Early 2000s Abstract Photography

Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order. Lead times between 15-20 days. All items are shipped as a print only and come unframed. Tim Flach is a graduate of St. Ma...

Igor Vishnyakov is a Russian Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1968 in Moscow. Igor spent his childhood in Africa and Southeast Asia. After returning to Moscow in the mid...

Through the Veil (Oxana's 30th Birthday) - 2007 20x65cm including the white frame. Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print print, based on the original Polaroid. C...

Last Frame (29 palms, CA) - 2008 48x47cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory #4655. ...

Colorful, Maximalist style floral still life photograph of green plants and flowers with gold lights and fireworks Archival digital print, made to order 48 x 40 inches, edition of 15...

Untitled 134 (Abstract Photography) C print - Unframed. Richard Caldicott is most well known for this earlier work series which used Tupperware containers as the subject for his ph...

Into the dark (Deconstructivism) - 2020 - about the narrative potential of images. 20x20cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid, Artist Inventory 4600. Signat...

Living in a Dream (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 20x20cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label, artist Inventory No. 9781. Not mounted. on offer is a piece from the movie "Till Death do us Part" Stefanie Schneider’s Till Death Do Us Part or “There is Only the Desert for You.” BY DREW HAMMOND Stefanie Schneider’s Til Death to Us Part is a love narrative that comprises three elements: 1. A montage of still images shot and elaborated by means of her signature technique of using Polaroid formats with outdated and degraded film stock in natural light, with the resulting im ages rephotographed (by other means) enlarged and printed in such a way as to generate further distortions of the image. 2. Dated Super 8 film footage without a sound track and developed by the artist. 3. Recorded off-screen narration of texts written by the actors or photographic subjects, and selected by the artist. At the outset, this method presupposes a tension between still and moving image; between the conventions about the juxtaposition of such images in a moving image presentation; and, and a further tension between the work’s juxtaposition of sound and image, and the conventional relationship between sound and image that occurs in the majority of films. But Till Death Do Us Part also conduces to an implied synthesis of still and moving image by the manner in which the artist edits or cuts the work. First, she imposes a rigorous criterion of selection, whether to render a section as a still or moving image. The predominance of still images is neither an arbitrary residue of her background as a still photographer—in fact she has years of background in film projects; nor is it a capricious reaction against moving picture convention that demands more moving images than stills. Instead, the number of still images has a direct thematic relation to the fabric of the love story in the following sense. Stills, by definition, have a very different relationship to time than do moving images. The unedited moving shot occurs in real time, and the edited moving shot, despite its artificial rendering of time, all too 2009often affords the viewer an even greater illusion of experiencing reality as it unfolds. It is self-evident that moving images overtly mimic the temporal dynamic of reality. Frozen in time—at least overtly—still photographic images pose a radical tension with real time. This tension is all the more heightened by their “real” content, by the recording aspect of their constitution. But precisely because they seem to suspend time, they more naturally evoke a sense of the past and of its inherent nostalgia. In this way, they are often more readily evocative of other states of experience of the real, if we properly include in the real our own experience of the past through memory, and its inherent emotions. This attribute of stills is the real criterion of their selection in Til Death Do Us Part where consistently, the artist associates them with desire, dream, memory, passion, and the ensemble of mental states that accompany a love relationship in its nascent, mature, and declining aspects. A SYNTHESIS OF MOVING AND STILL IMAGES BOTH FORMAL AND CONCEPTUAL It is noteworthy that, after a transition from a still image to a moving image, as soon as the viewer expects the movement to continue, there is a “logical” cut that we expect to result in another moving image, not only because of its mise en scène, but also because of its implicit respect of traditional rules of film editing, its planarity, its sight line, its treatment of 3D space—all these lead us to expect that the successive shot, as it is revealed, is bound to be another moving image. But contrary to our expectation, and in delayed reaction, we are startled to find that it is another still image. One effect of this technique is to reinforce the tension between still and moving image by means of surprise. But in another sense, the technique reminds us that, in film, the moving image is also a succession of stills that only generate an illusion of movement. Although it is a fact that here the artist employs Super 8 footage, in principle, even were the moving images shot with video, the fact would remain since video images are all reducible to a series of discrete still images no matter how “seamless” the transitions between them. Yet a third effect of the technique has to do with its temporal implication. Often art aspires to conflate or otherwise distort time. Here, instead, the juxtaposition poses a tension between two times: the “real time” of the moving image that is by definition associated with reality in its temporal aspect; and the “frozen time” of the still image associated with an altered sense of time in memory and fantasy of the object of desire—not to mention the unreal time of the sense of the monopolization of the gaze conventionally attributed to the photographic medium, but which here is associated as much with the yearning narrator as it is with the viewer. In this way, the work establishes and juxtaposes two times for two levels of consciousness, both for the narrator of the story and, implicitly, for the viewer: A) the immediate experience of reality, and B) the background of reflective effects of reality, such as dream, memory, fantasy, and their inherent compounding of past and present emotions. In addition, the piece advances in the direction of a Gesammtkunstwerk, but in a way that reconsiders this synaesthesia as a unified complex of genres—not only because it uses new media that did not exist when the idea was first enunciated in Wagner’s time, but also because it comprises elements that are not entirely of one artist’s making, but which are subsumed by the work overall. The totality remains the vision of one artist. In this sense, Till Death Do Us Part reveals a further tension between the central intelligence of the artist and the products of other individual participants. This tension is compounded to the degree that the characters’ attributes and narrated statements are part fiction and part reality, part themselves, and part their characters. But Stefanie Schneider is the one who assembles, organizes, and selects them all. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THIS IDEA (above) AND PHOTOGRAPHY This selective aspect of the work is an expansion of idea of the act of photography in which the artistic photographer selects that which is already there, and then, by distortion, definition or delimitation, compositional and lighting emphasis, and by a host of other techniques, subsumes that which is already there to transform it into an image of the artist’s contrivance, one that is no less of the artist’s making than a work in any other medium, but which is distinct from many traditional media (such as painting) in that it retains an evocation of the tension between what is already there and what is of the artist’s making. Should it fail to achieve this, it remains, to that degree, mere illustration to which aesthetic technique has been applied with greater or lesser skill. The way Til Death Do Us Part expands this basic principle of the photographic act, is to apply it to further existing elements, and, similarly, to transform them. These additional existing elements include written or improvised pieces narrated by their authors in a way that shifts between their own identities and the identities of fictional characters. Such characters derive partially from their own identities by making use of real or imagined memories, dreams, fears of the future, genuine impressions, and emotional responses to unexpected or even banal events. There is also music, with voice and instrumental accompaniment. The music slips between integration with the narrative voices and disjunction, between consistency and tension. At times it would direct the mood, and at other times it would disrupt. Despite that much of this material is made by others, it becomes, like the reality that is the raw material of an art photo, subsumed and transformed by the overall aesthetic act of the manner of its selection, distortion, organization, duration, and emotional effect. * * * David Lean was fond of saying that a love story is most effective in a squalid visual environment. In Til Death Do Us Part, the squalor of the American desert...

