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.
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Style: Conceptual
#1 La Piedra Sustituta Series. Limited Edition Color photograph
By Jose Sierra
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...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Isaac Newton, Cambridge, England
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This large-scale interior architectural photograph by German artist Reinhard Görner depicts the bust of Sir Isaac Newton in the Trinity College librar...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Scorpio from the Constellations Series, Minimalist Screenprint by Charles Ross
By Charles Ross
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Charles Ross, American (1937 - )
Title: Scorpio from the Constellations Series
Year: 1979
Medium: Screenprint, Signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 150, AP XX
Image Size: 4...
Category
1970s Conceptual Art
Materials
Screen
Biblioteca Archiginnasio I
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Biblioteca Archiginnasio
Bologna, Italy
2022
62.5 x 50 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
75 x 60 inches
ed. of 7
$9,000
87 x 70 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
signed and numbered on label, verso
Reinhard Görner records cultural and industrial heritage through his series of photographs depicting contemporary and historical architecture, landscapes, parks, and plants. Best known for his photographs of libraries and reading rooms from around the world—in works such as George Peabody Library II, Baltimore (2017) and Riggs Library I, Washington DC (2017)—Görner captures the atmosphere of absolute silence and concentration the spaces embody while also revealing their almost cathedral-like sense of grandeur. Görner’s images have a vivid sense of depth and dimension that convey an impression of intimacy, as in Isaac Newton, Cambridge (2017), or monumentality via his precise and skilful use of framing and perspective.
This stunning photograph captures a vista through the storied volumes, intricately painted walls, and doorways inside the Biblioteca comunale dell'Archiginnasio (Archiginnasio Municipal Library). The Biblioteca Archiginnasio is a public library located inside the Palace of the Archiginnasio in Bologna, Italy. The largest library in Emilia-Romagna, it boasts some 850,000 volumes and pamphlets, 2,500 incunabula, 15,000 16th century editions, 8,500 manuscripts and then letters, collections of autographs, prints and drawings, and 250 archives. The library has also a section of 7,500 magazines. In 1838 a section of the building was destined to preserve the books collected from Napoleon's closure of the religious orders. Fabled patrons include the cardinal Giuseppe Mezzofanti, Giovanni Gozzadini, Marco Minghetti, Giovanni Pascoli, Jacob Moleschott, Luigi Serra, Laura Bassi, Aurelio Saffi, Riccardo Bacchelli, Pelagio Palagi...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
C Print, Lambda
How to Grow an Onion, Lithograph by Will Mentor
By Will Mentor
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Will Mentor, American (1958 - )
Title: How to Grow an Onion
Year: 1997
Medium: Lithograph and Chine colle, Signed and numbered in Pencil
Edition: 11/36
Paper Size: 36 x 28 in...
Category
1990s Conceptual Art
Materials
Lithograph
Invacuo Project #19. B&W Portrait inspired by the Gezi Park resistance movement
By Koray Erkaya
Located in Miami Beach, FL
In his new photographic art series, Erkaya revolts against individual and social de-sensitization. In order to address the memory and to increase awareness, he uses “gas” against everyone –without discrimination. He tests his models with gas in the specifically prepared labyrinth made of mirrors. When we see ourselves in the eyes of the models in the mirrors...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Star Field - Western United States", 1979, Lithograph by Dennis Oppenheim
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Dennis Oppenheim, American (1938 - 2011)
Title: Star Field - Western United States
Year: 1978
Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in ...
Category
1970s Conceptual Art
Materials
Lithograph
Blomberg 1, Laser cut archival pigment ink print, signed, numbered, framed
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Blomberg 1, Laser cut archival pigment ink print, signed, numbered, framed
Ideas of home and dislocation have always been compelling to me as the child of immigrant parents who arri...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Monkey Time #2 - Animal Painting By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
Playfl monkeys climb exotic colored plants clowning as only monkeys do. in this hot pink painting.
