Fabric Contemporary Art

This wall hanging is a one of a kind heirloom piece, inspired by brutalism, and Joseph Albers studies on the interactions of colors. The entire process of creating this wall hanging...

Isabel Brinck Original Abstract Painting on Canvas Titled "Perpetua" Offered for sale is an original acrylic on canvas painting by Chilean-American Miami based artist Isabel Brinck...

Vintage painting of elegant woman looking forward gracefully, with mysterious look, nice colors combinations, great decorative painting. Sig...

The suzani fragment on the frame is from a 19th C. Suzani. It is hand backed on linen and streched over a strecher and finished with a wooden frame. Ready to go on any wall. The ite...

The Vertebrae Wall Tapestry X creates a feeling of balance, beauty, and softness. Leather links hang from a minimalist wooden peg rail to support two curly shearling panels verticall...

This wall hanging is a one of a kind heirloom piece, inspired byFrank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School architects, and Joseph Albers studies on colors. The entire process of cre...

Italian Surrealist oil painting on canvas after Modigliani. This interesting framed oil painting on canvas with a glass front is of an elongated mal...

This wall hanging is a one of a kind heirloom piece. Taking inspiration from brutalism, mid-century abstraction, and Joseph Albers studies on the interaction of color. The entire pr...

Narragansett XV is a proud member of the artist's Narragansett Series, a deeply personal and visceral homage to the New England coast and his formative years in Providence, Rhode Isl...

I love this painting! This is a large scale mid-century signed modern oil on canvas painting. It is signed “Monti”. The strong coloration includes black, blue, green and red.

This wall hanging is a one of a kind heirloom piece. Taking inspiration from brutalism, mid-century abstraction, and Joseph Albers studies on the interaction of color. The entire pr...

Original artwork. The art and design continuum of form and space. Hand torn canvas, black gesso, thin wood frame.

Exceptional oil painting of of street view of the old city in Jerusalem. Edward Philips, Ben Avram (born 1941) is an artist who was born in Bombay, India ...

This abstract painting titled "AZ-TEP" was created by contemporary Venezuelan artist Susana Amundarain. Her work has been included in many group and ...

A beautiful work done by Philadelphia Artist Jane Potash. All original work with signature on front and original frame. Not dated, probably created late 19...

Large oil on canvas painting by Sergio Hernandez from his " Casitas" series from the 1980s.  Naive yet sophisticated style depicting stylized native houses found in the countryside t...

Striking original artwork features an abstract study of colors and shapes within a structured square space. Sequences of colors in various shades of grey, green, and blue are juxtap...

Hand Painted Acrylic on Canvas in a brown oak frame. Ready to hang. A beautiful large painting to accentuate your home. 48" w x 60"h Painting is 47" x 59" Artist: Unknown This is an...

Isabel Brinck Abstract Painting on Canvas Titled "I don't recall" Offered for sale is an abstract acrylic painting on canvas painting by Chilean-American artist Isabel Brinck signe...

A stunning abstract painting by Australian Aboriginal artist Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa (also known as Mrs. Bennett; 1935-2013). Acrylic on Belgium Linen and painted in 2006. Untitled, t...

Modern Abstract Painting on Canvas Mounted on Wood, Easel " El Inicio" Offered for sale is a modern acrylic on canvas painting mounted on wood and presented on a matching wood ease...

Hand Painted Acrylic on Canvas in a brown oak frame. Ready to hang. A beautiful large painting to accentuate your home. 48" w x 36"h x 1.5" Painting is 47" x 35" Artist: Unknown This...

Mid Century Moody, Stormy Abstract Painting in a fabulous gilt frame. Some see mountains, others see an ocean. Great color, composition and movement. Signed by artist. Curbside to NY...

Based in Chicago, IL, contemporary artist Michael Thompson creates unique kites, collages and mixed media works assembled from material fragments of past and present collected in his...

Isabel Brinck Original Abstract Painting on Canvas Titled "Kismet" Original acrylic on canvas painting by Chilean-American artist Isabel Brinck title "Kismet" signed lower right and...

Vintage Italian silk scarf with 18th century Italian gilded fragments and glass beveled beads on canvas. Vintage silk scarf depicting the important historical monuments of Rome with...

