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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
Sleeping Beauty, Old National Gallery, Berlin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
80 x 60 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 93.2 x 70 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Reinhard Görner, with his large format photographs orchestrates the monument...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Lambda

Sound in Grey
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Sound in Grey" Graffiti & Line series 2017 acrylic on canvas 60X44" Signed, dated and titled on the reverse side. Robert Petrick's paintings create a link between the street cul...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Acrylic

WILD MADDER (plate)
Located in New York, NY
BETH LIPMAN WILD MADDER (plate), 2021 glass, permanent photographic transfer 1 x 6 7/8 in. etched "BL 2021" on back
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Glass

Xólotl en la caverna
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
An innate and atypical landscape artist, Eric Pérez is an intellectual who paints. He knows and loves Mexican and world history, from which he derives his contemporary context. His p...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Hide
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Hide, 2015 12” X 9” Oil on found wine box $1400 unframed A painter, sculptor, and installation artist, Niki Singleton draws on both popular culture and mythology in order to cr...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Oil, Paper

Glory
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Glory, 2015 12” X 9" Oil on paper Framed A painter, sculptor, and installation artist, Niki Singleton draws on both popular culture and mythology in order to create works that...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Oil, Paper

Wustteller (plate)
Located in New York, NY
Edition of 245 published by Buchholz + Schipper Koln
Category

1990s Conceptual Art

Materials

Porcelain

THIS COULD BE A JUNGLE A MILLION YEARS AGO
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Edition of 10 C-Print 17.875 x 17.875 Framed in natural wood Michelle Buhler has a BFA from the University of Utah. She has studied photography at the International Center of Photography and cinematography at New York University. She currently lives in Idaho. Education: New York University, Cinematography, New York, New York, 2011 International Center of Photography, Advanced Color Photorgraphy with Liz Deschenes, New York City, 2007 University of Utah, BFA Photography, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2003 Articles and Awards 2012 Honorable Mention in the 2012 First Edition of Hey Hot Shot, Jen Bekman Gallery, NYC 2012 The Stone Mind, Open House: Art on Iowa by Justin Roth 2003 Red Magazine...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

C Print

Stairway to Heaven, Lello Bookshop, Portugal
Located in Los Angeles, CA
50 x 46.3 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 60 x 55.6 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 70 x 64.8 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Reinhard Görner, with his large format p...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Lambda

Colored Columns III: Neue Museum, Berlin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
New Museum, Berlin 3 sizes 62.5 x 50 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 75 x 60 inches ed. of 5 $9,000 87.5 x 70 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso An active arch...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Lambda

Contemporary Conceptual Collage, "Drunken Style Palm Tree"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a conceptual paper collage by local San Diego artist, Perry Vàsquez. Its dimensions are 21" x 52". It comes framed. A certificate of authenticity will follow delivery. The artist has used paper cutouts to depict a palm tree. The colors used here are black and whites. The artist carefully arranges paper to create something recognizable to the viewer. Vàsquez focuses primarily on his exploration of various iterations of palm trees. Ubiquitous in Southern California, and historically viewed as a provider of nourishment, shelter, and bounty, the trees in Vásquez’s paintings are instead framed in peculiar or dire scenarios. Many of the trees in his work are ablaze, or are actually cell towers...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Paper

Prelude to 220, or 110 - A Shocking Performance Art
By Chris Burden
Located in Miami, FL
An artist who puts his life on the line for his art. Chris Burden was at the forefront of the conceptual art movement in the early 1970s. Prelude to 220, or 110 is one of his most important works where the artist puts his life on the line for his art. Burden voluntarily lays on his back. His neck and wists are have copper bands that bolt him to the floor. To his immediate left and right are two buckets of water with a 110-volt line inside. If the buckets were compromised in any way by a passerby or an unexpected event - Burden would have been electrocuted in a literal shocking performance. Art history is replete with artists who put themselves in harm's way to accomplish their art. Michelangelo risked a misstep to a certain death as he elevated himself over 60 feet to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Francisco Goya's "The Disasters of War" may have put him at odds with a governing orthodoxy. Picasso walked a very narrow line with during the Nazi occupation. Gutzon Borglum dangled himself off the face of Mount Rushmore and War Photographer Robert Capa, landed on Omaha Beach during D-Day. But it was Chris Burden whose art spotlighted...
Category

1970s Conceptual Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Untitled, MT Inv. No. 11-1-170 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic) Untitled, MT Inv. No. 11-1-170 Unknown, ca. 1970-1990 Silver Gelatin Print Sheet 19,2 x 11,6 cm (7 1/2 x 4 5/8 in.) Unique Print only Tichý...
Category

Late 20th Century Conceptual Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Surrender Your Fantasies For Something Better
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original conceptual sculpture by Kevin Kegler. This work is currently featured in the artist's solo exhibition inside The Corridors Gallery at Hotel Henry.
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Copper

Precarious
Located in New York, NY
Conceptual piece. Commentary on life. Humorous but impactful. Acrylic on canvas. About the artist: Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, Stephen Hall moved to New York in 1978 and began...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

