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Art Subject: Sky
Sci-Fi Sand Dunes to the Moon
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk was a pioneer of Sci-Fi photography. He was a frequent contributor to Omni Magazine. This work was done for a promotional campaign for Om...
Category
1980s Futurist Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Split Weeds
By Chris Leidy
Located in Fairfield, CT
Palm Beach native and grandson of iconic fashion designer Lilly Pulitzer, Chris Leidy grew up with a deep admiration for the ocean and aquatic life and has made his mark as a world-r...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Photography
Materials
C Print
Horizon Light
Located in Fairfield, CT
Also available 50 x 70 in. $9,500, edition of 10.
Christine Matthäi was born in Germany. She lives and works between Shelter Island, New York, Germany and the Bahamas. Her LIGHT a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
C Print
Losing Ground
By Sarah Hadley
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Each photograph is hand printed on Canson Baryta Paper and is signed and editioned by the artist.
Sarah Hadley's narrative work focuses on memory, place and the subconscious. She received degrees from Georgetown University and the Corcoran College of Art. Hadley was named one of the “jeunes talents” by Le Monde in 2014. She has had solo exhibitions at the Griffin Museum of Photography, the Loyola Museum of Art, Richard Levy Gallery...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Wave Dancing
Located in New York, NY
Ed. 3/10, includes white frame.
"Wave Dancing" is part of Christophe von Hohenberg's ongoing series of minimal, dreamlike images captured on the beaches of America’s Northeastern sh...
Category
2010s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Statue of Liberty" a limited edition from Coney Island, 1974
Located in New York, NY
18"x24" limited edition historic photograph, edition 1/5. This photograph depicts ...
Phillip Buehler is a New York based photographer who documents the deterioration and remnants o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Sagaponack Liquid Gold
Located in Fairfield, CT
Also available 50 x 70 in. $9,500, edition of 10.
Christine Matthäi was born in Germany. She lives and works between Shelter Island, New York, Germany and the Bahamas. Her LIGHT an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Photography
Materials
C Print
Loss
By Sarah Hadley
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This image is from Sarah Hadley's series Lost Venice.
Each photograph is hand printed on Canson Baryta Paper, and is signed and editioned by the artist.
Sarah Hadley is a Los Angel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Untitled
Located in Fairfield, CT
This Water series comes out of Schmidt's life long fascination with water and the color blue.
Having grown up in Greece as the daughter of an archeologist, Schmidt spent 3 months ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
C Print
Pink Clouds
By Sarah Hadley
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Each photograph is hand printed on Canson Baryta Paper and is signed and editioned by the artist.
Framing options are available.
Sarah Hadley's narrative work focuses on memory, place and the subconscious. She received degrees from Georgetown University and the Corcoran College of Art. Sarah Hadley was named one of the “jeunes talents” by Le Monde in 2014. She has had solo exhibitions at the Griffin Museum of Photography, the Loyola Museum of Art, Richard Levy Gallery...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Kennebago Lake
By Sarah Hadley
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Each photograph is hand printed on Canson Baryta Paper and is signed and editioned by the artist.
Sarah Hadley's narrative work focuses on memory, place and the subconscious. She re...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Budapest
Located in PARIS, FR
Un double reflet en or sur une rivière près de Budapest
Photographie prise par Bellec lors d'un séjour à Budapest, Hungaria.
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Digital, Lambda
Clouds
By Sarah Hadley
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This image is printed in an edition of 3, but comes in smaller sizes.
Each photograph is hand printed on Canson Baryta Paper and is signed and editioned by the artist.
Sarah Hadley...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Poipu
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Edition 6/15
Archival pigment print
“Water’s Edge” a collection of photos by Marian Crostic defines the power of the ocean
and the land which borders it. Having spent much of her l...
Category
2010s Abstract Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Moonlight Over the Mississippi, Tensas, Parish, LA
Located in Denton, TX
Edition of 8
Dye-sublimation print on aluminum, 25 x 36 in.
Signed, titled, dated and numbered by Jeanine Michna-Bales
Dye-sublimation print on Aluminum, wall mount on back.
