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Liquid Mindscape
By Erin Parish
Located in Burlingame, CA
Erin Parish draws on patterns found in nature for the subject matter of her tactile, bold, and brilliant abstract paintings created with oil and resin on wood and canvas. Inspired by...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Geometric Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Resin, Wood
Rachmaninov “Letter to Sergei" cello music inspired diptych oil canvas 6x18 feet
By Gail Chase-Bien
Located in Burlingame, CA
Inspired contemplative, warm cream, bronze abstract Impressionist diptych painting created in homage to the composer Rachmaninov, Sublime 'Rachmaninov “Letter to Sergei" is compris...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil, Panel
Nature
s Dance / oil on canvas
By Stephen Henriques
Located in Burlingame, CA
Sea blue-green light dances over pink and yellow with red in this 62 1/4 x 58 3/4 inch vibrant and alive with rhythmic lines and color, oil on canvas painting from Stephen Henriques,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Rockefeller
By Chase Langford
Located in Napa, CA
Oil and Metallic Paint on Canvas.
Inspired by cartography from an early age, Chase Langford’s abstract paintings transform the familiarity of cities and maps into fluid visions, ev...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$15,700
Chroma X21
By Chase Langford
Located in Napa, CA
Inspired by cartography from an early age, Chase Langford’s abstract paintings transform the familiarity of cities and maps into fluid visions, evoking the feeling of the location wi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$8,300
Divus 13
By Jylian Gustlin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Jylian Gustlin’s paintings are process driven – when looking at her work there is a sense the painting was “made” with effort, intention and even strength. The artist starts with an ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Wood Panel
Atkins
By Diane Rosenblum
Located in Napa, CA
Digital Ink on Canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink
Contemporary Watercolor Painting,
Fire Series
, C. 1994 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Inversion Hula Hoop
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
California visual artist Kim Frohsin is unsurpassed in her depictions of figures, mostly female, usually in paintings that are intimate in size and scale. All of her work, whether re...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Pigment
Contemporary Watercolor Painting,
Design for Sculpture
, C. 2000 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Mystery Mid Century Modern Sailboats
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mystery heavy impasto abstract sailboat scene. Fabulous midcentury oil on canvas which appears to be illegibly signed. It has wonderful colors and is...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Stormy Sky
By Anastasia Faiella
Located in Napa, CA
Anastasia Faiella is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the evolving relationship between language, gesture, and abstraction. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she bri...
Category
2010s Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Few Weeks
By Ryan Reynolds
Located in Burlingame, CA
Ryan Reynolds’ Continuum series conveys concepts of time and space within a single landscape painting. Reynolds takes his inspiration from Claude Monet’s Rouen Cathedral...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Abstract Composition #226
Located in San Francisco, CA
This vibrant abstract painting is immediately recognizable as the work of Hawaii-based artist Elan Vital. Vital’s art is unique not only in appearance, but ...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
$2,000 Sale Price
50% Off
Errant Bride
By Gail Chase-Bien
Located in Burlingame, CA
Gail Chase Bien paints thinly layered oil on linen over extended periods (from months to years) to complete a single work of art. Taking cues from nature’s extraordinary visual offer...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled Abstract Landscape
By Michael Gregory
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Michael Gregory – American (1955- )
Title: Untitled
Year: 1985
Medium: Oil on paper
Size: 26 x 20 inches
Matted size: 34.25 x 27.75 inches
Signature: Signed, dated lower cen...
Category
1980s Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Abstract Watercolor Painting,
Design for Light
, c. 2000 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Dreams no. 11
By Stephen Henriques
Located in Burlingame, CA
‘Dreams no. 11’ is a vibrant oil on canvas painted in 2025 by mid-career California artist Stephen Henriques. Measuring 37 x 35 inches, the piece pulses with rhythmic color and joyfu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Contemporary Watercolor Painting,
Design for Sculpture
, 2009 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor
West Bound
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Kim Frohsin's original painting 'West Bound' is created with acrylic, ink, pencils on paper, mounted to archival board. It was created between 2005-2016. Signed front and verso. This...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Ink
Contemporary Watercolor Painting,
Design for Sculpture, C. 2005 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Dreams no. 10
By Stephen Henriques
Located in Burlingame, CA
‘Dreams no. 10’ is a vibrant oil on canvas painted in 2025 by mid-career California artist Stephen Henriques. Measuring 37 x 35 inches, the piece pulses with rhythmic color and joyfu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Acrylic Painting: Abstract Circular, Floral and Geometric Greens
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Magaly Sánchez’s world of plants, leaves, and flowers, inhabit a dense landscape of bright colors and sensual motifs. Sánchez combines these natural figurative settings with s...
