Chicago - Paintings

"Leeward", by Christina Haglid, is a meticulously detailed watercolor. In a surreal scene, an orchid stem sprouts from a paper lantern in a boat. The calmness of the water and soft...

A secluded path leads into a dense woods begging the viewer to ask the question - what is beyond the path? "The Walk" is a small scale landscape painted with painstaking detail. Each leaf and blade of grass a rendered in tiny brush strokes making the painting feel much larger than it is. This oil on panel painting is framed in a silver and black wooden frame measuring 20.5 x 15 inches. "Pozas" René Monzón...

Silent and subtle are two adjectives which best describe this exquisite composition. Colors peak from color fields which disturb settled and rested areas of ...

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...

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...

This contemplative oil painting by Jeff Aeling captures spring in all its beauty. The redbud is in full bloom with its tiny bright pink flowers bringing the dormant winter woods into the rebirth of spring. Painted in a style that blends impressionist brush strokes in a realistic manner, this painting draws in the viewer with it's subtle mastery of paint. The painting is framed in a heavy black frame measuring 33.25h x 24.5h inches. Jeff Aeling Red Bud oil on panel 24h x 15.50w in 60.96h x 39.37w cm Education BFA, Painting and Printmaking, Kansas City Art Institute – Kansas City, MO School of the Art Institute of Chicago – Chicago, IL Solo Exhibitions 2016 Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO 2016 William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO 2015 Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL 2015 Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO 2014 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Tucson, AZ 2014 Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO 2013 Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL 2013 Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO 2012 Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO 2012 William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO 2011 Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO 2011 Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO 2010 Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL 2010 Richard Demato Fine Arts Gallery - Sag Harbor, NY 2010 William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO 2009 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Tucson, AZ 2009 Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO 2008 Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL 2008 William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO 2007 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Santa Fe, NM 2007 Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO 2007 Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO 2006 Tory Folliard Gallery - Milwaukee, WI 2006 William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO 2005 Lisa Kurts Gallery - Memphis, TN 2005 Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL 2005 Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO 2005 Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO 2004 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Santa Fe, NM 2004 William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO 2003 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Tucson, AZ 2003 Lisa Kurts Gallery - Memphis, TN 2003 Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO 2002 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Santa Fe, NM 2002 Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL 2002 Perimeter Gallery - New York, NY 2001 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Tucson, AZ 2001 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Santa Fe, NM 2001 Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO 2000 Charlene Cody Gallery - Santa Fe, NM 2000 Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL 2000 Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO 1999 Charlene Cody Gallery - Santa Fe, NM 1999 Elliot Smith Contemporary Art - St. Louis, MO 1999 Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO 1998 Charlene Cody Gallery - Santa Fe, NM 1998 Elliot Smith Contemporary Art - St. Louis, MO 1998 Leedy-Voulkos Art Center Gallery - Kansas City, MO 1998 Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL 1996 Grand Arts - Kansas City, MO 1994 Gallery V - Kansas City, MO 1993 Sean Kelly Gallery - Kansas City, MO 1991 Tribal Textile Gallery - Kansas City, MO Selected Group Exhibitions 2004 Art Chicago, Navy Pier, Perimeter - Chicago, IL and New York, NY 2004 FADA - Los Angeles, CA 2004 "5 Views of the Midwest" Traveling Museum Show 2003 Art Chicago, Navy Pier, Perimeter - Chicago, IL and New York, NY 2003 FADA - Los Angeles, CA 2002 Art Chicago, Navy Pier, Perimeter - Chicago, IL and New York, NY 2002 "Exhibition of Works from Permanent Collection," Daum Museum - Sedalia, MO 2002 FADA - Los Angeles, CA 2002 "Winter in Tucson," Medicine Man Gallery - Santa Fe, NM 2001 Los Angeles Art and Antique Show 2001 Medicine Man Gallery - Santa Fe, NM 2001 FADA - Los Angeles, CA 2001 Art Chicago, Navy Pier, Perimeter - Chicago, IL and New York, NY 2000 Art San Francisco - San Francisco, CA 2000 Art Chicago, Navy Pier, Perimeter - Chicago, IL and New York, NY 2000 FADA - Los Angeles, CA 2000 "Landscape," Des Lee Gallery, Washington University - St. Louis, MO 2000 "Landscape," Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 1999 Art Chicago, Navy Pier, Perimeter - Chicago, IL and New York, NY 1998 "Going Places," Elliot Smith Contemporary Art - St. Louis, MO 1998 "Summer," Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - St. Louis, MO 1998 Art Chicago, Navy Pier, Perimeter - Chicago, IL and New York, NY 1998 "Air, Land and Sea," Elliot Smith Contemporary Art - St. Louis, MO 1997 Art Chicago, Navy Pier, Perimeter - Chicago, IL and New York, NY 1997 "Summer Show," Elliot Smith Contemporary Art - St. Louis, MO 1994 Summer Invitational, Sean Kelly Gallery - Kansas City, MO Collections 4 Point Energy American Century Investments Art Embassies Program - Zimbabwe Biltmore Hotel - Phoenix, AZ Capri Capital - Chicago, IL Charles Schwab - Denver, CO D.S.T. Systems Daniel Taylor and Associates Exeter Oil Corporation Federal Reserve Bank - Denver, CO Federal Reserve Bank - St. Louis, MO Federal Reserve Bank -Kansas City, MO First Western Trust Bank Gates Rubber Company Grand Hyatt Denver Convention Center H&R Block Hall-Marshall Collection, Hallmark Hall-Silva Collection, Hallmark Johnson County Community College Johnson National Bank - Racine, WI Kansas City Art Institute Kansas State University Madison Dearborn Partners National Association of College Business Offices Renaissance Grand Hotel - St. Louis, MO Sprint St. Regis Hotel - Los Angeles, CA Wilmington Trust Company Museum Collections Beach Museum - Manhattan, KS Daum Museum - Sedalia, MO Denver Art Museum - Denver, CO Museum of the West - Tucson, AZ Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art - Overland Park, KS Tucson Museum of Art - Tucson, AZ Selected Bibliography 2015 Jul Westword - Denver, CO 2015 Oct Crossroads Art District 2014 Dec Western Art Collector 2014 Sep Riverfront Times - St. Louis, MO 2014 Sep St. Louis Magazine 2013 Jan Southwest Art 2013 Sep Huffington Post 2012 Sep Dan's Papers - Southampton, NY 2011 Riverfront Times - St. Louis, MO 2010 Sep American Art Collector Cover 2008 Jul Western Art Collector 2008 Sep New City Art - Chicago, IL 2006 Oct American Art Collector 2005 Sep Chicago Tribune 2003 Jul-Aug Frontier Magazine 2003 Review Magazine 2002 Aug Southwest Art 2002 Sep Artsope 2002 Chicago Tribune 2001 Feb Southwest Art 2000 Jan St. Louis Post...

