Abstract Color Photography
ABSTRACT STYLE
Beginning in the early 20th century, abstract art became a leading style of modernism. Rather than portray the world in a way that represented reality, as had been the dominating style of Western art in the previous centuries, abstract paintings, prints and sculptures are marked by a shift to geometric forms, gestural shapes and experimentation with color to express ideas, subject matter and scenes.
Although abstract art flourished in the early 1900s, propelled by movements like Fauvism and Cubism, it was rooted in the 19th century. In the 1840s, J.M.W. Turner emphasized light and motion for atmospheric paintings in which concrete details were blurred, and Paul Cézanne challenged traditional expectations of perspective in the 1890s.
Some of the earliest abstract artists — Wassily Kandinsky and Hilma af Klint — expanded on these breakthroughs while using vivid colors and forms to channel spiritual concepts. Painter Piet Mondrian, a Dutch pioneer of the art movement, explored geometric abstraction partly owing to his belief in Theosophy, which is grounded in a search for higher spiritual truths and embraces philosophers of the Renaissance period and medieval mystics. Black Square, a daringly simple 1913 work by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, was a watershed statement on creating art that was free “from the dead weight of the real world,” as he later wrote.
Surrealism in the 1920s, led by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Meret Oppenheim and others, saw painters creating abstract pieces in order to connect to the subconscious. When Abstract Expressionism emerged in New York during the mid-20th century, it similarly centered on the process of creation, in which Helen Frankenthaler’s expressive “soak-stain” technique, Jackson Pollock’s drips of paint, and Mark Rothko’s planes of color were a radical new type of abstraction.
Conceptual art, Pop art, Hard-Edge painting and many other movements offered fresh approaches to abstraction that continued into the 21st century, with major contemporary artists now exploring it, including Anish Kapoor, Mark Bradford, El Anatsui and Julie Mehretu.
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Style: Abstract
Exquisite Ghost - photograph of an underwater reflection - archival print 16x23"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
“Exquisite Ghost” 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 ...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper
Arcana 11. Abstract color photograph
By Monika Bravo
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Arcana 11, 2023 by Monika Bravo
From The Series Arcana
Archival digital print
Size: 40 in. H x 108 in. W
"Arcana" stems as a series of unique studies for an upcoming commissioned glass/metal wall at the Interdisciplinary Engineering building at the University of Washington in Seattle. Whimsical elements in vibrant colors interact with geometric silhouettes, inspired by Oskar Schlemmer's Triad ballet and Josef Albers' pedagogical experiments from the Bauhaus era; they also incorporate historical engineering tools.
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Bravo uses multiple treatments of the image, that the artist relates to a specific place, this correspondence between space and transformation has led her practice to focus on the analysis of the places where she lives physically and emotionally, as a result, the works dwell between the document and the anecdotal.
Monika Bravo examines the notion of perception by questioning whether the world we live in, is but a mental construction; her artistic practice is used as a tool to decipher the laws that govern the world she lives in. Through this survey, she creates objects by incorporating still, moving, audio and interactive images to generate situations where she can materialize and communicate her emotional state. She wants to challenge the audience’s own perception of what they consider real by generating a platform where they are induced to connect by exploring, interacting, and at times by focusing on an object-place- scene for a duration of time in a manner that is both meditative and investigative.
Monika Bravo is a multi-disciplinary artist born in Bogotá, Colombia, who lives and works in Miami. In 1982, Bravo left Bogotá, moving to Rome to study fashion design, which she continued in Paris at Esmod, before traveling to London to study photography. In 1994 she moved to New York. Her work has received acclaim including a 1999 New York Times review which called her piece Synchronicity (from a group exhibition at El Museo del Barrio) a "standout...small, beautifully blurry video images of boats plowing through New York Harbor..." Recent exhibitions: Rubin Museum, the power of intention, 56th Venice Biennale representing the Vatican City-State, at the Pavilion of the Holy See. TESSERAE curated by Octavio Zaya is shown at Flora Ars Natura, Bogota, and Johannes Vogt, NYC, Saro Leon, Gran Canaria. Everyday Alchemy, curated by Andrea Hinteregger De Mayo at Von Bartha Gallery, Base; WOVEN Xaviera Simmons...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Alice - photograph of an underwater reflection - archival print 25 x 353"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
“Alice” 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 Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Arcana 10. Abstract color photograph
By Monika Bravo
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Arcana 10, 2023 by Monika Bravo
From The Series Arcana
Archival digital print
Size: 40 in. H x 108 in. W
"Arcana" stems as a series of unique studies for an upcoming commissioned glass/metal wall at the Interdisciplinary Engineering building at the University of Washington in Seattle. Whimsical elements in vibrant colors interact with geometric silhouettes, inspired by Oskar Schlemmer's Triad ballet and Josef Albers' pedagogical experiments from the Bauhaus era; they also incorporate historical engineering tools.
______________________
Bravo uses multiple treatments of the image, that the artist relates to a specific place, this correspondence between space and transformation has led her practice to focus on the analysis of the places where she lives physically and emotionally, as a result, the works dwell between the document and the anecdotal.
