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47 x 65 in. / 4 x 5.4 ft "Oregon" - Large abstract Oil on Canvas
By Alexis Portilla
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a beautiful oil painting by Alexis Portilla, using a palette of jewel colors, bold brushwork and pictographs to create an atmospheric piece. Color, lines and shapes that resemble pictographs and vessels convey symbolism. Vessels are a recurring theme in Portilla's work as symbolic of the potential for the ability to hold and receive.
Influenced by the emotion of artistic expression in music, poetry and literature, the artist finds bold expression in color, lines and shapes that resemble pictographs, and texture.
Oregon
47 x 65 in.
Oil on Canvas
Signed on verso
Ready to hang: Yes
Frame: Not applicable
Materials: Oil paint, canvas, wood stretchers
Alexis Portilla holds an MFA from Columbia University (1990) and a BFA from Pratt Institute. His work is in more than 250 private collections worldwide and in many international public and corporate collections including The New York Public Library, Harvard University, Pepsi Co., Warner Music Group, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Penn State University, Norwest Venture Partners, and Mikasa Corporation. He has exhibited internationally at venues from New York to Hong Kong, including the Grand Rapids Art Museum in Michigan, Hofstra University Museum in New York, and Monmouth Museum in New Jersey.
Alexis Portilla's large scale pieces like Anemone, Black Elk, Thor Twins, Tokyo, Chromatic Fantasy are spectacular pieces in terms of the atmospheric brushwork, colors and textures. His bold linear lines, use of symbols, pictographs and strong colors create atmospheric abstracts.
“Alexis is a poet in space and a painter of original feeling… He conveys a constant sense of expansion.”
Artist Will Barnet (1911-2012), June 2007
“Using simple forms and creating swathes of rich texture, Alexis Portilla builds atmospheric abstract paintings that convey a sense of time having passed. Brushy areas of color suggest the indeterminacy of memory, while bold linear forms speak for the present." - Meredith Mendelsohn, Art News magazine review
The artist Alexis Portilla obtained his Masters of Fine Arts at Columbia University in 1990, and his BFA at the noted Pratt Institute.
The artist has shown in group and solo exhibitions. His works have been commissioned by major corporations, universities and for private collections.
These pieces and others are available for viewing in Los Angeles.
Instruction
1993-1994 Faculty /Adjunct Instructor
Department of Printmaking
Columbia University New York, NY
Awards
1983 – 1994 HEOP/SEOG Full scholarship
To attend Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1984-85 Charles A. Dana Internship and
Grant, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Public Commissions:
- April 2007 Penn State University -State College, PA Department of Chemistry
Public Collections:
- 1996 The New York Public Library, New York, NY
Department of Prints and Drawings
Roberta Waddell
Selected Corporate Collections
Harvard Club Cambridge, MA
Meredith and Grew Boston, MA
Farley White Boston, MA
Edwards and Angell Providence, RI
Acadian Asset Management Boston, MA
Proskauer Rose Boston, MA
Mikasa Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
First Atlantic Capital, New York, NY
Warner Brothers, New York, NY
—-
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Bryant University, Smithfield, RI
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
The New York Public Library, New York, NY
Penn State University, State College, PA (commissioned work)
SELECTED PRIVATE AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Collection of Padma Lakshmi
Mikasa Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
Pepsi Co., Purchase, NY
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Boston (commissioned work)
Norwest Venture Partners, Palo Alto, CA
Warner Brothers, New York, NY
First Atlantic Capital, New York, NY
Excel, Bermuda
Edwards and Angell, Providence, RI
Meredith and Grew, Boston, MA
Farley White, Boston, MA
Acadian Asset Management, Boston, MA
Proskauer Rose, Boston, MA
New Star Financial, Boston, MA
Cross Harbor Capital, Boston, MA
Weil Gotshal
Manges, Providence, RI
Partner Reinsurance, Pembroke, Bermuda
Hale
Dorr, Washington, DC
Bingham Dana
Gould, Boston, MA
Total System Services, Columbus, OH
Biogen Inc., Cambridge, MA
Millennia, Boston, MA
Renaissance Worldwide, Waltham, MA
Goodwin Proctor
Hoar, Boston, MA and New York, NY
X.L. Pembroke, Bermuda
Odyssey America RE, New York, NY
Greystone Realty Corp., Westport, CT
Limerock Partners, Westport, CT
Michael Page...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Court of the Red King - Oil on canvas Abstract Expressionist
By Alexis Portilla
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a grand and majestic oil painting by Alexis Portilla. The use of a unique pale gray blue against vibrant shades of a golden yellow and bright colors makes a bold statement, w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
48 x 60 in. "For Helen" oil on canvas - black and white oil painting
By Alexis Portilla
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a large monochromatic oil painting on canvas by Alexis Portilla. Color, lines and shapes that resemble pictographs and vessels convey symbolism. Vessels are a recurring theme in Portilla's work as symbolic of the potential for the ability to hold and receive.
