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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
"Bippity", Orange Still-Life Textile Sculpture, Hand-Punched Yarn Sculpture
"Bippity", Orange Still-Life Textile Sculpture, Hand-Punched Yarn Sculpture

"Bippity", Orange Still-Life Textile Sculpture, Hand-Punched Yarn Sculpture

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This piece titled "Bippity," is an original artwork by Genevieve Lavalle made of hand-punched yarn on fabric, with whipped edges. The piece measures 32"h x 21"w and is signed with th...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Sculptures

Materials

Fabric, Yarn

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By Elizabeth Turk

Located in New York, NY

Born in Pasadena and raised in Orange County, Elizabeth Turk earned her M.F.A. at the Rinehart School of Sculpture, Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. In Turk’s work, the shape of the line is created by extreme loss. That is, the reductive process of carving creates a positive, fragile form in which the absence of the original material is a focus. Turk encourages us to consider how nature has shaped these organic materials long before the artist’s manipulation of them into new forms. When viewed as components in a complex natural system, their singular beauty and inherent mystery is revealed. Turk compels us to view works of art not only as objects to be coveted and collected, but also as expressions of the natural world and our evolving relation to it. A recipient of numerous awards, including a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2010), a Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Fellowship (2010), and a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2011), Turk is internationally recognized for transforming her signature medium of marble into strikingly intricate objects that defy convention and challenge our preconceptions of what marble can do. Through the use of electric grinders, dental tools...

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2010s Contemporary Sculptures

Materials

Marble

Aventurine Ellipse 6533

Aventurine Ellipse 6533

By David Patchen

Located in Napa, CA

David Patchen creates vivid and luminous glass works using the time-honored techniques of cane and murrine glass blowing, originally discovered in the glass blowing studios of Venice...

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2010s Contemporary Sculptures

Materials

Blown Glass

Solo Horse Sculpture Bronze Jumping Animal In Stock

Solo Horse Sculpture Bronze Jumping Animal In Stock

By Lucie Sentjens

Located in Utrecht, NL

Solo Horse Sculpture Bronze Jumping Animal In Stock Lucie Sentjens (Brussels, 1959) is a sculptor, graduated from the Cambre in 1982 in the studio of Rik Poot. She takes evening pa...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

'Dancing in the Wind' original Shona stone sculpture by Wellington Karuru
'Dancing in the Wind' original Shona stone sculpture by Wellington Karuru

'Dancing in the Wind' original Shona stone sculpture by Wellington Karuru

Located in Milwaukee, WI

'Dancing in the Wind' is an original opal serpentine sculpture by the Zimbabwean artist Wellington Karuru. The artist presents an elegant and curvilinear figure of a woman, her hair seeming to billow upward and behind her. The sculpture is on one hand a celebration of the stone material, and on the other it calls back to art historical precedent: her body is brought to a high polish, reflecting the softness of skin, while her hair is left rough-hewn to create the effect of the untamed wind. At the same time, the woman's body is highly stylized and emphasizes her hips and belly, recalling Paleolithic "Venus" sculptures like the lauded Venus of Willendorf and thusly ideas of maternity and womanhood. opal stone (serpentine) not signed 23" high x 8" widest point x 4" smallest point, sculpture 4"x4"x4", sculpture bottom 1 x 6 x 6 inches, base Overall excellent condition with no signs of wear Sculpture comes with base. Born on August 17, 1976, Wellington Karuru is the first born to a family of five children and has two brothers and two sisters. As the first born child in a Zimbabwean family, many responsibilities were shouldered upon Wellington. Both his brothers, Gilbert and Esau, are also talented sculptors. He completed his primary and secondary education in Mashonaland West Province and was involved in almost every sporting activity at the school. After he graduated, he was employed at National Foods LTD where he worked as a machine operator for a period of four years and was later promoted to work as a sales clerk. In his free time he assisted some well known artists in sculpting, was able to learn much from them and soon thereafter started to develop his own talent and unique style. Inspired by such well known sculptors such as Gardener Sango and Garison Muchinjili, Wellington started sculpting small pieces for himself and soon found a buyer for his favorite piece titled ‘A Cry For Help’. From that day forward, he has never looked back. He eventually went to work with Garison Machinjili whose influence is clearly shown in his work. Some of his pieces have been chosen already for international exhibitions and galleries. Well established and internationally renowned artists like Joe Mutasa...

