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Medium: Ink
"Istanbul Rising" abstract, mixed media collage - framed
Located in New York, NY
12"x9" mixed media collage: acrylic, metallic watercolor and papers, ink, collage dressmaking patterns, framed in a black shadowbox frame.
Linda Ganjian's artwork captivates with it...
Category
2010s Abstract Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Foil
Timeworn Paper Artwork in White and Red, 2024 -
Color Lento
Located in Bruxelles, BE
Silvia De Marchi (b. 1967, Melzo, Italy) is an Italian painter currently based in Italy. Her artistic practice reflects a deep exploration of materiality and sensory experience, movi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Glue, Ink
Study for Shaped Painting
Located in Henderson, NV
This work was created with the intent during time Study for Bauhaus and has the same mindset.
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Archival Ink
$960 Sale Price
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Sweaty Feet (Leakers)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Gina Phillips is a mixed media, narrative artist who grew up in Kentucky and has lived in New Orleans since 1995. The imagery, stories and characters of both regions influence her wo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Fabric, Ink, Paint, Thread
Boldness 3
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
When I was very young I lost self-confidence, and self-esteem, Losing self-confidence and self-esteem at a young age can be a difficult experience. It can impact how you view yoursel...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
$1,600 Sale Price
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The Social Worker #11 - Colorful Figurative Original Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Italian artist Fabio Coruzzi merges painting and photography into one imaginative image that offers a new outlook on an otherwise ordinary urban scene. His artworks represent an auth...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Oil Pastel, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Graphite
Calm Mood #2 - Abstract
I LOVE YOU
Graffiti Mixed Media Painting on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles artist Amber Goldhammer paints dramatic abstract compositions in acrylic on canvas featuring energetic brushstrokes. Goldhammer uses her contemporary paintings to express...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Latex, Ink, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Registros X and XI, Diptych. From the series Registros
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Impressions of past lives, perceptions of future lives. The Records series carries that mystery. Simple and profound since its deed does not happen on the surface. Although it manif...
Category
2010s Abstract Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Lacquer, India Ink, Acrylic, Pigment
Dinner Disturbance
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Left
Frame: Antiqued, Black & Gilt presentation with 3 1/2"-wide Archival Mat. Condtion: Excellent original condition. 1/2-circle stain at top-center of image (above wr...
Category
1920s Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Ink, Board
Portrait de phase
Located in Paris, FR
Ink, gouache and collage
20.00 cm. x 20.00 cm. 7.87 in. x 7.87 in. (image)
31.50 cm. x 31.50 cm. 12.4 in. x 12.4 in. (frame)
Certificate of authenticity
LCD7184
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Paste, Ink, Gouache
Two Abstract Compositions
Located in Astoria, NY
Elfi Schuselka (Austrian, b. 1940), Two Abstract Compositions, Mixed Media on Canvas, each stamped "Studio Elfi Schuselka" to verso, unframed. 6" H x 8" W x 0.75" D. Provenance: From...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Mixed Media, Oil
Quest for Identity
Located in Detroit, MI
The self-discovery journey is an arduous one. Progress comes in transformative waves. Realizing that you are already enough is worthy of celebration. In this work, the artists use bo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Metal
Fragmented in Blue with Windmills, Bridge and Boats
Located in New York, NY
Robert Strati is an American artist who creates multimedia artworks using broken plates. His recent series “Fragmented” started when he accidentally dropped and broke a porcelain pla...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Porcelain, Ink
Fragmented in Blue with Waterfall print
Located in New York, NY
Robert Strati is an American artist who creates multimedia artworks using broken plates. His recent series “Fragmented” started when he accidentally dropped and broke a porcelain pla...
Category
2010s Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Porcelain, Ink, Digital
"A Six-Letter Word Meaning Trouble" Story Illustration, Good Housekeeping
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed "James Montgomery Flagg" Lower Right by Artist
"'I've found a woman to sew on buttons,' he said politely. 'Have I?' he inquired of Nancy. 'Big Boy, you have.'" Illustration ...
Category
1930s Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Ink
Urban Opal
Located in Detroit, MI
Late night fog from unusually cold air in Jacksonville FL birthed the photographic image made and used by the artists as the base layer for this work. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Metal
"Queen of Darkness" abstract mixed media collage, (blue, red, brown, gold, grey)
Located in New York, NY
22’’ x 30" mixed media collage: ink, watercolor, origami paper, gold foil, pattern-making paper on paper, framing options available.
Linda Ganjian's artwork captivates with its or...
