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Art For Sale
Style: Abstract
Style: Photorealist
Luminous Black Waves . Organic sculpture on wood backlit with an LED light
Located in Miami, US
LUMINOUS BLACK WAVES . A sculpture made by plaster and painted with acrylic and spray paint is assemble to the wood piece creating a unique peace illuminated from behind with a LED light box...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Art

Materials

Plexiglass, Spray Paint, Plaster, Wood, LED Light, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Abstract #75
Located in San Antonio, TX
Contemporary Abstract Giclee Print, 21st Century, by Robert Wynn Taylor, a contemporary American artist. It is signed in pencil "R. Wynn Taylor" in ...
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Art

Materials

Giclée

Buddha in the Snow
Located in New York, NY
Rodolfo Choperena Buddha in the Snow, 2010 Digital print on metal 36 x 48 in (91.44h x 121.92w cm)
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Metal

Reflection
Located in Greenwich, CT
b. 1960 Elizabeth Higgins describes herself as an abstract figurative and landscape painter. Everything around her serves as a potential subject, an inspiration to begin a painting. Fidelity to the landscape, the figure, or the still life is relative, as she isn’t interested in literal depictions; instead, it’s the abstract relationships of these shapes and colors, the abstract pictorial design. Her work is rooted in the tradition stemming from Courbet, Derain, Bonnard, Matisse, Morandi, German Expressionism, the Canadian Group of Seven, to her artist-teachers Paul Resika, Robert de Niro Sr., and finally, the contemporary artist, Peter Doig. Her artistic evolution stretches across this continuum. It is the “in-between”, the hovering between representation and abstraction, that interests her, not the labeling effect of details; instead, she aims directly at the spirit of the painting – of making something come to life. John Goodrich wrote in her catalog essay, “Elizabeth Higgins’ direct brushwork and simplified forms suggest an energy, but crucially, reveal a painter who knows the power of color…” Elizabeth Higgins was born in Toronto, Canada, in 1960. As a Helena Rubenstein Award recipient, Higgins earned her MFA from Parsons School of Design, where she studied with Leland Bell, Paul Resika, Albert Kresch and Robert deNiro...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Dragons Eye By Troy Smith Fine Art Abstract Art
Located in Toronto, CA
Title - Dragons Eye. Acrylic Painting by Artist Troy Smith. The painting is signed by the artist on the back and comes with a small brass plaque with the a...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Acrylic

Vénus
Located in New York, NY
Kyoko SASAÏ Vénus 2021 Acrylic painting on canvas with interior trim 15 x 5 x 1 in, 38 x 14 x 2.5 cm Unique Piece
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic

Sign (black), Floating Noise Series
Located in Miami, FL
"Sign (black)" is an artwork created by Gianluca Patti in 2019. This piece is the part of the Floating Series, which Patti created in 2019. Made using n...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Mesh, Epoxy Resin, Plastic, Synthetic Resin, Acrylic, Pigment

Serie de los rosas #4
Located in New York, NY
Rebeca Mendoza Serie de los rosas #4, 2015 Oil on canvas 55 x 79 in (139.95h x 199.9w cm)
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Rincon #4
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Jennifer Wolf grew up in Southern California hiking the Santa Ynez and Santa Monica Mountains. This intimate connection with the landscape led Wolf to explore using the earthen color...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic, Panel, Pigment

"Pink Lady"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Signed Lower Right Titled and Numbered Lower Left Josef Zenk (1904-2000) Josef Zenk was born in New York City in 1904. After graduating from high school he studied for three years...
Category

20th Century Abstract Art

Materials

Paper, Color

Cat Who A-1
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Ed Moses has been a prominent figure in the Los Angeles art scene for almost six decades. Born in 1926 in Long Beach, CA, Moses studied art at UCLA, and trained under the expressionist painter, Rico Lebrun. He first exhibited work in 1949, and was part of the original group of artists from the legendary Ferus Gallery...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Yards of Love III C (amarillo, oxido)
Located in New York, NY
Acrylic on canvas 78 x 89 in Unstretched Vicky Barranguet found her own voice and colorful expression of life, emotions, and music through her studies with master painters, Larry P...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic

Subway Topos #1
Located in Fairfield, CT
Bastienne Schmidt is a mixed media artist working with photography, painting and large scale drawings. She was born in Germany, raised in Greece and Italy and has lived in New York f...
Category

20th Century Abstract Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Abstract #84
Located in San Antonio, TX
Contemporary Abstract Giclee Print, 21st Century, by Robert Wynn Taylor, a contemporary American artist. It is signed in pencil "R. Wynn Taylor" in ...
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Art

Materials

Giclée

Untitled III
Located in Fairfield, CT
This series on paper, Topologies of Blue, possesses layers of delicate texture and structure in the blue tones, created through a process that combines inks, polymer paints, leaves, ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Watercolor

King Corpse, 1986
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 1986, Sam Francis King Corpse, 1986 is a unique color trial proof screenprint on Arches cover paper hand signed by Sam Francis (San Mateo, 1923- Santa Monica, 1994) in the...
Category

1980s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Screen

Linescape 9
Located in New York, NY
Julián Terán Linescape 9 , 2017 Ink on paper 16.5 x 35.5 in (41.91h x 90.17w cm)
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Art

Materials

Paper, Ink

The Explorer
Located in New York, NY
Abstract, oil on canvas. Subtle hues. Framed in natural wood. 2 inch deep. About the Artist: Nella was born, raised and educated in Italy in a family with a long heritage o...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Oil

Full Circle
Located in New York, NY
Cecilia Biagini Full Circle, 2013 Acrylic on canvas 65 x 45 in (165.1h x 114.3w cm)
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Drawing Boards I (grey / purple)
Located in London, GB
Edition of 60, Set of 5 74.9 x 56.5 cms (29.5 x 22.25 ins)
Category