Category
2010s Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Abstract Painting, acrylic, floral, geometric, circular, green, white, black
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Magaly Sánchez’s world of plants, leaves, and flowers, inhabit a dense landscape of bright colors and sensual motifs. Sánchez combines these natural figurative settings with s...
Category
2010s Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Untitled 564
By Joe Doyle
Located in San Francisco, CA
This painting with added elements is an excellent example of Joe Doyle’s abstract illusionist art. It is composed of acrylic on shaped canvas with fabric elements added. It measures 36 x 43 inches. Each edge has been painted except for the left edge which has a frame. The right edge has been shaped. The black elements of the tent-like structure are added fabric. The work is signed, titled "564" and dated on the reverse. As well it bears a label from Harcourts Gallery, a gallery in San Francisco during the 1980s and 1990s. The work is in very good condition.
Joe Doyle established himself as a painter during the movement toward new abstraction in San Francisco in the mid-seventies. Stylistically his work evolved from photo-realist renderings of aircraft which exaggerated differences in focus of background and foreground" By 1975 his imagery shifted to arrangements of flat, geometric forms and tubular squiggles in a trompe l'oeil manner that created the illusion of a multi-layered, three dimensional space. By the late 1970s Doyle, along with James Havard, Jack Reilly, George D. Green, and others, had attained national prominence working this style now referred to as Abstract Illusionism. Doyle and others were included in 'Reality of Illusion' a large touring exhibition of primarily American illusionist artists organized by the University of Southern California and The Denver Art Museum.
Doyle enrolled at San Francisco State College receiving his M.A. in 1971. From 1971 to 1975 he was a photo-realist transferring images from photographs using airbrush techniques on canvas, occasionally adding political satire into the subject matter, as in "Ice House...
Category
1980s Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Canvas, Acrylic
$12,000
Abstract Watercolor Painting,
Design for Sculpture
, 2008 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Pacific Plates No. 8
By Stephen Henriques
Located in Burlingame, CA
A bold, intensely color-saturated painting from Stephen Henriques, who is influenced by Bonnard and Vuillard, and the western landscape and its light. When referring to his oil on abstract canvases that glow with yellow, blue, orange and red, he says,"magnificent color is my greatest gift and joy". A California painter, Stephen Henriques is strongly influenced by music; and specifically jazz. 'Pacific Plates...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
More Secrets
By Donna McGinnis
Located in Burlingame, CA
Donna McGinnis’ abstract paintings are composed freely, without concrete ideas of what they will ultimately be. As an intuitive painter, McGinnis’s paintings come into being without ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Blowing West
By Donna McGinnis
Located in Burlingame, CA
Donna McGinnis’ abstract paintings are composed freely, without concrete ideas of what they will ultimately be. As an intuitive painter, McGinnis’s paintings come into being without ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Acrylic Painting, Floral, Geometric, Figurative Plants, Gold Leaf, Red, Blue
Located in San Francisco, CA
This square, red, green, blue, and gold leaf acrylic painting is inspired by the geometric art of Joseph Albers and the beauty of nature. Sánchez’s world of plants, leaves, and flowe...