Shakti, one of the most important goddesses in the Hindu pantheon, is really a divine cosmic energy that represents feminine energy and the dynamic forces that move through the unive...

The main colors employed in this work more than suggest industry in an urban"”small town"”setting. The abstracting of a factory-located crucible figures prominently in this compositi...

"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...

Abstract art created with acrylics on canvas. I started this painting as a more realistic landscape from a trip I had in Provence, France, and ended up using a sponge to diversify th...

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...

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...

Artist Commentary: Many cities are ports that fit snugly in a geographic location. The character of the city is driven by its unique location. Keywords: Cityscape, skyscrapers, city...

Liverpool-based artist Pauline Hughes takes a fluid approach to her ceramic practice, combining aspects of painting, collage, and printmaking into her w...

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...

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...

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...

Chicago's celebrated Lake Michigan beach is the source of inspiration for this painting. Traditional colors suggest a beach, but one without bathers. Th...

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...

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...

Spring Fever (Abstract Painting) Acrylic on canvas — Unframed. Martina Nehrling is an American abstract artist whose dynamic and richly textured paintings evoke kaleidoscopic worlds...

Spring Fever (Abstract Painting) Acrylic on canvas — Unframed. Martina Nehrling is an American abstract artist whose dynamic and richly textured paintings evoke kaleidoscopic worlds...

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...

Artist Commentary: The style and feel of a street is established by the design and dominating objects. Sometimes it is the landmark buildings or sculptures. In this painting, it is trolley cable and supporting posts...

Abstract art created with acrylics on unstretched canvas. It can be hung as is like a tapestry, stretched or framed. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official cert...

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...

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...

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...

This exquisite painting on wood entitled "Rome" was made by internationally renowned Chinese contemporary artist Ren Hui. Using a style that he calls "uncomplicated and honest, he ce...

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...

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...

Artist Commentary: Made with plastic bags, beeswax, oil paint and graphite Keywords: flower, rose Artist Biography: Toby Zallman has always combined un...

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...

Since the 12th century, people in China have used folding screens and doors to partition and decorate their homes - the vivid scenes backing the screens added life and color to a room. This 19th-century painting is delicately brushed of gouache and ink on fabric and was originally part of a set of eight backing a wooden screen in northern China. The figure depicted is one of the mythical Eight Immortals of Taoism. Said to have attained immortality through their studies of the natural world, each of the Eight Immortals represents a different condition in life and together they impart a blessing of prosperity and longevity. Depicted here is immortal Lan Caihe, the patron saint of florists and gardeners. Standing atop a lotus leaf in open water, they hold a gardening hoe in one hand and a basket for flowers...

The experience of art itself can be an intimate one, and this bed canopy, hand-painted over 100 years ago by an artist in Canton, was more intimate than most. Delicately painted pheasants...

Vijaypath was a Bollywood action hit in 1994. It's critically acclaimed soundtrack topped charts across the world and became one of the most recognizable in India's history. The film's international success is evident in this hand-painted advertisement...

This abstract expressionist painting is an exemplar of this style. It exhibits a modicum of rawness, yet subtly possesses refined textures and color fields. Yellow Porch is a sophist...

Abstract painting created with oil markers and acrylics on canvas. It needs to be framed or it can be just hung unstretched. :: Painting :: Abstract Expressionism :: This piece comes...

