterised by the interaction of primary colors and the mixture of forms. Julius Njau's artworks works are part of the collection of Osaka Prefecture and Toyama Museum of Modern Art in Japan. They are also in the Frankfurt Museum of Ethnology (fur Volkerkunde), in the ZAK Gallery (Zeitgenossische afrikanische Kunst), Furth in Germany, in the Amos Anderson Helsinki Gallery, Finland, and in the 5th British Museum in England. In 2002, Julius Njau received a Nagoya City Hall Award and in 2003 the Grand Prize at the Toyama Prefecture International Competition at the "Sukiyaki Encounter the World" Poster Design Festival. Julius Njau is President and a founding member of the Marafiki group.
EXHIBITIONS
1983 'Julius Njau One Man Show' Amos Anderson Museum, Helsinki, Finland
1984 'Group Exhibition' Gallery of Denmark
1985 'Julius Njau One Man Show' Danish Volunteer Training Centre, Tanzania
1985 'Julius Njau One Man Show' Tynset, Norway
1985 'Julius Njau One Man Show' Gallery of Sweden
1986 'Julius Njau One Man Show' Danish Volunteer Training Centre, Tanzania
1987 'Julius Njau One Man Show' Gallery Watatu, Nairobi, Kenya
1988 'Julius Njau One Man Show' Vogue Gallery, Nairobi, Kenya
1988 'Julius Njau One Man Show' Centre culturel francais, Nairobi, Kenya
1989 'Julius Njau One Man Show' National Museum of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya
1990 'Into the Nineties' Gallery Watatu, Nairobi, Kenya
1990 'Portraits of Kenya' Gallery Watatu, Nairobi, Kenya
1991 'Gallery Artists' Gallery Watatu, Nairobi, Kenya
1991 'The Custodian's View' Gallery Watatu, Nairobi, Kenya
1991 'Julius Njau One Man Show' Nairobi Safari Club, Kenya
1991 'Julius Njau One Man Show' Nagoya City Network Centre, Nagoya, Japan
1991 'Julius Njau One Man Show' National Museum of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya
1991 'Julius Njau One Man Show' The German Culture Centers, Goethe Institut, Nairobi, Kenya
1992 'Julius Njau One Man Show' International Gallery, Madrid, Spain
1992 'Through the Artists' Eyes' Gallery Watatu, Nairobi, Kenya
1992 'Rafiki wa zamani' Gallery Watatu, Nairobi, Kenya
1992 'Kenya Art...
Category
1980s Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Richard Overstreet (American, 20th c.) Reclining Figure Pastel Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Richard Overstreet (American, 20th c.) Reclining Figure Pastel Painting
Brilliant original pastel painting by noted American artist Richard Overstr...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Gold Mask
By David Shevlino
Located in Burlingame, CA
David Shevlino female figures beautifully link traditional representation with abstraction. Through Shevlino’s sensuous application of paint, his use of broad brushstrokes followed by a tightening up of the composition, and his making of spontaneous, gestural marks, the artist creates living, breathing figures that not only stand before us, but move, beckon, and dance.
Gold Mask...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Water from Stone - Contemporary Abstract (Blue + Yellow + Green + Orange+ White)
By Laurie Barmore
Located in Gilroy, CA
Bursting with deep blues and various earth tones with orange, 'Water from Stone' is nothing less than an intimate capturing of the moment in which water crashes and falls off the roc...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Swing Out Sister! / mixed media: acrylic, assemblage
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Swing Out Sister!' from multidisciplinary visual artist Kim Frohsin, who created the series, 'Dancers and Athletes', from a variety of media—acrylic ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Photographic Paper
Cabana
Located in Burlingame, CA
Artist Jill Keller Peters abstract color-field oil paintings communicate ideas through color. By juxtaposing pure and vivid hues that speak to each other w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Calculated Conclusions, Abstract Painting
By Patricia Oblack
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Part of Patricia's signature series of modern abstract paintings, in which she blends colors and builds texture directly on the surface of the piece. "While I...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
puzzle
Located in Burlingame, CA
Artist Jill Keller Peters abstract color-field oil paintings communicate ideas through color. By juxtaposing pure and vivid hues that speak to each ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Turbulent Sky - 61 x 61 inches, circular canvas
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
Blue sky painting with sunlight shining through turbulent clouds with a warm hue. Created with a calm and etherial palette of blue, white, and lavender. Painted on a 5 foot circular canvas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Jack Roberts (American, 20th c.) Large Scale Acrylic Abstract Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Jack Roberts (American, 20th c.) Large Scale Acrylic Abstract Painting
Fantastic monumental abstract painting by listed artist Jack Roberts.
Beautiful c...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Because I Can, Abstract Painting
By Patricia Oblack
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Patricia describes this painting as a "three color separation blended into one." She says she worked to create balance between the sections to impart a soothi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Bramble and Rose
By Tatiana Iliina
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
This is an original palette knife flower painting. The sides of the canvas are painted dark gray.
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
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
Asymmetry II
By Anne Subercaseaux
Located in Burlingame, CA
Shades of grey are at play in 'Asymmetry II'' which is 36 x 48 inches, and is a clean and minimal oil on canvas painting by artist Anne Subercase...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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