Conceptual Color Photography
CONCEPTUAL STYLE
In 1967, artist Sol LeWitt wrote that in “Conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work.” He was giving a name to an art movement that had emerged in the 1960s in which artists were less focused on their medium being something traditionally “artistic” and instead engaged in using any object, movement, form, action or place to express an idea.
LeWitt’s work was featured alongside an assemblage of notes, drawings and outlines by other artists in “Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art,” a groundbreaking show at New York City’s School of Visual Arts curated by Mel Bochner, another leading exponent of Conceptualism. Building on radical 20th-century statements, like Fountain (1917) by French artist Marcel Duchamp, Conceptual artists around Europe and North and South America were not interested in the commercial art scene and rather directly challenged its systems and values.
Stretching into the 1970s, this movement has also been called Post-Object art and Dematerialized art. Conceptual art reflected a larger era of social and political upheaval. Pieces associated with the style range from Roelof Louw’s Soul City (Pyramid of Oranges) (1967) — a work of installation art that sees fresh oranges stacked into a pyramid from which visitors are allowed to take one orange away — to On Kawara’s “Today” series, which saw the Japanese artist carefully painting a date in white acrylic on canvases consisting of a single color from 1966 to his death in 2014. Artists such as Ed Ruscha, who created the Twentysix Gasoline Stations book — a collection of photos of gas stations that is widely said to be the first modern artists’ book — made photography a major platform for Conceptual art, as did Bruce Nauman, who burned one of Ruscha's books and then photographed it for his own.
Conceptual art’s legacy of questioning artistic authorship, ownership and how to work with complex ideas of space and time had a significant influence on the decades of culture that followed, and it continues to inform art today.
The collection of Conceptual photography, paintings and sculptures on 1stDibs includes artworks by John Baldessari, Jenny Holzer, Lawrence Weiner, Joseph Kosuth and others.
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Style: Conceptual
Flora 30 by Marisa Culatto - Color Photography, Flower and Nature Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 30 is a stunning and vibrant Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper.
It is available in one size only in a limited edition of 6 prints.
Culatto's new series 'Flora'...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
Giclée
Let's Fly Away, Secret World of Plants, German Macro Botanical Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This exquisite fine art photograph captures the delicate interplay of light and texture, inviting the viewer to explore the ephemeral beauty of nature in intimate detail. A celebrati...
Category
2010s Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Cosmic Dance, Secret World of Plants, German Macro Botanical Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An intimate portrayal of nature’s elaborate choreography, Cosmic Dance is a fine art photograph that invites the viewer into a world of vibrant textures and earthy chromatics. With i...
Category
2010s Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Flora 27 by Marisa Culatto - Contemporary Portrait Photography by Female Artists
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 27 is a stunning and vibrant Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper.
It is available in one size only in a limited edition of 6 prints.
Culatto's new series 'Flora'...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
Giclée
Flora 26 by Marisa Culatto - Color Photography, Flower and Nature Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 26 is a stunning and vibrant Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper.
It is available in one size only in a limited edition of 6 prints.
Culatto's new series 'Flora'...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
Giclée
Riggs Library I, Washington DC, Interior Architecture Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Riggs Library I, Washington DC, by world-renowned architectural photographer Reinhard Görner, captures the timeless elegance of one of America's rare surviving cast-iron libraries. T...
Category
2010s Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Dangerous Love, Secret World of Plants, German Macro Botanical Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this mesmerizing macro photograph, Görner masterfully captures the delicate interplay between form and color within a flower's intimate landscape. The soft, diaphanous pink petals...
Category
2010s Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Dangerous Love, Secret World of Plants, German Macro Botanical Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this mesmerizing macro photograph, Görner masterfully captures the delicate interplay between form and color within a flower's intimate landscape. The soft, diaphanous pink petals...
Category
2010s Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Flora 25 by Marisa Culatto - Color Photography, Flower and Nature Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 25 is a stunning and vibrant Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper.
It is available in one size only in a limited edition of 6 prints.
Culatto's new series 'Flora'...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
Giclée
Flora 21 by Marisa Culatto - Color Photography, Flower and Nature Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 21 is a stunning and vibrant Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper.
It is available in one size only in a limited edition of 6 prints.
Culatto's new series 'Flora'...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
Giclée
Flora 24 by Marisa Culatto - Color Photography, Flower and Nature Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 24 is a stunning and vibrant Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper.
It is available in one size only in a limited edition of 6 prints.
Culatto's new series 'Flora'...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
Giclée
Flora 22 by Marisa Culatto - Color Photography, Flower and Nature Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 22 is a stunning and vibrant Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper.
