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Item Ships From: New Orleans
Hose Water
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Nothing like the sweet cool relief of drinking straight from the hose, I can still remember that metallic taste."
Becca Fuhrman says of her work...
My work aims to express the sma...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
House Paint, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Pool Floor
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Tangerine tiles beneath your toes."
Becca Fuhrman says of her work...
My work aims to express the small moments that make up a life; quilting memories together one by one. When I ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
House Paint, Acrylic, Wood Panel
She Had a Ball
By Mark Kostabi
Located in Greenwich, CT
She Had a Ball is an oil on canvas painting, 18.5 x 24.75" canvas size, signed on the front ‘KOSTABI 2022’ lower left corner, and signed, titled and dated verso. Framed in a contempo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Passeggiata
By Amanda Brown
Located in New Orleans, LA
Amanda Joy Brown is a visual artist and educator based in Nashville, TN. Brown earned her MFA in the painting program at the Savannah College of Art and Design. During her time there...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
In the Garage
Located in New Orleans, LA
Michael Tole says of his work…
This painting reimagines the moment when Cleopatra contemplates suicide after her battlefield loss to Octavian. In this revisionist history, Cleopatr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Dissidents: Discourse on the Golden Mean
Located in New Orleans, LA
Michael Tole says of his work…
This work draws a connection between the didactic moralizing tendencies of Neo Classicism (represented in the style of the painting) and Modernism (represented in the architectural setting). Though modern art eschews the naturalistic imagery used by Neo Classicists, both movements pursued a self-important, austere, self-consciously masculine aesthetic that they saw as synonymous with virtue. Set in the MoMA courtyard, a passel of men lounge about, regarding a golden statue which looks terribly out of place in this modernist vitrine. The uncomfortable architectural setting, prisonlike and cold, provides a foil for the odalisque-like young men sprawled on hard stone benches and paying homage to the central idol.
In my current work, The Revisionist Histories, I am writing letters to art history, literature, and mythology in an attempt to reflect the social changes that have reshaped our society over the past century. As part of this agenda, I explore the evolution of gender norms, power dynamics, and representation within Western visual culture and what this implies for the negotiation between pleasure, justice, and our culturally specific discourse on beauty.
The seed for The Revisionist Histories was sewn when I caught a glimpse of my preteen daughters watching music videos on their iPad as I chopped veggies for dinner. Out of the corner of my eye I caught glimpses of music videos featuring Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Katy Perry, and Doja Cat gyrating across the tiny screen. A better parent might have snatched the iPad away, but I was overcome with hallucinatory visions of this pop diva...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Seashell Eyes
Located in New Orleans, LA
"It’s okay to be a little superstitious."
"Seashell Eyes" is painted on re-purposed drop cloth and hung on custom brass hardware.
Becca Fuhrman says of her work...
My work aims to...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Brass, Copper
Under the Bleachers
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Hot heat and filtered light coming through, under the bleachers up to no good."
Becca Fuhrman says of her work...
My work aims to express the small moments that make up a life; qu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Copper
Distorted Perspectives
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
After: Jan Veth’s “Portrait of Cornelia, Clara, and Johanna Veth” from 1885.
ADAM MYSOCK was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Music in the Park
By Amanda Brown
Located in New Orleans, LA
Amanda Joy Brown is a visual artist and educator based in Nashville, TN. Brown earned her MFA in the painting program at the Savannah College of Art and Design. During her time there...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Travelers
By Amanda Brown
Located in New Orleans, LA
Amanda Joy Brown is a visual artist and educator based in Nashville, TN. Brown earned her MFA in the painting program at the Savannah College of Art and Design. During her time there she studied at the Lacoste Residency in Provence, France, after which she completed a month-long residency at the Vermont Studio Center. After moving to Nashville, Brown was part of the Ground Floor Gallery...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$11,000
World On A Wire
By Andrew Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
In highly developed nations today there is a widespread alienation and loneliness that engenders fear and distrust, a restrictive self-righteousness of thought, and a dread of what-c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cancer: Hercules and the Hydra of Lerna
Located in New Orleans, LA
Ginger Williams Cook is a painter, published illustrator, and arts educator based in Jackson, MS. Her paintings have been featured in numerous exhibitions, publications, and media. G...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Pastel, Acrylic
DS Couple Seeks Female switch - mw4w - 3131 (Cinci) - Her
By Carlton Scott Sturgill
Located in New Orleans, LA
"DS Couple Seeks Female switch - mw4w - 3131 (Cinci) - Her" by Carlton Scott Sturgill.
