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Item Ships From: Washington
Blue Mystery, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By John Barney
Located in Yardley, PA
This one is part of my "Mystery" series - this woman embodies the power of being female without being in your face - she has strength and mystery, yet leaves you perplexed about wher...
Category
2010s Abstract Washington - Art
Materials
Oil
Seattle Storm
By Megan Frazer
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
This painting is dominated by a sky filled with variegated and undulating storm clouds broken by the light of an unseen sun. The hillside below is scattered with typical Seattle dwellings whose lighted windows suggest residents within taking shelter from the storm...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Washington - Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
Light it Up, Drawing, Pen
Ink on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Ink Wash painting on Illustration Board. My work is more about emotion than it is the actual subject. :: Drawing :: Realism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of aut...
Category
2010s Realist Washington - Art
Materials
Pen
Mitosis 5 Dark Red
Yellow Large Abstract Nature Bio Exploration Acrylic Print
By Costas Picadas
Located in Brooklyn, NY
*Scientists at Mount Sinai are working to identify and block COVID-19 while many are still at risk from the disease. We (the artist and gallery) will be donating 30% of all income from this work to Mount Sinai to support their efforts saving lives…
Picadas creates photographs and video installations of places, situations and architecture that not only reveal their inner essence but also hint at dark unknown recesses. By partially stripping away the surface features of an image, the artist unearths visions that give rise to both a secret countenance and a psychic inner landscape. The artist explains, “In my photographs I examine and reveal the ways in which one can freeze both space and time by re-contextualizing different parts of reality and recombining them in new ways. The result is that both objects, and even situations, can be transformed into a kind of sculpture, providing us access to new knowledge about the nature of our reality.” The current works on view include photographs from Costas Picadas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Washington - Art
Materials
Color
Transition_A2 - Elements Connection
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under museum acrylic.
Dimensions: 48 x 48 in.
Depth: 1/4 in.
Edition of 5
Montreal-based artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux has been creating virtual wor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Washington - Art
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Nucleus 2
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Medium: Archival pigment print under museum acrylic glass.
Dimensions: 48 x 48 in.
Depth: 1/4 in.
Signed by the artist.
Edition of 5.
Paul-Émile Rioux is a Montreal-based artist a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Washington - Art
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Mitosis 2 Pink
Black Extra Large Abstract Nature Bio Exploration Acrylic Print
By Costas Picadas
Located in Brooklyn, NY
*Scientists at Mount Sinai are working to identify and block COVID-19 while many are still at risk from the disease. We (the artist and gallery) will be donating 30% of all income fr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Washington - Art
Materials
Color
Mitosis 2 Pink
Black Giant Abstract Nature Bio Exploration Acrylic Print
By Costas Picadas
Located in Brooklyn, NY
*Scientists at Mount Sinai are working to identify and block COVID-19 while many are still at risk from the disease. We (the artist and gallery) will be donating 30% of all income from this work to Mount Sinai to support their efforts saving lives…
Picadas creates photographs and video installations of places, situations and architecture that not only reveal their inner essence but also hint at dark unknown recesses. By partially stripping away the surface features of an image, the artist unearths visions that give rise to both a secret countenance and a psychic inner landscape. The artist explains, “In my photographs I examine and reveal the ways in which one can freeze both space and time by re-contextualizing different parts of reality and recombining them in new ways. The result is that both objects, and even situations, can be transformed into a kind of sculpture, providing us access to new knowledge about the nature of our reality.” The current works on view include photographs from Costas Picadas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Washington - Art
Materials
Color
Mitosis 3 Yellow Black Large Abstract Nature Bio Exploration Acrylic Print
By Costas Picadas
Located in Brooklyn, NY
*Scientists at Mount Sinai are working to identify and block COVID-19 while many are still at risk from the disease. We (the artist and gallery) will be donating 30% of all income from this work to Mount Sinai to support their efforts saving lives…
Picadas creates photographs and video installations of places, situations and architecture that not only reveal their inner essence but also hint at dark unknown recesses. By partially stripping away the surface features of an image, the artist unearths visions that give rise to both a secret countenance and a psychic inner landscape. The artist explains, “In my photographs I examine and reveal the ways in which one can freeze both space and time by re-contextualizing different parts of reality and recombining them in new ways. The result is that both objects, and even situations, can be transformed into a kind of sculpture, providing us access to new knowledge about the nature of our reality.” The current works on view include photographs from Costas Picadas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Washington - Art
Materials
Color
Transition_A1 - Elements Connection
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under museum acrylic.