Monika Bravo examines the notion of perception by questioning whether the world we live in, is but a mental construction; her artistic practice is used as a tool to decipher the laws that govern the world she lives in. Through this survey, she creates objects by incorporating still, moving, audio and interactive images to generate situations where she can materialize and communicate her emotional state. She wants to challenge the audience’s own perception of what they consider real by generating a platform where they are induced to connect by exploring, interacting, and at times by focusing on an object-place- scene for a duration of time in a manner that is both meditative and investigative.
Monika Bravo is a multi-disciplinary artist born in Bogotá, Colombia, who lives and works in Miami. In 1982, Bravo left Bogotá, moving to Rome to study fashion design, which she continued in Paris at Esmod, before traveling to London to study photography. In 1994 she moved to New York. Her work has received acclaim including a 1999 New York Times review which called her piece Synchronicity (from a group exhibition at El Museo del Barrio) a "standout...small, beautifully blurry video images of boats plowing through New York Harbor..." Recent exhibitions: Rubin Museum, the power of intention, 56th Venice Biennale representing the Vatican City-State, at the Pavilion of the Holy See. TESSERAE curated by Octavio Zaya is shown at Flora Ars Natura, Bogota, and Johannes Vogt, NYC, Saro Leon, Gran Canaria. Everyday Alchemy, curated by Andrea Hinteregger De Mayo at Von Bartha Gallery, Base; WOVEN Xaviera Simmons...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Astrologist - photograph of an underwater reflection - archival print 23x35"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
“Astrologist” is a part of Alex Sher’s series "Reflections" - underwater photographs that could be mistaken for paintings as they bring up recollections of masterpieces by Picasso, D...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
New York City Street Photography - Ephemeral Car Reflections
Located in Miami, FL
On a busy Manhattan street, unnatural light reflects off of windshields and forms a mind-bending abstraction of colors and shapes. In the background, four male mannequins stare at th...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
The Scream - photograph of an underwater reflection - archival print 24x35"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
“Scream” 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 masterpie...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Arcana 09. Abstract color photograph
By Monika Bravo
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Arcana 09, 2023 by Monika Bravo
From The Series Arcana
Archival digital print
Size: 34 in. H x 50 in. W
"Arcana" stems as a series of unique studies for an upcoming commissioned glass/metal wall at the Interdisciplinary Engineering building at the University of Washington in Seattle. Whimsical elements in vibrant colors interact with geometric silhouettes, inspired by Oskar Schlemmer's Triad ballet and Josef Albers' pedagogical experiments from the Bauhaus era; they also incorporate historical engineering tools.
______________________
Bravo uses multiple treatments of the image, that the artist relates to a specific place, this correspondence between space and transformation has led her practice to focus on the analysis of the places where she lives physically and emotionally, as a result, the works dwell between the document and the anecdotal.
Monika Bravo examines the notion of perception by questioning whether the world we live in, is but a mental construction; her artistic practice is used as a tool to decipher the laws that govern the world she lives in. Through this survey, she creates objects by incorporating still, moving, audio and interactive images to generate situations where she can materialize and communicate her emotional state. She wants to challenge the audience’s own perception of what they consider real by generating a platform where they are induced to connect by exploring, interacting, and at times by focusing on an object-place- scene for a duration of time in a manner that is both meditative and investigative.
Monika Bravo is a multi-disciplinary artist born in Bogotá, Colombia, who lives and works in Miami. In 1982, Bravo left Bogotá, moving to Rome to study fashion design, which she continued in Paris at Esmod, before traveling to London to study photography. In 1994 she moved to New York. Her work has received acclaim including a 1999 New York Times review which called her piece Synchronicity (from a group exhibition at El Museo del Barrio) a "standout...small, beautifully blurry video images of boats plowing through New York Harbor..." Recent exhibitions: Rubin Museum, the power of intention, 56th Venice Biennale representing the Vatican City-State, at the Pavilion of the Holy See. TESSERAE curated by Octavio Zaya is shown at Flora Ars Natura, Bogota, and Johannes Vogt, NYC, Saro Leon, Gran Canaria. Everyday Alchemy, curated by Andrea Hinteregger De Mayo at Von Bartha Gallery, Base; WOVEN Xaviera Simmons...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Arcana 07. Abstract color photograph
By Monika Bravo
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Arcana 07, 2023 by Monika Bravo
From The Series Arcana
Archival digital print
Size: 16 in. H x 24 in. W
"Arcana" stems as a series of unique studies for an upcoming commissioned gla...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Arcana 08. Abstract color photograph
By Monika Bravo
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Arcana 08, 2023 by Monika Bravo
From The Series Arcana
Archival digital print
Size: 24 in. H x 36 in. W
"Arcana" stems as a series of unique studies for an upcoming commissioned gla...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Arcana 06. Abstract color photograph
By Monika Bravo
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Arcana 06, 2023 by Monika Bravo
From The Series Arcana
Archival digital print
Size: 13 in. H x 19 in. W
"Arcana" stems as a series of unique studies for an upcoming commissioned gla...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Arcana 04. Abstract color photograph
By Monika Bravo
