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Item Ships From: Connecticut
BluesBlueGreen
By Louise P. Sloane
Located in Westport, CT
Since 1974, Louise P. Sloane has been actively engaged in the studio as an abstract painter.
Her work focuses upon geometric forms, grids and patterns. These detail oriented pieces ...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Carla Rae Johnson, PTSD Week 71, 2018, Graphite on bristol board, Political
By Carla Rae Johnson
Located in Darien, CT
P.T.S.D. (Post Trump Series of Drawings)
by Carla Rae Johnson
The 87 satirical drawings displayed here are from a series that were produced one per week since November 9, 2016 (one d...
Category
2010s Pop Art Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Carla Rae Johnson, PTSD Week 72, 2018, Graphite on bristol board, Political
By Carla Rae Johnson
Located in Darien, CT
P.T.S.D. (Post Trump Series of Drawings)
by Carla Rae Johnson
The 87 satirical drawings displayed here are from a series that were produced one per week since November 9, 2016 (one d...
Category
2010s Pop Art Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Carla Rae Johnson, PTSD Week 68, 2018, Graphite on bristol board, Political
By Carla Rae Johnson
Located in Darien, CT
P.T.S.D. (Post Trump Series of Drawings)
by Carla Rae Johnson
The 87 satirical drawings displayed here are from a series that were produced one per week since November 9, 2016 (one d...
Category
2010s Pop Art Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Carla Rae Johnson, PTSD Week 61, 2018, Graphite on bristol board, Political
By Carla Rae Johnson
Located in Darien, CT
P.T.S.D. (Post Trump Series of Drawings)
by Carla Rae Johnson
The 87 satirical drawings displayed here are from a series that were produced one per week since November 9, 2016 (one d...
Category
2010s Pop Art Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Carla Rae Johnson, PTSD Week 59, 2017, Graphite on bristol board, Political
By Carla Rae Johnson
Located in Darien, CT
P.T.S.D. (Post Trump Series of Drawings)
by Carla Rae Johnson
The 87 satirical drawings displayed here are from a series that were produced one per week since November 9, 2016 (one d...
Category
2010s Pop Art Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Carla Rae Johnson, PTSD Week 73, 2018, Graphite on bristol board, Political
By Carla Rae Johnson
Located in Darien, CT
P.T.S.D. (Post Trump Series of Drawings)
by Carla Rae Johnson
The 87 satirical drawings displayed here are from a series that were produced one per week since November 9, 2016 (one d...
Category
2010s Pop Art Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Carla Rae Johnson, PTSD Week 74, 2018, Graphite on bristol board, Political
By Carla Rae Johnson
Located in Darien, CT
P.T.S.D. (Post Trump Series of Drawings)
by Carla Rae Johnson
The 87 satirical drawings displayed here are from a series that were produced one per week since November 9, 2016 (one d...
Category
2010s Pop Art Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Carla Rae Johnson, PTSD Week 60, 2017, Graphite on bristol board, Political
By Carla Rae Johnson
Located in Darien, CT
P.T.S.D. (Post Trump Series of Drawings)
by Carla Rae Johnson
The 87 satirical drawings displayed here are from a series that were produced one per week since November 9, 2016 (one d...
Category
2010s Pop Art Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Carla Rae Johnson, PTSD Week 76, 2018, Graphite on bristol board, Political
By Carla Rae Johnson
Located in Darien, CT
P.T.S.D. (Post Trump Series of Drawings)
The 87 satirical drawings displayed here are from a series that were produced one per week since November 9, 2016 (one day after the U.S. pr...
Category
2010s Pop Art Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Emily Berger, Etching # 3, 2016, paper, ink
By Emily Berger
Located in Darien, CT
These paintings and drawings are based on a structure of repetitive and deliberate gesture that is intuitive but carefully considered. Emily Berger brushes, wipes, rubs, and scrapes,...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Rag Paper
Emily Berger, Jay #2, 2014, Paper, Ink
By Emily Berger
Located in Darien, CT
These paintings and drawings are based on a structure of repetitive and deliberate gesture that is intuitive but carefully considered. Emily Berger brushes, wipes, rubs, and scrapes,...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Emily Berger, Wellfleet #5 , 2014, Paper, ink
By Emily Berger
Located in Darien, CT
These paintings and drawings are based on a structure of repetitive and deliberate gesture that is intuitive but carefully considered. Emily Berger brushes, wipes, rubs, and scrapes,...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Toy_Mirage
By Toni Simon
Located in Darien, CT
Toni Simon is a multimedia artist and writer living in Brooklyn.
