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Item Ships From: Illinois
A Charming 1950s Modern Portrait of a Young Woman by Francis Chapin
By Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A Charming, 1950s Modern Portrait of a Young Woman in a Red Sweater by Noted Chicago Artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Artwork size: 8” x 6”, Oil on Masonite (Framed size: 11...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
A Charming, 1950s Expressionist Portrait of a Young Girl by Francis Chapin
By Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A Charming, 1950s Expressionist Portrait of a Young Girl by Noted Chicago Modern Artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). A Wonderful and intimate Mid-Century studio portrait of a yo...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
A Charming 1950s Modern Portrait, Girl in White Dress, by Francis Chapin
By Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A Charming, 1950s Modern Portrait of a Girl in White Dress by Noted Chicago Artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Artwork size: 6 1/2” x 5 3/4”. Oil on Masonite. (Framed size: 1...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
A Cheerful 1950s Modern Portrait of a Young Woman by Francis Chapin
By Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A Cheerful, 1950s Modern Portrait of a Young Woman with Blonde Hair by Noted Chicago Artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Artwork size: 7 1/2” x 5 1/4”, oil on masonite (Framed ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Beautiful II, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Laura Spring
Located in Yardley, PA
This one of a kind painting is done in oilwith subtle gold accents. I try my best to represent the true colors of the paintings in the photos, but sometimes you can see a slight di...
Category
2010s Abstract Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Ultrablue Garden 04" Mixed Media Painting
By Patrick Burns
Located in Chicago, IL
"Concrete Gardens" is a body of work that translates Patrick Burns' deep love of the land and complicated past into richly textured, mixed-media paintings with reverberating, monochr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Concrete
Crazy Feeling Of Want (Abstract Painting)
By Martina Nehrling
Located in London, GB
Crazy Feeling Of Want (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on canvas - Unframed
Martina Nehrling is an American abstract artist whose dynamic and richly textured paintings evoke kaleidosco...
Category
2010s Abstract Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Triptych of exotic plants, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
A trio of exotic plants . Each composition complements the other . An eye-pleasing green color that will fit into any interior :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece comes with an offi...
Category
2010s Realist Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rabid - Cinema Inspired One Eyed Male Figure, Oil Painting on Panel
Located in Chicago, IL
Inspired by a still from the 1977 horror film, "Rabid". This is the division of morality. A portrait of an individual cast mostly in shadow. The only portion of his face hit with light has no eye, leaving him to only see through his darkness. The bold heavy brushstrokes of this painting give an abstract quality where the shadows and light are transformed it into a dynamic and vibrantly alive scene.
Georgia Hinaris
Rabid
oil on panel
18h x 18w in
45.72h x 45.72w cm
GHS010
Horror films are the most profound and visceral of films, garnering the most extreme responses: vehement hatred and cultish admiration. Horror elicits a controlled neurosis while exposing the rejected weaknesses and brutalities of humanity. I embrace the power of cinema and its ability to alter perception, as it is media that is a reflection of our primordial desires. I’m fascinated by concepts involving the limits of human perception, the ambiguity of morality in relation to nature, the paradoxical nature of reality, and the human struggle to reckon with uncertainty. Humans bear the burden of being as we are, all caught in a flux of unbelievable cognitive abilities and animalistic instincts. Every painting is in its own universe and I cater to it. Nothing is precious. Chaos is embraced.
Georgia Hinaris, b. 1993, Chicago, Illinois
Education
2019 MFA Painting, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2015 BFA Painting, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Exhibitions
2020 Summer Exhibition, Flowers Gallery, New York, NY
Summer Juried Exhibition, Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Di Donna Gallery, New York, NY
AXA Art Prize, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA,
Richard Gray...
Category
2010s Contemporary Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Wishful thinking (Abstract painting)
By Martina Nehrling
Located in London, GB
Wishful thinking (Abstract painting)
Acrylic on canvas - Unframed.
Martina Nehrling imagines wishful thinking falls along a spectrum with desperatio...
