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Item Ships From: Continental US
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 Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Rag Paper
Figures & Flowers, Surreal Abstract Meditation
By Noel Howard
Located in Soquel, CA
Surreal abstract figurative of a dreamy, meditative scene including multiple figures and flowers, blended with sill-life and landscape elements by Noel Howard (American, 20th Century...
Category
1970s Symbolist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté, Crayon, Laid Paper
$637 Sale Price
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Big Melt #16 (Abstract drawing)
By Jaanika Peerna
Located in London, GB
Big Melt #16 (Abstract drawing)
Pigment pencil and water on mylar - Unframed.
This work is from a series titled Big Melt. It has been created with pigment pencils and ice. It captu...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mylar, Pencil
Calligraph (Abstract Expressionism painting)
By Laura Newman
Located in London, GB
Calligraph (Abstract Expressionism painting)
Ink and acrylic on handmade wasli paper - Unframed
Laura Newman's paintings combine geometric de...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Handmade Paper
1980s "Rust and Black" Soft Pastel Abstract Drawing
Located in Arp, TX
D. Tongen
"Rust and Black"
1980s
18.5"x 13"
Soft pastel and pencil on paper
Initialed in pencil lower right
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Pencil
Kyle Andrew Szpyrka - Learning to Fly, Drawing 2015
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
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Foam Board, Pencil, Graphite
1980s "Yellow and Black" Soft Pastel Abstract Drawing
Located in Arp, TX
D. Tongen
"Yellow and Black"
1980s
19.75"x12.5"
Soft pastel and pencil on paper
Initialed in pencil lower right
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Pencil
Emily Berger, Etching # 1 , 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 Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Synthetic Paper
Abstracted Cubist Cat Portrait in Pastel on Paper
By Michael William Eggleston
Located in Soquel, CA
Brightly colored abstract portrait by Michael William Eggleston (American, 20th Century). An abstracted figure is depicted as having a cat-like eye and sharp teeth, but the exact fea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Emily Berger, Wellfleet #3, 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 Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
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 Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Rag Paper
Sunburst
Located in Pine Plains, NY
Formally trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of Art, Cockrill is well know and respected for his use of
the watercolor medium. Watercolor lends itself to melting, fluid brush stroke...
Category
Early 2000s American Realist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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 Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Rag Paper
7.21 (Abstract Expressionism painting)
By Jill Moser
Located in London, GB
Casein and ink on paper - Unframed
Jill Moser is an American abstract artist whose work explores the intersection of “painting, writing and the animated image.”
Her work is in the...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Casein
Modern Abstract Figurative Charcoal Drawing of a Woman in a Peacock Chair
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract figurative charcoal drawing of a woman by Texas-born artist Eugene Massin. The work features a central loosely rendered female figure seated in a high-backed peacock ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Pastel Blue and Purple Toned Abstract Drawing Work on Paper
By Renelio Marin
Located in New York, NY
Renelio Marin is a visual artist with a diverse range of influences and styles. Born in Cuba, he received his graduate degree from the San Alejandro School of Fine Arts in Havana in ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Color Pencil
"The Hurdy Gurdy Man", Colorful Figurative Abstract Street Performer Watercolor
By Hope Tepley
Located in Soquel, CA
Brightly colored watercolor of a 1970's California street performer, done in a colorful, expressive slap-dash style, by Hope Tepley (American, 1919-2010). Signed "Tepley" in the lower right corner. Titled "The Hurdy Gurdy...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Taahhutlu" Monotype with Chine Colle and Watercolor, Found Object Collage
By Michael Pauker
Located in Soquel, CA
Contemporary abstract painting and found object collage composition with stamps, money, various types of paper, and watercolor by Michael Pauker (...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Found Objects
$2,520 Sale Price
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Abstract Color Field Composition in Watercolor on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract Color Field Composition in Watercolor on Paper
Bold abstract composition by Ricardo de Silva (Brazilian, 20th Century). Two rectangles of color sit vertically, with gray-pu...
