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
Roots
By Steve Miller
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 5.
CURRENT EXHIBITION - runs through December 18th, 2016. Any framed photographs purchased during the show wil...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Cerillas, Madrid, 1997
By Chema Madoz
Located in Dallas, 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
Concepción
By Hugh Arnold
Located in Chicago, IL
Limited edition Lambda Chromogenic Print mounted on Dibond (an aluminum substrate) with UV Acrylic.
Available in two sizes:
24 x 36 inches (61 x 94 cm)
Edition size: 12
45 x 60 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Lambda
Untitled 14.01 (1990-2014)
By Rita Maas
Located in Sante Fe, NM
20th Century Plastics
The images in this series resemble gestural abstract paintings while clearly being something else. Driven by entropic forces, pictures once fixed within long...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Untitled 14.02 (1994-2014)
By Rita Maas
Located in Sante Fe, NM
20th Century Plastics
The images in this series resemble gestural abstract paintings while clearly being something else. Driven by entropic forces, pictures once fixed within long...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Untitled 14.03 (1994-2014)
By Rita Maas
Located in Sante Fe, NM
20th Century Plastics
The images in this series resemble gestural abstract paintings while clearly being something else. Driven by entropic forces, pictures once fixed within long...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Untitled 14.04 (1994-2014)
By Rita Maas
Located in Sante Fe, NM
20th Century Plastics
The images in this series resemble gestural abstract paintings while clearly being something else. Driven by entropic forces, pictures once fixed within long...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Untitled 14.05 (1989-2014)
By Rita Maas
Located in Sante Fe, NM
20th Century Plastics
The images in this series resemble gestural abstract paintings while clearly being something else. Driven by entropic forces, pictures once fixed within long...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Untitled 14.06 (1989-2014)
By Rita Maas
Located in Sante Fe, NM
20th Century Plastics
The images in this series resemble gestural abstract paintings while clearly being something else. Driven by entropic forces, pictures once fixed within long...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Untitled 14.07 (1992-2014)
By Rita Maas
Located in Sante Fe, NM
20th Century Plastics
The images in this series resemble gestural abstract paintings while clearly being something else. Driven by entropic forces, pictures once fixed within long...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Untitled 14.08 (1991-2014)
By Rita Maas
Located in Sante Fe, NM
20th Century Plastics
The images in this series resemble gestural abstract paintings while clearly being something else. Driven by entropic forces, pictures once fixed within long...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Untitled 14.09 (1989-2014)
By Rita Maas
Located in Sante Fe, NM
20th Century Plastics
The images in this series resemble gestural abstract paintings while clearly being something else. Driven by entropic forces, pictures once fixed within long...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Untitled 14.10 (1991-2014)
By Rita Maas
Located in Sante Fe, NM
20th Century Plastics
The images in this series resemble gestural abstract paintings while clearly being something else. Driven by entropic forces, pictures once fixed within long...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Untitled 14.11 (1991-2014)
By Rita Maas
Located in Sante Fe, NM
20th Century Plastics
The images in this series resemble gestural abstract paintings while clearly being something else. Driven by entropic forces, pictures once fixed within long...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Untitled 14.12 (1991-2014)
By Rita Maas
Located in Sante Fe, NM
20th Century Plastics
The images in this series resemble gestural abstract paintings while clearly being something else. Driven by entropic forces, pictures once fixed within long...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Untitled 14.13 (1989-2014)
By Rita Maas
Located in Sante Fe, NM
20th Century Plastics
The images in this series resemble gestural abstract paintings while clearly being something else. Driven by entropic forces, pictures once fixed within long...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Untitled 14.14 (1990-2014)
By Rita Maas
Located in Sante Fe, NM
20th Century Plastics
The images in this series resemble gestural abstract paintings while clearly being something else. Driven by entropic forces, pictures once fixed within long...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Untitled 14.15 (1991-2014)
By Rita Maas
Located in Sante Fe, NM
20th Century Plastics
The images in this series resemble gestural abstract paintings while clearly being something else. Driven by entropic forces, pictures once fixed within long...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Untitled 14.16 (1991-2014)
By Rita Maas
Located in Sante Fe, NM
20th Century Plastics
The images in this series resemble gestural abstract paintings while clearly being something else. Driven by entropic forces, pictures once fixed within long...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Untitled 14.17 (1990-2014)
By Rita Maas
Located in Sante Fe, NM
20th Century Plastics
The images in this series resemble gestural abstract paintings while clearly being something else. Driven by entropic forces, pictures once fixed within long...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Untitled 14.18 (1989-2014)
By Rita Maas
Located in Sante Fe, NM
20th Century Plastics
The images in this series resemble gestural abstract paintings while clearly being something else. Driven by entropic forces, pictures once fixed within long...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Untitled 14.19 (1992-2014)
By Rita Maas
Located in Sante Fe, NM
20th Century Plastics
The images in this series resemble gestural abstract paintings while clearly being something else. Driven by entropic forces, pictures once fixed within long...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Flower Dust III
By Chaco Terada
Located in Sante Fe, NM
In this series, Terada photographs cherry blossoms on water in energetic and engaging all-over compositions working on both micro and macro ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Star Dust III
By Chaco Terada
Located in Sante Fe, NM
In this series, Terada photographs cherry blossoms on water in energetic and engaging all-over compositions working on both micro and macro ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Star Dust IV, 2014
By Chaco Terada
Located in Sante Fe, NM
In this series, Terada photographs cherry blossoms on water in energetic and engaging all-over compositions working on both micro and macro ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Flower Dust II
By Chaco Terada
Located in Sante Fe, NM
In this series, Terada photographs cherry blossoms on water in energetic and engaging all-over compositions working on both micro and macro ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
DEBRIS (CARRIZO)
Located in New York, NY
DEBRIS (CARRIZO), 2004
digital chromogenic print
92 x 44 inches / 2336 x 1117 mm
edition of 3 plus AP
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Ephemeral Moments (06 2473)
By David Gibson
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Born in 1939 in Louisville Kentucky, David Gibson is primarily a self-taught photographer. Years of developing and refining his photographic technique have afforded him much recognit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Ephemeral Moments (06 297)"
By David Gibson
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Born in 1939 in Louisville Kentucky, David Gibson is primarily a self-taught photographer. Years of developing and refining his photographic technique have afforded him much recognit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Transformed Brooklyn Bridge (gone wild)
Located in New York, NY
Transformed Brooklyn Bridge (gone wild)
Archival pigment print
40 x 40 inches
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Receiving Guidance from Nature - two models in silver in pose
Located in Vienna, AT
Other sizes and prices on request.
PREISS FINE ARTS is one of the world’s leading galleries for fine art photography representing the most famous contemporary artists.
Guido Argent...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Fish Circle
By Steve Miller
Located in Hudson, NY
Black and White, Abstract, X-ray, Fish, abstract photography, fish,
All the photographs in a limited edition. If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different prin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Carbon Pigment
"Violin", 1997
By Steve Miller
Located in Hudson, NY
While all photography arrests motion, it is only the X-ray that allows us to climb inside a particular moment and subject and parse the structure of its beauty from within. Miller’s ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
"Pods", 2008
By Steve Miller
Located in Hudson, NY
The use of X-ray photography in "Pods" gives the seed pouches and stems a skeletal appearance.
While all photography arrests motion, it is only the X-ray that allows us to climb in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
"Shark A", 2011
By Steve Miller
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 1.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is prod...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
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.