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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.

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Style: Conceptual
Human nature, Documentary analog photography, 118 x 78 cm, Fred Langford Edwards
Located in Carballo, ES
Fred Langford Edwards turns what seems like documentary research (analogue photographs of curious objects that the artist finds on the beach) into an art of wonder. In this extensive...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Untitled - Contemporary, Polaroid, Photograph, Figurative, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Untitled' (Chinese Classical), 2002, Edition 2/50 plus 2 Artist Proofs, Archival Pigment Print based on a POLAROID 809 Emulsion Transfer, 16.5x23.5inches, mounted on Aluminum, Signe...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Color, Polaroid, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Jonathan Richman Live on stage at The Kitchen, (Hand signed by Lawrence Weiner)
Located in New York, NY
Lawrence Weiner Jonathan Richman Live on stage at The Kitchen, non-profit artist's space (Hand signed by Lawrence Weiner), 2017 Offset lithograph poster (hand signed by Lawrence Wein...
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2010s Conceptual Art

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Lithograph, Offset

Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 1, 2019_acrylic, steel, player piano rol
Located in Darien, CT
Jo Yarrington’s photographs, prints, works on paper, glass sculptures and architecturally-based installations have been shown in exhibitions at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Yale University, Cornell University, the Museum of Glass, the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Artists Space, St. John the Divine Cathedral, Grounds for Sculpture, the Museum of American Glass and ODETTA, among others. International exhibitions have included Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow Cathedral, Glasgow University, Galeria Sala Uno and Centro de las Artes de Guanajuato. She represented the United States at the Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates and participated in the Berlin Biennial. in 2010 she received the Bronze Prize, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia. Yarrington is a recipient of artist grants and Fellowships from the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism. She has received Residency Fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Museum of Glass, the Museum of American Glass, the Bridge Virtual Residency/ SciArt Center, the Lucile Walton Fellow/Mountain Lake Biological Station, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Anderson Center and the Ucross Foundation, among others. International grants and fellowships have included the Banff Center for Arts and Creativity/Canada, SIMS Residency/ Iceland, Cill Rialaig Artists Residency/Ireland, the Burren College of Art Residency/Ireland and the American Scandinavian Foundation. She is a Professor of Visual and Performing Arts at Fairfield University and lives and works in New York City. STATEMENT In site-specific exhibitions, public art commissions, collaborative and individual projects Jo Yarrington has used varied combinations of glass, waxed surfaces, found artifacts and experimental analog photography to investigate the way we perceive – searching for, experimenting with and developing throughout a sensory-based vernacular. Her mostly translucent materials function as physical framework and symbolic membrane. Light, both natural and ambient, provides a kinetic or time-based element to her work. Scale and the integration of architecture are also pivotal components. In the 6-part installation for the two-person exhibition Illuminated, Yarrington continues her interest in the connections between vision, sound and language. In Mute-ability: Compositions 1 – 6, her title for this light-based comprehensive work, she combines the words mute and malleability. The work focuses on found piano rolls, a music storage medium, originally conceived as coded notations or ‘note control data’ for music produced in pneumatic player pianos...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Steel

Butterfly, Modern French Framed Photograph
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Contemporary Subject: Landscape Medium: Photograph Country: France 16 X 22.5 without frame Animalia, Insect Butterfly Photograph Élisabeth Montagnier was born in Algeria. S...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

