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Item Ships From: Chicago
Brooklyn Fire Escape, Mixed Media on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Paper mounted on black illustration board with hanging system on back. Featured in the inaugural issue of the Vexed Sphere 1 companion zine, complementing a various artists release of North American techno tracks (April 2021). I lived in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn from 2000-2006. My railroad apartment’s fire escape...
Category
Early 2000s Other Art Style Chicago - Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Books and Tea (Being and Time)
By Benjamin Duke
Located in Chicago, IL
Ben Duke
b. 1977 Louisville, KY
Education
2006 M.F.A., Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2002 B.F.A., University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
2001 Summer School of Music and Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Selected Exhibitions
2017 Distortion, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL
Coming Attractions: Inaugural Exhibition, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL
2015 The Suburbs Eyes: Picturing the Sprawl, (invitational), Ernestine M Raclin Gallery, Indiana University, South Bend, IN
2014 21 and Counting, The Painting Center, New York City, NY
A River Without Banks, Paul Collins Art Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI
The Contemporary Figure, Ben Duke and Robert McCann, Moss-Thron Gallery of Art, Fort Hays, KS
2013 Benjamin Swallow Duke and Nathan Barnes, Emerson Center for the Arts and Culture, Bozeman, MT
Benjamin Swallow Duke and Esther Randall, Rosewood Gallery, Kettering, OH
Thresholds, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
2012 Sublime Rupture, Target Gallery, Catalog with Essay by Dominique Nahas, Alexandria, VA
2011 Identity In Itself, Lapham Gallery, Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Center, Glens Falls, NY
Benjamin Duke, Tony Shumsky, Roy G. Biv Gallery, Columbus, OH
Upheaval, [traveling solo exhibition] University Art Gallery, Saginaw Valley State University, Saginaw, MI
2010 Kuandu Museum Residency Show and Open Studio, Kuandu Museum of Fine Art, Taipei, Taiwan
Biennial Faculty Exhibition, Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, MI
Art Chicago, Merchandise Mart, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
Upheaval, [traveling solo exhibition] Cloyde Snook Gallery, Adams State College, Alamosa, CO
Floating, Fitton Art Center, Hamilton, OH
2009 Disrupted Particulars, Macomb Center for the Performing Arts, Clinton Township, MI
Art Chicago, Merchandise Mart, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
Notwishstanding, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
SOFA (Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art), 7th Regiment Armory, Ann Nathan Gallery, New York, NY
Biennial 25, South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, IN
2008 We Drew a Circle and Called it and Island, Garden City Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan
Benjamin Duke and Teresa Dunn, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha, WI
Imaginary Cities, Moraine Valley Community College, Palos Hills, IL
Awakening, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007 SOFA (Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art), 7th Regiment Armory, Ann Nathan Gallery, New York, NY
Art Chicago, Merchandise Mart, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
Palm Beach 3, Palm Beach County Convention Center, Ann Nathan Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL
Above and Beyond, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
Darkness: World and Culture, Caladan Gallery, Beverly, MA
Baker Arts Center 10th National Juried Exhibition, Liberal, KS
Nude International, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY
2006 Launch: Graduate Thesis Show, Baltimore, MD (solo)
Second Chance: Brewer’s Art, Baltimore, MD (solo)
Biennial Faculty Exhibition, Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, MI
Academy 2006, Conner Contemporary, Washington, DC.
Opening Exhibition, Touchet Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Only Human, School 33, Baltimore, MD
Go Figure, Maryland Federation of Art, Baltimore, MD
2005 Emerging Artists, Maryland Federation of Art, Baltimore, MD
real vs. Real, City Café, Baltimore, MD
Artscape Art Fair, Baltimore, MD
Group Show, Hoffberger Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2004 Clamor, Rose Wagner Center for the Arts, Salt Lake City, UT (solo)
Boxing, Fox Gallery...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Art
Materials
Panel, Oil
Untitled #5 - Two Entwined Figures, Original Graphite Drawing on Panel
By Rick Sindt
Located in Chicago, IL
"Untitled #5" is a graphite drawing by Rick Sindt. The two figures are entwined peacefully in this small portrait. The graphite is reminiscent of the old ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Chicago - Art
Materials
Panel, Graphite
Extravagant Dance, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Nathalie Gribinski
Located in Yardley, PA
This painting is telling a story. There are a lot of different characters. Characters are communicating and connecting like in an extravagant dance. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Chicago - Art
Materials
Oil
Lost in Dinard, Surreal Architectural Landscape with Two Figures by Ben Duke
By Benjamin Duke
Located in Chicago, IL
This small surreal landscape shows a line of row houses that are exaggerated and seemingly floating off the panel on which they are painted along with what seem to be seeds from the over sized plant. The two figures depicted are central to the composition - one on the phone and one with his back toward the viewer but we wonder what they are doing. Possibly the title, "Lost in Dinard" give us that clue.
