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Style: Contemporary
Medium: Monotype
ISpy, abstract mixed media monotype on paper, green and blue

ISpy, abstract mixed media monotype on paper, green and blue

By Karin Bruckner

Located in New York, NY

Gelatin monotype with acrylic paint on white BFK Rives Printmaking Paper. Approx. image size: 3" x 9" Paper size: 10" x 14" At the core of the dialogue between the artist and the ...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Monotype, Acrylic

Midnight Japanese Maple ( 32 x 22 inch hand-printed botanical cyanotype)
Midnight Japanese Maple ( 32 x 22 inch hand-printed botanical cyanotype)

Midnight Japanese Maple ( 32 x 22 inch hand-printed botanical cyanotype)

By Christine So

Located in Oakland, CA

This species of tree is a Dancing Peacock Full Moon Japanese Maple or in Latin, acer japonicum aconitifolium. The actual Japanese name is Mai Kujaku. Cyanotypes are a kind of 19th ce...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Avalanche - Abstract Geology Encaustic Monotype Golden Orange Blue Yellow, 2026
Avalanche - Abstract Geology Encaustic Monotype Golden Orange Blue Yellow, 2026

Avalanche - Abstract Geology Encaustic Monotype Golden Orange Blue Yellow, 2026

By Laura Moriarty

Located in Kent, CT

In this contemporary encaustic monotype, layers of pigmented beeswax on lightweight kozo paper create an undulating composition suggesting layers of the earth's crust and geological ...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Encaustic, Archival Paper, Monotype

Untitled, Vertical Abstract Geometric Monotype, Light Blue, Coral, Black
Untitled, Vertical Abstract Geometric Monotype, Light Blue, Coral, Black

Untitled, Vertical Abstract Geometric Monotype, Light Blue, Coral, Black

By David Collins

Located in Kent, CT

This is a monotype print meaning that it is a unique print with no other editions. This geometric abstract monotype on Asian paper layers shapes in cobalt blue, maroon, red, black, g...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Monotype

Plunge - Abstract Geology Encaustic Monotype Purple Magenta Pink Yellow, 2026
Plunge - Abstract Geology Encaustic Monotype Purple Magenta Pink Yellow, 2026

Plunge - Abstract Geology Encaustic Monotype Purple Magenta Pink Yellow, 2026

By Laura Moriarty

Located in Kent, CT

In this contemporary encaustic monotype, layers of pigmented beeswax on lightweight kozo paper create an undulating composition suggesting layers of the earth's crust and geological ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Encaustic, Archival Paper, Monotype

Slow Motion - Abstract Geology Encaustic Monotype Purple Orange Blue, 2026
Slow Motion - Abstract Geology Encaustic Monotype Purple Orange Blue, 2026

Slow Motion - Abstract Geology Encaustic Monotype Purple Orange Blue, 2026

By Laura Moriarty

Located in Kent, CT

In this contemporary encaustic monotype, layers of pigmented beeswax on lightweight kozo paper create an undulating composition suggesting layers of the earth's crust and geological ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Encaustic, Archival Paper, Monotype

"India, " Abstract Woodcut and Monotype signed by Carol Summers
"India, " Abstract Woodcut and Monotype signed by Carol Summers

