Tri-State Area - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

CURIOUS PHENOMENA is an original oil pastel drawing on brown paper grocery bag by the self taught African American artist Reginald K. Gee, born April 28, 1964, in Milwaukee, Wisconsi...

Anne-Charlotte Saliba's artistic universe is largely inspired by nature, its abyssal dimension as well as its vegetal or mineral forms. Her sculpted artworks are a confrontation of smooth and grainy texture on the same linear paper. A cloud of small perforations, incisions, and punches which play on the elasticity of the paper, to create a topographic relief. A controlled wandering of dotted lines, scales and bumps are drawn following the movement of her hand on the paper. The flow is both free and thoughtfully planned, allowing unexpected movements and completely abandoning set patterns at times. Saliba sees herself more like an artisan than an artist in the sense that she is working with texture and touch to create unique intricate sculpted artworks. Playing with light and shadow, each in her own way ennobles a seemingly banal material with a genuine concern for ethics. Like modern-day memento mori, Saliba’s works transport us into dreamlike worlds in which the evanescence of paper echoes the transience of life, subtly reminding us to enjoy the present moment. Anne-Charlotte Saliba works and lives near Lyon, France. Her work has reviewed in numerous publications and has won the prestigious price for Jeune Creation de Métiers d’Art in 2020. She is now represented by the Muriel Guépin Gallery...

Finesse and delicacy are what characterize best Antonin Anzil’s artistic practice. Paper as a medium seems incompatible with the idea of engraving or sculpturing; and yet. Using a sh...

Dana Piazza's creates abstract black and white and colorful drawings, full of the illusion of depth, movement, and three-dimensionality. His highly obsessive ink drawings on paper ar...

Dana Piazza's creates abstract black and white drawings, full of the illusion of depth, movement, and three-dimensionality. His highly obsessive ink drawings on paper are built upon ...

Frank Roth, American (1936 - ) - Untitled IV, Year: 1960, Medium: Graphite and Ink on Paper, signed, dated and dedicated in pen, Image Size: 8 x 9.5 inches, Size: 11.25 x 11 in. (28...

Souleymane Keita - Rainbow Field, Year: 1983, Medium: Pastel on Paper, signed and dated lower left, Size: 22.25 x 30 in. (56.52 x 76.2 cm), Descript...

Anna Kruhelska is a visual artist and architect working across fields of art and design. She creates abstract, three-dimensional paper wall reliefs that...

Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993) Title: Impossible Series (Niagara Falls) Year: 1990 Medium: Graphite on Arches paper Size: 50.25 x 35.5 inches Inscription: Signed, dated by the ar...