Ben Duke...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Cities in Dust II, Drawing, Pen & Ink on Other
Located in Yardley, PA
Colored pencil and pen drawing on illustration board. 5 x 7". Created during a live art event, Club LeBon: Satellite at Chicago's Epiphany Center for the Arts. :: Drawing :: Illustra...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Chicago - Art
Materials
Pen
Cities in Dust III, Drawing, Pen & Ink on Other
Located in Yardley, PA
Colored pencil and pen drawing on illustration board. 5 x 7". Created during a live art event, Club LeBon: Satellite at Chicago's Epiphany Center for the Arts. :: Drawing :: Illustra...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Chicago - Art
Materials
Pen
Vintage Chinese Advertisement Poster, c. 1930
Located in Chicago, IL
This advertising poster from the 1930s melds the meticulous detail of traditional Chinese painting with the craft of color lithography that was popularized in China during the econom...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco Chicago - Art
Materials
Paper, Ink
George, Portrait of an Older Male, Raku Fired Ceramic
By Pavel Amromin
Located in Chicago, IL
Pavel Amromin
George
raku fired ceramic
17h x 15w x 9d in
43.18h x 38.10w x 22.86d cm
PAM002
Pavel G. Amromin
EXHIBITIONS
2017 SOFA: Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
2009 Pavel Amromin: Adventure Bound, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
SOFA: Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art, New York, NY
2008 SOFA: Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art, New York, NY
38th Annual Ceramics Exhibition, Crossman Gallery, UW Whitewater, WI
2007 SOFA: Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art, Chicago, IL
SOFA: Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art, New York, NY
2006 SOFA: Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art, Chicago, IL
The Toy Soldier Collection - MFA Thesis Exhibition, University Gallery, University of Florida...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Art
Materials
Ceramic
Untitled #6 - Original Graphite Drawing on Panel, Two Figures in Intimate Moment
By Rick Sindt
Located in Chicago, IL
"Untitled #6" is a graphite drawing by Rick Sindt. The central figure is gazing onto the other with such intensity yet that is offset by the gentle caress of the hair. The graphite...
Category
2010s Contemporary Chicago - Art
Materials
Panel, Graphite
Pause - Graphite Drawing on Panel of Two Male Figures
By Rick Sindt
Located in Chicago, IL
"Pause" by Rick Sindt is a small graphite drawing of two male figures - one gazing directly at the viewer. We, the viewer, seem to be interrupting this i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Chicago - Art
Materials
Panel, Graphite
"Power Force, " Acrylic Paint on Canvas, 2003
Located in Chicago, IL
Power Force was an American-made martial arts movie from 1991. It starred Alphonse Beni, a Cameroonian born movie star as a crime-fighting ninja. Frequently unable to import official posters, theaters in Ghana hired enterprising artists to create and embellish designs to promote the films in their own style. The result is a whole new genre collected worldwide. In this work by Ghanian artist...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Chicago - Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Andy Griffith on Train in Nashville, 1961, Black and White Photograph
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Famed Mayberry Sheriff Andy Taylor, (AKA, Andy Griffith) is show here in uniform enjoying a train ride. The photograph was taken by Art Shay in Nashvill...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Awakening at Gordia - Highly Detailed, Surreal and Symbolic, Acrylic on Panel
By Oliver Hazard Benson
Located in Chicago, IL
This painting, like each of the paintings in the Purple Dawn series, is based on an earlier work that was lost or destroyed in the course of time. Feeling that I wanted to finish wha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Art
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Dagon Calapesce, Symbolic Male Warrior Figure Surrounded by Water, Acrylic/Panel
By Oliver Hazard Benson
Located in Chicago, IL
Oliver Hazard Benson
Dagon Colapesce
acrylic on panel
11h x 14w in
27.94h x 35.56w cm
OB0106
Oliver Hazard’s paintings are produced directly from his imagination and deals with a mi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Chicago - Art
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
"Dancing Til Dawn, " Mixed-Media Kite, 2022
By Michael Thompson
Located in Chicago, IL
Chicago-based artist Michael Thompson creates unique kites crafted from split bamboo frames covered with stretched muslin and a collage of vintage Asian ephemera - including fragment...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Chicago - Art
Materials
Muslin, Silk, Wood
Lovejoy AKA Brooklyn, Illinois, Sisters for Ebony Magazine, 1952, by Art Shay
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art Shay
Brooklyn: Sisters, 1952
silver gelatin print
24.25 x 20.25 framed
ASY103
Art Shay photographed the community of Brooklyn, IL for Ebony Magazine, 1952. These photographs are the result of that experience.