It is available in one size only in a limited edition of 6 prints.
Culatto's new series 'Flora'...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
Giclée
Flora 18 by Marisa Culatto - Color Photography, Flower and Nature Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 18 is a stunning and vibrant Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper.
It is available in one size only in a limited edition of 6 prints.
Culatto's new series 'Flora'...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
Giclée
Flora 20 by Marisa Culatto - Color Photography, Flower and Nature Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 20 is a stunning and vibrant Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper.
It is available in one size only in a limited edition of 6 prints.
Culatto's new series 'Flora'...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
Giclée
Flora 15 by Marisa Culatto - Color Photography, Flower and Nature Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 15 is a stunning and vibrant Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper.
It is available in one size only in a limited edition of 6 prints.
Culatto's new series 'Flora'...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
Giclée
Perturbé by Gina Soden, Photography, Limited Edition Print, Documentary
Located in Deddington, GB
Perturbé by Gina Soden [2020]
limited_edition
Digital photograph on Baryta paper
Edition number 1
Image size: H:76.2 cm x W:76,2 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:80.2 cm x W:...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
Paper, Digital
Isolamento by Gina Soden, Colour photography, Limited edition print
By Gina Soden
Located in Deddington, GB
Isolamento by Gina Soden [2020]
limited_edition and hand signed by the artist
Digital photograph on Baryta paper
Edition number 3
Image size: H:70.02 cm x W:105 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:74.2 cm x W:109 cm x D:0.1cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look
"On my 4th attempt I finally got inside here. Always overlooked by neighbours and a police station right next door, it always seemed tricky as it was hard not to get spotted. This was a grand villa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
Paper, Digital Pigment
Come Closer, Darling! Secret World of Plants, German Macro Botanical Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This captivating macro photograph by German artist Reinhard Görner draws the viewer into the intricate, sensuous details of a blooming iris. The soft, velvety petals in shades of vio...
Category
2010s Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Stand By Me, Secret World of Plants, German Macro Botanical Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner's captivating close-up botanical photograph 'Stand By Me' invites the viewer to immerse themselves in the vibrant, sensual details of a blooming flower. The striking ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Flora 13 by Marisa Culatto - Color Photography, Flower & Nature Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 13 is a stunning and vibrant Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper.
It is available in one size only in a limited edition of 6 prints.
Culatto's new series 'Flora'...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
Giclée
Flora 14 by Marisa Culatto - Color Photography, Flower & Nature Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 14 is a stunning and vibrant Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper.
It is available in one size only in a limited edition of 6 prints.
Culatto's new series 'Flora'...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
Giclée
Flora 12 by Marisa Culatto - Color Photography, Flower & Nature Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 12 is a stunning and vibrant Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper.
It is available in one size only in a limited edition of 6 prints.
Culatto's new series 'Flora'...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
Giclée
Flora 11 by Marisa Culatto - Color Photography, Flower & Nature Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 11 is a stunning and vibrant Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper.
It is available in one size only in a limited edition of 6 prints.
Culatto's new series 'Flora'...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
Giclée
Flora 10 by Marisa Culatto - Still life Photography, Color Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 10 is a stunning and vibrant Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper.
It is available in one size only in a limited edition of 6 prints.
Culatto's new series 'Flora'...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
Giclée
Flora 9 by Marisa Culatto - Still life Photography, Color Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 9 is a stunning and vibrant Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper.
It is available in one size only in a limited edition of 6 prints.
Culatto's new series 'Flora' ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
Giclée
Flora 7 by Marisa Culatto - Still life Photography, Color Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 7 is a stunning and vibrant Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper.
It is available in one size only in a limited edition of 6 prints.
Culatto's new series 'Flora' ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
Giclée
Flora 6 by Marisa Culatto - Color Photography, Flower and Nature Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 6 is a stunning and vibrant Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper.
It is available in one size only in a limited edition of 6 prints.
Culatto's new series 'Flora' ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
Giclée
Flora 4 by Marisa Culatto - Color Photography, Flower and Nature Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 4 is a stunning and vibrant Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper.
It is available in one size only in a limited edition of 6 prints.
Culatto's new series 'Flora' ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
Giclée
Flora 5 by Marisa Culatto - Color Photography, Flower and Nature Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 5 is a stunning and vibrant Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper.
It is available in one size only in a limited edition of 6 prints.
Culatto's new series 'Flora' ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
Giclée
Flora 1 by Marisa Culatto - Color Photography, Flower and Nature Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 1 is a stunning and vibrant Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper.
It is available in one size only in a limited edition of 6 prints.
