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: White
"Sand Castle" Contemporary Abstract Mixed Media on Canvas Framed Painting
By Maura Segal
Located in Baltimore, MD
"Sand Castle" is a framed mixed media work on canvas by Maura Segal, with abstract shapes and color blocking. The artist cuts hundreds of paper shapes and adheres them to the canvas ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Paper, Mixed Media
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 Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Embodied XIV
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pelias expounds on her new works . . .
In this group of oil paintings on canvas, I am inspired and informed by my personal history and collective lived experience, as well as the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Sumi Ink
Embodied XI
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pelias expounds on her new works . . .
In this group of oil paintings on canvas, I am inspired and informed by my personal history and collective lived experience, as well as the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Sumi Ink
Embodied XVI
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pelias expounds on her new works . . .
In this group of oil paintings on canvas, I am inspired and informed by my personal history and collective lived experience, as well as the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Sumi Ink, Paper
Embodied XV
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pelias expounds on her new works . . .
In this group of oil paintings on canvas, I am inspired and informed by my personal history and collective lived experience, as well as the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Sumi Ink
Gold and Color No. 131
Located in Westport, CT
This beautiful painting is by Japanese artist, Takefumi Hori. He was born in Tokyo, Japan. He paints beautiful gold leaf paintings. This piece is acrylic, gold leaf and metal leaf ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Moon Series - II
Located in Stamford, CT
John Berger states a line is not important because it records what we
see, but because of what it will lead us on to see. He also adds that
each mark we make on the surface is a stepping stone through...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Grey Movement by Fleur Park, Abstract art, Contemporary art, Minimalist
Located in Deddington, GB
Grey Movement by Fleur Park [2022]
original and hand signed by the artist
Acrylic on canvas
Image size: H:60.5 cm x W:61 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:1.5 cm x W:60.5 cm x...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The Real - A unique ink on paper work by Philip Wittmann
Located in New York, NY
Ink on paper, Acrylic and / or watercolor, signed in the front, framed in a thin Blond wood frame, glass.
Philip Wittmann work is based on signs. Sign...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Archival Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor
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 Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Oil, Panel
"hindbrain", contemporary, hand, antlers, pink, red, green, acrylic painting
By Sandra Cohen
Located in Natick, MA
Sandra Cohen’s “hindbrain” is a 16 x 16 x 1 inch acrylic painting on cradled wood, in pink, red, yellow and green, with overlaid patterns in white and sil...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Acrylic
Breaking Through #8 mixed media painting made by boxing by artist Omar Hassan
By Omar Hassan
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Yellow, orange and red gallery-wrapped mixed media on canvas abstract painting made by boxing with boxing gloves dipped into paint by artist Omar Hassan.
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Rain Study
Located in Buffalo, NY
The Consequence of Small Decisions
Solo Exhibit by Cassandra Ott
This dynamic mixed media work was created as part of the artist's series "The Consequence of Small Decisions".
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Paper
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 Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper, Mixed Media, Oil
«So far, so good, and then...» Acrylic on Canvas by O. F. Hvidsten
Located in Oslo, NO
Signed and dated.
«So far, so good, and then...» was part of O. F. Hvidsten's first solo-exhibition «This will never pass». The works comprising the exhibition is first and foremos...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
«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 Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Germinating - Contemporary Painting on Canvas (Pink+Maroon+White+Gold)
Located in Gilroy, CA
"Germinating" is an original contemporary painting by Laurie Barmore. With acrylic on canvas, this piece is a symphony of color. Baramore can seamlessly blend opposing colors creatin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled, Pigment on Canvas, Yellow, White by Contemporary Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Gurunathan Govindhan - Untitled
Pigment on Canvas, 8 x 10 inches
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Pigment
Gabrielle Benot, "Color Run", Contemporary Horse Race Painting on Canvas
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This abstract equine painting, "Color Run" by artist Gabrielle Benot is a 36x48 original mixed media painting on canvas. Depicted is a colorful abstract horse race from a head on pe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Resin
White What's Left (Contemporary Abstract Painting with Colorful Paper Collage)
Located in Hudson, NY
White What's Left (Contemporary Abstract Painting with Colorful Paper Collage)
20 x 20 x 2 inches
encaustic, collage on wood panel
Signed on rev...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Wood Panel
6 of Clubs (large)
Located in Denver, CO
This is a painting of an abstracted and re-imagined playing card with birds and textures writing. This card in particular is the 6 of clubs, larger version. The painting is mixed med...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Panel
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 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 Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Garden in Kuraszewo - Polish Master Of Art Abstract Landscape, Minimalist
Located in Warsaw, PL
ANDRZEJ FOGTT (born in 1950) He graduated from the PWSSP in Poznań in 1974 where he studied in the studios of prof. Z.Kępiński and M. Abakanowicz. Initially, his art was considered t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Cardboard
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 Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled - Original Artbook with Suite of Etchings by Yannis Kounellis - 1992
Located in Roma, IT
Fragments is an original contemporary artwork / artist book realized by Jannis Kounellis and Giorgio De Dominicis in 1992.
