New York, Oregon. Born 1949
Landscape
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Born 1949. Known for: Super real figure-genre, abstraction.
Having earned a reputation for contemporary realism, especially figurative works of subjects in and around swimming pools, Lorraine Shemish turned to gestural, abstract painting in the mid 1990s... Read full biography
Having earned a reputation for contemporary realism, especially figurative works of subjects in and around swimming pools, Lorraine Shemish turned to gestural, abstract painting in the mid 1990s after seeing an exhibition of Jackson Pollock's work at New York's Museum of Modern Art. After this... Read full biography
Having earned a reputation for contemporary realism, especially figurative works of subjects in and around swimming pools, Lorraine Shemish turned to gestural, abstract painting in the mid 1990s after seeing an exhibition of Jackson Pollock's work at New York's Museum of Modern Art. After this change in approach, her figural depictions are still recognizable, but they are abstracted and devoid of narrative meaning. Shemish had her first solo show with the Stone Gallery in May 1983.... Read full biography
Having earned a reputation for contemporary realism, especially figurative works of subjects in and around swimming pools, Lorraine Shemish turned to gestural, abstract painting in the mid 1990s after seeing an exhibition of Jackson Pollock's work at New York's Museum of Modern Art. After this change in approach, her figural depictions are still recognizable, but they are abstracted and devoid of narrative meaning. Shemish had her first solo show with the Stone Gallery in May 1983. ----------------------------------------------------------------------. Note from Claudia Stone: . Lorraine Shemesh is a figurative painter best known for her "Painted Pool" series. Here, being true to nature enables Shemesh to record a dazzling array of... Read full biography
Having earned a reputation for contemporary realism, especially figurative works of subjects in and around swimming pools, Lorraine Shemish turned to gestural, abstract painting in the mid 1990s after seeing an exhibition of Jackson Pollock's work at New York's Museum of Modern Art. After this change in approach, her figural depictions are still recognizable, but they are abstracted and devoid of narrative meaning. Shemish had her first solo show with the Stone Gallery in May 1983. ----------------------------------------------------------------------. Note from Claudia Stone: . Lorraine Shemesh is a figurative painter best known for her "Painted Pool" series. Here, being true to nature enables Shemesh to record a dazzling array of painterly gestures, some of them squarely within the tradition of Abstract Expressionism. Shemesh is a skilled artist, but that isn'... Read full biography
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Massachusetts, Ohio. 1917 - 1997
Sculptor, non ob painter, collage
Kentucky. Born 1958
Sculpture
Pennsylvania / Japan. Born 1946
Abstract painting
New York, Minnesota. Born 1942
Landscape, figure-interior and portrait painting
Massachusetts. Born 1958
Geometric shape arrangements, prints
United States. Born 1940
Painting, figure and still life
United States. 1950 - 2005
Painting
Illinois, New York. 1933 - 1992
Painting
California. 1946 - 2024
Abstract figurative painting, sculpture
Illinois / Scotland. Born 1963
Surrealist, mysterious and realist painting of figures, still life, fish, clothing items
New York, Indiana. 1932 - 2008
Recreative figure-dance, views, conceptual realism
New York, Michigan. 1929 - 2025
Pyramid stacked sculptures
New York / Germany. 1926 - 1987
Abstract collages, wood assemblage, textiles
Maine, Georgia, Pennsylvania. Born 1955
Modernist-real figure, genre, and portrait painting
Pennsylvania, New York. 1912 - 1993
Color field painting, abstract sculptures, printmaking, teaching
New York, New Hampshire. 1932 - 2019
Pop art, three dimensional canvas artwork, teaching, realism, abstraction
New York, Wisconsin / Germany. 1934 - 1993
Expressive, impasto laden landscape, genre and figure painting
Maine, New York. 1921 - 1977
Abstract painting, wood animal sculpture, commercial art
New York, Maine, Illinois. Born 1932
Super real urban view painting, reflections
California, New York / China. Born 1933
Large scale geometric sculpture, drawings
New Mexico. 1937 - 2020
Modernist genre-figure, abstraction
New York. 1924 - 2007
Abstract expressionist painting, collage
New York. 1917 - 2010
Abstract expressionist genre-views, non objective, collage
New York, Wyoming / Russian Federation. 1907 - 1981
Geometric abstract painting, murals, teaching
Connecticut, New York. 1919 - 2010
Modernist street people figure and genre painting, teaching
New York / France. 1900 - 1973
Modernist genre-views-figure, abstract geometric painting, teaching
PA, New York, Pennsylvania, California / France. 1890 - 1976
Dada, surreal, cubist imagery
New York, Vermont / Germany. 1927 - 2020
Abstract landscape and still life painting
New York, Massachusetts. 1910 - 1962
Action, abstract expressionist painting, teaching
New York, Vermont, Illinois / France. 1921 - 1999
Abstract expressionist painting- fantasy
New York. 1923 - 2002
Modernist pop figure, word image genre painting