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Blue of a Kind #1, blue, red, pink, red, neon, black, bright
Blue of a Kind #1, blue, red, pink, red, neon, black, bright

Blue of a Kind #1, blue, red, pink, red, neon, black, bright

Located in New York, NY

Ted Dixon is a Black painter working primarily in abstraction. He writes: "How do we learn to see what we cannot yet see? What are the things that influence our ability to perceive? ...

Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Blue of a Kind #2, Blue, purple, yellow, neon, bright, dark, abstract
Blue of a Kind #2, Blue, purple, yellow, neon, bright, dark, abstract

Blue of a Kind #2, Blue, purple, yellow, neon, bright, dark, abstract

Located in New York, NY

Ted Dixon is a Black painter working primarily in abstraction. He writes: "How do we learn to see what we cannot yet see? What are the things that influence our ability to perceive? ...

Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

1970's Large Silkscreen Abstract Geometric Day Glo Serigraph Pop Art Print Neon
1970's Large Silkscreen Abstract Geometric Day Glo Serigraph Pop Art Print Neon

1970's Large Silkscreen Abstract Geometric Day Glo Serigraph Pop Art Print Neon

By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali

Located in Surfside, FL

Silkscreen on Arches paper, Hand signed and Numbered in Pencil. Serigraph in black, gray (silver). Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali (Greek: Χρύσα Βαρδέα-Μαυρομιχάλη; December 31, 1933 – December 23, 2013) was a Greek American artist who worked in a wide variety of media. An American art pioneer in light art and luminist sculpture widely known for her neon, steel, aluminum and acrylic glass installations, she has always used the mononym Chryssa professionally. She worked from the mid-1950s in New York City studios and worked since 1992 in the studio she established in Neos Kosmos, Athens, Greece. Chryssa was born in Athens into the famous Mavromichalis family from the Mani Peninsula. one of her sisters, who studied medicine, was a friend of the poet and novelist Nikos Kazantzakis. Chryssa began painting during her teenage years and also studied to be a social worker.In 1953, on the advice of a Greek art critic, her family sent her to Paris to study at the Académie de la Grande Chaumiere where Andre Breton, Edgard Varese, and Max Ernst were among her associates and Alberto Giacometti was a visiting professor. In 1954, at age twenty-one, Chryssa sailed for the United States, arrived in New York and went to San Francisco, California to study at the California School of Fine Arts. Returning to New York in 1955, she became a United States citizen and established a studio in the city. Chryssa's first major work was The Cycladic Books preceded American minimalism by seventeen years. 1961, Chryssa's first solo exhibition was mounted at The Guggenheim. 1963, Chryssa's work was shown at the Museum of Modern Art in curator Dorothy Canning Miller's Americans 1963 exhibition. The artists represented in the show also included Richard Anuszkiewicz, Lee Bontecou, Robert Indiana, Richard Lindner, Marisol, Claes Oldenburg, Ad Reinhardt, James Rosenquist and others. 1966, The Gates to Times Square, regarded as "one of the most important American sculptures of all time" and "a thrilling homage to the living American culture of advertising and mass communications." The work is a 10 ft cube installation of two huge letter 'A's through which visitors may walk into "a gleaming block of stainless steel and Plexiglas that seems to quiver in the play of pale blue neon light" which is controlled by programmed timers. First shown in Manhattan's Pace Gallery, it was given to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York in 1972. 1972, The Whitney Museum of American Art mounted a solo exhibition of works by Chryssa. That's All (early 1970s), the central panel of a triptych related to The Gates of Times Square, was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art between 1975 and 1979. 1973, Chryssa's solo exhibition at the Gallerie Denise René was reviewed for TIME magazine by art critic Robert Hughes before it went on to the Galleries Denise René in Düsseldorf and Paris. Other works by Chryssa in composite honeycomb aluminum and neon in the 1980s and 1990s include Chinatown, Siren, Urban Traffic, and Flapping Birds. Chryssa 60/90 retrospective exhibition in Athens in the Mihalarias Art Center. After her long absence from Greece, a major exhibition including large aluminum sculptures - cityscapes, "neon boxes" from the Gates to the Times Square, paintings, drawings etc. was held in Athens. In 1992, after closing her SoHo studio, which art dealer Leo Castelli had described as "one of the loveliest in the world," Chryssa returned to Greece. She found a derelict cinema which had become a storeroom stacked with abandoned school desks and chairs, behind the old Fix Brewery near the city center in Neos Kosmos, Athens. Using the desks to construct enormous benches, she converted the space into a studio for working on designs and aluminum composite honeycomb sculptures...