Category
2010s Abstract Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Foil
Peter Max
Sailboat Sunrise
mixed media on paper
By Peter Max
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Peter Max
Title: Sailboat Sunrise
Medium: Mixed Media On Paper
Edition: Original
Size: 13.5"x11.75" inches
Hand signed by the artist
Frame size 22.25"x18.25" inches
Condition...
Category
1990s Pop Art Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Pencil
Loser #7 - Colorful Figurative Modern Cultural Commentary Original Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Italian artist Fabio Coruzzi merges painting and photography into one imaginative image that offers a new outlook on an otherwise ordinary urban scene. His artworks represent an auth...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Graphite
$1,540 Sale Price
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Stephanie Todhunter, Donna, Mixed Media, 2019
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Stephanie Todhunter
Title: Donna
Year: 2019
Size: 8"x7"x4"
Material: Plaster of paris, found objects, spraypaint, alcohol inks
Category
2010s Contemporary Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Plaster, Found Objects, Ink, Spray Paint
Set of 6 Liquid Life. From the series Liquid Life
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The Liquied series is inspired by transformation, the speed with which things change, and the material's ability to adapt to its environment. As Zygmunt Bauman describes, liquid life...
Category
2010s Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Congrajulicia" Hand crafted paper collage of female figure in vintage dress
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Congrajulicia" is an original piece made by Shawn Theodore from hand-crafted paper collage and acrylic and archival ink on Epson Hot Press Natural paper on wood panel. Using a blend...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Wood Panel
"Me Myself And I" Cityscape Still Life of Shoes Hanging on Electric Wire
By Sean 9 Lugo
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Me Myself And I" is an original piece by Sean 9 Lugo, known artistically for his murals and street art. The piece is made from acrylic, marker, and ink on panel and debuted in Lugo'...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Permanent Marker
Liquid Life N6 and N1, Diptych. From the series Liquid Life
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The Liquied series is inspired by transformation, the speed with which things change, and the material's ability to adapt to its environment. As Zygmunt Bauman describes, liquid life...
Category
2010s Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Marie Reaches
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Kim Frohsin, Third generation Bay Area Figurative artist began exhibiting in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1990s, and in 1993 was...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Pencil
"Double Ring Totem" abstract collage, (blue, red, black, silver, grey)
Located in New York, NY
12"x9" mixed media collage: acrylic, metallic watercolor and papers, ink, collage dressmaking patterns, framing options available.
Linda Ganjian's artwork captivates with its ornat...
Category
2010s Abstract Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Foil
Mona Lisa Mickey Mouse Manga Cartoon Pop Art by British Urban Graffiti Artist
By Chris Pegg
Located in Preston, GB
Mona Lisa Mickey Mouse Manga Cartoon Pop Art by British Urban Graffiti Artist, Chris Pegg.
This striking mixed media artwork by Chris Pegg exemplifies his vibrant, satirical style t...
Category
2010s Pop Art Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Metal
Natural Flow Series n2 and Liquid Life Series n5, Diptych. Abstract Painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Flow is the ability of liquids to continually move from one place to another. Also, It means accepting each situation as it is. The movement of the liquid comes from life, it is natu...
Category
2010s Abstract Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Lacquer, India Ink, Watercolor, Pigment
Foundations of Insight - Original Moody Mixed Media Surrealist Figurative Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Robert Lebsack creates artworks using mixed media with ink, acrylic, and charcoal on archival copies of newspapers, textbooks, and sheet music. As a visionary artist, Lebsack weaves ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Charcoal, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Archival Paper
"Reminiscing" Ink and Acrylic Illustration on Mounted Sketchbook
By Sean 9 Lugo
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Reminiscing" is an original piece by Sean 9 Lugo, known artistically for his murals and street art. The piece is part of Lugo's mounted "Blackbooks" series paying tribute to blackbo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Found Objects, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Permanent Marker
Diptych: ORBITA #2 and #3. From The Series Orbita
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This artwork depicts a perfectly synchronized dance across an ocean of empty space, inspired by the "Astronomical" section of the Jet Chocolate Bar Natural History Album (1986 editio...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Resin, Wood, Coating, Ink, Acrylic
Musical Scene Framed Original Litho
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5138 Large colorful Abstract Modernist colored lithograph signed
numbered 15/75 published 1970
Framed image size 23x23"
Excellent modernist composition
Category
1970s Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Ink
"Bucket Tool", Abstract Patterns, Geometric Abstraction, Painted Woodblock
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Bucket Tool" is an original piece by Alexis Nutini and is made from a painted woodblock. This piece measure 19"h x 14.5"w unframed.
