Houston - Abstract Paintings

Modern realist daily life landscape painting by Haitian artist Felix Defournoy. The work features a bustling rural village market scene of vendors selling their various goods set against a dense, lush...

Painterly desert landscape with cacti and hill in the background. The landscape looks similar to New Mexico or West Texas Hill Country. Painting is mainly green, brown, and blue tone...

Finding My Way 3 Cheryl D. McClure oil on wood panel 30 x 30 x 2 Inv #: 821 Price $3,300 To make my paintings I have come to the realization that I use what I call the ‘Three I’s” of INFLUENCES, INTUITION. and INTENT. Like a lot of artists, McClure’s interest in art developed early in childhood. She recalls, “When I was eight years old, I begged my dad to let me take an after-school painting class. I was shocked when I got there and found out they were painting with paint by number kits. I did not want to do that. I hate coloring inside the lines. So, the teacher allowed me to look for images to use as inspiration. In my memory, I think the first one must have been a reproduction of a Cezanne landscape. I just did what I did all on my own, but I loved mixing colors. Then my dad died, and we moved from Oklahoma to Texas. Sadly, I never really did anything else until I was in my twenties. I then took up painting again all on my own and trying to learn from other artists demonstrating their painting techniques and taking workshops. I have been painting ever since, more than forty years.” She continues, “For many years I only painted with acrylics or mixed media collage. In 2005, I also started painting with encaustic and have gone back to using oil paint again. I suppose acrylic remains my dominant medium. Mixing it up now and then keeps me on my toes and is a great way to learn. Each medium can teach you certain aspects of painting others do not. Each medium has its strengths and weaknesses depending on what you want to express. You can learn from all. I did not love watercolor because it took too much pre-planning. But I learned a lot about negative shapes and composition. I learned a lot with pastel and charcoal about making marks. By working back and forth with different media, I am growing as a painter.” If I used only intent, I would more than likely be disappointed because my imagined intent is always elusive. I get more than I imagined by not setting too many rules about how to get there. Using all of these factors, I can use the knowledge of formal issues that comes from viewing a lot of art and, also, from being in the studio making art all of the time. Using that comprehension of formal design as an aid to intuitively know what is the right relationship of color, mark, space, etc. is the intent. Intention is necessary to direct you to explore the former two. Intention also demands you delve more into your own reasons for making art. 2020 University of Texas, College of Pharmacy Partnership Exhibit, Tyler, TX Beauty of Art and Medicine IV, Rogers Nursing and Health Sciences Building, Tyler Junior College, Tyler, TX Stable, Cerulean Gallery, Dallas, TX 2019 Mississippi Art Colony Fall Travel Show, juror, Stanley Kurth Small Works, Gallery Mack, Seattle, WA 2017 Black Tie (optional), Invitational, Adam Peck Gallery, Provincetown, Mass. Mississippi Art Colony Fall Travel Show, David Hornung, juror, Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, Miss., Southern Cultural Arts Center, Vicksburg, Miss., Museum of the Mississippi Delta, Greenwood, Miss. You Name It, Cerulean Gallery, Amarillo, Texas 2016 N° 10, Invitational, Adam Peck Gallery, Provincetown, Mass. 2015 One + One, Invitational, A Gallery Art, Provincetown, Mass. 2014 East Texas Regional...

Abstract contemporary still life painting by Texas artist, Nathaniel Sing. This piece features a hanging succulent wall blending with a colorful blue and g...

Blue, red, and yellow abstract modern portrait painting by Texas artist Robert Sandman. The work features a well dressed man with part of his face obscu...

Warm-toned abstract illustrations of a study of crickets by German artist, Fred Darge. This painting depicts three varieties of crickets. Signed (monogram) by the artist at the bottom right corner. Unframed but framing options are available. Artist Biography: Friedrich Ernst (Fred) Darge was born in Rendsburg, Germany March 1, 1900, and died in Dallas, Texas April 10, 1978. He entered the U.S. at Port Arthur, Texas in 1923. By 1924 he was in Chicago painting under the W.P.A. Artists policy and attending the Art Institute of Chicago (1925-27, 1929) and at the Arts Students League in New York. While in Chicago, Darge painted, made model sail boats...

Red, Hot and You is an acrylic on canvas by artist Peggy Vineyard. It was completed in 2021. Red, Hot and You brings out the colors in this abstrac...

Colorful metallic gestural abstract painting by Brooklyn based artist Bret Shirley. The work features sweeping strokes of metallic blue, pink, and yellow ...