Simon Samsonian (1912 - 2003) Colorful Geometric Abstraction, 1981 Oil on paper 16 x 22 inches Signed and dated lower right Provenance: Estate of the artist This survivor of the Armenian genocide wound up in a Cairo orphanage in 1927. He rose to fame as one of Egypt’s great modernists, but after moving to Long Island late in life he withdrew into anonymity. Now his compelling story is being told. Art historians are finally beginning to realize that the power of abstraction in its early years was a zeitgeist not limited to the major European centers of the avant-garde — Paris, Munich, and Moscow — but one that quickly rippled to major cities throughout the world. Within a few decades that original shock of a new vision had inspired thousands of artists from different cultures — particularly those the Middle East — whose translations were not slavish imitations of works by seminal figures like Picasso, Braque, Malevich, and Kandinsky but creative variants colored by their respective cultures. This essay focuses on an extraordinary Armenian artist, his harrowing survival of the genocide, his rise to fame in Cairo, and his creation of a unique style of abstraction. Art historians have typically formed a chorus that teaches the history of abstraction like this: Just before and during the World War I era, several avant-garde artists emerged to create shockingly different new forms by which artists could express themselves. In Paris, Picasso and Braque broke out with cubism, quickly followed by Mondrian. In Moscow, Malevich created Suprematism, the ultimate hard-edge geometric abstraction. And in Munich, Kandinsky emerged as the father of Abstract Expressionism. Within these few short years a zeitgeist was sensed throughout the art world. American pioneers, too — particularly Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Morgan Russell — felt this explosive freedom of expression. When Europe was recovering after World War I it became clear that Paris would retain its title as capitol of the art world, lasting through the Roaring Twenties and even through the Great Depression. But the end of World War II changed everything. A parallel war had been won by a group of irascible young Abstract Expressionists in New York — led by Pollock, Rothko, DeKooning, and Kline. No sooner had Paris been liberated from the Germans than Picasso, Matisse, Breton, and Duchamp surrendered to the Americans. From that point on New York would be the epicenter of the art world. But a lens that focuses myopically on the war between the avant-garde of Paris and New York misses the wider narrative of multiple aesthetic modernities that developed in the several decades following World War I. For Armenian artists the matter is even more complex owing to the genocide of 1915 where more than 1.5 million people — seventy-five percent of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire — were massacred. Those not shot on the spot were sent on death marches through the Mesopotamian desert without food or water. Frequently, the marchers were stripped and forced to walk naked under the scorching sun until they dropped dead. As a child Samsonian witnessed the murder of his parents and most of the members of his family. Soon thereafter, his older sister, Anahid, quickly shepherded him into a line of children being rescued by Greek nuns. But they became separated and he lost her, too. He was sent to a Greek orphanage in Smyrna (now Izmir), on Turkey’s west coast. Because he only knew his first name, the orphanage gave him a last name based on the place where they found him — Samsun — a major port on Turkey’s north coast on the Black Sea. His birth date was unknown, too. According to Samsonian’s vague recollections he assumed he was about three or four years old at the onset of the genocide, which would place his birth year in 1911 or 1912. In 1922, when Samsonian was about 10, the Turks ended their war with the Greeks by putting Smyrna to the torch in what has been called the “Catastrophe of Smyrna.” Once again, the child was on the run, escaping the fire and slaughter. He found temporary refuge in Constantinople, but within a year that major port would fall to the Turks, too, and become renamed as Istanbul. This time, Samsonian was whisked away to an orphanage in Greece founded by the American charity, Near East Relief — which is credited with saving so many Armenian orphans that the American historian Howard M. Sachar said it “quite literally kept an entire nation alive. Any understanding of Samsonian’s approach to modernism requires careful consideration of the impact of his early years because his art is inseparable from the anguish he experienced. In 1927, when he was a teenager, he was transferred to Cairo, Egypt, then a cosmopolitan city hosting a sizable portion of the Armenian diaspora. There he lived with thirty-two other children on the top floor of the Kalousdian Armenian School. Upon graduating in 1932 he won a scholarship to attend the Leonardo da Vinci Art Institute — an Italian art school in Cairo — where he won first prize in final examinations among one hundred students. He found work with an Armenian lithographic printer and he returned to the Kalousdian Armenian School to teach drawing. In 1939 he married one of his students, Lucy Guendimian. The Cairo in which Samsonian matured as an artist was home to many prominent art collectors after World War I. In this receptive environment Samsonian exhibited widely and won many awards. Beginning in 1937 and for the next thirty years he exhibited annually at the prestigious Le Salon du Caire hosted by the Société les Amis de l’Art (founded in 1921). After World War II he hit his stride as a modernist in Cairo, counting among his peers other artists of the Armenian diaspora such as Onnig Avedissian, Achod Zorian, Gregoire Meguerdichian, Hagop Hagopian...

Untitled exemplifies Rooskens’ work from the period following 1965, a time when the artist continued to explore fantastical beings, mask- and shield-like imagery, firmly rooted in hi...

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: View on Cherry Hill, Barbados Year: 1971 Medium: Pencil on heavy archival paper Size: 29 x 41 inches Condition: Good ...

