Skip to main content

Contemporary Abstract Prints

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.

Find a collection of Contemporary prints, photography, paintings, sculptures and other art on 1stDibs.

to
433
700
595
1,060
473
505
Overall Width
to
Overall Height
to
9,043
2,314
1,167
1,085
293
245
144
108
107
76
16
14
130
124
68
64
64
2
1,331
1,997
3
16
83
601
303
208
1,724
1,047
536
34
32
20
11
9
9
7
7
6
5
5
5
4
4
3
3
3
3
3
3
952
822
625
534
530
539
1,146
1,927
1,250
Style: Contemporary
Revolution IX - Blue geometric abstract monoprint and laser cut rice paper
Located in New York, NY
Monoprint, serigraphy, laser cut on two sheets of rice paper, unique 15 x 15 inches, 2016, framed 22.25 x 22.25 inches In this piece, Sands uses the motif of a sand dollar, and her ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Monoprint, Rice Paper

Oval On The Green - Sydell Lewis - Digital Pigment Prints
Located in Carmel, CA
** Larger prints are available for purchase. Please feel free to contact us if you're interested. Enchanted by the intricate symphony of nature's rhythms, the alluring dance of urba...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Panel, Pigment

Shepard Fairey Pattern of Denial Collage Screen Print Contemporary Street Art
Located in Draper, UT
The Pattern of Denial print is an examination of image versus reality. The image is inspired by the sleek and idealized mid-century architecture of both deluxe homes and deluxe facto...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Gold Leaf

Venus - photograph of cascading fashion details of antique sculpture
Located in San Francisco, CA
Large format photograph of intricate garment details of ancient Roman marble sculptures, from a series capturing ancient craftsmanship and fashion of antiquity 72 x 48 inches / 183c...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment

BBC 4 textile (HAND SIGNED and dated by Tracey Emin) screenprinted fabric Framed
Located in New York, NY
Tracey Emin BBC 4 textile (HAND SIGNED and dated by Tracey Emin), 2002 Limited edition screenprint on linen (uniquely signed and dated 2017 in pencil) Pencil signed and dated 2017 on...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Linen, Mixed Media, Screen

A Still Life at Millbank by Gordon House 1980 colorful abstract geometric
Located in New York, NY
Colorful abstract geometric and playful screenprint in pink, red, green, yellow, tan, and blue. From a portfolio produced to commemorate the Kelpra Studio Exhibition at the Tate Gall...
Category

1980s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Screen

Damien Hirst's Dog
Located in Deddington, GB
Damien Hirst’s Dog By Mychael Barratt [Mychael Barratt] limited_edition Woodcut Image size: H:50 cm x W:51 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:63...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Woodcut

Big Dipper-- Print, Aquatint, Art by Ed Ruscha
Located in London, GB
Big Dipper, 1982 Ed Ruscha Aquatint in indigo and black, on wove paper Signed, dated and inscribed 'A. P. 4' One of ten artist's proofs aside from the edition of 10 Published by C...
Category

1980s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Aquatint

Motif, Gold Abstract African American Artist Viola Leak Woodcut Silkscreen Print
Located in Surfside, FL
Motif (Abstract) in orange, blue and gold abstract. From the small edition of 10. from 1982. I am not sure if this is a woodcut or woodblock print or a silkscreen screenprint or some combination. Viola Burley Leak, American (1944 - ) Viola Leak was born in Nashville, Tennessee, she received a B.A. in Art from Fisk University, a B.F.A. in Fashion Design from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, an M.A. from Hunter College, NY and an M.F.A. in Media from Howard University, Washington, DC. Leak was an art consultant for both the New York State Board of Education and the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Print Department, in addition to working for the Experimental Gallery of Art at the Smithsonian Institute. Her mixed media work often references religious motifs and those of her African-American experience and heritage. She is a multimedia artist, her works include printmaking, textile designing, soft sculpture, appliqué tapestries, doll making, and multi-media. Viola has studied with many renowned artists such as Aaron Douglas, Romare Bearden, Robert Blackburn, and Charles White. Her works can be found in the collections of World Federation of United Nations, New York State Office Building, Manufacturers of Hanover Trust Company, Atlanta Life Insurance Company and many more organizations. Viola's exhibition experience is extensive - more than 100 showings over a decade, national and international. Her quilts exude a miraculous and magical presence. They have traveled in two international shows and three national quilt projects in the past three years. A proud moment for her was being featured in the December 20, 2000 of the Smithsonian magazine; the article praised her mural "Afro Dance Scan" as one of the outstanding artworks in the "When the Spirit Moves: African American Dance...
Category