1980s Abstract Art

Materials

Etching

Ochur Scramble
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Expressionist Painting. Acrylic on Canvas. Collection from revered artist of NYC and The Hamptons. About the Artist: Part of the New York School Abstract Expressionists. Recognized around the world as the leading art movement after WW II. He showed with Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline. 1921 born in Philadelphia 1934 – 38 Graphic Sketch Club 1938 – 40 Philadelphia Museum School of Art 1940 – 41 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art 1942 – 45 WWII War Correspondent-Artist, Yank magazine 1946 – 47 Art Students League, Will Barnett 1947- 48 Hans Hofmann Academy 1960–1979 Instructor at: University of California, Berkeley, CA; Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; New York University, New York, NY; Columbia University, New York, NY; Brooklyn College, New York, NY; Temple University, Rome, Italy 2017 deceased Collections: Ciba-Geigy Collection Chase Manhattan Bank Art Institute of Chicago Corcoran Art Museum, Washington Eugene V. Thaw Collection Max Kozloff Collection Montana Historical Society, Montana New York University Norfolk Art Museum Robert Rosenblum Collection Sarah Lawrence Collection Union Carbide Collection University of California Museum University of Massachusetts University of Montana Walter P. Chrysler Collection Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Whitney Museum, New York Yellowstone Art Center, Montana Exhibitions: Individual 2020 Frankfurt TBD 2018 Galerie Barbara von Stechow, Frankfurt 2008 Suvretta House, St. Moritz, Schweiz Galerie Barbara von Stechow, Frankfurt 2006 Ludwigmuseum im Deutschherrenhaus, Koblenz Galerie Barbara von Stechow zu Gast in der Galerie Vömel, Düsseldorf 2005 Galerie Barbara von Stechow, Frankfurt New York „Abstract Expressionism” Galerie Barbara von Stechow, Dr. Alexander Georgieff & Dr. Peter Sewing bei Georgieff Capital, Frankfurt 2004 Galerie Barbara von Stechow zu Gast in der Galerie Vömel, Düsseldorf CherryStoneGallery, Massachusetts 2003 Galerie Barbara von Stechow zu Gast in der Galerie Vömel, Düsseldorf Galerie Barbara von Stechow, Frankfurt Kunstverein Augsburg 2002 ART Frankfurt, Galerie Barbara von Stechow, Frankfurt 2001 Galerie Barbara von Stechow, Frankfurt a. M. Art Cologne, Galerie Barbara von Stechow Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York City 2000 Galerie Barbara von Stechow, Frankfurt a. M. Art Frankfurt, Galerie Barbara von Stechow, Frankfurt a. M. Galerie Schröder & Dörr, Bergisch-Gladbach 1999 Galerie Peter Bäumler, Regensburg 1998 Conrad Hinrich Donner Bank, Hamburg 1996 Galerie Hexagon, Aachen Olaf Clasen Gallery, Köln 1995 Olaf Clasen Gallery, Köln Denise Bibro Gallery, New York City 1994 Olaf Clasen Gallery, Köln 1993 Galerie Peter Bäumler, Regensburg Bologna-Landi Gallery, East Hampton, New York 1992 Olaf Clasen Gallery, Köln Benton Gallery, East Hampton, New York 1991 St. Mary’s College, Maryland M 13 Gallery, New York City 1989 Randall Gallery, St. Louis, Mass. RH Love Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (Morris Gallery), Pennsylvania 1988 Cyrus Gallery, New York City Benton Gallery, East Hampton, New York 1987 Armstrong Gallery, New York City 1986 Barbara Ingber Gallery, New York City 1984 Barbara Ingber Gallery, New York City 1982 The New School, New York City 1981 Benson Gallery, New York City 1980 Landmark Gallery, New York City 1978 Temple University Abroad, Rom 1977 Andre Zarre, New York City 1974 Bertha Schaefer, New York City 1973 Bertha Schaefer, New York City 1971 Westbeth Galleries, New York City 1965 University of Arkansas, Little Rock 1964 Princeton University, New Jersey 1963 Thibault Gallery, New York City 1962 Hacker Gallery, New York City 1960 Poindexter Gallery, New York City 1958 Poindexter Gallery, New York City 1957 Poindexter Gallery, New York City 1956 Ganymede Gallery, New York City 1954 Artists’ Gallery, New York City 1953 Hendler Gallery, Philadelphia 1952 New Gallery, New York City 1950 Artists’ Gallery, New York City Group Exhibitions: 2018 Titans In the Rough Denise Bibro Gallery, New York, NY 2011 Joe Stefanelli...
Category

Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

"Sounds of Silence"
Located in Toronto, ON
Encaustic painting is an ancient art form and was practiced by artists as far back as the 5th century B.C. The word encaustic comes from Greek and means “to burn in”, which refers to...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Encaustic

Landscape #13
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Jennifer Wolf grew up in Southern California hiking the Santa Ynez and Santa Monica Mountains. This intimate connection with the landscape led Wolf to explore using the earthen color...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Stirring Within Light Gray Abstract Metal Wall Sculpture
Located in Miami, FL
From the newest original works by Zammy Migdal, these wall objects hang as sculpture on the wall, each one unique, forming its own fluid story. This light gray work is from a series...
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Art

Materials

Metal

Parterre
Located in London, GB
52 x 52 cms (20 1/2 x 20 1/2 ins) Edition of 75
Category

1970s Abstract Art

Materials

Color, Screen

White and Red Number Two
Located in Santa Monica, CA
A California native, Peter Lodato began making work in the late 1960s as part of the West Coast-specific Light and Space movement. Aligned with the concerns of his contemporaries, Lo...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Lumen 61
Located in BARCELONA, ES
Painting from the Series LUMEN, part of the show at the Casa de As Quintas Art Center in Spain in July 2023. The piece appears in the catalog of the show.
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Art

Materials

Acrylic

Cuarto Oscuro (espejo)
Located in Cuernavaca, Morelos
Digital print mounted on Diasec with lead
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Digital