Edition n.16 of 40. The book has been printed in 40 copie...
Category
1990s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Etching
Acrylic Abstract Painting, Black, Blue, White Color, Contemporary Art "In Stock"
By Partha Shaw
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Partha Shaw - Untitled - Acrylic on Board .
25 x 14 inches
This work will be shipped flat without frame.
Style :Shaw works mainly with landscapes, but handles them in a very c...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Board
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 Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Petite Clementine
Located in New Orleans, LA
Materials: acrylic painted paper
Non-objective artist Aimée Farnet Siegel works with color and line through the medium of hand-painted and manipulated paper. Her works inhabit spac...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Still Present
Located in New Orleans, LA
[New Orleans, LA ::: b.1987 - New Orleans, LA]
BONNIE MAYGARDEN is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University. She attended Pratt Institute in Ne...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Enamel
My Wild Garden #120
Located in Mill Valley, CA
New Orleans artist Allison Stewart has gained national recognition for her paintings expressing the complex and disturbing dialogue between man and nature. Trained as a biologist, St...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Mod Squad 8
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Glass, Paint, Paper
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By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: acrylic, flashe, collage, pencil, paint pen, crayon and glitter on canvas
Our gallery is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition of Tucson-based artist Jenny Day, enti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Glitter, Acrylic, Pencil
Grey plays fairly
Located in New Orleans, LA
Materials: acrylic painted and found paper
Non-objective artist Aimée Farnet Siegel works with color and line through the medium of hand-painted and manipulated paper. Her works in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Found Objects, Acrylic
Interlude
By Kelly Kozma
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Interlude" is an original 20in x 20in painting by Kelly Kozma with mixed media elements.
Please note: The last three photos show images of the full "Tiny Particles Connecting the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Latex, Mixed Media
Nightfall
Located in Mill Valley, CA
Craighead's paintings operate somewhere between abstraction and the cognitive world, between the unknown and the known. The works often begin with a general idea. He might be reflect...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Fan Cutout : Black and White Series
By Aron Hill
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Minimalist work on paper painted using black gesso, unframed.
One of eight in his series of Black and White Drawings. These pieces are striking when installed in a group.
Hill's p...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Archival Paper
Xavi Carbonell, Untitled, Mixed media on paper, 2014
Located in New York, NY
Spanish artist Xavi Carbonell born 1971, actively paints like a child as an adult, and leaves all of his pieces "untitled" so that each viewer can create their own story. The result...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
"A Home for All with Yellow Roof" Contemporary Abstract Acrylic on Canvas
By Aron Hill
Located in Baltimore, MD
"A Home for All with Yellow Roof" is a framed acrylic painting on canvas by Aron Hill, depicting abstract shapes in yellow, red, and blue on raw canvas. The carefully composed forms ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Acrylic
"Occupy 3" Contemporary Colorful Light Green Abstract Foliage Landscape Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary abstract painting by local Houston artist Max Kremer. Currently featured in the show "5 Artists 5 Rooms" at Reeves Art + Design in Houston, TX....
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Occupy 6" Contemporary Colorful Light Green Abstract Foliage Landscape Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary abstract painting by local Houston artist Max Kremer. Currently featured in the show "5 Artists 5 Rooms" at Reeves Art + Design in Houston, TX....
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Occupy 7" Contemporary Colorful Light Green Abstract Foliage Landscape Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary abstract painting by local Houston artist Max Kremer. Currently featured in the show "5 Artists 5 Rooms" at Reeves Art + Design in Houston, TX.
Artist Biography: Max Kremer (b. 1999, Houston, TX) is currently working in Austin, Texas. Kremer obtained his BFA from the University of Texas...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Astrid State 2
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This dimensional wall sculpture is made of laser cut aluminum and enamel paint. The back panel is painted to look like a page torn out of an artist's sketch book...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Metal, Enamel
Flat Layers White
Located in Rye, NY
Artist Statement:
With these paintings I wanted to replace the brush with a car tire and represent a three-dimensional object, with all its planes, light and shadows but on one level...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Orchard Series, Scala
Located in Mill Valley, CA
Craighead's paintings operate somewhere between abstraction and the cognitive world, between the unknown and the known. The works often begin with a general idea. He might be reflect...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Casein, Oil
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.