Dimensions: 48 x 48 in.
Depth: 1/4 in.
Edition of 5
Montreal-based artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux has been creating virtual wor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Washington - Art
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Expansion 2 Blue
Orange Giant Love of Life Bio Exploration Acrylic Print
By Costas Picadas
Located in Brooklyn, NY
*Scientists at Mount Sinai are working to identify and block COVID-19 while many are still at risk from the disease. We (the artist and gallery) will be donating 30% of all income fr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Washington - Art
Materials
Color
Expansion 2 Blue
Orange Extra Large Love of Life Bio Exploration Acrylic Print
By Costas Picadas
Located in Brooklyn, NY
*Scientists at Mount Sinai are working to identify and block COVID-19 while many are still at risk from the disease. We (the artist and gallery) will be donating 30% of all income from this work to Mount Sinai to support their efforts saving lives…
Picadas creates photographs and video installations of places, situations and architecture that not only reveal their inner essence but also hint at dark unknown recesses. By partially stripping away the surface features of an image, the artist unearths visions that give rise to both a secret countenance and a psychic inner landscape. The artist explains, “In my photographs I examine and reveal the ways in which one can freeze both space and time by re-contextualizing different parts of reality and recombining them in new ways. The result is that both objects, and even situations, can be transformed into a kind of sculpture, providing us access to new knowledge about the nature of our reality.” The current works on view include photographs from Costas Picadas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Washington - Art
Materials
Color
Triptych Geon
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass.
Three prints 3 x 48x48" (each)
Height: 48 in
Width: 48 in
Depth: 1/8 in
Signed & Numbered by the artist
Edition of 3
Total: 156 in ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Washington - Art
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Watching, Original Contemporary Surrealist Gouache Painting on Wood Panel
By Megan Frazer
Located in Boston, MA
Watching, Original Contemporary Surrealist Painting, 2014
11.25" x 18" x 1.625" (HxWxD) Gouache on Wood Panel
This surreal gouache painting features a woman laying on top of her bed...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Washington - Art
Materials
Gouache, Wood Panel
Blue, Gold, Black Rio De Colores
, Original Abstract Painting, 2021
By Robert Schoenfeld
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
I enjoy creating dramatic feelings with my art - Feelings such as Joy, Power, Up-Liftment, and Serenity.
Keywords: Abstract, minimalist,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Washington - Art
Materials
Acrylic
Black Unicorn
By Mark Wilson
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The artist constructs his spirit animal through mixed media.
48" x 60"
Spray Paint, Oil, Construction Paper, Acrylic, Pastel, Marker
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Washington - Art
Materials
Charcoal, Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Twilight Magnolias
By Megan Frazer
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Magnolia blossoms and branches recede into a twilight sky gradient from deep blue to pale green.
Words that describe this piece: flowers, magnolias, nature, twil...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Washington - Art
Materials
Acrylic
Counter, Original Contemporary Surrealist Gouache Painting on Wood Panel
By Megan Frazer
Located in Boston, MA
Counter, Original Contemporary Conceptual Surrealist Painting, 2014
18" x 11.25" x 1.625" (HxWxD) Gouache on Wood Panel
A confusing and seemingly impossible juxtaposition of subject matter, this conceptual work features her signature muted color scheme, incredible use of texture, and an intensely surrealist composition. The work is slightly reminiscent of the surreal painting *The Persistence of Memory...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Washington - Art
Materials
Gouache, Wood Panel
Bowie circa 1971
By Megan Frazer
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
When we lost the iconic David Bowie this past year I was reminded of how much his music and life meant to me, especially as a young adult. Upon experimentation wi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Washington - Art
Materials
Ink
Dark Fall
By Megan Frazer
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Bare branches carve through and explode against the gradient sky behind while complimentary colors accentuate the vibrancy of the natu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Washington - Art
Materials
Canvas, India Ink, Acrylic
Preserving, Original Signed Contemporary Surrealist Gouache Painting on Panel
By Megan Frazer
Located in Boston, MA
Preserving, Original Contemporary Surrealist Painting, 2012
18" x 11.25" x 1.625" (HxWxD) Gouache on Wood Panel
Hand-signed by the artist.