"India, " Abstract Woodcut and Monotype signed by Carol Summers

By Carol Summers

Located in Milwaukee, WI

"India" is a woodcut and monotype signed by Carol Summers. Here, Summer's abstract language for landscape imagery is taken to its most extreme: The image offers a view of a highly stylized waterfall, with red water falling down behind green foliage below. A hint of light blue at the lower left suggests a continuation of the water's flow. Above, purples and yellows mist upward from the power of the water. The playfulness of the image is enhanced by Summers' signature printmaking technique, which allows the ink from the woodblock to seep through the paper, blurring the edges of each form. Summers' signature can be found in pencil at the bottom of the rightmost blue form, with the title and edition at the bottom of the leftmost blue form. A copy of this print can be found in the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. 37.25 x 24.88 inches, artwork 48.5 x 35.5 inches, frame Numbered 44 from the edition of 75 Carol Summers (1925-2016) has worked as an artist throughout the second half of the 20th century and into the first years of the next, outliving most of his mid-century modernist peers. Initially trained as a painter, Summers was drawn to color woodcuts around 1950 and it became his specialty thereafter. Over the years he has developed a process and style that is both innovative and readily recognizable. His art is known for it’s large scale, saturated fields of bold color, semi-abstract treatment of landscapes from around the world and a luminescent quality achieved through a printmaking process he invented. In a career that has extended over half a century, Summers has hand-pulled approximately 245 woodcuts in editions that have typically run from 25 to 100 in number. His talent was both inherited and learned. Born in 1925 in Kingston, a small town in upstate New York, Summers was raised in nearby Woodstock with his older sister, Mary. His parents were both artists who had met in art school in St. Louis. During the Great Depression, when Carol was growing up, his father supported the family as a medical illustrator until he could return to painting. His mother was a watercolorist and also quite knowledgeable about the different kinds of papers used for various kinds of painting. Many years later, Summers would paint or print on thinly textured paper originally collected by his mother. From 1948 to 1951, Carol Summers trained in the classical fine and studio arts at Bard College and at the Art Students League of New York. He studied painting with Steven Hirsh and printmaking with Louis Schanker. He admired the shapes and colors favored by early modernists Paul Klee (Sw: 1879-1940) and Matt Phillips (Am: b.1927- ). After graduating, Summers quit working as a part-time carpenter and cabinetmaker (which had supported his schooling and living expenses) to focus fulltime on art. That same year, an early abstract, Bridge No. 1 was selected for a Purchase Prize in a competition sponsored by the Brooklyn Museum. In 1952, his work (Cathedral, Construction and Icarus) was shown the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in an exhibition of American woodcuts. In 1954, Summers received a grant from the Italian government to study for a year in Italy. Woodcuts completed soon after his arrival there were almost all editions of only 8 to 25 prints, small in size, architectural in content and black and white in color. The most well-known are Siennese Landscape and Little Landscape, which depicted the area near where he resided. Summers extended this trip three more years, a decision which would have significant impact on choices of subject matter and color in the coming decade. After returning from Europe, Summers’ images continued to feature historical landmarks and events from Italy as well as from France, Spain and Greece. However, as evidenced in Aetna’s Dream, Worldwind and Arch of Triumph, a new look prevailed. These woodcuts were larger in size and in color. Some incorporated metal leaf in the creation of a collage and Summers even experimented with silkscreening. Editions were now between 20 and 50 prints in number. Most importantly, Summers employed his rubbing technique for the first time in the creation of Fantastic Garden in late 1957. Dark Vision of Xerxes, a benchmark for Summers, was the first woodcut where Summers experimented using mineral spirits as part of his printmaking process. A Fulbright Grant as well as Fellowships from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation followed soon thereafter, as did faculty positions at colleges and universities primarily in New York and Pennsylvania. During this period he married a dancer named Elaine Smithers with whom he had one son, Kyle. Around this same time, along with fellow artist Leonard Baskin, Summers pioneered what is now referred to as the “monumental” woodcut. This term was coined in the early 1960s to denote woodcuts that were dramatically bigger than those previously created in earlier years, ones that were limited in size mostly by the size of small hand-presses. While Baskin chose figurative subject matter, serious in nature and rendered with thick, striated lines, Summers rendered much less somber images preferring to emphasize shape and color; his subject matter approached abstraction but was always firmly rooted in the landscape. In addition to working in this new, larger scale, Summers simultaneously refined a printmaking process which would eventually be called the “Carol Summers Method” or the “ Carol Summers Technique”. Summers produces his woodcuts by hand, usually from one or more blocks of quarter-inch pine, using oil-based printing inks and porous mulberry papers. His woodcuts reveal a sensitivity to wood especially its absorptive qualities and the subtleties of the grain. In several