Influenced by the emotion of artistic expression in music, poetry and literature, the artist finds bold expression in color, lines and shapes that resemble pictographs, and texture.
For Helen
48x60"
Oil on Canvas
Signed on verso
Alexis Portilla was born in Mexico City in 1965, and has lived in New York since 1970.
He holds an MFA from Columbia University and a BFA from Pratt Institute.
His work can be found in public and corporate collections throughout the United States and abroad, including The New York Public Library, Penn State University, Harvard University,
Warner Brothers Music Group, Pepsi Co., PricewaterhouseCoopers, Norwest Venture
Partners, and Mikasa Corporation. In addition, his work is in hundreds of private collections in the United States, England, France, and Germany.
For more than 20 years, Portilla’s work has been regularly exhibited at prominent venues
throughout the United States.
His work has been the subject of 10 solo exhibitions at established galleries in New York, New Jersey, Atlanta, and Hong Kong. His work has been exhibited in museum group exhibitions at the Grand Rapids Art Museum in Michigan,
Hofstra University Museum in New York, and Monmouth Museum in New Jersey, as well as
numerous gallery group exhibitions in New York, Miami, Chicago, Atlanta, and Philadelphia.
Portilla’s work has received international press attention and has been reviewed in
several publications, including Artnews. He has been a faculty instructor at Columbia University, where he taught printmaking to graduate and postgraduate students.
“New York painter Alexis Portilla[’s] layered compositions deserve serious attention.”
–Art Market Report, Summer 2017
“[Portilla] both builds and excavates his canvases with broad swaths of paint, textured
imprints, and scrapes and scratches, layering lines over drifting expanses of rich color [...]
recalling Basquiat and Twombly-lyrical paintings that hover between pure abstraction and
the evocation of unknown atmospheric spaces.”
–Karen Sundberg, Artsy, December 2014
“Using simple forms and creating swathes of rich texture, Alexis Portilla builds atmospheric abstract paintings that convey a sense of time having passed. Brushy areas of color suggest the indeterminacy of memory, while bold linear forms speak for the present.” Meredith Mendelsohn, Art News magazine review, Feb 2008
Alexis’s work is in public and private collections in the US and internationally.
Education
MFA, Columbia University (1990)
BFA, Pratt Institute
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS (select):
Bryant University, Smithfield, RI
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
The New York Public Library, New York, NY
Penn State University, State College, PA (commissioned work)
SELECTED PRIVATE AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Collection of Padma Lakshmi
Mikasa Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
Pepsi Co., Purchase, NY
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Boston (commissioned work)
Norwest Venture Partners, Palo Alto, CA
Warner Brothers, New York, NY
First Atlantic Capital, New York, NY
Excel, Bermuda
Edwards and Angell, Providence, RI
Meredith and Grew, Boston, MA
Farley White, Boston, MA
Acadian Asset Management, Boston, MA
Proskauer Rose, Boston, MA
New Star Financial, Boston, MA
Cross Harbor Capital, Boston, MA
Weil Gotshal
Manges, Providence, RI
Partner Reinsurance, Pembroke, Bermuda
Hale
Dorr, Washington, DC
Bingham Dana
Gould, Boston, MA
Total System Services, Columbus, OH
Biogen Inc., Cambridge, MA
Millennia, Boston, MA
Renaissance Worldwide, Waltham, MA
Goodwin Proctor
Hoar, Boston, MA and New York, NY
X.L. Pembroke, Bermuda
Odyssey America RE, New York, NY
Greystone Realty Corp., Westport, CT
Limerock Partners, Westport, CT
Michael Page...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
62x68” Glacier - Oil Painting
By Alexis Portilla
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a beautiful oil painting by Alexis Portilla. Color, lines and shapes that resemble pictographs and vessels convey symbolism.
