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Item Ships From: Philadelphia
Untitled (Salt Marsh Herring Cove)
By Cobi Moules
Located in East Quogue, NY
Landscape painting titled "Untitled (Salt Marsh Herring Cove)" by Cobi Moules - Oil on canvas
Driven by the desire for adventure and discovery, Cobi Moules embraces the beauty of nature all the while shifting its weight through the exaltation of his own existence within, and as part, of it. This is best exemplified by the way he incorporates multiple self-portraits throughout his compositions. The multiplicity of self takes both precedence over, as well as integration into, the landscape creating a world with a sense of excitement, self-worth and play.
The locations of Moules’ compositions are equally important. All of the locations were previously depicted in paintings by the Hudson River School. Through the exploration of the grand American landscape and the reflection on mid-19th century American...
Category
2010s Contemporary Philadelphia - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Table for Me, Large textured oil painting, bright palette with flora & flowers
By Ekaterina Popova
Located in Dallas, TX
Showing a romantic outdoor space with a bright palette and textured impressionistic brush strokes, Ekaterina Popova's oil painting "A Table for Me" is...
Category
2010s Contemporary Philadelphia - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Edging toward Spring: abstract Japanese inspired landscape w/ gold, blue & green
By Michele Kishita
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Michele Kishita's contemporary abstract landscape paintings on wood panel collectively describe the calm and fluidity of bodies of water at specific moments of the day; the new growt...
Category
2010s Abstract Philadelphia - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Bioluminescence -- abstract Japanese landscape w/ woodgrain; gray & yellow lines
By Michele Kishita
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Michele Kishita's abstract landscape paintings on "shou sugi-ban" (burnt timber) pine wood panels address the current state of deforestation and the opposing concepts of resilience a...
Category
2010s Abstract Philadelphia - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Latex, Wood Panel
Nocturno I: contemporary abstract still-life landscape painting w/ plants
By Henry Bermudez
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is a brightly colored mixed media landscape / still-life painting in oil and reflective glitter on canvas. It depicts organic, surrealist plant forms in blue and green against a glittering violet background. It has surrealism tendencies in the style of Salvador Dali. Henry Bermudez is a seasoned Latino contemporary artist born in Venezuela and based in the US. Emerged from the Caribbean tropics, his artistic life has been an unexpected hybrid of ideas informed by an acute sensitivity to the past, stenciled as part of a personal inventory onto different foreign places that throughout his life have become his home and his artistic working territory.
"My paintings are steeped in mythical dream imagery within an otherworldliness of carefully constructed creature and plant forms. Further defined by my identity as a Latino, my work combines symbols and myth from ancient pre-Hispanic cultures with the iconography of contemporary art. The result of this autobiographical vision is a blend of cultural diversities that further defines itself through my immersion in societies other than the one I was born into. Through my exposure to religious and social syncretism, my visual itinerary became charged with powerful influences which provided a unique vision of the African Diaspora in the Americas, its symbolism, and iconography." - Henry Bermudez
Bermudez’s journey of unique geographical, artistic and human observation has taken him from educational experiences in small isolated communities in the Caribbean up to representing Venezuela in the Venice Biennial. His work can be found in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PA); Neuberger Museum of Art (Purchase, NY); Modern Art Museum of Mexico (Mexico City); Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin); Venezuela National Gallery (Caracas); Museum of Contemporary Art (Maracay, Merida, Maracaibo, Caracas); Modern Art Museum of Costa Rica; Museum of Art a Ralli @Punta Del Este Uruguay; and many private collections across the globe. Since his arrival in the USA in 2003, Bermudez has been commissioned by the Mural Arts Program of Philadelphia on several major projects. In 2011, he was one of a handful of artists chosen to work with the Philagrafika print collaborative founded by artistic director and curator Jose Roca. In 2012 Mr. Bermudez received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. He was elected to present an installation at The Philadelphia International Airport Art...
Category
2010s Abstract Philadelphia - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Glitter, Oil, Canvas
Green Tree on Red - contemporary abstract landscape painting w/ plants, glitter
By Henry Bermudez
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is a brightly colored mixed media landscape / still life painting in acrylic and reflective glitter on canvas. It depicts an organic, surrealist plant form in the style of Salvador Dali against a glittering red background. IHenry Bermudez is a seasoned Latino contemporary artist born in Venezuela and based in the US. Emerged from the Caribbean tropics, his artistic life has been an unexpected hybrid of ideas informed by an acute sensitivity to the past, stenciled as part of a personal inventory onto different foreign places that throughout his life have become his home and his artistic working territory.