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Arcana 04, 2023 by Monika Bravo
From The Series Arcana
Archival digital print
Size: 24 in. H x 36 in. W
"Arcana" stems as a series of unique studies for an upcoming commissioned gla...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Arcana 05. Abstract color photograph
By Monika Bravo
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Arcana 05, 2023 by Monika Bravo
From The Series Arcana
Archival digital print
Size: 34 in. H x 50 in. W
"Arcana" stems as a series of unique studies for an upcoming commissioned gla...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Bikini Window Abstraction Times Square - Urban Street Photography
Located in Miami, FL
Extreme late light darts down a street in Times Square. It illuminates a colorful and semi-abstract window display. A single female figure at the extreme right of the compostion sh...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Pigment, Archival Paper
Deck Chair Casual Abstraction with Raking Light and Shadows
Located in Miami, FL
Deck chairs randomly positioned on an Upper East Side balcony are captured by Photographer Mitchell Funk. Raking light produces abstract long shadows giving the overall arrangement of elements a casual abstract look. In the center of the composition is a yellow and green chair with colors...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Arcana 02. Abstract color photograph
By Monika Bravo
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Arcana 02, 2023 by Monika Bravo
From The Series Arcana
Archival digital print
Size: 13 in. H x 19 in. W
"Arcana" stems as a series of unique studies for an upcoming commissioned glass...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Prophetess - photograph of an underwater reflection - archival print 13 x 23"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
“Prophetess” 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 maste...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Arcana 03. Abstract color photograph
By Monika Bravo
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Arcana 03, 2023 by Monika Bravo
From The Series Arcana
Archival digital print
Size: 16 in. H x 24 in. W
"Arcana" stems as a series of unique studies for an upcoming commissioned glass...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Arcana 01. Abstract color photograph
By Monika Bravo
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Arcana 01, 2023 by Monika Bravo
From The Series Arcana
Archival digital print
Size: 34 in. H x 50 in. W
"Arcana" stems as a series of unique studies for an upcoming commissioned glass...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
The Scream - photograph of an underwater reflection - archival print 16 x 23"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
“Scream” 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 masterpie...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper
Arcana 15. Abstract color photograph
By Monika Bravo
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Arcana 15, 2023 by Monika Bravo
From The Series Arcana
Archival digital print
Size: 19 in. H x 13 in. W
"Arcana" stems as a series of unique studies for an upcoming commissioned glass...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Digital
Arcana 16. Abstract color photograph
By Monika Bravo
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Arcana 16, 2023 by Monika Bravo
From The Series Arcana
Archival digital print
Size: 24 in. H x 16 in. W
"Arcana" stems as a series of unique studies for an upcoming commissioned glass...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Astrologist - photograph of an underwater reflection - archival print 15 x 23"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
“Astrologist” is a part of Alex Sher’s series "Reflections" - underwater photographs that could be mistaken for paintings as they bring up recollections of masterpieces by Picasso, D...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Arcana 17. Abstract color photograph
By Monika Bravo
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Arcana 17, 2023 by Monika Bravo
From The Series Arcana
Archival digital print
Size: 36 in. H x 24 in. W
"Arcana" stems as a series of unique studies for an upcoming commissioned glass...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Alice - photograph of an underwater reflection - archival print 16 x 23"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
“Alice” 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 Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Impression Photography Limited Signed
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
Photography, limited to 5, signed by the author. Impression from a traveling journey, hope you like it.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Candida Höfer, Colored Wood: Signed Photograph, Abstract Photography
Located in Hamburg, DE
Candida Höfer (German, born 1944)
Colored Wood, 2017
Medium: C-Print
Dimensions: 56 × 57.7 cm (22 × 22 7/10 in)
Edition of 100: Hand-signed and numbered on verso
Condtion: Mint
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Flowing 1 - Signed limited edition abstract pigment print, Large contemporary
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Flowing 1 - Large scale photograph by Michael Banks -Archival Pigment print on fiber based paper ( Hahnemühle Photo RAG Baryta 315 gsm )
Limited Editions of 5 , signed + numbered...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Di...
Tiger III : nature photography
Located in New York, NY
Roslyn Meyer’s lens plays on the surface of soft undulating ripples; reflecting sky, flora and fauna, as well as the man-made world. These abstract images...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Tiger IV : nature photography
Located in New York, NY
Roslyn Meyer’s lens plays on the surface of soft undulating ripples; reflecting sky, flora and fauna, as well as the man-made world. These abstract images...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Space Field, Digital Iris Print Muse X Large Photograph on Heavy Paper
Located in Surfside, FL
These are from the 1990s printed at Muse X and never framed. they are unsigned and unnumbered but from a very small edition. they are quite beautiful.