Influenced by the emotion of artistic expression...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
36x48" - White Lake - Oil on Linen
By Alexis Portilla
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a beautiful oil painting on linen by Alexis Portilla. The rich inky greys, blues and blacks of this piece contrasts against the light and symbolism of vessels and pictographs...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
56x56” Arcana Reprise
By Alexis Portilla
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a beautiful oil painting by Alexis Portilla, using a unique palette of sage grays, icy blue grays, exuding a quiet, poetic beauty. Color, lines and shapes that resemble picto...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Court of the Red King - Oil on canvas Abstract Expressionist
By Alexis Portilla
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a grand and majestic oil painting by Alexis Portilla. The use of a unique pale gray blue against vibrant shades of a golden yellow and bright colors ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oil Painting - Vessel Series n. 1 - Vessels Red
By Alexis Portilla
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vessels Red
OIl Painting on Canvas
35 x 36"
"This series portray the shapes of vessels, vessels are everywhere and we are one of them."
Influenced by the emotion of artistic expr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Heart of Gold - Gold Leaves, Oil Painting
By Stephen Cimini
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This artist is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner grant awarded to artists with established abilities, established by the wife of Jackson Pollock. We love the work of this artist bec...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
"Still Climbing" Geometric Architectural Monochromatic Contemporary Oil Painting
By Stephen Cimini
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This artist is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner grant awarded to artists with established abilities, established by the wife of Jackson Pollock. We love the work of this artist bec...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wax, Oil
Hand Colored Etching - Nostalgia Railroad - Last
By Cuca Romley
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This beautiful hand colored etching imaginatively depicts a historical time / place of the nation’s first transcontinental railroad where Union P...
Category
1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Archival Ink, Etching
34x34x2 in. Gold Leaf, Abstract Contemporary Oil Painting
By Stephen Cimini
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This artist is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner grant awarded to artists with established abilities, established by the wife of Jackson Pollock. We love the work of this artist bec...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
30 x 22 inches Oil paint, cold wax medium - Purple Haze
By Stephen Cimini
Located in Los Angeles, CA
30 x 22 inches
oil paint, cold wax medium on
100% cotton, 140 lb Arches Oil Paper with deckled edges
The painting goes to the deckled edges of the paper—a floating frame is suggested...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Archival Paper
Heart of Gold - Gold Leaves, Oil Painting
By Stephen Cimini
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This artist is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner grant awarded to artists with established abilities, established by the wife of Jackson Pollock. We love the work of this artist bec...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Hand Colored Etching - Nostalgia Railroad - Last
By Cuca Romley
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This beautiful hand colored etching imaginatively depicts a historical time / place of the nation’s first transcontinental railroad where Union P...
Category
1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching, Archival Ink
"Plage De Menton", France, Limited Edition Hand Colored Etching - Edn 38/175
By Cuca Romley
Located in Los Angeles, CA
'Plage de Menton', France, circa 1980, Cuca Romley (b. 1933)
Image size: 15.5 x 23.5 in. on paper
Signed, lower right, in pencil, 'Cuca Romley' ,
Titled lower center
Inscribed, lower...
Category
1980s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Hand Colored Etching - Rockefeller Center, New York (Edn of 175) - LAST ONE
By Cuca Romley
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is the LAST one of this iconic landmark - the Rockefeller Center in winter!