From the series, Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Digital
West Texas: Full Moon over the Chisos Mountain, Big Bend National Park
By Peter Brown
Located in Denton, TX
West Texas: Full Moon over the Chisos Mountain depicts a desert landscape at dusk, with a full moon rising over the mountains. The last light of the setting sun hits the distant mountain range, and wispy clouds...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Michael Falco Photography Amusement Park Ferris Wheel Clouds Landscape New York
Located in Nantucket, MA
Michael Falco takes his photographs using film. He built this image- a triple exposure and then prints after digitally correcting. This is printed on aluminum and is frameless. We can have the image printed on paper and matted and framed if you prefer. It says American Summer Fun- every state has an amusement park!
Michael Falco is a freelance photographer who has worked for a number of publications including, the National Geographic, The New York Times, Harper's Bazaar, and W Magazines.
His first book, “Along Martin Luther King Travels on Black America’s Main Street”, published by Random House in 2003, is a collection of photographs spanning two years documenting life along streets named after Dr. Martin Luther King in America.
The Museum of Modern Art purchased one of his panoramic images of the Fresh Kills Landfill for its exhibit, “Groundswell: Constructing the Contemporary Landscape” 2005.
Selected by the New York City Art Commission, he installed a 10 x28 foot glass mural...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Metal
Orange Skies
Located in New York, NY
Lambda digital-c print on Ilford Ilfoflex Archival Super Gloss, 2003. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered 1/1 on verso. This is a unique print.
In the series ‘Weights & Measures’ (2...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Color, Digital, Lambda
Keep Going. Crossing the Tennessee River, Colbert County, Alabama
Located in Denton, TX
Edition of 8
Signed, titled, dated and numbered.
Michna-Bales’ work explores the relationships between what has occurred, or is occurring, in a society and how people react to those events. She meticulously researches each topic — considering different viewpoints, causes and effects, and political climates — and often incorporates found or archival text and audio into her projects.
Whether exploring the darkened stations along the Underground Railroad, long-forgotten nuclear fallout...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Untitled #3327
Located in Denton, TX
Signed, titled, and dated in print verso.
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled #3309
Located in Denton, TX
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil on print verso.
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Earth, Lamb County
Located in Denton, TX
Edition of 50
Signed, titled, dated and numbered.
Keith Carter is an American photographer who is known for his dreamlike black and white photographs of the figure, animals, and mea...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Stanislaus County, California by David Graham, 2003, C-Print, Photography
By David Graham
Located in Denton, TX
Stanislaus County, California by David Graham is a 20 x 24 inch C-Print, available in an edition of 25. This photograph features a barren field with an orange sign that reads "Really...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Color
Sunrise from Pine Canyon, Big Bend
By Jack Ridley
Located in Denton, TX
Signed and titled.
"At least twice a year, Ridley ventures to Big Bend with his 8 x 10 view camera capturing stunning, expansive black and white images of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Twilight's Path, 030, Moonrise - Midsummer full moon - skeletal oak - landscape
Located in London, GB
The midsummer full moon casts its pale light over the skeletal remains of a deceased oak.
Twilight's Path
‘Now air is hushed, save where the weak-eyed bat
With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing,
Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn
As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path
Against the pilgrim, borne in heedless hum’
– William Collins (1721–1759), Ode to Evening.
"Once in a while (helped by a bit of planning) everything comes together and you take a photograph that feels really satisfying. However much one reads about artists/photographers trying and failing, taking many shots to end up with that one that works, it’s hard to remember. Just keep showing up, keep doing what you do, it won’t always work out, but sometimes things flow and something special can come through." - Jasper Goodall...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Chrysler Building at Sunset - New York Skyline in Silhouette with Orange Sky
Located in Miami, FL
"The Chrysler Building at Sunset" photograph showcases the mid-town skyline's clean and sharp silhouette. To the extreme left is the Empire State Building, and the Chrysler Building ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Clouds 18
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass.
Dimensions: 48 x 48 in.
Depth: 1/4 in.
Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada.
His lifelong interest in cutti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Clouds 16
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass.
Dimensions: 48 x 48 in.
Depth: 1/4 in.
Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada.
His lifelong interest in cutti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Clouds 15
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass.
Dimensions: 48 x 48 in.
Depth: 1/4 in.
Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada.
His lifelong interest in cutti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Clouds 13
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass.
Dimensions: 48 x 48 in.
Depth: 1/4 in.
Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada.
His lifelong interest in cutti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Glacier Lagoon - Other sizes available
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Nature glacier shot. Beautiful green hues.
About the artist:
Mital Patel is an internationally recognized nature and wildlife photographer who focuses on capturing bea...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Clouds 11
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass.
