Art brings your vision to life
Kathryn Markel Fine Arts is a New York contemporary art gallery with fifty years of experience working with interior designers, art consultants, and their clients. Our Chelsea galleries, at 529 W 20th St and 179 10th Avenue, represent a diverse roster of accomplished painters in oil and acrylic, and artists working on paper. The artworks range from quietly minimal works to boldly colorful abstractions to richly detailed realist oils. All work is original and created by living artists, mostly priced under $10,000.
We know that the right painting doesn't just complete a room. It gives it meaning, warmth, and a point of view. The team at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts works directly and discreetly with design professionals on project sourcing, from intimate works suited to studies and bedrooms to large-format paintings that anchor living rooms, lobbies, and open-plan commercial spaces. Tell us about the space, the client, the palette, the scale, and we'll find the work that fits.
Art that rewards living with it
The paintings exhibited at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts are chosen because they deepen over time — shifting in presence as light changes, revealing new detail to the sustained eye. They express the joy of making: the sensuality of color and surface, the pleasure of paint. Fine art gives pleasure long after the window treatments have faded.
Private previews, installation images, and scale mockups are available on request. We welcome inquiries from interior designers by appointment, and can help you fine original contemporary art for residential, hospitality, and commercial environments. Visit us in New York, or reach out to tell us what you're looking for at info@markelfinearts.com or 212-366-5368. Open to the Trade.
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Ky Anderson
Resting Seed 25.1, 2025Acrylic on watercolor paper
42x42 inches
Anderson's large-scale abstractions in oil and acrylic offer a rare combination of visual weight and luminosity that translates powerfully into residential and commercial interiors. Her layered, color-saturated abstract works function as statement focal points in modern, transitional, and contemporary spaces — commanding from a distance while revealing process and depth up close.
Frequently specified by designers and art consultants seeking bold original abstract painting with genuine art historical grounding. Available in a range of scales; works on paper provide a more intimate option for smaller environments.
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Roz Chast
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Fran Shalom
Walk the Walk, 2026Oil on Canvas
30 x 30 in.
Shalom's paintings occupy a distinctive space between geometric abstraction and intuitive mark-making, with a color intelligence that makes them highly versatile in designed environments. Her abstract works hold their own in architecturally rigorous interiors particularly those with strong material palettes while avoiding the coldness that purely geometric work can carry. A consistent choice for designers working in contemporary residential and boutique commercial settings seeking original abstract painting with warmth and depth.
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Katie DeGroot
Opinionated ll, 2025Watercolor and opaque watercolor on paper
40 x 26 in.
DeGroot's arboreal and botanical paintings bring organic structure and careful observation to contemporary interiors. Her works, studies of trees, branches, and natural form rendered with quiet precision, appeal strongly to designers working in nature-forward, biophilic, and Japandi-influenced environments, as well as more traditional residential settings seeking work that feels both contemporary and rooted. Available at intimate and mid-range scales; works well in multiples.
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Jacquelyn Strycker
Held Breath, 2026Collage of risographs on Japanese papers with sewing and acrylic gouache
33.5 x 33.5 in.
Jacquelyn Strycker's collage-based works reference textile traditions — quilts, rugs, tapestries — while functioning fully as fine art objects. Their graphic clarity and pattern intelligence make them natural conversation partners with designed interiors that incorporate strong textiles, wallcovering, or material detail. Particularly effective in spaces where the designer wants a work that feels woven into the material world of the room rather than separate from it.
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Erick Johnson
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Joanne Freeman
Square B, 2022Oil on linen18 x18 in.Joanne Freeman's gouache on handmade paper art occupies a precise, meditative territory between geometric structure and intuitive mark-making. Her ongoing Squares and Strokes series — available in a range of sizes — brings an exceptional quality of surface and color restraint to designed interiors.
The works are intimate without being decorative, and their modest scale makes them ideal for studies, corridors, bedroom environments, and curated gallery walls where precision and quiet intensity are the goal. Frequently placed by designers working in modern and minimalist residential settings. Works on paper available at accessible price points; an excellent entry point for clients beginning to collect original art.
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Peter Stephens
Quadrivium 54, 2023Acrylic on wood
40 x 44 in.
Stephens builds his paintings entirely freehand over an underlying grid of commercial paint samples, exploring color relationships line by line in acrylic on wood. The result is work of extraordinary optical complexity — paintings that vibrate with color energy and reward sustained looking in a way that static, high-contrast work cannot.
His paintings carry clear references to textile and mosaic traditions, making them natural companions to designed interiors where pattern, material, and visual rhythm are already part of the room's language. Particularly effective in open-plan spaces, dining environments, and contemporary residential interiors where a focal-point work needs to hold its own across a large wall. Available at multiple scales.
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Stanley Bielen
Dahlias and Marigolds, 2023Oil on paper / mounted
15 x 21 in.
Framed size: 22 x 28 in.Bielen's intimate oil paintings — figures, still lifes, and interior scenes rendered with spare, unsentimental clarity — bring a quiet human presence to any space they inhabit. Working primarily in oil on paper mounted on panel, his pieces are modest in scale but substantial in feeling, and work exceptionally well in rooms where the designer wants something that rewards close looking rather than commanding from a distance.
Particularly well-suited to studies, reading rooms, bedrooms, and secondary spaces in residential environments where a work of genuine artistic seriousness is needed without visual dominance. Available at accessible price points across a range of sizes; works frame beautifully and hold well alongside both contemporary and traditional interior schemes.
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Lisa Breslow
Balcony View, 2024Oil and pencil on panel
29 x 70 in.
