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Item Ships From: New Orleans
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By Amanda Brown
Located in New Orleans, LA
Amanda Joy Brown is a visual artist and educator based in Nashville, TN. Brown earned her MFA in the painting program at the Savannah College of Art and Design. During her time there...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Overseer
By Gina Phillips
Located in New Orleans, LA
Gina Phillips is a mixed media, narrative artist who grew up in Kentucky and has lived in New Orleans since 1995. The imagery, stories and characters of both regions influence her wo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Oil, Panel
Obstructed Ego
By Maggie Evans
Located in New Orleans, LA
[b. 1980 – Denton, TX ::: lives & works – Savannah, GA]
MAGGIE EVANS is an artist based in Savannah, Georgia. She currently uses painting, drawing and installation to examine huma...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Idle Hands
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
after: "And In His Eyes I Saw Death" by Ejnar Nielsen, 1897
Framed: 10h x 8.50w in
Being discontented means being left with choices. We can either accept a current status quo or ch...
Category
2010s Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
La Victoria de las Flores
By Starsky Brines
Located in New Orleans, LA
STARSKY BRINE’s paintings and drawings captivate audiences with their distinctive style and a recurring theme, the search for the nature of humanity. In his bold works, the artist fo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Crayon, Acrylic, Spray Paint
Fuerza Serena
By Starsky Brines
Located in New Orleans, LA
STARSKY BRINE’s paintings and drawings captivate audiences with their distinctive style and a recurring theme, the search for the nature of humanity. In his bold works, the artist fo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Crayon, Acrylic
Feet on the Ground
By Monica Zeringue
Located in New Orleans, LA
MONICA ZERINGUE received her Masters of Fine Arts from the University of New Orleans in 2006 and her BA in 1993. In 1999 she was awarded the Prix de l'Acadamie de Paris, Societe Inte...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Philosopher
By Akihiko Sugiura
Located in New Orleans, LA
AKIHIKO SUGIURA (b. 1979) is a Japanese painter from Hyogo, Japan whose artistic style mixes purely physical non-representational art with a base of traditional representational pain...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ralphy
By Gina Phillips
Located in New Orleans, LA
Gina Phillips is a mixed media, narrative artist who grew up in Kentucky and has lived in New Orleans since 1995. The imagery, stories and characters of both regions influence her wo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Fabric, Thread
How long is forever
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
JENNY DAY is a painter who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Arizona, a BFA in Painting from the University of Alaska Fa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Color Pencil
OF-Head28
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF
Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
OF-Torso1
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF
Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
OF-Head24
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF
Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
OF-Head26
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF
Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
OF-Hand4
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF
Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
OF-Head9
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF
Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
OF-Head18
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF
Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
The Evidence of Things Seen
By Chris Barnard
Located in New Orleans, LA
An abstracted view of the Art Institute of Chicago's Grand Staircase. The lone sculpture fictionally represents an armed officer pointing a gun at an absent figure.
[b. 1977 – New York, NY ::: lives & works – New Haven, CT]
CHRIS BARNARD received his BA from Yale and his MFA from The University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles. Having previously held faculty positions at Denison University, Indiana University, and USC, Barnard is currently associate professor of art at Connecticut College in New London.
Barnard’s work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and New Haven, among other locations, and can be found in public and private collections nationally and internationally. His work is represented by Fred Giampietro Gallery in New Haven, where he and his partner live.
artist statement
In my work I focus on white supremacy’s relationship to the privileged spaces of my experiences, such as private art and educational institutions. Amidst widening gaps in wealth and opportunity, discussions about race, power, justice and representation—across visual culture broadly—seem more relevant than ever.
In many of my compositions, which reference real sites, I have inserted fictional elements to raise questions about the allegiances and priorities of these institutions, as well as people—including myself—who have benefitted from, or continue to support them. The resulting works are representational, but through gestural passages and color and surface manipulation, I aim to suggest instability, corrosion and decay. In the end, I strive to make engaging paintings that suggest dissonance and ambivalence, that entice and challenge viewers, just as painting them does for me.
These paintings are rooted in my contemplating Whiteness and emerge from wrestling with the politics of painting—the connections and gaps between painting and lived experience. They also reflect: a love of paint, the act of painting, and the power of the painted image; a regard for practitioners past and present, as well as those for whom practice has not been possible; and an admission of painting’s complicity with hegemonic power. As always, my process remains driven by questions. In this case, questions like: What role does painting play in the face of concrete social crises? How can my paintings respectfully incorporate¬—rather than exploit—relevant and thought-provoking content and imagery? What does it mean to think about racism, dehumanization, injustice, etc., and then to paint such pictures, and in particular as a straight, White man?
