Paintings For Sale - Price Range: $500 - $599

Artists Describing Their Art:

Ted Hammer - The abstract pictures are a distillation of my life, painted on a flat surface, with color. They are an expression of my interest in theology, nature, science, art and color. The pictures are a place where your mind and eye can go and explore. The analogy to instrumental music is valid; one is for the eye and the other the ear....

Sandi Carpenter - Due to my endless curiosity and wide range of interests, my work has evolved over the years. Just as a musician would change instruments to perfect the mood and rhythm created, I enjoy moving from one medium to another, be it French dyes on silk, watercolor or acrylic. I am always hopeful that the magic I feel in creating these images will be felt by the viewer with similar intensity. I believe it is only then that art really lives....

Richard Beckholt - My artwork is very unique.I have spent most of my life developing the language of my work and continue to process and refine the course I have chosen. I work very hard to bring all the drama in color and design that I can possibly muster while remaining true to my initial concepts.I will not allow myself to slip into the realm of decorative art for the sake of sales.My art is honest and straight from my heart. Those collecting my works sense the emotions expressed within the stark images....

David Cuffari - I approach my work as a visual poem. Sometimes the meaning is simple and direct and other times it's more complex. I prefer to create work that is open-ended allowing the viewer their own interpretation of what I present. I am primarily a painter preferring to work in acrylics as it allows me to make rapid revisions which helps keep the work fresh and immediate. The over-arching theme of my artwork is the human condition. I see the fabric of life as woven in opposites. By employing dualities like order/chaos, rough/smooth textures, themes of life/death, controlled effects/happy accidents, rational/irrational imagery, I try to paint interesting pictures that allow the viewer to see the world a bit differently. I am also interested in the notion of time. I don't believe that time is linear but more like an echo. I try to avoid static imagery preferring to create a complex painting that unfolds as you look at it, with layers of imagery and meaning. I do this by preserving the process of editing and revision as I arrive at the final image. Most recently I've been proceeding without a pre-conceived ...

Lisa Reinke - Recognize yourself, someone, everyone and no one in my faces - celebrate color in the shape of a nose, the curve of the ears, the mask of the eyes, and the lines of the lips and hair. Most of all remember the humanity in humanity. The human face inspires me. As humans, we respond to its image beyond all others. For all its familiarity, we rarely pause to consider the face as a visual form, something more than the recognition of a friend or an interaction with a stranger. I paint the face in ways to cause the viewer to reconsider its splendor and renew faith in all things human. Colors and sunlight playing across faces remind me of our connection to the universe and symbolize eternal and fleeting moments simultaneously. I love how we recognize and explore human faces for clues to identity and personality. I am happy to be creating my work and hope that my art inspires you to look around and see the world as a vibrant and exciting place where the most amazing patterns are on display all the time. Lisa Reinke ...

Rashmi Gawali - Artist Statment I paint to represent aspects of human emotions and nature in a way, that makes the viewers get a unique perspective on the subject matter. Throughout the process I am filled with an anticipation of how the painting is going to turn out and this is what keeps me going and is not finished till it fulfills the vision with which I started. I like to work on compositions, experiment with different textures, mediums and techniques, with the aim of making them illusive for a poetical look. Painting landscapes on the location allows me to get into an eclectic mood, amongst landscapes I like doing seascapes because I like to capture the force of waves, the colors of a sea and the sky at sunset. I start off my work with some rough designs, finalize on a subject, then work on more sketches, before starting to paint. I like to use the knife mainly because it emotes bold strokes, gets the effects faster and also I think mixing the colors are easier. Working in acrylic is quicker, because it dries out fast, allows me to do both opaque and transparent work, whereas with oil it has it's...

Julianne Richards - UPDATE: MARCH 18th 2008 An insightful interview of Artist Julianne Richards in NYC by Kim Rodeffer Funk gives an indepth and personal glimpse into'the Colorspeaker's' world of creativity, starting out at seventeen and in a rock -band....

Evelyn Astegno - I would like to introduce my artistic thought through the words of an Italian Art Critic "Astegno, a Magic Realism that Americans really like" by Giovanna Grossato article on Il Giornale di Vicenza , Sunday 4 July 2004 It does exist deep inside many of us another Ego, of eternal youth and purity; it represents all we could and always wished to be. This Ego we miss and contemplate with tormenting desire is the poetic core of a young artist from Vicenza who is now becoming successfull in the United States. It is in fact in a prestigious gallery of St Louis, the "Third Floor gallery on Washington", that are currently being exposed some works of Evelyn Astegno, together with other emerging artists such as Craig Downs, Julie Malone and Christopher Gustave. The group of paintings Evelyn Astegno chose to display in the collective Art Show are extremely representative of her style, soon well defined from the beginning and matured since she started her career. They belong to a disquieting Surrealism where characters, probable but not assimilable to any type completely rooted in reality, represent probably different aspects of the same subject: the artist herself. Her painting is a thought translated ...

Sarah Katz Mount - Living in this volatile time my pieces signify the freedom of nature and imagination. Works throughout history always have historical, economical, cultural, philosophical value in societies throughout the world. In today's technologically advanced age the role of the artist is wrongly compromised. Symbolism, historical references, experience, and my own photography influences my paintings and are inspired by the magic realism stylization which rooted from the late 1800's and became popular in the 1920's. I manipulate perspective and space communicating movement giving my pieces a literary feel, and I hope everyone finds something inspiring like I find in powerful artists before me....