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
Song for dead heroes #4 floral abstract landscape still life floral photo
Located in New York, NY
This abstract floral landscape photography has a dramatic sense of composition which recalls the careful arrangements of Dutch and Flemish still life paintings from the 17-18 century...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Snow Queen, #2239. Homage to Horst P. Horst collage color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Natasha Zupan's body of work, 'Homage to Horst P. Horst', explores the manipulation of surface texture, light, and the interweaving of time. She has incorporated found images in book...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
Sponge Bob/From the Michael Massaia original portfolio "Transmogrify"
Located in Westwood, NJ
This 14"x11"archival pigment print is offered as a signed and numbered edition of 45. and is part of the Limited Edition book set "Scenes from a Childhood”. The book is signed and nu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
To the Flow 1
By Chaco Terada
Located in Sante Fe, NM
My work uses the Japanese and Chinese calligraphic characters that I have practiced since childhood. I take a line from one character, and when that brushstroke is made it tells me w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Silk, Sumi Ink, 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
Scenes From A Childhood Deluxe Limited Edition Book/Prints
Located in Westwood, NJ
The Deluxe Limited Edition is offered as a signed and numbered edition of 80 with 20 artist proofs. Housed in a clamshell box with book well and elegant ribbon pull, it is accompani...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Uncontained Consumption: Seafoam - composite photo, beachscape, landscape
Located in Atlanta, GA
This textured composite landscape, beachscape, seascape features hues of blue and white. This listing is for an unframed print.
Jennifer McKinnon Ri...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Bluebells of the Second Spring' - abstract landscape photography - floral
Located in Atlanta, GA
This listing is for an unframed print. Framing options are available.
Thad Lee is an award-winning filmmaker, a writer of essays, screenplays, and poetry, an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Shibui 2595, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered by the artist
By Ernie Button
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Shibui 2595 is a limited edition color photograph and is signed and numbered by the artist
Focusing on subjects grand and mundane, Ernie Button takes color photographs of cities an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Planet Meiyo 17.3600, limited edition color photograph, signed
By Ernie Button
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Planet Meiyo 17.3600 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 si...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Shibui 2619, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered by the artist
By Ernie Button
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Shibui 2619 is a limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered by the artist.
Focusing on subjects grand and mundane, Ernie Button takes color photographs of cities and sigh...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Fire & Cane 3267, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered
By Ernie Button
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Fire & Cane 3267 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 his...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Aviation Old Tom Gin 2882, limited edition color photograph, signed
By Ernie Button
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Aviation Old Tom Gin 2882, limited edition color photograph, signed.
Focusing on subjects grand and mundane, Ernie Button takes color photographs of cities and sights on his travel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Aviation Old Tom Gin 2210, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered
By Ernie Button
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Aviation Old Tom Gin 2210, 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
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
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
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
"LB07" (FRAMED) Photography 60" x 40" inch Edition of 4 by Giuliano Bekor
Located in Culver City, CA
LB07 Photography 60" x 40" inch Edition of 4 by Giuliano Bekor
Print size 40x60 Inches
Artwork finished size 42x62 Inches
Limited edition 1 of 4
Artist proof 2
Medium:
This artwo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Metal
Award-winner, Best Seller, Largest Sand Dunes in the World, Minimal, Monotone
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"Desert Rising"
The lone tree in the foreground helps you understand the immense scale of the sand dunes of Sossusvlei.
The print series Dunes: Landsc...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Leaf No. 38C2
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
Leaf No. 25
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. 22
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. 9C3
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. 11
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. 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
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
Planet Macallan 101, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered
By Ernie Button
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Planet Macallan 101, 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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Planet Clynelish 33, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered
By Ernie Button
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Planet Clynelish 33, 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...
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
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
For much of my adult life, photography has provided me a forum to communicate my past & present, my h...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Planet Balvenie 140, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered
By Ernie Button
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Planet Balvenie 140, 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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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.
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
Minimal Landscape of a Sand Dune in Namibia, Black and White Photography
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"Sanctuary"
This award-winning, best-selling image highlights the surreal relationships within mother nature.
The print series Dunes: Landscapes Evolving documents the magnificent...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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
Construction Site, Tucker, Georgia
By Peter Essick
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Construction Sites are areas of rapid change to the environment. Forest, farms, old structures or empty lots are converted to new buildings with larg...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Salt 0977 (Fractured 3)
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
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
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
Salsa - underwater nude photograph - series REFLECTIONS - archival pigment 35х53
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
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
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 12
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
Citizen 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
Silver Gelatin
Revinins 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
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
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
Assailant #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
Wedding Bouquet
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
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
Target E4
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
Mixed Media Unique Art Photo Louis Vuitton, Paris, Tim White Sobieski Photograph
Located in Surfside, FL
Tim White-Sobieski
Alpha LV#1, 2005
Unique photo screenprint on canvas
28 × 20 in 71.1 × 50.8 cm
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...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Photogram, Screen
Shape of Heart
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 2
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
Ice Portals No. 4402 / 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
Ice Portals No. 3498 / 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
Ice Portals No. 2573 / 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
In Between #24 - Panoramic Seascape Photography
Located in New York City, NY
Alessandro Puccinelli
In Between #24, 2018
In Between series
Seascape
20 x 40 inches
Edition of 10
Archival Pigment Print
30 x 60 inches
Edition of 5
Archival Pigment Print
35.5 x...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Untitled Work of Fire 4-17 #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
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.