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Art Subject: Modern Art
"Ethnographic Still Life, " Edith Kramer, African Mask and Shofar, Art Therapy
By Edith Kramer
Located in New York, NY
Edith Kramer (1916 - 2014)
Still Life with Mask, n.d.
Oil on canvas
26 x 20 inches
Signed and titled on the stretcher
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
Kramer was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary in 1916. At age 13 Kramer began art lessons with Friedl Dicker. Dicker was graduate of the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany and was an artist and art teacher of note. Kramer studied drawing, sculpture and painting, and was influenced by the method for teaching art developed by Bauhaus artist Johannes Itten. It was in 1934 after Kramer graduated from Realgymnasium that she, then 18, followed Dicker to Prague to continue to study under her. During this time in Prague, Kramer witnessed the therapeutic impact of art when she assisted Dicker in teaching art to the children of political refugees.
With the threat of Nazi invasion looming, Kramer took refuge in America in 1938. In New York City, she worked for three years teaching sculpture at a progressive school called the Little Red School House. During World War II Kramer worked as a machinist at a tool and die shop in the Soho district of New York City. She stayed after her shift to draw the other workers in their industrial setting. These works were rendered in the social realist style. In 1947 Kramer visited some of the earliest known artwork, in the caves at Lascaux. Kramer spoke of these cave paintings as an example of the universal language of art.
At the age of 33 she returned to New York City, with hopes of making a living as an artist. Still in her 33rd year, Kramer was offered a job at Wiltwyck School for Boys, a school and residential treatment facility for children with behavioral and emotional needs. This job was arranged for her by psychoanalyst and board member at Wiltwyck, Dr. Viola Bernard. Dr. Bernard gave Kramer the title, "Art Therapist," noting that few teachers were willing to work with such challenging students. It was here that Kramer worked with disturbed boys, ages 8 through 13, for the following seven years.
Raised in a family which was interested in psychoanalytic theory, Kramer herself became a follower of Sigmund Freud. Kramer especially believed in the concept of sublimation. Freudian theory describes sublimation as a process in which primitive urges coming from the id are transformed into socially productive activities that lead to gratification of the original urge. Kramer's training was in art, art education and psychoanalytically informed psychotherapy. Kramer believed sublimation to be one of the most vital goals of art therapy...
Category
20th Century American Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$3,200 Sale Price
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Still Life with Fruit
Located in Austin, TX
Still life by Gustav Likan
16" x 20" Acrylic on Canvas
signature located on lower right side and dated '64
Category
1960s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
George Weissbort (1928-2013) - 20th Century Oil, Fruit
Silver Teapot
Located in Corsham, GB
Still life, oil on canvas. Unsigned. (Provenance: Studio Sale, George Weissbort).
Category
20th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Annelise Firth (b.1961) - Contemporary Oil, The Little Red and Blue Vase
Located in Corsham, GB
This striking still life painting captures a lively floral arrangement in a small red and large blue vase, executed against a bold and expressive backdrop. Signed and dated (2024) ve...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Caravaggio motif. 2019. Oil on canvas, 40, 5x50, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Caravaggio motif. 2019. Oil on canvas, 40,5x50,5 cm
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$461 Sale Price
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Lilies. 2004, oil on cardboard, 49, 5x70 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Lilies. 2004, oil on cardboard, 49,5x70 cm
Valdis Bush (1924-2014)
studied at the Art academy of Latvia (1945 – 1950), his favorite professors being A. S...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
$1,729 Sale Price
20% Off
Flowers. 1997. Oil on canvas, 60x45 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Flowers. 1997. Oil on canvas, 60x45 cm
Valdis Bush (1924-2014)
studied at the Art academy of Latvia (1945 – 1950), his favorite professors being A. Skride, L. Svemps, yet he did no...
