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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
Abstract - Original Polaroid Unique Piece
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Abstract - 2020 Polaroid - Unique Piece 1/1, 7.8 x 7,7cm (image area) 10.7 x 8.7 cm ( including white Polaroid frame). Artist Inv. #23481. Signed on verso. Stefanie Schneider's ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Polaroid

Moonlight II - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment 24" x 36"
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...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Bubble No. 1, from the series, Soap Bubbles - Abstract, Clouds, Sky, Iridescent
Located in Denton, TX
Bubble No. 1, 2014 Archival pigment print on Somerset rag Size: 33 3/4 x 22 3/4 in. Signed, titled, dated and numbered in pencil on print verso by Stuart Allen Edition of 8 "This s...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

Circle Irrigation 10 by Bernhard Lang - Aerial abstract photography, Kansas
Located in Paris, FR
Circle Irrigation 10 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: *90 cm...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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C Print

Bent Sound - underwater portrait of Njomza Vitia - archival pigment print 43x62"
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...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

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...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Photographic Paper, Pigment

Wallscape VII (Green Door) - abstraction of urban textures and palimpsest colors
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 ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée

Shades of Pale - abstract photograph of painterly details of blue toned wall
Located in San Francisco, CA
Shades of Pale (Wallscape) by Frank Schott from a series of photographic observances capturing urban textures and color palettes 29 x 40 inches / 74cm x 102cm edition of 25 si...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Giclée

Minimal Landscape of a Sand Dune in Namibia, Black and White Photography
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...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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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 ...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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C Print

Möbius Mermaid - underwater nude photo from series REFLECTIONS acrylic 33x48"
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...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Acrylic Polymer, Archival Pigment

Wabi-Sabi (Sidewinder) - 9 Original Polaroid - Unique Pieces
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Wabi-Sabi (Sidewinder) - 9 Original Polaroids - Unique Piece, 2005 DECONSTRUCTIVISM, 2000 - present. About the narrative potential of images. each Polaroid 7.8 x 7,7cm (image area) ...
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1990s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Polaroid

Stars 1, 2014 - Stars and Trees in Ancient English Woodland and Forest Landscape
Located in Brighton, GB
Stars 1, 2014 - Stars and Trees in Ancient English Woodland and Forest Landscape by Ellie Davies Stars 1 by Ellie Davies is a stunning Digital C-Type Print on Fuji Maxima Matte pape...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Photographic Paper, Digital, C Print

Private Pool - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment 35" x 58"
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...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment, Digital 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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée, Archival Ink

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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée

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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée

Have Some Skittles, 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...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Photographic Paper, Color, 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...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid

A Bloomy View - Large Scale Art Polaroid Photographic Print Framed
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Color, Polaroid

Stars 3, 2014 - Stars and Trees in Ancient English Woodland and Forest Landscape
Located in Brighton, GB
Stars 3, 2014 - Stars and Trees in Ancient English Woodland and Forest Landscape by Ellie Davies Stars 3 by Ellie Davies is a stunning Digital C-Type Print on Fuji Maxima Matte pape...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Photographic Paper, Digital, C Print

Brushstroke - underwater photograph from series REFLECTIONS - acrylic 26 x 48"
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
In a delicate smear of faded blues intermingled with the curves and lines of the pale colors of the skin, Alex Sher’s “Brushstroke” uncovers his phenomenal ability to capture the tr...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Acrylic Polymer, Archival Pigment

Brooklyn Bridge, Architecture, New York City, black white photography, cityscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and White Fine Art landscape photography. Architecture detail from the tower of the Brooklyn Bridge, New York City, USA. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 9. Signed, title...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Digital Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper

Smoke - abstract photography
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...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

Blue Space Dark - Planet of the Apes 6 - 21st Century, Polaroid, Abstract
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Blue Space Dark - Mindscreen 09 (Night on Earth) - 1999 58x56cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid. ...
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1990s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

The Broken Chain. Architectural limited edition black and white photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Frames that capture the transformation from everyday life into another reality. Images that explore how the future will look. The proposal comes from the contemporary but goes beyond...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Photographic Paper, Black and White, C Print, Archival Pigment