of his woodcuts throughout his career he has used the undulating, grainy patterns of a large wood plank to portray a flowing river or tumbling waterfall. The best examples of this are Dream, done in 1965 and the later Flash Flood Escalante, in 2003. In the majority of his woodcuts, Summers makes the blocks slightly larger than the paper so the image and color will bleed off the edge. Before printing, he centers a dry sheet of paper over the top of the cut wood block or blocks, securing it with giant clips. Then he rolls the ink directly on the front of the sheet of paper and pressing down onto the dry wood block or reassembled group of blocks. Summers is technically very proficient; the inks are thoroughly saturated onto the surface of the paper but they do not run into each other. The precision of the color inking in Constantine’s Dream in 1969 and Rainbow Glacier in 1970 has been referred to in various studio handbooks. Summers refers to his own printing technique as “rubbing”. In traditional woodcut printing, including the Japanese method, the ink is applied directly onto the block. However, by following his own method, Summers has avoided the mirror-reversed image of a conventional print and it has given him the control over the precise amount of ink that he wants on the paper. After the ink is applied to the front of the paper, Summers sprays it with mineral spirits, which act as a thinning agent. The absorptive fibers of the paper draw the thinned ink away from the surface softening the shapes and diffusing and muting the colors. This produces a unique glow that is a hallmark of the Summers printmaking technique. Unlike the works of other color field artists or modernists of the time, this new technique made Summers’ extreme simplification and flat color areas anything but hard-edged or coldly impersonal. By the 1960s, Summers had developed a personal way of coloring and printing and was not afraid of hard work, doing the cutting, inking and pulling himself. In 1964, at the age of 38, Summers’ work was exhibited for a second time at the Museum of Modern Art. This time his work was featured in a one-man show and then as one of MoMA’s two-year traveling exhibitions which toured throughout the United States. In subsequent years, Summers’ works would be exhibited and acquired for the permanent collections of multiple museums throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Summers’ familiarity with landscapes throughout the world is firsthand. As a navigator-bombardier in the Marines in World War II, he toured the South Pacific and Asia. Following college, travel in Europe and subsequent teaching positions, in 1972, after 47 years on the East Coast, Carol Summers moved permanently to Bonny Doon in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Northern California. There met his second wife, Joan Ward Toth, a textile artist who died in 1998; and it was here his second son, Ethan was born. During the years that followed this relocation, Summers’ choice of subject matter became more diverse although it retained the positive, mostly life-affirming quality that had existed from the beginning. Images now included moons, comets, both sunny and starry skies, hearts and flowers, all of which, in one way or another, remained tied to the landscape. In the 1980s, from his home and studio in the Santa Cruz mountains, Summers continued to work as an artist supplementing his income by conducting classes and workshops at universities in California and Oregon as well as throughout the Mid and Southwest. He also traveled extensively during this period hiking and camping, often for weeks at a time, throughout the western United States and Canada. Throughout the decade it was not unusual for Summers to backpack alone or with a fellow artist into mountains or back country for six weeks or more at a time. Not surprisingly, the artwork created during this period rarely departed from images of the land, sea and sky. Summers rendered these landscapes in a more representational style than before, however he always kept them somewhat abstract by mixing geometric shapes with organic shapes, irregular in outline. Some of his most critically acknowledged work was created during this period including First Rain, 1985 and The Rolling Sea, 1989. Summers received an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Bard College in 1979 and was selected by the United States Information Agency to spend a year conducting painting and printmaking workshops at universities throughout India. Since that original sabbatical, he has returned every year, spending four to eight weeks traveling throughout that country. In the 1990s, interspersed with these journeys to India have been additional treks to the back roads and high country areas of Mexico, Central America, Nepal, China and Japan. Travel to these exotic and faraway places had a profound influence on Summers’ art. Subject matter became more worldly and nonwestern as with From Humla to Dolpo, 1991 or A Former Life of Budha, 1996, for example. Architectural images, such as The Pillars of Hercules, 1990 or The Raja’s Aviary, 1992 became more common. Still life images made a reappearance with Jungle Bouquet in 1997. This was also a period when Summers began using odd-sized paper to further the impact of an image. The 1996 Night, a view of the earth and horizon as it might be seen by an astronaut, is over six feet long and only slightly more than a foot-and-a-half high. From 1999, Revuelta A Vida (Spanish for “Return to Life”) is pie-shaped and covers nearly 18 cubic feet. It was also at this juncture that Summers began to experiment with a somewhat different palette although he retained his love of saturated colors. The 2003 Far Side of Time is a superb example of the new direction taken by this colorist. At the turn of the millennium in 1999, “Carol Summers Woodcuts...

