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Item Ships From: New York City
Untitled (Twins)
Located in New York, NY
Pia Chavarria
Untitled (Three Figures)
2021
Water color on archival paper
14.5 x 10 inches / framed 20 x 16 inches
Pia Chavarria is a visual artist born and based in Costa Rica. ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Watercolor
Brave Girl 12
Located in New York, NY
Angels Grau is a Catalan artist who spends her time between Barcelona, New York, and a small village located in the breathtaking Priorat, one of the most notorious wine regions in Eu...
Category
2010s Abstract Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Board Painting - Profile Landscape 438.006
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Landscape 438.006 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Acrylic on Board Painting
Profile Landscape 438.006 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collag...
Category
1970s Feminist Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Untitled (Blue Figure)
Located in New York, NY
Pia Chavarria
Untitled (Blue Figure)
2021
Water color on archival paper
14.5 x 10 inches / framed 20 x 16 inches
Pia Chavarria is a visual artist born and based in Costa Rica. Her work surrounds the constant representation of the human body through painting and drawing which depict characters in unknown interactions and situations within themselves and each other. Chavarria’s use of vague, hazy color and stains with frantic scribbles and brushwork help to speculate about the characters identities, relationships, sexuality and context.
She has a Licentiate degree in plastic design with an emphasis on pictorial design from the University of Costa Rica. She has had solo and group exhibitions in physical and online spaces like “La Salita” in NYC; “Media home” in Buenos Aires, Argentina; “Nos Vemos” in San Jose, Costa Rica; the “Costarican Museum of Arts”; the “Second Festival of Performance Arts” in Amapala, Honduras; and the 2021 Hoper Prize Grant finalist.
Onview as part of
Seminal / Sentience ‘all form is a face looking at us’ August 15...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Watercolor
Wave-Particle by Jeff Chester, Oil on Canvas, Pop Realism and Americana
By Jeff Chester
Located in Dallas, TX
JEFF CHESTER
(b. 1976, CANADA)
Born in Summerside, P.E.I., Jeff Chester completed a B.F.A. and a B.Sc. from the University of Guelph in 2001. After completing a B.Ed. the following ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Alkyd
Palm's Mirror
By Ayline Olukman
Located in New York, NY
Ayline Olukman is a multimedia artist whose work addresses the notion of intimacy, solitude and wandering. She creates with photography, painting, writing, etching and drawing. This multimedia series is from the artist's vacation, road trip across the West Coast of the USA. The palm trees are reflected in the stillness of the pool, the sky is has blue clouds floating happily across a white sky as a motel, hotel frames...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Photographic Paper, Stretcher Bars
A Large KPM Porcelain Portrait Plaque after Sir Hurbert von Herkomer's Clematis
By Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur (KPM)
Located in New York, NY
A Large KPM Porcelain Plaque after Sir Hurbert von Herkomer's Clematis
Circa 1900
Signed: Knys
Marks: 6, (scepter), KPM, E,
Dimensions:
13.38 x 11.75 x .25 inches
Framed Dimen...
Category
19th Century Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Porcelain
Surreal Figures - figurative painting, surreal painting
By Jacob Elhanani
Located in New York, NY
This early surreal figurative work by Jacob El Hanani was done in 1971. It is ink on paper. Measurements of the paper are 35X25 cm. It is dated and hand signed in Hebrew in the botto...
Category
1970s Surrealist Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Canvas, Ink
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Board Painting - Profile Landscape 438.039
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Landscape 438.039 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Acrylic on Board Painting
Profile Landscape 438.039 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collag...
Category
1970s Feminist Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Board Painting - Profile Landscape 438.066
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Landscape 438.066 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Acrylic on Board Painting
Profile Landscape 438.066 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collag...
Category
1970s Feminist Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Board Painting - Profile Landscape 438.037
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Landscape 438.037 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Acrylic on Board Painting
Profile Landscape 438.037 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collag...
Category
1970s Feminist Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Acrylic, Board
The Reception 2, Contemporary Oil Painting on Canvas by Greg Kessler
By Greg Kessler
Located in Long Island City, NY
The Reception 2
Greg Kessler, American (1966)
Date: 2024
Oil on Canvas
Size: 40 x 60 in. (101.6 x 152.4 cm)
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (Field)
Located in New York, NY
Marc Andre
Untitled (field)
2022
Acrylic and oil stick on canvas
16 x 20 inches
Marc Andre meditates on the moments we step out of our comfort zone. Infused with neo-expressionist influences and demonstrating a figurative approach akin to the portraits and sculptures of Benin infused with a refreshing wave of energy. By channeling a playful flirtation with mark-making, Andre shows us that childhood creativity is “as pure as it gets”.