Victor Raphael was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1950. He studied art and theater at California State University Northridge and graduated from UCLA. He has exhibited throughout the nation and abroad. In 1996, his work was among the 50 best examples of Polaroid photography included in Polaroid 50: Art and Technology, an international touring exhibition commemorating the company’s 50th anniversary. He works in a wide range of media spanning painting, photography, filmmaking, printmaking, and digital technology. He creates complex and beautiful images that expand conventional views of time and space. For the past three decades, Raphael has produced a unique body of work by merging traditional media such as painting, photography and printmaking with modern electronic media, including video, digital printing and interactive technologies. In addition to his central themes of the exploration of the cosmos and aspects of travel–through space or time–and their visual records, the artist has developed an important body of paintings, in which water, for instance, and its protean and timeless qualities, form an important part. His photography process of digitally manipulating NASA photographs of planets and other natural celestial phenomena into Polaroid prints, and next altering them by hand with metallic paints and gold and metal leaf.
Education: University of California, Los Angeles, B.A., 1973, Magna Cum Laude
California State University, Northridge, 1968-1970
SELECTED ONE AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, From Lead Into Gold
Oregon Jewish Museum, The Heavens Spread Out Like A Prayer Shawl
Skirball Cultural Center, Illuminated Reflections: A Bill Aron and Victor Raphael Collaboration.
Cypress College, Victor Raphael & Clayton Spada Collaboration: From Zero to Infinity
Karpeles Manuscript Library and Museum, Santa Barbara, CA, Jean-Pierre Hebert & Victor Raphael: Illuminated Collaboration
Cypress College, Paris Polaroids: Art In The City Of Lights
Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Victor Raphael: Envisioning Space
(20-year survey with catalogue)
Santa Monica College, Space Fields, Abstractions and Jackson Pollock 1980-1991 (catalogue)
Richard Green Gallery...
Category
1990s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Space Field, Digital Iris Print Muse X Large Photograph on Heavy Paper
Located in Surfside, FL
These are from the 1990s printed at Muse X and never framed. they are unsigned and unnumbered but from a very small edition. they are quite beautiful.
Victor Raphael was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1950. He studied art and theater at California State University Northridge and graduated from UCLA. He has exhibited throughout the nation and abroad. In 1996, his work was among the 50 best examples of Polaroid photography included in Polaroid 50: Art and Technology, an international touring exhibition commemorating the company’s 50th anniversary. He works in a wide range of media spanning painting, photography, filmmaking, printmaking, and digital technology. He creates complex and beautiful images that expand conventional views of time and space. For the past three decades, Raphael has produced a unique body of work by merging traditional media such as painting, photography and printmaking with modern electronic media, including video, digital printing and interactive technologies. In addition to his central themes of the exploration of the cosmos and aspects of travel–through space or time–and their visual records, the artist has developed an important body of paintings, in which water, for instance, and its protean and timeless qualities, form an important part. His photography process of digitally manipulating NASA photographs of planets and other natural celestial phenomena into Polaroid prints, and next altering them by hand with metallic paints and gold and metal leaf.
Education: University of California, Los Angeles, B.A., 1973, Magna Cum Laude
California State University, Northridge, 1968-1970
SELECTED ONE AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, From Lead Into Gold
Oregon Jewish Museum, The Heavens Spread Out Like A Prayer Shawl
Skirball Cultural Center, Illuminated Reflections: A Bill Aron and Victor Raphael Collaboration.
Cypress College, Victor Raphael & Clayton Spada Collaboration: From Zero to Infinity
Karpeles Manuscript Library and Museum, Santa Barbara, CA, Jean-Pierre Hebert & Victor Raphael: Illuminated Collaboration
Cypress College, Paris Polaroids: Art In The City Of Lights
Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Victor Raphael: Envisioning Space
(20-year survey with catalogue)
Santa Monica College, Space Fields, Abstractions and Jackson Pollock 1980-1991 (catalogue)
Richard Green Gallery...
Category
1990s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Tulips. 2004, photography, 44x29 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Tulips. 2004, photography, ice/sun/water, 44x29 cm
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Eden. 2004, photography, 44x29 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Eden. 2004, photography, ice/sun/water, 44x29 cm
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Space Field, Digital Iris Print Muse X Large Photograph on Heavy Paper
Located in Surfside, FL
These are from the 1990s printed at Muse X and never framed. they are unsigned and unnumbered but from a very small edition. they are quite beautiful.
Victor Raphael was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1950. He studied art and theater at California State University Northridge and graduated from UCLA. He has exhibited throughout the nation and abroad. In 1996, his work was among the 50 best examples of Polaroid photography included in Polaroid 50: Art and Technology, an international touring exhibition commemorating the company’s 50th anniversary. He works in a wide range of media spanning painting, photography, filmmaking, printmaking, and digital technology. He creates complex and beautiful images that expand conventional views of time and space. For the past three decades, Raphael has produced a unique body of work by merging traditional media such as painting, photography and printmaking with modern electronic media, including video, digital printing and interactive technologies. In addition to his central themes of the exploration of the cosmos and aspects of travel–through space or time–and their visual records, the artist has developed an important body of paintings, in which water, for instance, and its protean and timeless qualities, form an important part. His photography process of digitally manipulating NASA photographs of planets and other natural celestial phenomena into Polaroid prints, and next altering them by hand with metallic paints and gold and metal leaf.
