Conceptual Abstract Paintings
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
Flight. 1999. Oil on canvas, 76x91 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Flight
1999. Oil on canvas, 76x91 cm
Victor Karnaukh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painter, a monument designer, graduate ...
Category
1990s Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lourdes Rivera, Retrospect 6, 2015, Oil Paint, Plexiglass, Wood
Located in Darien, CT
Lourdes Rivera was born in New York City in 1989, where she currently lives and works. She is a first generation Dominican-American. Lourdes considers herself bi-cultural, but unco...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Oil
Faith Thumbnail H Large Mixed Media Conceptual Abstract Painting
By Dennis Balk
Located in Surfside, FL
From his show Hashish at Michael Steinberg Gallery (bearing their label verso)
Reviewed by Roberta Smith in the New York Times.
Abstract Expressionism meets graffiti photography. Cy Twombly in cyberspace. Existential physics. The trajectories of car bombs. These phrases came to mind at the show of Dennis Balk's new work, made during the last three years while he lived in Bahrain and traveled primarily in the Middle East.
The show is dominated by black-on-white gestural drawings on canvas from Mr. Balk's Faith Thumbnail series. Full of graphic and even painterly nuance, they turn out to have been made completely on the computer. In a smaller room, the Exhausted and Ideographic series features gaudy, vertiginous digital mixes of colorful photographs.
Originally a performance artist, he became known in the art world in the early 1990s for improvisational diagrams that brought different historical narratives into collision. One work in his solo debut at American Fine Arts in SoHo in 1992 charted the lives of Ho Chi Minh and Abraham Lincoln -- both fathers of their countries in different ways -- across white paper napkins. His 2003 exhibition at that gallery was titled ''Particles + Waves With Plausibility,'' as is a recent book of his work.
Dennis Balk is an educator, visual artist, writer, media designer and playwright based primarily in New York. Balk has an MFA Degree from California Institute of the Arts. Throughout the 90s and 00s he was an Art Director and media designer for television, outdoor, print and emerging tech and social/ media at; Arnell/ Bickford Associates, Frankfurt Gipps Balkind, Foote Cone & Belding and McCann Erickson, New York. At Amster Yard, the conceptual agency within McCann Worldwide, Balk was involved in concepting high-profile campaigns that ran both domestically and internationally. As an interactive and exhibition designer, Balk has designed significant exhibition work for; Princeton University (The Firestone Library), The National Building Museum (Washington DC), The Jewish Museum (New York) and The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington DC) in conjunction with the offices of James Ingo Freed. Balk has taught and lectured at a variety of Universities, most recently; UCLA in the Department of New Genres, the Università IUAV di Venezia, Yale University, Otis College of Art and Design- Public Practice MFA and as Coordinator of the Department of Fine Arts/ Computer Graphics at the New York Institute of Technology, Bahrain Campus. Since the late 80s his art work has addressed, in multiple formats (including several productions of his plays), the conditions of narrative and the narrative aspects of historicizing the present. His work has been exhibited internationally and reviewed extensively including; Artforum, Filosofia e Questioni Pubbliche, Bookforum, Art in America, Paper Magazine and The New York Times. While in New York, his primary gallery representation was with the seminal gallery, American Fine Arts. In February 2009, INOVA at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee presented the early work survey titled, “Dennis Balk - Early Work 1890-2090”. His recent publications include; “Dennis Balk/1890-2090” (2010-channel 171), “Dennis Balk The Arabian Gulf” (2010-channel 171), “ash” (2009-channel 171), “Colin de Land, American Fine Arts” (2008-powerhouse books), and “particles + waves with plausibility” (2006-powerhouse books).
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 2011 Jack Bankowsky, Rosetta Brooks, Ingrid Schaffner, Nicholas Frank, Christina Valentine, Dennis Balk, Jennifer Bolande...
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink
A walk in the village. Oil on cardboard, 45x45 cm
Located in Riga, LV
A walk in the village
Oil on cardboard, 45x45 cm
Victor Karnauh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painter, a monument designer...