Category
2010s Abstract Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Morning Glory, Clementine - Colorful Impressionist Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Chicago, IL
Carol Stewart
Morning Glory, Clementine
oil on paper on panel
8h x 8w x 1.50d in
20.32h x 20.32w x 3.81d cm
CST016
Through her ethereal and often dreamlike paintings Carol Stewart i...
Category
2010s Impressionist Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Archival Paper
Pierced (Abstract Painting)
By Martina Nehrling
Located in London, GB
Pierced (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on Montval paper - Unframed
Martina Nehrling is an American abstract artist whose dynamic and richly textured paintings evoke kaleidoscopic worl...
Category
2010s Abstract Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Chinese Mythical Immortal Screen Painting, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Since the 12th century, people in China have used folding screens and doors to partition and decorate their homes - the vivid scenes backing the screens added life and color to a room. This 19th-century painting is delicately brushed of gouache and ink on fabric and was originally part of a set of eight backing a wooden screen in northern China.
The figure depicted is one of the mythical Eight Immortals of Taoism. Said to have attained immortality through their studies of the natural world, each of the Eight Immortals represents a different condition in life and together they impart a blessing of prosperity and longevity. Depicted here is immortal Lan Caihe, the patron saint of florists and gardeners. Standing atop a lotus leaf in open water, they hold a gardening hoe in one hand and a basket for flowers...
Category
Mid-19th Century Qing Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Ink, Pigment
Cascade II
By Arica Hilton
Located in Chicago, IL
Oil, Gesso, & Recycled Plastic on Canvas
96 x 38 in (243 x 96 cm)
"This collection was inspired by my ongoing fascination and respect for water and our environment, which has b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Gesso, Mixed Media, Oil, Plastic
BLU 2 - WATER by Marco Rotelli - showcased at Field Museum Chicago
By Marco Nereo Rotelli
Located in Chicago, IL
Acrylic on canvas
30 x 34 inches
This painting was part of a collection for DIVINA NATURA, a sound and light installation at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, focus...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Quite a Bit (Abstract Painting)
By Martina Nehrling
Located in London, GB
Quite a Bit, (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on panel - Unframed
Artwork exclusive to IdeelArt.
For Nehrling, smaller pieces often operate as a visual poem, prayer or wish. The challe...
Category
2010s Abstract Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Miami Woods, Cook County Forest Preserve, Illinois, Original Oil, Framed
By Don Pollack
Located in Chicago, IL
Over a hundred years ago, my grandfather registered as a homesteader with the Department of the Interior Land Office in Buffalo, Wyoming. Building a cabin on a remote 640 acre plat,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
VIOLET - oil painting - portrait
By Robert Fleischman
Located in Chicago, IL
Oil and collage
49 x 38.75 inches
Robert Fleischman is a recording artist/singer songwriter/producer who played with such notable bands as Journey, Vinnie Vincent, Channel and his c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil
Wellington, Washington Avalanche of March 1, 1910 - Original Oil Painting
By Eric Edward Esper
Located in Chicago, IL
Also known as the Great Northern Railway disaster and Americas deadliest avalanche. After days of traveling west and passing through the 2.6 mile Cascade Tunnel, the GNR passenger train was trapped by snow at the tiny town of Wellington Washington in the Cascade Mountains. For 6 days the passengers survived on the train while railmen worked dauntlessly through continuous avalanches to clear the tracks ahead towards the next town. Fearful of the snow looming over them on the mountain above, the passengers were assured that they were safest where they were. The weather was severe and eventually an avalanche swept the GNR passenger train and a mail train off the tracks towards the river below, resulting in 96 deaths and 23 surviving injured.
Eric Edward Esper
Wellington, Washington Avalanche of March 1, 1910
oil on canvas
38h x 26w in
96.52h x 66.04w cm
EEE018
Eric Edward Esper
After obtaining my BFA in Illustration from Northern Michigan...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Surface of Things (Abstract Painting)
By Martina Nehrling
Located in London, GB
The Surface of Things, (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on Montval paper - Unframed
Artwork exclusive to IdeelArt.