Education: University of California, Los Angeles, B.A., 1973, Magna Cum Laude
California State University, Northridge, 1968-1970
SELECTED ONE AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, From Lead Into Gold
Oregon Jewish Museum, The Heavens Spread Out Like A Prayer Shawl
Skirball Cultural Center, Illuminated Reflections: A Bill Aron and Victor Raphael Collaboration.
Cypress College, Victor Raphael & Clayton Spada Collaboration: From Zero to Infinity
Karpeles Manuscript Library and Museum, Santa Barbara, CA, Jean-Pierre Hebert & Victor Raphael: Illuminated Collaboration
Cypress College, Paris Polaroids: Art In The City Of Lights
Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Victor Raphael: Envisioning Space
(20-year survey with catalogue)
Santa Monica College, Space Fields, Abstractions and Jackson Pollock 1980-1991 (catalogue)
Richard Green Gallery...
Category
1990s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Willowherb. 2004, photography, 81x51 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Willowherb. 2004, photography, ice/sun/water, 81x51 cm
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Spring. 2004, photography, 44x29 сm
Located in Riga, LV
Spring. 2004, photography, 44x29 сm
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Space Field, Digital Iris Print Muse X Large Photograph on Heavy Paper
Located in Surfside, FL
These are from the 1990s printed at Muse X and never framed. they are unsigned and unnumbered but from a very small edition. they are quite beautiful.
Victor Raphael was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1950. He studied art and theater at California State University Northridge and graduated from UCLA. He has exhibited throughout the nation and abroad. In 1996, his work was among the 50 best examples of Polaroid photography included in Polaroid 50: Art and Technology, an international touring exhibition commemorating the company’s 50th anniversary. He works in a wide range of media spanning painting, photography, filmmaking, printmaking, and digital technology. He creates complex and beautiful images that expand conventional views of time and space. For the past three decades, Raphael has produced a unique body of work by merging traditional media such as painting, photography and printmaking with modern electronic media, including video, digital printing and interactive technologies. In addition to his central themes of the exploration of the cosmos and aspects of travel–through space or time–and their visual records, the artist has developed an important body of paintings, in which water, for instance, and its protean and timeless qualities, form an important part. His photography process of digitally manipulating NASA photographs of planets and other natural celestial phenomena into Polaroid prints, and next altering them by hand with metallic paints and gold and metal leaf.
Education: University of California, Los Angeles, B.A., 1973, Magna Cum Laude
California State University, Northridge, 1968-1970
SELECTED ONE AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, From Lead Into Gold
Oregon Jewish Museum, The Heavens Spread Out Like A Prayer Shawl
Skirball Cultural Center, Illuminated Reflections: A Bill Aron and Victor Raphael Collaboration.
Cypress College, Victor Raphael & Clayton Spada Collaboration: From Zero to Infinity
Karpeles Manuscript Library and Museum, Santa Barbara, CA, Jean-Pierre Hebert & Victor Raphael: Illuminated Collaboration
Cypress College, Paris Polaroids: Art In The City Of Lights
Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Victor Raphael: Envisioning Space
(20-year survey with catalogue)
Santa Monica College, Space Fields, Abstractions and Jackson Pollock 1980-1991 (catalogue)
Richard Green Gallery...
Category
1990s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Space Field, Digital Iris Print Muse X Large Photograph on Heavy Paper
Located in Surfside, FL
These are from the 1990s printed at Muse X and never framed. they are unsigned and unnumbered but from a very small edition. they are quite beautiful.
Victor Raphael was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1950. He studied art and theater at California State University Northridge and graduated from UCLA. He has exhibited throughout the nation and abroad. In 1996, his work was among the 50 best examples of Polaroid photography included in Polaroid 50: Art and Technology, an international touring exhibition commemorating the company’s 50th anniversary. He works in a wide range of media spanning painting, photography, filmmaking, printmaking, and digital technology. He creates complex and beautiful images that expand conventional views of time and space. For the past three decades, Raphael has produced a unique body of work by merging traditional media such as painting, photography and printmaking with modern electronic media, including video, digital printing and interactive technologies. In addition to his central themes of the exploration of the cosmos and aspects of travel–through space or time–and their visual records, the artist has developed an important body of paintings, in which water, for instance, and its protean and timeless qualities, form an important part. His photography process of digitally manipulating NASA photographs of planets and other natural celestial phenomena into Polaroid prints, and next altering them by hand with metallic paints and gold and metal leaf.
Education: University of California, Los Angeles, B.A., 1973, Magna Cum Laude
California State University, Northridge, 1968-1970
SELECTED ONE AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, From Lead Into Gold
Oregon Jewish Museum, The Heavens Spread Out Like A Prayer Shawl
Skirball Cultural Center, Illuminated Reflections: A Bill Aron and Victor Raphael Collaboration.
Cypress College, Victor Raphael & Clayton Spada Collaboration: From Zero to Infinity
Karpeles Manuscript Library and Museum, Santa Barbara, CA, Jean-Pierre Hebert & Victor Raphael: Illuminated Collaboration
Cypress College, Paris Polaroids: Art In The City Of Lights
Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Victor Raphael: Envisioning Space
(20-year survey with catalogue)
Santa Monica College, Space Fields, Abstractions and Jackson Pollock 1980-1991 (catalogue)
Richard Green Gallery...
