Stamford / Westport - Abstract Paintings

This 4" hand-painted sculptural cube by Sofie Swann is made with acrylic paint and gesso on wood. It features a coastal blue and white palette, with an imperfect blue circular form o...

This abstract painting by Teodora Guererra features a deep green and light pink palette. The artist layers thick strokes of paint using a palette knife in broad, horizontal sweeping ...

This contemporary abstract painting by Kelly Rossetti is made with acrylic paint on canvas. It features a cool palette, with light blue, grey, white, charcoal black accents and contr...

This contemporary abstract statement painting by Teodora Guererra is made with acrylic and oil paint on canvas. It features a coastal palette, with layers of paint applied in wide, sweeping gestures, layering varying shades of blue over one another. The painting is signed by the artist on the back of the canvas, and is wired and ready to hang. Teodora Guererra’s abstract artistic vision has evolved throughout her years spent painting and teaching in Fairfield County, Connecticut; Tucson, Arizona, and upstate New York. Arizona’s naturally radiant landscape and arid climate led her to experiment with rich under-painting and vivid color; while the shifting seasons of the East Coast inspired Guererra to pursue dripping and staining techniques. Her focus has always been pushing the limits through experimentation with new materials. “As an artist, painting can be tormenting and sublime at the same time," the artist says of her work. "I'm a big risk taker, experimenting with different materials to layer, stain and saturate color on large canvases. My most successful work looks as if it happened all at once. It sometimes takes 7 or more paintings to produce a successful one and then it's a beautiful thing." Guererra received her undergraduate and graduate Art degrees from Southern Connecticut University, The College of Saint Rose and Skidmore College. Guererra’s paintings can be found in public and private collections across the U.S., including the Allmen Health and Wellness Center for Women in New York and SUNY Brockport, NY, William & Sonoma, San Francisco, CA. Her influences are Pat Steir, John McCracken, Helen Frankenthaler, Donald Jud, Bernar Venet, Agnes Martin and Brian Rutenberg...

This original abstracted landscape oil painting by artist Bri Custer features a palette of muted orange and earth tones contrasted by vibrant yellow, and thick, loose paint strokes a...

This abstract painting by Teodora Guererra features a light, cool palette of green and blue contrasted by a warm pink tone layered over the top of the composition. The artist layers ...

This abstract painting by Sue De Chiara is made with acrylic paint on panel. It features a light blue palette, with pastel pink, orange, and green accents and a layered, minimalist c...

This abstract painting by Roger Mudre features a cool blue and silver palette, with light circular shapes layered over one another and a horizontal texture. It transforms and shimmer...

This abstract painting by Teodora Guererra features a light palette with light, muted green at the top and bottom, and other accent colors toward the center of the composition includ...

This textured abstract diptych by Teodora Guererra features a light blue, grey, and white palette. The artist layers thick strokes of paint using a palette knife over board, creating...

This Modern abstract painting Stanley Bate is highly textured and features a warm, vibrant palette. Thick layers of red, orange, and blue paint appear to have been scraped back to c...

This abstract portrait painting by Ned Martin partially captures a nude female figure laying on the ground next to a black and white cat. The ground is abstracted in the artist's sig...

This original abstract watercolor painting by Nealy Hauschildt features a dark blue palette and washy layers of paint. "In this deep blue piece," the ...