Category

1980s Pop Art Art

Materials

Screen

1970's Large Silkscreen Abstract Geometric Day Glo Serigraph Pop Art Print Neon
1970's Large Silkscreen Abstract Geometric Day Glo Serigraph Pop Art Print Neon

1970's Large Silkscreen Abstract Geometric Day Glo Serigraph Pop Art Print Neon

By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali

Located in Surfside, FL

Silkscreen on Arches paper, Hand signed and Numbered in Pencil. Serigraph in white, back, blue gray (silver). Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali (Greek: Χρύσα Βαρδέα-Μαυρομιχάλη; December 31, 1933 – December 23, 2013) was a Greek American artist who worked in a wide variety of media. An American art pioneer in light art and luminist sculpture widely known for her neon, steel, aluminum and acrylic glass installations, she has always used the mononym Chryssa professionally. She worked from the mid-1950s in New York City studios and worked since 1992 in the studio she established in Neos Kosmos, Athens, Greece. Chryssa was born in Athens into the famous Mavromichalis family from the Mani Peninsula. one of her sisters, who studied medicine, was a friend of the poet and novelist Nikos Kazantzakis. Chryssa began painting during her teenage years and also studied to be a social worker.In 1953, on the advice of a Greek art critic, her family sent her to Paris to study at the Académie de la Grande Chaumiere where Andre Breton, Edgard Varese, and Max Ernst were among her associates and Alberto Giacometti was a visiting professor. In 1954, at age twenty-one, Chryssa sailed for the United States, arrived in New York and went to San Francisco, California to study at the California School of Fine Arts. Returning to New York in 1955, she became a United States citizen and established a studio in the city. Chryssa's first major work was The Cycladic Books preceded American minimalism by seventeen years. 1961, Chryssa's first solo exhibition was mounted at The Guggenheim. 1963, Chryssa's work was shown at the Museum of Modern Art in curator Dorothy Canning Miller's Americans 1963 exhibition. The artists represented in the show also included Richard Anuszkiewicz, Lee Bontecou, Robert Indiana, Richard Lindner, Marisol, Claes Oldenburg, Ad Reinhardt, James Rosenquist and others. 1966, The Gates to Times Square, regarded as "one of the most important American sculptures of all time" and "a thrilling homage to the living American culture of advertising and mass communications." The work is a 10 ft cube installation of two huge letter 'A's through which visitors may walk into "a gleaming block of stainless steel and Plexiglas that seems to quiver in the play of pale blue neon light" which is controlled by programmed timers. First shown in Manhattan's Pace Gallery, it was given to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York in 1972. 1972, The Whitney Museum of American Art mounted a solo exhibition of works by Chryssa. That's All (early 1970s), the central panel of a triptych related to The Gates of Times Square, was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art between 1975 and 1979. 1973, Chryssa's solo exhibition at the Gallerie Denise René was reviewed for TIME magazine by art critic Robert Hughes before it went on to the Galleries Denise René in Düsseldorf and Paris. Other works by Chryssa in composite honeycomb aluminum and neon in the 1980s and 1990s include Chinatown, Siren, Urban Traffic, and Flapping Birds. Chryssa 60/90 retrospective exhibition in Athens in the Mihalarias Art Center. After her long absence from Greece, a major exhibition including large aluminum sculptures - cityscapes, "neon boxes" from the Gates to the Times Square, paintings, drawings etc. was held in Athens. In 1992, after closing her SoHo studio, which art dealer Leo Castelli had described as "one of the loveliest in the world," Chryssa returned to Greece. She found a derelict cinema which had become a storeroom stacked with abandoned school desks and chairs, behind the old Fix Brewery near the city center in Neos Kosmos, Athens. Using the desks to construct enormous benches, she converted the space into a studio for working on designs and aluminum composite honeycomb sculptures...

Category

1980s Pop Art Art

Materials

Screen

Contemporary Still Life Giclée Print, Lime Green and Neon of Ceramic Fruit Bowl
Contemporary Still Life Giclée Print, Lime Green and Neon of Ceramic Fruit Bowl

Contemporary Still Life Giclée Print, Lime Green and Neon of Ceramic Fruit Bowl

By Ryan Rivadeneyra

Located in Barcelona, ES

"Sexy Miami Futuristic Cocktail Lounge" is a series of photographs by Ryan Rivadeneyra inspired by the Art Deco colors of Miami that show beautiful objects ...

