San Diego - Abstract Paintings

''Otherworldly Grove'' is an oil painting by Daniel Ketelhut that invites the viewer into a dreamlike landscape suspended between nature and imagination. Dominated by rich reds, lumi...

This is a one of a kind original abstract oil painting on panel by Southern California artist, Daniel Ketelhut. Its dimensions are 22" x 30" x 1". It is unframed. A certificate of au...

This is a one of a kind original abstract oil painting on panel by Southern California artist, Daniel Ketelhut. Its dimensions are 18" x 24" x 1". It is unframed. A certificate of au...

This is a one of a kind original abstract oil painting on panel by Southern California artist, Daniel Ketelhut. Its dimensions are 18" x 21" x1". It is unframed. A certificate of aut...

"Phantom Figures in the Dust" is one of the paintings from Daniel Kettlehut’s Karma and Rebirth series, reflecting the interplay of presence, memory, and transformation. Grounded in ...

Soft Alchemy is one of the paintings from Daniel Kettlehut’s Karma and Rebirth series, exploring transformation and the subtle interplay of past and present. Rooted in the Buddhist c...

Suspension of Disbelief is one of the paintings from Daniel Kettlehut’s Karma and Rebirth series, exploring how perception and meaning are shaped by prior conditions. Rooted in the B...

Whispers of the Forgotten is one of the paintings from Daniel Kettlehut’s Karma and Rebirth series, which explores the idea that all things exist in a constant state of change and ar...

An abstract inspired by a trip to Iceland, capturing the movement of the water. Touches of blue are interacting with the overall neutral colors. Fluid lines and soft blending express...

This is a one of a kind original abstract painting on wood panel by Southern California artist, Daniel Ketelhut. Its dimensions are 40"x 30"x.2". It is unframed. A certificate of aut...

This large abstract painting is inspired by a contemporary melody written in the pentatonic scale. Repetitive simple shapes are following the rhythm of the music. Blended color block...

This is a one of a kind original abstract painting on wood panel by Southern California artist, Daniel Ketelhut. Its dimensions are 40"x 30"x 2". It is unframed. A certificate of aut...

Daily rituals, a rythem to life within/outside. Structure and chaos. Painted with acrylic, spray paint, ink, pencil and oil pastel on a wood panel with finished edges and ready to...

This abstract is inspired by an evening walk at the harbor. The colors express spring and water. Bright shades of green, teal and blue interact with delicate white; black lines and b...