Martina Nehrling is an American abstract artist whose dynamic and ric...
Category
2010s Abstract Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Slouch (Abstract Painting)
By Martina Nehrling
Located in London, GB
Slouch (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on Montval paper - Unframed
Martina Nehrling is an American abstract artist whose dynamic and richly textured paintings evoke kaleidoscopic world...
Category
2010s Abstract Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Ecstasy, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Laura Spring
Located in Yardley, PA
Beautiful painting in dark moody colors, with gold accents. This one of a kind painting is done in acrylic. I try my best to represent the true colors of the paintings in the photos,...
Category
2010s Abstract Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Fume (Abstract painting)
By Martina Nehrling
Located in London, GB
Fume (Abstract painting)
Acrylic on canvas - Unframed.
Fume is part of a group of paintings exploring the edgeless atmosphere of anxiety during high pitched and demoralizing politi...
Category
2010s Abstract Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Weeds (Abstract painting)
By Martina Nehrling
Located in London, GB
Weeds (Abstract painting)
Acrylic on Montval paper - Unframed.
Martina Nehrling is an American abstract artist whose dynamic and richly textured paintings evoke kaleidoscopic world...
Category
2010s Abstract Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Seven Deadly Sins: Study for Sloth by Gail Potocki, Framed oil painting on linen
By Gail Potocki
Located in Chicago, IL
Gail Potocki's study from her Seven Deadly Sins series personifies Sloth through a frozen figure and her icy snail companion. Symbolist oil painting on linen, 2017. This artwork is presented professionally framed and arrives accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
Gail Potocki (b. 1961) is a contemporary artist whose work crosses multiple boundaries: she has been lauded by popular media (Huffington Post, Mother Jones) and pop culture art...
Category
2010s Symbolist Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Stay With Me - Abstract Painting with Floral Patterns and Gold Leaf, Framed
By Suk Ja Kang
Located in Chicago, IL
Abstract art experiments with the use of texture, tone, and light perception. Through abstract works, the artist expresses her feelings rather than particular objects or scenes. Wit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Wood Panel
Loll (Abstract Painting)
By Martina Nehrling
Located in London, GB
Loll, (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on Montval paper - Unframed
Artwork exclusive to IdeelArt.
Martina Nehrling is an American abstract artist whose dynamic and richly textured pain...
Category
2010s Abstract Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Unfurling (Abstract painting)
By Martina Nehrling
Located in London, GB
Acrylic on Montval paper - Unframed.
Martina Nehrling is an American abstract artist whose dynamic and richly textured paintings evoke kaleidoscopic worlds of pattern, color, shadow...
Category
2010s Abstract Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
A Quiet Line - Intimate Painting of Two Nude Torsos, Original Oil on Panel
By Rick Sindt
Located in Chicago, IL
Using pornography as a vehicle for understanding, Rick Sindt's work explores the discovery and development of queer attraction. Sindt transforms pornographic stills, repurposing them into images of intimacy.
Rick Sindt
A Quiet Line
oil on panel
8h x 8w x 0.50d in
20.32h x 20.32w x 1.27d cm
RIS034
“This body of work has been crystalizing in my mind for about five years,” says Sindt, “It is the product of reflecting on how the places I learned the most about myself, and my desires, are considered something that sullies a person, something taboo.”
Focused on the experiences of gay men, this body of oil paintings depicts moments that range from tender touches to more sexually explicit acts.
“It was important to me that I only represent what I know,” explains Sindt, “I identify as a man, and I am attracted to others who identify as men. I don’t believe it is my place to speak on behalf of other members of the queer community whose experiences I am unfamiliar with.”
“In creating this work, I spoke with men who told me about how they hid magazines when they were a kid, took out P.O. Boxes in their small hometowns to protect their privacy, and learned how to cover their tracks on the internet. These secretive acts become necessary when the need to understand yourself is great, but your world is bereft of representation."
