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.
Untitled 1 and 2. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Nude Color Photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-representation and a homoerotic gaze. Through his unique aesthetic, he creates abject staged environments that challenge tradi...
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
$5,200
8, 9, 10 and 11 From La Piedra Sustituta II Series. Limited edition color photo
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Showing a body that is hidden is the aesthetic apology for the insane judgment that the artist himself has taken as an excuse for not being "pointed at" or rather as self-pointing. T...
Archival Pigment, Color
Untitled 2. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Nude Photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-representation and a homoerotic gaze. Through his unique aesthetic, he creates abject staged environments that challenge tradi...
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
Untitled V, Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Nude Photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
José Sierra painted his body as a tribute to Afro-Colombian and pre-Columbian cultures, documenting the performance in photographs that portray him in erotic and suggestive positions...
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
Deseo Insular VIII. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Nude Photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist was enchanted by some images he had a relationship with since childhood, working them into iconographies, such as the image of the fisherman carrying on his back a cod alm...
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
Deseo Insular XIV. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Nude Color Photograph F
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist was enchanted by some images he had a relationship with since childhood, working them into iconographies, such as the image of the fisherman carrying on his back a cod alm...
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
5 and 6. La Piedra Sustituta I, Series. Limited edition color photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Showing a body that is hidden is the aesthetic apology for the insane judgment that the artist himself has taken as an excuse for not being "pointed at" or rather as self-pointing. T...
Color, Archival Pigment
Untitled V and IX. La Costilla Roja Series. Limited edition photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This work is the result of an artistic residence outside his "study”.The artist worked on a different ecosystem, a house of vernacular architecture built in 1913 in the department of...
Archival Pigment, Color
Deseo Insular IX. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Nude Color Photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist was enchanted by some images he had a relationship with since childhood, working them into iconographies, such as the image of the fisherman carrying on his back a cod alm...
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
19 and 21 From Un niño en el Chicle Series. Limited edition photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-representation and a homoerotic gaze. Through his unique aesthetic, he creates abject staged environments that challenge tradi...
Color, Archival Pigment
End of An Era
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Savannah Spirit’s nudes uses self-portraiture to examine authorship, embodiment, and the politics of visibility. Working primarily in black and white, she utilizes shadow and silhoue...
Archival Pigment
Untitled II. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Nude Photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
José Sierra painted his body as a tribute to Afro-Colombian and pre-Columbian cultures, documenting the performance in photographs that portray him in erotic and suggestive positions...
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
Self Portrait III, Sin Título, Series. Limited edition color photograph.
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
José Sierra painted his body as a tribute to Afro-Colombian and pre-Columbian cultures, documenting the performance in photographs that portray him in erotic and suggestive positions...
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
Deseo Insular III, Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Photograph F
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist was enchanted by some images he had a relationship with since childhood, working them into iconographies, such as the image of the fisherman carrying on his back a cod alm...
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
10 and 11 From La Piedra Sustituta II Series. Limited edition color photo
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Showing a body that is hidden is the aesthetic apology for the insane judgment that the artist himself has taken as an excuse for not being "pointed at" or rather as self-pointing. T...
Archival Pigment, Color
Deseo Insular VII. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Nude Color Photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
"The artist was enchanted by some images he had a relationship with since childhood, working them into iconographies, such as the image of the fisherman carrying on his back a cod al...
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
12, 13 and 14 From Cuerpo en Tensión Series. Limited edition photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-representation and a homoerotic gaze. Through his unique aesthetic, he creates abject staged environments that challenge tradi...
Archival Pigment, Color
Self Portrait #6 From La Piedra Sustituta II Series. Nude color photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-representation and a homoerotic gaze. Through his unique aesthetic, he creates abject staged environments that challenge tradi...
Color, Archival Pigment
Deseo Insular XI, Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Nude Photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist was enchanted by some images he had a relationship with since childhood, working them into iconographies, such as the image of the fisherman carrying on his back a cod alm...
