2025
Exceptional color combinations balanced with loosely configured shapes define the abstract geometric art of noted painter and typographer Robert Petrick. Through his rhythmic and lyrical abstract paintings, Petrick explores avant-garde style while establishing a link between the street culture of the East Village in New York City and the beauty of language.
Born in 1945, Petrick won a high school scholarship to study at Philadelphia’s Tyler School of Art, now the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University. In 1983, he moved to New York City, where he became immersed in developing his unique artistic style, based on the New York School of Abstract Expressionism, as coined by the artist Robert Motherwell in 1949.
The following year, Petrick gained critical attention for two designs he stenciled on the walls of New York’s Avenue B. Titled EXIT/EXIST and NOWHERE/NOW HERE, the works were featured in Vogue magazine and recognized by critics as compelling graffiti art.
Throughout his distinguished career, Petrick’s figurative paintings, still-life works and graphic designs have been featured on album covers and in commercial projects. His series include Shape, Gesture, Graffiti and the recent City Block, in which Petrick conveys the atmosphere of the East Village with color, shapes, energy and density.
Petrick has exhibited in solo and group gallery shows throughout New York. His works are also in demand with collectors of 20th- and 21st-century abstract art.
On 1stDibs, discover a range of Robert Petrick’s paintings.
Stripe Series, Untitled #14
By Robert Petrick
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Classic abstract artwork from the 1990s East Village scene. Robert Petrick Strip Series #14 57 x 41 inches Acrylic on Canvas New York geometric ges...
Canvas, Acrylic
New in Town, Intersections Series, Abstract Geometric Painting
By Robert Petrick
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Painting description: This is a new example of my ongoing series, "Intersections". My attempt to capture urban abstraction. Shapes and colors intersect and overlap. With the use of...
Canvas, Acrylic
The Plan, Chromatic Collision Series, Abstract Geometric Line Painting
By Robert Petrick
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Robert Petrick's "The Plan" is a fusion of meticulous geometry and bold abstract expression. From the artist's Chromatic Collisions series, this piece...
Canvas, Acrylic
Coincidence, Geometric Abstract Series
By Robert Petrick
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Robert W. Petrick Coincidence Geometric Abstraction East Village NYC, 2022 acrylic on canvas New York, 2nd street studio Colorful geometric abstract ...
Canvas, Acrylic
"Structure Series #2 V. 2, " East Village, Colorful Abstract Geometric Painting
By Robert Petrick
Located in Los Angeles, CA
“Structure Series #2” Version 2 2020 Acrylic, oil and chalk on canvas 14 x 24 x x .625 inches Robert Petrick's paintings create a link between the street culture of the East Villag...
Oil, Acrylic
"P.E.S." (Patricia's Endless Spring), Abstract Geometric Painting
By Robert Petrick
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Robert Petrick’s ’P.E.S.' is a fusion of meticulous geometry and bold abstract expression. From the artist’s ’Ziggurat Series' series, this piece is both timeless and contemporary, o...
Canvas, Oil
Untitled, Geometric Abstract Acrylic Painting by David Shapiro
By David Shapiro
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: David Shapiro (American, b. 1944) Title: Untitled Year: 1978 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, signed and dated l.l. Size: 12 in. x 95 in. (30.48 cm x 241.3 cm)
Canvas, Acrylic
French 20th Century Vibrant Geometric Abstract Multicolored Stripes
By Gilbert Pelissier
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Expressionist Composition by Gilbert Pelissier (French born 1924) oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas size: 8 x 16 inches condition: overall very good, a few minor surf...
Canvas, Oil
'Sync' Abstract Geometric Painting
By Doug Frohman
Located in Rye, NY
“SYNC" is one of the later pieces in the “EQUATIONS” series (2012-15). The elements in the series finds bold, flat colored planes surrounding a large, open square in the ...
Oil, Canvas
"Untitled" Calvert Coggeshall, Abstract Expressionism Hard-edge Stripes
By Calvert Coggeshall
Located in New York, NY
Calvert Coggeshall Untitled, circa 1975 Oil on canvas 50 x 40 inches Calvert Coggeshall worked as an abstract painter and interior designer primari...
Canvas, Acrylic
#38, Geometric Acrylic Painting by George Vander Sluis
By George Vander Sluis
Located in Long Island City, NY
#38, by George Vander Sluis, American (1915–1984) Date: 1967 Acrylic on Canvas, signed, titled and dated verso Size: 74 x 48 in. (187.96 x 121.92 cm)
Canvas, Acrylic
Diamond XXXV /// Contemporary Abstract Geometric Striped Pattern Colorful Art
By Jack Graves III
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-) Title: "Diamond XXXV" Series: Diamond *Signed by Graves lower left. It is also signed, titled, and dated on verso Year: 2021 Medium: Origin...
Canvas, Paint, Acrylic
