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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
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - VHM4K2019
Located in Paris, IDF
Gloss finish urushi lacquer over ABS thermoplastic viewer / Black film diffuser Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. Koj...
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2010s Conceptual Art

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Plastic, Lacquer

Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 3040
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on pewter leaf on paper & mounted in Japanese silk scroll Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since ...
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2010s Conceptual Art

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Paper, Mixed Media

Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2351
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on aluminum leaf on paper Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. Kojun project started in 2...
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2010s Conceptual Art

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Paper, Mixed Media, Inkjet

Iron Teapot
Located in Columbus, OH
"Iron Teapot" 8x4 inches, two pieces. This surrealist sculpture is a ceramic teapot glazed to look like iron, with a female nipple and areola for a lid. Lighter than it looks but difficult to open, it is both an erotic and hushed commentary on female bodies, desire and strength. Signed. Tara Joshi...
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2010s Conceptual Art

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Ceramic

Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2514
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on gold 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

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Paper, Mixed Media

Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2353
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on pewter 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

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Paper, Mixed Media, Inkjet

Japanese Contemporary Sculpture by Kojun - VM9HK2020
Located in Paris, IDF
Mirror finish gold leaf over ABS thermoplastic viewer / Diffraction film diffuser Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. K...
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2010s Conceptual Art

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Mixed Media

Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2709
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on Kakejikuya 100% kozo paper mulberry washi, mounted in fabric scroll Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo,...
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2010s Conceptual Art

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Paper, Mixed Media

Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2257
Located in Paris, IDF
Inkjet print of digital photograph on Kakejikuya kozo washi Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. Kojun project started i...
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2010s Conceptual Art

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Paper, Mixed Media, Inkjet

Abstraction About Subtle
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Abstraction About Subtle Royal blue with gold leaf on carved wood panel. Krzysztof (Chris) Sokolovski born in 1985 in Eisiskes in Lithuania. Visual artist creating neosacral art: pa...
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2010s Conceptual Art

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Gold Leaf

Gil Scullion, You Get, 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

Gil Scullion, You Walk, 2017, 20 sheets 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

Japan Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 1943
Located in Paris, IDF
Inkjet print of digital photograph on hemp washi Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. Kojun project started in 2010 expl...
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2010s Conceptual Art

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Paper, Mixed Media, Inkjet

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 ...
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1990s Conceptual Art

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C Print

Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2253
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on aluminum leaf on paper Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. Kojun project started in 2...
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2010s Conceptual Art

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Paper, Mixed Media, Inkjet

Dovelike
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Dovelike 2018 Pencil signed and title. Joanna Salska was born in Poland and received her MFA from Warsaw Academy of Fine Art. She is a painter and interd...
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2010s Conceptual Art

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Acrylic, Archival Paper

Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls Film and Vintage Projector, 2018, Film, Found Objects
Located in Darien, CT
This installation imagines the Radium Girls as abstractd subjects. Repeating a motif of a circle, signifying the mouth, this art object conveys a modern view of the these workers, tied in with repetitive actions in abstracted patterns. Radioluminescence is the phenomenon by which light is produced in a material by bombardment with ionizing radiation and can be used as a low-level light source for night illumination of instrument...
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2010s Conceptual Art

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Film, Found Objects

Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls Window Transparencies, 2018, Digital Print, Plastic
Located in Darien, CT
This series of five transparencies are in an edition size of 3. They are designed to be installed directly onto interior window areas to allow light to pass thru them. These transpar...
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2010s Conceptual Art

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Plastic, Digital

Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls Window Transparencies, 2018, Plastic, Digital Print
Located in Darien, CT
This series of five transparencies are in an edition size of 3. They are designed to be installed directly onto interior window areas to allow light to pass thru them. These transpar...
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2010s Conceptual Art

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Plastic, Digital

Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls Window Transparencies, 2018, Plastic, Digital Print
Located in Darien, CT
This series of five transparencies are in an edition size of 3. They are designed to be installed directly onto interior window areas to allow light to pass thru them. These transpar...
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2010s Conceptual Art

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Plastic, Digital

Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls Window Transparencies, 2018, Plastic, Digital Print
Located in Darien, CT
This series of five transparencies are in an edition size of 3. They are designed to be installed directly onto interior window areas to allow light to pass thru them. These transpar...
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2010s Conceptual Art

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Plastic, Digital

Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls_Transparencies, 2017, Inkjet Print, Photographic Film
Located in Darien, CT
Radioluminescence is the phenomenon by which light is produced in a material by bombardment with ionizing radiation and can be used as a low-level light source for night illumination of instruments or signage or other applications where light must be produced for long periods without external energy sources. Radioluminescent paint used to be used for clock hands and instrument dials...
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2010s Conceptual Art

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Plastic, Photographic Film, Inkjet

Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls_ The Radium Dance, 2018, Paper, Inkjet Print
Located in Darien, CT
Radioluminescence is the phenomenon by which light is produced in a material by bombardment with ionizing radiation and can be used as a low-level light source for night illumination of instruments or signage or other applications where light must be produced for long periods without external energy sources. Radioluminescent paint used to be used for clock hands and instrument dials...
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2010s Conceptual Art

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Paper, Inkjet

Jeff Becker, Planetary Breathing, 2017, Video, Digital Pigment Print
Located in Darien, CT
Using his inkjet printer as a paintbrush, Jeff Becker creates watercolor-like imagery without Photoshop or filters. Disruptive in nature, the Slurry Series works don't follow the tra...
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2010s Conceptual Art

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Video, Digital Pigment

Fritz Horstman, Formwork for a Square Pad, 2015, Steel, Wood, Maple
Located in Darien, CT
While working on a large building project several years ago the artist, Fritz Horstman was struck by the poetry in the unfinished state of the construction site. He was drawn specifically to the space between the plywood walls that were raised as formworks for the pouring of cement. That space could only exist for a few hours before the cement truck...
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2010s Conceptual Art

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Steel

Jeff, Becker, Privacy Policy animation, 2016, Other Medium
Located in Darien, CT
Using his inkjet printer as a paintbrush, Jeff Becker creates watercolor-like imagery without Photoshop or filters. He refers to this process of dynamic chemical processes as The Slu...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

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Other Medium

Jeff Becker, Privey Policy, 2016, Archival Pigment Print
Located in Darien, CT
Using his inkjet printer as a paintbrush, Jeff Becker creates watercolor-like imagery without Photoshop or filters. He refers to this process of dynamic chemical processes as The Slu...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

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Archival Pigment

Jeff Becker, Slurry Pentagon, 2016, Inkjet Print
Located in Darien, CT
Using his inkjet printer as a paintbrush, Jeff Becker creates watercolor-like imagery without Photoshop or filters. He refers to this process of dynamic chemical processes as The Sl...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

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Inkjet

Jeff Becker, Flag Privacy, 2016, Archival Paper, Inkjet Paper
Located in Darien, CT
Using his inkjet printer as a paintbrush, Jeff Becker creates watercolor-like imagery without Photoshop or filters. He refers to this process of dynamic chemical processes as The Sl...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

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Archival Paper, Inkjet

Peoples Privacy
Located in Darien, CT
Using his inkjet printer as a paintbrush, Jeff Becker creates watercolor-like imagery without Photoshop or filters. He refers to this process of dynamic chemical processes as The Sl...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

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Archival Paper, Inkjet

Lourdes Rivera, Retrospect 3, 2015, Plexiglass, Wood, Oil Paint
Located in Darien, CT
Lourdes Rivera was born in New York City in 1989, where she currently lives and works. She is a first generation Dominican-American. Lourdes considers herself bi-cultural, but unco...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

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Plexiglass, Wood, Oil

Lourdes Rivera, Retrospect 11, 2015, Fabric, Plexiglass, Wood, Oil Paint
Located in Darien, CT
Lourdes Rivera was born in New York City in 1989, where she currently lives and works. She is a first generation Dominican-American. Lourdes considers herself bi-cultural, but unco...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

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Fabric, Plexiglass, Wood, Oil

Lourdes Rivera, Retrospect 4, 2015, Plexiglass, Wood, Oil Paint
Located in Darien, CT
Lourdes Rivera was born in New York City in 1989, where she currently lives and works. She is a first generation Dominican-American. Lourdes considers herself bi-cultural, but unco...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

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Plexiglass, Wood, Oil

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

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Brass, Steel

Acrylic on Reclaimed Wood Titled: "Life is a Game"
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Acrylic on reclaimed wood Born in Tallahasee Fl, William started his artistic career as a color consultant for his family's Design and Painting company that took on constant projects of custom painted interiors and decorating. This work of 20 yrs lead him to his fascination with textiles and paint, along with custom furniture. After creating and selling dozens of unique pieces of furniture, here began his transition from wall, to wood on furniture, to canvas. Painting on canvas was the culmination of his creative outlet. William feels that his lack of formal training in Fine Art has afforded him a freedom to paint what he envisions and feels, rather than conform to specific style or genre that he feels is limiting Inspired by hard edge abstraction and color field art such as Kenneth Noland, Joseph Albers, Gene Davis, Frank Stella, Anne Truitt, Imi knobel.William is showing his work locally and nationally and being collected in Palm Beach Island, Washington and New York. Gallery Representation DTR Modern Galleries 440 S. County, Palm Beach FL 33480 DTR Modern Galleries Boston NoSo Fine Art, 3716 S. Dixie Hwy West Palm Beach Fl 33405 Gary Rubinstein...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

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Acrylic

Linda Cunningham, 'Still Structures II', 2011, Pastel, Ink
Located in Darien, CT
Unexpected materials, found and manufactured, perch precariously on torn edges and bifurcated sheets of large paper. Here, fluid calligraphic lines are posed against the veracity of ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