Category
1990s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Psalm. 2005, photography, 44 x 54, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Psalm. 2005, photography (ice/sun/water), 44x54,5 cm
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The search - Signed limited edition still life pigment print, Contemporary
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
The search - Signed limited edition archival pigment print, Edition of 3
Signed + numbered by artist with certificate of authenticity , unframed
This is an Archival Pigment print on...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Digital Pig...
Window - Polaroid colour photography of window in London, Limited edition of 20
Located in London, GB
'Window'
Detail of Christ Church by architect John Peter Darvall.
2023
Printed on 30 x 30cm Hahnemühle Photo Rag fine art paper.
Photograph is signed front and back and comes wi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Film, Photographic Film, Color, Giclée, Polaroid
W.T.C: Concrete Abstract#10 (panorama)
By Shai Kremer
Located in New York, NY
Shai Kremer lives and works in New York. He completed his MFA studies at the School of Visual Arts (S.V.A) in Manhattan.
For many years, Kremer's eye has been drawn to themes of urban destruction and reconstruction and to landscapes evidencing trauma. These concerns merged in his ambitious series W.T.C: Concrete Abstract, which explores the impact of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. For more than a decade, Kremer made periodic visits to Ground Zero, focusing his camera on the efforts towards recovery, repair, and renewal. As a collection, Concrete Abstract conveys the gradual progression from tragedy towards healing.
Each large-scale archival pigment print in the series is composed from as many as sixty to 100 overlapping images, resulting in a subtle collage that invites closer inspection while also reading as a unified whole.
W.T.C: Concrete Abstract series was shown in the following venues:
9.11 Memorial Museum New York
Museum of the City of New York
The Bronx Museum of the Arts
The Brooklyn Academy of Music
Photolux Festival. Lucca, Italy
FMoPa. Tampa, USA
Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Robert Koch Gallery...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
W.T.C: Concrete Abstract#11
By Shai Kremer
Located in New York, NY
Shai Kremer lives and works in New York. He completed his MFA studies at the School of Visual Arts (S.V.A) in Manhattan.
For many years, Kremer's eye has been drawn to themes of urban destruction and reconstruction and to landscapes evidencing trauma. These concerns merged in his ambitious series W.T.C: Concrete Abstract, which explores the impact of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. For more than a decade, Kremer made periodic visits to Ground Zero, focusing his camera on the efforts towards recovery, repair, and renewal. As a collection, Concrete Abstract conveys the gradual progression from tragedy towards healing.
Each large-scale archival pigment print in the series is composed from as many as sixty to 100 overlapping images, resulting in a subtle collage that invites closer inspection while also reading as a unified whole.
W.T.C: Concrete Abstract series was shown in the following venues:
9.11 Memorial Museum New York
Museum of the City of New York
The Bronx Museum of the Arts
The Brooklyn Academy of Music
Photolux Festival. Lucca, Italy
FMoPa. Tampa, USA
Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Robert Koch Gallery...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink
W.T.C: Concrete Abstract#12
By Shai Kremer
Located in New York, NY
Shai Kremer lives and works in New York. He completed his MFA studies at the School of Visual Arts (S.V.A) in Manhattan.
For many years, Kremer's eye has been drawn to themes of urban destruction and reconstruction and to landscapes evidencing trauma. These concerns merged in his ambitious series W.T.C: Concrete Abstract, which explores the impact of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. For more than a decade, Kremer made periodic visits to Ground Zero, focusing his camera on the efforts towards recovery, repair, and renewal. As a collection, Concrete Abstract conveys the gradual progression from tragedy towards healing.
Each large-scale archival pigment print in the series is composed from as many as sixty to 100 overlapping images, resulting in a subtle collage that invites closer inspection while also reading as a unified whole.
W.T.C: Concrete Abstract series was shown in the following venues:
9.11 Memorial Museum New York
Museum of the City of New York
The Bronx Museum of the Arts
The Brooklyn Academy of Music
Photolux Festival. Lucca, Italy
FMoPa. Tampa, USA
Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Robert Koch Gallery...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
W.T.C: Concrete Abstract#14
By Shai Kremer
Located in New York, NY
Shai Kremer lives and works in New York. He completed his MFA studies at the School of Visual Arts (S.V.A) in Manhattan.
For many years, Kremer's eye has been drawn to themes of urban destruction and reconstruction and to landscapes evidencing trauma. These concerns merged in his ambitious series W.T.C: Concrete Abstract, which explores the impact of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. For more than a decade, Kremer made periodic visits to Ground Zero, focusing his camera on the efforts towards recovery, repair, and renewal. As a collection, Concrete Abstract conveys the gradual progression from tragedy towards healing.
Each large-scale archival pigment print in the series is composed from as many as sixty to 100 overlapping images, resulting in a subtle collage that invites closer inspection while also reading as a unified whole.
