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.
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Style: Contemporary
Finding a Foothold
Located in San Diego, CA
"Finding A Foothold" is an original encaustic painting by San Diego Artist, Shima Shanti. Shima is an encaustic painter working in the ancient art form of painting with molten beeswa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Encaustic
Leaving Earth
Located in Santa Clarita, CA
Larisa Safaryan has chosen to work with a most unconventional and delicate medium: an eggshell. Without question she is an innovator in what she does.
The strength and fragility of ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Canvas
Untitled - abstract, oil painting, squares, blue & black
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
Using pure oil paint, which gives the artwork its unique texture, the artist manages to use two particularly difficult colors to work with: black and blue.
This artwork is part of ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Barbie World
By Adam Umbach
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, b. 1986
Adam Umbach was born in Chicago, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. After being inspired from an early age by the modern masters collection at th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Large Jack Youngerman Painting, 92″W
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Additional Information: Work is titled “Gray Open”. Provenance: Tupperware Brands Corporate Collection, Orlando, Florida.
Marking(s); notes: signed; 1972-73
Country of origin; mate...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paint
Make up - Part I
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
Sebastien's body of work unfolds around the image. Almost always, he works on his work in series, which means that several works result from one source image.
He is very methodical ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Acrylic, Monotype
Nebula, British Contemporary Artist Abstract Oil Painting
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 15 3/4 x 19 1/2 inches (40 x 49.5 cm)
Framed
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"La lluvia de la semilla" colorful, figurative, organic, ink painting
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
Through fluid strokes, rhythmic details, and archaic beings, the work shows us the artist's interest in exploring color. This abstract landscape is built by stages of primary colors,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Aquatint
Shooo-(I)
Located in Seoul, KR
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work focuses on the relationship between ‘Writing and Drawing’. From a distance, it appears to be a drawn image but a closer look reveals innumerable minute handw...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper
1613 - 21st Century, Contemporary Art, Abstract, Acrylic Painting
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Maria Paola's creative process dwells on a permanent search for the beauty hiding within our state of mind. Coda examines and translates the vibratory element of beauty that goes bey...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Las cosas no son lo que parecen" figurative, abstract, colorful ink painting
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
Alejandra España presupposes the development of her language of forms through the creation of symbolic functionalism and allegories that elevates the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Begegnung
Located in Wien, 9
In his painting, Robert Hammerstiel is in constant search of the balance and harmony of form. In his drastic reduction to the physical essentials and the colourful placarding, he cre...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
#22-13 - Contemporary Abstract Floral
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting by Annette Davidek
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Birch, Oil, Panel
"M 3" Paint, Ink, Graphite, Oil on Paper Piece by Mark Houghton
Located in London, GB
Mark Houghton
M 3
Paint, Ink, Graphite, Oil on Paper
68 x 49.5 cm
26 3/4 x 19 1/2 inches
Houghton's practice highlights overlooked aspects of the everyd...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paint, Ink, Oil, Graphite
Mathilde lefort Prophecy - Ink, gold powder and iron on canvas
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
There is in Prophecy the idea of an incantation, of magic words allowing to transgress the laws of reality. A golden melody emanating from the tormented depths of the ocean. A liquid knowledge subject to the interpretation of each and that each can seek in the sensations that awaken.
Mixing Gold powder and Iron, the scriptures of PROPHECY are as if corroded by time, already on the way to their disappearance. Evoking an ancient knowledge that modernity would have tried to erase, it imposes itself as the vector of an unnameable divine source. They appear and disappear like a breath whose echo resounds with a universal spirituality established in sensations.
In a world where the letters and the texts are present everywhere, these scriptures reveal themselves as a silent language established beyond the immediate meaning. Unreadable by the mind, the letter that has become a sign is now receptive to a new meaning given by the observer. Failing to be able to decipher them, it is a question of feeling them for their metaphysical and symbolic power.
Just as Kandinsky aspires to produce a painting capable of provoking a «spiritual awakening», PROPHECY proposes the construction of a new universal language based on sensations.