Category
1990s Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Conceptual Abstract IV - British Sixties abstract art oil painting female artist
Located in London, GB
This striking conceptual abstract oil painting is by British artist Penelope Ellis. It was painted in 1962. A superb image and ahead of the conceptual ideas of the swinging sixties a...
Category
1960s Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Conceptual Abstract VI - British Sixties abstract art oil painting female artist
Located in London, GB
This striking conceptual abstract oil painting is by British artist Penelope Ellis. It was painted in 1963. A superb image and ahead of the conceptual ideas of the swinging sixties a...
Category
1960s Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Conceptual Abstract V - British sixties art oil painting female artist
Located in London, GB
This striking conceptual abstract oil painting is by British artist Penelope Ellis. It was painted in 1963. A superb image and ahead of the conceptual ideas of the swinging sixties a...
Category
1960s Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Kerrera #2 by Jon Rowland, Landscape painting, abstract painting, original art
Located in Deddington, GB
Kerrera # 2 by Jon Rowland 2018
original and hand signed by the artist
Acrylic on board
Image size: H:60 cm x W:60 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:60 cm x W:60 cm x D:1.5cm
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Hashish, Palestine Large Mixed Media Conceptual Abstract Painting
By Dennis Balk
Located in Surfside, FL
From his show Hashish at Michael Steinberg Gallery (bearing their label verso)
Reviewed by Roberta Smith in the New York Times.
Abstract Expressionism meets graffiti photography. Cy Twombly in cyberspace. Existential physics. The trajectories of car bombs. These phrases came to mind at the show of Dennis Balk's new work, made during the last three years while he lived in Bahrain and traveled primarily in the Middle East.
The show is dominated by black-on-white gestural drawings on canvas from Mr. Balk's Faith Thumbnail series. Full of graphic and even painterly nuance, they turn out to have been made completely on the computer. In a smaller room, the Exhausted and Ideographic series features gaudy, vertiginous digital mixes of colorful photographs.
Originally a performance artist, he became known in the art world in the early 1990s for improvisational diagrams that brought different historical narratives into collision. One work in his solo debut at American Fine Arts in SoHo in 1992 charted the lives of Ho Chi Minh and Abraham Lincoln -- both fathers of their countries in different ways -- across white paper napkins. His 2003 exhibition at that gallery was titled ''Particles + Waves With Plausibility,'' as is a recent book of his work.
Dennis Balk is an educator, visual artist, writer, media designer and playwright based primarily in New York. Balk has an MFA Degree from California Institute of the Arts. Throughout the 90s and 00s he was an Art Director and media designer for television, outdoor, print and emerging tech and social/ media at; Arnell/ Bickford Associates, Frankfurt Gipps Balkind, Foote Cone & Belding and McCann Erickson, New York. At Amster Yard, the conceptual agency within McCann Worldwide, Balk was involved in concepting high-profile campaigns that ran both domestically and internationally. As an interactive and exhibition designer, Balk has designed significant exhibition work for; Princeton University (The Firestone Library), The National Building Museum (Washington DC), The Jewish Museum (New York) and The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington DC) in conjunction with the offices of James Ingo Freed. Balk has taught and lectured at a variety of Universities, most recently; UCLA in the Department of New Genres, the Università IUAV di Venezia, Yale University, Otis College of Art and Design- Public Practice MFA and as Coordinator of the Department of Fine Arts/ Computer Graphics at the New York Institute of Technology, Bahrain Campus. Since the late 80s his art work has addressed, in multiple formats (including several productions of his plays), the conditions of narrative and the narrative aspects of historicizing the present. His work has been exhibited internationally and reviewed extensively including; Artforum, Filosofia e Questioni Pubbliche, Bookforum, Art in America, Paper Magazine and The New York Times. While in New York, his primary gallery representation was with the seminal gallery, American Fine Arts. In February 2009, INOVA at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee presented the early work survey titled, “Dennis Balk - Early Work 1890-2090”. His recent publications include; “Dennis Balk/1890-2090” (2010-channel 171), “Dennis Balk The Arabian Gulf” (2010-channel 171), “ash” (2009-channel 171), “Colin de Land, American Fine Arts” (2008-powerhouse books), and “particles + waves with plausibility” (2006-powerhouse books).