This Modern Abstract Expressionist painting by Stanley Bate is made with gouache on paper and features a cool, muted palette and light texture. The painting itself is 13" x 22" and measures 21.25" x 29.25" x 1" framed. It is signed by the artist in the lower left-hand corner of the painting and is framed in a black frame with an acid-free mat. It is ready to hang. Stanley Bate was born on March 26, 1903 in Nashville, Tennessee. The Bates were an established Tennessee family, in fact, Henry’s brother William Bate was the governor of Tennessee from 1883-1887 and a United States Senator from 1887-1905. Stanley studied art at the Watkins Institute in Nashville. In the 1920’s Bate moved to New York City to study at the Art Students League under Frederick Bridgman. He soon landed a job with Encyclopedia Britannica, and from 1927-1929 served as art editor. From 1929 until his death in 1972, Stanley was a self-employed artist. He taught art classes at both the Art Students League and the Albany Institute of History and Art and brought in extra income by making illustrations for magazines such as “Outdoor Life” and “Popular Science”. On January 27, 1934 Stanley married Emilie Rossel. Emilie had emigrated from Switzerland to New York in 1923. She found work as a governess to Alfred Vanderbilt and later as an executive secretary for Wall Street investment brokers Kahn, Loeb and Co. Emilie met Stanley in New York in the early 1930’s when she attended one of his art exhibitions with a friend. The couple, who had no children, lived on 34th Street in Manhattan. During this period, Bate was producing and exhibiting his art and joined several artists groups. Stanley and Emilie became part of the New York art scene, dining weekly at the Society of Illustrators Clubhouse. Stanley Bate’s time in New York was pivotal in the formation of his painting style. He lived in New York during the inception of one of the most important Modern Art movements, one that helped New York replace Paris as the center of avant-garde art. This movement, which was called the New York School of artists, was later known as Abstract Expressionism. It was comprised of a loosely associated group of vanguard artists working in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s. The New York School was not defined by a specific style, but instead reflected a fusion of European Modernism and American social relevancy that was depicted in many individual styles. Influences of Surrealism, Cubism, and Modernism can be found in their work, along with an interest in experimenting with non-traditional materials and methods. American art was in the forefront of international avant-garde for the first time. Stanley Bate was undoubtedly exposed to the varied styles and techniques that were emerging during the formative years of the New York School. Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell were formulating their versions of color field paintings. Joseph Cornell was experimenting with assemblages, collage and the use of different types of textured paints. Jackson Pollock was adhering objects such as buttons and coins into his early works, while Louise Nevelson was using found objects. Helen Frankenthaler added sand to her early paintings. The New York School artists were undermining traditional fine art by using mixed media and non-traditional methods. Stanley Bate absorbed these varied influences and soon his early realistic landscapes and still-lifes were replaced with something entirely new. The influence of Cubism, notably the flat shallow space of the picture plane, is obvious in many of Bate’s paintings. Surrealism is evident in Bate’s use of subjects from myth, primitive art and antiquity, along with the Automatism-like line work in his more linear images. The unfettered experimentation of the New York School is everywhere in Stanley Bate’s work. We see nods to color field, collage, the mixing of textures into paint, mixed media, the inclusion of found objects and thick, luscious impasto. Bate was prolific and experimented in various media including oil, watercolor, lithography, silk screen, wood cut, drawing, collage, ceramics and sculpture. Bate is considered a true Modernist. His work is largely abstract, but sometimes figures and buildings are discernable. He frequently mixed paint, sand and glue together to achieve a textured surface, and then scraped and scratched through this layer to expose some of the underpainting below. His sculpture, which is often whimsical, also reflects the non-traditional methods of the New York School. Bate pioneered the use of enamel and copper in his work. The sculptures are not carved or modeled as was done in the past, but instead are built using mixed media and new materials. In addition to the New York School influence, many of Bate’s works exhibit a strong connection to the Spanish school, especially the work of Antonio Tapies and Modesto Cuixart. These artists were both part of an avant-garde group known as Art Informel, the Spanish equivalent of Abstract Expressionism. These artists likewise worked in mixed media and introduced objects and texture into their work. Many of Bate’s subjects and titles relate to Spanish locations and words. It is likely that Stanley spent time in Spain and found inspiration there. By the early 1940s, Stanley and Emilie had started spending weekends in a barn they purchased in Craryville, New York, a few hours north of Manhattan. The barn had no electricity or plumbing, but when the Bates eventually decided to leave New York and live full time in Craryville, they remodeled the barn, putting a gallery downstairs and a studio and living quarters upstairs. Although the Bates moved out of New York City, Stanley remained part of the New York art scene, exhibiting in New York and elsewhere throughout the 50s and 60s. During his lifetime he was represented by the New York galleries Knoedler and Company, Kennedy Galleries, Rose Fried Gallery and Key Gallery, along with Tyringham Gallery located in Tyringham, Massachusetts. Craryville was Stanley’s home until his death on August 21, 1972. Emilie died 1984...

This abstract painting by Julia Contacessi features a cool greyscale palette and minimalistic composition. The artist describes this piece, saying, "Bathed in a warm neutral color pa...