Culatto's new series 'Flora' ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
Giclée
Amour is Pink, The Dream Art Project
Located in New York, NY
The photograph is available in three sizes. The print is proposed as a face-mount; it is mounted to acrylic at the front and Dibond at the back. It is ready to hang with a metal bracket on the wall.
"Amour is Pink," a tranquil photograph by Anne Valverde, features the serene expanse of a beach at dusk, with the word 'amour'—French for love—spelled out in an understated neon script along the wet sand. The image is steeped in a quiet poignancy, where the vastness of the ocean meets the warmth of the sky, wrapping the scene in a gentle embrace.
The sky is a canvas of soft pastels, where the blush of pink clouds hints at the sun's recent departure below the horizon. This celestial spectacle is mirrored by the ocean's surface, creating a symmetry that is both calming and introspective. The neon text 'amour' adds a layer of romanticism to the scene, its reflection on the wet sand doubling its presence, as if to emphasize the strength and depth of the sentiment it represents.
Valverde's choice to place the text in such a setting invites contemplation on the nature of love itself—vast, enduring, and reflective of our own feelings. The beach, with its smooth sand and receding tide, suggests a place where emotions can be openly expressed and contemplated, while the encroaching night speaks to the intimacy and quietude that love often craves.
"Amour is Pink" is a visual ode to the heart's landscape, where love is as expansive as the sea and as beautifully nuanced as the evening sky. It's a reminder that love, in its many forms, is a fundamental and beautiful part of the human experience, always worthy of reflection and appreciation.
Since 2015, Valverde has been working on a neon light installation project in several countries, which she materialises through photography. The DREAM ART PROJECT
Her portfolio “City Icons” in 2008 brought her work to public attention. A series about Iconic Monuments from Major cities like Paris, New York, Hong Kong, London, Dubaï… Writing with Neon brings together two passions for Anne Valverde: light and words thus incorporating her main medium of expression: Photography.
Valverde brings artificial light to areas where electricity is absent, creating a dissonance in the landscape and an unexpected and dreamlike light, creating a new message, independent from preexisting signs and words.
Valverde’s first message is "dream", as she invites the viewer to go past reality and reflect on open spaces for escape in a complex and tormented world.
Some themes are recurring: an amused gaze on social media omnipresence, hyper-connectivity or even office language shortcuts. This contemplation of the natural landscape suddenly opens up to a perspective on social evolution. By inserting neon lights in her photographs, she initiates a return...
Category
2010s Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Acrylic Polymer, Neon Light, Archival Paper, Photogra...
Biblioteca Classense, Ravenna
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Biblioteca Classense
Ravenna, Italy
2022
62.5 x 50 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
75 x 60 inches
ed. of 7
$9,000
87 x 70 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
signed and numbered on label, verso
The...
Category
2010s Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Card Index, Bologna, Italy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Card Index
Bologna, Italy
2022
A classic card index with red and white labels, below a classical religious fresco and carved ceiling.
signed and numbered ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Reinhard Görner: Beinecke, New Haven (Yale Rare Books and Manuscript Library)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner captures the monumentality of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale's principal repository for literary archives, early manuscripts, and rare books...
Category
2010s Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Isaac Newton, Cambridge, Trinity College Library
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This large-scale interior architectural photograph by German artist Reinhard Görner depicts the bust of Sir Isaac Newton in the Trinity College librar...
Category
2010s Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Riggs Library I, Washington DC
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Riggs Library
Washington DC
57 x 50 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
68 x 60 inches
ed. of 7
$9,000
79.8 x 70 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
signed and numbered on label, verso
Paper is trimmed...
Category
2010s Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Cadenza by Gina Soden, Photographer, Photography, Documentary
By Gina Soden
Located in Deddington, GB
Cadenza by Gina Soden [2013]
limited_edition and hand signed by the artist
Digital photograph on Baryta paper
Edition number 5
Image size: H:87.5 cm x W:70 cm
Complete Size of Unfra...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
Paper, Digital Pigment
Body full of salt and pink water, lagoon, pop art, surreal photography.
Located in Carballo, ES
The photograph measures 50 x 50 cm. It is printed on matte Hahnehmühle paper.
The dimension of time for María Moldes (Pontevedra, 1974) is used as a weapon of resistance against wha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Floor full of pink salt, yellow sponge, surreal shadows, coquette pop art.
Located in Carballo, ES
The photograph measures 40 x 60 cm. It is printed on matte Hahnehmühle paper.
The dimension of time for María Moldes (Pontevedra, 1974) is used as a weapon of resistance against wha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Child bathing in the pink sea, imagination, creativity, pop art.
