Photorealist Paintings
PHOTOREALISM
A direct challenge to Abstract Expressionism’s subjectivity and gestural vigor, Photorealism was informed by the Pop predilection for representational imagery, popular iconography and tools, like projectors and airbrushes, borrowed from the worlds of commercial art and design.
Whether gritty or gleaming, the subject matter favored by Photorealists is instantly, if vaguely, familiar. It’s the stuff of yellowing snapshots and fugitive memories. The bland and the garish alike flicker between crystal-clear reality and dreamy illusion, inviting the viewer to contemplate a single moment rather than igniting a story.
The virtues of the “photo” in Photorealist art — infused as they are with dazzling qualities that are easily blurred in reproduction — are as elusive as they are allusive. “Much Photorealist painting has the vacuity of proportion and intent of an idiot-savant, long on look and short on personal timbre,” John Arthur wrote (rather admiringly) in the catalogue essay for Realism/Photorealism, a 1980 exhibition at the Philbrook Museum of Art, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. At its best, Photorealism is a perpetually paused tug-of-war between the sacred and the profane, the general and the specific, the record and the object.
“Robert Bechtle invented Photorealism, in 1963,” says veteran art dealer Louis Meisel. “He took a picture of himself in the mirror with the car outside and then painted it. That was the first one.”
The meaning of the term, which began for Meisel as “a superficial way of defining and promoting a group of painters,” evolved with time, and the core group of Photorealists slowly expanded to include younger artists who traded Rolleiflexes for 60-megapixel cameras, using advanced digital technology to create paintings that transcend the detail of conventional photographs.
On 1stDibs, the collection of Photorealist art includes work by Richard Estes, Ralph Goings, Chuck Close, Audrey Flack, Charles Bell and others.
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Style: Photorealist
Roanheads Chimneys #1, 2018
By Agnes Murray
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This original oil on birch-wood panel is a signature painting of Roanheads, Scotland by Agnes Murray. Ms. Murray is notable for capturing the crystalline quality of northern light. ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Lys roses (Pink lilies), Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Pink lilies and other flowers on a white background. Several layers of paint. Matt varnish :: Painting :: Photorealism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenti...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pop Fizz Clink, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
:: Painting :: Photorealism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Signed: Yes :: Signature Location: bottom...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Heaven on Earth, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Original, one-of-a-kind, hand painted, inspired by the aerial view of The Turks And Caicos Islands Dealing with depression, PTSD and anxiety, painting is a form of therapy for me. ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Hotchkiss Storm" contemporary realist Northeastern U.S. water and landscape
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Hotchkiss Storm" is a contemporary realist Northeastern U.S. water and landscape.
Frame Dimensions 14 x 16 inches
Edward Minoff Graduated with honors from NYU's Tisch School of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Stripes
Fruits, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
"Stripes & Fruits" by Carlos Bruscianelli, a Venezuelan realist painter based in Miami Beach, FL. Oil Painting on Oil Primed Linen - fine texture (Claessenses). 2021. THE ARTWORK ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Paroles de femmes (Women
s words, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
A red moouth in a white plastic bag on a black background :: Painting :: Photorealism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready t...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sailing trip., Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Sailing trip. The work is written with inspiration, positively. Nature: seascape, clear sky over the ocean, light reflected from the incoming waves, glare of the sun on the water, se...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Light on the water 2., Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Light on the water 2. The shining of the ocean, small waves, the glare of the sun on the water create an atmosphere of relaxation, romance. Made in the style of realism. Part of a pe...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Coral reef Australia #1, Painting, Acrylic on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
Coral reef painting - inspired by the amazing aerial views of The great Barrier Reef in Australia Dealing with depression, PTSD and anxiety, painting is a form of therapy for me. In ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
The Labyrinth, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
A Labyrinth. New Mexico. Warm colors. Sunlight. Nature. :: Painting :: Photorealism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
EBBREZZA DEGLI AROMI, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
DETAILS: Oil on canvas, size 28X40X1.5 inches - 70X100X4 cm - Sides are painted to match the painting SUPPORT: gallery canvas, wrapped around the sides and stapled to the back SIGN...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
NOTE DI BORDEAUX, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
DETAILS: Oil on canvas, size 20x40x1.5 inches - 50x100x4 cm - Sides are painted to match the painting SUPPORT: gallery canvas, wrapped around the sides and stapled to the back SIGN...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled (paint) #14, 2018
By Ben Weiner
Located in Greenwich, CT
Untitled (Paint) #14 is an oil painting on canvas with a canvas size of 16 x 24 inches, signed, titled and dated on the overlap verso, 'Ben Weiner Untitled (Paint) #14 2018'' and framed in a contemporary white frame.