A wonderful, museum caliber painting by Craig Kauffman. Initialed "CK" and dated "82" in the lower right corner. PROVENANCE: Asher Faure Gallery Luther Vandross Luther Vandross Estate Private Collection, New York Private Collection, San Diego, CA EXHIBITED: Asher Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, California, CRAIG KAUFFMAN: NEW PAINTINGS April 23 through May 21,1983 CATALOGUE: Craig Kauffman Estate Archive Number CR No: P.1982.2 The following is from The New York Times, May 15, 2010, By Douglas Martin Craig Kauffman, who in the 1960s helped put Los Angeles on the art map with audacious experiments in molding industrial plastic to create ethereal wall-mounted sculptures — some resembling giant pieces of jelly candy — died Sunday in Angeles City in the Philippines. He was 78. The cause was complications of pneumonia following a recent stroke, said Frank Lloyd, his friend and dealer. Mr. Kauffman was eminent in an eclectic group of artists who reveled in the light, space and energy of postwar Southern California to forge new Minimalist, often glossy artistic approaches. Richard Armstrong, director of the Guggenheim Museum said that these Californians, sometimes called the Cool School — along with Chicago Imagists and Washington, D.C., painters called the Color School — were counterpoints to the Abstract Expressionists who ruled New York. "California was never ashamed of being a new society," Mr. Armstrong said in an interview on Thursday, "it all fit together nicely." Los Angeles was then ascending to the status of a metropolis, with a growing number of major-league sports teams, fresh industries and a surging population. There were new quarters for public galleries and the burgeoning of commercial ones. At the center of the action was the Ferus Gallery, which staged the first solo exhibition of Andy's Warhol's pop art and the first American retrospective of Marcel Duchamp. Mr. Kauffman was a featured artist at the gallery's inaugural exhibition in 1957, "Objects on the New Landscape Demanding of the Eye." Peter Plagens, in his book Sunshine Muse: Art on the West Coast, 1945-1970, (1974, 1999), wrote, "'Culture' meant 'art' and 'art' implied 'new,' and 'new,' as everybody was informed, meant California — particularly Los Angeles." The artists who seized this historic opportunity included Billy Al Bengston, Ken Price and Robert Irwin, among others. In an interview on Wednesday, Arne Glimcher, founder and chairman of Pace Gallery, which had Mr. Kauffman's first New York show in 1967, called the California scene in the late '50s and early '60s "a pressure cooker of ideas." Referring to artistic styles, he said, "It was California perfection against New York messiness." Mr. Kauffman's early paintings were critical in defining this new style. Mr. Plagens called them "the first evidence of a Los Angeles sensibility." Mr. Kauffman's later work blazed splashier trails, as he experimented with the effects of light on works that were painterly yet three-dimensional. "The true power of what he did was his incorporation and then redirection of light inside sculpture," said Mr. Armstrong, who was the curator of a show of Mr. Kauffman's work at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1987. "Many of them glowed," he said. "Others were translucent. Even the supposedly opaque had a noteworthy shimmering quality to them." What Mr. Kauffman made reflected a wide range of inspirations. In a 2008 video interview in conjunction with a show at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena California, he said that the famed lingerie store Frederick's of Hollywood provided artistic nurture. With a smile, he confessed to a "shoe fetish" that had influenced some of his art. Robert Craig Kauffman was born on March 31, 1932, in Los Angeles. He started painting regularly at age 7 and went to theUniversity of Southern California to study architecture in 1950. But art soon won out over architecture, and he transferred to the University of California Los Angeles, to study painting. He earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees there. A breakthrough came in the early 1960s when he experimented with painting on glass, but found it too fragile. He then painted on flat acrylic plastic. His next inspiration came from the plastic packaging increasingly used to wrap merchandise. He sought out craftsmen at commercial factories to learn the technique, Time magazine reported in 1968. The results were several series of three-dimensional wall hangings. Some were inspired by large plastic fruit clusters on the wall of a doughnut shop he frequented in Los Angeles. These lozenge-shaped reliefs were sometimes called "bubbles." Barbara Rose, in a catalog essay for an exhibition at the Washington Gallery of Modern Art in 1967, wrote, "Shaping the brittle sheet plastic into a series of voluptuous curves, Kauffman achieves a kind of abstract eroticism that is purely visual." Mr. Kauffman's work was shown in countless exhibitions and many one-man shows. It has been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Modern in London, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others. In 2006, one of Mr. Kauffman's reliefs fell from a wall of the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, where it was part of an exhibition titled "Los Angeles: Birth of an Art Capital, 1955-1985." It shattered. After storms of publicity, the Pompidou provided technical help and money to make a new version. Mr. Kauffman was married several times. He is survived by his daughters from his marriage to Dana Kauffman, from whom he was separated: Wilhelmina, Vida Rose and Georgia Kauffman. When they started in the 1960s, Mr. Kauffman and his artistic compatriots did not foresee a legacy, much less earning an income, Larry Bell, a prominent artist in the group, said in an interview on Wednesday. "The troops sort of banded together to be our own audience," he said. "Every once in a while, we'd sell...

Free floating fields of color create a light and joyful feeling in this beautiful piece. This painting will bring life and energy into a room. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece c...

This square abstract is a celebration of summer. Bright primary colors - yellow, red, orange and aqua, reminding rainbow, are applied with bold brush strokes and palette knives on a textured canvas, The layers of distressed shapes interact with fine geometric lines and circles creating rhythm. This warm painting...

