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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
Denizens of the Underworld, Folk Art Lithograph by Jose Luis Cuevas, 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...
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1960s Conceptual Art

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Lithograph

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 Élisabe...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

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C Print, Color

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...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Brass, Steel

Prelude to Dawn
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original conceptual hand carved and joined wood wall sculpture by Kevin Kegler. This work is currently featured in the artist's solo exhibition inside The Corridors Gallery at ...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Copper

Iain Baxter& "Correcting Landscape" Conceptual Monoprint Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Landscape with refrigerator in bright vibrant colors. Iain Baxter& (the artist recently added the ampersand to his name) is recognized as Canada’s pioneering conceptual artist. For over forty years, Baxter& has continually produced works that question the role of art as commodity and as a medium for cultural commentary. Among his many innovations, Baxter& was the first artist to adopt a corporate persona: in 1966, he formed the N.E. Thing Company. NETCO output ranged from conceptual, satirical, vacuum-formed still lives to post-modern appropriations of famous artworks. His recent work includes neon signs, ‘animal preserves’, a grocery cart of ‘GMO’s’ (genetically modified organisms) and installations using obsolete technology.) He is a painter, photographer, sculptor, mixed media artist, installationist, film & video maker, interventionist & performance artist who has been a forerunner of conceptual art in Canada. BAXTER& has been considered the Marshall McLuhan of Visual Arts in Canada. Continuous themes in his work include information technology, landscape, art as commodity, & environmental & ecological concerns. These prominent themes throughout BAXTER&‘s work are often met with wit, parody, satire & word-play. Through his art, teaching, and mentorship, BAXTER& has widely influenced Canadian art, creating new movements such as the Vancouver School of Photo-conceptualism and blurring the lines between private and public through his N.E. Thing Co. among many other impactful projects. He has also directly influenced major Canadian artists, including Stan Douglas, Ian Wallace, Jeff Wall, Roy Arden, Ken Lum and Rodney Graham. BAXTER& has exhibited throughout Canada and internationally in the United States, China, Korea, Japan, and Europe including at the Guggenheim New York, The National Gallery of Canada & the Canadian Cultural Center in Paris, France, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York & the Tate Modern, London. In 2011, BAXTER&’s work was compiled into a major retrospective IAIN BAXTER&: 1958--‐2011, organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario & The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. His work can be found in collections including the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Vancouver Art Gallery, the F.R.A.C Art Museum in Bretagne, France, the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, The Netherlands, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, & the Tate Modern, London. He is a Member of the Royal Canadian Academy. His work was included in the seminal Made of Plastic show that included Abe Ajay...
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20th Century Conceptual Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Monoprint, Monotype

Roller Disco: Cenotaph for a Public Figure, Screenprint by Robert Morris
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Robert Morris Title: Roller Disco: Cenotaph for a Public Figure Year: 1980 Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 180 Paper Size: 26 in. x 32 in. (66.04 ...
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1980s Conceptual Art

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Screen

Untitled (Orgy), Digital Pigment Print by Peter Coffin
By Peter Coffin
Located in Long Island City, NY
A digital c-print by Peter Coffin. A conceptual work featuring a diptych of two pages from open books referring to the degrees of separation within the relationship between artist, a...
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Early 2000s Conceptual Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

Canon (facsimile print in black and white)
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
The facsimile print made on a paper with size of 100x70cm (39.3x27.5 in). The dominant colors are black and white with a greyish gamma. His pencil drawing is a technique so exquis...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Paper, Pencil, Carbon Pencil, Carbon Pigment

Avant Garde Rhinoceros Sculpture, "Rhino Reliquary"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original artwork by local San Diego artist, Ron Carlson. This sculpture has a rhino at the top and depicts rhino skulls within the container. This reliquary s...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Ceramic

