Oil Abstract Paintings
Color: White
Medium: Oil
Peace - Serene white abstract peaceful landscape painting
Located in Ocklawaha, FL
"Peace", a serene white abstract landscape painting, is a song to stillness, and the sky and the earth meeting to become one. It is inspired by those moments in time when the world i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cecilia Arrospide - CONTRASTES, Painting 2023
Located in Greenwich, CT
Cecilia studied Social Studies and Literature at Universidad Catolica del Peru, Drawing with Cristina Galvez, and Watercolors with Juan Pastorelli. She...
Category
2010s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil Pastel, Cotton Canvas, Oil
White Light Stripe, Abstract Oil Painting
By Heidi Hybl
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Heidi Hybl portrays an abstract seascape where the orange-painted sky, soft white mist, and tranquil blue ocean seamlessly blend into one dreamy composit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oceancrush, dynamic brushwork in abstract painting with pale green, blue, white
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on panel. Tribute to the ocean and all the life within it.
Category
2010s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Song for Sappho (sweet bitter love)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to a Greek immigrant mother and a first generation Greek-American father. She received her BFA from the Newcomb College of Tulane Univers...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Last Step
By Frank Arnold
Located in Fresno, CA
"Last Step" is an oil on canvas painting, predominantly of yellow and gold shades surrounding a blue green figure. Frank Arnold is thought by many to be one of the foremost abstract ...
Category
2010s Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Her Compliments, Horizontal Abstract Landscape, Pink, Dark Red, Brown, White
Located in Kent, CT
In this horizontal landscape painting in ink and oil on paper mounted on panel, the artist's unique ink process creates soft striations of bright pink, dark crimson red, pale yellow and orange at the center of a layered, undulating composition. The result is an abstract landscape suggesting a hilly mountain range, while layers of oil paint and a soft, faint background create depth within the surface. Signed, dated and titled on verso.
Shane McAdams’ work is about landscape in the broadest sense. The artist grew up in the desert southwest...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Oil, Panel
Pishkun
By Brian Jerome
Located in Conshohocken, PA
Hunters herded the bison and drove them over the cliff, breaking their legs and rendering them immobile. Tribe members waiting below closed in with spears and bows to finish the kills.
Category
2010s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Mixed Media
System IV
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Christine Nobel’s dabs & systems explores the connections, similarities and differences between the handmade and the digital. Taken from the foundation of the artist’s practice of ex...
Category
2010s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
White Barn
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery
My paintings are intuitive responses to the myriad forces that shape my life—emotions that translate into color, visual memories of forms and co...
Category
2010s Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Life Lines
Located in Boston, MA
About the artist:
Oi Fortin is an award-winning monotype printmaker, working in New Haven, CT, USA. Her contemporary abstract expressionist prints are notable for a vivid palette and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Monotype
"Body Abstraction no. 19", contemporary cream & green abstract body painting
By Mel Reese
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is a piece from my "Body Abstraction" Series. It is a series I created during my MFA where I was interested in zooming in on the female body, my own body specifically, to focus ...
Category
2010s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Crayon, Oil
Relever
Located in Boston, MA
About the artist:
Oi Fortin is an award-winning monotype printmaker, working in New Haven, CT, USA. Her contemporary abstract expressionist prints are notable for a vivid palette and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Monotype
Vintage American School Kitchen Still Life Pepper Oil Painting Heydenryk Frame
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school vegetable still life painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1960. Unsigned. Image size, 20L x 10H. Housed in a period modern heydenryk frame.
Category
1960s Modern Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Volley (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Volley (Abstract Painting)
Oil on canvas - Unframed
Spielman uses oil paint on canvas, paper and panel in various sizes; she works on up to forty paintings at a time, moving between them as each begins to form, then isolating a work to bring to completion.
Her saturated surfaces are luminous, with alternate glossy and matte layers, but also bear rough nail marks that scar and deconstruct the work. These etched lines and marks relate to an image and idea, and are often the underlying structure, the submerged language of a work.
Her use of reds and pinks link to flesh and blood...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Candy Cone (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Candy Cone (Abstract painting)
Oil on Paper - Unframed
Spielman uses oil paint on canvas, paper and panel in various sizes; she works on up to forty paintings at a time, moving bet...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Rish and Foses 1 - expressive, colourful, abstract, oil on canvas over panel
By Mel Davis
Located in Bloomfield, ON
In this lyrical abstract work by Mel Davis organic shapes and fluid lines intersect in a playful horizontal composition. Using form and colour-bright blue, red and black contrast wit...
