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
Pilot Wave Induction (Altered Stills), Set of two C-Prints, Contemporary Art
Located in Hamburg, DE
Tauba Auerbach (American, 1981)
Pilot Wave Induction (altered stills), 2018
Medium: Set of two C-prints
Dimensions: each 30.5 x 22.9 cm (11.9 x 8.9 in)
Edition of 50 + 10 AP: Hand-si...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Cloud Study VI - large scale photograph of dramatic momochromatic cloudscape sky
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
An homage to Caspar David Friedrich, towering thunder clouds over the Pacific Ocean, from a series of dramatic cloud atlas observations and abstract skyscapes above the winter sea, c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink
Untitled Work of Fire Diptych
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
Tulip Fields 10 by Bernhard Lang - Aerial abstract photography, Netherlands
Located in Paris, FR
Aerial Views, Tulip Fields 10 is a limited-edition photograph by German contemporary artist Bernhard Lang.
This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 3 di...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Chanel Packing Heat
By Nick Veasey
Located in München, BY
Edition 25
Framed Chromaluxe
A classic handbag from Chanel. Inside is a gun, a mobile phone, a lipstick and powder.
A man with x-ray vision, NICK VEASEY creates art that shows what ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Bog 002 by Bernhard Lang - Close-up photography, flora, green tones, swamps
Located in Paris, FR
The Bog 002 is a limited-edition photograph by contemporary artist Bernhard Lang. It is a Fine Art Print on Hahnemüle Paper.
This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
"Fern 2", Contemporary, Botanical, Plants, Yellow, Cyanotype, Photograph, 2018
By Marie Craig
Located in Natick, MA
By toning cyanotypes, using chemicals that turn the deep blue images to yellow, Craig's photographs fade and begin to disappear. Craig is curious about what happens when she stops the process at various stages, and when she lets the images ‘evaporate’ completely. Nothing lasts forever.
Ferns are some of the oldest plants on earth. Ferns embody resilience. Many forms have come and gone since they first appeared on the planet; 10,000 species exist today, in tropical, temperate and arctic regions.
White mat, framed behind glass in white wood frame, 14 x 17 inches
Marie Craig’s photography considers objects that were once imbued with life but have since been abandoned. Juncture, Craig’s latest series, alludes to a turning point, the moment where a choice made profoundly alters the trajectory of what follows, whether evident at the time or not. She uses cyanotype, because in this early photographic process choice and chance factor equally into the outcome of each piece. Craig’s layered photographs...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Paper, Photogram
Flow II (framed) - epic scale photograph of abstract liquid water cloudscapes
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photography of mesmerizing color compositions of liquid cloudscape painting in water, hypnotizing abstract liquidscapes from the body of works titled 'Flow'
Flow II by C...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Plexiglass, Inkjet, Giclée
Spark - underwater nude photo - print on aluminum 8 x 12"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Alex Sher’s underwater photograph “Spark” ignites the water in a boiling fiery scene. The pale tones of the skin contrast sharply against the velvety reflections of red that consume ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Metal
Versilia 09 (Tuscany, Italy) by Bernhard Lang - Aerial beach photography, sea
Located in Paris, FR
Versilia 09 is a limited-edition photograph by German contemporary artist Bernhard Lang.
This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 3 dimensions:
*60 × 75...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
She Disappeared into Complete Silence (AD7517) - large scale abstract photograph
By Mona Kuhn
Located in San Francisco, CA
In the series 'She Disappeared into Complete Silence' (2014) Mona Kuhn takes a new direction into abstraction.
She turns to a highly austere and restrained reductionist geometry and distilled formal purity, connecting the interior to the exterior, the visible to the hidden. These reflections cause one to linger, as they merge to create a dynamic equilibrium of tension, spaces and rythms.