Category
1990s Expressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$1,729 Sale Price
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Hunt Slonem "Star" Floral
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Star
Date: 2023
Medium: Oil on wood
Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8"
Framed Dimensions: 16.5" x 14.5"
Signature: Signed verso
Edition: Unique
Hunt S...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lilies In The Valley, Large gold painting with colorful nature, flower palette
Located in Dallas, TX
"Lilies in the Valley" is a stunning, elegant painting depicting a powerful, vibrant flowers in the surrounded by a rich golden background. Artist Anastasia Gklava is an expert at ap...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Still life with fruits. 2009, canvas, oil, 81x65 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Still life with fruits. 2009, canvas, oil, 81x65 cm
Sergey Inkatov
Was born:
13.09.1971 in Baku.
Painter Sergey Inkatov belongs to young generation of artists of Estonia.
He was b...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,767 Sale Price
20% Off
Tulips in green vase. Oil on cardboard, 55x42 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Red and yellow tulips in green vase on blue background. Oil on cardboard, 55x42 cm
Aleksandr Rodin (1922-2001)
Painter Born in a family of farmers. Wi...
Category
1990s Expressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
$1,585 Sale Price
20% Off
Flowers in vase. Oil on cardboard, 50x39.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Flowers in vase. Oil on cardboard, 50x39.5 cm
Aleksandr Rodin (1922-2001)
Painter Born in a family of farmers. Wife Rasma Lace - art scholar. Studied ...
Category
1990s Expressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
$1,585 Sale Price
20% Off
Night flowers. 2004, oil on canvas, 100x70 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Night flowers. 2004, oil on canvas, 100x70 cm
Still Life with flowers on the chair
Kristine Kvitka (1983)
Kristine Kvitka is a Latvian artist, born i...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,344 Sale Price
20% Off
"Bouquet"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Flowers in a vase
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Poppies
Located in Westmount, QC
Molly Lamb Bobak, Canadian, 1920 – 2014
Poppies
Watercolour
17 x 24 in
signed
PROVENANCE: Galerie Walter Klinkhoff, Montreal
framed
For our US customers:
1...
Category
1980s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$1,200
Zhenyan Zhao Contemporary Original Oil On Canvas "Blue Dream Butterfly"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Blue Dream Butterfly
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 19 x 27 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Note: Thi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,120 Sale Price
30% Off
Bougainvilla
Located in Palm Desert, CA
The delicate and vivid paper thin petals of the tropical bougainvillea are the subject of this colorful painting. The magenta rose and cadmium red flowers are ephemeral when cut from...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Petals
Located in Palm Desert, CA
The beauty of the rich red gerbera daisy is inspiration for this abstracted floral of autumnal colors: cadmium red, golden tan and orange with hints of teal. The flowers seem to floa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
$1,200 Sale Price
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Socially conscious painting: “Portrait Of Waste”
By Stephen Hall
Located in New York, NY
"A crumpled blue plastic water bottle, set against a vibrant red fur-like background, is presented within a trompe l'oeil painted gilt wood frame. This composition draws attention to...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Still Life on Small Table, 1990 - Oil Painting with Fruit in Grey and Red
By Clive Blackmore
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Clive Blackmore was born in 1940 and studied at Twickenham and Kingston Schools of Art. He worked mainly as a potter until 1984 when he returned to painting full time and has recentl...
Category
1990s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Still Life with Flowers
Located in New York, NY
Gouache and pen and ink on paper. Signed in ink in lower right corner.
Provenance: private collection, Columbus, OH; private collection, Chicago.
Bernstein (1890-2002) was raised ...
Category
1930s American Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Autumn Flowers Still Life Oil Painting Yellow Blue Green Brown Lilac White Pink
By Ivan Roussev
Located in Sofia, BG
"Autumn Flowers" is a still-life painting by Ivan Roussev.
About the artwork:
TECHNIQUE: oil painting
STYLE: Impressionist, Contemporary
Edition : Unique, signed
Weight: Approximately 2 kg.
The painting is unframed.
Frame: Optional
Snow Pearl gallery...
Category
2010s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Roses and Blues. Oil on panel Still Life with red roses on blue background
Located in Segovia, ES
Roses and Blues (Rosas y azules), oil on panel, Expressionist Still Life.
Dimension art: 27 x 22 cm.
Dimension framed 51 x 46 x 4.5 cm.