This abstract painting by Kelly Rossetti is made with acrylic paint and raw canvas pieces assembled on gallery wrapped canvas. It features a pink, blue, and dark green palette with g...

This large abstract painting by Teodora Guererra features a blue and white palette. Paint appears to drip over a textured under layer of the painting. It is created with oil paint on...

This abstract painting by Teodora Guererra features a metallic silver palette. The paint is layered thickly on canvas in wide, gestural strokes, creating a highly textured surface. I...

This abstract painting by Teodora Guererra features a light, cool palette of blue and white with subtle orange accents at the top of the composition. The artist applies thick layers ...

This abstract, contemporary painting by Ned Martin features a light, metallic gold palette. Light rectangles are assembled side-by-side in a grid-like pattern, with textured metallic...

This abstract painting is made with acrylic paint over metal leaf on cradled birch panel. The painting features a light tan-colored palette, with white swirling lines which form a ci...

This abstract, contemporary painting by Ned Martin features a light, metallic, and neutral palette. A grid of textured rectangles are patterned together, with varying layers of paint...

This abstract statement painting by Tony Iadicicco is made with oil paint on canvas and features a blue monochromatic palette. The painting has an a...

Albert Stadler was an innovator in American art, particularly in the 1960's. He was in Clement Greenberg's exhibition of 1964 titled "Post Painterly Ab...

This abstract floral painting by Christine Averill-Green is made with oil paint on gallery wrapped canvas. It captures a floral bouquet with red, pink, and white flowers and green leaves, which are placed in a glass vase. The clear vase reflects and refracts the colors of the stems of the flowers. The background is a deep, near black which provides contrast to the vibrant colors of the flowers, The painting is wired and ready to hang. Averill-Green has been exhibiting her artwork in galleries and museums in Upstate New York for over 40 years. She received her B.A. in Art and an M.S. in Art Education. Artists such as Richard Diebenkorn, Euan Eglow, Antonio Lopez Garcia, and her teachers Catherine Kehoe...

This abstract portrait by Ned Martin is made with oil paint on panel. Part of his Spirits Through Time series, it features a woman in profile - her face and hair are rendered realist...

This painting by Ned Martin is both abstract and representational, as it depicts a swan at the center of the canvas that is floating in water, while the surrounding area is rendered ...

This vertical original abstract painting by Tony Iadicicco is made with oil paint on gallery wrapped canvas. This piece features three dark blue parallel horizontal lines, with white...

This abstract painting by Ned Martin is made with oil paint and recycled aluminum on board. It features a grid composition with a light layers of blue, black, and silver paint, with ...

This contemporary mixed media piece titled, "Heart Like the Moon," is 47" in diameter is made with mixed media on a circular mirror. The mirror bas...

This contemporary abstract painting by Kelly Rossetti is made with mixed media on linen. With a cool blue palette, it mixes varying shades and hues of blue with lighter creme and off...

This abstract black and white painting by Julia Contacessi features layers of expressive brush strokes and a cool greyscale palette. Of this piece, the artist says, "The use of horiz...

Donald Martiny’s signature work is composed of dispersed pigment on aluminum. He creates immediately frozen brushstrokes that are made from his own movements. They are defined by the...

This abstract painting by Roger Mudre is made with acrylic paint over mica powder on cradled birch panel. It features a light blue and silver palette, with the light outlines of circ...

This contemporary abstract painting by Teodora Guererra features a cool palette, with layers of washes of blue, grey, violet and and white applied in sweeping gestures across the pie...

This abstract bright colorful painting is by Brooklyn artist, John Platt who studied at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and has exhibited exten...

This abstract diptych by Teodora Guererra is comprised of two gallery wrapped canvases, 30" x 30" each. They feature a warm grey and white palette, wi...

This abstract painting by Tony Iadicicco features a light grey palette. The artist blends light shades of grey together to create an almost abstracted l...

This abstract statement painting by Kelly Rossetti features a cool palette. Tones of muted blue are layered and washed together in large, expressive strokes, with accents of black, w...

This contemporary fine art mirror by Alina B is created using mixed media on a mirror base, which creates a reflective, iridescent, and metallic ...

