He described the work as mixed-media paintings, using photography and silver emulsion, with the environment and the human condition as themes.

In this series of large mixed-media paintings, Ms. Nilson uses rich colors and bold gestures to suggest relationships between abstracted figures.

Mr. Valdez's mixed-media paintings have a more biomorphic, even metaphysical bent.

Carianne Mack's mixed-media painting "Living Together" (2004) projects a strong sense of three-dimensional form and field.

His mixed-media paintings on paper are even more fearsome.

Some elements of his mixed-media paintings, like windows and sheets of Plexiglas, are also transparent.

Her mixed-media paintings have been acclaimed for their symbolic imagery, rich colors, textures, and devotion to the written word.

The symbols in her mixed-media paintings are simple, direct and familiar, but their meanings are oblique and obscure.

The same divide exists in his radiant mixed-media paintings, which even at their best seem slightly archaic.

That is even more apparent in his mixed-media paintings done in Maine, where the focus is on geometric structure and chromatic interplay.