medium: paint chip sample mosaic, vintage Ralph Lauren gift box
Born in 1971 in Cincinnati, Ohio, CARLTON SCOTT STURGILL received his Masters of Arts (Fine Art) from London’s Chelsea College of Art in Design in 2005, and his BA from the University of Cincinnati in 2002. Although he now lives outside of the Queen City, his work continues to be shaped by his Midwestern roots. His work has been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums in North America and Europe, including the Cornell Museum of Art in Delray Beach...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mosaic, House Paint, Wood Panel
Blue Dogs
Located in New Orleans, LA
Michael Tole is a figurative painter currently living in Tempe, AZ with his wife and daughters. A Texas native, most of his 20 year long career was spent in Dallas. After relocating to Tempe, his work experienced a significant shift from photo-based paintings of retail interiors to fantastical figurative inventions based on pop culture imagery he has encountered via his two daughters’ taste in music videos, and his proximity to Southern California and it’s particular brand of Disney-esque hedonism. Mr. Tole’s career includes shows in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, and Miami. His work has been reviewed in Art Forum International...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood Panel
Cleopatra, Having Reconsidered Suicide, Passes the Basket to Octavian
Located in New Orleans, LA
Michael Tole says of his work…
This painting reimagines the moment when Cleopatra contemplates suicide after her battlefield loss to Octavian. In this revisionist history, Cleopatra thinks better of suicide, and at the last minute redirects her servants to pass the basket of fruit with the asp on to the triumphant Octavian who sweeps in with his entourage. In this scene, Octavian reaches for an apple, triggering the asp to strike. This, like most of my recent work, reimagines historical, mythological, and literary motifs to destabilize the inherent power structures within those narratives. The style adopted is Rococo, which coincided with the rise of Colonialism. The style therefore relates to the historical narrative of this piece which shows the conquest and colonization of a colonial ruler.
In my current work, The Revisionist Histories, I am writing letters to art history, literature, and mythology in an attempt to reflect the social changes that have reshaped our society over the past century. As part of this agenda, I explore the evolution of gender norms, power dynamics, and representation within Western visual culture and what this implies for the negotiation between pleasure, justice, and our culturally specific discourse on beauty.
The seed for The Revisionist Histories was sewn when I caught a glimpse of my preteen daughters watching music videos on their iPad as I chopped veggies for dinner. Out of the corner of my eye I caught glimpses of music videos featuring Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Katy Perry, and Doja Cat gyrating across the tiny screen. A better parent might have snatched the iPad away, but I was overcome with hallucinatory visions of this pop diva...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Los Tres Hermanos/ The Puppet Show
By Starsky Brines
Located in New Orleans, LA
STARSKY BRINE’s paintings and drawings captivate audiences with their distinctive style and a recurring theme, the search for the nature of humanity. In his bold works, the artist fo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Crayon, Acrylic
"The Rain" -- Oil Painting by Alexander Stolin
Located in New Orleans, LA
ALEXANDER STOLIN, born and raised in Kiev, Ukraine (under the former Soviet Socialist Republic), where he received intensive training and a master of fine arts degree in his homeland’s traditional art academies. He immigrated to San Francisco in 1992, met his future wife in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, then married and settled in New Orleans. He maintains a home and studio in Madisonville, Louisiana, and is a significant but understated figure in the New Orleans art community. As art critic D. Eric Bookhardt suggested in 2002, “Stolin is more accomplished than he is famous.” His art, often exhibited in thematic series that incorporate a variety of media, ranges from intimate portraits to large-scale murals (one measuring twelve feet by seventy-two feet). He has worked on a progressively larger scale, most recently designing and painting projects for the Louisiana film industry. Stolin’s technically proficient and complexly layered art reflects a unique fusion of the academic training he received in Kiev and his evolving response to the very different culture, lifestyle, and subject matter he has discovered in New Orleans, Madisonville, and the Gulf South.