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Ink, Wood Panel
Dad #01 - mixed media art
By Alon Seifert
Located in New York, NY
Alon Seifert (b. 1968) creates works that delve into the interplay between logic and the fluidity of sense, challenging the constructs of reason itself. His creative process unfolds ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Ink, Oil, Acrylic, Vinyl
$2,800 Sale Price
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Sailing Ship with Gulls Print
Located in New York, NY
Robert Strati is an American artist who creates multimedia artworks using broken plates. His recent series “Fragmented” started when he accidentally drop...
Category
2010s Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Porcelain, Ink, Digital
The Nile River : abstract work of art on paper
Located in New York, NY
A collage by New York artist Miranda Maher. Made with Ink, Indian marble paper and Japanese Chiyogami paper on handmade Japanese paper.
Miranda Maher’s ...
Category
2010s Abstract Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Ink
Happiness is Alive
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Acrylic on canvas with whispers of glitter coated with heavy resin.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Resin, Glitter, Ink, Acrylic
It
s Christmas Going On
Located in Detroit, MI
Christmas in Detroit ushers in the Holiday season with super hero gusto and keeps it going on. This work exists at the crossroads of Detroit iconic sculpture and the 21st century. Th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Metal
Rothko Comfort Blanket (limited edition textile with hand signed tag with label)
By Tracey Emin
Located in New York, NY
Tracey Emin
Rothko Comfort Blanket, 2010
Blanket, Embroidery, Thread, Linen
7 × 7 inches
Edition 14/100
Hand signed and numbered with ink title and inscription on tag "Rothko Comfort Blanket for Private Views and Other State Occasions."
Held in original Emin International packaging (unframed)
Provenance: Emin International
Accompanied by Certificate of Guarantee issued by Alpha 137 Gallery
An article in Artnews recounts the story: When Tracey Emin was going to the Royal College of Art in London in the late 1980s, she broke down while viewing a radiant pink-and-yellow Mark Rothko painting...
Category
2010s Young British Artists (YBA) Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Textile, Cotton, Thread, Ink, Mixed Media, Laid Paper, Ballpoint Pen
"Sunny Side Down", Surreal, Abstract, Landscape, Mixed Media Collage, 2024
Located in Franklin, MA
Monica DeSalvo’s “Sunny Side Down” is a surreal mixed media collage over an asymmetrical digital inkjet photo montage on Yupo paper with blue, green, teal, white, and purple. The abs...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Glue, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Color, Digital, Monop...
The Seven Seas in the Winds print
Located in New York, NY
Robert Strati is an American artist who creates multimedia artworks using broken plates. His recent series “Fragmented” started when he accidentally dropped and broke a porcelain pla...
Category
2010s Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Porcelain, Ink, Digital
The Mekong River : abstract work of art on paper
Located in New York, NY
A collage by New York artist Miranda Maher. Made with Ink, Indian marble paper and Japanese Chiyogami paper on handmade Japanese paper.
Miranda Maher’s ...
Category
2010s Abstract Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Ink
"Gentrification" Rockwell-Inspired Acrylic Street Scene with Animal Features
By Sean 9 Lugo
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Gentrification" is an original piece by Sean 9 Lugo, known artistically for his murals and street art. The piece is made from acrylic and ink on mixed media panel and was originally...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Found Objects, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Permanent Marker, Aquatint
"Jekyll Becomes Hyde" Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed "Chwast" in Pencil Lower Right
"Jekyll Becomes Hyde." Original illustration for a German edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, (Frankfu...
Category
1990s Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Ink, Tempera
"Huipil III", Abstract Patterns, Geometric Abstraction, Woodcut
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Huipil III" is an original piece by Alexis Nutini and is made from a reductive woodcut print. This piece measure 46"h x 36"w frame...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Woodcut, Paper, Ink
1960s "Night Magic" Teal, Pink, Yellow Collage Intaglio Etching NY Artist
Located in Arp, TX
Myril Adler
"Night Magic"
c.1960s
Intaglio etching collage, ink on paper
3"x6" framed
Signed and titled in ink
Myril Adler, was born on September 22, 1920 in Vitebsk, Russia (now Be...
Category
1960s Abstract Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Ink, Intaglio
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Board Painting - Practice Makes Perfect 120
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Practice Makes Perfect 120 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Acrylic on Board Painting
Practice Makes Perfect 120 is from Linda Stein's Missives series--a body of work...
