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Wave Landscape - dynamic, modernist abstract landscape, acrylic tondo on canvas
By Otto Rogers
Located in Bloomfield, ON
The dynamic beauty of the natural world inspired Canadian artist Otto Rogers. This striking painting’s waves of colour in earthy tones of blue, gold, brown, black and white is enhanc...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Contour Detour No. 4 - colorful, abstract, pigmented plaster on board
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Yvonne Lammerich has used a dynamic pattern, bold colours and geometric form to create this visually stunning contemporary piece. The ‘building block ...
Category
1980s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Plaster, Board, Pigment
Still Life (Study Of Leaves) - contemporary, still life, oil on canvas on panel
By Mel Davis
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This contemporary, still life, oil on canvas, on panel is by artist Mel Davis. In a style reminiscent of the French master Matisse, Montreal-born Mel Davis reinvents the traditional ...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel, Graphite
Field Green - large, green, pink, orange, minimal abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
It makes a bold statement. Field Green is one of a series of colour field paintings created by modernist Milly Ristvedt. Renowned as a master colourist, Ristvedt chose a bright palet...
Category
1960s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Vestiges spectrales IV (texture organic, biophilic, sand, light green, mix-media
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Vestiges spectrales IV continues Melisa Taylor Metzger’s exploration of oceanic memory and material transformation through mixed media and impasto. This smaller-scale work, rich in t...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
Tune for Duke Ellington - large, modernist, abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A jazz lover, modernist Milly Ristvedt pays tribute to a beloved artist in this compelling abstract painting. The colour field is dominated by a soft gray, a band of deep red at the ...
Category
1970s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Perpetuum - colourful, music inspired, gestural, abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Alice Teichert
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Soft rays of white pigment filter out from the pulsing line and lead our eyes into fields of colour that are so fresh and so deep that you may have gotten lost in them were it not fo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Crayon, Wax Crayon, Acrylic
Equinox - Port 1 - warm, bold, gestural abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Francine Simonin
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Passages of light and dark form painterly scaffolds in this powerful composition by Francine Simonin. The balanced composition titled Equinox refers to the twice yearly moment when d...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Havana No 5, Blue - bold, bright, colorful, abstract, modernist, oil on canvas
By David Sorensen
Located in Bloomfield, ON
When David Sorensen visited Havana, Cuba in 1999 he was captivated by the rich textural atmosphere of the city. Using a spatula and paintbrush he created a series of abstract paintings in bright colours and graphic form. No 5 features a sky-blue square in the center, laid over a field of similar shapes in various sizes. Thick lines that run both vertically and horizontally across the canvas add drama. The colour palette—orange, yellow, red, and indigo is both joyful and intense.
“Through the medium of his art, a bridge is built between inner sensation and outer world experience, illusion and reality, what we cannot see and what we see, life and afterlife.” John K. Grande, Montreal poet and writer
Born in Vancouver Sorensen (1937-2011) studied at UBC and the Vancouver School of Art. His teachers were renowned—Arthur Erikson...
Category
1990s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Signs of Feeling - colorful, impasto, abstract expressionist, acrylic on canvas
By Adam Cohen
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Adam Cohen was drawn to the arts at just 12 years of age when he took his first art class. The American artist began painting abstracts at age 50 having spent years as a very success...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
After Noon - yellow, orange, minimalist, abstract, landscape, acrylic on canvas
By Pat Service
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This yellow, orange, minimalist, abstract, landscape, acrylic on canvas is by Pat Service. Renowned as one of Canada’s finest landscape artists, Service has pared down shapes to the ...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Markings No. 9 - bold, colourful, gestural, expressive abstract, oil on canvas
By Viktor Mitic
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Abstract artist, Viktor Mitic created a series of large oil paintings en plein air called the rain paintings. What distinguishes these emotional landscapes, including Marking No. 9 i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Current Split - colorful, contemporary, geometric abstract, acrylic on board
Located in Bloomfield, ON
The graphic, colourful imagery in this powerful abstract painting is by Yvonne Lammerich. The Canadian artist has garnered an international reputation...
