USA - Abstract Paintings

Series: Plunge Triptych Oil and encaustic Size: 80" x 108" (36" x 80" each panel) Using unconventional hardware - a blow torch, iron and other heated tools - along with paper, enc...

Born 1975, and raised in New Canaan, CT. Self taught artist Joseph Conrad-Ferm did not discover his need to paint until the winter of 2001, at age 26. “I don’t have a college art deg...

Steven Miller trained at Parsons School of Design, Miller derives inspiration from electron microscope images that reveal the invisible building blocks of natural world. His pursuit ...

Steven Miller trained at Parsons School of Design, Miller derives inspiration from electron microscope images that reveal the invisible building blocks of natural world. His pursuit ...

Series: Many Moons Andrea’s encaustic Many Moons encompasses warm, soothing tones whilst complemented by darker tints of indigo and a splash of yellow. The color combinations break ...

This contemporary abstract landscape painting by Ken Elliott is made with oil paint on canvas. It captures a scene with cool blue and violet trees in front of rolling hills under a p...

'Meeting Again' is a sophisticated abstract painting in cream, yellow and indigo, that references landscape or water, with its quiet yet complex surface of layered oil paint over str...

David Mellen has proceeded to work according to his own design. He sees art as a medium of discovery rather than a display of untrammeled emotion. This has very little to do with a ...

#5-2940 Lost in Time abstract Mixed Media on canvas displayed in a silver-black wood frame.Signed lower left by P.Russo Neapolitan artist 1962

Available at Madelyn Jordon Fine Art. 'Blue/Gold/Silver Mica Painting (Flower Float no. 1)' 2024 by Catherine Howe. Interference pigments, acrylic, glass micro beads, aluminum leaf, ...

Ulrich Gleiter's (EUR based) "View from my Cottage First days of Spring" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an impasto, plein air depiction of a winter landscape fram...

A Canadian artist from Montreal, Quebec, Julie Naima now lives a life of rural quiet, where she can devote her time to her studio practice. Julie finds inspiration from nature and th...

"Mirage" Abstract painting by artist Joseph Conrad Ferm. Different tones of greens and white drip splashes with subtle pink strokes. See our shipping policies. For quotes, please c...

Born 1975, and raised in New Canaan, CT. Self taught artist Joseph Conrad-Ferm did not discover his need to paint until the winter of 2001, at age 26. “I don’t have a college art deg...

This colorful abstract painting is composed of carefully combined sections of various textures and areas of pattern, circles, dots and undulations, in exuberant, cheerful color. Litt...

PROVENCAL Series: “In [this] series I was exploring the classical influences of the impressionist masters, to build on their ideas to move them forward, yet being true to the many ap...

This abstract collage portrait features hues of yellow, green, pink and black. This work is 23.25 by 16.5 inches unframed and 28 by 21 inches framed in a thin black frame. Colombian-born, Atlanta-based artist Esteban Patino...

A bold spontaneous painting with dramatic lyrical brushstrokes across a white background. Artist bio: Originally from India, the land of mysticism and magic, SrinjoyGangopadhyay wa...

This particular piece depicts an anonymous portrait of a beautiful woman, titled "Comme Avant" translating to "As Before". Inspired by the every day, JM Robert...