Rick Sindt
b. 1990, Hastings, MN,
EDUCATION
2013 North Park University, Chicago, IL - BFA
Magna Cum Laude
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 Two Countries, Rogue Philanthropy, Chicago, IL
2013 Tides, Erosion or Catch, Pull, Recover; The-One-Right-Now, North Park University;
Chicago, IL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 Are We Not of Interest to Each Other, Uptown Arts Center, Chicago, IL
Reinventing Ourselves From Another Point-of-View, Contemporary Gallery at Zhou B.
Arts Center, Chicago, IL
Collective: Process, Beans and Bagels, Chicago, IL
2015 Collective: for(a)ging, Hammond Art Center; Hammond, IN
How We Make It, The Arts of Life, Chicago, IL
Collective: One, Albany Park...
Category
2010s Contemporary Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Neverland, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Laura Spring
Located in Yardley, PA
Thank you for looking at my artwork. This one of a kind painting is done in acrylic with gold accents . I try my best to represent the true colors of the paintings in the photos, but...
Category
2010s Abstract Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
White peonies in a cold color, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
White peonies in a cold color :: Painting :: Photorealism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Signed: Yes :: Signature Location: Elena Podmarkova...
Category
2010s Photorealist Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Multiverse Sunset
By Arica Hilton
Located in Chicago, IL
Acrylic on acrylic with recycled plastic
37 × 23 in (94 × 58.4 cm)
"Since the dawn of man, human beings have sought the very nature of existence. As the seekers of truth compounde...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
Deanna, Make-Up Artist - Portrait of a Woman w/Curly Hair & Huge Hoop Earrings
By Rose Freymuth-Frazier
Located in Chicago, IL
This contemporary portrait of Deanna - Make-Up Artist, is a beautiful example of the talents of artist Rose Freymuth Frazier. The blunt stare of the sub...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Erie (Great Lakes), " Mixed Media on Wood Panel, 2023
Located in Chicago, IL
This abstract work by Chicago artist Patrick Fitzgerald belongs to a series of “track paintings” that materialize the imagined tracks navigated by his miniature soap-box car sculptur...
Category
2010s Abstract Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Metal
The Great Cyclone of St. Louis, Historical Depiction of Actual Events, Original
By Eric Edward Esper
Located in Chicago, IL
The Great Cyclone of St. Louis
On Wednesday, May 27, 1896, shortly after 5 p.m., there occurred a major outbreak of tornadoes across the central and eastern U.S., lasting two days. A funnel cloud destroyed a path one mile-wide and ten miles long through America’s 4th largest city. In 20 minutes, “the Cyclone” killed an estimated 255 people, left thousands homeless, and caused over 10 million dollars-worth of damage across St. Louis and East St. Louis. To this day, it remains the deadliest incident in the city’s history.
Eric Edward Esper
After obtaining my BFA in Illustration from Northern Michigan University in 1996 I relocated to Chicago to pursue my artistic endeavors. Here, I began exclusively oil painting and have assembled a body of paintings chronicling scenes of Chicago done primarily in plein air.
Capturing parts of the city’s landscape during its cultural evolution had been my way of conveying history as a painter. My fascination with landscapes and history has led me to create oil paintings of scenes that have affected us in dramatic ways. Recently I have begun painting aerial views of locations that have interesting historical significance, encapsulating true stories that are hard to imagine and harder to forget. My latest paintings capture these places and depict them with historically accurate attention to detail. Using various sources I recreate these scenes with as many photographs of every angle of the incident and research the stories, submersing myself in the event. My newest body of paintings depicts events with a more historically tragic significance, depicting scenes of the darkest hours in America’s Midwest history, where the landscape became the backdrop for tragedy and calamity. These events that irrevocably altered so many lives are important to remember, not only for the people lost and how it affected our culture, but also to remind us that disaster can occur at any time, anywhere.
