Conceptual Art
CONCEPTUAL STYLE
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.
Style: Conceptual
Color: Beige
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 photograph,
8.8 cm x 10.7cm,
not mounted,
Signed, embossed stamp and artist certi...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Polaroid, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color
Conceptual Drawing: Plot Plan No. 170516
Located in New York, NY
Plot Plan No. 170516 3-Ring Structure for Covert Spectacle With Self-Generating Concealment Mechanisms
framed, signature on reverse
This ink and watercolor, work on paper is from ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Ink
City 132, Geometric Serigraph by Risaburo Kimura
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Risaburo Kimura, Japanese (1924 - )
Title: City 132
Year: 1970
Medium: Silkscreen, signed in pencil
Edition: AP
Size: 22.5 x 28.5 in. (57.15 x 72.39 cm)
Category
1970s Conceptual Art
Materials
Screen
Bob Seng, Exit 323, 2000, scraped, collaged, EXIT signs, 8" x 12"
By Bob Seng
Located in Darien, CT
Robert Seng was born and raised in Seattle, served in the US Navy in Vietnam, and finished his BFA and MFA on the GI Bill. He was a founder of Artech, Seattle’s premier art services company, to support his art career. A New York resident since 1986, Seng has worked at Artforum, the Guggenheim Museum and taught at Fairfield University while continuing his studio practice in painting and sculpture.
In the mid 1990’s Seng moved into site-specific installation work with collaborator Lisa Hein. Together they have made more than 40 projects with moving light...
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Art
Materials
Plastic
Bob Seng, Exit 350, 2002, scraped, collaged, EXIT signs, 8" x 12"
By Bob Seng
Located in Darien, CT
Robert Seng was born and raised in Seattle, served in the US Navy in Vietnam, and finished his BFA and MFA on the GI Bill. He was a founder of Artech, Seattle’s premier art services company, to support his art career. A New York resident since 1986, Seng has worked at Artforum, the Guggenheim Museum and taught at Fairfield University while continuing his studio practice in painting and sculpture.
In the mid 1990’s Seng moved into site-specific installation work with collaborator Lisa Hein. Together they have made more than 40 projects with moving light...
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Art
Materials
Plastic
Bob Seng, Exit 442, 2002, scraped, collaged, EXIT signs, 8" x 12"
By Bob Seng
Located in Darien, CT
Robert Seng was born and raised in Seattle, served in the US Navy in Vietnam, and finished his BFA and MFA on the GI Bill. He was a founder of Artech, Seattle’s premier art services company, to support his art career. A New York resident since 1986, Seng has worked at Artforum, the Guggenheim Museum and taught at Fairfield University while continuing his studio practice in painting and sculpture.
In the mid 1990’s Seng moved into site-specific installation work with collaborator Lisa Hein. Together they have made more than 40 projects with moving light...
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Art
Materials
Plastic
"Dual Chamber Confinement Study" watercolor ink, text based conceptual painting
Located in New York, NY
Titled: For All Intents and Purposes Dual Chamber Confinement Study Plot Plan No. 10615, presenting framed in a natural wood shadowbox frame.
This is a finely rendered pen and ink ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Construction Drawing III
Located in Kansas City, MO
Signed by the artist, Edition 16/75
Dennis Oppenheim (September 6, 1938 – January 21, 2011) was an American conceptual artist, performance artist, earth artist, sculptor and photogr...
Category
1960s Conceptual Art
"Hard Shell Confinement Structure"
Located in New York, NY
Potentially Materialized Hard Shell Confinement Structure (Plot Plan No. 10618)
framed, pen and ink with watercolor, signed on reverse by the artist.
Beautifully rendered in ink an...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
City 379, 1971 Serigraph by Risaburo Kimura
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Risaburo Kimura
Title: City 379
Year: 1971
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 300
Paper Size: 28.5 x 22.5 inches
Category
1970s Conceptual Art
Materials
Screen
The Seed. From the Desert Flower series Italy.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The Seed / Desert Flower – Italy, 2014 by Guilherme Licurgo
Large image size: 40 in. H x 60 in. W
Frame size: 42 in. H x 62 in. W
Edition of 5 + 2AP
Framed
Desert Flower is a proje...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Black and White
Plot Plan No. 170519
Located in New York, NY
Plot Plan No. 170519 Full-Dress Protectionist Pad With Knotted Entrance Strategy
This ink and watercolor, work on paper is from Patricia Smith's newly released series: "Shelter in P...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Relocation Lasso
Located in New York, NY
Designated Problem Area Relocation Lasso (Plot Plan No. 170520 )
framed, with signature on reverse
This ink and watercolor, work on paper is from Patricia Smith's newly released ser...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Rigged Opulence Compartment
Located in New York, NY
"Rigged Opulence Compartment With Temporal Resonance Modules"
framed, with signature on reverse
This ink and watercolor, work on paper is from Patricia Smith's newly released series...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Plot Plan No. 10616
Located in New York, NY
Plot Plan No. 10616 Potentially Materialized Triple Chamber Confinement Study
This ink and watercolor, work on paper is from Patricia Smith's newly released series: "Shelter in...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Watercolor
Plot Plan No. 13821
Located in New York, NY
Plot Plan No. 13821 For Proposed Positive Aspect Containment Strategy, watercolor and ink on paper, signed on reverse by the artist and presentd framed in a high quality shadowbox fr...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Leftist Hemisphere Disintegration Study Gerrymandered Version
Located in New York, NY
Ink and watercolor on paper, signed on reverse.