Her work encompasses the ways in which the future will appear, the shape of things to come, accessed through trance...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Rag Paper
Wake Up Call
By Toni Simon
Located in Darien, CT
Toni Simon is a multimedia artist and writer living in Brooklyn.
Her work encompasses the ways in which the future will appear, the shape of things to come, accessed through trance...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Rag Paper
Secret Alias
By Toni Simon
Located in Darien, CT
Toni Simon is a multimedia artist and writer living in Brooklyn. Her work encompasses the ways in which the future will appear, the shape of things to come, accessed through trance s...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Rag Paper
Jellify
By Toni Simon
Located in Darien, CT
Toni Simon is a multimedia artist and writer living in Brooklyn. Her work encompasses the ways in which the future will appear, the shape of things to come, accessed through trance s...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Rag Paper
KK Kozik, Bookstack 2, 2016, Conté, Rag Paper
By KK Kozik
Located in Darien, CT
KK Kozik is an artist living and working in Sharon, CT and Brooklyn, NY.
Her paintings have ben exhibited widely in the United States and abroad and have been reviewed in publicat...
Category
2010s American Modern Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Conté, Rag Paper
"3 Honda Polo Players" by Williamson Douglas (1942-1998)
Located in Bristol, CT
Art Sz: 18"H x 24"W
Williamson Douglas attended Andover Academy and the University of North Carolina. He began painting in 1977, learning from the master portrait painter Joe Bowler, and was also influenced by Charles Reid, Ned Jacob and Michael Karas...
Category
20th Century Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Ryan Sarah Murphy, 'Mid', 2014, Found Objects, Cardboard, Laid Paper
By Ryan Sarah Murphy
Located in Darien, CT
Ryan Sarah Murphy’s creative practice is intuitive and process-driven, prompted by the found ephemera in her daily experience. Responding to the inherent energy within discarded and ...
Category
2010s Constructivist Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Found Objects, Cardboard, Laid Paper
Ryan Sarah Murphy, 'Last Stop', 2016, Found Objects, Cardboard, Laid Paper
By Ryan Sarah Murphy
Located in Darien, CT
Ryan Sarah Murphy’s creative practice is intuitive and process-driven, prompted by the found ephemera in her daily experience. Responding to the inherent energy within discarded and ...
Category
2010s Constructivist Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Found Objects, Cardboard, Laid Paper
Ryan Sarah Murphy, 'Afterward', 2016, Found Objects, Cardboard, Laid Paper
By Ryan Sarah Murphy
Located in Darien, CT
Ryan Sarah Murphy’s creative practice is intuitive and process-driven, prompted by the found ephemera in her daily experience. Responding to the inherent energy within discarded and ...
Category
2010s Constructivist Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Found Objects, Cardboard, Laid Paper
Ryan Sarah Murphy, 'Warn', 2016, Found Objects, Cardboard, Laid Paper
By Ryan Sarah Murphy
Located in Darien, CT
Ryan Sarah Murphy’s creative practice is intuitive and process-driven, prompted by the found ephemera in her daily experience. Responding to the inherent energy within discarded and ...
Category
2010s Constructivist Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Found Objects, Cardboard, Laid Paper
Ryan Sarah Murphy, 'March', 2016, Found Objects, Cardboard, Laid Paper
By Ryan Sarah Murphy
Located in Darien, CT
Ryan Sarah Murphy’s creative practice is intuitive and process-driven, prompted by the found ephemera in her daily experience. Responding to the inherent energy within discarded and ...
Category
2010s Constructivist Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Found Objects, Cardboard, Laid Paper
Ryan Sarah Murphy, 'With', 2016, Found Objects, Cardboard, Laid Paper
By Ryan Sarah Murphy
Located in Darien, CT
Ryan Sarah Murphy’s creative practice is intuitive and process-driven, prompted by the found ephemera in her daily experience. Responding to the inherent energy within discarded and ...
Category
2010s Constructivist Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Found Objects, Cardboard, Laid Paper
KK Kozik, Zig, 2015, Crayon, Rag Paper
By KK Kozik
Located in Darien, CT
KK Kozik is an artist living and working in Sharon, CT and Brooklyn, NY. Her paintings have ben exhibited widely in the United States and abroad and have been reviewed in publicatio...
Category
2010s Post-Modern Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Rag Paper
KK Kozik, Zorro, 2015, Crayon, Rag Paper
By KK Kozik
Located in Darien, CT
KK Kozik is an artist living and working in Sharon, CT and Brooklyn, NY. Her paintings have ben exhibited widely in the United States and abroad and have been reviewed in publicatio...