Raspail Red, Paris Metro Series
Located in Surfside, FL
these are original (signed with initials) proof prints c-print on Fuji crystal archive paper. there is some minor wear to the surface but it cannot be photographed and will probably not be visible when framed The National Museum of Women in the Arts presents P(art)ners: Gifts from the Heather and Tony Podesta Collection, an exhibition of 28 contemporary photographs and sculptures drawn from the more than 300 works the couple has donated to the museum. P(art)ners demonstrates the Podestas' shared collecting vision and honors their participation in the inaugural TEDWomen conference in Washington D.C. The Podestas' collaborative collecting practice inspired the NMWA staff to hand them the curatorial reins for this exhibition. The two have articulated the themes for P(art)ners and selected the works. Images of the female body or allusions to it (such as seen in G-Force Dive, a witty sculpture by E.V. Day (American, b. 1967) made from women's thong underwear stretched into the shape of fighter jets) present multiple views of contemporary feminine identity. These works exploring the female body are paired with photographs of architecture. Although they are built by and for people, the interior spaces lack human presence and appear surprisingly abstract. The Podestas note that images of constructed environments complement those of the human figure: "They are what remain of us when we're not there." Heather and Tony Podesta each head their own government relations firm in Washington, D.C., but they travel to contemporary art fairs and biennials around the world to discover outstanding new artists. P(art)ners features a striking series of photographs about travel by Nicoletta Munroe (American, b. 1968). For her "Paris Métro" series, Munroe, who has also worked as an art director in Hollywood, shot the brightly colored seats on the platforms of Paris's subway system. The rows of seats seem to stand in for the people who fill the stations each day. SURVIVAL L.A. A Group Show with Lisa Adams, SE Barnet, Kaucyila Brooke, Kathy Chenoweth, Martin Durazo, Kathleen Johnson, Hillary Mushkin, Nicoletta Munroe, Susan Otto, Christopher Pate, Steve Roden, Thaddeus Strode and Jody Zellen Raid Journal essays by: Holly Myers and Gordy Grundy UnNaturally features over 40 visually stunning works by fifteen artists who employ artificial materials to create simulations of nature that explore the frequently blurred boundary between culture and our environment, raising provocative questions about the mediated environment in which we live. UnNaturally plays on our nostalgia for an idealized pre-industrial past in which human beings and nature coexisted harmoniously in an unspoiled landscape. Artists includes Chris Astley, Gregory Crewdson, Jacci Den Hartog, Allan deSouza, Keith Edmier, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Jason Middlebrook,Nicoletta Munroe, Roxy Paine...
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1990s Conceptual Art

Materials

C Print

Iain Baxter& "Lettering Landscape" Conceptual Monoprint Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Landscape with framed house in bright vibrant colors. Iain Baxter& (the artist recently added the ampersand to his name) is recognized as Canada’s pioneering conceptual artist. For over forty years, Baxter& has continually produced works that question the role of art as commodity and as a medium for cultural commentary. Among his many innovations, Baxter& was the first artist to adopt a corporate persona: in 1966, he formed the N.E. Thing Company. NETCO output ranged from conceptual, satirical, vacuum-formed still lives to post-modern appropriations of famous artworks. His recent work includes neon signs, ‘animal preserves’, a grocery cart of ‘GMO’s’ (genetically modified organisms) and installations using obsolete technology.) He is a painter, photographer, sculptor, mixed media artist, installationist, film & video maker, interventionist & performance artist who has been a forerunner of conceptual art in Canada. BAXTER& has been considered the Marshall McLuhan of Visual Arts in Canada. Continuous themes in his work include information technology, landscape, art as commodity, & environmental & ecological concerns. These prominent themes throughout BAXTER&‘s work are often met with wit, parody, satire & word-play. Through his art, teaching, and mentorship, BAXTER& has widely influenced Canadian art, creating new movements such as the Vancouver School of Photo-conceptualism and blurring the lines between private and public through his N.E. Thing Co. among many other impactful projects. He has also directly influenced major Canadian artists, including Stan Douglas, Ian Wallace, Jeff Wall, Roy Arden, Ken Lum and Rodney Graham. BAXTER& has exhibited throughout Canada and internationally in the United States, China, Korea, Japan, and Europe including at the Guggenheim New York, The National Gallery of Canada & the Canadian Cultural Center in Paris, France, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York & the Tate Modern, London. In 2011, BAXTER&’s work was compiled into a major retrospective IAIN BAXTER&: 1958--‐2011, organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario & The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. His work can be found in collections including the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Vancouver Art Gallery, the F.R.A.C Art Museum in Bretagne, France, the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, The Netherlands, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, & the Tate Modern, London. He is a Member of the Royal Canadian Academy. His work was included in the seminal Made of Plastic show that included Abe Ajay...
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20th Century Conceptual Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Monoprint, Monotype

