Mark Hunter Abstract Paintings

"In the series “This is a real place!” I was fascinated by how the underside of the pier at Saint Simons Island, GA was like a readymade collage. The way the pilings and rails divide and frame the spaces between them looks artificially imposed on the scene until you notice the way the waves bounce off the pilings and the railings cast shadows on the water. In some iterations, I chose to simplify the structures of the pier and lighten the values so that it would emphasize the detail in the water. Likewise, I omitted a family of starlings and their droppings in favor of highlighting the geometry of the architecture and the colors and patterns of the water. Making paintings in a series allows me to investigate the results of making different decisions about an image. How I crop or stylize it, the manner in which I apply the paint, what gets included or excluded all add shades of meaning to each piece. Additionally, depictions of the same subject in different weather, seasons, times of day, and tides allows me a deeper understanding. I notice more relationships, colors, and details every time I paint the subject. Every painting is a pile of decisions. Playing with removing more and more details to see what is truly important sometimes improves the painting. The fewer elements you include in an image, the more each one means, and the more important it is to get each thing perfect. At times I like to paint every single detail I can find in a scene, and other times I feel like the unadorned components are sufficient to hold each other in a satisfying composition. I often add simplified shapes to my paintings to highlight the presence of absence or to heighten the importance of each area by creating stark visual contrasts. ⁠The physicality of the paint also plays a role. I used highly textured, thickly applied paint to construct the solid structural elements, and luminous layers of thinly glazed paint for the delicate linework and subtle blending of the water." - Brooke Lanier...

Allen Williams' "Revelation II" is an original oil painting on board, created in 2023. This contemporary figurative work features a nude female form eme...

Yuriy Grigoryan loves to work with symbols, the chain is something, on the one hand, chaining us, on the other, it is something that connects us to something or someone. This is both...

Impressive early American modernist landscape oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 28 H by 22L.

"Nox" (2023) by Allen Williams is an original handmade oil painting that depicts a disturbing a uncanny portrait of a man on a dim gold background. Abo...

Antique American modernist street scene oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Image size, 29L x 20H.

Sonia Gechtoff False Faces, circa 1950-52 Signed lower right Oil on canvas 30 x 22 1/4 inches Sonia Gechtoff was born in Philadelphia to Ethel "Etya" and ...

In the work "Out of the Ordinary", Yuriy Grigoryan is talking about geniuses in the crowd, about those who are not afraid of being different from t...

Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993) Title: NASA, Apollo 9 Space Mission Series Year: 1970 Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 26 x 18 inches Inscription: Signed, dated by the artist, verso No...

White, yellow and red asters. 1964. Oil on canvas, board, 46x58 cm Vimba Voldemars ( 1904 St. Petersburg – 1985 Riga, Latvia) He began his artistic education at the St Petersburg...

David Cheifetz's "Ghost in the Machine" is an oil painting created in 2019 depicting a contemporary still life featuring a waffle iron. About the artist:...

Yuriy Grigoryan loves to work with symbols, the chain is something, on the one hand, chaining us, on the other, it is something that connects us to something or someone. This is both...