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Artist George M. Clark, best known in recent years for his abstract mixed-media works, has taken a new direction into abstract figurative painting in his new show, opening Friday from 5 to 8 at the ...

The figurative and the abstract collide and collude with startling vigor in Kate Vrijmoet’s “Essential Gestures.” This exhibit of paintings and drawings is Vrijmoet’s first solo show in Seattle — but ...

The mind processes abstract art and figurative art very differently, and the experience of viewing one or the other can change the way you think, a new study shows. Our minds process events and ...

Among the most well known and commercially successful American artists today are Kehinde Wiley and John Currin, both figurative painters of amazing skill, and both drawing inspiration from the art of ...

Two dates separated by 20 years loom large in Bay Area painter Elmer Bischoff’s career, which is currently being surveyed at the Orange County Museum of Art. One signaled a fresh beginning, the other ...

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 ...