Small Expressionist still life...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Eagle III
By June Glasson
Located in Bozeman, MT
June Glasson is an artist, illustrator, and designer. She lives in New York. Her paintings have been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London, Nature Morte Gallery in Ber...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Pencil
Mid Century Modern Swedish Expressive Still Life Oil Painting- Jars
Blue Plate
Located in Bristol, GB
JARS
BLUE PLATE
Size: 57 x 68.5 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A vibrant mid-century still life captures a quiet, everyday arrangement of two earthenware jars, a cobalt-bl...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Roger Marcel Limouse, 1894 – 1989, French, Interior with Flowers - Nature Morte
Located in Knokke, BE
Roger Marcel Limouse
Collo, Algeria 1894 – 1989 Paris
French Painter
'Interior with Flowers – Nature Morte'
The painting "Interior with Flowers - Nature Morte," created by Roger Ma...
Category
Mid-20th Century Fauvist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Ziggurat" Large Scale Contemporary Surrealist Still Life (books and ladders)
Located in New York, NY
52"x 106" large scale watercolor on paper by award-winning New York artist Thomas Broadbent, signed on reverse. A Contemporary Surrealist Still-life painting of books and papers, wi...
Category
2010s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
$14,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Dum-Dum Roses
Located in Austin, TX
Title: "Dum-Dum Roses"
Artist: Robert Kulicke
Medium: Hand Varnished Serigraph
Size: 8.5" x 11"
Framed
Category
20th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper
1991 Modernist Abstract Still Life Oil Painting - White, Yellow, Blue, Black
Located in Bristol, GB
WHITE, YELLOW, BLUE, BLACK
Size: 29 x 51 cm (including frame)
Oil on board
A striking contemporary abstract still life composition that celebrates the beauty and simplicity of every...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
#449
Located in New Orleans, LA
Calvert’s current paintings investigate the relationship between digital media and the reception and perception of images, and utilizes diverse technologies such as fresco, 3D modeling, AI and data manipulation through code. She is especially interested in the evolution of pictorial space. Today we view our screens and the world they occupy as a shallowly layered space of overlapping desktop windows. The picture plane has tilted up again from the flatbed to float in front of our eyes. Calvert’s paintings in turn depict an intermediate space, where the verticality of the still life paintings cohabitate with these digital panes.
Dutch floral still life paintings encapsulate multiple concerns. Their subjects were botanical fantasies, emblems of an economic mirage that has contemporary corollaries. Most important to Calvert’s pictorial concerns, they depict ephemeral things in shallow and diagrammatic space - they are all foreground. They contain an abundance of visual information in overwhelming density, creating an allover resolution; a visual field that is equivalent to digital noise. By making painterly interventions into reproductions, Calvert attempts to dissolve the layer between the resolution of the source image and abstraction of the painted mark.
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Tiffany Calvert has exhibited her work in the US and abroad including Lawrimore Project in Seattle, E.TAY Gallery in New York, the Speed Museum in Louisville and Cadogan Contemporary in London. Residencies include the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, I-Park, and ArtOmi International Arts Center where she received a Geraldine R. Dodge Fellowship. Calvert has received grants from the Great Meadows Foundation and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Her work was recently profiled by critic John Yau in the online journal Hyperallergic. Her curatorial projects include “Some Abstraction Occurs” at 65GRAND Gallery in Chicago and “Magic” at Mercer College (featuring work by Chris Martin, Karla Knight...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Inkjet
"Pink Table" contemporary still life oil painting
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Pink Table" is a contemporary still life oil painting. An impressionist and textural still life from Kelly Carmody.
Kelly Carmody has exhibited at venues including the Portrait Society of America and the Art Students League. Most recently, she was selected for the 2015 BP Portrait Award Show at the National Portrait Gallery in London and the 2016 Outwin Boochever Award at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. In addition, the historic Guild of Boston Artists...
Category
2010s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
Blumenstillleben
Located in Wien, 9
The artist's modesty was probably an obstacle to her career. Her magnificent, expressive works have few equals in Austria, but the time has come for her work to be honoured anew afte...
