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Contemporary Mixed Media

CONTEMPORARY STYLE

Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.

Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.

The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.

Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.

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Style: Contemporary
Teddy
Located in Napa, CA
KOLLABS is a collaborative project between artists Luis Garcia Nerey and Anke Schofield. In their work, they create compositions juxtaposing undomesticated animals within domestic an...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Resin, Mixed Media, Panel

Just Jazz
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: Wood, cutouts from books TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author, and educator. For over three decades he has made his home in...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

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Paper, Wood

INIZIO AVORIO I
Located in Tulsa, OK
INIZIO AVORIO I by Kim Fonder is a mixed media on handmade paper, pigment, mica, on burlap over panel measures 24.00 X 24.00 in and is priced at $800. Kim Fonder loves texture and t...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Burlap, Plexiglass, Paper, Mixed Media

Culturally Endowed
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
An African woman with a head tie and a beautiful dress painted on canvas and collaged with African wax print. Ankara represents a strong and confident woman...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

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Fabric, Oil, Canvas

Q6
Located in New Orleans, LA
Non-objective artist AIMÉE FARNET SIEGEL works with color and line through the medium of found, hand-painted, and manipulated paper. Her works inhabit space outside the two-dimension...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

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Paper, Acrylic

Stop The Madness Yellow & Black Mixed Media
Located in Miami, FL
David Banegas (July 4, 1975) is a Bolivian born artist, specializing in action painting. David is best known for his colorful portraits of Hollywood’s historic and contemporary A-lis...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

"Mass Study XX (diptych)", Layered Paper and Drawing Collage, Architectural
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This drawing and layered paper collage titled "Mass Study XX" is an original diptych by Seth Clark. This piece is a mix of collage, charcoal, pastel, acrylic, and graphite on two woo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

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Charcoal, Pastel, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Graphite

Rectangles in Yellow Ocre #4
Located in Napa, CA
Ryan Snow is an environmental artist creating visual meditations through abstract painting, analog photography and digital media. His field process explores the tranquility of mind a...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Canvas, Pigment

Aurum 1 - Botanical Opulence, Geometry & Birds: Acrylic, Ink & Gold on Canvas
Located in London, GB
The aesthetic appeal of the collaboration between Keng Wai Lee and Marco Araldi is based on the contrast between the techniques used. Marco uses ink pen and gold, creating geometric...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Gold

''Maud'' Contemporary Dutch Portrait of a Girl, Mixed Media Painting
Located in Utrecht, NL
In her art, Dutch photographer Yvonne Michiels (1966) depicts personal stories about beauty, emotions and mortality. In order to heighten the emotional charge of her pictures, Yvonn...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Oil, Acrylic, Wax, Wood Panel

Aurum 2 - Botanical Opulence, Geometry & Birds: Acrylic, Ink & Gold on Canvas
Located in London, GB
The aesthetic appeal of the collaboration between Keng Wai Lee and Marco Araldi is based on the contrast between the techniques used. Marco uses ink pen and gold, creating geometric...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Gold

Existential Matter
Located in Zofingen, AG
"Existential Matter" This work captures a state where matter becomes the carrier of existential tension. Inner pressure does not find release but condenses into a dense core. Emotio...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Canvas, Plaster, Acrylic

3D Portrait Painting of Woman: 'Wounds CCLIII'
Located in New York, NY
While his work has a clear figurative language, the paintings of Juan Miguel Palacios contain a strong conceptual load, where his work developed in series, has a constant wandering o...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Sconia - contemporary abstract textured colorful mixed media painting on canvas
Located in London, GB
John’s artistic influences include the work of Kurt Schwitters, Antonio Tapies, Per Kirkeby and Gerhard Richter and like them John relishes the broad us...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Canvas, Mixed Media

Date to Dream 01
Located in New York, NY
Born in 1979, Denis Meyers is a Belgian urban artist. He studied at the National Superior School of Arts and Visuals of la Cambre, in Brussels, city where he currently lives and works. Denis Meyers is particularly known for his frescoes and stickers in form of faces, which he calls his “perso”, printed and cut out by hand and then spread in the urban space. The artist defines himself as a typographer, a vocation that he inherited from his grandfather, Lucien De Roeck...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Spray Paint, Acrylic, Permanent Marker, Gesso, Canvas, Cotton Canvas