This muted, dream-like surrealist painting by artist Megan Frazer features a small, pale girl sitting upon an oversized hand that is jutting out from the gray Earth. The child is licking a large red lollipop, staring out at the viewer, as she sits below a night sky that glows from the light of the full moon.
Artist Commentary:
Surrealistic image of a young girl with a lollipop conveyed above the night sea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Washington - Art
Materials
Gouache, Wood Panel
Love, Original Contemporary Surrealist Gouache Painting on Wood Panel
By Megan Frazer
Located in Boston, MA
Love, Original Contemporary Surrealist Painting
18" x 11.25" x 1.625" (HxWxD) Gouache on Wood Panel
A conceptual surrealist painting by artist Megan Frazer, this composition feature...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Washington - Art
Materials
Gouache, Wood Panel
Found It, Original Signed Contemporary Satirical Surrealist Painting on Panel
By Megan Frazer
Located in Boston, MA
Found It, Original Signed Contemporary Satirical Surrealist Painting, 2014
18" x 11" x 1.625" Gouache on Wood Panel
Hand-signed by the artist.
When socks go missing, this disarticulated human arm can find them! In this dream-like surrealistic painting by artist Megan Frazer a laundry basket full of blue, red, and yellow clothing...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Washington - Art
Materials
Gouache, Wood Panel
Turquoise Mosaic - Underwater World in Nuances of Blue - Abstract Seascapes
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Archival pigment print under 1 inch acrylic glass.
Fifteen prints, 15 x 15x15" (each)
Depth: 1 in.
Space in between each panel: 1.5 inch
Total dimensions: 48 x 81 in.
Signed & Num...
Category
2010s Contemporary Washington - Art
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
GEON Sphere_11aa0
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Medium: Archival pigment print under acrylic glass.
Dimensions: 48 x 48 in.
Depth: 1/4 in.
Signed by the artist.
Edition of 5.
Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Mo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Washington - Art
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
GEON Klush_1
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Medium: Archival pigment print under museum acrylic glass.
Dimensions: 48 x 48 in.
Depth: 1/4 in.
Signed by the artist.
Edition of 5.
Paul-Émile Rioux is a Montreal-based artist a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Washington - Art
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Revival Panorama XII
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass.
Dimensions: 24 x 72 in.
Depth: 1/4 in.
Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada.
His lifelong interest in cutti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Washington - Art
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Clouds 8
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass.
Dimensions: 48 x 48 in.
Depth: 1/4 in.
Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada.
His lifelong interest in cutting-edge media technology as well as his expertise in photography cast him as pioneer in digital art and allow him to develop virtual matrix from which he extracts his images.
In his works he explores a universe that lies at the crossroad of abstraction and the figurative, inviting the viewer to determine if what he sees is a reflection of reality or imagination.
Through is truly unique approach RIOUX is one of the most innovative artists in digital creations and one of the few creative minds able to blend with such keenness aesthetics research and critical distance.
Whether they translate into a Dantesque urbanity or the infinite horizon of a turquoise ocean, the urban territory reflected by his creations offers a dystopian view of the world, challenging our attitude towards the environment and the future.
From the onset, RIOUX has no intention of matching IRL expectations of what digital art 'should' look like, but strives to play with our notions of what's real, what's not, how we remember, and how we infer meaning into imaginary visual constructs.
---
RIOUX started the Cloud project in 2022.
Paul-Emile Rioux’s series Cloud, like his other work, is a kind of aesthetic thought experiment. Each square image is bisected symmetrically, or nearly symmetrically, by a tidy horizon. The upper half display forms that appear as clouds, the bottom as an underwater seascape, yet at the same time mimics the cloudlike formations of above.
Formally these works reference hard-edged abstraction, minimalism and abstract expressionism, though juxtaposed with a sort of Instagram lifestyle sensibility. When shown as a gridded series, they recall the Instagram account @insta_repeat which curates gridded typologies of nearly identical influencer photos – for instance sunsets on a beach, or campfires with hiking boot clad feet visible in the foreground, transforming images, which individually are meant to signify the good life, into symbols of stifling homogeneity, cynically trying to capitalize on mass-produced sensations.
Unlike past movements in abstract or minimal art, however, Rioux is not striving to create self-contained objects, but windows into deeper currents that churn in the dark spaces where culture, technology and the subconscious flow together. Rioux’s digital works are not specifically images, but notes, ways of thinking. They connect to a larger discourse.