Monkey Time #2 - Animal Painting - Oil on Canvas By Marc Zimmerman
Marc Zimmerma...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Biblioteca della Biennale
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Biblioteca della Biennale,
Venice, Italy
2022
A view of the main table and globe of the main scientific library in the Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, named for Italian King Umberto I...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Self Portrait Untitled X La Costilla Roja Series. Limited edition photograph
By Jose Sierra
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...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Self Portrait, Untitled IX. La Costilla Roja series. Limited edition photograph
By Jose Sierra
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...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
City 50, Geometric Abstract Screenprint by Risaburo Kimura
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Risaburo Kimura (1924 - )
Title: City 50
Year: 1969
Medium: Screenprint, signed in pencil
Edition: AP
Size: 25 x 19 inches
Category
1960s Conceptual Art
Materials
Screen
Christo, 5600 Cubicmeter Package (Monuments) - Signed Print
By Christo
Located in Hamburg, DE
Christo (American-Bulgarian, b. 1935)
5600 Cubicmeter Package (from Monuments), 1968
Medium: Offset lithograph on Bristol board
Dimensions: 70 × 54.5 cm (27 3/5 × 21 1/2 in)
Edition ...
Category
19th Century Conceptual Art
Materials
Offset
City 36, Signed Abstract Screenprint by Risaburo Kimura
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Risaburo Kimura, Japanese (1924 - )
Title: City 36
Year: 1968
Medium: Serigraph, signed and titled in pencil
Edition: 300
Image Size: 25 x 20 inches
Size: 30 x 22 in....
Category
1970s Conceptual Art
Materials
Screen
Moongazers
Located in Deddington, GB
Moongazers [2018]
limited_edition
Etching and aquatint
Edition number /40
Image size: H:15 cm x W:15 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:26 cm x W:26 cm x D:0.1cm
Sold Unframed
Ple...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art
Materials
Satin Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Allied Chemical Tower, Packed, Contemporary Signed Lithograph by Christo
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Christo, Bulgarian (1935 - )
Title: Allied Chemical Tower, Packed, Project for Number 1 Times Square
from "(Some) Not Realized Projects" portfolio
Year: 1971
Medium: Lithogra...
Category
1980s Conceptual Art
Materials
Lithograph
Card Index, Bologna, Italy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Card Index
Bologna, Italy
2022
A classic card index with red and white labels, below a classical religious fresco and carved ceiling.
signed and numbered ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Basilica, Bode Museum
Located in Los Angeles, CA
signed and numbered on label, verso
Reinhard Görner, with his large format photographs orchestrates the monumentality of historical architecture, gardens, and masterpieces.
An act...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art
Materials
Lambda
Pulley System, Surrealist Mixed Media Artwork on Paper by Zizi Raymond
By Zizi Raymond
Located in Long Island City, NY
A mixed media work by Zizi Raymond from 1988. A surrealist conceptual piece representing figures in a forbidding interior.
Artist: Zizi Raymond, American (1960 - 2014)
Title: Untitled - Pulley...
