Contemporary Paintings
CONTEMPORARY STYLE
Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.
Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.
The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.
Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.
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Style: Contemporary
Artist: Anastasia Pelias
Rosy
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Automatics (ruby)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Why so many complications (flows off in time like poetry)
Located in New Orleans, LA
ANASTASIA PELIAS was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Crayon, Oil
Did she love him and take her hair down at night
Located in New Orleans, LA
ANASTASIA PELIAS was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Crayon, Oil
Washed (purple, violet)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Automatics (between the moment 1 and 2)
Located in New Orleans, LA
diptych, 36 x 26 inches each
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
because i love you
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: china marker on Arches paper
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her nativ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
La Fonda (magenta, brown pink)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Automatic Metal (red)
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: oil stick and acrylic on aluminum
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her na...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Metal
The Christmas Painting
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Linked (red and grey)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (Georgia I)
Located in New Orleans, LA
In her studio practice, Pelias embraces a process that is both intuitive and deliberate. Her work moves from paintings on canvas and works on paper to site-specific installations, ob...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Ink
Circe
Located in New Orleans, LA
[New Orleans, LA ::: b.1959 New Orleans, LA]
ANASTASIA PELIAS was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Crayon, Oil
Emerald City (1, 2, 3)
Located in New Orleans, LA
[New Orleans, LA ::: b.1959 New Orleans, LA]
BIO
ANASTASIA PELIAS was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of bo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Patti
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: oil stick on arches paper
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon
Go-Round
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Automatics (it)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Big Link (blue, white, black)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
My Mississippi (carmine alizarin, brilliant scarlet)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Do (what you do)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Automatic Metal (yellow, blue)
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: oil stick and acrylic on aluminum
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her na...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Metal
Automatic Metal (blue)
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: oil stick and acrylic on aluminum
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her na...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Metal
Washed (blue, turquoise)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Automatics (zero)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Kim & Kelley (The Breeders)
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: oil stick on arches paper
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
The End
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Automatics (eat me up)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Washed (red oxide, magenta)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Loulouthia (lemon yellow, golden green)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Embodied XVII
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pelias expounds on her new works . . .
In this group of oil paintings on canvas, I am inspired and informed by my personal history and collective lived experience, as well as the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Sumi Ink
Embodied XIV
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pelias expounds on her new works . . .
In this group of oil paintings on canvas, I am inspired and informed by my personal history and collective lived experience, as well as the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Sumi Ink
Embodied XII
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pelias expounds on her new works . . .
In this group of oil paintings on canvas, I am inspired and informed by my personal history and collective lived experience, as well as the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Sumi Ink
Embodied XI
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pelias expounds on her new works . . .
In this group of oil paintings on canvas, I am inspired and informed by my personal history and collective lived experience, as well as the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Sumi Ink
Embodied IX
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pelias expounds on her new works . . .
In this group of oil paintings on canvas, I am inspired and informed by my personal history and collective lived experience, as well as the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Sumi Ink
Embodied V
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pelias expounds on her new works . . .
In this group of oil paintings on canvas, I am inspired and informed by my personal history and collective lived experience, as well as the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Sumi Ink
Embodied IV
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pelias expounds on her new works . . .
In this group of oil paintings on canvas, I am inspired and informed by my personal history and collective lived experience, as well as the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Sumi Ink
Embodied III
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pelias expounds on her new works . . .
In this group of oil paintings on canvas, I am inspired and informed by my personal history and collective lived experience, as well as the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Sumi Ink
Embodied I
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pelias expounds on her new works . . .
In this group of oil paintings on canvas, I am inspired and informed by my personal history and collective lived experience, as well as the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Sumi Ink
Sleeping Beauty, Beauty Sleeping
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to a Greek immigrant mother and a first generation Greek-American father. She received her BFA from the Newcomb College of Tulane Univers...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
7 (Entanglement)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to a Greek immigrant mother and a first generation Greek-American father. She received her BFA from the Newcomb College of Tulane University in 1981, and her MFA from the University of New Orleans in 1996. Pelias has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions at galleries and museums nationwide, and has been featured in publications including Hyperallergic, New American Paintings, Artnet news, ArtDaily, Forbes, Pelican Bomb and New Orleans Art Review. Her work appears in the permanent collections at the New Orleans Museum of Art; the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans; the Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama; Newcomb Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Paper, Oil Crayon
4 (Fine Me)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to a Greek immigrant mother and a first generation Greek-American father. She received her BFA from the Newcomb College of Tulane University in 1981, and her MFA from the University of New Orleans in 1996. Pelias has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions at galleries and museums nationwide, and has been featured in publications including Hyperallergic, New American Paintings, Artnet news, ArtDaily, Forbes, Pelican Bomb and New Orleans Art Review. Her work appears in the permanent collections at the New Orleans Museum of Art; the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans; the Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama; Newcomb Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Paper, Oil Crayon
3 (After Darkness)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to a Greek immigrant mother and a first generation Greek-American father. She received her BFA from the Newcomb College of Tulane University in 1981, and her MFA from the University of New Orleans in 1996. Pelias has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions at galleries and museums nationwide, and has been featured in publications including Hyperallergic, New American Paintings, Artnet news, ArtDaily, Forbes, Pelican Bomb and New Orleans Art Review. Her work appears in the permanent collections at the New Orleans Museum of Art; the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans; the Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama; Newcomb Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Paper, Oil Crayon
1 (Lux et Nox)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to a Greek immigrant mother and a first generation Greek-American father. She received her BFA from the Newcomb College of Tulane University in 1981, and her MFA from the University of New Orleans in 1996. Pelias has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions at galleries and museums nationwide, and has been featured in publications including Hyperallergic, New American Paintings, Artnet news, ArtDaily, Forbes, Pelican Bomb and New Orleans Art Review. Her work appears in the permanent collections at the New Orleans Museum of Art; the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans; the Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama; Newcomb Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon, Gesso, Paper
White Group 3
Located in New Orleans, LA
In her studio practice, Pelias embraces a process that is both intuitive and deliberate. Her work moves from paintings on canvas and works on paper to site-specific installations, ob...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Three Sisters and a Brother (Georgia)
Located in New Orleans, LA
[New Orleans, LA ::: b.1959 New Orleans, LA]
ANASTASIA PELIAS was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Crayon, Oil
Three Sisters and a Brother (Michael)
Located in New Orleans, LA
[New Orleans, LA ::: b.1959 New Orleans, LA]
ANASTASIA PELIAS was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Crayon, Oil
Artemis
Located in New Orleans, LA
[New Orleans, LA ::: b.1959 New Orleans, LA]
ANASTASIA PELIAS was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Crayon, Oil
Automatic (pink, silver, gold, green)
Located in New Orleans, LA
ANASTASIA PELIAS was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Paper, Oil Crayon
Untitled (Georgia II)
Located in New Orleans, LA
ANASTASIA PELIAS was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel, Ink, Mixed Media
Untitled (Georgia III)
Located in New Orleans, LA
ANASTASIA PELIAS was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Ink, Mixed Media
Automatic Metal (yellow, red)
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: oil stick and acrylic on aluminum
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her na...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Metal
Automatic Metal (big blue)
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: oil stick and acrylic on aluminum
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her na...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Metal
So Blue, too
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Forever and Ever
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Remnant
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
So Blue
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Painting in Captivity
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Patsy
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: oil stick on arches paper
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
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