Stolin’s Face to Face series of portraits, completed from 2000 to 2002, featured New Orleans artists including Douglas Bourgeois...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Surf
By Amanda Brown
Located in New Orleans, LA
Amanda Joy Brown is a visual artist and educator based in Nashville, TN. Brown earned her MFA in the painting program at the Savannah College of Art and Design. During her time there...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
$3,000
ezeigbo Igbo King
By REWA
Located in New Orleans, LA
REWA says of her work…
Viewers largely label me under “Contemporary African Art”. I label my work as Igbo Vernacular Art. The reason for this is that I believe that I have created a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
$11,000
nwunye onye Freedom
By REWA
Located in New Orleans, LA
REWA says of her work…
Viewers largely label me under “Contemporary African Art”. I label my work as Igbo Vernacular Art. The reason for this is that I believe that I have created a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
Abundance of Apollo Study
Located in New Orleans, LA
Ginger Williams Cook is a painter, published illustrator, and arts educator based in Jackson, MS. Her paintings have been featured in numerous exh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Acrylic
Medicine Cabinet
By Andrew Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
In highly developed nations today there is a widespread alienation and loneliness that engenders fear and distrust, a restrictive self-righteousness of thought, and a dread of what-c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Night
By Akihiko Sugiura
Located in New Orleans, LA
AKIHIKO SUGIURA is a Japanese painter from Hyogo, Japan whose artistic style mixes purely physical non-representational art with a base of traditional representational painting. A co...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$13,750
La Autentica Brisa de la Colina/ The Truth
By Starsky Brines
Located in New Orleans, LA
STARSKY BRINE’s paintings and drawings captivate audiences with their distinctive style and a recurring theme, the search for the nature of humanity. In his bold works, the artist fo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Crayon, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Gemini: Temple of Castor and Pollux
Located in New Orleans, LA
Ginger Williams Cook is a painter, published illustrator, and arts educator based in Jackson, MS. Her paintings have been featured in numerous exh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Pastel, Acrylic
Mythological Painting (after van Loo)
By Carlton Scott Sturgill
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carlton Scott Sturgill says of his work...
As a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, sculpture, collage, and installation, my work takes many forms and incorporates a w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint, Panel
"Rapture" - Contemporary Woman Portrait
By Louis Braquet
Located in New Orleans, LA
Finally got my hands on something by Louis Braquet. He has multiple commissions this year and I've been unable to get anything new. He had held on to thi...
Category
2010s New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$1,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Bathsheba
s Garage
Located in New Orleans, LA
Michael Tole says of his work…
This painting reimagines the moment when Cleopatra contemplates suicide after her battlefield loss to Octavian. In this revisionist history, Cleopatr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The Inquisitor" - Contemporary Multimedia Abstract Portrait Painting
By Leroy Miranda
Located in New Orleans, LA
Emerging artist Leroy Miranda took off like a rocket a few years back in 2015 when he was discovered in New Orleans. A painting of this self-taught artist with what he describes as "...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
The Raconteur
Located in New Orleans, LA
Michael Tole (American, b. 1979)
The Raconteur, 2024
Oil on canvas
Signed
Michael Tole says of his work…
This painting reimagines the moment when Cleopatra contemplates suicide a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Maximum Saturation
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
JENNY DAY is a painter who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Arizona, a BFA in Painting from the University of Alaska Fa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Red Cowboy
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of genres includin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
If He Wasn
t Handsome, Would He Still be Super?
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
after: Joseph Shuster’s Superman #1 Cover (1939) and #17 Beast and the Beauty from Wally Wood’s, Bob Powell’s, and Norm Saunders’ Mars Attacks trading cards...