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1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Monotype, Woodcut

Green Elderflower II Monotype, Cyanotype on cotton paper, 12 x 12 inches

Green Elderflower II Monotype, Cyanotype on cotton paper, 12 x 12 inches

By Christine So

Located in Oakland, CA

Though these pale mint green botanical monotypes resemble woodcuts or linocuts they are actually cyanotypes, a form of kind of photography dating back to the 1800s, but the artist al...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Tiepolo Clouds

Tiepolo Clouds

By Zolita Sverdlove

Located in Dallas, TX

Inscribed "Tiepolo Clouds" at lower left, "A. P." at lower center and signed "Zolita Sverdlove '85" at lower right This monotype is printed on BFK Rives paper

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1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Monotype

Ma + Pa
Ma + Pa

Faith BaylessMa + Pa, 2018

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Ma + Pa

By Faith Bayless

Located in Kansas City, MO

Faith Bayless Title: Ma + Pa Medium: Woodcut on Monotype Date: 2018 Dimensions: 6"x4"x0.25" COA provided

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Monotype, Woodcut

Contemporary Abstract Landscape Monotype Painting Sarah Amos
Contemporary Abstract Landscape Monotype Painting Sarah Amos

Contemporary Abstract Landscape Monotype Painting Sarah Amos

By Sarah Amos

Located in Surfside, FL

Sarah Amos(Contemporary Australian/American) Untitled Monotype, 1995 Monotype or painting on paper 12 x 9 inches on a 22.25 x 15 inches sheet size, Hand signed and dated lower right Provenance: Garner Tullis Workshop This appears as a abstract expressionist landscape or seacape. A lovely, moody, piece Sarah Amos, originally from Australia, lives in Vermont, and maintains an active International and National exhibition schedule. Sarah left Australia, after receiving a BFA in Printmaking from RMIT, to attend the Tamarind Institute of Lithography in New Mexico. In 1992 she became a certified Tamarind Master Printer in Lithography working with Joyce Kozloff and Barton Lidice Benes . In 1998 Sarah became the Master Printer for the Vermont Studio Center Press until 2008 and during this time she also received an MFA from the University of Northern Vermont. Sarah has been an Adjunct Professor at Dartmouth, Williams and Bennington Colleges teaching Printmaking and Drawing since 2007. She has led workshops on monoprint collagraph printing techniques with Joel Janowitz...

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1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Monotype

Abstract Modernist Colorful Bold Monoprint Monotype Painting Print Pierre Obando
Abstract Modernist Colorful Bold Monoprint Monotype Painting Print Pierre Obando

Abstract Modernist Colorful Bold Monoprint Monotype Painting Print Pierre Obando

By Pierre Obando

Located in Surfside, FL

Pierre Andre Obando creates process oriented abstract paintings. He was born in Belize City, Belize and grew up in the Caribbean, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Miami, Fl and Jackson, MS. Pierre Obando completed his MFA at Hunter College and completed his undergraduate studies at New World School of the Arts, Miami, Fl. His work was featured in the Queens International Biennial in 2004, and 2006 at the Queens Museum of Art. His work has been in group exhibitions at Angela Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY; Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY; MACO Mexico Art Fair in Mexico City; Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Royale Projects, Indian Wells, CA; The Painting Center, New York, NY; and Dean Project, New York, NY. In 2008, he had a solo exhibition at Heskin Contemporary, New York, NY and in 2009, at project space show at Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY. He has participated in the Atlantic Center for the Arts Artists-in-Residence Program. In the fall of 2012, he participated in the group show Caribe Now, at the Nathan Cumming Foundation, which was organized by El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY. Contemporary Pattern and Decoration piece, The original movement was championed by the gallery owner Holly Solomon. The P&D movement wanted to revive an interest in minor forms such as patterning which at that point was equated with triviality. The prevailing negative view of decoration was one not generally shared by non-Western cultures, The Pattern and Decoration movement was influenced by sources outside of what was considered to be fine art. Blurring the line between art and design, many P&D works mimic patterns like those on wallpapers, printed fabrics, and quilts. There is a close connection between the Pattern and Decoration movement and the Feminist art movement. The P&D movement arose in opposition to the Minimalist and Conceptualist movements. Mary Grigoriadis, Valerie Jaudon, Joyce Kozloff, Miriam Schapiro, Robert Zakanitch were early proponents of this style. The artist lives and works in New York City. Education: 2001 MFA, Painting, Hunter College, New York, NY 2000 Study Abroad, Slade School, UCL, London, United Kingdom 1997 BFA, Painting, New World School of The Arts, Miami, FL Solo Exhibitions: 2015 ‘Like New’, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY 2009 ‘Nowhere’, Rush Arts, New York, NY 2008 ‘Noise’, Heskin Contemporary, New York, NY Group Exhibitions: 2018 ‘Revival: Contemporary Pattern and Decoration’, El Museo at Hostos, Bronx, NY Including artists: Abelardo Cruz Santiago Pierre Obando Antonio Pulgarín Keisha Scarville Mickalene Thomas and others. 2017 Locust Projects Contemporary in Miami benefit auction including artists Dara Friedman, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Larry Bell, and more 2017 ‘Browsing Chamber’, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2015 ‘#BemisPainters, 1982-2015’, Bemis Center, Omaha, NE 2015 ‘Spat Spell’, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY 2013 ‘Un-Natural Constellations’, Newman Popiashvili Gallery, New York, NY 2012 ‘Caribe Now’, Nathan Cummings Foundation/El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY 2012 ‘Lucid Fence’, Dean Project, New York, NY 2012 ‘Abstract Gambol’, Heskin Contemporary, New York, NY 2012 ‘Reenacting Sense’, Yace Gallery, Long Island City, NY 2010 ‘Continuing Color Abstraction’, The Painting Center, New York, NY 2009 ‘West/East’, Royale Projects, Indian Wells, CA 2009 ‘Alternative Abstraction’, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY Including works by Stephen Antonakos, Warren Isensee, Gary Lang, Melissa Meyer and Katherine Sehr...

