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Item Ships From: Phoenix
FLOWER LIGHT
By Jim Waid
Located in Phoenix, AZ
acrylic on canvas
signature and year on verso
Jim Waid creates abstract worlds saturated with color, layered with mark, filled with rhythm and movement, and intricately textured. H...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$18,750
MID SUMMER NIGHT
By Michael Marlowe
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil on canvas
signature and title on verso
Michael Marlowe is a studio artist, art director and production designer working in the film and television industry. Marlowe’s large-sca...
Category
2010s Land Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Harold Christopher Davies Abstract Expressionist Painting, circa 1960s
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Harold Christopher Davies (1891-1976) abstract painting.
Signed lower right, circa 1960s
Measures: 18 1/4" H x 8 3/4" W
Oil on paper, unframed
Davies began his formal art education ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paint
HARBINGER
By Jim Waid
Located in Phoenix, AZ
b. 1942, Elgin, OK
Jim Waid creates abstract worlds saturated with color, layered with mark, filled with rhythm and movement, and intricately textured. His canvases barely contain ...
Category
2010s Abstract Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$25,000
Green #2
By Michael Marlowe
Located in Phoenix, AZ
"The paintings are a meditation on my youth growing up in and around Cincinnati Ohio. This group of paintings reflects a journey back in time. A boy walking the furrowed fields of th...
Category
2010s Abstract Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
BXB
By Chris Trueman
Located in Phoenix, AZ
acrylic on canvas
b. 1978
Chris Trueman is a Los Angeles-based artist. He graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2003, earning BFA degrees in Painting and Digital Media. ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$17,500
SPICE MARKET
By Jim Waid
Located in Phoenix, AZ
SIGNATURE AND YEAR ON VERSO
b. 1942, Elgin, OK
Jim Waid creates abstract worlds saturated with color, layered with mark, filled with rhythm and movement, and intricately textured. ...
Category
2010s Abstract Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$22,000
Out of the Blue
By Jimi Gleason
Located in Phoenix, AZ
silver deposit and acrylic on canvas
b. 1961
The surfaces of Jimi Gleason’s paintings have always responded to both the light and space of the environm...
Category
2010s Abstract Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Silver
J Trac
By Jimi Gleason
Located in Phoenix, AZ
acrylic on canvas
b. 1961
The surfaces of Jimi Gleason’s paintings have always responded to both the light and space of the environment they are in. Working with shimmery pearlescen...
Category
2010s Abstract Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$34,000
12.1.98
By Mala Breuer
Located in Phoenix, AZ
acrylic on canvas
Mala Breuer grew up attending classes in painting and drawing from a young age at the California College of Arts and Crafts. After high school she attended the, no...
Category
1990s Color-Field Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$11,500
DYNT
By Chris Trueman
Located in Phoenix, AZ
acrylic on canvas
b.1978
Chris Trueman is a Los Angeles-based artist. He graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2003, earning BFA degrees in Painting and Digital Media. ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$9,400
Five x Five
By Ed Moses
Located in Phoenix, AZ
signature on verso
images and video copyright by artist and Bentley Gallery, Inc.
b. Long Beach, CA (April 9, 1926 – January 17, 2018)
Ed Moses was a prominent figure in the Los Angeles art scene and key promoter of Post-War, West Coast art for almost 60 years. Best known for his eclectic range, his canvases are formal abstractions that use a variety of processes to experiment with surface—creating striations, cracks, marks and blurs at times juxtaposed with hard-edge geometric abstraction. As he described, “Painting is like discovery, trying this, trying that, bending this, twirling that, and then, every once in a while, it goes bing!”
As a young man, Moses joined the military during World War II as a Navy Medical Corps surgical technician and discovered an aptitude for treating injuries. After his tour ended, he enrolled in Long Beach City College's pre-med program with the intent of becoming a doctor. After a painting course with Pedro Miller, Moses switched his major to art. He then went on to study at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he would receive both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees. While enrolled in his master’s program, fellow artist Craig Kauffman introduced Moses to Walter Hopps, future owner of the influential Ferus Gallery. Though he’d been exhibiting since 1949, Moses first showed at Ferus in 1958—while still enrolled at UCLA—and quickly became part of the “Cool School” with artists Robert Irwin, Larry Bell, Ed Ruscha, John Altoon, and others.