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Mathilde Lefort is a french visual artist based in Bali, Indonesia Holder of a Master’s Degree at EHESS Paris (France), Mathilde is specialized in war representations and human rights. In parallel with her theoretical studies, she developed an artistic practice around these questions. Using art video, installation and visual publications, she exhibited her work both in Paris and across Europe.
Going back to New Caledonia, she lived in total immersion in a tribe located in the north of the island from 2017 to 2019. There she co-direct EDEN TRIBAL, 52 min documentary produced by Box Fish Productions and sold to France Television. The movie tells the story of a Kanak woman fighting to be the chief of her tribe, within the context of the island’s referendum for independence. This period was spent in a deep loneliness. Rejected by the community while deeply in love, Mathilde wandered the darkness of her soul. She captured empty landscapes and wrote the ambulations of her mind to reflect on her loss of identity, the meaning of love, the woman’s place, racism and colonialism.
Now in Bali, she follows an unpredictable journey intertwining art, death, and magic. Stabbed to death in 2020, she pursues today her shamanic journey while crafting abstract paintings and sculptures rooted in mystical knowledge. Her art presents itself as a meditation...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold, Iron
The Fantasy of Castle No.2 - Contemporary art, Geometric, Abstract
Located in Coquitlam, BC
Artist: Da Hong
Born in 1984 Henan China, and currently living in Beijing
He graduated from Jingdezhen Ceramic University in 2007
The artist enjoyed piling up the blocks on the c...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Der Hundemann
Located in Wien, 9
In his painting, Robert Hammerstiel is in constant search of the balance and harmony of form. In his drastic reduction to the physical essentials and the colourful placarding, he cre...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Diagonal Stripe VI-21
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Kenneth Noland. “Diagonal Stripe VI-21” is a hard-edge, abstract painting, paint on handmade paper by artist Kenneth Noland. ...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Handmade Paper
Miel y Canela
By LUNA, CARLOS
Located in Palm Desert, CA
An artwork by Carlos Luna. "Miel y Canela" is a contemporary painting, gouache and charcoal on amate paper in red, black, and brown by Latin American artist Carlos Luna. The artwork ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Rave Heads X
Located in London, GB
Rafael Melendez's artwork titled "Mosh Pit X" is a captivating exploration of human interaction and the juxtaposition between the energetic atmosphere of a mosh pit and the confines ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor
Exhale - 21st Century, Contemporary, Abstract Painting, Gold Leaf
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Oil and gold leaf on canvas
Also available as a Diptych with "Inhale".
For centuries, artisans and artists have turned to gold leaf as a way to make their creations shimmer and shi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
#22-14 - Abstract Floral Painting with Vivid Color
Located in New York, NY
Annette Davidek creates paintings that look like gorgeous biomes full of naturalistic forms, enticing viewers to enter a domain that is as familiar as it is strange. Variously sugges...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Birch, Oil, Panel
Storm - large, dark, smoky, atmospheric abstracted landscape, acrylic on canvas
By Lynne Fernie
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Painterly swipes and drips light up an atmospheric sky in this dynamic acrylic by Lynne Fernie. The fiery horizon adds to the sense of brewing storm.
Lynne Fernie is a Toronto artist...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Patrick Hughes - Hanging on a hook, rainbow, gloss, moon, contemporary, painting
Located in London, GB
Patrick Hughes (b.1939)
Hanging on a Hook
1978
gloss paint on board
91 x 91 cm
Price:
£19,000 GBP
Provenance:
Private collection, UK (acquired directly from the artist in the late ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paint, Board
"Divine Garden Series #268", Mark Whitmarsh, Contemporary White Flowers, 48x36
Located in Dallas, TX
“As I build layers of color, a personal iconography evolves on the painted surface. I’m
interested in a surface that has a rich patina with a modern ancestry. By adding and
subtracti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Evening Symphony
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Taking cues from the anti-figurative aesthetic of American Abstract Expressionists, Ripley’s process is one of spontaneity and gesture. Color is applied in broad strokes atop a black...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Minamina Dreaming - Minamina Juk", Acrylic Contemporary Aboriginal Painting
Located in London, GB
Simon employs optic whites and an array of pastels to capture the feeling and colour of the desert flowers, and its natural features surrounding the salt plains of Mina Mina, a salt ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
"G" Acrylic on Paper Piece by Ralph Anderson
Located in London, GB
Ralph Anderson
G
Acrylic on paper
H 30cm x W 42cm
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper, Acrylic
I Saw the World's Worst Bicyclist on Nantucket
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, b. 1970
"Pitliuk has created a style that will endear him to those who venture into the collection of modern art; it challenges the intellect and tickles the funny bone at the same time."