This abstract painting by Roger Mudre is made with acrylic paint over metal leaf on cradled birch panel. It is part of Mudre's Venezia series, which is inspired by his recent trip to...

This abstract portrait by Ned Martin blends realistic and abstracted styles. Part of his Spirits Through Time series of female portraits, the woman's face is rendered realistically, ...

This abstract portrait painting by Ned Martin is made with oil paint on panel. Part of the artist's Spirits Through Time series, it features a woman's face rendered realistically, wi...

This contemporary mixed media piece is made with mixed media on a circular mirror. Deep blue-grey color has been applied over the bottom half of the mirror, giving it a painterly, dripped aesthetic but also allowing for mirror to continue to show through. The mirror base reflects its surroundings and changes in alternating light. It hangs beautifully and safely with a wooden cleat, giving the illusion that the work is almost floating on the wall. "'Moon Series' is a collection of works all created in the shape of a circle," the artist says. "I was drawn to the magic of this shape. It has no beginning or end, and no divisions, making it the perfect symbol of completeness. Each uniquely different in the use of color, composition and nature of experience it brings while standing in front it. I like the idea of interactive art...

This large, colorful abstract painting by Julia Contacessi is made with mixed media on canvas. It features blended layers of light colors like blue and yellow, with darker violet acc...

An exciting, rare and impressive painting that is of a great size for a sofa or long wall. Very hard to find paintings with this format. It is of an early and important historical ...

This contemporary mixed media piece is made with mixed media on a circular mirror. Deep blue-grey color has been applied starting just above and continuing onto the bottom half of the mirror, giving it a painterly, dripped aesthetic but also allowing for mirror to continue to show through. The mirror base reflects its surroundings and changes in alternating light. It hangs beautifully and safely with a wooden cleat, giving the illusion that the work is almost floating on the wall. "'Moon Series' is a collection of works all created in the shape of a circle," the artist says. "I was drawn to the magic of this shape. It has no beginning or end, and no divisions, making it the perfect symbol of completeness. Each uniquely different in the use of color, composition and nature of experience it brings while standing in front it. I like the idea of interactive art...

This 1960s painting by Modernist artist Stanley Bate is an energetic abstract composition with a warm red and orange palette with small pops of bright blue throughout. The painting i...

This abstract painting of flying birds in the sky is made with oil paint on aluminum panel. On the bottom half of the canvas, five white birds with dark feathers on the tips of their...

This abstract painting by Roger Mudre features a cool blue palette, with light circular shapes layered over one another throughout the composition. The painting itself is 20" x 20" a...

This abstract painting by Roger Mudre features a cool blue and turquoise palette, and light circular shapes layered on top of one another throughout the composition. Made with acryli...

Holty did a series of works that explored the use of varying tones of Gray with other colors. This was done during his Colorfield foray as he pioneered this movement along with such...

This coastal abstract statement painting Julia Contacessi features a beautiful blend of cool blues, greens, greys, and whites, creating a soft aesthetic the artist equates to feeling...

This contemporary mixed media piece is made with mixed media on a circular mirror. Deep blue-grey color has been applied over the mirror, giving it a painterly aesthetic but also allowing for mirror to continue to show through. The mirror base reflects its surroundings and changes color in alternating light. It hangs beautifully and safely with a wooden cleat, giving the illusion that the work is almost floating on the wall. "'Moon Series' is a collection of works all created in the shape of a circle," the artist says. "I was drawn to the magic of this shape. It has no beginning or end, and no divisions, making it the perfect symbol of completeness. Each uniquely different in the use of color, composition and nature of experience it brings while standing in front it. I like the idea of interactive art...

Donald Martiny’s signature work is composed of dispersed pigment on aluminum. He creates immediately frozen brushstrokes that are made from his own movements. They are defined by the...

This contemporary abstract painting by Sofie Swann features a bold, contrasting palette with a simple light blue house and chimney shape on a solid, peach-toned background. This mini...

This beautiful painting is by Japanese artist, Takefumi Hori. He was born in Tokyo, Japan. He paints beautiful gold leaf paintings. This piece is acrylic, gold leaf and metal leaf ...

Liz Dexheimer’s abstract, colorful landscapes reveal her fascination with the illusory and transcendent qualities of light and atmosphere. Both serve as a source of inspiration for h...