San Diego - Abstract Paintings

This is a one-of-a-kind original textural abstract artwork by San Diego artist, Alexander Arshansky. Its dimensions are 36"x36"x2". It is unframed. A Certificate of Authenticity will...

An original, contemporary, abstract expressionist painting, "Is Anyone Listening?" features dramatic gestural brushstrokes dancing across a layered creamy-white canvas. Soft pastel p...

This is a one of a kind original mixed media painting by San Diego artist, Duke Windsor. Its dimensions are 36" x 48". A certificate of authenticity will follow delivery. It is unfra...

This is a one of a kind original cubist painting by San Diego artist, Alexander Arshansky. Its dimensions are 16"x20". It is unframed. A certificate of authenticity will follow deliv...

This is a one of a kind original abstract oil painting on panel by Southern California artist, Daniel Ketelhut. Its dimensions are 18" x 24" x 1". It is unframed. A certificate of au...

This is a one of a kind original abstract oil painting on panel by Southern California artist, Daniel Ketelhut. Its dimensions are 48" x 36" x 2". It is unframed. A certificate of au...

This is a one of a kind original abstract oil painting on panel by Southern California artist, Daniel Ketelhut. Its dimensions are 20" x 20" x 2.5". It is unframed. A certificate of ...

This is a one of a kind original abstract painting on wood panel by Southern California artist, Daniel Ketelhut. Its dimensions are 24"x18"x1". It is unframed. A certificate of authe...

This is a one of a kind original acrylic and gold leaf still life painting by San Diego artist, Duke Windsor. Its dimensions are 48"x36". It is unframed. A certificate of authenticit...

This is a mixed-media artwork by Monty Montgomery. Its dimensions are 12 x 12 x 1.5 and it is Aerosol and Molding Paste on Birch Panel with UV Gloss Varnish. A certificate of authent...

This is a one of a kind original abstract painting on canvas by Southern California artist, Daniel Ketelhut. Its dimensions are 39"x 48"x 1.5". It is unframed. A certificate of authe...

A magical painting by Eric Orr. Housed in the artist's original frame. Oil on canvas on panel. Circa 1990 Dimensions: 40 x 34.5 inches Framed Dimensions (approximate): 43 x 36 inches

This is a one of a kind acrylic and mixed media painting on wood panel by San Diego artist, Peter Geise. It is unframed. Its dimensions are 16"x 16"x.25"" A certificate of authentici...

This is a one of a kind original oil on canvas painting by San Diego artist, Julia San Roman. Its dimensions are 48" x 60"x1.5". It is unframed. A certificate of authenticity will fo...

This is a one of a kind original oil painting by San Diego artist, Kathleen Kane-Murrell. Its dimensions are 24"x36"x1.5". A certificate of authenticity will follow delivery. The pa...

Ta Da, acrylic on canvas painting by Ben Darby. The painting has a raised texture, as though molded striped textile. A unique miniature of Darby's imaginarium.

This is a one of a kind original abstract expressionist painting by local San Diego artist, Kelsey Overstreet. This is an acrylic on canvas and its d...

This is a one of a kind original abstract oil painting on wood panel by Southern California artist, Daniel Ketelhut. Its dimensions are 18" x 18" x 1.5". It is unframed. A certificat...

Signed, titled and dated verso; framed in the artist's chosen frame, 48 x 36" canvas size.

This is a one-of-a-kind original abstract cubist painting by San Diego artist, Alexander Arshansky. Its dimensions are 12"x12"x1.5". It is unframed. A Certificate of Authenticity wil...

This is a one of a kind original painting by southern California artist, Kathleen Kane Murrell. Its dimensions are 40" x 90" x 1.5" (HxWxD). It is acrylic and plaster on canvas. It i...

This is a one of a kind original abstract painting on canvas by Southern California artist, Daniel Ketelhut. Its dimensions are 15"x30"x.5". It is unframed. A certificate of authenti...

This is a one of a kind original abstract painting on wood panel by Southern California artist, Daniel Ketelhut. Its dimensions are 24"x18"x.1". It is unframed. A certificate of auth...

The painting is inspired by the mid century modern art and patterns. Seemingly random, imperfect shape circles are scattered in a free composition, reminiscent of a childhood play. T...

This is an original oil on canvas painting by Southern California artist, Kathleen Kane Murrell. It is unframed. Its dimensions are 30" x 30" x 1.5". A certificate of authenticity wi...

This expressive abstract serves as a metaphor for the exhilarating spirit of summer, inviting viewers to bask in its warmth and embrace the fleeting moments of bliss. It encapsulates...

This is a one of a kind original encaustic mixed media artwork by Tiffany Bociek. Its dimensions are 36" x 36" x 2.3". A certificate of authenticity will follow delivery. Created t...

This beautiful contemporary high textured abstract painting is great for a classic and contemporary setting. The variation of colors and rich texture would greatly bring a space to life. Tim Nikiforuk...

