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Conceptual Mixed Media

CONCEPTUAL STYLE

In 1967, artist Sol LeWitt wrote that in “Conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work.” He was giving a name to an art movement that had emerged in the 1960s in which artists were less focused on their medium being something traditionally “artistic” and instead engaged in using any object, movement, form, action or place to express an idea.

LeWitt’s work was featured alongside an assemblage of notes, drawings and outlines by other artists in “Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art,” a groundbreaking show at New York City’s School of Visual Arts curated by Mel Bochner, another leading exponent of Conceptualism. Building on radical 20th-century statements, like Fountain (1917) by French artist Marcel Duchamp, Conceptual artists around Europe and North and South America were not interested in the commercial art scene and rather directly challenged its systems and values.

Stretching into the 1970s, this movement has also been called Post-Object art and Dematerialized art. Conceptual art reflected a larger era of social and political upheaval. Pieces associated with the style range from Roelof Louw’s Soul City (Pyramid of Oranges) (1967) — a work of installation art that sees fresh oranges stacked into a pyramid from which visitors are allowed to take one orange away — to On Kawara’s “Today” series, which saw the Japanese artist carefully painting a date in white acrylic on canvases consisting of a single color from 1966 to his death in 2014. Artists such as Ed Ruscha, who created the Twentysix Gasoline Stations book — a collection of photos of gas stations that is widely said to be the first modern artists’ book — made photography a major platform for Conceptual art, as did Bruce Nauman, who burned one of Ruscha's books and then photographed it for his own.

Conceptual art’s legacy of questioning artistic authorship, ownership and how to work with complex ideas of space and time had a significant influence on the decades of culture that followed, and it continues to inform art today.

The collection of Conceptual photography, paintings and sculptures on 1stDibs includes artworks by John Baldessari, Jenny Holzer, Lawrence Weiner, Joseph Kosuth and others.

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Style: Conceptual
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 3044
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on silver leaf on paper, with retouching in acrylic and silver ginder & mounted in Japanese silk scroll Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American ar...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Paper, Mixed Media

Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2247
Located in Paris, IDF
Inkjet print of digtial photgraph on Kakejikuya kozo washi with origami backing paper Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 199...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Paper, Mixed Media

Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2824
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on pewter leaf on paper & mounted in Japanese silk scroll Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since ...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Paper, Mixed Media

Jimi Hendrix
Located in New York, NY
Jimi Hendrix. Mixed Media. About the Artist: Le Closier is a Belgian painter living in New York. After moving to Paris in the early 2000's, mixing P...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2720
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on pewter leaf on paper, mounted in Japanese silk scroll Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Paper, Mixed Media

Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2709
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on Kakejikuya 100% kozo paper mulberry washi, mounted in fabric scroll Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo,...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Paper, Mixed Media

Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 1944
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on brass leaf on paper Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. Kojun project started in 2010...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Paper, Mixed Media, Inkjet

Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 1945
Located in Paris, IDF
Inkjet print of digital photograph on Kakejikuya kozo washi with origami backing paper Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 19...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Paper, Mixed Media, Inkjet

Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2249
Located in Paris, IDF
Inkjet print of digtial photgraph on Kakejikuya kozo washi with origami backing paper Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 199...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Paper, Mixed Media, Inkjet

Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 24491
Located in Paris, IDF
Inkjet print of digital photograph on Kakejikuya kozo washi Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. Kojun project started i...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Paper, Mixed Media, Inkjet

Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2246
Located in Paris, IDF
Inkjet print of digtial photgraph on Kakejikuya kozo washi with origami backing paper Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 199...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Paper, Mixed Media, Inkjet

Japanese Contemporary Sculpture by Kojun - HKVM72020
Located in Paris, IDF
Matte finish silver leaf over ABS thermoplastic viewer / Washi diffuser with silver gindei wash Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan ...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Mujo 2444
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on silver leaf on paper Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. Kojun project started in 201...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Paper, Mixed Media

Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2252
Located in Paris, IDF
Inkjet print of digital photograph on hemp washi Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. Kojun project started in 2010 expl...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Paper, Mixed Media, Inkjet

Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2352
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on silver leaf on paper Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. Kojun project started in 201...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Paper, Mixed Media, Inkjet

Japan Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 1943
Located in Paris, IDF
Inkjet print of digital photograph on hemp washi Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. Kojun project started in 2010 expl...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Paper, Mixed Media, Inkjet