James Strombotne is a contemporary artist who has had a successful career, since 1956. His artwork is held in many prestigious museums and private collections, including those of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Hirschhorn Museum of the Smithsonian Institute. According to Strombotne, "Any subject is fair game...

The Protector by Roy Fairchild-Woodard is #161/385. c. 1994 It is a mixed-media print on canvas 28" by 35". Fairchild-Woodard was born in England in 1...

Jennifer Gibbs draws artistic inspiration primarily from meditation and nature. Her extensive body of work ranges from abstract expressionism to delicate botanicals to her charcoal l...

Entitled "Tree Talk," this exquisite painting by Chinese artist Ren Hui celebrates the beauty of nature with an abstracted view of a tangle of tree branches. Using a style he calls “...

Group of Three WPA Era Paintings, American, circa 1930s-1950s. From left to right, they are: 1) Brick mason oil painting, American, circa 1930s. It ...

Large abstract oil painting titled: "Connected Green Deal" Natural pigment on vintage Belgian linen canvas Textured green iguana abstract...

20th Century Swedish abstract work by Valter Gibson. Mixed media on canvas. Unsigned, undated and unframed. Valter Gibson was born in 1928 in Lycksele, grew up in Stockholm and lived...

A selection of butterfly collage artworks exhibiting examples of custom backgrounds with wrapped & painted frame options. This past year, Dawn has been creating large format butter...

Beautiful Swedish abstract oil on canvas artwork with a pine wooden frame by Bertil Berntsson from the 1962. In good vintage condition with patina from aging. Signed and dated lowe...

A stunning abstract painting by Australian Aboriginal artist Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa (also known as Mrs. Bennett; 1935-2013). Entitled "Tjukurla Country", this work was acrylic on Be...

Isabel Brinck Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas Title "There's people on the moon" Offered for sale is a monumental oil on canvas painting by Chilean-American artist Isabel Brinck (b....

This wall hanging is a one of a kind heirloom piece. Taking inspiration from brutalism, mid-century abstraction, and Joseph Albers studies on the interaction of color. The entire pr...

Selection of Mid-Century jazz themed paintings, American, circa 1930s-1970s. From left to right, they are: 1) New Orleans jazz watercolor by Leo Meirsdorff...

This is an incredible large scale Mid-Century Modern signed abstract oil on canvas depicting a seascape. The coloration is so vibrant and will add depth to any design project. It is ...

An eye catching classic Hermes style silk scarf shown in an elegant custom gilt wood frame. Makes a luxurious piece of art. The scarf is in very good vintage condition, it appears w...

A tapestry represents the power and glory of Ukrainian earth. We've been exploring our past to recover Ukrainian craft techniques and bring back protec...

These Christmas Stockings were made from mid 20th C. Uzbek Velvet Fragments. Please note these were made from vintage Uzbek Velvet fragments.