"Wall of the Carry Outs, " Abstract Acrylic Collage signed by Joseph Rozman
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Wall of the Carry Outs" is Wisconsin artist Joseph Rozman's 1968 signed acrylic collage. 36" x 29 1/2" art size Joseph Rozman was born on December 26, 1944 in Milwaukee, WI. Rozma...
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1960s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Acrylic

Chrysalis, unique stone sculpture, granite, limestone contemporary sculpture
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Marble, granite and limestone sculpture
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

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Limestone, Granite, Belgian Black Marble

Atropurpureum, Botanical, Floral, Nature, work on paper, Mixed Media, Purple
Located in Riverdale, NY
Atropurpureum is a botanical mixed media work on paper by Cynthia MacCollum. This original artwork is 30x22 on archival paper. It is framed to...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Mixed Media, Monoprint

"Night Bus", Depiction of Public Bus in Sewn Paper with Oil on Canvas
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Night Bus" is a one-of-a-kind piece by Eustace Mamba measuring 48"h x 60"w x 1.5"d. This piece is part of Mamba's ongoing cityscape series and is made with oil, acrylic, sewn paper...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

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Textile, Paint, Mixed Media, Thread, Paper, Oil, Acrylic

The Kiss, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A romantic collage inspired by Gustav Klimt’s iconic painting features a couple adorned with patterned golden robes. The shimmering background creates an ethe...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

"Every Bloom #5" Colorful burst of abstracted, textured flowers in a bouquet
Located in Edgartown, MA
"I am a Gippsland-based artist, whose creative process is ever-evolving, with the constant being my subject matter. Native Australian flora and fauna are commonly depicted in my work...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Enamel

"Fly 2" Contemporary Fishing Lure Photocollage Mixed Media on Panel
Located in Baltimore, MD
"Fly 2" is a contemporary mixed media piece on panel by Anke. The piece shows flies that you would use for fly fishing splayed in a circle. The stark white background enables the viv...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Paint, Panel, Wood Panel

Always A Leo - Figurative Lion Painting on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Columbus, Georgia (USA) based artist Kellie Newsome specializes in dynamic and abstracted still-life artworks. Her expressive style emphasizes line structure, creating vibrant painti...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Color Pencil

Xenestela 5. From The Series Xenestela
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Exuberantly colorful, symmetric colleges with ovoid shapes, called emissaries, originate from another cosmic dimension. We are troubled by the unsettling apprehension that they may b...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Archival Paper, Magazine Paper

Xenestela 7. From The Series Xenestela
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Exuberantly colorful, symmetric colleges with ovoid shapes, called emissaries, originate from another cosmic dimension. We are troubled by the unsettling apprehension that they may b...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Archival Paper, Magazine Paper

Q5
Located in New Orleans, LA
Non-objective artist Aimée Farnet Siegel works with color and line through the medium of hand-painted and manipulated paper. Her works inhabit space outside the two-dimensional plan...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

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Paper, Acrylic, Wood Panel

5 of Spades
Located in Bozeman, MT
This is a painting of an abstracted and re-imagined playing card with birds and textures writing. This card in particular is the 5 of spades. The painting is mixed media on clayboard...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Oil, Panel

Cut Work, Freehand Cut with Surgical Scalpel, Silk-Screened: 'Soft Fade 2-In'
Located in New York, NY
“CUT WORK” is an evolving examination of emotion experienced through the inspired meeting of blade and paper. Beginning with the featureless plane of a blank paper canvas and a surge...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Plexiglass, Adhesive, Acrylic, Board

Skateboarding Apparatus
Located in Manchester, GB
CB Hoyo, Skateboarding Apparatus, 2021 Screenprint on fine Canadian maple wood skatedeck 80 x 20 cm (32 x 8 in) Edition of 150 Comes with hand-signed, stamped, and numbered cer...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Wood, Maple, Screen

John Van Alstine, POINTE 2016, Sculpture 2016
Located in Greenwich, CT
POINTE 2016 Slate/pigmented and sealed steel 22.5" (height) x 23" (width) x 6" (depth) Stone and metal, usually granite or slate, and found object steel are central in my sculpture....
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

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Slate, Steel

Despair - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Floral, Men Love, Dotted Green
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gal...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