Category
1980s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Secret Message - colorful, impasto, abstract expressionist, acrylic on canvas
By Adam Cohen
Located in Bloomfield, ON
American artist Adam Cohen has an extraordinary sense of colour. His lush, expressive abstract paintings explode with a vivid colour palette. This piece is rendered in blues, greens, pinks, orange, red, gray, yellow, white and black. One noticeable patch of white stands out amidst the thick layers of colour. Is this the secret message...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Yes - large, bright, narrative, contemporary, abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Fiona Ackerman
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Fiona Ackerman is known for creating uniquely colourful, contemporary paintings that often blur the lines between different genres. This acrylic composition features a variety of images including ‘YES ‘in bold black letters, a line drawing of a house, a beachy fringed tapestry, and an open door that offers a country view. Rendered in pastoral colours—pale pink, sky blue, yellow, soft gray, sandy beige, black and wood grain for contrast.
“I'm often asked what kind of painter I am. Figurative, abstract, small, large, digital, botanical, surrealist, mural... I just say yes...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Citrus With Drapery - colourful, abstracted still life, oil on canvas over panel
By Mel Davis
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Colour--bold and bright juicy shades of orange, yellow, purple and green play off a pale blue backdrop in this delightful still life by Montreal born artist Mel Davis. She creates ab...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel
Morning Light - colorful, impasto, abstract expressionist, acrylic on canvas
By Adam Cohen
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A tangle of colour—dazzling, as if lit from within flows across the canvas in this abstract painting by Adam Cohen. The New York based artist creates work alive with the grand gestural influences of the abstract expressionists’ generation. This piece reprises his signature generous brush strokes and bold palette—blues, greens, pinks, red, orange, yellow, purple, white and black jump from the canvas.
“You can look at them and keep seeing new things in them. They’re alive and they have this inexhaustible quality.” Adam Cohen
He acquired a BFA at Philadelphia’s Tyler School of Art and lived and painted in Rome for a year. After many successful years as an illustrator, he returned to his first love...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
That Passion - minimal, contemporary, abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Alice Teichert
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This contemporary abstract colourful painting is by Alice Teichert.
Bold colours and lyrical form characterize the beautiful contemporary paintings of Alice Teichert that have attra...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Double Fugue #3 - painting, abstract, contemporary, acrylic on canvas
By Burton Kramer
Located in Bloomfield, ON
In the international world of graphic design, Burton Kramer is legendary as a visionary—a true pioneer of the modernist aesthetic. The Canadian artist expresses the same inspired vis...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Day-Night, Knossos - abstract, contemporary, gouache and paper collage on board
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Canada’s Yvonne Lammerich created this intriguing graphic composition using paint and paper collage. It’s one of a series of diptychs that first appeared at a show in Paris while Lam...