With Clouds, Rioux thinks aloud about what is hidden and what is revealed in our relationships to technology and nature. It is a meditation on “the cloud,” which, like real clouds, seem immaterial, but in fact are physical and have a material impact on the world. Rioux considers the juxtaposition between weight and weightlessness – the apparent weightlessness of virtual reality, against the mass, the inescapability of the material world. Technology promises a world of lightness, connectivity and the bounty of limitless growth, or if it cannot quite muster that illusion, at least the offer of escape into a simulated universe of carnivalesque distraction shepherding us away from the environmental catastrophe our economic system inflicts on the earth. In this series Rioux asks us to reflect on what the clouds hide.
There are 18 pieces in the Cloud collection.
Each archival pigment print is produced under the supervision of the artist.
The print is mounted under a single piece of 1/4"/ 6 mm gallery museum acrylic...
Category
2010s Contemporary Washington - Art
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Nucleus
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Medium: Archival pigment print under museum acrylic glass.
Dimensions: 18 x 15 x 15 in. each
Depth: 1 in.
Space in between each panel: 1.5 in.
Total dimensions: 48 x 97.5 in.
Ar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Washington - Art
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Clouds
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass.
Dimensions: 48 x 48 in.
Depth: 1/4 in.
Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada.
His lifelong interest in cutting-edge media technology as well as his expertise in photography cast him as pioneer in digital art and allow him to develop virtual matrix from which he extracts his images.
In his works he explores a universe that lies at the crossroad of abstraction and the figurative, inviting the viewer to determine if what he sees is a reflection of reality or imagination.
Through is truly unique approach RIOUX is one of the most innovative artists in digital creations and one of the few creative minds able to blend with such keenness aesthetics research and critical distance.
Whether they translate into a Dantesque urbanity or the infinite horizon of a turquoise ocean, the urban territory reflected by his creations offers a dystopian view of the world, challenging our attitude towards the environment and the future.
From the onset, RIOUX has no intention of matching IRL expectations of what digital art 'should' look like, but strives to play with our notions of what's real, what's not, how we remember, and how we infer meaning into imaginary visual constructs.
---
RIOUX started the Cloud project in 2022.
Paul-Emile Rioux’s series Cloud, like his other work, is a kind of aesthetic thought experiment. Each square image is bisected symmetrically, or nearly symmetrically, by a tidy horizon. The upper half display forms that appear as clouds, the bottom as an underwater seascape, yet at the same time mimics the cloudlike formations of above.
Formally these works reference hard-edged abstraction, minimalism and abstract expressionism, though juxtaposed with a sort of Instagram lifestyle sensibility. When shown as a gridded series, they recall the Instagram account @insta_repeat which curates gridded typologies of nearly identical influencer photos – for instance sunsets on a beach, or campfires with hiking boot clad feet visible in the foreground, transforming images, which individually are meant to signify the good life, into symbols of stifling homogeneity, cynically trying to capitalize on mass-produced sensations.
Unlike past movements in abstract or minimal art, however, Rioux is not striving to create self-contained objects, but windows into deeper currents that churn in the dark spaces where culture, technology and the subconscious flow together. Rioux’s digital works are not specifically images, but notes, ways of thinking. They connect to a larger discourse.
With Clouds, Rioux thinks aloud about what is hidden and what is revealed in our relationships to technology and nature. It is a meditation on “the cloud,” which, like real clouds, seem immaterial, but in fact are physical and have a material impact on the world. Rioux considers the juxtaposition between weight and weightlessness – the apparent weightlessness of virtual reality, against the mass, the inescapability of the material world. Technology promises a world of lightness, connectivity and the bounty of limitless growth, or if it cannot quite muster that illusion, at least the offer of escape into a simulated universe of carnivalesque distraction shepherding us away from the environmental catastrophe our economic system inflicts on the earth. In this series Rioux asks us to reflect on what the clouds hide.
There are 18 pieces in the Cloud collection.
Each archival pigment print is produced under the supervision of the artist.
The print is mounted under a single piece of 1/4"/ 6 mm gallery...
Category
2010s Contemporary Washington - Art
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
$13,800
River
s Bend, Mixed Media on Other
By Tiffani Buteau
Located in Yardley, PA
"River's Bend" is a captivating addition to Tiffani's evocative series, "Flowing Forms: The Erosive Dance of Water." In this piece, Tiffani sculpts by hand the intricate dance of ero...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Washington - Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Triptych Turquoise - Underwater World in Nuances of Blue - Abstract Seascapes
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass.
