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Medium: Ink
"Dream, " a Pastel and Ink by Sue Bartfield
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Dream" is a pastel and ink drawing by Sue Bartfield. It has blue and black forms.
25" x 25 1/4" art
28 1/4" x 26 1/8" framed
Artist's Statement: "You might be surprised to know t...
Category
20th Century Abstract Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Ink
Rowing Sculling Team Regatta, Life Magazine - African American Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
E. Simms Campbell was the first African-American illustrator/ cartoonist published in nationally distributed, slick magazines, he created Esky, the familiar pop-eyed mascot of Esquire. This early work of 1930 was done on assignment for an interior page of Life Magazine. It features two Rowing teams engaged in spirited competition with cheering onlookers. This is a highly stylized black-and-white illustration and is masterfully executed. The work is composed of two illustrations, 6 x 9 inches and 2-3/4 x 2 inches respectively. It is initialed center bottow ESC. unframed
Campbell left the University of Chicago and transferred to and received his degree from the Chicago Art Institute.[3]
Professional career
During a job as a railroad dining-car waiter, Campbell sometimes drew caricatures of the train passengers, and one of those, impressed by Campbell's talent, gave him a job in a St. Louis art studio, Triad Studios.
He spent two years at Triad Studios before moving to New York City in 1929. A month afterward, he found work with the small advertising firm, Munig Studios, and began taking classes at the National Academy of Design.During this time, he contributed to various magazines, notably Life, & Judge
Following the suggestion of cartoonist Russell Patterson to focus on good girl art, Campbell created his "Harem Girls", a series of watercolor cartoons that attracted attention in the first issue of Esquire, debuting in 1933. Campbell's artwork was in almost every issue of Esquire from 1933 to 1958 and he was the creator of its continuing mascot, the cartoon character in a silk top hat.
He also contributed to The Chicagoan, Cosmopolitan, Ebony, The New Yorker, Playboy, Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, Pictorial Review, and Redbook.
His commercial artwork for advertising included illustrations for Barbasol, Springmaid, and Hart Schaffner...
Category
1930s Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Gouache, Pencil
American Contemporary Art by Michael Alan - Bernie
Child
By Michael Alan
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor, spray paint, pen & ink on paper
Michael Alan is an American artist born in 1977 who lives & works in New York, USA. As a multidisciplinary artist. His work has been feat...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pen, Spray Paint
American Contemporary Art by Michael Alan - Lost Love
By Michael Alan
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor, ink & colored pencil on paper
Michael Alan is an American artist born in 1977 who lives & works in New York, USA. As a multidisciplinary artist. His work has been featur...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Color Pencil
American Contemporary Art by Michael Alan - The Future of Children
By Michael Alan
Located in Paris, IDF
Pen, ink, marker, pencil, watercolor & colored pencils on paper
Michael Alan is an American artist born in 1977 who lives & works in New York, USA. As a multidisciplinary artist. Hi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Permanent Marker, Color Pencil, Pen
American Contemporary Art by Michael Alan - Toxic American
By Michael Alan
Located in Paris, IDF
Wash, ink, wash & pen on paper
Michael Alan is an American artist born in 1977 who lives & works in New York, USA. As a multidisciplinary artist. His work has been featured in many ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
American Contemporary Art by Michael Alan - Toxic America
By Michael Alan
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink, wash, blow pen, pen & colored pencil on paper
Michael Alan is an American artist born in 1977 who lives & works in New York, USA. As a multidisciplinary artist. His work has be...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen, Color Pencil
Chinese Contemporary Drawing by He Jinshi - Masks
Located in Paris, IDF
Chinese ink on paper
Category
2010s Contemporary Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Indian Contemporary Art By Sumit Mehndiratta - Drawing 336
Located in Paris, IDF
Indian ink on Archival paper
Category
2010s Abstract Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, India Ink, Archival Paper
Rise Blue Butterfly Ink Watercolor on Paper
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Rise Blue Butterfly
Watercolor, ink on archival paper
Keith Carrington’s experiences have led him to express his talents through the fluid & exactin...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Chinese Contemporary Art by Li Chi-Guang - Series the Red Mountain No.19
By Li Shi-Guang
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink on paper
Category
2010s Contemporary Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Synchromist Abstraction watercolor by Jay Van Everen
Located in Hudson, NY
Jay Van Everen was a pioneering early American abstractionist known for his affiliation with the Synchromists. His abstract color studies would take him to the forefront of the Ameri...