Dimensions: 48 x 48 in.
Depth: 1/4 in.
Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada.
His lifelong interest in cutting-edge media technology as well as his expertise in photography cast him as pioneer in digital art and allow him to develop virtual matrix from which he extracts his images.
In his works he explores a universe that lies at the crossroad of abstraction and the figurative, inviting the viewer to determine if what he sees is a reflection of reality or imagination.
Through is truly unique approach RIOUX is one of the most innovative artists in digital creations and one of the few creative minds able to blend with such keenness aesthetics research and critical distance.
Whether they translate into a Dantesque urbanity or the infinite horizon of a turquoise ocean, the urban territory reflected by his creations offers a dystopian view of the world, challenging our attitude towards the environment and the future.
From the onset, RIOUX has no intention of matching IRL expectations of what digital art 'should' look like, but strives to play with our notions of what's real, what's not, how we remember, and how we infer meaning into imaginary visual constructs.
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RIOUX started the Cloud project in 2022.
Paul-Emile Rioux’s series Cloud, like his other work, is a kind of aesthetic thought experiment. Each square image is bisected symmetrically, or nearly symmetrically, by a tidy horizon. The upper half display forms that appear as clouds, the bottom as an underwater seascape, yet at the same time mimics the cloudlike formations of above.
Formally these works reference hard-edged abstraction, minimalism and abstract expressionism, though juxtaposed with a sort of Instagram lifestyle sensibility. When shown as a gridded series, they recall the Instagram account @insta_repeat which curates gridded typologies of nearly identical influencer photos – for instance sunsets on a beach, or campfires with hiking boot clad feet visible in the foreground, transforming images, which individually are meant to signify the good life, into symbols of stifling homogeneity, cynically trying to capitalize on mass-produced sensations.
Unlike past movements in abstract or minimal art, however, Rioux is not striving to create self-contained objects, but windows into deeper currents that churn in the dark spaces where culture, technology and the subconscious flow together. Rioux’s digital works are not specifically images, but notes, ways of thinking. They connect to a larger discourse.
With Clouds, Rioux thinks aloud about what is hidden and what is revealed in our relationships to technology and nature. It is a meditation on “the cloud,” which, like real clouds, seem immaterial, but in fact are physical and have a material impact on the world. Rioux considers the juxtaposition between weight and weightlessness – the apparent weightlessness of virtual reality, against the mass, the inescapability of the material world. Technology promises a world of lightness, connectivity and the bounty of limitless growth, or if it cannot quite muster that illusion, at least the offer of escape into a simulated universe of carnivalesque distraction shepherding us away from the environmental catastrophe our economic system inflicts on the earth. In this series Rioux asks us to reflect on what the clouds hide.
There are 18 pieces in the Cloud collection.
Each archival pigment print is produced under the supervision of the artist.
The print is mounted under a single piece of 1/4"/ 6 mm gallery...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Clouds
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass.
Dimensions: 48 x 48 in.
Depth: 1/4 in.
Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada.
His lifelong interest in cutting-edge media technology as well as his expertise in photography cast him as pioneer in digital art and allow him to develop virtual matrix from which he extracts his images.
In his works he explores a universe that lies at the crossroad of abstraction and the figurative, inviting the viewer to determine if what he sees is a reflection of reality or imagination.
Through is truly unique approach RIOUX is one of the most innovative artists in digital creations and one of the few creative minds able to blend with such keenness aesthetics research and critical distance.
Whether they translate into a Dantesque urbanity or the infinite horizon of a turquoise ocean, the urban territory reflected by his creations offers a dystopian view of the world, challenging our attitude towards the environment and the future.
From the onset, RIOUX has no intention of matching IRL expectations of what digital art 'should' look like, but strives to play with our notions of what's real, what's not, how we remember, and how we infer meaning into imaginary visual constructs.
---
RIOUX started the Cloud project in 2022.
Paul-Emile Rioux’s series Cloud, like his other work, is a kind of aesthetic thought experiment. Each square image is bisected symmetrically, or nearly symmetrically, by a tidy horizon. The upper half display forms that appear as clouds, the bottom as an underwater seascape, yet at the same time mimics the cloudlike formations of above.