Category
1980s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board, Paper
Piano Reflections 3 - bright, warm, expressive, abstracted, acrylic on canvas
By Pat Service
Located in Bloomfield, ON
At once expressive and lyrical, this abstract work was painted by Pat Service renowned as one of Canada’s finest landscape artists. Service is often inspired by natural forms and col...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Tumbleweed - dark, expressive, minimalist, abstracted florals, acrylic on canvas
By Pat Service
Located in Bloomfield, ON
The velvety black backdrop of this abstract painting by Pat Service makes the colours pop. Considered one of Canada’s finest landscape artists, this striking minimalist series sugges...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Released
By John Barkley
Located in Montreal, Quebec
"I am an experimental painter. I have been working on my craft since 1996. I start work with a conceptual point of entry and then work intuitively, in dialogue with the work. The art...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cross/Cultural Now#2 - colorful, contemporary, abstract, wood, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This colourful contemporary painting and its complimentary wall sculpture are by Yvonne Lammerich. In her decades-long exploration of a visual language, the Canadian artist often mak...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Canvas, Wood, Acrylic
Twelve Panels, Thirty-Six Colors - colourful pairs of painted acrylic panels
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Twelve rectangular panels, each painted alternately in solid colors or solid with tinted vertical stripes, are installed in a precise grid: two high and six across. The artist began ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Bourée 2BAA2 - bright, geometric abstraction, modernist, acrylic on canvas
By Burton Kramer
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This lively graphic contemporary composition was painted by Burton Kramer, internationally renowned as a fine graphic designer. Kramer now expresses his modernist and minimalist aest...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Arab Spring - large, dynamic, narrative, surrealist abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Gregor Hiltner
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Inspired by drawings made by children, Hiltner has created a chaotic narrative of surreal figures and animals drawn in red acrylic across an expanse of raw canvas in this over 6 feet wide painting. A central palm tree in red outline with black leaves divides the pyramidal composition that is completed with select sections painted in with red, turquoise, white and periwinkle. The sky is brushed, bright yellow. This work is aptly titled referring to a series of protests that occurred in the Middle East and North Africa that began in 2010 and became known as the Arab Spring...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Havana No 4, Yellow - bold, bright, colorful, abstract, modernist, oil on canvas
By David Sorensen
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A vibrant culture is captured in colour and dynamic form in this lively abstract painting by David Sorensen. After visiting Cuba in 1999, the Canadian artist created a series of paintings. The light, the bright colours and the rich atmosphere of life in Havana inspired Sorensen’s colour palette—a brilliant square of yellow in the center, surrounded by graphic shapes in red, orange, lime green, blue and black. Lines of blue and black create a grid-like pattern that runs both horizontally and vertically across the canvas.
“Through the medium of his art, a bridge is built between inner sensation and outer world experience, illusion and reality, what we cannot see and what we see, life and afterlife.” John K. Grande, Montreal poet and writer
Born in Vancouver Sorensen (1937-2011) studied at UBC and the Vancouver School of Art. His teachers were renowned—Arthur Erikson...
Category
1990s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
7 Pieces for Arvo Part - geometric abstract, grouping, acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This grouping of seven geometric abstract paintings is by Canadian artist Milly Ristvedt.
Milly Ristvedt named this lyrical abstract piece for Avro Part, the famous Estonian compose...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
QED Gravity #1 - large, colorful, contemporary, abstract, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This intriguing colourful contemporary painting so impressively large in scale and architectural in form is by Canada’s Yvonne Lammerich. Recognized both nationally and international...
Category
1980s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
QED Gravity #2 - large, colorful, contemporary, abstract, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This intriguing colourful contemporary painting so impressively large in scale and architectural in form is by Canada’s Yvonne Lammerich. Recognized both nationally and international...
Category
1980s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled
By Geoff Rees
Located in Vancouver, CA
Geoff Rees (1930–2018)
A Modernist Voice of the West Coast
Geoff Rees was a defining figure in Western Canadian abstraction, known for paintings that balance radiant colour, medita...
Category
1980s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Elixir
By John Barkley
Located in Montreal, Quebec
"I am an experimental painter. I have been working on my craft since 1996. I start work with a conceptual point of entry and then work intuitively, in dialogue with the work. The art...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,750
My Autumn Garden - bright, lively, colourful, layered abstract, oil on canvas
By Noreen Taylor
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Canadian artist Noreen Taylor’s expressive abstract work is often inspired by the natural world found in her own garden. This piece is a tapestry of rich...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Flute - grey, white, green, brown, gestural abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Joseph Drapell
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This grey, white, green, brown, gestural abstract, acrylic on canvas painting is by Canadian artist Joseph Drapell. Fute is considered an important work as it debuted at the artist’s...