From a series of limited edition (of 175) - now sold out - of original etchings of New York City - fr...
Category
1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Hand Colored Etching - Rockefeller Center, New York (Edn of 175) - LAST ONE
By Cuca Romley
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is the LAST one of this iconic landmark - the Rockefeller Center in winter!
From a series of limited edition (of 175) - now sold out - of original etchings of New York City - fr...
Category
1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Large Abstract Oil painting - Color Code I - unframed
By Alexis Portilla
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a beautiful, bright vibrant oil on paper. Unframed but framing can be requested, custom framed in Los Angeles. A very high resolution photograph is provided here to enable vi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
The Flatiron Building 24”x36” Oil Painting
By Cuca Romley
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a beautiful oil painting by Cuca Romley. Ms Romley was a long time New Yorker now retired, and living in Spain, and enjoying the beaches in Spain and France and painting into...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
27x26" paper- Black Pearl - Mixed Media on Paper
By Alexis Portilla
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a beautiful piece by Alexis Portilla. The rich inky grey, black and white colors of this piece contrasts against the symbolism of vessels and pictographs. Vessels are a recur...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Oil, Graphite
"The Little Elephant" - Hand Colored Drawing
By Cuca Romley
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Little Elephant, drawing by Cuca Romley (b. 1933)
Image size: 10.5 x 7 7/8 in. Framed 11 x 14 in.
Signed Cuca Romley, lower right.
Drawing framed, acquired originally from a Par...
Category
1980s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor
"Plage De Menton", France, Limited Edition Hand Colored Etching - Edn 38/175
By Cuca Romley
Located in Los Angeles, CA
'Plage de Menton', France, circa 1980, Cuca Romley (b. 1933)
Image size: 15.5 x 23.5 in. on paper
Signed, lower right, in pencil, 'Cuca Romley' ,
Titled lower center
Inscribed, lower...
Category
1980s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Etching - Cotswolds, England - last 2 left
By Cuca Romley
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is beautiful piece of the Cotswolds, England.
Image 10 x 16 in.
on paper with about 1.5 in. all around
Signed, titled and editioned
Unframed
Brand new
Gallery curates a seri...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
22x30" Night Rooms I - Black, White, Monochromatic Oil on Paper I, Framing incl
By Alexis Portilla
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a beautiful piece by Alexis Portilla. The rich inky grey, blue, black and white colors evoke an atmospheric pleasure portraying the moody, rich symbolism of vessels and picto...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Archival Paper
27x26" paper- Black Pearl - Mixed Media on Paper
By Alexis Portilla
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a beautiful piece by Alexis Portilla. The rich inky grey, black and white colors of this piece contrasts against the symbolism of vessels and pictographs. Vessels are a recur...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Oil, Graphite
47 x 65 in. / 4 x 5.4 ft "Oregon" - Large abstract Oil on Canvas
By Alexis Portilla
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a beautiful oil painting by Alexis Portilla, using a palette of jewel colors, bold brushwork and pictographs to create an atmospheric piece. Color, lines and shapes that resemble pictographs and vessels convey symbolism. Vessels are a recurring theme in Portilla's work as symbolic of the potential for the ability to hold and receive.
Influenced by the emotion of artistic expression in music, poetry and literature, the artist finds bold expression in color, lines and shapes that resemble pictographs, and texture.
Oregon
47 x 65 in.
Oil on Canvas
Signed on verso
Ready to hang: Yes
Frame: Not applicable
Materials: Oil paint, canvas, wood stretchers
Alexis Portilla holds an MFA from Columbia University (1990) and a BFA from Pratt Institute. His work is in more than 250 private collections worldwide and in many international public and corporate collections including The New York Public Library, Harvard University, Pepsi Co., Warner Music Group, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Penn State University, Norwest Venture Partners, and Mikasa Corporation. He has exhibited internationally at venues from New York to Hong Kong, including the Grand Rapids Art Museum in Michigan, Hofstra University Museum in New York, and Monmouth Museum in New Jersey.