Connecting two opposing styles—abstraction and photorealism—Ben Weiner creates hyper-detailed, lush paintings and videos of extremely magnified consumer products, including hair gel, chemical food additives, and deodorant. In his work, he presents such meticulously rendered, close-up views of his subjects that they read as pure abstractions. A through-line in Weiner’s various bodies of work is contemporary culture’s obsession with bodily enhancement through chemical products—whether by using hair products or taking illegal drugs. In Weiner's Paint series (depicting oil paint on a palette) he explores the upended relationship between process and product.
Ben Charles Weiner (b. 1980) is a New York based contemporary artist. His work bridges the seemingly opposite styles of hyperrealism, and process-based abstraction. Mr. Weiner has exhibited his work widely in the US and internationally, at institutions including The Carnegie Art Museum, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, The Boca Raton Museum of Art, and The Tarble Art Center. His work is in public collections including Microsoft, Sammlung/Collection, Progressive Insurance, and The Frederick R. Weisman Collection...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
"Night River", Alexander Volkov, 30x48, Oil on Canvas, Photorealism Landscape
Located in Dallas, TX
"Night River" by Alexander Volkov is an original oil on canvas. This painting is a photorealistic view of the sunset of a river. You can see the clouds and...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Aerial Australia - Shark bay, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Unique original aerial ocean painting inspired by aerial view of the spectacular Shark Bay, Australia Different shades of blue, turquoise, teal, aqua, beige, black and gold This pa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Les sucres d
orge (The candy canes), Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Candy-canes in a blue vase on a yellow background Several layers of paint Hanging hardware is provided :: Painting :: Photorealism :: This piece comes with an official certificate ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Creations 2., Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
All universal life is GOD’s masterpiece. The intricate details that highlight living qualities - pedals, veins, feathers, scales, skin, and fur are all in alignment with GOD’s e...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
SPUNTINO, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
I have been inspired to this work because it is the sun for me, this light and the energy that emanates is bursting.. A really tonic for your eyes. As always I used oil on canvas and only use primary colours, which I mix to obtain all of the shades that I need. It creates deeper and more brilliant colours. I use Rembrandt oil...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Crawler 2., Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
All universal life is GOD’s masterpiece. The intricate details that highlight living qualities - pedals, veins, feathers, scales, skin, and fur are all in alignment with GOD’s e...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Equestrian rider
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
In this oil painting with a landscape format, a young girl rides a horse, though her figure is partially cropped, giving full prominence to the animal. The horse moves slowly along a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Oil, Board
Product, Painting, Acrylic on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
One day I visited the Ikea store in Groningen, The Netherlands where I saw these people leaving the store by escalator with all the stuff they just bought. Somehow I thought the scen...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Phoenix Sunrise Motel
Located in Fairfield, CT
Eric Nash is a California artist working in oil and charcoal. Often highly realistic, his images are pared down to their idealized essence often conveying a film still or a memory. H...
Category
20th Century Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Outfall 234, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Splintered sunlight slipping through lush trees. Guard rail attempting to halt access. :: Painting :: Photorealism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity s...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Forever Marilyn, Painting, Acrylic on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
During a visit to the bookstore I saw these books on Marilyn Monroe. She became such an icon, but somehow you can still summarize her life into a few pages in a book and put a price ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Hummingbird in Salvia Garden
By Diane Andrews Hall
Located in New York, NY
Hall is a highly respected contemporary artist. It is framed in a contemporary lacquered off white float frame. The surface of the board is slick and almost photographic in feel. The...