Big Yellow Poppies, 2015
Located in Fairfield, CT
Donald Sultan (born 1951), is one of the leading American contemporary still life artists. He currently lives and works in New York. Sultan has been given numerous exhibitions dedica...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Steel

Drawing Boards II (No.3)
Located in London, GB
Edition of 30, Set of 5 74.9 x 59.1 cms (29 1/2 x 23 1/4 ins)
Category

1980s Abstract Art

Materials

Etching

Ombre et Lumiere
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Mixed-media on wood
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Wood, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Landscape #22
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Jennifer Wolf grew up in Southern California hiking the Santa Ynez and Santa Monica Mountains. This intimate connection with the landscape led Wolf to explore using the earthen colo...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category

1990s Abstract Art

Materials

Handmade Paper

Paisaje
Located in Barcelona, ES
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Mandala 2
Located in Buffalo, NY
This is an original drawing made up of my unique visual language of weaving glyphic lines. Please feel free to "Google" my name to see more. The drawing is Pitt Artist Pen in black i...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Pen

One Dimensions
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Seeking to evolve the way in which she collaborates with nature, Jennifer Wolf’s most recent series of works combine her signature flow process with innovative new layers of painterl...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Gravitational Push
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Seeking to evolve the way in which she collaborates with nature, Jennifer Wolf’s most recent series of works combine her signature flow process with innovative new layers of painterl...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

《桃花源记》The Peach Colony
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Fu Wenjun, 1955, is a famous Chinese contemporary artist. He creates principally through the art media of photography, installation, sculpture and oil painting, and has put forward t...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

Untitled 2002
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category

Early 2000s Abstract Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category

Early 2000s Abstract Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Wherever I Go, I See Black Water
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Lin Ji, also known as Webson Ji, is a New York-based Chinese multimedia artist. He holds an M.A. degree in Sculpture from Savannah College of Art and Design and a B.F.A. degree in Public Art from China Academy of Art. Webson Ji is a member of the International Sculpture Center, a member of the New England Sculptors Association and an associate member of the National Sculpture Society. Ji’s practice focuses on the presentation of water, combining it with various industrial materials to present the viewer with a unique interpretation of his meditation. Webson Ji's works have been widely exhibited nationally and internationally. His most recent solo exhibition was held at Obition, Seoul, South Korea 2020. Other exhibitions include solo exhibitions at theBlanc Gallery in Manhattan, NY 2019; Besharat Museum Gallery, Atlanta, GA 2019; Garcia Wilburn Gallery, Atlanta, GA 2018, as well as group shows at the Oculus World Trade Center, Manhattan NY; Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn NY; La Mama La Galleria, Manhattan NY; Novado Gallery, Jersey City NJ; BINNAR Art Festival, Portugal; Antilia Gallery, Italy; Loosenart Gallery, Rome Italy; CICA Museum, Gyeonggi-do South Korea; Gustein Gallery, Savannah GA; Yonsei University, Seoul South Korea; Z-Art Center, Shanghai China. In July 2018, Webson Ji was honored as the Best Young Artist of the Year of 2018 GAMMA Young Artist Competition in Tokyo, Japan, out of 226 participants from over 26 different countries. In February 2019, Webson Ji exhibited his work in a group art exhibition curated by the Asian Cultural Center at New York City's landmark, the Oculus World Trade Center. His works and practice were covered by media and press like Art China, Sina, Sohu, Ifeng, Chinaweekly, The China Press...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic, Acrylic Polymer