--Sharon Lorenzo - Art Historian
"Artist Stephen Pitliuk introduces something bold to the island... [his] Pop Art stands out on an island inundated with landscape paintings."
"Pitliuk, an island resident for [seven] years, comes to us from Miami, Florida. His work hangs in many private and corporate collections throughout the country... [The] vibrant colors and the rhythm of his native South Florida are definitely reflected in his work. His latest pieces, which burst through the prosaic treadmill of the New England art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Els Terrats Dels Confinats - 21st Century, Contemporary, Oil Painting, Abstract
By Tomàs Sunyol
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
"Tomàs Martínez Sunyol was born in Dieulefit (France) in 1964 and was surrounded by art from a young age. Both his father, Joaquim Martínez Lerma, and uncle, Álvaro Sunyol, were pain...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Stones XXXIV - 21st Century, Contemporary, Abstract Painting, Mixed Media
By Jon Errazu
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
"My work is characterized by forms and lines. The relationship between background and figure is repeated persistently in each of my works. The figure, simple and almost always quadri...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
#21-04, Vivid Colors - Abstract Floral Painting
Located in New York, NY
Annette Davidek creates paintings that look like gorgeous biomes full of naturalistic forms, enticing viewers to enter a domain that is as familiar as it is strange. Variously sugges...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Birch, Oil, Panel
"Purrpalala" Aboriginal Acrylic on Canvas Painting by Biddy Long Yulngarri
Located in London, GB
Biddy Long is a traditional woman bringing years of bush living and travelling to her painting. Her early life was with other Warlpiri on Mt Doreen cattle station when her family was...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
In the middle of the road
Located in Houston, TX
Dana Frankfort
In the middle of the road, 2017
oil on canvas over panel
48 x 48 x 1.75 inches
For over two decades, Dana Frankfort has explored the vexing periphery between language and sight by painting words. Rather than laying claim to the paintings, controlling their semiotic pulse, her words serve as the formal armature; they prop up, ventilate, and allow the many layers of paint to breathe. Imperatives, allusions, evocations—the words dissolve into a palimpsest of obscured serifs and stems, into color and form.