A handsome and sophisticated mixed media on canvas by American artist John Rigsby. Found in a original state of preservation. His works are few and far between. The following biography was submitted by John David Rigsby, Jr., son of the artist. The author is Lisa Rigsby Peterson, daughter of the artist, and owner of the copyright of the biography. John David Rigsby was born on October 10, 1934, the seventh child of an Alabama Depression-era sharecropper's son. He and his family moved frequently, from one one-room structure to another, often with no running water, no plumbing, no heat but the stove. His father was killed in a car accident when Rigsby was just 9 years old. Life for the remaining eight family members proved tumultuous and difficult -- food wasn't plentiful, nor money. The family moved from place to place, following work -- Rigsby attended 30 different schools before graduating from high school. Despite living in poverty, Rigsby demonstrated academic and artistic aptitude at a young age. Two oil paintings on covers ripped off of old books that he painted when he was eight years old show the promise of an imaginative and gifted eye. Rigsby was drafted by the U.S. Army in 1953. As he later wrote, "When basic training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, was over, I was told to go out and find a job. Jasper Johns was painting visual aids for the 28th Regimental Headquarters. He suggested the Band Training Unit." Rigsby played the clarinet in that unit, and after 2 years of service, he enrolled at the University of Alabama on the G.I. Bill to study art. After just two years, he left school and followed his mentor (and one of the greatest and longest-lasting influences on his art), Japanese artist and U of A art instructor Tatsu Heima, to New York City. Heima introduced him to Isamu Noguchi and suggested that Rigsby work as Noguchi's assistant. Instead, Rigsby chose a job as a guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, since "the notion of seeing all of that art appealed more to me than the boring task of studio assistant." The opportunity was a rich one for Rigsby. He had a chance to study the masters, and cited Rembrandt with his simplicity and elegance as another of the most important influences on his work. In the years between 1957 and 1963, when Rigsby eventually earned his BFA in sculpture, the artist traveled back and forth between New York and Tuscaloosa, alternating study with forays into the fertile New York art scene. Rigsby exhibited some of his early sculpture work in 1958 at a small New York gallery, which was also exhibiting the work of Willem and Elaine de Kooning and Theodore Stamos. Shortly thereafter, searching for an educational venue closer to New York City, Rigsby visited New Haven, Connecticut, and spent an afternoon speaking with Josef Albers at Yale. Albers agreed to accept Rigsby into the Yale program on the condition that he take freshman drawing all over again. A brilliant opportunity, but, in Rigsby's words, "When it was time to register, I was hitchhiking back to Alabama, looking for food and shelter." Rigsby had his first one-man show at the University of Alabama in 1959. A visiting critic from New York, J.F. Goosen, reviewed the show and wrote "here is a talent which produces art because that is the thing for a gifted person to do. In his effortless ease of conception and execution, he has already achieved a goal that eludes many artists for a lifetime." Finally, in 1963, Rigsby received his degree in sculpture, dissolved a short-lived marriage, visited his family, packed up his car and headed permanently for New York. That year, his work was included in a group show at the Delgado Museum in New Orleans - which led to a one-man exhibit at the Delgado in 1964. During 1964, Rigsby took drawing classes at Columbia University, and worked at the General Post Office at night. He met his future wife, Linda Palmieri, and married. In 1965, his daughter Lisa was born, followed in 1966 by the birth of his son, John David Jr. In 1966, Rigsby had a successful one-man show at the Pietrantonio Gallery in New York. Shortly thereafter, he and the family moved to Tunis, Tunisia at the suggestion of a colleague, who urged him to "come paint by the light of Klee." Rigsby worked for the United States Information Agency as a teacher, and he spent the next year and a half painting over ninety paintings inspired by the smells, light, and Phoenician and Roman art surrounding him. He also executed a number of character and landscape drawings, capturing the Tunisian way of life. During his time in Tunisia, Rigsby's work was shown there in two major exhibits. Upon the family's return to the U.S. in 1968, Rigsby once again exhibited at the Pietrantonio Gallery. Later that year, Rigsby enrolled in Southern Connecticut State College's Urban Studies program, earning a master's degree in 1970. During his time at SCSU, Rigsby worked as the city of Bridgeport's Curator of Exhibits, driving a mobile art gallery from schools to neighborhood fairs and housing projects. After completing his degree, Rigsby had an exhibit at the Telfair Museum in Savannah, Georgia. This exhibit caught the attention of a member of the search committee looking to hire an artist for a newly-developed program in neighboring South Carolina. In 1970, Rigsby was selected as the first Artist-in-Residence in the state of South Carolina for the National Endowment for the Arts Artists in Schools program. His work with the newly-integrated students at Beaufort (SC) High School over the term of his residency precluded substantial work on his own art. He did, however, set up a studio in downtown Beaufort, and was able to create a modest number of paintings, which were included in exhibits at the Columbia Museum in South Carolina in 1971 and Yale University in 1973. At the end of his residency in 1974, Rigsby was named the National Visual Arts Coordinator of the Artists in Schools program for the NEA, a post he held for two years. In this position, Rigsby traveled the country, reviewing grant applications, meeting with state leaders in government, education and the arts to promote program concepts and explore local opportunities. The message he repeated over and over again echoed that of one of the other major influences on Rigsby as an artist - Ruth Asawa Lanier, whose words taught him that all of the work that the artist does is the artist's work, not simply the paintings he creates. In his capacity as National Coordinator, as well as many times in the future, Rigsby stressed that artists function in the same way as any other person in society, and deserved the same respect and place for their work as did all other professions. After two years traveling the country, Rigsby was ready for a change, saying "for the first time in my adult life, there was not a body of paintings to show for the years put into my work." In 1976, a summer retreat to the mountain community of Central City, Colorado, led to a permanent relocation. Eventually settling in the small town of Evergreen, Rigsby followed his own advice about artists becoming actively involved in their communities, and he established the Evergreen Visual Arts Center. The Center provided working space for artists, classes for adults and children, and, most importantly, a place for Rigsby to create his own work. Buoyed by the opportunity to concentrate once again on his art, and inspired by his new surroundings, Rigsby entered an extremely prolific period in his career. In 1977, he organized a traveling exhibition of his paintings, which showed at the Kimball Arts Center in Utah, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and the Arvada Center in Colorado. 