Following graduation, Moses moved to New York City where he became friends with Franz Kline, Milton Resnick, William de Kooning, and Mark Rothko, with whom he would exhibit in New York, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere. In 1959, Moses married Avilda Peters and moved back to Los Angeles to start a family, travel, and continue his painting career. Always working with process and experimenting with materials as a painter, Moses was critically lauded for his bold composition and innovation. In 1968, he received a Tamarind Lithography Fellowship as well as the offer of a teaching position at the University of California, Los Angeles, his alma mater, where he would teach until 1972. After travels in Europe, he would return to UCLA to teach until 1976, the same year he was recognized with a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant and his first museum shows: a show of drawings from 1958-1970s at the Wight Gallery at UCLA, and a show of new abstract and cubist red paintings at LACMA curated by Stephanie Barron, the latter marking a transitional moment in his career. While drawing was prominent in his work in the 1960s and early 70s, by the mid-70s, Moses was turning increasingly to painting.
In 1980, Moses was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and traveled in Japan. Moses worked with Peter Goulds...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
$65,000
Long Division #7
By Michael Marlowe
Located in Phoenix, AZ
"The paintings are a meditation on my youth growing up in and around Cincinnati Ohio. This group of paintings reflects a journey back in time. A boy walking the furrowed fields of th...
Category
2010s Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
CLSP
By Chris Trueman
Located in Phoenix, AZ
ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
b. 1978
I explore the temporality of representation through abstraction by constructing new systems and modes in which the material of painting converges with the v...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$15,625
7.79 (grey)
By Mala Breuer
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil and wax on canvas
1927 - 2017
Mala Breuer grew up attending classes in painting and drawing from a young age at the California College of Arts and Crafts. After high school sh...
Category
1970s Color-Field Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wax, Oil
$14,500
RPRT
By Chris Trueman
Located in Phoenix, AZ
ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
b. 1978
I explore the temporality of representation through abstraction by constructing new systems and modes in which the material of painting converges with the v...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$10,625
#5296
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil and gold leaf on porcelain tile
Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated with flashes of li...
Category
2010s Abstract Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold, Gold Leaf
$3,000
SNBRD
By Chris Trueman
Located in Phoenix, AZ
acrylic on canvas
b.1978
Chris Trueman is a Los Angeles-based artist. He graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2003, earning BFA degrees in Painting and Digital Media. H...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$22,500
HWTR
By Chris Trueman
Located in Phoenix, AZ
ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
b. 1978
I explore the temporality of representation through abstraction by constructing new systems and modes in which the material of painting converges with the ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$18,750
Luna
By Jimi Gleason
Located in Phoenix, AZ
silver deposit and acrylic on canvas
b. 1961
The surfaces of Jimi Gleason’s paintings have always responded to both the light and space of the environm...
Category
2010s Abstract Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Silver
$11,000
Above the Sea (2023, silver deposit and acrylic on canvas, Jimi Gleason)
By Jimi Gleason
Located in Phoenix, AZ
silver deposit and acrylic on canvas
b. 1961
The surfaces of Jimi Gleason’s paintings have always responded to both the light and space of the environment they are in. Working with ...
Category
2010s Abstract Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Silver
DYSF
By Chris Trueman
Located in Phoenix, AZ
acrylic on canvas
b. 1978
Chris Trueman is a Los Angeles-based artist. He graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2003, earning BFA degrees in Painting and Digital Media. ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$22,500
Shape of Resonance 17
By Danielle Hacche
Located in Phoenix, AZ
pastel and micron pen on paper, framed
b. 1979, Poole, Dorset, UK
In this new series of work, I explore the intersection of minimalist architecture, design, and the raw beauty of ma...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper, Pen
Spirits (2)
By Jimi Gleason
Located in Phoenix, AZ
silver deposit and acrylic on canvas
b. 1961
The surfaces of Jimi Gleason’s paintings have always responded to both the light and space of the environment they are in. Working with ...
Category
2010s Abstract Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Silver
Acrobat
By Dion Johnson
Located in Phoenix, AZ
acrylic on canvas
b. 1975, Bellaire, OH
Dion Johnson’s paintings combine and explore dynamic opposites: expansiveness and compression, surface and depth, and darkness and light. G...
Category
2010s Abstract Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
$22,000
OX 84
By Daniel Brice
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil on paper
In his abstract paintings and prints, Daniel Brice explores both the physicality and the intellectual and emotional resonance of color. Based in sun-drenched southern ...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Archival Paper
$5,000
Emil Bisttram Taos School Transcendental Painter Abstract Watercolor
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Outstanding abstract watercolor by Emil Bisttram signed lower right.
Painting measures: 20 x 15 inches. Frame size: 27 3/4"h x 23 1/4"w.
