Ian Davis Exhibitions and Paintings at Saatchi-gallery

Selected Works by Ian Davis are at first he worked on Factory in 2006 Acrylic on canvas,secondly he worked on Doledrum in 2006 Acrylic on canvas and also great more works done by Ian Davis.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007

• Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

2006

• The Great Divide, Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles

2000

• Art One Gallery, Scottsdale

• Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City

1998

• Eight Million Stories, New School for the Arts, Scottsdale

• Art One Gallery, Scottsdale

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2004

• Miscegenation, The Chocolate Factory, Phoenix

• Merry/Peace, Sideshow, Brooklyn

• Born in the U.S.A., Galerie Art One, Zurich

2003

• GRA Gallery, New York

• Fugitive Art Space, Nashville

2002

• GRA Gallery, New York

2001

• Above Ground, Dam, Stuhltrager, Brooklyn

1999

• Horror, 381g, San Francisco

• Art One Gallery, Scottsdale

• Three Painters, 381g, San Francisco

1998

• Whole Gallery, San Francisco

1997

• Four, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco

1996

• Artworks Gallery, San Francisco

1995

• Transitions, Arizona State University West Gallery, Phoenix

1994

• Painting and Sculpture, Step Gallery 9999, Tempe

• Joe Robbins, Ian Davis, Matthew Kruse, Step Gallery 709, Tempe

What to Do Next…

If you want any information about Ian Davis or looking for his paintings please visit us on http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/ian_davis.htm

Naked Lady Paintings Add Spice to Home Decor

Two highly accomplished, emerging artists are not afraid to openly appreciate and celebrate the beauty of the female body.  And these two artists happen to be beautiful young women themselves, who find pleasure and professional satisfaction in drawing and painting the curves, folds, and lovely landscape of the female form.

Australian artist, Jennie Rosenbaum and American artist, Ashley Dietrich don’t know each other, but they clearly are on the same artistic moonbeam when it comes to appreciating the female form and expressing its beauty through their art. 

Rosenbaum and Dietrich are showing their collections of original oil and mixed media paintings in their online art galleries on DiscoveredArtists.com.  Their work is clearly resonating with visitors to the original art website because the paintings are getting twice the number of hits and views than similar pieces of art.

Neither artist is exhibiting erotic art on the site, but the two clearly are focused on the sensuality and the beauty of the female form.  Their work is tasteful and perfectly suited for those private areas of your home where you might want to add a bit of spice to your life.

A tastefully painted original of a nude female on a master bedroom wall or in the master bath makes a subtle reference to your sensual side, and reminds you to connect with your femininity.  It certainly says that you are comfortable with your own body and not hung-up on nudity (Of course, if you are hung up on nudity, well then, never mind!)

Thousands of paintings of nudes in a wide variety of colors, media, styles and poses are available at art galleries and on the internet.  It’s a bit surprising that many are painted by female artists.  We expect male artists to be preoccupied with the female form, so it’s unusual and very interesting when women artists study and work at perfecting the art of illustrating the female form.

Rosenbaum focuses almost exclusively on nudes.  Most of her paintings are of women. In her artist’s statement she celebrates the female form and encourages others to celebrate it as well.  The artist paints bodies that are strong but at the same time soft, rounded and curvy.  Her nudes literally glow with sensuality and are perfectly executed figurative drawings that show a real appreciation for the natural beauty of real women.  You can view her entire gallery at http://www.discoveredartists.com/gallery/Jennie .

Dietrich’s women are not always naked, but they are always beautiful and very sexy.  Her Lounge Series paintings are of leggy, curvy women in cocktail dresses with beautiful faces, turned fully to the viewer, commanding attention.  Her women come across as sophisticated party girls, friendly and ready for a good time.  Dietrich also paints nudes.  Her naked females are sensual, sexy snapshots of curvy women, stretched fully and provocatively across the canvas.  She doesn’t hold back in showing off the sexiness of the figures she paints.  See her series of party girls and nudes at http://www.discoveredartists.com/gallery/AshleyDietrich .

Take the time to view the work of these two young women, find a painting of a beautiful naked lady, hang her on your wall and be reminded every day of just how lovely you are.  It’s a simple way to celebrate being female and add some spice to your home and to your life.

Jenny Rosenbaum and Ashley Dietrich’s original paintings sell online for from $100 to $1000 and the paintings range in size from 6″ x 11″ to 36″ x 24″.  Color palettes are varied, except as one would expect, all of their paintings have lovely flesh and striking, sun kissed tones of bronze!  You can view the artists’entire portfolios at www.discoveredartists.com.

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Buying Yellow Paintings

I’ve been watching yellow paintings at an online auction site.  I wonder where these yellow paintings will end up hanging.  There were twenty bids on a painting of yellow daffodils.  It was really pretty.