Robert Andrew Parker, American (1927 - 2024) - Mechanical Bull, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, signed lower left, Size: 16 x 17.75 in. (40.64 x 45.09 cm), Frame Size: 21.25 x 21.25 i...

Liane Ricci was born in Sleepy Hollow, NY in 1970, and has studied at the Art Students League, the School of Visual Arts and the Fashion Institute of Technology, and at the Hartford ...

Domenick Capobianco (American, b. 1928), Group of 18 Preliminary Drawings, Mixed Media on Paper, one titled "The Great Gambini", signed lower right, each with artist's studio stamp t...

Robert Indiana Envelope Scribbles , 1975 Dated upper right Ink on paper 4 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches Provenance Gifted by the artist, Vinalhaven, Maine Private collection, Maine. Private Co...

"#227 – I WAS AFRAID" is from Amy Williams' series A Farewell to Arms – wherein the artist works directly onto pages of a found copy of Ernest Hemingway's WWII romance novel. The art...

I make exploratory paintings, working in direct response to my immediate environment. My approach involves moment-to-moment extrapolation governed by intuitive leaps of scale, color,...

"Participatory Universe" is a dynamic 11 x 15-inch (framed 16.5 x 20.5) work on paper by Amy Cheng, rendered in gouache and oil marker. Known for her intricate layering and rhythmic ...

abstract geometric black and white ink drawing on mylar framed in white frame For over twenty years now Patrick Carrara has lived in Brooklyn, where he has maintained a studio and s...

Dana Piazza's creates abstract black and white and colorful drawings, full of the illusion of depth, movement, and three-dimensionality. His highly obsessive ink drawings on paper ar...

Ink on paper, Acrylic and / or watercolor, signed in the front, framed in a aluminum silver frame, glass. Philip Wittmann work is based on signs. Sign...

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: (Abstract Landscape with Trees) Untitled Year: 2001 Medium: Ink on archival paper Size: 11 x 14 inches Condition: Good Provenance: Estate of Ian...

Peter Pinchbeck, English (1931 - 2000) - Green and White Squares, Year: 1982, Medium: Gouache on Paper, signed and dated in pencil on verso, Size: 22.25 x 30 in. (56.52 x 76.2 cm)

Peter Pinchbeck, English (1931 - 2000) - Yellow, Red and Purple Square, Year: 1981, Medium: Gouache on Fabriano Cotton Paper, signed, and dated in pencil, Image Size: 18 x 25.5 inc...

Nathalie Palomino is a French self-taught artist practicing pyrography on paper. Her perpetual quest for light and transparency in her works pushes her to multiply the perforations o...

Watercolor and gouache on paper Signed, titled, and dated in pencil, verso This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. Willy Bo Richardson received an MFA in pai...

Finesse and delicacy are what characterize best Antonin Anzil’s artistic practice. Paper as a medium seems incompatible with the idea of engraving or sculpturing; and yet. Using a sh...

Finesse and delicacy are what characterize best Antonin Anzil’s artistic practice. Paper as a medium seems incompatible with the idea of engraving or sculpturing; and yet. Using a sh...

Maeve D'Arcy Bells and Whistles, 2024 ink and colored pencil on paper 22 x 30 in. (dar148)

Maeve D'Arcy Birthday Season, 2024 ink and colored pencil on paper 22 x 30 in. (dar149)

James Minden potential Holographic drawing- Hand incised plastic and acrylic on panel 24 x 24 inches 2017 To get a sense of the holographic effect look at the video on that vimeo's ...

This Op Art piece by Mary Judge artist uses a technique known as stippling to create several concentric rings made of tiny individual dots. The work ...

Finesse and delicateness are what best characterize Antonin Anzil’s artistic practice. Using a sharp tool to carefully pull the fiber of the paper from the front, the artist gives bi...

Sandy Litchfield brings her magical abstracted landscapes to a new medium in her recent colored pencil drawings. Loose, delicate lines scramble over one another, bringing a diffuse, ...