AD7517 (She Disappeared into Complete Silence)
45" x 60" / 114cm x 152cm
edition of 8 + 2AP
30" x 40" / 76cm x 102cm
edition of 8 + 2AP
limited edition photograph printed under artist supervision + accompanied by signed artist certificate:
artist signature labels are 8x10 in size
signed, editioned, dated and titled by the artist, and stamped for authenticity
label is placed centered on verso of the mounted print
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About the artist
Acclaimed for her contemporary depictions, Kuhn is considered a leading artist in the world of figurative discourse. Throughout a career spanning more than twenty years, the underlying theme of her work is her reflection on humanity’s longing for spiritual connection and solidarity. As she solidified her photographic style, Kuhn created a notable approach to the nude by developing friendships with her subjects, and employing a range of playful visual strategies that use natural light and minimalist settings to evoke a sublime sense of comfort between the human figure and its environment. Her work is natural, restful, and a reinterpretation of the nude in the canon of contemporary art.
For the past two decades, the Los-Angeles based artist's works have been shown steadily, revealing an astonishing consistency in technique, of subject and of purpose. In 2001, Kuhn’s photographs were first seen by an influential audience during the exhibition at Charles Cowles Gallery in Chelsea, New York. Kuhn’s distinct aesthetic has propelled her as one of the most collectible contemporary art photographers—her work is in private and public collections worldwide and she is represented by galleries across the United States, Europe and Asia.
Kuhn was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1969, of German descent. In 1989, Kuhn moved to the US and earned her BA from The Ohio State University, before furthering her studies at the San Francisco Art Institute. She is currently an independent scholar at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Occasionally, Mona teaches at UCLA and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
Mona Kuhn’s first monograph, Photographs, was debuted by Steidl in 2004; followed by Evidence (2007), Native (2010), Bordeaux Series (2011), Private (2014), and She Disappeared into Complete Silence (2018/19). In addition, Kuhn's monograph titled Bushes and Succulents has been published by Stanley/Barker Editions, with a debut at Jeu de Paume in Paris, in 2019. A stunning career retrospective of Mona Kuhn's works has been published by Thames & Hudson, Spring 2021. Kuhn's forthcoming publication Kings Road, will be published and released by Steid this Fall 2021.
Mona Kuhn’s work is in private and public collections worldwide, including The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Hammer Museum, Perez Art Museum Miami, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Kiyosato Museum in Japan. Kuhn's work has been exhibited at The Louvre Museum and Le Bal in Paris; The Whitechapel Gallery and Royal Academy of Arts in London; Musée de l’Elysée in Switzerland; Leopold Museum in Vienna Austria, The Polygon Gallery in Vancouver Canada, Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan and Australian Centre for Photography. Mona Kuhn lives and works in Los Angeles.
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Solo Exhibitions
2021
Mona Kuhn: Works, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
Mona Kuhn: Works, Flowers Gallery, London
Mona Kuhn: Works, Galerie XII, Los Angeles + Paris + Shanghai
Mona Kuhn: 835 Kings Road, Art, Design and Architecture Museum, Santa Barbara
2020
Still Light, Jardin du Bra'haus, Montée du Château, Clervaux, Luxembourg
Mona Kuhn: Early Depictions, Flowers Gallery, London
Mona Kuhn: Intimate, UP Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2019
Bushes and Succulents, Euqinom Gallery, San Francisco
Mona Kuhn: She Disappeared, Jackson Fine Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Carrara I - large format photograph of iconic Italian marble quarry
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Signed large scale original photograph of the Mediterranean marble quarries in Carrara, Italy, iconic material source of classic Italian art and architecture, captured with a large format camera to allow epic scale print sizes with incredible image details
Carrara I...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Giclée
Holding My Dark, Photography, Limited Edition
Located in München, BY
Limited Edition of 7
Framed size 49 x 69 cm
All works are Archival Pigment prints, floating in an all black wooden frame behind museums glass.
More sizes on request.
