Oil Abstract Paintings

Bettina Mauel expresses dynamism and sensuality in her paintings: “I paint what I experience,” she articulates. “This includes landscapes, flowers, and people in motion, capturing them at a particular moment in time.” Her artworks often incorporate a sophisticated and vibrant sense of movement. The secret bond that connects everything is a combination of appearance and perception, which Mauel has devoted herself to studying during her artistic career. Whether the subject be dancers, cityscapes, landscapes, or pure expression, Mauel has exemplified herself as an expert in the acute perception of ephemeral moments. This original landscape painting immerses the viewer into the serene world of a masterful portrayal of nature's greens and sky's blues. Layers of carefully applied hues evoke the tranquility of trees, and the sun's gentle embrace in abstract form. This artwork seamlessly blends modern aesthetics with nature's beauty, embodying the allure of modern landscapes. The canvas features a delicate fusion of emerald green, forest green, and accents of blue and white, creating a sophisticated ambiance. Delicate textured layers add depth, making it perfect for modern, nature-inspired decor. Crafted in oil on canvas, this original artwork by Bettina Mauel showcases her exceptional skill, revered by art enthusiasts worldwide. This original artwork measures 24 inches high by 40 inches wide. Mauel created this one-of-a-kind painting using layered oil paint on linen canvas with a balanced subtlety. It is signed and dated by the artist on the back. It is stretched, wired, and ready to hang. Free local Los Angeles area delivery. Affordable Continental U.S. and worldwide shipping is available. A certificate of authenticity issued by the art gallery is included. Bettina Mauel was born 1959 in Wuppertal, Germany. She studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Gerhard Richter, one of the most important artists of the 20th century. In 1984 Mauel was asked by the city of Wuppertal, Germany to paint scenes of the dance theater of Pina Bausch. This had a major influence on the selection of themes in her imagery. Rather than focusing on spectacular poses, she pays acute attention to the spontaneous movements in between, capturing a resonating rush of color and form. These impromptu paintings combine a long tradition of Eastern scroll painting, expressionist sketching, and fashion illustration. She lives and works as a lecturer in painting and artist in Cologne, Germany. Bettina Mauel has presented her work in numerous exhibitions throughout Europe, North America, and Asia and her art has been acquired by many notable public institutions. Representations Artspace Warehouse Los Angeles Kunstwarenhaus Zurich, Switzerland Group Exhibitions: 2020 Galerie Partout, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany Art Karlsruhe, Galerie Lauth, Germany 2019 Discovery art fair, Frankfurt Artspace Warehouse Los Angeles, CA, USA 2018 AAF Hong Kong AAF New York, NY, USA Artspace Warehouse Los Angeles, CA, USA Kunstverein Worth eV, Worth, Germany 2017 AAF Hong Kong AAF Battersea, London, UK Artspace Warehouse Los Angeles, CA, USA Kunstwarenhaus