Small dark grey abstract expressionist painting of a figure's face by Dick Wray. The painting is currently unframed. Artist Biography: Dick Wray, a native Houstonian, born in Heigh...

Abstract contemporary landscape painting by Texas artist, Nathaniel Sing. This piece features a building façade blending with a red and blue gradient background. Signed, titled, and ...

Dark surrealist painting of masks and fish. The painting is signed by the artist and dated. The painting is framed is in a black frame. Dimens...

Song of Summer is an contemporary abstract painting by Texan artist Eleanor McCarthy. This is part of the "Song" series of paintings. Eleanor McCarthy uses acrylic paints on canvas to create the soothing colors in her new contemporary paintings that were just painted in 2022. LOOK FOR SHIPPING...

Surreal abstract expressionist painting of a group of clowns in the style of Belgian painter James Ensor. Combining the macabre with the playful, the work features distorted clowns a...

Yes It's Pink is an abstract painting by Texas artist Cheryl McClure on a wooden panel so there is no need for a frame.. Like a lot of artists, McClur...

Contemporary abstract painting by local Houston artist Max Kremer. This piece is included in his solo show, "Perfect Day" at Reeves Art + Design in Houston, TX. Artist Biography: M...

Figurative contemporary painting by Houston, TX artist Tra' Slaughter. The painting features two figures wearing cowboy hats set against a light tan background. Signed in the front l...

Abstract Composition with two black painted shapes on a white background. Artist Biography: Robin Utterback was born in 1949. He worked and lived in Houston, Texas as an important Houston contemporary painter. The Menil Collection...

Abstract surrealist black and white airbrush painting of an Absolut Vodka bottle surrounded by a variety of figures. The piece includes the faces of ...

Sea Lantern is part of the Light in the Deep Series by artist Ellen Hart. Sea Lantern investigates the ubiquitous patterns of light, shadow and reflection...

Flames of Love is an acrylic on canvas by artist Peggy Vineyard. It was completed in 2021. Flames of Love brings out the colors in this abstract/express...

Contemporary mixed media and resin colorful food still life by Houston-based artist Diane Gelman. The work features a three dimensional portrait of a woman holding a variety of diff...

Red and yellow tonal minimal abstract painting with bicycles. The work is signed by the artist in the bottom corner. The canvas board is framed in a gold frame. Dimensions without F...

Adrift in the Current is part of the Light in the Deep Series by artist Ellen Hart. Adrift in the Current investigates the ubiquitous patterns of light, shadow and reflection that w...

Contemporary abstract painting by local Houston artist Max Kremer. This piece is included in his solo show, "Perfect Day" at Reeves Art + Design in Houston, TX. Artist Biography: Max Kremer (b. 1999, Houston, TX) is currently working in Austin, Texas. Kremer obtained his BFA from the University of Texas in 2022. Past projects include his solo show Cliffhanger with Blank Check Gallery in 2019, participation in the Midas Touch group show curated by Preston Douglas...

Blue and white landscape painting by contemporary Texas artist Max Kremer. The work features a clean, blue, contoured outline of a waterfall flowing through a mountain range set agai...

Dark toned impressionist painting by Houston, Texas artist Sha Mo. Abstract painting with blue, green, red, and orange accents depicting landscape with flowing ...

Blue and purple toned surrealist still life with various shapes cut out of canvas adhered to the background canvas. Currently hung in a gold frame. Dimensions Without Frame: H 47 in x W 59 in x D .5 in. Biography: Paulo Laport...

"Texas Artist Richard E. Fluhr was born in New York City in 1955 and for the past forty years has been living the artists dream. He has refined his own visual and conceptual vocabul...

Abstract textured biomorphic shape painted with dark gray by contemporary Houston, TX artist Matthew Reeves. The work is designed to hang away from the wall and cast a bright pink sh...

White and grey structure on a grey sky with a few white clouds, a black palm tree, and bright blue water. Artist signed the work in the bottom right corner, as well as titled and dat...