Brooklyn (popularly known as Lovejoy), is a village in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States. Located two miles north of East St. Louis, Illinois and three miles northeast of downtown St. Louis, Missouri, it is the oldest town incorporated by African Americans in the United States. It was founded by freed and fugitive slaves from St. Louis, led by "Mother" Priscilla Baltimore in the period of 1829 to 1839. Its motto is "Founded by Chance, Sustained by Courage".
“Art Shay’s photography shakes you up, sets you down gently, pats you on the head and then kicks you in the ass.” Roger Ebert
“[Shay’s work] ranks with some of the greats of the 20th century.” Ellen & Richard Sandor, Renowned photo collectors
“I’ve admired Art Shay’s work for almost forty years, and he keeps getting better. He can do anything with a camera, but what he mostly does is capture real moments and transform them into visual poetry. His work continues to be an inspiration to me.” William Friedkin, Director of French Connection
“Art Shay is one of our finest photographers. His work over the past fifty years has artfully captured the beauty, humor, and pathos of America.” Studs Terkel “Art Shay is one of the best photojournalists I know. I’ve been a fan of his work since the early 1950s - before the launch of playboy magazine.” Hugh Hefner
Algren, Terkel, Royko, they gave us a voice. Art Shay gave us a face.” Tony Fitzpatrick, Chicago Artist
“Art Shay is America’s Cartier-Bresson.” Thomas Dyja, author of The Third Coast
“Chicago’s Art Shay in many ways is to American photography what Nelson Algren was to American writing: that rare and absolutely necessary citizen who’s blessed with a cold eye, a clear head, and a warm heart. What is it about Chicago that keeps giving us men like this?” Russell Banks, Novelist
“The best images of Simone de Beauvoir and her times have been passed down to us by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Gisele Freund, Robert Doisneau, Georges Brassai, and in America, the Chicago-based Art Shay, all world-class photographers.” Christophe Loviny, Art Editor, Paris
“Art Shay is the best photo-journalist Chicago ever produced.” Arthur Siegel...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Little Blue Houses - Oil Still Life Landscape with Rural and Urban Symbolism
By Mark Bowers
Located in Chicago, IL
Mark Bowers- Artist Statement
With the depiction of landscape playing such a central role in the history of North American art, it seemed to offer many of the critical possibilities I was looking for, and it felt more and more like something I have always known. Something I could easily apply, stage, and manipulate as a diary. My work consists of small-scale highly detailed landscape paintings. They are inspired by the comfort, trepidation, and beauty found in the mundane Chicago Suburbs. I combine nature, decorative house wares, municipal structures, and personal artifacts to hint at current life and future implications in the orchestration of these elements. Each work in the series is a portrait of a search for markers on a journey, an attempt to learn from what is palpable and to appreciate the intangible. The paintings are meant to suggest the truth in the un-idealized moment--the actual truth only exists off the edges of my canvas, off stage, and in the experience of the viewer. Painting the objects in these compositions is like positioning characters on stage in a play, each adding to the dramatization
Mark Bowers
Little Blue Houses
oil on panel
15h x 30w in
38.10h x 76.20w cm
MJB008
Mark Bowers
b. 1977
St. Joseph, MI
Exhibitions
2013 American Painting Today: Physical and Visceral, Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, MI
2012 Fort Wayne Art Museum, Contemporary Realism Biennial, Fort Wayne, IN
Rockford Art Museum Midwestern Biennial, Rockford, IL
Ann Brierly Gallery, Winnetka, IL
2009 Art Chicago, Represented by Ann Nathan Gallery, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL
Ann Brierly Gallery, Winnetka, IL
2007 Beverly Arts Center Biennial, Chicago, IL
Ann Brierly Gallery, Winnetka, IL
2005 Ann Brierly Gallery, Winnetka, IL