Breathing I (Deconstructing) - 2015 - about the narrative potential of images. 20x20cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid, Artist Inventory 15835. Signature...

King's Best, ‘Neck’, 2001 by John Reardon Edition of 7 Silver Gelatin Print, Mounted on Aluminium, Custom framed, UV protective Museum AR Glass This piece is part of : (after) Whist...

Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order. Lead times between 15-20 days. Edition 19/150 All items are shipped as a print only and come unframed. Tim Flach is a gra...

Sonata (Deconstructivism) - 2015 - about the narrative potential of images. 20x24cm, Edition of 10, digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid, Artist Inventory 20273. Signature label ...

Abstract - 2020 Polaroid - Unique Piece 1/1, 7.8 x 7,7cm (image area) 10.7 x 8.7 cm ( including white Polaroid frame). Artist Inv. #23481. Signed on verso. Stefanie Schneider's ...

Pentti Sammallahti was born in 1950 in Helsinki, Finland. Sammallahti was surrounded by works from his grandmother, Hildur Larsson, who was a photographer in the early 1900s. Sammallahti has been photographing the world around him with a poetic eye since the age of eleven. At the age of nine, he visited "The Family of Man...

This is a series of black and white Nude art photography (13 in series). Gallery exclusively presents this series of the human form - that which has inspired artists from time immemo...

Colorful, Maximalist style floral still life photograph of pink, green, yellow, and cream colored flowers and succulents Archival digital print, made to order 40 x 40 inches, editio...

Fleeting (Haley and the Birds) - 2013 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory # ...