Category
1980s Conceptual Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Nebraska Project, Conceptual Art Lithograph by Dennis Oppenheim 1979
Located in Long Island City, NY
Nebraska Project
Dennis Oppenheim, American (1938–2011)
Date: 1979
Lithograph on Johannot Paper, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 150, AP 30
Size: 41 x 30 in. (104.14 x 76.2 cm)
Category
1970s Conceptual Art
Materials
Lithograph
Atrium by Gina Soden, Colour photography, Limited edition print
Located in Deddington, GB
Atrium by Gina Soden [2016]
limited_edition and hand signed by the artist
Digital photograph on Baryta paper
Edition number 1
Image size: H:87.5 cm x W:70 cm
Complete Size of Un...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art
Materials
Paper, Digital
Sculpture, abstract record player: 'Kristallo'
Located in New York, NY
The artistic collaboration of Kelly Bugden + Van Wifvat has produced a thought-provoking body of sculptures, paintings, and constructions. Nature, childhood memories, and everyday ar...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Brass, Steel
Venus (detail), Sandro Botticelli Workshop, Painting Gallery, Berlin, Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Venus (detail), Sandro Botticelli Workshop, Painting Gallery, Berlin, Photograph
53.4 x 40 inches
ed. of 7
$4400
66.7 x 50
ed. of 5
$6800
signed a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
China Night, Surrealist Lithograph by Terry Allen
By Terry Allen
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Terry Allen, American (1943 - )
Title: China Night
Year: 1985
Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 75
Size: 23 x 30 in. (58.42 x 76.2 cm)
Category
1980s Conceptual Art
Materials
Lithograph
$1,440 Sale Price
20% Off
Porch drawing 2 (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Porch drawing 2 (Abstract Painting)
Spray paint, pencil, ink, watercolor on paper. Unframed.
Peter Soriano works on relatively large sheets of Japanese paper with a tendency to work from something observed, ideally around him. He tends to be “in” the configuration that is the subject of the work.
Soriano is fond of “systems” objects attached to other objects, such as the wiring plan of a room. But very often there are other shapes that play a role in the work.
The artist would fold and rework a piece a number of times. Folding seems to concentrate the dialogue that attracts him. Reworking is part of his nature. The finished work normally is the result of this ebb and flow between the heightening and repositioning the relationship between forms.
This drawing highlights the configurations of a large porch that Soriano used as a studio in Maine during Summer 2010.
Peter Soriano is a Philippines-born French-American abstract artist who divides his time between New York City and Penobscot, Maine. Although he began his career as a sculptor, his work is now two-dimensional. He is known for his bold spray-painted wall murals...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Spray Paint, Watercolor, Pencil
Glasshouse Trees - Harvest from Vienna Daydreams Portfolio by Helmut Kand
By Helmut Kand
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Helmut Kand
Title: Glasshouse Trees - Harvest from the Vienna Daydreams Portfolio
Edition: 150
Medium: Serigraph on Foil Paper, signed and numbered in pencil
Image Size: 22 x...
Category
Late 20th Century Conceptual Art
Materials
Screen
"In the folds" by Corrado Ferrante, oil on wood, 24x24cm
Located in Milano, MI
In the compositions, the gaze is attracted by an interplay of harmonious balances
between full and empty spaces, which compel the regarding to an observation
dynamic approach in orde...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Board
Path. Oil on canvas, 90x110 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Path. Oil on canvas, 90x110 cm
Victor Karnauh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painter, a monume...
Category
1990s Conceptual Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Biblioteca Ortopedica, Bologna, Italy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Biblioteca Ortopedica
Bologna, Italy
2022
A view of the main table and globe of the main scientific library in the Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, named for Italian King Umberto I. The vista is framed between echoing frescoed arched ceilings, cases of scientific volumes, and geometric floor. These sixteenth-century rooms, where the books of the Olivetani Monks were kept, are located in the ancient complex of San Michele in Bosco. They were transformed into an orthopaedic hospital at the end of the nineteenth century. The library holds an important scientific collection...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Vintage Suitcases in Custom Vinyl Slipcovers: "The Great Migration"
Located in New York, NY
“My art explores the similarity between seemingly disparate cultures through the lens of my African American ancestry. I examine my family’s plight shaped by the history of racism a...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Biblioteca Archiginnasio II
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Biblioteca Archiginnasio
Bologna, Italy
2022
62.5 x 50 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
75 x 60 inches
ed. of 7
$9,000
87 x 70 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
signed and numbered on label, verso
...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Cosmic Spheres, Biblioteca Communale, Imola, Italy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Cosmic Spheres,
Biblioteca Comunale
Imola, Italy
2022
In this photograph, light strikes an an elegant green and wood armillary sphere on a black and gold lathe mount, before a seri...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Boschereccia Palazzo, Hercolani, Bologna
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Boschereccia Palazzo
Hercolani, Bologna, Italy
2022
50 x 62.5 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
60 x 75 inches
ed. of 7
$9,000
70 x 87.5 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
signed and numbered on labe...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Biblioteca Malatestiana, Cesena
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Biblioteca Malatestiana
Cesena, Italy
2022
62.5 x 50 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
75 x 60 inches
ed. of 7
$9,000
87 x 70 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
signed and numbered on label, verso
Reinhard Görner records cultural and industrial heritage through his series of photographs depicting contemporary and historical architecture, landscapes, parks, and plants. Best known for his photographs of libraries and reading rooms from around the world—in works such as George Peabody Library II, Baltimore (2017) and Riggs Library I, Washington DC (2017)—Görner captures the atmosphere of absolute silence and concentration the spaces embody while also revealing their almost cathedral-like sense of grandeur. Görner’s images have a vivid sense of depth and dimension that convey an impression of intimacy, as in Isaac Newton, Cambridge (2017), or monumentality via his precise and skilful use of framing and perspective.