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Canvas, Charcoal, Oil, Acrylic

396 - Commission
Located in New York, NY
Vibrant circular piece. Acrylic on wood panel, with aluminum flower and butterfly. Finished with resin. Artist's signature style. About the artist: Punk Me Tender (b. 1982) i...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Metal

Basket, Panama, Rainforest, Wounaan Tribe, Mamina Chemorra, red, blue, purple
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Basket, Panama, Rainforest, Wounaan Tribe, Mamina Chemorra, red, blue, purple geometric diamond design silk weave extremely fine Darien Rainforest palm fiber and vegetal dyes handwo...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Organic Material

Treed
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: fabric, thread, ink, paint, synthetic hair Gina Phillips is a mixed media, narrative artist who grew up in Kentucky and has lived in New Orleans since 1995. The imagery, s...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Fabric, Thread, Paint, Ink

Known Delight - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Religious
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About Artist Bor...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

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Jute, Mixed Media, Oil

Stem Bar: Pick Your Bouquet II, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Stems of orange tulips, white roses, and pink sweet peas add whimsy in a chilled showcase. Geometric patterns and copper metal leaf add intrigue to a spectrum o...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

"Shark!" Stoneware, Ceramic, Shark Motif, Children's Toys, Cartoons, Nostalgia
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Shark!" is an original piece by Jeff Rubio made from Stoneware, glaze, epoxy clay. This pieces measures 17"h x 12.5"w x 1.75"d and comes with a signed Certificate of Authenticity. ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

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Stoneware, Epoxy Resin, Glaze

Dinosaur Claw Sibling Knife ( Bart & Lisa Simpson are the siblings)
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 st...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Metal

Ewelina Makosa - Leftovers - Original Painting
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Ewelina Makosa - Leftovers - Original Painting Series: Leftovers Dimensions: 186 x 135 cm Medium: Oil on canvas Ewelina Makosa was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1986. She has defended h...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Canvas, Oil

Golden Rain by Chen Yiching - Contemporary nihonga painting, flora, yellow tones
Located in Paris, FR
Golden Rain is a unique painting by contemporary artist Chen Yiching. The painting is made with mineral pigments, gold and silver leaf on Japanese paper mounted on wood, dimensions a...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Silver, Gold Leaf

Bradford
Located in Napa, CA
KOLLABS is a collaborative project between artists Luis Garcia Nerey and Anke Schofield. In their work, they create compositions juxtaposing undomesticated animals within domestic an...
Category

2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Resin, Panel

Dollar Princess, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A statue-like female figure appears in profile, adorned with delicate flowers in her hair. A swirling abstract design resembles a spiraling staircase or shell. ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Four Seasons, Summer
Located in Toronto, ON
By Hamilton Aguiar, This piece from his 'Four Seasons' series is a great addition to anyone wanting to enhance their art collection! Hamilton Aguiar was born in Brazil in 1965 and m...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Resin

"Untitled No. 1013" 2023 ink, silk, and beeswax on panel 60 x 48 in.
Located in New York, NY
Eric Blum Untitled No. 1013, 2023 ink, silk, and beeswax on panel 60 x 48 in. (blum098)
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Silk, Ink, Wax, Panel

'Treading Water in The Deep End #7' - figurative - black & white - Kara Walker
Located in Atlanta, GA
'Treading Water In The Deep End #7' is a black and white figurative work made of cut paper. Jerushia Graham is inspired by the works of Elizabeth Catlett, Kerry James Marshall, John Biggers, Leo & Diane Dillon...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Archival Paper

Fog Over Us - Minimalist Scenic Gray Toned Landscape Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gough’s interest in the elusive quality of memory has always been an invariable interest in his art practice. Rooted in memories of his upbringing in Newfoundland, Gough’s paintings ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel

"The Silent Star" 46x38 on canvas
Located in Southampton, NY
"The Silent Star" by Ceravolo is inspired by Actress Louise Brooks. The unframed canvas measures 46x38". In this work Ceravolo has combined and image of his portrait painting of ...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Canvas, Archival Ink

Tributaries, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Topographic maps, transferred onto acid-free tissue, flow through this piece like quiet echoes of past adventures. Inspired by riverbanks explored while hiking ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