Three prints, 3 x 48x48" (each)
Signed & Numbered by the artist
Edition of 3
Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, C...
Category
2010s Contemporary Washington - Art
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Cloud Diptych Masterprint + NFT
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Masterprint with NFT and Certificate of Authenticity
Archival photo print under acrylic glass.
Edition of 3 Masterprint + NFT
Dimensions: 2x 60x40 in.
Depth: 1/8 in.
About the Mas...
Category
2010s Contemporary Washington - Art
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Turquoise Cars
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass.
Dimensions: 24 x 72 in.
Depth: 1/4 in.
Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada.
His lifelong interest in cutti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Washington - Art
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Renaissance - Revival 4
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass.
Dimensions: 48 x 48 in.
Depth: 1/4 in.
Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada.
His lifelong interest in cutti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Washington - Art
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Revival Panorama VIII
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass.
Dimensions: 24 x 72 in.
Depth: 1/4 in.
Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada.
His lifelong interest in cutti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Washington - Art
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Clouds 18
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass.
Dimensions: 48 x 48 in.
Depth: 1/4 in.
Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada.
His lifelong interest in cutti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Washington - Art
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Renaissance - Revival 5
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass.
Dimensions: 48 x 48 in.
Depth: 1/4 in.
Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada.
His lifelong interest in cutti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Washington - Art
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Remains, Painting, Acrylic on Wood Panel
By Newel Hunter
Located in Yardley, PA
In creating this piece, I was drawn to the raw emotions that shadows and light evoke against the backdrop of our own fragility and strength. The amalgamation of acrylic and plaster a...
Category
2010s Abstract Washington - Art
Materials
Acrylic
Clouds 12
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass.
Dimensions: 48 x 48 in.
Depth: 1/4 in.
Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada.
His lifelong interest in cutti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Washington - Art
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
I just don
t understand
Located in Kingston, WA
This painting was much simpler originally but I was never satisfied with it so I reworked it considerably. Adding an element of history or memory made more sense to the title which I...
Category
2010s Surrealist Washington - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Renaissance - Revival 13
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass.
Dimensions: 48 x 48 in.
Depth: 1/4 in.
Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada.
His lifelong interest in cutti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Washington - Art
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Clouds 9
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass.
Dimensions: 48 x 48 in.
Depth: 1/4 in.
Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada.
His lifelong interest in cutting-edge media technology as well as his expertise in photography cast him as pioneer in digital art and allow him to develop virtual matrix from which he extracts his images.
In his works he explores a universe that lies at the crossroad of abstraction and the figurative, inviting the viewer to determine if what he sees is a reflection of reality or imagination.
Through is truly unique approach RIOUX is one of the most innovative artists in digital creations and one of the few creative minds able to blend with such keenness aesthetics research and critical distance.
Whether they translate into a Dantesque urbanity or the infinite horizon of a turquoise ocean, the urban territory reflected by his creations offers a dystopian view of the world, challenging our attitude towards the environment and the future.
From the onset, RIOUX has no intention of matching IRL expectations of what digital art 'should' look like, but strives to play with our notions of what's real, what's not, how we remember, and how we infer meaning into imaginary visual constructs.
---
RIOUX started the Cloud project in 2022.
Paul-Emile Rioux’s series Cloud, like his other work, is a kind of aesthetic thought experiment. Each square image is bisected symmetrically, or nearly symmetrically, by a tidy horizon. The upper half display forms that appear as clouds, the bottom as an underwater seascape, yet at the same time mimics the cloudlike formations of above.
Formally these works reference hard-edged abstraction, minimalism and abstract expressionism, though juxtaposed with a sort of Instagram lifestyle sensibility. When shown as a gridded series, they recall the Instagram account @insta_repeat which curates gridded typologies of nearly identical influencer photos – for instance sunsets on a beach, or campfires with hiking boot clad feet visible in the foreground, transforming images, which individually are meant to signify the good life, into symbols of stifling homogeneity, cynically trying to capitalize on mass-produced sensations.
Unlike past movements in abstract or minimal art, however, Rioux is not striving to create self-contained objects, but windows into deeper currents that churn in the dark spaces where culture, technology and the subconscious flow together. Rioux’s digital works are not specifically images, but notes, ways of thinking. They connect to a larger discourse.