EXP_4873.RAW
Located in Greifswald, DE
„According to some theories, the human brain encodes images through a process that takes place in several stages. At the beginning, the images are organized into two-dimensional sket...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Panel, Inkjet

THE NAME OF THE FLOWER: PANSY “JOKER VIOLA-GOLD”
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Contemporary Subject: Nature Medium: Ink, Sandblasted Glass, Surface: Paper Country: United States Dimensions: 20" x 20" Dimensions w/Frame: 21" x 21" x 2" KEN APTEKAR (b.19...
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Late 20th Century Conceptual Art

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Glass, Ink

Pintura de cuatro huevos duros en un plato
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Eduardo Costa is one of the key figures in global conceptual art. He was born in Buenos Aires in 1940. He graduated in Literature and Art at the University of Buenos Aires in 1965 where he took courses with Jorge Luis Borges in the late fifties. His practice developed into Conceptual POP with the Fashion Fictions Series, 1966-to the present. He is also credited with creating Conceptual Geometry which he showed internationally starting in 1995 at the Elga Wimmer Gallery, NY, and in 2001 at Cecilia de Torres LTD., NY. With Cecilia de Torres he exhibited a fully developed edition of his Volumetric Paintings, which use painting to such a volume that it stands by itself without any cloth or other support.Eduardo Costa lived twenty-five years in New York and over four years in Rio de Janeiro where he met almost daily with Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Pape...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Acrylic

Highly conceptual mixed media wall sculpture Contemporary skull emoji jewelry
Located in Buffalo, NY
Monarch Memento Mori UV print on aluminum, chain, jewelry, keychain, boondoggle, stickers, Croc Jibbitz, rabbits’ foot 12x36” 2019 $975 Eternal Flame is a...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Metal

Contemporary Bird Painting, "Passenger Pigeons Terrarium, Blue"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind conceptual animal painting. Its dimensions are 34.25x26.5x1. It comes in a white frame. A signed certificate of authenticity from the artist is provided after delivery. This painting depicts passenger pigeons...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Spray Paint, Acrylic

Felice Koenig Contemporary Painting Wall Sculpture Blue Silver Red Metallic
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original wall sculpture by American female artist Felice Koenig. Koenig covers carved polystyrene forms with layers upon layers of acrylic dots. The works take Koenig around 6 m...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Polystyrene, Acrylic

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

Materials

Lithograph

Russian Samizdat Art Conceptual Compass Sculpture Assemblage Gerlovin, Gerlovina
Located in Surfside, FL
Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin Compass, 1988 Aluminum sculpture, mixed media and c-print photograph construction, c-print, felt tip marker 12.5 h × 12.5w × 4 d in (30 × 30 × 6 cm) Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin were founding members of the underground conceptual movement Samizdat in the Soviet Union, described in their book Russian Samizdat Art. Based on a play of paradoxes, their work is rich with philosophic and mythological implications, reflected in their writing as well. Their book Concepts was published in Russia in 2012. The work by Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin is emphatically contemporary. The artist couple were part of the Moscow Conceptualists, their performance Costumes, from 1977, deepened their ongoing work with linguistic semiotic systems and their own bodies. Considering the context in which Gerlovina and Gerlovin made their work—that of political restrictions on public life, of unfreedom, and censorship—their collaborative togetherness must also be read as a space of possibility for political community and resistance. Rimma Gerlovina’s hair is featured prominently in the art of the Gerlovins as a constructing element of the body. Used for the linear drawings her braids transmit transpersonal waves reminiscent of an aura of live filaments. Long loose hairs function as threads of life; streaming in abundance, they allude to Aphrodisiac vitality and Samsonian strength. On the other hand, they are the haircloth worn during mourning and penitence. In New York they continued to make sculptural objects, and their photographic projects grew into an extended series called Photoglyphs. In their photographs, they use their own faces to explore the nature of thought and what lies beyond it. Since coming to the United States in 1980, they had many exhibitions in galleries and museums including the Art Institute of Chicago. The New Orleans Museum of Art launched a retrospective of their photography, which traveled to fifteen cities. Group exhibitions include the Venice Biennale, the Guggenheim Museum, New York, Smithsonian National Museum of American Art, Washington D.C., Bonn Kunsthalle, Germany, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, and others. Samizdat or “self-published” began in the Soviet Union, and Samizdat art consists mainly of books and magazines published and distributed by the artists who made them. Samizdat art has sources in the innovative books and magazines turned out by the early 20th century Russian avant-garde—artists and writers like Olga Rozanova, Vladimir Mayakovsky, El Lissitzky, and Alexander Rodchenko. Artists as varied as Alexander Archipenko, Leon Bakst, Marc Chagall, Naum Gabo, Alexandra Exter...
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1980s Conceptual Art