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Early 2000s Contemporary Sculptures

Materials

Stone

Power Horse Bronze Sculpture Brown Animal In Stock

Power Horse Bronze Sculpture Brown Animal In Stock

By KOBE

Located in Utrecht, NL

Power Horse Bronze Sculpture Brown Animal In Stock KOBE, pseudonym of Jacques Saelens, was a Belgian artist (Kortrijk, Belgium 1950 – Saint-Julien (Var), France 2014). He combined...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Sculptures

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Bronze

Contemporary, Colored, Porcelain, Sculpture, YOR Spectrum Loop Dispersion
Contemporary, Colored, Porcelain, Sculpture, YOR Spectrum Loop Dispersion

Contemporary, Colored, Porcelain, Sculpture, YOR Spectrum Loop Dispersion

By Kyle Johns

Located in St. Louis, MO

Contemporary, Colored, Porcelain, Sculpture, YOR Spectrum Loop Dispersion Kyle began his studies at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE). Following undergraduate, he rec...

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2010s Contemporary Sculptures

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Ceramic, Porcelain, Glaze, Pigment

Notarisvogel Notary Black Bird Bronze Sculpture In Stock
Notarisvogel Notary Black Bird Bronze Sculpture In Stock

Notarisvogel Notary Black Bird Bronze Sculpture In Stock

By Theo Mackaay

Located in Utrecht, NL

Notarisvogel Notary Black Bird Bronze Sculpture In Stock Theo Mackaay (1950) Mackaay works with recognizable shape:: women, men and animals, with a pointer at the primal form. Arch...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Sculptures

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Bronze

"Neighborling Maquette 32" Wall-Mounted House with Windowpane and Legs
"Neighborling Maquette 32" Wall-Mounted House with Windowpane and Legs

"Neighborling Maquette 32" Wall-Mounted House with Windowpane and Legs

By Seth Clark

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This piece, titled "Neighborling Maquette 32" is an original wall-mounted sculpture by Seth Clark as part of his newest solo exhibition, "Passing Through". Clark's deteriorating stru...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Sculptures

Materials

Wood, Paper, Acrylic, Resin

to the moon and back - neon art work
to the moon and back - neon art work

to the moon and back - neon art work

By Mary Jo McGonagle

Located in New York, NY

Mary Jo designs all the neon as a unique piece of artwork. Each piece is hand blown glass and assembled to create a one-of-a-kind piece, which comes completely ready to install. Whit...

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2010s Contemporary Sculptures

Materials

Neon Light

"Tried and True, Nothing Beats a Classic Flip Phone", Crochet Wall Sculpture
"Tried and True, Nothing Beats a Classic Flip Phone", Crochet Wall Sculpture

"Tried and True, Nothing Beats a Classic Flip Phone", Crochet Wall Sculpture

By Nicole Nikolich, Lace in the Moon

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This piece titled "Tried and True, Nothing Beats a Classic Flip Phone" is a one-of-a-kind original piece by Nicole Nikolich (Lace in the Moon) and is made from crocheted acrylic on M...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Sculptures

Materials

Textile, Yarn, Found Objects, Wood

Bella
Bella

Bella

By Kristina Grace

Located in Westport, CT

This three dimensional floral piece is gray, white and clear resins with gold acrylics on wood panel. The artist, Kristina Grace, resides and draws inspiration from the Southern Cali...

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2010s Contemporary Sculptures

Materials

Gold

Bedazzle
Bedazzle

Rain HarrisBedazzle, 2006

$2,999Sale Price|40% Off

Bedazzle

By Rain Harris

Located in Kansas City, MO

Bedazzle 2006 Porcelain, luster, plexiglas, rhinestones, feathers 8" x 8" x 18" Signed COA provided Rain Harris uses her artistry with material to create a conversation between good taste, beauty, and tawdriness. By developing a piece with unrefined materials and bringing it to the point of refinement, she is creating art that asks where good and bad taste meet. This contemporary ceramic piece features a delicate array of porcelain flowers, berries, and leaves mounted on an organically shaped wooden plinth. The light green resin reflects the image of the porcelain bouquet.