Category
Early 2000s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Anne Wolff, "California Chrome", Equine Racing Portrait Oil on Canvas
By Anne Wolff
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This equine racing portrait "California Chrome" by artist Anne Wolff is a 24x24 original oil painting on canvas. Depicted is a profile view of the famous thoroughbred race horse California Chrome in a green and purple silk mask...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$7,840 Sale Price
20% Off
"Waterfall, Spray, Clouds" Small Landscape/Waterscape Sky with Sun
Located in Wellesley, MA
"Waterfall, Spray, Clouds" Oil on Panel, 12 x 12 x 3/4 Inches, is a meticulously painted rendition of a waterfall seen from above with bursts of white light in blue sky appearing t...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
THE CREEK, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
My Godson was always in love with the water and definitely scared of it. This Spring with a trip to Miami he finally conquer his fear and learned to swim. "The Elixir of Life" The bo...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Abyss, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Abi Whitlock
Located in Yardley, PA
In this painting I wanted to explore depth and the way it distorts and conceals the human figure. The dark indigo shades convey a sense of sinking, downward movement, whilst the ligh...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Over the Finger Lakes" Aerial Landscape View of at Dusk in Blues and Whites
Located in Wellesley, MA
"Over the Finger Lakes," Oil on Canvas, 40 x 44 Inches is a highly realistic landscape which depicts a series of the fingers lakes in New York State seen from an aerial view in deep blues and greens, with a streak of white light that divides the image into sky with a suggestion of clouds and water...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
ME TE MAGNO, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Oil on canvas This painting inspired me for its cheerfulness and its laughter, it is for me a really antidepressant! :: Painting :: Photorealism :: This piece comes with an official...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mirror Pearls
By Ben Weiner
Located in Greenwich, CT
Mirror Pearls is an oil painting on prepared paper, sheet size 12.25 x 16.25 inches, signed, titled and dated verso, 'Ben Weiner Mirror Pearls 2019' and framed in a contemporary white frame.
Connecting two opposing styles—abstraction and photorealism—Ben Weiner creates hyper-detailed, lush paintings and videos of extremely magnified consumer products, including hair gel, chemical food additives, and deodorant. In his work, he presents such meticulously rendered, close-up views of his subjects that they read as pure abstractions. A through-line in Weiner’s various bodies of work is contemporary culture’s obsession with bodily enhancement through chemical products—whether by using hair products or taking illegal drugs.
"My paintings of pearls and hair gel merge varied notions of art as creation with biological and mythological concepts of creation. Visually, the pearls seem to emerge from the hair gel, suggesting biological processes such as cellular division, or the primordial soup that preceded life on earth. The all-over, abstract qualities of the hair gel recall the abstract expressionists’ concepts of the sublime art object and art as a transcendent act of creation. Additionally, the pearl itself is a naturally produced object of profound beauty. I use it to symbolize my understanding of creation as a feminine power, intrinsically linked to beauty (as in Boticelli’s The Birth of Venus). Finally, the pearls are an ode to Audrey Flack, one of my early artistic influences." - Ben Weiner
Ben Charles Weiner (b. 1980) is a New York based contemporary artist. His work bridges the seemingly opposite styles of hyperrealism, and process-based abstraction. Mr. Weiner has exhibited his work widely in the US and internationally, at institutions including The Carnegie Art Museum, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, The Boca Raton Museum of Art, and The Tarble Art Center. His work is in public collections including Microsoft, Sammlung/Collection, Progressive Insurance, and The Frederick R. Weisman Collection...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Sound Of Wave, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
I believe that each seashell has its own story(history). When we find them on the beach, they are just there as an object. :: Painting :: Photorealism :: This piece comes with an off...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Gratitude 1. ~Inspired by a pandemic~, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
This work was inspired by a pandemic. The "normal life" has been lost due to the pandemic, and the new environment has changed the perspectives of people. Now, the so-called "ordi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Dorito -- Original Oil Painting
Located in Boca Raton, FL
This is an original oil painting on canvas
This artwork is produced under a license from the Frito-Lay® company.