Eric Edward Esper
EDUCATION
1995 BFA, Illustration, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, Michigan
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
2013 Chicago Catastrophes, Conflagrations, and Calamities, Solo show, Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, Illinois 2012 Group show, Metropolitan Capital Bank, Chicago, Illinois
2012 Ten year anniversary show, Sulzen Fine Art Studio, Chicago, Illinois
2010 Group show, Concordia University, River forest, Illinois
2009 Holiday Show, Sulzen Fine Art Studio, Chicago, Illinois
2008 Somewhere, Elsewhere, Group show, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2008 Scene in Chicago, Group show, Judy Saslow Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2007 Holiday Show, Sulzen Fine Art Studio, Chicago, Illinois
2007 Cityscapes, Solo Exhibition, Oculus Gallery...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Step Up - Mountain Goats in Graphite on Antique Architectural Drawings
By Don Pollack
Located in Chicago, IL
Over a hundred years ago, my grandfather registered as a homesteader with the Department of the Interior Land Office in Buffalo, Wyoming. Building a cabin on a remote 640 acre plat,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Vellum, Graphite
Base Graded and Level - Buffalo in Graphite on Antique Architectural Drawings
By Don Pollack
Located in Chicago, IL
Over a hundred years ago, my grandfather registered as a homesteader with the Department of the Interior Land Office in Buffalo, Wyoming. Building a cabin on a remote 640 acre plat,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Vellum, Graphite
Cattle Grazing by a Quiet Stream, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Sharon France
Located in Yardley, PA
I was inspired to paint this piece from an old pasture that I visited years ago, on a remote back road in the Heartland. I depicted this quiet scene on an overcast day, where sounds...
Category
2010s Impressionist Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
The Great Australian Bight Trio - Gyotaku Style Sumi Ink Painting of an Octopus
By Jeff Conroy
Located in Chicago, IL
A small octopus is inked in the Japanese style of Gyo-Taku print making. Using sumi ink to "print" the octopi, the artist then embellishes them with colored pencil to convey an extraordinary dimensionality. By printing them on an antique nautical chart...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Sumi Ink, Watercolor, Color Pencil
Acrylic on paper, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
By Laura Spring
Located in Yardley, PA
Acrylic on paper, will fit a standart frame for display. The painting is varnished for UV protection. Size is 10"x10, The paintng will fir standart square frame for this size. Varnis...
Category
2010s Abstract Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Sea Fan - Carnivale - Gyotaku Style Sumi Ink Painting of an Octopus
By Jeff Conroy
Located in Chicago, IL
Two small octopi are inked in the Japanese style of Gyo-Taku print making. Using sumi ink to "print" the octopus, the artist then embellishes it with colored pencil to convey an extraordinary dimensionality. By printing it on hand-made Mulberry paper the artist achieves a beautiful aesthetic. The artwork is unframed. Please contact the gallery for framing options.
Jeff Conroy
Sea Fans - Carnivale
sumi ink and colored pencil on mulberry paper
15h x 20w in
38.10h x 50.80w cm
JEC151
Gyotaku - A Japanese word translated from "gyo" meaning fish and "taku" meaning stone impression and is believed to get its inspiration from Chinese stone rubbings of calligraphy, which then gave rise to printing . This tradition dates back to the mid-1800s and was used by fishermen to record their catches, but has also become an art form of its own. Prints were made using Sumi ink and Washi paper. It is rumored that Samurai would settle fishing competitions using Gyotaku prints...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Sumi Ink, Watercolor, Mulberry Paper, Color Pencil
Cake - Interior Scene, Single Figure Eating a Bundt Cake, Shades of Orange & Red
By Benjamin Duke
Located in Chicago, IL
Ben Duke
Cake
oil on canvas
36h x 38w in
91.44h x 96.52w cm
BSD036
Ben Duke
b. 1977 Louisville, KY
Education
2006 M.F.A., Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2002 B.F.A., University of Utah, Salt Lake City...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Out Towards the River - Original Painting of Expansive Sky and Subtle Landscape
By Ahzad Bogosian
Located in Chicago, IL
This medium sized minimalist painting depicts subtle shift of color from gold to cream and then to pale blue and violet in a luscious sky that dominates this painting. The lower half of the painting shows a tree-dotted horizon and a lush, rich green foreground. This art is framed is a dark wood frame.