Large gilt framed abstract modernist landscape of Jerusalem. Framed it measures 33.25 X 41.25 inches. Canvas measures 28 x 36 inches. Bold Blue sky. Avraham Binder was born in 1906 in Vilnius (or Vilna), now part of Lithuania. He began painting at an early age and completed the prescribed studies in painting at the academy of arts in his native city. Upon graduation, at the commencement exhibition of works submitted by the graduates, he was awarded a prize in recognition of his talents. Artistic talent had deep roots in the Binder family. Avraham's father and grandfather were both artistically inclined, as was his sister Zila Binder and daughter Yael. In fact, he came from a long line of master artistic bookbinders, hence the family surname. The Binder family emigrated to Palestine in 1920. There, his father established a bookbinding workshop in Tel-Aviv while Avraham pursued painting. Binder has not identified with any particular modern school nor narrow artistic doctrine. He struggles to verbally explain his personal conception. Instead, he derives inspiration from emotions, resulting in a great variety of artistic treatments. Particularly memorable are his urban landscapes with their predominance of blues and aquamarines, composed of a profusion of squares and rectangles, crowding one another and covering nearly the entire canvas. The angular shapes are interspersed with radiant dots of red, gold and yellow, like the lights of the big city. Those squares and rectangles reflect, perhaps, impressions of a childhood spent among books which were scattered about the home and workshop of his father, the bookbinder. These shapes, no doubt, had their influence upon the artist whose first youthful impressions were – books. Traces of these shapes are discernible in Binder’s work to this day, in the angularity of splashes of color which, no longer crowded together, are now well separated to create an airy spaciousness. Not only the splashes of color – the inventing space, too – creates figurative effects in the artist’s treatment. Avraham Binder is not a “cerebral” painter. Neither identified with any particular modern school, nor preaching any narrow artistic doctrine, he is an emotional artist: his inspiration, derived from the heart, leads him on to the most varied range of treatments in his artistic work. In vain might one try to persuade him to define his personal conception of painting. He is not one to indulge in verbal explanation. But his sheer artistic skill, his virtuosity with the paint brush, did impel him to experiment widely with the artistic techniques of the modern age. And his exceptional talent stood him in good stead in all this experimentation. Binders large-scale urban landscapes are not mere constructs to represent our present-day architecture with its pervasive angularity. Made up as they are of color, Binder’s unique color composition qualifies these canvases to be ranked among the foremost artistic works in Israeli painting. They are uniquely Binder, very different from what we see in the work of his contemporaries. Here and there, Binder also introduces the human element into these paintings. He lives and breathes the atmosphere of his surroundings, deeply experiencing the sea and the shore of Tel-Aviv that confront him day after day, and which he has transferred to his canvases, as metaphors in paint, throughout the life. More recently, he has created a new series of shore-and-seascapes, in tones ranging from brown to blue. ochre, violet and pale yellow – marvelous views of the sea and of figures enlivening its shore. In yet another series, featuring nearly the same range of hues, he lets us view, through his eyes, the Carmel Market in Tel-Aviv, or the city’s coffee houses with their crowds of people, heads bunched together as if in search of human closeness, with the windows looking in upon them. He has also done large paintings of Jerusalem...

Mayflower Diptych by Joseph Conrad-Ferm, 2022 Mixed Media 68 × 96 in 172.7 × 243.8 cm Mixed media abstract painting on canvas by NY-based artist Joseph Conrad-Ferm. Shipping is ...

This large-scale abstract work features organic and undulating shapes in black, white and green. Wall Sculpture. Colombian-born, Atlanta-based artist Esteban Patino...

Bold combination of colorful floating geometric shapes and gestural styles of abstraction by NYC based designer/artist Fredda Tone

Altman's mixed-media series, “Stripped,” explores the concept of fragmentation leading to wholeness. As an outsider artist, his practice utilizes painting, collage and assemblage, often including using vintage source...

My Momen Diptych by Joseph Conrad-Ferm, 2022 Mixed Media 64 × 130 in 162.6 × 330.2 cm Mixed media abstract painting on canvas by NY-based artist Joseph Conrad-Ferm. Shipping is ...

"En Anglaise seulement" Abstract mixed media painting by artist Joseph Conrad Ferm Utilizing drip painting technique the artwork depicts bright vivid color compositions. See our s...

Oil on canvas 12 x 8 in Rebeca Mendoza plays with simultaneity, superimposition, and ambiguity in her work as she goes through the stages of oil painting. The artist sets out to ent...