C Print, Color

African American Large Vintage Color Photograph Dandy C Print Photo Ike Ude
By Iké Udé
Located in Surfside, FL
BEYOND DECORUM, CLOSED AND OPEN Series, I am selling each individually. they are pairs of open and closed jackets. I will include the second photo for reference. This listing is just for the closed jacket photograph. Vintage C-print on Fuji crystal archive paper. Image size is 40 x 30", sheet measures 50 X 36 Provenance: printed by Muse X, Los Angeles. I believe these were test, proof prints. They are not signed or editioned The work of Nigerian-born Iké Udé explores a world of dualities: photographer/performance artist, artist/spectator, African/post-nationalist, mainstream/marginal, individual/everyman and fashion/art. Iké Udé (born 1964) is a Nigerian-American photographer, performance artist, Ike Ude was born in 1964 in Lagos, Nigeria where he was raised. The eldest son of a wealthy family, he was exposed to photography and portraiture at an early age by dressing up for biweekly family portraits. Udé knew he was an artist by the age of six, when he developed a habit of firing a catapult at passers-by when he disapproved of their walk or the way they were dressed. As an adolescent, Udé attended the Government Secondary School, a British boarding school in Afikpo Nigeria. He was a habitué of London before he moved to New York in 1981 to study Media Communications at Hunter College, CUNY. He began his art career in the late 1980s with abstract painting and drawing. Since the 1990s, photography has been his primary medium. Udé is a dual citizen of the United States and Nigeria. Udé's paintings and drawings are less well known than his photography, though critics and art historians have recognized his early work. The late Henry Geldzahler, said of Udé's paintings and works on paper: "I am touched and amazed at the ways in which he manages to blend invisibly the modernist tradition with his own Nigerian roots. There is never anything forced in the conjunction; air and light seem to be his media." Udé began his Cover Girls series in 1994. Each photograph imitates the cover of a popular fashion or lifestyle magazines, in which the artist himself is featured as the model. (ala the work of Cindy Sherman) The photographs were consciously stylized, posed, photographed and then paired with type matching that of the respected magazine. At first glance, each photograph appears to be an authentic magazine cover. Udé used the magazine cover as a stage to critique the fetishism of the upper class white model and the effects of popular culture on today's consumerist society. The series was exhibited in 1994 in the New York City gallery Exit Art. Udé's black and white series of photographs, Uli, references both high fashion and Uli body art, wall motifs from Udé's Igbo heritage. The photographs explore the anonymity of the inscribed and disembodied self. Udé's dynamic use of light, namely the chiaroscuro effect, serves as a critical compositional element in the series. Udé's Beyond Decorum series, begun in 1999, juxtaposes photographs of men's shirts and women's pumps with suggestive personal advertisements in place of the clothing tags. With its accompanying book, Beyond Decorum: Photographs by Iké Udé, the series traveled across the United States and Canada. The exhibition was shown at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Portland, Maine; OBORO in Montreal, Canada; Sert Gallery; Carpenter Center at the Harvard University Art Museum; and MAK Museum in Vienna, Austria before traveling for two more years internationally. Udé's Paris Hilton: Fantasy and Simulacrum is a conversation between his alter ego, Visconti, and the celebrity Paris...
Category

1990s Conceptual Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color

A walk. Oil on canvas, 80x81 cm
Located in Riga, LV
A walk Oil on canvas, 80x81 cm Victor Karnaukh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painter, a monument designer, graduate of Lat...
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1990s Conceptual Art

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Canvas, Oil

My Father's Car 2
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"My Father's Car" is a striking artwork created by Desmond Akindoju, depicting a young man sitting in a car as though he's the driver, complete with a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Original ink on Paper, Contemporary Abstract Expressionist , Blue Waves
Located in Carballo, ES
Blue Minimal Painting is an original artwork realized by TUSET in 2020. The painting is unframed, we can frame it in natural wood or black on request. The title of this works is "F...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Ink, Handmade Paper

Self Portrait #18. La Piedra Sustituta, Series. Limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Showing a body that is hidden is the aesthetic apology for the insane judgment that the artist himself has taken as an excuse for not being 'pointed at' or rather as self-pointing. T...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Letter P ( 48 x 71" / 122 x 188cm )
Located in San Francisco, CA
LETTER P by Christian Stoll large scale conceptual photography playing with viewer's perspective incredible details in this body of work, a series of environmental stills playing w...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Deseo Insular II, Self Portrait. Limited Edition Nude Color Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist was enchanted by some images he had a relationship with since childhood, working them into iconographies, such as the image of the fisherman carrying on his back a cod alm...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment

Reinhard Görner 'Francke Foundations II' (Library, Halle, Germany)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This large-scale architectural photograph by German photographer Reinhard Görner depicts the Francke Foundations library in Halle, Germany. Arches open like portals into the interior, bringing public cultural heritage into private space in the rich, aged tones of wood and marble, taupe, blue and gray. Reinhard Görner is known for invoking an atmosphere of awe, meditation and contemplation through crisp, richly detailed scenes of grand historical and cultural public narratives. This effect is enhanced through aesthetically striking compositions, which might include stunningly perfect (or interestingly-off) symmetry, portals through a series of doorways, and other careful choices of perspective and scale. Reinhard Görner Francke Foundations II Halle, Germany 2014 50 x 52.6 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 60 x 63.2 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 70 x 73.7 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Paper is trimmed to the image: actual image size listed Internal Search: Reinhard Görner, Library series, Halle, Germany, Large-Scale Photography, Large-scale German photography, German Libraries, German Monuments...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

