A painting of old Damascus alley in Al- Qaimarryeh street.   

Old Damascus Alley

Painting of a homeless man sitting on a red pail holding a sign saying "please help"

Please Help

A painting of a fjord with mountains and waterfall, done in shades of blue and purple.

Memory of Norway

A painting of the concession stand in the lobby if the Riverview theater, 3800 42nd Ave s, Minneapolis, Mn 55406

Riverview Concession

Abstract figurative painting in blue tones and textures

Waiting 

A painting based on a drawing done by my four-year old son. 

Daddy: Self-portrait

A painting of the first blooms of spring Forsythia, spring sunlight bright yellow blooms. Light and shadow on grass. Plein air painting.

Forsythia

A painting of a vintage toy horse and cowgirl against a red bandana background. 

Queen of the West

A painting of a plastic bear shaped honey container with a blue background. 

Oh Honey

A painting of yellow apples on the tree with sun-dappled lighting.

Apples in Sun

A square oil painting showing a small red coat floating in artic waters next to an iceberg. 

Coat

A painting of a young woman with a pearl earring, and brown eyes and hair, wearing a lavender sweater.

Lauren

"painting of a small, wild bouquet of cosmos flowers in pinks, whites and purples, with soft grey green foliage"

"Cosmos Spray"

A painting of rocky shore at Grand Marais, Lake Superior. Multicolored, flat faced rocks jutting out into the blue lake with some tree growth.

Artists Point Trail

An impressionist oil painting of a carved pumpkin, using limited colors and an expressive palette knife impasto technique.

Pumpkin Carved

A vibrant oil painting of two pears. Created using oil paints and a palette knife for texture. 

The Dance

A painting of a couple who could be dancing the Waltz. The details of their bodies is less important than the positions of the tow bodies and the shadows they project.

Study - The Walz

An oil painting of a deep orange, pottery mug, a red and yellow apple, and a dark purple plum, resting on a folded, bluish-gray cloth on a wooden shelf, against a gray background.

The abandoned shopping mall as seen from the parking lot at early evening after a storm.

The Mall

an outline of red feet next to a mass of blue, red, browns and whites. something slowly exploding.

Suspended Collapse

A painting in shades of gray of a bearded man in a hoodie's head and shoulders, his gaze looks out to the left. He is a setting of sharp-looking foliage.

Wait. Watch.

A still life painting of two Haralson apples and three Horse Chestnuts on a linen cloth, in front of green curtains and a mirror.

Apples and horse chestnuts

An oil painting of a little tawny owl under a full, harvest moon in fall.

Little Tawny Owl

A painting done on location in Grand Marais, MN.  The view is from the rocks with the Sawtooth Mountains in the background. One interesting fact, since it was done on location, you can see small bugs that are stuck in the paint.

All Is Clear

Abstract painting of water with serene blue hues and white highlights filling 3/4 of surface, soft green horizon and cloud shape.

Flow series #1

An oil pastel painting of a head and neck with painted and scraped flowers around it, in the center of a background gradating with blue-based colors.

Warm Blossom

A painting of a naked purple girl sitting down, covering her face with her hands. Yellow and black surrounding her in a spiral.

Truth

An abstract painting of many colorful lines forming an amorphous blob shape on a brown-gold background. 

Shapes & That 8

Landscape painting of sunrise over Schumacher's Slough on the edge of Lake Carlos State Park, a wetland area with reeds and surrounding and distant oak forests with the peach and orange glow on lake and clouds of a midsummer sunrise.

Schumacher's Slough Sunrise

Abstract filled with bold colors - primarily orange, blue, green  - in flowing circles and organic forms. 

Untitled

A painting of an explosion of flowers.  Studies have shown flowers have an immediate impact on happiness and provide long term positive effects on mood.  Everyone could use that in 2020.

Bundles of Joy

This began as an under-painting of an old studio chair that I wouldn't work on again for nearly 20 years. It was this past spring when I finished it; I guess we were both ready.

Absent Presence

An abstract expressionist painting with dark clouds of warm colors all mixing and moving around each other, layered almost like a landscape. Thick applications of dark maroon mingle with gold, olive green, and white to create a glowing warmth.

Eternal Autumn

A blend of colors to give an impression of water 

Green Sea 

A painting of a cast sculpture.  The sculpture is of a man shooting a bow and arrow, reaching towards the sky (the arms have been removed from the cast).  It is in stark lighting, with a mysterious dark atmosphere surrounding the subject.  A ray of light illuminates the torso and knee in golden yellow.  

The Archer 

Encaustic painting on wood panel. Layers of translucent encaustic wax infused with oil and powdered pigments with embedded Washi papers and 23.5K gold powder. Black profile edge.

MAGIC

A painting of a small glass vase with purple and pink flowers set in blue water on a table near a window showing a light blue sky. 

Cafe flowers

This oil painting displays shimmering, overlapping fabric with a woman's hands holding it on either side of the top corners of the painting over her lips and lower face at the top center. The hands are intended to be lowering the veils of fabric and symbolic of her speaking the truth- speaking her truth.

Unsilent

A painting of a young girl standing thoughtfully in a dark room. Her figure is mostly in shadow and she is looking toward the only light source in her space.  

Gili, Girl In Shadow

An oil painting of the floating wooden bridge that crosses Wood Lake Nature Center in Richfield, MN. The greens and golds reflected in the water capture the peace and beauty of late Summer in Minnesota. 

