Frank La Pena

Frank La Pena (1937–2019) was a member of the Nisenan Maidu and Numu (Northern Paiute) tribes, known for his vibrant paintings and masterful prints

Recognition

Medium sized

Big Head Bole Dancer

This Native American artist and professor influenced generations of artists to embrace their heritage. His works have been exhibited across Europe, South America, Cuba, Australia, and New Zealand.

Colorful lithograph capturing the spirit dancing across a cerulean blue sky vividly flowing into night.

Composition

This work depicts LaPena returning from his Indian boarding school to his community of traditions. Providing the viewer with a sense of the beauty both of the ritual dance and the world in which everything takes place.

Intent

Powerful artwork across silversmithing, photography, and woodworking mediums.

Ceres Take

James Brown

James Brown was an American painter born in Los Angeles, California in 1951.

Hero of the room

Single XX

Each hand-painted print begins with a printed matrix from which Brown responds –&nbsp;dramatically painting on the plate creating a unique composition.

Rising to fame in the 1980s East Village art scene, Brown was a painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist. He has been exhibited in institutions like Centre de Pompidou, MoMA, Art Institute of Chicago.

This work was created with the intent to be the authority of paintings — singular, unique, indelible.

This one-of-a-kind Hero work by a six figure auction artist is a coveted collectible.

Catherine Lee

Catherine Lee is a contemporary artist known for her vibrant and expressive paintings.

Tehama III

Postminimalist attention to material, process, and form.

A believer in the power of abstraction, Lee's irregular grids and monochrome colors have been exhibited in the MoMA, the Tate, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.

These works embody a tension between the flat landscape of her childhood Texas and the verticality of NYC where she worked as an artist.

This female, contemporary artist has a distinct and powerful aesthetic.

Arturo Herrera

Arturo Herrera, born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1959, is renowned for his boundary-breaking works merging painting, sculpture, and collage.

Mirror

South American artist known for intricate, mixed media compositions, Herrera has been shown in likes of MoMA, P.S.1, Art Institute of Chicago.

Inspired by a large-scale painting in Berlin, Herrera used printers to produce a screenprint with saturated colors, sharp graphics, and flat ink.

These enigmatic, blue washes are derived from Herrera manipulating 35mm photos by pouring coffee on and freezing the film.

Unique horizontal screenprint with distinct lines and color.

Morris Graves

Morris Graves was an American painter and printmaker born on August 28, 1910, in Fox Valley, Oregon.

Five Persimons, Five jewels, and Flowering Cabbage with Morning Glory

The subject matter here serve as offerings. Exemplary of Graves' finest and most characteristic work –&nbsp;a complex lithograph and silkscreen still life that speaks of a particular moment of light, human care, and something larger.

Modern artist whose first exhibtion at the MoMA was in 1942 and later became one of the Pacific Northwest’s most recognized artists.

In opposition to the modern world, Graves captured the sights and sounds of the natural world, aiming to draw you back to the beauty of the altar of visual reality and spirituality.

Important Modern artist with works of notoriety and commanding color pigments. Auction records of high six figures.

Richard Anuszkiewicz

Richard Anuszkiewicz, born in 1930 in Erie, Pennsylvania, is celebrated for his pivotal role in the Op Art movement.

Triangular Yellows

Richard's optical art has included steel sculpture, print, and reliefs. He has been exhibited in the MoMA, Whitney, Brooklyn Museum

Contrast of bright, dimensional colors. Richard combines lithography and silkscreen, assembling cutouts in geometric shapes.

A study of the effects of six colors on perception in the second and third dimension.

Color and size make this a very commanding piece of art.

Nathan Oliveira

Nathan Olivera was an American artist born in Oakland, California in 1928.

Small accents

Stelae

A Bay Area artist and leading member of the figurative movement, Oliveira's prints and sculptures have been shown in the Whitney, MoMA, National Gallery.

This two color lithograph shapes a small but monolithic figure in earth tones on a sandstone background.

Oliveira describes the figure and its ground in terms of color and form.

Globally acclaimed artist with rare prints and sculptures –&nbsp;making Oliveria's works very collectible.