Highways and Byways is painting on a wooden panel so there is no need for a frame.. Like a lot of artists, McClure’s interest in art developed early in childhood. She recalls, “When I was eight years old, I begged my dad to let me take an after-school painting class. I was shocked when I got there and found out they were painting with paint by number kits. I did not want to do that. I hate coloring inside the lines. So, the teacher allowed me to look for images to use as inspiration. In my memory, I think the first one must have been a reproduction of a Cezanne landscape. I just did what I did all on my own, but I loved mixing colors. Then my dad died, and we moved from Oklahoma to Texas. Sadly, I never really did anything else until I was in my twenties. I then took up painting again all on my own and trying to learn from other artists demonstrating their painting techniques and taking workshops. I have been painting ever since, more than forty years.” She continues, “For many years I only painted with acrylics or mixed media collage. In 2005, I also started painting with encaustic and have gone back to using oil paint again. I suppose acrylic remains my dominant medium. Mixing it up now and then keeps me on my toes and is a great way to learn. Each medium can teach you certain aspects of painting others do not. Each medium has its strengths and weaknesses depending on what you want to express. You can learn from all. I did not love watercolor because it took too much pre-planning. But I learned a lot about negative shapes and composition. I learned a lot with pastel and charcoal about making marks. By working back and forth with different media, I am growing as a painter.” If I used only intent, I would more than likely be disappointed because my imagined intent is always elusive. I get more than I imagined by not setting too many rules about how to get there. Using all of these factors, I can use the knowledge of formal issues that comes from viewing a lot of art and, also, from being in the studio making art all of the time. Using that comprehension of formal design as an aid to intuitively know what is the right relationship of color, mark, space, etc. is the intent. Intention is necessary to direct you to explore the former two. Intention also demands you delve more into your own reasons for making art. 2020 University of Texas, College of Pharmacy Partnership Exhibit, Tyler, TX Beauty of Art and Medicine IV, Rogers Nursing and Health Sciences Building, Tyler Junior College, Tyler, TX Stable, Cerulean Gallery, Dallas, TX 2019 Mississippi Art Colony Fall Travel Show, juror, Stanley Kurth Small Works, Gallery Mack, Seattle, WA 2017 Black Tie (optional), Invitational, Adam Peck Gallery, Provincetown, Mass. Mississippi Art Colony Fall Travel Show, David Hornung, juror, Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, Miss., Southern Cultural Arts Center, Vicksburg, Miss., Museum of the Mississippi Delta, Greenwood, Miss. You Name It, Cerulean Gallery, Amarillo, Texas 2016 N° 10, Invitational, Adam Peck Gallery, Provincetown, Mass. 2015 One + One, Invitational, A Gallery Art, Provincetown, Mass. 2014 East Texas Regional Artists, Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview Texas (4 person) Mississippi Art Colony Fall Travel Show, Jenene Nagy, juror (Mary C. O’Keefe Center for the Arts, Ocean Springs, Miss., Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, Miss., Wm. Carey College, Hattiesburg, Miss.) 2013 Texas Rugged and Shiny. LuminArte Gallery, Dallas, Texas SEVEN, International Encaustic Conference, Provincetown, Mass., Shawn Hill, juror RED, A Gallery, Provincetown, Mass. Texas Women with Brushes, Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, Texas (2 person) 2012 EncaustiCon 2012, Gallery Nord, San Antonio, TX, Paula Berg Owen, juror WAX: Contemporary Art Works, Pajaro Valley Arts Council, Watsonville, CA Wise Earth: Land and Art, Wise Earth Gallery, Denton, TX, curator, Katy Crocker Continuum 2012, VamArt, Inc., Metuchen, NJ 2011 One Foot of Wax, North Lake College, Irving, TX Mississippi Art Colony Travel Show, Guild Hardy Architects Purchase Award, Sheri Fleck Rieth, juror Hunting Art Prize Finalist *Paintings, DCL, Tyler, TX 2010 Fusion, PFAMily Arts Gallery, Plano, TX Melting Point, Arts Centre of Plano, Plano, TX *Influenced by the Land, Encaustic Center, Richardson, TX Hive, Cole Art Center, Nacogdoches, TX 2009 Uncommon Composites, Cerulean Gallery, Dallas, TX Meltdown, Art Hotel Gallery, Dallas, TX Global Swarming, TX Discovery Gardens Gallery, Dallas, TX Encaustic Methods, Tarrant County Community College, Arlington, TX The Alchemy of Encaustic, Ann Dean Turk Gallery, Kilgore College, Kilgore, TX 2008 Coming Home, Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, TX Some Like It Hot, Bath House Cultural Art Center, Dallas, TX Texas Artists Museum, Port Arthur, TX, Firehouse Gallery, Fort Worth, TX 2007 Landscapes, Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, TX *Little Pieces of Land, Joyous Lake Gallery, Pinetop-Lakeside, AZ Mississippi Art Colony Travel Show, Meridian Art Museum, Meridian, MS East – West, Meeting in the Middle, Hilligoss Galleries, Chicago, IL 2006 Artist Residency, Centre d’Art Contemporain (Cat’Art) Sainte Colombe sur lâ Hers, France Mixed Media Invitational, Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, TX 2005 Dance with the Imagination, 3 artists, West End Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC Southwestern Water Society Signature Members Show, Irving Art Center, Irving, TX, Marcie Inman juror of awards, Honorable Mention 2004 East Texas Regional Exhibit, Longview Museum of Fine Art, Longview, TX; juror, David Band Traveling the Carolinas, National Association Of Women Artists Mississippi Art Colony Travel Show, Spring, Joseph A Smith, juror Artist Career Training 1st National Juried Exhibition, 2nd place Award, jurors, Geoffrey Gorman...

