2025
Milly Ristvedt, RCA, began her career in Toronto in 1964, after studies with Takao Tanabe at the Vancouver School of Art.
In Toronto, during the 1960s and 1970s, Ristvedt was making and exhibiting large-scale paintings alongside a small but defined group of non-figurative painters who, like Ristvedt, had planted roots in modernism. These roots continue to run deep for Ristvedt, who completed her MA in Art History at Queen's University in 2011 with a thesis that explored color in the grid of contemporary painting.
Ristvedt's paintings are part of private and public collections, including the Art Gallery of Ontario, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Vancouver Art Gallery. She has had over 50 solo exhibitions. In 2012, Ristvedt received the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal for her service as an advocate for artists.
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Life Itself #2 - modern, contemporary, abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This is one of a series of colourful abstract expression paintings by Milly Ristvedt. For more than six decades, Milly Ristvedt has explored the power of colour as a visual language...
Canvas, Acrylic
Life Itself #5 - modern, contemporary, abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This is one of a series of colourful abstract expression paintings by Milly Ristvedt. For more than six decades, Milly Ristvedt has explored the power of colour as a visual language...
Canvas, Acrylic
Life Itself #4 - modern, contemporary, abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This is one of a series of colourful abstract expression paintings by Milly Ristvedt. For more than six decades, Milly Ristvedt has explored the power of colour as a visual language...
Canvas, Acrylic
Ambient - tall, narrow, dark, bold strokes of colour, abstract acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Brushed passages and swipes of sharp yellow, sunset orange, kelly green and sky blue, move in a ballet of color through the soaked charcoal ground of this towering acrylic painting b...
Canvas, Acrylic
The Dilemma - modern, contemporary, abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This modern abstract painting is by Milly Ristvedt. For sixty years Canada’s Milly Ristvedt has been on an artistic journey that has explored the visual language of color and abstra...
Canvas, Acrylic
Time and Motion - rich, dark, colourful, geometric abstract acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Milly Ristvedt continues her exciting exploration of colour and form in this stunning new work. Hard-edged geometric shapes—rectangles and squares almost appear to be dancing around the canvas. The colour palette is bright—yellows, red, blues, purples which play off the darker, fluid burgundy/black backdrop. Art Critic Barry Lord (Art in America) declared that Ristvedt’s paintings were ‘more insistent than Bush, more consciously structured than Molinari.’ “Colour has been central to my explorations in painting from the beginning.” Milly Ristvedt Born in British Columbia, Ristvedt studied at the Vancouver School of Art (now the Emily Carr University) and had her first solo exhibit at the Carmen Lamanna Gallery in Toronto. In the late 1960s, Ristvedt shared a studio with famed Canadian painter Jack Bush, met art critic Clement Greenberg and was inspired by American painters Jules Olitiski...
Canvas, Acrylic
No. 351, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Rokas Berziunas
Located in Yardley, PA
The artwork can be viewed horizontally of vertically. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang...
Acrylic
#1599 (Abstract painting)
By Arvid Boecker
Located in London, GB
#1599 (Abstract painting) Oil on Canvas Boecker begins each new work by penciling in his composition. But the work ultimately is about the colors and layers that will evolve on the...
Canvas, Oil
#1599 (Abstract painting)
By Arvid Boecker
Located in London, GB
#1599 (Abstract painting) Oil on Canvas Boecker begins each new work by penciling in his composition. But the work ultimately is about the colors and layers that will evolve on the...
Canvas, Oil
Presence, Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting on Canvas by Gustavo Schmidt
By Gustavo Schmidt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Gustavo Schmidt Title: Presence Year: 2016 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and titled verso Size: 34 x 26 inches
Canvas, Oil
Contemporary New Abstract Artwork Dark Colors Artist Christina Gschwantner
By Christina Gschwantner
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
In her work, artist Christina Gschwantner combines contrasting art movements such as Art Informel and Minimal Art. She succeeds in depicting and...
Raw Linen, Oil, Acrylic
Deep as the Night, an oil painting by John Von Wicht
By John von Wicht
Located in Hudson, NY
This work is one of a group of over 100 works personally selected by the artist, and gifted to a close personal friend in 1969. Exhibited: 1967 National Academy Annual Exhibition -...
Canvas, Oil
