2025
Alex Couwenberg is a Southern California abstract painter deeply influenced by the art and culture of his local community. Couwenberg’s thin line, patterns and choice of color are particularly inspired by surf and skateboard cultures, as well as the custom car and hot rod aesthetic elsewhere known as Finish Fetish. His artistic influences include the Light and Space Movement, as well as the work of Karl Benjamin, who was Couwenberg’s mentor. He is best known for combining hard-edge abstraction with gestural brushwork, layering, raw edges, and textured surfaces, thereby bringing depth and an expressionist touch to a tradition of painting known typically for its flatness. Couwenberg's paintings can be found in numerous public, private, corporate and museum collections, including the Getty Museum, throughout the United States, Europe and Asia.
Pusher
By Alex Couwenberg
Located in Santa Monica, CA
A graduate from Art Center College of Design and The Claremont Graduate School, Couwenberg worked under the guidance of Karl Benjamin, one of the leading figures in the Southern Cali...
Canvas, Acrylic
Ke Nui
By Alex Couwenberg
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Alex Couwenberg is a Southern California abstract painter deeply influenced by the art and culture of his local community. His artistic influences include the Light and Space Movemen...
Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Channel Zero
By Alex Couwenberg
Located in Santa Monica, CA
A graduate from Art Center College of Design and The Claremont Graduate School, Couwenberg worked under the guidance of Karl Benjamin, one of the leading figures in the Southern Cali...
Spray Paint, Acrylic
Blast
By Alex Couwenberg
Located in Santa Monica, CA
A graduate of The Art Center College of Design and The Claremont Graduate School, Couwenberg worked under the guidance of Karl Benjamin, one of the leading figures in the Southern Ca...
Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Riviera
By Alex Couwenberg
Located in Santa Monica, CA
A graduate from Art Center College of Design and The Claremont Graduate School, Couwenberg worked under the guidance of Karl Benjamin, one of the leading figures in the Southern Cali...
Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic
The Jinx
By Alex Couwenberg
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Alex Couwenberg is a Southern California abstract painter deeply influenced by the art and culture of his local community. His artistic influences include the Light and Space Movemen...
Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Anthony Falcetta "flimflam" 2025
By Anthony Falcetta
Located in New York, NY
Anthony Falcetta flimflam, 2025 acrylic, spray paint & gypsum compound on canvas 40 x 30 in. (fal020)
Spray Paint, Acrylic, Panel
Inside the Maze
By Patrick Schmidt
Located in New York, NY
Abstract painting with geometric lines and vibrant colors. On canvas. About the artist: Patrick’s work has been seen and collected all over the states and Europe. His most rece...
Canvas, Acrylic
Wherever We Wander
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Wherever We Wander by Itaewon is a layered abstract composition that explores movement, navigation, and the architecture of passage. Interlocking planes of translucent color slide ac...
Canvas, Acrylic
Contest 4
By Charles Miesmer
Located in Fairfield, CT
Miesmer began painting in the open air during the summers in Nantucket. Using a pad of Arches paper as an easel and working out of the back of his pickup truck, the quietude and pea...
Acrylic, Canvas
Untitled
By Sergio Nates
Located in San Francisco, CA
Sergio Nates Untitled, 2012 Acrylic on canvas 21.75 x 21.75 inches This one-of-a-kind acrylic painting on canvas is stretched across wooden stretcher bars.
Canvas, Acrylic
Jillidu
By Michael Kessler
Located in Three Oaks, MI
Michael Kessler makes nature-based paintings that merge geometric elements with biomorphism. He began his art career as a landscape painter. While an undergraduate at Kutztown University Kessler received a fellowship from the Whitney Museum of American Art to study and produce art in New York City at the Whitney Independent Study Program. Michael Kessler’s work explores the continuum between gesture and geometry. Each work consists of as many as 50 micro-thin layers of translucent and transparent acrylic. Biomorphic tendrils branch to and fro, while arcs of line and color slip over and under matrices, balancing nature’s sinuous curves with the mindfulness of structure. He likens the gestural freedom in his works to a kind of painterly “tai chi” – a...
Acrylic