Showtime diptych I
Located in MADRID, ES
Photography, printed on Fine Art cotton smooth paper 310 g/m2, glued to Dibond Aluminium. 100 x 100 x 0,5 cm + 100 x 100 x 0,5 cm. Unique piece with these dimensions. Showtime, by F...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Somewhere Between Time and Space
Located in Santa Monica, CA
These daily drawings are a meditation on the moment as a process to make space for the current pandemic on a personal and collective experience.
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Ogeeche Lament
Located in ATLANTA, GA
You meet the Spanish artist Alexandro Santana and you think, cripes, can he be for real? So handsome, so flamboyant, so seductive, so amusing -- you’re not sure whether it’s intentional or inadvertent. And then you discover he is the son of a notorious Dominican admiral, that the tyrannical dictator Trujillo was best man at his parents’ wedding, that his mother was a fabled high-society beauty, that he grew up on battleships and estancias before going, inevitably, to Brown. Even more surprisingly, Santana stayed in Providence for graduate studies at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he received his degree in architecture, soon plying his trade in Manhattan and his adopted city of Savannah, where he eventually set up his own firm. Astonishingly, in this era of CAD, he draws every detail entirely by hand. Considering his tweeds, his bow ties, his drawl and debonair dress, it is perhaps not surprising to learn that Santana’s architectural taste is strongly neo-classical, inspired by the vernacular Palladianism of antebellum Georgia, with of course a touch of the Postmodern. Santana’s detailed and decorous architectural plans for his clients are complemented by drawings created for solely for himself -- exotic imaginary cityscapes and urban fantasias, like the dreams of Sir John Soane channeled through Aldo Rossi or John Hejduk...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Untitled (balcony III), 2022, colorful, abstract, architectural painting
Located in Brooklyn, NY
In her “Balcony” series paintings, Lucía Rodríguez Pérez uses an same architectural mindset by constructing images of pillars and the surrounding sky by skillfully manipulating color to create the illusion of natural light. While architects and artists cannot manipulate natural light, she masterfully blends colors in her palette to create a complex yet subtle gradient that evokes the feeling of a sunset or sunrise. Each “Balcony” painting...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Damp
Located in London, GB
66 x 94 cms (26 x 37 ins) Edition of 20 Rives BFK paper Proofs: I BAT, 4 AP, 7 CTP, 9 XP Signed lower left; numbered lower left; publisher's chop lower left. Published by Tama...
Category

1960s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Color, Lithograph

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category

1980s Abstract Art

Materials

Lithograph

Pink Cloud
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category

Early 2000s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

Organic Composition 0004
Located in Easton, PA
Morning meditation: Organic Compositions. Utilizing only naturals materials such as charcoal from burned wood, stones, branches, leaves and feathers I have found on wandering walks ...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Mixed Media

'PS06' Abstract Expressionist, Scandi artwork, grey silky fabric base palo santo
Located in Lahti, FI
'PS06' is a reminder that today happens only today, everything in life and beyond happens right in this moment. The Universe is full of endless possibilities for us. Get ready to rec...
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Fabric, Spray Paint

Wave Rider, 79, 2019
Located in Quogue, NY
Powdered pigments with microcrystalline oilsticks
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Bachantata
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category

1990s Abstract Art

Materials

Paper

Alhambra Whispering II Contemporary Abstract Hand Made Ceramic Sculpture
Located in Montreal, QC
Glazed Stoneware
Category

20th Century Abstract Art

Materials

Stoneware, Ceramic

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category

Early 2000s Abstract Art

Materials

Lithograph

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
Upcycled metal Unique work Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Metal

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
Upcycled metal Unique work Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Metal

Monotype no. 17
Located in Atlanta, GA
Acrylic and Soy based inks on single sheets Stonehenge
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Paper, Ink, Acrylic

Out the Gate
Located in Fresno, CA
It’s 1963. I’ve quit my teaching job ($4,000 a year) at Fresno High to try working full time as a commercial artist. Got a new home (Trend Homes by Spano, $12,000). Decide my birthday party needs a bottle of red wine (about a half gallon of Gallo Chianti, the kind in a husk basket because I think it will look good with my books on their plank and cinderblock book case. I drive a couple blocks to Jackson Jones Liquor on the corner of Shields and West, park an old gray Chevy sedan I’ve named Moby, walk in, head straight for the wine display...
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil

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