Category
2010s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Canvas
Passeig de Gracia Series #10
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Passeig de Grácia' is an avenue in the heart of the largest district of Barcelona, Spain. It is the most opulent Avenue of the city, where the celebrated and awe-...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Monotype, Paper
"My Pink & White Heart" Colorful Contemporary Oil Painting with Floater Frame
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Motivated by bold color and fast brushwork, we are moved by the simplicity and thick textured oil paints in these works. Shaoul’s “My Heart Collection” is a vibrant and energetic dis...
Category
2010s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Passeig de Gracia Series #8
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Passeig de Grácia' is an avenue in the heart of the largest district of Barcelona, Spain. It is the most opulent Avenue of the city, where the celebrated and awe-...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Monotype
Passeig de Gracia Series #9
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Passeig de Grácia' is an avenue in the heart of the largest district of Barcelona, Spain. It is the most opulent Avenue of the city, where the celebrated and awe-...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Monotype
Figures
Located in Washington, DC
Aerial meditation.
Category
Early 2000s Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Collaborate, Abstract, Oil, Graphite, Wood Panel, Red, Orange, Blue, White
By Rose Umerlik
Located in Riverdale, NY
Collaborate by Rose Umerlik is an abstract painting, Oil and Graphite on wood panel, 36 x 48.
Rose Umerlik extracts the intangible emotional moments that live in our collective human psyche and interprets them abstractly through form, line and color so that they may also exist outside of ourselves.
In recent years, Umerlik has shown in seven solo exhibitions and innumerable group shows domestically and internationally, published a book of work titled Intimacy of Forms, received notable reviews in such publications as Art New England, and been awarded the Clowes Award by the Vermont Studio Center. The most affecting experience of Umerlik’s career to date has been her two-month stay in the Takt Kunstprojektraum Artist Residency in Berlin, Germany. She was named a 2018 Vermont Artist...
Category
2010s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel, Graphite
Volley (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Volley (Abstract Painting)
Oil on canvas - Unframed
Spielman uses oil paint on canvas, paper and panel in various sizes; she works on up to forty paintings at a time, moving between them as each begins to form, then isolating a work to bring to completion.
Her saturated surfaces are luminous, with alternate glossy and matte layers, but also bear rough nail marks that scar and deconstruct the work. These etched lines and marks relate to an image and idea, and are often the underlying structure, the submerged language of a work.
Her use of reds and pinks link to flesh and blood...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Psychi 2, Happy & contemporary colorful butterfly painting on paper, orange
Located in Dallas, TX
Psychi 2 from "The Soul" series is a pop-art inspired and fun painting on Fabriano paper depicting a colorful Butterfly. The painting is unframed. We can coordinate framing for you a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper, Mixed Media, Oil
White light (Abstract Expressionism painting)
By Laura Newman
Located in London, GB
White light (Abstract Expressionism painting)
Oil and acrylic on canvas. Unframed.
Laura Newman's paintings combine geometric delineations of space, ephemeral color fields, dynamic...
Category
2010s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Quilted Dream, Clear Passage, Through Needle's Eye, Dance of Night
Located in Dallas, TX
Dallas artist David A. Dreyer’s eighth solo exhibition at Valley House Gallery was presented early in 2021, accompanied by an exhibition catalogue. His recent paintings are inspired ...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Chalk, Charcoal, Oil, Graphite
Lumenis 43 (Abstract Painting)
By Tracey Adams
Located in London, GB
Lumenis 43 (Abstract Painting)
Encaustic, collage and oil on panel - Unframed
Adams works on panel and paper, using a mixture of paint, encaustic and graphite as well as elements o...
Category
2010s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Oil, Wood Panel
Hillsdale, Aug 14th, Large Oil Painting Richard Weston
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Richard Weston, American XXth
Title: Hillsdale, Aug 14
Year: circa 1980
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, signed u.l.
Size: 48 x 48 inches (121.92 x 121.92 cm)
Category
1980s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Candy Cone (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Candy Cone (Abstract painting)
Oil on Paper - Unframed
Spielman uses oil paint on canvas, paper and panel in various sizes; she works on up to forty paintings at a time, moving bet...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper
«Alyssum» Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas, Norway, 2015
Located in Oslo, NO
«Golden» oil on canvas by Signe Solberg.
On a square-shaped canvas, a series of golden, straight lines rush across a white canvas. Although quite simplistic, the golden lines comes...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lumenis 43 (Abstract Painting)
By Tracey Adams
Located in London, GB
Lumenis 43 (Abstract Painting)
Encaustic, collage and oil on panel - Unframed
Adams works on panel and paper, using a mixture of paint, encaustic and graphite as well as elements o...
