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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
Primary Vermeer, Lithograph by George Deem
Primary Vermeer, Lithograph by George Deem

Primary Vermeer, Lithograph by George Deem

By George Deem

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: George Deem Title: Primary Vermeer Year: circa 1979 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 300, AP 40 Image Size: 19 x 17 inches Paper Size: 25.5 in. x 2...

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1970s Conceptual Art

Materials

Lithograph

Sienna Vermeer, Pop Art Lithograph by George Deem
Sienna Vermeer, Pop Art Lithograph by George Deem

Sienna Vermeer, Pop Art Lithograph by George Deem

By George Deem

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: George Deem Title: Sienna Vermeer Year: 1978 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 300, AP 40 Image Size: 19 x 21 inches Paper Size: 22 in. x 30 in. (55...

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1970s Conceptual Art

Materials

Lithograph

Cosmic Gal -  Figurative Painting- Spacescape Art By Marc Zimmerman
Cosmic Gal -  Figurative Painting- Spacescape Art By Marc Zimmerman

Cosmic Gal - Figurative Painting- Spacescape Art By Marc Zimmerman

Located in Carmel, CA

The Goddess creates from within her own creative imagination .Universes appear as her mudra engenders planets and stars. Cosmic Gal - Figurative Painting- Spacescape Art By Marc Zi...

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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Oil

Glastonbury from Wessex, Conceptual Etching by Joe Tilson
Glastonbury from Wessex, Conceptual Etching by Joe Tilson

Glastonbury from Wessex, Conceptual Etching by Joe Tilson

By Joe Tilson

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Joe Tilson, British (1928 - ) Title: Glastonbury from Wessex Portfolio Year: 1977 Medium: Etching, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: XXV Size: 19.5 x 13.75 in. (49.53 x ...

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1970s Conceptual Art

Materials

Etching

"Stretcher" Etching by Malcolm Morley

"Stretcher" Etching by Malcolm Morley

By Malcolm Morley

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Malcolm Morley, British (1931 - 2018) Title: Stretcher Year: circa 1980 Medium: Etching, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 100 Image Size: 18 x 23.5 inches Size: 22.5 in...

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1980s Conceptual Art

Materials

Etching

Memories VI
Memories VI

Memories VI

By Liana Vassalou

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Liana Vassalou, Greek (1948 - ) Title: Memories VI Year: 1979 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed Size: 56 in. x 48 in. (142.24 cm x 121.92 cm) Frame Size: 56.5 x 48.5 inches

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1970s Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

It Happened II
It Happened II

It Happened II

By Liana Vassalou

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Liana Vassalou, Greek (1948 - ) Title: It Happened II Year: 1979 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed Size: 56 in. x 48 in. (142.24 cm x 121.92 cm) Frame S...

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1970s Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Memories VII
Memories VII

Memories VII

By Liana Vassalou

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Liana Vassalou, Greek (1948 - ) Title: Memories VII Year: 1979 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed Size: 56 in. x 48 in. (142.24 cm x 121.92 cm) Frame Size: 56.5 x 48.5 inches

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1970s Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

A walk in the village. Oil on cardboard, 45x45 cm
A walk in the village. Oil on cardboard, 45x45 cm

A walk in the village. Oil on cardboard, 45x45 cm

By Victor Karnauh

Located in Riga, LV

A walk in the village Oil on cardboard, 45x45 cm Victor Karnauh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painter, a monument designer...

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1990s Conceptual Art

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

Still life. Oil on canvas, 60x80 cm
Still life. Oil on canvas, 60x80 cm

Still life. Oil on canvas, 60x80 cm

By Victor Karnauh

Located in Riga, LV

Still life Oil on canvas, 60x80 cm Victor Karnaukh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painter, a monument designer, graduate of...

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1990s Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Wake Up Man from Bullet Space, Your House is Mine - Screenprint by Eric Drooker

Wake Up Man from Bullet Space, Your House is Mine - Screenprint by Eric Drooker

By Eric Drooker

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Eric Drooker, American (1958 - ) Title: Wake Up Man from Bullet Space, Your House is Mine Year: 1988-1992 Medium: Silkscreen, signed in pencil Edition: 126/150 Size: 23...