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
17 and 18. From El Envuelto Divino Series. Limited edition photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-representation and a homoerotic gaze. Through his unique aesthetic, he creates abject staged environments that challenge tradi...
Color, Archival Pigment
Untitled III and IV. La Costilla Roja Series. Limited edition photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This work is the result of an artistic residence outside his "study”.The artist worked on a different ecosystem, a house of vernacular architecture built in 1913 in the department of...
Archival Pigment, Color
13 and 14. La Piedra Sustituta I, Series. Limited edition color photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Showing a body that is hidden is the aesthetic apology for the insane judgment that the artist himself has taken as an excuse for not being "pointed at" or rather as self-pointing. T...
Color, Archival Pigment
2 and 3. La Piedra Sustituta I, Series. Limited edition color photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Showing a body that is hidden is the aesthetic apology for the insane judgment that the artist himself has taken as an excuse for not being "pointed at" or rather as self-pointing. T...
Archival Pigment, Color
Untitled IV. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Nude Photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
José Sierra painted his body as a tribute to Afro-Colombian and pre-Columbian cultures, documenting the performance in photographs that portray him in erotic and suggestive positions...
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
Untitled 1. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Nude Color Photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-representation and a homoerotic gaze. Through his unique aesthetic, he creates abject staged environments that challenge tradi...
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
Deseo Insular X. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Nude Photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist was enchanted by some images he had a relationship with since childhood, working them into iconographies, such as the image of the fisherman carrying on his back a cod alm...
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
Savannah Spirit, Hold Onto Power (Black and White Nude Photography B&W)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this self portrait, Savannah Spirit turns the tradition of black and white female portraiture back on itself. The muse is the artist, and the gaze is her own. Through her artistic, social and curatorial projects, Spirit also takes on technology and social media censors, who assume that the unclothed body of a human, especially of those who identify as female, is pornography that must be controlled. Her artwork asserts that a woman is her own muse. Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. Press FORBES: Savannah Spirit Wants to Trigger Your Trump VICE: Erotic Art Fights Trump with Scenes of Female Pleasure BULLETT: The Art Show Fighting Fascism with Erotica HUFFINGTON POST: Artists Are Resisting Trump's Misogyny with Erotic Art DAZED: The Erotic Show Taking on Donald Trump Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. Published: City Journal Huffington Post The Color Theory Expert Snap The Nation Global Yodel THE magazine Live Mag! The Villager Ravelin D/Railed Magazine Open Letr Style: This photograph combines a feminist eye and modern feminism with classic vintage pinup...
Archival Pigment
18 and 16. From El Envuelto Divino Series. Limited edition photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-representation and a homoerotic gaze. Through his unique aesthetic, he creates abject staged environments that challenge tradi...
Color, Archival Pigment
Untitled II and VII. La Costilla Roja Series. Limited edition photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This work is the result of an artistic residence outside his "study”.The artist worked on a different ecosystem, a house of vernacular architecture built in 1913 in the department of...
Color, Archival Pigment
$2,000
Self Portrait #1. From La Piedra Sustituta II. Limited edition color photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-representation and a homoerotic gaze. Through his unique aesthetic, he creates abject staged environments that challenge tradi...
Color, Archival Pigment
Untitled VIII. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Nude Photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
José Sierra painted his body as a tribute to Afro-Colombian and pre-Columbian cultures, documenting the performance in photographs that portray him in erotic and suggestive positions...
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
$481
Untitled (Chinese Classical) - Contemporary, Figurative, Women, Polaroid, Nude
By xulong zhang
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Chinese Classical), 2002 - Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs, archival Print, POLAROID 809 Emulsion Transfer, 26 cm x 32cm. Signed, embossed stamp and artist certificate...
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid, Archival Paper
$2,000
Self Portrait #9 From La Piedra Sustituta II Series. Limited edition color photo
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-representation and a homoerotic gaze. Through his unique aesthetic, he creates abject staged environments that challenge tradi...
