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Sage Barnes Bloom #6 For Sale
Sage Barnes
Bloom #6, 2026
Mixed Media on Canvas
48 x 72 in
About this work
Sage Barnes's "Bloom #6" (2026) is a mixed media on canvas work that positions the artist's practice within a tradition of abstraction inflected by natural form. The sixth work in the Bloom series, this piece reflects an ongoing investigation into growth, pattern, and the formal vocabulary of organic structures. Mixed media on canvas allows Barnes to build surfaces of considerable material complexity, layering paint, texture, and other elements to produce an image that rewards close looking. Sage Barnes for sale at Guy Hepner offers collectors access to works by an emerging artist whose practice is gaining sustained critical attention. The Bloom series demonstrates a commitment to seriality and development — an approach that allows each individual canvas to be understood both as a self-contained work and as part of a larger evolving body of output. Guy Hepner is pleased to present Sage Barnes paintings and mixed media works to collectors with an eye for emerging talent. Available for sale at Guy Hepner Gallery, New York.
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Edition & Provenance
- Year
- 2026
- Medium
- Mixed Media on Canvas
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About the Bloom Paintings Series
Bloom Paintings | Sage Barnes | Guy Hepner, New York
About the Series
The Bloom Paintings are Sage Barnes's signature works and the body of practice that has attracted the most serious collector attention. These large-scale figurative paintings place female figures within dense, richly developed botanical environments — flowers, leaves, and organic forms that grow around, through, and with the figure, creating compositions of extraordinary visual complexity that reward sustained attention.
Barnes works in oil on canvas, building surfaces through multiple layers of paint that create depth without losing the freshness of the mark. His figures are rendered with a technical precision unusual for an artist of his generation — the faces, hands, and forms observed with patience and care — while the surrounding botanical elements are handled with a more painterly freedom that creates productive tension within each composition.
The Bloom Paintings sit within a long tradition of figure-and-nature painting while feeling entirely contemporary in their visual language. Barnes draws on fashion photography, illustration, and graphic design as freely as he draws on the history of painting — the result is work that is formally serious without being academic, accessible without being decorative.
Collecting Bloom Paintings
Bloom Paintings are priced in the range of $5,000–$15,000 depending on scale and complexity. As Barnes's reputation grows, these works represent significant investment potential for early collectors. Guy Hepner maintains access to available works and can advise on specific pieces. Contact our New York gallery for current availability.
About Sage Barnes
Sage Barnes is a self-taught American artist working from his studio, known as "the lab," in Kansas. He studied for a time at FIDM in Los Angeles before leaving to pursue art full time, first gaining recognition in 2016 for a series of urban style paintings featuring suited male figures.
Barnes combines abstract, realistic, and street art techniques, often within the same piece, using acrylic and spray paint alongside non-traditional materials such as neon, stucco, and concrete. His figurative portraits are especially distinctive, frequently obscuring the head with bursts of color, smiley faces, floral arrangements, or splattered paint, shifting attention away from identity and toward gesture and emotion. His process is physical and often destructive by design, incorporating action painting and, at times, breaking into finished surfaces with tools to reveal new forms underneath.
His work explores universal experiences of identity, introspection, and everyday behavior, often approached with a dry, tongue in cheek sense of humor beneath the visual intensity. Barnes continues to push the material boundaries of painting, treating each new body of work as an opportunity to expand his technique.
His work is held in private collections throughout North America and internationally, and he has held multiple solo exhibitions, including several with Guy Hepner in New York.
Guy Hepner works with collectors seeking Sage Barnes's bold, physical paintings blending realism, abstraction, and street art. Contact us to discuss available inventory or to inquire about upcoming releases.