Contemporary Abstract Photography

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: Blue

Horizon #1

By Michel Piquette

Located in Montreal, Quebec

Through photography, Michel Piquette creates captures of time, animated by a paradoxical quest for an image preceding any technique. By weaving together aspects of geometry and abstr...

Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

Digital

Michel Piquette
Horizon #1, 2017

Horizon #3

By Michel Piquette

Located in Montreal, Quebec

Through photography, Michel Piquette creates captures of time, animated by a paradoxical quest for an image preceding any technique. By weaving together aspects of geometry and abstr...

Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

Digital

Michel Piquette
Horizon #3, 2017

California, Pacific Ocean - landscape contemporary photography, unframed

By MAE Curates

Located in Los Angeles, CA

This is a series of photography of California, USA, from various photographers, which we constantly add to. We highlight the various aspects of California: its raw, natural beauty, with its vast expanse of land, clear blue sky and natural light. It is also a metropolis, given to a sense of freedom – to love and re-invent yourself as you please. It is also ancient land – land where dinosaurs roamed, Native Americans called home, Spanish explorers charted its land for more discovery of this gem. In modern times, environmentalists and residents fought to protect the land, setting landmarks in environmental and consumer protection. California leads the nation in many ways- the first to lend itself to causes: the freedom to love whomever and be whomever we want, welcome new peoples with warmth and entrepreneurship, be at the forefront of clean energy, invent new technology that changes the way the world lives and work, and the protection of our Earth. It is La La Land...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

Metal

MAE Curates
California, Pacific Ocean - landscape contemporary photography, unframed

Brittany II (Photograph, Print, Nature, Wildlife, Outdoors, Blue, Grass)

By Jo Crowther

Located in Brighton, GB

Edition of 50. All items are shipped as a print only and come unframed. Jo Crowther was born in York in 1963, and a childhood of much travelling resulted in her attending 14 differ...

Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Inkjet

Jo Crowther
Brittany II (Photograph, Print, Nature, Wildlife, Outdoors, Blue, Grass), 2003

Blue Experiment #1

By Ashley G. Garner

Located in New York, NY

Blue Experiment #1, 2016 Archival pigment print on Aluminum 24 x 36 inches Edition of 5 The synesthesia phenomenon is traditionally said to be the confusion of senses; like hearing...

Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Ashley G. Garner
Blue Experiment #1, 2016

Wires Floating V. 2

By Etienne Labbe

Located in Bloomfield, ON

An angled swath of black, burnt umber and gold below a sky streaked with azure, dark and light blues is imprinted with two straight dark lines. This abstracted landscape, captured using time lapse...

Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

Plexiglass, Photographic Paper

Etienne Labbe
Wires Floating V. 2, 2011

"Run", color photograph, abstract, texture, rusted, blue, purple, metal print

By Rebecca Skinner

Located in Natick, MA

Rebecca Skinner’s “Run” is part of a her texture series taking an up-close look at rusted and/or weathered metal. With tones of blue and purple, this 12 x 18 inch abstract color phot...

Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

Metal

Rebecca Skinner
"Run", color photograph, abstract, texture, rusted, blue, purple, metal print, 2011

Burano

By Jean Turco

Located in Paris, FR

Born in 1948 in the French Alps, Jean Turco spent his adolescence in Chamonix Mont Blanc. He awarded a diploma in photography and made numerous images of high mountain. At the age of...

Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Jean Turco
Burano, 2016

The Horizon Escapes Your Touch

By Jessica Houston

Located in Montreal, Quebec

In Jessica Houston’s Afterward, Silence (Franklin’s Crewmen’s Grave, Beechey Island) a single pale gravestone stands on an otherwise desolate ashen shore – a relic of Sir John Frankl...

Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

Digital

Jessica Houston
The Horizon Escapes Your Touch, 2015

Beatles 39

By Sasha Bezzubov and Jessica Sucher

Located in New York, NY

30"x40" edition 5, signed on the reverse This photograph was taken in India at the Ashram where the Beatles stayed and wrote many famous songs. The abstract composition in blues a...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Sasha Bezzubov and Jessica Sucher
Beatles 39

How To Make Them Believable (diptych)

By Henri Venne

Located in Montreal, Quebec

My work emerges from research on memory and the remembrance of landscape, where vaporous atmospheres of evanescent recollections are illustrated. My work thus, contains ghostly and e...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

Plexiglass, Digital

Henri Venne
How To Make Them Believable (diptych), 2015

The Sun Shines Cold

By Henri Venne

Located in Montreal, Quebec

My work emerges from research on memory and the remembrance of landscape, where vaporous atmospheres of evanescent recollections are illustrated. My work thus, contains ghostly and e...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

Plexiglass, Digital

Henri Venne
The Sun Shines Cold, 2015

Slips Away Quietly

By Henri Venne

Located in Montreal, Quebec

My work emerges from research on memory and the remembrance of landscape, where vaporous atmospheres of evanescent recollections are illustrated. My work thus, contains ghostly and e...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

