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Item Ships From: Connecticut
Blue Opus Eight - Geometric Abstract Mandala Flower Blue Green Navy, 2019
By Mary Judge
Located in Kent, CT
This contemporary geometric abstract drawing has a beautiful, soft mottled texture created with Judge's unique powered pigment technique. Blue Opus Series 8 is a predominately blue m...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Rag Paper, Pigment
River - Snowflake Lines Dots Pattern Drawing Blue Pink, 2020
By Sarah Morejohn
Located in Kent, CT
In carefully drawn dots and lines in soft shades of indigo blue with pink, green, yellow and dark red details, this intricate composition is inspired by patterns in nature. This draw...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Primavera Pop 31 - Geometric Flower Mandala Blue Pink Green Red Lines, 2022
By Mary Judge
Located in Kent, CT
This contemporary multicolored geometric mandala drawing has a beautiful, soft mottled texture created with Judge's unique powered pigment technique. Primavera Pop 31 is predominatel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Rag Paper, Pigment
Pink Twigs Side Escape - Dots Line Pattern Drawing Snowflake Branches, 2021
By Sarah Morejohn
Located in Kent, CT
In carefully drawn dots and lines in soft shades of indigo blue with pink, green, yellow and dark red details, this intricate composition is inspired by patterns in nature. This cont...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Pop Flower 49 - Green Blue Geometric Flower Contemporary Botanical Mandala, 2024
By Mary Judge
Located in Kent, CT
This contemporary geometric abstract drawing has a beautiful, soft mottled texture created with Judge's unique powered pigment technique. Poptic 49 is a predominately light green man...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Rag Paper, Pigment
Pop Flower 44B - Golden Orange Navy Geometric Flower Contemporary Mandala, 2021
By Mary Judge
Located in Kent, CT
This contemporary geometric abstract drawing has a beautiful, soft mottled texture created with Judge's unique powered pigment technique. Pop Flower 44B is a predominately light gold...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Rag Paper, Pigment
Poptic Nine - Contemporary Geometric Abstract Mandala Yellow Blue Peach, 2020
By Mary Judge
Located in Kent, CT
This contemporary geometric abstract drawing has a beautiful, soft mottled texture created with Judge's unique powered pigment technique. Poptic 09 is a predominately yellow, orange ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Rag Paper, Pigment
Pop Flower 48 - Contemporary Yellow Orange Geometric Flower Mandala Brown, 2017
By Mary Judge
Located in Kent, CT
This contemporary geometric abstract drawing has a beautiful, soft mottled texture created with Judge's unique powered pigment technique. Pop Flower 48 is a predominately golden yell...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Rag Paper, Pigment
Andra Samelson, Stars of Tallapooza, Acrylic on paper, 12 x 12 inches, 2018
By Andra Samelson
Located in Darien, CT
Andra Samelson’s work explores the relationship of microcosm and macrocosm, emptiness and form. The imagery in her paintings is often associated with molecular and galactic systems. ...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Handmade Paper
Primavera Pop 17 - Geometric Mandala Green Orange Yellow Red Lines, 2022
By Mary Judge
Located in Kent, CT
This contemporary multicolored drawing has a beautiful, soft mottled texture created with Judge's unique powered pigment technique. Primavera Pop 17 is a predominately dark green, br...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Rag Paper, Pigment
Poptic 22.03 - Flower Mandala Fuchsia Pink Yellow Lavender Purple Navy Blue 2020
By Mary Judge
Located in Kent, CT
This multicolored drawing has a beautiful, soft mottled texture created with Judge's unique powered pigment technique. Poptic 22.02 is a predominately vibrant fuchsia pink, yellow an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Rag Paper, Pigment
Untitled 601 - Contemporary Abstract Landscape Blue Hunter Green Teal, 2021
By Gabe Brown
Located in Kent, CT
Carefully ordered patterns, geometric shapes in indigo, bright blue and dark hunter green and delicate lines in bright prismatic colors complement a teal grayish blue background. Sig...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Color Pencil
Untitled (P95.93) White Brown abstract
By Caio Fonseca
Located in Greenwich, CT
From his most desirable period, this restrained in color palette Fonseca is for a collector and room where sophistication is key. Long held that his works on heavy paper are the mos...