This stunning photograph captures a vista through the storied volumes, intricately painted walls, and doorways inside the Biblioteca comunale dell'Archiginnasio (Archiginnasio Municipal Library). The Biblioteca Archiginnasio is a public library located inside the Palace of the Archiginnasio in Bologna, Italy. The largest library in Emilia-Romagna, it boasts some 850,000 volumes and pamphlets, 2,500 incunabula, 15,000 16th century editions, 8,500 manuscripts and then letters, collections of autographs, prints and drawings, and 250 archives. The library has also a section of 7,500 magazines. In 1838 a section of the building was destined to preserve the books collected from Napoleon's closure of the religious orders. Fabled patrons include the cardinal Giuseppe Mezzofanti, Giovanni Gozzadini, Marco Minghetti, Giovanni Pascoli, Jacob Moleschott, Luigi Serra, Laura Bassi, Aurelio Saffi, Riccardo Bacchelli, Pelagio Palagi...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Biblioteca Malatestiana, Cesena
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Biblioteca Malatestiana
Cesena, Italy
2022
62.5 x 50 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
75 x 60 inches
ed. of 7
$9,000
87 x 70 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
signed and numbered on label, verso
Reinhard Görner records cultural and industrial heritage through his series of photographs depicting contemporary and historical architecture, landscapes, parks, and plants. Best known for his photographs of libraries and reading rooms from around the world—in works such as George Peabody Library II, Baltimore (2017) and Riggs Library I, Washington DC (2017)—Görner captures the atmosphere of absolute silence and concentration the spaces embody while also revealing their almost cathedral-like sense of grandeur. Görner’s images have a vivid sense of depth and dimension that convey an impression of intimacy, as in Isaac Newton, Cambridge (2017), or monumentality via his precise and skilful use of framing and perspective.
This stunning photograph captures a vista through the storied volumes, intricately painted walls, and doorways inside the Biblioteca comunale dell'Archiginnasio (Archiginnasio Municipal Library). The Biblioteca Archiginnasio is a public library located inside the Palace of the Archiginnasio in Bologna, Italy. The largest library in Emilia-Romagna, it boasts some 850,000 volumes and pamphlets, 2,500 incunabula, 15,000 16th century editions, 8,500 manuscripts and then letters, collections of autographs, prints and drawings, and 250 archives. The library has also a section of 7,500 magazines. In 1838 a section of the building was destined to preserve the books collected from Napoleon's closure of the religious orders. Fabled patrons include the cardinal Giuseppe Mezzofanti, Giovanni Gozzadini, Marco Minghetti, Giovanni Pascoli, Jacob Moleschott, Luigi Serra, Laura Bassi, Aurelio Saffi, Riccardo Bacchelli, Pelagio Palagi...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Keynote XIV
By Dianne Baker
Located in Buffalo, NY
Diane Baker is a mixed media and fiber-related sculptor working out of Buffalo, NY. She has exhibited throughout the United States and in Canada and is included in several public and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art
Materials
Found Objects, Tape, Wood
Rosie Copeland, Child’s Pose (after The Wave), Original Nude Painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Rosie Copeland
Child’s Pose (after The Wave)
Original Nude Painting
Oil on Board
Sold Unframed
Image size: H38 x W76 cm
Please note that in situ images are purely an indication of ho...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art
Materials
Oil, Board
V: Dogmatic thinking (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
V: Dogmatic thinking (Abstract Photography)
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed.