De Hirsh Margules (1899-1965). Christopher Street, 1939. Watercolor on Arches wove paper. Signed and dated in pencil by artist lower margin. Sheet measures 15.5 x 20 inches. Window in matting measures 15 x 19 inches. Framed measurement: 23 x 30 inched. Bears fragment of original label affixed on verso. Incredibly vibrant and saturated color with no fading or toning of sheet. Provenance: Babcock Galleries, NYC Exhibited: The American Federation of Arts Traveling Exhibition. From the facade of The Waverly at Christopher is depicted One Christopher Street, the 16-story Art Deco residential building erected in 1931. It is not a casual coincidence that the structure appears in this cityscape: 1 Christopher Street is the subject. The original intention of this project was to transform the neighborhood, bring a bit of affluence and make a bid to rival the Upper West Side. Margules, a sensitive aesthete, understood how a massive piece of architecture such as One changes a neighborhood. Sound, scale and focal points are forever altered. A pedestrian's sense of depth and distance becomes pronounced. All of these factors contribute to the intent behind this image. Tall buildings disrupt the human scale, change the skyline and carve up space. In this piece, negative space conforms to the man-made geometries. Clouds become gems fixed in settings. De Hirsh Margules (1899–1965) was a Romanian-American "abstract realist" painter who crossed paths with many major American artistic and intellectual figures of the first half of the 20th century. Elaine de Kooning said that he was "[w]idely recognized as one of the most gifted and erudite watercolorists in the country". The New York Times critic Howard Devree stated in 1938 that "Margules uses color in a breath-taking manner. A keen observer, he eliminates scrupulously without distortion of his material." Devree later called Margules "one of our most daring experimentalists in the medium" Margules was also a well-known participant in the bohemian culture of New York City's Greenwich Village, where he was widely known as the "Baron" of Greenwich Village.[1] The New York Times described him as "one of Greenwich Village's best-known personalities" and "one of the best known and most buoyant characters about Greenwich Village. Early Life De Hirsh Margules was born in 1899 in the Romanian city of Iași (also known as Iasse, Jassy, or Jasse). When Margules was 10 weeks old, his family immigrated to New York City. Both of his parents were active in the Yiddish theater, His father was Yekutiel "Edward" Margules, a "renowned Jewish actor-impresario and founder of the Yiddish stage." Margules' mother, Rosa, thirty-nine years younger than his father, was an actress in the Yiddish theater and later in vaudeville. Although Margules appeared as a child actor with the Adler Family[11] and Bertha Kalich, his sister, Annette Margules, somewhat dubiously continued in family theater and vaudeville tradition, creating the blackface role of the lightly-clad Tondelayo (a part later played on film Hedy Lamarr) in Earl Carroll's 1924 Broadway exoticist hit, White Cargo. Annette herself faced stereotyping as an exotic flower: writing about her publicist Charles Bouchert stated that "Romania produces a stormy, temperamental type of woman---a type admirably fitted to portray emotion." His brother Samuel became a noted magician who appeared under the name "Rami-Sami." Samuel later became a lawyer, representing magician Horace Goldin, among others. A family portrait including a young De Hirsh, a portrait of Rosa and Annette together, and individual photos of Rosa and Edward can be found on the Museum of the City of New York website. At around age 9 or 10, Margules took art classes with the Boys Club on East Tenth Street, and his first taste of exhibition was at a student art show presented by the club. By age 11, he had won a city-wide prize (a box camera) at a children's art show presented by the department store Wanamakers. As a young teenager, Margules was already displaying a characteristic kindness and loyalty. Upon hearing that two friends (one of them was author Alexander King), were in trouble for breaking a school