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 2011 Jack Bankowsky, Rosetta Brooks, Ingrid Schaffner, Nicholas Frank, Christina Valentine, Dennis Balk, Jennifer Bolande...
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink
Love Letters to Cornwall I by Mary Scott, Landscape, Love, Cornwall
By Mary Scott
Located in Deddington, GB
Love Letters to Cornwall (I) by Mary Scott [2021]
original and hand signed by the artist
Acrylic and oil on wood panel
Image size: H:40 cm x W:40 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Wor...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil, Acrylic
Colby 12 (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Colby 12 (Abstract painting)
Spray paint, pencil, ink, watercolor on paper. Unframed.
Peter Soriano works on relatively large sheets of Japanese paper with a tendency to work from ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Spray Paint, Watercolor, Pencil
Berlin (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Berlin (Abstract Painting)
Spray paint, pencil, ink, watercolor on paper. Unframed.
Peter Soriano works on relatively large sheets of Japanese paper with a tendency to work from so...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Spray Paint, Watercolor, Pencil
Colby 12 (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Spray paint, pencil, ink, watercolor on paper. Unframed.
Peter Soriano works on relatively large sheets of Japanese paper with a tendency to work from something observed, ideally ar...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Spray Paint, Watercolor, Pencil
L.I.C. (Blue) (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Spray paint, pencil, ink, watercolor on paper. Unframed.
L.I.C refers to Long Island City where Soriano currently has his studio. This drawing focuses of objects and elements within it, in particular the remnants of old closets...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Ink, Spray Paint, Watercolor, Pencil
Berlin
Located in London, GB
Spray paint, pencil, ink, watercolor on paper. Unframed.
Peter Soriano works on relatively large sheets of Japanese paper with a tendency to work from something observed, ideally ar...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Spray Paint, Watercolor, Pencil
Melancholy - Yuutsuna
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Yoshikuni Iida, Japanese (1923 - 2006)
Title: Melancholy - Yuutsuna
Year: 1973
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, signed and dated verso
Size: 39.5 x 79 in. (100.33 x 200.66 cm)
Category
1970s Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
CMMM conceptual Minimialist painting
By Diti Almog
Located in Surfside, FL
Diti Almog (Israeli, b. 1960) CMMM, 1999; Acrylic on aircraft plywood; Signed, dated and titled; 12'' x 14''; Provenance: Baldwin Gallery, Colorado
BIOGRAPHY
Born Haifa, Israel
1982 – 1986 Bezalel Academy of Art, Jerusalem, Israel
Lives and works in New York
Currently teaching at NYU, New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 Inga Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2009 Spacesurplus, New York
2008 Inga Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2007 Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2006 Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2004 Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2002 Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2000 Gallerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Colorado
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
1999 Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Colorado
1998 Gallery Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
1997 Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Mitchell-Innes & Nash Gallery, New York
1996 Boesky & Callery Gallery, New York
1995 Artifact Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1992 Artifact Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1991 Artifact Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1990 Artifact Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1988 The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Artifact Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1987 Borgrashov Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 High Definition, Bezalel Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curated by Ruti, Director
2008 Reframing, CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Spain. Curated by Barry Schwabsky
2007 Horizon, Elizabeth Foundation Galleries, New York
2004 The Sydney Biennale, Sydney, Australia
2000 Compression, Feigen Contemporary, New York
Telesthesia Amnescopia, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
New Work; Abstraction, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco
1999 Christmas Paintings, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
The Stroke, Exit Art, New York. Curated by Ross Bleckner
1998 Painting Now and Forever, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
People, Places and Things, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
1996 Ceremonial, Apex Art, New York. Curated by Barry Schwabsky (brochure published)
1995 Summer Group Show, Patrick Callery, New York
Summer Group Show, Bravin Post Lee Gallery, New York
1994 Art Focus, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel 1993 Locus, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
1991 Perspective, The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
1990 Aperto, Venice Biennale – The Israeli Proposal, Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, Israel
The Museum as Collector, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Life Size, a Sense of the Real in Recent Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
(The opening of the Nathan Cummings 20th
Century Building)