Category
2010s Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Bronze
Prayer Flags
Located in Burlingame, CA
Artist Jill Keller Peters abstract color-field oil paintings communicate ideas through color. By juxtaposing pure and vivid hues that speak to each other when combined, Keller Peters...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
El Dorado
Located in San Francisco, CA
Javier Manrique
El Dorado, 2023
Acrylic on canvas
59 x 59 inches
This is an abstract landscape painting created by Javier Manrique in 2023. This one-of-a-kind painting on canvas is ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Red Rain - abstract expressionistic diptych mixed media oil painting
By Javier Arizmendi-Kalb
Located in Burlingame, CA
Vibrant 'Red Rain' by Mexican-American contemporary visual artist and celebrated architect Javier Arizmendi-Kalb, who creates autobiographical paintings that are comprised of both ab...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Contemporary Watercolor Painting,
Design for Sculpture
, 2022 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor
Entropy 42 / contemporary color - math + sciene + art
By Jylian Gustlin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Abstract geometric mixed media painting with acrylic, ink, polymers, and layers of complex and beautiful lines and marks that delve into the connection between mathematics and scienc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Epoxy Resin, Acrylic Polymer, Acrylic, Panel
"Nightmare at Baskin Robbins" Abstract Oil Painting Illustrator Bill Shields
Located in Arp, TX
William Stephens Shields, Jr., 1925 - 2010
"Nightmare at Baskin Robbins II"
1994
Oil on canvas
48"x42" artist framed
Signed lower right
William Stephens Shields, Jr., 1925 - 2010
He was born in san Francisco, in 1931, Bill moved to Texas, where he grew up. Moved to New York in 1940 and later joined the Naval Air Corps at the age of 18. He served as an Aviation Cadet in the U.S. Navy from 1943 to 1945. At the end of WWII, Bill returned to Texas.
At 21, Bill re-focused his energy and enrolled in the Chicago Academy of Fine Art as an Illustration major. What followed was a whirlwind of success, great friendships and a sense of belonging he had never before experienced. Art was his calling and the art-world could not have been less prepared for the likes of Bill Shields. He took them by storm, first Houston, then San Francisco, followed by New York in the late 60's. For 35 years, Bill produced some of the country's best illustrations: fresh, playful, loose and innovative. His illustrations were coveted by such clients as Bantam Books, Time Life, MacMillan Publishing Co., and were awarded numerous gold medals by the Societies of Illustrators in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, and the Houston Artists Guild.
Later, following inspirational trips to Mexico and France, Bill shifted his attention to the self-directed world of fine art. After years of sculpting, making assemblages, painting nudes and landscapes, he settled on the exploration of large abstract oil paintings. His paintings have been exhibited in galleries in San Francisco, Connecticut and New York.
CV
EDUCATION:
Chicago Academy Of Fine Art
San Antonio Art Institute
MAJOR FIELDS OF PROFESSIONAL ENDEAVOR:
Freelance graphic design and illustration
Instructor of painting and illustration
Landscape, figurative and abstract painting
ART RELATED EMPLOYMENT: (Professor of Art)
California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Art Institute
San Jose State University
AWARDS FOR ILLUSTRATION, Gold Medals:
New York Society of Illustrators
Los Angeles Society of Illustrators
San Francisco Society of Illustrators
Dallas-Fort Worth Art Director's Club
Houston Artist's Guild
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Feature articles in: American Artist, Communication Arts, Print, North Light.
Architectural design featured in: Better Homes and Gardens, American
Home, Sunset Magazine, Architectural Digest.
ILLUSTRATION CLIENTS:
Oil Companies:
Champlin Oil Company, Mobil Oil Company, Continental Oil Company, Standard Oil Company, Humble Oil and Refining Company.
Industrial:
Hughes Tool Company, General Electric, United States Steel, Phelps Dodge, Sylvania Television,
Texas Gulf Sulphur, Litton Industries, Houston Lighting and Power Company...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Starlight
Located in San Francisco, CA
Javier Manrique
Starlight, 2024
Acrylic on canvas
36 x 36 inches
This is an abstract landscape painting created by Javier Manrique in 2024. This one-of-a-kind painting on canvas is ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
End of the Street I
By Sally Kissinger Wilt
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Sally Kissinger Wilt (American, 1936-2004)
Title: End of Street I
Year: Circa 1963
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 48 x 53 inches unframed
Signature: Signed “Wilt” reverse
Condi...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Monumental Gold Tone Abstract Painting by MacMillan c.1970
Located in San Francisco, CA
Magnificent monumental abstract painting circa 1970s.
Signed lower right "MacMillan".