Category
1970s Feminist Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic, Board, Ink, Laid Paper
Painting
sculpture on old barn door:
The Coming of the Donut Narwhal
By Joshua Goode
Located in New York, NY
Inspired by amateur archaeologists such as Heinrich Schliemann who discovered Troy and by past elaborate hoaxes like that of the Piltdown Man, Joshua travels the world performing sta...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Wood, Acrylic, Mixed Media, Paper, Ink
Tell Me A Story I, Paris, Books, Mixed Media Art, Pink Color Wave
Located in New york, NY
The contemporary work on paper is both art and photography, highlighting color fields. Tell Me A Story I, 2025 by Roberta Fineberg (RF) is 16 x 16in on Hahnemuhle paper, an original ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Archival Pigment, Oil Pastel, M...
The Seven Seas: Embarkation Print
Located in New York, NY
Robert Strati is an American artist who creates multimedia artworks using broken plates. His recent series “Fragmented” started when he accidentally drop...
Category
2010s Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Porcelain, Ink, Digital
"Peek A Boo" Rockwell-Inspired Painted Illustration in Framed Sketchbook
By Sean 9 Lugo
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Peek A Boo" is an original piece by Sean 9 Lugo, known artistically for his murals and street art. The piece is part of Lugo's mounted "Blackbooks" series paying tribute to blackboo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Paper, Found Objects, Permanent Marker
"Survival of the Fittest" Classic Boombox with Music Cassette in Acrylic and Ink
By Sean 9 Lugo
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Survival of the Fittest" is an original piece by Sean 9 Lugo, known artistically for his murals and street art. The hand illustrated and painted piece is made from acrylic, marker, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Permanent Marker
In My Mind - 21st Century, Contemporary, Abstract, Mixed Media, Colour Field
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gal...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Ink, Acrylic
Natural Flow Series n15 and n16, Diptych. From the Natural Flow series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Flow is the ability of liquids to continually move from one place to another. Also, It means accepting each situation as it is. The movement of the liquid comes from life, it is natu...
Category
2010s Abstract Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Ink
Love Garden Party (Envy)
by Skip Hill, Mixed Media Painting
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 26.5" x 29.5" by American artist, Skip Hill, is a vibrant mixed media collage/painting combining abstracted figures with stylized vases and domestic objects, adhering to the stylistic qualities of the Pop Art movement. The abstracted cats and the female figure are the focal points within the composition. Layered textures and material juxtapositions adhere to the assemblage processes. The integration of food bowls, patterned vessels, and foreign script introduces surreal narrative elements and multicultural references, positioning the work within postmodern collage traditions.
'Love Garden Party (Envy)' is on 150 lb paper stock and is hand embellished with inks, acrylic paints and collage, thus creating a unique work of art. Love Garden Party (Envy) is framed with conservation quality, high UV-filtering museum glazing. The painting/collage is signed on the lower front of the work by the artist. The work is framed in a heavy white wooden frame.
Skip Hill was born in 1961 in Padre Island, Texas but grew up primarily in Oklahoma City. After attending Oklahoma City University to study Advertising and Marketing, he worked as a graphic designer before relocating in 1987 to Southern California. A two-week trip to Thailand in 1989 turned into a year traveling throughout Southeast Asia while writing for a business magazine based in Bangkok. In 1990 Skip Hill relocated to the Netherlands, immersing himself in the culture and learning the Dutch language. His frequent visits the Van Gogh Museum, the Stedelijk Museum and The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam as well as the Boijman Van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam, sparked Hill’s interest in creating art inspired by aesthetic concerns over the strictly commercial art he produced during his advertising career. It was during this time abroad that he traveled through Germany, Czechoslovakia and Morocco. After returning to Oklahoma in 1993, Skip Hill studied formally at The University of Oklahoma with conceptual artist Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds, and influential abstract painter George Bogart...
Category
2010s Abstract Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Magazine Paper
Original tulips in landscape ink drawing, signed
inscribed in monograph Framed
By Jeff Koons
Located in New York, NY
Jeff Koons
Original tulips in landscape drawing, 2011
Original drawing done in ink across the title pages of Gagosian Gallery monograph
Signed, dated and warmly inscribed to Jennifer...
Category
2010s Pop Art Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Lithograph, Offset
Rhythm 1, 2 and 3 Triptych. From The Rhythm Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Neerja Chandna Peters enjoys navigating harmony through the play of lines with their symmetrical synchrony and rhythmic interplay, manipulating the nuances, their saturation and thei...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Archival Ink, Acrylic
1960s "Shifting" Collage Intaglio Etching Blue Yellow Pink NY Artist Myril Adler
Located in Arp, TX
Myril Adler
"Shifting"
c.1960s
Intaglio etching collage, ink on paper
5.25"x2.5" unframed
Signed and titled in ink
Myril Adler, was born on September 22, 1920 in Vitebsk, Russia (no...