1980s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Screen, Woodcut

Keith Haring Rain Dance 1985 (Keith Haring posters)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Rain Dance 1985: RARE original 1980s Keith Haring illustrated poster announcement for a legendary Keith Haring UNICEF benefit party at Larry Levan’s Paradise Garage in 1985. An event organized & curated by Keith Haring; with cohosts including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein & more. A event organized by Haring on behalf of UNICEF’s African Emergency Relief Fund. Beautifully combines Haring’s trademark kinetic figures set amidst a standout blue and black color-way. Rare. Medium: Offset lithograph in colors on smooth wove paper. 1985. Dimensions: 8.5 x 11 inches (folded open). Fair overall vintage condition. Minor wear to center fold-line; minor separation to the mid far-left edge; surface loss lower left. Otherwise well-preserved. Printed signature, ‘Keith Haring 1985’ on lower right from a scarce edition of unknown. Looks fantastic framed. More on Keith Haring Rain Dance: Curated and organized by Keith Haring, Rain Dance was a 1985 benefit for UNICEF’s African Emergency Relief Fund. Participating artists famously included: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Larry Levan, Fred Brathwaite, Christo, Francesco Clemente, George Condo, Crash, Futura 2000, Jenny Holzer, John Lennon, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Mapplethorpe, Brice Marden, Robert Morris, Yoko Ono, Lee Quiñones, Robert Rauschenberg, Kenny Scharf, Julian Schnabel, Richard Serra, Cindy Sherman, Tseng Kwong Chi, and Andy Warhol. _ Keith Haring (American, 1958–1990), a Neo-Pop and Graffiti artist, had a short but prolific career centered on a vision to unite “high art,” urban aesthetics, and public spaces using humorous, irreverent, and poignant works. Born in Pennsylvania, Haring attended the Ivy School of Art in Pittsburgh for two years, planning to become a commercial artist. He found this path unsatisfying, and instead chose to study at the School of Visual Arts in New York, where he met fellow artists Jean Michel Basquiat and Kenny Scharf. Haring immersed himself in the culture of the city’s streets and clubs, and, in 1980, began covering the blank billboards on subway station walls with his Subway drawings in chalk. Haring’s bold public art attracted the attention of several galleries, and, by the early 1980s, he was painting Neo-Pop works and large murals full time. In an effort to make his art widely accessible, Haring opened the Pop Shop in 1986 in downtown New York, selling commercial items adorned with his signature, cartoonish imagery. Haring combined graffiti, hip-hop, and urban aesthetics, frequently depicting animals, figures, commercial icons, sexual imagery, and childlike motifs in pieces that were both playful and concerned with social issues. His work became increasingly confrontational following his 1987 diagnosis of AIDS. Haring resolved to work harder than ever in his remaining years, creating pieces with a fervent speed and devoting his art to social action in addition to his personal expression. In 1989, he established the Keith Haring Foundation, whose goal is to promote art programs and public spaces for children, and to raise awareness about AIDS. Haring died on February 16, 1990 in New York at the age of 31. In addition to hundreds of exhibitions held during his lifetime, Haring has been the subject of numerous retrospectives in New York, San Francisco, Paris, Tokyo, Los Angeles and Berlin since his death. Related Categories: Keith Haring posters. Keith Haring activist poster. Keith Haring Dancers. Street art. Graffiti. 1980s. Keith Haring Larry Levan. Keith Haring Paradise Garage...
Category

1980s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

Gift of Flowers
Located in Deddington, GB
Kit Boyd Gifts of Flowers Limited Edition Linocut Print Edition of 20 Image Size: H 30cm x W 41cm Sheet Size: H 40cm x W 50cm x D 0.1cm Sold Unframed Please no...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Paper, Linocut

"Irregular Arcs from Four Sides" signed etching with aquatint by Sol LeWitt
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Irregular Arcs from Four Sides" colorful, geometric abstract etching with aquatint in colors on Somerset paper with full margins. Signed and numbered PP 2/3 in pencil on front lower...
Category

1990s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

From the Window - Lithograph by Gastone Breddo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
From The Window is a colored lithograph realized by  Gastone Breddo in the 1970s . Edited by La Nuova Foglio, Macerata. Hand-signed  in pencil on the lower right.  Numbered  in pen...
Category

1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Napoleon Bonaparte I - interior photograph of elegant French palace villa
Located in San Francisco, CA
Large scale photograph of elegant interior view of the French revolutionary hidden door in the Villa Napoleone in Elba, Tuscany. Napoleon Bonaparte I - not at home ( ELBA ) by Frank...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment

Blue, Ukiyo-e landscape woodcut print, 2014
Located in New York, NY
Keiji Shinohara was born and raised in Osaka, Japan. After 10 years as an apprentice to the renowned Keiichiro Uesugi in Kyoto, he became a Master Printmaker and moved to the United ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Woodcut

H5-5 Raffles
Located in Bristol, GB
Diasec-mounted Giclee print on aluminium panel Edition 71 of 100 90 x 90 cm (35.4 x 35.4 in) Signed and numbered on the back Artwork in excellent condition. Minor imperfections may a...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Digital

Dogwood1, mixed media work on paper, blue flower
Located in New York, NY
Leaf collagraph with embossing on white BFK Rives Printmaking Paper. Approx. image size: 3" x 3" Paper size: 10" x 8" At the core of the dialogue between the artist and the work ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Monotype

Sunset Over Ocean, Desert Modernism Landscape Diptych, Monotype Cyanotype, Paper
Located in Barcelona, ES
Sunset Over Ocean is a unique cyanotype monotype on watercolor paper, blending the timeless beauty of ocean horizons with the clean, geometric serenity inspired by Desert Modernism. ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Paper, Monotype