Sara Punt...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Vinnytsia 22 - underwater nude photo - print on aluminum 8 x 12"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Vinnytsia a tiny Ukrainian town hit by Russian missiles on July 14 2022. There were no military installations neither industrial objects. Putin’s regime was targeting civilians as a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Metal
Salsa - underwater nude photo - print on aluminum 8 x 12"
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
Metal
H2O IV - Homage to David Hockney
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photograph of sun reflections on pool water surface, mesmerizing light reflections of glistening sunlight on turquoise aquamarine water surface, an homage to the iconic ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Giclée
Moonlight II - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment 24" x 36"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
A beautiful and sophisticated underwater photograph of a young naked woman swimming in the pool. This is a monochrome photograph close to black and white with reach aquatic tint. T...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
A Bloomy View - Large Scale Art Polaroid Photographic Print Framed
By Pia Clodi
Located in Zürich, CH
A bloomy view - Polaroid Photographic Print Framed by Pia Clodi
The blue tones within her work should not be interpreted as coldness, as her works are full of fleeting moments withi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Color, Polaroid
Siesta - underwater nude photo - print on aluminum 8 x 12"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
The nude girl of Sher’s “Siesta” drifts to sleep as her dreams encroach upon her. As her naked body begins to shimmer into an aqueous form of its own, the bubbles of air transform in...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Metal
Wallscape VII (Green Door) - abstraction of urban textures and palimpsest colors
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photograph from a series of photographic observances capturing urban textures and palimpsest color palettes of Italy
Wallscape VII (Green Door) by Frank Schott
32 x 40 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée
Stratosphere IV - large format photograph of abstract liquid water cloudscapes
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photography of mesmerizing color compositions of liquid cloudscape painting in water, hypnotizing abstract liquidscapes from the body of works titled 'Stratosphere'
STRA...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
Sonata (Deconstructivism) - Contemporary, Expired Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
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 ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Land Rover Surfer - Gold 2022
By Nick Veasey
Located in München, BY
Edition 15, framed matt Chromaluxe
Surfer driving Land Rover with a dog in the back.
A man with x-ray vision, NICK VEASEY creates art that shows what it is really like inside.
Nick...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Stars 9, 2014 - Limited Edition Digital C-Type Photograph on Fuji Paper
By Ellie Davies
Located in Brighton, GB
Stars 9 is a stunning Digital C-Type Print on Fuji Maxima Matte paper, available only in this size as Artist's Proof 1 of 2.
Ellie has been working in the forests of the UK for the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Digital, C Print
No. 7, Illusions series by Matthieu Venot - Abstract photography, architecture
Located in Paris, FR
N°7, Illusions is a work by contemporary French photographer Matthieu Venot from the series 'Illusions'.
This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 3 dimen...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Pigment
David Burdeny - In Bloom 01, Kunming, China, Photography 2019, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
David Burdeny (b. 1968. Winnipeg, Canada) graduated with a Masters in Architecture and Interior Design and spent the early part of his career practicing in his field before establish...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Digital, Pigment, Digital Pigment
Bent Sound - underwater portrait of Njomza Vitia - archival pigment print 43x62"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
"Bent Sound" - An ethereal underwater fine art photograph that captures the intersection of music and movement through a portrait of singer Njomza Vitia. This submerged portrait tran...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
King's Best - Neck, Stallion detail / abstract horse portrait
Located in London, GB
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...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Glass, Wood, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photogra...
New Rome #8- Floral landscape yellow purple blue contemporary photograph
Located in New York, NY
This floral photography has a dramatic sense of composition which recalls the careful arrangements of Dutch and Flemish still life paintings from the 17-18 century.
Belgian photog...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
H2O l - large format photograph of sun reflections on pool water surface
Located in San Francisco, CA
mesmerizing light reflections of glistening sunlight on turquoise aquamarine water surface, an homage to the iconic pool reflections paintings by artist David Hockney
H2O by Erik Pa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Plexiglass, Archival Ink, Giclée, Ar...
Cerillas, Madrid, 1997
By Chema Madoz
Located in Denton, TX
Edition of 15
Signed, dated and numbered.
Toned gelatin silver print
Chema Madoz is one of the most important contemporary Spanish photographers, who is greatly known for his monoch...