Zurich, Switzerland 2016 AAF New York, NY, USA AAF Hong Kong Art Hamptons, NY 2015 Los Angeles Art Show, CA, USA AAF New York, NY, USA Love Art Fair Toronto, Canada AAF Singapore 2014 AAF New York (Artspace Warehouse), NY, USA Love Art Fair Toronto (Artspace Warehouse), Canada Houston Fine Art Fair, TX, USA Red Dot Art Fair Miami, FL, USA 2013 Kunstwarenhaus, Zürich, Switzerland Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, USA 2011 Messmer Kunsthalle, Riegel, Germany 2009 Badisches Kunstforum, Ebringen, Germany 2007 Künstler der Galerie, Galerie Nordmann, Bad Kreuznach 2006 Galerie Kunstturm e. v, Ratingen 2004 Galerie, Schloss Oberhausen, Germany 2003 Galerie Peveling, Köln, Germany 2002 Wissenschaftspark, Gelsenkirchen, Germany 2001 Galerie Vostry, Erfurt, Germany 1999 Hans-Thoma-Museum, Bernau, Germany 1995 le rhin de waal, rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn 1993 Galerie Michele Hensel, Agrippawerft Köln, Germany 1991 Kunsthalle Barmen, Wuppertal, Germany Frauenmuseum Bonn, Germany 1990 Gut Opherdicke, Unna, Germany Baukunst-Galerie, Köln, Germany 1988 Goethe-Institut, London, UK Goethe-Institut, Sofia, Bulgaria 1986 Famagusta Gate, Nicosia, Cyprus 1984 Charlottenburger Schloß, Berlin, Germany Hannover - Herrenhausen, Germany Stadthausgalerie, Münster, Germany 1983 Akademie München, Germany Museum Abtei, Liesborn, Germany Solo Exhibitions 2020 alles bewegt, Galerie Berghout, Frankfurt 2019 Galerie K, Bad Kreuznach, Germany 2018 Galerie van Almsik, Epe- Gronau, Germany 2017 Alte Pumpstation, Haan, Germany 2016 Palmengarten Frankfurt, Germany 2015 Schloss Paffendorf, Galerie Bergheim, Germany 2013 Galerie Lauth, Ludwigshafen, Germany 2012 Kunst in der Villa, Waldshut-Tiengen, Germany 2010 Oberlandesgericht, Köln, Germany 2008 ces Wasserprojekt, Damaskus, Syria tanzhaus nrw, Düsseldorf, Germany Wasserturm, Meerbusch, Germany 2007 kleine Rathausgalerie Odenthal, Germany Kulturverein Schloss Eulenbroich, Ratingen, Germany Alte Synagoge, Meschede, Germany 2006 tanzende Bilder, Galerie Peveling, Köln cultur and dance boise, Illinois, USA 2005 Icon-Institut, Köln, Germany Culturclub Vancouver, sunshine coast Vancouver, Canada 2004 Ferme Heremance, Switzerland Galerie drei Eichen, Uelzen, Germany artrium art gallery, Luxemburg 2003 Fishhall, Chicago, USA Galerie Peveling, Köln, Germany 2002 Galerie der Universität Köln, Germany 2000 Galerie Luley, Wuppertal, Germany Kulturhaus Llyz, Siegen , Germany 1999 Stadtwerke Troisdorf, Germany 1998 Ingenieurkammer– Bau NRW, Essen, Germany 1997 Ka De We, Berlin, Germany Markgrafenhaus, Berlin, Germany 1996 Art Frankfurt, Galerie Peveling, Germany Kloster Pfaffen-Schwabenheim, Germany 1995 Galerie Hensel und Wiegers, Köln, Germany Castello di Rossignano, German-Italian Culture Institute, Italy Abtei Brauweiler, Köln, Germany 1994 Galerie Peveling, Vence, France Galerie Ricarda Fox, Essen, Germany 1993 Galerie Grashey, Konstanz, Germany 1992 Kunstverein Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany Bayer AG, Hochhaus w1, Leverkusen, Germany 1990 Kunstverein Schwelm, Schloß Martfeld , Germany 1989 Galerie Ruth Leuchter, Düsseldorf, Germany 1988 Galerie 2 well, Holland Friedrich...

