In the 1950s, Jonah Kinigstein was on the verge of making it big in New York's art world. He won a Fulbright to Rome. His paintings got into the Whitney Museum's annual show of contemporary art (the ...

In the waning summer of 1949, David Park loaded up his car with his non-objective paintings, drove to a Berkeley dump, and hurled them in. Park was a leading figure in abstract expressionism, and his ...

The painter Komatis is holding his first solo exhibit, titled London Eyes, now through Jan. 31 in Santa Barbara Central Library’s Faulkner Gallery, 40 E. Anapamu St. Komatis is a British-born painter, ...

"This generously illustrated volume accompanies the first major museum exhibition in more than thirty years devoted to the powerfully expressive work of David Park (1911-1960), best known as the ...

“The Figurative Pollock” which opened at the Kunstmuseum in Basel this weekend explores a lesser-known aspect of the legendary Abstract Expressionist’s oeuvre: his figurative paintings. “When you’re ...

Elmer Bischoff, “Motgomery Block” (1956-59), oil on canvas, 30 x 40 inches (all images courtesy George Adams Gallery) The curator and art historian Susan Landauer met Elmer Bischoff in 1985, while she ...

Alfred Leslie, the painter who began his career as a second-wave Abstract Expressionist before abandoning the style to paint in a figurative mode, has died, aged 95. His son Anthony confirmed his ...

Ángel Rengell is a Spanish multidisciplinary artist known for his emotionally charged fusion of figurative expressionism, poetic abstraction, and classical sculpture. Born in 1969 in Seville, Spain, ...

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