2003 Ann Brierly Gallery, Winnetka, IL
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2001 The Box Factory Gallery, St. Joseph, MI
2000 John G. Blank Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN
Michigan State...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Untitled Flotsam
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
In my sculpture, I have always combined unrelated materials to represent oppositions such as hard and soft, ephemeral and enduring, open and closed, and natural an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Chicago - Art
Materials
Mixed Media
The Belltower of Piza, a Pleine Aire Study in Pen and Chalk, Matted and Framed
By Christopher Ganz
Located in Chicago, IL
A beautiful pleine aire study of the Leaning Bell Tower of Pisa is by Christopher Ganz. This drawing is matted and framed in a metallic frame measuring 17.5h x 14w inches.
Christopher Ganz
The Belltower of Piza
colored pens & chalk
11h x 8w in
27.94h x 20.32w cm
CG0003
-ARTIST STATEMENT-
I depict my person in multiplicity with different selves representing dramatis
personae. My likeness is both implicit and symbolic in the portrayal of my
narrative; the drama involved in creating art and the artist’s role in society. I
use realism to invite the viewer into mysterious inner worlds that are layered
reflections of the outer. Dehumanizing environments are imbued with art
historical references as a critique of power structures. The artist is an
Everyman who is at odds with society and his self.
Visually my work is a celebration of society’s dark undercurrents and its
overlooked absurdities. I use charcoal and printmaking media as their
tenebrous values add a fitting metaphor. The nuances of light and shadow
seduce viewers into a world their better judgment would have them avoid.
This provokes a sense of disquietude that causes viewers to assess our world
through the austerity of a colorless, yet not humorless, light.
-BIO-
Christopher Ganz grew up in Northeast Ohio and from early on had a fertile imagination and an interest in art. Christopher's artistic education truly began at the University of Missouri, where his love of the human form led to many figure drawing classes and his exposure to the wonders of printmaking. Christopher's then went onto graduate school at Indiana University and a summer abroad program in Italy was a dream realized. Christopher then grasped charcoal with a renewed vigor and large, sfumato-laden drawings ensued. Christopher's artistic influences are many; from a seminal exposure to Dore's engravings of the Divine Comedy, to Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Goya, and up to Lucian Freud, Mark Tansey...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Art
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Pen
Dancing butterflies, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Nathalie Gribinski
Located in Yardley, PA
This abstract painting has been created with acrylics on canvas. In Dancing Butterflies, contrasts, light, and darkness create a dynamic tension full of strength and determination...
Category
2010s Abstract Chicago - Art
Materials
Acrylic
Princess with Horns, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Nathalie Gribinski
Located in Yardley, PA
This painting has been created for an event. Bold, elegant, blunt, ‘mechant’ characters that tell a myriad of tales and possibilities evoking a mystical, fantasy world. :: Pa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Chicago - Art
Materials
Oil
The Music Mind, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Nathalie Gribinski
Located in Yardley, PA
This painting is telling a story. There are a lot of different characters. We all don't see the same things but overall this means love and interaction. :: Painting :: Abstract :: Th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Chicago - Art
Materials
Oil
FREEDOM, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Joseph Korom
Located in Yardley, PA
Silent and subtle are two adjectives which best describe this exquisite composition. Colors peak from color fields which disturb settled and rested areas of ...
