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Item Ships From: New York City
Get in the Car
Located in New York, NY
Get in the Car 2016 Acrylic on canvas 20 x 16 inches Skasi’s work arises from the belief that we inhabit the final romantic era before humanity's inevitable ...
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2010s Contemporary New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

Oil on canvas: Finding Your Own
Located in New York, NY
Gunes Caglarcan, an Istanbul-based multidisciplinary artist and pianist, uses both visual art and music to explore the complex layers of human perception and connection. With a backg...
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2010s Contemporary New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Pandemic 45 (seasonal series) - landscape painting, minimalist painting
By Olga Szczechowska
Located in New York, NY
This beautiful landscape painting by Olga is part of her Pandemic series she did during the Covid 19 pandemic. As oppose to the chaos the world is experiencing due to the pandemic, her landscape paintings are the opposite; calm, almost surreal and utopic. Olga is mostly engaged in painting and illustration. She likes breaking the rules of proper reflecting of nature with the use of unexpected elements from another universe. Her works are minimalistic in the form, simply elegant and gracefully colorful. Olga Szczechowska...
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2010s Minimalist New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Untitled, " Crash, Pop Art, Street Art Graffiti, Figure with Clock
By John Crash Matos
Located in New York, NY
Crash Untitled, 1989 Signed and dated lower left Watercolor and ink on paper 30 x 20 1/2 inches A contemporary of Keith Haring and a modern-day master of this present day art form o...
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1980s Street Art New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Vision, colorful, mystical watercolor
By Janet Morgan
Located in Brooklyn, NY
vivid colors, watercolor, mixed media, spiritual theme
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2010s Expressionist New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media, Watercolor

After Icarus, ghostly floating figure, black w orange, blue nude
By Audrey Anastasi
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on canvas ABOUT the artist: Audrey Frank Anastasi is a prolific feminist artist, working in painting, drawing, collage, mixed media, & printmaking. She is also curator, gallerist, educator and arts advocate. Most of Ms. Anastasi's figurative works are painted with her non-dominant left hand. She has created large bodies of works of birds, animals and birch trees. She has had 20 solo & 200 group shows. Her "ref-u-gee" series will be shown in 2020 at Medgar Evers College in collaboration with the Valentine Museum of Art, Brooklyn. Accompanying the show will be a limited-edition monograph w/ over 180 images and a foreword by Phyllis Braff. Ms. Anastasi's collage series was exhibited at Welancora Gallery, Brooklyn, in May, 2019. In 2018, ten paintings were exhibited in "Painting to Survive," curated by Yale critic Jonathan Weinberg. Book and catalog publications include "Stations of the Cross", SPQR press, BREUCKELEN magazine, “Audrey Frank Anastasi”, catalog essay Cindy Nemser, and "Collage," essay by Giancarlo T. Roma. Public art includes a portrait of Jo Davidson...
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2010s Expressionist New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Hook Creek Hungarian American European Modernism WPA 1935 Long Island Canal Boat
By Stephen Csoka
Located in New York, NY
Hook Creek Hungarian American European Modernism WPA 1935 Long Island Canal Boat Oil on canvas board 12” x 15". The framed size is 18 x 21. In addition to this painting, we will include and etching of this scene.. The Print measures 3 1/2 x 6 inches and the sheet, 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. It is signed: S. Csoka, 1943. Stephen (Istvan) Csoka was born in Gárdony, Hungary on January 2, 1897 and died in New York in 1989. He is best remembered as a painter and etcher of portraits, nudes, landscapes, genre, and horses. Csoka studied at the Budapest Royal Academy of Art and his memberships include Associate of the National Academy of Design in New York City; the Society of American Etchers in Brooklyn, NY; the Society of Brooklyn Artists; and the Hungarian Etchers Association. Csoka's exhibitions and awards include a medal at the Barcelona International Exhibition in 1929; a prize at the City of Budapest Exhibit in 1930; prizes at the Society of American Etchers in 1942 and 1945; prizes at the Library of Congress in 1944 and 1946; a prize at the Society of Brooklyn Artists in 1944; a prize at the Philadelphia Watercolor Club in 1945; the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1945; the Carnegie Institute in 1943, 1944, and 1945; the Art Institute of Chicago in 1944; the Los Angeles Museum of Art in 1945; the National Academy of Design from 1940 through 1945; one-artist shows at the Contemporary Artists in 1940, 1943, and 1945; and the Minneapolis State Fair in 1943. *Stephen continued to recieve awards and exhibit his work throughout his life. In 1997, Hofstra Museum sponsored a Retrospective/Centennial exhibition in honor of his birth. Collections representing Csoka's work are the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; the British Museum, London, England; the Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio; Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell, MA; the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; the Sheldon Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN; the Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL; the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN; the Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM; the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary; Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, the Museum of the City of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary; the Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA; Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA; Hofstra Museum, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY; Holocaust Museum, Glen Cove, NY; National Academy of Art, New York, NY; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; New York Historical Society, New York, NY;New York Public Library, New York, NY; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Peabody Museum, Cambridge, MA; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA; Livingston Arts Center, Mount Morris, NY; Ball State Teachers College, Muncie, IN; City College, New York, NY; Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY; Hungarian Consulate, New York, NY; Hungarian Heritage, New Brunswick, NJ; Hunter College, New York, NY; IBM Collections; Princeton Print Club...
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1930s Realist New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Jin Guo Portrait Original Oil Painting "About Tree Series -VI"
Located in New York, NY
Title: About Tree Series -VI Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 20 x 20 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note: Th...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York City - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Eden Lockdown, colorful humorous nude woman with apple and snake
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
oil on linen on mounted board outsider pastel on archival paper *ABOUT Stephen Basso Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking f...
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2010s Outsider Art New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Pastel, Archival Paper

