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.
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Style: Contemporary
Summer Interlude I (Deconstructivism) - Contemporary, Expired Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Summer Interlude I (Deconstructivism) - 2020
- about the narrative potential of images.
40x40cm, Edition of 10,
digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid,
Artist Inventory 5901.
Signa...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Eagle Nest Lake, August 27, 2013, 7:33 AM, New Mexico
Located in Dallas, TX
"My work is about respecting the beauty that remains and the poetry that is found."
David H. Gibson is a lifelong photographer whose first contact with the medium was in his fathe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dark Hours Horizon 99
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Christopher Colville is an American artist working to push the boundaries of the photographic medium in both experimental and traditional forms. His images are created outdoors by ig...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Shibui 2988, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered
By Ernie Button
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Shibui 2988 is a limited edition color photograph and is signed and numbered
Focusing on subjects grand and mundane, Ernie Button takes color photographs of cities and sights on his...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Planet Macallan 345, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered
By Ernie Button
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Planet Macallan 345, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered
Whisky is a time-honored drink, finely crafted and enjoyed for centuries. I feel fortunate that I found th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Escape Through the Window
Located in Sante Fe, NM
This series of images reflects a time when I was caring for my mother, who was rapidly declining into dementia, in my home.
Each morning before the long day...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Capricho - underwater nude photograph from series REFLECTIONS - acrylic 32 x 48"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
From the dark, she rises. An eerie turquoise glow intermingles with the colors from the nude body of a woman, at least a part of a woman. Her breasts and arms breach the reflection’s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Archival Pigment
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Rainbow Flag, Black and White Abstract limited editionPhotograph
By Luca Artioli
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The 'Miami Skin Series' it’s not a traditional collection of photos about the architecture of Miami and Miami Beach. It’s rather a quick journey between its own skin from the Art Dec...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Black and White
Lover Man, Oh Where Can You Be?. Large limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Zupan combines images from old masters, alchemical prints, contemporary artists, and bits from magazines and newspapers to create overlapping, intersecting worlds of transparencies a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Pigment
To the Flow 2
By Chaco Terada
Located in Sante Fe, NM
practiced since childhood. I take a line from one character, and when that brushstroke is made it tells me where the next one should be placed. This method of working is untraditional. I have found that the details and individual lines of a character are beautiful by themselves. I may use the individual brushstrokes that form a written word, Japanese letters...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Silk, Sumi Ink, Archival Pigment
Her Own Universe - underwater nude photo - series REFLECTIONS - 14x24"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
A naked woman floats in space illuminated with shimmering stars and saturated swirling gasses of solar systems. Similar to the geometric eroticism of Picasso, with color fields and b...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
A sketch for KZC, Contemporary Photography by Uta Barth
By Uta Barth
Located in New York, NY
2006
Signed and numbered in ink, verso
Chromogenic print (Edition of 100)
8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Uta Barth's A sketch for KZC presents a diptych of two subtly contrasting...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Target D11
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Christopher Colville is an American artist working to push the boundaries of the photographic medium in both experimental and traditional forms. His images are created outdoors by ig...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Citizen 14
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Christopher Colville is an American artist working to push the boundaries of the photographic medium in both experimental and traditional forms. His images are created outdoors by ig...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Earth Remains #45
Located in Sante Fe, NM
This photograph is representative of two related series of mine that deal with humanity's impact on and relationship with the earth. This relationship is not sustainable. Lately, I have begun to dream of our tortured earth with the remains of our hubris drifting through space, mined to extinction. This work is an attempt to tear through the ugliness of the world we have made, through the blindness of our voracious appetite to the vastness beyond, where beauty cares not for our perception of it. As Robinson Jeffers wrote: “The beauty of things was born before eyes and sufficient to itself; the heartbreaking beauty/ Will remain when there is no heart to break for it.”
