2010
Abstract painter Michael David is best known for his use of encaustic, a technique that incorporates heated beeswax and pigment. Considered an inheritor of Abstract Expressionism, David’s abstract work primarily centers on the use of a densely layered surface to facilitate a direct and immediate spiritual experience.
David often incorporates religious iconography and symbolism, art historical themes such as the nude, and contemporary politics into his paintings resulting in a critical dialogue between the layered abstraction of the surface and the integrated representational imagery. Alongside his work on canvas, David has developed a body of studio photography that recreates paintings by Caravaggio, Manet, and Mantegna, among others, in works that confront racism, homophobia, and sexism.
David also works in mixed media and environmental sculpture, still within the horizon of his abiding concerns for sociopolitical questioning through art-making. His work is included in the public collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Denver Art Museum, Jewish Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Edward Albee Foundation and others.
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All Good Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes
By Michael David
Located in Phoenix, AZ
encaustic on panel b. 1954, Reno Nevada Michael David is best known for his use of encaustic on large abstract paintings. A practitioner of Abstract Expressionism, David layers bees...
Wax, Encaustic, Wood Panel, Oil
Venus in Furs
By Michael David
Located in Phoenix, AZ
b. 1954, Reno Nevada Michael David's artwork is included in the public collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Guggenheim Museum in New York; the Jewish Museum ...
Mixed Media, Wax, Acrylic
For SRV (Large)
By Michael David
Located in Phoenix, AZ
encaustic on panel b. 1954, Reno Nevada Michael David is best known for his use of encaustic on large abstract paintings. A practitioner of Abstract Expressionism, David layers bees...
Encaustic, Wood Panel, Wax, Oil
The Navigator (Small)
By Michael David
Located in Phoenix, AZ
encaustic on panel b. 1954, Reno Nevada Michael David is best known for his use of encaustic on large abstract paintings. A practitioner of Abstract Expressionism, David layers bees...
Wood, Panel, Wax, Oil
#5302
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil and gold leaf on porcelain tile Neo-romantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated with flashes of l...
Gold Leaf
#5301
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil and gold leaf on porcelain tile Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated with flashes of li...
Gold, Gold Leaf
Rising Tondo, circular
By Ilya Bolotowsky
Located in New York, NY
Ilya Bolotowsky is an important and highly recognized hard edge american abstractionist. He experimented with diamond shaped canvases and circular works as well as square formats wi...
Wood, Acrylic
Bloom, No. 3: Colorful Abstract Round Tondo Painting on Canvas
By Deb Lawrence
Located in Hudson, NY
Bloom, No. 3, 2026 acrylic and marble dust on collaged repurposed canvas on panel 29 in. diameter Colorful pinwheel tondo painting in oil on antique linen Deb Lawrence brings togeth...
Linen, Oil
Tondo 8 (Abstract painting)
By Harald Kroner
Located in London, GB
Ink, enamel on paper on linen - Unframed As the title suggests (a tondo is a Renaissance term for a circular work of art), this artwork is part of a series with a circular form wit...
Enamel
Tondo 8 (Abstract painting)
By Harald Kroner
Located in London, GB
Ink, enamel on paper on linen - Unframed As the title suggests (a tondo is a Renaissance term for a circular work of art), this artwork is part of a series with a circular form wit...
Enamel
Circular-Eternal Landscaping VI
By Cymn Wong
Located in Rockville, MD
Cymn Wong’s style of mixed media paintings are developed alongside with pastel, crayon, acrylic and ink. Rooted from traditional Chinese ink-brush painting to contemporary New York ...
Mixed Media, Acrylic
Black Tondo
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Friedel Dzubas (1915-1994) was a Berlin-born, American abstract painter and a key artist associated with both the New York School and the Color Field movement. Dzubas studied art i...
Handmade Paper, Monoprint, Monotype
