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Item Ships From: Connecticut
"Trace #4" Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Westport, CT
This abstract painting by Tony Iadicicco features a light grey palette. The artist blends light shades of grey together to create an almost abstracted l...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled No. 55
By Takefumi Hori
Located in Westport, CT
This beautiful painting is by Japanese artist, Takefumi Hori. He was born in Tokyo, Japan. He paints beautiful gold leaf paintings. This piece is acrylic, gold leaf and metal leaf ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Silver, Gold Leaf
"Distant Land #2, " Contemporary Fine Art Mirror
By Alina Bisikirskaite
Located in Westport, CT
This contemporary fine art mirror by Alina B is created using mixed media on a mirror base, which creates a reflective, iridescent, and metallic ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mirror, Mixed Media
"Before I Close My Eyes, " Contemporary Fine Art Mirror
By Alina Bisikirskaite
Located in Westport, CT
This contemporary fine art mirror piece is created using mixed media on mirror, which creates a reflective, iridescent, and metallic aesthetic. T...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mirror, Mixed Media
Md Tokon - Myth, Mountain & Sky 1, Painting 2015
By Md Tokon
Located in Greenwich, CT
Collection: Silent Space
Acrylic on canvas
Md Tokon's style has reflected the art of American Abstract Expressionists. Md Tokon spent his early years in Jhenidah and Dhaka. The phys...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton, Paint, Acrylic
Md Tokon - The Morning Fantasy, Painting 2013
By Md Tokon
Located in Greenwich, CT
Collection: Silent Space
Acrylic on canvas
Md Tokon's style has reflected the art of American Abstract Expressionists. Md Tokon spent his early years in Jhenidah and Dhaka. The phys...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
Md Tokon - Untitled Yellow, Painting 2018
By Md Tokon
Located in Greenwich, CT
Collection: Silent Space
Acrylic on canvas
Md Tokon's style has reflected the art of American Abstract Expressionists. Md Tokon spent his early years in Jhenidah and Dhaka. The phys...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
Md Tokon - Autumn Days Walk, Painting 2014
By Md Tokon
Located in Greenwich, CT
Collection: Silent Space
Acrylic on canvas
Md Tokon's style has reflected the art of American Abstract Expressionists. Md Tokon spent his early years in Jhenidah and Dhaka. The phys...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
Md Tokon - River to Sea, Painting 2016
By Md Tokon
Located in Greenwich, CT
Collection: Silent Space
Acrylic on canvas
Md Tokon's style has reflected the art of American Abstract Expressionists. Md Tokon spent his early years in Jhenidah and Dhaka. The phys...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
Md Tokon - Grey Fireworks, Painting 2016
By Md Tokon
Located in Greenwich, CT
Collection: Beyond The Horizon
Acrylic on canvas
Md Tokon's style has reflected the art of American Abstract Expressionists. Md Tokon spent his early years in Jhenidah and Dhaka. Th...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic Polymer, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
Md Tokon - Shadow in the Pond, Painting 2016
By Md Tokon
Located in Greenwich, CT
Collection: Silent Space
Acrylic on canvas
Md Tokon's style has reflected the art of American Abstract Expressionists. Md Tokon spent his early years in Jhenidah and Dhaka. The phys...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
Dimitri Likissas - Cary Grant, Painting 2022
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Pop
Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas
I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice that in my...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Dimitri Likissas - Willy Bangcock, Painting 2022
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Pop
Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas
I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice that in my...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Mustang
By John Platt
Located in Westport, CT
This is a diptych (each half is 24 x 36 inches) and was created by John Platt, a Brooklyn artist who studied at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and has exhibited extensively in New Yo...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Enamel
$5,500
"Letting Go, " Contemporary Abstract Painting
By Teodora Guererra
Located in Westport, CT
This contemporary abstract statement painting by Teodora Guererra is made with acrylic paint on gallery wrapped canvas. It features a cool, neutral grey palette, with layers of paint...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Today I Choose Palette Knives III, " Contemporary Abstract Painting
By Teodora Guererra
Located in Westport, CT
This contemporary abstract painting by Teodora Guererra is made with acrylic paint on gallery wrapped canvas. It features a neutral, metallic palette with charcoal and light grey, white, and metallic gold. The paint is applied in broad strokes that move out from the center of the composition with an energetic burst toward the edges of the piece. The painting is wired and ready to hang.