Category

2010s 85 New Wave Art

Materials

Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, C Print, Digital, Giclée, Archiva...

New York City Panoramic Street Scene with Limousine and Neon Lights in the Rain
New York City Panoramic Street Scene with Limousine and Neon Lights in the Rain

New York City Panoramic Street Scene with Limousine and Neon Lights in the Rain

By Angela Wakefield

Located in Preston, GB

New York City Panoramic Street Scene with Limousine and Neon Lights in the Rain, by British Contemporary Urban Landscape Artist, Angela Wakefield. Entitled “Neon Limousine”, this uni...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Gesso, Acrylic, Oil, Mixed Media, Cotton Canvas, Paint, Linen, Canvas

CHROMA aka Rick Wolfryd "Day of the Dead" LED Neon Wall Light Wall Sculpture
CHROMA aka Rick Wolfryd "Day of the Dead" LED Neon Wall Light Wall Sculpture

CHROMA aka Rick Wolfryd "Day of the Dead" LED Neon Wall Light Wall Sculpture

By CHROMA aka Rick Wolfryd

Located in Cuauhtemoc, Ciudad de México

ALTERATION ART . . .is a collaboration process between Rick Wolfryd, fin artist and art dealer with over 40 years experience, and various Mexican Huichol artists and mexican Huichol ...

Category

2010s Pop Art Art

Materials

Glass, LED Light, Mixed Media

CHROMA aka Rick Wolfryd "Day of the Dead" LED Neon Wall Light Wall Sculpture
CHROMA aka Rick Wolfryd "Day of the Dead" LED Neon Wall Light Wall Sculpture

CHROMA aka Rick Wolfryd "Day of the Dead" LED Neon Wall Light Wall Sculpture

By CHROMA aka Rick Wolfryd

Located in Cuauhtemoc, Ciudad de México

ALTERATION ART . . .is a collaboration process between Rick Wolfryd, fin artist and art dealer with over 40 years experience, and various Mexican Huichol artists and mexican Huichol ...

Category

2010s Pop Art Art

Materials

Glass, LED Light, Mixed Media

Neon Taco Tuesday on Sunset 3 - Urban L.A. Landscape Photography Mixed Media Art
Neon Taco Tuesday on Sunset 3 - Urban L.A. Landscape Photography Mixed Media Art

Neon Taco Tuesday on Sunset 3 - Urban L.A. Landscape Photography Mixed Media Art

By Pete Kasprzak

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Pete Kasprzak’s passion for city life is expressed in his dynamic urban artworks. Kasprzak’s artworks express energy and life with animated brush strokes. He adds dynamic movement an...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic, Photographic Paper

"Copy of a Copy of a Fake" Purple, Neon Pink, and White Anaglyph Painting
"Copy of a Copy of a Fake" Purple, Neon Pink, and White Anaglyph Painting

"Copy of a Copy of a Fake" Purple, Neon Pink, and White Anaglyph Painting

Located in Houston, TX

Purple, yellow, neon pink, and white anaglyph painting by San Francisco-based artist Robert MacKenzie. This piece is included in a 2023 group exhibition, "Friend of a Friend," curate...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Wood, Acrylic

Ocean Drive, South Beach, Irene Marie Models  Moody Night Neon by Mitchell Funk
Ocean Drive, South Beach, Irene Marie Models  Moody Night Neon by Mitchell Funk

Ocean Drive, South Beach, Irene Marie Models Moody Night Neon by Mitchell Funk

By Mitchell Funk

Located in Miami, FL

The classic view of Miami Beach's Ocean Drive with reflections is captured by veteran Color Photographer Mithcell Funk. The image overflows with soft bleeding colors that melt into...

Category

1990s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Vintage French Oil Painting Of Neon Purple House In Bright Green Open Landscape
Vintage French Oil Painting Of Neon Purple House In Bright Green Open Landscape

Vintage French Oil Painting Of Neon Purple House In Bright Green Open Landscape

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Artist/ School: Leon Hatot (French 1883-1953) Title: Impressionist oil painting Medium: signed oil painting on thick paper, stuck on board unframed Size: painting: 13 x 19 inche...