Category
2010s Post-Modern Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Rag Paper
Audrey Stone, #64 Hot Spot, 2011, Thread, Rag Paper, Graphite
By Audrey Stone
Located in Darien, CT
Being nearsighted from a young age, Audrey Stone is drawn to seeing things up close; her work entails detail in the making and her desire for visual intimacy. How craft and art are d...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Thread, Rag Paper, Graphite
Ryan Sarah Murphy, 'Platform', 2014, Found Objects, Cardboard, Laid Paper
By Ryan Sarah Murphy
Located in Darien, CT
Ryan Sarah Murphy's creative process generates from a wholly intuitive place, prompted by the materials that come and go freely within the day-to-day experience. Currently, her work ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Constructivist Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Found Objects, Cardboard, Laid Paper
Ryan Sarah Murphy, 'Green Mile', 2014, Found Objects, Cardboard, Laid Paper
By Ryan Sarah Murphy
Located in Darien, CT
Ryan Sarah Murphy's creative process generates from a wholly intuitive place, prompted by the materials that come and go freely within the day-to-day experience. Currently, her work ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Constructivist Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Found Objects, Cardboard, Laid Paper
Orbiters 7
By Jane Harris
Located in Darien, CT
Jane Harris’ rigorous drawings combine a satisfying game of variations on eliptical forms, B pencils, a toothsome cold-pressed heavy watercolor paper and architectural templates. By ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Rag Paper, Graphite
"Geometric Blocks" 1995 by Fairfield Gordon Coogan (1925-2024) of York, ME.
Located in Bristol, CT
Colorful geometric watercolor by noted York, Maine artist Fairfield Gordon Coogan (pencil signed & dated '95 LL) in lovely shades of coral/ olive & slate blue
Art Sz: 10"H x 7"W
Fr...
Category
1990s Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Kyle Andrew Szpyrka - Infinite Self, Painting 2009
By Kyle Andrew Szpyrka
Located in Greenwich, CT
Sutra, a Sanskrit word meaning “thread”, is a word or small group of words that summarize an entire complex web of ideas, truths, wisdoms, or teachings all woven together into a sing...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
"Lanvin Paris Perfume w/ Black & White Poodle On Windowsill c1950s Artwork"
By Alexander Warren Montel
Located in Bristol, CT
Art Sz: 20 7/8"H x 14 5/8"W
Alexander Warren Montel (1921-2002)
Category
1950s Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Love, 2021
By Ayse Wilson
Located in Westport, CT
Ayse Wilson is a Turkish-American artist who lives and lives and works in Connecticut. Her work draws from memory and emotion to remind viewers of youth, innocence and the timeless space we occupy when we are young. She creates lively and childlike characters, finding inspiration in the works of early Italian Renaissance masters such as Fra Angelico.
Wilson graduated from Wellesley College in 1991, and pursued her education in Florence. She received her MFA at New York Academy of Art, and later worked as a painting assistant to Jeff Koons for two years.
This current series employs the toile wallpaper samples that the artist had lying around her house during lockdown as a backdrop for ambiguous and complicated feelings toward quarantine and domestic confinement. In this work, she is hoping to narrate how fear of the pandemic unknown, coupled with household anxieties, and increased self-awareness contributed to the mixed emotions of security and hostility towards enforced domesticity within a masked world.
The toile tradition represented a coincidental parallel with the COVID era rediscovery of old-fashioned pastoral lifestyles, and the embrace of self-reliant artisanal practices like cooking, gardening, sewing, and prescribed homeschooling. Her colorful inscriptions, some original, some appropriated, layer in our contemporary lifestyle, our modern methods of connectivity as well as our high-tech world.
The punky playfulness of the neon and fluorescents contrasts with the backdrop of Fragonard-esque imagery and hopes to delivery her messages of love and connection, awareness and newness, hope and emotions, as well as the occasional glossily veiled hostility expressed in certain so-called “love” declarations.
The phrases evolved from a previous series addressing the Me Too movement...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
No. 315
By Clara Fialho
Located in Westport, CT
Brazilian artist, Clara Fialho, is based in New York. Her abstract work with bright and exuberant colors is inspired by her Latin heritage.
She received her BFA from the prestigious...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
"Lanvin Paris Red Dove w/ Blue Ribbon c1950s Artwork"
By Alexander Warren Montel
Located in Bristol, CT
Art Sz: 15"H x 22"W
Category
1950s Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
SEM Folio
By Georges Goursat (Sem)
Located in Bristol, CT
Each plate: 14"H x 28 1/2"W
40 plates:
32 single plates
4 double plates
w/ pencil character names on verso of each plate
Georges Goursat (1863–1934), known as Sem, was a French caricaturist famous during the Belle Époque.