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1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Monoprint, Monotype

Bicks Drops
Bicks Drops

Bicks Drops

By Kim Frohsin

Located in Burlingame, CA

monotype EV —edition variée 1/4 with heavy hand coloring in mixed media. Plate/image is 10 x 10 inches. Paper dimension is 18 x 18 inches. Pink, blue and white candy still life of Bi...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Monotype

Vessel (vase, blue, texture, patterned, chine colle, monoprint)
Vessel (vase, blue, texture, patterned, chine colle, monoprint)

Vessel (vase, blue, texture, patterned, chine colle, monoprint)

By Karin Bruckner

Located in New York, NY

Oil Monotype Chine Collé on white BFK Rives Printmaking Paper Hand pulled By Artist on Etching Press 13.5 x 21 inches framed This piece is featured in Bruckner’s 2024 solo exhibiti...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Paper, Monotype

Abstract Pattern & Decoration Monoprint Monotype Painting Print Pierre Obando
Abstract Pattern & Decoration Monoprint Monotype Painting Print Pierre Obando

Abstract Pattern & Decoration Monoprint Monotype Painting Print Pierre Obando

By Pierre Obando

Located in Surfside, FL

Pierre Andre Obando creates process oriented abstract paintings. He was born in Belize City, Belize and grew up in the Caribbean, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Miami, Fl and Jackson, MS. Pierre Obando completed his MFA at Hunter College and completed his undergraduate studies at New World School of the Arts, Miami, Fl. His work was featured in the Queens International Biennial in 2004, and 2006 at the Queens Museum of Art. His work has been in group exhibitions at Angela Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY; Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY; MACO Mexico Art Fair in Mexico City; Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Royale Projects, Indian Wells, CA; The Painting Center, New York, NY; and Dean Project, New York, NY. In 2008, he had a solo exhibition at Heskin Contemporary, New York, NY and in 2009, at project space show at Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY. He has participated in the Atlantic Center for the Arts Artists-in-Residence Program. In the fall of 2012, he participated in the group show Caribe Now, at the Nathan Cumming Foundation, which was organized by El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY. Contemporary Pattern and Decoration piece, The original movement was championed by the gallery owner Holly Solomon. The P&D movement wanted to revive an interest in minor forms such as patterning which at that point was equated with triviality. The prevailing negative view of decoration was one not generally shared by non-Western cultures, The Pattern and Decoration movement was influenced by sources outside of what was considered to be fine art. Blurring the line between art and design, many P&D works mimic patterns like those on wallpapers, printed fabrics, and quilts. There is a close connection between the Pattern and Decoration movement and the Feminist art movement. The P&D movement arose in opposition to the Minimalist and Conceptualist movements. Mary Grigoriadis, Valerie Jaudon, Joyce Kozloff, Miriam Schapiro, Robert Zakanitch were early proponents of this style. The artist lives and works in New York City. Education: 2001 MFA, Painting, Hunter College, New York, NY 2000 Study Abroad, Slade School, UCL, London, United Kingdom 1997 BFA, Painting, New World School of The Arts, Miami, FL Solo Exhibitions: 2015 ‘Like New’, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY 2009 ‘Nowhere’, Rush Arts, New York, NY 2008 ‘Noise’, Heskin Contemporary, New York, NY Group Exhibitions: 2018 ‘Revival: Contemporary Pattern and Decoration’, El Museo at Hostos, Bronx, NY Including artists: Abelardo Cruz Santiago Pierre Obando Antonio Pulgarín Keisha Scarville Mickalene Thomas and others. 2017 Locust Projects Contemporary in Miami benefit auction including artists Dara Friedman, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Larry Bell, and more 2017 ‘Browsing Chamber’, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2015 ‘#BemisPainters, 1982-2015’, Bemis Center, Omaha, NE 2015 ‘Spat Spell’, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY 2013 ‘Un-Natural Constellations’, Newman Popiashvili Gallery, New York, NY 2012 ‘Caribe Now’, Nathan Cummings Foundation/El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY 2012 ‘Lucid Fence’, Dean Project, New York, NY 2012 ‘Abstract Gambol’, Heskin Contemporary, New York, NY 2012 ‘Reenacting Sense’, Yace Gallery, Long Island City, NY 2010 ‘Continuing Color Abstraction’, The Painting Center, New York, NY 2009 ‘West/East’, Royale Projects, Indian Wells, CA 2009 ‘Alternative Abstraction’, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY Including works by Stephen Antonakos, Warren Isensee, Gary Lang, Melissa Meyer and Katherine Sehr...

