Fairfield County - Abstract Paintings

This small original abstracted landscape oil painting by artist Bri Custer features a muted earth-toned palette with tones of warm beige and deep, muted yellow-green throughout. The ...

In "Into Thin Air", a landscape dissolves into atmosphere, memory, and color. With richly textured layers of oil and collage, the artist constructs a fragmented vista where geometry ...

Mohonk Tulips Ryan Cronin Oil Paint on Board 36" x 60" When people look at his work Cronin wants them to feel an immediate impact, even if they’re not sure what hit them. The raw, a...

Circling Butterflies is an abstract painting filled with blue, white and yellow by Australian artist, Jill Morton. It is 30 x 30, acrylic and oil stick on canvas. It is currently f...

Cecilia studied Social Studies and Literature at Universidad Catolica del Peru, Drawing with Cristina Galvez, and Watercolors with Juan Pastorelli. She then worked with Leslie Lee, p...

Series: Untitled 1 Encaustic and Oil On Wood Panel Size: 30" x 40" Using unconventional hardware - a blow torch, iron and other heated tools - along with paper, encaustics, photog...

This contemporary abstract painting by Julia Contacessi features light, washy layers of blue tones through the middle of the canvas, with lighter, textured layers on either side, Ove...

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...

Represented by George Billis Gallery. These recent paintings are my abstracted interpretations of the natural world. This is an ongoing reimagining of vegetation, flowers and the la...

Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- Kiki Smith is one of the most widely recognized people in the art world today, and one of the most prolific artists of her generati...

This piece has metallic gold paint beautifully used on the canvas. When a simple vertical line finds itself in the midst of accidental organic chaos, a sense of directionality and st...

EQUILIBRIO (diptych) Oil on Canvas 16" x 35" 40.64 x 88.9cm My work is mainly abstract, I would say abstract expressionism. I love painting with oils, they give me many possibili...

Karen has always been interested through readings and travel in ancient cultures and their customs, dance, music, poetry, and visual arts and other forms of creative expression. Her travels took her to American Indian sites in many areas of the United States, the Mayan ruins in Central America, Cambodia, Greece, Egypt, Morocco, Spain, France, Italy, Turkey, the British Isles, the Caribbean, and Canada. Using these travels as an impetus for further exploration as she became more fascinated with each culture that she studied, the influences and mark making techniques of the cultures were absorbed into her psyche and in her artwork. She decided to focus on these ideas and finished an MFA degree in painting at Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford. In this program, she studied with N.Y. artist, Susan Wilmarth Rabineau, wife of the deceased minimalist sculptor, Christopher Wilmarth...

This beautiful painting by Charlie Bluett can orient as a vertical or horizontal format. Bluett's works are driven by his overriding passion for Nature and the natural world. It's ...

Karen has always been interested through readings and travel in ancient cultures and their customs, dance, music, poetry, and visual arts and other forms of creative expression. Her travels took her to American Indian sites in many areas of the United States, the Mayan ruins in Central America, Cambodia, Greece, Egypt, Morocco, Spain, France, Italy, Turkey, the British Isles, the Caribbean, and Canada. Using these travels as an impetus for further exploration as she became more fascinated with each culture that she studied, the influences and mark making techniques of the cultures were absorbed into her psyche and in her artwork. She decided to focus on these ideas and finished an MFA degree in painting at Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford. In this program, she studied with N.Y. artist, Susan Wilmarth Rabineau, wife of the deceased minimalist sculptor, Christopher Wilmarth...

This large abstracted seascape statement painting by S. Cora Aldo features a cool, light blue palette with warm sand tones in the large foreground of the composition. The painting ca...

This abstract painting by Teodora Guererra features a dynamic palette of soft icy blues, silvery grays, and subtle hints of beige layered in a complex web of thick palette knife stro...

Represented by George Billis Gallery. Katie Riesco is a classically trained artist & painter who lives and works in Fairfield, Connecticut. With her cont...

Summer in Provence is an abstract painting filled with blue, white and yellow by Australian artist, Jill Morton. It is 30 x 30, acrylic and oil stick on canvas. It is currently fra...

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...

Alyse Rosner 2022

Born in London in 1936, Tony Magar studied at the Royal Albert School of Speech and Literature. The artist traveled extensively for five years through Africa, China, and India. Magar...

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...

This large abstract statement painting by Teodora Guererra features a light, ethereal palette of soft sky blue, pale peach, lemon yellow, and cool white. The artist applies thick str...

This work can be purchased individually or as part of a triptych. Maura Segal’s abstract works conjure a delicate simplicity. Blocks of color languidly splay behind thin meandering l...