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Pastel, Ink

Ina Abuschenko-Matwejewa - "Berlin Buttons" - limited edition fine art prints
Located in Winterswijk, NL
Ina Abuschenko-Matwejewa - "Berlin Buttons". Berlin Buttons series, 6 pieces, price per artwork: Based on the video of the same name produced by Ina Abuschenko-Matwejewa. The occasi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

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Paper

Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 3044
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on silver leaf on paper, with retouching in acrylic and silver ginder & mounted in Japanese silk scroll Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American ar...
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2010s Conceptual Art

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Paper, Mixed Media

Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2824
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on pewter leaf on paper & mounted in Japanese silk scroll Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since ...
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2010s Conceptual Art

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Paper, Mixed Media

Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 1944
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

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Paper, Mixed Media, Inkjet

Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2824
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on pewter leaf on paper, mounted in Japanese silk scroll Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1...
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2010s Conceptual Art

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Paper, Mixed Media

Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 1945
Located in Paris, IDF
Inkjet print of digital photograph on Kakejikuya kozo washi with origami backing paper Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 19...
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2010s Conceptual Art

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Paper, Mixed Media, Inkjet

Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2249
Located in Paris, IDF
Inkjet print of digtial photgraph on Kakejikuya kozo washi with origami backing paper Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 199...
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2010s Conceptual Art

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Paper, Mixed Media, Inkjet

Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 24491
Located in Paris, IDF
Inkjet print of digital photograph on Kakejikuya kozo washi Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. Kojun project started i...
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2010s Conceptual Art

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Paper, Mixed Media, Inkjet

Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2246
Located in Paris, IDF
Inkjet print of digtial photgraph on Kakejikuya kozo washi with origami backing paper Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 199...
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2010s Conceptual Art

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Paper, Mixed Media, Inkjet

Japanese Contemporary Sculpture by Kojun - HKVM72020
Located in Paris, IDF
Matte finish silver leaf over ABS thermoplastic viewer / Washi diffuser with silver gindei wash Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan ...
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2010s Conceptual Art

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Mixed Media

Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2349
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on pewter 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

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Paper, Mixed Media, Inkjet

Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Mujo 2444
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

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Paper, Mixed Media

Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2455
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

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Paper, Mixed Media, Inkjet

Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2252
Located in Paris, IDF
Inkjet print of digital photograph on hemp washi Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. Kojun project started in 2010 expl...
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2010s Conceptual Art

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Paper, Mixed Media, Inkjet

Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2352
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

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Paper, Mixed Media, Inkjet

Japan Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 1941
Located in Paris, IDF
Inkjet print of digital photograph on hemp washi Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. Kojun project started in 2010 expl...
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2010s Conceptual Art

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Paper, Mixed Media, Inkjet

Cecilia Arrospide - COLLAGE III, 2022
Located in Greenwich, CT
Paper Collage My work is mainly abstract, I would say abstract expressionism. I love painting with oils, they give me many possibilities I do no find in other media. When working ...
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2010s Conceptual Art

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Paper

Cecilia Arrospide - COLLAGE X, 2022
Located in Greenwich, CT
Paper Collage My work is mainly abstract, I would say abstract expressionism. I love painting with oils, they give me many possibilities I do no find in other media. When working ...
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2010s Conceptual Art

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Paper

Cecilia Arrospide - UNTITLED II, Collage 2019
Located in Greenwich, CT
Paper Collage Cecilia studied Social Studies and Literature at Universidad Catolica del Peru, Drawing with Cristina Galvez, and Watercolors with Juan Pastorelli. She then worked wit...
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2010s Conceptual Art

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Paper

Cecilia Arrospide - UNTITLLED III, Collage 2019
Located in Greenwich, CT
Paper Collage Cecilia studied Social Studies and Literature at Universidad Catolica del Peru, Drawing with Cristina Galvez, and Watercolors with Juan Pastorelli. She then worked wit...
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2010s Conceptual Art

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Paper

Lawrence Weiner, Wir sind keine Enten auf dem Teich - 1990, Signed Print
Located in Hamburg, DE
Lawrence Weiner (1942-2021) Wir sind keine Enten auf dem Teich, wir sind Schiffe auf dem Meer, 1990 Medium: Screenprint on Bistrol card Dimensions: 35.5 x 70.5 cm (14 x 27.8 in) Edit...
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20th Century Conceptual Art

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Screen

"Verso sera" by Corrado Ferrante, oil on wood, 39x31cm
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...
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2010s Conceptual Art

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Mixed Media, Acrylic, Board, Paper, Wood Panel

Conceptual art for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Conceptual art available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add art created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, orange, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Reinhard Görner, Kojun, Jose Sierra, and xulong zhang. Frequently made by artists working with Paper, and Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Conceptual art, so small editions measuring 1 inches across are also available. Prices for art made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $45 and tops out at $500,000, while the average work sells for $2,465.

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