Category
2010s Abstract Chicago - Art
Materials
Acrylic
Pansies, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Nathalie Gribinski
Located in Yardley, PA
Deep emotions with the smell of the South of France. My first time to paint pansies. In French, those flowers mean "thought" :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an offic...
Category
2010s Abstract Chicago - Art
Materials
Acrylic
working the Line, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Nathalie Gribinski
Located in Yardley, PA
I have introduced some white in my paintings for a short time, returning to a 2000 style. This one, named "Working the Line," parallels the movie "Walking the Line" Those abstract sh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Chicago - Art
Materials
Acrylic
"Spring, " Mixed Media Mosaic, 2021
Located in Chicago, IL
Intricate, ethereal and highly textured, the abstract compositions of Japanese mosaic artist Toyoharu Kii reflect a sophisticated approach to the technical art of mosaic making. Clas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Chicago - Art
Materials
Marble
Clarity, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Nathalie Gribinski
Located in Yardley, PA
Abstract art created with my hands and acrylics on primed canvas. It can be hung as is like a tapestry, stretched or framed. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an offic...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Chicago - Art
Materials
Acrylic
"Ghost (Waiting for Friends), " Mixed Media Mosaic, 2022
Located in Chicago, IL
Intricate, ethereal and highly textured, the abstract compositions of Japanese mosaic artist Toyoharu Kii reflect a sophisticated approach to the technical art of mosaic making. Clas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Art
Materials
Marble
Chinese Yangliuqing New Year Painting, Ink and Lacquer on Paper
Located in Chicago, IL
Chinese New Year paintings (nian hua) are colorful folk paintings created to celebrate the annual Spring Festival. Drawn or printed by folk artists in regional studios, nian hua paintings featured exaggerated characters with bright and contrasting colors. Put up around the home to beckon luck and happiness in the coming year, most paintings depicted mythical guardians, scenes from folk operas, or auspicious symbols of good luck.
This New Year painting depicts a young woman holding a vase filled with peony blossoms. This combination of motifs is a visual idiom for "may you have peace and prosperity" (ping'an fu gui). The early 20th century painting is from the town of Yangliuqing, one of the leading producers of traditional New Year's paintings known for its combination of woodblock printing...
Category
Early 20th Century Folk Art Chicago - Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pigment
Mosaic Sky, Original Oil on Canvas (Abstract)
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
The Middle East is a treasure trove of beautiful enduring architecture and detailing. The cities and urban art lasts forever.
Keywor...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Chicago - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pair of Framed Chinese Ancestor Portraits, Ink and Pigment on Paper
Located in Chicago, IL
Believing that the departed continue to hold influence over the lives of the living, many Chinese households honor their ancestors in private family rituals, invoking their spirits for long life, health, and prosperity. Commemorative portraits, which came into vogue in the late Ming and Qing dynasties, were commissioned specifically for ancestor worship and were believed to house the spirits of the deceased. When properly cared for, one's ancestors were believed to be a powerful source of honor, protection, and good luck.
This pair of ancestor portraits was hand-painted in the 19th century and beautifully depicts a Qing-dynasty couple. While some ancestral portraits offer a more stylized representation of one's ancestors, this particular pair is painted with incredible realism and life-like expressions. Rather than depict the pair in a regal hall wearing elaborate finery, the couple is shown in a quiet home environment, seated at either end of a square tea table. Their surroundings are minimal, practically undecorated, and they wear simple, matching blue silk robes...
Category
Late 19th Century Qing Chicago - Art
Materials
Pigment, Ink, Paper
On Distant Shores #3
Located in Los Angeles, CA
THE COLOR OF WATER
Lake Michigan blue sits at the pastel confluence of green, grey and cyan on the nearby shoreline. In truth, the color of the lake is as transitory as Chicago weather. The shade of blue is widely determined by the reflection of the sky above and the organic material and sediment carried below.
I recently learned that invasive mussel species have slowly transformed the lake from green to bluer over the past two decades. I often return to the water’s edge to document the color of a given day.
Susan Isaacson...