Life and works
Youth (1863–1900)
Georges Goursat was born and raised in an upper-middle-class family from Périgueux. The wealth inherited from his father at the age of 21 allowed him to sustain a gilded youth.
In 1888 he self published in Périgueux his first three albums of caricatures, signing some as "SEM" (Figure, left), allegedly as a tribute to Amédée de Noé who signed his caricatures for Le Monde illustré as "Cham".
From 1890 to 1898, he settled for a few years in Bordeaux. During this period, he published more albums and his first press caricatures in La Petite Gironde and discovered the work of Leonetto Cappiello. His style matured, becoming both simpler and more precise.
During the same period, he made trips to Paris. In 1891, he designed two posters printed in the workshop of Jules Chéret for the singer Paulus . He published his first caricatures of artists in L'Illustration (Albert Brasseur) and Le Rire (Paulus, Polin and Yvette Guilbert).
From 1898 to 1900, he lived in Marseille. During this stay, he met Jean Lorrain who convinced him to live in Paris.
Caricature women on a boat being sailed by a sailor by Sem, 1925
Belle Époque (1900–1914)
Goursat arrived in Paris in March 1900, at the time of the opening of the Universal Exposition.
He picked horse races as his way of entry in high society. In June, three months after his arrival, he self-published a new album, Le Turf, with caricatures of many prominent Parisian socialites (Marquess Boni de Castellane, Prince Trubetskoy, Count Clermont-Tonnerre, Baron Alphonse and Gustave de Rothschild, Polaire). The success of this album made him famous overnight. In October of the same year, he published another album, Paris-Trouville, with the same success. Nine others followed until 1913.
In 1904, Goursat received the Légion d'honneur. In 1909, he exhibited with the painter Auguste Roubille, first in Paris, then in Monte Carlo and London. a diorama, composed of hundreds of wooden figurines "of all the merely Paris celebrities".
World War I (1914–1918)
Aged over 50 at the start of World War I, Goursat was not drafted. He nevertheless involved himself as a war correspondent for Le Journal. Some of his rather "chauvinistic" articles had an "enormous impact".Ten were published in 1917 in Un pékin sur le front. Two others were incorporated in 1923 in another book, La Ronde de Nuit. In 1916 and 1918 Goursat published two albums of Croquis de Guerre (War sketches). Their style is completely different from his previous work. He also designed posters for war bonds.
Années Folles (1918–1934)
After the war, Goursat came back to the kind of caricatures that made him famous. In 1919, he published Le Grand Monde à l'envers (High Society upside down). Around 1923, he published 3 albums under the general title of Le Nouveau Monde...
Category
20th Century Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
Cars Under Expressway
By Elizabeth O'Reilly
Located in Fairfield, CT
Having worked from a studio in the Gowanus area of Brooklyn for two decades, Elizabeth O'Reilly is at home in the abandoned precincts of the canal with its solidly geometric shapes. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled #267
By Clara Fialho
Located in Westport, CT
Brazilian artist, Clara Fialho, is based in New York. Her abstract work with bright and exuberant colors is inspired by her Latin heritage.
She received her BFA from the prestigious...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
No. 377
By Clara Fialho
Located in Westport, CT
Brazilian artist, Clara Fialho, is based in New York. Her abstract work with bright and exuberant colors is inspired by her Latin heritage.
She received her BFA from the prestigious...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
RosesGold
By Louise P. Sloane
Located in Westport, CT
Since 1974, Louise P. Sloane has been actively engaged in the studio as an abstract painter.