Multiple Reflections w/ a cup of Joe, contemporary, pink, blue, female, cubist
By Jenny Toth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an oil painting done from life of the artist standing at her easel, holding a shiny knife vertically which is capturing her likeness, and the entire images is captured in a l...
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2010s Contemporary New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Frank Shifreen The Struggle
By Frank Shifreen
Located in New York, NY
Frank Shifreen The Struggle 2021 18 x 24 inches Acrylic on Canvas Signed, titled and dated on verso These new works start from polar opposite impulses w...
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2010s Contemporary New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Frank Shifreen Interior
By Frank Shifreen
Located in New York, NY
Frank Shifreen Interior 2021 24 x 24 inches Acrylic on Canvas Signed, titled and dated on verso These new works start from polar opposite impulses which juxtapose the purity and be...
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2010s Contemporary New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Red Winter, colorful double portrait oil on canvas
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on canvas *ABOUT Stephen Basso Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with bou...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Yemaya Descembarcar(Yemaya Ashore) blues seaside West african religious
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
the subject of this work is Yemaya orisha or saint of the seven oceans . Her colors are blue and white and she exudes great power and love.
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2010s Feminist New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Cupid Under Construction valentine hearts cupid mythology humorous overtones
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
ABOUT Stephen Basso Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imaginat...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Traveler, oil painting of mysterious nude figure,
By Audrey Anastasi
Located in Brooklyn, NY
In this series, Audrey Anastasi has shifted her focus away from naturalistic domestic settings to a dark, enigmatic, and some might say, unsettling, pl...
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2010s Contemporary New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Frank Shifreen Landscape with Figures
By Frank Shifreen
Located in New York, NY
Frank Shifreen Landscape with Figures 2021 18 x 24 inches Acrylic on Canvas Signed, titled and dated on verso These new works start from polar opposite impulses which juxtapose the...
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2010s Contemporary New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Frank Shifreen The Hug
By Frank Shifreen
Located in New York, NY
Frank Shifreen The Hug 2021 30 x 48 inches Acrylic on Canvas Signed, titled and dated on verso These new works start from polar opposite impulses which juxta...
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2010s Contemporary New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Cubist Figures with Bird, Oil on Board Painting by John F. Leonard
Located in Long Island City, NY
Cubist Figures with Bird (8) by John F. Leonard, American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Oil on Board Size: 23 in. x 48 in. (58.42 cm x 121.92 cm)
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1960s Cubist New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