Category
1980s Abstract Impressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Abstract Watercolor Painting on Handmade Paper
Located in San Francisco, CA
C. 20th Century
Abstract Painting in Watercolor on Handmade Paper ( Signature on Bottom Left side ) Hertzberg
Category
20th Century Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper
Sattva 39 (Abstract painting)
By Tracey Adams
Located in London, GB
Sattva 39 (Abstract painting)
Encaustic on Okawara paper - Unframed.
Adams works on panel and paper, using a mixture of paint, encaustic and graphite as well as elements of monotyp...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Encaustic
Untitled
Located in New York, NY
Color pencil, ink pen and Chinese ink on wooden panel
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Wood Panel, Color Pencil
Sara Eichner, Orange_16 Layers, 2016, 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 Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Rag Paper, Pen
1990s Mixed Media "Micro Biomorphic Abstract Drawing"
Located in Arp, TX
Bill Shields
"Micro Biomorphic Abstract Drawing "
1990's
Pastel, pencil charcoal on illustration board
Site measures 3"x3" silver wood frame 9.75"x10.75"
Unsigned came from artist's ...
Category
1990s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel, Illustration Board, Pencil
Karen Schiff, Field of Sorts III, 2014, Watercolor, Pencil, 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 Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil, Graphite
Abstract Expressionist Composition
Located in Astoria, NY
Robert O'Meara (American, XX-XXI), Abstract Expressionist Composition, Charcoal on Paper, signed lower left, wood frame. Image: 13" H x 10" W; frame: 20.5" H x 16.5" W x 1.25" D. Pro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
The Long Way Home, Drawing, Pen & Ink on Watercolor Paper
By Lisa Bolin
Located in Yardley, PA
Intricate converging hand-drawn ink lines interlace to create a mid-century modern kind of feel. These graphic black and white pieces add a pop of energy to the special space you hav...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
On Sale - Haven: Abstract Sedona Landscape Framed Painting Linear Art
By Axel Getz
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Haven" translates the distinctive energy and landscape of Sedona, Arizona, into a captivating linear abstraction. The canvas is animated by flowing, horizontal waves of color that s...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Viaje redondo. Framed. Painting From the series Plato’s Heaven
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The theory of Heaven is a novelty that Plato introduced to philosophy. Inspired by this concept, the artist proposes a series of works where I imagine and recreate possible worlds on...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Cardboard, Graphite
Flat Iron, New York City
By Tom Irizarry Studio
Located in Booklyn, NY
The eerie timeless Flat Iron building stands silhouetted against a winter sky one day in NYC. Tom was struck by the severe geometry of an historic b...
Category
19th Century Naturalistic Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
Beginning, Drawing, Charcoal on Paper
By Emily Redd
Located in Yardley, PA
Charcoal drawing on paper. The creases in the paper were there when the drawing was made and are intentional. :: Drawing :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certificate...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Tie Dye Abstract Watercolor
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Multicolor abstract watercolor reminiscent of tie dye by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). From the estate of Les Anderson in Monterey, Cali...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$223 Sale Price
20% Off
Abstract Composition
Located in Astoria, NY
Elfi Schuselka (Austrian, b. 1940), Abstract Composition, Mixed Media on Paper with three-dimensional collage elements, signed in pencil lower right, unframed. 23" H x 30" W. Provena...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor, Pencil, Graphite
"fortress of inseparability", Abstract, Monoprints, Ink, Fabric, Botanical motif
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "fortress of inseparability" is an original piece by Cassie Normandy White and is made from fabric monotypes and ink. This piec...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Fabric, Ink, Monotype
"when darkness yields", Abstract, Collaged Monoprints, Watercolor, Botanicals
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "when darkness yields" is an original piece by Cassie Normandy White and is made from fabric monotypes and ink. This piece meas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Fabric, Ink, Monotype
Journey Tantra Painting, Painting, Watercolor on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
series of 8 24 x 24 inches each "Breath flowsInto this body As a nectar of the gods. Every breath is a whisper Of the Goddess: â€
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Porch drawing 2
By Peter Soriano
Located in London, GB
Spray paint, pencil, ink, watercolor on paper. Unframed.