Dogwood2, mixed media work on paper, navy blue flower
Located in New York, NY
Leaf collagraph with embossing on white BFK Rives Printmaking Paper. Approx. image size: 3" x 3" Paper size: 10" x 8" At the core of the dialogue between the artist and the work ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Monotype

Corridore - large format detail observations of antique Greek bronze sculpture
Located in San Francisco, CA
Large format photograph of facial features of an antique Greek bronze sculpture discovered in Pompeii and its mesmerizing gaze 72 x 48 inches ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment

Cesare - photograph of cascading fashion details of antique sculpture
Located in San Francisco, CA
Large format photograph of intricate garment details of ancient Roman marble sculptures, from a series capturing ancient craftsmanship and fashion of antiquity 72 x 48 inches / 183c...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment

untitled 1 from Album, Etching by Terry Winters
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Terry Winters, American (1949 - ) Title: untitled 1 from Album Year: 1988 Medium: Etching with Aquatint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: HC 2/2 Image: 20 x 16 inches S...
Category

1980s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

André Butzer, Untitled (Erstmal 'ne Cola!) - Signed Print, Abstract Etching
Located in Hamburg, DE
André Butzer (German, b. 1973) Untitled (Ich will erstmal 'ne Cola!), 2011 Medium: Etching on wove paper Dimensions: 34.7 x 25 cm Edition of 30: Hand-signed and numbered in pencil Co...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Etching

Untitled V (Geometric Abstraction, Contemporary Minimalism)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Stephan Küthe Untitled V Giclée on Hahnemühle Velvet Year: 2021 Signed, numbered and dated by hand Edition: 15 Size: 13.0 × 19.5 on 18.3 × 23.8 inches COA provided (gallery issued) ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Giclée

Passion is the Very Fact of God in Man
Located in Morton Grove, IL
Sister Mary Corita Kent Passion is the Very Fact of God in Man screenprint on Pellon rice paper 30 x40" edition of 50 1963 signed *Slight condition issues due to aging.
Category

1960s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Screen

"Day by Daybed" 2023
Located in New York, NY
Justin Pollmann "Day by Daybed" 2023 Inkjet Transfer Collage, Monotype 25"x27.5" inches The inkjet transfer images are made by collaging transfers of inkjet prints to the paper’s ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Paper, Inkjet

LoopDiLoop 4, mixed media monoprint on paper, white, abstract and minimal
Located in New York, NY
3D printed plate from Artist Photograph on white BFK Rives Printmaking Paper. This piece is framed. Plate: 4" x 4", Paper: 9" x 7" At the core of the dialogue between the artist and...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Monoprint