9/11 Memorial & Museum W.T.C: Concrete Abstract series was shown in the following venues:
9.11 Memorial Museum New York
Museum of the City of New York
The Bronx Museum of the Arts
The Brooklyn Academy of Music
Photolux Festival. Lucca, Italy
FMoPa. Tampa, USA
Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Robert Koch Gallery...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
W.T.C: Concrete Abstract#13
By Shai Kremer
Located in New York, NY
Shai Kremer lives and works in New York. He completed his MFA studies at the School of Visual Arts (S.V.A) in Manhattan.
For many years, Kremer's eye has been drawn to themes of urban destruction and reconstruction and to landscapes evidencing trauma. These concerns merged in his ambitious series W.T.C: Concrete Abstract, which explores the impact of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. For more than a decade, Kremer made periodic visits to Ground Zero, focusing his camera on the efforts towards recovery, repair, and renewal. As a collection, Concrete Abstract conveys the gradual progression from tragedy towards healing.
Each large-scale archival pigment print in the series is composed from as many as sixty to 100 overlapping images, resulting in a subtle collage that invites closer inspection while also reading as a unified whole.
W.T.C: Concrete Abstract series was shown in the following venues:
9.11 Memorial Museum New York
Museum of the City of New York
The Bronx Museum of the Arts
The Brooklyn Academy of Music
Photolux Festival. Lucca, Italy
FMoPa. Tampa, USA
Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Robert Koch Gallery...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Vintage Large Format Abstract Unique Color Photo Polaroid Photograph Ellen Carey
By Ellen Carey
Located in Surfside, FL
Untitled, Unique photograph. Center panel from larger scale installation. Shot in the 20X24 format. (this measures about 20X20 inches)
Ellen Carey, American artist and photographer.
Ellen Carey resides in Hartford, Connecticut, and teaches at the Hartford Art School. She holds a B.F.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri, and an M.F.A. from State University of New York at Buffalo. Her photographs have been exhibited at numerous galleries and museums, including the International Center for Photography, New York and the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has received many grants from her home state of Connecticut as well as the Massachusetts Council of the Arts, New Works Grant, New York State Federation for Artists Grant; and a National Endowment for the Arts Award. Her photographs are in the permanent collections of The Art Institute of Chicago; the Baltimore Museum of Art; Brooklyn Museum of Arts; Chase Manhattan Bank; Coca Cola Corporation; Fogg Art Museum; George Eastman House; International Center for Photography; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others.
Abstract photography, sometimes called non-objective, experimental, conceptual or concrete photography, is a means of depicting a visual image that does not have an immediate association with the object world and that has been created through the use of photographic equipment, processes or materials. Some photographers pushed the boundaries of conventional imagery by incorporating the visions of surrealism or futurism into their work. Man Ray, Maurice Tabard, André Kertész, Curtis Moffat and Filippo Masoero were some of the best known artists who produced startling imagery that questioned both reality and perspective.
Both during and after World War II photographers such as Minor White, Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith and Lotte Jacobi explored compositions of found objects in ways that demonstrated even our natural world has elements of abstraction embedded in it. Beginning in the late 1970s photographers stretched the limits of both scale and surface in what was then traditional photographic media that had to be developed in a darkroom. Inspired by the work of Moholy-Nagy, Susan Rankaitis first began embedding found images from scientific textbooks into large-scale photograms. By the 1990s a new wave of photographers were exploring the possibilities of using computers to create new ways of creating photographs. Photographers such as Thomas Ruff, Barbara Kasten, Tom Friedman, and Carel Balth were creating works that combined photography, sculpture, printmaking and computer-generated images.
Any boundaries that remained between pure artists and pure photographers were eliminated by individuals who worked exclusively in photography but produced only computer-generated images. Among the most well-known of the early 21st century generation were Gaston Bertin...
Category
1980s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Polaroid
W.T.C: Concrete Abstract#9
By Shai Kremer
Located in New York, NY
Israel-born photographer Shai Kremer lives and works in New York. He completed his MFA studies at the School of Visual Arts (S.V.A) in Manhattan.
For many years, Kremer's eye has been drawn to themes of urban destruction and reconstruction and to landscapes evidencing trauma. These concerns merged in his ambitious series W.T.C: Concrete Abstract, which explores the impact of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. For more than a decade, Kremer made periodic visits to Ground Zero, focusing his camera on the efforts towards recovery, repair, and renewal. As a collection, Concrete Abstract conveys the gradual progression from tragedy towards healing.
Each large-scale archival pigment print in the series is composed from as many as sixty to 100 overlapping images, resulting in a subtle collage that invites closer inspection while also reading as a unified whole.
W.T.C: Concrete Abstract series was shown in the following venues:
9.11 Memorial Museum New York
Museum of the City of New York
The Bronx Museum of the Arts
The Brooklyn Academy of Music
Photolux Festival. Lucca, Italy
FMoPa. Tampa, USA
Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Robert Koch Gallery...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Mandala 8A, From the Mandalas series. Color Photographs
By Emma Anna
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Mandala 8A by Emma Anna
From The Mandalas Series
Archival pigment print on Photo Rag 308gsm
Image size: 19.5 H x 19.5 W inches
Sheet size: 22 H x 22 W inches
Frame size: 24.5 H x 24...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
W.T.C: Concrete Abstract #7
By Shai Kremer
Located in New York, NY
Israel-born photographer Shai Kremer lives and works in New York. He completed his MFA studies at the School of Visual Arts (S.V.A) in Manhattan.