Formally these works reference hard-edged abstraction, minimalism and abstract expressionism, though juxtaposed with a sort of Instagram lifestyle sensibility. When shown as a gridded series, they recall the Instagram account @insta_repeat which curates gridded typologies of nearly identical influencer photos – for instance sunsets on a beach, or campfires with hiking boot clad feet visible in the foreground, transforming images, which individually are meant to signify the good life, into symbols of stifling homogeneity, cynically trying to capitalize on mass-produced sensations.
Unlike past movements in abstract or minimal art, however, Rioux is not striving to create self-contained objects, but windows into deeper currents that churn in the dark spaces where culture, technology and the subconscious flow together. Rioux’s digital works are not specifically images, but notes, ways of thinking. They connect to a larger discourse.
With Clouds, Rioux thinks aloud about what is hidden and what is revealed in our relationships to technology and nature. It is a meditation on “the cloud,” which, like real clouds, seem immaterial, but in fact are physical and have a material impact on the world. Rioux considers the juxtaposition between weight and weightlessness – the apparent weightlessness of virtual reality, against the mass, the inescapability of the material world. Technology promises a world of lightness, connectivity and the bounty of limitless growth, or if it cannot quite muster that illusion, at least the offer of escape into a simulated universe of carnivalesque distraction shepherding us away from the environmental catastrophe our economic system inflicts on the earth. In this series Rioux asks us to reflect on what the clouds hide.
There are 18 pieces in the Cloud collection.
Each archival pigment print is produced under the supervision of the artist.
The print is mounted under a single piece of 1/4"/ 6 mm gallery...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Clouds 2
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass.
Dimensions: 48 x 48 in.
Depth: 1/4 in.
Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada.
His lifelong interest in cutting-edge media technology as well as his expertise in photography cast him as pioneer in digital art and allow him to develop virtual matrix from which he extracts his images.
In his works he explores a universe that lies at the crossroad of abstraction and the figurative, inviting the viewer to determine if what he sees is a reflection of reality or imagination.
Through is truly unique approach RIOUX is one of the most innovative artists in digital creations and one of the few creative minds able to blend with such keenness aesthetics research and critical distance.
Whether they translate into a Dantesque urbanity or the infinite horizon of a turquoise ocean, the urban territory reflected by his creations offers a dystopian view of the world, challenging our attitude towards the environment and the future.
From the onset, RIOUX has no intention of matching IRL expectations of what digital art 'should' look like, but strives to play with our notions of what's real, what's not, how we remember, and how we infer meaning into imaginary visual constructs.
---
RIOUX started the Cloud project in 2022.
Paul-Emile Rioux’s series Cloud, like his other work, is a kind of aesthetic thought experiment. Each square image is bisected symmetrically, or nearly symmetrically, by a tidy horizon. The upper half display forms that appear as clouds, the bottom as an underwater seascape, yet at the same time mimics the cloudlike formations of above.
Formally these works reference hard-edged abstraction, minimalism and abstract expressionism, though juxtaposed with a sort of Instagram lifestyle sensibility. When shown as a gridded series, they recall the Instagram account @insta_repeat which curates gridded typologies of nearly identical influencer photos – for instance sunsets on a beach, or campfires with hiking boot clad feet visible in the foreground, transforming images, which individually are meant to signify the good life, into symbols of stifling homogeneity, cynically trying to capitalize on mass-produced sensations.
Unlike past movements in abstract or minimal art, however, Rioux is not striving to create self-contained objects, but windows into deeper currents that churn in the dark spaces where culture, technology and the subconscious flow together. Rioux’s digital works are not specifically images, but notes, ways of thinking. They connect to a larger discourse.
With Clouds, Rioux thinks aloud about what is hidden and what is revealed in our relationships to technology and nature. It is a meditation on “the cloud,” which, like real clouds, seem immaterial, but in fact are physical and have a material impact on the world. Rioux considers the juxtaposition between weight and weightlessness – the apparent weightlessness of virtual reality, against the mass, the inescapability of the material world. Technology promises a world of lightness, connectivity and the bounty of limitless growth, or if it cannot quite muster that illusion, at least the offer of escape into a simulated universe of carnivalesque distraction shepherding us away from the environmental catastrophe our economic system inflicts on the earth. In this series Rioux asks us to reflect on what the clouds hide.
There are 18 pieces in the Cloud collection.
Each archival pigment print is produced under the supervision of the artist.
The print is mounted under a single piece of 1/4"/ 6 mm gallery...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Renaissance - Revival 18
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass.
Dimensions: 48 x 48 in.
