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Jack Walls
Ezell (Basquiat Style Black & White Contemporary Portrait on Stitched Canvas)

2016

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About the Artist: In the 1960’s, Edward Avedisian was one of the youngest of those luminaries producing a grand new abstract painting. Shown first at Ivan Karp and Dick Bellamy’s Hansa Gallery and then at Robert Elkon, Avedisian’s insouciant mix of pop playfulness, color field cool and high formalist style put his art in a unique, and at the time generously rewarded, position. Paintings made it onto the cover of Artforum, were purchased by all the major museums, were among the few abstract works shown as representative of America’s post-war achievement at Expo 67 in Montreal and comprised a cornerstone in histories of the period written by Barbara Rose, among others. The artist was largely influenced by his Color-Field predecessors, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman. Throughout the 1960's and into the mid 1970's the artist was celebrated in the Manhattan art scene, contributing to the Post-Painterly Abstraction movements with contemporaries Helen Frankenthaler, Andy Warhol, Jules Olitski, and Larry Poons. Museum Collections: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York Brooklyn Museum, New York Chrysler Art Museum, Norfolk, Virginia Denver Art Museum, Colorado Flint Institute of Arts, Michigan Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas The Larry Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Minneapolis Institute of Arts Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York, Purchase Los Angeles County Museum, California Neuberger Museum, SUNY, Purchase, New York Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum *above description text is supported by Alexandra C. Anderson's article on Edward Avedesian in Artforum's January 1969 issue. NY Times Obituary, published Aug 23, 2007 by Roberta Smith: Mr. Avedisian was best known for his work in the 1960s: brilliantly colored, boldly composed canvases that combined Minimalism’s rigor, Pop’s exuberance and the saturated tones of Color Field painting. A frequent motif was a cluster of bright seedlike orbs corralled at the center of a vibrant monochrome field by larger rings of color, creating an image that could resemble a buoyant cross-section of some unknown fruit. Mr. Avedisian was born in Lowell, Mass., in 1936 and studied art at the Boston Museum School. By the late 1950s he was living in New York, part of a generation of promising young painters that included Frank Stella, Larry Poons and Darby Bannard. From 1958 to 1963 Mr. Avedisian had six solo shows in New York galleries, including two at the Robert Elkon Gallery, where he continued to show almost every year until 1975. By the early 1960s Mr. Avedisian was a rising star. During that decade, his work appeared on the cover of Artforum, in “The Responsive Eye” exhibition of Op Art at the Museum of Modern Art and in four annuals at the Whitney Museum of American Art. His paintings were widely sought by collectors and acquired by major museums in New York and elsewhere. In the mid-1970s Mr. Avedisian moved to Hudson and became less visible. His paintings soon began shifting toward representation; he took to calling his abstract paintings “a period style.” But he continued to be well served by his feeling for color, scale and surface. His landscapes described his surroundings in blunt, flat shapes and singing hues reminiscent of those of Marsden Hartley and Paula Modersohn...
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    Canvas, Acrylic

  • Portrait of a Woman II (Colorful Figurative Painting)
    By Abel Ramirez
    Located in Hudson, NY
    37" X 32" acrylic on cotton This colorful portrait of a young woman with auburn hair has vivid and bold black outlines that drip and define the sitter's face. She sits in front of a...
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    2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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    Cotton, Acrylic

  • Portrait of a Woman (Colorful Figurative Painting)
    By Abel Ramirez
    Located in Hudson, NY
    27" X 23 1/2" acrylic on cotton This colorful portrait of a young woman with red hair, wearing a necklace, has vivid and bold black outlines that drip and define the sitter's face....
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    2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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    Cotton, Acrylic

  • Technicolor Portrait (Colorful Figurative Painting)
    By Abel Ramirez
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    38" X 36 1/2" acrylic on cotton This colorful portrait of a young male has vivid and bold black and multicolored outlines that define the sitter's face. The black border drips into...
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    2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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  • A Wrestler, His Girlfriend, Their Dog (Figurative Oil of Athletes by Mark Beard)
    By Mark Beard
    Located in Hudson, NY
    A Wrestler, His Girlfriend, and Their Dog Academic style figurative oil painting of a young man and woman with their dog in the gym locker room by Mark Beard 68 x 32 inches oil on canvas mounted on Masonite 75 x 39 inches framed This painting represents a segment of a large mural the artist was commissioned to paint for Abercrombie & Fitch's flagship stores. This painting was featured in the Manhattan's towering mural which stretched several floors. Beard worked on the commission in his NYC studio and completed the work in 2005. Painted in a style that evokes the portraits of John Singer Sargent, Mark Beard is a contemporary living artist who paints under the pseudonym, Bruce Sargeant, an English painter who worked during the 1920's and 30's. The contemporary figurative painting, made in a modern Academic style, features a young male athlete wearing a wrestling singlet...
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