"My paintings are steeped in mythical dream imagery within an otherworldliness of carefully constructed creature and plant forms. Further defined by my identity as a Latino, my work combines symbols and myth from ancient pre-Hispanic cultures with the iconography of contemporary art. The result of this autobiographical vision is a blend of cultural diversities that further defines itself through my immersion in societies other than the one I was born into. Through my exposure to religious and social syncretism, my visual itinerary became charged with powerful influences which provided a unique vision of the African Diaspora in the Americas, its symbolism, and iconography." - Henry Bermudez
Bermudez’s journey of unique geographical, artistic and human observation has taken him from educational experiences in small isolated communities in the Caribbean up to representing Venezuela in the Venice Biennial. His work can be found in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PA); Neuberger Museum of Art (Purchase, NY); Modern Art Museum of Mexico (Mexico City); Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin); Venezuela National Gallery (Caracas); Museum of Contemporary Art (Maracay, Merida, Maracaibo, Caracas); Modern Art Museum of Costa Rica; Museum of Art a Ralli @Punta Del Este Uruguay; and many private collections across the globe. Since his arrival in the USA in 2003, Bermudez has been commissioned by the Mural Arts Program of Philadelphia on several major projects. In 2011, he was one of a handful of artists chosen to work with the Philagrafika print collaborative founded by artistic director and curator Jose Roca. In 2012 Mr. Bermudez received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. He was elected to present an installation at The Philadelphia International Airport Art...
Category
2010s Abstract Philadelphia - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Glitter, Acrylic
Flor II - contemporary landscape painting on unstretched canvas, plants & flower
By Henry Bermudez
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
"FLOR II" is a large, unstretched mixed media painting on canvas with acrylic paint and reflective glitter, brightly colored with a central violet rose surrounded by a field of organic vegetation. Buyer can choose to mount the canvas directly to the wall with a narrow wooden support along the top edge of the canvas, or back the canvas with a substate panel and frame with a floater frame. It is signed on the back with title, dimensions, and date.
Henry Bermudez is a seasoned American contemporary artist born in Venezuela. Emerged from the Caribbean tropics, his artistic life has been an unexpected hybrid of ideas informed by an acute sensitivity to the past, stenciled as part of a personal inventory onto different foreign places that throughout his life have become his home and his artistic working territory.
"My paintings are steeped in mythical dream imagery within an otherworldliness of carefully constructed creature and plant forms. Further defined by my identity as a Latino, my work combines symbols and myth from ancient pre-Hispanic cultures with the iconography of contemporary art. The result of this autobiographical vision is a blend of cultural diversities that further defines itself through my immersion in societies other than the one I was born into. Through my exposure to religious and social syncretism, my visual itinerary became charged with powerful influences which provided a unique vision of the African Diaspora in the Americas, its symbolism, and iconography." - Henry Bermudez
Bermudez’s journey of unique geographical, artistic and human observation has taken him from educational experiences in small isolated communities in the Caribbean up to representing Venezuela in the Venice Biennial. His work can be found in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PA); Neuberger Museum of Art (Purchase, NY); Modern Art Museum of Mexico (Mexico City); Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin); Venezuela National Gallery (Caracas); Museum of Contemporary Art (Maracay, Merida, Maracaibo, Caracas); Modern Art Museum of Costa Rica; Museum of Art a Ralli @Punta Del Este Uruguay; and many private collections across the globe. Since his arrival in the USA in 2003, Bermudez has been commissioned by the Mural Arts Program of Philadelphia on several major projects. In 2011, he was one of a handful of artists chosen to work with the Philagrafika print collaborative founded by artistic director and curator Jose Roca. In 2012 Mr. Bermudez received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. He was elected to present an installation at The Philadelphia International Airport Art...
Category
2010s Abstract Philadelphia - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Glitter, Acrylic
Untitled (Ship Harbor)
By Cobi Moules
Located in East Quogue, NY
Winter landscape painting by Cobi Moules - Oil on canvas
Exhibition History: "New England Now: People," Shelburne Museum, Vermont (June 26 - October 17, 2021)
Driven by the desire for adventure and discovery, Cobi Moules embraces the beauty of nature all the while shifting its weight through the exaltation of his own existence within, and as part, of it. This is best exemplified by the way he incorporates multiple self-portraits throughout his compositions. The multiplicity of self takes both precedence over, as well as integration into, the landscape creating a world with a sense of excitement, self-worth and play.
