IPA

IPA Gallery

Painting & Illustration

Expression without words.

Curator’s Statement

Painting, drawing, watercolor, and illustration.

A painting at IPA is not decoration.

Mediums included

PaintingDrawingWatercolorIllustrationMixed media

13 works on view

13 of 13
Becoming

Becoming

International·AI-generated editorial illustration

“Some transformations refuse to be neat.”

Abstract Emotion

Woman at the Window

Woman at the Window

International·Oil Portrait

“A face begins to look different once a life has been lived inside it.”

Contemporary Portraiture

The Garden After

The Garden After

International·Symbolic Oil Painting

“There is a garden that only grows after the ground has opened.”

Symbolism

Evening on the Orinoco

Evening on the Orinoco

Venezuela·Landscape Oil Painting

“Some evenings soften a whole life.”

Landscape

Ancestral Map

Ancestral Map

International·Mixed Media Painting

“A lineage cannot be erased. It can only be forgotten — and remembered.”

Cultural Heritage

Still Life with Memory

Still Life with Memory

International·Oil Still Life

“What if the objects we keep aren’t reminders of the past… but reflections of the parts of ourselves we’ve never truly let go?”

Classical-Inspired

Monsoon

Monsoon

India·AI-generated editorial illustration

“Some things can only be understood by being soaked through.”

Rain, Urban Life, Fluidity

The Red Thread

The Red Thread

South Korea·Contemporary Mixed Media

“We are made of the people who have loved us.”

Identity, Connection, Fate

Arctic Memory

Arctic Memory

Canada·Oil on Canvas

“Some lights make us remember we are small in the best possible way.”

Wilderness, Light, Memory

Carnival

Carnival

Attribution under review·Brazil·Acrylic on Canvas

“Joy, when a whole people agree to let it move through them at the same time.”

Joy, Celebration, Community

Interior with Light

Interior with Light

Netherlands·Oil on Canvas

“Stillness is not the absence of life. It is life, allowed to arrive.”

Solitude, Reading, Domestic Beauty

Roots

Roots

Nigeria·Expressionist Oil Painting

“Some strengths cannot be built. They can only be remembered.”

Identity, Earth, Growth

The Migration

The Migration

Attribution under review·Mali·Abstract Painting

“Movement is one of the oldest forms of hope.”

Movement, Journey, Scale

On the Long Horizon

International Partners in Art is being built as a permanent global archive of human expression. Every submission belongs to one or more curated collections so visitors can explore the world through different emotional and artistic lenses.