The title of the work is a phrase from a poem by Carlos Drummond de
Andrade’s “In the Middle of Road.” Here it is, translated from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Bishop...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Wood Panel
5TH DIMENSIONAL LOVE MACHINE
Located in Marrakech, MA
Acrylic painting on canvas
Black exterior frame
Signed on the front
Framed dimensions: 163x269(x5)cm
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Solo Samba
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A mixed media work by Merion Estes. "Solo Samba" is a contemporary abstract, acrylic on canvas in a palette of purples, reds, and yellows by American female artist Merion Estes. The ...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Trapped
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A mixed media work by Merion Estes. "Trapped" is a contemporary abstract, fabric collage, acrylic on fabric in a palette of blacks, reds, and yellows by American female artist Merion...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Ango Areoli
Located in Zürich, ZH
Nelio Sonego was born in Switzerland, in Sion, in 1955. He attended and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice with Emilio Vedova, from whom he assimilated the gestural an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
211
Located in Paris, IDF
Jean BIJOUX
(XX)
211
Acrylic painting and gold leaf on vellum
Signed lower middle
H. 27 cm ; L. 18 cm
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Stones XVIII - 21st Century, Contemporary, Abstract Painting, Mixed Media
By Jon Errazu
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
"My work is characterized by forms and lines. The relationship between background and figure is repeated persistently in each of my works. The figure, simple and almost always quadri...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
West to East
Located in Palm Desert, CA
An oil on linen canvas painting by contemporary artist Ross Bleckner. "West to East" is an abstract oil painting executed in deep and brilliant orange on a neutral ground...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Malinalco, 2017
Located in New York, NY
Malinalco 2017, Is a piece that belongs to a larger series of photo paintings consisting of about 52 total. This piece is made with; ink, and enamel ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Archival Pigment
Untitled
By Mary Mitsuda
Located in Palm Desert, CA
An abstract acrylic on wood panel painting executed in deep burgundy, yellow, blue and black by contemporary artist Mary Mitsuda.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Untitled
By Christian Rosa
Located in Palm Desert, CA
An abstract oil on canvas by Brazilian contemporary artist Christian Rosa. This large format, untitled oil is executed in bright yellow, black, red and blue in a subdued, neutral pal...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Partita 50
Located in Paris, IDF
Bruno DESPLANQUES
(Born in 1966, France)
Partita 50
Enamelled lava stone
30 cm ; 30 cm
2021
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Stone, Enamel
201
Located in Paris, IDF
Jean BIJOUX
(XX)
201
Acrylic painting and gold leaf on vellum
Signed lower left
H. 21 cm ; L. 19 cm
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Chwana
Located in Boca Raton, FL
A leading abstract painter in his lifetime, Dan Christensen drew from a range of Modernist sources to produce colorful, luminous compositions that featured giant dots, whirling loops...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
In Every Way Possible 2
By Udo Noger
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Udo Nöger aims to bring out the luminescence of paint in his practice. The artist is known for monochromatic gray works that give the impression of emitting light. Nöger achieves thi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Caïn and Abel II
Located in Paris, IDF
Bruno DESPLANQUES
(Born in 1966, France)
Caïn and Abel II
Painting on wood
120 cm x 90 cm
2021
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paint
"The Happy Piano" Contemporary Art, Abstract Expressionist Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Coimbra, PT
JParames is considered one of the most talented and promising Portuguese artists of his generation. Born in Lisbon in 1978, he studied at the National Society of Fine Arts in Lisbon....
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Start out by Dreaming
Located in New York, NY
Start out by Dreaming, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
66h x 48w in
Vicky Barranguet was born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1973. In 1996 she moved to Boston and in 1997 to NY, where she studied...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Three Field Collage #2
Located in Fairfield, CT
Category
Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Contemporary Art "The Color Maker"Large Abstract Expressionist Acrilic on Canvas
Located in Coimbra, PT
JParames is considered one of the most talented and promising Portuguese artists of his generation. Born in Lisbon in 1978, he studied at the National Society of Fine Arts in Lisbon....
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Connectivity No. 18
Located in Palm Desert, CA
An abstract acrylic on canvas painting by Luc Bernard. This abstract painting is executed in a soft rose background with lines of green, red and blue abstract shapes in the foregroun...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Sumi Ink, Oil
Dustr
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A figurative abstract oil on canvas by contemporary artist Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline. "Dustr" is executed in deep pastel blues, rust, yellow, brown, peach and black and depicts an a...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
By Lauren Benrimon
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Lauren Benrimon. This Untitled, abstract painting is executed in a swirling palette primarily of violets, blues, teals, greens and white by contemporary artist Lauren B...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Dimitri Likissas - Eye Two
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Pop
Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas
I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice that in my...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
The Happiness of Birds, Grass Green, Lavender, Periwinkle, Lilac, Teal, Hunter
Located in Kent, CT
Speaking to its title, The Happiness of Birds by Yolanda Sánchez suggests a state of Elysium through color and paint strokes. Vibrant hues of green, violet, periwinkle, and teal danc...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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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.