Materials

Metal

Fingerprint
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original mixed media woven paper and staple wall sculpture by Jozef Bajus. This work can be acquired in a shadow box frame presentation for an additional $350.
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2010s Conceptual Art

Untitled (double dip)
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original conceptual blown glass wall sculpture by American artist Roberley Bell. IN CURRENT SHOW The Corridors Gallery at Hotel Henry Fall Show Untitled (double dip...
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Early 2000s Conceptual Art

Materials

Plastic, Found Objects, Fiberboard

Japanese Contemporary Art By Kojun - Ku
Located in Paris, IDF
Lego, discarded wood, gilder’s bole This work was created for an exhibit as part of the artistic unit SHIKŌ, a collaborative effort between sculptors Kanji Hasegawa, Isaji Yugo, and...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Driftwood, Plastic

The Terminator By Artist Tyler Stout Arnold Schwarzenegger James Cameron Print
Located in Draper, UT
The Terminator by Tytler Stout Silkscreed Print Arnold Schwarzenegger “I’ve found it works best to do stuff for movies you’re a fan of, movies that have stood the test of time, that are considered classics, stuff that inspires you,” Stout told io9 over email. “My movie fandom starts mainly in the 1980s since that was my childhood. Terminator is 1984, so it’s towards the beginning of that era, early Arnie, Lance Henriksen, Michael Biehn, James Cameron. Just seemed a more logical choice than, say, Terms of Endearment. Which will be [my] next poster. Part of our Debra Winger...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Screen

"Meander" - 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

Materials

Metal

Source 8
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original Inkjet prints, carbon and beeswax mounted to wood that was included in the artistic duo's exhibition at the world renowned Albright Knox Art Gallery. Virocode is compose...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Wood, Wax, Carbon Pencil, Inkjet

Botanical
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original contemporary mixed media work by conceptual artist Jody Hanson. Botanical, 2013, Potassium ferricyanide and salt on paper. artwork size 16” x 12”
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Archival Paper

El Caso
By Christian Boltanski
Located in Surfside, FL
Christian Boltanski, El Caso, Parkett., Zürich. 1989 in the collection of the MOMA Museum of Modern Art NYC Miniature booklet with 17 photographs, 2 x 3 1/8” (5 x 8 x 0,6 cm) ring bound with perspex covers and printed title Ed. 80/XX, signed and numbered (this one is not signed or numbered and might be an artist proof) Guilty, Not Guilty. Themes central to Boltanski’s oeuvre find devastating expression in this tiny piece of pocket pornography containing images of brutal murder re-photographed by the artist from the Spanish detective magazine El Caso. [Ref. Bob Calle - Christian Boltanski Artist's Books 1969-2007, p.60]. Artists' book featuring 17 b/w photographs held together with two metal rings: "Luxury edition of a booklet with real glossy photographs, small enough to be hidden behind the hand... It pictures the bodies of victims of violent crime. By showing these photographs of half-naked corpses, bought nearer by close-up shots, the artist transforms the viewer into a voyeur who virtually becomes a sadistic partner in the crime." -- from Catalogue: Books, Printed Matter, Ephemera 1966-1991. references "Livres" by Christian Boltanski. Paris / Köln / Frankfurt, France / Germany : AFAA / Jennifer Flay / Walther König / Portikus, 1991. No. 69 in "Christian Boltanski : Catalogue: Books, Printed Matter, Ephemera, 1966-1991" by Christian Boltanski, Jennifer Flay, Günter Metken. Köln / Frankfurt, Germany : Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König / Portikus, 1992, pp. 184 - 185. "Christian Boltanski : Artist's Books 1969 - 2007" by Christian Boltanski, Bob Calle. Paris, France : Éditions 591, 2008, pp. 60. Quote “There is in the work of the artist something of the high priest and something of the charlatan...
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1980s Conceptual Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Quartet
Located in Buffalo, NY
A conceptual four part wall sculpture by American female artist Dianne Baker. I 8"x8"x 1" wood, metal, canvass II 8" x 10"x 1" wood, metal III 15" x 8" x 2" wood...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Metal