Andre was born in Toulouse, France and spent much of his childhood traveling the world and frequenting museums with his mother, primarily visiting exhibitions featuring Pan...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Oil Crayon, Acrylic
Untitled - Surrealist Unique painting on paper/board - Max Walter Svanberg, 1957
Located in New York, NY
Max Walter Svanberg (1912-1994)
Untitled, 1957
Gouache on paper
Paper: 36 x 29 cm 14 1/8 x 11 in.
Frame: 57 x 49 cm 22 1/2 x 19 1/3 in
Signed and dated
Max Walter Svanberg artwor...
Category
1950s Surrealist Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Oil, Gouache, Laid Paper
Brave Girl 15
Located in New York, NY
Angels Grau is a Catalan artist who spends her time between Barcelona, New York, and a small village located in the breathtaking Priorat, one of the most notorious wine regions in Eu...
Category
2010s Abstract Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Life Giving Source
Located in New York, NY
Ieri Pnoi
Life Giving Source, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
120 x 60 cm
The artwork is currently on view as part of Prosperity Prophecy at the Mykonos Municipal Gallery in Greece.
Dimitr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Acrylic
Angel of Ephemeral Immortality
Located in New York, NY
Ieri Pnoi
Angel of Ephemeral Immortality, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
120 x 60 cm
The artwork is currently on view as part of Prosperity Prophecy at the Mykonos Municipal Gallery in Gree...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Acrylic
Third Eye Angel
Located in New York, NY
Ieri Pnoi
3rd Eye Angel, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
120 x 60 cm
The artwork is currently on view as part of Prosperity Prophecy at the Mykonos Municipal Gallery i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Acrylic
Invisible Women Negre
Located in New York, NY
Angels Grau is a Catalan artist who spends her time between Barcelona, New York, and a small village located in the breathtaking Priorat, one of the most n...
Category
2010s Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Emerald II from the Mirror Stone series
Located in New York City, NY
CAROLINA GOMEZ
Emerald II from the Mirror Stone series
37 x 51 inches - Unique
OIL ON CANVAS
Carolina Gomez’s works have become known for the powerful...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Canvas, Oil
There's No P in Our ool
By Joe Waks 1
Located in New York, NY
Joe Waks
There's No P in Our ool. . .
2010
Oil and mixed media
36 X 24 in.
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
Portia LaBeija
Located in New York, NY
Portia LaBeija
2022
Signed
Binder and glitter on acrylic
30 x 30 inches (73.2 x 76.2 cm)
Portia LaBeija was a prominent and beloved member of the House of LaBeija. She passed awa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Plastic, Adhesive, Glitter
Marsha P. Johnson
Located in New York, NY
Marsha P. Johnson
2022
Signed
Binder and glitter on acrylic
30 x 30 inches (73.2 x 76.2 cm)
Marsha P. Johnson (1945-1992) was a gay liberation activ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Plastic, Adhesive, Glitter
Angelo Colon
Located in New York, NY
Angelo Colon
2022
Signed
Binder and glitter on acrylic
36 x 24 inches (91.4 x 61 cm)
Angelo Colon was an actor and model known for his collaborations with Grace Jones. Angelo was...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Plastic, Adhesive, Glitter
Cute with the e
Located in New York, NY
Cute with the e
2022
oil pastel, pen, acrylic, and watercolor on paper
6.5 x 4.5 inches
Christina Nicola’s paintings are a direct reflection of herself — a liberated, queer, Black femme. With the erotic and intimacy front and center on her canvases, whether they’re miniature or large, Christina’s work offers a lens into this moment in her life — a moment intentionally focused on reclamation & personal exploration.
In addition to honing in on her practice, she has also carved out spaces for Black and brown femme and non-binary artists to showcase their work with a series of exhibitions, the most recent being Sapphic Summer at Brian Leo Projects. Looking forward, the self-proclaimed “AfroRomantic Lyrical Abstractionist ” plans to publish a memoir in conversation with her paintings, debut her first solo museum exhibition, and continue to co-create curative spaces for artists of color...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Oil Pastel, Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor
Untitled (green face)
Located in New York, NY
Pia Chavarria
Untitled (Green Face)
2021
Water color on archival paper
14.5 x 10 inches / framed 20 x 16 inches
Pia Chavarria is a visual artist born an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Watercolor
Invisible Women 3 "Gris"
Located in New York, NY
Angels Grau is a Catalan artist who spends her time between Barcelona, New York, and a small village located in the breathtaking Priorat, one of the most notorious wine regions in Europe.