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1980s Conceptual Art

Materials

Screen

Vessel: Pierced III, Unique Wall and Table Art Sculpture by Sylvia Seventy
Vessel: Pierced III, Unique Wall and Table Art Sculpture by Sylvia Seventy

Vessel: Pierced III, Unique Wall and Table Art Sculpture by Sylvia Seventy

By Sylvia Seventy

Located in Long Island City, NY

This mixed media sculpture by Sylvia Seventy, from 1986, is a conceptual work in neutral tones. Materials include handmade paper, Apple Wood, Willow, Paint, Oil Pastel, Wax, Cotton ...

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1980s Conceptual Art

Materials

Cotton, Handmade Paper, Oil Pastel, Paint, Wood

Diversity (Yellow)

Diversity (Yellow)

By Oleg Lobykin

Located in Napa, CA

Oleg Lobykin (Russian, b. 1966) is a sculptor. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Lobykin now resides in Silicon Valley and also specializes in the restoration of landmark architecture ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Fiberglass

#5

#5

By Nadine Saacks

Located in New York, NY

Photojournalist portrait of vanishing Surma tribe. Printed on canvas. Shot in July 2018, over a month in Ethiopia. "I wanted to photograph lost tribes because there are not m...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Archival Pigment

Birds, Cibachrome Photograph Print, Signed Conceptual Art
Birds, Cibachrome Photograph Print, Signed Conceptual Art

Birds, Cibachrome Photograph Print, Signed Conceptual Art

By Brenda Zlamany

Located in Surfside, FL

This is a proof print. signed and marked bat (for bon a tirer or good to print) This is a single print from 1998 Birds. Suite of eight Cibachromes. Edition of fifteen. 10″ × 10″ (sheet size). Muse [X] Editions. Taxidermy Bird. Brenda Zlamany has shown widely in the United States and Europe. Her work has been reproduced in The New York Times Magazine, Artforum, Flashart, Art in America, Art and Antiques, and The New Yorker. She was born in New York City in 1959. 1976 - 77 Yale College Before College Program, New Haven, Conn. 1981 Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. (BA) Stanley William Hayter s Atelier 17, Paris. Tyler School of Art, Rome. 1984 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine. Select Museums: Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei; the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution; the National Museum, Gdansk; Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent. Select Collections: Cincinnati Art Museum; Deutsche Bank; the Museum of Modern Art, Houston; the Neuberger Museum of Art; the Virginia Museum of Fine Art; the World Bank; the Yale University Art Gallery. Select Commissions the World Bank, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center the New York Times Magazine (Marian Anderson for an article by Jessye Norman, Osama bin Laden for the September 11, 2005, cover, Jeffrey Dahmer) Select Grants and Awards: Fulbright Fellowship (2011), Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant (2006–07), New York Foundation for the Arts Artists’ Fellowship in Painting (1994). MacDowell Colony (1995, 1992, 1986) Yaddo (1997). For many years, Brenda Zlamany has painted portraits of other artists, including Chuck Close, Alex Katz, and David Hockney. She has also been a subject for them; as she puts it, “we are professional posers.” Recently, however, she has worked to paint portraits of those whose gaze is more internal—monks and nomads in Tibet, aboriginal people in Taiwan—creating large bodies of portraits that investigate the limits of the genre. She returned, with her daughter, to Hockney’s studio in 2014, not only to sit for him but to paint him once again. Her practice involves the long sittings and intense looking required of traditional portrait-making. Muse X Editions. An (now defunct) LA based innovative publisher of limited-edition prints, Muse X has launched its first group of prints and is just beginning to make itself known to artists, curators, dealers and collectors. Among works just off the press are otherworldly landscapes by Barbara Kasten and Oliver Wasow, a sizzling sunset by Peter Alexander, abstract compositions by Pauline Stella Sanchez and Jennifer Steinkamp...

