Contemporary Art and Abstract Artist

What It Actually Means To Commission A Painting

In short: To commission a painting means to pay a working artist to make an original piece to your specifications — size, palette, and feel — rather than buy something already finished. It's not ...

A Painting's Layered Surface Beats Its Scale

A critic's read on painter Charles Seliger: intelligence lives in built-up structure, not size. What that means for collectors buying abstract work.