Contemporary 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
Period: 1990s
Four Men
Located in New York, NY
Enamel on four wood panels
Signed, titled, and dated, verso
12 x 12 inches, each
These paintings are offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
About the artist:
Julia Jacquette...
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Woman on Couch with Boy
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
With this series I continue my practice of alluding to historical painting styles and themes as a means of prompting various contextual associations. I began by referencing portrait ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
So Blue, too
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 Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Love Letter after Kunimasa, Painting by Michael Knigin
Located in Long Island City, NY
A painting by Michael Knigin from (date). A multi-media collage mixing traditional Japanese illustrations with contemporary urban photographic i...
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Plaid Dreams
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 Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Remnant
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 Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Painting in Captivity
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 Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Warrior
Located in New York, NY
Acrylic on linen
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Linen
All That Baggage (the sequel)
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 Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
So 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
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
All That Baggage
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 Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gahn Portrait # 121, Darren Vigil Gray, pastel on paper, black, red, Apache
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Gahn Portrait # 121, Darren Vigil Gray, pastel on paper, black, red, Apache
painting on paper
signed and titled by the artist on the front
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper
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 Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Raum V
Located in New York, NY
The affiliation of two-dimensional objects and their
three-dimensional projection is the main topic of
Zipora Rafaelov’s relief-like pictures and installations.
Common objects which ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Raum VI
Located in New York, NY
The affiliation of two-dimensional objects and their
three-dimensional projection is the main topic of
Zipora Rafaelov’s relief-like pictures and installations.
Common objects which ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
An Annoying Flower in a Hail Storm
Located in New York, NY
An Annoying Flower in a Hail Storm, 1998
Acrylic and ink on paper
18 x 14 inches
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Ink
Untitled Drawing
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A work by Jane Highstein. This Untitled drawing is an abstract pigment on graphite on paper by contemporary artist Jane Highstein.
Signed lower right, "Highstein '92"
Jene Highstein...
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Paper, Pigment
Raum III
Located in New York, NY
The affiliation of two-dimensional objects and their
three-dimensional projection is the main topic of
Zipora Rafaelov’s relief-like pictures and installations.
Common objects which ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
A Foam Assembly
Located in New York, NY
A Foam Assembly, 1998
Acrylic and ink on paper
14 x 18 inches
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic
Cosmography #1
By Anne Francey
Located in Hudson, NY
mixed media on paper, unframed
44 x 30 inches unframed
arabesque line drawing, nature drawing, Cy Twombly, simple forms, simple line drawing, gestural line drawing, gestural flower drawing
About the artist & work:
Swiss born artist, Anne Francey, returns to the gallery exhibiting selections from both past and current work. Trained as a painter, Francey added ceramic to her studio practice after developing a love and fascination for the ceramic tiles and infinite design that adorn houses and interiors in Tunisia, spending a year at the National Center of Ceramics of Tunis. Arabesques, this endless flow of lines inspired by vegetal forms typical of Islamic art, has translated onto her recent work in the form of simply choreographed lines resembling seed pods, bramble, and flowering buds. In her 1988...
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite, Pastel
Cosmography #2
By Anne Francey
Located in Hudson, NY
mixed media on paper, unframed
44 x 30 inches unframed
arabesque line drawing, nature drawing, Cy Twombly, simple forms, simple line drawing, gestural line drawing, gestural flower drawing
About the artist & work:
Swiss born artist, Anne Francey, returns to the gallery exhibiting selections from both past and current work. Trained as a painter, Francey added ceramic to her studio practice after developing a love and fascination for the ceramic tiles and infinite design that adorn houses and interiors in Tunisia, spending a year at the National Center of Ceramics of Tunis. Arabesques, this endless flow of lines inspired by vegetal forms typical of Islamic art, has translated onto her recent work in the form of simply choreographed lines resembling seed pods, bramble, and flowering buds. In her 1988...
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite, Pastel
"Wild Bill Hickok 1853", Wild West Deadwood, large 53x40" oil canvas western art
By Ceravolo
Located in Southampton, NY
Ceravolo's Large scale paintings have received international acclaim for more three decades. His paintings are in many influential corporate and private collections, including: ELTON JOHN, ROD STEWART, HUGH M. HEFNER, DAVID BRENNER, MONIQUE VAN VOOREN, WARNER BROS., RCA RECORDS AND SCHENLEY INDUSTRIES to name a few.
His art, came to popular attention when he was commissioned to create 5 large scale oil on canvas portraits for the lobby of The Palladium Theatre in New York City of Frank Zappa, Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, Neil Young and Hall and Oats. In addition to these,
This contemporary western art of lawman cowboy and gun slinger Wild Bill Hickok...
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Geraniums
Located in Miami, FL
Geraniums is a painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist. This piece is a part of a flower series, defined by their distinct bright colors, satiny, silky, vibr...
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Four Musea: Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne each of the nine Muses occupies a creative niche. The Four Muses; Calliope, Clio, Erato and Euterpe represent Epic Poetry, History, Lyric Choral Poetr...
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Paul Manes - Tupik, Painting 1990
By Paul Manes
Located in Greenwich, CT
Manes has had an extensive career since studying at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Hunter College (New York) in 1983. Domestically he has shown cross-country, in museums and galle...
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
Paul Manes - Lux Ex Tenebris, Painting 1991
By Paul Manes
Located in Greenwich, CT
Manes has had an extensive career since studying at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Hunter College (New York) in 1983. Domestically he has shown cross-country, in museums and galle...