These questions and this body of work owe much to the work of others, and most acutely to four scholars’ books in particular: The History of White People, by Nell Irvin Painter; Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities by Craig Steven Wilder; The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander; and White Rage, by Carol Anderson...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel
Entrenched
By Maggie Evans
Located in New Orleans, LA
[b. 1980 – Denton, TX ::: lives & works – Savannah, GA]
MAGGIE EVANS is an artist based in Savannah, Georgia. She currently uses painting, drawing and installation to examine huma...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Reality Show
By Nora See
Located in New Orleans, LA
The piece is a reflection of the current US Executive Branch, depicting the US flag as an old TV test pattern, historically used to indicate that no pro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Self Portrait as an Old Man
By Akihiko Sugiura
Located in New Orleans, LA
AKIHIKO SUGIURA is a Japanese painter from Hyogo, Japan whose artistic style mixes purely physical non-representational art with a base of traditional representational painting. A co...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Fool
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From Jan Matejko’s Stańczyk, 1862
I’ve heard that in centuries past, the jester – or fool – was often one of the only people able to speak truth to power. Because of their inherent ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A First Apology
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of Mark McGwire
If we are caught lying, it is the suddenly being singled-out that proves most unsettling. We are temporarily relieved of our ability to define our own pub...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Resurrection, (study)
By Joseph Barron
Located in New Orleans, LA
Joseph Barron graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago with a BFA and MFA. Shortly after graduating, Barron was awarded a Pollock-Krasner foundation Grant that allowed him to crea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
A Tutor
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of Kellyanne Conway
While the statement for this show indicates that there are no formal teachers of proper lying technique, it doesn’t deny that there are individuals ou...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
An Attempt at Morality
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From Albrecht Dürer’s Adam and Eve, 1507
Akin to the historical narratives we’re fed in an attempt to steer us away from a life of lies, the narrative of Adam, Eve, and the serpent ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A Role Model
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of Charles Ponzi
When we combine the power of lies to persuade with their ability to establish a false hierarchy, we end up with Charles Ponzi – the eponym of the Ponzi S...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
An Exciting Unknown
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of Sasquatch (Harry from Harry and the Hendersons, Universal Pictures, 1987)
Developing almost simultaneously with my appreciation of mannequins, I fell in love with what...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A Bid to Gain Attention
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of Baron Munchausen from The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Columbia Pictures, 1988
The concept of Munchausen Syndrome offers another per...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A Lack of Consequence
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From Rembrandt van Rijn’s Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq (The Night Watch), 1642
Forgive and forget. That’s what we’re taught to do ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A Pretty Face and a Nice Body
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of Lance Armstrong
We tend to exercise differing levels of tolerance for different liars. Some people get called out immediately, while oth...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Bay View
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Lone Star, True But Whatever
There was I time when I ached for the world. Before cell phones, before social media, I felt the urgency of environmental damage, of social injustice.
Nothing seems to have gotten better. I'm not numb to it, but in some way I've become flip, a resigned humor like a layer of scar tissue between my concerns and the abrasion all around.
Still, I was surprised how playful these paintings became.
Disasters intertwine: Urns, much like the one that held my twin sister's ashes, a familial disaster, come to the forefront, variations of childhood memory. Images from photos I took in Port Aransas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint, Glitter, Acrylic, Color Pencil
Gold Cat
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Lone Star, True But Whatever
There was I time when I ached for the world. Before cell phones, before social media, I felt the urgency of environmental damage, of social injustice.
Nothing seems to have gotten better. I'm not numb to it, but in some way I've become flip, a resigned humor like a layer of scar tissue between my concerns and the abrasion all around.
Still, I was surprised how playful these paintings became.
Disasters intertwine: Urns, much like the one that held my twin sister's ashes, a familial disaster, come to the forefront, variations of childhood memory. Images from photos I took in Port Aransas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Glitter, Acrylic, Color Pencil
Madonna (after Edvard Munch)
By Nora See
Located in New Orleans, LA
This painting is a portrait of Madonna the pop star to modernize and empower Munch's Madonna by opening her eyes to confront the viewer.
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Category
2010s Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
If I Paint Us (in gold) VI
By Nikki Rosato
Located in New Orleans, LA
The artist says of the inspiration in her latest work . . .
Moving to Washington, DC in 2016 changed me. The unraveling of this country's leadership elicited a strong, visceral rea...
Category
2010s Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
trying4u03
By Carlton Scott Sturgill
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: paint chip sample mosaic on panel
Born in 1971 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Carlton Scott Sturgill received his Masters of Arts (Fine Art) from London’s Chelsea Collage of Art in De...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Lucky Duck
By Nora See
Located in New Orleans, LA
Nora See grew up in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where, as a child, she taught herself to draw. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Corcoran College of Art and Des...
Category
2010s Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Cameo #2
By Nora See
Located in New Orleans, LA
Nora See grew up in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where, as a child, she taught herself to draw. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Corcoran College of Art and Des...