Category
1980s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Rough Terrain", abstract, rust, blue, earth tones, metal print, color photo
Located in Natick, MA
Rebecca Skinner’s “Rough Terrain” is part of a her texture series taking an up-close look rusted and/or weathered metal. This abstract image is mostly earth tones with a touch of blu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Metal
Erik at Fifteen - Contemporary, Polaroid, Childhood
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Erik at Fifteen - 2019 -
20x25cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Photograph printed in Canson Barita Fiber Rag 340gr,
based on a reclaimed Fuji Instant Film Negative (not m...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
Versilia 01 (Tuscany, Italy) by Bernhard Lang - Aerial beach photography
Located in Paris, FR
Versilia 01 is a limited-edition photograph by German contemporary artist Bernhard Lang.
This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 3 dimensions:
*60 cm ×...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Capricho - underwater photograph from series REFLECTIONS - archival print 16x24"
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
Archival Pigment
F24, Lisa Creagh - Abstract Photography, Colour Photography
By Lisa Creagh
Located in Brighton, GB
Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order and lead times are between 15-20 days.
F24 is a stunning 24" x 24" Lightjet Print on Metallic Paper, available in this siz...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Pink red water (Once) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Photograph, abstract
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Pink red water (Once) - 2019
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proof.
Archival Photograph printed in Canson Barita Fiber Rag 340gr,
based on a reclaimed Fuji Instant Film Negative...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
Möbius Mermaid - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 24x35"
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 Paper, Archival Pigment
Portwood 21 The Balvenie 0182, limited edition photograph, signed and numbered
By Ernie Button
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Portwood 21 The Balvenie 0182, limited edition photograph, signed and numbered
Ernie Button’s photographs are a treat to the imagination. A journey along the delicate lines and vib...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Smoke - abstract photography
By MAE Curates
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a series curated by Modern Art Etc Los Angeles. The subject matter of the work is a series of abstract photography of smoke and light and the imagery presented.
Image dime...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Journey to the center of the Earth - Contemporary, Polaroid, Childhood
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Journey to the Center of the Earth - 2019 -
20x25cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Photograph printed in Canson Barita Fib...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
Spark - underwater nude photograph series REFLECTIONS - acrylic print
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
“Spark” 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 masterpiec...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Archival Pigment
Bush Encased by Sand Dunes in Namibia, Africa, Minimalist, Vertical
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"Haven"
In this award-winning image, a lone bush is encased by a delicate sand dune, as if nature has protected it in a loving embrace.
The print series Dunes: Landscapes Evolving...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Versilia 05 (Tuscany, Italy) by Bernhard Lang - Aerial beach photography
Located in Paris, FR
Versilia 05 is a limited-edition photograph by contemporary artist Bernhard Lang.
This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 3 dimensions:
*60 cm × 79 cm ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Untitled (Paradise) - Contemporary, Nude, Men, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Paradise) - 1999
50x50cm.
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory No. 20451.
N...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Trouble - underwater photograph - acrylic print 28 x 48"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
A passionate furious energy radiates in the ripples of red that overtake the reflection. Intense motion, stirring the water into an explosion of bubbles we encounter “The Trouble...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Archival Pigment
"Blue Gum 2", Contemporary, Trees, Blue, Yellow, Cyanotype, Photograph, 2018
By Marie Craig
Located in Natick, MA
By toning cyanotypes, using chemicals that turn the deep blue images to yellow, Craig's photographs fade and begin to disappear. Craig is curious about what happens when she stops the process at various stages, and when she lets the images ‘evaporate’ completely. Nothing lasts forever.
Blue Gum trees, native to Australia, have survived for millennia by adapting and thriving in a climate where wildfires are common. Now invasive in many parts of the world, this 'gasoline tree' is a dangerous fire hazard, especially in the face of climate change, which is expected to make wildfires more common.