The locations of Moules’ compositions are equally important. All of the locations were previously depicted in paintings by the Hudson River School. Through the exploration of the grand American landscape and the reflection on mid-19th century American landscape painting, Moules navigates the parallels between the Hudson River School and the religious ideology that was an integral part of his formative years. Shared throughout both is the elevation of purity, virginity and the honor of sacrificing one’s selfhood for the glory of God. As the Hudson River School artists’ work embodies the overpowering force of God made manifest through nature, so do the religious voices of Moules’ past against the validation of his existence.
Moules states, “As a queer and trans person, I seek to renegotiate my relationship with this upbringing and the act of being told I am ‘unnatural’ through such a Christian lens. I utilize traditional representation as a way of seeking inclusion while disrupting the original narrative. Creating a space for personal significance and a queer and trans presence, the importance becomes the experience of my multiple and overall presence. It is a community of me playing, exploring my selves, exploring nature and being part of it.”
Landscape, nature, figurative painting, self portrait, portrait, seascape, coastline, seashore, Hudson River School, contemporary art, Ship Harbor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Philadelphia - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Keicha: contemporary abstract gold still-life landscape painting w/ Black figure
By Henry Bermudez
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is an oil and acrylic painting depicting a female Afro-Latinx figure with surrealist plant forms in the style of Salvador Dali against a gold background. In the Venezuelan coastal Afro-Caribbean community of Borbures, religious and social syncretism provided a unique vision of the African Diaspora in the Americas with its symbolism and iconography.
Henry Bermudez is a seasoned Latino contemporary artist born in Venezuela and based in the US. Emerged from the Caribbean tropics, his artistic life has been an unexpected hybrid of ideas informed by an acute sensitivity to the past, stenciled as part of a personal inventory onto different foreign places that throughout his life have become his home and his artistic working territory.
"My paintings are steeped in mythical dream imagery within an otherworldliness of carefully constructed creature and plant forms. Further defined by my identity as a Latino, my work combines symbols and myth from ancient pre-Hispanic cultures with the iconography of contemporary art. The result of this autobiographical vision is a blend of cultural diversities that further defines itself through my immersion in societies other than the one I was born into. Through my exposure to religious and social syncretism, my visual itinerary became charged with powerful influences which provided a unique vision of the African Diaspora in the Americas, its symbolism, and iconography." - Henry Bermudez
Bermudez’s journey of unique geographical, artistic and human observation has taken him from educational experiences in small isolated communities in the Caribbean up to representing Venezuela in the Venice Biennial. His work can be found in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PA); Neuberger Museum of Art (Purchase, NY); Modern Art Museum of Mexico (Mexico City); Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin); Venezuela National Gallery (Caracas); Museum of Contemporary Art (Maracay, Merida, Maracaibo, Caracas); Modern Art Museum of Costa Rica; Museum of Art a Ralli @Punta Del Este Uruguay; and many private collections across the globe. Since his arrival in the USA in 2003, Bermudez has been commissioned by the Mural Arts Program of Philadelphia on several major projects. In 2011, he was one of a handful of artists chosen to work with the Philagrafika print collaborative founded by artistic director and curator Jose Roca. In 2012 Mr. Bermudez received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. He was elected to present an installation at The Philadelphia International Airport Art...
Category
2010s Abstract Philadelphia - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Acrylic
"Time Machine", Motorcycle and Graffiti Figurative Oil Painting
By Katherine Fraser
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This figurative painting titled "Time Machine" is an original artwork by Katherine Fraser made of oil paint on canvas. This piece measures 29.5"h x 36.5"w framed and is shipped in the pictured framed.
Katherine Fraser has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States. She is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and of the University of Pennsylvania. As a student she received the Thomas Eakins Painting prize, the Cecelia Beaux Portrait prize, and the William Emlen Cresson Memorial Travel Award, among others. Since graduating in 2002, she has received awards including the Lucy...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Philadelphia - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Flor I: abstract landscape painting on unstretched canvas w/ plants & flowers
By Henry Bermudez
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
"Flor I" is a brightly colored mixed media painting in acrylic and reflective glitter on unstretched canvas. It depicts a large, violet flower in a field of vibrant abstract organic ...
Category
2010s Abstract Philadelphia - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Glitter
"The Candle, " Figurative Oil Painting, Camper Van, Orange, Warm Tones
By Andrew McIntosh
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This orange painting of a camper van in a landscape titled "The Candle" is an original artwork by Andrew McIntosh made of oil on gesso board. This piec...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Philadelphia - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Oil, Board
Empire
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This figurative painting titled "Empire" is an original artwork by Olivia F. Menta made of oil paint on plywood. The piece measures 6"h x 4"w.