I really liked the painting titled Red Flowers Yellow Ochre Morning.  It came in three panels that were each 20″X16″.  The picture online showed the painting above a bed and it just looked so clean and crisp.  The medium for this painting was acrylic.

The smallest paintings that I found were on a panel bracelet.  The paintings were of Indian and Near Eastern rulers.  The paintings were put in an openwork gold frame set with seed pearls.  This piece was created in the early twentieth century.

Another yellow painting that I liked was Yellow World by Karen Khachaturov.  There were a lot of contrasting yellows in it.  I could see yellow lemons and a beautiful yellow flower.  The lemons were painted so realistically.  This artist has paintings hanging in private galleries in over 40 countries.

I can only imagine that the oil painting of yellow roses by an unknown artist will hang in a lovely home.  The painting has a nice quality to it.  The petals of the yellow roses in the painting seemed to reach out as if they were still alive

There was a nice painting that had twenty bidders that was of a vase of yellow daffodils.  The feel of the painting was that of one of the masters in impressionist art.  The artist listed the item herself and she is also a poet and songwriter.  I can close my eyes and see that painting hanging in someone’s formal parlor.  It is so very elegant.

The future home of the French chic painting of yellow, lavender and pink roses must be that of a very feminine woman.  When I was looking at the painting, I could almost smell the roses.  I thought that the sale price of two hundred dollars was disappointing.  I think it should have sold for more.

My search for yellow paintings found a painting entitled Yellow Taking Over.  I don’t know why the artist titled his work like that.  There was some yellow in this collage, but not much.  The painting was done in 1956 by Nicholas Krushenick.  It came from the personal collection of a famous photographer that works for the Village Voice.  This would look good in someone’s law office.

I wish that I could have purchased the antique oil painting of exotic yellow flowers.  The auction said that it was painted in 1897.  The pictures made the painting look like it was in great shape for being over one hundred years old.  It would look good on the wall of my guest bedroom.

Artist Heidi Vaught had a listing for a painting she titled Ambiance numbered 10.  The painting had only one bidder and sold for the opening bid, one hundred dollars.  I think the winning bidder got quite a bargain.  This painting was abstract with lots of teal and yellow.

Another painting by Heidi Vaught went for sixty five dollars.  This was another bargain, if you ask me.  The painting was entitled Yellow Squared and it had a really dizzy feeling to it.  I liked it at first sight.

I have a friend that would have like the painting I found of a yellow cat.  It looked just like her cat.  The painting was an original acrylic contemporary painting in yellow ochre.  It would have complemented her modern furnishings.

Yellow roses make a wonderful subject.  I never tire of paintings of yellow roses.  My favorite recently was done by Joan Cobb Mayer.  The interpretation was stunning.

There was one other yellow rose oil painting that caught my eye recently.  This one was painted by Berniece Meyers.  The bloom extended to all sides of the canvas and the center seemed infinite.  I felt good after viewing it.

Selected Works and Paintings by Christian Ward at the Saatchi-gallery

Christian Ward’s eye-grabbingly vivid paintings where Technicolor mountains, caverns and grottoes shimmer with rainbows, cascade with multicoloured waterfalls and are wreathed in iridescent mist.Ward’s wanderings have taken him from the mountains of Scotland and across America into the Arizona desert, but his most recent paintings – and the ones that caught Charles Saatchi’s eye – have their starting point in Yakushima, an island off the southern coast of Japan. This World Heritage Site with its virgin, swampy jungle and rocky mountains plunging into the ocean, is not only scenically spectacular, but also has a personal signiÞcance. Ward’s mother is Japanese and her family originally came from this area;

‘It’s always about a primary experience and then coming back and not doing a topography, but making something surprising and revealing about the landscape,’ he says. ‘Contemplation is a very big part of the process.’The influences of this 25-year-old graduate of the Royal Academy Schools range from Sixties psychedelic graphic design to ancient Chinese paintings, as well as the latest Japanese animation techniques. Yet for all their phantasmagoric otherworldliness – one critic described them as a cross between Fantasia and The Land That Time Forgot – they are always based on the direct experience of a real place.

Then there’s the physical quality of the paint itself: no shiny surfaces and quick-drying acrylic here, but juicy areas of oil paint that gives the work a direct physical immediacy that prevents it from tumbling into kitsch. Ward attaches great importance to technique and applies his paint in lush, sweeping brushstrokes that he’s compared to the raking of gravel around the rocks in Zen gardens. ‘I’m very interested in this idea of origin, and for me origin as a subject is very hard to pinpoint. Painting, because of its history, deals with origin very well. It’s got this life to it that isn’t apparent in a lot of other mediums’.While he’s happy to have been singled out by Saatchi, ‘it means I can carry on, which is a good thing.’ Ward is already pondering new avenues,

what to Do Next…

Find more information about Christian Ward Exhibitions or looking for his paintings please visit us on
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/christian_ward.htm