33 Contemporary Gallery

We offer a wide selection of premier contemporary realism, figurative art, and abstraction paintings from emerging and established artists from around the world.

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Kathrin Longhurst
Body and Mind III. 2022
Kathrin Longhurst’s visual language collides with the starting point of her own journey, as a child of the cold-war era, who has been to both sides of the iron-curtain. The contrast between war-propaganda imagery and glamorous promises of the other side of the wall, have been the inspirations of her early works. Longhurst reconsidered war propaganda aesthetics with ‘flying’ female warriors, in place of fearsome male figures of power. Her early works aim to bend the visual paradigm of men and women at war, imposed by the patriarchal power structures of the past. Longhurst’s initial approach is self-observational, rewriting the recent history to empower the idea of a gender-equal future.

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Sergio Gomez
Singular Reverence, 2022
Sergio Gomez is known for his large scale figurative abstraction paintings and drawings which focus on the cycles of life. His life size figures are created in series and based on a specific theme or idea. He  depicts the human form as a silhouette, aura, shadow or trace of his own body. Gomez’s multiple textures, drips, splashes, patterns and vibrant colors honor flesh and physicality while his alluded figures celebrate humanity and spirituality. Besides his ongoing cycles of life series, his paintings occasionally explore social and political, and contemporary issues.

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Victor Gadino
Capturing Triton, 2022
Mythology, sex, religion, transition and camp can all be found in the art of Victor Gadino. He is a New Yorker now living and working in Miami. He is an award winning artist and illustrator who holds an MFA from Pratt Institute. His dramatic figurative oil paintings and pencil drawings reimagine classical themes.

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Victor Gadino
Daphne and Apollo, 2022
Mythology, sex, religion, transition and camp can all be found in the art of Victor Gadino. He is a New Yorker now living and working in Miami. He is an award winning artist and illustrator who holds an MFA from Pratt Institute. His dramatic figurative oil paintings and pencil drawings reimagine classical themes.

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Junyi Liu
Here You Go Again, 2022
Junyi Liu’s artworks are deeply rooted in her life experience. Her paintings reflect on trauma, mental illness, metaphors, romanticism, and pessimism. Women and food are two recurring subjects of her works, usually appearing together. Her paintings are characterized by rich colors, unusual compositions, and emotionally charged scenes. Liu was born in China, received art education in the U.S. and graduated with a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art.

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Kathrin Longhurst
Skywards Bound, 2022
Kathrin Longhurst's high-realist, figurative painting practice intentionally transforms difficult encounters of oppression and adversity into powerful and positive messages of hope and change. Having grown up in former communist East Germany, Longhurst's family escaped to Sweden when she was 15. The experience of this displacement, compounded by the jarring contrast between living within a totalitarian regime and that of a Western capitalist democracy was the spark that ignited Longhurst's enduring commitment to issues of social justice and freedom of speech.

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Yunior Hurtado Torres
All You Need Is Love, 2023

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Drew Harris
Where there was ice, 2022

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Sally Ko
Side by Side
Sally is a Chicago-based artist. Born in Korea, and having grown up in the Chicago area, Sally studied at The Art Institute of Chicago, and The American Academy of Art.



Sally's bold abstract paintings represent a synthesis of her experiences, perspectives, and feelings. Sally chooses the abstract style because, by virtue of its obscurity, it fosters her uninhibited self-exploration and subsequent self-expression. Furthermore, the viewerrs pre-conceptions are thereby mitigated, and the story is communicated via a combination of color, texture, and form. 

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Sally Ko
Pouring It Out
Sally is a Chicago-based artist. Born in Korea, and having grown up in the Chicago area, Sally studied at The Art Institute of Chicago, and The American Academy of Art. Sally's bold abstract paintings represent a synthesis of her experiences, perspectives, and feelings. Sally chooses the abstract style because, by virtue of its obscurity, it fosters her uninhibited self-exploration and subsequent self-expression. Furthermore, the viewerrs pre-conceptions are thereby mitigated, and the story is communicated via a combination of color, texture, and form. 

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Sergio Gomez
Visionary Man 1

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Sergio Gomez
Visionary Man 2

About

33 Contemporary Gallery is a Chicago-based gallery located on the 4th Floor of the Zhou B Art Center. We offer a wide selection of premier contemporary realism, figurative art, and abstraction paintings from emerging and established artists from around the world. We present exhibitions and online exclusives in partnership with PoetsArtists.

Contact

33 Contemporary Gallery
1029 W. 35th St
Illinois 60609 Chicago
United States

p : 708-837-4534
e : sergio@33contemporary.com
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