Please note: artwork will be on displa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Philadelphia - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Plywood, Oil
"Time", Snowy, Mountain, Landscape, Blue and Grey Tones, Snowscape
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This blue, grey, and white landscape painting titled "Time" is an original artwork by Jessie Pitt made of acrylic on canvas. Jessie Pitt depicts a snowy mountain scene, with various ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Philadelphia - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"CLOUD", Abstract Painting, Window with Sky and Clouds, Blue, Green, Gold Fields
By Libby Rosa
Located in Toronto, Ontario
The painting "CLOUD" by Libby Rosa blurs the distinction between abstraction and representation. And that rational/irrational alignment is only part of the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Philadelphia - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Canvas
"Detroit Pixels I", Acrylic and Oil Painting, Figurative, Cityscape, Graffiti
By Jessica Hess
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This painting titled "Detroit Pixels I" is an original artwork by Jessica Hess made of acrylic and oil paint on panel. This piece measures 12"h x 12"w.
A graduate of the Rhode Islan...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Philadelphia - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Panel
The War of Independence
By Katherine Fraser
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"The War of Independence" is an original oil painting on canvas by Katherine Fraser in a handmade wood frame measuring fifty-nine inches in height ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Philadelphia - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Great American Remembered
By Brin Levinson
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Great American Remembered" is an original oil on panel painting by Brin Levinson measuring 17”h x 24”w framed.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Philadelphia - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
The LA Port
By Brooks Salzwedel
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"The LA Port" is an original 4”h x 6”w x 1.5”d drawing, painting, and mixed media process piece of artwork created in a vintage tin. Magnets may be used to display this piece on a wall instead of on a shelf or similar surface. Please note in your order that you would like to receive the magnets if you wish to display the piece on the wall.
This piece was originally displayed as part of "Deemed a Canvas" at Paradigm Gallery + Studio in Philadelphia in 2018.
Brooks Salzwedel’s work focuses on natural and unnatural landscapes disconnected from their usual surroundings or places in time. Using a self-created process involving materials such as graphite, mylar and resin, tape, colored pencil, and ink, his work evokes feelings of desolation through haunted, dreamlike visions of otherworldly terrains. Ancient trees, decaying flora, and icy mountains obscure long forgotten places and objects, at once familiar and unrecognizable, creating a space for rumination that challenges the relationship to their meaning.
Salzwedel received his B.F.A. from the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, in 2004. Salzwedel graduated with honors and distinction quickly landing a solo show with NewSpace Gallery, Los Angeles. The same year Salzwedel also procured a high-end line of handmade belt buckles in the same process winning him the Best Belt Designer in Los Angeles by Los Angeles Magazine as well as one of LA’s top five accessories designers by Los Angeles Times Magazine West.
He has been chosen as the Artist-in-Residence of the most visited National Forest in the U.S., White River National Forest, Summer 2017. In 2015, Salzwedel was Denali National Park’s visual Artist-in-Residence. He also won Los Angeles Metro poster...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Philadelphia - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Conversation
By Katherine Fraser
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Conversation" is a 53.5in x 67.25in original oil painting on canvas by Katherine Fraser in a handmade wood frame.
Artist statement // "Life often strikes me as a string of moments,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Philadelphia - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Brilliance
By Katherine Fraser
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Brilliance" is an original oil painting by Katherine Fraser in a handmade wood frame measuring 29.75”h x 17.75”w, as pictured. This piece was originally on display at Paradigm Gallery + Studio in Katherine Fraser's solo exhibition "Far from the Tree."
Bio // Katherine Fraser's artwork has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States. She is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and of the University of Pennsylvania. As a student she received the Thomas Eakins Painting prize, the Cecelia Beaux Portrait prize, and the William Emlen Cresson Memorial Travel Award, among others. Since graduating in 2002, she has received awards including the Lucy Glick...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Philadelphia - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Bakersfield II", Hyper-realistic oil painting, graffiti landscape, photorealist
By Jessica Hess
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Bakersfield II" is an original 24in x 24in photorealist oil painting on canvas by American artist Jessica Hess.
A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Jessica Hess now li...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Philadelphia - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Jessica Hess, "D.I.E.", oil painting, hyper-realistic, graffiti landscape
By Jessica Hess
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Original oil painting on canvas by Jessica Hess measuring 13in x 24in.
A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Jessica Hess now lives and works in San Francisco, California...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Philadelphia - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Anonymous Collaborators", Hyper-realistic, oil painting, graffiti landscape
By Jessica Hess
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Original oil painting on canvas by Jessica Hess measuring 30in x 30in.