Abstract Portrait French School, mid 20th century oil on board, unframed 36 x 25 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: very good and sound condition though there i...

Harrison Gilman's large original artworks begin with a layer of fast-paced gestural abstraction followed by organic shapes and geometric structures. Some of his paintings remain in t...

This is one of the most loved paintings of Shizico Yi to date. To document the streets they've walked and her late dog's favourite trees, Shizico Yi embark...

"Ohne Titel (Merzbild Mit Schuhsohle) (Untitled (Merz Picture with Shoe Sole))" is an abstract Post War oil and relief assemblage on plywood painting made by Kurt Schwitters in 1945....

Abstract Expressionist Composition by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011) gouache painting on thick board unframed: 8 x 8 inches condition: excellent provenance: all the paintings we have fo...

Nude Abstract by Therese Hummel (French, 1911-1999) oil on canvas, unframed canvas : 10.75 x 14 inches Provenance: private collection of this artists work, Paris Condition: sound and...

Medium: Oil on linen canvas Canvas size: 30 x 30 cm (11.81 x 11.81 in) Framed size: 37 x 37 cm (14.56 x 14.56 in) Frame: American box frame in natural wood Year: 2025 Style: Abstrac...

Bettina Mauel expresses vitality and sensuality in her abstract contemporary landscape paintings. “I paint what I experience,” she articulates. “This includes landscapes, dancers, an...

Under The Sea Series Nº 24. Oil on paper. Fantasy underwater abstract landscape. Green color. Transparencies effect. Measurements: (H) 30 cm. / 1...

Untitled XLVI is a unique oil on free-standing canvas painting by contemporary artist Ferle, dimensions are 280 × 200 cm (110.2 × 78.7 in). The artwork is signed, sold unframed and c...

Landscape water/ground Oil on cotton canvas 110x180cm the painting is shipped ready to hang the cotton canvas stretched on a handmade wooden frame...

A mid-century modern geometric abstract painting by American artist Richard Huntington. Richard Huntington (b. 1936) is an American painter, printmaker, and writer, is Critic Emerit...

'Stretcher Series' by Toi Hoang, 1990. Large Conceptual Oil, SFMoMA, SECA Art Award, CMoCA, Saigon ----- Signed lower right, on stretcher bar, 'T H N' for Toi Hoang (Vietnamese-Amer...

'Portrait of Future Man', oil on board, Berlin School, (circa 1960s). A thoroughly modern portrait clearly in the style of Italian Futurist, Fortunato Depero (1892-1960). Futurism co...

"Modernist Palettes" is a hand-painted acrylic painting on high-quality 300g paper by artist Ryan Rivadeneyra. These painting, influenced by modernist artists of the 50's, 60's, and...

Hunt Slonem "Paul" Black and Green Bunny A single rabbit gestured in black on a light green background in a vintage frame Unframed: 8 x 6 inches Framed: 14 x 12 inches *Painting is ...

Title: Impressionist Village Hilltop Church Scene with Autumn Trees by Fanch Lel By Fanch Lel Size: 20.5 x 19.25 inches (height x width) Oil painting on cardboard, unframed Condition...

Abstract interior oil painting by French contemporary artist Sophie Dumont, Dialogue de Couleurs (Dialogue of Colors) captures the quiet energy of the artist’s studio — a space where...

Artist/ School: French School, early 20th century Title: Golden colors Medium: oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 7.75 x 13 inches Provenance: private collection, France C...

Abstract expressionist oil painting by contemporary Houston artist Benji Stiles. The work features gestural marks and rounded shapes in pastel pink, green, and orange tones set against a light background. Currently unframed, but options are available. Artist Biography: Born in New Orleans, Robert Benjamin Stiles (Benji) is a multidisciplinary artist and educator who lives and works in Houston. He holds a B.A. from the University of St. Thomas, with a major in Art History and a minor in Studio Arts, and is currently an MFA candidate at MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art). His work ranges from non-representational painting focusing on diverse mark-making and color theory to conceptual sculpture and assemblage using historical and found objects. Since 2019, Stiles has established a successful art practice at Hardy and Nance studios while exhibiting work throughout the region including three solo shows (Hardy & Nance Gallery 2020, Lonestar College 2021, G-Contemporary 2022). Recent group shows include Collect it For the Culture 2021 (curated by Robert Hodge) where he showed work alongside more than 30 artists including – Rick Lowe...

Oil paint pushed with a palette knife to create swathes and streaks of colour; orange, blue and white. This is part of the artist’s ongoing practice, where he intuitively paints f...

Artist: Detlef E. Aderhold Medium: Mixed Media on Canvas Edition: Original Abstract Painting in Turquoise, Green, Yellow, Blue, Red and Black About the Artist: Detlef E. Aderhol...

Mixed media oil paint and linseed dipped charcoal on canvas, in this calming, soothing and engaging large-scale atmospheric work of art by Sophie Dixon. The paint is applied fairly t...