Feminine Presence, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
1988 Fresh Paint, The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
1986 Artists Studios, Aika Brown...
Category
1990s Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Dinosaur
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Dinosaur, 2011
53 x 43 inches
Acrylic, oil, latex and image transfer on board
$3300
2015
A painter, sculptor, and installation artist, Niki Singleton draws on both popular cu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Latex, Oil
Tear it Up
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Born in Tallahasee Fl, William started his artistic career as a color consultant for his family's Design and Painting company that took on constant projects of custom painted interio...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
A walk in the village. Oil on cardboard, 45x45 cm
Located in Riga, LV
A walk in the village
Oil on cardboard, 45x45 cm
Victor Karnauh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painter, a monument designer...
Category
1990s Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Bob Seng, Exit 326, 2000, scraped, collaged, EXIT signs, 8" x 12"
By Bob Seng
Located in Darien, CT
Robert Seng was born and raised in Seattle, served in the US Navy in Vietnam, and finished his BFA and MFA on the GI Bill. He was a founder of Artech, Seattle’s premier art services company, to support his art career. A New York resident since 1986, Seng has worked at Artforum, the Guggenheim Museum and taught at Fairfield University while continuing his studio practice in painting and sculpture.
In the mid 1990’s Seng moved into site-specific installation work with collaborator Lisa Hein. Together they have made more than 40 projects with moving light...
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Plastic
Bob Seng, Exit 442, 2002, scraped, collaged, EXIT signs, 8" x 12"
By Bob Seng
Located in Darien, CT
Robert Seng was born and raised in Seattle, served in the US Navy in Vietnam, and finished his BFA and MFA on the GI Bill. He was a founder of Artech, Seattle’s premier art services company, to support his art career. A New York resident since 1986, Seng has worked at Artforum, the Guggenheim Museum and taught at Fairfield University while continuing his studio practice in painting and sculpture.
In the mid 1990’s Seng moved into site-specific installation work with collaborator Lisa Hein. Together they have made more than 40 projects with moving light...
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Plastic
Bob Seng, Exit 323, 2000, scraped, collaged, EXIT signs, 8" x 12"
By Bob Seng
Located in Darien, CT
Robert Seng was born and raised in Seattle, served in the US Navy in Vietnam, and finished his BFA and MFA on the GI Bill. He was a founder of Artech, Seattle’s premier art services company, to support his art career. A New York resident since 1986, Seng has worked at Artforum, the Guggenheim Museum and taught at Fairfield University while continuing his studio practice in painting and sculpture.
In the mid 1990’s Seng moved into site-specific installation work with collaborator Lisa Hein. Together they have made more than 40 projects with moving light...
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Plastic
Bob Seng, Exit 397, 2002, scraped, collaged, EXIT signs, 8" x 12"
By Bob Seng
Located in Darien, CT
Robert Seng was born and raised in Seattle, served in the US Navy in Vietnam, and finished his BFA and MFA on the GI Bill. He was a founder of Artech, Seattle’s premier art services company, to support his art career. A New York resident since 1986, Seng has worked at Artforum, the Guggenheim Museum and taught at Fairfield University while continuing his studio practice in painting and sculpture.
In the mid 1990’s Seng moved into site-specific installation work with collaborator Lisa Hein. Together they have made more than 40 projects with moving light...