We are a 1stdibs Platinum Seller. Th...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
$1,960 Sale Price
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Ten Lollipops, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Grace Diehl
Located in Yardley, PA
This painting is composed with colorful Tootsie Roll lollipops in a glass canisters. The studio lighting is set up to create wonderful shadows cast onto the surfaces. An interesting ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
First of the Day from Calais, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Tony Munns
Located in Yardley, PA
A medium sized unframed original acrylic painting that is a personal tribute to the incredible Mountbatten Class SRN4 hovercraft and to Hoverlloyd, who operated four of this type bet...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
SOLE, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
This painting is a sun, when you stay in the same room with its is like to feel the heat as if you take the sun! :: Painting :: Photorealism :: This piece comes with an official cert...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Gel Monochrome #6
By Ben Weiner
Located in Greenwich, CT
Gel Monochrome #6 is an oil painting on prepared paper, sheet size 22 x 14.75 inches, signed, titled and dated verso, 'Ben Weiner Gel Monochrome #6 2019' and framed in a contemporary white frame.
Connecting two opposing styles—abstraction and photorealism—Ben Weiner creates hyper-detailed, lush paintings and videos of extremely magnified consumer products, including hair gel, chemical food additives, and deodorant. In his work, he presents such meticulously rendered, close-up views of his subjects that they read as pure abstractions. A through-line in Weiner’s various bodies of work is contemporary culture’s obsession with bodily enhancement through chemical products—whether by using hair products or taking illegal drugs.
"The Gel Series presents a virtual environment that is in flux. Based on hair gel, a material that is physically malleable and visually enticing, it has the ability to change one’s physical appearance. In an abstract manner, the painting reflects our current global environment, subject to constant, dramatic change and rapid development- on the one hand through humanity’s ability to alter the face of the earth according to its ideas; on the other through changing environmental conditions and natural disasters". - Ben Weiner
Ben Charles Weiner (b. 1980) is a New York based contemporary artist. His work bridges the seemingly opposite styles of hyperrealism, and process-based abstraction. Mr. Weiner has exhibited his work widely in the US and internationally, at institutions including The Carnegie Art Museum, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, The Boca Raton Museum of Art, and The Tarble Art Center. His work is in public collections including Microsoft, Sammlung/Collection, Progressive Insurance, and The Frederick R. Weisman Collection...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Schinus Molle with direct light, Painting, Oil on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
Light enhances everything it touches. The most humble object becomes magical thanks to it. :: Painting :: Photorealism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authentici...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Red Rose on Carpet, Photorealist Oil Painting on Canvas by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
A photorealistic red rose set against a backdrop that resembles a carpet or a cross-stitch pattern. This large oil on canvas painting is nicely set into a gold frame with thin white ...
Category
1980s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gameshow, Painting, Acrylic on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
One night while watching television I stumbled upon this gameshow called Lingo where two teams have to guess a word within a maximum of five turns. Here you see team 1 with candidate...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Between Guests, Tower of London, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Terry Guyer
Located in Yardley, PA
I noticed this lovely young lady in period costume, out of the corner of my eye, at the Tower of London. Whether she was a guide working for the Tower of London or a leader of a priv...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Players in the balls, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Igor Shulman
Located in Yardley, PA
These guys really like playing balls. They even invited the photographer so that he captures them in their favorite game. :: Painting :: Photorealism :: This piece comes with an offi...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Work Shoes, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Adapted from a piece of old advertisement for early computer technology. :: Painting :: Photorealism :: This piece comes with an official certificate...
Category
Early 2000s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
"On the Mountain in Snow at Dusk" Medium sized Landscape of Winter Scene, Dusk
Located in Wellesley, MA
"On the Mountain in Snow at Dusk," Oil on Canvas, 30 x 30 Inches is a highly realistic landscape of a bank of evergreens covered with snow at the top of a white mountain against th...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Aerial Sun Through Clouds" Medium Sized Landscape of Fields and Sky at Sunset
Located in Wellesley, MA
"Aerial Sun Through Clouds," Oil on Canvas, 44 x 40 Inches is a highly realistic landscape in blues, grays, pinks, lavender and white which depicts a sunset over water and a burst ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Reno Circus Circus
Located in Fairfield, CT
For nearly twenty years, Thompson has focused primarily on painting old neon signs that have somehow avoided the wrecking ball - the signs that have live...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Snowy season
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
This artwork captures the stillness and serenity at a train station after a snowfall, presenting itself as a window to a world of winter beauty. The artist transports us to a place w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Taking It Slow
Located in Fairfield, CT
Her oil on canvas images are photorealistic and gorgeous.