In excellent condition and beautifully frame...
Category
Mid-20th Century Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paint
Drift
By Travis Rice
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on panel
Travis Rice received his MFA from Arizona State University’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. Influenced by his background in architecture, his work...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Panel
$13,800
Three Dots
By Raphaëlle Goethals
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Focusing on painting as a space of exploration, Raphaëlle Goethals has worked with wax, resin, and pigments as her signature medium for over twenty years. She established her vocabul...
Category
2010s Abstract Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Oil
Raymond Jonson Abstract Watercolor, 1941 - Casein Tempera No. 1
By Raymond Jonson
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Great abstract work by Transcendental painter Raymond Jonson (1891-1982)
Titled: “Casein Tempera No. 1”. Medium: Tempera. Dated: 1941.
Image measures: 30" H x 22" W. Frame measures: ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Norio Azuma Pencil Signed Serigraph "40th Anniversary"
By Norio Azuma
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Beautiful signed and numbered abstract serigraph by Japanese artist Norio Azuma.
Artist: Norio Azuma, Japanese (1928 - 2004)
Title: 40th Anniversary...
Category
Late 20th Century Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper
Shaman
By Jimi Gleason
Located in Phoenix, AZ
silver deposit and acrylic on canvas
b. 1961
The surfaces of Jimi Gleason’s paintings have always responded to both the light and space of the environment they are in. Working with ...
Category
2010s Abstract Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Silver
$6,500
BLUE'S SONG
By Jim Waid
Located in Phoenix, AZ
SIGNATURE AND YEAR ON VERSO
b. 1942, Elgin, OK
Jim Waid creates abstract worlds saturated with color, layered with mark, filled with rhythm and movement, and intricately textured. ...
Category
2010s Abstract Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$7,500
Blue #5
By Michael Marlowe
Located in Phoenix, AZ
"The paintings are a meditation on my youth growing up in and around Cincinnati Ohio. This group of paintings reflects a journey back in time. A boy walking the furrowed fields of th...
Category
2010s Abstract Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Aurora
By Denise Yaghmourian
Located in Phoenix, AZ
embroidered canvas and acrylic
b. 1967, Bethpage, NY
Denise Yaghmourian is a painter, sculptor and installation artist who works with a variety of materials, including paper pulp, p...
Category
2010s Abstract Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Thread, Acrylic
MACAW -STUDY #1
By Jim Waid
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Jim Waid creates abstract worlds saturated with color, layered with mark, filled with rhythm and movement, and intricately textured. His canvases barely contain the landscape painted...
Category
2010s Abstract Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Pigment
$2,500
SPRING WIND
By Jim Waid
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Jim Waid creates abstract worlds saturated with color, layered with mark, filled with rhythm and movement, and intricately textured. His canvases barely contain the landscape painted...
Category
2010s Abstract Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
#5062
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
encaustic on canvas
Neo-romantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated with flashes of light in the sky...
Category
Early 2000s Minimalist Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Encaustic
$4,000
Yellow Citirne
By Raphaëlle Goethals
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Focusing on painting as a space of exploration, Raphaëlle Goethals has worked with wax, resin, and pigments as her signature medium for over twenty years. She established her vocabul...
Category
2010s Abstract Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Oil
What Light
By Jimi Gleason
Located in Phoenix, AZ
silver deposit and acrylic on canvas
b. 1961
The surfaces of Jimi Gleason’s paintings have always responded to both the light and space of the environment they are in. Working with ...
Category
2010s Abstract Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Silver
PARTIAL ECLIPSE - AVRA VALLEY
By Jim Waid
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Jim Waid creates abstract worlds saturated with color, layered with mark, filled with rhythm and movement, and intricately textured. His canvases barely contain the landscape painted...
Category
2010s Abstract Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Pigment
10.15.95
By Mala Breuer
Located in Phoenix, AZ
acrylic on gessoed canvas
1927 - 2017
Mala Breuer grew up attending classes in painting and drawing from a young age at the California College of Arts and Crafts. After high schoo...
Category
1990s Color-Field Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Acrylic
H. Wilson Smith Early California Abstract Painting. "Expansion-Contradiction"
By H. Wilson Smith
Located in Phoenix, AZ
H. Wilson Smith (1901-1981) California Artist $3000
Oil on masonite in the original frame.
Painting measures 26 3/4"h x 20 1/2"w.
Frame: 27 3/8"h x 21 1/8"w.