Category

Early 20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Hach Ni 2024

Philip VaughanHach Ni 2024, 2024

$13,125Sale Price|30% Off

Hach Ni 2024

By Philip Vaughan

Located in Santa Monica, CA

Philip Vaughan Hach Ni 2024, 2024 Kinetic sculpture: neon, electronics, sintra 54 x 12 x 4.6 in (137.16 x 30.48 x 11.68 cm)

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Art

Materials

Neon Light

The Path of Least Resistance
The Path of Least Resistance

The Path of Least Resistance

Located in West Hollywood, CA

Lisa Schulte’s neon creation “The Path of Least Resistance” redefines the concept of art as illumination, infusing any space it inhabits with a vibrant ra...

Category

2010s Art

Materials

Neon Light

Is This The Real Life
Is This The Real Life

Is This The Real Life

By Chris Bracey

Located in Indianapolis, IN

Chris Bracey (1954-2014) Is This The Real Life (2014) Found lettering and signs constructed with new neon lettering Size: 36 x 48 in (91.4 x 121.9 cm) Hand signed on the side === ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Metal

I Forgot How Beautiful You Are

I Forgot How Beautiful You Are

By Tracey Emin

Located in Miami, FL

racey Emin, in full Tracey Karima Emin, (born July 3, 1963, Croyden, Greater London, England), British artist noted for using a wide range of media—including drawing, video, and installation art, as well as sculpture and painting—and her own life as the subject of her art. Her works were confessional, provocative, and transgressive, often portraying sexual acts and reproductive organs. Critics were seldom lukewarm in their response to her. Like Damien Hirst and Sarah Lucas, she was considered one of the YBAs (Young British Artists; also known as the BritArtists) who came to prominence in the 1990s. Emin and her twin brother, Paul, were born to an unwed mother. Their father, who was married to someone other than their mother, was a Turkish Cypriot. Emin grew up in the seaside resort town of Margate. She dropped out of school at age 13 and moved to London at 15. Two years later she attended Medway College of Design (now part of the University for the Creative Arts), Rochester, where she studied fashion. She was accepted without a secondary-school certificate at nearby Maidstone College of Art (also now part of UCA) and earned a fine-arts degree in 1986. Thereafter she obtained a master’s degree in painting (1989) from the Royal College of Art in London. In 1993, in the former London borough of Bethnal Green, Emin and fellow artist Lucas opened a store where they sold their own handmade items. One of Emin’s earliest exhibitions took place in 1993–94 at the influential White Cube gallery on Duke Street (1993–2002). That show, ironically titled “My Major Retrospective,” gave a hint of things to come. It displayed personally significant artifacts from Emin’s life, such as a hospital bracelet and personal correspondence, in addition to a quilt on which she had stitched the names of family members and notes to them. In 1994 Emin undertook a U.S. tour of performance art for which, sitting in her grandmother’s chair...

Category

2010s Art

Materials

Neon Light

Why?
Why?

Why?

By Mary Jo McGonagle

Located in New York, NY

Mary Jo designs all the neon as a unique piece of artwork. Each piece is hand blown glass and assembled to create a one-of-a-kind piece, which comes completely ready to install. Whit...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Neon Light

Stay calm
Stay calm

Stay calm

By Mary Jo McGonagle

Located in New York, NY

This neon piece is hand blown glass. It is mounted on contoured, clear plexiglas with pre drilled holes for hanging, and comes ready to hang. This piece is offered in the following c...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Neon Light

Whose?
Whose?

Whose?

By Esmeralda Kosmatopoulos

Located in New York, NY

Esmeralda Kosmatopoulos Whose?, 2014 neon, wire, transformers, flasher 16 × 65 × 1/2 in (40.6 × 165.1 × 1.3 cm) Edition 1/3 + 2AP whose? explores the definition of ownership,...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Neon Light

HipHopHooray
HipHopHooray

HipHopHooray

By Mary Jo McGonagle

Located in New York, NY

This neon piece is hand blown glass. It is mounted on contoured, clear plexiglas with pre drilled holes for hanging, and comes ready to hang. This piece is offered in the following c...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Neon Light

Fabulous
Fabulous

Fabulous

By Mary Jo McGonagle

Located in New York, NY

This neon piece is hand blown glass. It is mounted on contoured, clear plexiglas with pre drilled holes for hanging, and comes ready to hang. This piece is offered in the following c...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Neon Light

Enjoy the journey
Enjoy the journey

Enjoy the journey

By Mary Jo McGonagle

Located in New York, NY

This neon piece is hand blown glass. It is mounted on contoured, clear plexiglas with pre drilled holes for hanging, and comes ready to hang. This piece is offered in the following c...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Neon Light