This painting will be the centerpiece of any interior. It's a large, and elegant painting fill...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
steamers II
By Stephen Henriques
Located in Burlingame, CA
A bold, intensely color-saturated painting from Stephen Henriques, who is influenced by Bonnard and Vuillard, and the western landscape and its light. When referring to his oil on abstract canvases that glow with yellow, blue, orange and red, he says,"magnificent color is my greatest gift and joy". A California painter...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$10,000
Seascape, Geometric Figure #2
By Dave Fox
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: David Fox (American, 1920-2011)
Title: Seascape, Geometric Figure #2
Year: c.2000
Medium: Acrylic on paper
Paper: Watercolor paper
Image size: 10 x 8 inches
Paper ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Memory Stones 5, Abstract Oil Painting
By Morgan Fite
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
This is a piece in my Memory Stones series. These are inspired by rocks and pebbles I collected while sitting at the lake one day, listening to the soft lappi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Persistence of Impermanence
By Erin Parish
Located in Burlingame, CA
mysterious pale blues with gold and earthly neutral color are at play in this original painting, created in oil and resin with mixed media on canvas by artist Erin Parish between 201...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Resin, Oil, Mixed Media
Kauai
By Chase Langford
Located in Napa, CA
Monaghan's paintings have always shown a sensitivity and reverence for light on the cusp of change. Says Monaghan, “Many of my paintings which depict dawn or dusk represent a special...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Melange II
By Irene Zweig
Located in Burlingame, CA
Geometric and serene in its complexity - abstract contemporary painting created with impeccable attention to detail by deconstructing original watercolors into dime sized rectangle c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Morning Pond / oil on linen over wood
By Gail Chase-Bien
Located in Burlingame, CA
Green, yellow and bronze abstract Impressionist reflective scene alludes to light on water. Created with a rich range of golden tones. The late-career established artist paints thinl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil, Panel
Remnants of a Dream
Located in Burlingame, CA
Elizabeth Geisler’s dazzling contemporary water reflection acrylic paintings bridge realism with abstraction. Up close, the paintings appear ambiguous and loose, yet with a little di...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
1994 "Dreamer
s Forest" Abstract Painting on Panel William Shields
Located in Arp, TX
William Stephens Shields, Jr., 1925 - 2010
"Dreamer's Forest"
1994
Oil on panel
48"x36" artist framed
Signed lower right
William Stephens Shields, Jr., 1925 - 2010
He was born in san Francisco, in 1931, Bill moved to Texas, where he grew up. Moved to New York in 1940 and later joined the Naval Air Corps at the age of 18. He served as an Aviation Cadet in the U.S. Navy from 1943 to 1945. At the end of WWII, Bill returned to Texas.
At 21, Bill re-focused his energy and enrolled in the Chicago Academy of Fine Art as an Illustration major. What followed was a whirlwind of success, great friendships and a sense of belonging he had never before experienced. Art was his calling and the art-world could not have been less prepared for the likes of Bill Shields. He took them by storm, first Houston, then San Francisco, followed by New York in the late 60's. For 35 years, Bill produced some of the country's best illustrations: fresh, playful, loose and innovative. His illustrations were coveted by such clients as Bantam Books, Time Life, MacMillan Publishing Co., and were awarded numerous gold medals by the Societies of Illustrators in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, and the Houston Artists Guild.
Later, following inspirational trips to Mexico and France, Bill shifted his attention to the self-directed world of fine art. After years of sculpting, making assemblages, painting nudes and landscapes, he settled on the exploration of large abstract oil paintings. His paintings have been exhibited in galleries in San Francisco, Connecticut and New York.
CV
EDUCATION:
Chicago Academy Of Fine Art
San Antonio Art Institute
MAJOR FIELDS OF PROFESSIONAL ENDEAVOR:
Freelance graphic design and illustration
Instructor of painting and illustration
Landscape, figurative and abstract painting
ART RELATED EMPLOYMENT: (Professor of Art)
California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Art Institute
San Jose State University
AWARDS FOR ILLUSTRATION, Gold Medals:
New York Society of Illustrators
Los Angeles Society of Illustrators
San Francisco Society of Illustrators
Dallas-Fort Worth Art Director's Club
Houston Artist's Guild
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Feature articles in: American Artist, Communication Arts, Print, North Light.
Architectural design featured in: Better Homes and Gardens, American
Home, Sunset Magazine, Architectural Digest.
ILLUSTRATION CLIENTS:
Oil Companies:
Champlin Oil Company, Mobil Oil Company, Continental Oil Company, Standard Oil Company, Humble Oil and Refining Company.