Her work focuses upon geometric forms, grids and patterns. These detail oriented pieces ...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
"Fishermen On Great Sacandaga Lake" Watercolor by B.M. Kremitske
Located in Bristol, CT
Classic watercolor of two fishermen in a canoe on Great Sacandaga Lake in the Adirondacks
Signed: B.M. K(remitske) LR
Art Sz: 7 3/4"H x 9 3/4"W
Frame Sz: 9 3/4"H x 11 3/4"W
Category
20th Century Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Montaigne" Pen & ink c1930s Sketch
Located in Bristol, CT
Pen & ink c1930s sketch depicting a dapper, plaid-suited Montaigne for White Horse Scotch Whisky
Art Sz: 9 3/4"H x 7 3/4"W
Frame Sz: 15"H x 13"W
Category
1930s Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen
Boss Bitch
By Ayse Wilson
Located in Westport, CT
Ayse Wilson is a Turkish-American artist who lives and lives and works in Connecticut. Her work draws from memory and emotion to remind viewers of youth, innocence and the timeless s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Love
By Ayse Wilson
Located in Westport, CT
Ayse Wilson is a Turkish-American artist who lives and lives and works in Connecticut. Her work draws from memory and emotion to remind viewers of youth, innocence and the timeless s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
"Lanvin Paris Arpege Perfume Christmas Tree c1950s Artwork"
By Alexander Warren Montel
Located in Bristol, CT
Art Sz: 17"H x 11 3/4"W
Alexander Warren Montel (1921-2002)
Category
1950s Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Lanvin Paris Green Lady w/ Yellow Dress c1950s Watercolor Artwork"
By Alexander Warren Montel
Located in Bristol, CT
Art Sz: 23"H x 14 1/2"W
Alexander Warren Montel (1921-2002)
Category
1950s Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Lanvin Paris Green Lady w/ Red Sash Dress c1950s Fashion Artwork"
By Alexander Warren Montel
Located in Bristol, CT
Art Sz: 23"H x 14 1/2"W
Alexander Warren Montel (1921-2002)
Category
1950s Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Lanvin Paris Perfume Bottles On Rosebuds c1950s Watercolor Artwork"
By Alexander Warren Montel
Located in Bristol, CT
Art Sz: 14 1/2"H x 23"W
Alexander Warren Montel (1921-2002)
Category
1950s Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Friday I'm in love
By Ayse Wilson
Located in Westport, CT
Ayse Wilson is a Turkish-American artist who lives and lives and works in Connecticut. Her work draws from memory and emotion to remind viewers of youth, innocence and the timeless s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Acoma Pot Gouache Painting by CJ Wolf
Located in Bristol, CT
Sz: 9 3/4"H x 10 1/8"W
Acoma pottery dates back more than 1,000 years. Dense local clay, dug up at a nearby site, is essential to Acoma pottery. The clay is dried and strengthened b...
Category
20th Century Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Dignified, Drawing, Pastels on Pastel Sandpaper
By Mira Vitarello
Located in Yardley, PA
Regal Africian woman portrait with bright and lively colors. :: Drawing :: Contemporary :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Read...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Love is Love, 2021
By Ayse Wilson
Located in Westport, CT
Ayse Wilson is a Turkish-American artist who lives and lives and works in Connecticut. Her work draws from memory and emotion to remind viewers of youth, innocence and the timeless space we occupy when we are young. She creates lively and childlike characters, finding inspiration in the works of early Italian Renaissance masters such as Fra Angelico.
Wilson graduated from Wellesley College in 1991, and pursued her education in Florence. She received her MFA at New York Academy of Art, and later worked as a painting assistant to Jeff Koons for two years.
This current series employs the toile wallpaper samples that the artist had lying around her house during lockdown as a backdrop for ambiguous and complicated feelings toward quarantine and domestic confinement. In this work, she is hoping to narrate how fear of the pandemic unknown, coupled with household anxieties, and increased self-awareness contributed to the mixed emotions of security and hostility towards enforced domesticity within a masked world.
The toile tradition represented a coincidental parallel with the COVID era rediscovery of old-fashioned pastoral lifestyles, and the embrace of self-reliant artisanal practices like cooking, gardening, sewing, and prescribed homeschooling. Her colorful inscriptions, some original, some appropriated, layer in our contemporary lifestyle, our modern methods of connectivity as well as our high-tech world.
The punky playfulness of the neon and fluorescents contrasts with the backdrop of Fragonard-esque imagery and hopes to delivery her messages of love and connection, awareness and newness, hope and emotions, as well as the occasional glossily veiled hostility expressed in certain so-called “love” declarations.
The phrases evolved from a previous series addressing the Me Too movement...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Acoma Pot Gouache Painting by CJ Wolf
Located in Bristol, CT
Sz: 10 1/4"H x 10"W
Acoma pottery dates back more than 1,000 years. Dense local clay, dug up at a nearby site, is essential to Acoma pottery. The clay is dried and strengthened by t...
Category
20th Century Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
No. 375
By Clara Fialho
Located in Westport, CT
Brazilian artist, Clara Fialho, is based in New York. Her abstract work with bright and exuberant colors is inspired by her Latin heritage.
She received her BFA from the prestigious...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
No. 343
By Clara Fialho
Located in Westport, CT
Brazilian artist, Clara Fialho, is based in New York. Her abstract work with bright and exuberant colors is inspired by her Latin heritage.
She received her BFA from the prestigious...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
Lush #2
By Nancy Lasar
Located in Westport, CT
Nancy Lasar’s work is described as “drawing with light”, “condensed energy and flow”, “calm and crazy”, and “organized chaos”.
The lines in Lasar’s works that are electrifying. They ...
Category
2010s Modern Connecticut - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Monotype
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