Arne Besser

'An Object of Interest', Manhattan, Smithsonian, Hard-Edge Photo-Realist Oil

Circa 1985

"Place" (2024) by Warren W. Kessler is an original, handmade oil painting on wood panel that depicts a handwritten note and a polaroid photo taped to an orange wooden wall. Warren W...

One day I visited the Ikea store in Groningen, The Netherlands where I saw these people leaving the store by escalator with all the stuff they just bought. Somehow I thought the scen...

Theatrical reflective and feathered objects dramatically lit, sitting upon a wooden table with a black background. Colors include silver, red and black with touches of yellow and bro...

Vintage American modernist still life oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed verso.

Oracle 2016 Oil on Panel 9" x 12" unframed 16 1/2" x 19 1/4" framed Taxidermy monkey head sits atop a brick wrapped in plastic. Many of the artist's ...

Intimate paintings represented by unmade beds and tossed sheets, absent of any human evidence, on intentionally blank, somewhat rough backgrounds. The empty bed in these paintings represents a place for grief, isolation or healing. As such, the work speaks to our shared feeling of grief, with the understanding that while we all suffer in our individual ways, suffering is universal. Source material for this work are photographs the artist has both taken and found, and the intimate size of the paintings references the intimate nature of the subject matter. The backgrounds of the paintings are repeatedly painted and sanded, to create a frame and backdrop for the bedding that is flat, yet rough with work and time. The bedding itself is seen from different perspectives, but still indicates a scene of desolation and despair. While the series began in the fall of 2016, recent events—including the pandemic—have provided a new dimension to the work and have compelled Serpick to consider the themes in light of these events. Our forced isolation and the challenges it has brought to our physical and mental health provides an additional shared experience from which to consider grief and eventual healing. Biography Stephanie Serpick is a painter whose work explores themes of isolation, grief, and healing. Her work has been shown in various exhibitions in the U.S. and internationally, and she is a fellow at several residencies, most notably at the Florence Trust Studios in London, MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts, and the Vermont Studio Center, where she was awarded a full fellowship and stipend to attend. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at Sweet Lorraine Gallery in Brooklyn, the College of Southern Nevada, and a two-person exhibition at The Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute at the Museum of Art at Pratt in Utica NY...

This 24 x 17 inch oil on canvas painting by British artist Michael Hlousek-Nagle, is titled ''The Hidden Language.' . The work depicts a portrait of a young female and a butterfly. It is a 1/2 length portrait, thus her lower half is not visible, only her lower chest and up, although it is not totally clear where her body is cut off by the composition, as she wears a black turtle neck...

Inspired by the geometric landscape of his hometown Thomas Roese has created a photorealist series using acrylic, graphite and colored pencil. Since graduating from the Cleveland ...

Lindsey Kustusch’s (US based) "Féith" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a Great blue Heron bird perched on a fountains with red floral designs in the background. A...

Untitled (Paint) #14 is an oil painting on canvas with a canvas size of 16 x 24 inches, signed, titled and dated on the overlap verso, 'Ben Weiner Untitled (Paint) #14 2018'' and framed in a contemporary white frame. Connecting two opposing styles—abstraction and photorealism—Ben Weiner creates hyper-detailed, lush paintings and videos of extremely magnified consumer products, including hair gel, chemical food additives, and deodorant. In his work, he presents such meticulously rendered, close-up views of his subjects that they read as pure abstractions. A through-line in Weiner’s various bodies of work is contemporary culture’s obsession with bodily enhancement through chemical products—whether by using hair products or taking illegal drugs. In Weiner's Paint series (depicting oil paint on a palette) he explores the upended relationship between process and product. Ben Charles Weiner (b. 1980) is a New York based contemporary artist. His work bridges the seemingly opposite styles of hyperrealism, and process-based abstraction. Mr. Weiner has exhibited his work widely in the US and internationally, at institutions including The Carnegie Art Museum, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, The Boca Raton Museum of Art, and The Tarble Art Center. His work is in public collections including Microsoft, Sammlung/Collection, Progressive Insurance, and The Frederick R. Weisman Collection...