Color, Archival Pigment
Untitled IX. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Nude Photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
José Sierra painted his body as a tribute to Afro-Colombian and pre-Columbian cultures, documenting the performance in photographs that portray him in erotic and suggestive positions...
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
$2,000
Self Portrait #3 From La Piedra Sustituta II Series. Limited edition color photo
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-representation and a homoerotic gaze. Through his unique aesthetic, he creates abject staged environments that challenge tradi...
Color, Archival Pigment
Untitled
By xulong zhang
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Untitled' 2013, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs, digital C-Print, based on a SX-70 Polaroid, 8.8 cm x 10.7cm, not mounted, Signed, embossed stamp and artist certificate. Xulong...
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Untitled, Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Nude Photography
By xulong zhang
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Untitled' 2013, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs, 27 x 21.5 cm, Digital C-Print, based on an IMPOSSIBLE 8x10 Colour Instant Film, Signed, embossed stamp and artist certificate. ...
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Untitled
By xulong zhang
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Untitled' 2013, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs, Digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid 59, not mounted, 15.2cm x 10.8cm, not mounted, Signed, embossed stamp and artist certificate...
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Deseo Insular VI. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Nude Color Photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
"The artist was enchanted by some images he had a relationship with since childhood, working them into iconographies, such as the image of the fisherman carrying on his back a cod al...
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
Untitled - Polaroid, Contemporary, China, 21st Century, Color
By xulong zhang
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled 2014, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs, digital C-Print, based on an Polaroid 125i, 10.2 cm x 8.5cm Signed, embossed stamp and artist certificate. Not mounted. Xulong Z...
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Untitled VI. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Nude Color Photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
José Sierra painted his body as a tribute to Afro-Colombian and pre-Columbian cultures, documenting the performance in photographs that portray him in erotic and suggestive positions...
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
Savannah Spirit, Film Strip
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Erotica to save our souls. Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. ARTSY: May 28, 2019: The Photographers Fighting Instagram’s Censorship of Nude Bodies, by Kelsey Ables. ...
Archival Pigment
Deseo Insular II, Self Portrait. Limited Edition Nude Color Photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist was enchanted by some images he had a relationship with since childhood, working them into iconographies, such as the image of the fisherman carrying on his back a cod alm...
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
Untitled I. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
José Sierra painted his body as a tribute to Afro-Colombian and pre-Columbian cultures, documenting the performance in photographs that portray him in erotic and suggestive positions...
Color, Archival Pigment
Untitled, Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative Photography
By xulong zhang
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Untitled' 2013, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs, Digital C-Print, based on a Fuji FP-100C Instant Film, not mounted, 27 x 21.5 cm, Signed, embossed stamp and artist certific...
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Deseo Insular V. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Nude Color Photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist was enchanted by some images he had a relationship with since childhood, working them into iconographies, such as the image of the fisherman carrying on his back a cod alm...
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
$2,000
Self Portrait #5 From La Piedra Sustituta II Series. Limited edition color photo
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-representation and a homoerotic gaze. Through his unique aesthetic, he creates abject staged environments that challenge tradi...
Color, Archival Pigment
Nipple Detail (Black and White Nude Photography, B&W Nude)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Savannah Spirit We The Nipple 30 x 30 inches Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. Edition of 5 Signed by artist Erotica to save our souls. Latest press ARTSY: May 28, 2019: The Photographers Fighting Instagram’s Censorship of Nude Bodies, by Kelsey Ables. First artist featured: Savannah Spirit. In this self portrait, Savannah Spirit turns the tradition of black and white female portraiture back on itself. The muse is the artist, and the gaze is her own. Spirit believes that an image of a woman's body should not be viewed through a purely sexual lens. Her artwork asserts that a woman is her own muse. Through her artistic, social and curatorial projects, Spirit also takes on technology and social media censors, who assume that the unclothed body of a human—especially a female human—is by definition, pornography, in need of control. Press FORBES: Savannah Spirit Wants to Trigger Your Trump VICE: Erotic Art Fights Trump with Scenes of Female Pleasure BULLETT: The Art Show Fighting Fascism with Erotica HUFFINGTON POST: Artists Are Resisting Trump's Misogyny with Erotic Art DAZED: The Erotic Show Taking on Donald Trump Internal: Savannah Spirit, Black and White Photography, Black and White Nude...
