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
Untitled, Labyrinth series. Abstract. Limited Edition Color Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Untitled, from The Labyrinth series
Limited edition of 3 +1AP
Unframed
Labyrinth continues the exploration started in the previous two series (Paranoia...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Glenlivet 162, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered
By Ernie Button
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Glenlivet 162, 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 & con...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
A Life of Its Own
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Jessica Houston has traveled from pole to pole—using photography, painting, oral histories and objects—to evoke natureculture entanglements. Her multimedia projects often include sit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Digital
Palazzo Grimani, Male Center. Abstract architectural limited edition color photo
Located in Miami Beach, FL
"Magda Von Hanau’s photographs create a rare visual poem that evokes a sense of magic. Turning classical into contemporary while playing with both form and architecture, her work is ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
New Orleans, 2017
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Cameraless – A cameraless image is produced on photographic material without the aid of a camera or lenses.
Chemigram – A Chemigram, from "chemistry" and gramma – Greek for "things...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Solar Flare
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Pastilles abraded under photo paper, lit with a flashlight
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Bougainvillea: Abstract Still Life Photograph of Pink Magenta Flowers on White
Located in Hudson, NY
Abstract still life photograph of pink magenta Bougainvillea flowers and green leaves against a white sky background
Photograph printed on Japanese Kozo paper infused with encaustic ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Wax, Encaustic, Archival Paper, Mulberry Paper
Private Pool - underwater photograph - archival pigment print 14" x 24"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
“Private Pool” is a part of Alex Sher’s popular series REFLECTIONS - underwater photographs that could be almost mistaken for abstract paintings as they bring up recollections of mas...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival 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
So Close Yet So Far Out. Architectural limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist's photographs capture the transformation of everyday life into another reality. Images that explore what the future will be like. Industrial, eccentric and progressive, Ca...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
Wherever You Look You See The Chrysler Building: Lower Broadway
Located in Miami, FL
Funk's highly stylized composition exaggerates the one-point perspective of the Manhattan street grid. It pushes the viewer's eye towards the horizon, where one's focus is on the flo...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
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
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
Target E
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
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
Aviation Old Tom Gin 2373, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered
By Ernie Button
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Aviation Old Tom Gin 2373, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered.
Focusing on subjects grand and mundane, Ernie Button takes color photographs of cities and sights o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Meditation on the Northern Hemisphere 8
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 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
Teatro Olimpico - Vicenza, Abstract architectural Black and White photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Magda Von Hanau’s photographs create a rare visual poem that evokes a sense of magic. Turning classical into contemporary while playing with both form and architecture, her work is b...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White, Archival Pigment
Cocteau Aqua Atla #2235, Homage to Horst P. Horst Enlarged photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Cocteau Aqua Atla #2235 by Natasha Zupan
Enlarged photographic print of the original photo collage by the artist
Image size: 60 in. H x 53.5 in. W
Unframed
Edition of 5
2018
________...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
Leaf No. 39C2
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
The Macallan 150, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered
By Ernie Button
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The Macallan 150, 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
Apples
Located in Sante Fe, NM
After struggling to decrease my environmental footprint, lumen images gave me a path to create with less impact on the earth. Using organic waste as the subject, the energy of the sun and minimal chemicals, I rediscovered an early photo...
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
Mr WINTER / Photo / Print / Signed / Limited
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
The background of this photo is an homage to Ľudovít Winter the creator of the famous Spa Piešťany in Slovakia in the beginning of the 20th Century. A statue sitting on bank on a bri...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color
Shades of Flower
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
Epilogue
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
Private Pool - underwater nude photograph - acrylic print 22" x 36"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
“Private Pool” is a part of Alex Sher’s popular series REFLECTIONS - underwater photographs that could be almost mistaken for abstract paintings as they bring up recollections of mas...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Archival Pigment
Citizen 13
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 9
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
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
Wherever You Look, You See The Chrysler Building: 2nd Avenue Highrise
Located in Miami, FL
"Wherever You Look, You See The Chrysler Building: 2nd Avenue Highrise" is part of a new epic exhibition, Mitchell Funk Photographs The Chrysler Building for 50 Years.
The Chrysler B...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Dark Hours Horizon 97
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 100
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
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
Songs of the Sky 4 (Abstract Landscape Photograph of Clouds & Sky, 4 panels)
Located in Hudson, NY
Abstract landscape sepia tone photograph of clouds
Japanese Kozo paper infused with encaustic on 4 panels, each panel is 36 inches x 11 inches
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Wax, Encaustic, Mulberry Paper
Möbius Mermaid - underwater nude photograph from series REFLECTIONS paper 16x23"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Radiating with mythic sexuality, the mermaid’s topless body becomes fluid, her multiplying naked breasts and her scaly tail swirling into the hips of a real woman form a Möbius Strip...
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
The Macallan 135, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered
By Ernie Button
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The Macallan 135, 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
Breakaway
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Sponges soaked in developer, applied to photo paper
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Birth
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Lumen print of animal organs, gold toned
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Thistle
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Lumen print of thistles
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
ORGANIC LANDSCAPES 2 by Alexandre Manuel (Aerial Photography)
Located in New York City, NY
Series: ORGANIC LANDSCAPE AERIAL
All available sizes and editions:
40" x 30" editions of 10
60" x 45" editions of 5
80" x 60" editions of 3
Archival Pigment Print on Fine Art Baryt...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Primordial
By David Ondrik
Located in Sante Fe, NM
A photogram is a cameraless photographic image made by placing objects directly onto the surface of a light-sensitive material, such as photographic paper, and then exposing the mate...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Photogram
Black hole
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Ink painting evaporated off glass and printed
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Flying Dutchman
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Vintage Watch, Mixed Media, Unique
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Mixed Media
Kitchen Counter II, 2018
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Cameraless – A cameraless image is produced on photographic material without the aid of a camera or lenses.
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Kitchen Counter, 2018
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Cameraless – A cameraless image is produced on photographic material without the aid of a camera or lenses.
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Alice
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Vintage Watch, Mixed Media, Unique
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Mixed Media
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
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
Acacia, No. 3: Yellow Floral Photograph of Yellow & Green Flowers on White
Located in Hudson, NY
Abstract still life photograph of yellow Acacia flowers and green leaves against a white sky background
Photograph printed on Japanese Kozo paper infused with encaustic on four panel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Wax, Encaustic, Archival Paper, Mulberry Paper
Planet Glenfiddich 1743, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered
By Ernie Button
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Planet Glenfiddich 1743, 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 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
Planet Macallan 293, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered
By Ernie Button
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Planet Macallan 293, 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
Private Pool - underwater nude photograph from series REFLECTION aluminum 29х48"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
“Private Pool” is a part of Alex Sher’s popular series REFLECTIONS - underwater photographs that could be almost mistaken for abstract paintings as they bring up recollections of mas...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Metal
Through The Wetlands - contemporary, abstracted landscape, photography on dibond
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Long dark grasses and cattails form a patterned lattice through which the fall sky pushes through. This atmospheric photograph that captures the essence of a wetland is created in tw...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Steel
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
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.