This abstract work is part of the series titled Dichotomy of a Human Bra...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Paper
Reinhard Görner 'Toreno, Biblioteca del Senado, Madrid, Spain' (Library, Madrid)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner
Toreno
Biblioteca del Senado, Madrid
2017
50 x 59.7 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
60 x 71.7 inches
ed. of 7
$9,000
70 x 83.6 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
signed and numbered...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Morgan Library II, New York
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Morgan Library II
New York
70 x 87.5 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
signed and numbered on label, verso
Paper is trimmed to the image: actual image size listed
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Reinhard Görner, Sainte Geneviève II Library, Paris
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner
Sainte Geneviève II
Library
Paris, France
62.5" x 50"
Edition of 10
$6,000
75" x 60"
Edition of 7
$9,000
87.5" x 70"
Edition of 5
$...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art
Materials
Lambda
Scene on a Sunset Beach from Vienna Daydreams Portfolio by Helmut Kand
By Helmut Kand
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Helmut Kand
Title: Scene on a Sunset Beach from the Vienna Daydreams Portfolio
Edition: 150
Medium: Serigraph on Foil Paper, signed and numbered in pencil
Image Size: 17 x 22...
Category
1970s Conceptual Art
Materials
Screen
"Breathe All We Have Is Now" - 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 ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Metal
"All We Have Is Now" - Scott Froschauer Photograph Limited Edition 25
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art
Materials
Archival Paper
Paris - Ober (Blue Circle) (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Paris - Ober (Blue Circle) (Abstract painting)
Spray paint, pencil, ink, watercolor on paper. Unframed.
Peter Soriano works on relatively large sheets of Japanese paper with a ten...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Spray Paint, Watercolor, Pencil
Reinhard Görner, Schussenried Abbey Library, Germany
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner
Schussenried Abbey
Library
Germany
50" x 59.9"
Edition of 10
$6,000
60" x 71.9"
Edition of 7
$9,000
70" x 83.8"
Edition of 5
$11,000...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art
Materials
Lambda
VIII: The Unselfconsciousness Of Eros (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
VIII: The Unselfconsciousness Of Eros (Abstract Photography)
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed.
This abstract work is part of the series titled Dichot...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Paper
Anguish & Resignation 80
Located in BARCELONA, ES
The choice of pink for the stones is deliberate, emphasizing that this is not a naturalistic depiction. Ortega begins his paintings on a magenta base—a color that does not exist natu...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
VII: Istinto Primordiale (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
VII: Istinto Primordiale (Abstract Photography)
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed.
This abstract work is part of the series titled Dichotomy of a Human...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Paper
One Green Wave, Conceptual Drawing with Watercolor by Richard Davies
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Richard Davies
Title: One Green Wave
Year: 1991
Medium: Watercolor, graphite, colored pencil, collage, signed in pencil
Size: 60 x 40 in. (152.4 x 1...
Category
1990s Conceptual Art
Materials
Watercolor, Color Pencil, Graphite
$6,000 Sale Price
20% Off
IV: Nice (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
IV: Nice (Abstract Photography)
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed.
This abstract work is part of the series titled Dichotomy of a Human Brain.
It was ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Paper
Triumph of Void (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
Triumph of Void (Abstract Photography)
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed.