Category
2010s Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Pietà II (some people wanna die so they can be free)
By Anastasia Pelias
Located in New Orleans, LA
ANASTASIA PELIAS was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Crayon, Oil
Nasty Woman
By Joseph Barron
Located in New Orleans, LA
Joseph Barron graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago with a BFA and MFA. Shortly after graduating, Barron was awarded a Pollock-Krasner foundation Grant that allowed him to crea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Blue Rondo (Contemporary Multimedia Abstract Painting)
By Guy Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
"I have been painting seriously for somewhere around 35 years, but have only ever sold regionally - most recently, through my gallery on Magazine Street in New Orleans. Through 1stDi...
Category
2010s Abstract New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon, Oil, Acrylic, Charcoal
$2,240 Sale Price
20% Off
Leo: Hercules and the Nemean Lion
Located in New Orleans, LA
Ginger Williams Cook is a painter, published illustrator, and arts educator based in Jackson, MS. Her paintings have been featured in numerous exhibitions, publications, and media. G...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Pastel, Acrylic
Dogwood (Large Contemporary Girl Portrait Painting)
By Christine Ilewski-Huelsmann
Located in New Orleans, LA
One of two sizable portraits of girlhood we are offering by notable Illinois artist Christine Ilewski-Huelsmann, not only a fixture in the arts establ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
Taurus: Europa
Zeus
Located in New Orleans, LA
Ginger Williams Cook is a painter, published illustrator, and arts educator based in Jackson, MS. Her paintings have been featured in numerous exhibitions, publications, and media. G...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Pastel, Acrylic
Taken Aback By My Own Beauty #26
By Adrienne Brown-David
Located in New Orleans, LA
These paintings are images taken directly from life with my daughters. They each represent a fragment of their childhood that is rapidly disappearing. I have chosen to create visual ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Tug O
War" - Contemporary Abstract Nude Figure Painting
By Louis Braquet
Located in New Orleans, LA
Louis Braquet is a top-selling artist in New Orleans, and as his paintings sell out quickly at the Royal Street gallery that represents him we are thrill...
Category
2010s New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
The Wood Shop
Located in New Orleans, LA
Michael Tole says of his work…
This painting reimagines the moment when Cleopatra contemplates suicide after her battlefield loss to Octavian. In this revisionist history, Cleopatr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Peonies
By Amanda Brown
Located in New Orleans, LA
Amanda Joy Brown is a visual artist and educator based in Nashville, TN. Brown earned her MFA in the painting program at the Savannah College of Art and Design. During her time there...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The Fisherman
By Amanda Brown
Located in New Orleans, LA
Amanda Joy Brown is a visual artist and educator based in Nashville, TN. Brown earned her MFA in the painting program at the Savannah College of Art and Design. During her time there...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Sexy Couple Seeking Same - mw4mw - 2130 (Atlanta)
By Carlton Scott Sturgill
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: oil on linen
[New Orleans, LA ::: b.1971 - Cincinnati, OH]
Born in 1971 in Cincinnati, Ohio, CARLTON SCOTT STURGILL received his Masters of Arts (Fine Art) from London’s Ch...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Memorial
By Amanda Brown
Located in New Orleans, LA
Amanda Joy Brown is a visual artist and educator based in Nashville, TN. Brown earned her MFA in the painting program at the Savannah College of Art and Design. During her time there...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Taken Aback By My Own Beauty #23
By Adrienne Brown-David
Located in New Orleans, LA
These paintings are images taken directly from life with my daughters. They each represent a fragment of their childhood that is rapidly disappearing. I have chosen to create visual ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bubble Gum Roses
By Amanda Brown
Located in New Orleans, LA
Amanda Joy Brown is a visual artist and educator based in Nashville, TN. Brown earned her MFA in the painting program at the Savannah College of Art and Design. During her time there...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Sagittarius: Chiron
Located in New Orleans, LA
Ginger Williams Cook is a painter, published illustrator, and arts educator based in Jackson, MS. Her paintings have been featured in numerous exhibitions, publications, and media. G...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Pastel, Acrylic
"Dry dock II" -- Oil Painting by Alexander Stolin
Located in New Orleans, LA
ALEXANDER STOLIN, born and raised in Kiev, Ukraine (under the former Soviet Socialist Republic), where he received intensive training and a master of fine arts degree in his homeland...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Aquarius: Flight of Ganymede
Located in New Orleans, LA
Ginger Williams Cook is a painter, published illustrator, and arts educator based in Jackson, MS. Her paintings have been featured in numerous exh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
The Javelin Thrower
Located in New Orleans, LA
Michael Tole says of his work…
In the sports related paintings in this show, all metrics for success--goal posts, yard lines, and end zones--have been removed. There is only endles...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
I
ll Show You Mine, If You Show Me Yours
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: house-paint on upcycled WWII era quilt
Becca Fuhrman (b. 1988, Boise, ID) is an interdisciplinary artist who specializes in multimedia large-sca...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Found Objects, House Paint
Natural History
By Sharon Shapiro
Located in New Orleans, LA
Sharon Shapiro says of her work…
My art practice explores the tensions within contemporary female experience—the contrast between society’s expectations and the vibrant, often turbu...