Beautiful, serene painting of a fall Texas road landscape by Henri Gadbois in a gold frame with light color mat. Artist Biography: Henri Gadbois is a second generation Houston arti...

Bold and graphic orange abstract monotype by American artist Kismine Varner, circa 1990. Signed lower right. Original artwork on paper displayed on ...

Love Letters I is an contemporary abstract painting by Texan artist Eleanor McCarthy. Eleanor McCarthy uses mixed media and acrylic paints on canvas to create the soothing colors in her new contemporary paintings that were just painted in 2022. LOOK FOR SHIPPING DISCOUNT QUOTE WHEN YOU CHECK OUT. The abstract paintings are on canvas and gallery wrapped and painted on the sides so there is no need for a frame. She is inspired by the scenery of Texas, Southwestern Colorado, and Europe. Eleanor has recently begun to pursue non-representational painting and has enjoyed exploring the process of abstraction in creating new works of art. She has added acrylic painting and mixed media application to her artworks. Eleanor graduated from Tulane University with a BA in Sociology and from Southern Methodist University School of Law with a JD. Eleanor began to pursue painting after her children went to college. She has studied with Nancy Paris Pruden in Houston for the last 20 years and for two years with Arielle Masson at the Glassell School of Art. Eleanor has furthered her training with painting workshops in Texas, Colorado and Washington State under Mitch Albala, Jeanne Mackenzie, Joshua Been, LaNell Arndt, John Lasater, Qiang Huang, Derek Penix, Julie Schumer and Adele Sypesteyn...

Impressionistic sepia toned pastoral landscape painting by Dan Baker. The work features a sprawling hill country landscape dotted with trees. Signed by artist in front lower right co...

I live and work in rural northeastern Texas. Painting seriously for over thirty years, I have a passion for abstraction, color and surface quality. I have a long history of producing...

Clowning Around is a 12" x 12" drip painting by Texan artist Marthann Masterson. Clowning Around is acrylic on canvas. It is finished on the sides so there is no need for a frame co...

Pondering Acrylic on Canvas Contemporary Abstract Texas Artist, Blues, 48x36 is an contemporary abstract painting by Texan artist Eleanor McCarthy. Eleanor McCarthy uses acrylic ...

Hand painted and hand stretched op art painting by contemporary artist Austin Magruder. The work features abstract, geometric tessellations that create a mesmerizing pattern. Signed ...

Contemporary colorful abstract landscape painting by New Jersey based artist Russ Rubin. The work features an otherworldly landscape winding in muted desert...

Living The Good Life Drip Painting Contemporary Abstract Acrylic on Canvas Living the Good Life is an contemporary abstract acrylic drip painting by Marthann Masterson. It is 24"...

“Suspended Cloud” Mixed media on canvas Atmosphere Mexican Artist Bound by Rules 24" x 24" This painting by Mexican artist Nancy Rullan explores the feeling of being restricted or...

Realistic still life painting by Houston based artist Nancy Paris Pruden. The work features black and white fabric draped across one another with dramatic lighting. Signed in the fro...

Contemporary colorful pastoral landscape by Texas based artist Jacob Spacek. The work features a carrion bird sitting on a water tower in an open field. Signed by the artist in the f...

This oil on canvas painting is inspired by the Hindu Goddess Kaamdhenu, the mother of all cows and Bhatt’s recurring symbol of desire. The dismembered human figures featured in tan...

Modern warm toned expressionist abstract painting by contemporary artist Doyle Gertjejansen. The work features an abstract, surrealist view of a painting hanging on a wall overlaid w...