Category
1990s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
Meandering Print Series
By Gene Davis
Located in Greenwich, CT
A sophisticated and marvelous work for any forward interior. It both gives a sense of space, calm, playfulness and it actually pulls you in as a focal point work of art. Framing is ...
Category
1970s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Screen
"Nobadeer, " Abstract Watercolor Painting
Located in Westport, CT
This small original abstract watercolor painting by Nealy Hauschildt features a palette that combines washes of varying blue and turquoise tones. It ...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Cotton, Paper, Watercolor
River and Steel Twins Five - Bold Geometric Drawing Red Yellow Orange Green 2012
By Mary Judge
Located in Kent, CT
This contemporary geometric abstract drawing has a beautiful, soft mottled texture created with Judge's unique powered pigment technique. The ordered symmetry of the layered diagonal...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Rag Paper, Pigment
Morgan O'Hara, Movement of the Hands Seiji Shimoda, Drawing, March 2004
By Morgan O'Hara
Located in Darien, CT
Live Transmission
Morgan O'Hara's conceptually based performative drawing researches the vital movement of living beings, the human experience of time and space. It is culturally co...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Pop Flower Four B Zero Five, Mandala in Orange, Red, Black
By Mary Judge
Located in Kent, CT
This multicolored drawing has a beautiful, soft mottled texture created with Judge's unique powered pigment technique. Pop Flower 4B05 is a predominately orange mandala shape with re...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Rag Paper, Pigment
Untitled 615 - Teal Olive Grass Green Blue Abstract Watercolor Landscape, 2021
By Gabe Brown
Located in Kent, CT
Carefully ordered patterns and geometric shapes in dark indigo and light olive grass green, and delicate lines in bright prismatic colors complement a light teal blue background in t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Color Pencil
Absorb Starlight - Abstract Pattern Drawing Yellow Blue Brown Branches, 2024
By Sarah Morejohn
Located in Kent, CT
In this meticulously detailed contemporary drawing in ink and watercolor on paper, carefully drawn dots and lines in yellow with violet blue, red and dark brown create an intricate c...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Yellow Green Abstraction
By Alexander Liberman
Located in Greenwich, CT
Great color and form to this work on paper by Liberman who was an important and innovative American painter and sculptor. Great visual impact as the color choices are meant to be st...
Category
1960s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Watercolor 9, Work on Paper, Colorful, Organic Shapes, Natural, Moving, Cosmos
By Melinda Hackett
Located in Riverdale, NY
Watercolor 9 is a 22" x 17.5" , watercolor on paper, by Melinda Hacket. It is white framed to 25" x 20.25. It is filled with rich earthy colors and organic moving shapes.
Melinda H...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Soul Flowers 26 My Axis - Tree Roots Figure Sunflower Black and White, 2024
By Michiyo Ihara
Located in Kent, CT
A small outlined figure floats in midair beneath the roots of a suspended tree. This contemporary drawing is entirely hand-drawn using only pen and paper.
Framed in a solid black wo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Pen
Thunderbolts - Contemporary Drawing Lightning Snowflake Branches Pattern, 2022
By Sarah Morejohn
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary drawing in ink, colored pencil and graphite on archival Fabriano Artistico Paper, carefully drawn dots and lines in soft shades of indigo blue with yellow, teal ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Dirty Fall - Blue Pink Botanical Flowers Pattern Drawing Shaped Paper, 2020
By Sarah Morejohn
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary drawing on cut paper with carefully drawn dots and lines in soft shades of indigo blue with light pink flowers, the intricate composition is inspired by patterns...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Untitled 606 - Teal Blue Dark Olive Green Patterns Abstract Landscape, 2021
By Gabe Brown
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary abstract painting in watercolor and colored pencil on paper, carefully ordered patterns, geometric shapes and delicate lines in indigo, bright lapis blue and oli...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Color Pencil
Pop Flower Eight - Green Blue Red Geometric Flower Contemporary Mandala, 2020
By Mary Judge
Located in Kent, CT
This contemporary geometric abstract drawing has a beautiful, soft mottled texture created with Judge's unique powered pigment technique. Pop Flower 008 is a predominately light blue...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Rag Paper, Pigment
Andra Samelson, Ephemeris, 2018, Acrylic on canvas, 12 x 12 inches
By Andra Samelson
Located in Darien, CT
Andra Samelson’s work explores the relationship of microcosm and macrocosm, emptiness and form. The imagery in her paintings is often associated with molecular and galactic systems. ...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Soul Flowers 31 Waterfall, Forest Life, Trees, Doorways, Windows Black and White
By Michiyo Ihara
Located in Kent, CT
A small outlined figure stands a bridge gazing up at a waterfall in a meticulously rendered forest with towering trees with tiny leaves and windows peeking out from the branches and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Pen
"Sundown" Abstract Watercolor Painting
Located in Westport, CT
This horizontal original abstract watercolor painting by Nealy Hauschildt features a deep, warm palette, with three large pink and violet organic planes of washy color layered over o...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Cotton, Paper, Watercolor
"Witching Hour" Abstract Watercolor Painting
Located in Westport, CT
This original abstract watercolor painting by Nealy Hauschildt features a deep blue and magenta palette, with two large organic planes of washy color layered over one another for a b...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Cotton, Paper, Watercolor
Untitled 600, Teal Blue, Olive Green, Indigo Patterns, Abstract Landscape
By Gabe Brown
Located in Kent, CT
Carefully ordered patterns, geometric shapes and delicate lines in indigo, bright blue and olive green complement a teal grayish blue background. Signed on verso.