Japan Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 1941
Located in Paris, IDF
Inkjet print of digital photograph on hemp washi Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. Kojun project started in 2010 expl...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Paper, Mixed Media, Inkjet

Ligne droites – Dispersions
Located in Paris, FR
The artist's first and only tapestry, this woven work undeniably represents a major break in his practice, marking his desire to explore new territories. It is not a matter of retran...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Textile

Sculpture; 'Portal'
Located in New York, NY
The artistic collaboration of Kelly Bugden + Van Wifvat has produced a thought-provoking body of sculptures, paintings, and constructions. Nature, childhood memories, and everyday archetypes take shape in unexpected combinations of materials. The works emerged as the tactile and visual senses channeled the ritualistic power and materiality of selected artifacts. The resulting objects exist in a space between what they were originally and what they could become. A wheel, for example, is distorted as if seen through a prism. Their collaboration grew out of years of shaping materials into one-of-a-kind objects. Intuitively, the process of creating with their hands took an inward turn. Prism is a travelogue through memories and dreams, yielding abstract forms that capture moments of transformation. Van Wifvat grew up with eight siblings and studied sculpture and environmental design in Minneapolis at MCAD. In 1979, he opened a storefront art gallery to promote the work of local artists. The space featured printed materials—art books, periodicals, fanzines, and postcard’s. Wifvat moved to New York in 1983 to study at the Fashion Institute of Technology and Parsons. In 1987, he co-founded Van Gregory & Norton design studio, specializing in convex mirrors and curtain hardware...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Gold Leaf

Empty Words, Sculpture
Located in Brooklyn, NY
JORGE WELLESELEY, Empty Words, 2009 Rusted steel, concrete Sculpture 17.5 x 18 x 12 in Jorge Wellesley (Havana, 1979) Cuban-born artist based in Guttenberg, New Jersey. He received...
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Early 2000s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Concrete, Steel

Wonder Woman - Original Lego Creation
Located in New York, NY
Homage to Wonder Woman. Made completely of legos. About the Artist: Joseph Kraham is an "engineering artist". He combines thousands of Lego pieces...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Mixed Media Planet with Roots: 'Fons et origo #3' (Source & Origin)
Located in New York, NY
Fons et origo, which in Latin means Source and Origin, includes 8 wall-sculptures. These circular shapes sprout long roots in delicate hand-cut formations. Some of the roots have tin...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Metal, Wire

`Irwin w/ beacon`, 2021 -`In;Human Nature` painting glacier nasa moon
Located in Oslo, NO
Edition of 3. 3 separate pieces make up this installation. 150 cm. x 150 cm. Pigment print mounted on aluminium. Framed in solid oak with museum glass. , `The need for images that can change us. ` – An account of Christian Houges images. “For example, one could say. A people is a “group of rational beings, bound together in agreement about what they love.” The kind of “people” they are, would be determined from what they “have loved.” If we then have a group of rational beings (animals excluded) who are “bound together in an agreement about what they have loved”, then it makes sense to call them a “people”, no matter what they may have loved. And for better or worse, what it is that they have found in common, through better or worse they are considered as a people” – Augustin, De civitate Dei – The City of God. ..............In this context, another series by Christian Houge becomes interesting, because it not only sheds light on the national romanticism and the kind of historical movement it is part of, but also because it provides us with a critical look at how we imagine landscapes, and we are reflected in them, in the historical and social sense. In; In;Human Nature...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Acrylic, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Resin Abstract Circle Sculpture: 'Circle'
Located in New York, NY
The artistic collaboration of Kelly Bugden + Van Wifvat has produced a thought-provoking body of sculptures, paintings, and constructions. Nature, childhood memories, and everyday archetypes take shape in unexpected combinations of materials. The works emerged as the tactile and visual senses channeled the ritualistic power and materiality of selected artifacts. The resulting objects exist in a space between what they were originally and what they could become. A wheel, for example, is distorted as if seen through a prism. Their collaboration grew out of years of shaping materials into one-of-a-kind objects. Intuitively, the process of creating with their hands took an inward turn. Prism is a travelogue through memories and dreams, yielding abstract forms that capture moments of transformation. Van Wifvat grew up with eight siblings and studied sculpture and environmental design in Minneapolis at MCAD. In 1979, he opened a storefront art gallery to promote the work of local artists. The space featured printed materials—art books, periodicals, fanzines, and postcard’s. Wifvat moved to New York in 1983 to study at the Fashion Institute of Technology and Parsons. In 1987, he co-founded Van Gregory & Norton design studio, specializing in convex mirrors and curtain hardware...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Ceramic, Resin, Wood, Glaze, Handmade Paper

Illumination, 2018 LED Sculpture
Located in Brooklyn, NY
JORGE WELLESELEY From the series: Subterfuges, ”Illumination”, 2018 Aluminum, LED, plexiglass, PLA, concrete 15.5 x 23.5 x 12 in Ed: 2/3 + 1AP Jorge Wellesley (Havana, 1979) Cuban...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Concrete, Metal

Contemporary Conceptual Collage, "Drunken Style Palm Tree"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a conceptual paper collage by local San Diego artist, Perry Vàsquez. Its dimensions are 21" x 52". It comes framed. A certificate of authenticity will follow delivery. The artist has used paper cutouts to depict a palm tree. The colors used here are black and whites. The artist carefully arranges paper to create something recognizable to the viewer. Vàsquez focuses primarily on his exploration of various iterations of palm trees. Ubiquitous in Southern California, and historically viewed as a provider of nourishment, shelter, and bounty, the trees in Vásquez’s paintings are instead framed in peculiar or dire scenarios. Many of the trees in his work are ablaze, or are actually cell towers...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Paper

Las tres acuáticas llevando la información
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
#mandala #spiritualart #introspecction #sculpture #nature #landscape #information #outdoors #contemporaryart #water JUANA MARTÍNEZ (Tlalpujajua, Mi...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Magazine Paper, Wood

Cuando el hombre se convierte en roca
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
#mandala #spiritualart #introspecction #sculpture #nature #landscape #information #outdoors #contemporaryart #stone #color #energy #seed #ambar JUANA MARTÍNEZ (Tlalpujajua, Michoa...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Stone

YES NO
By Dike Blair
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Dike Blair, American (1952 - ) Title: YES NO Year: 1986 Medium: Mixed Media Collage, signed and dated verso Frame Size: 98 x 17.5 inches
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1980s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Acrylic, Stencil

Introspección
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
JUANA MARTÍNEZ (Tlalpujajua, Michoacán, 1953) Lives and works in Tlalpujahua, Michoacán. Juana lives in an isolated cabin in the middle of nowhere, ...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Magazine Paper

Growing Up
Located in Natchez, MS
Sculpture is Capdevila's favorite form of visual communication. He works with found materials, in this case-wood from a discarded table, and creates a highly evocative work. An expre...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

THE NAME OF THE FLOWER: PANSY “JOKER VIOLA-GOLD”
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Contemporary Subject: Nature Medium: Ink, Sandblasted Glass, Surface: Paper Country: United States Dimensions: 20" x 20" Dimensions w/Frame: 21" x 21" x 2" KEN APTEKAR (b.19...
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Late 20th Century Conceptual Mixed Media

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Glass, Ink

Contemporary American Painting Mandala Salt Pastel Female Artist Jody Hanson
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original salt on paper work by contemporary conceptual artist Jody Hanson. This piece is "Clutch", 2019, Copper sulfate and Potassium ferricyanide on paper. Artwork size 20” x ...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Copper

Untitled Mandala
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original salt on paper work by contemporary conceptual artist Jody Hanson. This piece is "Untitled Mandala", 2013, Copper sulfate and Potassium ferricyanide on paper. Artwo...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Copper

The Bubble - Circular Contemporary Landscape/Abstract Painting, geometric, blue
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Peña’s works range from painting to multimedia installations that question the ever-changing psychological landscape of America; asking the viewer to re-examine their perceptions of the “American Dream” and the affects that pursuit has on our environment. In "The Buble", Peña takes a more traditional approach to representing a house in the phase of construction with bold and vivid colors and contrasts the image with cut Sintra board slowly pulsating downward from underneath the house. The light blue of the sky contrasts with a deep orange hue for the house. The work is framed with a 1 inch white border. Nick Peña...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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PVC, Acrylic, Watercolor

Joker - Lego Art - Original
Located in New York, NY
Homage to the Joker. Made completely of legos. About the Artist: Joseph Kraham is an "engineering artist". He combines thousands of Lego pieces, a...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with work and authenticity certificate
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Metal