Teodora Guererra’s abstract artistic vision has evolved throughout her years spent painting and teaching in Fairfield County, Connecticut; Tucson, Arizona, and upstate New York. Arizona’s naturally radiant landscape and arid climate led her to experiment with rich under-painting and vivid color; while the shifting seasons of the East Coast inspired Guererra to pursue dripping and staining techniques. Her focus has always been pushing the limits through experimentation with new materials.
“As an artist, painting can be tormenting and sublime at the same time," the artist says of her work. "I'm a big risk taker, experimenting with different materials to layer, stain and saturate color on large canvases. My most successful work looks as if it happened all at once. It sometimes takes 7 or more paintings to produce a successful one and then it's a beautiful thing."
Guererra received her undergraduate and graduate Art degrees from Southern Connecticut University, The College of Saint Rose and Skidmore College. Guererra’s paintings can be found in public and private collections across the U.S., including the Allmen Health and Wellness Center for Women in New York and SUNY Brockport, NY, William & Sonoma, San Francisco, CA. Her influences are Pat Steir, John McCracken, Helen Frankenthaler, Donald Jud, Bernar Venet, Agnes Martin and Brian...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Pomology
By Barbara Coyle Holt
Located in Branford, CT
Pomology - acrylic on canvas. 2018.
Barbara Holt writes of her work; Ancient Egyptian artists tried to fill the voids in their compositions to discourage evil spirits from finding a ...
Category
2010s American Modern Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Dimitri Likissas - Pussycat Senior, Painting 2022
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Pop
Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas
I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice that in my...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Dimitri Likissas - Eagle, Painting 2022
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Pop
Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas
I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice that in my...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Dimitri Likissas - Zenith El Primero, Painting 2022
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Pop
Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas
I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice that in my...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Dimitri Likissas - Je Ne Sais Quoi, Painting 2022
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Pop
Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas
I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice that in my...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Dimitri Likissas - Hand with Diamond, Painting 2022
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Pop
Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas
I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice that in my...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Dimitri Likissas - Che Guevara, Painting 2022
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Pop
Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas
I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice that in my...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Dimitri Likissas - Ebony, Painting 2022
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Pop
Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas
I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice that in my...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Dimitri Likissas - Nunc est Bibendum, Painting 2022
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Pop
Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas
I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice that in my...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Dimitri Likissas - Crying Eye #3, Painting 2022
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Pop
Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas
I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice that in my...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Dimitri Likissas - No Dream Too High - Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, Painting 2022
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Pop
Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas
I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice that in my...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Dimitri Likissas - Crying Eye #1, Painting 2022
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Pop
Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas
I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice that in my...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Dimitri Likissas - Lemon, Painting 2022
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Pop
Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas
I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice that in my...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Dimitri Likissas - Michael Caine, Painting 2022
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Pop
Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas
I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice that in my...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Dimitri Likissas - Crying Eye #4, Painting 2022
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Pop
Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas
I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice that in my...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Dimitri Likissas - Window to Magic (Columns), Painting 2022
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Abstract
Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas
I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice that ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Dimitri Likissas - Lady Red Top, Painting 2022
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Figurative
Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas
I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice tha...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Dimitri Likissas - Rebellious Expression of Freedom, Painting 2022
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Abstract
Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas
I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice that ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Dimitri Likissas - Manga Smurf, Painting 2022
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Pop
Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas
I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice that in my...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Dimitri Likissas - Hidden Beauty, Painting 2022
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Abstract
Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas
I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice that ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Dimitri Likissas - Who's Really in Charge?, Painting 2022
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Figurative
Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas
I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice tha...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Dimitri Likissas - Assertive Female in Underwear, Painting 2022
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Figurative
Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas
I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice tha...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Dimitri Likissas - Crying Eye #2, Painting 2022
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Pop
Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas
I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice that in my...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Dimitri Likissas - Vivid Evocation, Painting 2022
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Abstract
Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas
I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice that ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
No. 23
By John Platt
Located in Westport, CT
This intensely colored striped painting is by John Platt, a Brooklyn artist who studied at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and has exhibited extensively in New York.