Exploring a world ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Color Pencil
Soul Flowers 47 Floating Land, Forest Life, Tree, Roots, Windows Black and White
By Michiyo Ihara
Located in Kent, CT
Through a window, a small outlined figure can be seen walking up a staircase in a meticulously rendered tree with tiny leaves and windows and doorway portals peeking out from the bra...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Pen
Pop Flower 46, Bright Orange Mandala, Green, Maroon, Dark Burgundy, Blue Center
By Mary Judge
Located in Kent, CT
This multicolored drawing has a beautiful, soft mottled texture created with Judge's unique powered pigment technique. Pop Flower 46 is a predominately orange mandala shape with a gr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Rag Paper, Pigment
Impossible Series (Niagara Falls), Lowell Nesbitt - Drawing
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993)
Title: Impossible Series (Niagara Falls)
Year: 1990
Medium: Graphite on Arches paper
Size: 50.25 x 35.5 inches
Inscription: Signed, dated by the ar...
Category
1990s Realist Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
$26,000 Sale Price
20% Off
"Sorbet" Abstract Watercolor Painting
Located in Westport, CT
This original abstract watercolor painting by Nealy Hauschildt features a warm pink, orange, and lavender palette, with three large organic planes of washy color layered over one ano...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Cotton, Paper, Watercolor
Untitled 598, Gray Blue, Lavender Blue, Olive Green, Mauve, Leaf Patterns
By Gabe Brown
Located in Kent, CT
Carefully ordered patterns and geometric shapes in a lavender shade of blue and periwinkle blue with a delicate navy leaf pattern complement a soft grayish blue background. Signed on...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Color Pencil
Untitled 579, Gray Blue, Light Indigo, Eggplant Purple, Navy Leaf Patterns
By Gabe Brown
Located in Kent, CT
Carefully ordered patterns and geometric shapes in indigo, navy blue and dark eggplant purple with delicate prismatic rainbow lines complement a soft grayish blue background. Signed ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Color Pencil
Untitled 580, Gray Blue, Light Indigo, Eggplant Purple, Navy Leaf Patterns
By Gabe Brown
Located in Kent, CT
Carefully ordered patterns and geometric shapes in indigo, navy blue and dark eggplant purple with delicate prismatic rainbow lines complement a soft grayish blue background. Signed ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Color Pencil
Untitled
By Esteban Vicente
Located in Greenwich, CT
This Vicente has a color glow akin to a Mark Rothko. Vicente explored parallel ideas to Rothko and others of the abstract expressionist and color field era. The pastel gives this w...
Category
1980s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
$19,500
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 - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
"Lascaux" Mid-20th Century American Abstract 1960s Color Field Modernist
Located in New York, NY
"Abstraction" Mid-20th Century American Abstract 1960s Color Field Modernist
James Daugherty (1887-1974)
"Lascaux"
5 ¼ x 8 ¼ inches
Pastel on paper
Initialed lower left, titled lo...