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Polychrome Gel #15
By Ben Weiner
Located in Greenwich, CT
Polychrome Gel #15 is an oil painting on canvas with a canvas size of 24 x 18 inches, signed, titled and dated on the overlap verso, 'Ben Weiner Polychrome Gel #15 2020'' and framed in a contemporary white frame.
Connecting two opposing styles—abstraction and photorealism—Ben Weiner creates hyper-detailed, lush paintings and videos of extremely magnified consumer products, including hair gel, chemical food additives, and deodorant. In his work, he presents such meticulously rendered, close-up views of his subjects that they read as pure abstractions. A through-line in Weiner’s various bodies of work is contemporary culture’s obsession with bodily enhancement through chemical products—whether by using hair products or taking illegal drugs.
"The Gel Series presents a virtual environment that is in flux. Based on hair gel, a material that is physically malleable and visually enticing, it has the ability to change one’s physical appearance. In an abstract manner, the painting reflects our current global environment, subject to constant, dramatic change and rapid development- on the one hand through humanity’s ability to alter the face of the earth according to its ideas; on the other through changing environmental conditions and natural disasters". - Ben Weiner
Ben Charles Weiner (b. 1980) is a New York based contemporary artist. His work bridges the seemingly opposite styles of hyperrealism, and process-based abstraction. Mr. Weiner has exhibited his work widely in the US and internationally, at institutions including The Carnegie Art Museum, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, The Boca Raton Museum of Art, and The Tarble Art Center. His work is in public collections including Microsoft, Sammlung/Collection, Progressive Insurance, and The Frederick R. Weisman Collection...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Reflection Pearls II
By Ben Weiner
Located in Greenwich, CT
Reflection Pearls II is an oil painting on prepared paper, sheet size 29.75 x 41.25 inches, signed, titled and dated verso, 'Ben Weiner Reflection Pearls II 2019' and framed in a contemporary white frame.
Connecting two opposing styles—abstraction and photorealism—Ben Weiner creates hyper-detailed, lush paintings and videos of extremely magnified consumer products, including hair gel, chemical food additives, and deodorant. In his work, he presents such meticulously rendered, close-up views of his subjects that they read as pure abstractions. A through-line in Weiner’s various bodies of work is contemporary culture’s obsession with bodily enhancement through chemical products—whether by using hair products or taking illegal drugs.
"My paintings of pearls and hair gel merge varied notions of art as creation with biological and mythological concepts of creation. Visually, the pearls seem to emerge from the hair gel, suggesting biological processes such as cellular division, or the primordial soup that preceded life on earth. The all-over, abstract qualities of the hair gel recall the abstract expressionists’ concepts of the sublime art object and art as a transcendent act of creation. Additionally, the pearl itself is a naturally produced object of profound beauty. I use it to symbolize my understanding of creation as a feminine power, intrinsically linked to beauty (as in Boticelli’s The Birth of Venus). Finally, the pearls are an ode to Audrey Flack, one of my early artistic influences." - Ben Weiner
Ben Charles Weiner (b. 1980) is a New York based contemporary artist. His work bridges the seemingly opposite styles of hyperrealism, and process-based abstraction. Mr. Weiner has exhibited his work widely in the US and internationally, at institutions including The Carnegie Art Museum, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, The Boca Raton Museum of Art, and The Tarble Art Center. His work is in public collections including Microsoft, Sammlung/Collection, Progressive Insurance, and The Frederick R. Weisman Collection...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
La Bataille de Fibonacci
Located in Paris, FR
Jerome Romain lives in Montpelier, France
Classic Painting for Contemporary History
He defines his painting as " The world as a representation " His oil on canvas paintings are born ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Polychrome Gel #11
By Ben Weiner
Located in Greenwich, CT
Polychrome Gel #11 is an oil painting on canvas with a canvas size of 18 x 24 inches, signed, titled and dated on the overlap verso, 'Ben Weiner Polychrome Gel #11 2019'' and framed in a contemporary white frame.
Connecting two opposing styles—abstraction and photorealism—Ben Weiner creates hyper-detailed, lush paintings and videos of extremely magnified consumer products, including hair gel, chemical food additives, and deodorant. In his work, he presents such meticulously rendered, close-up views of his subjects that they read as pure abstractions. A through-line in Weiner’s various bodies of work is contemporary culture’s obsession with bodily enhancement through chemical products—whether by using hair products or taking illegal drugs.