The Angel Hair - underwater photograph - print on paper 18” x 24”
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater photograph of a young woman with long golden hair. The hair covers the woman's face making this figurative photograph look like an abstract art. Original gallery quali...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

David Burdeny - In Bloom 02, 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...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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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...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

Falling
Located in Sante Fe, NM
These are tiny paintings, made with a few grains of developer and a drop of water
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Photographic Paper

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...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Photographic Paper

In Memory Of #10 (Abstract Monoprint)
Located in Hudson, NY
Unique chromoskedasic monoprint on photographic paper 22 x 18 inches framed This contemporary, abstract style chromoskedasic monoprint was created by experimental photographer Birgi...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Photographic Paper, Monoprint

Spark - underwater nude photograph series REFLECTIONS - acrylic print
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...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Acrylic Polymer, Archival Pigment

Mandala #4002
Located in New York, NY
Type-C print Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, verso 20 x 20 inches (Edition of 10) 30 x 30 inches (Edition of 5) 40 x 40 inches (Edition of 5) This artwork is offered by Clam...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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C Print

Canna No. 6 (Abstracted Still Life Photograph of a Magenta Lily Flower on White)
Located in Hudson, NY
Abstract still life photograph of a magenta cana lily flower on a white sky background Photograph printed on Japanese Kozo paper infused with encaustic Edition 1/12, 36 x 22.5 inche...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Wax, Encaustic, Archival Paper, Mulberry Paper

Magnolias Breaking Pattern (Abstracted Still Life Photo of Yellow Magnolias)
Located in Hudson, NY
Abstracted floral still life color photograph, yellow magnolias in an abstract motif Archival digital print 24 x 24 inches, edition of 50 Print is unframed and made to order Addition...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Ink, Digital

Moon Over Garden Chair
Located in Burlingame, CA
Multidisciplinary visual artist Kim Frohsin created the arcane series, Reliquaries, from a variety of media—acrylic paint, glazes, ink, collage, pencils, and dry pigment—built upon pinhole photographs...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Acrylic, Mixed Media, Photographic Paper, Pinhole

Aura - blue, yellow, white, abstract, street, photography on dibond
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Shocks of light -- yellow , indigo, red and white -- zip through the night in this dynamic photographic print by Mark Bartkiw. This C-print is sealed between dibond and plexiglass. T...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Metal

David Burdeny - Kadō 1, 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...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival 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...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

Princess / Photographic Painting
Located in Burlingame, CA
Multidisciplinary visual artist Kim Frohsin created the arcane series, Reliquaries, from a variety of media—acrylic paint, glazes, ink, collage, pencils, and dry pigment—built upon p...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Acrylic Polymer, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Photographic Paper, Pinhole

"Past Tense" Metallic Photo Collage
Located in Houston, TX
Metallic photograph of interior space with a bed. The photograph is layered and in black and white. The work is signed and titled by the artist. It is framed in a black frame.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Photographic Paper

I am fleeting #1. From I am fleeting Series
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Prism No. 2
Located in New York, NY
"Prisms" is the most recent body of work by French artist Denis Darzacq. In this work, vibrant colored shapes have been combined in ways that jubilantly evoke the same vital energy, ...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

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...
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1990s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Paint, Photographic Paper

Cumberland Island Maritime Forest, GA" - composite photo, landscape, sculptural
Located in Atlanta, GA
This textured composite landscape features green, orange and blue. The archival pigment print photographs are mounted to panels. Jennifer McKinnon Richman is an Atlanta-based photog...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

Large Mixed Media Unique Art Photo Louis Vuitton Tim White Sobieski Photograph
Located in Surfside, FL
Tim White-Sobieski Alpha LV, 2005 Unique photo print on canvas 42 X 30 in 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...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Photogram, Screen

Blue Moon - Large Scale Color Polaroid Photographic Print Framed
Located in Zürich, CH
Blue Moon - Still Life Photographic Print Framed 120x120cm Austrian Contemporary Photographer Pia Clodi, demonstrates immense skill through her analog photography, which is often p...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Polaroid