Category
2010s Abstract Chicago - Art
Materials
Archival Paper
Wild Bouquet, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Nathalie Gribinski
Located in Yardley, PA
This painting is telling a story. There are a lot of different characters. We all don't see the same things but overall this means love and interaction. The shapes communicate with e...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Chicago - Art
Materials
Oil
Spring Fever (Abstract Painting)
By Martina Nehrling
Located in London, GB
Spring Fever (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on canvas — Unframed.
Martina Nehrling is an American abstract artist whose dynamic and richly textured paintings evoke kaleidoscopic worlds...
Category
2010s Abstract Chicago - Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Framed Hmong Appliqué Textile Fragment
Located in Chicago, IL
Dating to the mid-20th century, this colorful Hmong textile is a classic example of the appliqué technique used for the traditional cloth known as paj n...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Chicago - Art
Materials
Textile
"Green in the Corners, " Mixed Media Mosaic, 2021
Located in Chicago, IL
Intricate, ethereal and highly textured, the abstract compositions of Japanese mosaic artist Toyoharu Kii reflect a sophisticated approach to the technical art of mosaic making. Clas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Chicago - Art
Materials
Marble
"Protector One" Folk Art Crow Sculpture
Located in Chicago, IL
Richly textured with whimsical appeal, this late 20th century wooden crow is a delightful example of naive American sculpture. Poised mid-caw, the crow's wings are outstretched, read...
Category
Late 20th Century Folk Art Chicago - Art
Materials
Wood, Paint
Spring Fever (Abstract Painting)
By Martina Nehrling
Located in London, GB
Spring Fever (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on canvas — Unframed.
Martina Nehrling is an American abstract artist whose dynamic and richly textured paintings evoke kaleidoscopic worlds...
Category
2010s Abstract Chicago - Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Pansy (New Flower), " Mixed Media Mosaic, 2021
Located in Chicago, IL
Intricate, ethereal and highly textured, the abstract compositions of Japanese mosaic artist Toyoharu Kii reflect a sophisticated approach to the technica...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Chicago - Art
Materials
Marble
Pie Eyed - Color Photograph, Kitchen, Food, Woman Artist, Dessert
By Patty Carroll
Located in Denton, TX
Pie-eyed by Patty Carroll is a color photograph depicting a woman in a red and white colored kitchen, surrounded by various baked desserts.
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of 15
Sign...
Category
2010s Contemporary Chicago - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Chinese Lunar New Year Painted Scroll
Located in Chicago, IL
In celebration of the lunar new year festival, it was traditional all over China to hang special decorations. In a city called Wuqiang, local artists made lacquer scroll paintings laden with symbolism. This framed and finely rendered 19th century folk painting from Wuqiang features an imperial court official and his family dressed in their best silks. The young boy is dressed in a wonderfully patterned yellow robe to offer Shou Xing...
Category
Mid-19th Century Qing Chicago - Art
Materials
Lacquer, Paper, Pigment
"Study for Caldwell 49, " Acrylic on Canvas, 2021
By Jan Pieter Fokkens
Located in Chicago, IL
The colorful paintings of Jan Pieter Fokkens transport us to distant worlds beyond our comprehension. Within his seemingly infinite networks of lines, dots, and crosses, he decodes t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Chicago - Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Chroma VI - Teardrop, Painting, Watercolor on Other
Located in Yardley, PA
2022 / 16 x 20 / Metallic watercolor and pen on black Canson illustration board Abstract metallic bubbles form a composition derived from dream state, representative of a teardrop. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Chicago - Art
Materials
Watercolor
"Maquette Car, " Mixed-Media Sculpture
Located in Chicago, IL
To Chicago-based artist Patrick Fitzgerald, his miniature car sculptures are a means of traveling through time. Born from a fascination with the soap box...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art Chicago - Art
Materials
Fabric, Wood, Paper, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
"Parts of Another, " Mixed Media Collage
By Michael Thompson
Located in Chicago, IL
Based in Chicago, IL, contemporary artist Michael Thompson creates unique kites, collages and mixed media works assembled from material fragments of past and present collected in his...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Chicago - Art
Materials
Paper, Monoprint
Enchanted Music, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Nathalie Gribinski
Located in Yardley, PA
This abstract painting has been created with acrylics on canvas. In Enchanted Music, contrasts, light, and darkness create a dynamic tension full of strength and determination. This...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Chicago - Art
Materials
Acrylic
Magic Butterfly, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Nathalie Gribinski
Located in Yardley, PA
Painting created with oil markers on canvas in 2001. The piece is part of the "Original Tourlicoulis" series. Those drawings/paintings have germed from doodles created with pen on pa...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Chicago - Art
Materials
Oil
Woman in yellow, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Nathalie Gribinski
Located in Yardley, PA
This large painting is part of the "Strings of Life" series. It is ready to hang. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by t...
