Jean-Marc Boissy

High Pyramidal Towers with Red Stairs and Orange Clouds on Blue Sky Oil Painting

This artwork features what look like pools, and even pools within pools, on top of which are strange red and yellow constructions with arks and pillars, and green windows. This piec...

This artwork depicts a large terrace construction. Each terrace floor is white-blue, and walls are brown with orange arched windows, as if lit from inside. The "city" is empty from...

This artwork is another meticulous painting of a gigantic Kasbah-like city. Paradoxically, although Jean-Marc Boissy paintings feature overcrowded worlds, the viewer is not distracte...

This semi-abstract artwork depicts a Provence landscape with white trees and black cypresses, and a hot red atmosphere. This piece is not framed. Marcel Demagny...

Contemporary surrealist landscape painting by Texas artist Henry David Potwin. The work features a desolate, dystopian landscape built out of scrape industrial equipment. Signed in f...

Liz Dexheimer’s abstract landscapes reveal her fascination with the illusory and transcendent qualities of light and atmosphere. Both serve as a source of inspiration for her work. She is interested in conveying a sense of place that goes beyond any particular location. In her recent paintings, she has been focusing also on the intangibility of the ethereal, the feeling of limitlessness and forever in the far view. She de-constructs found man-made imagery as a point of departure, re-interpreting it to suggest natural light, reflection, what lies beyond. She has always translated everything into a more reductive state, regardless of her source of inspiration, eliminating anecdotal markers, distilling information to try to get at the essence, the idea of it She is drawn to water imagery...

"By using references to navigational coastal profiling and by borrowing and subverting compositional structures of the 19th century American landscape painters I examine how modern l...

"By using references to navigational coastal profiling and by borrowing and subverting compositional structures of the 19th century American landscape painters I examine how modern landscapes came to be spatially constructed. Through a combination of on-site field studies and larger studio pieces I make bodies of work that reflect the individual characteristics of a specific place while retaining a critical awareness of the landscape genre. This practice, while fully absorbed into the cliché of modern landscape painting, is not innocuous. It is rooted in a history of globalism and environmental dominance. Through my work I explore this spatial language at times allowing individual works to teeter into abstraction. The works in Rise look specifically at how we will navigate and view a rapidly changing physical world." Albuquerque artist Beau Carey...