AIDS
Located in Toronto, Ontario
In 1967, General Idea was founded in Toronto by AA Bronson (b. 1946), Felix Partz (1945-1994), and Jorge Zontal (1944-1994). Over the course of 25 years, they made a significant cont...
Category

1980s Conceptual Art

Materials

Screen

Abandoned Potential - (Pigment rendering of artist's digital rendering)
Located in New York, NY
Digital Art created by the artist - (pigment rendering of Chad's digital rendering) Love theme. Blue hue. 2 masks kissing. 2 elephants in the backgroun...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Metal

Source 6
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...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Wood, Wax, Carbon Pencil, Inkjet

Source 3
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...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Wood, Wax, Carbon Pencil, Inkjet

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...
Category

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”
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Archival Paper

Still Pretty Though
Located in New York, NY
graphite, flashe, ink and gesso on paper, 22"x30" signed by the artist The text in this painting reads: still pretty though, painted in stark capital letters faded into the backgroun...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Gesso, Ink, Graphite

SEARCHING FOR A PORTAL - Twilight Living Chromogenic Print, Black, White
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
This C-Print by Sarah Hobbs is part of a series included in her show "Twilight Living," at Channel to Channel. In this photograph, an electric box with several protruding wires is ce...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

C Print

Jackie Chavez
Located in Denton, TX
Signed, titled, and dated. Gelatin silver print 20 x 16 in.
Category

Early 2000s Conceptual Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Ash Reliquary
Located in Cuernavaca, Morelos
3 Metal Tool Boxes, Lead and Relevant Debris
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Metal

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...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Acrylic

Shaping the Essence, Aluminum Sculpture
Located in Brooklyn, NY
JORGE WELLESELEY "Shaping the Essence", 2019 Aluminum, concrete, LED 13.25 x 10 x 10 in Ed: 1/3 + 1AP Jorge Wellesley (Havana, 1979) Cuban-born artist based in Guttenberg, New Je...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Concrete, Metal

Christo's Wrapped Monument to Vittorio Emanuele - Installation, Building
Located in Denton, TX
Gelatin Silver Print 22 x 28 in. Edition of 75 Numbered and signed by Christo. Frame included. Black frame: 22 3/8 x 28 3/4 x 1 1/8 in Ugo Mulas is born on August 28, 1928 in Pozzol...
Category

20th Century Conceptual Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Untitled Self-Portrait (Cherie Hiser), from the New Mexico Portfolio
By Cherie Hiser
Located in Denton, TX
Edition of 125 Signed in ink on print margin. Photograph is from The New Mexico Portfolio published in 1976 by the Center of the Eye Photograp...
Category

20th Century Conceptual Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Sing Me A Song
Located in New York, NY
Image of woman empowered. Bright colors. About the Artist: Cabell Molina is a contemporary artist transplanted from California to the east. Where Cabell has proved herself exce...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Linternas
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
An innate and atypical landscape artist, Eric Pérez is an intellectual who paints. He knows and loves Mexican and world history, from which he derives his contemporary context. His p...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Bubble - Circular Contemporary Landscape/Abstract Painting, geometric, blue
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Peña’s works range from painting to multimedia installations that question the ever-changing psychological landscape of America; asking the viewer to re-examine their perceptions of the “American Dream” and the affects that pursuit has on our environment. In "The Buble", Peña takes a more traditional approach to representing a house in the phase of construction with bold and vivid colors and contrasts the image with cut Sintra board slowly pulsating downward from underneath the house. The light blue of the sky contrasts with a deep orange hue for the house. The work is framed with a 1 inch white border. Nick Peña...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

PVC, Acrylic, Watercolor

El sueño de Acteón
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
He refers to the history of art, particularly to pop culture and the social circumstances of its local environment as well as its universal confrontation. Humor and irony with a crit...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Bronze

[Wittgenstein Untitled] -- Screen Print, Glass, Text Art by Joseph Kosuth
Located in London, GB
[Wittgenstein Untitled], 1991 Joseph Kosuth Screenprint on glass in the artist's designated frame Signed and numbered from the edition of 75 on a paper label affixed to the reverse Overall: 29.2 × 54.6 × 4.1 cm (11.5 × 21.5 × 1.6 in) Provenance: The Estate of Ileana Sonnabend...
Category

1990s Conceptual Art

Materials

Glass, Screen

Beatles on Times Square
Located in New York, NY
Homage to Beatles Abbey Road in Times Square. Oil on canvas. Feels like you are in the heart of NYC. Took over 300 hours to paint. About The Artist: D’Avino cultivated his ...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

El Grito De La Gitana, from Corazon Sagrado series by Delilah Montoya, 1993
Located in Denton, TX
This image is a collotype print from Delilah Montoya's series, Corazon Sagrado, and is edition 1/1. It is signed, titled, dated and numbered in pencil on print margin by Delilah Montoya. This collotype print features a woman in a dress dancing in front of a backdrop on a checkered floor...
Category

