Contemporary Abstract Paintings
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.
Find a collection of Contemporary prints, photography, paintings, sculptures and other art on 1stDibs.
Style: Contemporary
Color: Red
"Spring" ("Printemps"), White Trees and Black Cypress Red Lanscape Oil Painting
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
This semi-abstract artwork depicts a Provence landscape with white trees and black cypresses, and a hot red atmosphere.
This piece is not framed.
Marcel Demagny...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A declaration - Figurative Painting on Paper, Young art Minimalism, Vibrant
Located in Warsaw, PL
WALERIA MATELSKA (born 1994 in Belarus)
In 2012-2015 she studied at the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, where in the years 2015-2018 she her diploma from t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
NOVA, Michele Mikesell's Oil on canvas, abstract colorful painting
Located in Dallas, TX
MICHELE MIKESELL
b. 1973, Alabama, USA
In 2002, Michele Mikesell earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts with a minor in graphic design from Texas Women's University in Denton, TX. Mikesel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Fracture - Mixed Media on Canvas by Marco Amici - 1993
By Marco Amici
Located in Roma, IT
Dripping is an original oil painting and mixed media on canvas, realized by the Italian artist Marco Amici in 1993.
Original title: Colatura.
This contemporary artwork, in line wit...
Category
1990s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Canvas
"Without a Net", Floating Glass Tiles on a Radial Orange Gradient Oil Painting
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
This artwork is almost at the intersection between geometrical art, optical art and surrealism. It features a number of what appears to be blue or t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Storm Surge Tondo Red - bold, glossy, impasto, abstract, acrylic on aluminum
By Shayne Dark
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Created in dynamic layers of molten red, this Storm Surge tondo by Shayne Dark envelops the viewer. The rich, almost baroque quality of the sculpted surface is enhanced by its metall...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Metal
"THE LINE UP" Collage on panel, skateboard motifs, pattern, red white blue
By Jim Houser
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"THE LINE UP" is an original acrylic collage on panel by Jim Houser measuring 18in x 18in.
ABOUT // Jim Houser was born in 1973 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
THE BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Eva Hoffmann
Located in Yardley, PA
Original oil painting on canvas :: Painting :: Contemporary :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Signed: Yes...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Estigma de Pintor, IV
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Eduardo Arranz-Bravo, Spanish (1941 - )
Title: Estigma de pintor, IV
Year: 1992
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed, dated and titled verso
Size: 50 x 36 in. (127 x 91.44 cm)
Frame...
Category
1990s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Communism Begins with Thinking
By Skylar Fein
Located in New Orleans, LA
SKYLAR FEIN was born in Greenwich Village and raised in the Bronx. He has had many careers including teaching nonviolent resistance under the umbrella of the Quakers, working for a g...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Encaustic, Acrylic
A fusion - Figurative Acrylic Painting on Paper, Vibrant red, Abstraction
Located in Warsaw, PL
WALERIA MATELSKA (born 1994 in Belarus)
In 2012-2015 she studied at the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, where in the years 2015-2018 she her diploma from t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Chris Levine, Cross Print 7, Unique Contemporary Print, Original Investment Art
By Chris Levine
Located in Deddington, GB
Chris Levine
Cross Print 7
Silkscreen Print X JEALOUS with Hand Applied Swarovski Crystals
Print Size: H 50cm x W 50cm x 0.2cm
Framed Size: H 59.5cm x W 59.5cm x D 4.5cm
Unique Print...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Screen, Paper
"Point of Departure 3", abstract, bold, orange, reds, greens, mixed media
Located in Natick, MA
Leslie Zelamsky's "Point of Departure 3" is a 65.5 x 44 x 2.75 inch mixed-media painting on wood panel. The surface of this bold abstract piece contains two large areas of orange pai...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel, Pastel, Mixed Media
My Beloved Assassin, Acrylic on Canvas, Red Foliage Intricate Flowers"In Stock"
By Mahjabin Imam Majumdar
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Mahjabin Majumdar - My Beloved Assassin - 60 x 54 inches (unframed size)
Acrylic on Canvas
Inclusive of shipment in ready to hang condition.