White mat, framed behind glass in white wood frame, 14 x 17 inches
Marie Craig’s photography considers objects that were once imbued with life but have since been abandoned. Juncture, Craig’s latest series, alludes to a turning point, the moment where a choice made profoundly alters the trajectory of what follows, whether evident at the time or not. She uses cyanotype, because in this early photographic process choice and chance factor equally into the outcome of each piece. Craig’s layered photographs...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Paper, Photogram
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
"The Truths #9783" - Contemporary Abstract Photography - Zao Wou-Ki
By Zhou Peng
Located in Atlanta, GA
"The Truths #9738" features hues of pink, orange, blue and purple. This photograph is edition 1/10 +2 AP.
Zhou Peng is a fine art photographer from Shanghai, China. Formally traine...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Hemisphere I - large format photograph of abstract liquid cloudscapes in water
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photography of mesmerizing color compositions of liquid cloudscape painting in water, hypnotizing abstract liquidscapes from the body of works titled 'Hemisphere'
Hemisp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée, Archival Ink
I am fleeting #1. From I am fleeting Series
By Javier Rey
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Is a project that debates through the photographic image, the importance that humans have assigned to ourselves, and proposes a reconciliation with the reality of our own insignifica...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Ripped (Deconstructivism) - Contemporary, Expired Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Ripped (Deconstructivism) - 2020
- about the narrative potential of images.
40x40cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid,
Artist Inventory 4600.
Signature lab...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Materia X, From The Series Materia, Abstract Limited Edition Color photograph
By Mikael Kenta
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Materia X, 2023 by Mikael Kenta
From the Series Materia
Archival Pigment Print with a 1 cm white border.
Image size: 75 cm. H x 60 cm. W
Edition of 15 + 1AP
Unframed
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Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Metamorphosis
Located in New York City, NY
Fernanda Naman
Metamorphosis (Triptych)
94 x 55 inches (each)
94 x 165 (total)
Edition of 9
Plexiglas Mounting
Also available in:
50 x 30 inches (each)
50 x 90 inches (total)
Edit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
Breathing I (Deconstructivism) - Contemporary, Expired Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
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...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
N°14, Illusions series by Matthieu Venot - Architecture photography, framed
Located in Paris, FR
N°14, Illusions is a limited-edition photograph by contemporary artist Matthieu Venot.
This photograph is a limited edition of 10 copies, it is sold framed with a white shadow box...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Pigment
Into the dark (Deconstructivism) - Contemporary, Expired Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
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...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Summer Poppies (30 x 22.5" cyanotype painting)
Located in Oakland, CA
This unique multistep technique is a combination of a painting and a photograph or monotype. Cyanotypes are a kind of alternative photographic process from the 1800s. The chemicals are different from those used in black and white photography. The light-sensitive chemicals can be used to print blue and white photographs from a large negative or a person can capture the silhouette of solid objects rather like an x-ray in blue and white.
In her Delft Garden series, artist Christine So first drew the outline of a plant in pencil and then painted it in a dark room —not paint– but with the cyanotype light-sensitive emulsion. When the painting had dried, she arranged plants on top of the painted silhouette in a pattern that would leave gaps like lace, carefully moved the entire bundle outside while still covered and then exposed the pattern multiple times at different angles to the sun, to achieve various shades of blue and white. The heavy cotton watercolor paper then needed to be thoroughly rinsed in order to stop the darkening process.