Tim White-Sobieski Alpha LV, 2005 Unique photo print on canvas 42 X 30 in Tim White Sobieski has been commissioned by LVMH multiple times, and in 2005, was invited to create an artwork for the new Louis Vuitton Flagship Store on Champs-Elysees in Paris alongside artists James Turrell and Olafur Eliasson. The project consisted of a 24-meter programmed fiber-optics video wall. Another colossal video wall was installed at the Petit Palais for the celebration of the launch. This was a unique cooperation of the three artists. In 2006, the Louis Vuitton Company invited Tim White-Sobieski back to participate in an exhibition entitled "Icons", an interpretation of the iconic logo-bags. Other artists included Marc Jacobs, Zaha Hadid, Ugo Rondinone, Sylvie Fleury, Shigeru Ban, Robert Wilson and Andrée Putman. From the 2006 ‘Icones’ exhibition at Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris. celebrating Marc Jacobs’ reinvention of their iconic pieces, works by Andree Putman, LV invited the architects Zaha Hadid and Shigeru Ban, the video artist Tim White-Sobieski, the director-scenographer Robert Wilson, and the artists James Turrell, Shigeru Ban, Sylvie Fleury, Bruno Peinado, and Ugo Rondinone to riff on their fashion logos Louis Vuitton's classic designs are an inextricable part of chic travel history. From trunks to leather bags to wine holders, their styles have traveled across time and fashion, becoming classics that never look old. With the genius of Marc Jacobs, these icons have entered new domains where art and fashion are directly linked. Tim White is a video and installation artist based in New York and Berlin. He was educated as an architect and dedicated himself to visual art and filmmaking, exploring the fields of painting, sculpture, photography, video, video installations and light installations throughout his career. He began showing in New York in the early 1990s with his "Blue Paintings." Emphasis on the role of the subconscious in his paintings had affinities with visual abstractionism and literary existentialism. He has consistently been at the technological forefront of video and light art, being called a "video maverick" and "an abstract "'painter of motion.'" Tim White-Sobieski was born in 1961 and emigrated to the United States in 1993. He attended New York University and Parsons School of Design before embarking on a career in art. Much of his work draws from literary work that has inspired the artist, and he has often featured icons of American literature in his installations. Writers such as Walt Whitman, John Steinbeck, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, J.D. Salinger, William Faulkner, and Robert Penn Warren all have a permanent presence in Tim White-Sobieski’s oeuvre. Musically, White-Sobieski composes most of his own film and video soundtracks, but also incorporates the work of his contemporaries such as Brian Eno, David Byrne, Robert Fripp...

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...

Agave by Justin Creedy Smith 2005 Agaves in Tangiers, Morocco. Photo, July 2005. Exquisite large oversize 20 x 20 inches / 51 x 51 cm silver gelatin print signed and numbered...

Artist: Rebecca Horn, German (1944 - ) Title: Zenith of the Ocean II from Doctor's of the World Portfolio Year: 2007 Medium: Chromegenic (C-Print) of Over-Painted Photograph, signed,...

Untitled #58 (Abstract Photography) C print - Unframed. "Edition of 5 + 2AP, next 1/5 Richard Caldicott is most well known for this earlier work series which used Tupperware contain...

Type-C print Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, verso 20 x 20 inches (Edition of 10) 30 x 30 inches (Edition of 5) 40 x 40 inches (Edition of 5) This artwork is offered by Clam...

Type-C print Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, verso 20 x 20 inches (Edition of 10) 30 x 30 inches (Edition of 5) 40 x 40 inches (Edition of 5) This artwork is offered by Clam...

Type-C print Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, verso 20 x 20 inches (Edition of 10) 30 x 30 inches (Edition of 5) 40 x 40 inches (Edition of 5) This artwork is offered by Clam...

Photogram on Polaroid Type 809 (Unique) Signed, titled, and dated in black ink, verso This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. Brian Buckley’s work has alway...

Untitled (Traintracks) - The last Picture Show - 2004 38x37cm. Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Arti...

An original Aluminum backed C-print by Roland Richer created in 2001. The work was acquired from Von Lintel Gallery in May of 2002. (71 x 49 1/4 inches)

Yellow Flower (The Last Picture Show) - 2005 128x125cm, Edition of 5, analog C-Print, based on the Polaroid, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper. (matte) Ar...

Untitled (Traintracks) - The last Picture Show - 2004, 38x37cm. Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist...

Breathing III (Deconstructivism) - 2015 20x20cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid, Artist Inventory 15808. Signature label and Certificate. Not mounted. T...

Type-C print Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, verso 20 x 20 inches (Edition of 10) 30 x 30 inches (Edition of 5) 40 x 40 inches (Edition of 5) This artwork is offered by Clam...

A hand printed silver gelatin photograph by the artist. Print Date 2003 Edition #12 Matted 18x22"

C-print 20 x 16 inches This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. Sebastian Lemm, a native of Germany, relocated to New York City in 2000 after graduating from Berlin University of the Arts. Sean Kelly Gallery featured Sebastian's photo-based work in “Unframed First Look” curated by Adam Fuss, Jack Pierson and Cindy Sherman in 2004. Since then, Sebastian had group and solo shows at galleries and cultural organizations throughout the U.S. Lemm has received critical recognition from Art in America, The New Yorker, Art World (U.K.), NY Arts Magazine, Time Out Chicago, The Los Angeles Times, The Village Voice, and numerous visual art blogs. His work has also been selected for editorial features in H-Magazine (Spain) and Someone’s Garden Magazine (Japan), and was included in the book...