-- William Lesch
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Copper
Leaf No. 7C2
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Our world is immersed in light, but its physical essence is chemical. Digital photographic processes can record that illumination, but they cannot touch the wet, chemical essence whi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Revinins 2
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Christopher Colville is an American artist working to push the boundaries of the photographic medium in both experimental and traditional forms. His images are created outdoors by ig...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Leaf No. 7C3
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Our world is immersed in light, but its physical essence is chemical. Digital photographic processes can record that illumination, but they cannot touch the wet, chemical essence whi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Leaf No. 7C3
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Our world is immersed in light, but its physical essence is chemical. Digital photographic processes can record that illumination, but they cannot touch the wet, chemical essence whi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Leaf No. 32C1
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Our world is immersed in light, but its physical essence is chemical. Digital photographic processes can record that illumination, but they cannot touch the wet, chemical essence whi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Planet Glenfiddich 125, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered
By Ernie Button
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Planet Glenfiddich 125, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered
For much of my adult life, photography has provided me a forum to communicate my past & present, my hu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
40x40in. Aerial Photography of Earth, Land, Sea - Flow 19, SB, unframed print
By MAE Curates
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a new series of photography of landscapes depicting Earth and its land forms taken from the air. This series of aerial photography captures Earth's beauty taken in remote lan...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Glenfiddich XX 4258, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered
By Ernie Button
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Glenfiddich XX 4258 is a limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered.
Focusing on subjects grand and mundane, Ernie Button takes color photographs of cities and sights on ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dog Park Beach (dogs, dog park, outdoor scene, waterfront, twilight, placid)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Jeffrey Tamblyn
Dog Park Beach
Medium: Digital Photography
Year: 2020
Size: 16x20 in
Edition: 25
Signed, dated and numbered by hand on label
COA provided
R...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Planet Macallan 121, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered.
By Ernie Button
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Planet Macallan 121, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered.
For much of my adult life, photography has provided me a forum to communicate my past & present, my humo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Salt 04040 (Fractured I)
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Salt is the commonest of common things. Essential as it is to human lives, salt finds its place in countless metaphors. As a mineral in the world, it has a sort of life of its own. L...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ice Portals No. 4396 / black and white nature photography
Located in Burlingame, CA
Alyson Belcher's Ice Portals series of black and white photographs depict an unusually cold Northwestern winter. These photographs are records of the unique ice formations that the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Paper, Carbon Pigment
"Die Melancholie" Photography 39" x 31" in Ed of 7 by Kseniya Vashchenko
Located in Culver City, CA
"Die Melancholie" Photography 39" x 31" in Ed of 7 by Kseniya Vashchenko
Not framed. Ships rolled in tube.
Available sizes:
Edition of 15: 29.5" x 24" in
Edition of 7: 39" x 31"...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Catching Koi
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
All my life I have held a fascination with the animal kingdom, which began in my childhood growing up on a farm and extended into my adult years. On some inexplicable level I feel a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Memory Bouquet
By Chaco Terada
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Chaco Terada, originally from Japan, was trained at a young age in the art of calligraphy. When Chaco was in her twenties she had the opportunity to work on her calligraphy in ten co...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Silk, Sumi Ink, Pigment
Where Will It Take You? (river, landscape, intentional camera movement, Midwest)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Jeffrey Tamblyn
Where Will It Take You?
Medium: Digital Photography
Year: 2022
Size: 16x24 in
Edition: 50
Signed, dated and numbered by hand on label
COA provided
Ref.: 924802-945
R...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Fluid Variant 2
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Christopher Colville is an American artist working to push the boundaries of the photographic medium in both experimental and traditional forms. His images are created outdoors by ig...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Dark Hours Horizon 98
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Christopher Colville is an American artist working to push the boundaries of the photographic medium in both experimental and traditional forms. His images are created outdoors by ig...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Island
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Ink painting evaporated off glass and printed
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Winter House, 2013
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Vintage Watch, Mixed Media, Unique
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Mixed Media
Shattered
Located in Sante Fe, NM
I am a storyteller.
I have always been fascinated by multiple interpretations, double exposures, and the ambiguities that arise depending on which character is telling the story.
M...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Mixed Media
Outlaw, 2008
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Vintage Watch, Mixed Media, Unique
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Mixed Media
Red Hat Club (sidewalk cafe, retro decor, people socializing, motion blur, warm)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Jeffrey Tamblyn
Red Hat Club
Medium: Digital Photography
Year: 2020
Size: 12x12 in
Edition: 25
Signed, dated and numbered by hand on label
COA provided
Ref.: 924802-941
Motion-blur ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Citizen 5
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Christopher Colville is an American artist working to push the boundaries of the photographic medium in both experimental and traditional forms. His images are created outdoors by ig...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Two Monotone and Ethereal Sand Dunes in Namibia, Abstract, Iconic, Best-Seller
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"White Sands"
In this award-winning image, the delicate contours and the organic shapes of two sand dunes are featured.