Category

1990s Conceptual Art

Materials

C Print

Birds, Cibachrome Photograph Print, Signed Conceptual Art
Birds, Cibachrome Photograph Print, Signed Conceptual Art

Birds, Cibachrome Photograph Print, Signed Conceptual Art

By Brenda Zlamany

Located in Surfside, FL

This is a proof print. signed and marked bat (for bon a tirer or good to print) This is a single print from 1998 Birds. Suite of eight Cibachromes. Edition of fifteen. 10″ × 10″ (sheet size). Muse [X] Editions. Taxidermy Bird. Brenda Zlamany has shown widely in the United States and Europe. Her work has been reproduced in The New York Times Magazine, Artforum, Flashart, Art in America, Art and Antiques, and The New Yorker. She was born in New York City in 1959. 1976 - 77 Yale College Before College Program, New Haven, Conn. 1981 Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. (BA) Stanley William Hayter s Atelier 17, Paris. Tyler School of Art, Rome. 1984 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine. Select Museums: Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei; the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution; the National Museum, Gdansk; Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent. Select Collections: Cincinnati Art Museum; Deutsche Bank; the Museum of Modern Art, Houston; the Neuberger Museum of Art; the Virginia Museum of Fine Art; the World Bank; the Yale University Art Gallery. Select Commissions the World Bank, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center the New York Times Magazine (Marian Anderson for an article by Jessye Norman, Osama bin Laden for the September 11, 2005, cover, Jeffrey Dahmer) Select Grants and Awards: Fulbright Fellowship (2011), Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant (2006–07), New York Foundation for the Arts Artists’ Fellowship in Painting (1994). MacDowell Colony (1995, 1992, 1986) Yaddo (1997). For many years, Brenda Zlamany has painted portraits of other artists, including Chuck Close, Alex Katz, and David Hockney. She has also been a subject for them; as she puts it, “we are professional posers.” Recently, however, she has worked to paint portraits of those whose gaze is more internal—monks and nomads in Tibet, aboriginal people in Taiwan—creating large bodies of portraits that investigate the limits of the genre. She returned, with her daughter, to Hockney’s studio in 2014, not only to sit for him but to paint him once again. Her practice involves the long sittings and intense looking required of traditional portrait-making. Muse X Editions. An (now defunct) LA based innovative publisher of limited-edition prints, Muse X has launched its first group of prints and is just beginning to make itself known to artists, curators, dealers and collectors. Among works just off the press are otherworldly landscapes by Barbara Kasten and Oliver Wasow...

Category

1990s Conceptual Art

Materials

C Print

Birds, Cibachrome Photograph Print, NFS Sample Conceptual Taxidermy Art
Birds, Cibachrome Photograph Print, NFS Sample Conceptual Taxidermy Art

Birds, Cibachrome Photograph Print, NFS Sample Conceptual Taxidermy Art

By Brenda Zlamany

Located in Surfside, FL

This is a proof print. Stamped with the Muse X stamp and marked NFS. This is a single print from 1998 Birds. Suite of eight Cibachromes. Edition of fifteen. 10″ × 10″ (sheet size). Muse [X] Editions. Taxidermy Bird. Brenda Zlamany has shown widely in the United States and Europe. Her work has been reproduced in The New York Times Magazine, Artforum, Flashart, Art in America, Art and Antiques, and The New Yorker. She was born in New York City in 1959. 1976 - 77 Yale College Before College Program, New Haven, Conn. 1981 Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. (BA) Stanley William Hayter s Atelier 17, Paris. Tyler School of Art, Rome. 1984 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine. Select Museums: Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei; the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution; the National Museum, Gdansk; Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent. Select Collections: Cincinnati Art Museum; Deutsche Bank; the Museum of Modern Art, Houston; the Neuberger Museum of Art; the Virginia Museum of Fine Art; the World Bank; the Yale University Art Gallery. Select Commissions the World Bank, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center the New York Times Magazine (Marian Anderson for an article by Jessye Norman, Osama bin Laden for the September 11, 2005, cover, Jeffrey Dahmer) Select Grants and Awards: Fulbright Fellowship (2011), Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant (2006–07), New York Foundation for the Arts Artists’ Fellowship in Painting (1994). MacDowell Colony (1995, 1992, 1986) Yaddo (1997). For many years, Brenda Zlamany has painted portraits of other artists, including Chuck Close, Alex Katz, and David Hockney. She has also been a subject for them; as she puts it, “we are professional posers.” Recently, however, she has worked to paint portraits of those whose gaze is more internal—monks and nomads in Tibet, aboriginal people in Taiwan—creating large bodies of portraits that investigate the limits of the genre. She returned, with her daughter, to Hockney’s studio in 2014, not only to sit for him but to paint him once again. Her practice involves the long sittings and intense looking required of traditional portrait-making. Muse X Editions. An (now defunct) LA based innovative publisher of limited-edition prints, Muse X has launched its first group of prints and is just beginning to make itself known to artists, curators, dealers and collectors. Among works just off the press are otherworldly landscapes by Barbara Kasten and Oliver Wasow...

