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STRMB, Framed
By Richard Orient
Located in Fairfield, CT
My abstract paintings are also glimpses of nature. Some of these paintings read as landscapes of a different world, a wondrous space. Others are about the more intimate aspects of na...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Yellow Circle, Framed
By Steven Kinder
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --Steven Kinder talks a lot about energy, form and movement and getting at the essence of something. Getting to the middle of it. H...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Pigment
Lookout, 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
Petrichor - Smell of the Rain
By Kunihiko Maehara
Located in Fairfield, CT
When a simple vertical line finds itself in the midst of accidental organic chaos, a sense of directionality and stability is introduced. The line itself can act as a tool used to di...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Memories of the Future, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Steven Miller
Located in Yardley, PA
Oil on canvas inspire by nature, travels and other observations. My abstract paintings are all about creating excitement for the viewer through concentrated exploration. Each paintin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
GBG 1013-17
By Steven Kinder
Located in Fairfield, CT
Steven Kinder (b. 1956, Queens, NY) was trained at Cooper Union and has been making drawings, paintings, and large-scale installation for over 40 years. His recent work advances his interest in various forms of dynamic tension and movement found in nature, specifically tidal bores, surges or whirlpools.
In his new work, the artist further explores tension and balance between the intuitive, gestural mark and the intellectual organization of form. His 9 inch square drawing series, a format he has been using for years, have now become templates for his paintings. In the drawings Kinder works out how form and color can come together and break apart while maintaining a compositional integrity inside a small space. His habit of placing ¾ inch blue painter’s tape around the edges of his designated area to serve as a border has now become part of the picture plane. The tape’s slightly elevated hard edge creates a physical barrier for the paint but adds a beautiful collage dimension as well. Its rough textured surface catches and slows the end of the brush stroke, softening the color and extending its energy over the intended border. Like a tidal pool at the base of a waterfall, the tape is both an extension of the thing, and a separate thing itself.
When Kinder translates the small drawings onto larger canvas, there is a palpable and necessary shift of pressure, color intensity and rhythm. He does not project the drawing on the canvas, nor does he use graphs. Instead he simply places it next to the canvas and refers to the drawing as an architectural blue print...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
F-Red-G28-15 in Red, Framed
By Steven Kinder
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --Steven Kinder talks a lot about energy, form and movement and getting at the essence of something. Getting to the middle of it. He wa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Pigment
Just Before The Storm, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Steven Miller
Located in Yardley, PA
Oil on canvas inspired by nature, life, observations, color theory, travel and dreams. My abstract paintings are all about creating excitement for the viewer through concentrated exp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
GBG 1001-17
By Steven Kinder
Located in Fairfield, CT
Steven Kinder (b. 1956, Queens, NY) was trained at Cooper Union and has been making drawings, paintings, and large-scale installation for over 40 years. His recent work advances his interest in various forms of dynamic tension and movement found in nature, specifically tidal bores, surges or whirlpools.
In his new work, the artist further explores tension and balance between the intuitive, gestural mark and the intellectual organization of form. His 9 inch square drawing series, a format he has been using for years, have now become templates for his paintings. In the drawings Kinder works out how form and color can come together and break apart while maintaining a compositional integrity inside a small space. His habit of placing ¾ inch blue painter’s tape around the edges of his designated area to serve as a border has now become part of the picture plane. The tape’s slightly elevated hard edge creates a physical barrier for the paint but adds a beautiful collage dimension as well. Its rough textured surface catches and slows the end of the brush stroke, softening the color and extending its energy over the intended border. Like a tidal pool at the base of a waterfall, the tape is both an extension of the thing, and a separate thing itself.
When Kinder translates the small drawings onto larger canvas, there is a palpable and necessary shift of pressure, color intensity and rhythm. He does not project the drawing on the canvas, nor does he use graphs. Instead he simply places it next to the canvas and refers to the drawing as an architectural blue print...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
WOP 1-16
By Steven Kinder
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- Steven Kinder talks a lot about energy, form and movement and getting at the essence of something. Getting to the middle of it. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
F-BYR-G11-16, Framed
By Steven Kinder
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --Steven Kinder talks a lot about energy, form and movement and getting at the essence of something. Getting to the middle of it. H...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Pigment
Baby Green, Framed
By Steven Kinder
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --Steven Kinder talks a lot about energy, form and movement and getting at the essence of something. Getting to the middle of it. H...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Pigment
After the Storm, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Christiane Pape
Located in Yardley, PA
Splashes of color fill this powerful canvas. Pinks, yellows, greens and blues with a black background make this a wonderful piece for a large wall. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This p...
