2019
Barbara Marks is a multidisciplinary artist based in Connecticut. She uses color to create space. "A child of the 60s, I fell into graphic design and established my studio specializing in book design. In 2001, I left that behind to study painting at Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts (BFA 2005) and Brooklyn College CUNY (MFA 2008). I’ve been awarded artist residencies in Italy, France, and across the United States and have shown my work throughout the Northeast," she says. Marks has been a resident artist at the Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center, for the Creative Arts, Fowler Dune Shack (Cape Cod), Martignano International Residency for Artists (Martignano, Italy), Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts (Wyoming), Jentel Foundation (Wyoming), Los Angeles Summer Residency at the Otis College of Art and Design (California), The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences (Georgia), The Research Studio at Art & History Museums — Maitland (Florida), Monson Arts (Maine) and Moulin à Nef (Auvillar, France). Marks has twice been a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome. Her works have been shown at the Cape Cod Museum of Art (Massachusetts); the Providence Art Club (Rhode Island); the Painting Center, First Street Gallery and Atlantic Gallery (New York City); the Ground Floor Gallery (Brooklyn); Drawing Rooms (New Jersey); the New Britain Museum of American Art, DaSilva Gallery, Silvermine Arts Center, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, Whitney Center, Serendipity Gallery, The Loft Gallery, Five Points Gallery and The Chase Family Gallery (Connecticut); the McLanahan Gallery at Penn State Altoona (Pennsylvania); The Affordable Art Fair (New York City) and the Artist-Run at The Satellite Show (Miami). Marks is an artist member of The Painting Center (New York); the Artists Collective of Westport (Connecticut) and a Guild Artist at Silvermine Arts Center (Connecticut). Her paperwork is represented in the flat file at the Artspace New Haven. Marks is a Trustee of the Vermont Studio Center and a former board member of the Artspace in New Haven, Connecticut. She divides her time between Connecticut and New York City.
Recollection 145 (Montauk), abstract, bright, geometric, pattern, landscape
By Barbara Marks
Located in New York, NY
Based in the New Haven, CT area, Barbara Marks creates sumptuous, multicolored paintings. Her canvases are small in scale, compared to the mid-century abstractionist traditions they ...
Gesso, Gouache, Panel, Graphite
Recollection 142 (Montauk), dark colors, bright, landscape, abstract, texture
By Barbara Marks
Located in New York, NY
Based in the New Haven, CT area, Barbara Marks creates sumptuous, multicolored paintings. Her canvases are small in scale, compared to the mid-century abstractionist traditions they ...
Gesso, Gouache, Panel, Graphite
Recollection 68 (Stony Creek), pastel, abstract, mixed media, geometric
By Barbara Marks
Located in New York, NY
Based in the New Haven, CT area, Barbara Marks creates sumptuous, multicolored paintings. Her canvases are small in scale, compared to the mid-century abstractionist traditions they ...
Gesso, Gouache, Panel, Graphite
Recollection 52 (Mt.San Angelo), landscape, abstract, neutral, mixed media
By Barbara Marks
Located in New York, NY
Based in the New Haven, CT area, Barbara Marks creates sumptuous, multicolored paintings. Her canvases are small in scale, compared to the mid-century abstractionist traditions they ...
Gesso, Gouache, Panel, Graphite
Recollection 106 (Auvillar), green, bright, abstract, geometric
By Barbara Marks
Located in New York, NY
Based in the New Haven, CT area, Barbara Marks creates sumptuous, multicolored paintings. Her canvases are small in scale, compared to the mid-century abstractionist traditions they ...
Gesso, Gouache, Panel, Graphite
Recollection 44 (Mt. San Angelo), pink and brown abstract landscape painting
By Barbara Marks
Located in New York, NY
Based in the New Haven, CT area, Barbara Marks creates sumptuous, multicolored paintings. Her canvases are small in scale, compared to the mid-century abstractionist traditions they ...
Gesso, Gouache, Panel, Graphite
581, Contemporary Abstract Painting, Bright Statement Art, Geometric Painting
By Jessie Woodward
Located in Deddington, GB
Original abstract painting Discover new works by Jessie Woodward available to buy online and in our art gallery. Jessie Woodward is an abstract painter and mixed media artist. She ha...
Canvas, Acrylic, Oil Pastel, Pen
"Dream Abstraction #38" - abstract painting - colorful work on paper
By Eilis Crean
Located in Atlanta, GA
This work on paper is a colorful abstract featuring hues of yellow, blue, purple, and orange. It is framed without glass in a natural wood frame measuring 27 by 34 inches. The artwork and mat are coated and varnished. Eilis Crean is inspired by the works of Honoré-Victorin Daumier, Evie Hone...