With Clouds, Rioux thinks aloud about what is hidden and what is revealed in our relationships to technology and nature. It is a meditation on “the cloud,” which, like real clouds, seem immaterial, but in fact are physical and have a material impact on the world. Rioux considers the juxtaposition between weight and weightlessness – the apparent weightlessness of virtual reality, against the mass, the inescapability of the material world. Technology promises a world of lightness, connectivity and the bounty of limitless growth, or if it cannot quite muster that illusion, at least the offer of escape into a simulated universe of carnivalesque distraction shepherding us away from the environmental catastrophe our economic system inflicts on the earth. In this series Rioux asks us to reflect on what the clouds hide.
There are 18 pieces in the Cloud collection.
Each archival pigment print is produced under the supervision of the artist.
The print is mounted under a single piece of 1/4"/ 6 mm gallery museum acrylic...
Category
2010s Contemporary Washington - Art
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Revival Mosaic
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass.
Dimensions: 18x 15 x 15 in.
Depth: 1 in.
Space in between each panel: 1.5 in.
Total dimensions: 48 x 97.5 in.
Artist and photographer Pau...
Category
2010s Contemporary Washington - Art
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Renaissance - Revival 18
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass.
Dimensions: 48 x 48 in.
Depth: 1/4 in.
Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada.
His lifelong interest in cutting-edge media technology as well as his expertise in photography cast him as pioneer in digital art and allow him to develop virtual matrix from which he extracts his images.
In his works he explores a universe that lies at the crossroad of abstraction and the figurative, inviting the viewer to determine if what he sees is a reflection of reality or imagination.
Through is truly unique approach RIOUX is one of the most innovative artists in digital creations and one of the few creative minds able to blend with such keenness aesthetics research and critical distance.
Whether they translate into a Dantesque urbanity or the infinite horizon of a turquoise ocean, the urban territory reflected by his creations offers a dystopian view of the world, challenging our attitude towards the environment and the future.
From the onset, RIOUX has no intention of matching IRL expectations of what digital art 'should' look like, but strives to play with our notions of what's real, what's not, how we remember, and how we infer meaning into imaginary visual constructs.
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RIOUX started the Renaissance project in 2016.
Renaissance further develops themes explored by RIOUX in his earlier series Turquoise Default. It is not merely a progression however, but also a contrast. This new series poses questions about hope, which is perhaps now more relevant than ever.
“Renaissance invokes in us a sense of uncertainty and a self-awareness of our limits, of an infinity made apparent by the horizon line, the vanishing point, the moment in any spatial or temporal projection beyond which we can no longer see, but from which, nonetheless, we know the universe carries on. At the same time it poses a choice to us: do we accept the openness of abstraction or do we insist on imposing a (false) certainty of representation in what we see in these images. Hope is a faith made possible by uncertainty and the unknown, by an understanding that history and the future are creative acts, works of art in which we all participate.” Neal Rockwell
There are 18 pieces in the RENAISSANCE collection.
Each archival pigment print is produced under the supervision of the artist.
The print is mounted under a single piece of 1/4"/ 6 mm gallery...
Category
2010s Contemporary Washington - Art
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Clouds 16
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass.
Dimensions: 48 x 48 in.
Depth: 1/4 in.
Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada.
His lifelong interest in cutti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Washington - Art
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Renaissance - Revival 12
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass.
Dimensions: 48 x 48 in.
Depth: 1/4 in.
Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada.
His lifelong interest in cutti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Washington - Art
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Renaissance - Revival 15
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass.
Dimensions: 48 x 48 in.
Depth: 1/4 in.
Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada.
His lifelong interest in cutting-edge media technology as well as his expertise in photography cast him as pioneer in digital art and allow him to develop virtual matrix from which he extracts his images.
In his works he explores a universe that lies at the crossroad of abstraction and the figurative, inviting the viewer to determine if what he sees is a reflection of reality or imagination.
Through is truly unique approach RIOUX is one of the most innovative artists in digital creations and one of the few creative minds able to blend with such keenness aesthetics research and critical distance.
Whether they translate into a Dantesque urbanity or the infinite horizon of a turquoise ocean, the urban territory reflected by his creations offers a dystopian view of the world, challenging our attitude towards the environment and the future.