microscope, the nearly broke Margules gave them five dollars to repair the microscope . Margules had to approach a wealthy man that Margules had once saved on the subway from a heart attack. Margules didn't reveal the source of the five dollars to King until twenty-five years later. In his late teens, Margules studied for a couple of months in Pittsburgh with Edwin Randby, a follower of Western painter Frederic Remington. Thereafter he pursued a two-year course of studies in architecture, design and decoration at the New York Evening School of Art and Design, while working as a clerk during the day at Stern's Department Store. He was encouraged in these artistic pursuits by his neighbor, the painter Benno Greenstein (who later went by the name of Benjamin Benno). Artistic career In 1922, Margules began work as a police reporter for the City News Association of New York .Margules then considered himself something of an expert on art, and the painter Myron Lechay is said to have responded to some unsolicited analysis of his work with the remark "Since you seem to know so much about it, why don't you paint yourself?" This led to study with Lechay and a flurry of painting. Margules' first show was in 1922 at Jane Heap's Little Review Gallery. Thereafter Margules began to participate in shows with a group including Stuart Davis, Jan Matulka, Buckminster Fuller (exhibiting depictions of his "Dymaxion house") in a gallery run by art-lover and restaurateur Romany Marie on the floor above her cafe. Jane Heap, left, with Mina Loy and Ezra Pound During the 1920s, Margules traveled outside of the country a number of times. In 1922, with the intent of reaching Bali, he took a job as a "'wiper on a tramp steamer where [he] played nursemaid to the engine." He reached Rotterdam before he turned back. He would return to Rotterdam shortly thereafter. In 1927, Margules took a lengthy leave of absence from his day job as a police reporter in order to travel to Paris, where he "set up a studio in Montmartre's Place du Tertre, on the top floor of an almost deserted hotel, a shabby establishment, lacking both heat and running water." He studied at the Louvre and traveled to paint landscapes in provincial France and North Africa. Margules also joined the "Noctambulist" movement and experimented with painting and showing his artwork in low light.Jonathan Cott wrote that: the painter De Hirsch Margulies sat on the quays of the Seine and painted pictures in the dark. In fact, the first exhibition of these paintings, which could be seen only in a darkened room, took place in [ Walter Lowenfels'] Paris apartment. Elaine de Kooning remarked that studying the works of the Noctambulists confirmed Margules' "direction toward the use of primary colors for perverse effects of heavy shadow." It was also in Paris that Margules initially conceived his idea of "Time Painting", where a painting is divided into sectors, each representing a different time of day, with color choices meant to evoke that time of day. In Paris, his social circle included Lowenfels, photographer Berenice Abbott, publisher Jane Heap, composer George Anthiel, sculptor Thelma Wood, painter André Favory, writer Norman Douglas, writer and editor George Davis, composer and writer Max Ewing, and writer Michael Fraenkel. Upon his return to New York in 1929, Margules attended an exhibition of John Marin's paintings. While at the exhibition, he "launched into an eloquent explanation of Marin to two nearby women", and was overheard by an impressed Alfred Stieglitz. The famous photographer and art promoter invited Margules to dine with his wife, the artist Georgia O'Keeffe, and his assistant, painter Emil Zoler. Stieglitz thereafter became a friend and mentor to Margules, becoming for him "what Socrates was to his friends." Alfred Stieglitz Stieglitz introduced Margules to John Marin, who quickly became the most important painterly influence upon Margules. Elaine de Kooning later noted that Margules was "indebted to Marin and through Marin to Cézanne for his initial conceptual approach - for his constructions of scenes with no negative elements, for skies that loom with the impact of mountains." Margules