"Cleopatra 9", ........... 50x50" total size....9 separate canvases each 16x16"
Located in Southampton, NY
Ceravolo's Large scale paintings have received international acclaim for more four decades. His art, came to popular attention when he was commissioned to create 5 large scale oil on canvas portraits for the lobby of The Palladium Theatre in New York City of Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, Frank Zappa, Neil Young and Hall and Oates. In addition to those, his paintings are in many influential corporate and private collections, including: ELTON JOHN, ROD STEWART, HUGH M. HEFNER, DAVID BRENNER, MONIQUE VAN VOOREN, WARNER BROS., RCA RECORDS AND SCHENLEY INDUSTRIES to name a few. "Cleopatra 9" consists of 9 separate unique one of a kind canvases featuring women that have portrayed Cleopatra over the years in Film and on stage. From Theda Bara...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Canvas, Archival Ink, Wax, Encaustic, Oil, Acrylic

SAMO(c) As a.../ Accept and Embrace Madness (Double Sided Original Artwork)
Located in Englishtown, NJ
Amazing double sided Original Mixed Media Artwork by Al Diaz. Al Diaz is known for being the other half of the world famous SAMO© duo along with Jean Michel Basquiat in the 70's- 80'...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

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Paper, Board, Permanent Marker

Aimer 01
Located in New York, NY
Born in 1979, Denis Meyers is a Belgian urban artist. He studied at the National Superior School of Arts and Visuals of la Cambre, in Brussels, city where he currently lives and works. Denis Meyers is particularly known for his frescoes and stickers in form of faces, which he calls his “perso”, printed and cut out by hand and then spread in the urban space. The artist defines himself as a typographer, a vocation that he inherited from his grandfather, Lucien De Roeck (1915-2002) which created among others the ensemble of the World Expo poster...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Spray Paint, Acrylic, Permanent Marker

Powderpuff - Vibrant Floral Painting on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Xiao Wen Xu is a Chinese-born Canadian artist based in Toronto, Canada, Her artistic practice is deeply influenced by her profound appreciation for the natural world. In her series, ...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Paper, Powder Coating, Watercolor

Home Near The Lake - Minimalist Serene Landscape Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gough’s interest in the elusive quality of memory has always been an invariable interest in his art practice. Rooted in memories of his upbringing in Newfoundland, Gough’s paintings ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

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Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel

"Islamic Courtyard" Abstract Collage 37" x 33" inch by Neama El Sanhoury
Located in Culver City, CA
"Islamic Courtyard" Abstract Collage 37" x 33" inch by Neama El Sanhoury Fabric Collage on Cotton Mesh on Wood ARTIST BIO Neama El Sanhoury's upbri...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

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Fabric, Wood, Mixed Media, Mesh

It's Beastly
Located in New Orleans, LA
Gina Phillips is a mixed media, narrative artist who grew up in Kentucky and has lived in New Orleans since 1995. The imagery, stories and characters of both regions influence her wo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Fabric, Paint, Thread

Historia #3 - Madame Roland
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: hardcover book, acrylic varnish TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author, and educator. For over three decades he has made his ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

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Paper

L.A. Aerial #6
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pete Kasprzak’s passion for city life is expressed in his dynamic urban artworks. Kasprzak’s artworks express energy and life with animated brush strokes. He adds dynamic movement an...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Gesso, Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil

Wonders of Science - Contemporary Sculptured Book: Framed Mixed Media
Located in London, GB
mounted, framed and glazed Adele Moreau is a London based artist. She constructs sculpted books from a variety of found media mainly 19th Century encyclopaedias and Natural History books...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Cardboard, Laid Paper

C22-9 (Geometric Abstract Color Field Multi Panel Painting in Shades of Green)
Located in Hudson, NY
C22-9 (Abstract Geometric Color Field Multi panel painting in shades of green) by Ginny Fox Painting is on three panels measuring 36 x 12 x 2 inc...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Acrylic, Panel

Narrative: Bridled (Hay Horse)
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Mixed media - Real hay inside shadow box. Painted with acrylic on top surface of the plexi glass.
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Acrylic

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Find a wide variety of authentic Contemporary 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, purple, orange, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Chelsea Davine, Giuliano Bekor, Mark Jackson, and Anastasia Pelias. Frequently made by artists working with Mixed Media, and Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Contemporary mixed media, so small editions measuring 0.4 inches across are also available.

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