Delilah Ray Miske

Dusk Portal (2022), oil painting, interiors, large scale, light study, purple

2022

Sunrise Tunnel (2022), oil painting on canvas, earth tones and pastels, outdoor greenhouse, farm landscape, silos and green hills in background, skyscape, sunrise colors "Sunrise Tunnel" by Delilah Ray...

"Door #31 (Smudge)" (2018) by Francesca Reyes Original oil & acrylic painting on wood panel; measures 8" H x 6" W x 1" D From the artist's door series, depicting doors that she has p...

72"x48" acrylic and oil on canvas, signed on reverse by the artist. This is a contemporary abstract painting by the New York/ Hawaiian artist, Debra Drexler. Violet and blue hues are contrasted with neon orange and deep red orange forms. A circular form of violet attracts a central focus in the fields light orange and nearly pastel blue undertones in this stunning vibrant painting by the artist Debra Drexler's paintings are informed both by participating in the contemporary resurgence of abstraction coming out of New York, and by living in the Post Colonial Pacific for close to three decades. In the 21st century, much of our experience is mediated through the screens of our devices. In contrast, the making and viewing of paintings remains a direct, engaging experience in Drexler's paintings. She aims to take us to a state of timelessness that is primal in its humanity, disconnecting us momentarily from the mediated “now” of our electronic devices, and connecting us to a “now” that gives us a glimpse of the infinite. As a colorist, Debra Drexler provokes unexpected color relationships and creates spatial contradictions that come from those interactions. Some of her color choices reference the post digital experience with its highly saturated synthetic color. The luminosity and saturation also mirror the unique quality of light and tropical color interactions in Hawai’i, where Drexler also lives. Her work is driven by an athletic painting...

Gerson Leiber "Impassioned by Purple Prose" Oil on Linen, 2015 Born in Brooklyn in 1921, Gerson showed promise in his high school art classes. Later, while stationed in Hungary in...