Depth: 1/4 in.
Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada.
His lifelong interest in cutting-edge media technology as well as his expertise in photography cast him as pioneer in digital art and allow him to develop virtual matrix from which he extracts his images.
In his works he explores a universe that lies at the crossroad of abstraction and the figurative, inviting the viewer to determine if what he sees is a reflection of reality or imagination.
Through is truly unique approach RIOUX is one of the most innovative artists in digital creations and one of the few creative minds able to blend with such keenness aesthetics research and critical distance.
Whether they translate into a Dantesque urbanity or the infinite horizon of a turquoise ocean, the urban territory reflected by his creations offers a dystopian view of the world, challenging our attitude towards the environment and the future.
From the onset, RIOUX has no intention of matching IRL expectations of what digital art 'should' look like, but strives to play with our notions of what's real, what's not, how we remember, and how we infer meaning into imaginary visual constructs.
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RIOUX started the Renaissance project in 2016.
Renaissance further develops themes explored by RIOUX in his earlier series Turquoise Default. It is not merely a progression however, but also a contrast. This new series poses questions about hope, which is perhaps now more relevant than ever.
“Renaissance invokes in us a sense of uncertainty and a self-awareness of our limits, of an infinity made apparent by the horizon line, the vanishing point, the moment in any spatial or temporal projection beyond which we can no longer see, but from which, nonetheless, we know the universe carries on. At the same time it poses a choice to us: do we accept the openness of abstraction or do we insist on imposing a (false) certainty of representation in what we see in these images. Hope is a faith made possible by uncertainty and the unknown, by an understanding that history and the future are creative acts, works of art in which we all participate.” Neal Rockwell
There are 18 pieces in the RENAISSANCE collection.
Each archival pigment print is produced under the supervision of the artist.
The print is mounted under a single piece of 1/4"/ 6 mm gallery...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Renaissance - Revival 14
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass.
Dimensions: 48 x 48 in.
Depth: 1/4 in.
Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada.
His lifelong interest in cutti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Renaissance - Revival 11
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass.
Dimensions: 48 x 48 in.
Depth: 1/4 in.
Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada.
His lifelong interest in cutti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Prayer Flags Bhutan - Abstract Photography
By Pico Garcez
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pico Garcez (b.1963, São Paulo, Brazil) In Love with Photography, Iconography and Painting, exercises his gaze from childhood when he began to play with his first camera. Practicing ...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Cotton, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Renaissance - Revival 9
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass.
Dimensions: 48 x 48 in.
Depth: 1/4 in.
Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada.
His lifelong interest in cutti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Clouds 9
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass.
Dimensions: 48 x 48 in.
Depth: 1/4 in.
Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada.
His lifelong interest in cutting-edge media technology as well as his expertise in photography cast him as pioneer in digital art and allow him to develop virtual matrix from which he extracts his images.
In his works he explores a universe that lies at the crossroad of abstraction and the figurative, inviting the viewer to determine if what he sees is a reflection of reality or imagination.
Through is truly unique approach RIOUX is one of the most innovative artists in digital creations and one of the few creative minds able to blend with such keenness aesthetics research and critical distance.
Whether they translate into a Dantesque urbanity or the infinite horizon of a turquoise ocean, the urban territory reflected by his creations offers a dystopian view of the world, challenging our attitude towards the environment and the future.
From the onset, RIOUX has no intention of matching IRL expectations of what digital art 'should' look like, but strives to play with our notions of what's real, what's not, how we remember, and how we infer meaning into imaginary visual constructs.
---
RIOUX started the Cloud project in 2022.
Paul-Emile Rioux’s series Cloud, like his other work, is a kind of aesthetic thought experiment. Each square image is bisected symmetrically, or nearly symmetrically, by a tidy horizon. The upper half display forms that appear as clouds, the bottom as an underwater seascape, yet at the same time mimics the cloudlike formations of above.
Formally these works reference hard-edged abstraction, minimalism and abstract expressionism, though juxtaposed with a sort of Instagram lifestyle sensibility. When shown as a gridded series, they recall the Instagram account @insta_repeat which curates gridded typologies of nearly identical influencer photos – for instance sunsets on a beach, or campfires with hiking boot clad feet visible in the foreground, transforming images, which individually are meant to signify the good life, into symbols of stifling homogeneity, cynically trying to capitalize on mass-produced sensations.