Category
2010s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Oil, Wood Panel
"Parisian Nights" Figure w White Gown French Haute Couture Oil Painting on Paper
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Exploring the purity of the feminine form and the drama of French haute couture, artist Cindy Shaoul creates a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Her spirited composit...
Category
2010s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Archival Paper
White light (Abstract Expressionism painting)
By Laura Newman
Located in London, GB
White light (Abstract Expressionism painting)
Oil and acrylic on canvas. Unframed.
Laura Newman's paintings combine geometric delineations of space, ephemeral color fields, dynamic...
Category
2010s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Yin & Yang (Black Over Ochre)
By Peter Lodato
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Peter Lodato offers new oils on canvas, whose layers of paint and scumbled surfaces resonate like tuning forks to the soul.
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
White light (Abstract Expressionism painting)
By Laura Newman
Located in London, GB
White light (Abstract Expressionism painting)
Oil and acrylic on canvas. Unframed.
Laura Newman's paintings combine geometric delineations of space, ephemeral color fields, dynamic...
Category
2010s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Oil
Brainiac III Abstract, Large-Scale Vertical Abstract in Neutrals, Black & White
Located in Soquel, CA
Large-scale vertical abstract of brains in a neutral color palette of black & white by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b.1957). Unsigned, but was acquired with a collection...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Oil
"New Beginnings" Abstract Expressionist Ptg. in Orange/Tea/Lavender/White/Black
Located in Wellesley, MA
Vivid Abstract Expressionist painting with brilliant color and energy in orange, lavender, teal, yellow ochre, and white.
"New Beginnings"
2020
Oil on Canvas
36 x 36 Inches
This ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
SCIENCE FICTION GRID NO. 1 - Abstract Oil Canvas, colored squares, white
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
This painting is a series of colored squares that create a vibrant grid pattern on a white, textured background. The individual tiles of color contain...
Category
2010s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Harmony, Abstract Oil Painting
By Shyun Song
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"This piece is inspired by a musical keyboard representing harmony," explains artist Shyun Song. A delicate seam between sound and visual imagery, Shyun picks...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Contemporary Abstract Colorfield Landscape in Cream & Green
Located in Soquel, CA
A striking contemporary two-toned colorfield abstract by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b. 1957). A large neutral textured section in cream sits atop a wavy abstraction in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Color-Field Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The blossom of hope and breaking, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Lyrical abstract painting, green and yellow. I painted this work during necessary breaking with some things in my life. It represents the point between the sadness of leaving someth...
Category
2010s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Wind, Breath, Life - Contemporary Gestural Abstract Painting (Blue+Cream)
Located in Gilroy, CA
"Wind, Breath, Life" is part of Berkowitz's recent experimentation with abstract painting. These Illusions of Risk paintings turn into an escape from reality. The work seeks to creat...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
72 x 96 in / 6 x 8 ft "Three of Us" Oil on Canvas (black white minimalist oil)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a beautifully nuanced, and deeply soulful abstract contemporary oil painting on linen, that speaks volumes with its quietly furious brushstrokes multi-layered in monochromati...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Still Life / abstract expressionistic geometry in soft yellow
Located in Burlingame, CA
Soft yellow abstract shapes with curves and lines, 'Still Life' from Mexican-American contemporary visual artist and celebrated architect Javier Arizmendi-Kalb, who creates autobiographical paintings that are comprised of both abstract and representational elements that consider the natural world as it intersects with utilitarian and architectural design. 'Still Life' — 3 x 4 feet (36 x 48 inches), — is from a series of paintings that characterize sacred spaces such as Mexican chapels...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
"Strawberry Fields Forever" Abstraction White, Burgundy, Blue/Gray, Yellow Ochre
Located in Wellesley, MA
"Strawberry Fields Forever"
2019
Oil on Canvas
36 x 36 Inches
Vividly colored Abstract Expressionist painting filled with light and energy, primarily in white, blue/gray, burgund...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Kinetic Knot No. 11" Geometric Abstract Representational Painting Work on Paper
Located in New York, NY
This piece represents a part of the artist's "Kinetic Knots" series which symbolizes shapes of the knots that are not planned. It is like the “Dao” grabbing the artist and the power ...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Ink, Oil, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Pencil
Paragon - abstract geometrical colourful white painting canvas
By Brian Neish
Located in London, GB
Brian Neish is fascinated by painted surfaces, particularly surfaces having to endure the extremes of sunlight, wind, frost and rain. He calls the appearance of these debilitating ef...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Anatomies, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Painting created in the same series as the "Original Tourlicoulis". Created with oil markers on canvas. Those drawings/paintings are the results of doodling with a pen on paper, then...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled
By Hédy Gobaa
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Hédy Gobaa uses his immediate surroundings as his subject matter. Gobaa presents recognizable flora in a disembodied context, and the result is at once familiar and jarring. As of la...