Ahzad Bogosian
Out Towards the River
oil on panel
35h x 28w in
88.90h x 71.12w cm
Ahzad Bogosian
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Grand Opening: Coming Attractions, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago
2007 Landscapes, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006 Quiet Light, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago,IL
2004 Distant Light, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003 Sky, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2002 Vista, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
1999 Locus Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1998 Vedanta Gallery, Chicago, IL
Lisa Kurts Gallery, Memphis, TN
1997 Vedanta Gallery, Chicago, IL
Locus Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1996 Margaret Harwell Art Museum, Poplar Bluff, MO
Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 2012 Alumni Exhibition, Fine Arts Gallery, Fontbonne University, St. Louis, MO
2010 Art Chicago, Merchandise Mart, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009 Art Chicago, Merchandise Mart, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
Selections, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago
2008 Art Chicago, Merchandise Mart, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007 Art Chicago, Merchandise Mart, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006 Art Chicago, Merchandise Mart, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
Palm Beach 3 Art Fair, West Palm Beach, Fl
2005 SOFA Chicago, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
Art Chicago, Butler Field, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004 VISION 9, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
Art Chicago, Navy Pier, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003 Five Views of the Midwest, Margaret Harwell Art Museum, Poplar Bluff, MO
(traveling exhibition: Sikeston, MO; Cape Girardeau, MO; Louisiana, MO)
2002 Art of the 20th Century, Ann Nathan Gallery, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
2002 Art Chicago, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2002 The State We're In...Landscapes of the Heartland, Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, IL
2001 Ever Green, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
Locus Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2000 Watercolor USA, 2000, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
Old/New, A.D. Brown Building, St. Louis, MO
1999 Locus Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Walnut Street Gallery, Springfield, MO
First Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins-Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
West Palm Beach Art Expo (Lisa Kurts Gallery), West Palm Beach, FL
Power of Water – The Great Lakes Show, traveling exhibition
1998 Jenkins-Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Four Seasons, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
In/Form V, St. Louis, MO
1997 Midwestern Landscapes...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
The Artist and His Dog, Self Portrait with Black and White Dog, Oil on Canvas
By Bruno Surdo
Located in Chicago, IL
Artists often are alone in their studios with little interaction with the outside world. Bruno is no exception. To ease this loneliness, Bruno brings his most trusted companion wit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ecce Homo by Kostis Georgiou - Diptych - Abstract oil paintings
By Kostis Georgiou
Located in Chicago, IL
Oil on canvas (Diptych)
32 x 63 inches
80 x 160 cm
Born in Thessaloniki, Greece, Kostis Georgiou studied stage scenery in Florence (1981-1982), painting and sculpture in the School ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Almost Sundown - Original Oil Painting w/ Dramatic Sunset, Landscape
By Ahzad Bogosian
Located in Chicago, IL
"Almost Sundown" is a minimalist landscape painting depicting subtle shifts of color as the sun sets over a darkened landscape. Deep purple and pink at the horizon meld into gold an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lily Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO, Original Oil on Canvas, Framed
By Don Pollack
Located in Chicago, IL
Over a hundred years ago, my grandfather registered as a homesteader with the Department of the Interior Land Office in Buffalo, Wyoming. Building a cabin on a remote 640 acre plat,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lily Mountain Trail, Rocky Mountain National Park Colorado, Original Oil, Framed
By Don Pollack
Located in Chicago, IL
Over a hundred years ago, my grandfather registered as a homesteader with the Department of the Interior Land Office in Buffalo, Wyoming. Building a cabin on a remote 640 acre plat,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Amor, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Laura Spring
Located in Yardley, PA
Large acrylic painting. Gold accents . 48"x48", stretched. Sides are painted white and are 1.5" wide. It can be displayed without frame. Extra large size for focal point in any room....