CMMM conceptual Minimialist painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Diti Almog (Israeli, b. 1960) CMMM, 1999; Acrylic on aircraft plywood; Signed, dated and titled; 12'' x 14''; Provenance: Baldwin Gallery, Colorado BIOGRAPHY Born Haifa, Israel 1982 – 1986 Bezalel Academy of Art, Jerusalem, Israel Lives and works in New York Currently teaching at NYU, New York SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2012 Inga Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel 2009 Spacesurplus, New York 2008 Inga Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel 2007 Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden 2006 Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel 2004 Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden 2002 Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden 2000 Gallerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Colorado Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York 1999 Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Colorado 1998 Gallery Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France 1997 Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York Mitchell-Innes & Nash Gallery, New York 1996 Boesky & Callery Gallery, New York 1995 Artifact Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel 1992 Artifact Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel 1991 Artifact Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel 1990 Artifact Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel 1988 The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel Artifact Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel 1987 Borgrashov Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2010 High Definition, Bezalel Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curated by Ruti, Director 2008 Reframing, CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Spain. Curated by Barry Schwabsky 2007 Horizon, Elizabeth Foundation Galleries, New York 2004 The Sydney Biennale, Sydney, Australia 2000 Compression, Feigen Contemporary, New York Telesthesia Amnescopia, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois New Work; Abstraction, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco 1999 Christmas Paintings, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York The Stroke, Exit Art, New York. Curated by Ross Bleckner 1998 Painting Now and Forever, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York People, Places and Things, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York 1996 Ceremonial, Apex Art, New York. Curated by Barry Schwabsky (brochure published) 1995 Summer Group Show, Patrick Callery, New York Summer Group Show, Bravin Post Lee Gallery, New York 1994 Art Focus, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel 1993 Locus, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 1991 Perspective, The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel 1990 Aperto, Venice Biennale – The Israeli Proposal, Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, Israel The Museum as Collector, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel Life Size, a Sense of the Real in Recent Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (The opening of the Nathan Cummings 20th Century Building) Feminine Presence, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel 1988 Fresh Paint, The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel 1986 Artists Studios, Aika Brown...
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1990s Conceptual Art

Materials

Acrylic

Mogan David - Original Abstract Wood Sculpture
Located in Boston, MA
Mogan David 42.0 x 4.0 x 3.0, 17.0 lbs Wood Founder's stamp Artist's Commentary: "The maple lines emanate from the maple border in a purpleheart background and intersect to create the subtle Mogan David (Jewish star). I work with wood like a painter works with oils and a sculptor with stone. From a distance, lines, shapes, contours and shadows are easily seen but when you move from side to side, the change in perspective alters the image like the features of a face when it turns. If a light source moves, shadows in the piece move with it like the sun moving across a landscape. As you approach the piece, shallow contours appear like swells on a lake and intricate patterns emerge. You can't help but touch the smooth flowing surface to feel the highly finished solid wood. The furniture grade modified tung oil allows that. It also makes my art easy to clean if necessary. The lines and shapes in my art are the natural colors of solid wood joined along curves. No inlays, veneers, dyes or stains are used." About the Artist: Marc Lamm is a self-taught wood-artist who has been art since 1973. In 1996, he began developing techniques which he uses in his art. In 2011, he began making wood-wall-sculptures and has pieces in Mayo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Wood

Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 1947
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on silver leaf on paper Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. Kojun project started in 201...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Inkjet

UNTITLED (From the ARTSOUNDS Collection)
Located in New York, NY
LES LEVINE Untitled (from the Artsounds Collection), 1986 color offset print, ed. 200 12 x 12 cm. 30.5 x 30.5 cm. Edition 49/100 signed and dated in pen by the artist, numbered in...
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1980s Conceptual Art

Materials

Offset

Biblioteca del Duca D'Aumale Terrasini
Located in New York, NY
The photographer is based in Florence, and is fascinated how his architectural subject matter allows him to control the composition of his image. For many years he has photographed ...
Category

1990s Conceptual Art

Materials

C Print

Japanese Contemporary Art By Kojun - Nirvana
Located in Paris, IDF
Lego, gold leaf, Styrofoam, paper, cardboard, gilder’s bole This work was created for an exhibit as part of the artistic unit SHIKŌ, a collaborative effort between sculptors Kanji H...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Cardboard, Foam

Russian love. 2002, oil on canvas, acrylic, collage, 60x40 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Russian love. 2002, oil on canvas, acrylic, collage, 60x40 cm Igor Leontiev (1957) - one of the leading independent painters in Latvia Born in Riga, La...
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Early 2000s Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

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...
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1960s Conceptual Art

Materials

Lithograph

Moloch. 1989. Paper, etching, 53.5x38 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Moloch. 1989. Paper, etching, 53.5x38 cm
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1980s Conceptual Art

Materials

Paper, Etching

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...
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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...
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1960s Conceptual Art

Materials

Lithograph

Japan Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 1942
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on brass leaf on paper Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. Kojun project started in 2010...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media

Flower Goddess - Figurative Paintings - Conceptual Art By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
Primal woman of the jungle with a headdress of vibrant tropical plants Flower Goddess - Figurative Paintings - Conceptual Art By Marc Zimmerman This masterpiece is exhibited in th...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Oil

Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2822
Located in Paris, IDF
Inkjet print of digital photograph on Kakejikuya 100% kozo paper mulberry washi, with overpainting in acrylic and mineral pigments, mounted in Japanese silk scroll Kojun is an self-...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media

"One Day" - 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

The New Year graphisms & 12. 1979, paper, silk screen, 15x21.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
The New Year graphisms & 12. 1979, paper, silk screen, 15x21.5 cm Maris Argalis (1954-2008) Born in Riga. 1971. - graduated the Janis Rosenthal Riga Art...
Category

1970s Conceptual Art

Materials

Paper, Screen

Graphisms & 14. 1980, paper, silk screen, 15x22.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Graphisms & 14. 1980, paper, silk screening, 15x22.5 cm Maris Argalis (1954-2008) Born in Riga. 1971. - graduated the Janis Rosenthal Riga Art School. O...
Category

1980s Conceptual Art

Materials

Paper, Screen

Post-Renaissance NO2
Located in Porto, 13
"Through Traveling You're Able To Understand The World & Find Endless Inspiration" - Lixian Cai Lixian began to travel outside of China, documenting each ...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Oil

Fins Ap
By Ap Verheggen
Located in Brecon, Powys
Title: Fins Ap Type: Laughing Wall Shark ​ Another wall creation from this much acclaimed Dutch artist. Epoxy, painted White Length 59", Height 1...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Acrylic Polymer

The Magic Sign - Lithograph by Giuliano Sturli - 1976
Located in Roma, IT
The magic sign is a lithograph realized by  Giuliano Sturli in 1976 Good conditions except for a very light folds on the lower corner. Hand-signed and dated on the lower margin. N...
Category

1970s Conceptual Art

Materials

Lithograph

Out of Nowhere, Secret World of Plants, German Macro Botanical Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In Out of Nowhere, part of Reinhard Görner's Secret World of Plants series, the delicate interplay of deep purples, vibrant greens, and soft-focus backgrounds creates an evocative an...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