Peace In Wood Lake 

A meandering river through a lush green landscape vanishing into a marsh in the distance. 

River Running

A painting of a deep red rose in a drinking glass on a kitchen counter top viewed from above. The late afternoon light is shining through the glass and lighting up the surface of the counter. The folds of the rose are rich in color and the shadows between the petals seem to draw you into the rose.

Last Rose of Summer

A painting of a tree line silhouetted against a glowing coral and violet evening sky. The foreground is a softly lit grassy hillside. The use of palette knives and brushes create marks that add a rich textural dimension.   

Going Home

An encaustic painting of a desert background with a photo of a zebra printed on tissue paper and embedded into the encaustic wax medium. Sienna pigmented wax dots were added in vertical columns and horizontal rows to add texture to the piece and highlight the zebra. 

Serengeti Stroll

A painting of two elephants nuzzling together. The picture is a close up, side view of the pair: one eye of each can be see. The tusk of the one of the left is also visible along with part of the ear of the elephant on the right. Small bits of blue background appear in the bottom corners. 

Pair of Phants

A landscape-oriented painting with a somewhat light reddish-purple background. Occupying the space are three types of squash arranged into a composition. In the front is a bright yellow squash, and to its right and slightly behind is a white patty-pan squash. Both of these were grown at home by my mom. And in the back peeking over the two is a dark green buttercup squash from a farmers' market.

Squash

Grey / black abstract highly textured painting, with black and muted, greyed colors in background, which has a subtle horizontal orientation. It is broken or divided by diagonal lines breaking into the space, angled left, from the top and the bottom.

Interruption

A female face tilted to the left emerges from the from corner of the canvas.  She looks more floral than human. She has no hair; only the emerging petals on the left side of her head that slowly fade in a rose orange soft color that covers the top of her head. Out of her right eye a tear drop emerges, surrounded by blue-greens fading into rose and orange colors.  A pink and red flower petal drapes her right cheek, stopping at the nose that is slightly crooked, and glows a soft yellow orange. Under her nose are burgundy rose red lips. They appear to be lips and a rose petal.  What stands out the most is the texture and patterns that are painted and scratched into and over the canvas. Emerging from her head are turquoise lines that look like a crown or halo.  The over feeling of the painting is love and empathy.

The Flood

A mixed media painting on a 3D aluminum surface. The edges are dented. The left side of this image depicts a shark trying to bite a mountain climber with a mysterious orange, red, and yellow geometric abstraction layered between the two subjects. The right side of the image is multicolored text on a white background that reads "3. Letting things get in the way." 

Flaws

A nude young man sits on an large open window sill, looking out a forest illuminated by a brilliant sunrise.

Window of Opportunity

A portrait of a woman amongst a field of vibrant florals and pastel shapes. 

Something Blue 

"Encountering the Others examines how Oligarchs utilize energy to govern control over indigenous cultures. With this growth of civilization comes unexpected behaviors and new challenges such as environmental issues, tolerance and acceptance, as well as the intrusion of strangers instilling their beliefs which they perceive to be better than others." 

Encountering the Others

I approach the collage as a painting not a mere assembly of pictures.  As I collect materials, they seem to connect individually or in groups. I begin to see the materials interact as I arrange colors and shapes, and discovering the form and the space created between them. Each added element will build on the previous one by changing, adding, or even result in eliminating the other components which many times were the original motivating pieces. You must allow the work to evolve and transform until the work seems to emerge from the complex contradictions or similitude, and multiplicity of the forms, edges, textures, shapes, space and even unrelated content. 

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Old Damascus Alley

Zainab N Abbas

Please Help

Mark D Cosimini

Memory of Norway

Linda S. Waite

Riverview Concession

Claudia Stack-Kremer

Waiting

Cindy Frankey

Daddy: Self-portrait

Barry Scanlan

Forsythia

Judith Anderson

Queen of the West

Karin Jacobs

Oh Honey

Chris Herzig

Apples in Sun

Donn Poll

Coat

Anne Wedler

Lauren

Libby Scheele

"Cosmos Spray"

Robyn L. Smith

Artists Point Trail

Amy Marshall

Pumpkin Carved

Walli White

The Dance

Lisa Nechanicky-Quam

Study - The Walz

Alya Pender

316

Joseph Alexander

The Mall

Mike Murray

Suspended Collapse

Tessa Sutton

Wait. Watch.

Kathryn D'Elia

Apples and horse chestnuts

Mari lyn Ampe

Little Tawny Owl

Aryn Lill

All Is Clear

Abbey Fitzgerald

Flow series #1

Donna Bruni

Warm Blossom

Emmanuella A Nwanekpe

Truth

Marissa Mate

Shapes & That 8

Lynda Mullan

Schumacher's Slough Sunrise

Chanda Kraft

Untitled

Julie Andersen

Bundles of Joy

jordyn nicole brennan

Absent Presence

Colleen Murphy

Eternal Autumn

Raquel Jung Fels

Green Sea

Katherine Story-Sutter

The Archer

Kenneth Schweiger

MAGIC

Michèle Villaume-Driscoll

Cafe flowers

Brandi M Otieno

Unsilent

Pario Max

Gili, Girl In Shadow

Joanna Hallstrom

Peace In Wood Lake