Mary Lai

"Alphabet Bookshelf Artist Legogh" acrylic print mounted on metallic paper

2023

Mary Lai is a multifaceted Korean-American artist based in Los Angeles, California.  Her outlook is that “Art is a universal language that can speak to anyone” and her dreamer mindse...

Mary Lai is a multifaceted Korean-American artist based in Los Angeles, California.  Her outlook is that “Art is a universal language that can speak to anyone” and her dreamer mindse...

Mary Lai is a multifaceted Korean-American artist based in Los Angeles, California.  Her outlook is that “Art is a universal language that can speak to anyone” and her dreamer mindse...

Mary Lai is a multifaceted Korean-American artist based in Los Angeles, California.  Her outlook is that “Art is a universal language that can speak to anyone” and her dreamer mindse...

Mary Lai is a multifaceted Korean-American artist based in Los Angeles, California.  Her outlook is that “Art is a universal language that can speak to anyone” and her dreamer mindse...

Mary Lai is a multifaceted Korean-American artist based in Los Angeles, California.  Her outlook is that “Art is a universal language that can speak to anyone” and her dreamer mindse...

Artwork size: 67 x 51 cm. Frame size: 112 x 97 cm. Free shipment worldwide. Archive number SF 89-153 in the Sam Francis Foundation. Stamped with the Sam Francis Estate logo and stamped signature on verso. Sam Francis’s paintings are a journey into a dream, a voyage into the landscapes of the soul where colours are lights on fire. Alongside names such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline, Sam Francis is an artist who has succeeded in demonstrating a total mastery of abstract expressionism’s impassioned and spontaneous genre. The explosions of colour – red, blue, green and yellow – the streaks, strokes and bold lines of his pictures are the physical synthesis of the deepest crevices of the soul. His colours create rhythmical motifs that, characteristically enough, can be called the “musicality” of his paintings. The work of Sam Francis provides a visible meeting place for the conscious and the unconscious. His pictures are the cross-fertilisation of what has already been experienced with what exists still only as desire, a struggle between melancholy and merrymaking. Influenced by C.G. Jung, the father of psychoanalysis, Sam Francis spent a large portion of his life exploring the premise that dreams, instincts and intuition provide, the keys which unlock the mysteries and meaning of our inner lives. He was also fascinated by the four ancient elements – earth, water, air and fire – which developed into a leitmotif in his work. Sam Francis was born in San Mateo in California, USA in 1923. After starting to paint at the age of around twenty, he soon found himself increasingly consumed by the power of art. He spent much of the 1950s in Paris, from where he not only made frequent excursions to a number of European cities, but also embarked on many journeys to South America and Asia. He continued to move from place to place, primarily in the USA and Japan, right up until his death in 1994. Sam Francis’s first...

This captivating artwork is a weaving that beautifully captures the essence of flight, embodying the graceful movement of a bird in motion. Through a skilful interplay of vibrant hue...

The artwork is framed and floated to the backboard. The dimensions of 44 x 50 cm are that of the artwork only, excluding the size of the frame.

The artwork is framed and floated to the backboard. The dimensions of 44 x 50 cm are that of the artwork only, excluding the size of the frame.

Delicate and layered Collotype on heavy bond paper by Patricia A. Pearce (American, b. 1948). The background is a lithograph, and the ribbons have been painted by hand over the top. ...

Modern Art, Portrait Painting, Mixed Media Portrait Art-Lost Between The Lines ABOUT THIS PIECE: “Lost Between the Lines, (Behtyie-A13)” is mixed media portrait art by Addison Jones...