Category
20th Century Neo-Expressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Qiqi Jia Contemporary Original Acrylic On Canvas "Flowers and Leaves"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Flowers and Leaves
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 23 x 16 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Note: This ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$1,690 Sale Price
35% Off
Zhongren Wang Floral Original Oil On Canvas "Petunia Series I"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Petunia Series I
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 19 x 24 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Note: This pa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,105 Sale Price
35% Off
In Yer Face
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Abstract. Philosophical. Colorful.
Do you see it? The face. It is right in front of you. It is like looking for your glasses that are on top of your head. FUN, right?!
Are you so c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Riviera Coast", Malva, Original Oil/Canvas, Impressionist Landscape, 32x32 in.
Located in Dallas, TX
"Riviera Coast" by Malva is an impressionistic landscape painting measuring 32x32 in. Two wispy purple and gold trees sit on a clilff looking over the blue green ocean in Riviera Ma...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
La bouteille noire (Still-life with Black Bottle)
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Late 20th century. Cubist still-life
Category
Late 20th Century Cubist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Feathery
Located in Red Bank, NJ
Feathery by Carol Magnatta
Painting, Pastel, Pastel Colors, Pink. Girly, Women, Feminine, Nature, Flora, Textured, Wall Art, Home Decor, Home Art, Wall Hanging
Category
20th Century Feminist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Encaustic
Things We Miss
Located in West Hollywood, CA
“Things We Miss” is a bold and emotionally resonant contemporary painting that blends still life and figurative portraiture into a dreamlike exploration of memory, domesticity, and p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Resting Place, Large textured oil painting w pastel palette of bedroom interior
Located in Dallas, TX
Showing an intimate space with a bright palette and textured brush strokes, Ekaterina Popova's oil paintings from her series "In the Bedroom" are very...
Category
2010s Contemporary Interior Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Cool Winter in Red and Gold
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by American Legacy Fine Arts directly from the Artist
Signed "CL Cook" on lower left
Artist Statement
"In the cold of winter, warmth is accentuated. Cool Winter...
Category
2010s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Snow Day, Impressionist Painterly figurative oil painting on board
Located in Atlanta, GA
Welcome to Heritage, our carefully curated collection of French vintage and antique paintings. We scour the flea markets and fairs for these gems: poignant portraits of long-gone Me...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Roses are Red...
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Roses are Red... Fine artist and oil painter Carole Garland approaches this floral oil painting, a vase of cherry red and gold orange roses, with the desire to bring the delicate flo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
$800 Sale Price
20% Off
Still Life with Dahlias
By Michel Henry
Located in Sheffield, MA
Michel Henry
French, 1928-
Still Life with Dahlias
Oil on canvas
28 ¾ by 39 ½ in, w/ frame 38 ½ by 49 in
Signed lower right
Michel-Henry is acknowledged as an important painter in ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Orchids for Sale
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Everyday life is full of surprises, and artist Carole Garland uncovers and discovers delight in the cellophane wrapped orchids at Trader Joe’s. The cellophane reflects the sunlight ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
$2,000 Sale Price
20% Off
"#1597" blue, red and yellow converse hang from above
Located in Edgartown, MA
The work of Santiago Garcia explores the wondrous, colorful and always intriguing world between figuration and abstraction. Through contextualization of reality, the Uruguayan artist...
Category
2010s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Eurydice Along the River
s Tide, abstract w birds red cherries, water blues
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
One of a series on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Modernist Still Life by renowned Dutch artist Dick Elffers
Located in London, GB
A striking original painting by Dutch artist Dick Elffers, whose work features in the MoMA and Rijksmuseum collections. This piece's composition is incredibly elegant, with a beautif...