Breslow's paintings and works on paper translate the visual rhythm of urban environments — streets, windows, light, shadow — into luminous, precisely structured compositions in oil and pencil on panel. Her work bridges the space between representation and abstraction in a way that appeals broadly: specific enough to be immediately readable, abstracted enough to hold visual interest in a designed setting over time.
Available from intimate panel works to substantial horizontal canvases such as Balcony View (2024, 29 x 70 inches), Breslow's paintings scale gracefully across residential environments and are a particularly strong fit for transitional and contemporary interiors where the designer wants original painting with genuine art historical substance. We also carry Lisa Bewslow's monotypes.
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Greg Chann
Praxis, 2025Acrylic and ink21 x 23 x 1.75 in.Chann's wall-mounted sculptures are among the most distinctive three-dimensional works available through the gallery — and one of the most conversation-generating pieces a designer can specify. Built from acrylic and ink within a gridded geometric structure, each piece hangs by a single central nail and brings a jewelry-like precision to wall installation.
The work draws on Buddhist mandala traditions and the stepped Manhattan skyline, making it a natural fit for collectors with a cultural or design sensibility and for interiors where a sculptural wall piece is preferable to a flat canvas. Available in a range of sizes; the intimacy of scale makes Chann's work ideal for entryways, studies, and primary wall positions in modern residential interiors where the piece will be encountered closely.
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Denise Regan
My Stuff, 2026Oil and encaustic on canvas
30 x 40 in.
Denise Regan works in oil and encaustic — a wax-based medium that produces surfaces of unusual warmth and luminous depth — painting still lifes, landscapes, and interiors in electrified color with bold pattern and a flat, graphic sensibility that sits confidently between the decorative and the fine art. Her paintings bring immediate visual energy to a room without demanding the kind of close analysis that more austere work requires.
A strong choice for clients who want original oil painting that feels genuinely joyful and accessible, and for designers working in environments where warmth, color, and personality are the dominant design language. Works are modest to mid-scale and fit well in dining rooms, kitchens, secondary bedrooms, and spaces where bold color is already established.
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Dana Piazza
Lines 350, 2026Pigmented ink on 300 lb hot press watercolor paper40 x 30 in.Piazza creates abstract drawings and paintings through a meditative process of repeating simple marks — lines built up with brushes, pens, markers, and nibs in a sustained, open-ended practice that produces work of extraordinary quiet intensity. His Lines series, available on paper and panel, brings a contemplative visual rhythm to residential and designed spaces that is increasingly sought after in environments where the designer is moving away from visual noise toward considered restraint.
Piazza's works function particularly well in rooms that have strong architectural detail — the mark-making finds a natural resonance with materiality and surface. Available in intimate to mid-range scales; works on paper are an accessible entry point. Well suited to collectors drawn to process-based and minimalist contemporary art. Keywords: process-based abstract art, minimalist works on paper, line drawings for interiors, contemporary abstract drawings, meditative art for designed spaces, quiet contemporary art
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Sydney Licht
Still Life with Three Bundles, 2025Oil on panel
10x10 inches
Sydney Licht's small-format oil paintings on linen and panel are deceptively monumental — still lifes of everyday objects rendered with such specificity of color, surface, and weight that they hold a wall with the authority of much larger works. Her practice updates the conventions of still life painting for contemporary environments: the objects she paints — packaged goods, fabric swatches, vases, flowers — carry a wry cultural intelligence that makes them endlessly interesting to live with.
Particularly well suited to shelves, ledges, and grouped arrangements in modern and transitional interiors, Licht's paintings work brilliantly in multiples — a row of three or four small panels creates a collected, layered effect that designers return to repeatedly. Available at accessible price points; strong sell-through record.
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Yolanda Sánchez
Water Your Love Everyday (diptych), 2023Oil on canvas48 x 96 in.Sánchez's large-scale oil paintings are among the most emotionally expansive works in the gallery's program — gestural canvases informed by Eastern calligraphy, dance, Cuban cultural heritage, and the structural principles of classical ink painting. Her mark-making carries unmistakable physical energy; these are paintings that move.Available at significant scale, including diptychs reaching 48 x 96 and 48 x 120 inches, her work is a strong choice for designers seeking original painting that commands a substantial residential or commercial wall with genuine art historical depth behind it. The palette tends toward warm, luminous color relationships that function well in both contemporary and transitional environments. Works on paper are available at more accessible price points for collectors building a relationship with the work. -
Marilla Palmer
Ecstasy of the Sun, 2025Watercolor, gold leaf, embroidery, millinery foliage, pressed flowers, Durabright prints on Arches paper29.5 x 41 in.Palmer's mixed media works navigate an unexpected territory between the natural and the synthetic — dried flowers, botanical prints, and organic foliage combined with holographic paper, sequins, and metallic materials to create works that are simultaneously lush and knowing. The result is original art that reads differently depending on who is looking: collectors with a botanical or natural history sensibility find their world reflected back through an unexpected material lens; designers working in maximalist, pattern-driven, or nature-forward interiors find a work that participates actively in the room's visual language.
Her pieces work particularly well in spaces with strong textiles, mixed materials, and layered design intent. Available in a range of scales and formats.
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Deborah Zlotsky
Ghost lines 3, 2025Gouache on Canvas
14 x 11 in.
Zlotsky's paintings are among the most visually layered and rewarding works in the gallery's program — striated canvases that shift in color and rhythm as a viewer moves through a space. They are particularly effective in rooms with strong natural light, where the paintings' surface activity changes throughout the day. Well-suited to living rooms, entrance halls, and any environment where an abstract work will be lived with closely over time.
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