PATRICK WILSON (b. 1970, Redding, CA) received his Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of California, Davis in 1993 and his Masters of Fine Art degree at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, CA in 1995. For abstract painter Patrick Wilson, aesthetic beauty and visual pleasure are primary concerns. Using drywall tools, paint rollers, and masking tape, Wilson layers lines, squares, and rectangles in meticulously balanced compositions that, with the use of vivid color, evoke a palpable sense of light. Despite Wilson’s assiduous process, he also works intuitively, responding to his compositions as they evolve. “The key value of abstraction to me is its openness,” he explains. “The best abstraction isn’t didactic, it’s experiential.” He has had numerous solo exhibitions, including Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA; “Evolving Geometries: Line, Form, and Color,” Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA; “Steak Night,” Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA; “Patrick Wilson: Pull,” University Art Museum, California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA; “Slow Motion Action Painting,” Marx & Zavattero, San Francisco, CA; and “Slow Food,” Curator’s Office, Washington, D. C. Recent group exhibitions include "Do You Think it Needs a Cloud," Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; “20 Years Anniversary Exhibition,” Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; “The Responsive Eye Revisited: Then, Now, and In-Between,” Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; “Michael Reafsnyder & Patrick Wilson”, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; “Pivotal: Highlights from the Collection,” Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; “On the Road...

Tara's work draws upon the simplicity that is shared within a moment. Her brushwork is soft and raw leaving the viewer with implements of her imagination dashing across the canvas wi...

Work size 38x28 cm. Frame size 41x31 cm. Jose Antonio Herrera Alcazar was born in 1960 and was largely influenced by the 1970s. The art sphere of the 1970s was epitomized by a longi...

Abstract Universe Composition In Red Artist signed verso, oil on canvas 60hx48w JARO was born in 1934 Prague the Czech Republic. Since his childhood, he enjoyed his art class at scho...

A wonderful composition of one of Slonem's newest series, Daisy's. This piece depicts a gestural Daisy on a lime green background with thick use of paint. Inspired by nature and a ge...

Abstract by Yvette Dubois-Habasque (1929-2016) dated verso oil painting on artists board, unframed painting measures: 15.75 x 15.75 inches Stunning original abstract painting by th...

Title: French Impressionist Street Scene with Figures in Traditional Dress By Fanch Lel Size: 16 x 13 inches (height x width) Oil painting on board, unframed Condition: The painting ...

This series of abstract geometric paintings by Natalia Roman draws its inspiration from the sleek grids and curves of Bauhaus architecture, while at the same time exploring bright an...

Artist: Detlef E. Aderhold Medium: Mixed Media on Canvas Edition: Original Abstract Painting in Yellow, Blue, Red and Black About the Artist: Detlef E. Aderhold is a contemporar...

" Arroyo New" is 72” x 60”. Shades of sea green with shocks of coral and orange create a solo figure on a frosty field of white and light grey. Frank Arnold’s paintings exhibit the h...

THIS PAINTING WAS RECENTLY FEATURED IN ELLE DECOR! Aura pure" is a soft, pink, pastel abstract painting. An ethereal, light-filled, sublime expression. It has a palette of many colo...

'Backwash' — luminous oil on linen. Dimensions are 60 x 72 inches. French American Frédéric Choisel, is inspired by the cities and countrysides of France, New York, and California'...

Title: French Impressionist Painting of Moored Fishing Boats and Lighthouse By Fanch Lel Signed: Yes Size: 8.75 x 10.75 inches (height x width) Oil painting on board, unframed Condit...

Motivated by bold color and fast brushwork, we are moved by the simplicity and thick textured oil paints in these works. Shaoul’s “My Heart Collection” is a vibrant and energetic dis...

Title: Impressionist Still Life of Sunflowers in a Vase with Soft Blue Background By Fanch Lel Signed: Yes Size: 18.25 x 15 inches (height x width) Oil painting on cardboard, unframe...

