Jeffrey Kurland

"MAD ROSE", Acrylic on Canvas, Abstract, Red, Blue, Green & Orange

2019

The abstract painting "DARK MATTERS" by Jeffrey Kurland is an acrylic on canvas measuring 48" tall by 66" wide. DARK MATTERS is new work from the long hot summer of 2020. Often emplo...

The large abstract painting "THIN ICE" by Jeffrey Kurland is a diptych – acrylic paint on two canvases each measuring 48" tall by 52" wide – together measuring 96" tall by 52" wide. ...

"Strengths and Weaknesses" is a portrait exploring several elements and strategies that fascinate the artist – notably the performance anxiety induced by simply being an artist, staring down the freight train of art history as it hurtles toward you every time you pick up a brush. Luck? Talent? Maybe. There are signposts and guides in this painting, of course (Cubism! Surrealism! Brancusi! Guston!), but they can clobber you too if you're not careful. Even the phrase "strengths and weaknesses" smacks of compromises and rationalization – deadly to an artist looking to construct their own integral world. "Strengths and Weaknesses" is an acrylic and charcoal on canvas measuring 54" tall by 54" wide. It was included in the artist's solo show "Comedy Cellar" at Freight + Volume Gallery, New York City in July 2018. (See last photograph for an installation view.) From Daniel Gerwin – "Schenck’s color is vibrant, wild, saturated to the point of overheating, and altogether brilliant in the balancing of hues, temperatures, shapes, and color quantities. The paintings have a remarkable coherence for their dizzying juxtaposition of so many small chromatic passages." (Essay: The Anxiety and the Ecstasy) Peter Schenck...

The large abstract painting "BLACK MIRROR" by Jeffrey Kurland is an acrylic on canvas measuring 94" tall by 72" wide. BLACK MIRROR is new work from the long hot summer of 2020. Often...

Swiss-born artist Marco Schmidli creates minimalist paintings with a contemporary edge. Placing emphasis on process, he lets the mediums naturally manifest within his artwork. “An im...

This abstract painting from new Series “Geoforms” is inspired by minimalism, modern art and hard edge. Work is signed, dated and tilted by Artist on the back. Signed certificate of ...

"Homage to Kasimir Malevich" - Suprematist Abstract Geometric Composition Abstract composition with a red half circle by an unknown artist (20th Century) in the style of Kazimir Mal...

Carolanna Parlato is a contemporary artist who has exhibited widely in New York City and throughout the U.S. since the 1990s. Her paintings have been written about in numerous publications including The New York Times, Art in America, The Boston Globe, Artcritical, ArtNews, Two Coats of Paint, The New Criterion, White Hot Magazine and The Brooklyn Rail. Solo exhibitions include the Islip Art Museum; the Phatory (NYC); Elizabeth Harris Gallery (NYC); and Morgan Lehman Gallery (NYC). She has been included in group exhibitions at Asya Geisberg Gallery, The Drawing Center and the Brooklyn Museum, among others. Public collections include the Brooklyn Museum; ArtBank Collection (DC); The Library of Congress (DC); Public Art for Public Schools (NYC); the Francis Greenburger Collection (NYC); the Islip Art Museum, New York Presbyterian Hospital and the Art in Embassies...