Barnaby Furnas

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Barnaby Furnas is an American painter whose work combines abstraction with figuration through energetic, gestural mark-making and layered applications of acrylic and oil. His compositions often depict explosive or violent moments, fire, smoke, water in turbulence, bodies in motion, rendered in a controlled chaos of drips, splatters, and sweeping brushstrokes. Born in 1973, he works across large and intimate scales, collapsing the boundary between romantic landscape painting and raw physical abstraction. His practice engages with historical painting traditions while maintaining a distinctly contemporary visual language grounded in material intensity and psychological immersion.

Source: Marianne Boesky · Trust score: 100% · Updated 1mo ago