Peter Soriano works on relatively large sheets of Japanese paper with a tendency to work from something observed, ideally ar...
Category
2010s Conceptual Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Spray Paint, Watercolor, Pencil
Prussian Blue Water
Located in New York, NY
Prussian Blue Water is painted on special Japanese paper I purchased in Tokyo on a trip last year sponsored by The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University. From that t...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Large Colorful Modernist Pastel Abstract Expressionist Painting Sylvia Carewe
Located in Surfside, FL
Framed 33 X 45.5 image is 29 X 41.5
Hand signed lower left
Signed and titled verso
Sylvia Carewe (1906-1981) was an American woman artist, painter, writer and poet.
Born in New York City to Russian immigrant parents, Louis and Esther Kerewsky, she changed her surname to "Carewe" in 1930. Carewe attended Columbia University and studied further with Yasuo Kuniyoshi at Atelier 17 in New York, with Hans Hoffman in New York and Provincetown, Massachusetts, and at the New School for Social Research.
During World War II Carewe worked as an advertising copywriter and artist for agencies in New York. She became a prolific abstract artist in a range of media, including tapestry designs for the Aubusson tapestry carpet company in France, felt banners, collage reliefs, and what she termed "blown paintings," which were assemblages (predominantly of children's toy components) overlaid with spray paint. One of the most common subjects in her semi abstract paintings was New York City at night. She also worked in traditional artistic media, including watercolors, oils, lithographs and pastels. In October 1944, she married Marvin Small (formerly Smalheiser, executive for Carter's Little Liver Pills). They had one child, John Marvin, in June 1947.
Carewe had her first one-woman show in Poughkeepsie in 1947, after which she opened in New York City at the ACA Gallery in 1948. She had some twenty other American solo shows and her works hung in many exhibits across the United States as well as in France, Belgium and the Netherlands. Her works are represented in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum, Musée de l'Arte Moderne, Paris, Brandeis University, the Butler Art Institute, Howard University, the Tel Aviv Museum and the National Museum in Djakarta, Indonesia. Her work has been described by French critics as "violent, colorful art, in hard contrasts, not exempt from cold lyricism." ["Les Girls...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Celestial Tondo Pointillist Composition
By Manfred Schwartz
Located in Astoria, NY
Manfred Schwartz (American, b. Poland, 1909-1970), Celestial Tondo, Pointillist Composition, Gouache on Paper, apparently unsigned, artist estate stamp to verso, with red dot sticker...
Category
1950s Modern Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Effloresce (Abstract painting)
By Anya Spielman
Located in London, GB
Oil on paper - Unframed
Framed on request
Spielman uses oil paint on canvas, paper and panel in various sizes; she works on up to forty paintings at a time, moving between them as each begins to form, then isolating a work to bring to completion.
Her saturated surfaces are luminous, with alternate glossy and matte layers, but also bear rough nail marks that scar and deconstruct the work. These etched lines and marks relate to an image and idea, and are often the underlying structure, the submerged language of a work.
Her use of reds and pinks link to flesh and blood...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil
Abstracted Still Life with Calla Lilies and Birds of Paradise
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstracted still life with bright colors and calla lily flowers by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). Unsigned, but acquired from the estate of Les Anderson in Mont...
Category
1980s Abstract Impressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Jody Pinto, "Orange Leg Landscape, " Mixed Media Drawing, 1979
By Jody Pinto
Located in Long Island City, NY
This watercolor, gouache, graphite, and crayon drawing on paper was created by contemporary artist Jody Pinto (b. 1942). Pinto's large-scale architecture and small-scale design all h...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Watercolor, Gouache, Graphite
Untitled 560 (Abstract painting)
By Clay Johnson
Located in London, GB
Acrylic on paper - Unframed.