Titled on the verso ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Geometric Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Sweetness
By Dion Johnson
Located in Phoenix, AZ
b. 1975, Bellaire, OH
Dion Johnson’s paintings combine and explore dynamic opposites: expansiveness and compression, surface and depth, and darkness and light. Gradient color field...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$32,500
Pard's Wave (Wilco)
By Jimi Gleason
Located in Phoenix, AZ
silver deposit and acrylic on canvas
b. 1961
The surfaces of Jimi Gleason’s paintings have always responded to both the light and space of the environment they are in. Working with ...
Category
2010s Abstract Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Silver
Demiuge, 2022, framed encaustic and oil on panel
By Raphaëlle Goethals
Located in Phoenix, AZ
encaustic and oil on panel, framed
Focusing on painting as a space of exploration, Raphaëlle Goethals has worked with wax, resin, and pigments as her signature medium for over twent...
Category
2010s Abstract Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Oil
Painting Object with 5 Spare Parts
By Jan Maarten Voskuil
Located in Phoenix, AZ
acrylic on linen 18 x 18 x 6 inches
b. 1964, Arnhem
Jan Maarten Voskuil stretches his paintings into the third dimension. His crafted, partly curved wooden constructions are base...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
Riptide
By Jimi Gleason
Located in Phoenix, AZ
silver deposit and acrylic on canvas
b. 1961
The surfaces of Jimi Gleason’s paintings have always responded to both the light and space of the environment they are in. Working with ...
Category
2010s Abstract Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Silver
Milton Avery Original Etching Pencil Signed, 1936, Little Girl
By Milton Avery
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Original Etching by Modernist Milton Avery (1885-1965)
Image measures: 8 5/8" H x 4 5/8" W. Titled lower left - “Little Girl”
Edition size: 6 of 60. Printed in 1936. In excellent co...
Category
Mid-20th Century Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper
Spiraling Square (greys)
By Jan Maarten Voskuil
Located in Phoenix, AZ
acrylic on linen 53 x 45.25 x 4 inches
b. 1964, Arnhem
Jan Maarten Voskuil stretches his paintings into the third dimension. His crafted, partly curved wooden constructions are b...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
Tutti Fruiti Asteroid
By Travis Rice
Located in Phoenix, AZ
SIGNATURE AND TITLE ON VERSO
b. 1968 Elkhart, IN
Travis Rice is an artist currently residing in Phoenix, AZ where he teaches within the Fine Arts Department at Phoenix College. Ori...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Super Melonberry Mesa
By Travis Rice
Located in Phoenix, AZ
SIGNATURE AND TITLE ON VERSO
b. 1968 Elkhart, IN
Travis Rice is an artist currently residing in Phoenix, AZ where he teaches within the Fine Arts Department at Phoenix College. Ori...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
10.20.95
By Mala Breuer
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil and wax on canvas
Mala Breuer grew up attending classes in painting and drawing from a young age at the California College of Arts and Crafts. After high school she attended t...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wax, Oil
Interpermeate II
By Jake Fischer
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil on panel
b. 1985, Phoenix, AZ
Jake Fischer, born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, graduated with a Master of Fine Art from Arizona State University in Drawing and Painting. Whil...
Category
2010s Minimalist Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
The Skies of Sky #1 (black)
By Louise Blyton
Located in Phoenix, AZ
b. Melbourne, Australia
Louise Blyton is a reductive artist exploring the romance of raw linen and dry pigment. The artist’s geometrically shaped canvas...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
Taroudant
By Raphaëlle Goethals
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Focusing on painting as a space of exploration, Raphaëlle Goethals has worked with wax, resin, and pigments as her signature medium for over twenty years. She established her vocabul...
Category
2010s Abstract Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Oil
#5295
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil and gold leaf on porcelain tile
Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated with flashes of li...
Category
2010s Abstract Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold, Gold Leaf
$3,000
Yellow #3
By Michael Marlowe
Located in Phoenix, AZ
"The paintings are a meditation on my youth growing up in and around Cincinnati Ohio. This group of paintings reflects a journey back in time. A boy walking the furrowed fields of th...
Category
2010s Abstract Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
BY THE POND
By Jim Waid
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Jim Waid creates abstract worlds saturated with color, layered with mark, filled with rhythm and movement, and intricately textured. His canvases barely contain the landscape painted...
Category
2010s Abstract Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Pigment
See (right)
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil and acrylic on canvas
In the Diamond Sūtra, existence and emptiness are fundamental Buddhist notions. Buddha states that, “All conditioned phenomena are like a dream, an illusio...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Phoenix - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
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