New York - Paintings

Valdimir Shelest digital artist oil painting of letters in an abstract form. From a home in Greenwich CT.

Gorgeous still life drawing by New York Ab Ex artist Salvatore Grippi. Violet oil pencil on paper.

Steven Colucci’s iconoclastic approach to performance and the visual arts have not only long blurred the boundaries between these disciplines, but have challenged its most basic assumptions. The title of this show references a most rudimentary dance move --the plié --and our assumptions of what to expect in relation to this. Also the suggestion that we can simply press a button and a preconceived outcome will be courteously delivered --a form of prefabricated belief in itself. Steven Colucci’s artwork turns such basic assumptions on their heads. Finding early inspiration in the New York school of abstract expressionists such as Jackson Pollock with his action painting, and then further by his professor --a then young Vito Acconci while studying at the School of Visual Arts, Steven Colucci went from exploring the raw existentialist experimentation of New York’s early painting and performance scenes, to investigating the other end of the spectrum --the rigorously measured and controlled disciplines of pantomime and ballet; studying in Paris under the tutelage of world-famous Marcelle Marceau, and engaging with the concepts of dramatic movement pioneer and intellectual Etienne Decroux. Colucci has explained the difference between the extremes of pantomime and dance as being that pantomime forces movement via an internal capacity --movement directed inward to the core of one’s self --a source requiring extreme mental and physical control. Dance by contrast is an external expression; likewise requiring great precision, although instead an extension of self or sentiment that projects outwardly. While such historical ‘movement’ disciplines serve as foundation blocks for Steven’s artistic explorations, it is the realm in between that he is best known for his contributions --an experimental movement and performance art that simultaneously honors, yet defiantly refutes tradition; rejecting a compartmentalization regarding art and movement, yet incorporating its elements into his own brand of experimental pastiche. Colucci’s performance works manifest as eerily candy-coated and familiar, yet incorporate unexpected jags of the uncanny throughout, exploiting a sort of coulrophobia in the viewer; an exploration of a cumulative artifice that binds human nature against its darker tendencies; highlighting traditions of artifice itself - the fabricated systemologies that necessitate compartmentalization in the first place. It is evident in Steven Colucci’s paintings that he has established a uniquely distinctive pictorial vocabulary; a strong allusion to --or moreso an extension of --his performance works. Colucci’s paintings depict a sort of kinetic spectrum, or as he refers to them “a technical expression of physicality and movement”. Whereas the French performance and visual artist Yves Klein used the human body as a “paint brush” to demarcate his paintings and thereby signify a residue of performance, Colucci’s utilization of nonsensical numbers and number sequences taken from dance scores, as well as heat- induced image abstraction depicting traces of movement likewise inform his vocabulary. In the strand of the choreographed, yet incorporating moments of chance, Colucci’s paintings represent an over arching structure; a rhythm of being and state, yet detail erratic moments --moments that denote a certain frailty --the edge of human stamina. Colucci’s paintings dually represent a form of gestural abstraction --and also the reverse of this --a unique anthropomorphization of varying states of movement – that sometimes present as a temperature induced color field, at others are juxtapositions of movement and depictions of physical gestural images themselves. Colucci’s use of vernacular and found materials such as cardboard evoke his mastery of set design, and also reference a sort of collective experience of urbanity and the ephemeral. Such contradictions seem to permeate not only Steven Colucci’s artwork, but also are reflected in his person – one who grew up in New York’s Bronx during a zeitgeist moment in visual and performing arts in the 1960s – one who shifts with ease from happenings and experiments in New York City, to his meticulously choreographed megaproductions at Lincoln Center or starring in the Paris ballet...

Drawing, pencil on paper. Still Life by Beeldens, signed and dated, 1935. References: Modern and Contemporary Art, New Objectivity, Neue Sachlichkeit...

English Victorian gilt framed oil landscape painting of lake with houses and fence.

Copy of a landscape painting titled "Paysage d'Itale" vertical landscape of ruins with figures in foreground

Copy of a painting by French Impressionist showing two fauns on a lush green hill side overlooking a house and garden

Copy of an impressionist vertical landscape titled "Lisiere de Floret"

Copy of an Impressionist landscape painting titled "The Avenue at Middellaruis" showing a tree lined road

English Victorian style carved gilt framed oil landscape painting of field and trees with sun.

Acrylic on canvas still life of flowers in a vase with a yellow background by Richard Rumi, "Irises".

Copy of a still life painting by Henri Matisse c 1914) titled "Branch of Lillacs" showing branches of red flowers with green leaves in glass vase on table with a pipe and small sculp...

Copy of an abstract painting of triangles in black and brown bordered by rectangles in brown Condition: Good; Wear consistent with age and use

Copy of a painting by French Fauvist Raoul Dufy titled,"Le Port Du Havre" (c 1906) showing boats docked in a harbor

Copy of an impressionist seascape painting titled "Fishing Boats Near Saintes Maries" done in gold tone pen and ink Condition: Good; Wear consistent with age and use

English Victorian (19th Cent) oil painting of a fisherman by a lake in gilt frame Condition: Good; Wear consistent with age and use (Slight tears to canvas, frame is misaligned.)