Category
2010s Abstract Chicago - Art
Materials
Acrylic
Tornado of Lava, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Nathalie Gribinski
Located in Yardley, PA
This painting has been created with acrylics on canvas. It is ready to hang. :: Painting :: Abstract Expressionism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity si...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chicago - Art
Materials
Acrylic
Rice Paddy II, Madagascar by Cristina Mittermeier
By Cristina Mittermeier
Located in Chicago, IL
"Rice Paddy II"
Madagascar, 2009
20 × 30 in / 50.8 x 76.2 cm / Edition of 6 - $4,500
Also available:
32 x 48 in / 81.3 x 121.9 cm / Edition of 6 - $7,500
40 × 60 in / 101.6 × 152....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Rice Paddy I, Madagascar by Cristina Mittermeier
By Cristina Mittermeier
Located in Chicago, IL
"Rice Paddy I"
Madagascar, 2009
20 × 30 in / 50.8 x 76.2 cm / Edition of 6 - $4,500
Also available:
32 x 48 in / 81.3 x 121.9 cm / Edition of 6 - $7,500
40 × 60 in / 101.6 × 152.4 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Beethoven, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Nathalie Gribinski
Located in Yardley, PA
Painting created with Oil markers and acrylics on canvas. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Ha...
Category
2010s Abstract Chicago - Art
Materials
Oil
"Patterned Soul, " Acrylic on Canvas, 2022
By Bruno Surdo
Located in Chicago, IL
Chicago-based fine art painter Bruno A. Surdo is classically trained in drawing and oil painting in the tradition of Renaissance masters. With strong command of the human form, Surdo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Chicago - Art
Materials
Acrylic
Inflamed ship, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Nathalie Gribinski
Located in Yardley, PA
This large painting has been created with acrylics on canvas. It is ready to hang. :: Painting :: Abstract Expressionism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authentic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chicago - Art
Materials
Acrylic
Japanese Riverside Landscape Scroll, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Although Western painting was initially embraced during Japan’s Meiji period (1868–1912), artists brought on a revival of traditional painting styles as they sought to create a moder...
Category
Early 20th Century Chicago - Art
Materials
Silk, Paper, Ink
"Lady in a Striped Dress, " Ceramic Sculpture
Located in Chicago, IL
Although this whimsical sculpture by Allan Winkler has the look of outsider art, this ceramic work stems from the art school-trained artist’s interest in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Chicago - Art
Materials
Ceramic, Glaze
La Mano, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Nathalie Gribinski
Located in Yardley, PA
This painting is part of the original Tourlicoulis series. This is my early work. It is created with oil markers on canvas. My first creative endeavors birthed small, whimsical char...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Chicago - Art
Materials
Oil
Where the Winds Blow by Osama Esber - Contemporary Photography
Located in Chicago, IL
Available Sizes:
16” x 20” Edition of 25 with 3 Artist Proofs
20” x 24” Edition of 10 with 3 Artist Proofs
30” x 40” Edition of 7 with 3 Artist Proofs
Artist Poem on "Where the Win...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Brush of Reflections by Osama Esber - Contemporary Photography
Located in Chicago, IL
Available Sizes:
16” x 20” Edition of 25 with 3 Artist Proofs
20” x 24” Edition of 10 with 3 Artist Proofs
30” x 40” Edition of 7 with 3 Artist Proofs
Artist Poem on "The Brush of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