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Plastic
"Verso sera" by Corrado Ferrante, oil on wood, 39x31cm
Located in Milano, MI
In the compositions, the gaze is attracted by an interplay of harmonious balances
between full and empty spaces, which compel the regarding to an observation
dynamic approach in orde...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Board, Paper, Wood Panel
Acrylic on Reclaimed Wood Titled: "Life is a Game"
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Acrylic on reclaimed wood
Born in Tallahasee Fl, William started his artistic career as a color consultant for his family's Design and Painting company that took on constant projects of custom painted interiors and decorating. This work of 20 yrs lead him to his fascination with textiles and paint, along with custom furniture. After creating and selling dozens of unique pieces of furniture, here began his transition from wall, to wood on furniture, to canvas. Painting on canvas was the culmination of his creative outlet. William feels that his lack of formal training in Fine Art has afforded him a freedom to paint what he envisions and feels, rather than conform to specific style or genre that he feels is limiting Inspired by hard edge abstraction and color field art such as Kenneth Noland, Joseph Albers, Gene Davis, Frank Stella, Anne Truitt, Imi knobel.William is showing his work locally and nationally and being collected in Palm Beach Island, Washington and New York.
Gallery Representation
DTR Modern Galleries 440 S. County, Palm Beach FL 33480
DTR Modern Galleries Boston
NoSo Fine Art, 3716 S. Dixie Hwy West Palm Beach Fl 33405
Gary Rubinstein...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Lourdes Rivera, Retrospect 9, 2015, Fabric, Plexiglass, Wood, Oil Paint
Located in Darien, CT
Lourdes Rivera was born in New York City in 1989, where she currently lives and works. She is a first generation Dominican-American. Lourdes considers herself bi-cultural, but unco...
Category
20th Century Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Plexiglass, Wood, Oil
Lourdes Rivera, Retrospect 8, 2015, Plexiglass, Wood, Oil Paint
Located in Darien, CT
Lourdes Rivera was born in New York City in 1989, where she currently lives and works. She is a first generation Dominican-American. Lourdes considers herself bi-cultural, but unco...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Oil
Lourdes Rivera, Retrospect 7, 2015, Plexiglass, Wood, Oil Paint
Located in Darien, CT
Lourdes Rivera was born in New York City in 1989, where she currently lives and works. She is a first generation Dominican-American. Lourdes considers herself bi-cultural, but unco...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Oil
Lourdes Rivera, Retrospect 3, 2015, Plexiglass, Wood, Oil Paint
Located in Darien, CT
Lourdes Rivera was born in New York City in 1989, where she currently lives and works. She is a first generation Dominican-American. Lourdes considers herself bi-cultural, but unco...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Oil
Lourdes Rivera, Retrospect 11, 2015, Fabric, Plexiglass, Wood, Oil Paint
Located in Darien, CT
Lourdes Rivera was born in New York City in 1989, where she currently lives and works. She is a first generation Dominican-American. Lourdes considers herself bi-cultural, but unco...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Plexiglass, Wood, Oil
Lourdes Rivera, Retrospect 4, 2015, Plexiglass, Wood, Oil Paint
Located in Darien, CT
Lourdes Rivera was born in New York City in 1989, where she currently lives and works. She is a first generation Dominican-American. Lourdes considers herself bi-cultural, but unco...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Oil
Joy. Oil on cardboard, 47. 5 x 57 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Joy. Oil on cardboard, 47.5x57 cm
Victor Karnauh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painter, a monument designer, graduate of La...
Category
1990s Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Still life. Oil on canvas, 60x80 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Still life
Oil on canvas, 60x80 cm
Victor Karnaukh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painter, a monument designer, graduate of...
Category
1990s Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sacred Abstraction On Carved 3D Wood Panel
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Sacred Abstraction, Royal blue, red and gold leaf on carved wood pane, signed on the back.
Krzysztof (Chris) Sokolovski born in 1985 in Eisiskes in Lithuania. Visual artist creating neosacral art: paintings, luminous objects, installations, and monumental painting. He is a creator of the concept of neosacral art.
Since 2003 he lives and creates in Poland. He graduated from Gdansk University of Technology (Faculty of Power Engineering) and the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (Faculty of Painting). Also, the artist took a course in clinical anatomy at the Medical University of Gdansk.