This is a one of a kind original abstract painting on canvas by Southern California artist, Daniel Ketelhut. Its dimensions are 30"x 40"x1.5". It is unframed. A certificate of authen...

This is a one of a kind original painting by southern California artist, Kathleen Kane Murrell. Its dimensions are 12" x 12" x 2" (HxWxD). It is paper, acrylic paint with a plexiglas...

This square abstract is exploring the relationship between earthy tones and neutral black and white. It is inspired by sailor's knots and ropes and it is reminiscent of boats at dock...

This is an original abstract oil on canvas painting by San Diego artist, Khalid Alkaaby. It's framed dimensions are 21.2"5x21.25"x2". It comes framed. A certificate of authenticity w...

This is a one of a kind original painting by southern California artist, Kathleen Kane Murrell. Its dimensions are 52" x 40" x 2". It is acrylic on canvas, glass beads, paper, plaste...

A one of a kind 30" x 48" Abstract Acrylic Painting executed on canvas by artist Stefanie Bales. A certificate of authenticity will be provided upon its purchase or delivery. All of...

This is an original abstract oil on canvas painting by San Diego artist, Khalid Alkaaby. It's framed dimensions are 21.2"5x21.25"x2". It comes framed. A certificate of authenticity w...

This is a one of a kind original painting by southern California artist, Kathleen Kane Murrell. Its dimensions are 40" x 52" x 2". It is acrylic and plaster on canvas. It is unframed...

This is an original abstract oil on canvas painting by San Diego artist, Khalid Alkaaby. It's framed dimensions are 13.5"x13.5"x2". It comes framed. A certificate of authenticity wil...

This is an original abstract oil on canvas painting by San Diego artist, Khalid Alkaaby. It's framed dimensions are 21.2"5x21.25"x2". It comes framed. A certificate of authenticity w...

Intuitive and gesturally painted with acrylic, oil stick, ink, spray paint and pencil composed to generate energy and movement. Red rocket is shooting str...

This is a one of a kind original abstract painting by San Diego artist Christopher Conroe titled, "Antimatter Experiments". It is unframed. Its dimensions are 48" x 36" x 2". A certi...

This is an original abstract oil on canvas painting by San Diego artist, Khalid Alkaaby. It's framed dimensions are 21.25"x21.25"x2". It comes framed. A certificate of authenticity w...

Close up focus of rain on a pond, reflections on the surface of a palm trunk and surrounding shrubbery. Though realistically rendered, the design is abstracted. :: Painting :: Abstra...

This is a one of a kind original abstract expressionist painting by local San Diego artist, Kelsey Overstreet. It is acrylic on canvas and its dimensions are 49.5x 37.5 x 2.5. It com...