Category
1980s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Always There
By John Barkley
Located in Montreal, Quebec
"I am an experimental painter. I have been working on my craft since 1996. I start work with a conceptual point of entry and then work intuitively, in dialogue with the work. The art...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
High Way - contemporary, minimalist, abstracted landscape, acrylic on canvas
By Pat Service
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Using bright contemporary colours Pat Service has created a joyful painting of the open highway as it winds through a mountainous landscape. The vivid colour palette—bright yellow, o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Emerging And Receding #3
By John Barkley
Located in Montreal, Quebec
"I am an experimental painter. I have been working on my craft since 1996. I start work with a conceptual point of entry and then work intuitively, in dialogue with the work. The art...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Southern Stripes 24-02 - pop-art, graffiti, acrylic and spray paint on canvas
By Viktor Mitic
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Colour and dynamic graphic design find company in this new abstract painting by Viktor Mitic. The Southern Stripe series explores the power of colour to convey positive emotion. Each...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Return - bright, colorful, minimalist, abstracted landscape, acrylic on canvas
By Pat Service
Located in Bloomfield, ON
The colours of summer by the lake are celebrated in this pastoral painting by Pat Service. The Canadian artist is known for her landscapes—this minimalist piece illustrates a classic lake and beach view—the deep blues of the cloud filled sky and lake, green fields, a red cabin...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Elysian Visions - colorful, impasto, abstract expressionist, acrylic on canvas
By Adam Cohen
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Adam Cohen’s glorious abstract painting is a kaleidoscope of bright colours—a heady mix of orange, pinks, purples, chocolate brown, indigo, turquoise blue, and yellow highlighted by ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Pie in Sky - colorful, impasto, abstract expressionist, acrylic on canvas
By Adam Cohen
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A riot of colour—blues, green, pink, orange, and yellow pop from the canvas in this lively painting by Adam Cohen. The American abstract artist is known for his grand gestural style ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Middle Lake - colorful, minimalist, abstracted landscape, acrylic on canvas
By Pat Service
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Cottage country—a classic scene is re-imagined in minimalist form and bright colours. This is Pat Service. She is considered one of Canada’s finest landscape artists. Here she recall...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Extension - large, bright, colourful, geometric abstract acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
In this dynamic new work by Milly Ritsvedt, bold vertical bands of pure colour run the length of the painting. As always, Ristvedt’s choice of colours in this hard-edged piece is masterful—turquoise, deep pink, blue and bright yellow. Art Critic Barry Lord (Art in America) declared that Ristvedt’s paintings were ‘more insistent than Bush, more consciously structured than Molinari.’
“The paintings of the past two or three years explore questions of form, colour and process that arise out of earlier works.” Milly Ristvedt
Born in British Columbia, Ristvedt studied at the Vancouver School of Art (now the Emily Carr University) and had her first solo exhibit at the Carmen Lamanna Gallery in Toronto. In the late 1960s, Ristvedt shared a studio with famed Canadian painter Jack Bush, met art critic Clement Greenberg and was inspired by American painters Jules Olitiski...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The Dancing Satyr - bright, colorful, gestural, abstract, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Fluid lines of colour appear to dance across the canvas in this colourful abstract painting –a collaboration between Canadian visual artist Richard Tosczak and an Italian artist, Angela Letizia Renzi. Inspired by an Italian sculpture of a mythological creature—the Satyr (a figure caught between human and animal worlds) found by a fisherman in 1998, this expressive piece is rendered in yellow, orange, green, pink, orange and white.
“The philosophical artistic formation of one and the literary humanistic of the other, are intertwined in a common vocabulary, a visual language of colour, gesture and form.”
Tosczak and Renzi
Richard Tosczak was born in Belgium. He studied philosophy and sculpture at the University of Alberta. At that time, Tosczak began working in steel and was influenced by a number of his professors who appreciated the work of a British abstract sculptor, Sir Anthony Caro considered one of the greatest sculptors of his generation. Further studies were pursued in France with another internationally acclaimed classic sculptor, Martine Vaugel...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Directions - vibrant, green, minimalist, abstracted landscape, acrylic on canvas
By Pat Service
Located in Bloomfield, ON
An urban landscape is recalled and rendered in bold lines and rich colours-- forest green, turquoise, red and white in this minimalist piece by Pat Service. Known as one of Canada’s ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Quarternary Return #3
By John Barkley
Located in Montreal, Quebec
"I am an experimental painter. I have been working on my craft since 1996. I start work with a conceptual point of entry and then work intuitively, in dialogue with the work. The art...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Landscape #1 (trees) - modern, contemporary, abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This colourful contemporary abstract landscape painting is by Milly Ristvedt.