Sokolovski has created neosacral chapels in Klebark Wielki (Poland) and in Salesian Sisters Convent in Jerusalem.
Concept:
Sokolowski wants to create modern sacral art founded on visual tradition and theologies of many cultures.
“I think that abstract codification of faith is the prospective and only way to save serious attitude to contemporary human’s spirituality. It is fundamental for responsible usage of developing knowledge about the empirical world and for forming sensibility, which should be adequate to it.
In my opinion, the progress of civilization cannot be holistic if it is mostly based on scientific and technological development – metaphysical sensitivity is necessary too. Empirical knowledge is confinement if we use it only for improving conveniences and gaining more knowledge. It is not enough for the evolution of mind, which should advance along with changes in our environment.”
Individual Exhibition
2018 – “Neosacral Art”, Saris Museum, Bardejov, Slovakia
2018 – “Neosacral Art”, the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland
2018 – “Neosacral Art”, Gallery “Camaldolese Cellar”, Church in Bielany Forest, Warsaw, Poland 2018 – “Neosacral Art”, Museum of Mińsk Mazowiecki, Mińsk Mazowiecki, Poland
2017 – “Neosacral Art”, Zielona 13 Gallery, Łódź, Poland
2017 – “Neosacral Art”, the University of Warsaw Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2017 – “Neosacral Art”, Bohema Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2016 – “Neosacral Art”, Philosophy of Religion Department, University of Warsaw, Poland
2016 – “Neosacral Art”, Gallery of Association “Polish Community”, Warsaw, Poland
2016 – “Neosacral Art”, Exhibition-Conferential Centre, Białystok, Poland
Selected group exhibition
2017 – “Deification of Body”, Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv, Ukraine
2017 – “Sokolovski / Wąsowski / Jędrzejko / Mazuś”, Bohema Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2016 – “1st Pomeranian Biennial of Young Art”, Sopot, Poland
2016 – “Shape of Spirit”, Gallery of Mathematics and Computer Science Department, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland
2016 – “Diverted Reality”, Evelyn E. Jorgenson Gallery, Moberly, Missouri, USA
2016 – “Exhibition of Sacred Art”, Gallery of Saint Sophia...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Conceptual Abstract III - British sixties art oil painting female artist
Located in London, GB
This striking conceptual abstract oil painting is by British artist Penelope Ellis. It was painted in 1963. A superb image and ahead of the conceptual ideas of the swinging sixties a...
Category
1960s Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sandía con interior rojo, blanco y negro
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Eduardo Costa is one of the key figures in global conceptual art. He was born in Buenos Aires in 1940. He graduated in Literature and Art at the University of Buenos Aires in 1965 where he took courses with Jorge Luis Borges in the late fifties. His practice developed into Conceptual POP with the Fashion Fictions Series, 1966-to the present. He is also credited with creating Conceptual Geometry which he showed internationally starting in 1995 at the Elga Wimmer Gallery, NY, and in 2001 at Cecilia de Torres LTD., NY. With Cecilia de Torres he exhibited a fully developed edition of his Volumetric Paintings, which use painting to such a volume that it stands by itself without any cloth or other support.Eduardo Costa lived twenty-five years in New York and over four years in Rio de Janeiro where he met almost daily with Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Pape...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Fiber painting: 'Arras no. 4: Life'
By Gin Stone
Located in New York, NY
Hand-dyed ghost gear netting*, muslin, adhesive, foam, paint, pins, reclaimed copper flashing
Recovered Ghost Gear Data:
Retrieval Coordinates: 42° 10ʹN 69°52ʹW
Retrieval Vessel: F/...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Textile
Age
Located in New York, NY
Michael Craig-Martin
Age, 2010
Acrylic on aluminum
48 x 48 inches
Signed
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Acrylic
Porch drawing 2 (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Porch drawing 2 (Abstract Painting)
Spray paint, pencil, ink, watercolor on paper. Unframed.
Peter Soriano works on relatively large sheets of Japanese paper with a tendency to work from something observed, ideally around him. He tends to be “in” the configuration that is the subject of the work.