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Early 2000s Contemporary Sculptures

Materials

Luster, Porcelain, Plexiglass

Tin Can Light - Original Sculpture Lamp
Tin Can Light - Original Sculpture Lamp

Tin Can Light - Original Sculpture Lamp

By Boris Shpeizman

Located in AMSTERDAM, NL

Drawing from the ethos of giving new life to the discarded, this eco-art presents a striking lamp sculpture that marries the elegance of blown glass with the grounded, earthy presenc...

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2010s Contemporary Sculptures

Materials

Metal

Soft Geological Activities
Soft Geological Activities

Soft Geological Activities

By Alexandra Levasseur

Located in Columbia, MO

Signed verso Alexandra LeVasseur was born in Quebec in 1982. She holds a BA in Fine Arts from University of Costa Rica (2006), a post-graduate in Illustration/Communication from EINA...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Sculptures

Materials

Stoneware, Mixed Media, Oil, Wood Panel

Awareness Bronze Sculpture Nude Figures Mythology In Stock
Awareness Bronze Sculpture Nude Figures Mythology In Stock

Awareness Bronze Sculpture Nude Figures Mythology In Stock

By Margot Homan

Located in Utrecht, NL

Awareness Bronze Sculpture Nude Figures Mythology In Stock The sculptures of Margot Homan (1956, Oss) show a perfect command of the old craft of modelling and sculpting, with which ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Witte Roepie Roepie Rupee Calling White Bird Bronze Sculpture In Stock

Witte Roepie Roepie Rupee Calling White Bird Bronze Sculpture In Stock

By Pieter Vanden Daele

Located in Utrecht, NL

Witte Roepie Roepie Rupee Calling White Bird Bronze Sculpture In Stock Pieter Vanden Daele was born in Belgium in 1971. He grew up between lakes and the river Scheldt. The river De Scheldt and the variety of lakes are an ideal environment for fishermen. When his friends went fishing, Pieter took painting lessons at the Oudenaarde academy. At a young age Pieter became fascinated by the underwater world and fauna. In 2000 he worked at an art foundation in Oudenaarde, where he learned how to make molds and how to cast and patronize bronze. His passions came together in 2003 and he started casting bronze sculptures of mainly carp. The fish that he makes have a special texture, a skin with scales translated into bronze. VandenDaele has developed its own technology for this. Pieter builds the original model from organic material, such as leaves, wood, leather, wax and many other materials. He uses various organic materials in his molds to create special prints and structures in the skin of the bronze. This gives the sculptures so much character that names such as Ferox, Alphons and Ludwig do not surprise us. The fish are alive, caught for eternity. Just as nature keeps prehistoric fish...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Coral Reef II / sea inspired ceramic wall sculpture
Coral Reef II / sea inspired ceramic wall sculpture

Coral Reef II / sea inspired ceramic wall sculpture

By Jane B. Grimm

Located in Burlingame, CA

Oceanic themed coral reef inspired ceramic sculpture hanging wall piece that is, clean, minimal, white with green, coral pink, pale blue and orange. The work is created in three part...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Sculptures

Materials

Ceramic

Ambrosia

Ambrosia

Located in New Orleans, LA

Shelf only, small figurative sculpture not included. Hope Hickman says of her work... I am tormented by aesthetic seduction, by what I can only call the romantic. My practice proce...

Category

2010s Contemporary Sculptures

Materials

Ceramic, Glaze

Contemporary sculptures for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Contemporary sculptures 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 sculptures created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, red, purple, orange and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including KOBE, Richard MacDonald, KAWS, and HIRO ANDO. Frequently made by artists working with Metal, and Bronze 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 sculptures, so small editions measuring 0.25 inches across are also available.