C Print, Lambda

Resin Abstract Circle Sculpture: 'Circle'
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 archetypes take shape in unexpected combinations of materials. The works emerged as the tactile and visual senses channeled the ritualistic power and materiality of selected artifacts. The resulting objects exist in a space between what they were originally and what they could become. A wheel, for example, is distorted as if seen through a prism. Their collaboration grew out of years of shaping materials into one-of-a-kind objects. Intuitively, the process of creating with their hands took an inward turn. Prism is a travelogue through memories and dreams, yielding abstract forms that capture moments of transformation. Van Wifvat grew up with eight siblings and studied sculpture and environmental design in Minneapolis at MCAD. In 1979, he opened a storefront art gallery to promote the work of local artists. The space featured printed materials—art books, periodicals, fanzines, and postcard’s. Wifvat moved to New York in 1983 to study at the Fashion Institute of Technology and Parsons. In 1987, he co-founded Van Gregory & Norton design studio, specializing in convex mirrors and curtain hardware...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Ceramic, Resin, Wood, Glaze, Handmade Paper

Cool Ducks
Located in New York, NY
2 cool ducks floating. Fun. About the Artist: Jim Molloy is a studio and plein air painter. "I like to try to find and capture the beauty and simplicity of the world around u...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Limpopo, 2021
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Style: Contemporary, Modern, Conceptual Small study for the series “Rare Earth"
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Metal

Limpopo, 2021
Limpopo, 2021
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Roe V Wade
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Photography. Roe v Wade political document projected on the figures before the picture was taken.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Black and White

Roe V Wade
$2,016 Sale Price
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Pinball Wizard, Secret World of Plants, German Macro Botanical Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In Pinball Wizard, part of Görner's Secret World of Plants series, the interplay of vibrant greens and soft-focus spheres creates a mesmerizing, otherworldly scene. This German macro...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

C Print, Lambda

Flaming Yellow, Secret World of Plants, German Macro Botanical Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this captivating macro photograph, Görner skillfully unveils the intricate interplay between texture and light within the delicate anatomy of a flower. The vibrant yellow hues rad...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

C Print, Lambda

Flaming Yellow, Secret World of Plants, German Macro Botanical Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this captivating macro photograph, Görner skillfully unveils the intricate interplay between texture and light within the delicate anatomy of a flower. The vibrant yellow hues rad...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

C Print, Lambda

What's Old is New - Found Objects Abstract Sculpture
Located in Boston, MA
What's Old is New 18.0 x 20.0 x 4.0, 2.0 lbs Mixed Media Hand signed by artist Artist's Commentary: "What’s Old is New is part of series called: Mind Springs that all started wit...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Joker - Lego Art - Original
Located in New York, NY
Homage to the Joker. Made completely of legos. About the Artist: Joseph Kraham is an "engineering artist". He combines thousands of Lego pieces, a...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Boris LACROIX (1902-1984), wallpaper design
Located in Paris, FR
Boris Lacroix (born in Paris in 1902, where he died in 1984) was a French Art Deco architect and designer. Boris Lacroix served as the artistic director of the Vionnet fashion house ...
Category

1930s Conceptual Art

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Sculpture Victorian Shoe: 'Chopine III'
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 archetypes take shape in unexpected combinations of materials. The works emerged as the tactile and visual senses channeled the ritualistic power and materiality of selected artifacts. The resulting objects exist in a space between what they were originally and what they could become. A wheel, for example, is distorted as if seen through a prism. Their collaboration grew out of years of shaping materials into one-of-a-kind objects. Intuitively, the process of creating with their hands took an inward turn. Prism is a travelogue through memories and dreams, yielding abstract forms that capture moments of transformation. Van Wifvat grew up with eight siblings and studied sculpture and environmental design in Minneapolis at MCAD. In 1979, he opened a storefront art gallery to promote the work of local artists. The space featured printed materials—art books, periodicals, fanzines, and postcard’s. Wifvat moved to New York in 1983 to study at the Fashion Institute of Technology and Parsons. In 1987, he co-founded Van Gregory & Norton design studio, specializing in convex mirrors and curtain hardware...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Gesso, Canvas

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