Category
1920s Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Chinese Contemporary Drawing by He Jinshi - The Recurrence
Located in Paris, IDF
Chinese ink on paper, possible to have a frame upon simple request
Category
2010s Contemporary Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Indian Contemporary Art by Sumit Mehndiratta - Untitled No.73
Located in Paris, IDF
Indian ink on paper, limited edition of 20 - artwork can be shipped in a tube or framed in a crate
Category
2010s Abstract Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Bamboo Paper
Magnetic Triangulation, Halsey Chait, Abstract Ink Drawing, Circle, Triangle
By Halsey Chait
Located in New York, NY
"Magnetic Triangulation" by Halsey Chait
India Ink on 250 GSM Lenox 100 Cotton Rag Paper
Halsey Chait's drawings develop according to the rules and mathematics that govern the growt...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, India Ink, Rag Paper
Chinese Contemporary Art by Li Chi-Guang - Series the Red Mountain No.4
By Li Shi-Guang
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink on paper
Category
2010s Contemporary Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Indian Contemporary Art by Sumit Mehndiratta - Composition No.236
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic ink on Italian archival paper - artwork can be shipped in a tube or framed in a crate
Category
2010s Abstract Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Ink, Archival Paper
The Big City, Halsey Chait, Abstract India Ink Drawing, Circle, Black, White
By Halsey Chait
Located in New York, NY
"The Big City" by Halsey Chait
India Ink on 250 GSM Lenox 100 Cotton Rag Paper
Halsey Chait's drawings develop according to the rules and mathematics that govern the growth processe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, India Ink, Rag Paper
American Contemporary Art by Michael Alan - Freedom is a Choice
By Michael Alan
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor and ink on Bristol paper
Michael Alan is an American artist born in 1977 who lives & works in New York, USA. As a multidisciplinary artist. His work has been featured in ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
American Contemporary Art by Michael Alan - Urban Decay
By Michael Alan
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor, ink, wash & pen on paper
Category
2010s Contemporary Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen, Color Pencil
Blue Motion
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Dorothy Dehner (1901–1994) was an influential American multidisciplinary artist who worked with drawing, painting, printmaking, and most notably sculpture.
Despite her artistic cont...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
$16,250
Rust Sapath II
By Halsey Chait
Located in New York, NY
"Rust Sapath II" by Halsey Chait
India Ink Drawing on Strathmore Paper
20" x 20"
Category
2010s Abstract Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Ink, Paper
Gravitational Sapath Waves
By Halsey Chait
Located in New York, NY
"Gravitational Sapath Waves" by Halsey Chait
India Ink Drawing on Strathmore Paper
20" x 20"
Category
2010s Abstract Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Ink, Paper
Desire
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Desire
Ink on archival paper.
Keith Carrington’s experiences have led him to express his talents through the fluid & exacting
mediums of watercolor & ink. He has honed his skills, clarified his vision, experimented,
explored and expanded his expression steadily over the years, the results of which thus far culminate here. Clearly, Keith’s extensive travels have roots in the luminous quality of his work, eminently holding the utmost possibilities of beauty and significance. Keith’s most recent paintings combine original comic book renderings that his mother did for Disney et al. and reinterprets them effectively combining the past with present energies and infuses his enthusiasm into these dynamic pieces that you see here today.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017, 2018 Renata Fine Arts, West Palm Beach, FL
2015, 2016 Renata Fine Arts, Hudson, New York
2013 60inches New York, NY
2012 60inches New York, NY curated sale with Harry Heisman
2011 KL/Karen Lynne Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida & Beverly Hills, California
2003 Dupont Gallery, Milwaukee Wisconsin
1994 Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
1994 The Roger Smith Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Ambassador Galleries, New York, NY
1992 Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York
1983 Manor House Gallery, Rhinebeck, New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014, 2015 C. Bell, Palm Beach, Florida
2010 Luxe Energy Aesthetics, West Palm Beach, Florida
1995 Time Warner Publishing, New York, NY
1991 Imperial Hotel Gallery, Chestertown, Maryland
1990 National Symphony Show House, Washington, DC
1988, 1987 International Jumping Derby, Jockey Club, Newport, Rhode Island
1986 Elijah Locke House, Rye Beach, New Hampshire
1984 Washington Design Center, Washington, D.C.
SELECTED CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Bovis Inc., New York, NY
The Kiplinger Collection, Washington, D.C.