1978 brought more exhibits, notably in Aspen and Denver, as Rigsby's work continued. He took an extended trip to visit his mentor, Tatsu Heima, in Japan, where he climbed Mt. Fuji, followed by travels to Tehran, Delhi, and several European countries. He chronicled his impressions from his travels in a small collection of paintings upon his return to the U.S. - the beginning of a practice which would continue through the rest of his life. In 1979, Rigsby's marriage failed, and at the same time he lost the lease to his Evergreen studio to redevelopment plans. In response to the personal chaos around him, Rigsby began a series of what he called "hard-nosed process paintings," the watercolor paintings of dots which marked his work from this period. The paintings gained him an NEA Individual Artist grant in 1980, as well as a Yaddo fellowship in 1981. The polka dot paintings were followed by a series of cupcake-like images, again examining space and color. During the early 1980s, Rigsby lived in a suite of old dentists' offices in a rundown part of Denver, with a studio in an area that reminded him of the Bowery in New York. In 1984, Rigsby founded the Progreso Gallery in the building where he lived, using the space both to show his own work and also to mount shows of the work of many Colorado artists. The gallery also served as a focal point for Denver's local arts community, hosting weekly discussion groups and classes. In 1984, Rigsby traveled to the Baja Peninsula and then in 1985 to Yugoslavia. After each sojourn, Rigsby returned to create vibrant and explosive paintings based on his experiences, showing them at his Progreso gallery and another alternative gallery in Denver, the Edge Gallery. The economic recession of the mid-eighties hit the art market and Rigsby hard, however, and although he continued to create new works of art, major exhibitions were difficult to come by. In 1987, Rigsby decided to leave Denver and spent six months in Barcelona, Spain. It was an electrifying trip for him. Rigsby wrote of that time: "The streets alone are a visual feast, and the additions of museums from Saarinen, Picasso and Miro to 12th century icons produced artistic indigestion. My paintings are always about the way things look and feel. Barcelona was a time machine extending those sensory and emotional concerns back to the Middle Ages. I felt the need to reduce my work to essential elements of color, scale, drawing and format. The [resulting] color studies speak eloquently for themselves, and in doing so, redefine all of the work I've done in the past 35 years of painting." Rigsby completed over a hundred paintings while in Barcelona - color studies, street portraits of the characters he encountered on a daily basis, and a number of dark landscape paintings. He found time to run with the bulls in Pamplona, and began writing stories about his adventures that were later published. Upon his return to Denver in 1988, Rigsby continued to explore the alter egos of the color studies - he concentrated on a series of dark paintings, all prominently featuring back. He commented about these black paintings that he " decided it was time to explore the perception of the eye and physical space as defined by low -light conditions…I find these paintings elegant, joyous and light-filled, with no feeling of heaviness at all." In mid-1988, Rigsby moved permanently to Houston, Texas, where he would spend the last five years of his life. Once in Houston, Rigsby made a discovery that would serve as the inspiration and material for some of the last works of his career. In 1989, he discovered a salvage yard filled with scrap rubber, and he began working on black rubber sculptures, as well as paintings with rubber elements incorporated. He made strong connections in the Houston alternative arts scene, and became a regular contributor and art critic for a local weekly newspaper, The Public News. From 1989 through 1992, he exhibited his sculptures and paintings at Houston's Brent Gallery, Fountainhead Gallery, and Blaffer Gallery. He also produced an installation of his rubber sculptures on the roof of the Diverse Works Gallery in Houston. 1992 also marked Rigsby's return to Denver when he exhibited his sculptures at the Payton-Rule Gallery in Denver, leading to an Absolut Rigsby commission by Carillon Importers. The 1990s were a tremendous struggle for Rigsby, with financial crises compounded by physical trauma (he accidentally sawed off the top joint of the index finger of his left hand while working in his studio). Although his work was being shown, it wasn't selling, and the tremendous financial pressure he felt weighed heavily upon him. He spent an increasing proportion of his time going to flea markets and garage sales, rehabilitating and repairing the things he bought there, and then re-selling them simply to raise enough money to keep a roof over his head. He had little time to paint or sculpt, the things in life that had always, no matter what the circumstances, brought him joy. Rigsby's final works were a series of intricate paintings and drawings on used books that he purchased at the flea market. Most of these drawings, which he referred to as sculptural form drawings, were executed on page after page of science texts, music books, and a Korean bible and fill hundreds of pages. Additionally, Rigsby created an exquisite book he titled 28 de los Angeles, in which his twenty-eight simple and elegant drawings of angels resonated with the influence of Rembrandt he had so admired in his early days. In a sense, Rigsby's final works, art created on used books which were the only materials he could afford, brought his work and life full circle from his childhood days. Rigsby's life, though begun and ended in adversity, was nonetheless illuminated and enriched by the irresistible impulse he had to create art and beauty. John David Rigsby was killed in a one-car accident in Colorado in August, 1993. Biography from the Archives of askART Following is a review by Michael Paglia of the artist's July 2004 retrospective at the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art. It was submitted by John Rigsby, Jr., son of the artist. There's a magnificent retrospective at Denver's Museum of Contemporary Art devoted to the work of the late John David Rigsby, who was a major powerhouse in Colorado's art scene. "Dots, Blobs and Angels" surveys more than forty years' worth of the remarkable artist's paintings and sculptures. The year 1993 was strange, and by that I mean terrible. Many of the city's galleries closed because of bad economic times, and then the artists started dying. In a matter of a few months, Denver lost three significant artists: Rigsby, experimental photographer Wes Kennedy...