This abstract statement painting by Kelly Rossetti is made with oil paint on gallery wrapped canvas. It features a cool blue palette with pale pink accents, as well as light, gestura...

This contemporary abstract landscape painting by Bri Custer, titled Fever Dream, captures the electric quiet of a seascape at sunset. A band of radiant orange and blush dissolves int...

These two small framed abstract paintings by Julia Contacessi are sold together as a diptych. They feature a cool teal-blue palette with washes of white and metallic gold accents tha...

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...

In Entanglement, Bri Custer distills the essence of the forest into layered forms and expressive brushwork. Rooted in observation yet propelled by abstraction, this oil painting conj...

Abstract portrait of woman with red hat and blue dress

Steve Baris is interested in the interconnections of the built environment and spatial experience. His artwork is a response to a largely overlooked type of landscape that is emerg...

This Modern Abstract Expressionist painting by Stanley Bate is made with gouache on paper. It features a muted palette and large, textured brush strokes. The painting itself is 13" x 22" and it measures 21.25" x 29.25" x 1" framed. It is signed by the artist in the lower right-hand corner of the painting, and is framed in a black frame with an acid-free mat. Wired and ready to hang. Stanley Bate was born on March 26, 1903 in Nashville, Tennessee. The Bates were an established Tennessee family, in fact, Henry’s brother William Bate was the governor of Tennessee from 1883-1887 and a United States Senator from 1887-1905. Stanley studied art at the Watkins Institute in Nashville. In the 1920’s Bate moved to New York City to study at the Art Students League under Frederick Bridgman. He soon landed a job with Encyclopedia Britannica, and from 1927-1929 served as art editor. From 1929 until his death in 1972, Stanley was a self-employed artist. He taught art classes at both the Art Students League and the Albany Institute of History and Art and brought in extra income by making illustrations for magazines such as “Outdoor Life” and “Popular Science”. On January 27, 1934 Stanley married Emilie Rossel. Emilie had emigrated from Switzerland to New York in 1923. She found work as a governess to Alfred Vanderbilt and later as an executive secretary for Wall Street investment brokers Kahn, Loeb and Co. Emilie met Stanley in New York in the early 1930’s when she attended one of his art exhibitions with a friend. The couple, who had no children, lived on 34th Street in Manhattan. During this period, Bate was producing and exhibiting his art and joined several artists groups. Stanley and Emilie became part of the New York art scene, dining weekly at the Society of Illustrators Clubhouse. Stanley Bate’s time in New York was pivotal in the formation of his painting style. He lived in New York during the inception of one of the most important Modern Art movements, one that helped New York replace Paris as the center of avant-garde art. This movement, which was called the New York School of artists, was later known as Abstract Expressionism. It was comprised of a loosely associated group of vanguard artists working in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s. The New York School was not defined by a specific style, but instead reflected a fusion of European Modernism and American social relevancy that was depicted in many individual styles. Influences of Surrealism, Cubism, and Modernism can be found in their work, along with an interest in experimenting with non-traditional materials and methods. American art was in the forefront of international avant-garde for the first time. Stanley Bate was undoubtedly exposed to the varied styles and techniques that were emerging during the formative years of the New York School. Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell were formulating their versions of color field paintings. Joseph Cornell was experimenting with assemblages, collage and the use of different types of textured paints. Jackson Pollock was adhering objects such as buttons and coins into his early works, while Louise Nevelson was using found objects. Helen Frankenthaler added sand to her early paintings. The New York School artists were undermining traditional fine art by using mixed media and non-traditional methods. Stanley Bate absorbed these varied influences and soon his early realistic landscapes and still-lifes were replaced with something entirely new. The influence of Cubism, notably the flat shallow space of the picture plane, is obvious in many of Bate’s paintings. Surrealism is evident in Bate’s use of subjects from myth, primitive art and antiquity, along with the Automatism-like line work in his more linear images. The unfettered experimentation of the New York School is everywhere in Stanley Bate’s work. We see nods to color field, collage, the mixing of textures into paint, mixed media, the inclusion of found objects and thick, luscious impasto. Bate was prolific and experimented in various media including oil, watercolor, lithography, silk screen, wood cut, drawing, collage, ceramics and sculpture. Bate is considered a true Modernist. His work is largely abstract, but sometimes figures and buildings are discernable. He frequently mixed paint, sand and glue together to achieve a textured surface, and then scraped and scratched through this layer to expose some of the underpainting below. His sculpture, which is often whimsical, also reflects the non-traditional methods of the New York School. Bate pioneered the use of enamel and copper in his work. The sculptures are not carved or modeled as was done in the past, but instead are built using mixed media and new materials. In addition to the New York School influence, many of Bate’s works exhibit a strong connection to the Spanish school, especially the work of Antonio Tapies and Modesto Cuixart. These artists were both part of an avant-garde group known as Art Informel, the Spanish equivalent of Abstract Expressionism. These artists likewise worked in mixed media and introduced objects and texture into their work. Many of Bate’s subjects and titles relate to Spanish locations and words. It is likely that Stanley spent time in Spain and found inspiration there. By the early 1940s, Stanley and Emilie had started spending weekends in a barn they purchased in Craryville, New York, a few hours north of Manhattan. The barn had no electricity or plumbing, but when the Bates eventually decided to leave New York and live full time in Craryville, they remodeled the barn, putting a gallery downstairs and a studio and living quarters upstairs. Although the Bates moved out of New York City, Stanley remained part of the New York art scene, exhibiting in New York and elsewhere throughout the 50s and 60s. During his lifetime he was represented by the New York galleries Knoedler and Company, Kennedy Galleries, Rose Fried Gallery and Key Gallery, along with Tyringham Gallery located in Tyringham, Massachusetts. Craryville was Stanley’s home until his death on August 21, 1972. Emilie died 1984...