Edition 6 + 2 AP - Edition 1/6
This new series titled Neurosis brings togeth...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Paper
Panel D - Brutality of Creation (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
Panel B - Brutality of Creation (Abstract Photography)
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed.
Edition 6 + 2 AP - Edition 1/6
This new series titled Neuros...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Paper
Panel D - Brutality of Creation (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
Panel B - Brutality of Creation (Abstract Photography)
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed.
Edition 6 + 2 AP - Edition 1/6
This new series titled Neuros...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Paper
L.I.C. (Blue) (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
L.I.C. (Blue) (Abstract painting)
Spray paint, pencil, ink, watercolor on paper. Unframed.
L.I.C refers to Long Island City where Soriano currently has his studio. This drawing focuses of objects and elements within it, in particular the remnants of old closets...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Ink, Spray Paint, Watercolor, Pencil
Three Dog Night
By Michael Beam
Located in Buffalo, NY
The title for this work was inspired by the ruminations of Charles Manson in the 2010 publication Charles Manson NOW. “When you come to prison and you stay the fifteen years, all the dogs of the world are dead when you come back out, there is no dog that was a live when you were out last time. The three dog...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Glitter, Spray Paint
Panel A - Brutality of Creation (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
Panel A - Brutality of Creation (Abstract Photography)
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed.
Edition 6 + 2 AP - Edition 1/6
This new series titled Neuros...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Paper
Ken Aptekar Contemporary Conceptual Judaica Art Drawing Go Study Chasidic Rabbis
By Ken Aptekar
Located in Surfside, FL
Ken Aptekar
American (b. 1950)
Go Know (Study)
1996
Graphite, white pigment, transparency film, and staples on paper
Hand signed lower right
sheet: 18 x 18 inches
frame dimensions: 21 x 21 x 1 3/4 inches, wood frame with acrylic glazing
Ken Aptekar is an artist who combines painting with text. He paints new versions of historical paintings and frames, bolting glass with sandblasted words to his painted panels. Aptekar’s work belongs to the tradition of painting, yet he brings to that tradition a recognition that paintings produce meaning only through their interaction with viewers. He investigates the nature of spectatorship. By “recreating” works of art in a painterly but utilitarian manner, Aptekar promotes viewers’ own narratives prompted by the image-text combinations.
Born in Detroit, Aptekar received his BFA at the University of Michigan, then moved to Brooklyn to complete an MFA at Pratt Institute. Most recently, his work was featured at the Jewish Museum in Vienna, Austria, and in the Biennale Internationale d’Autun, in Autun, France. A major commissioned solo exhibition, NACHBARN (“NEIGHBORS”), 2016, was on view at the St. Annen Museum in Lübeck, Germany, including paintings with text, silverpoint drawings, and video all based upon medieval altarpieces in the St. Annen Museum’s collection.
Previously, his work has been seen in solo exhibitions at the Victoria & Albert Museum in collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery (London), the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), Memorial Art Gallery (Rochester, NY), Centro da Cultura Judaica (Sao Paolo, Brazil), Musée Robert Dubois-Corneau (Brunoy, France), the New Museum (New York, NY), Douglas Cooley Gallery at Reed College (Portland, OR), Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State (State College, PA), Cummer Museum (Jacksonville, FL), and the Elaine Jacob Gallery at Wayne State University (Detroit, MI). In 2012 Aptekar’s work was the subject of a survey exhibition, “Ken Aptekar: Look Again,” at the Beard and Weil Galleries, Wheaton College, Massachusetts. He was in the show Words & Music
with John Giorno, Cheonae Kim...
Category
Late 20th Century Conceptual Art
Materials
Paper, Film, Graphite, Pigment
Wren Library, Cambridge, England, German Interior Architecture Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A masterpiece of Baroque symmetry and intellectual grandeur, Reinhard Görner’s Wren Library, Cambridge captures the timeless elegance of one of Brita...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
C Print, Lambda
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