Category
1980s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Totem/Tar
By John Belingheri
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- JOHN BELINGHERI
Artist Statement
"Thoughts are patterns that bounce back and forth expressing the vacillating dialogue in my think...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled #1
By Carolanna Parlato
Located in Westport, CT
This beautifully colored abstract work on paper is by Brooklyn based artist, Carolanna Parlato.
Carolanna Parlato received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.
She has exhibited in numerous museums, galleries and venues such as the Drawing Center (NYC) Art in General (NYC), White Columns (NYC), Hunterdon Art Museum (New Jersey), the Brooklyn Museum, BRIC, the Dedalus Foundation Gallery at Industry City...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Untitled #1
By Carolanna Parlato
Located in Westport, CT
This beautifully colored abstract work on paper is by Brooklyn based artist, Carolanna Parlato.
Carolanna Parlato received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.
She has exhibited in numerous museums, galleries and venues such as the Drawing Center (NYC) Art in General (NYC), White Columns (NYC), Hunterdon Art Museum (New Jersey), the Brooklyn Museum, BRIC, the Dedalus Foundation Gallery at Industry City...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
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
Untitled
By Olivia Munroe
Located in Fairfield, CT
Munroe, who is formally trained as a printmaker, creates sublime paintings with imagery inspired by archetypal forms of the circle and the square. Employing tools and processes from ...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wax
Red Movement
Located in Bristol, CT
Abstract acrylic on canvas composition 'Red Movement' (New York 2003) by Christos Angelakis of Samos, Greece & a contemporary of Brice Marden
Art Sz: 21 1/2"H x 49 1/2"W
Frame Sz: ...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Oil on Linen: 'Death by Water'
By David Mellen
Located in New York, NY
David Mellen’s paintings orchestrate a complexity derived both from an intricate style and equally complex notion of painting’s ability to cross boundaries and conception in a time o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Trashed: Dyslexic Love
By Janet Lage
Located in Westport, CT
Janet Lage’s energetic abstract pieces are loaded with writing (graffiti), color, form and expressionistic brushstrokes.
For Lage, the painting process is an alliance of language an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Ink, Oil, Graphite
Blow: I Love You Anyway
By Janet Lage
Located in Westport, CT
Janet Lage’s energetic abstract pieces are loaded with writing (graffiti), color, form and expressionistic brushstrokes.
For Lage, the painting process is an alliance of language an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Oil, Graphite
Meditation Series Flow
By Liz Dexheimer
Located in Westport, CT
Liz Dexheimer’s abstract, colorful landscapes reveal her fascination with the illusory and transcendent qualities of light and atmosphere. Both serve as a source of inspiration for h...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Prismatic
By Molly Herman
Located in Westport, CT
Brooklyn artist, Molly Herman, creates beautiful, colorful abstract paintings. This is a stunning example with black and bright pink
She is most interested in playing with the langu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Silk
Bernal Etude, Original Abstract Monoprint
Located in Boston, MA
Bernal Etude, 2020
24" x 18" (HxW) Original Abstract Monoprint
A unique print by artist Oi Fortin. A gorgeous color scape of blue and green is broken up by ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Monotype
Mousa, Original Abstract Monoprint
Located in Boston, MA
Mousa, 2020
24" x 18" (HxW) Original Abstract Monoprint
A unique print by artist Oi Fortin. A gradient color palette of blue and red-orange shifts across th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Monotype
Winter Dawn, Original Abstract Monoprint
Located in Boston, MA
Winter Dawn, 2020
18" x 24" (HxW) Original Abstract Monoprint
A unique print by artist Oi Fortin. A field of undulating blue is speckled with brown dots and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Monotype
On The Bright Side
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
On The Bright Side
We have a choice in life to look on the Bright side or not. There is a reason to see things in a positiv...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Monotype
Camouflage
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Camouflage
For survival animals would camouflage to its environment. Would it be interesting if our skin color can change to whatever we want?
About the artist:
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Monotype
Wizardry
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
This new series of Monotype collage are my latest and exciting project. I use my monotype background to start, then added cutouts from other media. It's fun and addictive to make! Enjoy.
About the artist:
Oi Fortin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Monotype
Geometric Progression
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Monotype Print on Arches 88 paper, using oil base printmaking inks, completed in February, 2021
Geometric in shape, each colors are printed separately. This is on...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Monotype
Homage to Saccio
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Homage to Saccio
Joe Saccio, a doctor, a wonderful sculpture artist, and friend who recently passed away. In memory of his friendship, I use shapes that were left in his studio to create this piece.