C Print, Lambda

Lawrence Weiner Homage to Vincent Van Gogh Vintage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Published by Art Unlimited in Amsterdam in 1990, this work is part of a collaborative celebration of Van Gogh's 100th anniversary, featuring original designs from several renowned ar...
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1990s Conceptual Art

Materials

Offset

"Valentine" Ray Johnson, 2 Sided Collage, Pop Art, Dadaist, Mail Art, Fluxus
Located in New York, NY
Ray Johnson "Valentine" Double sided collage 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches Once described as New York’s “most famous unknown artist,” Ray Johnson was a renowned maker of meticulous collages...
Category

1960s Conceptual Art

Materials

Paper, Photographic Paper

Color Iris Photo Print Conceptual Cartoon Toy Doll Figurine Photograph Todd Gray
Located in Surfside, FL
From his series SHADOW CARTOONS. Color iris print, hand initialed in pencil, This is not numbered. It is on Somerset watermarked archival paper Paper size is 30 X 22.25, images 22.7...
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1990s Conceptual Art

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Archival Paper, Color

Human nature, Documentary analog photography, 118 x 78 cm, Fred Langford Edwards
Located in Carballo, ES
Fred Langford Edwards turns what seems like documentary research (analogue photographs of curious objects that the artist finds on the beach) into an art of wonder. In this extensive...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Wise Women - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Indigenous Art, Cultural
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide Ships in a well-protected tube. This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. The thematic expression of this art piece was crafted from the experience of what women especially wives and mothers had to go through to ensure that their homes were sustained. This art piece tends to inform her female audience; most especially intending wives and mothers that what keeps the home is not primarily in the acquisition of degrees and certifications but in having the requisite knowledge and consciously fulfilling their role as home builders. About Artist Oluwatobiloba Amusan...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Ink, Acrylic, Paper

Deseo Insular IX. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Nude Color Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist was enchanted by some images he had a relationship with since childhood, working them into iconographies, such as the image of the fisherman carrying on his back a cod alm...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment

TODAY - large format (framed) photograph of conceptual billboard sign at night
Located in San Francisco, CA
billboard against ultramarine blue night sky, a large scale original photograph from a series of conceptual motivational messages on classic Americana billboards in landscape of the ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

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Photographic Paper, Plexiglass, Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Giclée, Ar...

"Make 300 Holes with Any Implement: This Is My Gift" Takako Saito, Concept Art
Located in New York, NY
Takako Saito Make 300 Holes with Any Implement: This Is My Gift , 1965 Wood box containing wood frame with paper and stamped ink 3 3/8 × 3 3/8 × 1 1/4 Takako Saito is a Japanese ar...
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1960s Conceptual Art

Materials

Wood, Paper, Ink

Book: Selected Works 1967-90 And the Mind Grew Fingers (PLUS handwritten letter)
Located in New York, NY
Dennis Oppenheim Dennis Oppenheim: Selected Works 1967-90 : And the Mind Grew Fingers (with handwritten signed letter laid in separately), 1992 Softback book with separate hand signe...
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1990s Conceptual Art

Materials

Ink, Mixed Media, Lithograph, Offset

Kathleen Vance, Newtown Creek Waterway, 2017, Found Objects, Acrylic Paint, Wood
Located in Darien, CT
Kathleen Vance explores environmental issues such as water conservation and protection through positive stewardship of the land. She looks to convey an appreciation of nature and tra...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Wire

Deseo Insular XIV. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Nude Color Photograph F
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist was enchanted by some images he had a relationship with since childhood, working them into iconographies, such as the image of the fisherman carrying on his back a cod alm...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment

Untitled VIII. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Nude Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
José Sierra painted his body as a tribute to Afro-Colombian and pre-Columbian cultures, documenting the performance in photographs that portray him in erotic and suggestive positions...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment

Singapore Stamp Collection, 30c Singapore Orchid Blue - Floral color photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
30 Cents Singapore Orchid Blue, from the Heidler & Heeps Stamp Collection. This historic postage stamps that make up the Heidler & Heeps Stamp Collection, Singapore Series 'Postcards...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Nude #15 From Cuerpo en Tensión Series. Limited edition photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-representation and a homoerotic gaze. Through his unique aesthetic, he creates abject staged environments that challenge tradi...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Self Portrait #2 From La Piedra Sustituta Series. Limited Edition Color Photo
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Showing a body that is hidden is the aesthetic apology for the insane judgment that the artist himself has taken as an excuse for not being 'pointed at' or rather as self-pointing. T...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Enduring Echoes 1 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Old Masters
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Enduring Echoes portrays a striking and vibrant portrait of a man, set against a bold and contrasting background. The artist uses a rich palette of purples, reds, and oranges, highli...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Fabric, Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic

The Beef Sisters - Sophie - 16 unique Polaroids
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Beef Sisters A Polaroid-based art series by Kris 'Curtiz' De Meester Sophie - 2023 16 original Polaroids, mixed media. 50x50cm installed. Signed in front. "The Beef Sisters...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Polaroid

Unbroken
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gal...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

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Canvas, Oil

Way -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Painting, Oil, Women Art
By BEMI
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Through the lens of motherhood and passion, this painting depicts a memory of time. A dream that could be reality. A reality that could be a nightmare. As life is in constant motion, this entire piece imitates movement. Like time. Like life. It’s almost nauseating. It’s almost beautiful. Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube. This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About Artist Gbemi Smart...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Self Portrait, Untitled VIII. La Costilla Roja Series. Nude Color Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This work is the result of an artistic residence outside his 'study'.The artist worked on a different ecosystem, a house of vernacular architecture built in 1913 in the department of...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Lovers by Richard Artschwager ( abstract pair embracing)
Located in New York, NY
Screen print on Ries Textured Rag paper, Signed and numbered, Edition of 108 Working across all media, Richard Artschwager (1923-2013) has long specialized in the relationship betwe...
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Early 2000s Conceptual Art

Materials

Screen

Gil Scullion, You First, 2017, 20 sheets of stacked hand-cut paper
Located in Darien, CT
Where do we come from? Where are we going? What the hell is going on here? 2017-2018 Hand cut paper in wood box Gil Scullion’s conceptual text-based work has been featured in exhibi...
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2010s Conceptual Art

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Paper

'To The Slow Graceful Dance'. Mixed Media Painting, Botanical, conceptual
Located in Penzance, GB
'To The Slow Graceful Dance' Original Artwork A breeze in the theatre, a dance begins, costumes rising to the rhythm of the birdsong choir. The pai...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Paint, Ink, Mixed Media, Board, Pencil, Photogram

Stamp Collection, Liberty (Gradient Mosaic) - Pop Art Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
This highly original artwork captures the iconic Statue of Liberty in this cool Pop Art Photographic Print. This artwork is a limited edition of 25, gloss photographic print. Accomp...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Bob Seng, Exit 326, 2000, scraped, collaged, EXIT signs, 8" x 12"
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...
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Early 2000s Conceptual Art

Materials

Plastic

Survival Pencils
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Jenny Holzer's menacing "Truisms" first appeared in 1983 when the artist was invited to participate in a group show exploring the themes and dialogue from George Orwell's "1984". O...
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1990s Conceptual Art

Materials

Pencil

A Nation of Shopkeepers - Black and white, portrait photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
This series of portraits were shot by Richard Heeps whilst he was studying Photography in Northwich. They beautifully capture a time of life. Here they have been compiled together fo...
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1980s Conceptual Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Black and White, C Print, Silver Gelatin

Venus and Amor I, 1530, Lucas Cranach The Elder, Painting Detail Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner’s Venus and Amor I presents an exquisite close-up of Lucas Cranach the Elder’s 1530 masterpiece, capturing the delicate interplay of sensuality and symbolism characte...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