For many years, Kremer's eye has been drawn to themes of urban destruction and reconstruction and to landscapes evidencing trauma. These concerns merged in his ambitious series W.T.C: Concrete Abstract, which explores the impact of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. For more than a decade, Kremer made periodic visits to Ground Zero, focusing his camera on the efforts towards recovery, repair, and renewal. As a collection, Concrete Abstract conveys the gradual progression from tragedy towards healing.
Each large-scale archival pigment print in the series is composed from as many as sixty to 100 overlapping images, resulting in a subtle collage that invites closer inspection while also reading as a unified whole.
W.T.C: Concrete Abstract series was shown in the following venues:
9.11 Memorial Museum New York
Museum of the City of New York
The Bronx Museum of the Arts
The Brooklyn Academy of Music
Photolux Festival. Lucca, Italy
FMoPa. Tampa, USA
Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Robert Koch Gallery...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
W.T.C: Concrete Abstract #6
By Shai Kremer
Located in New York, NY
W.T.C: Concrete Abstract #6 is at the collection of Israel Museum Jerusalem.
Israel-born photographer Shai Kremer lives and works in New York. He completed his MFA studies at the Sc...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
W.T.C: Concrete Abstract #5
By Shai Kremer
Located in New York, NY
Israel-born photographer Shai Kremer lives and works in New York. He completed his MFA studies at the School of Visual Arts (S.V.A) in Manhattan.
For many years, Kremer's eye has been drawn to themes of urban destruction and reconstruction and to landscapes evidencing trauma. These concerns merged in his ambitious series W.T.C: Concrete Abstract, which explores the impact of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. For more than a decade, Kremer made periodic visits to Ground Zero, focusing his camera on the efforts towards recovery, repair, and renewal. As a collection, Concrete Abstract conveys the gradual progression from tragedy towards healing.
Each large-scale archival pigment print in the series is composed from as many as sixty to 100 overlapping images, resulting in a subtle collage that invites closer inspection while also reading as a unified whole.
W.T.C: Concrete Abstract series was shown in the following venues:
9.11 Memorial Museum New York
Museum of the City of New York
The Bronx Museum of the Arts
The Brooklyn Academy of Music
Photolux Festival. Lucca, Italy
FMoPa. Tampa, USA
Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Robert Koch Gallery...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
W.T.C: Concrete Abstract #8 (Triptych)
By Shai Kremer
Located in New York, NY
Israel-born photographer Shai Kremer lives and works in New York. He completed his MFA studies at the School of Visual Arts (S.V.A) in Manhattan.
For many years, Kremer's eye has been drawn to themes of urban destruction and reconstruction and to landscapes evidencing trauma. These concerns merged in his ambitious series W.T.C: Concrete Abstract, which explores the impact of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. For more than a decade, Kremer made periodic visits to Ground Zero, focusing his camera on the efforts towards recovery, repair, and renewal. As a collection, Concrete Abstract conveys the gradual progression from tragedy towards healing.
Each large-scale archival pigment print in the series is composed from as many as sixty to 100 overlapping images, resulting in a subtle collage that invites closer inspection while also reading as a unified whole.
W.T.C: Concrete Abstract series was shown in the following venues:
9.11 Memorial Museum New York
Museum of the City of New York
The Bronx Museum of the Arts
The Brooklyn Academy of Music
Photolux Festival. Lucca, Italy
FMoPa. Tampa, USA
Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Robert Koch Gallery...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
W.T.C: Concrete Abstract #4
By Shai Kremer
Located in New York, NY
Israel-born photographer Shai Kremer lives and works in New York. He completed his MFA studies at the School of Visual Arts (S.V.A) in Manhattan.
For many years, Kremer's eye has bee...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Emily Ratajkowski & Sebastian Bear-McClard - walking Colombo in NYC 3/7/21
Located in Atlanta, GA
This work features hues of blue, green, purple and yellow.
This photograph is an archival inkjet print, mounted to Sintra and face mounted to polished acrylic, edition 1 of 1. Frame...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
W.T.C: Concrete Abstract #2
By Shai Kremer
Located in New York, NY
Israel-born photographer Shai Kremer lives and works in New York. He completed his MFA studies at the School of Visual Arts (S.V.A) in Manhattan.
For many years, Kremer's eye has bee...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
W.T.C: Concrete Abstract #3
By Shai Kremer
Located in New York, NY
Israel-born photographer Shai Kremer lives and works in New York. He completed his MFA studies at the School of Visual Arts (S.V.A) in Manhattan.
For many years, Kremer's eye has bee...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Abstract color photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Abstract color 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 color 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, red, orange, purple and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Mitchell Funk, Michael Banks, Stuart Möller, and Carol Inez Charney. 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 Abstract color photography, so small editions measuring 7 inches across are also available. Prices for color photography made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $105 and tops out at $36,000, while the average work sells for $4,141.