A wonderful, museum caliber painting by Craig Kauffman. Initialed "CK" and dated "82" in the lower right corner. PROVENANCE: Asher Faure Gallery Luther Vandross Luther Vandross Estate Private Collection, New York Private Collection, San Diego, CA EXHIBITED: Asher Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, California, CRAIG KAUFFMAN: NEW PAINTINGS April 23 through May 21,1983 CATALOGUE: Craig Kauffman Estate Archive Number CR No: P.1982.2 The following is from The New York Times, May 15, 2010, By Douglas Martin Craig Kauffman, who in the 1960s helped put Los Angeles on the art map with audacious experiments in molding industrial plastic to create ethereal wall-mounted sculptures — some resembling giant pieces of jelly candy — died Sunday in Angeles City in the Philippines. He was 78. The cause was complications of pneumonia following a recent stroke, said Frank Lloyd, his friend and dealer. Mr. Kauffman was eminent in an eclectic group of artists who reveled in the light, space and energy of postwar Southern California to forge new Minimalist, often glossy artistic approaches. Richard Armstrong, director of the Guggenheim Museum said that these Californians, sometimes called the Cool School — along with Chicago Imagists and Washington, D.C., painters called the Color School — were counterpoints to the Abstract Expressionists who ruled New York. "California was never ashamed of being a new society," Mr. Armstrong said in an interview on Thursday, "it all fit together nicely." Los Angeles was then ascending to the status of a metropolis, with a growing number of major-league sports teams, fresh industries and a surging population. There were new quarters for public galleries and the burgeoning of commercial ones. At the center of the action was the Ferus Gallery, which staged the first solo exhibition of Andy's Warhol's pop art and the first American retrospective of Marcel Duchamp. Mr. Kauffman was a featured artist at the gallery's inaugural exhibition in 1957, "Objects on the New Landscape Demanding of the Eye." Peter Plagens, in his book Sunshine Muse: Art on the West Coast, 1945-1970, (1974, 1999), wrote, "'Culture' meant 'art' and 'art' implied 'new,' and 'new,' as everybody was informed, meant California — particularly Los Angeles." The artists who seized this historic opportunity included Billy Al Bengston, Ken Price and Robert Irwin, among others. In an interview on Wednesday, Arne Glimcher, founder and chairman of Pace Gallery, which had Mr. Kauffman's first New York show in 1967, called the California scene in the late '50s and early '60s "a pressure cooker of ideas." Referring to artistic styles, he said, "It was California perfection against New York messiness." Mr. Kauffman's early paintings were critical in defining this new style. Mr. Plagens called them "the first evidence of a Los Angeles sensibility." Mr. Kauffman's later work blazed splashier trails, as he experimented with the effects of light on works that were painterly yet three-dimensional. "The true power of what he did was his incorporation and then redirection of light inside sculpture," said Mr. Armstrong, who was the curator of a show of Mr. Kauffman's work at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1987. "Many of them glowed," he said. "Others were translucent. Even the supposedly opaque had a noteworthy shimmering quality to them." What Mr. Kauffman made reflected a wide range of inspirations. In a 2008 video interview in conjunction with a show at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena California, he said that the famed lingerie store Frederick's of Hollywood provided artistic nurture. With a smile, he confessed to a "shoe fetish" that had influenced some of his art. Robert Craig Kauffman was born on March 31, 1932, in Los Angeles. He started painting regularly at age 7 and went to theUniversity of Southern California to study architecture in 1950. But art soon won out over architecture, and he transferred to the University of California Los Angeles, to study painting. He earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees there. A breakthrough came in the early 1960s when he experimented with painting on glass, but found it too fragile. He then painted on flat acrylic plastic. His next inspiration came from the plastic packaging increasingly used to wrap merchandise. He sought out craftsmen at commercial factories to learn the technique, Time magazine reported in 1968. The results were several series of three-dimensional wall hangings. Some were inspired by large plastic fruit clusters on the wall of a doughnut shop he frequented in Los Angeles. These lozenge-shaped reliefs were sometimes called "bubbles." Barbara Rose, in a catalog essay for an exhibition at the Washington Gallery of Modern Art in 1967, wrote, "Shaping the brittle sheet plastic into a series of voluptuous curves, Kauffman achieves a kind of abstract eroticism that is purely visual." Mr. Kauffman's work was shown in countless exhibitions and many one-man shows. It has been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Modern in London, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others. In 2006, one of Mr. Kauffman's reliefs fell from a wall of the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, where it was part of an exhibition titled "Los Angeles: Birth of an Art Capital, 1955-1985." It shattered. After storms of publicity, the Pompidou provided technical help and money to make a new version. Mr. Kauffman was married several times. He is survived by his daughters from his marriage to Dana Kauffman, from whom he was separated: Wilhelmina, Vida Rose and Georgia Kauffman. When they started in the 1960s, Mr. Kauffman and his artistic compatriots did not foresee a legacy, much less earning an income, Larry Bell, a prominent artist in the group, said in an interview on Wednesday. "The troops sort of banded together to be our own audience," he said. "Every once in a while, we'd sell...

A large abstract about the interaction of warm and neutral colors and touches of gold. Decorative, soft and serene, suitable for any interior. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece c...

This is an abstract expressing energy. Bold and gestural, it is painted with limited graphic palette and some gold brush stokes. It is dynamic and dec...

This abstract is inspired by clear mountain creeks water and the reflection of the sun on the water. It is created with rich layers of mono-typed paint, bold brush strokes, distresse...

A mixture of brushstrokes and mono-typed areas, Indigo Mono-type is a rich contemporary abstract with expressive feel. The color palette consists of variation of blues and shades of ...

The balance between structure and free thought, order and chaos, dreamlike and tension. Intuitively painted and structurally executed with acrylic, oil stick, ink, spray paint and p...

This is a one of a kind original oil and resin painting by San Diego artist, Julia San Roman. Its dimensions are 30" x 12" x 1.5". It is unframed. A certificate of authenticity will ...

Abstract expressionist painting in bright primary colors, inspired by plant forms. On gallery-wrapped canvas with painted edges, it includes hanging hardware. :: Painting :: Abstract...

Richard Hawk calls his works of oil on copper a “co-creation with nature”. Hawk turned to the melding of copper oxidation and traditional oil painting in 2011. His works on canvas, p...

Just Over There is a synthesis of a number of places along the coast near where I live. I wanted to capture that exhilarating moment, when you come over a rise in the land and see th...

Abstract painting suggestive of a landscape or seascape at twilight. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: ...

Musicians At a Party is a colorful, abstract, surrealist painting by Armenian artist, Vatche Geuvdjelian painted in 2022. Artist’s Statement “𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰�...

Treasures In The Flames is a colorful, abstract, surrealist painting by Armenian artist, Vatche Geuvdjelian. Artist’s Statement “𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 �...

Rapids is an acrylic on canvas painting, 36 x 24 inches, signed, titled and dated verso. Framed in a contemporary wood frame.

Welcome to the fantastic world created by Ben Darby. Darby enjoys using mix-media to no end and his colorful paintings are certain to peek the imagination. These small iridescent paintings...