1990s Conceptual Art

Materials

Other Medium

Illumination, 2018 LED Sculpture
Located in Brooklyn, NY
JORGE WELLESELEY From the series: Subterfuges, ”Illumination”, 2018 Aluminum, LED, plexiglass, PLA, concrete 15.5 x 23.5 x 12 in Ed: 2/3 + 1AP Jorge Wellesley (Havana, 1979) Cuban...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Concrete, Metal

Analogía de la luna
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
#mandala #spiritualart #introspecction #sculpture #nature #landscape #information #outdoors #contemporaryart #clay #sun #energy #moon #female JUANA MARTÍNEZ (Tlalpujajua, Michoac...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Clay, Magazine Paper

Bernar Venet Position of Three Undetermined Lines Charcoal and Collage on Paper
Located in Paris, FR
1984 Unique artwork Charcoal, cardboard, collage on paper Signed, dated and titled lower right Registered under the inventory number bv84d5 at Bernar Venet Studio 70.5 x 113.5 cm   ...
Category

1980s Conceptual Art

Materials

Paper, Charcoal, Cardboard

`Untitled 16`-Shadow Within-wolf nature b/w animal
Located in Oslo, NO
`Shadow Within` Norway/USA 2010-2013 70 cm x 110 cm. (28 in. x 43 in.) Edition 6 + 2 a.p. 100 cm x 150 cm. Edition 3 + 1 a.p. Archival ink cotton paper (archival pigment print)...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Without innocence how can there be wisdom, from Corazon Sagrado series
Located in Denton, TX
Edition 1/1 Signed, titled, dated and numbered in pencil on print margin. Collotype print
Category

1990s Conceptual Art

Materials

Other Medium

Sculpture, Cinder Blocks For my Father
Located in Cuernavaca, Morelos
Ash and lead blocks. Piece made of 3 blocks Exhibited at the International Art Fair, Zona Maco 2019 in Mexico City. Exhibited at Mana Contemporary at Jersey City, New Jersey in 201...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Metal

Blind Date
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Dye-Sublimation print on aluminum
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Metal

Conceptual Drawing: Plot Plan No. 170516
Located in New York, NY
Plot Plan No. 170516 3-Ring Structure for Covert Spectacle With Self-Generating Concealment Mechanisms framed, signature on reverse This ink and watercolor, work on paper is from ...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Luna 1
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
An innate and atypical landscape artist, Eric Pérez is an intellectual who paints. He knows and loves Mexican and world history, from which he derives his contemporary context. His p...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Linen, Oil

Relocation Lasso
Located in New York, NY
Designated Problem Area Relocation Lasso (Plot Plan No. 170520 ) framed, with signature on reverse This ink and watercolor, work on paper is from Patricia Smith's newly released ser...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Renew
Located in New York, NY
Digital Art. Form scooping water. See reflection. Produced on metal with white 2 inch border. About the Artist: Chad is more than just a freelance ...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Metal

Kremlin (Rusia)
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Multidisciplinary artist. Twenty years of artistic experience in the Fine Arts. Eight years of practice as a University professor of Fine Arts. Broad knowledge of design software: Ad...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Canyon Whisper - Other sizes available
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Nature shot. In a canyon. Black and white. About the artist: Mital Patel is an internationally recognized nature and wildlife photographer who focuses on capturing bea...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with work and authenticity certificate
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Metal

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Oil

A Cut Above
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media. Female centric. Featuring Madonna. About the Artist: Cabell Molina is a contemporary artist transplanted from California to the east. Where Cabell has proved hers...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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1980s Conceptual Art

Materials

Lithograph

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
the painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category

1980s Conceptual Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Lithograph

Mixed Media Colorful Animal Watercolor Bunny Painting on Paper
Located in New York, NY
Renelio Marin is a visual artist with a diverse range of influences and styles. Born in Cuba, he received his graduate degree from the San Alejandro School of Fine Arts in Havana in ...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Watercolor, Permanent Marker

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Oil

`Irwin w/ beacon`, 2021 -`In;Human Nature` painting glacier nasa moon
Located in Oslo, NO
Edition of 3. 3 separate pieces make up this installation. 150 cm. x 150 cm. Pigment print mounted on aluminium. Framed in solid oak with museum glass. , `The need for images that can change us. ` – An account of Christian Houges images. “For example, one could say. A people is a “group of rational beings, bound together in agreement about what they love.” The kind of “people” they are, would be determined from what they “have loved.” If we then have a group of rational beings (animals excluded) who are “bound together in an agreement about what they have loved”, then it makes sense to call them a “people”, no matter what they may have loved. And for better or worse, what it is that they have found in common, through better or worse they are considered as a people” – Augustin, De civitate Dei – The City of God. ..............In this context, another series by Christian Houge becomes interesting, because it not only sheds light on the national romanticism and the kind of historical movement it is part of, but also because it provides us with a critical look at how we imagine landscapes, and we are reflected in them, in the historical and social sense. In; In;Human Nature...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Acrylic, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Introspección
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
JUANA MARTÍNEZ (Tlalpujajua, Michoacán, 1953) Lives and works in Tlalpujahua, Michoacán. Juana lives in an isolated cabin in the middle of nowhere, ...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Magazine Paper

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