Daniela Nikolova

"Horse Galloping in Shallow Water" Equine Painting

Artist: Daniela Nikolova Medium: Oil and Sand on Canvas Size: 31.5" x 23.6"

Linda St. Clair (1952 - 2018) Title: "Dawn Breaker" Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 20" x 16" Markings: Signed LR "St. Clair" Framing: Framing Options Available

A woman reclines in a disheveled bedroom, the folds in her sweatshirt are delicately rendered by the texture of the paint. She stares at the window, where a black cat stands on the sill, looking back at her. The open window reveals a hint of a snowy cityscape. --- Building on her previous show, Main Squeeze, which featured bodies pressing through the grid of lawn chairs, in “That Feeling When,” Aldrich expands the excess of materials to large figure paintings and small, overfilled sculptures. Aldrich uses thick materials that protrude from the surface, reminding the viewer that the paintings are not only physical objects in themselves, but also create the illusion of the picture. The work employs a risky excess of material that borders on uncontrollable; becoming metaphoric for barely controlled femininity, the attraction and repulsion of materialism, and the body pressing against constraints. The figures in the paintings are seen from behind or have turned away. The viewer is put in a place of questioning whether they are a voyeur or a co-viewer with the figure of something deeper in the picture plane. The full body paintings of young women based on Nancy Drew...

A stunning large scale painting by Svetlana Shalygina. It includes her signature crackle texture merged with a striking profile of an elephant. The scale and color palette make this...