The technique Johnson employs is extremely rigorous, involving, as he says, “pushing paint around with palette knives and drywall tools rather than brus...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Abstracted Woman in Shadows in Pastel on Paper
By Michael William Eggleston
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstracted Woman in Shadows in Pastel on Paper
Brightly colored abstract drawing by Michael William Eggleston (American, 20th Century). An abstracted woman figure is depicted walkin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
"Oesterreich II" Contemporary Monotype with Chine Colle and Watercolor
By Michael Pauker
Located in Soquel, CA
Contemporary abstract painting and collage composition with stamps, various types of paper, and watercolor by Michael Pauker (American, b. 1957). With found object scraps of vintage ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Found Objects
Untitled 557 (Abstract painting)
By Clay Johnson
Located in London, GB
Untitled 557 (Abstract painting)
Acrylic on paper - Unframed.
The technique Johnson employs is extremely rigorous, involving, as he says, “pushing paint around with palette knives ...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Polish French Judaica Watercolor Gouache Painting Original Bauhaus Yiddish Art
By Moses Bagel Bahelfer
Located in Surfside, FL
Moses Bahelfer BAGEL (1908-1995)
Moses Bagel (born Moshe Bahelfer) was a Polish-born Jewish artist and graphic designer associated with the original Bauhaus and then the School of Pa...
Category
20th Century Modern Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, ABS
Bourrée Fantasque #12 Pastel on Paper Mid 20th Century Modern as seen on Étoile
Located in Glenford, NY
"Bourrée Fantasque #12 Blue", Pastel on Paper by Artist Francisco Moncion, is a Mid-20th Century fantasy image inspired by George Balanchine's 1949 b...
Category
1980s American Modern Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Pencil
Bourrée Fantasque #7 Pastel on Paper Mid 20th Century Modern as seen on 'Étoile'
Located in Glenford, NY
"Bourrée Fantasque #7", Pastel on Paper by Artist Francisco Moncion, is a Mid-20th Century fantasy image inspired by George Balanchine's 1949 ballet of the same name for the New York...
Category
1980s American Modern Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Pencil
"Biomorphic Abstraction II" original watercolor painting by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In the 1960s, Sylvia Spicuzza made several watercolor abstractions with biomorphic qualities like the one presented here. While being a playful abstraction, the watercolor also seeps...
Category
1960s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Pylons - textural pastel color abstract painting on paper street art inspired
By David Fredrik Moussallem
Located in New York, NY
David Fredrik Moussallem’s mixed-media abstract paintings tell different “stories from the streets” and respond to urban landscape. His palette is soft, mainly using white, beige an...
Category
2010s Street Art Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper, Magazine Paper
Vintage Lascaux Caves Abstract Watercolor
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstracted composition inspired by prehistoric paintings in the caves of Lascaux, France by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). Signed "Les Anderson" lower right. Fr...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Freelance, " Oil Pastel on Illustration Board signed by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Freelance" is an original oil pastel drawing on illustration board by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece on the back. It depicts an artist walking through an abstracted wo...
Category
1980s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Illustration Board
Spark Dance
By Teri Brudnak
Located in Boston, MA
Artist commentary:
Shapes dance in patterns of line and color as sparks fly.
Words that describe the piece: Expressionistic, abstract, colorful
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Digital
Untitled (Purple and Yellow)
By Gene Davis
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Purple and Yellow)
Pastel on paper, 1981
Signed and dated lower right
Provenance:
Collection of Jan Cowles
Jan Cowles was married to Gardner Cowles owner of Cowles Media Company (1935–1998) which owned newspapers, magazines and information publishing company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the United States. The company operated Cowles Business Media, Cowles Creative Publishing, and Cowles Enthusiast Media units.
Owners of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune from 1935 to 1998, other newspapers owned at one time by Cowles Media and its affiliates included the Des Moines Register, the Buffalo Courier...