This abstract mu...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$5,500
Dimitri Likissas - Bello Come Sempre #1 (Columns), Painting 2022
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Abstract
Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas
I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice that ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Dimitri Likissas - Bello Come Sempre #2 (Columns), Painting 2022
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Abstract
Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas
I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice that ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Dimitri Likissas - Candy Modulations #4, Painting 2022
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Abstract
Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas
I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice that ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Dimitri Likissas - Declaration of Love (Columns), Painting 2022
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Abstract
Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas
I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice that ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Dimitri Likissas - Red Skull, Pink, Painting 2019
Located in Greenwich, CT
Red Skull, Pink
Series: Greenwich
Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas
48" x 40"
I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that imag...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Dimitri Likissas - Pink Lips, Blue Nails, Painting 2019
Located in Greenwich, CT
Pink Lips, Blue Nails
Series: Greenwich
Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas
40" x 59"
I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up tha...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Deborah Bigeleisen - Duality 2 (cropped horizontal), Painting 2025
By Deborah Bigeleisen
Located in Greenwich, CT
"UNVEILED DUALITY
A visual interplay of contrasting elements
Never having considered myself an abstract thinker, I am delving into very
unfamiliar territory with my newest series – U...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Deborah Bigeleisen - Duality 5, Painting 2025
By Deborah Bigeleisen
Located in Greenwich, CT
"UNVEILED DUALITY
A visual interplay of contrasting elements
Never having considered myself an abstract thinker, I am delving into very
unfamiliar territory with my newest series – U...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Serenade 2
By John Platt
Located in Westport, CT
This beautiful multi colored abstract oil painting is by John Platt, a Brooklyn artist who studied at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and has exhibited extensively in New York.
This ...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Falling Light
By Ira Barkoff
Located in Greenwich, CT
Born in 1934 in Brooklyn, New York, Ira Barkoff’s paintings feature empty, Zen-like landscapes whose stillness reflects a location’s essence. Barkoff seeks to “portray a sense of vas...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
River Into The Sound
By Emilia Dubicki
Located in Branford, CT
Emilia Dubicki - Short summer. Oil on canvas, 2022.
Dubicki/ Artist Statement
My paintings are an amalgam of abstraction, actual and imagined places, and recollections. I like to p...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Stepping Within, " Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Westport, CT
This mid-sized original abstract painting by Tony Iadicicco is made with oil paint on gallery wrapped canvas. Primarily blue, grey, and white, this piece features parallel horizontal...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
All of It, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Steven Miller
Located in Yardley, PA
My abstract paintings are all about creating excitement for the viewer through concentrated exploration. Each painting is inspired by nature, travels, or imagination and created to e...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Magnolia 1
By Liz Barber
Located in Westport, CT
Liz Barber's organic abstract paintings are layered bursts of energy inspired by nature’s movement. Forms and lines fall into a sea of emotion. Shapes and reflections drift into volumetric configurations.
She pours colors onto the canvas and watches what happens. Intuitively, she then edits.
Barber uses a form of mixed media which allows for more creative freedom and gives the materials a voice.
This painting makes a beautiful pair with the Liz Barber painting, "Magnolia 2...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
And The Birds Sang
By Don Wunderlee
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
The language of form and color, the tools of abstract painting provide unlimited potential to express poetic ideas. Often a visual idea can have its roots in an a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
"Acacia, " Abstract Painting
By Roger Mudre
Located in Westport, CT
This abstract painting by Roger Mudre features light, translucent outlines of circles which are layered over one another throughout the composition. It has a light, champagne-colored...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Silver
Garden Dance 5
By Liz Barber
Located in Westport, CT
Liz Barber's organic abstract paintings are layered bursts of energy inspired by nature’s movement. Forms and lines fall into a sea of emotion. Shapes and reflections drift into volu...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Relever
Located in Boston, MA
About the artist:
Oi Fortin is an award-winning monotype printmaker, working in New Haven, CT, USA. Her contemporary abstract expressionist prints are notable for a vivid palette and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Monotype
Bay Leaf River, Abstract Landscape Painting
By Claude Vermette
Located in Wilton, CT
Bay Leaf River, acrylic on canvas, 24" x 82", 1984. Abstract Landscape Painting.
Claude Vermette R.C.A. (1930 - 2006) is a Canadian ceramist and paint...
Category
1980s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Acrylic
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