Isabel Brinck Original Abstract Painting on Canvas Titled "Rain Check" Offered for sale is an original acrylic on canvas by Chilean-American artist Isabel Brinck titled "Rain Check"...

Isabel Brinck Abstract Painting on Canvas Titled "Squirrel Whisperer" Offered for sale is an acrylic painting on canvas by Chilean-American artist Isabel Brinck. This painting is ...

A Bold, Colorful Cubist Abstract Painting in the Manner of Jacques Villon Signed and dated lower right: “M. Jardet” Presented in a striking m...

An eye catching classic Hermes silk scarf shown in an elegant custom gilt wood frame. Makes a graphic luxurious piece of art. The scarf is...

«Big Fish» ist ein grossformatiges Wandobjekt aus naturbelassener Jute, inspiriert von herbstlichen Tagen am Meer. Auf einem dunkleren Hintergrund bewegen sich weich nuancierte, leic...

Small square size Persian Kilim from the late 20th century with a horse standing on a sky blue field Measures: 3'8'' x 3'9''. This was originally belonging to a private Persian col...

Large impressive graphic geometric African Kuba cloth in handsome custom frame having neutral color palette of beige and brown.

Isabel Brinck Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas Titled "Throughout the Night" Offered for sale is an oil on canvas painting by Chilean-American artist Isabel Brinck titled "Throughou...

Striking and bold exterior by listed Santa Fe artist JK Lamkin who died last year, having sizzling color palette of purple, magenta, orange, white and turquo...

Based in Chicago, IL, contemporary artist Michael Thompson creates unique kites, collages and mixed media works assembled from material fragments of past and present collected in his...

Signed lower left and on the stretcher. A lovely composition with two ladies seated at a cafe table chatting in an outside setting with flowers and plants. The artist is known for he...

Unique mid century oil painting by the German well known artist Hermann Urban, around 1940-1948. ''Academic Art / Realism''. The artist Urban lived from 1866 – 1946. Bad Aibling, Ge...

Ugo Sterpini (Italian, 1927-2000)''La Lotta Sulla Duna" (The Battle On The Dune). Mixed media on canvas, signed and dated ''58'' lower right, signed, titl...

This painting has heavily textured acrylics in shades of greys and white on canvas. The artist created the piece using multiple techniques like palette knife, brush and chalk. The bl...

Jennifer Gibbs draws artistic inspiration primarily from meditation and nature. Her extensive body of work ranges from abstract expressionism to delicate botanicals to her charcoal l...

This exceptional hand-embroidered textile is inspired by the rich tradition of Ottoman embroidery from the 16th to 19th centuries, reimagined for the present. Created as a unique cen...