Tag: oil on linen

Eteri Chkadua-Tuite

Eteri Chkadua-Tuite, “Requiem”, 1993, Oil on Linen, 76.2 x 101.6 cm, Private Collection

Eteri Chkadua-Tuite is a painter from Tbilisi, Georgia. She divides her time between Chicago with her husband, Kevin Tuite, and her hometown of Tbilisi. At the age of sixteen, Chkadua studied at the Tbilisi Art Academy, one of five applicants admitted out of several hundred.

Her artwork is concerned with the expressions of people. Her paintings are usually full of groups of people engaged in activity, sometimes praying, hunting, or marching. Her palette tends to be sepias, greenish browns or pale yellows.  Comparisons have been made to the Flemish and Dutch paintings of the 1500s with their round faces and bodies.

Cesar Santos

Cesar Santos, “The Restorers”, Oil on Linen, 29 x 39 Inches

Cesar Santos’s art education is worldly, and his work has been seen around the globe, from the Annigoni Museum in Italy and the Beijing museum in China to Chelsea NY. Santos studied at Miami Dade College, where he earned his associate in arts degree in 2003. He then attended the New World School of the Arts before traveling to Florence, Italy. In 2006, Santos  completed the Angel Academy of Art in Florence studying under Michael John Angel, a student of artist Pietro Annigoni.

Santos’ work reflects both classical and modern interpretations juxtaposed within one painting. His influences range from the Renaissance to the masters of the nineteenth century to Contemporary Art. With superb technique, he infuses a harmony between the natural and the conceptual to create works that are provocative and dramatic.

Peter Doig

Paintings by Peter Doig, Oils on Linen

Peter Doig was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1962 he moved with his family to Trinidad, where his father worked with a shipping and trading company, and then in 1966 to Canada. He moved to London to study at the Wimbledon School of Art in 1979-80, Saint Martin’s School of Art (where he became friends with artist Billy Childish), from 1980 to 1983, and Chelsea School of Art, in 1989-90, where he received an MA.

Doig was invited to return to Trinidad in 2000, to take up an artist’s residency with his friend and fellow painter Chris Ofili. In 2002, Doig moved back to the island, where he set up a studio at the Caribbean Contemporary Arts Center near Port of Spain. He also became professor at the Fine Arts Academy in Düsseldorf, Germany.

In 2007, his painting White Canoe sold at Sotheby’s for $11.3 million, then an auction record for a living European artist. In February 2013, his painting, The Architect’s Home in the Ravine, sold for $12 million at a London auction.

Images from Top to Bottom: “Cricket Painting (Paragrand)”;  “Almost Grown”;  “Milky Way”;  “100 Years Ago (Carrera)”;  “Pelican (Stag)”;  “Figure Walking by the Pool”;  “Red Boat (Imaginary Boys”;  “Spear Fishing”;  “No Foreign Lands”

Bryan Leboeuf

Bryan Leboeuf, “Age of Man”, 2003, Oil on Linen, 122 x 127 cm, Private Collection

Raised on the Gulf Coast in rural Louisiana, Bryan LeBoeuf moved to New York City in 1998 to continue his formal training in art school, which had begun in southwestern Colorado. Since his first solo show in the Spring of 2003, several of his paintings have been acquired by public collections, including The Forbes Collection and The Flint Institute of Art. In 2008, the artist had his first solo museum exhibition at the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, Georgia.

Bryan Leboeuf

Bryan Leboeuf, “Mosh Pit”, 2003. Oil on Linen. 60 x 48 inches. Collection of Peter N. Geisler Jr., West Palm Beach, Florida. On extended loan to MOCA Jacksonville.

Bryan Leboeuf’s painting, “Mosh Pit”, depicts a crowded expanse of bodies and limbs viewed from above, on top of which a man is suspended, held by the people below. While the subject matter of the scene is modern and profane, the striking position of the body of the main figure is reminiscent of Baroque depictions of the religious subject of the Deposition of Christ from the Cross. Leboeuf’s use of chiaroscuro lighting and other Old Master techniques enhances the artistic references to the past embodied in this seemingly contemporary subject.

Jack Cowan

Jack Cowan, “The Ascent”,. 2006, Oil on Linen;. 78.7 x 73.7 cm, Private Collection

Born in Florida in 1962, Jack D. Cowan is an American Realist artist whose work is known for a broad range of subjects, which include still lifes, landscapes, figurative work, and commissioned portraits. His work has been influenced by the compositional style of fashion industry’s promotions and the works of master painters such as Manet, Vermeer and Degas. 

Cowan has shown his work at exhibitions in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Miami. In addition to his frequent shows at Indianapolis’s Hoosier Gallery, his work has been exhibited at the Indiana State Museum in 1990 and at the 1993 Chicago Art Exposition.