Category

1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Monoprint, Monotype

Matisse in the Souk II

Matisse in the Souk II

By Red Grooms

Located in Lyons, CO

Color monotype Completed after a recent trip to Morocco, this print continues Grooms’ series of tributes to modern masters. Grooms imagined this scene as he followed the footsteps...

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Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Monotype

"Untitled I"

"Untitled I"

By Barbara Takenaga

Located in Lyons, CO

Color monotype. Barbara Takenaga's latest prints are a series of Untitled hand colored monotypes, which she describes as follows: Making these monotypes was a wonderful new experience for me. They combine a painterly, abstract background with a graphic structure of hard edged, flat forms. Those dark shapes can be read as either positive/foreground space (body silhouettes or curtains) or as negative space that frames a central image (landscapes, columns, creatures). Similarly, the white lines and dots...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Monotype

Tremendous Years of Recurrence - Abstract Geology Encaustic Monotype, 2024
Tremendous Years of Recurrence - Abstract Geology Encaustic Monotype, 2024

Tremendous Years of Recurrence - Abstract Geology Encaustic Monotype, 2024

By Laura Moriarty

Located in Kent, CT

In this contemporary encaustic monotype, layers of pigmented beeswax on a scroll of lightweight mulberry paper create an undulating composition suggesting layers of the earth's crust...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Encaustic, Archival Paper, Monotype

Pilot Down Five - Geometric Abstract Monotype Violet Yellow Star Red Blue, 2005
Pilot Down Five - Geometric Abstract Monotype Violet Yellow Star Red Blue, 2005

Pilot Down Five - Geometric Abstract Monotype Violet Yellow Star Red Blue, 2005

By David Collins

Located in Kent, CT

This is a monotype print, a unique print with no other editions. This geometric abstract monotype on paper layers shapes on a blue background that transitions from bright mint blue o...

Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Archival Paper, Monotype

One Cat D

One Cat D

By Fritz Scholder

Located in Bozeman, MT

Born in 1937 in Breckenridge, Minnesota, Fritz Scholder knew what he must do at an early age. As a high school student at Pierre, South Dakota, his teacher was Oscar Howe...

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Late 20th Century Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Monotype

Pink Plumeria IV

Pink Plumeria IV

By Robert Kushner

Located in Lyons, CO

Color monotype with collaged antique paper. Robert Kushner is a painter and a sculptor. He gained attention in the early seventies as a performance ar...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Monotype

Italian Contemporary Art by Federica Frati - Eaters 2

Italian Contemporary Art by Federica Frati - Eaters 2

By Federica Frati

Located in Paris, IDF

Monotype on paper, collage Federica Frati is an Italian artist born in 1977 who lives lives and works in Brecia, Italy. She is graduated from art school Foppa where she learned the ...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Canvas, Monotype

Seascape Diptych 23 - Blue Sea Ocean Waves Water Woodcut Print, 2019
Seascape Diptych 23 - Blue Sea Ocean Waves Water Woodcut Print, 2019

Seascape Diptych 23 - Blue Sea Ocean Waves Water Woodcut Print, 2019

By Eve Stockton

Located in Kent, CT

Contemporary horizontal diptych of woodcut prints on paper evoking the peacefulness of ocean waves in shades of navy and light blue. The monotype brings to mind the tradition of Japa...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Monotype, Woodcut

Chinese Pleasures III

Chinese Pleasures III

By Betty Woodman

Located in Lyons, CO

Color monotype Since 1985, Woodman has collaborated with Master printer Bud Shark to produce monotypes, woodcuts and lithographs with the same inventiveness and exuberance of her ...

Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Monotype

Silver Ivy (34 x 18 inch cyanotype) - Contemporary Art
Silver Ivy (34 x 18 inch cyanotype) - Contemporary Art

Silver Ivy (34 x 18 inch cyanotype) - Contemporary Art

By Christine So

Located in Oakland, CA

Although this looks like a screen print or woodcut, it is actually a form of 19th-century photography, a cyanotype. This pale blue-gray is a very difficult color to achieve with the ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

ComingUpRoses  (geometric, abstract, vessel, neutrals, chine colle, monotype)
ComingUpRoses  (geometric, abstract, vessel, neutrals, chine colle, monotype)

ComingUpRoses (geometric, abstract, vessel, neutrals, chine colle, monotype)