This is a one of a kind original abstract painting on canvas by Southern California artist, Daniel Ketelhut. Its dimensions are 64"x 48"x 1.5". It is unframed. A certificate of authe...

This is a one of a kind original abstract painting on canvas by Southern California artist, Daniel Ketelhut. Its dimensions are 39"x 48"x 1.5". It is unframed. A certificate of authe...

This is a one of a kind acrylic and mixed media painting on wood panel by San Diego artist, Peter Geise. It is unframed. Its dimensions are 12"x12"x.75"" A...

This is a one of a kind original painting by southern California artist, Kathleen Kane Murrell. Its dimensions are 15" x 15" x 2". It is molded paper and acrylic paint on panel. It i...

This painting is a love letter to my home town, Encinitas, a garden on the edge of the sea. On gallery wrapped canvas with the edges painted, it is ready to hang. :: Painting :: Abst...

This is an original abstract oil on canvas painting by San Diego artist, Khalid Alkaaby. It's framed dimensions are 13.5"x13.5"x2". It comes framed. A c...

This is an original abstract oil on canvas painting by San Diego artist, Khalid Alkaaby. It's framed dimensions are 13.5x13.5x2. It comes framed. A certificate of authenticity will f...

This is a one of a kind original abstract painting on canvas by Southern California artist, Daniel Ketelhut. Its dimensions are 30"x 40"x.2.5". It is unframed. A certificate of authe...

For four decades, G. (Gloucester) Caliman Coxe was considered the dean of African-American artists in Louisville, Kentucky, an art scene in the 1950s and '60s that included Sam Gilliam, Bob Thompson, and Kenneth Victor Young...

The balance between structure and free thought, order and chaos, dreamlike and tension. Intuitively painted and structurally executed with acrylic, oil stick, ink, spray paint and p...

G. Caliman Coxe, an influential African American artist born in 1935, is celebrated for his vibrant abstract works that explore themes of identity, history, and spirituality. A grad...

"In A TranceAtlantic Crossing" is a wonderful, whimsical, surrealist mixed media painting. Acrylic, Sakura Markers, Caran d’Ache & Pencil on a Birchwood Cradled Panel 36 x 30 inches 2024 Artist’s Statement "My soul serves as the compass that guides me towards pieces that resonate deeply within me." Kate Cohen...

“Untitled” 1970 Abstract Surrealist Composition Encaustic & oil paint on Masonite 60 x 48 inches Not framed Born in 1934, the work of Suzanne Bloomfield represents the life force wh...

This is a one of a kind original mixed media (Antique silk paper, dye, paint, plexiglass) abstract painting depicting beautiful monarch butterflies and gold leaves by California arti...

This powerful 1970s painting by William C. Grauer is executed in acrylic on panel at an impressive scale of 48 by 36 inches. The work immediately draws the viewer in with a glowing f...

Ta Da, acrylic on canvas painting by Ben Darby. The painting has a raised texture, as though molded striped textile. A unique miniature of Darby's imaginarium.

"Atlas Dips His Toes In the Sky" depicts the energy of a city that sits in a valley. As with most of Todd Carpenter's paintings, this scene is of no particular place, but rather his...

William C. Grauer’s acrylic on panel from the 1960s, about 38.5 by 28.5 inches, is one of those paintings that feels familiar and unsettling at the same time. It shows a building faç...

This is a one of a kind original abstract seascape painting by southern California artist Paul Hobson. It is 8.75" x 12" x 1". It is already framed. A cert...

Welcome to the fantastic world created by Ben Darby. Darby enjoys using mix-media to no end and his colorful paintings are certain to peek the imagination. These small iridescent paintings...

Todd Carpenter As a painter, I examine how the depiction of light contributes to our experience of paintings. The portrayal of light helps a painting to convey the atmosphere and mood of a scene, and is much of what enables a painting to convey depth and realism. Our perception of lighting features occurs largely through pathways in the brain that carry only black and white information, pathways which are distinct from areas that encode the colors and details we use to delineate specific objects. By painting in grayscale, I try to interact specifically with this region of our visual system, with the hope of conveying some of the spaciousness and emotional significance that light can imbue on scenes. Light, whether as the crisp contrast of a back-lit forest or the gray haze of an industrial landscape, is what defines a scene. Its power to communicate the feel of a place is the principle subject of my paintings. The Blue...