Category
2010s Abstract Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Untitled
By John von Wicht
Located in New York, NY
Oil, gouache and color crayons on paper. Signed i, v. Wicht, lower right recto.
Provenance: private collection, Chicago, IL.
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Oil, Gouache
Under a Sky of Summer Clouds, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Sharon France
Located in Yardley, PA
This painting reminds me of one of those perfect early summer, country days, with a light wind, and a sky full of fluffy white clouds. This is my favorite time of year in the count...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Optimus Z by Kostis Georgiou - figurative oil painting - abstract - diptych
By Kostis Georgiou
Located in Chicago, IL
Oil on Canvas (diptych)
100 x 160 cm
Born in Thessaloniki, Greece, Kostis Georgiou studied stage scenery in Florence (1981-1982), painting and sculpture in the School of Fine Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Deliverance, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Nathalie Gribinski
Located in Yardley, PA
She did this painting called "Delivrance" as a live painting for a closing show. Full of symbols, it depicts a scenery playful and joyous. :: Painting :: Abstract Expressionism :: Th...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Kelsey Seated, Arm on Mac - Original Oil Painting, Study of a Dancer
By Andrew S. Conklin
Located in Chicago, IL
A study for a series of larger paintings based on motion capture studios, this painting combines classic technique with modern sensibility. Here the seated model leans against an antiquated iMac. Upon closer examination, the preparatory sketch lines are visible on the model's feet and her forearm. Unfinished works were first seen during the Renaissance with Masters such as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Donatello. It became fashionable to leave works incomplete, so much so, that it became an aesthetic term 'non-finito'.
Andrew S. Conklin
Kelsey Seated, Arm with iMac
oil on panel
12h x 17w in
30.48h x 43.18w cm
ACK011
Motion Capture Paintings, Chicago
My recent painting series describes the reality of motion capture environments by showing the interplay between female athletes and male technicians. These paintings are meant to explore conventions of female representation in Western figurative art and to contrast this past practice with the contemporary imagery of that subject via computer-based image technology.
This project was instigated by a number of things: first, by my abiding interest in depicting the human form in paint, as I find its versatility in a design, its invitation to empathy, and its difficulty, to be something worth attempting to depict with success. In addition, my curiosity regarding the new ways to depict the form using electronic technology seem to challenge to the traditional methods I rely upon, and I wanted to comment on the similarities and differences between the studios of the painters and the technicians.
In this way, I aim to continue my investigation into what I see as the contrasting quality of human nature, and symbolically represent opposites such as mind and body, analog and digital, realism and idealism, terrestrial and the transcendent.
Andrew S. Conklin is a figurative painter. He holds an MFA from the Academy of Art University, and studied painting at the National Academy of Design in New York City with Harvey Dinnerstein...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Body Snatchers - Bold Colors, Heavily Textured Paint on Panel
Located in Chicago, IL
Based on Georgia Hinaris' love of the Horror Film genre, all that appears may be so much more in her work. The artist takes inspiration from these types of films with their stark ci...
Category
2010s Contemporary Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Set of Four Chinese Immortals Screen Paintings, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Since the 12th century people in China have used folding screens and doors to partition and decorate their homes—the vivid scenes backing the screens added life and color to a room. ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Qing Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Ink, Gouache
On the Surface 8, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
By Laura Spring
Located in Yardley, PA
This one of a kind painting is done in acrylic on paper. I try my best to represent the true colors of the paintings in the photos, but sometimes you can see a slight difference in t...
Category
2010s Abstract Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Tibetan Thangka of Chenresi, c. 1800
Located in Chicago, IL
In Buddhist Tibet, patrons and monks commissioned thangka art, or sacred painting, to focus their meditations and prayers. Painted with blue, orange, and r...
Category
Early 19th Century Illinois - Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Silk, Pigment
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