1987 Adrianne Wortzel Acrylic on Paper
By Adrianne Wortzel
Located in New York, NY
Adrianne Wortzel (b. 1941) Gold Columns, 1987 Acrylic on paper Sight: 22 x 30 in. Framed: 27 x 34 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. Signed and titled verso on stretcher bar ADRIANNE WORTZEL'S early ...
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1980s Contemporary New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

Misguided Drone Lives Happily Ever After in the Fine State of New Jersey
Located in New York, NY
Scott likes to think of his work as what it might look like if an overly observant 5 year old kid from New Jersey left hieroglyphics for alien life forms to discover. A mixture of ...
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2010s Outsider Art New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic, Oil Crayon, Wood Panel

Lemon Peel, Glossy Contemporary Pop Still Life Art Acrylic Varnish Painting
By Lori Larusso
Located in New York, NY
"Lemon Peel" by Lori Larusso is a shaped-panel painting that transforms a simple lemon into a vibrant, sculptural image. The curling peel is rendered with crisp precision and set aga...
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2010s Contemporary New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Varnish, Acrylic, Panel

Large Eggshell Mosaic, Wall Painting: " WAR! What is it good for…, ”
By Paul Wirhun
Located in New York, NY
‘I have been working on eggshells since I was 8 years old, learning the traditional Ukrainian art of pysanky from my mother. This artistic and cultic use of eggs informs my work to t...
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2010s Contemporary New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media

Man with Bird, Cubist Oil on Board by John F. Leonard
Located in Long Island City, NY
Man with Bird (21) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Oil on Board, unsigned Size: 25 in. x 20 in. (63.5 cm x 50.8 cm)
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1960s Cubist New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Standing Nude with Sun, Signed Cubist Oil on Board Painting by John F. Leonard
Located in Long Island City, NY
Standing Nude with Sun (28) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: 1957 Oil on Board, signed Size: 21.5 in. x 26 in. (54.61 cm x 66.04 cm)
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1950s Cubist New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Figure Study, Abstract Charcoal Drawing by John F. Leonard
Located in Long Island City, NY
Figure Study (35) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Charcoal on Board, unsigned Size: 17.5 in. x 20.5 in. (44.45 cm x 52.07 cm)
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1960s Abstract New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Board, Charcoal

Mosaic eggshell painting: DF #6
By Paul Wirhun
Located in New York, NY
‘I have been working on eggshells since I was 8 years old, learning the traditional Ukrainian art of pysanky from my mother. This artistic and cultic use of eggs informs my work to t...
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2010s Contemporary New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media

"Untitled (Modern Woman), " Juliette Gordon, New York Feminist Collage Art WAR
By Juliette Gordon
Located in New York, NY
Juliette Gordon (American, b. 1934) Untitled (Modern Woman), circa 1973 Collage on board 30 x 20 inches Provenance: Allan Stone Gallery, New York (ASG-JuG8) Sold with certificate of authenticity signed by the artist. Juliette Gordon is a witty, perceptive, and highly intelligent artist. Her most iconic works are wickedly funny and sometimes highly political photocollages that were inspired by her involvement in the women’s movement of the early 1970s. At the time, she was exhibiting with the likes of Nancy Spero and May Stevens...
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1970s Feminist New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media, Board

Live It Up
By Joe Waks 1
Located in New York, NY
Joe Waks Live It Up 2016 Oil and mixed media 36 X 24 in.
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2010s Contemporary New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil

Selfie in the Mirror, figurative contemporary oil painting of a young man.
Located in New York, NY
Alec Waxman portrays subjects in unconventional social and intimate contexts. In his paintings, homoerotic undertones relay fantasy and dream-like imagery ...
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2010s New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Untitled (Green Face)
Located in New York, NY
Marc Andre Untitled (green face) 2022 Acrylic and oil stick on canvas 16 x 20 inches Marc Andre meditates on the moments we step out of our comfort zone. Infused with neo-expressionist influences and demonstrating a figurative approach akin to the portraits and sculptures of Benin infused with a refreshing wave of energy. By channeling a playful flirtation with mark-making, Andre shows us that childhood creativity is “as pure as it gets”. Andre was born in Toulouse, France and spent much of his childhood traveling the world and frequenting museums with his mother, primarily visiting exhibitions featuring Pan...
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2010s Contemporary New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Oil Crayon, Acrylic

Serious Moonlight, abstract figures on gold metal leaf inspired by David Bowie
By Audrey Anastasi
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Collage and acrylic paint on gold leafed sintra panel, excellent gift Work inspired by David Bowie music
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2010s American Modern New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media, Panel

Holy Thursday, spiritual abstraction
By Alfonse Borysewicz
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Large scale bold abstracted spiritual image w metallic areas reflecting light
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2010s Abstract Expressionist New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Untitled (Figural Interior Scene)
Located in Astoria, NY
Rick Prol (American, b. 1958), Untitled (Figural Interior Scene), Mixed Media on Paper, 11 May 2014, signed and dated in pencil lower right and to verso, unframed. Sheet: 22.5" H x 3...
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2010s Cubist New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Paint, Paper, Mixed Media

Spots on the beauty Corbis bay - figurative collage
Located in New York, NY
Hand-cut vinyl applied to Perspex panel. The 5th in a new series of artworks focusing on British seaside towns. I have longed to capture my own take on this theme, where even the mos...
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2010s Contemporary New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Plexiglass, Lacquer, Acrylic Polymer, Vinyl

El Bajo Latin music theme rich vibrant colors musical instruments strong rhythm
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
oil on linen canvas There is no charge for a beautiful gold rimmed ebony colored wood frame, which is included with this painting . the dimensions 52 x 38 are including this frame a...
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2010s Post-Modern New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Textured White Figurative Mixed Media Portrait by Cuban Artist Hector Frank
By Hector Frank
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Figurative Pink Mixed Media Portrait Painting by Cuban Artist Hector Frank. Unique Painting with a certificate of authenticity. Despite international acclaim as one Cuba’s foremost...
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2010s Outsider Art New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars

Alignment 33
Located in New York, NY
Ieri Pnoi Alignment 33, 2020 Acrylic on canvas 85 x 60 cm The artwork is currently on view as part of Prosperity Prophecy at the Mykonos Municipal Gallery in Greece. Dimitra Natsk...
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2010s Contemporary New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

Angel of Ephemeral Immortality
Located in New York, NY
Ieri Pnoi Attempt / On the Nature of Human Kind, 2018 Egg tempera on wood 35 x 25 cm The artwork is currently on view as part of Prosperity Prophecy at the Mykonos Municipal Gallery...
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2010s Contemporary New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Egg Tempera, Wood Panel

Orange Bouquet - Pop art, colorful still life flower painting with custom frame
By Apostolos Chantzaras
Located in Dallas, TX
This painting on Fabriano paper, titled Bouquet with Orange Background is one of Chantzaras latest series of pop art style and classical colorful influences of this still-life flower painting. The colors are bold and playful. The silver wood box...
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2010s Contemporary New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Archival Paper

A Bronx Wedding, colorful dancing celebration w musicians blue sky butterflies
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
*ABOUT Stephen Basso Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imagina...
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2010s Expressionist New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Performer w African Mask, Asian Fan, predominantly black and white oil on panel
By Audrey Anastasi
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Created with oil on panel, and using her non-dominant hand, the performers series reveals the rich brushwork and deft confidence with which Audrey Anastasi paints her compelling imag...
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2010s American Modern New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Navigator, bright color oil painting of figure, boats, water
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
*ABOUT Stephen Basso Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imagina...
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2010s Outsider Art New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Rider and the Pink Dragon, Pop art contemporary style, bold painting with horse
By Apostolos Chantzaras
Located in Dallas, TX
Heroes and Riders are among Apostolos Chantzaras' favourite themes. The story of a hero or saint fighting a dragon is universal, and understood throughout many cultures. With his own...
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2010s Contemporary New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Archival Paper

