Douglas Safranek

Touch of Red, surrealist egg tempera on panel still life painting

2021

Douglas Safranek's Hovering captures the tension of liminal space. Bees and dragonflies appear pinned, and specimen-like, yet achieve loftiness with their wings. Their hyperbolized d...

Karl Hartman’s Spring (2024) is a finely rendered celebration of the seasonal shift from winter to new growth. Painted in oil on a 12 x 12 inch aluminum panel, the composition is a c...

Eileen Murphy’s paintings on panels are a mirage of disparate memories. Lived experience, borrowed art historical footnotes, and imagery drawn from literary references swirl together and coalesce into shimmering sylvan scenes. Allusions to Patinir, Jacob von Ruisdael, Frederick Church, lines pulled from Rilke, and Murphy’s own personal history emerge deftly from the same brushstroke. The result is images that are simultaneously foreign and familiar, deeply intimate yet shared in a common vernacular. Murphy builds these compositions from layers of carefully applied oil paint, her brushstrokes growing increasingly specific and nuanced with each new stratum. Because she works on panel, the pigment is not absorbed into the material, but rather, sits atop the surface, the color remaining fully saturated. Without this anchoring effect, Murphy’s landscapes become lofty and voluminous, further intensifying their surrealist quality. Eileen Murphy has spent her life along the Hudson River and has lived in Brooklyn, NY for the last seventeen years. Her current paintings are based on the landscape of Columbia County...

The latest from Ray Kass' series of abstracted red "still lifes:" a departure from his large-scale compositions, this latest trio of paintings saturate their more compressed planes. ...

Sophisticated shades of grey and white still life with vases, shell, box and marble. Wonderful complex patterns throughout the oil painting on canvas. In excellent condition. Signed ...

"Quo Vadis" Trompe l'Oeil Still Life in Acrylic on Masonite Still life in the trompe l'oeil style by Richard M. Bacon (American, 20th Century). A still life with a bouquet and a tea...

Colin Fraser's remarkable tempera still-lifes and landscapes have a luminosity that seems to irradiate from them. It’s an effect that conjures a remembering of the timeless moment or...