Alexis Portilla's large scale pieces like Anemone, Black Elk, Thor Twins, Tokyo, Chromatic Fantasy are spectacular pieces in terms of the atmospheric brushwork, colors and textures. His bold linear lines, use of symbols, pictographs and strong colors create atmospheric abstracts.
“Alexis is a poet in space and a painter of original feeling… He conveys a constant sense of expansion.”
Artist Will Barnet (1911-2012), June 2007
“Using simple forms and creating swathes of rich texture, Alexis Portilla builds atmospheric abstract paintings that convey a sense of time having passed. Brushy areas of color suggest the indeterminacy of memory, while bold linear forms speak for the present." - Meredith Mendelsohn, Art News magazine review
The artist Alexis Portilla obtained his Masters of Fine Arts at Columbia University in 1990, and his BFA at the noted Pratt Institute.
The artist has shown in group and solo exhibitions. His works have been commissioned by major corporations, universities and for private collections.
These pieces and others are available for viewing in Los Angeles.
Instruction
1993-1994 Faculty /Adjunct Instructor
Department of Printmaking
Columbia University New York, NY
Awards
1983 – 1994 HEOP/SEOG Full scholarship
To attend Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1984-85 Charles A. Dana Internship and
Grant, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Public Commissions:
- April 2007 Penn State University -State College, PA Department of Chemistry
Public Collections:
- 1996 The New York Public Library, New York, NY
Department of Prints and Drawings
Roberta Waddell
Selected Corporate Collections
Harvard Club Cambridge, MA
Meredith and Grew Boston, MA
Farley White Boston, MA
Edwards and Angell Providence, RI
Acadian Asset Management Boston, MA
Proskauer Rose Boston, MA
Mikasa Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
First Atlantic Capital, New York, NY
Warner Brothers, New York, NY
—-
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Bryant University, Smithfield, RI
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
The New York Public Library, New York, NY
Penn State University, State College, PA (commissioned work)
SELECTED PRIVATE AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Collection of Padma Lakshmi
Mikasa Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
Pepsi Co., Purchase, NY
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Boston (commissioned work)
Norwest Venture Partners, Palo Alto, CA
Warner Brothers, New York, NY
First Atlantic Capital, New York, NY
Excel, Bermuda
Edwards and Angell, Providence, RI
Meredith and Grew, Boston, MA
Farley White, Boston, MA
Acadian Asset Management, Boston, MA
Proskauer Rose, Boston, MA
New Star Financial, Boston, MA
Cross Harbor Capital, Boston, MA
Weil Gotshal & Manges, Providence, RI
Partner Reinsurance, Pembroke, Bermuda
Hale & Dorr, Washington, DC
Bingham Dana & Gould, Boston, MA
Total System Services, Columbus, OH
Biogen Inc., Cambridge, MA
Millennia, Boston, MA
Renaissance Worldwide, Waltham, MA
Goodwin Proctor & Hoar, Boston, MA and New York, NY
X.L. Pembroke, Bermuda
Odyssey America RE, New York, NY
Greystone Realty Corp., Westport, CT
Limerock Partners, Westport, CT
Michael Page...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
72 x 96 in / 6 x 8 ft "Three of Us" Oil on Canvas (black white minimalist oil)
By Alexis Portilla
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a beautifully nuanced, and deeply soulful abstract contemporary oil painting on linen, that speaks volumes with its quietly furious brushstrokes multi-layered in monochromati...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
56x52 in. - Mont Blanc - Oil on Canvas
By Alexis Portilla
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Influenced by artistic expression in music, poetry and literature, and drawing inspiration from concepts in art and science, the artist finds bold expression in color, lines and shap...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modernist Oil on Canvas - #1100 Rental Boat by Bridge, Oxford, England
By Herbert Kornfeld
Located in Los Angeles, CA
ABOUT THIS PIECE
#1100 “Rental Boat by Bridge”, Oxford, England 1992
28 x 20”, Oil on Canvas
Custom framed.
This is a series of English landscapes, painted by the late American arti...
