Abbott Stillman

The first publication of the paintings by the American contemporary artist >Abbott Stillman attended MIT's School of Architecture and Planning and after graduating from MIT he built an award-winning and highly respected career. He started painting in the 1980s, never intending to show his work beyond family and friends. The artist had a successful career in real estate development and all the while maintained a studio practice that, over the course of these many years, has produced a remarkable depth and breadth of work. If there is a through line to his collected paintings it consists of some combination of ambiguity, exuberance, balance, and harmony all in service to his central, and optimistic, beliefs about the human condition. His paintings are compositions of rich color, often in abstracted grounds and spaces that evoke deep emotional responses.