WALL STREET, German Conceptual artist, biting social commentary, Signed, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Scarce framed European work by this renowned German conceptual artist - rarely found stateside Martin Kippenberger Wall Street, 1993 Color lithograph and offset lithograph on board Hand signed and dated lower right front Stamped on the back with the publisher's blind stamp, artist, title, year, edition 100/E.A. Stamped on the back with the publisher's blind stamp, artist, title, year, edition 100/E.A. (Note: this is designated as Epreuve D'Artiste (EA), an artist's proof aside from the regular edition of 100. It was based upon an original collage by the artist. However, it appears the only examples of this edition that have ever come to the public market are also Artist's Proofs (EA's). (The regular edition was said to be included in the European portfolio JFK.) Scarce! Published by the 'Politischer Club Colonia für Studien und Aktionen zum Frieden, e.V.', Cologne (for studies and peace activities) Provenance: The Chara Schreyer Collection (renowned philanthropist Cara Schreyer was considered on of the top art collectors in the world) Frame included: Elegantly floated and framed in a handmade wood museum frame under Optium plexiglass Measurements: Framed 24 inch vertical by 25.5 inches horizontal by 1.5 Artwork: 21.5 inches (vertical) by 23.5 inches (horizontal) Accompanied by gallery issued Certificate of Guarantee Kippenberger's Wall Street is full of biting social commentary about American society. In addition to the brazen text references (such as "I Love Peace and Money") and the title (Wall Street), it also depicts American artist Robert Gober's famous "Hanging Man/Sleeping Man: (in the permanent collection of the Hammer Museum). "Gober’s Hanging Man/Sleeping Man has become a touchstone of American art made during the political and social upheavals of the late 1980s and early 1990s, which included the AIDS epidemic, the culture wars, and the Los Angeles riots. The work features two images side by side, one of a sleeping white man in bed...
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1990s Conceptual Art

Materials

Board, Lithograph, Offset

Self Portrait #3 From La Piedra Sustituta II Series. Limited edition color photo
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-representation and a homoerotic gaze. Through his unique aesthetic, he creates abject staged environments that challenge tradi...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Original Cordial Topaze Bordeaux red wine, 1924 lithograph vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original French poster: CORDIAL TOPAZE; Marie Brizard & Roger Bordeaux wine; original lithographic French 1924 antique poster. Signed but an illegible signature. Size: 18" x 24"...
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1920s Conceptual Art

Materials

Lithograph

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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1990s Conceptual Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Joshua's Muse II from the series Joshua Tales - 21st Century, Polaroid, Nude
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Joshua's Muse II from the series Joshua Tales 30x30cm, Edition of 7, 2017. Archival Color Print on Pearl photo paper, based on the original Polaroid. Signed on the back with Certificate. Not mounted. Whether in color and black and white, van Driessche’s photos marry the atmospheric qualities of integral and instant pack films with the sensuality of his models. The effect is often painterly, intimate, delicate. The softness and vulnerability of the nude feminine form is often juxtaposed with untamed landscapes or graphic urban architecture. Other photos in the series read like fine art paintings, with luminous colors and classic compositions. Van Driessche has traveled all over the world, taking photos wherever he goes. These days, he often schedules photo shoots with models when he travels, working with both professionals and amateurs. Despite being a perfectionist in his photography, van Driessche likes the unpredictable nature of expired film. He embraces its inherent perfections. He says it is thrilling when an instant photo develops before your eyes, and it happens to be exactly what you were hoping for. And equally frustrating when, for whatever reason, the photo just doesn’t work. He says that you have to be very sure of everything, the composition, the lighting, the poses, before pushing the button. Instant photography requires more thought and more patience than other forms of photography, but the rewards are worth the effort. His work has been widely featured, having appeared in Dreck Magazine, Tata Magazine, 100 Volume 1, Latent Magazine, Hylas Magazine, and Fine Art Photo Magazine. He has been interviewed by the on-line magazines Whataroll and Kaltblut and he recently participated in a group exhibition at the Brick Lane Gallery in London in March 2017. Van Driessche cites these photographers as his influences: Anton Corbjin, for his square format and black and white images; Helmut Newton for his nudes; Stephanie Schneider...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Color, Polaroid

"How Far To Now" - Contemporary Street Art Sculptures
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Scott Froschauer is an experimental artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, where his primary focus is exploring new spaces and techniques for comm...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Metal

North Shore Motel Office II, Salton Sea, California - Architectural Color Photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
North Shore Motel, from Richard Heeps Salton Sea series. Blue skies over this Californian classic mid-century modern Americana Motel exterior. Captured by Richard Heeps in the Salton...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Resin, Wood, Color