portrait of a woman

Series: Santa Fe Day 1/1 Oil And Encaustic With Silver Floater Frame Size: 36" x 47" (91.44 x 119.38 cm) with silver floater frame Using unconventional hardware - a blow torch, i...

This original framed abstract painting on paper by Kelly Rossetti features a cool blue palette. Expressive strokes and drips of varying blue tones are contrasted by smaller warm dabs...

This large abstract statement painting by Teodora Guererra features a soft, airy palette of pale whites, icy blues, hints of sage green, and touches of lavender gray. The artist buil...

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 ...

American, b. 1934 “Looking at a blank canvas can be both exciting and frightening at the same time. Most of the time exciting wins out and I plunge in. That is, I paint the landscap...

Albert Stadler was an innovator in American art, particularly in the 1960's. He was in Clement Greenberg's exhibition of 1964 titled "Post Painterly Ab...

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...

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...

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...

This black and white painting is typical of Maura Segal’s abstract works which conjure a delicate simplicity. Blocks of color languidly splay behind thin meandering lines and freefor...

Encaustic and oil with acrylic frame Andrea's Spring Grafitti is dominated by romantic shades of blue and pink, creating a vibrant first impression. The layered rose-red haloed circ...

Maura Segal’s abstract works conjure a delicate simplicity. Blocks of color languidly splay behind thin meandering lines and freeform fluid curves. Yet upon closer investigation, the...

This contemporary landscape painting by Carol Young captures a rural scene with a bright, contrasting palette. A barn sits in an orange field, with a line of red foliage behind it. O...

Ellen Hackl Fagan builds connections between color and sound using installations, interactive games, and collaborative projects that combine color-and-texture saturated paintings wi...

This abstract painting by Teodora Guererra features a cool, serene palette of icy blue, soft gray, pale sage, white and hints of cream. Created with different sized brushes and palet...

Painting of flowers in green vase

This is classic Teis's collage and acrylic paint - melded together to create a vibrant and textured work. Devoted to the exploration of abstraction, in the 1950's this artist applie...

This abstract painting by Roger Mudre is made with acrylic paint over metal leaf on birch panel. It is part of Mudre's Venezia series, which is inspired by his recent trip to the Nor...

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...

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...

Artist's Statement: "My paintings are an attempt to synthesize and enlighten pursuits of eastern and western art and their traditions. Using the full visual language of abstraction –...

These two small framed abstract paintings by Julia Contacessi feature a cool blue-grey palette with a wash of a white accent that flows horizontally through the center of each compos...

This abstract floral encaustic painting by artist Linda Bigness features a cool blue palette with metallic gold leaf accents. The painting is made with e...

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...

A vibrant and yet romantic sailing scene which was a favorite series by Della-Volpe. His compelling colorist approach has made his works desirable as he was one of the few artists post-war to be representative in style like Milton Avery and Wolf Kahn. Head to Sea has the hallmark intense and lovely coloration for which Della-Volpe is known. He came out of Abstract Expressionism in the New York school but then pivoted, like Milton Avery to representational, colorist work. The frame is a silvered gold leaf float frame of quality and has a rubbed, antiqued surface...

Game Oil On Canvas 39 x 39 My work is mainly abstract, I would say abstract expressionism. I love painting with oils, they give me many possibilities I do not find in other mediums....