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CONTEMPORARY STYLE

Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.

Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.

The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.

Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.

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Style: Contemporary
Color:  Yellow
Great Horned Owl Yellow
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Brad Wilson's early education in the visual arts began at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he studied art history and studio art. From there he moved on to both the Maine and Santa Fe Photographic Workshops to focus exclusively on photography before settling in New York City. In New York, Brad worked with a number of notable photographers and then began his own career in the commercial and fine-art genres. His work has been widely published around the world, appearing in numerous advertising campaigns, magazines, annual reports, and music packages. His fine-art photographs are currently represented by Doinel Gallery in London, Surround Art Gallery in Moscow, Artistics Gallery in Paris, and PhotoEye Gallery...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Yellow Rabbit Edition 2/5 - Contemporary Landscape Animal Photography
Located in Vienna, AT
Verena Prenner Yellow Rabbit - Contemporary Landscape Animal Photography Edition 2/5+II AP Print is unframed and comes with sticker signed by the artist. In October 2018, Verena Pre...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Color

Yellow Rabbit Edition 1/5 - Contemporary Landscape Animal Photography
Located in Vienna, AT
Yellow Rabbit - Contemporary Landscape Animal Photography Edition 1/5+II AP Print is unframed and comes with sticker signed by the artist. In October 2018, Verena Prenner received a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Color

North Shore Yacht Club, Salton Sea - Spring Sale - 20th Century, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'North Shore Yacht Club I' - Salton Sea (California Badlands) - 1998 50x60cm with white border, Image size: 48x46cm, Edition 2/10, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid, Certificate and Signature label, artist Inventory No. 585.02, Not mounted. The artist Stefanie Schneider has produced a unique body of work because she was the first to utilize expired Polaroid instant photography. Embracing the ‘imperfections’ this medium can produce Stefanie’s artwork was the inspiration of Instagram and the catalyst that motivated Dr. Florian Kaps to rescue the sole remaining Polaroid film production factory in Holland. Saving the last production equipment just before their planned destruction, therefore saving millions of vintage Polaroid cameras from obsolescence. Hows that for an artist having an effect on her medium of choice! The ‘Impossible film project’ saved the production factory and then a Polish business man bought ‘Impossible film’ and the actual Polaroid company to bring the two back together resulting in the so called ‘Polaroid Originals’ and giving it to his millennial son. (I hear he might also get Fuji film company for Christmas) Stefanie Schneider purchases Polaroid instant film and uses it only at it’s best possible outcome for her planned film shoots. The location, sets, costumes, actors and stories all come from Schneider but that’s just the beginning. The stories and their production take place in the high desert near Joshua Tree in California but the post production is in Berlin, Germany. The chosen photographs are rephotographed to make a negative. Following with the analogue medium, Schneider enlarges and prints old school in a self designed and built analogue darkroom in an old factory studio in Berlin. The largest of her hand printed art works measure 125cm or 49 inches in width with her vintage ‘Colenta’ developing machine. Schneider designed and built her own enlarger to properly fit her concept with the biggest ‘Durst’ enlarger ever built and turned on it’s side so as to print even bigger than was possible in it’s original design and rolls on custom tracks. Schneider created a film production movie set for her biggest film concepts from all her proceeds on an organic (off grid) farm in California where she eats only what she grows. Complete with garden, greenhouse and chicken coop. (It’s also a sanctuary for animals as no meat consumption is permitted) Vintage travel trailers dot the farm where production ideas develop. a costume trailer, film storage in the vintage refrigerators...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper, Archival Paper, Polaroid, Color, C Print

Enchanted - Saigon
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Enchanted' by Stefanie Schneider (Saigon) - 1999 20x20cm, Sold out Edition of 5, Artist Proof 2/2 Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid, Certificate and signature label Not moun...
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1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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C Print, Polaroid

Double Self Portrait with Yellow Blindfold
Located in New York, NY
Double Self Portrait with Yellow Blindfold April, 1978 Signed in black ink, verso Vintage hand-painted C-print 5 x 3.5 inches (12.7 x 8.9 cm) ...
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1970s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Paint, C Print

Enchanted - Saigon - 58x56cm, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Enchanted' (Saigon) - 1999 58x56cm, Edition 1/5, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, matte Surface, Vintage Print, ...
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1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Self Portrait (Strange Love) - Polaroid, New York
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Self Portrait (Strange Love) - 2005 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Signature label and certificate. Artist Inventory No. 6146...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Narween (Saigon) -20x20cm, Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Nude, AP1/2
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Narween (Saigon) - 2003 sold out Edition of 5, this is Artist Proof 1/2, digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid, Artist inventory Number 469.15. Signature label and Certificate. Not ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid, Archival Paper

Red Desert (Stranger than Paradise) - Contemporary, self-portrait
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Red Desert (Stranger than Paradise) - 2006, 38x37cm. Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Signature label and Cer...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Untitled (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (29 Palms, CA) - 1999, 58x56cm, Edition 2/10, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid, Not mounted, Signature label and Certificate, artist inven...
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1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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C Print, Color, Polaroid, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper

Untitled (Cuba No. 3, Yellow Kitchen)
Located in New York, NY
Chromogenic print Signed and numbered, verso (Edition of 10) This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. About the artist: Born in 1970 in a suburb of Tel-Aviv...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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C Print

Once we were Warriors (Stage of Consciousness) - starring Radha Mitchell
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Once we were Warriors (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 from the 29 Palms, CA project. 58x56cm, Edition 1/5. Analog C-Print hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid. Certifi...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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C Print, Color, Polaroid, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper

Mirorred (Memories of Green) Contemporary, Polaroid, Photograph, Portrait
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Mirrored (Memories of Green) - 2003 58x56cm, Edition of 5 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on the original Pol...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

The Prince (The Princess and her Lover) - Polaroid, Portrait, Dream
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Prince (The Princess and her Lover), 2007, part of the 29 Palms, CA project, Edition of of 10, 20x20cm, digital C-Print based on a Polaroid, Signature label and Certificate, a...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid, Archival Paper

Modern Man, New York by Roberta Fineberg, Contemporary Color Pop Art Photo
Located in New york, NY
Shot on the streets of East Harlem, New York, a neon-yellow pop art photographic portrait called Modern Man by Roberta Fineberg. Modern Man, 2011 by Rober...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Digital, Archival Paper, Archival Ink

Middle Light
Located in Sante Fe, NM
All my life I have held a fascination with the animal kingdom, which began in my childhood growing up on a farm and extended into my adult years. On some inexplicable level I feel a ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Divine I, Contemporary, Celebrity, Photography, Portrait
Located in Munich, DE
Combined Edition 25 Also available in 50 x 60 cm/ 20 x 24 inch and as combined Edition 10 in 76 x 101 cm / 30 x 40 inch 101 x 127 cm / 40 x 50 inch Portrait of Harris Glenn Milstea...
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1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Self-portrait in party hat, New Year's Eve, "Renaissance, " Malibu
Located in New York, NY
Cibachrome print Signed, titled, dated, and inscribed, verso This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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