Category
1950s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Social Butterfly", Pop art style colorful flowers, pink background, white frame
Located in Dallas, TX
"Social Butterfly" is one of Chantzaras' latest series of pop art style and classical colorful influences of this still-life flower painting. The colors are bold and playful. The tit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Archival Paper
Take the Cannoli food still life Italian pastry delicious tasty sweet treats
Located in Brooklyn, NY
oil paint on wood with a rough stippled texture. the artist sometimes primes his painting surfaces with a sand like material for a coarse texture. this part of his continuing series ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Still Life 1
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Small Box Series, Still Life 1, Acrylic on panel
Mary Lou Siefker is 87 year old Broward County Artist that has been exhibiting her work since 1977. She has won numerous awards a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Orange Bouquet - Pop art, colorful still life flower painting with custom frame
Located in Dallas, TX
This painting on Fabriano paper, titled Bouquet with Orange Background is one of Chantzaras latest series of pop art style and classical colorful influences of this still-life flower painting. The colors are bold and playful.
The silver wood box...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Archival Paper
Chinese Contemporary art by Fu Ze-Nan - Flower No.3
By Fu Zenan
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on linen
Fu Zenan always known as Da Han is a Chinese artist born in 1953 who lives & works in Songzhuang, Beijing, China. He is graduated from the Suzhou University. In 1985, F...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen
Defiance - Sunflower in Vase, 23.4 karat Rose Gold and Copper on Museum Glass
Located in London, GB
A sunflower reaching the end. A slow descent into a less colourful but far more sculptural state as the petals wither and crisp and the flowerhead bends slowly down.
Early autumn bac...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Gold, Copper, Gold Leaf
$5,058 Sale Price
30% Off
1940s Abstract Still Life Geometric Modern Oil Painting with Tobacco Pipes
Located in Denver, CO
This original mid-20th-century modernist painting by French artist Michel Patrix (1917–1973) presents a bold and thoughtful still life composition featuring two tobacco pipes...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Still life with fish, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Painting: Acrylic, Marker on Canvas. My work is about dealing with the real world and above all using the images that surround us in everyday life. I often search for the unexpect...
Category
2010s Minimalist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Forget Conformism, 2014
By René Lalonde
Located in Greenwich, CT
Forget Conformism is an acrylic on canvas painting, 48 x 24 inches canvas size, signed 'RENÉ LALONDE' lower left and framed in a contemporary black wood frame.
It is difficult to ca...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Still Life with Flashlight
Located in Soquel, CA
Contemporary still life of an interior with various geometric objects and a flashlight by Jim Pollock (American, 20th Century). Signed "Jim Pollock" on verso. Unframed. Image size: 1...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$700 Sale Price
20% Off
Wang Yijian Contemporary Original Oil Painting "Elsewhere V"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Elsewhere V
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 23.5 x 20 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Note: This paint...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
#412
Located in New Orleans, LA
Calvert’s current paintings investigate the relationship between digital media and the reception and perception of images, and utilizes diverse technologies such as fresco, 3D modeling, AI and data manipulation through code. She is especially interested in the evolution of pictorial space. Today we view our screens and the world they occupy as a shallowly layered space of overlapping desktop windows. The picture plane has tilted up again from the flatbed to float in front of our eyes. Calvert’s paintings in turn depict an intermediate space, where the verticality of the still life paintings cohabitate with these digital panes.
Dutch floral still life paintings encapsulate multiple concerns. Their subjects were botanical fantasies, emblems of an economic mirage that has contemporary corollaries. Most important to Calvert’s pictorial concerns, they depict ephemeral things in shallow and diagrammatic space - they are all foreground. They contain an abundance of visual information in overwhelming density, creating an allover resolution; a visual field that is equivalent to digital noise. By making painterly interventions into reproductions, Calvert attempts to dissolve the layer between the resolution of the source image and abstraction of the painted mark.
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Tiffany Calvert has exhibited her work in the US and abroad including Lawrimore Project in Seattle, E.TAY Gallery in New York, the Speed Museum in Louisville and Cadogan Contemporary in London. Residencies include the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, I-Park, and ArtOmi International Arts Center where she received a Geraldine R. Dodge Fellowship. Calvert has received grants from the Great Meadows Foundation and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Her work was recently profiled by critic John Yau in the online journal Hyperallergic. Her curatorial projects include “Some Abstraction Occurs” at 65GRAND Gallery in Chicago and “Magic” at Mercer College (featuring work by Chris Martin, Karla Knight, and Sarah Peters...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Inkjet
$20,000