Category
2010s New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Aftershock
By Sharon Shapiro
Located in New Orleans, LA
Sharon Shapiro says of her work…
My art practice explores the tensions within contemporary female experience—the contrast between society’s expectations and the vibrant, often turbu...
Category
2010s New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Acrylic
Cry Deeply
By Sharon Shapiro
Located in New Orleans, LA
Sharon Shapiro says of her work…
My art practice explores the tensions within contemporary female experience—the contrast between society’s expectations and the vibrant, often turbu...
Category
2010s New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
OTHERWISE
By Starsky Brines
Located in New Orleans, LA
STARSKY BRINE’s paintings and drawings captivate audiences with their distinctive style and a recurring theme, the search for the nature of humanity. In his bold works, the artist focuses on characters that are built from a combination of anthropomorphic and zoomorphic features, as well as the appropriation of elements from comics and toys from his childhood.
On the one hand, these characters distort reality to venture into an environment of subcultures and urbanism created by the spontaneous intuition of his strokes and the appropriation of the contemporary iconography. On the other hand, they move within the realm of fantasy. In particular, the animals paired with their human characters evoke associations with fairy tales or comics. They are reminiscent of the world of theatre, in which fantasy and poetry but also comedy often serve as catalysts for the creation of critical meaning.
With his works, Brines often questions the interplay of good and evil against the background of the worldwide socio-political climate. Yet Brines does not interpret his themes as ‘black and white.’ They are complex and nonlinear, with charming disruptions, quite serious and yet full of humor.
Brines is personally influenced by his mother and art historically influenced by Latin American figurative art, the German Neoexpressionism, the Italian Transavantgarde, and the COBRA group. His works oscillate between figuration and abstraction. Brines holds a degree in Fine Art from the Instituto Universitario de Estudios Superiores de Artes Plásticas Armando Reverón...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper, Oil Pastel, Spray Paint
"Old and new" -- Oil Painting by Alexander Stolin
Located in New Orleans, LA
ALEXANDER STOLIN, born and raised in Kiev, Ukraine (under the former Soviet Socialist Republic), where he received intensive training and a master of fine arts degree in his homeland’s traditional art academies. He immigrated to San Francisco in 1992, met his future wife in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, then married and settled in New Orleans. He maintains a home and studio in Madisonville, Louisiana, and is a significant but understated figure in the New Orleans art community. As art critic D. Eric Bookhardt suggested in 2002, “Stolin is more accomplished than he is famous.” His art, often exhibited in thematic series that incorporate a variety of media, ranges from intimate portraits to large-scale murals (one measuring twelve feet by seventy-two feet). He has worked on a progressively larger scale, most recently designing and painting projects for the Louisiana film industry. Stolin’s technically proficient and complexly layered art reflects a unique fusion of the academic training he received in Kiev and his evolving response to the very different culture, lifestyle, and subject matter he has discovered in New Orleans, Madisonville, and the Gulf South.
Stolin’s Face to Face series of portraits, completed from 2000 to 2002, featured New Orleans artists including Douglas Bourgeois...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Fade
By Amanda Brown
Located in New Orleans, LA
Amanda Joy Brown is a visual artist and educator based in Nashville, TN. Brown earned her MFA in the painting program at the Savannah College of Art and Design. During her time there...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$7,000
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