Contemporary Abstract painting found online
An ongoing collection of images found on the internet - often on Instagram
The most recent are at the end.
Every painting is a unique adventure so some artists may be listed several times - while others may be one-hit wonders (at least as far as I am concerned)
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Cyndi Lewis
Nina Rizzo’s, Annie O, 2021
Sarah Boyts Yoder, Squid Pink, 30 x 22, oil, gouache, collage on paper
David Pearce, Far end of the orchard, 30 x 32, mixed media on panel
Samia Halaby (b. Jerusalem, 1936), still from the video "Constructivist" 1987
Samia Halaby, Prancing in the Vineyard, 1982, media on paper
Samia Halaby, Abstract Painting # 276, 26 x 23, 1973
Samia Halaby, Mediterranean#279, 1975, 48 x 66
Samia Halaby, Our Beautiful Land of Palestine Stolen in the Night of History, 2016
(Guess I can never see enough of her)
Vidvuds Zviedris, Manto
Zviedris, Hekate
Zviedris, Scylla
Zviedris, Daphne
Strauss Bourque-LaFrance
Lisa Corrine Davis, Episodic Calculation, 2024
Leslie Baum, watercolor, plein air, 10 x 7
Marisol Cervantes, 48 x 60
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, 2025
Confused but not
E.C. Is my Name, 63 x 59”
Some paint sloshing is more compelling than others.
Ellen Divine Dodd, 36 x 36
Enjoyable whimsy that contrasts well with what’s above.
Both appeared on Instagram on the same day
Gis Mari
Molly Zuckerman -Hartung
Here’s two more contrasting paintings posted to Instagram on the same day.
One explodes into space - the other traps it.
Yang and Yin.
Fred Pollock
Here’s two more paintings that appeared on the same day in December 2025:
Molly Zuckerman Hartung, 48 x 60 ???
Emily Rapport, 11 x 14, watercolor
Both are playing wildly within a grid,
Here’s work in progress by Bruce Thorn.
Yet to see the actual piece,
but on a computer screen, I do prefer the earlier version (top)
before he worked it down to the cellular level.
Liliane Tomasko
Pairs nicely with what follows.
Both feel like thrilling views of the world.
Above: indoors. A self is at center
Below: a seaport? Wind, sun, motion
Chicago Imagism on steroids
( a double dose )
She’s back in Korea now.
Ronnel Reese
Young man, probably self taught.
May or may not be familiar with Kandinsky.
Work picked up when he ditched the figure.
David Sharpe, Going Home 2nd version, 29 x 30,
2026,
The vertical left and the horizontal right enhance each other so well
Tomothy Mutzel
So similar to Sharpe
Torsten Trantow, b. 1975 Germany
Oh for a peaceful, well ordered life
As opposed to…….
Jack Lord
Really like all these fired up neurons,
but Jack posts them so often
I had to stop following him.
It was driving me crazy.
Kippi Leonard
Background in interior design while
CV has nothing about art school.
I like the feeling of effort and resilience.
Feels like the aerial view of a city
Bruce Thorn
Could be the background of the best Tibetan Thangka painting I’ll ever see.
Fire energy
under control
but just barely
Here’s another Thorn area of detail I really like
Jim Waterbury, 20 x 24., cut paper collage
Jeff Wenzel
Rodney McMillian, 93 x 64, acrylic and latex on bedsheet
Emergence of the gorgeous between the sheets
Emily Noelle Lambert
Mathias Herkenhoff
Leslie Baum
Acrylic and flashe on unprimed canvas, 22 x 17
Almost figurative.
Quite a surprise coming from her
John Pollard, 31 x 31
He says he worked five years on this collage
and I believe it
Gis Mari . 116 x 83
Obviously meant to be pulled through a Mardi Gras parade
Gis Mari, detail from Sweet Abyss
Really can’t get enough of this guy
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Timothy Mutzel
Another pairing - this time of turbulent sloshers that I’ve clipped for comparison.
EC
Everyone to their own sense of turbulence.
There’s way too much stuff in our modern lives.
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Jamie Madison, Engineering, acrylic on paper, 18 x 28
Not much info about her.
Studied with Wayne Thiebaud, took some time off, and returned to painting ten years ago.
She makes a happy world.
The works on paper, like the above, are especially delightful
A bit more hetoic
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