Presented floated in a finely crafted hardwood frame.
Titled as: "Plot Plan No. 178521 Leftist Hemisphere Disintegration Study Gerry...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Plot Plan No. 170518
Located in New York, NY
Plot Plan No. 170518 Self-Generating Polarization Structure With Pronounced Left Hemisphere Compartmentalization
This ink and watercolor, work on paper is from Patricia Smith's newl...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Linda Cunningham, 'Still Standing Still', 2011, Steel, Pastel, Ink
Located in Darien, CT
Unexpected materials, found and manufactured, perch precariously on torn edges and bifurcated sheets of large paper. Here, fluid calligraphic lines are posed against the veracity of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art
Materials
Steel
Ejercicio Final, Intagio and Printed Overlay by Luis Camnizter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Luis Camnitzer, Uruguayan/German (1937 - )
Title: Ejercicio Final
Year: 1970
Medium: Intaglio with Collage, signed in pencil
Edition: 100
Size: 30 in. x 22 in. (76.2 cm x 55...
Category
1970s Conceptual Art
Materials
Intaglio
Construction Drawing V
Located in Kansas City, MO
Signed by the artist, Edition 16/75
Dennis Oppenheim (September 6, 1938 – January 21, 2011) was an American conceptual artist, performance artist, earth artist, sculptor and photogr...
Category
1960s Conceptual Art
Materials
Lithograph
Construction Drawing IV
Located in Kansas City, MO
Signed by the artist, Edition 16/75
Dennis Oppenheim (September 6, 1938 – January 21, 2011) was an American conceptual artist, performance artist, earth artist, sculptor and photogr...
Category
1970s Conceptual Art
Materials
Lithograph
Construction Drawing
Located in Kansas City, MO
“Construction Drawing II”, 1973
Dimensions : 18.75″ x 23.5″
Signed by the artist, Edition 16/75
Dennis Oppenheim (September 6, 1938 – January 21, 2011) was an American conceptual ar...
Category
1960s Conceptual Art
Materials
Lithograph
Construction Drawing
Located in Kansas City, MO
“Construction Drawing I”, 1973
Dimensions : 19″ x 23.5″
Signed by the artist, Edition 16/75
Dennis Oppenheim (September 6, 1938 – January 21, 2011) was an American conceptual artist...
Category
1960s Conceptual Art
Materials
Lithograph
Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls, Camel Hair Brush Display, 2018, Found Objects, Metal
Located in Darien, CT
Radioluminescence is the phenomenon by which light is produced in a material by bombardment with ionizing radiation and can be used as a low-level light source for night illumination of instruments or signage or other applications where light must be produced for long periods without external energy sources. Radioluminescent paint used to be used for clock hands and instrument dials...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Metal
Return Home - Kikokusuru
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Yoshikuni Iida, Japanese (1923 - 2006)
Title: Return Home - Kikokusuru
Year: 1973
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, signed verso
Size: 39.5 x 79 in...
Category
1970s Conceptual Art
Materials
Acrylic
Jeff Becker, Privey Policy, 2016, Archival Pigment Print
By Jeff Becker
Located in Darien, CT
Using his inkjet printer as a paintbrush, Jeff Becker creates watercolor-like imagery without Photoshop or filters. He refers to this process of dynamic chemical processes as The Slu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Jeff Becker, Flag Privacy, 2016, Archival Paper, Inkjet Paper
By Jeff Becker
Located in Darien, CT
Using his inkjet printer as a paintbrush, Jeff Becker creates watercolor-like imagery without Photoshop or filters. He refers to this process of dynamic chemical processes as The Sl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Inkjet
Jose Luis Cuevas, "Denizens of the Underworld", Lithograph. 1968
Located in Long Island City, NY
This lithograph was created by Mexican artist Jose Luis Cuevas. Known for his aggressive attitude and strong beliefs, Cuevas has said that his drawing represents the solitude and iso...
Category
1960s Conceptual Art
Materials
Lithograph
Jeff Becker, Slurry Pentagon, 2016, Inkjet Print
By Jeff Becker
Located in Darien, CT
Using his inkjet printer as a paintbrush, Jeff Becker creates watercolor-like imagery without Photoshop or filters. He refers to this process of dynamic chemical processes as The Sl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art
Materials
Inkjet
THROUGH THE VEIL OF TIME OR A DREAM
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Edition of 10
C-Print
17.875 x 17.875
Framed in natural wood
Michelle Buhler has a BFA from the University of Utah. She has studied photography at the International Center of Photography and cinematography at New York University. She currently lives in Idaho.