The silhouette here is of the Giant California Tree...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Mixed Media, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Hemisphere IV - large format photograph of abstract liquid cloudscapes in water
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photography of mesmerizing color compositions of liquid cloudscape painting in water, hypnotizing abstract liquidscapes from the body of works titled 'Hemisphere'
Hemisp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
Israeli Contemporary Art Photograph, Architecture with Hand Painting Shul Sade
By Shuli Sade
Located in Surfside, FL
Shuli Sadé, Israeli (b. 1952)
Pipe Bending (1995)
Hand painted silver gelatin photo print
Hand signed in pencil lower right, numbered 1/10
Framed: 23.25 X 29.25 sight, 15 x 19 inches
Provenance: Estate of Gideon Gartner
Shuli Sade (Shuli Sadeh Goshen) is an Israeli Postwar & Contemporary artist born in Israel in 1952. Shuli Sadé studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art, Jerusalem and the School of Visual Arts. Her work, which uses urban movement as a central theme, explores technology and its potential to impact still, moving, and two- and three-dimensional images. Sadé has lectured at the University of Pennsylvania School of Architecture, Parsons The New School for Design, and Barnard College. Her Sadé's cross-disciplinary artwork blends theory and practice with a focus on memory, space, and urbanism. Her work creates maps of urban memory, reflecting the DNA of a city. She mixes mediums including photography, video, augmented reality, site-specific installations, sculpture, and drawing. Her recent exhibitions include Upstream Downstream, a site-specific augmented reality installation, Riverside Park, NYC, part of Re: Growth, public art exhibition (2021), Fluid Formations, Gensler DC, (2019), Wild_Heterotopias, AR installation at the HighLineNine Galleries, and the High Line, (2019), Solid Red, Galeria Ethra, Mexico City, (2018) Day Dreams, AR installation at Montefiore Medical Center, the Bronx, NY (2017) and group shows including Timing is Everything, Mead Art Museum collection (2018), Making Time, AR installation Index Art Center, Newark, NJ (2019), Anniversario, Datasets, Galeria Ethra, Mexico City (2019) Israeli Modernism in the 1970s from the Collection, Haifa Museum of Art (2016). She had collaborated with Neural scientists at the Neurobiology of Cognition Laboratory, Center for Neural Science, New York University, and with architects and designers across the US. Sadé creates large-scale site-specific murals in the Corporate environment. She is an Israeli contemporary woman artist. Her recent artworks are permanently installed in Manhattan, Philadelphia, Boston, North Carolina., Miami, Mexico City, Jersey City, and more. Sadé received the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, (2014), the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1991), New York Foundation for the Arts Emergency Grant (2001), Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Fund, NY- Israel Cultural Cooperation Commission Grant, AICF study grant, NY Art Development Committee grants. Her work is in private and public collections. Shuli Sade is a NY artist and architectural photographer. Sade studio photographed Renzo Piano renovations at the Morgan library, Norman Foster Hearst tower, Weiss Manfredi Nexus at Barnard College, Shiseido at Grey Art Gallery by Marble Fairbanks, Sade works on international commissions, Published in Metropolis magazine, Architectural Digest, Eating Architecture, MIT, Avroko Design, Regan books and others. She lives in NYC and works at her studio at Mana Contemporary, NJ. Her work is represented by Galleria Ethra in Mexico City.
Select Exhibitions
2012 Reconfiguring Memory, (permanent installation), Center for Neural Science, New York University
2012 Conference of the Birds, CYNTHIA-REEVES Projects at Mana Contemporary, New Jersey
2011 Conceptualizing the Body Gaze, Masquerade, and Spectacle
2011 ENCODE/ DECODE: Work in Progress, The City of Herzliya Art Gallery, Herzliya, Israel
2009 H20 Film on Water, Brattleboro Museum, Bratleboro, NH
2009 Meeting/Place Cabri Gallery of Israeli Art, Kibbutz Cabri: Yigal Ozeri, Alex Kremer, Ofer Lellouche, Lea Nikel, Moshe Kupferman, Ori Reisman, Jan Rauchwerger, David Reeb, Shuli Sadeh, Yehiel Shemi, Marik Lechner,
2006 Illuminated Disjunction, Hungarian Cultural Center, New York, NY
2005 The Silence of the Sea, The National Maritime Museum, Haifa, Israel
2003 Sacred Drawings, Tibetan Healing International Conference, Washington DC
2003 Blueprints Reconfiguring Space, Art in General Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Light and its Opposite, Lemberger Museum of Photography, Tel-Hai, Galilee, Israel
2000 Bassam Abu Shakra Gallery, Um -El-Fahem, Israel
1999 Mythic Arrangements, Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & Kuhn Architects, Los Angeles, CA
1999 Women photographers reflecting women, Talli's Fine Arts Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Neil Folberg Vision Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
1996 Fragments of Anxiety, Columbia University, Avery Hall, School of Architecture, New York, NY
1995 Agni Vidya- the Fire of Knowledge, City of Venice Biennale, Isola Certosa, Italy
1994 Imprint, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Sculptors of the Next Century, Socrates Park, Long Island City, NY
1990 Galleria Principal, Altos de Chavon, Dominican Republic
1981 Feminine Objects, Tzavta Jerusalem P.V.V, Israel
1980 Biennale of Contemporary Art, Tel Hai 80, Israel
1980 Borders, Israel Museum of Contemporary Art, Jerusalem, Israel
Igael Tumarkin, Shuli Sadeh, Michal Naaman, Yair Garbuz, Gad Ullman...