Jason Middlebrook

Jason Middlebrook, a contemporary artist from Jackson, Michigan, seamlessly merges nature and art in his work.

The Skies of Croton 5

Mixed-media artist intent on illustrating the natural world. Middlebrook has been exhibited at the Whitney, New Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

Series of unique hand painted screenprints with layering and stenciling that evoke texture.

Middlebrooks amplifies his fascination with the vibrancy of the croton foliage of South Florida, creating large-scale monoprints with organic leaf forms but are contrasted by geometric lines.

This is a dynamic monoprint by a contemporary, burgeoning artist.

Richard Tuttle

Richard Tuttle, born in 1941 in Rahway, New Jersey, is celebrated for his minimalist and abstract artworks that defy traditional artistic conventions.

Early Auden

An Influential minimalist artist who explored the interactions of different media, Tuttle has exhibitions in the Met, Centre Pompidou, MoMA.

Accordion folded book of color etchings on handmade paper in the typeface of Auden's first published book.

Tuttle perceives an uncanny parallel between the poetry of the late 1920s and early 1930s and today.This book illustrates W.H. Auden's beautiful, hard edged language and references to visual art.

Tuttle is a household name with an auction record of $1.8M

Burt Barr

Burt Barr, born in 1938 in New York, NY, was a groundbreaking artist renowned for his unique approach to video art.

Summer

Known for his time-based media and still-life photography, this New York artist has been exhibited in the Whitney Museum, National Gallery, Reina Sofia.

Four color lithograph derived from a video shot in Barr's Long Island garden. He exposes and inks this scene against a photosenstive litho plate.

Barr's camera catches a mirrored ball bathed by a sprinkler, relecting the house and landscape. The bleached out yellows suggest the heat of summer and the tones of a family snapshot.

Exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally.

Salt Note Black I

The length of an adult, this vertical form stands boldly on an airy atmosphere of dots.

If every vertical form suggests a human presence, Brown experiments with the personality and assertion of the abstract form.

Its grand size and prominence set this work apart from others. Brown has strong six figure auction records.

Salt Note Black and White

Brown creates a field of disks in black ink bringing to attention regualrity and order.

This work is anchored in simplicity of Brown's marking but also the complexity of its small variations.

Brown has a strong six figure auction record.

Georg Baselitz

He is known for his unique style of painting, which involves turning his subjects upside down, a technique he developed in the 1960s.

Joseph Beuys

Sebastiaan Bremer

Sebastiaan Bremer, born in Amsterdam in 1970 and now based in New York City, is known for his innovative printmaking and photographic techniques.

Alexander Calder

Alexander Calder, born in 1898 in Pennsylvania, initially pursued engineering before shifting his focus to art, creating his signature wire sculptures.

Squeak Carnwath

Squeak Carnwath is an American artist known for her colorful and expressive paintings, prints, and installations.

John Chamberlain

John Chamberlain was an American sculptor known for his innovative use of crushed and twisted automobile parts to create abstract sculptures.

Sandro Chia

Sandro Chia, an Italian artist born in Florence in 1946, gained fame in the 1980s as a leading figure in the Transavanguardia movement, reviving figurative painting.

Elisabeth Condon

Elisabeth Condon, a prominent contemporary artist, blends Eastern and Western traditions in her vibrant paintings.

Bruce Conner

Bruce Conner (1933–2008) was an influential artist who emerged from the 1950s San Francisco Beat scene.

Gordon Cook

Gordon Cook was a renowned artist born in 1927 in the United States. He was known for his unique style of painting that combined abstract and figurative elements.

Jim Dine

Peter Drake

Charles Farr

Charles Farr is a contemporary artist known for his unique style and use of vibrant colors.

Harry Fonseca

Harry Fonseca (1946–2006) was a Native American artist of Nisenan Maidu, Hawaiian, and Portuguese descent, born in Sacramento.

Günther Förg

Günther Förg, born in 1952 in Füssen, Germany, was a prominent German artist recognized for his exploration of color, form, and space.

Gunther Gerzso

Gunther Gerzso is a contemporary artist known for his unique and captivating style.