Category
1990s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century Modernist Oil Painting “Toll Bridge from Up River Thames", England
By Herbert Kornfeld
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Oil Painting on Canvas
#1092 “Toll Bridge from Up River Thames", England
31 x 30”, Oil on Canvas
Custom made wood frame
Signed
Kornfeld painted the Englan...
Category
1980s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Modernist Oil Painting - California Landscapes, Monterey California
By Herb Kornfeld
Located in Los Angeles, CA
ABOUT THIS PIECE
This is a series of oil on canvas Californian landscapes, painted by the late American artist Herb Kornfeld.
This piece is framed, and is SUBJECT TO AVAILABILITY. ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Flatiron Building 24”x36” Oil Painting
By Cuca Romley
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a beautiful oil painting by Cuca Romley. Ms Romley was a long time New Yorker now retired, and living in Spain, and enjoying the beaches in Spain and France and painting into...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Still Climbing" Geometric Architectural Monochromatic Contemporary Oil Painting
By Stephen Cimini
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This artist is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner grant awarded to artists with established abilities, established by the wife of Jackson Pollock. We love the work of this artist bec...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Wax
"Yellowstone" - oil on canvas
By Stephen Cimini
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This artist is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner grant awarded to artists with established abilities, established by the wife of Jackson Pollock. We love the work of this artist bec...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Heart of Gold - Gold Leaves, Oil Painting
By Stephen Cimini
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This artist is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner grant awarded to artists with established abilities, established by the wife of Jackson Pollock. We love the work of this artist bec...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Large abstract oil painting - Yellow Makes the Moves - architectural, color
By Stephen Cimini
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a beautiful piece in a vibrant yet harmonious balance of geometry and color.
Oil Painting - Yellow Makes the Move
35x35x2 in.
Oil paint, cold wax medium and marble dust on c...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Large oil painting 50x63" - "Skyline" - Oil Painting on Linen
By Alexis Portilla
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Presenting this bold piece with strong masterful brushwork, Alexis Portilla shows that his artistic virtuosity ranges from the strong and bold and big to the fragile, vulnerable smal...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Large Oil Painting - "Black Elk" Monochromatic, Abstract Expressionism
By Alexis Portilla
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Black Elk
Oil on Canvas
94 x 74" / 7 ft 10" x 6 ft 2"
(Some of these images show his other large scale work in collections around the country)
This is one of his signature large oi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
34x34x2 in. Gold Leaf, Abstract Contemporary Oil Painting
By Stephen Cimini
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This artist is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner grant awarded to artists with established abilities, established by the wife of Jackson Pollock. We love the work of this artist bec...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Modernist Oil Painting - "Peggy
s Cove", Nova Scotia
By Herbert Kornfeld
Located in Los Angeles, CA
About this piece
Oil Painting on Canvas
32x44 in.
Original custom made wood frame: 33.5 x 46 x 2 in.
Signed
New
This is an oil painting of a coastal landscape...
Category
1980s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Modernist Californian Oil Painting - Southern California Beach Pier Oil Painting
By Herbert Kornfeld
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Oil Painting on Canvas
40x30 in.
Original custom made wood frame
Signed
This is an oil painting of a beach pier structure along Southern California's famous beaches. Kornfeld had California as his inspiration, capturing the iconic landscape, structures or the unexpected but quintessential.
A mid-century California modernist, "Kornfeld's paintings came to help define the California modernist movement, as graphic landscapes with surreal colors and electric interpretations of everyday scenery" - LA Mag...
Category
1980s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
30 x 22 inches Oil paint, cold wax medium - Purple Haze
By Stephen Cimini
Located in Los Angeles, CA
30 x 22 inches
oil paint, cold wax medium on
100% cotton, 140 lb Arches Oil Paper with deckled edges
The painting goes to the deckled edges of the paper—a floating frame is suggested...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Archival Paper
32x28x2" Geometric Architectural Contemporary Oil Painting
By Stephen Cimini
Located in Los Angeles, CA
We love this piece painted in relative monochromes of midnight blues and sage greys evoking stately strength and calm.