Education:
New York University, Cinematography, New York, New York, 2011
International Center of Photography, Advanced Color Photorgraphy with Liz Deschenes, New York City, 2007 University of Utah, BFA Photography, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2003
Articles and Awards
2012 Honorable Mention in the 2012 First Edition of Hey Hot Shot, Jen Bekman Gallery, NYC
2012 The Stone Mind, Open House: Art on Iowa by Justin Roth
2003 Red Magazine...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art
Materials
C Print
Mao-Wei Wei
Located in Phoenix, AZ
inkjet on paper
edition 4 of 15
For over thirty years Dominique Blain has examined and addressed the links between relationships of domination, such as racism, mass indoctrinatio...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Inkjet
Bulb
Located in New York, NY
Walker Pickering is an artist and educator based in Lincoln, Nebraska. He is an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where he has taught photography sinc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Landscape with Radiations" Intaglio by Ben Sakoguchi
Located in Pasadena, CA
"Landscape with radiations signs and lots of little tiny figures"
This is the title of this black and white etching numbered 12/20 and signed by the artist.
Ben Sakoguchi...
Category
1960s Conceptual Art
Materials
Intaglio
KN852, Space-scape painting by Andreas Nottebohm
Located in Long Island City, NY
Andreas Nottebohm is a German painter known as a key innovator in metal painting. The painting measures 48 x 40 inches and is signed and dated verso. Provenance: Private Collection, NYC
Category
1980s Conceptual Art
Materials
Metal
Ero Seduto Guardando Il Tramonto - I Was Sitting Watching the Sunset
Located in Rye, NY
With these pieces Mattia is painting a self-portrait in a unique and creative way without the typical technique of using paint with brush strokes. Mattia starts by creating molds then ice sculptures with color...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Spectrum
By Craig Alan
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media Original with resin finish from world renowned artist with unique, one of a kind style.
About the Artist:
In his prolific career is a culmination of textbook artistic...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Long Line - Original by Craig Alan
By Craig Alan
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media Original with resin finish from world renowned artist with unique, one of a kind style. Homage to apple. Humorous.
About the Artist:
In his prolific career is a cu...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Resin, Mixed Media
Life Happens
By Craig Alan
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media Original with resin finish from world renowned artist with unique, one of a kind style. Homage to the late great Amy Winehouse.
About the Artist:
In his prolific car...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Resin, Mixed Media
1980s Large Abstract Collage Israeli Painting Musical Notes, French Quote
Located in Surfside, FL
Collage and Painted mixed media artwork painting.
Born 1930 in Chile, Golomb immigrated to Palestine in 1935. He later became a member of the Radius Group and an instructor at the Avni Institute, Tel Aviv. He had 20 one-man shows and participated in numerous exhibitions. Golomb has been using oils, tempera, acrylic, encaustic and pencil to produce his works often based on musical associations.
Education: With Canadian, Barry Ortzki, a pupil of Henry Moore, and studied painting in tempera with Ernst Fuchs and Wolfgang Manner, Reichenau, Austria
Studied drawing with Esther Peretz Arad and Avinoam Kosowsky
Teaching
Avni Institute, Tel Aviv
Group Exhibition, Radius, Tel Aviv 11 February, 1984 - 7 March, 1984
Artists: Shimon Avni, Lea Nikel...
Category
1980s Conceptual Art
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Paint, Mixed Media, Board
Breakout - William Wegman (Colour Photography)
Located in London, GB
Breakout - William Wegman (Colour Photography)
Signed and inscribed with title
Unique colour Polaroid print, printed 1995
24 x 20 inches
The dogs, bewigged and bedecked with outfits...
Category
1990s Conceptual Art
Materials
Polaroid
Towelling - William Wegman (Colour Photography)
Located in London, GB
Towelling - William Wegman (Colour Photography)
Signed and inscribed with title
Unique colour Polaroid print, printed 1993
24 x 20 inches
The dogs, bewigged and bedecked with outfit...
Category
1990s Conceptual Art
Materials
Polaroid
RIC: Random Internet Cat #2
Located in New York, NY
Random Internet Cats
Robotically-fabricated drawings on paper, these series formally deal with mediation from screen image to ‘drawing’ while using a computer-controlled pen plotte...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art
Sonica Whispers
Located in New York, NY
Sonica Whispers
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Conceptual art for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Conceptual art 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 art 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, orange, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Reinhard Görner, Kojun, Jose Sierra, and xulong zhang. Frequently made by artists working with Paper, and Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Conceptual art, so small editions measuring 1 inches across are also available. Prices for art 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 $45 and tops out at $500,000, while the average work sells for $2,465.
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