Located in Carballo, ES
The photograph measures 40 x 40 cm. It is printed on matte Hahnehmühle paper.
The dimension of time for María Moldes (Pontevedra, 1974) is used as a weapon of resistance against wha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Long Room V, Trinity College Library, Dublin Ireland, Architectural
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This large-scale architectural photograph by German artist Reinhard Görner depicts the The Long Room at Trinity College Library in Dublin Ireland. Arches open like portals into the i...
Category
2010s Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Laocoon II, Grimani Palace, Venice, German Architecture Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Laocoon II
Grimani Palace, Venice
2014
A masterful composition by renowned German photographer Reinhard Görner, Laocoon II captures the grandeur of Venetian architecture in exquisit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Heart, Mind and Nervous System (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
Heart, Mind and Nervous System (Abstract Photography)
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper — Unframed.
Edition 6 + 2 AP
This work is part of the "Humanistic Recipro...
Category
2010s Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Pigment
Desire of the Primordial Real (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
Desire of the Primordial Real (Abstract Photography)
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper — Unframed.
Edition 6 + 2 AP
This work is part of the "Humanistic Reciproc...
Category
2010s Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Pigment
Reinhard Görner, Sainte Geneviève II Library, Paris
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner
Sainte Geneviève II
Library
Paris, France
62.5" x 50"
Edition of 10
$6,000
75" x 60"
Edition of 7
$9,000
87.5" x 70"
Edition of 5
$11,000
signed and numbered on label, verso
Reinhard Görner, with his large format photographs orchestrates the monumentality of historical architecture, gardens, and masterpieces.
An active architecture photographer since 1985, is a master of perspectives and precise spatial compositions, and he thus considers classical sculpture, in all of its possible facets, a special challenge.
"Görner’s photographs sometimes open the doors to another world and take the viewer with them on a journey through time. Here the palace is no longer a museum but both royal residence and a site steeped in history. The viewer does not have to share the halls with the masses of visitors; instead the images offer him exclusive impressions of the Galerie des Glaces (Hall of Mirrors) and the Galerie des Batailles (Hall of Battles) as even the king of France was probably never granted. The halls are empty of people, yet they seem to be able to unfurl their individual characters of their own accord. These places practically breathe history, and this aspect is also part of the essence captured in the photographs. King Wilhelm of Prussia was named German Emperor Wilhelm...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Biblioteca Ortopedica, Bologna, Italy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Biblioteca Ortopedica
Bologna, Italy
2022
A view of the main table and globe of the main scientific library in the Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, named for Italian King Umberto I. The vista is framed between echoing frescoed arched ceilings, cases of scientific volumes, and geometric floor. These sixteenth-century rooms, where the books of the Olivetani Monks were kept, are located in the ancient complex of San Michele in Bosco. They were transformed into an orthopaedic hospital at the end of the nineteenth century. The library holds an important scientific collection...
Category
2010s Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Boschereccia Palazzo, Hercolani, Bologna
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Boschereccia Palazzo
Hercolani, Bologna, Italy
2022
50 x 62.5 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
60 x 75 inches
ed. of 7
$9,000
70 x 87.5 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
signed and numbered on labe...
Category
2010s Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Biblioteca Gambalunga I, Rimini, Italy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Biblioteca Gambalunga I
Rimini, Italy
2022
In this photograph, a series of echoing doors serve as a portal into the interior of the Biblioteca Gambalunga in Rimini, Italy.
One of ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Boston Public Library
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Boston Public Library
55.4 x 50 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
66.5 x 60 inches
ed. of 7
$9,000
77.6 x 70 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
signed and numbere...
Category
2010s Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Human nature, Documentary analog photography, 118 x 78 cm, Fred Langford Edwards
Located in Carballo, ES
Fred Langford Edwards turns what seems like documentary research (analogue photographs of curious objects that the artist finds on the beach) into an art of wonder. In this extensive...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Vintage Color Photograph Hebrew "Slaves We Were" Signed C Print Photo Israeli
Located in Surfside, FL
SLAVES WE WERE, 1982, color photograph, signed and dated and titled in ink, numbered 3/50, sheet 12 x 16”. Hand signed, titled and has the edition number on the recto.
Gerard Allon, ...
Category
1980s Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
African American Large Vintage Color Photograph Dandy C Print Photo Ike Ude
By Iké Udé
Located in Surfside, FL
BEYOND DECORUM, CLOSED AND OPEN Series,
I am selling each individually. they are pairs of open and closed jackets. I will include the second photo for reference. This listing is just for the open jacket photograph.
Vintage C-print on Fuji crystal archive paper.