By Karin Bruckner

Located in New York, NY

Oil Monotype and Chine Collé on white BFK Rives Printmaking Paper Hand pulled by Artist on Etching Press 23.5 x 33 inches framed This piece is featured in Bruckner’s 2024 solo exhib...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Paper, Monotype

Five Blue Agapanthus (original cyanotype, 24 x 36 inches)
Five Blue Agapanthus (original cyanotype, 24 x 36 inches)

Five Blue Agapanthus (original cyanotype, 24 x 36 inches)

By Christine So

Located in Oakland, CA

Five huge pale blue agapanthus flowers against a deep midnight blue sky. Every botanical cyanotype the artist makes is a unique monotype. There is no way to reproduce exactly the sam...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Monotype, Photogram

Smoke Signals Two - Abstract Geology Encaustic Monotype Scroll Pale Blue, 2025
Smoke Signals Two - Abstract Geology Encaustic Monotype Scroll Pale Blue, 2025

Smoke Signals Two - Abstract Geology Encaustic Monotype Scroll Pale Blue, 2025

By Laura Moriarty

Located in Kent, CT

In this contemporary encaustic monotype, layers of pigmented beeswax on a scroll of lightweight mulberry paper create an undulating composition suggesting layers of the earth's crust...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Encaustic, Archival Paper, Monotype

A Hidden Truth - Abstract Geology Encaustic Monotype Golden Yellow Purple, 2026
A Hidden Truth - Abstract Geology Encaustic Monotype Golden Yellow Purple, 2026

A Hidden Truth - Abstract Geology Encaustic Monotype Golden Yellow Purple, 2026

By Laura Moriarty

Located in Kent, CT

In this contemporary encaustic monotype, layers of pigmented beeswax on lightweight kozo paper create an undulating composition suggesting layers of the earth's crust and geological ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Encaustic, Archival Paper, Monotype

Celadon Agapanthus ( 21 .5 x 17 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Celadon Agapanthus ( 21 .5 x 17 inch hand-printed cyanotype)

Celadon Agapanthus ( 21 .5 x 17 inch hand-printed cyanotype)

By Christine So

Located in Oakland, CA

The color is a muted gray-green like the celadon glaze on Japanese pottery. it is not a bright mint green. Though this unique monotype looks like a woodcut or linocut, it is not. Thi...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

A Truth Procedure - Abstract Geology Encaustic Monotype Golden Yellow Blue, 2026
A Truth Procedure - Abstract Geology Encaustic Monotype Golden Yellow Blue, 2026

A Truth Procedure - Abstract Geology Encaustic Monotype Golden Yellow Blue, 2026

By Laura Moriarty

Located in Kent, CT

In this contemporary encaustic monotype, layers of pigmented beeswax on lightweight kozo paper create an undulating composition suggesting layers of the earth's crust and geological ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Encaustic, Archival Paper, Monotype

Pilot's Notion Six - Geometric Abstract Monotype in Yellow Teal Blue Shapes 2002
Pilot's Notion Six - Geometric Abstract Monotype in Yellow Teal Blue Shapes 2002

Pilot's Notion Six - Geometric Abstract Monotype in Yellow Teal Blue Shapes 2002

By David Collins

Located in Kent, CT

This is a monotype print, a unique print with no other editions. This geometric abstract monotype on paper layers shapes on a blue background that transitions from bright perwinkle o...

Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Archival Paper, Monotype

Ribbony Traveling - Abstract Geology Encaustic Monotype Golden Yellow Blue, 2026
Ribbony Traveling - Abstract Geology Encaustic Monotype Golden Yellow Blue, 2026

Ribbony Traveling - Abstract Geology Encaustic Monotype Golden Yellow Blue, 2026

By Laura Moriarty

Located in Kent, CT

In this contemporary encaustic monotype, layers of pigmented beeswax on lightweight kozo paper create an undulating composition suggesting layers of the earth's crust and geological ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Encaustic, Archival Paper, Monotype

Lured in Promising Directions - Abstract Geology Encaustic Monotype, 2026
Lured in Promising Directions - Abstract Geology Encaustic Monotype, 2026

Lured in Promising Directions - Abstract Geology Encaustic Monotype, 2026

By Laura Moriarty

Located in Kent, CT

In this contemporary encaustic monotype, layers of pigmented beeswax on lightweight kozo paper create an undulating composition suggesting layers of the earth's crust and geological ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Encaustic, Archival Paper, Monotype

Phyllotaxis 34 by Katherine Warinner Relief Monotype on Paper

Phyllotaxis 34 by Katherine Warinner Relief Monotype on Paper

By Katherine Warinner

Located in Atlanta, GA

Katherine’s delicate and evocative monotypes portray nature’s flora in all its glory, from the most organic trees and branches to airily etched florals. They are the result of a per...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Monotype

Power Takeover - Abstract Geology Encaustic Monotype Pink Blue Lime Green, 2025
Power Takeover - Abstract Geology Encaustic Monotype Pink Blue Lime Green, 2025

Power Takeover - Abstract Geology Encaustic Monotype Pink Blue Lime Green, 2025

By Laura Moriarty

Located in Kent, CT

In this contemporary encaustic monotype, layers of pigmented beeswax on lightweight kozo paper create an undulating composition suggesting layers of the earth's crust and geological ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Encaustic, Archival Paper, Monotype

No Exit, monochromatic female nude

No Exit, monochromatic female nude

By Tom Bennett

Located in Brooklyn, NY

This monotype is a striking, expressionistic study of a female nude that balances raw, physical presence with a deep internalized psychological mood. It utilizes the fluid, singular ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Monotype, Archival Ink, Archival Paper

Misty June Wildflowers ( 24 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Misty June Wildflowers ( 24 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype)

Misty June Wildflowers ( 24 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype)

By Christine So

Located in Oakland, CA

The flowers use in this unique monotype are called Coronaria Alba in Latin or by their common name Rose Campion. They grow 2 feet tall with velvety gray-green leaves and white petals...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Veiled Glance

Veiled Glance

By Barnaby Fitzgerald

Located in Dallas, TX

A Professor of painting at Southern Methodist University in Dallas since 1984, Barnaby Fitzgerald spent his childhood in Italy before receiving a Magistero degree in printmaking at t...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Monotype

Moonlight Laurel III ( 24 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Moonlight Laurel III ( 24 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype)

Moonlight Laurel III ( 24 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype)

By Christine So

Located in Oakland, CA

These are branches from the native Californian bay laurel tree in my garden. I deliberately chose curving branches for the most interesting lines in my composition. I essentially “dr...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Silver Iris (33 x 23 inch gray cyanotype/ monotype)
Silver Iris (33 x 23 inch gray cyanotype/ monotype)

Silver Iris (33 x 23 inch gray cyanotype/ monotype)

By Christine So

Located in Oakland, CA

This soft celadon or greenish gray is a very difficult color to achieve with the cyanotype antique photographic process. The artist altered the ratio of the two photography chemicals...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Chinese Elm IV (original cyanotype, 40 x 20 inches)
Chinese Elm IV (original cyanotype, 40 x 20 inches)

Chinese Elm IV (original cyanotype, 40 x 20 inches)

By Christine So

Located in Oakland, CA

The leaves of the Chinese elm here are a pale blue rather than white. Though this monoprint looks like a wood cut or screen print, this is actually a form of photography called a cya...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Monotype, Photogram

Untitled

Untitled

By Barnaby Fitzgerald

Located in Dallas, TX

A Professor of painting at Southern Methodist University in Dallas since 1984, Barnaby Fitzgerald spent his childhood in Italy before receiving a Magistero degree in printmaking at t...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Monotype

Balustrade Vase C

Balustrade Vase C

By Betty Woodman

Located in Lyons, CO

Color monotype collage/woodcut. Since 1985, Woodman collaborated with Master printer Bud Shark to produce monotypes, woodcuts and lithographs with the same inventiveness and exubera...

Category

1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Monotype

Big Lone Pine

Big Lone Pine

By Frances Ashforth

Located in Fairfield, CT

Ashforth is precise in how she studies her subject, researching color and consistency of ink, paint or drawing medium. Her approach is summed up by Christopher Shore, Master Printer ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Monotype

Pilot 35 - Yellow Blue Coral Star Circle Flower Vertical Abstract Monotype, 2002
Pilot 35 - Yellow Blue Coral Star Circle Flower Vertical Abstract Monotype, 2002

Pilot 35 - Yellow Blue Coral Star Circle Flower Vertical Abstract Monotype, 2002

By David Collins

Located in Kent, CT

This is a monotype, a unique print with no other editions. This contemporary, vertical geometric abstract monotype on delicate Asian paper layers shapes on a background transitioning...

Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Archival Paper, Monotype

Silver Ivy Diptych (Two 35 x 18 inch monotypes)
Silver Ivy Diptych (Two 35 x 18 inch monotypes)

Silver Ivy Diptych (Two 35 x 18 inch monotypes)

By Christine So

Located in Oakland, CA

Two unframed 35 x 18 inch unique gray cyanotypes. Their combined total is 35 x 36 inches. Once matted and framed they would cover 4.5 feet horizontally. Although this looks like a...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

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