Acrylic, Archival Paper
403 Shapes Near Mars, Painting, Acrylic on Wood Panel
By Anne B Schwartz
Located in Yardley, PA
These paintings on cradled wood panels all have a spontaneous, uninhibited quality. There is plenty of unusual color combinations, interesting shapes, and lots of texture. The painti...
Acrylic
Instead (Colorful Gestural Geometric Abstract Painting on Panel)
By Anne Francey
Located in Hudson, NY
Colorful abstract painting with geometric details in bright hues of blue, red, green, and yellow, against a black background "Instead", painted by Anne Francey in 2017 Mixed media on Masonite 10 x 10 x 2 inches, sides reveal raw wood Excellent condition, signed verso Ready to hang Anne Francey has been working with subject matter inspired by nature for most of her artistic career. Since the pandemic, this focus has become ever more apparent as her new acrylic paintings on paper demonstrate her intuitive process of reinterpreting literal subjects like leaves, flowers, birds, or bugs into vibrant worlds of layered color. She begins by drawing from life but then allows fluctuating colors, traces of the hand, and evidence of the physical medium to be introduced as the composition evolves and finds its final imprint on the surface. The spontaneity of her process welcomes the unknown, she explains: “The things that moved me first…might have become by now just a faint whispering. But I know that a story is being told, even if I don’t understand yet all the words.” About the artist: Anne Francey was born in 1956 in Grandson, Switzerland. She attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne (ECBA) from 1976 to 1981, where she received a diploma of Fine Arts in painting. In 1981, she moved to New York where she attended the School of Visual Arts and the graduate program of Fine Arts at Hunter College. She graduated in 1987 with a Master of Fine Arts (MFA). EDUCATION 1983-1987 Hunter College: Master of Fine Arts, New York EXHIBITIONS (Most recent) 2021 Le Comptoir des Motifs, Artefactory, Geneva, Switzerland, fabric design, group show 2018 Eric Laffer Gallery, Upstate Invitational, 3 person show, Schuylerville, NY The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Configurations, one person show, Troy, NY Carrie Haddad gallery, Ebb and Flow, Hudson, NY Saratoga Arts, Then and Now, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 2017 Byrdcliffe Kleinert/James Center, The Ritual of Construction, group show, Woodstock, NY Carrie Haddad gallery, Summer, group show Thompson Giroux gallery, En Masse, group show Eric Laffer gallery, Winter Show, Schuylerville, NY 2016 Saratoga Arts, 30th Anniversary Invitational, Saratoga Springs, NY Carrie Haddad Gallery, Summer Color, Hudson, NY Laffer Gallery, 5th Annual Juried Group Show, Schuylerville, NY 2015 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Paper, group show, Hudson, NY 2014 Luminarté, Contemporary Islamic Art, group show, Dallas, TX Spring Street Gallery, Where are you from? 3 persons show, Saratoga Spgs, NY Albany Institute of History and Art, Mohawk Hudson Regional, group show NY Albany International Airport, Natural Gestures, 3 persons show Albany, NY Laffer Gallery, Winter show, Schuylerville, NY COMMUNITY MURALS, GRANTS, RESIDENCIES, SYMPOSIUMS, 2021 Community Mural United Nations International school, NY “The Year that Zoomed by” 2020 Fulbright U.S. Scholar award 2020-2021 (travel postponed to 2021-2022) 2019 1001 Hands (“1001 Mains”) Concept, design and direction of a 150 sqft community ceramic mural with 600 participants, Ibn Rachiq Art Center,Tunis, Tunisia. Funded through the US Embassy and the Swiss Embassy in Tunis. Colors of the City, Wall Ceramic and Architecture in Tunis, International symposium, Tunis/Tunisia 1997- 2018 Artist in residence at various schools for the creation of community murals 2018 Bir-el Bey...
Masonite, Mixed Media
"House by the Sea" - Colorful Non-Objective Painting - Sonia Delaunay
By Laura Dargan
Located in Atlanta, GA
"House by the Sea" is an abstract painting featuring hues of blue, orange and cream. Laura Dargan is inspired by the work of Adolph Gottlieb, Sonia D...
Canvas, Acrylic
Quietude - Colorful Minimalist Landscape Line Painting
By Michele Krauss
Located in Boston, MA
Quietude 40.0 x 40.0 x 1.5, 10.0 lbs Oil on canvas Hand signed by artist Artist's Commentary: "In this piece, I've experimented with the textural qualities of oil and sand to construct a symphony of layered landscapes. The geometric and semi-abstract shapes engage in a symbolic dance, evoking a sense of tranquility. Like gentle whispers of color extending across a peaceful canvas, it embodies a tribute to serene contemplation. It will infuse any setting with a tranquil, reflective ambiance, encouraging viewers to pause and seek harmony." About the Artist: Chilean- American artist, Michele Krauss...
Oil
