In this exhibition of
small oil on board works, she paints the familiar surroundings of her home in Maine, depicting ordinary things like snow on a windowpane, laundry on the clothesline, or a puff of Queen Anne's lace.
Not exact matches
To make one of his large works, Katz paints a
small oil sketch of a subject
on a masonite
board; the sitting might take an hour and a half.
Also
on view are several early non-ballpoint works; an early lithograph Untitled (1979); a drypoint etching Untitled (1980); two
small crayon and
oil on paper works Untitled B (1980) and Untitled R (1980); an acrylic and
oil on board Untitled 84 - 6 (1984); and Untitled 82 - A (1982), a stunning example of an early painting drawn with a sharp nail and a precursor to his recent acrylic and
oil paintings.
Despite being the
smallest piece in the show, this rectangular amalgamation of
oil paint, acrylic paint, household paint, varnish and mixed media collage
on canvas (then mounted
on board) had that rare feeling of monumentality.
It is highlighted by a very charming and beautiful
small oil, enamel and charcoal
on paper mounted
on board, Lot 6, by de Kooning.
Her
oil paintings
on boards and scraps
on canvas appear to hover
on the walls of The Chimney like
small apparitions.
For her ninth show at Alexandre Gallery — perhaps her fiftieth show overall — this vision comes across in
small landscapes,
oil on board, that are uniquely felt.1
Working in
oil on small pieces of canvas
board near the waters and harbors of Manhattan, John Marin (1870 - 1953) was possibly the first American artist to make abstract paintings.
The show includes
small, medium and large - scale works that fall into two broad categories: acrylic - and - gesso paintings
on canvas, and
oil paintings
on gesso
board.
The exhibition includes massive, commanding works like By Night and Day (1983) with
smaller works like the striped
oil -
on -
board construction Ridge (1982), allowing a sense of how Scully's compositions work across different scales.
As well as his role at Pacific, Galego also serves as general counsel at CGX Energy, a
small Canadian
oil and gas exploration company and serves
on the
board of the directors at Woulfe Mining, a company operating a mine out of South Korea that is in the process of being sold to another producer.