Soriano is fond of “systems” objects attached to other objects, such as the wiring plan of a room. But very often there are other shapes that play a role in the work.
The artist would fold and rework a piece a number of times. Folding seems to concentrate the dialogue that attracts him. Reworking is part of his nature. The finished work normally is the result of this ebb and flow between the heightening and repositioning the relationship between forms.
This drawing highlights the configurations of a large porch that Soriano used as a studio in Maine during Summer 2010.
Peter Soriano is a Philippines-born French-American abstract artist who divides his time between New York City and Penobscot, Maine. Although he began his career as a sculptor, his work is now two-dimensional. He is known for his bold spray-painted wall murals...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Spray Paint, Watercolor, Pencil
L.I.C. (Blue) (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
L.I.C. (Blue) (Abstract painting)
Spray paint, pencil, ink, watercolor on paper. Unframed.
L.I.C refers to Long Island City where Soriano currently has his studio. This drawing focuses of objects and elements within it, in particular the remnants of old closets...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Ink, Spray Paint, Watercolor, Pencil
Paris - Ober (Blue Circle) (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Paris - Ober (Blue Circle) (Abstract painting)
Spray paint, pencil, ink, watercolor on paper. Unframed.
Peter Soriano works on relatively large sheets of Japanese paper with a ten...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Spray Paint, Watercolor, Pencil
L.I.C. (Blue) (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
L.I.C. (Blue) (Abstract painting)
Spray paint, pencil, ink, watercolor on paper. Unframed.
L.I.C refers to Long Island City where Soriano currently has his studio. This drawing focuses of objects and elements within it, in particular the remnants of old closets...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Ink, Spray Paint, Watercolor, Pencil
Paris - Ober (Blue Circle) (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Paris - Ober (Blue Circle) (Abstract painting)
Spray paint, pencil, ink, watercolor on paper. Unframed.
Peter Soriano works on relatively large sheets of Japanese paper with a ten...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Spray Paint, Watercolor, Pencil
Paris - Ober (Blue Circle) (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Spray paint, pencil, ink, watercolor on paper. Unframed.
Peter Soriano works on relatively large sheets of Japanese paper with a tendency to work from something observed, ideally a...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Spray Paint, Watercolor, Pencil
Paris - Ober (Blue Circle) (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Spray paint, pencil, ink, watercolor on paper. Unframed.
Peter Soriano works on relatively large sheets of Japanese paper with a tendency to work from something observed, ideally a...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Spray Paint, Watercolor, Pencil
Porch drawing 2
Located in London, GB
Spray paint, pencil, ink, watercolor on paper. Unframed.
Peter Soriano works on relatively large sheets of Japanese paper with a tendency to work from something observed, ideally ar...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Spray Paint, Watercolor, Pencil
A Surreal Conceptual Watercolor Painting, "Longing"
Located in San Diego, CA
A 24" x 18" Surreal Conceptual Watercolor Painting executed by artist Annalise Neil. A certificate of authenticity will be provided upon its purchase or delivery.