Abstract Italian Woman Artist Modern Metallic Foil Mirror Lithograph Laura Fiume
Located in Surfside, FL
This is not signed or numbered. it is from a folio of prints. Laura Fiume was born in Urbino, central Italy in 1953. Her education took place in Milan at the Liceo Artistico and at the Polytechnic School of Design. In 1976 she moved to Canzo, near Como where she learned serigraphy, ceramics, and painting from the well known artist Salvatore Fiume, her father. At the beginning the main subject of her works was that of fishes. She then extended her interest to the wider world of animals, interpreted through a deliberately naïve style and very bright colours. In 1983 Laura’s works were exhibited both at the Basel Art Fair and at Artexpo in New York. The latter marked the beginning of a collaboration with the Work’s II Gallery In Southampton (NY) which would continue until 1988. Her major exhibitions of those years were in Milan at the Palazzo dell’Arengario, now home of the Museo del Novecento in Piazza Duomo, (1985), and in Venice at the Assicurazioni Generali headquarters in Piazza San Marco (1987). In 1983 Laura began her ceramic production in her father’s workshop of Canzo located in a former silk mill. Between 1990 and 1992 thanks to an exclusive agreement with a Japanese company her paintings and graphic works were distributed throughout Japan. The 1990 exhibition at the Artesanterasmo Gallery of Milan on the theme of mirrors was the only occasion in which she exhibited her paintings with her father. Her collaboration with that gallery has been steady since 1988. In 1992, following a suggestion from the well known architect Pepe Tanzi, Laura collaborated to the launch of the Pozzi & Verga new collection of tables and chairs by including images of those pieces of furniture in her own paintings. Between 1992 and 2000 she had her own showroom in Milan where her collections of ceramics and her creations for leading companies like Ricchetti (tiles), Fede Cheti (home fabrics), Edilkamin (fireplaces and stoves), Kaigai (textiles for clothings and bathroom towels), Rosenthal (china), and Proserpio Arredamenti (furnishings and frabrics) were on display. In 1995 she was chosen as Designer of the Year by Meyer Mayor, the distinguished Swiss company specialising in kitchen and table linen production. In the 1995 exhibition entitled Walls and Terracottas at the Artesanterasmo Gallery of Milan abstract most of the subjects were painted on dirt-like materials. In the same year she also presented her new Tableaux an Terre at the L’Ile en terre Gallery of Saint Paul de Vence, France. Between 1996 and 2005 she collaborated with the Edizioni San Paolo Publishers illustrating children’s books and stories for kids in the G-baby Magazine. In 1999 she increased her show-room space by creating Atelier Produzioni d’Arte where prints, ceramics, and sculptures by various international artists were presented. In 2000 Laura began her collaboration with Raika of Japan designing their fashion collections which have been on display since 2002 in the Showroom Laura Fiume at the Mitsukoshi Department Store in Tokyo. In 2000 Laura designed a collection of coffee cups called The Jungle Collection for Cellini Deutschland. In April 2003, as part of the events that took place during the Salone del Mobile of Milan, Laura held a large exhibition at the Spazio Exté entitled Other Rooms: A Tribute To Philippe Starck. On that occasion Laura enjoyed the collaboration of Alessi, Driade, and Flos who kindly lent her the pieces from their Philippe Starck production represented in her paintings for an installation in that exhibition. In June 2003 Laura held a one-artist exhibition at the Svetog Krševana Gallery in Šibenik, Croatia as part of the International Children’s Festival of that town where she exhibited her early works dedicated to the world of children. In 2005 she gave her contribution to the restyling of the L’Arenella Hotel on the Isola del Giglio, Tuscany, by providing a number of enlarged images of her works which became the characterizing element of the hotel’s interiors. In the summer of the same year she held a retrospective at the Vartai Gallery in Vilnius, Lithuania. In 2005 she also presented an installation within the project Ten Arm-chairs for Ten Artists, an initiative by Molteni & C, a leading company in the furniture field, where Laura was asked to decorate a Molteni arm-chair from the Reversi collection and to carry out a number of paintings using the same fabrics covering their couches and arm-chairs. In 2006 there were as many as three exhibitions of Laura’s. The first one, called Visual Amplifications was held in Fiesole, near Florence, in the museum within the St. Alexander Basilica building. The second one, entitled Private Stories, took place in Sansepolcro, Tuscany at the Piero della Francesca City Museum. The third exhibition, entitled Trame d’interni (Plots in Interiors) was hosted in Milan by the Artesanterasmo Gallery where Laura presented her new paintings on fabrics provided by well known fabric producer Enzo degli Angiuoni. In 2007 she exhibited her works in Rome at the Galleria Margutta 3 and then at the trendy TAD Conceptstore showroom of Via del Babuino. Both exhibitions were strictly connected through the idea of displaying works in harmony with TAD’s furnishings. In 2007 Laura was also invited to take part in Milan’s Cow Parade...
Category

20th Century Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Offset, Screen

Fourteen
Located in Berkeley, CA
Color softground etching with aquatint and spitbite aquatint. Edition of 50
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Etching, Intaglio

Monograph, Hand Signed by Francesco Clemente and inscribed with a small drawing
Located in New York, NY
Francesco Clemente Clemente (Hand Signed by Francesco Clemente and inscribed with a small drawing), 1998 Large Illustrated Softback Exhibition Catalogue. (Hand signed and inscribed t...
Category