Good food Good mood
Good food Good mood

Good food Good mood

By Mary Jo McGonagle

Located in New York, NY

Mary Jo designs all the neon as a unique piece of artwork. Each piece is hand blown glass and assembled to create a one-of-a-kind piece, which comes completely ready to install. Whit...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Neon Light

A safe place to fall
A safe place to fall

A safe place to fall

By Mary Jo McGonagle

Located in New York, NY

This neon piece is hand blown glass. It is mounted on contoured, clear plexiglas with pre drilled holes for hanging, and comes ready to hang. This piece is offered in the following c...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Neon Light

Hope
Hope

Hope

By Mary Jo McGonagle

Located in New York, NY

This neon piece is hand blown glass. It is mounted on contoured, clear plexiglas with pre drilled holes for hanging, and comes ready to hang. This piece is offered in the following c...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Neon Light

Dream big
Dream big

Dream big

By Mary Jo McGonagle

Located in New York, NY

This neon piece is hand blown glass. It is mounted on contoured, clear plexiglas with pre drilled holes for hanging, and comes ready to hang. This piece is offered in the following c...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Neon Light

Dream more
Dream more

Dream more

By Mary Jo McGonagle

Located in New York, NY

This neon piece is hand blown glass. It is mounted on contoured, clear plexiglas with pre drilled holes for hanging, and comes ready to hang. This piece is offered in the following c...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Neon Light

Always awesome
Always awesome

Always awesome

By Mary Jo McGonagle

Located in New York, NY

This neon piece is hand blown glass. It is mounted on contoured, clear plexiglas with pre drilled holes for hanging, and comes ready to hang. This piece is offered in the following c...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Neon Light

You got this
You got this

You got this

By Mary Jo McGonagle

Located in New York, NY

This neon piece is hand blown glass. It is mounted on contoured, clear plexiglas with pre drilled holes for hanging, and comes ready to hang. This piece is offered in the following c...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Neon Light

hello beautiful
hello beautiful

hello beautiful

By Mary Jo McGonagle

Located in New York, NY

Mary Jo designs all the neon as a unique piece of artwork. Each piece is hand blown glass and assembled to create a one-of-a-kind piece, which comes completely ready to install. Whit...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Neon Light

Have dreams
Have dreams

Have dreams

By Mary Jo McGonagle

Located in New York, NY

This neon piece is hand blown glass. It is mounted on contoured, clear plexiglas with pre drilled holes for hanging, and comes ready to hang. This piece is offered in the following c...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Neon Light

Euphonic Flame
Euphonic Flame

Euphonic Flame

Located in West Hollywood, CA

Rod Lathim’s Euphonic Flame transforms a repurposed trombone into an illuminated sculpture that blurs the boundaries between object, sound, and spirit. Rising vertically like a ritua...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Assemblage Art

Materials

Found Objects, Neon Light

Glowgrass
Glowgrass

Glowgrass

Located in West Hollywood, CA

Rod Lathim’s Glowgrass transforms a vintage wooden dobro into a fusion of sculpture, sound, and spirit. Rooted in the traditions of American folk, country, and bluegrass, the dobro h...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Assemblage Art

Materials

Found Objects, Neon Light

Mirrors Chandelier
Mirrors Chandelier

Mirrors Chandelier

By Esmeralda Kosmatopoulos

Located in New York, NY

Mirrors, 2016 Neon, flasher, plexi mirror, wires Size Variable Mirrors is a 8-foot long chandelier made of dozens of colorful neons hanging on top of a large mirror rectangular box....

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Neon Light

I Dont Know
I Dont Know

I Dont Know

By Esmeralda Kosmatopoulos

Located in New York, NY

IDK, 2017 Neon, transformer 40 x 30 in (102 x 72 cm) Edition 1 of 3. = (equal by definition) is a body of works that explores in a whimsical way, how language is formed, transfor...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Neon Light

Talk To You Later
Talk To You Later

Talk To You Later

By Esmeralda Kosmatopoulos

Located in New York, NY

TTYL, 2017 Neon, transformer 68 x 30 in (173 x 72 cm). Edition 1 of 3 := (equal by definition) is a body of works that explores in a whimsical way, how language is formed, transf...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Neon Light

David Drebin - WHATEVER, Sculpture 2017

David Drebin - WHATEVER, Sculpture 2017

By David Drebin

Located in Stamford, CT

Series: Neon 18.5" x 57.5" x 6" - Edition of 9 Disarmingly blunt and intensely intimate, David Drebin's neon light installations illuminate hidden aspirations and secret thoughts of...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

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Neon Light

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