Three s a Crowd, whimsical colorful pastel on toned paper
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Three's a Crowd, whimsical colorful pastel on toned paper A Brooklyn native, much of Basso's wildly imaginative artwork was inspired by travel to Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and especiall...
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2010s Outsider Art New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Pastel, Archival Paper

"Hooked, " back view of figure, contemporary oil paint red black colors
By Audrey Anastasi
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on canvas STATEMENT by AUDREY ANASTASI: Considering myself primarily a feminist artist, painting other women, most of my work focuses on the human face, figures, animals and natu...
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2010s American Realist New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Red Kimono Matrix, colorful, enigmatic pattern
By Audrey Anastasi
Located in Brooklyn, NY
In this series, Audrey Anastasi has shifted her focus away from naturalistic domestic settings to a dark, enigmatic, and some might say, unsettling, pl...
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2010s Contemporary New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Pillow Fight, colorful humorous nude women
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
oil on linen on mounted board outsider pastel on archival paper *ABOUT Stephen Basso Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking f...
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2010s Outsider Art New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Pastel, Archival Paper

Muddy Company oil on monotype
By Tom Bennett
Located in Brooklyn, NY
provocative female figure Oil on paper Tom Bennett’s practice is rooted in the classical tradition where painting and drawing from life is highly regarded. Bennett’s work is heavily influenced by Francis Bacon, Frank Auberbauch and foremost his father, Harry Bennett, who was also an artist. Tom’s time living abroad in Spain and traveling through Eastern Europe and Africa provided the artistic freedom to explore many of the techniques and subject matter that continue to define his practice. Bennett was born and raised in Connecticut. His mediums include monotypes, oil on paper, canvas or styrene board. In a technique that Tom started over 4 years ago, several of his monotypes have been painted over with oil paint using a palette knife, brush, or his fingers to repurpose the underlying image. These works are a testament to Bennett’s ability to quickly and concisely compose an image with expressive brush strokes, foreshortened figures and expertly rendered light. Tom’s work has been featured in group and solo exhibitions worldwide. Bennett lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He is currently represented by Tabla Rasa...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Oil

mr. c and gladys, bright colorful man and dog
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
*ABOUT Stephen Basso Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imagina...
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2010s American Modern New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Interior - figurative painting
By Jeroen Allart
Located in New York, NY
A farm stands before you on the horizon. A windmill majestically slices the blue sky. A bird, painted in taut brushstrokes, struts on a branch. These are tranquil images; horizon far...
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2010s Contemporary New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Glory and Grandeur art history strong black female figure topical subject
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
oil on linen on mounted board *ABOUT Stephen Basso Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works a...
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2010s Outsider Art New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Linen