1990s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Lithograph, Offset

"India, " Abstract Woodcut and Monotype signed by Carol Summers
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"India" is a woodcut and monotype signed by Carol Summers. Here, Summer's abstract language for landscape imagery is taken to its most extreme: The image offers a view of a highly stylized waterfall, with red water falling down behind green foliage below. A hint of light blue at the lower left suggests a continuation of the water's flow. Above, purples and yellows mist upward from the power of the water. The playfulness of the image is enhanced by Summers' signature printmaking technique, which allows the ink from the woodblock to seep through the paper, blurring the edges of each form. Summers' signature can be found in pencil at the bottom of the rightmost blue form, with the title and edition at the bottom of the leftmost blue form. A copy of this print can be found in the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. 37.25 x 24.88 inches, artwork 48.5 x 35.5 inches, frame Numbered 44 from the edition of 75 Carol Summers (1925-2016) has worked as an artist throughout the second half of the 20th century and into the first years of the next, outliving most of his mid-century modernist peers. Initially trained as a painter, Summers was drawn to color woodcuts around 1950 and it became his specialty thereafter. Over the years he has developed a process and style that is both innovative and readily recognizable. His art is known for it’s large scale, saturated fields of bold color, semi-abstract treatment of landscapes from around the world and a luminescent quality achieved through a printmaking process he invented. In a career that has extended over half a century, Summers has hand-pulled approximately 245 woodcuts in editions that have typically run from 25 to 100 in number. His talent was both inherited and learned. Born in 1925 in Kingston, a small town in upstate New York, Summers was raised in nearby Woodstock with his older sister, Mary. His parents were both artists who had met in art school in St. Louis. During the Great Depression, when Carol was growing up, his father supported the family as a medical illustrator until he could return to painting. His mother was a watercolorist and also quite knowledgeable about the different kinds of papers used for various kinds of painting. Many years later, Summers would paint or print on thinly textured paper originally collected by his mother. From 1948 to 1951, Carol Summers trained in the classical fine and studio arts at Bard College and at the Art Students League of New York. He studied painting with Steven Hirsh and printmaking with Louis Schanker. He admired the shapes and colors favored by early modernists Paul Klee (Sw: 1879-1940) and Matt Phillips (Am: b.1927- ). After graduating, Summers quit working as a part-time carpenter and cabinetmaker (which had supported his schooling and living expenses) to focus fulltime on art. That same year, an early abstract, Bridge No. 1 was selected for a Purchase Prize in a competition sponsored by the Brooklyn Museum. In 1952, his work (Cathedral, Construction and Icarus) was shown the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in an exhibition of American woodcuts. In 1954, Summers received a grant from the Italian government to study for a year in Italy. Woodcuts completed soon after his arrival there were almost all editions of only 8 to 25 prints, small in size, architectural in content and black and white in color. The most well-known are Siennese Landscape and Little Landscape, which depicted the area near where he resided. Summers extended this trip three more years, a decision which would have significant impact on choices of subject matter and color in the coming decade. After returning from Europe, Summers’ images continued to feature historical landmarks and events from Italy as well as from France, Spain and Greece. However, as evidenced in Aetna’s Dream, Worldwind and Arch of Triumph, a new look prevailed. These woodcuts were larger in size and in color. Some incorporated metal leaf in the creation of a collage and Summers even experimented with silkscreening. Editions were now between 20 and 50 prints in number. Most importantly, Summers employed his rubbing technique for the first time in the creation of Fantastic Garden in late 1957. Dark Vision of Xerxes, a benchmark for Summers, was the first woodcut where Summers experimented using mineral spirits as part of his printmaking process. A Fulbright Grant as well as Fellowships from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation followed soon thereafter, as did faculty positions at colleges and universities primarily in New York and Pennsylvania. During this period he married a dancer named Elaine Smithers with whom he had one son, Kyle. Around this same time, along with fellow artist Leonard Baskin, Summers pioneered what is now referred to as the “monumental” woodcut. This term was coined in the early 1960s to denote woodcuts that were dramatically bigger than those previously created in earlier years, ones that were limited in size mostly by the size of small hand-presses. While Baskin chose figurative subject matter, serious in nature and rendered with thick, striated lines, Summers rendered much less somber images preferring to emphasize shape and color; his subject matter approached abstraction but was always firmly rooted in the landscape. In addition to working in this new, larger scale, Summers simultaneously refined a printmaking process which would eventually be called the “Carol Summers Method” or the “ Carol Summers Technique”. Summers produces his woodcuts by hand, usually from one or more blocks of quarter-inch pine, using oil-based printing inks and porous mulberry papers. His woodcuts reveal a sensitivity to wood especially its absorptive qualities and the subtleties of the grain. In several of his woodcuts throughout his career he has used the undulating, grainy patterns of a large wood plank to portray a flowing river or tumbling waterfall. The best examples of this are Dream, done in 1965 and the later Flash Flood Escalante, in 2003. In the majority of his woodcuts, Summers makes the blocks slightly larger than the paper so the image and color will bleed off the edge. Before printing, he centers a dry sheet of paper over the top of the cut wood block or blocks, securing it with giant clips. Then he rolls the ink directly on the front of the sheet of paper and pressing down onto the dry wood block or reassembled group of blocks. Summers is technically very proficient; the inks are thoroughly saturated onto the surface of the paper but they do not run into each other. The precision of the color inking in Constantine’s Dream in 1969 and Rainbow Glacier in 1970 has been referred to in various studio handbooks. Summers refers to his own printing technique as “rubbing”. In traditional woodcut printing, including the Japanese method, the ink is applied directly onto the block. However, by following his own method, Summers has avoided the mirror-reversed image of a conventional print and it has given him the control over the precise amount of ink that he wants on the paper. After the ink is applied to the front of the paper, Summers sprays it with mineral spirits, which act as a thinning agent. The absorptive fibers of the paper draw the thinned ink away from the surface softening the shapes and diffusing and muting the colors. This produces a unique glow that is a hallmark of the Summers printmaking technique. Unlike the works of other color field artists or modernists of the time, this new technique made Summers’ extreme simplification and flat color areas anything but hard-edged or coldly impersonal. By the 1960s, Summers had developed a personal way of coloring and printing and was not afraid of hard work, doing the cutting, inking and pulling himself. In 1964, at the age of 38, Summers’ work was exhibited for a second time at the Museum of Modern Art. This time his work was featured in a one-man show and then as one of MoMA’s two-year traveling exhibitions which toured throughout the United States. In subsequent years, Summers’ works would be exhibited and acquired for the permanent collections of multiple museums throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Summers’ familiarity with landscapes throughout the world is firsthand. As a navigator-bombardier in the Marines in World War II, he toured the South Pacific and Asia. Following college, travel in Europe and subsequent teaching positions, in 1972, after 47 years on the East Coast, Carol Summers moved permanently to Bonny Doon in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Northern California. There met his second wife, Joan Ward Toth, a textile artist who died in 1998; and it was here his second son, Ethan was born. During the years that followed this relocation, Summers’ choice of subject matter became more diverse although it retained the positive, mostly life-affirming quality that had existed from the beginning. Images now included moons, comets, both sunny and starry skies, hearts and flowers, all of which, in one way or another, remained tied to the landscape. In the 1980s, from his home and studio in the Santa Cruz mountains, Summers continued to work as an artist supplementing his income by conducting classes and workshops at universities in California and Oregon as well as throughout the Mid and Southwest. He also traveled extensively during this period hiking and camping, often for weeks at a time, throughout the western United States and Canada. Throughout the decade it was not unusual for Summers to backpack alone or with a fellow artist into mountains or back country for six weeks or more at a time. Not surprisingly, the artwork created during this period rarely departed from images of the land, sea and sky. Summers rendered these landscapes in a more representational style than before, however he always kept them somewhat abstract by mixing geometric shapes with organic shapes, irregular in outline. Some of his most critically acknowledged work was created during this period including First Rain, 1985 and The Rolling Sea, 1989. Summers received an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Bard College in 1979 and was selected by the United States Information Agency to spend a year conducting painting and printmaking workshops at universities throughout India. Since that original sabbatical, he has returned every year, spending four to eight weeks traveling throughout that country. In the 1990s, interspersed with these journeys to India have been additional treks to the back roads and high country areas of Mexico, Central America, Nepal, China and Japan. Travel to these exotic and faraway places had a profound influence on Summers’ art. Subject matter became more worldly and nonwestern as with From Humla to Dolpo, 1991 or A Former Life of Budha, 1996, for example. Architectural images, such as The Pillars of Hercules, 1990 or The Raja’s Aviary, 1992 became more common. Still life images made a reappearance with Jungle Bouquet in 1997. This was also a period when Summers began using odd-sized paper to further the impact of an image. The 1996 Night, a view of the earth and horizon as it might be seen by an astronaut, is over six feet long and only slightly more than a foot-and-a-half high. From 1999, Revuelta A Vida (Spanish for “Return to Life”) is pie-shaped and covers nearly 18 cubic feet. It was also at this juncture that Summers began to experiment with a somewhat different palette although he retained his love of saturated colors. The 2003 Far Side of Time is a superb example of the new direction taken by this colorist. At the turn of the millennium in 1999, “Carol Summers Woodcuts...
Category