The International Monetary Fund, Washington, D.C.
Hopkins & Sutter, Washington, D.C.
McKenna, Conner, & Cuneo, Washington, D.C.
Oliver T. Carr Company, Alexandria, Virginia
SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
RuPaul, Beverly Hills, California
Kelly Klein, New York, NY
Governor & Mrs. Bruce Sundlun, Providence, Rhode Island
Mr. & Mrs. William Aylward...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Tea
Chinese Contemporary Art by Xiong Longdeng - La Gaze
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink on Chinese paper
Xiong Long-Deng is Chinese artist born in 1966 who lives & works in Qingzhen & Beijing, China. He is graduated from the Department of Oil Painting, College of ...
Category
2010s Abstract Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Indian Contemporary Art by Sumit Mehndiratta - Untitled No.81
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on canvas - artwork can be shipped in a tube or framed in a crate
Category
2010s Abstract Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
American Contemporary Art by Michael Alan - Morning Jitters
By Michael Alan
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor, pen & ink on paper
Michael Alan is an American artist born in 1977 who lives & works in New York, USA. As a multidisciplinary artist. His work has been featured in many ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pen
American Contemporary Art by Michael Alan - Review Board
By Michael Alan
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink wash & technical pen on paper
Michael Alan is an American artist born in 1977 who lives & works in New York, USA. As a multidisciplinary artist. His work has been featured in ma...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen, Paper
Metamorfosis
Located in San Francisco, CA
Paula Valenzuela
Metamorfosis, 2025
Watercolor and ink on paper
14 x 10 inches
This one-of-a-kind work on paper comes unframed and ships in a tube. External, visible frame and glass...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
American Contemporary Art by Michael Alan - Fresh Prince
By Michael Alan
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media on Bristol paper
Michael Alan is an American artist born in 1977 who lives & works in New York, USA. As a multidisciplinary artist. His work has been featured in many so...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Victor Brauner Drawing, New Year
s Card
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Victor Brauner (Romanian, 1903-1966)
Marking(s); notes: signed; 1949
Materials: gouache and ink on paper
Dimensions (H, W, D): 8.25"h, 5.25"w; 21"h, 18...
Category
Mid-19th Century Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
Indian Contemporary Art by Sumit Mehndiratta - Composition No.195
Located in Paris, IDF
India ink on paper - artwork can be shipped in a tube or framed in a crate
Category
2010s Contemporary Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink
Flying Machine
By Jim Keifer
Located in Toronto, ON
15" x 15" Framed
Original Pen and Ink on Paper
Hand Signed by Jim Keifer
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
$1,000
Eclipse Black and White
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Eclipse Black and White Abstract
59"x47" unframe
Keith Carrington’s experiences have led him to express his talents through the fluid & exacting mediums of watercolor & ink. He has...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
Moldovan Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic & ink on paper
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic
Moldovan Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink & collages on paper
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Moldovan Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic & ink on paper
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic
Moldovan Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic paint & ink on paper
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic
Information Superhighway, Original Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Drawing
Located in Boston, MA
Information Superhighway, Original Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Drawing
16" x 20" Ink with Silverpoint, Paint, and Metal Foil on Paper Panel
This highly geometric abstract ex...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Foil
This is How I Feel
Located in New York, NY
About the Series: “Sensitive Material”
In this Work on Paper Series, started in 2020, Claire Gilliam continues her exploration of Visual Language. She uses a common motif, the Latin ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Wood, Paper, Ink
Tell Me A Secret
Located in New York, NY
About the Series: “Sensitive Material”
In this Work on Paper Series, started in 2020, Claire Gilliam continues her exploration of Visual Language. She uses a common motif, the Latin ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Wood, Paper, Ink
"The Adventure II, " Archival Marker on Canvas, 2019
Located in Chicago, IL
Chicago-based artist Jan Pieter Fokkens uses his work as a means of processing the incomprehensible. Navigating the relationship between algorithmic abstraction and the tangible qualities of pattern and color, Fokkens meditates on how we as viewers negotiate our realities.