Photogram on Polaroid Type 809 (Unique) Signed, titled, and dated in black ink, verso This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. Brian Buckley’s work has alway...

Befreiungshalle a Kehlhein Germania, 2005 C print Edition of 5 cm 100X120 120X150 180X225 inch 39.40x47.28 47.28x59.10 70.92x88.65 Massimo Listri is a Florence-based photographer...

Untitled (Traintracks) - The Last Picture Show - 2004, 38x37cm. Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Ar...

Hand printed photograph by artist Print Date 2005 Mint Condition

Dubawi, 'Stripped’, 2001 by John Reardon Edition of 15 Silver Gelatin Print, Mounted on Aluminium, Custom framed, UV protective Museum AR Glass This piec...

Wherever You Look, You See The Chrysler Building. A Third Avenue bus creates a blur of color as it passes in front of the Chrysler Building. Photographer Mitchell Funk took the pres...

Well known artist, film maker in Australia. His work is thought provoking and interesting. Beautiful hand made platinum photograph.

Carvings 1-5 by Sterling Ruby is one work in five parts of images of tree carvings. Sold as a set of five only, each work is 36 x 36 inches framed size, framed by the artist in a deep mahogany finished wood. Paper size is 31.5 x 31.5 inches. Chromogenic print, Edition of 3 Exhibition: Cologne, Galerie Christian Nagel, Sterling Ruby: Supermax 2006, March 4-April 2 Provenance: Artist Hauser...

Ola KOLEHMAINEN (*1964, Finland) Autumn Leaves, 2008 Analogue C-type print face-mounted to acrylic (Diasec) Sheet 202 x 260 cm (79 1/2 x 102 3/8 in.) Edition of 6, plus 2AP's; Ed. no. 3/6 Framed print About Earlier works: In his earlier works Kolehmainen reduces buildings to their ornamental character. What appeals to him are the geometric grids of façade surfaces, ceiling designs or reflecting window openings on the selected landmarks of architectural history. Where nature meets architecture as a reflection, his minimalist, aesthetic work begins, which was strongly influenced by James Turell...

Mitchell Funk takes skyscraper photography to new heights in his current exhibition: Mitchell Funk Photographs the Chrysler Building for 50 Years. The present work reimagines the m...

Strangers (Deconstructive) - 2022 Edition of 10, 49x48cm. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Artist inventory number: 18894. Signature label and certificate. Not mounted. ...

Stefanie Schneider's work was used for Marc Forster's movie 'Stay'. Featuring Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling. Naomi and Ryan were both portraying artists and Stefanie's ...

A pushcart street vendor selling hot dogs is somehow transformed into something bigger. Street Photographer Mitchell Funk captures the scene in extreme golden light. As a result, ...

"Two Faces" is a black & white framed silver gelatin print (photograph) of a man and woman in an embrace from artist Jenny Lynn's "Little Rituals" series. I...

Dandelion Rain Edition of 25 signed and numbered by the artist The many small parachutes of the dandelion look like spaceships from a distant galaxy against the black background. J...

Untitled (Traintracks) - The last Picture Show - 2004 38x37cm. Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Arti...

Blue abstract photograph from Richard Heeps' series Trading Paint. Richard Heeps has a history of photographing Drag Racing in the UK, America and Europe. Trading Paint is a term tha...

Stefanie Schneider's work was used for Marc Forster's movie 'Stay'. Featuring Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling. Naomi and Ryan were both portraying artists and Stefanie's ...

Breathing IV (Deconstructivism) - 2015 - about the narrative potential of images. 20x20cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid, Artist Inventory 15834. Signatur...

Planes VII - 2008 50x50cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory #4650. Not mounted. ...

Through the looking Glass (Deconstructivism) - 2015 20x20cm, Edition of 10, digital C-Print, based on the Polaroid, Artist Inventory 20270. Signature label and Certificate. Not ...

Earthquake (Deconstructivism) - 2015 - about the narrative potential of images. 20x20cm, Edition of 10, digital C-Print, based on the Polaroid, Artist Inventory 4599 Signature l...

Hallway I (Suburbia) - 2004 40x40cm, Edition of 5, analog C-Print based, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive papter, matte surface, based on the Polaroid. Signature...

There is a something about being a child on the beach where the sheer exuberance of running into the waves transcends the normal social barriers, and the shared exhilarance allows fo...

Seeside (Zuma Beach) - 2004 48x47cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #20430. Not m...

A flock of birds at sunset in East Hampton is captured by color photographer Mitchell Funk. The overall composition without a central point of focus is not unlike the work of East H...