himself said that Marin was his "father and ... academy." The admiration was by no means unreciprocated: Marin said that Margules was "an art lover with abounding faith and sincerity, with much intelligence and quick seeing." Stieglitz also introduced Margules to many other artistic and intellectual figures in New York. With the encouragement of Alfred Stieglitz, Margules in 1936 opened a two-room gallery at 43 West 8th Street called "Another Place." Over the following two years there were fourteen solo exhibitions by Margules and others, and the gallery was well-respected by the press. It was in this gallery that the painter James Lechay, Myron's brother, exhibited his first painting. In 1936, Margules first saw recognition by major art museums when both the Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston purchased his works. In 1942, Margules gave up working as a police reporter, and apparently dedicated himself thereafter solely to an artistic vocation. "The Baron of Greenwich Village"[edit] Margules made his mark not only as an artist, but also as an outsized personality known throughout Greenwich Village and beyond. To local residents, Margules was known as the "Baron", after Baron Maurice de Hirsch, a prominent German Jewish philanthropist. Margules was easily recognizable by the beret he routinely wore over his long hair. Writer Charles Norman said that he "dressed with a flair for sloppiness." He was said to "know everybody" in Greenwich Village, to the extent that when the novelist and poet Maxwell Bodenheim was murdered, Margules was the first one the police sought to identify the body. Margules' letters show him interacting with art world figures such as Sacha Kolin, John Marin and Alfred Stieglitz, as well as with prominent figures outside the art world such as polymath Buckminster Fuller and writer Henry Miller. Most of his friends and acquaintances found Margules a generous and voluble man, given to broadly emotionally expressive gestures and acts of kindness and loyalty. In 1929, he exhibited an example of this loyalty and fellow-feeling when he appeared in court to fight what the wrongful commitment of his friend, writer and sculptor Alfred Dreyfuss, who appeared to have been a victim of an illicit attempt to block an inheritance. The Greenwich Village chronicler Charles Norman described the bone-crushing hugs that Margules would routinely bestow on his friends and acquaintances, and speaks of the "persuasive theatricality" that Margules seemed to have inherited from his actor parents. Norman also wrote about Margules' routine acts of kindness, taking in homeless artists, constantly feeding his friends and providing the salvatory loan where needed. Norman also notes that Margules was blessed with a loud and good voice, and was apt to sing an operatic air without provocation. The writer and television personality Alexander King said I think the outstanding characteristics of my friend's personality are affirmation, emphasis, and overemphasis. He chooses to express himself predominantly in superlatives and the gestures which accompany his utterances are sometimes dangerous to life and limb. Of the bystanders, I mean. King also spoke with affectionate amusement about Margules' pride in his cooking, speaking of how "if he should ever invite you to dinner, he may serve you a hamburger with onions, in his kitchen-living room, with such an air of gastronomic protocol, such mysterious hints and ogliing innuendoes, as if César Ritz and Brillat-Savarin had sneaked out, only a moment before, with his secret recipe in their pockets." Margules was such a memorable New York personality that comic book writer Alvin Schwartz imagined him at the Sixth Avenue Cafeteria in a risible yet poignant debate with Clark Kent about whether Superman had the ability to stop Hitler. Margules' entrenchment in the Greenwich Village milieu can be seen in a photograph from Fred McDarrah's "Beat Generation Album" of a January 13, 1961 writers' and poets' meeting to discuss "The Funeral of the Beat Generation", in Robert Cordier [fr]'s railroad flat at 85 Christopher Street. Among the people in the same photograph are Shel Silverstein...