De la serie aglomeraciones _05
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
#draw #scketch #pencil #frame #box Por un lado está el diario de lo que ha estado sucediendo durante los últimos meses alrededor del mundo. De pequeño formato, los dibujos muestran e...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Paper, Pencil, Carbon Pencil

Best Friends - Lego Art - Original
Located in New York, NY
Dog and bird together. Made completely of legos. About the Artist: Joseph Kraham is an "engineering artist". He combines thousands of Lego pieces,...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Scorpio
Located in New York, NY
Digital Art. Scorpio theme. Produced on metal with white 2 inch border. About the Artist: Chad is more than just a freelance artist, he is the Head of 3D Design at Nike and not so long ago retired from an exciting career as a professional skateboarder that ran from 1998-2011. Nowadays, when he isn’t working for Nike, his unique artwork is enjoyed by people around the world. Chad Knight...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Metal

Ash Reliquary
Located in Cuernavaca, Morelos
3 Metal Tool Boxes, Lead and Relevant Debris
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Mixed Media

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Metal

Nets
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with work and authenticity certificate
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Into the whale
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
#fantastic #zoology #texture #eye #paper, #color, #hole and #eye, into the #whale, from film Into The Woods, miguel villafuerte (Quito 1991) graphic designer and visual artist, lit...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Wood, Oil, Acrylic

De la serie aglomeraciones _02
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
#draw #scketch #pencil #frame #box Por un lado está el diario de lo que ha estado sucediendo durante los últimos meses alrededor del mundo. De pequeño formato, los dibujos muestran e...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Paper, Pencil, Carbon Pencil

El sentido que nunca duerme
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
#mandala #spiritualart #introspecction #sculpture #nature #landscape #information #outdoors #contemporaryart #stone #color #energy #seed #ambar #wood JUANA MARTÍNEZ...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Precious Stone, Magazine Paper, Wood

Dialogo / diagonal
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Lidzie Alvisa Jiménez (Havana in 1969), one of the most recognized conceptual artists in Cuba, studied from the elementary level to the ISA (Superior Institute of Art), graduating in...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Paper, Ink, Pins

Descanso
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Lidzie Alvisa Jiménez (Havana in 1969), one of the most recognized conceptual artists in Cuba, studied from the elementary level to the ISA (Superior Institute of Art), graduating in...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Paper, Ink, Pins

Fuerza
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Lidzie Alvisa Jiménez (Havana in 1969), one of the most recognized conceptual artists in Cuba, studied from the elementary level to the ISA (Superior Institute of Art), graduating in...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Paper, Ink, Pins

When the Stars Align - Found Objects Abstract Sculpture
Located in Boston, MA
When the Stars Align 10.0 x 13.0 x 5.0, 2.0 lbs Mixed Media Hand signed by artist Artist's Commentary: "When the Stars Align is part of series called: Mind Springs that all start...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

El poder de la ofrenda
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
JUANA MARTÍNEZ (Tlalpujajua, Michoacán, 1953) Lives and works in Tlalpujahua, Michoacán. Juana lives in an isolated cabin in the middle of nowhere, ...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Magazine Paper

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with work and authenticity certificate
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Metal

Abstraction About Subtle
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Abstraction About Subtle Royal blue with gold leaf on carved wood panel. Krzysztof (Chris) Sokolovski born in 1985 in Eisiskes in Lithuania. Visual artist creating neosacral art: pa...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Gold Leaf

Marilyn
Located in New York, NY
Marilyn Monroe Painting. About the Artist: Le Closier is a Belgian painter living in New York. After moving to Paris in the early 2000's...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with work and authenticity certificate
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with work and authenticity certificate
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Metal

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Mixed Media, Watercolor

A Cut Above
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media. Female centric. Featuring Madonna. About the Artist: Cabell Molina is a contemporary artist transplanted from California to the east. Where Cabell has proved hers...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Elizabeth - 3D 6/10
Located in New York, NY
Homage to the famed Elizabeth Taylor. About the Artists: Animated through an assemblage of analog, digital, and lenticular photographic technologies, these selections from Reisi...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Lenticular

Conceptual mixed media for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Conceptual mixed media available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add mixed media created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, red, purple and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Kojun, Scott Froschauer, Jo Yarrington, and Cecilia Arrospide. Frequently made by artists working with Mixed Media, and Paper and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Conceptual mixed media, so small editions measuring 1 inches across are also available. Prices for mixed media made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $300 and tops out at $65,000, while the average work sells for $2,500.

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