Marshall - large format photograph of iconic cherry red Cadillac automobile
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photograph of iconic American vintage car with crimson red sheetmetal paint and custom logo tag Marshall by Frank Schott 25 x 40 inches (64 x 102cm) signed edition of ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

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

NO SMOKING, Rare historic 1970s Fluxus hand pulled silkscreen mid century design
Located in New York, NY
Maciunas & George Brecht, George Maciunas, George Brecht No Smoking, ca. 1973 Rare, historic Hand pulled Fluxus silkscreen Limited edition and rarely found collectible (though exact number produced not known) 16 31/50 × 16 3/4 inches Black and white hand-pulled silk screen by George Maciunas of George Brecht's iconic ”No Smoking” offset wallpaper squares George Maciunas was a Lithuanian American artist, art historian, and art organizer who was the founding member and central coordinator of Fluxus, an international community of artists, architects, composers, and designers. "George Maciunas had an extreme dislike of smoking. Being an asthmatic he could not tolerate it personally and with his complete devotion to Fluxus, professionally he felt there was no time or space for such a self-indulgent act. This disdain led fellow Fluxus artist, George Brecht to suggest a “no smoking” sign...
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1970s Conceptual Art

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Screen

Color Iris Photo Print Conceptual Cartoon Toy Bugs Bunny Photograph Todd Gray
Located in Surfside, FL
From his series SHADOW CARTOONS. Color iris print, hand initialed in pencil, This is not numbered. It is on Somerset watermarked archival paper Paper size is 30 X 22.25, images 22.7...
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1990s Conceptual Art

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Archival Paper, Color

Stamp Collection, QV 3 cents - Conceptual color photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
QV 3 Cents, from the Heidler & Heeps Stamp Collection. Following on from the hugely successful ‘Vinyl Collection’, Natasha Heidler & Richard Heeps have collaborated again, drawing from the childhood past time of stamp collecting...
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2010s Conceptual Art

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

"Peace" - Contemporary Street Sign Sculpture
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Scott Froschauer is an experimental artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, where his primary focus is exploring new spaces and techniques for communication. This series "Word on ...
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2010s Conceptual Art

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Metal

Jo Yarrington, Conversation with Lovejoy, 2020, photo wax Xerox_combined 10 x 18
Located in Darien, CT
Jo Yarrington has always been interested in chance and the found {moment, object, person}. How random experiences click in to place, form a narrative, reveal a truth. All the work ...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Found Objects, Wax, Photographic Paper

HOPE ( framed ) - 4 individual conceptual photographs spelling motivational word
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale conceptual environmental still life photographs playing with viewer's perspective creating individual letters from found objects spelling the word HOPE H-O-P-E by Christian Stoll Incredible details in this body of work: focusing in on this epic photograph work, you will find yourself lost in the artwork's details. Reminiscent of the appropriation artwork of Vik Muniz, Christian Stoll arranges everyday objects to spell letters of the alphabet. Only at close inspection does the viewer realize he/she is looking at an actual photograph, created in camera rather than with digital manipulation. _________________________ Artwork can be installed vertically, horizontally, square or across multiple walls 4 individual photographs individual artwork size 24 x 24 inches (61 x 61cm) horizontal artwork composition 24 x 96 inches (61 x 244cm) vertical artwork...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Plexiglass, Archiv...

Color Iris Photo Print Conceptual Cartoon Toy Minnie Mouse Photograph Todd Gray
Located in Surfside, FL
From his series SHADOW CARTOONS. Color iris print, hand initialed in pencil, This is not numbered. It is on Somerset watermarked archival paper Paper size is 30 X 22.25, images 22.7...
Category

1990s Conceptual Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Color

Color Iris Photo Print Conceptual Shadow Cartoons Polyptych Photograph Todd Gray
Located in Surfside, FL
From his series SHADOW CARTOONS. Color iris print, hand initialed in pencil, This is not numbered. It is on Somerset watermarked archival paper Paper size is 30 X 22.25, images 22.7...
Category

1990s Conceptual Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Color

Untitled VI. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Nude Color Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
José Sierra painted his body as a tribute to Afro-Colombian and pre-Columbian cultures, documenting the performance in photographs that portray him in erotic and suggestive positions...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment

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