Category

1990s Conceptual Art

Materials

C Print

Sandwich Tamayo
Sandwich Tamayo

Sandwich Tamayo

By Eduardo Costa

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...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Acrylic

Untitled (double dip)
Untitled (double dip)

Untitled (double dip)

By Roberley Bell

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...

Category

Early 2000s Conceptual Art

Materials

Plastic, Found Objects, Fiberboard

Toccata Und Fugue
Toccata Und Fugue

Toccata Und Fugue

By Jozef Bajus

Located in Buffalo, NY

An original laser cut leather wall sculpture by Jozef Bajus. This piece is comprised of nearly 100 lbs of laser cut industrial black leather. The price includes custom installation...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Metal

Black in Gold series
Black in Gold series

Black in Gold series

By Hillary Waters Fayle

Located in Buffalo, NY

Black in Gold series, 2017 Camellia leaves and hand dyed thread 12 x 12 inches Hillary Waters Fayle is an artist from Elma, New York. Fayle received an MFA in Craft/Material Stud...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Thread, Organic Material

Turn
Turn

Turn

By Lyn Carter

Located in Buffalo, NY

An original conceptual wall sculpture by contemporary Canadian female artist Lyn Carter. "Turn" is an Ink and charcoal drawing digitally printed on synthetic poplin. Lyn Carter w...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Fabric, Digital

Sandía con interior rojo, blanco y negro
Sandía con interior rojo, blanco y negro

Sandía con interior rojo, blanco y negro

By Eduardo Costa

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...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Acrylic

Untitled Mandala
Untitled Mandala

Untitled Mandala

Located in Buffalo, NY

An original salt on paper work by contemporary conceptual artist Jody Hanson. This piece is "Untitled Mandala", 2013, Copper sulfate and Potassium ferricyanide on paper. Artwo...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Copper

Untitled, MT Inv. No 3-8-236 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography

Untitled, MT Inv. No 3-8-236 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography

By Miroslav Tichy

Located in Zurich, CH

Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic) Untitled, MT Inv. No 3-8-236 Unknown, ca. 1970-1990 Silver Gelatin Print Sheet 16,8 x 11,8 cm (6 5/8 x 4 5/8 in.) Unique Print only Tichý, practically reinventing photography from scratch, reconstitutes pictorialism along with it, and not as a distortion of the medium but as something like its essence. What counts for him is not only the image - just one moment in the photographic process - but also the chemical activity of the materials, which is never entirely stable or complete, and the delimitation of the results via cropping and framing. Marginal and exceptionally voyeuristic, in his methods Tichý could be described as an “art brut photographer” yet he is also marked by classical influences. Though his images are produced with poor-quality equipment and carelessly shot, they offer an idiosyncratic and almost hallucinatory vision of a fantastical, eroticised reality. With his endless return to the same subject and the volume and regularity of his production, Tichý’s work draws many parallels to certain practices of conceptual art during the same period. – Art, Black and White...

Category

Late 20th Century Conceptual Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Conceptual art for sale on 1stDibs.

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