1990s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Monotype, Woodcut

Ross Bleckner, Dome (Blue)
Located in New York, NY
Dome, Blue, 2017 Archival pigment inks on Crane Museo Max 365 gsm fine art paper 37 x 34 inches (94 x 86 cm) Edition of 40 Suite of 3 also available for $7500 Ross Bleckner is an i...
Category

1990s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Archival Ink

"Acrobat" by Jill Moser (Marine, Blue, Abstract, Screen Print)
Located in New York, NY
One screen print in colors on wove paper, 2009, signed in pencil, dated and numbered, Edition of 117 (total edition includes 18 artist's proofs), image: 769 by 769 mm 30 1/4 by 30 1/...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Screen

Swimmer BY CHRIS KEEGAN, Limited Edition Contemporary Print, Affordable Artwork
Located in Deddington, GB
Chris Keegan Swimmer Limited Edition Silkscreen Print Limited Edition of 50 Size: H 40cm x W 56cm x D 0.1cm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu images a...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Paper, Screen

Mary Knowland, Poppy 19, Affordable Art, Floral Art, Contemporary Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Mary Knowland Poppy 19 Unique Mono Print Floral Art Image Size: H 28cm x W 19cm Mount Size H 45cm x W 37cm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of ho...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Paper, Monoprint

"Spirits Through Time VII, " Framed Limited Edition Giclee Print, 36" x 24"
Located in Westport, CT
This limited edition print by Ned Martin is a contemporary abstract portrait. Part of his Spirits Through Time series, it features a woman in profile - her face and hair are rendered...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Digital, Giclée

Untitled (from Ten Painters on War and Peace), hand signed lithograph
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph in colors on arches paper. Hand signed and numbered by Liliane Klapisch. Edition 115/190. From the "Ten Painters on War and Peace" portfolio. Printed on May 10, 1978 ...
Category