From the onset, RIOUX has no intention of matching IRL expectations of what digital art 'should' look like, but strives to play with our notions of what's real, what's not, how we remember, and how we infer meaning into imaginary visual constructs.
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RIOUX started the Renaissance project in 2016.
Renaissance further develops themes explored by RIOUX in his earlier series Turquoise Default. It is not merely a progression however, but also a contrast. This new series poses questions about hope, which is perhaps now more relevant than ever.
“Renaissance invokes in us a sense of uncertainty and a self-awareness of our limits, of an infinity made apparent by the horizon line, the vanishing point, the moment in any spatial or temporal projection beyond which we can no longer see, but from which, nonetheless, we know the universe carries on. At the same time it poses a choice to us: do we accept the openness of abstraction or do we insist on imposing a (false) certainty of representation in what we see in these images. Hope is a faith made possible by uncertainty and the unknown, by an understanding that history and the future are creative acts, works of art in which we all participate.” Neal Rockwell
There are 18 pieces in the RENAISSANCE collection.
Each archival pigment print is produced under the supervision of the artist.
The print is mounted under a single piece of 1/4"/ 6 mm gallery...
Category
2010s Contemporary Washington - Art
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
JELLYFISH NEBULA, Mixed Media on Wood Panel
By Tiffani Buteau
Located in Yardley, PA
Tiffani created the JELLYFISH NEBULA as a way to capture the spirit of exploration and adventure of the unexplored depths that the ocean and space offer. Every nebula she creates is ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Washington - Art
Materials
Mixed Media
ZEALLA NEBULA, Mixed Media on Wood Panel
By Tiffani Buteau
Located in Yardley, PA
Peer through an aperture of space and time out from nebulaic layers to the vastness of space. Tiffani created the ZEALLA NEBULA in the spirit of wondrous space exploration unfolding ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Washington - Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Renaissance - Revival 6
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass.
Dimensions: 48 x 48 in.
Depth: 1/4 in.
Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada.
His lifelong interest in cutti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Washington - Art
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Clouds 5
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass.
Dimensions: 48 x 48 in.
Depth: 1/4 in.
Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada.
His lifelong interest in cutti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Washington - Art
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Renaissance - Revival 1
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass.
Dimensions: 48 x 48 in.
Depth: 1/4 in.
Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada.
His lifelong interest in cutti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Washington - Art
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Inside a Cloud IV, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Sheryl Westergreen
Located in Yardley, PA
Soft palette depicting abstraction of a cloud filled sky. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to H...
Category
2010s Abstract Washington - Art
Materials
Oil
Melancholy Winter - Flurry, Painting, Acrylic on MDF Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
The series Melancholy Winter reflects the connection of cool, grey tones of winter weather in the Pacific Northwest and its effect on seasonal depression. These works are a release o...
Category
2010s Abstract Washington - Art
Materials
Acrylic
Crossing Over, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Newel Hunter
Located in Yardley, PA
As an eclectic artist with wide-ranging interests, approaches, techniques and tools, Hunter's work can be a challenge to classify. "Crossing Over" is highly gestural. Colorful. Te...
Category
2010s Abstract Washington - Art
Materials
Acrylic
Starting Over, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Newel Hunter
Located in Yardley, PA
"Starting Over" is a perfect example of Hunter's highly fluid, expressionistic style -- which so often results in arresting images with a sense of depth and sculptural form. Black a...
Category
2010s Abstract Washington - Art
Materials
Acrylic
Shuffle, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Newel Hunter
Located in Yardley, PA
"Shuffle" is a perfect example of Hunter's commitment to the black and white form and heavy, expressionistic style. Black and white. Minimalist. Open to interpretation. Edge painted,...
Category
2010s Abstract Washington - Art
Materials
Acrylic
Night Shift, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Newel Hunter
Located in Yardley, PA
"Night Shift" is painted with acrylic on a 24 x 24 x 1.5 inch gallery-wrapped canvas, edge painted black, ready to hang. This expressive and colorful image is a reflection of Hunt...
Category
2010s Abstract Washington - Art
Materials
Acrylic
Ascent, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Newel Hunter
Located in Yardley, PA
"Ascent" is a perfect example of Hunter's highly fluid, expressionistic style -- which so often results in arresting images with a sense of depth and sculptural form. Black and white...
Category
2010s Abstract Washington - Art
Materials
Acrylic
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