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168 North 6th Street
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211
718-486-7021

hours: Friday, Saturday, Sunday
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michael jackson paintingRusel Parish,
MJ Bursting with Fireworks, oil, wax, resin, gold, 42" x 54"

 

 


This website is dedicated to bringing you various examples of fine art that explore the human form. Established artists drawing inspiration from the human figure are represented. Subjects include the male and female nude, portraits, and life studies. Many mediums are represented including pencil, pen & ink, oil, acrylic, pastel, stained and fused glass and sculpture.

The gallery is located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, where these works and related figurative art pieces may be viewed.

nicolai cikovsky
Nicolai Cikovsky (1894-1987)
Seated Woman,1943, oil on canvas, 28-1/2" x 22"

CONTEMPORARY
ARTWORK

Select gallery artists have been posted with examples of recent work. Please choose an artist below to visit their pages. 

Jorge Alvarez
ink/watercolor/oil painting

Ingrid Capozzoli Flinn
oil painting

Howard Eisman
enamel

Bonnie Faulkner
glass

Reina Gillson
watercolor

Matthew Greenway
oil painting

Randall Harris
oil pastel

Paul Hollingsworth
acrylics/floor clothes

Joshua Katcher
ceramic

Peter Krebs
stone carving

Elim Mak
Gouache/Watercolor/Ink

Joachim Marx
mixed media on canvas

Michael Massen
oil on canvas

Meridith McNeal
mixed medium

Doug Metzler
oil/photo

Arlene Morris
pastel/mixed medium

Susan Newmark - NEW
collage/artists books

Rusel Parish
oil painting

Dana Parlier
sculpture

Audrey Rhoda
oil painting and wax

Jacquelyn Schiffman
acrylic/wax

Barry Steely
alkyds/rapidographs


Mary Westring
mixed medium

© NOTICE: All works in this site are copyrighted and can not be used without the artist's permission.

CURRENT & UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

January 8 - February 21, 2010

Meridith McNeal
In the Footsteps of the Starry Messenger
meridith mcneal
McNeal, Buckled Show with Red Heel, ink/watercolor, 7" x 7"

Figureworks is pleased to present In The Footsteps of the Starry Messenger by artist Meridith McNeal. The exhibition includes over 40 nib pen and ink drawings painted in watercolor, ranging from 7 inches to 7 feet, and is inspired by a seminal scientific event that changed the course of history. Some background:

In January 1610, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei observed three very bright objects close to Jupiter. After several nights, he noticed that the pattern changed and a fourth bright object became visible.  Galileo explained there were four satellites which revolved about Jupiter and Jupiter and its satellites revolved around the sun. To Galileo, it followed that the sun must be the center of the universe.  In March 1610, he published the results of his observations in his book, The Starry Messenger.  On the evening of April 14, 1611, Galileo demonstrated his theory to the influential philosophers and mathematicians of the Jesuit Collegio Romano, letting them see with their own eyes through his telescope the reality of the four moons of Jupiter.  They were also able to read an inscription on a building three miles away. While in Rome he was also made a member of the Accademia dei Lincei, the first formal scientific society founded by Prince Federico Cesi.

McNeal explains the connection of her exhibition to Galileo: “While in residence at The American Academy in Rome in spring 2009, I was working in a studio on the actual site where Galileo first set up his telescope for his colleagues at the Jesuit Collegio Romano, which was followed by a formal banquet to celebrate the occasion.  This fascinating historical link became the springboard for my exhibition, In The Footsteps of the Starry Messenger.  The work is about the people who have been in that particular space and what they have done there.  I chose to draw shoes to represent the people themselves. For source material, I stopped people on the street in Rome to photograph their shoes, made sketches in museums, and looked at shoe images in Roman advertising.  Also on view are images relating to Accademia dei Lincei,  and to my own idea of a banquet: my Roman food and my kitchen at the Academy.”

“I hope you will be pleased to see that on this side of the mountains also men are not lacking who travel in your footsteps.” 1612 Letter from Mark Welser to Galileo Galilei

February 26 - April 4, 2010
Reception: February 26th 6-9PM
Susan Newmark
CUT & COLOR: THE JANES
Collages and Artists Books

susan newmark
Newmark, Jane's Eyes (detail), collage


ARTIST STATEMENT:
CUT & COLOR is a series of mixed media collages and artists books based on the persona of Jane Russell, one of the first “bad girl” movie stars whose sensual omnipotent persona was a harbinger of today’s cult of celebrity. Jane’s image is appropriated from a vintage coloring/paper doll book made for little girls combined with icons from current fashion, film, tattoo and skin magazines. An early Barbie, she works, plays, travels, sails, dresses and socializes -- always alluring and always in total control. But, while Jane’s gaze conveys confidence and an assertive engagement with the world and is slightly illicit, in my work she is simultaneously struggling and unraveling, losing body parts, morphing and fragmenting or disappearing entirely into herself. It is these very human states of uncertainty, fear, anxiety, and obsessiveness that interests me in exploring the disparate clash of public message and personal reality. My working process of cutting, tearing, layering, sanding and layering again with drawing and color, parallels my fascination with simultaneous levels of meaning as I explore my own emotional identity,and reflect upon the many contradictions of being female. This additive process with its cumulative layering of paper, drawing, images and color creates a dense web of vision that incorporates accident and improvisation. My unique artists books, whose structures are altered children’s cardboard books, add glitzy decorative objects to collage ,and reflect upon Jane’s various body parts and their need for adornments along with simple directives for the voyage through life.


Figureworks
168 North 6th Street
Williamsburg • Brooklyn, NY 11211
718-486-7021
Hours: Friday, Saturday, Sunday
1 - 6 pm or by appointment

20th CENTURY
ARTWORK

Figureworks is also pleased to offer original 20th century drawings, paintings and sculpture by prominent WPA, regional and international artists. Most works have now been posted under

20th CENTURY
ARTWORK

and will be continually updated as works are sold and/or catalogued. Please contact us for more information concerning pieces posted or additional images from the artist list.

© NOTICE: All works within this site are copyrighted and can not be used without Figureworks permission.