Category
1960s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
'Within, ' by Lisa Miceli, Watercolor Painting
By Lisa Miceli
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 10" x 11" watercolor on paper painting by Lisa Miceli depicts an imaginative abstracted landscape and is part of the latticeWorks series. The use of c...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
$480 Sale Price
33% Off
Karen Schiff, Word Snake, 2014, Gouache, Rag Paper, Graphite
By Karen Schiff
Located in Darien, CT
Karen Schiff is an artist and wordsmith based in New York; she has always been a reader as well as a visual artist. Her drawings, paintings, installations, and performances combine t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Rag Paper, Graphite
Karen Schiff, Word Snake G, 2014, Watercolor, Gouache, Rag Paper, Pencil
By Karen Schiff
Located in Darien, CT
Karen Schiff is an artist and wordsmith based in New York; she has always been a reader as well as a visual artist. Her drawings, paintings, installations, and performances combine t...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Rag Paper, Pencil
Sara Eichner, 16 Layers Blue, 2015, Ink, Rag Paper, Pen
By Sara Eichner
Located in Darien, CT
Sara Eichner wants to create a space where point of view can not be fixed. Optical games stand in for the struggle to comprehend the complexities of seeing. Using simple drawing tool...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Rag Paper, Pen
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 - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Karen Schiff, Word Snake H, 2014, Gouache, Graphite
By Karen Schiff
Located in Darien, CT
Karen Schiff is an artist and wordsmith based in New York; she has always been a reader as well as a visual artist. Her drawings, paintings, installations, and performances combine t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Graphite
Liz Sweibel, Untitled #1 (MOL Comfort, 6.27.13, 11.46 am) 2015, Post-Minimalist
By Liz Sweibel
Located in Darien, CT
These thread-and-vellum drawings document the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan in March 2011. They began as a reaction to photographs of the devastated landscape, p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Minimalist Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Thread, Vellum
Carol Diehl, Alexandrinus, 2011, powder pastel on Masonite, 9x12 in, Abstract
By Carol Diehl
Located in Darien, CT
ODETTA is pleased to present works by Carol Diehl as our Flat File Feature Artist.
Opening each drawer in the cabinet presents one in a series of pastel drawings that the artist beg...
Category
2010s Suprematist Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Board
Untitled 604, Light Blue, Hunter Green, Indigo Patterns, Abstract Landscape
By Gabe Brown
Located in Kent, CT
Carefully ordered patterns, geometric shapes in indigo, light blue and dark hunter green and delicate lines in bright colors complement a teal grayish blue background. Signed on vers...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Color Pencil
Jo Yarrington, Raging Women Behind The Veil, 2020, Mixed Media
By Jo Yarrington
Located in Darien, CT
Jo Yarrington has always been interested in chance and the found {moment, object, person}. How random experiences click in to place, form a narrative, reveal a truth. All the work ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Linen, Thread, Found Objects
Wow Woah - Abstract Pattern Drawing Shaped Paper Blue Branches Droplets, 2024
By Sarah Morejohn
Located in Kent, CT
In this meticulously detailed contemporary drawing in ink, watercolor, graphite and colored pencil on two pieces of cut paper, carefully drawn dots and lines in shades of blue with p...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
RosesLavender
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 - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Flushing #4
Located in Westport, CT
Selena Beaudry’s work is created by marking and cutting up drawings. This has led the artist to rediscovering her visual language. Her work consists of...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Linen, Paper, Acrylic, Gouache, Color Pencil
Morgan O'Hara, Movement of the Hands of Anthony Auerbach, Drawing, March 2000
By Morgan O'Hara
Located in Darien, CT
Live Transmission
Morgan O'Hara's conceptually based performative drawing researches the vital movement of living beings, the human experience of time and space. It is culturally co...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
black and white abstract expressionist
By Michael Loew
Located in Greenwich, CT
This sensitively rendered though powerful ink on paper was created in 1946 shortly after Loew returned from active duty where he served at the US Naval airbase on Tinian Island, the ...
Category
1940s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Rag Paper
Snowflakes 150 Be, Planets, Spiritual Theme, Nature Mandala Pencil Drawing
By Michiyo Ihara
Located in Kent, CT
Meticulously intricate patterns and little ringed planets surround the edges and reach outward from the center of this circular mandala. Vignettes with tiny landscapes and endless ho...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
Chapter Fine Focus - Contemporary Pencil Drawing Moths on Braid of Hair, 2017
By Francine Fox
Located in Kent, CT
This contemporary pencil drawing by Francine Fox of two meticulously detailed moths on a knotted braid of hair is inspired by the mystical animal and natural world. At 6 x 4 inches, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
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 - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