This combination allows her to have the best of three worlds; it brings together the creativity and passion that her paintings demand.
"I invest time in my work. You must look at paintings on different days, with different eyes. There is a need to go back to it again and again.”
Born to a family of artists, she grew up surrounded by drawings, tapestries, and paintings that awakened a special sentiment that over time matured into her work. A graphic designer first and painter by evolution, in 2018 she decided to make the leap into becoming a full-time artist. Nothing has deterred her since.
After traveling the world and bringing up four children who are almost living their own lives, the artist feels the need to empower the role of women inspired by her own journey. “Invisible Women” is a tribute to each and every woman that fights from anonymous positions, in everyday jobs and everyday lives, to improve their family, their society, their world.
Some of her pieces are part of the personal art collections of different CEOs of fortune 100 companies. “Invisible Women” is part of a recent purchase...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Board Painting - Profile Landscape 438.030
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Landscape 438.030 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Acrylic on Board Painting
Profile Landscape 438.030 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collag...
Category
1970s Feminist Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Invisible Women Bessones
Located in New York, NY
Angels Grau is a Catalan artist who spends her time between Barcelona, New York, and a small village located in the breathtaking Priorat, one of the most notorious wine regions in Europe.
This combination allows her to have the best of three worlds; it brings together the creativity and passion that her paintings demand.
"I invest time in my work. You must look at paintings on different days, with different eyes. There is a need to go back to it again and again.”
Born to a family of artists, she grew up surrounded by drawings, tapestries, and paintings that awakened a special sentiment that over time matured into her work. A graphic designer first and painter by evolution, in 2018 she decided to make the leap into becoming a full-time artist. Nothing has deterred her since.
After traveling the world and bringing up four children who are almost living their own lives, the artist feels the need to empower the role of women inspired by her own journey. “Invisible Women” is a tribute to each and every woman that fights from anonymous positions, in everyday jobs and everyday lives, to improve their family, their society, their world.
Some of her pieces are part of the personal art collections of different CEOs of fortune 100 companies. “Invisible Women” is part of a recent purchase...
Category
2010s Abstract Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Blackbird. Contemporary portrait of a woman. Colorful expressionist figurative
By Alysha Grace Marko
Located in New York, NY
Alysha Grace Marko
Blackbird, 2023
Contemporary portrait painting with blue background
30 x 24 in
Oil paint on canvas
Born in Central Jersey, Alysha Grace Marko is an NYC-based pain...
Category
2010s Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Oil
Portraits of Androids, Blond Sophia
By Lee Wells
Located in New York, NY
Portraits of Androids, Blond Sophia #1, 2018
Hand embellished monoprint on canvas
47 1/5 × 35 2/5 in
120 × 90 cm
Sophia’s Safehouse in an Uncanny Valley examines the recent celebrity culture of humanoid AI as a way to better understand humanity, authenticity, identity, and memory in the early 21st century. The installation, inspired in part by the dystopian literary works of George Orwell, Mary Shelley, Philip K. Dick, Isaac Asimov...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite, Monoprint
Cro-Mags
By Chris Bors
Located in New York, NY
Chris Bors
Cro-Mags
2013
Acrylic on canvas
43 1/2 x 34 in.
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Nihilistics
By Chris Bors
Located in New York, NY
Nihilistics
2010
Acrylic on canvas
16 x 14 in.
Signed, titled and dated on verso
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
CDI
By Dafni Athanasopoulou
Located in New York, NY
CDI, 2017
Mixed media on canvas
51.18 x 35.43 inches
Dafni Athanasopoulou (1993, Athens) is a painter and model on the rise. Devoted to the abstract arts, her paintings are modern a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Giuseppe Aureli Orientalist Watercolor In The Harem .
By Giuseppe Aureli
Located in New York, NY
Middle Eastern Indoor Scene, watercolor of a man and a reclining woman.
Artist: Giuseppe Aureli (1858 - 1929)
Origin: Italian
Date: 19th Century
Medium...