A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Jessica Hess now lives and works in San Francisco, Californ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Philadelphia - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Demolition Day", Photorealistic oil painting, Graffiti Landscape
By Jessica Hess
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Original oil painting on canvas by Jessica Hess measuring 36in x 26in.
A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Jessica Hess now lives and works in San Francisco, California...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Philadelphia - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Illusion of Progress
By Katherine Fraser
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"The Illusion of Progress" is a 59in x 79in original oil painting by Katherine Fraser in a handmade wood frame.
"Life often strikes me as a string of moments, like a series of film ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Philadelphia - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"As Far as the Mind Can See" Hyper-realistic oil painting
By Katherine Fraser
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"As Far as the Mind Can See" is a 62in x 82in original oil painting by Katherine Fraser in a handmade wood frame.
Artist Statement // Life often strikes me as a string of moments, l...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Philadelphia - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Palm 4, Contemporary Landscape Painting
Located in Philadelphia, PA
The composition of this painting is marked by a dynamic interplay between the foreground and the background. At the forefront, a lush tropical plant commands attention. Its sinuous v...
Category
2010s Contemporary Philadelphia - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"You Are My Moon, You Are My Star", Acrylic Gouache on Canvas, Landscape
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "You Are My Moon, You Are My Star" is an original painting by Danym Kwon and is made from acrylic gouache on canvas. This piece measures 19.25”h x 19.25”w framed, a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Philadelphia - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Gouache
Glacier, Contemporary Landscape Painting
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Glacier stands as a commanding landscape artwork crafted using oil on intricately assembled and torn canvas. Higgins navigates a challenging journey of trial and error, encountering...
Category
2010s Contemporary Philadelphia - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Covered Bridge in Vermont by Cape Ann Massachusetts Artist Emile Gruppe
By Emile Albert Gruppe
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Emile Albert Gruppe (American, 1896-1978)
Vermont Covered Bridge
Oil on canvas, 30 x 36 inches; Framed: 36 1/2 x 42 1/2 inches
Signed at lower right: "Emile A. Gruppe"
Inscribed on ...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Philadelphia - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Untitled (Palm 2) - Textured Contemporary Landscape Painting by Matt Higgins
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Untitled (Palm 2) is an oil on canvas painting that exudes a sense of joy, lightness, and radiance. The artwork features a prominently displayed palm plant as its central subject, re...
Category
2010s Contemporary Philadelphia - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
What Remains, Contemporary Abstract Landscape Painting
Located in Philadelphia, PA
What Remains uses painting and elements of collage from found studio material such as strips of canvas and wax paper for added texture. This painting i...
Category
2010s Abstract Philadelphia - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
No Resentments, Contemporary Text Painting by Matt Higgins
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This artwork serves as a gentle reminder to release resentments, unwind, and embrace freedom. The tranquil setting, featuring a pool, vibrant plant life, a pink sky, and distant moun...
Category
2010s Philadelphia - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Muslin, Acrylic, Vinyl
This is a Real Place! 2: large painting of lake or river w/ blue water & bridge
By Brooke Lanier
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
"In the series “This is a real place!” I was fascinated by how the underside of the pier at Saint Simons Island, GA was like a readymade collage. The way the pilings and rails divide and frame the spaces between them looks artificially imposed on the scene until you notice the way the waves bounce off the pilings and the railings cast shadows on the water. In some iterations, I chose to simplify the structures of the pier and lighten the values so that it would emphasize the detail in the water. Likewise, I omitted a family of starlings and their droppings in favor of highlighting the geometry of the architecture and the colors and patterns of the water.
Making paintings in a series allows me to investigate the results of making different decisions about an image. How I crop or stylize it, the manner in which I apply the paint, what gets included or excluded all add shades of meaning to each piece. Additionally, depictions of the same subject in different weather, seasons, times of day, and tides allows me a deeper understanding. I notice more relationships, colors, and details every time I paint the subject.
Every painting is a pile of decisions. Playing with removing more and more details to see what is truly important sometimes improves the painting. The fewer elements you include in an image, the more each one means, and the more important it is to get each thing perfect.
At times I like to paint every single detail I can find in a scene, and other times I feel like the unadorned components are sufficient to hold each other in a satisfying composition. I often add simplified shapes to my paintings to highlight the presence of absence or to heighten the importance of each area by creating stark visual contrasts. The physicality of the paint also plays a role. I used highly textured, thickly applied paint to construct the solid structural elements, and luminous layers of thinly glazed paint for the delicate linework and subtle blending of the water." - Brooke Lanier...
Category
2010s Realist Philadelphia - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
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