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...

Few works are, at the same time, as bold and demure as the painting Gift. The color red dominates the work, yet straight lines forming squares and rectangles emerge from the background. Subtle geometries set...

Few works are, at the same time, as bold and demure as the painting Gift. The color red dominates the work, yet straight lines forming squares and rectangles emerge from the background. Subtle geometries set...

Painting created with oil markers on canvas, at the beginning of my artist career. I started by doodling with a pen on paper and got great feedback. Decided then to create big and co...

This painting portrays a nude woman, sitting in solitude as she waits for her lover. Her cream colored skin glows in contrast to the rich reds and blues of her boudoir. The angular...

This Painting Of An Abstract Eiffel Tower Painted With Acrylics And Oil Markers On Canvas Depicts A Luminous Scene With Intense Colors And Depth As If It Was Emerged By Water. :: Pai...

This abstract work by Chicago artist Patrick Fitzgerald belongs to a series of “track paintings” that materialize the imagined tracks navigated by his miniature soap-box car sculptures. Inspired by slot-car racetracks, each painting depicts a meandering, yet cyclical path that twists and turns upon itself in an endless loop. Isolated from time and place, the painting achieves a sense of timelessness and draws a through line linking the past, the present, and the future. Entitled "Superior," this track painting is one of five compositions inspired by the Great Lakes...

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 creates dynamic compositions of people and places that communicate a rich commentary on the world around him. Depicting trees from personal encounters, Surdo’s latest body of work entitled “Tree Spirits” takes us on a foray into the forest, where leaves, branches and burls express something deeply personal. Applying his mastery of figurative realism to the natural world, he experiments with form and texture to uncover the intangible spirits of trees. This charcoal drawing entitled “Fusion” beautifully illustrates the collision of two young birch trees. Loosely drawn with short, lateral strokes, the drawing depicts the slow process of two trees fusing together as a graceful gesture of physical touch. The horizontal motion of the sketch-like linework captures the striated texture of birch bark, punctuated by the irregular forms of its eye-shaped markings. The light-colored trees are contrasted by a dark backdrop, a void of negative that isolates the trees in space and time. Restricting the composition to only a portion of the tree trunks, Surdo accentuates their abstract forms and focuses on the simple beauty of their graceful movements. Guided by his memory, Surdo recalls the trees as soft, gentle and calm, leaning in on each other in a tender embrace. His freeform, expressive style reveals the subjectivity of this memory and finishes the composition with a transient, dream-like atmosphere. Charcoal on paper...

The colorful paintings of Jan Pieter Fokkens transport us to distant worlds beyond our comprehension. Within seemingly infinite networks of lines, dots, and crosses, he decodes the r...

This colorful painting by Chicago-based artist Patrick Fitzgerald belongs to a body of work he calls his “Neighborhood of Infinity.” Fitzgerald use...

Chicago-based artist Jan Pieter Fokkens uses his work as a means of processing the incomprehensible. Navigating the relationship between algorithmic abstraction and the tangible qualities of pattern and color, Fokkens meditates on how reality is mediated by digital image. Entitled "NGC-3201," this vibrant drawing offers a representation of the globular cluster NGC-3201. Using an image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope...

Starring Dolph Lundgren, Bridge of Dragons was a pulpy action/romance from the late 90s. The film's international success is evident in this hand-painte...

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 derby cars of his youth, eac...

Entitled "Seascape," this painting by Chicago artist Michael Thompson is a departure from the collage work of his ongoing kite series. Rendered in ...

This folding screen is a stunning example of Japanese artistry. Beautifully painted with delicate brushwork, the evocative screen depicts a lively festival during the Edo period (1615–1912). The raucous scene is full of life; within the dense crowd, you can make out people dancing...

This reverse glass mirror painting depicts the Yangtze River Bridge, the first heavy bridge designed and built solely by the Chinese and a great s...

This poster from the 1930s draws from a well known Chinese opera scene. It melds the meticulous detail of traditional Chinese painting with the craft of color lithography. These advertisements, influenced by the Art Deco movement in the west, recall the economic boom of early 20th century Shanghai, an international center of business and trade. Layered with imagery of traditional Chinese life, the poster is nonetheless an advertisement for the modern cigarette industry, with several tobacco brands displayed in the top left corner, including Lan Ting, Hong Chun, and Jade Rabbit...

This charming watercolor is composed in the style of traditional ink calligraphy and depicts two ducks resting on a river bank. Tall grass and leafy sprouts dot the rocky terrain and...

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 fragments ...

Flying Buttress 3 (Abstract Painting) Acrylic on Montval paper — Unframed. Martina Nehrling is an American abstract artist whose dynamic and richly textured paintings evoke kaleidos...

Flying Buttress 2 (Abstract Painting) Acrylic on Montval paper — Unframed. Martina Nehrling is an American abstract artist whose dynamic and richly textured paintings evoke kaleidos...

Seed (Abstract Painting) Acrylic on Montval paper — Unframed. Martina Nehrling is an American abstract artist whose dynamic and richly textured paintings evoke kaleidoscopic worlds ...