Image size is 40 x 30", sheet measures 50 X 35
Provenance: printed by Muse X, Los Angeles.
I believe these were test, proof prints. They are not signed or editioned
The work of Nigerian-born Iké Udé explores a world of dualities: photographer/performance artist, artist/spectator, African/post-nationalist, mainstream/marginal, individual/everyman and fashion/art.
Iké Udé (born 1964) is a Nigerian-American photographer, performance artist,
Ike Ude was born in 1964 in Lagos, Nigeria where he was raised. The eldest son of a wealthy family, he was exposed to photography and portraiture at an early age by dressing up for biweekly family portraits. Udé knew he was an artist by the age of six, when he developed a habit of firing a catapult at passers-by when he disapproved of their walk or the way they were dressed. As an adolescent, Udé attended the Government Secondary School, a British boarding school in Afikpo Nigeria. He was a habitué of London before he moved to New York in 1981 to study Media Communications at Hunter College, CUNY. He began his art career in the late 1980s with abstract painting and drawing. Since the 1990s, photography has been his primary medium. Udé is a dual citizen of the United States and Nigeria.
Udé's paintings and drawings are less well known than his photography, though critics and art historians have recognized his early work. The late Henry Geldzahler, said of Udé's paintings and works on paper: "I am touched and amazed at the ways in which he manages to blend invisibly the modernist tradition with his own Nigerian roots. There is never anything forced in the conjunction; air and light seem to be his media."
Udé began his Cover Girls series in 1994. Each photograph imitates the cover of a popular fashion or lifestyle magazines, in which the artist himself is featured as the model. (ala the work of Cindy Sherman) The photographs were consciously stylized, posed, photographed and then paired with type matching that of the respected magazine. At first glance, each photograph appears to be an authentic magazine cover. Udé used the magazine cover as a stage to critique the fetishism of the upper class white model and the effects of popular culture on today's consumerist society. The series was exhibited in 1994 in the New York City gallery Exit Art.
Udé's black and white series of photographs, Uli, references both high fashion and Uli body art, wall motifs from Udé's Igbo heritage. The photographs explore the anonymity of the inscribed and disembodied self. Udé's dynamic use of light, namely the chiaroscuro effect, serves as a critical compositional element in the series.
Udé's Beyond Decorum series, begun in 1999, juxtaposes photographs of men's shirts and women's pumps with suggestive personal advertisements in place of the clothing tags.
With its accompanying book, Beyond Decorum: Photographs by Iké Udé, the series traveled across the United States and Canada. The exhibition was shown at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Portland, Maine; OBORO in Montreal, Canada; Sert Gallery; Carpenter Center at the Harvard University Art Museum; and MAK Museum in Vienna, Austria before traveling for two more years internationally.
Udé's Paris Hilton: Fantasy and Simulacrum is a conversation between his alter ego, Visconti, and the celebrity Paris...
Category
1990s Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color
Human nature, Documentary analog photography, 118 x 78 cm, Fred Langford Edwards
Located in Carballo, ES
Fred Langford Edwards turns what seems like documentary research (analogue photographs of curious objects that the artist finds on the beach) into an art of wonder. In this extensive...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Human nature, Documentary analog photography, 118 x 78 cm, Fred Langford Edwards
Located in Carballo, ES
Fred Langford Edwards turns what seems like documentary research (analogue photographs of curious objects that the artist finds on the beach) into an art of wonder. In this extensive...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Reinhard Görner, Schussenried Abbey Library, Germany
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner
Schussenried Abbey
Library
Germany
50" x 59.9"
Edition of 10
$6,000
60" x 71.9"
Edition of 7
$9,000
70" x 83.8"
Edition of 5
$11,000...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista
40 x 38 inches
ed. of 10
$4,200
50 x 47.5 inches
ed. of 7
$6,000
60 x 57 inches
ed. of 5
$9,000
70 x 66.6 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
Rei...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Wherever You Look You See The Chrysler Building: Third Avenue and 38th St
Located in Miami, FL
" Wherever You Look You See The Chrysler Building: Third Avenue and 38th St." was photographed looking uptown from the rooftop of a building on Third Avenue and 38th St.
In the for...
Category
2010s Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
The Beef Sisters - May - Unique Polaroid - Contemporary, Youth, Photograph
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Beef Sisters
A Polaroid-based art series
by Kris 'Curtiz' De Meester
May - 2023
Original Polaroid, mixed media.
10.7 x 8.8 cm (total), 7.8 x 7.6 cm (image area).
Signed in fr...
Category
2010s Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
Polaroid
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