Entitled "The Adventure II," this vibrant drawing depicts a still from the Italian classic film...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Archival Ink
Pouring My Heart Out I
Located in New York, NY
About the Series: “Sensitive Material”
In this Work on Paper Series, started in 2020, Claire Gilliam continues her exploration of Visual Language. She uses a common motif, the Latin ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Wood, Paper, Ink
A Conversation with Myself IX
Located in New York, NY
About the Series:
Gilliam began the series Life Lines in 2017 after recently coming into possession of MRI scans of her brain. The scans, which she spent hours pouring over, both fas...
Category
2010s Abstract Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Archival Paper
Pouring My Heart Out II
Located in New York, NY
About the Series: “Sensitive Material”
In this Work on Paper Series, started in 2020, Claire Gilliam continues her exploration of Visual Language. She uses a common motif, the Latin ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Wood, Paper, Ink
"NGC-6397, " Pigment Ink on Paper
Located in Chicago, IL
Chicago-based artist Jan Pieter Fokkens uses his work as a means of processing the incomprehensible. Navigating the relationship between algorithmic abstraction and the tangible qualities of pattern and color, Fokkens meditates on how reality is mediated by digital image. Entitled "NGC-6397," this vibrant drawing offers a representation of the globular cluster NGC-6397, also known as Caldwell 87, located 7,800 light-years from Earth. Using an image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Photographic Paper
A Note Of Urgency I
Located in New York, NY
About the Series: “Sensitive Material”
In this Work on Paper Series, started in 2020, Claire Gilliam continues her exploration of Visual Language. She uses a common motif, the Latin ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Wood, Paper, Ink
All The Right Words
Located in New York, NY
About the Series: “Sensitive Material”
In this Work on Paper Series, started in 2020, Claire Gilliam continues her exploration of Visual Language. She uses a common motif, the Latin ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Wood, Paper, Ink
Gravitational Sapath Waves, Halsey Chait, Abstract Ink Drawing, Circle
By Halsey Chait
Located in New York, NY
"Gravitational Sapath Waves" by Halsey Chait
India Ink on Strathmore 500 Bristol Board
Halsey Chait's drawings develop according to the rules and mathematics that govern the growth ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, India Ink
Dark Secrets
Located in New York, NY
About the Series: “Sensitive Material”
In this Work on Paper Series, started in 2020, Claire Gilliam continues her exploration of Visual Language. She uses a common motif, the Latin ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Wood, Paper, Ink
Thirst
Located in New York, NY
The art of Philip Wittmann is founded on signals. For him, signs serve as a bridge between abstraction, reality and writing, too. When he was 26 years old, he began painting as a hobbyist using 'pure' abstraction. However, he believed his work lacked a solid foundation upon which to grow.
He discovered a book on the origins of the Chinese alphabet, which origins are essentially signs, in 2008 while taking a calligraphy class. The 26 letters of our Latin alphabet are less pictorial than the Chinese characters as we know them now. He discovered that pictorial representation is more prevalent when examining the origins of alphabets—all alphabets, in fact—because there is frequently a similarity between the sign's true meaning and what it is meant to represent. For instance, the symbol for a turtle in the original Chinese script resembles a turtle.
Wittmann loves signs as they leave room for interpretation. For instance, if one writes “the sky
is blue”, one will make for themself a mental representation of a blue sky, even if each one-off us
will probably have some nuance in our own mental representation of that blue sky. On the other hand, a sign can...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Dancing Thorns, Abstract Work on Paper by Geri Taper
Located in Long Island City, NY
A unique Abstract Expressionist watercolor by Geri Taper. The bold blue and purple splashes give way ever so slightly to streaks of red. This piece is signed, titled, and dated in pe...