Category
1990s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Paint, Photographic Paper
Dusk (Deconstructivism) - Contemporary, Expired Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Dusk (Deconstructivism) - 2015
- about the narrative potential of images.
20x24cm, Edition of 10,
digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid,
Artist Inventory 20274.
Signature label an...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Eames+Chillin' 2022
By Nick Veasey
Located in München, BY
Edition 15, framed Chromaluxe
A man with x-ray vision, NICK VEASEY creates art that shows what it is really like inside.
Nick’s work with radiographic imaging equipment takes the x...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
L'Ange Heurebise - Book by Jean Cocteau and Man Ray - 1925
Located in Roma, IT
L'Ange Heurebise is an original rare Surrealist work realized in France in 1925, written by Jean Cocteau with an original rayogram realized by Man Ray.
Limited edition of 350 numbe...
Category
1920s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Paper
Bubble No. 8
By Stuart Allen
Located in Denton, TX
Edition of 8
Signed, titled, dated and numbered.
"This series exploits an optical phenomenon that occurs when visible light is distorted by the thin film membrane of a soap bubble. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
David Burdeny - Kadō 2, Photography 2019, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
David Burdeny (b. 1968. Winnipeg, Canada) graduated with a Masters in Architecture and Interior Design and spent the early part of his career practicing in his field before establish...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Digital, Pigment, Digital Pigment
Horizonte - Contemporary, Polaroid, Childhood
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Horizonte - 2019 -
20x25cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Photograph printed in Canson Barita Fiber Rag 340gr,
based on a reclaimed Fuji Instant Film Negative (not mounted...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
Revisions (Deconstructivism) - Contemporary, Expired Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Revisions. (Deconstructivism) - 2020
- about the narrative potential of images.
20x24cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid,
Artist Inventory 15714.
Signature ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
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
Illuminated (Deconstructivism) - Contemporary, Expired Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Illuminated (Deconstructivism) - 2015
- about the narrative potential of images.
20x24cm, Edition of 10,
digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid,
Artist Inventory 20271.
Signature l...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Flow II - large format photograph of abstract liquid water cloudscapes
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photography of mesmerizing color compositions of liquid cloudscape painting in water, hypnotizing abstract liquidscapes from the body of works titled 'Flow'
Flow II by C...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
Wildlife Landscape Photograph Nature Large Abstract Trees India Black White
Located in Norfolk, GB
Aditya Dicky Singh Untitled Infrared photograph on fine-art Hahnemuhle archival paper
44 x 65" unframed (112cm x 165cm) 2022
Edition 1/8
*Shou...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Boy with ball in the park - Contemporary, Polaroid, Childhood, abstract
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Boy with ball in the park (Journey to the Center of the Earth) - 2019
Edition of 10.
Photograph printed in Canson Barita Fiber Rag 340gr,
based on a reclaimed Fuji Instant Film Neg...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
Mirando al Cielo 4 by Rosa Basurto - Contemporary Murmuration Photography
By Rosa Basurto
Located in Brighton, GB
Please be aware that all prints are produced to order and lead times are between 5-15 days.
Mirando al Cielo 4 is a beautiful 30cm x 30cm Digital Print on 50cm x 50cm Cotton Paper ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Digital
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