1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

Abstract Modernist Colorful Bold Monoprint Monotype Painting Print Pierre Obando
Located in Surfside, FL
Pierre Andre Obando creates process oriented abstract paintings. He was born in Belize City, Belize and grew up in the Caribbean, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Miami, Fl and Jackson, MS. Pierre Obando completed his MFA at Hunter College and completed his undergraduate studies at New World School of the Arts, Miami, Fl. His work was featured in the Queens International Biennial in 2004, and 2006 at the Queens Museum of Art. His work has been in group exhibitions at Angela Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY; Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY; MACO Mexico Art Fair in Mexico City; Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Royale Projects, Indian Wells, CA; The Painting Center, New York, NY; and Dean Project, New York, NY. In 2008, he had a solo exhibition at Heskin Contemporary, New York, NY and in 2009, at project space show at Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY. He has participated in the Atlantic Center for the Arts Artists-in-Residence Program. In the fall of 2012, he participated in the group show Caribe Now, at the Nathan Cumming Foundation, which was organized by El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY. Contemporary Pattern and Decoration piece, The original movement was championed by the gallery owner Holly Solomon. The P&D movement wanted to revive an interest in minor forms such as patterning which at that point was equated with triviality. The prevailing negative view of decoration was one not generally shared by non-Western cultures, The Pattern and Decoration movement was influenced by sources outside of what was considered to be fine art. Blurring the line between art and design, many P&D works mimic patterns like those on wallpapers, printed fabrics, and quilts. There is a close connection between the Pattern and Decoration movement and the Feminist art movement. The P&D movement arose in opposition to the Minimalist and Conceptualist movements. Mary Grigoriadis, Valerie Jaudon, Joyce Kozloff, Miriam Schapiro, Robert Zakanitch were early proponents of this style. The artist lives and works in New York City. Education: 2001 MFA, Painting, Hunter College, New York, NY 2000 Study Abroad, Slade School, UCL, London, United Kingdom 1997 BFA, Painting, New World School of The Arts, Miami, FL Solo Exhibitions: 2015 ‘Like New’, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY 2009 ‘Nowhere’, Rush Arts, New York, NY 2008 ‘Noise’, Heskin Contemporary, New York, NY Group Exhibitions: 2018 ‘Revival: Contemporary Pattern and Decoration’, El Museo at Hostos, Bronx, NY Including artists: Abelardo Cruz Santiago Pierre Obando Antonio Pulgarín Keisha Scarville Mickalene Thomas and others. 2017 Locust Projects Contemporary in Miami benefit auction including artists Dara Friedman, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Larry Bell, and more 2017 ‘Browsing Chamber’, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2015 ‘#BemisPainters, 1982-2015’, Bemis Center, Omaha, NE 2015 ‘Spat Spell’, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY 2013 ‘Un-Natural Constellations’, Newman Popiashvili Gallery, New York, NY 2012 ‘Caribe Now’, Nathan Cummings Foundation/El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY 2012 ‘Lucid Fence’, Dean Project, New York, NY 2012 ‘Abstract Gambol’, Heskin Contemporary, New York, NY 2012 ‘Reenacting Sense’, Yace Gallery, Long Island City, NY 2010 ‘Continuing Color Abstraction’, The Painting Center, New York, NY 2009 ‘West/East’, Royale Projects, Indian Wells, CA 2009 ‘Alternative Abstraction’, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY Including works by Stephen Antonakos, Warren Isensee, Gary Lang, Melissa Meyer and Katherine Sehr...
Category

1990s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Monoprint, Monotype

Tout est calm en Algérie - Digital print on Hahnemüehle paper on Dibond
Located in London, GB
This work is part of a series exploring representation, diaspora, and transition within the context of the colonisation of Algeria and the Algerian revolution. It is an artistic “Tr...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Digital

"Blue Skull Large" Print 38 x 40 inch Edition of 300 by Steven Tyler
Located in Culver City, CA
"Blue Skull Large" Print 38 x 40 inch Edition of 300 by Steven Tyler Limited edition of 300 Plate signed by Steven Tyler ABOUT: As the lead singer of Aerosmith, Steven Tyler is con...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Digital Pigment

No. I, from Natural History, Part I, Mushroom (Bastian 42), 1974, Lithograph
Located in Bristol, GB
Collotype in colours with collage and hand-colouring Edition 24 of 98 75.8 x 55.8 cm (29.8 x 22 in) Signed with initials and numbered on the front Condition upon request Published by...
Category

1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

In the Dark - Etching by Armando Tantillo - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and mezzotint realized in 1970s. Hand signed in pencil. Artist proof. Very good condition.
Category

1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Etching

"American Guitar Large" Print 37 x 40 inch Edition of 300 by Steven Tyler
Located in Culver City, CA
"American Guitar Large" Print 37 x 40 inch Edition of 300 by Steven Tyler Limited edition of 300 Plate signed by Steven Tyler ABOUT: As the lead singer of Aerosmith, Steven Tyler i...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Digital Pigment

Abstraktes Bild, 1992 by Gerhard Richter
Located in Dubai, Dubai
Abstraktes Bild, 1992 By Gerhard Richter 2023 6-color hybrid print on 260g Rives handmade paper 70 x 70 cm sheet 63.5 cm x 64 cm image Edition of 500. Unsigned, published by ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Offset, Handmade Paper

David Shapiro: Rene Ricard vintage poetry tombstone print "carved in stone"
Located in New York, NY
The title of this poetic, abstract work is written across the top of the sheet. The hand-written cursive below reads: "David Shapiro / Told me he was going to / Carve his poems in stone / "That's one way to make them lost" / I don't have to / Rene Ricard". A poet, art historian and art critic, David Shapiro was friends with Ricard, and a part of the 1980's art scene in New York. Shapiro became famous briefly during the 1968 anti-Vietnam student uprising at Columbia University, when a photograph of him smoking a cigar behind the desk of the Columbia University president was published in Life magazine, and he became the face of the student protest...
Category

1980s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

UNTITLED ABSTRACT(Dream Figures, Red Window) Lithograph, Organic Geometric Forms
Located in Union City, NJ
UNTITLED ABSTRACT(Dream Figures, Red Window) is an original hand drawn lithograph by the American abstract painter Knox Martin printed using hand lithography techniques on archival R...
Category