Category
Late 20th Century Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Woven lines 49 - abstract geometric black grey dominant ink drawing on paper
By Dana Piazza
Located in New York, NY
Dana Piazza's creates abstract colorful drawings, full of the illusion of depth, movement, and three-dimensionality. His highly obsessive ink drawings on paper are built upon algorit...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Wood Panel, Archival Paper
SL 4 - abstract geometric brown orange dominant color ink drawing on paper
By Dana Piazza
Located in New York, NY
Dana Piazza's creates abstract colorful drawings, full of the illusion of depth, movement, and three-dimensionality. His highly obsessive ink drawings on paper are built upon algorit...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Breakfast at Night - Abstract Spray Paint and Fiber on Paper, Black and Purple
Located in Gilroy, CA
Liddell often walks the line between contemporary art and craft. Working to bring materials that are traditionally labeled as "craft" and lesser into the contemporary conversation. M...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Spray Paint, Yarn, Ink, Watercolor
Composition
Located in Zug, CH
Abstract composition on paper by Karl Peter Röhl.
Category
20th Century Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor
Untitled (Abstract)
By Anthony Caro
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Anthony Caro (1924-2013) was an influential and innovative British sculptor. Caro played a pivotal role in the development of twentieth-century sculpture introducing abstraction thro...
Category
1960s Abstract Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Looking For Tomorrow
Located in New York, NY
The art of Philip Wittmann is founded on signals. For him, signs serve as a bridge between abstraction, reality and writing, too. When he was 26 years old, he began painting as a hobbyist using 'pure' abstraction. However, he believed his work lacked a solid foundation upon which to grow.
He discovered a book on the origins of the Chinese alphabet, which origins are essentially signs, in 2008 while taking a calligraphy class. The 26 letters of our Latin alphabet are less pictorial than the Chinese characters as we know them now. He discovered that pictorial representation is more prevalent when examining the origins of alphabets—all alphabets, in fact—because there is frequently a similarity between the sign's true meaning and what it is meant to represent. For instance, the symbol for a turtle in the original Chinese script resembles a turtle.
Wittmann loves signs as they leave room for interpretation. For instance, if one writes “the sky
is blue”, one will make for themself a mental representation of a blue sky, even if each one-off us
will probably have some nuance in our own mental representation of that blue sky. On the other hand, a sign can...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Handmade Paper
"Study for SWEEPS, " Pigment Ink on Photo Paper
Located in Chicago, IL
The colorful paintings of Jan Pieter Fokkens transport us to distant worlds beyond our comprehension. Within seemingly infinite networks of lines, dots, and crosses, he decodes the recognizable to create something unfamiliar.
Each work begins with a colorized photo captured by a deep-space telescope...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Photographic Paper
A Conversation With Myself VII
Located in New York, NY
About the Series:
Gilliam began the series Life Lines in 2017 after recently coming into possession of MRI scans of her brain. The scans, which she spent hours pouring over, both fascinated and horrified her. Gilliam always knew the seriousness of the brain injury suffered as a baby; however, it was the first time she confronted the visual evidence of the injury. Around the same time, she experienced a continuous period of profound familial loss. Both these episodes left her thinking about the body in a new light. This led her to study the biology and physiology of our bodies and the seemingly cruel, capricious way the body can behave, vacillating between strength and fragility. Gilliam began to make drawings from the MRIs recording the brain to understand how its structure and pathways form to activate the circumstances of the individual being we become. As the series has developed, the imagery has dissolved into abstraction, capturing something more existential. The repetitive lines revealed rhythms, and the patterns formed conversations. Ultimately, Life Lines has evolved into a visual story about connections, threading together a human body with its physical, metaphysical, and interpersonal environment.
About the Artist:
Claire Gilliam is an English photographer, printmaker, painter now based from her home and studio in Warwick, NY.
In 1997, she graduated from Sheffield Hallam University in the UK with a BA(Hons) in Fine Art and completed the Professional Certificate in Photography at Rockport College, Maine in 2000. She has studied with photographers such as Arno Minkkinen and John Goodman and master gelatin silver printer, Chuck Kelton and master printmaker, Vijay Kumar. She is an assistant for author and fine art photographer Barbara Mensch.
Her works have been shown across Europe and the USA and held in several private and public collections, including The ICP Library Print...
Category
2010s Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
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