An abstract expressionist painting by Duayne Hatchett . Oil on canvas, circa 1990. Signed verso. Framed. Image size, 60"H x 56"L. Duayne Hatchett was a visual artist whose work included prints, paintings, sculpture, and found objects. He was born on May 12, 1925 in Shawnee, Oklahoma. He enlisted in the Air Force where he trained to become a fighter pilot. After leaving the militrary he studied design at the University of Oklahoma. His highly technical military training combined a mathematical intelligence with a love for physics and a daring embrace of new experience, all of which would soon be the tools for his evolution through art. Two major influences interacted on his early development at OU. Emelio Omero, a colleague and close friend of Diego Rivera, introduced him to the revolutionary art ideas of Mexico City, while teaching him a wide range of printing techniques that would culminate in a Masters Degree in Painting in 1952. During this time he met Bruce Goff, a renowned Wright disciple, who was teaching architecture at OU and befriended Hatchett, introducing him to the most avant-garde architecture of that time. He spent his summers while at OU designing for a small sign shop, which introduced him to new materials used for building neon, plastic, and metal signs. The use of new materials and a keen sense for design would soon become invaluable building blocks for future sculpture. During this time he met and married Mary Ellen Jeffries. They would spend their lives together and raise three children, David (me), my brother Dana, and my sister Jeffri. As children, they were immersed in art from childhood and benefited greatly from this loving art and domestic environment. Hatchett was always interested in the techniques of construction, often watching different tradesmen working, understanding how materials are put together to create the manmade environment that surrounded him. While teaching printmaking at Oklahoma City University from 1951 through ‘54, he began to build sculpture employing some of the materials and techniques that he saw workers using. He was beginning to draw the attention of architects and he became interested in their work-trade processes, moving from blue prints to construction. He accepted an invitation from Alexander Hogue...

Iona Scottish School, modern oil on canvas canvas: 25 x 24 inches the painting is in overall very good and sound condition

WIth a passion for restoring historic houses, one of Slonem's properties is in Lousiana, where he now spends a lot of his time painting and picking up inspiration for his pallet. Thi...

Landscape painter, Gail Morris, has won many prestigious awards for her paintings and her work can be found in private and corporate collections throughout the United States, Japan, and Europe. Painting since 1999, her work as an artist has taken her on a number of extraordinary adventures around the globe, from the Navajo lands in New Mexico to the Dogon villages of West Africa. Morris attended Washington University, where she studied art history and eventually graduated from Webster College. However, as an artist, she considers herself to be self-taught. With her artwork, she likes to experiment with deconstruction and making the layers of paint as thin as possible, often times rubbing 60% of the paint off the canvass, or using steel wool and razor blades to distress the paint. She captures the soothing exuberance of the Western landscape by reducing each experience to its visual and emotional essence. Her serene paintings are influenced by the traditions of early California painting...

Painted sculpted cardboard Unique work Coming from the artist's studio Jacques ROUBY, the aesthetics of mystery "Experimental dreamer, passionate about graphic adventures, delibera...

Andrei Petrov's "Exit Strategy" is a 36 x 48-inch abstract landscape painting on canvas. The main colors are blue. The reference to a natural landscape is clearly there. Petrov works...

Tremaine’s oil paintings merge the personal and universal. In her Crosscurrents series, swans and seabirds move through layered abstract fields, suggesting emotional depth and natura...

Signed, verso, 'T. Fontaine' for Ted Fontaine (American, born 1952) and dated 2007. A substantial, Post-Impressionist landscape comprising overlaid and i...

Horizon Original Op Art Painting 1978 Artist signed and dated. Marko Spalatin (American, Born 1945). An original Modern Abstract Op-Art oil painting on canvas. Titled "Horizon". Featuring colors of white, yellow, orange, green, purple, and blue. Signed and dated 1978 with title on verso. Mounted on wood stretcher. Provenance: 11/10/2007 Ivey-Selkirk Auction, LOT 775. PERMANENT COLLECTIONS Musée d'Art Moderne — Paris, France Museum of Modern Art — New York, New York Tate Gallery — London, England Bibliothèque National — Paris, France Victoria & Albert Museum — London, England Library of Congress — Washington, D.C. Museum of Contemporary Art — Chicago, Illinois Metropolitan Museum — Manila, Philippines Philadelphia Museum of Art — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The Butler Institute of American Art — Youngstown, Ohio Museum of Modern Art — Belgrade, Yugoslavia Milwaukee Art Museum...

5-3290 Deep Space, a contemporary black and white oil on canvas signed by Avil. Unframed Rapped canvas no frame required

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A painting from my Angel Collection, inspired by a season of challenge and overcoming cancer, a journey marked by many angels along the way. A brilliant palette of ultramarine blue a...

Large Turquoise French Expressionist Abstract Oil Painting by Armand Rottenberg (French 1903-2000) signed on the lower right hand corner, oil painting on board, framed Framed 37.5...

Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Dichotomy, 1962 Oil on paper Signed and dated upper left 20 x 25 inches Mid-century figural abstract green painting of woman swimming ...

Abstract Expressionist Composition by Gilbert Pelissier (French born 1924) signed oil painting on canvas, unframed inscribed verso dated 68' canvas size: 35 x 46 inches condition: ov...

Substantial and period painting, a Mid Century Modern portrait of a woman in an abstracted landscape by listed California artist Tarmo Pasto...

Oil, casein & ink on panel Paul Lorenz is an American artist born in 1961 who lives & works in Buckeye, AZ, USA. With an education in Bauhaus architecture, fine art, and music compo...

Fredric Karoly (1898-1987). Etude III, 1950. Oil on masonite panel measures 18 x 24 inches. Unframed. Signed, titled, dated on reverse. Good condition with minor paint loss at edges. Biography: An abstract painter, Karoly was born in Hungary and studied painting in Paris, architectural eingineering in Berlin, and emigrated to the U.S. in 1926. He began a successful career as a fashion and fabric designer. In 1948 he was working as a fashion director for Simplicity Patters, when he had a solo exhibition of of his oil paintings, wire montages, dry-pen drawings and abstract photography. Solo Exhibitions: Hugo Gallery (Alexandre Iolas) New York 1948; Gallery Mai. Paris 1949; New Gallery (Eugene Thaw) New York 1950; Museu de Arte, Sao Paulo, Brazil 1951; Miami Museum of Modern Art, Miami, Florida 1959; Loft Gallery, New York City, 1966.Group Exhibitions: Hugo Gallery, New York 1947; Salon des Realities Nouvelles, Paris 1949-1953; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (Annual) 1951-1953, 1963; Biennale of Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1951; International Independent Exhibition, Tokyo, 1951; Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1959; The Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown, Ohio, 1960; Stuttman Gallery, New York, 1960; The Art Institute of Chicago (Annual), 1960; International Watercolor Exhibition, Brookyln Museum, 1961; Westchester Art Museum, White Plains, NY, 1963; Whitney Museum, Annual, NY 1963; Cleveland Art Festival, Park Synagogue, Cleveland, 1963; Whitney Museum, Sculpture Annual, NY, 1964.Works in Institutional Collections: Museu de Arte, San Paulo, Brazil; Museu de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina; New York University, New York; Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri; Finch College, NY; Barnard College, NY; Metropolitan Museum, Whitney Museum and Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL. Awards: National Council Arts Awards, 1968. Frederic Karoly died on December 15, 1987 at the Inter-Continental Hotel in Manhattan, where he had made his home for many years. Fredric Karoly was born in Budapest in 1893. According to Karoly’s own vitae, his exhibition history began in New York in 1947, when at the age of 54 he took part in a four-person group show at Hugo Gallery. His involvement with visual art however was apparently life long. In a brief introduction to his solo show at Galerie Mai in Paris in June of 1949, Jen Luc de Rudder, reports that Karoly began painting at the age of 12 in Budapest. After several years of studying, then working in London, Paris and Berlin, Karoly emigrated to the United States in 1925 or 1926 (he probably first came to the US on a work visa in 1925). In New York, Karoly worked in women’s fashion as a designer. In 1948 Karoly worked in a manner than was clearly influenced by the work of such European surrealists as Max Ernst, creating spiked automatic bi-chromatic paintings. His style progressed into a progressively more biomorphic vein, similar to explorations by Theodore Stamos, Daphnis, Milton Avery and Mark Rothko around the same period. He was supported with patronage during this period by Mrs. Mimi Baliff, who apparently supported the “Industrial Design Workshop” that she helped open to feature Karoly’s designs in 1948. By the early 1950’s (1951) Karoly started experimenting with the drip and splatter process as well. Drip paintings dominated his process until the late 50’s-early 60’s, when linear compositional elements began to reemerge. By the late 50’s multi-layered drip grid motifs asserted a masque of spatial organization over looser washed fields and splatters of paint that Karoly worked off of. This development was consistent with concurrent explorations into the grid by artist Agnes Martin and others. By the mid-50’s Karoly’s style began another transition into a more surface concerned “Color Field” style of painting. There are elements still reminding one of Abstract Expressionist concerns as such painters as Clifford Still. But the works that began to emerge from Karoly’s studio in 1958 presaged the