About the artist:
Oi Fortin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Monotype
Skynet
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
This new series of Monotype collage are my latest and exciting project. I use my monotype background to start, then added cutouts from other media. It's fun and a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Monotype
Off You Go
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
Vision
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
VISION
By Joyce Kilmer
"Homer, they tell us, as blind and could not see
the beautiful faces
looking up into his own and reflecting the joy of
his dream,
Yet d...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Monotype, Paper, Oil
Passeig de Gracia series #5
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Passeig de Grácia' is an avenue in the heart of the largest district of Barcelona, Spain. It is the most opulent Avenue of the city, where the celebrated and awe-...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Monotype
Life Lines
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
Geo
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
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
White Squall
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Sakura means cherry blossom and is derived from Saku, which means to bloom, or to smile or laugh. Cherry blossoms are a symbolic flower of the spring-- a time of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Monotype
Rio, Abstract Oil Painting on Paper, 2019
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
The first thought in my head when I finished this was ‘antibodies’. They are anti-body, for sure. It looks like something under microscope and is unlike anything ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Monotype
Encierro, Original Abstract Painting, 2019
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Stop shrinking is based on a mentality I have had for far too long. I have found that I have been shrinking to fit the places I have outgrown. By this I mean that...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Monotype
Little League, Original Abstract Painting, 2020
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Spain is my muse in this piece. The movement of water like spires reminds me of the Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain. The smell of orange trees in the court yard...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Shortwave, Original Abstract Painting, 2020
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Matinée - a life at leisure; see and be seen; larger than Life.
About the artist:
Oi Fortin is an award-winning monotype printmaker, working in New Haven, CT, U...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Mrs. Darwin, Original Abstract Painting, 2020
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Maya--the mirror of illusions
About the artist:
Oi Fortin is an award-winning monotype printmaker, working in New Haven, CT, USA. Her c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Duality Series 2, Original Abstract Painting, 2021
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
This Series began after six months of quarantine due to the Covid 19 pandemic. I often check-in with my (out of state) parents; they are both retired and generally have kept themselves busy during this difficult time. I asked what they are doing for fun....My Dad said a 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle was his vice of the week. I start thinking of puzzle pieces-- how they are connected and how each piece has a purpose to complete a picture. What is my purpose during this pandemic? To make art that points to something beyond ourselves, beyond isolation, beyond pandemics.
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Instruction
By Charles Miesmer
Located in Fairfield, CT
Miesmer began painting in the open air during the summers in Nantucket. Using a pad of Arches paper as an easel and working out of the back of his pickup truck, the quietude and pea...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
A reach
By Michael Rich
Located in Fairfield, CT
In paintings, drawings and prints, Michael Rich explores the beauty and irascibility of the natural world through an approach to painting that is visceral, physical and colorful. Of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Morning Song, Original Abstract Painting, Acrylic on Canvas, 2021
By Don Wunderlee
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
This painting on canvas was a break from the more minimalist paintings on paper I had been doing during covid. A lighter palette with recurring forms like the lilt of a song.
Keywords: abstract, colorful, nature abstract, music, contemporary, acrylic
Artist Biography:
Don’s work is a crossover between pure abstraction and references to the natural world. Color and texture are key elements in his work. His effort is to play with chaos and create balance through layers of transparent color and hue. Don Wunderlee...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Grid Play, Original Abstract Painting, 2021
By Don Wunderlee
Located in Boston, MA
Grid Play, Original Abstract Painting, 2021
Acrylic on paper
11"W x 9"H
Unframed
Artist Commentary:
I used random shapes, some applied with a handmade stamp to fashion a colorful in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
E Lydian
By Don Wunderlee
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
As the title suggests, much of what I create is what I consider to be improvisational. I have spent many years exploring improvisation through various mediums including stand-up puppetry and jazz guitar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood
Summer Laze
By Don Wunderlee
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
It i aid that yellow increases brain activity, self-awareness and energy, it is advisable to keep an object of this colour close to you when you have to find a so...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Improvisation 503
By Don Wunderlee
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
As the title suggests, much of what I create is what I consider to be improvisational. I have spent many years exploring improvisation through various mediums including stand-up puppetry and jazz guitar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Wellfleet Mist
By Don Wunderlee
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
atmospheric landscape inspired by the ocean and flora of Cape Cod
Words that describe this piece: green,grey,,sky,clouds,nature,atmosphere
Artist Biography:
Do...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Yellow Field
By Don Wunderlee
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Abstract landscape painting using acrylic on canvas. This piece is from the Stratum Series, and as a process artist the paintings I create have titles that follow...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Between The Lines III
By Don Wunderlee
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
abstract with blocks of expressive colors between crisp lines revealing two modes yin/yang unity yet distinction
Words that describe this piece: geometric,grid,a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood
Bound/Unbound
By Don Wunderlee
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
At the heart of my work is having this need to invent. One day I was looking through some old paintings I had rolled up and stuck in the corner of my studio. I li...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Patterns Dancing
By Don Wunderlee
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
light atmosphere and playfulness embody this piece
Words that describe this piece: playful,expressionist,nature, abstract, color, blue, colorful, dancing, patter...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
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