32 x 28 x 2 inches
Oil paint, cold wax on canvas, stretched on...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
28 x54 x 2 in. Oil Painting - Shapes of Things - MAE
By Stephen Cimini
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This artist is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner grant awarded to artists with established abilities, established by the wife of Jackson Pollock. We love the work of this artist bec...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Chinese contemporary ink brush painting - "Hua Dan" Side
By Jiu Chen
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Chinese opera is a quintessentially Chinese cultural performance art, and began around 1790, when theater companies from all over China arrived in Beijing, to perform for the Qin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink
Chinese ink brush painting (contemporary asian art) - Hua Dan - Front
By Jiu Chen
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Chinese opera is a quintessentially Chinese cultural performance art, and began around 1790, when theater companies from all over China arrived in Beijing, to perform for the Qin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink
Handcolored Etching - Monte Carlo, Monaco, Europe
By Cuca Romley
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Etching
Edition 143/175
Last 2 left, new, not preowned
Video attached
This is a series of original etchings from respected European artist Cuca Romley. Ms Romley is 91 years and cur...
Category
1990s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
35x 36 in. Oil painting on paper - Vessel Yellow
By Alexis Portilla
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is rich, vibrant and strong abstract expressionist piece by an established artist who has received recognition for his work. The piece is rich in poetic significance and symboli...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Archival Paper
44.25x36" - "Owl House" - Mixed Media, Charcoal on Paper
By Alexis Portilla
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a beautiful piece by Alexis Portilla. The rich inky greys, blues and blacks of this piece contrasts against the light and symbolism of vessels and pictographs. Vessels are a ...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Mixed Media
59x50 in. "Anemone" - Oil on Canvas
By Alexis Portilla
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a beautiful large oil painting by Alexis Portilla.
Alexis Portilla holds an MFA from Columbia University (1990) and a BFA from Pratt Institute. His work is in more than 250 ...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Etching - South Beach, Miami, Florida
By Cuca Romley
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gallery curates a series of original etchings from respected European artist Cuca Romley. The pieces are very limited in terms of numbered editions left.
Ms Romley is in her 90’s a...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Etching
40x32x2 in. Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting
By Stephen Cimini
Located in Los Angeles, CA
40 x 32 x 2 inches
Oil paint, cold wax and marble dust on canvas
Signed, ready to hang
Framing not necessary because painting wraps around canvas, framing available on request
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Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
32 x 28 x 2 in. Oil Painting - Shapes of Things Study II mae
By Stephen Cimini
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This artist is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner grant awarded to artists with established abilities, established by the wife of Jackson Pollock. We love the work of this artist bec...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
39 x 32 in. Oil Painting "Informed Consent" - Oil Paint, Silver Leaf
By Stephen Cimini
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The artist is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner grant awarded to artists with established abilities, established by the wife of Jackson Pollock. His work is held in various corporate and private collections worldwide.
Oil Painting
39 x 32 x 2 inches
Oil paint, cold wax, silver leaf on gallery wrapped canvas
Framing is optional because painting wraps around canvas
Ready to hang on wall, signed on the back by artist
Video attached for viewing
The beauty of geometrical balance in Cimini's series of work evokes a certain quiet beauty. Strong layers of color and brushwork explore depth and emotion to each unique piece. Cimini's work range from paintings with vibrant color and energy to quiet contemplative pieces with rich layering of depths. Using oil paint, wax medium, and marble dust on canvas, the artist creates a harmonious balance on the canvas, or paper, characterized by textured shades of colors, with linear lines and shapes - allowing a symmetrical, meditative composition of shapes and colors to emerge.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Building on the architectural origins which have been the basis of my work for over a decade, I have started referring to my compositions as random symmetry. That is, creating a balance on the canvas with no discernible pattern allowing a symmetrical, meditative composition to emerge. I employ the golden mean as a reference which can often be seen in the composition.
I use oil paint with a cold wax medium, layering the paint, as organic surfaces evolve within the restrained lines of the composition.