The print series Dunes: Landscapes Evolving documents the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Tight Grouping #1
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Christopher Colville is an American artist working to push the boundaries of the photographic medium in both experimental and traditional forms. His images are created outdoors by ig...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Assailant #3
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Christopher Colville is an American artist working to push the boundaries of the photographic medium in both experimental and traditional forms. His images are created outdoors by ig...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Citizen 11
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Christopher Colville is an American artist working to push the boundaries of the photographic medium in both experimental and traditional forms. His images are created outdoors by ig...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Macallan 136, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered
By Ernie Button
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The Macallan 136, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered
For much of my adult life, photography has provided me a forum to communicate my past & present, my humor & c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dialogue
By Chaco Terada
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Chaco Terada, originally from Japan, was trained at a young age in the art of calligraphy. When Chaco was in her twenties she had the opportunity to work on her calligraphy in ten co...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Silk, Sumi Ink, Pigment
Veil for the Memories
By Chaco Terada
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Chaco Terada, originally from Japan, was trained at a young age in the art of calligraphy. When Chaco was in her twenties she had the opportunity to work on her calligraphy in ten co...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Silk, Sumi Ink, Pigment
Waiting for the Fairy 3
By Chaco Terada
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Chaco Terada, originally from Japan, was trained at a young age in the art of calligraphy. When Chaco was in her twenties she had the opportunity to work on her calligraphy in ten co...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Silk, Sumi Ink, Pigment
Deep space
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Flashlight exposure with cookie pastilles
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Planet Aberlour 133, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered.
By Ernie Button
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Planet Aberlour 133, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered.
Whisky is a time-honored drink, finely crafted and enjoyed for centuries. I feel fortunate that I found the Vanishing Spirits phenomenon. I am a fan of observing my world and the things that are happening around me; noticing the smaller details that may be ignored or overlooked. The idea for this project occurred while putting a used Scotch glass...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Planet Aberlour 5, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered
By Ernie Button
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Planet Aberlour 5, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered
Whisky is a time-honored drink, finely crafted and enjoyed for centuries. I feel fortunate that I found the Vanishing Spirits phenomenon. I am a fan of observing my world and the things that are happening around me; noticing the smaller details that may be ignored or overlooked. The idea for this project occurred while putting a used Scotch glass...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Fluid Variant 4
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Christopher Colville is an American artist working to push the boundaries of the photographic medium in both experimental and traditional forms. His images are created outdoors by ig...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Rose
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Encaustic Print – Encaustic printing employs the addition of heated beeswax, and occasionally pigment, to the prepared surface of a photographic print, giving the object a unique to...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
$2,000
Flux Variant 1
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Christopher Colville is an American artist working to push the boundaries of the photographic medium in both experimental and traditional forms. His images are created outdoors by ig...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Dark Hours Horizon 101
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Christopher Colville is an American artist working to push the boundaries of the photographic medium in both experimental and traditional forms. His images are created outdoors by ig...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Murmuration - blue, black, aircraft, surrealist, photography on dibond
By Mark Bartkiw
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Military planes in formation is reminiscent of a flock of starlings in this eerily brilliant image by Mark Bartkiw. The artist disrupts the landscape by juxtaposing expected elements...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
Planet Macallan 133, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered
By Ernie Button
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Planet Macallan 133, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered
Whisky is a time-honored drink, finely crafted and enjoyed for centuries. I feel fortunate that I found the Vanishing Spirits phenomenon. I am a fan of observing my world and the things that are happening around me; noticing the smaller details that may be ignored or overlooked. The idea for this project occurred while putting a used Scotch glass...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dryland Farming #25, Monegros County, Aragon, Spain, 2010
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Edward Burtynsky (b. 1955) is one of Canada's most successful photographers. A noted filmmaker, entrepreneur, and environmental advocate, Burtynsky is known internationally for his i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Salsa - underwater nude photograph - series REFLECTIONS - archival pigment 43x64
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
In Alex Sher’s “Salsa” we are entranced in the spiraling movements of the topless dancer encased in vibrant reds and electric blues. The nude woman clutches the fabric to her body as...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Flying Dutchman
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Vintage Watch, Mixed Media, Unique
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Mixed Media
Black hole
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Ink painting evaporated off glass and printed
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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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.
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