Acrylic Polymer, Photographic Paper

Henri Venne
Slips Away Quietly, 2015

Haywire

By Sandi Haber Fifeld

Located in Fairfield, CT

Category

Contemporary Abstract Photography

Sandi Haber Fifeld
Haywire, 2011

Surrendering Into

By Victoria Goldman

Located in Hudson, NY

Color, Women, Woman, Water, Swimming, Summer, ocean, ocean photography, photography, color photography, Victoria Goldman, archival pigment print, water, woman, swimming color photog...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Victoria Goldman
Surrendering Into, 2000

Everything Changes

By Julian Lennon

Located in New York, NY

Born in Liverpool, England, Julian Lennon began his artistic trajectory at a young age with an inherent talent for playing musical instruments. Those talents would soon broaden into ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

Giclée, Archival Pigment

Julian Lennon
Everything Changes , 2013

Someday

By Julian Lennon

Located in New York, NY

Born in Liverpool, England, Julian Lennon began his artistic trajectory at a young age with an inherent talent for playing musical instruments. Those talents would soon broaden into ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

Giclée, Archival Pigment

Julian Lennon
Someday, 2013

Everything Changes Cover

By Julian Lennon

Located in New York, NY

Born in Liverpool, England, Julian Lennon began his artistic trajectory at a young age with an inherent talent for playing musical instruments. Those talents would soon broaden into ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

Giclée, Archival Pigment

Julian Lennon
Everything Changes Cover, 2013

Fortress

Located in New York, NY

Born of an auditory-verbal impairment in Busan, South Korea, Young Sam Kim grew to become exceptionally perceptive to visual stimuli. Kim’s inclination for painstaking observation co...

Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Photogram, Plexiglass

Young Sam Kim
Fortress, 2021

47.2x63in. Aerial Photography of Earth, Land, Sea - Sea F11

By MAE Curates

Located in Los Angeles, CA

This is a new series of photography of land art depicting Earth and its land forms taken from the air. This series of aerial photography captures Earth's bea...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

C Print

MAE Curates
47.2x63in. Aerial Photography of Earth, Land, Sea - Sea F11

White Blue Twelve

Located in New York, NY

This photograph is printed on archival pigment paper and encased in resin. It is placed in a white float frame. It is part of a limited edition of 8 and 2 artist proofs, all sizes i...

Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

Resin, Epoxy Resin, Archival Paper, Paper, Pigment, Photographic Paper, ...

Didier Engels
White Blue Twelve, 2020

Tarmac Trouble

Located in New York, NY

This photograph is printed on archival pigment paper and encased in resin. It is placed in a white float frame. It is part of a limited edition of 8 and 2 artist proofs, all sizes included. It is available in two sizes, 120 x 120 cm (47 x 47 inches unframed), and 140 x 140 cm(55 x55 inches unframed). After a career of more than 30 years in the research of textures (20 years as a textile stylist and 10 years as interior design architect), Didier Engels...

Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

Resin, Epoxy Resin, Paper, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Pigment, ...

Didier Engels
Tarmac Trouble, 2020

Tall Bugbane II (Illford MG IV RC deluxe)

Located in Sante Fe, NM

These are lumen collage prints from the larger photographic series "Lumen Notebook," photograms made with black & white photo papers. This work employs three field guides – North American birds, ferns, and wildflowers. I mark...

Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

Photogram, Archival Pigment

Amanda Marchand
Tall Bugbane II (Illford MG IV RC deluxe) , 2019

Mountain Holly Fern (Oriental FB)

Located in Sante Fe, NM

Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

Photogram, Archival Pigment

Amanda Marchand
Mountain Holly Fern (Oriental FB), 2019

Nothern Goshhawk (Child) (1st generation) (Illford MG V RC deluxe)

Located in Sante Fe, NM

These are lumen collage prints from the larger photographic series "Lumen Notebook," photograms made with black & white photo papers. This work employs three field guides – North Ame...

Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

Photogram

Amanda Marchand
Nothern Goshhawk (Child) (1st generation) (Illford MG V RC deluxe) , 2019

Pattern Series No.10

By David Pugh

Located in Kansas City, MO

Artist : David K. Pugh Title : Pattern Series No.10 Materials : Archival Pigment Print Date : 2019 David has been a photographer for 10 years. After having photographed a magnolia ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

David Pugh
Pattern Series No.10, 2019

Vivier Red, Cornell Medical Center, NY, 2016

By Steve Miller

Located in Hudson, NY

Listing is for FRAMED print. Edition of 5. CURRENT EXHIBITION - runs through December 18th, 2016. Any framed photographs purchased during the show will be available after December ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

Digital Pigment

Steve Miller
Vivier Red, Cornell Medical Center, NY, 2016, 2016

Concepción

By Hugh Arnold

Located in Chicago, IL

Limited edition Lambda Chromogenic Print mounted on Dibond (an aluminum substrate) with UV Acrylic. Available in two sizes: 24 x 36 inches (61 x 94 cm) Edition size: 12 45 x 60 ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

Lambda

Hugh Arnold
Concepción, 2013

Contemporary abstract photography for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Contemporary abstract photography 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 photography 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, red, orange and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Alessandro Puccinelli, Peter Mendelson, Stefanie Schneider, and Jessica Houston. Frequently made by artists working with Pigment Print, and Archival Pigment Print 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 photography, so small editions measuring 2 inches across are also available.