Jessie Woodward

#554, Original painting, Abstract, Colourful, Shapes, Pattern, Contemporary, Fun

2021

Mary Chaplin, Bouquet in a yellow vase. My studio is surrounded by a garden where I grow flowers. I like bringing them into the house and making bouquets, they bring happiness… And s...

Mary Chaplin The Aria of Summer Original Still Life Painting Acrylic on Canvas Canvas Size: H 100cm x W 100cm x D 2cm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu images are purely an indic...

Maggie LaPorte Banks. Summertime in Devon [2021] original Acrylic on canvas, collage and spray paint. Image size: H:75 cm x W:101 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:75 cm x W:101 ...

In Bloom by Maria Pierides [2019] Original Acrylic and oil stick on canvas Image size: H:100 cm x W:100 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:100 cm x W:...

"Falling Sunset Horizons" is an abstract expressionist painting of falling flowers onto a colorful plane of yellow, pink, and green, Darius Yektai was born in Southampton NY, in 197...

This bright and extraordinary painting has an immediate appeal with a thrilling a dance of organic forms and geometric shapes that are elegantly dispersed on the top part of the pain...

Mat Tomezko's latest series of mixed media paintings uses evocative materials and imagery of fire, flowers, food, newspapers, asphalt, and ash to illuminate the interconnectedness of destructive and creative forces. "Real Fire" depicts flames and fire above a segment of abstract forms in spray paint recalling street art and graffiti tags. This painting is signed and dated on the back. It includes all hanging hardware and is ready to install -- no need for additional framing. Tomezsko is an artist from Philadelphia who creates abstract paintings, public art installations, and community art projects based around participation and everyday visual language. His approach to composition is informed by mid-century formalism and conceptualism. His work was recognized by the 2017 Americans for the Arts Public Art Network Year in Review for outstanding public art. Tomezsko’s work has been exhibited at numerous art spaces regionally and nationally, including the Crane Arts, Woodmere Art Museum, the Center For Emerging Visual Artists (CFEVA), and Wexler Gallery in Philadelphia; Lillstreet Art Center in Chicago, IL; the Delaware Contemporary in Wilmington, DE; and Thomas Hunter Projects in New York, NY. He has created several notable public art projects including "14 Movements: A Symphony in Color and Words," a mile-long temporary mural installed in downtown Philadelphia during the 2016 Democratic National Convention; "Look Long and Look Good," a series of 30 paintings currently installed along Main Street in Manayunk; and "Flowering Axes," a mural in the 5th Street Vehicular Tunnel underneath the Ben Franklin Bridge. His work is in the collection of The Wharton...

"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...