Italian Neo-classic style print of various military arms, armor, and objects matted in stained walnut frame (part of a set of 15; associated pieces: 040101A-040101O)

Italian Neo-classic style print of various military arms, armor, and objects matted in stained walnut frame (part of a set of 15; associated pieces: 040101A-040101O)

PAIR of English Victorian colored prints of pinafores (piano) in gilt and beige velvet frames (Messrs Wright & Mansfield, London)

Italian Neo-classic style print of various military arms, armor, and objects matted in stained walnut frame (part of a set of 15; associated pieces: 040101A-040101O)

Italian Neo-classic style print of various military arms, armor, and objects matted in stained walnut frame (part of a set of 15; associated pieces: 040101A-040101O)

Italian Neo-classic style print of various military arms, armor, and objects matted in stained walnut frame (part of a set of 15; associated pieces: 040101A-040101O)

French Art Nouveau style portrait poster featuring women in ebonized frames (associated pieces: 013684b, 013684c) Condition: Good; Wear consistent with age and use

Copy of a portrait drawing in black charcoal titled,"Asian Head of Woman Black"

Copy of a landscape painting showing people watching lightning strike near classical ruins.

Copy of a portrait painting showing a monk in a black robe titled,"Portrait of Martini"

Copy of a drawing portrait titled,"Asian Head of Man Side"

Copy of a vertical landscape painting showing a couple dancing al fresco

Copy of a portrait drawing in red charcoal titled,"Asian Head of Man Red"

English Victorian black framed oil vertical landscape painting on board with 6 tall trees by road

Copy of a genre painting titled "Young Reapers" Showing three children by the seashore

Copy of an impressionist landscape painting titled "Richmond Bridge"

French Victorian gilt framed oil landscape painting of house with red roof by 2 waterfalls.

PAIR of English Victorian gilt framed oil portraits, paintings of young boy and girl (R. Ansdell R.A.)

Copy of an impressionist landscape painting titled "Blueberry Bush" showing three Victorian girls in summer picking berries

Thanks Copy of a Impressionist style landscape painting by Schindler titled,"Monlandschaft" or "Shaft of Moon Light" showing water lilys in a pond lined with trees under the moon Co...

Copy of an impressionist portrait title "The Black Hat" showing a woman trying on a large hat

Copy of a portrait painting of an older businessman in blue suit with red tie

Copy of a landscape painting titled "Tinoli, Tobia et l'ange" showing figures in a rocky gorge

Copy of Modern cubist style painting, "Brown and Red Triangles" showing blue, green, yellow and white triangles outlined in black Condition: Good; Wear consistent with age and use

Copy of an abstract painting in modern style with alternating bands of blues and greens Condition: Good; Wear consistent with age and use

Copy of an Abstract painting using a tan brown background with black lines and white shapes

Copy of an abstract painting "Blue Torso" in Modern style showing a blue shape with white and yellow and red overlay on a yellow, black and purple ground Condition: Good; Wear consi...

Copy of an abstract painting in a modern contemporary style showing green zoomographic shapes.

Italian Neo-classic style print of various military arms, armor, and objects matted in stained walnut frame (part of a set of 15; associated pieces: 040101A-040101O)

Copy of a landscape painting titled "Fairground Attraction" Showing carnival barker on a wagon with women and children around him

Copy of an interior scene painting titled "Azealas" showing a woman in Victorian dress in a sun room

Copy of a landscape painting titled "Beach at Schevenigen" showing figures unloading boats

Italian Neo-classic style print of various military arms, armor, and objects matted in stained walnut frame (part of a set of 15; associated pieces: 040101A-040101O)

Italian Neo-classic style print of various military arms, armor, and objects matted in stained walnut frame (part of a set of 15; associated pieces: 040101A-040101O)

Copy of a painting titled "Le Patio" showing a man and two women lounging over ice tea on a summer day

Rose, Paris, 2017, Tristan Govignon archival pigment print, artist proof

Triptych of Contemporary American abstract mixed media paintings with textured 3D shapes painted white on rectangular stretched canvas. (BARBARA KISKOVSKI...

Contemporary American abstract acrylic painting in brown wash on rectangular stretched canvas. (BARBARA KISKOVSKI) Condition: Excellent

Contemporary abstract painting featuring the eyeless silhouette of the face of a tiger against a white background checkered with square sheets of gold and silver metal leaf on rectan...

Dada Spy, Paris, 2017, Tristan Govignon archival pigment print, edition 1/7

Birds in Blue, Paris, 2017, Tristan Govignon archival pigment print, artist proof

Charcoal abstract of geometric forms on paper (1959 signed: MICHAEL LOEW) (similar to GRL3816)