Neil’s cyanotype a...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Sandwich Tamayo
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Eduardo Costa is one of the key figures in global conceptual art. He was born in Buenos Aires in 1940. He graduated in Literature and Art at the University of Buenos Aires in 1965 where he took courses with Jorge Luis Borges in the late fifties. His practice developed into Conceptual POP with the Fashion Fictions Series, 1966-to the present. He is also credited with creating Conceptual Geometry which he showed internationally starting in 1995 at the Elga Wimmer Gallery, NY, and in 2001 at Cecilia de Torres LTD., NY. With Cecilia de Torres he exhibited a fully developed edition of his Volumetric Paintings, which use painting to such a volume that it stands by itself without any cloth or other support.Eduardo Costa lived twenty-five years in New York and over four years in Rio de Janeiro where he met almost daily with Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Pape...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Milagro 12
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Eduardo Costa is one of the key figures in global conceptual art. He was born in Buenos Aires in 1940. He graduated in Literature and Art at the University of Buenos Aires in 1965 where he took courses with Jorge Luis Borges in the late fifties. His practice developed into Conceptual POP with the Fashion Fictions Series, 1966-to the present. He is also credited with creating Conceptual Geometry which he showed internationally starting in 1995 at the Elga Wimmer Gallery, NY, and in 2001 at Cecilia de Torres LTD., NY. With Cecilia de Torres he exhibited a fully developed edition of his Volumetric Paintings, which use painting to such a volume that it stands by itself without any cloth or other support.Eduardo Costa lived twenty-five years in New York and over four years in Rio de Janeiro where he met almost daily with Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Pape...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Naturaleza muerta con botella
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Eduardo Costa is one of the key figures in global conceptual art. He was born in Buenos Aires in 1940. He graduated in Literature and Art at the University of Buenos Aires in 1965 where he took courses with Jorge Luis Borges in the late fifties. His practice developed into Conceptual POP with the Fashion Fictions Series, 1966-to the present. He is also credited with creating Conceptual Geometry which he showed internationally starting in 1995 at the Elga Wimmer Gallery, NY, and in 2001 at Cecilia de Torres LTD., NY. With Cecilia de Torres he exhibited a fully developed edition of his Volumetric Paintings, which use painting to such a volume that it stands by itself without any cloth or other support.Eduardo Costa lived twenty-five years in New York and over four years in Rio de Janeiro where he met almost daily with Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Pape...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Weather Project, Day of the Sandstorm
Located in Natchez, MS
This stunning work by Louise Feneley is somehow both abstract and figurative. Is it a pearl or a glowing ball of light? It's hard to tell. The light, co...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Oil
Still Pretty Though
By Alex Gingrow
Located in New York, NY
graphite, flashe, ink and gesso on paper, 22"x30" signed by the artist
The text in this painting reads: still pretty though, painted in stark capital letters faded into the backgroun...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Ink, Graphite
Sound in Grey
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Sound in Grey" Graffiti & Line series
2017
acrylic on canvas
60X44"
Signed, dated and titled on the reverse side.
Robert Petrick's paintings create a link between the street cul...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Glory
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Glory, 2015
12” X 9"
Oil on paper
Framed
A painter, sculptor, and installation artist, Niki Singleton draws on both popular culture and mythology in order to create works that...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper
Hide
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Hide, 2015
12” X 9”
Oil on found wine box
$1400 unframed
A painter, sculptor, and installation artist, Niki Singleton draws on both popular culture and mythology in order to cr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper
Pintura de cuatro huevos duros en un plato
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Eduardo Costa is one of the key figures in global conceptual art. He was born in Buenos Aires in 1940. He graduated in Literature and Art at the University of Buenos Aires in 1965 where he took courses with Jorge Luis Borges in the late fifties. His practice developed into Conceptual POP with the Fashion Fictions Series, 1966-to the present. He is also credited with creating Conceptual Geometry which he showed internationally starting in 1995 at the Elga Wimmer Gallery, NY, and in 2001 at Cecilia de Torres LTD., NY. With Cecilia de Torres he exhibited a fully developed edition of his Volumetric Paintings, which use painting to such a volume that it stands by itself without any cloth or other support.Eduardo Costa lived twenty-five years in New York and over four years in Rio de Janeiro where he met almost daily with Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Pape...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Car and Truck Crashing with Random Cosmic Laser Beam
By Joe Currie
Located in New York, NY
Acrylic on Canvas. Energy. Vibrant colors. Impactful portrayal of a crash with science fiction infusion.
About the Artist:
"Growing up in England during the 80s, the influence and love of American sub cultures through TV, and being surrounded by large non-spaces of US air bases around East Anglia, gave me a slightly odd and romantic view of America.
I finished the Masters Degree bronze-casting course at the Royal College of Art in 1999 and have pursued my passion for Art ever since. I have built up a body of work that follows the theme of a journey into abstraction, inspired by Robert Smithson, Donald Judd, Fiona Banner, Cornelia Parker...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
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