Cascade (Kings Road) - observations at the Schindler House in Los Angeles
Located in San Francisco, CA
In Kings Road (2022) Mona Kuhn lyrically reconsiders the realms of time and space within the midcentury architectural elements of the iconic Schindler House in Los Angeles. Built by Austrian architect Rudolph M. Schindler in 1922, the house was both a social and design experiment and an avant-garde hub for intellectuals and artists in the 1920s and ’30s. The body of works incorporates chromogenic color prints, reflecting vignettes and materials of the building's emotional architecture, juxtaposition with unique solarized gelatin silver prints capturing traces of an ethereal human presence. Cascade (2022) Kings Road: A Rudolph Schindler House 60" x 45" / 152cm x 114cm / edition of 3 40" x 30" / 102cm x 76cm /edition of 12 limited edition photograph printed under artist supervision + accompanied by signed artist certificate: artist signature label (8x10") signed/editioned/dated/titled by the artist + stamped for authenticity label is placed centered on verso of the mounted print __________________ 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. 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, Stanley/Barker Editions published Kuhn's Bushes & Succulents in 2018. In 2021, Thames & Hudson published a career retrospective titled Works. Kuhn's most recent publication Kings Road (2022) with Steidl accompanies a multi-dimensional museum traveling exhibition shown in Europe and the US. 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. __________________ Solo Exhibitions 2025 Mona Kuhn: Y Tu Desnudo será Un Gran Poema, Museum of Contemporary Art, Malaga, Spain Mona Kuhn: Kings Road, Lianzhou Museum of Photography, China 2024 Mona Kuhn: The Schindler House, A Love Affair, Galerie XII...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

"White", abstract, rose, metal print, botanical, beige, warm, color photograph
Located in Natick, MA
Rebecca Skinner’s “White” is part of her "Simplicity" series taking an up close look at flowers and other botanical subjects. The soft focus alters the image of a white rose into a b...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Metal

Flora Fauna Series Vintage Color Photograph Abstract Flower Fuji Crystal Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
FLORA & FAUNA SERIES, c.1998, Fuji crystal archive paper. Hand-signed on verso. Photographer Jeffrey Rothstein focuses on different elements within Nature for his subject matter, ra...
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1990s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print

Eternal Mary Jane's / mixed media photography
Located in Burlingame, CA
Multidisciplinary visual artist Kim Frohsin created the arcane series, Reliquaries, from a variety of media—acrylic paint, glazes, ink, collage, pencils, and dry pigment—built upon pinhole photographs...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Acrylic, Mixed Media, Photographic Paper, Pinhole

New Rome #10-Floral landscape soft pastel color abstract 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...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Photographic Paper

"Instincts" Black & White Photography 39" x 31" in Ed of 7 by Kseniya Vashchenko
Located in Culver City, CA
"Instincts" Black & White 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: 3...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Digital Pigment

Flora Fauna Series Vintage Color Photograph Abstract Flower Fuji Crystal Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
FLORA & FAUNA SERIES, c.1998, Fuji crystal archive paper. Unsigned, Photographer Jeffrey Rothstein focuses on different elements within Nature for his subject matter, ranging from f...
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1990s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print

Mandala #4003
Located in New York, NY
Type-C print Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, verso 20 x 20 inches (Edition of 10) 30 x 30 inches (Edition of 5) 40 x 40 inches (Edition of 5) This artwork is offered by Clam...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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C Print

Vintage Signed Surrealist Color Photograph Eve Sonneman Cibachrome Art Photo AP
Located in Surfside, FL
The Deflated World, 1981 Cibachrome, this is the rare AP (Artists Proof) outside the edition of 10 Hand signed by artist and dated 20 × 24 in 50.8 × 61 cm Eve Sonneman (born in Chic...
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1980s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Color, Polaroid

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...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

"ARW11T-LMR Triptych" Abstract Photography 24"x24" in Ed. 1/4 by Giuliano Bekor
Located in Culver City, CA
"ARW11T-LMR Triptych" Abstract Photography 24"x24" in Ed. 1/4 by Giuliano Bekor Acacia series Title of artwork: ARW11T-LMR Triptych Year: 2020 Printed on a high-quality museum-grade...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Paper

"Run", abstract, texture, rusted, blue, purple, metal print, color photograph
Located in Natick, MA
Rebecca Skinner’s “Run” is part of a her texture series taking an up-close look at rusted and/or weathered metal. With tones of blue and purple, this 12 x 18 inch abstract color phot...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Metal

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.

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