Welcome to the fantastic world created by Ben Darby. Darby enjoys using mix-media to no end and his colorful paintings are certain to peek the imagination. These small iridescent paintings...

This is a one of a kind original mixed media (Acrylic, handmade Japanese paper, ink, plexiglass) abstract composition by California artist and educator, Kathleen Kane-Murrell, titled...

This is a one of a kind original abstract painting on wood panel by Southern California artist, Daniel Ketelhut. Its dimensions are 14"x 18"x1". It is unframed. A certificate of auth...

A large abstract about the interaction of warm and neutral colors and touches of gold. Decorative, soft and serene, suitable for any interior. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece c...

This is a one of a kind original mixed media (Acrylic, plaster, plexiglass) abstract composition by California artist and educator, Kathleen Kane-Murrell, titled, "Poppy". Its dimens...

This is a one of a kind original geometric abstract acrylic painting on canvas by San Diego artist, Viktoria Romanova. Its dimensions are 9"x12"x1.5". It is unframed. A Certificate o...

This is a one of a kind original mixed media diptych (Antique silk paper, wool fiber, dye, paint plexiglass) painting and collage depicting beautiful monarch butterflies against abst...

This is a one of a kind original mixed media (Paper, paint, plexiglass) abstract composition by California artist and educator, Kathleen Kane-Murrell, titled, "Flanders". Its dimensi...

This is a one of a kind original oil and resin painting by San Diego artist, Julia San Roman. Its dimensions are 10"x10"x1.5". It is unframed. A certificate of authenticity will foll...

This is a one of a kind original mixed media (Acrylic paint, Japanese paper, plexiglass) painting depicting beautiful red leaves against abstract background by California artist and ...

This is a one of a kind original mixed media (Antique silk paper, dye, paint, plexiglass) abstract painting depicting beautiful monarch butterflies against a blue cloudy sky by Calif...

This is a one of a kind original mixed media (Acrylic, antique silk paper, Japanese paper, plexiglass) painting depicting beautiful gold leaf against abstract background by Californi...

This is a one of a kind original mixed media (Acrylic paint and plexiglass) abstract painting depicting beautiful vibrant blue composition by California artist and educator, Kathleen...

This is a one of a kind original mixed media (Molded paper, acrylic, plexiglass) abstract composition by California artist and educator, Kathleen Kane-Murrell , titled, "Alchemy". It...

This is a one of a kind original mixed media (Variety of papers and fibers, detritus, acrylic, plexiglass) abstract painting and drawing by California artist and educator, Kathleen K...

This is a one of a kind original mixed media (Acrylic, fiber, paper, paint with plexiglass) abstract painting depicting beautiful blue dress by California artist and educator, Kathle...

This is a one of a kind original mixed media (Sari silk, antique silk paper, dye, acrylic, plexiglass) abstract composition by California artist and educator, Kathleen Kane-Murrell, ...

This is a one of a kind original mixed media (Acrylic paint and plexiglass) painting depicting beautiful gold leaves against green abstract background by California artist and educat...

This is a one of a kind original mixed media (Antique silk paper, wool fiber, dye, paint plexiglass) abstract painting depicting beautiful monarch butterflies by California artist an...

This is a one of a kind original mixed media (Antique silk paper, dye, ink, paint, plexiglass) abstract painting by California artist and educator, Kathleen Kane-Murrell, titled, "Sa...

This is a one of a kind original mixed media (Ink, paper, plexiglass) abstract work depicting beautiful gold leaves against a vibrant blue background by California artist and educato...

This is a one-of-a-kind original cubist painting by San Diego artist, Alexander Arshansky. Its dimensions are 20"x24"x1.5". It is unframed. A Certificate of Authenticity will follow ...