During the process an environment develops giving an emotional story to the thoughtfully planned out compositions. My color choices vary, sometimes deliberately creating a series with particular color decisions and sometimes allowing the color choices to impulsively appear fueled by intuition and experience. Color remains a constantly unfolding mystery.
In a recent exhibition, MATH TO BEAUTY is series of new paintings employing the golden mean as a basis for the geometric compositions which I've come to call random symmetry. This fascinating ratio, frequently found in nature and geometry, is perceived by many to play a role in the human perception of beauty. So much has been written about the golden ratio; to the point that it's hard to discern fact from fiction. But whatever the truth, the golden ratio has properties that has intrigued and inspired mathematicians, biologists, artists, musicians, historians, architects, psychologists, and even mystics for centuries.
Using the golden ratio in the cavalier way that I do keeps me mindful of proportion. Just when I think it's working along comes color to challenge my senses. In the end my intentions are to create beauty in my work. As the Greeks put it, the three ingredients to beauty are: symmetry, proportion, and harmony.
Born: 1949, Williamsport, Pennsylvania, USA
Education: San Francisco Art Institute
School of Visual Arts (New York City)
Grants & Awards
2003 Recipient of a Grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation selected by a committee of distinguished art professionals awarded to artists with established ability. The grant was set up by Lee Krasner, wife of Jackson Pollack.
2015 Finalist at the Global Art League 2015 exhibition at the Montreal Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Silver
48 x 104 in. / 4 x 8.6 ft (2 panels) "Chromatic Fantasy" Large Oil on Linen
By Alexis Portilla
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a beautiful, abstract expressionist oil painting on linen by Alexis Portilla. This piece is in 2 panels.
He obtained his Masters of Fine Arts at Columbia University in 1990. His bold linear lines, use of symbols, pictographs and strong colors create atmospheric abstracts. Influenced by the emotion of artistic expression in music, poetry and literature, the artist finds bold expression in color, lines and shapes that resemble pictographs, and texture.
“Using simple forms and creating swathes of rich texture, Alexis Portilla builds atmospheric abstract paintings that convey a sense of time having passed. Brushy areas of color suggest the indeterminacy of memory, while bold linear forms speak for the present.” “In some of his smaller works, Portilla experimented with beeswax. Applying a smooth coat of wax over the surface, the artist sealed in his sparse, abstract forms, while leaving whole sections empty, the images hover in the wax, as if frozen in time, yet the pieces have a fresh, almost dewy look.”
- Meredith Mendelsohn, Art News magazine review.
The artist has shown in group and solo exhibitions both nationally and internationally. His works have been commissioned by major corporations, universities and for private collections.
Instruction
1993-1994 Faculty /Adjunct Instructor
Department of Printmaking
Columbia University New York, NY
Awards
1983 – 1994 HEOP/SEOG Full scholarship
To attend Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1984-85
Charles A. Dana Internship and Grant,
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Public Commissions:
April 2007 Penn State University -State College, PA, Department of Chemistry
Public Collections
1996 The New York Public Library, New York, NY
Department of Prints and Drawings
Selected Corporate Collections
Harvard Club...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oil painting on paper - framed in natural wood - Blue and Gray 2
By Stephen Cimini
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is based on an original oil painting on paper by artist, custom made into an archival pigment print. Framed in natural wood. This may be paired with Blue and Gray 1.
Print dime...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Archival pigment print - framed in natural wood - Blue and Gray 1
By Stephen Cimini
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is based on an original oil painting on paper by artist, custom made into an archival pigment print. Framed in natural wood. No need for glass or acrylic front. This may be pair...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Archival Pigment
24x22x2 in. - Oil Painting - Geometric Architectural Contemporary - Opposites
By Stephen Cimini
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This artist is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner grant awarded to artists with established abilities, established by the wife of Jackson Pollock. We love the work of this artist bec...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
56x56 in. - Chamonix - Oil on Canvas
By Alexis Portilla
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Influenced by artistic expression in music, poetry, literature, and drawing inspiration from concepts in art and science, the artist finds bold expression in color, lines and shapes ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas





