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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 2826
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on silver leaf on paper, with retouching in acrylic and silver gindei, mounted in Japanese silk scroll Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American art...
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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 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 Sculpture by Kojun - VHK3M2019
Located in Paris, IDF
Gloss finish gold leaf over ABS thermoplastic viewer / Washi diffuser with gold-tone wash and gold kindei wash Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based ...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2513
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on aluminum leaf on paper Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. Kojun project started in 2...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Paper, Mixed Media

Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2514
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on gold 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

Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Mujo 2459
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 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 22471
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 22481
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 4491
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

Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2461
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 2463
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 2453
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 2452
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

Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2351
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on aluminum leaf on paper Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. Kojun project started in 2...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Paper, Mixed Media, Inkjet

Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2450
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 2255
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on pewter 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

Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2254
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 2251
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 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 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

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

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

Concert Tee shirt Tapestry: 'The Mammoth Tapestry'
Located in New York, NY
Inspired by amateur archaeologists such as Heinrich Schliemann who discovered Troy and by past elaborate hoaxes like that of the Piltdown Man, Joshua travels the world performing sta...
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15th Century and Earlier Conceptual Mixed Media

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Gold Leaf

Dé-coll/age happenings
Located in London, GB
3D multiple, 1966, published by The Something Else Press, New York, a wooden box with plexiglass slipcover, containing one book with 94 pages, ‘Performances Notations 1959/66’ 15 fol...
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1960s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Mylar, Plexiglass, Wood, Paper, Screen

De la serie aglomeraciones
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

De la serie aglomeraciones _04
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

¿Por qué me llaman artista?
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
#mandala #spiritualart #introspecction #sculpture #nature #landscape #information #outdoors #contemporaryart #stone #color #energy #seed #ambar JUANA MARTÍNEZ...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Stone

Onda energética de siete colores
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
#mandala #spiritualart #introspecction #sculpture #nature #landscape #information #outdoors #contemporaryart #stone #color #energy #seed JUANA MARTÍNEZ...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Stone

¿Qué hay más allá de la materia?
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
#mandala #spiritualart #introspecction #sculpture #nature #landscape #information #outdoors #contemporaryart #stone JUANA MARTÍNEZ (Tlalpujajua, Mic...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Stone

Escala
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

Arrítmico
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

Sin título, rhythm, pins,
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

Sin título, rhythm, pins,
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

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

"The Clandestine Traveler, " Ink, watercolor, graphite on paper
Located in New York, NY
Known for her idiosyncratic cartographic explorations of the psyche and mental states, Smith incorporates outer and inner geographical regions in this piece. The finished work is a d...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Ink, Watercolor, Graphite

El paseo de la niña
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
the painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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Early 2000s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Color

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

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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Early 2000s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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Early 2000s 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

Hand Of God
Located in New York, NY
Painting. Vibrant. Hands. About the Artist: Le Closier is a Belgian painter living in New York. After moving to Paris in the early 2000's, mixing Pop Art and Street Art, he st...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Tree Diva
Located in New York, NY
Photograph of aged tree that is then brought to life through some acrylic touches. Photograph produced by Dye Sublimation - which means archival inks infused into aluminum. Abou...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Metal

Wonderful World
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media. Woman on ladder in pool. Blue hues. About the Artist: Cabell Molina is a contemporary artist transplanted from California to the east. Where Cabell has proved herse...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Dwellings 5
Located in New York, NY
This series “Dwellings” is comprised of pieces of mixed media on wood panels. The artist uses wood panels 5 x 5 inches each as base that is painted ei...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Wood, Paper, Acrylic, Permanent Marker, Monoprint

Niayendu
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Hand woven tapestry: wool, dyes
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Early 2000s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Tapestry, Wool, Dye

Niayendu
Price Upon Request
Stars and Stripes - SOLD - Commission Available
Located in New York, NY
Pop Art. Mixed Media sketch on paper. Floats on white matte and framed with white frame. A celebration of America via the Flag. Vintage feel. Background from artists vintage ...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Canvas, Mixed Media

Long Line - Original by Craig Alan
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media Original with resin finish from world renowned artist with unique, one of a kind style. Homage to apple. Humorous. About the Artist: In his prolific career is a cu...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Resin, Mixed Media

My World
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media Original with resin finish from world renowned artist with unique, one of a kind style. About the Artist: In his prolific career is a culmination of textbook artistic...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Resin, Mixed Media