Unlike past movements in abstract or minimal art, however, Rioux is not striving to create self-contained objects, but windows into deeper currents that churn in the dark spaces where culture, technology and the subconscious flow together. Rioux’s digital works are not specifically images, but notes, ways of thinking. They connect to a larger discourse.
With Clouds, Rioux thinks aloud about what is hidden and what is revealed in our relationships to technology and nature. It is a meditation on “the cloud,” which, like real clouds, seem immaterial, but in fact are physical and have a material impact on the world. Rioux considers the juxtaposition between weight and weightlessness – the apparent weightlessness of virtual reality, against the mass, the inescapability of the material world. Technology promises a world of lightness, connectivity and the bounty of limitless growth, or if it cannot quite muster that illusion, at least the offer of escape into a simulated universe of carnivalesque distraction shepherding us away from the environmental catastrophe our economic system inflicts on the earth. In this series Rioux asks us to reflect on what the clouds hide.
There are 18 pieces in the Cloud collection.
Each archival pigment print is produced under the supervision of the artist.
The print is mounted under a single piece of 1/4"/ 6 mm gallery museum acrylic...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Renaissance - Revival 3
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass.
Dimensions: 48 x 48 in.
Depth: 1/4 in.
Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada.
His lifelong interest in cutti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Renaissance - Revival 2
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass.
Dimensions: 48 x 48 in.
Depth: 1/4 in.
Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada.
His lifelong interest in cutti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Prayer Flags Bhutan - Abstract Photography
By Pico Garcez
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Bhutan Religious Photography - Open Sky Neutral Blue, Silver, and Yellow Tones. Photography. Edition Print.
Pico Garcez (b.1963, São Paulo, Braz...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Cotton, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Parc de Sceaux, France (5-95-6c-9)
Located in New York, NY
Throughout her career, Geesaman photographed public parks and formal gardens in the United States and Europe, focusing on the intersection of nature and artifice in the cultivated la...
Category
Early 2000s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Blaze, Untitled 3
By Ori Gersht
Located in New York, NY
From the series Blaze
Category
Early 2000s Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Epic Orange Sunset over Spiritual Sea with Solitary Boat
Located in Miami, FL
A solitary boat is dwarfed by a colossal setting sun on a spiritual sea. The image suggests that a larger force is out there and that humans are just a part of the grand scheme.
Th...
Category
1970s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Bhutan Prayer Flags - Abstract Photography By PICO GARCEZ
By Pico Garcez
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pico Garcez (b.1963, São Paulo, Brazil) In Love with Photography, Iconography and Painting, exercises his gaze from childhood when he began to play with his first camera. Practicing ...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Cotton, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
"Swim Start" Group Portrait of Swimmers in Water, Contemporary Color Photograph
Located in New York, NY
Large Scale Limited edition color photograph, 40"x60" depicting a group of swimmers beginning a race in the water with a light blue, white tones. The composition captures a large gro...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Tuquoise 13
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass.
Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada.
His lifelong interest in cutting-edge media technology as well as his ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Tuquoise 12
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass.
Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada.
His lifelong interest in cutting-edge media technology as well as his ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Tuquoise 11
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass.
Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada.
His lifelong interest in cutting-edge media technology as well as his ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Turquoise 9
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass.
Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada.
His lifelong interest in cutting-edge media technology as well as his ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Turquoise 5
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass.
Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada.
His lifelong interest in cutting-edge media technology as well as his ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Turquoise 6
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass.
Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada.
His lifelong interest in cutting-edge media technology as well as his ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Turquoise 3
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass.
Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada.
His lifelong interest in cutting-edge media technology as well as his ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Tuquoise 1
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass.
Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada.
His lifelong interest in cutting-edge media technology as well as his ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Big Sun Over New York City Bridge - The Transience of Time.
Located in Miami, FL
This dramatic image of an oversized sun with a silhouetted plane gracefully passing through conveys the transience of time. Two spires of the Triborough Bridge are centered in the co...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
KAWA 011-012 – Syoin Kajii, Japanese Photography, Abstract, Nature, Water, Art
Located in Zurich, CH
Syoin KAJII (*1976, Japan)
KAWA 011-012, 2009
Lambda Print with Diasec Face, Diptych
Sheet 56 x 168 cm (22 x 66 1/8 in.)
Edition of 6 (#3/6)
Framed
About KAWA:
Buddhist monk Kajii ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
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