Iva Gueorguieva

Iva Gueorguieva, born in 1974 in Sofia, Bulgaria, now based in Los Angeles, California, comes from a family of artists.

Hank Hine

Hank Hine is a renowned art publisher and executive director who has been dedicated to promoting and preserving the world's most exceptional art.

Alex Katz

Alex Katz, born July 24, 1927, in Brooklyn, New York, is celebrated for his distinctive style and lasting impact on contemporary art.

Mel Kendrick

Mel Kendrick, born in Boston in 1949, is acclaimed for his thought-provoking sculptures and installations.

Leslie Lerner

Markus Lupertz

Markus Lüpertz, born in 1941 in Czechoslovakia, is a renowned artist known for his bold and unconventional work across painting, sculpture, and poetry.

Ellen Lupton & J Abbott Miller

Ellen Lupton and J Abbott Miller, distinguished graphic designers and educators, have profoundly influenced the design realm.

Josiah McElheny

Josiah McElheny, born in 1966 in Boston, Massachusetts, explored art at the Rhode Island School of Design, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1989.

Joan Mitchell

Joan Mitchell was an American abstract expressionist painter born on February 12, 1925, in Chicago, Illinois.

Andrea Modica

Andrea Modica, a renowned American photographer born in 1960 in New York City, is celebrated for her evocative black and white portraits.

Hugh O'Donnell

Hugh O'Donnell, born in 1950 in London, UK, studied at Camberwell College of Arts, London, and pursued further studies in Japan on a Japanese Monbusho Scholarship.

Jürgen Partenheimer

He is known for his diverse body of work that spans across various mediums including painting, drawing, sculpture, and printmaking.

Mette Petri

Mette Petri, born in 1957 in Copenhagen, Denmark, is a Danish Postwar and Contemporary artist

Matt Phillips

Matt Phillips is a talented artist who has been creating stunning works of art for over a decade.

Norbert Prangenberg

Norbert Prangenberg (1949–2012) was a German artist known for his innovative work in painting, sculpture, and ceramics.

Gustavo Rivera

Gustavo Rivera is a contemporary artist known for his vibrant and expressive paintings.

Susan Rothenberg

She is known for her unique style of abstract expressionism, which often features animal figures and bold brushstrokes.

Ed Ruscha

He is widely recognized for his contributions to the Pop Art movement and his unique approach to painting, drawing, and photography.

David Salle

David Salle, born in 1952, grew up in the Midwest, which influenced his artistic development.

Janaina Tschäpe

Janaina Tschäpe, a German-Brazilian artist, explores nature and femininity through various mediums, including painting, photography, and sculpture.

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Blockprint

"Block printing, an ancient technique originating in China, involves carving a design into a block of material like linoleum or wood, which is then inked and pressed onto paper or fabric. The carved areas remain uncolored, while the raised portions transfer the ink, resulting in a printed image. This method allows for the reproduction of intricate patterns and designs with remarkable precision.Block printing offers artists a versatile means of creating bold, graphic imagery characterized by crisp lines and vibrant colors. It has been widely used across cultures for textile decoration, book illustration, and fine art prints. The process demands both technical skill and creative vision, as artists must carefully plan their designs and execute precise carving to achieve the desired effect.With its rich history and enduring appeal, block printing continues to captivate artists seeking to infuse their work with the timeless beauty and tactile allure of handcrafted prints."

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Cyanotype

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Hand painted blockprint

Hand painted etching

Hand painting

Intaglio Aquatint

Linoleum Print

Lithograph

Monoprint

Monotype

Monotype is a form of printmaking distinguished by its singular, spontaneous nature. Unlike traditional printmaking methods where multiple copies are produced, monotype results in a single, unique print. The process involves applying ink or paint onto a smooth surface, such as glass or metal, and then transferring the image onto paper through pressure using "light-field," additive ink applied directly, or in the subtractibve, "dark-field," the plate is covered wtih ink and the image is made by removing paint. Artists have considerable freedom in creating monotypes, as they can manipulate the ink or paint directly on the printing surface, allowing for experimentation with color, texture, and mark-making, resulting in diverse and unpredictable outcomes.

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