Modern warm toned expressionist abstract painting by contemporary artist Doyle Gertjejansen. The work features an abstract, surrealist view of orange organic forms overlaid with expr...

Dana Frankfort In the middle of the road, 2017 oil on canvas over panel 48 x 48 x 1.75 inches For over two decades, Dana Frankfort has explored the vexing periphery between language and sight by painting words. Rather than laying claim to the paintings, controlling their semiotic pulse, her words serve as the formal armature; they prop up, ventilate, and allow the many layers of paint to breathe. Imperatives, allusions, evocations—the words dissolve into a palimpsest of obscured serifs and stems, into color and form. The title of the work is a phrase from a poem by Carlos Drummond de Andrade’s “In the Middle of Road.” Here it is, translated from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Bishop...

Sky a Muse for the Sea I I employs exuberant impassioned colors laid on a canvas in an Abstract style. Also shown are other available works available works available on 1stdibs by C...

Contemporary large scale abstract floral painting by Texas based artist Wood Anthony Francher. Inspired by Mexican floral embroidery patterns and textiles, the work is a burst of bol...

Contemporary colorful abstract painting by Houston based artist Shelbi Nicole. The work features black, white, and orange shapes floating against a grey background. Signed and dated ...

GALLERY WILL PAY FOR SHIPPING-FREE SHIPPING Painting is 7.25 " x 4.75" Complete Work on Paper is 14 x 11 Joan Breckwoldt is an American contemporary artist living in Houston, Texas. This collection of mixed media abstractions in The Ocean Series on paper...

Abstract contemporary landscape painting by Texas artist, Nathaniel Sing. This piece features a door to Napa Underground winery in California blending with a red and blue gradient background. Signed and dated by the artist at the back. Unframed but framing options are available. Artist Statement: What is color to you? Really think about it for a second. Go past the everyday backdrops, items, clothing, spaces, etc. in your life. Perhaps think about your favorite color. A memory of an unforgettable sunset, or even a specific moment in your life. I have found especially with memories and emotions, that colors provide a base for those things to exist in our minds. Memories and emotions are inherently fading or fleeting as our lives move forward. My question and focus are how we preserve them for our own personal reasons, growth, or perhaps a way to humble ourselves. Through the use of acrylic paints, graphic design, and color relationships I aim to capture the essence of emotions and memories. Although each of these paintings is from my own personal experiences and memories my intent is to capture and express them through the lens of color and their relationships with each other and ourselves. Artist Biography: Nathan Sing...

Abstract contemporary landscape painting by Texas artist, Nathaniel Sing. This piece features an L.A. side street blending with an orange and blue gradient background. Signed and dated by the artist at the back. Unframed but framing options are available. Artist Statement: What is color to you? Really think about it for a second. Go past the everyday backdrops, items, clothing, spaces, etc. in your life. Perhaps think about your favorite color. A memory of an unforgettable sunset, or even a specific moment in your life. I have found especially with memories and emotions, that colors provide a base for those things to exist in our minds. Memories and emotions are inherently fading or fleeting as our lives move forward. My question and focus are how we preserve them for our own personal reasons, growth, or perhaps a way to humble ourselves. Through the use of acrylic paints, graphic design, and color relationships I aim to capture the essence of emotions and memories. Although each of these paintings is from my own personal experiences and memories my intent is to capture and express them through the lens of color and their relationships with each other and ourselves. Artist Biography: Nathan Sing...

As Bhatt alludes in the title, this work draws meaning from John Milton’s paradise lost. While the title may seem contradictory according to our conventional ideas of joy versus horr...

Modern colorful mixed media abstract surrealist landscape painting by American artist Mary Lou Zelazny. The work features a central swirling shape made of collaged magazine clippings...

David Aylsworth (born 1966, Tiffin, OH) earned a BFA from Kent State University in 1989 and was an artist resident at the Core Program, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, from 1989-1991. ...

Sky a Muse for the Sea I employs exuberant impassioned colors laid on a canvas in an Abstract style. The artist finds inspiration in her abstract paintings in the coastlines of Cal...

Gilad Efrat Untitled, 2016 oil on canvas, 175 x 250 x 5 cm (68.9 x 98.4 x 2 in) This painting is part of new series of work by Israeli artist Gilad Efrat. The paintings comprise th...

“Broken Cloud” Mixed media on canvas Atmosphere Mexican Artist Bound by Rules 20" x 20" This artwork represents creativity, as it can be seen as pieces of a puzzle that need to b...