Category
1980s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Bourrée Fantasque #9 Pastel on Paper Mid 20th Century Modern as seen on 'Étoile'
Located in Glenford, NY
"Bourrée Fantasque #9", Pastel on Paper by Artist Francisco Moncion, is a Mid-20th Century fantasy image inspired by George Balanchine's 1949 ballet ...
Category
1980s American Modern Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Pencil
Bourrée Fantasque #14 Pastel on Paper Mid 20th Century Modern as seen on Étoile
Located in Glenford, NY
"Bourrée Fantasque #14", Pastel on Paper by Artist Francisco Moncion, is a Mid-20th Century fantasy image inspired by George Balanchine's 1949 ballet of the same name for the New Yor...
Category
1980s American Modern Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Pencil
Abstract Mixed Media Drawing on paper by Karl Fred Dahmen
By Karl Fred Dahmen
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Karl Fred Dahmen
Title: Untitled 2
Year: 1980
Medium: Drawing with Mixed Media on Paper, signed verso
Size: 33 x 41.5 in. (83.82 x 105.41 cm)
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Laid Paper
Untitled (Līnea Study), 2022
Located in Washington, DC
Original work by Mary Early. Graphite, wax crayon, and sumi ink on Arches paper, 12.25 x 16".
"The production, or “pouring,” of beeswax elements has become a meditative process that is integral to my art practice, serving as an observation of time, materials, and space. The raw beeswax I use has taken its form at the end of a long series of natural processes followed by a manufacturing process, and once it is in my hands, the studio becomes a factory. I apply my own methods of transforming the material by casting the beeswax into three-dimensional forms. Once I have fixed both a place and a time in the future for a potential installation, I begin to determine how the beeswax lines will take their aggregated shape in that space and, simultaneously, how many lines might be manufactured for that particular space in the amount of time available."
Mary Early (born 1975, Washington, DC) lives and works in Washington, DC. She studied visual art, film, and video at Bennington College, and her work has been exhibited at the United States Botanic Garden, Washington Project for the Arts, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Second Street Gallery (Charlottesville, VA), Hemphill Fine Arts (Washington DC,) the Austrian Cultural Forum (Washington DC), Galerie Im Ersten (Vienna, Austria), Kloster Schloss Salem (Salem, Germany), Kunstlerbund Tubingen (Tubingen, Germany), and the American University Museum (Washington DC) among other regional and national galleries.
Her early work incorporated formed concrete, tarpaper and paraffin wax, fabricated wood structures, and, increasingly over the years, surfaces coated with wax as a method of preserving or concealing an object within. Recent works have relied solely on solid forms cast in wax, abandoning the use of any permanent armature. Temporary installations are guided by schematic drawings and plans, which then serve as a permanent record.
In 2014 she exhibited her first large-scale installation of wax lines at Second Street Gallery in Charlottesville, VA, followed by temporary installations in response to various historical sites in Salem, Germany (2016) and Tubingen Germany (2017). In 2017 she participated in the exhibition “Twist-Layer-Pour” at the American University Museum, which included Untitled [Curve], an installation of thousands of beeswax lines assembled on the floor of the museum. In spring 2018 she was commissioned to create a temporary installation at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley Idaho. This work took the form of two intersecting curtains of hanging beeswax lines bisecting a 12’ foot x 18’ foot room, providing an immersive and enclosed viewing space.
Early’s work is included in the collections of the US Department of State/Embassy of Panama, Kimpton Hotels, and the District of Columbia Art Bank among other public and private collections. She is a recipient of the Artist Fellowship Grant from the DC Commission on Arts & Humanities, Washington DC (2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2011, 2009, 2007).
Early is the director of HEMPHILL Fine Arts, Washington, DC, and serves on the boards of Hamiltonian Artists and Washington Sculptors Group. She handles the work of contemporary artists and artist estates, including the work of William Christenberry, Colby Caldwell, Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi, Linling Lu, Mingering Mike, Robin Rose, Renée Stout...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Wax Crayon, Sumi Ink, Archival Paper, Graphite
