Dawn Arrowsmith Art

Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-) Title: "Aura VI" Series: Aura *Signed by Graves lower right. It is also signed, dated, and titled on verso Year: 2024 Medium: Original Acryl...

Geometric abstraction painting by Brazilian-born artist Elizabeth Freire. Painting is acrylic on canvas. Signed on reverse and titled "From the Center". B&W photo is of Ms. Freire with renowned sculptor Etienne Martin at the Ecole Nationals des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Elizabeth Freire is a Brazilian-born, contemporary American artist. At the age of eighteen, she left Rio de Janeiro and moved to Paris to study sculpture at l’Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, receiving her Diploma there in 1979 under the direction of Claude Viseux, Etienne Martin, and Cesar. During that time she worked as an apprentice at the Fonderie de France where she learned bronze technique and she also attended etching courses at l’Ecole de Montparnasse. In 1976, she won a commission to make three life-size figures representing the printing company, “Les Imprimeries de Boulogne,” at the International Printing Fair in Paris. She spent 1977 in Aix-en-Provence where she carved the local stone of Rogne. Returning to Paris, the painter Lutka Pink introduced her to Otero, Frans Krajcberg and Hajdu from whom she received valuable lessons. In 1978, she traveled to Brazil where she was invited to participate in the exhibit ‘A Century of Sculpture in Brazil’. She also met with the sculptor Sergio Camargo and the architect Oscar Niemeyer. She then traveled extensively throughout Europe and North Africa. In 1983, the sculptor Cardenaz advised her to go to Carrara in Italy to develop her carving skills. She spent the following two years at the Studio Nicoli where she met the sculptors Knutt Steen, Gigi Guadagnucci...

The present work of art titled "Urban Abstraction (ripped off posters)" is part of a series of paintings that the artist composed in the 1980s and 1990s inspired by the observation of the urban reality of those years. The artist take the cue from his walks in Florence, both in the center and in the suburbs, and by the observation of billboards and posters scattered throughout the city. The mass of information, colors, messages and words were carried on the canvas with acrylic colors, ideally reconstructing the tears and overlaps of all the information and advertising contained on these huge sheets of paper that invade our cities. The geometric lines are overlaid with jagged lines, overlaps and color dripping and also the choice in the color palette, with different shades of white, gray, rose, orange red and blue helps in rendering the result of the tears and ripped paper. The result is a beautiful multicolored modern abstract canvas, both aesthetically and ethically, with many rich layers of color, texture and expression in which the artist leaves his own message. The painting is housed in a simple modern white lacquer wood frame. Andrea Spinelli...

Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --Steven Kinder talks a lot about energy, form and movement and getting at the essence of something. Getting to the middle of it. He wa...

"Peace and Power" is an abstract geometric oil and acrylic painting on canvas by Loren Abbate. It is a horizontally oriented rectangular piece and measures 30 inches high by 40 inch...

Acrylic on canvas 48 x 36 in. This abstract acrylic on canvas painting by Italian American painter and Capital Strategist, Francesca Lorenzini, provides a visually complex and cereb...

In his artworks, the painter Philippe Saucourt seeks the harmony of opposites between movement and flatness, between transparency and opacity, between density and emptiness, and betw...

Blue Yonder is an original oil over acrylic on canvas painting by American artist Monroe Hodder. Hodder’s abstract paintings are gloriously bold. Inspired by the urban backdrops of h...

Carlos Puyol works from sketches before he turns to his large canvases. While he paints, he listens to jazz music. The music is not background noise, but acts as guide as he works; P...

In his artworks, the painter Philippe Saucourt seeks the harmony of opposites between movement and flatness, between transparency and opacity, betwee...

Carlos Puyol works from sketches before he turns to his large canvases. While he paints, he listens to jazz music. The music is not background noise, but acts as guide as he works; P...

Carlos Puyol works from sketches before he turns to his large canvases. While he paints, he listens to jazz music. The music is not background noise, but acts as guide as he works; P...