PROVENCAL Series: “In [this] series I was exploring the classical influences of the impressionist masters, to build on their ideas to move them forward, yet being true to the many ap...

27 Factory 9 100x80 -96 acrylic painting Born in Badalona (Barcelona). Photographer and advertising film director. Founding partner of the advertising production company La Cosa d...

Oil on canvas 8 x 12 in Rebeca Mendoza plays with simultaneity, superimposition, and ambiguity in her work as she goes through the stages of oil painting. The artist sets out to ent...

PROVENCAL Series: “In [this] series I was exploring the classical influences of the impressionist masters, to build on their ideas to move them forward, yet being true to the many ap...

Series: Triple Moon Oil and encaustic Size: 12" x 36" x 2" Using unconventional hardware - a blow torch, iron and other heated tools - along with paper, encaustics, photography, ...

Born 1975, and raised in New Canaan, CT. Self taught artist Joseph Conrad-Ferm did not discover his need to paint until the winter of 2001, at age 26. “I don’t have a college art deg...

Jene Highstein Untitled, 1982 Pastel and Chalk on Paper Hand signed and dated by artist on the front 32 × 40 inches Frame included Original hand signed pastel and chalk drawing, with...

Ellen Hackl Fagan is an interdisciplinary abstract painter who believes that synaesthesia can be taught. Through interactive tools and crowd sourcing, Fagan is developing a correspo...

Skeleton Key by Joseph Conrad-Ferm, 2007- 2008 Mixed Media 50 × 48 in 127 × 121.9 cm Mixed media abstract painting on archival watercolor paper by NY-based artist Joseph Conrad-Fe...

A Miner by Joseph Conrad-Ferm, 2008 Mixed Media 46 × 52in 116.8 × 132.1cm Mixed media abstract painting on heavy body watercolor paper by NY-based artist Joseph Conrad-Ferm. Sh...

Acrylic painting on paper. Like the majority of my paintings this started out as a non-objective exercise with no idea what the final outcome would be. Many turn out to have a la...

"By the Bay," a 30" x 30" oil on canvas by Robert Glick, presents a stylized geometric seascape that blends the abstract with the tranquil charm of coastal life. Glick's technique en...

With layers of bright oils and whisking brush strokes, the paint is able to shine and shimmer in a very unique pattern. The artist uses gold flakes with thick textured oils and glass...

Oil on canvas. Framed.

“Lyman’s work evolves restlessly, with the common elements generally being deft and unusual color choices that balance assonance and dissonance, and vestiges of the hand and facture ...

The Imagined Time Series- Watercolors from Data artist Laurie Frick Time, divisions of time over 24 hours, the unconscious shift from one activity to the next, sized and color-coded...

Born 1975, and raised in New Canaan, CT. Self taught artist Joseph Conrad-Ferm did not discover his need to paint until the winter of 2001, at age 26. “I don’t have a college art deg...

Night Shower took shape over numerous sessions, with an extended hiatus during which the painting was set aside for several months to dry before being revisited. The composition was ...

PROVENCAL Series: “In [this] series I was exploring the classical influences of the impressionist masters, to build on their ideas to move them forward, yet being true to the many ap...

CANTICLES Series: “[These] are my Chants, my sacred songs of contemplation about my experience in painting the mystery within the Tidepools. These works have been inspired by my walk...

This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...

Born 1975, and raised in New Canaan, CT. Self taught artist Joseph Conrad-Ferm did not discover his need to paint until the winter of 2001, at age 26. “I don’t have a college art deg...

Day Laborer by Joseph Conrad-Ferm, 2014 Mix Medium on Canvas 32" X 32" X 1.25" 81.28cm x 81.28cm x 3.175cm Mixed media abstract painting on canvas by NY-based artist Joseph Conrad-F...

Born 1975, and raised in New Canaan, CT. Self taught artist Joseph Conrad-Ferm did not discover his need to paint until the winter of 2001, at age 26. “I don’t have a college art deg...

"Pretty in Pink" Mixed media pink shades over canvas. Different layers of warm tones presented by scribbling strokes. Painting by artist Joseph Conrad Ferm. See our shipping polici...

WAVENY MEADOW Series: “[These pieces] are a variant on American Impressionism where the pictorial narrative and sense of place was fully established. However, my sensations while pai...

Colorful mixed media abstract painting by contemporary Houston-based artist Orna Feinstein. The work features multiple layers of colorful netting set against a green toned background...

Born 1975, and raised in New Canaan, CT. Self taught artist Joseph Conrad-Ferm did not discover his need to paint until the winter of 2001, at age 26. “I don’t have a college art deg...

Lost Letters (Circle) (Abstract painting) Mixed media on canvas — Unframed Although the initial inspiration for a painting might come from a fleeting experience with music, nature, ...

48x60 inch mixed medium painting on canvas 2015. Offered exclusively through Tuleste factory, NYC.