My World
Price Upon Request
Life Happens
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media Original with resin finish from world renowned artist with unique, one of a kind style. Homage to the late great Amy Winehouse. About the Artist: In his prolific car...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Resin, Mixed Media

Life Happens
Price Upon Request
Living Large
Located in New York, NY
Homages to Mr. Monopoly. Conceptual. Vintage magazines in the background to create the narrative. One of a kind. About the Artist: NELSON DE LA NUEZ is one of the most sough...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Canvas, Acrylic, Watercolor, Newsprint

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Located in Kansas City, MO
Artist : Stephanie Lanter Title : More Materials : Porcelain, underglaze, glaze, enamel, thread Date : 2016 Dimensions : 15" x 12" x 8" Description : ...
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2010s Conceptual Mixed Media

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Ceramic, Porcelain, Thread, Glaze, Underglaze, Mixed Media

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Mo'jam
By Farah Khelil
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Farah Khelil, Mo’jam, Fine Art Print, 99.7 x 150 cm, 2015 antoine lefebvre editions bookworm, curated by Antoine Lefebvre The boundaries between passion and destruction fade away. bookworms is an transnational transmedia artists’ project about book-loving and book-eating, conservation and conservatism, passion and destruction. From the encounter with a destroyed book stems a reflection between two artists who are both passionate about books. It is important for us to present this project in different countries because the issues of transmission of knowledge are everywhere the same. This project is about the ignorants for whom knowledge, intelligence and education has become a threat and who seek to drag others with them into darkness. For Khelil, the book eaters are thinkers and intellectuals against conservatism and dogmatism. *** bookworms is an artists’ project about book-loving and book-eating, conservation and conservatism, passion and destruction This project is the fruit of a very special encounter with an object… After the death of her grandfather in 2012, Tunisian artist Farah Khelil (b. 1980) explored his library and found an old family dictionary in Arabic (Mo'jam Arabia), at least what was left of it, for it had been devoured by book eaters. She decided to collect some fragments without knowing what she would do with them. Impressed by how carefully cut the pieces were, she wanted to transform them into artworks that would honor the memory of her grandfather. Because she knew how important the book object is in my artistic practice, she showed me the fragments and invited me to participate in an exhibition at the Tunisian gallery A.GORGI in her hometown Sidi Bou Said. I then thought about introducing her to Barbara Denis-Morel, the curator of the Avranches Library. This library conserves, among other treasures, more than 200 medieval manuscripts from the abbey of the Mont Saint-Michel, but it also holds a few books that were entirely devoured. Thanks to the curator, we could consult old books that were infected, quarantined, pierced by galleries and routes that revealed the passage of book-eating insects. We filmed these pages to create a video that we entitled ALL THE MEMORY IN THE WORLD, Toute la mémoire du monde, which is an appropriation of the eponymous film by Alain Resnais. Farah had also kept some intact pages of the devoured dictionary. Then we used this sequence of 120 pages to build the lay-out structure of an artist’s book. The idea was to empty all the textual content —captions and definitions— to keep only the figures, the dropped initials, and the page numbers. The emptied columns of the dictionary were then filled with artistic contributions and texts that we commissioned to invited authors. Printed in an edition of 500 copies, this artist book was made by Farah Khelil and antoine lefebvre editions from the remains of a devoured book. It will be a key element, of this second presentation of the project, and a special edition with a bookstand will produced especially for the fair. Behind the idea of book-eating insects, there is the issue of conservation but also of conservatism, as in Solitaire, an installation Khelil made with a peg solitaire game and mothballs. This work is a “portrait” of her grandfather, Abdelaziz Majdoub, who taught Arabic at the Sadiki High School for a long time where he specialized in “ilm al-kalam,” the science of language. This project is imbued with nostalgia, it is reminder for the artist of the time she spent as a child with this thinker always with his head in books. These encyclopedic pieces transformed into artworks draw the territories and communal places of knowledge. They are extensions of a family memory and reflect a culture going back and forth between book-loving and book-eating, conservation and conservatism. This idea of book destruction is one of the main dangers threatening the library and the books that compose it: fire, water and confinement. But there is also this minor or mediocre scourge that intend to harm the books: the book eaters. This exhibition is a metaphor, a reflection on ignorance, not as opposed to knowledge but as an enemy of knowledge. Ignorance is what attempts to undermine the intelligence, kill or reduce it. Just like the bookworms...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Mo'jam
Mo'jam
Price Upon Request
@Anonymous
Located in New York, NY
@Anonymous 2014 Neon 28 x 25 x 0.5
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Mixed Media

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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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