Category
1960s Abstract Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Ink, Intaglio
Cosmic Play 9, 12 and 13 Triptych. From The Cosmic Play Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Neerja Chandna Peters enjoys navigating harmony through the play of lines with their symmetrical synchrony and rhythmic interplay, manipulating the nuances, their saturation and thei...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Archival Ink, Acrylic
The Fatigue of the Conquest
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A group of figures heads for icy distant mountains. A familiar enough scene of polar explorers hauling their sledges. Yet somehow this does not quite fit the heroic mold. The ice and sky are tinged a movie musical pale blue and their gear is a bit too colorful for the era of man-hauling. And then there’s the sled, piled high not with boxes of supplies but with a jumbled heap of antiquities: Greek Athenas, bits of a coliseum, a ship’s great wheel. In Jessica Houston’s collage “The Long Haul,” the explorers drag history itself into the great beyond, their backs turned from their absurd load. But we take in the entire scene.
In her suite of works, Over the Edge of the World, Houston uses oil on wood, ink on paper, and collages of found images, many from National Geographic Magazine, to rearrange the evidence – and thus history’s possibilities.
Houston joins visual artists such as Judit Hersko, Katja Aglert, and Isaac Julien who have been inspired by the explorers of the past. Like them, she draws, in part, on the singular tradition of polar exploration narratives as well as fictions such as Ursula Le Guin’s “Sur” (1981), a utopian feminist hoax in which a party of South American women reach the South Pole in 1909, two years before the official arrival of European explorers. Le Guin’s explorers do not feel compelled to leave any written record or physical proof of their presence at the South Pole. If Le Guin’s women might have made it, what other traces have been missed?
Collage can work alongside alternative history: it interprets, interrupts, and rearranges. It questions the completed whole, instead emphasizing composition and relation. Collage suggests it all might be … otherwise. Houston’s collages flaunt their second nature. Yet what they show remains somehow plausible. You want to believe what you’re beginning to see.
In “A life Attuned to Larger Rhythms” Houston grids out rectangles of captured images to overwhelm the eye as the polar environment itself might (whiteout is a paradoxical species of optical overstimulation). Through the strangely ordered confusion of an ice survey grafted atop a chessboard, the mind begins to recognize new connections, emergent shapes: a different future? In “Launching Strategy” a yellow-orange pyramid balances garishly atop a tent. Which came first, the realist tent or the Platonic shape? Can we ever be sure that we’re not already seeing through premade abstractions? Or is it that baggage we’ve been dragging along?
In “Architecture of the Anthropocene” and “Red Blood, Red Earth” Houston reroutes visually symbolic through-lines between women and non-European people and the official history in which they appear dimly or not at all. A full-skirted woman holds onto the tether of a kite that seems to pull her upwards towards a weather balloon floating above an Antarctic base’s radio tower; a row of tropical workers wielding pickaxes folds into the trajectory of a sailor aiming a bow and arrow at an iceberg stained with red. These are not people or images normally associated with polar discovery. But shouldn’t they matter?
“Territory Over Land” strips in a scene from a painted depiction of the tropics, possibly from one of Captain James Cook’s circumnavigations. “Captain Cook’s Legacy” more directly confronts an official portrait of Cook with the torn-in eyes from what can only be described as the explorer’s anonymous dark Other. The hybrid portrait is a kind of contact zone. “Henson and Peary – Past Entanglements” is a cooler, less volatile twin portrait of disputed discoverer of the North Pole Robert Peary...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ink Mixed Media
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
Ink mixed media for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Ink mixed media available on 1stDibs. While artists have worked in this medium across a range of time periods, art made with this material during the 21st Century is especially popular. If you’re looking to add mixed media created with this material to introduce a provocative pop of color and texture to an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, pink, red and other colors. There are many well-known artists whose body of work includes ceramic sculptures. Popular artists on 1stDibs associated with pieces like this include Irena Orlov, Francisco Nicolás, Kory Twaddle, and Olivia Munroe. Frequently made by artists working in the Contemporary, Abstract, all of these pieces for sale are unique and many will draw the attention of guests in your home. Not every interior allows for large Ink mixed media, so small editions measuring 0.1 inches across are also available
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