Category
2010s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
White Group 4
Located in New Orleans, LA
In her studio practice, Pelias embraces a process that is both intuitive and deliberate. Her work moves from paintings on canvas and works on paper to site-specific installations, ob...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Profile
By Luc Hoekx
Located in Dordrecht, NL
A more literal reference to window constructions is in the recent work of Luc Hoekx. Transparent panels made of plexiglass are painted on both sides with colored surfaces. Front and ...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Plexiglass, Oil
Lumenis 43
By Tracey Adams
Located in London, GB
Encaustic, collage and oil on panel - Unframed
Adams works on panel and paper, using a mixture of paint, encaustic and graphite as well as elements of monotype and collage.
Her bac...
Category
2010s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Oil, Wood Panel
Why Does its Lock Fit My Key?
By Jinny Yu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Jinny Yu’s artistic development has been following the trajectory of a very personal exploration. Born in South Korea and raised in Canada, Yu treats the act of painting as a means t...
Category
2010s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Metal
Regret
By Shyun Song
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
This painting is on gallery wrapped canvas with white edges. It comes ready to hang.
About the Artist
Painting is not merely an aesthetic endeavor ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
OX 101
By Daniel Brice
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil on paper
In his abstract paintings and prints, Daniel Brice explores both the physicality and the intellectual and emotional resonance of color. Based in sun-drenched southern ...
Category
2010s Minimalist Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Archival Paper
Untitled F
By Daniel Brice
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil on paper
21 x 19 x 1.75 inches framed
In his abstract paintings and prints, Daniel Brice explores both the physicality and the intellectual and emotional resonance of color. ...
Category
2010s Minimalist Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
'Abstract, Indigo and Ivory', Large SF Bay Area Modernist oil, Legion of Honor
By Fenton Kastner
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed verso "F. Kastner" for Fenton Kastner (American, 1915-2008), dated 1955, and titled "Waterfront-IV".
Old label verso inscribed with artist's name and title.
A dynamic, mid-...
Category
1950s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Original Abstract Oil Paintings for Sale on 1stDibs
With original abstract oil paintings, bring audacious experiments with color and textures to your living room, dining room or home office.
Whether they're large or small, abstract paintings will stand out in your space, encouraging conversation and introducing a museum-like atmosphere that’s welcoming and conducive to creating memorable gatherings.
Abstract art has origins in 19th-century Europe, but it came into its own as a significant movement during the 20th century. Early practitioners of abstraction included Wassily Kandinsky, although painters were exploring nonfigurative art prior to the influential Russian artist’s efforts, which were inspired by music and religion. Abstract painters endeavored to create works that didn’t focus on the outside world’s conventional subjects, and even when artists depicted realistic subjects, they worked in an abstract mode to do so.
In 1940s-era New York City, a group of painters working in the abstract mode created radical work that looked to European avant-garde artists as well as to the art of ancient cultures, prioritizing improvisation, immediacy and direct personal expression. While they were never formally affiliated with one another, we know them today as Abstract Expressionists.
The male contingent of the Abstract Expressionists, which includes Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Robert Motherwell, is frequently cited in discussing leading figures of this internationally influential postwar art movement. However, the women of Abstract Expressionism, such as Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell and others, were equally involved in the art world of the time. Sexism, family obligations and societal pressures contributed to a long history of their being overlooked, but the female Abstract Expressionists experimented vigorously, developed their own style and produced significant bodies of work.
When you've found the work(s) you'd like to bring into your home, think about how you want to arrange the art. If you’re working with a small living space, a colorful, oversize work can create depth in a given room, but there isn’t any need to overwhelm your interior with a sprawling pièce de résistance. Colorful abstractions of any size can pop against a white wall in your living room, but if you’re working with a colored backdrop, you may wish to stick to colors that complement the decor that is already in the space. Alternatively, let your painting make a statement on its own, regardless of its surroundings, or group it, gallery-style, with other works.
On 1stDibs, you’ll find a wide range of original abstract oil paintings along with a guide on how to arrange your wonderful new wall art.
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