This striking acrylic on canvas encompas...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Paradise Fire, A Wake Up Call - Abstract Fire Painting with (Orange+Red+Black)
Located in Gilroy, CA
"Paradise, A Wake Up Call" was a response to the California fire in Paradise last year. This fire was devastating and took a toll on the entire Northern California Region. Helen ha...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Ritual Devotion (vermillion, brilliant scarlet, madder rose)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abendroth
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Abendrot' 150x200cm, oil on canvas, 2017
signed on verso
Instantdreams Gallery presents Chandra Fanti
"Chandra Fanti is born in 1982 in Terni, Italy. She spent her childhood and youth in a small village in the center of Italy. Daughter of a painter, she immediately develops the passion for drawing and painting.
She graduated in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, in 2009.
During the Academy's years she develops a profound interest in the work of Antonin Artaud, Gilles Deleuze, Francis Bacon, Gina Pane, Franko B...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pegasus
By Tony Magar
Located in Fairfield, CT
Born in London in 1936, Tony Magar studied at the Royal Albert School of Speech and Literature. The artist traveled extensively for five years through Africa, China, and India. Magar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Crimson Red and Pastels" Contemporary Colorful Acrylic Painting on Board
Located in New York, NY
Through his use of color, texture and brush stroke, Robert vibrates the viewer with these strong emotional ties that he so longs to connect with nature and the spirit of the all-enco...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
The Red Room
Located in New York, NY
Elliot Gordon (American) , "The Red Room", Contemporary Acrylic on Linen, 36 x 24 Canvas, Early 21st Century, 2015
Colors: Red, Yellow, White, Blue, Black, B...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Linen
No Issue-Issue Resolve, Abstract, Acrylic on Canvas, Red, Black, Blue" In Stock"
By Rathin Kanji
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Rathin Kanji - No Issue - issue resolve - 48 x 48 inches (unframed size)
Acrylic on canvas.
Inclusive of shipment in roll form.
Style : Kanji believes that we are currently expe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Orchard Series #8
Located in Mill Valley, CA
Tim Craighead’s work is categorized as abstract, though it inhabits a space between objective and nonobjective painting. Both serve as a matrix for what are essentially autobiograph...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Alkyd
GRASPS
By Jim Houser
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"GRASPS" is an original dimensional, wall-hanging, assemblage work by Jim Houser measuring 12in x 12in.
ABOUT // Jim Houser was born in 1973 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the city...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Earthquake Failure
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
Jenny Day is a painter who divides her time between Santa Fe, New Mexico and Tucson, Arizona. She paints a fragmented space, examining human demand and the effects of environmental d...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Burn Out
Located in New Orleans, LA
BONNIE MAYGARDEN is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University. The destruction of Hurricane Katrina caused her to take leave of New Orleans to fu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Claudia Fauth "Matrix In Creation No 4" Acrylic Painting on Canvas, 2015
Located in Berlin, DE
Acrylic paint on raw canvas, 2015. Ready to hang. It comes directly from the studio of the artist.
Height 64.96 in ( 165 cm ), Width 39.37 in ( 100 cm ).
Matrix In Creation belongs ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Oshun (translucent orange, indian yellow)
Located in New Orleans, LA
diptych
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Where Borders Vanish, Abstract, Mixed Media on Canvas, Red, Black "In Stock"
By Rathin Kanji
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Rathin Kanji - Where Borders Vanish - 10 x 10 inches ( unframed size)
Mixed Media on Canvas
Inclusive of shipment in roll form.
Style : Kanji believes that we are currently exper...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Sold Outside, Abstract, Mixed Media on Canvas, Red, Black, Blue "In Stock"
By Rathin Kanji
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Rathin Kanji - Sold Outside - 10 x 10 inches ( unframed size)
Mixed Media on Canvas
Inclusive of shipment in roll form.
Style: Kanji believes that we are currently experiencing what...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
ETNOGRAFICA ROSSO I
By Kim Fonder
Located in Tulsa, OK
Kim Fonder, ETNOGRAFICA ROSSO I, Mixed Media, 18 X 15.00 in, $575.00, Red, Abstract, contemporary, fine art, mixed media ,Brown
Kim Fonder loves texture and touch. Her paintings and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Warmth, Abstract, Arcylic Oil on Canvas, Red, Black, Blue, White "In Stock"
By Rathin Kanji
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Rathin Kanji - Warmth - 10 x 10 inches ( unframed size)
Mixed Media on Canvas
Inclusive of shipment in roll form.