In this dynamic new work by Milly Ritsvedt, several bold vertical bands of pure colour run the length o...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Single Black Block - bright, colorful, abstract shapes, acrylic on canvas
By Aron Hill
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Rainbow-like arches of red, yellow, and hot pink splash across the canvas in this new abstract painting by Calgary artist Aron Hill. A jet-black mark and red line add graphic interes...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
Untitled #504, Mixed Media on Paper by Murray Duncan - Abstract Geometric Modern
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Untitled #504 by Murray Duncan, 2024
Mix media on paper
Unframed
Size: 32" x 40"
Murray Duncan Studio:
Murray Duncan, born in 1966, is a self-taught creative visionary celebrated f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Glaze, Oil Crayon, Acrylic
Untitled
By Geoff Rees
Located in Vancouver, CA
Geoff Rees (1930–2018)
A Modernist Voice of the West Coast
Geoff Rees was a defining figure in Western Canadian abstraction, known for paintings that balance radiant colour, medita...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic
"In Sync II", abstract sculpture, wood, paint, geometry, circle, convergence
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"In Sync II" is an abstract artwork by Stan Olthuis composed of acrylic paint on a reclaimed laminate table top. In Sync II measures 42" high by 42" wide ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Laminate
Untitled
By Geoff Rees
Located in Vancouver, CA
Geoff Rees (1930–2018)
A Modernist Voice of the West Coast
Geoff Rees was a defining figure in Western Canadian abstraction, known for paintings that balance radiant colour, medita...
Category
1990s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Verticality #2 - modern, contemporary, geometric abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Juxtaposed blocks of navy, orange and canary held by a bar of sky blue create a subtle optical effect in this masterful composition by Milly Ristvedt. Art Critic Barry Lord (Art in A...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Interweave - White, grey, silver, abstract, three dimensional, wall sculpture
By Lucy Maki
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Maki's work is influenced by early Modernist Abstraction, while her combination of materials and technique make the pieces uniquely her own.
This work, in subtle shades of white, gra...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Metal
Autumn Foliage - bright, lively, colourful, layered abstract, oil on canvas
By Noreen Taylor
Located in Bloomfield, ON
The glorious vivid colours of autumn leaves dance across the canvas in this abstract painting by Noreen Taylor. Short brush strokes in bright orange add ...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 15 (texture, organic, biophilic, sand)
By Melisa Taylor Metzger
Located in Quebec, Quebec
At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 15 is a richly textured, mixed-media painting by Melisa Taylor Metzger from her decade-long series At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites (2015–2...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
Breathing Space for Agnes - large, bright, yellow, stripes, acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Vertical stripes of buttercup yellow and cloud blue are each separated from the other by a mere whisper of white canvas. The verticals appear to breathe rhythmically against the picture plane in this homage to American painter Agnes Martin. They evoke Martin's delicate, meticulously penciled grid works and her pursuit of inner peace.
Milly Ristvedt, MA, RCA, began her career in Toronto in 1964 after studies with Takao Tanabe at the Vancouver School of Art. At 24, her work was included in the Centennial Exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
12 Multicoloured Lines No.4 - bold, colorful, contemporary, acrylic on paper
By Aron Hill
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Calgary artist Aron Hill plays with a full range of bold, bright colours in this series of dramatic minimalist compositions. Bands of colour layered one above the other in blues, gre...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Oasis 4/4 - vivid, colourful geometric abstraction, modernist, acrylic on canvas
By Burton Kramer
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Horizontal bands of fire-orange, rose pink, mauve and turquoise float on a ground of rust orange in this acrylic canvas by Burton Kramer. The poised geometric composition is a medita...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Geometric Canada - Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
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