1980s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Ova Rosa
Located in Bristol, GB
Mixed media on white card Edition of 20 50 x 30 cm (19.7 x 11.8 in) Signed, numbered, dated and titled on the back Artwork in excellent condition. Under close inspection there is min...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Mixed Media

Untitled
Located in Miami, FL
Mario Carreño Untitled, 1993 Serigraph Ed. 64 of 115 26 x 20 in
Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

L' Explosion Qui Eclaire Mon Abime (framed signed aquatint and etching)
Located in Aventura, FL
Aquatint and etching on paper. Hand signed lower right by Roberto Matta. Hand numbered 90/100 lower left. Image size: 14.1 x 18.6 inches. Sheet size: 26 x 19.6 inches. Frame siz...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Paper, Etching, Aquatint

Indian Leaves
Located in London, GB
Indian Leaves Lithograph print on Japanese Gampi Torinoko paper Limited edition of 500 (Roman) and 500 (Arabic) 23 x 76.3 cm Stamp-signed and accompanied by a certificate of authenti...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Rippling, limited edition lithograph, Japanese, black, white, red, signed
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Rippling, limited edition lithograph, Japanese, black, white, red, signed,number
Category

1990s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Napoleon Bonaparte I - interior photograph of elegant French palace villa
Located in San Francisco, CA
Large scale photograph of elegant interior view of the French revolutionary hidden door in the Villa Napoleone in Elba, Tuscany. Napoleon Bonaparte I - not at home ( ELBA ) by Frank...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment

Five Locations
Located in Berkeley, CA
Color spitbite aquatint with chine colle. Edition of 50
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Etching

Ross Bleckner, Floating Red
Located in New York, NY
Ross Bleckner FLOATING RED Year: 2019 Medium: Archival pigment print on Innova Etching Cotton Rag 315 gsm fine art paper Size: 42 x 70 inches (107 x 178 cm) Edition: 30 Price: $7,000 Also sold as a set with Floating Red Glowing and contemplative, Ross Bleckner’s work blends abstraction with recognizable symbols to create meditations on perception, transcendence and loss. Ross Bleckner was born in 1949 in New York and grew up in the prosperous town of Hewlett Harbor on Long Island. The first art exhibition he saw—The Responsive Eye, a show of Op art on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1965—had a strong impact on him. He decided to become an artist when he was in college, studying with Sol LeWitt and Chuck Close at New York University, where he earned a BA in 1971. Two years later, he completed an MFA at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, where he met David Salle. After moving back to New York, Bleckner purchased and moved into a Tribeca loft building in 1974. Painter Julian Schnabel rented three floors of the building, and the Mudd Club, a nightclub frequented by musicians and artists, occupied space there from 1977 to 1983. Bleckner sold the building in 2004. His first solo exhibition was held in 1975 at Cunningham Ward Gallery in New York. In 1979 he began his long association with Mary Boone Gallery in New York, which championed several of the so-called art stars of the 1980s. In 1981 Bleckner met Thomas Ammann, an important Swiss art dealer who went on to collect his work. Bleckner’s early 1980s Stripe...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Archival Pigment

French Contemporary Art by Jeremie Faivre - Momentum
Located in Paris, IDF
Screen Print on canvas Jeremie Faivre is a French artist born in 1977 who lives and works in Paris, France. He is graduated from Massachussetts College of Art & Design in Bosto...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Canvas, Screen

1960's Joan Miro lithograph (from Derrière le miroir)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
1960s Joan Miró lithograohic cover from Derrière le miroir: Lithographic cover in colors; 11 x 15 inches (folding out to 15 x 22 inches). Circa 1964. Very good overall vintage cond...
Category

1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Orbelus
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph with pochoir, Ed. 25 The artist describes his work: My work has often been described as belonging to a category of ‘reductive, geometric abstraction’. In the l...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Abstraktes Bild
Located in New York, NY
This is a 6-color hybrid print by Gerhard Richter offered by CLAMP in New York City. 6-color hybrid print on 260g Rives Handmade paper (Edition of 500) Abstraktes Bild 1992/2023 A...
Category

1990s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Ink, Handmade Paper

I Refuse To Have A Bath Until I See The Trees, original, contemporary art
Located in Deddington, GB
I Refuse To Have A Bath Until I See The Trees is a limited edition drypoint etching by Kate Boxer. Kate Boxer's combination of imagery and text in I Refuse To Have A Bath Until I See...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Etching

Territory Warming #4, abstract encaustic collagraph by Elise Wagner
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Territory Warming #4 is a richly textured encaustic collagraph by Elise Wagner, an artist known for merging scientific inquiry with sensuous materiality. In this abstract composition...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Encaustic, Monoprint

Contemporary abstract prints for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Contemporary abstract prints available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add abstract prints created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, red, orange and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Roger Mudre, Rafael Alberti, Johanna Goodman, and Leo Guida. Frequently made by artists working with Paper, and Lithograph and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Contemporary abstract prints, so small editions measuring 0.02 inches across are also available. Prices for abstract prints made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $50 and tops out at $195,622, while the average work sells for $1,000.

Still Thinking About These?

All Recently Viewed