Style : Kanji believes that we are currently experiencing what is...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
CT: On Navigating Life, Love, and Traffic
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
CT: Cautionary Tales series from 2015. This remarkable mixed media painting is one of three "cone-scapes' that consider the new American landscape dotted with construction cones. The...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
My Mississippi (carmine alizarin, brilliant scarlet)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"From the Inside", Contemporary, Mixed Media, Abstract, Painting, Wood Panel
Located in St. Louis, MO
Born in Columbus, Ohio in 1968, Ronald Johnson received an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2003. Since then, Johnson has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally, as well as being a resident at the Ucross Foundation in Clearmont, Wyoming in 2004 and at the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris, France in 2002. Johnson uses strategically placed canvas strips to act as dam walls to corral the poured paint and polyurethane mix. Each layer must be sanded vigorously to ensure as much precision as possible. The sanding process gives the surface a unique sheen, while simultaneously transparent and opaque, reminiscent of encaustic. Through Johnson’s process, the layers become diffused and viscously permeable, with crisp edges and a traceable lost-and-found history.
Contemporary Design, Abstract Mixed Media Painting on Wood Panel, Acrylic Paint
"From the Inside...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Other Medium, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Polyurethane
Red Quilt (Solid Red Square Encaustic Painting on Panel with Geometric Detail)
Located in Hudson, NY
encaustic on panel, 24 x 24 inches
square abstract artwork, red square
This modern, abstract red-orange encaustic painting on wooden board was completed by Poughkeepsie based artis...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Wood Panel
Her Infatuation (lemon yellow, translucent orange, translucent magenta)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Automatics (ruby)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Washed (red oxide, magenta)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
CT: Forked Crossings
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
"CT: Forked Crossings', is a Frohsin imagined and abstracted aerial-map collage created in late 2015. The small-scale, dynamic, mixed-media work is among the last of Frohsin’s critic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Ink, Mixed Media, Pigment
Automatic Metal (red)
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: oil stick and acrylic on aluminum
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her na...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Metal
The Christmas Painting
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
1990s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
La Fonda (magenta, brown pink)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Palmyra
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Valerie Jaudon. "Palmyra" is an abstract, oil on canvas painting by Valerie Jaudon. Using just three colors of bright red and orange, interwoven lines on a black background, Jaudon employs crisp precision making the lines of color appear almost carved into canvas. "Palmyra" recalls gothic stonework, celtic interlace, islamic ornament...
Category
1980s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ritual Devotion (chinese lake, geranium lake)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ritual Devotion (ruby lake light, madder lake brilliant)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Washed (orange oxide, yellow)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abendroth
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Abendrot' 150x200cm, oil on canvas, 2017
signed on verso
Instantdreams Gallery presents Chandra Fanti
"Chandra Fanti is born in 1982 in Terni, Italy. She spent her childhood and youth in a small village in the center of Italy. Daughter of a painter, she immediately develops the passion for drawing and painting.
She graduated in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, in 2009.
During the Academy's years she develops a profound interest in the work of Antonin Artaud, Gilles Deleuze, Francis Bacon, Gina Pane, Franko B...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The End
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Red Boatman (Vertical Monochromatic Red Landscape Oil Painting on Canvas)
Located in Hudson, NY
86 x 48 inches
vertical, monochromatic red landscape oil painting on canvas
This large vertical rusty red and orange monochromatic landscape oil painting imparts feelings of romance...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ultra Light I
Located in New Orleans, LA
Bonnie Maygarden is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University in 2014. The destruction of Hurricane Katrina caused her to take leave of New Orlea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Ultra Light II
Located in New Orleans, LA
Bonnie Maygarden is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University in 2014. The destruction of Hurricane Katrina caused her to take leave of New Orlea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Washed (red, yellow, blue)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Washed (orange, yellow)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Everything Beautiful Goes Away
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Brianna
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Red Dog on the Moon
Located in Miami, FL
Red Dog on the Moon is a painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist. This red and white tons expressionist painting is the representation...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Parvati
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Bands of textile patterns in shades of orange.
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Polyester, Oil, Alkyd, Wood Panel
Red and Green Flowers (Modern Abstract Acrylic painting on Canvas)
By Anne Francey
Located in Hudson, NY
68 x 41 x 1 inches
acrylic on canvas
Frame not necessary, but recommended. This painting is offered by CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY, in Hudson, NY
Beautifully bold gestural painting of ab...
Category
1990s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Contemporary abstract paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Contemporary abstract paintings 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 abstract paintings 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 Anastasia Pelias, Chelsea Davine, Waleria Matelska, and Anna Maria Caboni. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Fabric 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 abstract paintings, so small editions measuring 1.63 inches across are also available.