Industrial:
Hughes Tool Company, General Electric, United States Steel, Phelps Dodge, Sylvania Television,
Texas Gulf Sulphur, Litton Industries, Houston Lighting and Power Company...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Reaching for You triptych
By Donna McGinnis
Located in Burlingame, CA
Three individual abstract canvases that are 24 x 24 inches each to create a 24 x 72 inch triptych when hung together. Can be hung with spacing between each painting.
Donna McGinni...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gold Mask
By David Shevlino
Located in Burlingame, CA
David Shevlino female figures beautifully link traditional representation with abstraction. Through Shevlino’s sensuous application of paint, his use of broad brushstrokes followed by a tightening up of the composition, and his making of spontaneous, gestural marks, the artist creates living, breathing figures that not only stand before us, but move, beckon, and dance.
Gold Mask...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Metanoia
By Diana Tremaine
Located in Burlingame, CA
Diana Tremaine’s dynamic figurative paintings explore the search for meaning within the human experience. Her process is intuitive. She builds up marks, then removes or softens what ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$15,000
Contemporary Watercolor Painting,
Design for Space, C. 2000
s by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Agora Project No. 4
By Javier Arizmendi-Kalb
Located in Burlingame, CA
Mexican-American contemporary visual artist and celebrated architect Javier Arizmendi-Kalb created this abstract painting with bold brush stokes creating strong visual zest and appea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Chroma X62
By Chase Langford
Located in Napa, CA
Inspired by cartography from an early age, Chase Langford’s abstract paintings transform the familiarity of cities and maps into fluid visions, evoking the feeling of the location with carefully selected color and precise shapes. In the 1980’s, after studying cartography at UC Santa Barbara and drawing maps for the UCLA faculty, Langford began exploring ways to combine his mastery of map-making with his love of fine art.
In his original map paintings, Langford reinterprets geography by taking selected features from maps and filling in the reconfigured shapes with flurries of color, exploring varied locations such as Essex, England and the Galapagos Islands. In his “Morphic” series, Langford once again finds inspiration in specific geographic regions, abstracting them until they are nearly unrecognizable with colors interweaving and flowing around each other. Almost seeming to mimic the fluid strata of the Earth, Langford adds and scrapes away layers of oil paint, building up intricate textures while simultaneously revealing the colors below.
Langford’s highly-collected “Chroma” series began as a happy mistake. One day, displeased with the brushwork of a painting, he decided to obscure the image by painting small rows of vertical brushstrokes; in doing so, he took note of the beauty of organic uniformity. After years of refining his technique, Langford created the trance-like paintings that he likes to think of as rows of city blocks on a map.
Langford has completed many site-specific commissions, including for Monique Lhuillier, Inc.; the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation; and Caesar’s Palace...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Freeway No. 13 (diptych) / color abstract city oil cars painting
By Ryan Reynolds
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Freeway No. 13 (diptych) ' by artist Ryan Reynolds, who uses bold colors to depict contemporary life in this painting that is from his 'Freeway' series. Fantastic spiraling highway...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Promesse I
II / Diptych - Oil on Linen
By Frédéric Choisel
Located in Burlingame, CA
Promesse I & II ( Diptych) is a magnificent abstract oil painting of ephemeral clouds floating on an elegant deep blue sky . A unique view of clouds at twilight, in rich shades of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil, Wood Panel, Pigment
Arial Landscape (Black Blocks with Red)
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Gary L. Shaffer (American, 1936-2001)
Title: Arial Landscape (Black Blocks with Red)
Year: 1989
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 54 x 48 inches.
Signature: Signed, titled, dated...
Category
1980s Abstract Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Freeway No. 12 / color abstract city oil painting cars realism
By Ryan Reynolds
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Freeway No. 12' oil painting on wood panel by artist Ryan Reynolds whose paintings are a response to the world as he experiences it. The places he inhabits and passes through serve ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Hacked
By Javier Arizmendi-Kalb
Located in Burlingame, CA
Mexican-American visual artist Javier Arizmendi-Kalb’s expressive and texturally rich paintings are nuanced with symbolic and narrative motif in oil and oil-crayon on canvas. 'Hacked...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon, Cotton Canvas, Oil
After Jean Miró, Pink and Purple Surrealism at Play
By (after) Joan Miró
Located in San Francisco, CA
There’s been a lot of gray and stainless steel in decorating in recent years. For someone tentatively thinking of introducing some fresh excitement into their minimalist maison, cons...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Bay Area - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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