Archival Pigment
Venus and Amor I, 1530, Lucas Cranach The Elder, Painting Detail Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner’s Venus and Amor I presents an exquisite close-up of Lucas Cranach the Elder’s 1530 masterpiece, capturing the delicate interplay of sensuality and symbolism characte...
Archival Pigment
"Repetition is good" 19x27" framed, 1988-2025
By Ceravolo
Located in Southampton, NY
For the month of December we are offering very special pricing of at least 20% off of all of the paintings at the gallery. Some are discounted as much as 50%. If you see a painting t...
Archival Ink, Rag Paper
I Am My Own Muse (Black and White Nude Photography, Self-Portraiture)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this rich self portrait, Savannah Spirit takes the tradition of black and white female nude photography, and turns the gaze back on itself. In this series, the muse is the artist, and the gaze is her own. Spirit believes that an image of a woman's body should not be viewed through a purely sexual lens. Through her artwork and curation, Spirit takes on technology and social media censors who operate on the assumption that any unclothed body is pornography. Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. Savannah Spirit Listening to Debussy Edition 2/3 Edition of 3 "We are unique beauty, we are strong, we are equal, we are body-positive, we are elegant, we are powerful, we are vulnerable. We are our own muses." Exhibition History: Woman March 31st – May 1st, 2018 Undercurrent Projects Also featuring works by: Lillian Bassman, Elinor Carucci, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Nona Faustine...
Archival Pigment
Reach
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Savannah Spirit’s self-portrait utilizing a side lamp and an Iphone. Her hand gripping her side creating tension in the skin. This is in the permanent collection at the Tom Ford flag...
Archival Pigment
Self Portrait #17 From El Envuelto Divino Series. Limited edition photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-representation and a homoerotic gaze. Through his unique aesthetic, he creates abject staged environments that challenge tradi...
Color, Archival Pigment
Self Portrait #8 From La Piedra Sustituta II Series. Nude color photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-representation and a homoerotic gaze. Through his unique aesthetic, he creates abject staged environments that challenge tradi...
Color, Archival Pigment
$2,000
Self Portrait #11. La Piedra Sustituta Series. Limited edition color photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Showing a body that is hidden is the aesthetic apology for the insane judgment that the artist himself has taken as an excuse for not being 'pointed at' or rather as self-pointing. T...
Color, Archival Pigment
Deseo Insular I. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Nude Color Photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist was enchanted by some images he had a relationship with since childhood, working them into iconographies, such as the image of the fisherman carrying on his back a cod alm...
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
Self Portrait #16 From El Envuelto Divino Series. Limited edition photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-representation and a homoerotic gaze. Through his unique aesthetic, he creates abject staged environments that challenge tradi...
Color, Archival Pigment
Self Portrait #14 From Cuerpo en Tensión Series. Limited edition photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-representation and a homoerotic gaze. Through his unique aesthetic, he creates abject staged environments that challenge tradi...
Color, Archival Pigment
Savannah Spirit, Reach
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Savannah Spirit Reach 24 x 24 inches Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. Edition 1 of 5 Signed by artist Latest press ARTSY: May 28, 2019: The Photographers Fighting Ins...
Archival Pigment
$2,000
Self Portrait #15. La Piedra Sustituta, Series. Limited edition color photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Showing a body that is hidden is the aesthetic apology for the insane judgment that the artist himself has taken as an excuse for not being 'pointed at' or rather as self-pointing. T...
Color, Archival Pigment