Category
19th Century Other Art Style Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Watercolor
Portraits of Androids, Double Sophia
By Lee Wells
Located in New York, NY
Lee Wells
Double Sophia, 2018
Hand embellished monoprint on canvas with projection mapped video
125 x 150 cm
Contact for video link.
Currently on view as part of Sentient Electroics at Wallplay Seaport
Sophia’s Safehouse in an Uncanny Valley examines the recent celebrity culture of humanoid AI as a way to better understand humanity, authenticity, identity, and memory in the early 21st century. The installation, inspired in part by the dystopian literary works of George Orwell, Mary Shelley, Philip K. Dick, Isaac Asimov...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Canvas, Video, Acrylic, Graphite, Monoprint
Invisible Women Groga
Located in New York, NY
Angels Grau is a Catalan artist who spends her time between Barcelona, New York, and a small village located in the breathtaking Priorat, one of the most n...
Category
2010s Abstract Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Andrea
By Fabio Torre
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
Signed, titled, dated, and inscribed, verso
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Born in Bologna, Italy, in 1955, Fabio Torre is an Italian ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Chris II
By Fabio Torre
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
Signed, titled, dated, and inscribed, verso
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Born in Bologna, Italy, in 1955, Fabio Torre is an Italian ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Board Painting - Profile Landscape 438.013
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Landscape 438.013 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Acrylic on Board Painting
Profile Landscape 438.013 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collag...
Category
1970s Feminist Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Forest Lover II by Anne Siems, Portrait painting with tattoo drawing, on paper
By Anne Siems
Located in Dallas, TX
Anne Siems has created this stunning watercolor on Strathmore Cold press paper.
All archival materials.
Paper size: 24x18 inches
Suggested Frame size: 30x24x1.5 inch (frame is not ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Portraits of Androids, Double Sophia
By Lee Wells
Located in New York, NY
Lee Wells
Double Sophia, 2018
Hand embellished monoprint on canvas with projection mapped video
125 x 150 cm
Contact for video link.
Currently on view as part of Sentient Electroics...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Canvas, Video, Acrylic, Graphite, Monoprint
Portraits of Androids, Erica `1
By Lee Wells
Located in New York, NY
Erica #1, 2018
Hand embellished monoprint on canvas
25 3/5 × 21 7/10 in
65 × 55 cm
Sophia’s Safehouse in an Uncanny Valley examines the recent celebrity culture of humanoid AI as a way to better understand humanity, authenticity, identity, and memory in the early 21st century. The installation, inspired in part by the dystopian literary works of George Orwell, Mary Shelley, Philip K. Dick, Isaac Asimov...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Monoprint, Canvas, Acrylic, Pencil
Fine Quality KPM Porcelain Plaque of a Young Beauty
By Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur (KPM)
Located in New York, NY
KPM PORCELAIN PLAQUE
German, 19th Century
Beauty with Flowers
Painted plaque
13 in. x 8 in.
Category
19th Century Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Porcelain
Double Sophia
By Lee Wells
Located in New York, NY
Lee Wells
Double Sophia, 2018
Hand embellished monoprint on canvas with projection mapped video
125 x 150 cm
Contact for video link.
Sophia’s Safehouse in an Uncanny Valley examines the recent celebrity culture of humanoid AI as a way to better understand humanity, authenticity, identity, and memory in the early 21st century. The installation, inspired in part by the dystopian literary works of George Orwell, Mary Shelley, Philip K. Dick, Isaac Asimov...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Monoprint, Canvas, Video, Acrylic, Graphite
Blond Sophia #1
By Lee Wells
Located in New York, NY
Blond Sophia #1, 2018
Hand embellished monoprint on canvas
47 1/5 × 35 2/5 in
120 × 90 cm
Sophia’s Safehouse in an Uncanny Valley examines the recent celebrity culture of humanoid A...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Monoprint, Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite
Citrine from the Mirror Stone series (Portrait Painting - Ava Gardner)
Located in New York City, NY
CAROLINA GOMEZ
Citrine from the Mirror Stone series (Portrait Painting - Ava Gardner)
37 x 51 inches - Unique
OIL ON CANVAS
Carolina Gomez’s works hav...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Forest 1" by Anne Siems, Portrait painting with tattoo drawing, on paper
By Anne Siems
Located in Dallas, TX
Anne Siems has created this stunning watercolor on Strathmore Cold press paper.