BimbiBerryBaba from the Inevitable Feeling Series
By Misha Milovanovich
Located in New York, NY
Misha Milovanovich BimbiBerryBaba from the Inevitable Feeling Series, 2016 Acrylic & oil pastel, ink, enamel and celulose paint on canvas. 72 x 59 cm Hovering between painting, drawing and watercolour sketches, her new work represents a form of personal expression that is less concerned with the impact and novelty of popular culture and more about the quiet uncovering of emotion. Her trademark organic forms are still present though now they are empathetic rather than explosively joyful. The colours are softer, somewhat washed out and hazy, as if half-perceived or remembered. The colour palette and the energy of the mark making reference to the now buried source material -  abstracted Hentai illustrations, Japanese manga-infused depictions of male dominance, rape and power fantasies. The never-satisfied, always distracted state in which this dislocated field of sexual aggression persists stands in for our instantly redundant, surface only culture- transactional, bullying and ephemeral.   Her paintings are sensorially rich and and yet muted, the masses of fleshy intersections and writhing calligraphy feel like they are moving out of the immediate present and floating up out of time.   They are soaked in the in nuances of early modernism- Klee, Miro and Matta. She explores emotive, expressionistic tender spaces in these lyrically rendered conceptual paintings - densely layered works that operate in the enigmatic gaps between rational structure and spontaneity. Misha also echoes Kandinsky and his sensuality of musical movement, evoking his concerns with the spiritual, all emerging naturally from the rich soil she has carefully laid down in her previous work. The language and texture of her materials are important to Misha who prepares her own pigment- paying great attention to form, surface and the moment-to moment physicality of her practice. Misha Milovanovich is a Belgrade-born artist living and working in London. Misha works across several mediums, from sculpture to painting and live art. Characterised by vivid colour, optical movement and energetic visual cadences, Misha's visual work fuses a diverse repertoire of images and forms. She often features discarded shards of consumerism - unloved icons of disposability and careless consumption. Misha's work is often a symphonic abstraction. Her colourful, densely layered works are held in a state of tension between order and chaos, rational structure and spontaneity. She combines depth and surface relief, orchestrating bold contrasts of form, texture and space in her pictures. An intimate colour palette of bodily fluids - red, pink, white, black, yellow and brown - animate the writhing forms and the refracted memories of cartoonish cultural production. A cultural polymath, Misha is constantly engaged in observing society and it’s distortions of desire, lust and attitudes to the body. Traditional techniques have been studied and absorbed and although her work is partly conceptual, it's execution always reflects these hard won technical abilities. Misha's main subject matter is emotion, so naturally her work is highly personal and biographical in ways that create a direct, emotional response from the viewer. Empathy and the universals of human experience - passion, nostalgia, desire and disgust are inescapable in her work. Misha is herself a ‘displaced’ person, having left Serbia for London in her late teens she still carries within her a ‘stranger’s perspective’ and perceives the world as an outsider, someone ever alert to the non-verbal subtleties of communication. Misha's artistic progenitors include her mentor Martin Kippenberger, Wassily Kandinsky and Phillip Guston as well as contemporary artists Gilbert and George, Keith Tyson, Robert Pruitt...
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2010s Abstract New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic

Duality, mysterious androgynous figure earth tone, yellow
By Audrey Anastasi
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on Canvas
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2010s Neo-Expressionist New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"The Night Was There"- Colorful, Figurative/Abstract Mixed Media Painting
Located in Brooklyn, NY
John-Herbert was born in Miami and moved to New York city when he was 3 years old. As the son of a Filipno mother and bi-racial father, his multi-cultural roots at first felt like a...
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2010s Contemporary New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Is All that we See or Seem but a Dream within a Dream (The body as an archive)
By Friederike Ruff
Located in New York, NY
Is All that we See or Seem but a Dream within a Dream (The body as an archive) 2016-2017 Embroidery and painting on canvas 110 x 90 cm Organ: Eyes, Retina, Design: Inspired by the H...
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2010s Contemporary New York City - Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Expedition 36 Russian EVA 35. 5Hrs. 58 Mins.
By Vargas-Suarez Universal
Located in New York, NY
Expedition 36 Russian EVA 35. 5Hrs. 58 Mins. (2013) oil enamel on polypropylene canvas 48 x 48 inches (122 x 122 cm)
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract New York City - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Enamel

Frank Shifreen Seated Woman
By Frank Shifreen
Located in New York, NY
Frank Shifreen Seated Woman 2021 48 x 30 inches Acrylic on Canvas Signed, titled and dated on verso These new works start from polar opposite impulses which juxtapose the purity an...
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2010s Contemporary New York City - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

The Existential Cyclist human condition humorous male figure on bicycle blue
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Signed and dated on reverse oil on wood panel . This work had a rough surface texture. Some similarity to Botero quality
Category

2010s Outsider Art New York City - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

"Forest 1" by Anne Siems, Portrait painting with tattoo drawing, on paper
By Anne Siems
Located in Dallas, TX
Anne Siems has created this stunning watercolor on Strathmore Cold press paper. All archival materials. Paper size: 24x18 inches Suggested Frame size: 30x24x1.5 inch ANNE SIEMS (...
Category

2010s Contemporary New York City - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

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