Category
2010s Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Salute
By Nora See
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Salute" is a salute to the Black Power Salute used as a political demonstration by African-American athletes John Carlos and Tommie Smith during their med...
Category
2010s Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Memory Painting of Pawpaw
By Gina Phillips
Located in New Orleans, LA
Gina Phillips is a mixed media, narrative artist who grew up in Kentucky and has lived in New Orleans since 1995. The imagery, stories and characters of both regions influence her wo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper
Minerva
Located in New Orleans, LA
Ginger Williams Cook is a painter, published illustrator, and arts educator based in Jackson, MS. Her paintings have been featured in numerous exh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Oil
Aquarius: Ganymede
Located in New Orleans, LA
Ginger Williams Cook is a painter, published illustrator, and arts educator based in Jackson, MS. Her paintings have been featured in numerous exhibitions, publications, and media. G...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Pastel, Acrylic
Taurus: Europa & Zeus
Located in New Orleans, LA
Ginger Williams Cook is a painter, published illustrator, and arts educator based in Jackson, MS. Her paintings have been featured in numerous exhibitions, publications, and media. G...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Pastel, Acrylic
Shhhhh! (Contemporary Abstract Figurative Collage Painting)
By Christine Ilewski-Huelsmann
Located in New Orleans, LA
A complex and stunning mixed-media work by notable Illinois artist Christine Ilewski-Huelsmann, not only a fixture in the arts establishment widely r...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Dogwood (Large Contemporary Girl Portrait Painting)
By Christine Ilewski-Huelsmann
Located in New Orleans, LA
One of two sizable portraits of girlhood we are offering by notable Illinois artist Christine Ilewski-Huelsmann, not only a fixture in the arts establ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
The Letter By Georges Croegaert
By Georges Croegaert
Located in New Orleans, LA
Georges Croegaert
1848-1923 Belgian
The Letter
Signed "Georges Croegaert Paris" (lower right)
Oil on panel
A cardinal pauses while composing a letter in this oil on panel by Belg...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Chromanthropus" - Contemporary Multimedia Abstract Painting
By Leroy Miranda
Located in New Orleans, LA
Emerging artist Leroy Miranda took off like a rocket a few years back in 2015 when he was discovered in New Orleans. A painting of this self-taught artist with what he describes as "...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
"The Inquisitor" - Contemporary Multimedia Abstract Portrait Painting
By Leroy Miranda
Located in New Orleans, LA
Emerging artist Leroy Miranda took off like a rocket a few years back in 2015 when he was discovered in New Orleans. A painting of this self-taught artist with what he describes as "...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Afterglow 2
By Amanda Brown
Located in New Orleans, LA
Amanda Joy Brown is a visual artist and educator based in Nashville, TN. Brown earned her MFA in the painting program at the Savannah College of Art and Design. During her time there...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Afterglow 1
By Amanda Brown
Located in New Orleans, LA
Amanda Joy Brown is a visual artist and educator based in Nashville, TN. Brown earned her MFA in the painting program at the Savannah College of Art and Design. During her time there...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Illuminated
By Amanda Brown
Located in New Orleans, LA
Amanda Joy Brown is a visual artist and educator based in Nashville, TN. Brown earned her MFA in the painting program at the Savannah College of Art and Design. During her time there...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Recall
By Amanda Brown
Located in New Orleans, LA
Amanda Joy Brown is a visual artist and educator based in Nashville, TN. Brown earned her MFA in the painting program at the Savannah College of Art and Design. During her time there...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Weather
By Amanda Brown
Located in New Orleans, LA
Amanda Joy Brown is a visual artist and educator based in Nashville, TN. Brown earned her MFA in the painting program at the Savannah College of Art and Design. During her time there...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Garden Branch
By Amanda Brown
Located in New Orleans, LA
Amanda Joy Brown is a visual artist and educator based in Nashville, TN. Brown earned her MFA in the painting program at the Savannah College of Art and Design. During her time there...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Acrylic, Polymer
Curbside Offering
By Amanda Brown
Located in New Orleans, LA
Amanda Joy Brown is a visual artist and educator based in Nashville, TN. Brown earned her MFA in the painting program at the Savannah College of Art and Design. During her time there...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Acrylic, Polymer
Wrapped
By Amanda Brown
Located in New Orleans, LA
Amanda Joy Brown is a visual artist and educator based in Nashville, TN. Brown earned her MFA in the painting program at the Savannah College of Art and Design. During her time there...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Pearl Earring
By Amanda Brown
Located in New Orleans, LA
Amanda Joy Brown is a visual artist and educator based in Nashville, TN. Brown earned her MFA in the painting program at the Savannah College of Art and Design. During her time there...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
The Fisherman
By Amanda Brown
Located in New Orleans, LA
Amanda Joy Brown is a visual artist and educator based in Nashville, TN. Brown earned her MFA in the painting program at the Savannah College of Art and Design. During her time there...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