All archival materials.
Paper size: 24x18 inches
Suggested Frame size: 30x24x1.5 inch
ANNE SIEMS
(...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Forest Tattoo by Anne Siems, Portrait painting with tattoo drawing, on paper
By Anne Siems
Located in Dallas, TX
Anne Siems has created this stunning watercolor on Strathmore Cold press paper.
All archival materials.
Paper size: 24x18 inches
Suggested Frame size: 30x24x1.5 inch (frame is not ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Maria Gonzaga of Lorraine, Royal style portrait, contemporary oil on metal
By David Crismon
Located in Dallas, TX
"Maria Gonzaga of Lorraine" by David Crismon
Oil and acrylic on galvanized, heavy-gauge, coated aluminum 80 × 60 × 3 inches
David Crismon's "Maria Gonzaga of Lorraine" masterfully ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Steel, Metal
Ain't Got No, I Got Life NinaSimone vs King
By Alex Guofeng Cao
Located in New York, NY
Cao meticulously places each smaller image to form a dynamic gradient from dark to light which tricks the eye into seeing one image. This expertise in contrast is exemplified in all ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Stainless Steel
Invisible Women Vermell
Located in New York, NY
Angels Grau is a Catalan artist who spends her time between Barcelona, New York, and a small village located in the breathtaking Priorat, one of the most n...
Category
2010s Abstract Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Acrylic, Laid Paper
"Solidarity", acrylic painting, portrait, politics, humanity, Americans, resist
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"Solidarity" is an acrylic painting and collage on paper measuring 36" high by 24" wide. It is one of 50 portraits that comprise Profiles in Democracy. Savage in their execution, they are nevertheless heartfelt expressions from the artist – politically, socially, culturally – in some cases featuring text and language in the portrait. In this case, the reference to resistance reads: "Solidarity – (phobia/philia)", and "most Americans not happy customers". The phobia/philia suggests a tension between fear/knowledge or fear/wisdom...
From Dale Williams: "Profiles in Democracy is a group of 50 portraits completed in 2019. They are an expression of sorrow at the fracturing ideals that our country now teeters upon. The portraits are mostly – not exclusively – imaginary: a populace viewed from the inside out, people that someone like our current president might call losers. They perhaps “live in gaudy poverty, powerful destitution,” to quote Osip Mandelstam...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
"Starnosed Mole", acrylic painting, portrait, politics, poetry, humanity, resist
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"Starnosed Mole" is an acrylic painting with litho ink and charcoal on paper, measuring 36" high by 24" wide. It is one of 50 portraits that comprise Profiles in Democracy. Savage in their execution, they are nevertheless heartfelt expressions from the artist – politically, socially, culturally – in some cases featuring text and language in the portrait. In this case, one individual musters faith and fortitude to press on, fight on. The words at top read: "Audacity – said the mole – shall root that mountain down."
From Dale Williams: "Profiles in Democracy is a group of 50 portraits completed in 2019. They are an expression of sorrow at the fracturing ideals that our country now teeters upon. The portraits are mostly – not exclusively – imaginary: a populace viewed from the inside out, people that someone like our current president might call losers. They perhaps “live in gaudy poverty, powerful destitution,” to quote Osip Mandelstam...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
3D Portrait of Woman: 'The Wanders I'
By Juan Miguel Palacios
Located in New York, NY
While his work has a clear figurative language, the paintings of Juan Miguel Palacios contain a strong conceptual load, where his work developed in series, has a constant wandering o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Mixed Media
Persona 01
Located in New York, NY
Born in 1979, Denis Meyers is a Belgian urban artist. He studied at the National Superior School of Arts and Visuals of la Cambre, in Brussels, city where he currently lives and wor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic, Permanent Marker
Michael Paraskevas Protests Acrylic on Paper, 1986
By Michael Paraskevas
Located in Astoria, NY
Michael Paraskevas (American, b. 1961), Protests in New York City, Acrylic on Paper, 1986, signed and dated to lower border, unframed. Image: 19" H x 12" W; sheet: 23" H x 14.5" W. P...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Acrylic
3D Portrait Painting of Woman: 'Set Me Free XXXIII'
By Juan Miguel Palacios
Located in New York, NY
While his work has a clear figurative language, the paintings of Juan Miguel Palacios contain a strong conceptual load, where his work developed in series, has a constant wandering o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings in New York City
Materials
Mixed Media
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