Morris Lewis fan motifs and Friedl Dzubas’s epic and romantic color spewing expanses of canvas. In 1959 Karoly began experiments using washes of turpentine diluted oil paint directly onto raw linen, and all of these subsequently suffered the consequences of oil oxidation and acidity upon the surfaces. However, many of Karoly’s washes in color field happily occurred on lightly prepared primed canvas surfaces as well. By 1960 Karoly began reintroducing imagistic references to his visual content. There were also various references to Japanese and Zen influences. He experimented with a variety of processes that included mixed media and marbleized surfaces achieved by the intermixture of oil and water mediums. A calligraphic element also enter Karoly’s work in the early 60’s. Then in 1961 glued and assembled objects begin to show up in Karoly’s work in earnest. The influence of early POP artists, particularly Jasper Johns, and Robert Rauschenberg, become apparent. From 1961-63, a series of the assemblage works transition from canvas to the sculptural to pieces obviously intended for full scale installation. Many of these pieces were among the most fragile of his works primarily due to their reliance upon the of gluing of objects such as plastic or paper cups on flexible surfaces of stretched linen or canvas. In the mid-60’s Karoly apparently produced a number of photo-silk screened series of Picasso, De Kooning and other significant artists of his generation. These were executed in a style somewhere between Rauschenberg’s and Roy Lichtenstein’s, primarily because of their reliance upon half tones and Ben-Day dot effects. Then Karoly began a series of paintings conflating his drip and grid styles with super imposed and painted over string. In the late 60’s Karoly embarked upon a series of multi-paneled stretched linen constructions often with slits and fiber optic back-lit elements that were prescient of the work of Dan Flavin and others. It was this body of work that was shown at Hofstra University’s Emily Lowe Gallery, and it was these works that suffered perhaps the most irreparable damage from a steam/water infiltration in a space where they were being stored. The late professional start that Karoly had into the art world was balanced by his long life span and early immersion into the design issues of modernism as it emerged in turn of the century Europe and later evolved in America. He was clearly an artist who subscribed to the ethos of the new in abstraction and was obviously impressionable and in some instances prescient with regard to various trends in abstraction. Several noteworthy and influential collectors and institutions during his 40 years of professional engagement acquired his work. The Whitney Museum of American Art had and may still own a large Karoly canvas from 1960, but this is doubtful as the artist failed to list it on the vitae he filed with MoMA in 1965. His work was recognized and honored by the Whitney with its inclusion in four of their annual survey shows (1951,1953, 1963 and 1964). The artist’s surrealist influenced paintings from 1948-1950 were the focus of a solo exhibition held of his work by the Museo de Art in Sao Paulo and eight years later a ten year survey of his work was the focus of a solo show at the Miami Museum of Modern art. The Sao Paulo Museum in Brazil, and the Museo de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires, Argentina each acquired Karoly paintings for their collections in the 1950’s. One of Karoly’s surrealist pieces was apparently purchased by Christian Zervos, Picasso’s designated chronicler, who apparently also wrote a piece on Karoly in Cahiers D’Art in 1949. A 60’s piece of Karoly art that is in the New York University’s permanent collection is included in the MoMA Library’s catalog...

The gray palette of a summer storm as clouds roll in is characterized in this abstract painting by Noreen Taylor. She often uses nature as inspiration fo...

Professionally known as Vignoli, was a Brazilian painter and sculptor. He began his career in 1982 creating canvases in oil on canvas, where he appli...

Katsumi Hayakawa (Japanese, b. 1970) Spherical Moss, 1999 Oil, galkyd and modeling paste on canvas 64 x 84 x 1 3/4 in. Signed verso and stamped with artist insignia Silverstein Gallery label verso NOTE: Discoloration at right side from dust, can easily be wiped off In his paintings and cut-paper sculptures, Katsumi Hayakawa evokes the city and urban planning. He builds meticulously constructed objects with cubes and squares, suggesting skyscrapers and city grids, while the interaction of line and color coalesce with the cubes to create complex and vibrant rhythms. Hayakawa expands modernist explorations into the grid, in particular evoking Piet Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie Woogie...