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Broadview Angus Dr. #16
Located in Denver, CO
Waddell's paintings are a combination of rough marks, thick paint, transparent elegant strokes, and, on a few occasions a slow, hard line scratched into the canvas. You can feel the ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Mad River
By Julio Larraz
Located in Missouri, MO
Mad River, 1996
Julio Larraz (Cuban, 1944)
Signed and Dated Lower Right
41 x 49 inches
43 x 51 inches with frame
Provenance: Atrium Gallery, 1999
Accomplished painter, sculptor, and...
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
After the Movies, #2
Located in Kansas City, MO
Roger Shimomura
After the Movies, #2
1994
Acrylic on Canvas Triptych in Wood Frame
Size: 48x57in
Frame: 50x58x1.5in
Signed, dated and titled by hand
CO...
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Study for Screen Sculpture Horizontal
By David Hayes
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
David Hayes (1931 - 2013)
Study for Screen Sculpture Horizontal, 1998
Gouache on paper
30 x 22.25 in
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Study for Vertical Motif
By David Hayes
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
David Hayes (1931 - 2013)
Study for Vertical Motif, 1999
Gouache on paper
30 x 22.25 in
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Double Landscape
By David Hayes
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
David Hayes (1931 - 2013)
Double Landscape, 1991
Gouache on paper
30 x 22.25 in
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Talk To Her
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Mixed Media
48 x 20 in
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, House Paint, Mixed Media, Paper, Wood
Saints II
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Mixed Media House Paint on Laid Fabric
46.50 x 19.50 in
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, House Paint, Mixed Media, Wood, Canvas, Fabric, Acrylic
Study for Polychrome Steel Wall Relief
By David Hayes
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
David Hayes (1931 - 2013)
Study for Polychrome Steel Wall Relief, 1990
Gouache on Paper
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Study for Polychrome Steel Wall Relief
By David Hayes
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
David Hayes (1931 - 2013)
Study for Polychrome Steel Wall Relief, 1990
Gouache on Paper
22.25 x 24 in
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Early Tiger
By Todd Murphy
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Artist: Todd Murphy
Year : 1998
Title: Early Tiger
Unique Piece , Handpainted with Photo Collage
Photographic Collage, Transfer, Stone, and Mixed Media...
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Photographic Paper, Paint, Canvas, Plexiglass, Photographic Film
Collage 1994 - 1996
By Purvis Young
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Purvis Young (1943 - 2010)
Collage 1994 - 1996, 1994-1996
Paint and wood construction on board
96 x 24 in
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Fabric, Wood, House Paint, Wood Panel
La Vie 64, painting by Kenji Yoshida, oil paint, gold leaf, copper leaf, silver
Located in Santa Fe, NM
La Vie 64, painting by Kenji Yoshida, oil paint, gold leaf, copper leaf, silver
Nihonga
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Red & Purple Sun, Small Impasto Abstract
By Heidi Hybl
Located in Soquel, CA
A fun and lively small-scale impasto oil painting of an abstract sun by contemporary Big Sur, California artist Heidi Hybl (American, b.20th Century). Red and orange points radiate o...
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
The Painting Room - Contemporary, Oil on canvas by Philip Sutton
Located in London, GB
Inscribed verso
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (Exotic Dancer)
Located in New York, NY
Tomata du Plenty Untitled (Exotic Dancer)
1990
Signed and dated, verso
Acrylic and rhinestones on wood
47 x 24 inches (119.4 x 61 cm)
This work is o...
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood
"After Gandhi, " Acrylic on Canvas - Abstract painting
Located in Houston, TX
This work resembles a colorful abstraction of a terrarium inhabited by geometric and organic forms alike.
Bert L. Long Jr., was self-taught artist, was born in 1940 in Texas, grew ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Je n'attends que toi
Located in Brecon, Powys
Sylvain a well regarded and established artist was born in 1953 in France. He has a representational style tinged with realism combining sensualism, mysticism and a natural harmony o...
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Handmade Paper
Lilacs
Located in Austin, TX
Evgeny & Lydia Baranov
Title: Untitled Floral
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 15.5" x 19.5" (image)
Markings: Signed & Dated lower left "Е. Баранов, Л. Величко"
Framed
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
June
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Oil on paper
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
"Untitled, Ballerina", Contemporary, Graphite Drawing, Canvas, Figurative
Located in St. Louis, MO
Joseph Piccillo’s meticulous charcoal and graphite drawings and paintings reveal an exquisite draftsmanship tempered by emotional sensitivity. Piccillo presents an action-based assem...
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Graphite
Woman with Instrument, Monumental Oil Painting by Huong
By Huong
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Huong
Title: Woman with Instrument
Year: circa 1990
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 132 x 49 x 3 in. (335.28 x 124.46 x 7.62 cm)
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman with Doves, Monumental Oil Painting by Huong
By Huong
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Huong
Title: Woman and Doves
Year: circa 1990
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 132 x 49 x 3 in. (335.28 x 124.46 x 7.62 cm)
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pandora
Located in Malmo, SE
Artwork size: 97 x 130 cm.
Frame size: 109 x 142 cm.
Free shipment worldwide.
Signed, titled and dated on the verso.
Acquired directly from the artist.
“Adami is the maestro of the ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Chaos Theory
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Handcolored Etching - Monte Carlo, Monaco, Europe
By Cuca Romley
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Etching
Edition 143/175
Last few left
Video attached
This is a series of original etchings from respected European artist Cuca Romley. Ms Romley is 91 years and currently based in S...
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Etching
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