Shlomo Koren, German/Israeli (1932 - ) - Untitled - Lie Detector Test, Year: 1970, Medium: Ink and Collage on Paper, Size: 23 x 29 in. (58.42 x 73.66 cm)

Robert Beauchamp, American (1923 - 1995) - Untitled, Year: c. 1979, Medium: Mixed Media on Paper mounted on board, signed l.r., Size: 35.5 in. x 80 in. (90.17 cm x 203.2 cm), Fram...

Sandy Litchfield found peace and inspiration in regular solitary walks through nature throughout the pandemic. Her most recent body of work diaristically documents her constitutional...

The latest watercolors from Ray Kass strike a balance between audacity and contemplation. Drawing from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition of the Tsakli - sets of miniature...

Betty Parsons Untitled, 1977 Signed and dated lower right Gouache on paper 5 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches Renowned as an esteemed and legendary art dealer who for more than three decades was...

Watercolor and gouache on paper Signed, titled, and dated in pencil, verso This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. Willy Bo Richardson received an MFA in pai...

Finesse and delicacy are what characterize best Antonin Anzil’s artistic practice. Paper as a medium seems incompatible with the idea of engraving or sculpturing; and yet. Using a sh...

Several bold streaks of ink rush across the page as if dripping off the wings of a bird in flight. This unique watercolor by Geri Taper is signed and titled by the artist. Soaring S...

This unique abstract watercolor on paper is titled "Performers" by artist Geri Taper on the verso. The piece is also signed on the recto. Performers Geri Taper, American (1929–2004)...

Bridge (Abstract painting) Acrylic and Ink on Arches Paper — Unframed. Laura Newman's paintings combine geometric delineations of space, ephemeral color fields, dynamic lines and or...

Ink, Pencil and watercolor, signed and dated l.l. Size: 16 x 12 in. Frame Size: 30 x 25 in.

Andrei Petrov is an American Artist of Russian origins. His paintings are the expression of his lifelong struggle to retain memories of his childhood and life. He writes: "As a chi...

Dana Piazza's creates abstract black and white drawings, full of the illusion of depth, movement, and three-dimensionality. His highl...

Andrei Petrov's Fashionably Late is 9 x 13.5 inches watercolor on paper. The main colors are green, and purple. As it is often the case in Petrov's work, his abstractions acquire, at...

Andrei Petrov is an American Artist of Russian origins. His paintings are the expression of his lifelong struggle to retain memories of his childhood and life. He writes: "As a chil...

DAVID BRODY Untitled (F221, G3), 2000 16.8 x 21.75 inches; framed in off white wood frame 20.1 x 25.1 inches graphite and colored pencil on isometric graph paper pencil signed and da...

"Red Flow II" is a dramatic and contemporary abstract painting by French artist Emma Godebska. It is created using Acrylic and pigments on lacquered Capoverde canvas. Discover the ...

abstract geometric black and white ink drawing on mylar framed in white frame For over twenty years now Patrick Carrara has lived in Brooklyn, where he has maintained a studio and s...

This collotype featured in the pamphlet available at Galerie de Art Misrachi for an exhibition of works by Vlady. This specific example also bears a drawing by the artist in pen on t...

A city rendered almost entirely in red, with the water streaked across its surface separating out values of blue and purple. This unique watercolor is signed by the artist. Cityscap...

Alice Baber Across the Wide, Tokyo, 1964 Signed, titled, and dated on the reverse Watercolor and leaf collage on paperboard 10 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches Alice Baber once famously describe...

Anne Youkeles' work blurs the line between painting and sculpture. Her works on paper, like this one, are made with several folded pieces of paper, cut, colored, and placed together ...

Watercolor on wove paper. Signed and dated in ink, lower right recto.

Artist: Osvald Timmas, Canadian (1915 - 2005) Title: Mussel Meadow Year: 1971 Medium: Watercolor on paper, signed and dated lower right Size: 19 x 12.5 in. (48.26 x 31.75 cm)