Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 3

Laura Newman
Interior with Paint Chips (Abstract Expressionism painting)

2016

About the Item

Oil and acrylic on canvas. Unframed. 'Interior with Paint Chips' explores the idea of an interior as a container. Under an arch punctuated by doors and windows and furnished with luminous blocks of color, an array of approaches to painting is consolidated - from translucent pours to hard-edged rectangles, scraped viscous oil paint and dry-brushed ink. Laura Newman is an American abstract artist. She creates vivid, dynamic paintings that revel in a harmonious balance between gestural brushwork, hard-edge geometric spatial arrangements and layered, architectural compositions. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Newman currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Newman paints in a light-filled studio in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. Her practice includes large-scale canvases created primarily with oils and acrylics and smaller works on paper created with ink, watercolors and other mediums. Her techniques include staining, pouring, and a combination of gestural and meticulous mark making. About her process, Newman has said, “My paintings often take specific qualities of particular places as points of departure, but I try to approach the image without preconceived ideas and to discover forms through improvisation.” Her finished paintings combine geometric delineations of space, ephemeral color fields, dynamic lines and organic forms, resulting in atmospheric images evocative of representational landscapes, but always opening up to something more, something beyond. Newman's paintings may look like they are quickly made because she values a sense of freshness; But in reality they take a long time to complete. The artist starts by setting down rudiments of a visual idea, reworks the painting over and over until she achieves an image that she recognizes but that at the same time surprises her. Newman often finds inspiration in the view out her studio window, which looks out at a large swath of sky over the city. The vastness of the open air juxtaposes with the intermingling of construction and deconstruction occupying the urban landscape. Her work often explores that interplay between the confinement of built environments and the freedom of open spaces. Elements of window frames sometimes inhabit her paintings, creating a sense of distance between spatial planes. Newman is interested in the interplay between representation and abstraction. She strives for a language of forms, lines, colors and spatial relationships that can be read both formally and abstractly or interpreted more broadly as fictional, illusionary environments. Laura Newman has exhibited in multiple solo exhibitions in New York as well as in group exhibitions in galleries and museums along the US East Coast and in Canada. Her work has been written about extensively, including in Artforum, The New York Times, and the Brooklyn Rail. Works by Laura Newman are in the permanent collections of multiple institutions, including those of Chase Manhattan Bank, IBM Corporation, Prudential Insurance Company and the University of Arizona.
  • Creator:
    Laura Newman (1956, American)
  • Creation Year:
    2016
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 72.05 in (183 cm)Width: 55.91 in (142 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
    New. First hand item, delivered directly from the artist's studio.
  • Gallery Location:
    London, GB
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU65933104653
More From This SellerView All
  • Coming To (Abstract Painting)
    By Dana Gordon
    Located in London, GB
    Coming To (Abstract Painting) Oil and acrylic on canvas - Unframed Note that this artwork will be sent rolled in a tube. This method is especially safe for large works. Rolled wor...
    Category

    2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

  • Coming To (Abstract Painting)
    By Dana Gordon
    Located in London, GB
    Coming To (Abstract Painting) Oil and acrylic on canvas - Unframed Note that this artwork will be sent rolled in a tube. This method is especially safe for large works. Rolled wor...
    Category

    2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

  • Coming To (Abstract Painting)
    By Dana Gordon
    Located in London, GB
    Coming To (Abstract Painting) Oil and acrylic on canvas - Unframed Note that this artwork will be sent rolled in a tube. This method is especially safe for large works. Rolled wor...
    Category

    2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

  • Interior with Paint Chips (Abstract Expressionism painting)
    By Laura Newman
    Located in London, GB
    Interior with Paint Chips (Abstract Expressionism painting) Oil and acrylic on canvas. Unframed. 'Interior with Paint Chips' explores the idea of an interior as a container. Under...
    Category

    2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

  • Beach House (Abstract Expressionism painting)
    By Laura Newman
    Located in London, GB
    Beach House (Abstract Expressionism painting) Oil and acrylic on canvas. Unframed. Laura Newman's paintings combine geometric delineations of space, ephemeral color fields, dynamic lines and organic forms, resulting in atmospheric images evocative of representational landscapes, but always opening up to something more, something beyond. In Beach House, the viewer is confronted with dry-brushed structure frames containing chunks of color, suggesting landscape...
    Category

    2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

  • Interior with Paint Chips (Abstract Expressionism painting)
    By Laura Newman
    Located in London, GB
    Interior with Paint Chips (Abstract Expressionism painting) Oil and acrylic on canvas. Unframed. 'Interior with Paint Chips' explores the idea of an interior as a container. Under...
    Category

    2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

You May Also Like
  • Up From The Ground
    By Leah Durner
    Located in New York, NY
    LEAH DURNER Up from the Ground, 2000 Acrylic and oil on canvas 60 x 66 inches
    Category

    Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

  • Grove
    By Leah Durner
    Located in New York, NY
    LEAH DURNER Untitled, 2000 Acrylic and oil on canvas 60 x 66 inches
    Category

    Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

  • Golden Sky
    By Cindy Shaoul
    Located in New York, NY
    With layers of bright oils and whisking brush strokes, the paint is able to shine and shimmer in a very unique pattern. This painting is from Shaoul's more contemporary works with a ...
    Category

    2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

  • "Hey Sinatra" Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas Portrait of Iconic Frank Sinatra
    By Cindy Shaoul
    Located in New York, NY
    This painting is from the artist's Hollywood abstract series, where she instills the character on the lower half of the composition and depicts abstract colors and movements around t...
    Category

    21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Portrait Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

  • Original Abstract Expressionist 1959 New York Female Artist Irene Zevon Musical
    By Irene Zevon
    Located in Buffalo, NY
    An original abstract expressionist oil painting by American female artist Irene Zevon created and dated in 1959. This piece entitled "Musical" is a prime example of Zevon's relation...
    Category

    1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

  • "Terra" - Abstract Portrait of a Young Man in Earthtone by Masri
    By Masri Hayssam
    Located in Carmel, CA
    Presenting "Terra" a work that emerges as a profound expression of stillness and human depth, as conceived by the adept hands of Masri. Within the 40" x 30" expanse, this abstract po...
    Category

    2010s Abstract Expressionist Portrait Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic

Recently Viewed

View All