"The Gel Series presents a virtual environment that is in flux. Based on hair gel, a material that is physically malleable and visually enticing, it has the ability to change one’s physical appearance. In an abstract manner, the painting reflects our current global environment, subject to constant, dramatic change and rapid development- on the one hand through humanity’s ability to alter the face of the earth according to its ideas; on the other through changing environmental conditions and natural disasters". - Ben Weiner
Ben Charles Weiner (b. 1980) is a New York based contemporary artist. His work bridges the seemingly opposite styles of hyperrealism, and process-based abstraction. Mr. Weiner has exhibited his work widely in the US and internationally, at institutions including The Carnegie Art Museum, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, The Boca Raton Museum of Art, and The Tarble Art Center. His work is in public collections including Microsoft, Sammlung/Collection, Progressive Insurance, and The Frederick R. Weisman Collection...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Polychrome Gel #7
By Ben Weiner
Located in Greenwich, CT
Polychrome Gel #7 is an oil painting on canvas with a canvas size of 12 x 24 inches, signed, titled and dated on the overlap verso, 'Ben Weiner Polychrome Gel #7 2019'' and framed in a contemporary white frame.
Connecting two opposing styles—abstraction and photorealism—Ben Weiner creates hyper-detailed, lush paintings and videos of extremely magnified consumer products, including hair gel, chemical food additives, and deodorant. In his work, he presents such meticulously rendered, close-up views of his subjects that they read as pure abstractions. A through-line in Weiner’s various bodies of work is contemporary culture’s obsession with bodily enhancement through chemical products—whether by using hair products or taking illegal drugs.
"The Gel Series presents a virtual environment that is in flux. Based on hair gel, a material that is physically malleable and visually enticing, it has the ability to change one’s physical appearance. In an abstract manner, the painting reflects our current global environment, subject to constant, dramatic change and rapid development- on the one hand through humanity’s ability to alter the face of the earth according to its ideas; on the other through changing environmental conditions and natural disasters". - Ben Weiner
Ben Charles Weiner (b. 1980) is a New York based contemporary artist. His work bridges the seemingly opposite styles of hyperrealism, and process-based abstraction. Mr. Weiner has exhibited his work widely in the US and internationally, at institutions including The Carnegie Art Museum, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, The Boca Raton Museum of Art, and The Tarble Art Center. His work is in public collections including Microsoft, Sammlung/Collection, Progressive Insurance, and The Frederick R. Weisman Collection...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Eupholus Shoenherri, Contemporary Art Photorealist Oil Painting by Matthew Bober
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Eupholus Shoenherri
2019
Oil and metal leaf. on panel
5" x 7"unframed
8.25" x 8.25" framed
Eupholus Shoenherri is a species of beetles from New Guinea. Many of the artist's works a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Metal
Unstable Affection
Located in West Hollywood, CA
In Eva Carzul’s painting, “Unstable Affection,” a comedic portrayal unfolds, vividly illustrating the visual representation of emotional fragility and instability. Perched atop a box adorned with cautionary tape proclaiming “Fragile,” the figure dons mismatched shoes and, in a comical twist, manages to ensnare herself with her own fishing line. The true essence of instability emanates from the exaggerated facial features...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Hello, My Name Is: Rose - miniature pictograph painting on paper
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Anthony Mastromatteo re-introduced himself to the Grenning Gallery with his 2023 exhibition "Hello, My Name Is: Anthony Mastromatteo." The works included in the show were incredibly intricate trompe l'oeil oil paintings ranging in size from 7 x 5 inches to 48 x 36 inches. In supplement to the exhibition, Mastromatteo painted 10 pictographs on "Hello My Name Is" nametags and put them in plastic sleeves one would clip on their person for any kind of large function. There is always a bit of tongue and cheek...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Plastic, Paper, Found Objects, Oil
Hello, My Name Is: Nike - miniature pictograph oil painting on paper sport brand
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
This painting on paper can be clipped onto any display, or mounted in a proper frame.
Painting dimensions: 2.5 x 3.5 inches
Dimensions in the plastic holder: 4 x 5.5 inches
Antho...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Plastic, Paper, Found Objects, Oil
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