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

Materials

Paper, Screen

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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Early 2000s 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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Early 2000s Conceptual Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Emergency Broadcast
Located in New York, NY
Figurative piece with a fun, simple narrative. The beauty of the piece lies in its simplicity. On 3/4 canvas.
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil Crayon, Acrylic

Looming Loss
Located in New York, NY
Conceptual and powerful commentary on the oil industry harming our waters and creatures of the sea. Featuring a whale and a bird and can of oil. Acrylic on canvas. About the artis...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Up on Blocks Commission
Located in New York, NY
Nostalgic painting of vintage toy car that has been worked on by a novice mechanic. Oil on canvas with black frame one inch on front, two inches deep. This piece sold but commissio...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Street
Located in New York, NY
Nostalgic painting of vintage toy car with graffiti background. About the Artist: Jim Molloy is a studio and plein air painter. "I like to try...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Sliver Streak
Located in New York, NY
Archival Ink. Photograph. Waves. Produced by Dye Sublimation - which means archival inks infused into aluminum. Ltd Ed of 10. The art can be inside or outside with no visible lo...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Metal

Window
Located in New York, NY
Figurative piece with a fun, simple narrative. The beauty of the piece lies in its simplicity. On 3/4 canvas.
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil Crayon, Acrylic

Chair
Located in New York, NY
Figurative piece with a fun, simple narrative. The beauty of the piece lies in its simplicity. On 3/4 canvas.
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil Crayon, Acrylic

Human Figure: Vince Carter Model
Located in New York, NY
Kobe Bryant portrait in abstract background. About the Artist: Jack Florczyk, known professionally as Jack Flo, is an American contemporary fine artist. Working with acrylic pai...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil Crayon, Acrylic

Canine Fantasy
Located in New York, NY
Original. Part of Candy Wrapper Collage series in Pop Art style. Natural wood frame. Inside a dog's dream. About the Artist: Benjamin received her Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts from the American University in Washington D.C. and her Master’s Degree in Art Education from New York University. In addition she received an Associate’s Degree in Textile Design from the Fashion Institute of Technology and studied at The Art Student’s League, The Parson’s School of Design and The New School. Benjamin taught art for 34 years. While on sabbatical from teaching she studied textile design. For the next 15 years she continued to teach, as well as freelance as a textile designer in both home furnishings and the apparel markets. In the mid 90’s her focus turned towards computer graphics, and as an art educator, she incorporated this into her curriculum. She was awarded for a “successful practice in crossing the digital divide through art and technology” by the United States Department of Education. Her early works were oils and acrylics. During the late 60’s her interest was in pure abstraction. Pop Art and the human figure began to interest her in the early 70’s. Gradually, Benjamin was drawn to experimenting with mixed media. In the 80’s there was the influence of a career in textile design that moved her towards a more decorative style. In the 90’s, she became involved in the teaching of computer graphics. This was to have a profound influence in aiding and developing a more recent “POP” style. She began to incorporate into her paintings, torn pieces of digital printouts of her subjects. “The part of me that is the “digital artist” became very inspired by the use of the computer as a tool with which I could manipulate my subject and its color energy. The “fine artist” in me was then able to incorporate these concepts into a new image on my canvas. Having always had an interest in mixed media, my current work is now a combination of both POP and Collage. Since 2008 I have been creating a body of work dubbed “Candy Wrapper Collage”. A juried show’s theme, “gluttony”, challenged me to ultimately explore my POP figures through a new medium….candy wrappers! Razor blades are my new paintbrushes and candy wrappers are my new paints. Utilizing torn, cut and expired candy wrappers and their packaging, I render my subjects in diverse and colorful forms. I create representational images of celebrities and pop-culture objects...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Mixed Media

End of the Affair #2 - Ltd Ed
Located in New York, NY
Vintage 50's Barbie with vintage accessories and set. Narrative depicts title - the end of the affair. Metallic print produced on metal. Black and white Photography. Ltd Ed.
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Metal

Tree Diva
Located in New York, NY
Photograph of aged tree that is then brought to life through some acrylic touches. Photograph produced by Dye Sublimation - which means archival inks infused into aluminum. Abou...
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2010s Conceptual Art

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Metal

Resist
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media. Female centric. About the Artist: Cabell Molina is a contemporary artist transplanted from California to the east. Where Cabell has proved herself exceptional is ...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Mixed Media

You Are Enough
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media. Round piece. Female centric. Birds as accents. About the Artist: Cabell Molina is a contemporary artist transplanted from California to the east. Where Cabell ...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Andy & Rob
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media on wood featuring the famed Andy Warhol. Photographed by Joester. Images on sides as well. Not framed. About the Artist: Steve Joester is a British-born Rock & ...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Photographic Film, Mixed Media

Commuter
Located in New York, NY
Oil painting. The implied narrative adds to the piece. A glimpse into a child's world, one we all have experienced. Tone is engaging, fun with universal appeal. About the art...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Oh James - 3D
Located in New York, NY
Depiction of a kind of life. About the Artists: Animated through an assemblage of analog, digital, and lenticular photographic technologies, these selections from Reisig and Tayl...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Lenticular

The Walking Spaceman
Located in New York, NY
Homage to the Toys of the past. Oil on canvas. Vibrant colors. Evokes great memories. About The Artist: D’Avino cultivated his life-long interest in Art at the State Univers...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The End of The Affair #1 - Ltd Ed
Located in New York, NY
Vintage 50's Barbie with vintage accessories and set. Narrative depicts title - the end of the affair. Metallic print produced on metal. Black and white Photography. Ltd Ed.
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Metal

DYRE TRAINSPOTTING
Located in New York, NY
Spray enamels, oils, acrylics, authentic spray paint cans, mounted resin molded brick with wood frame created by the artist. A confluence of inspirations from the artist's graffiti artistry. About the Artist Born in Belgium and artistically inclined at an early age, V.P. was executing well-defined pencil sketched portraits of anyone who would sit for him by age 4. The family’s emigration to the United States in 1967 landed the 8 year old in the Fordham section of the Bronx at the height of the psychedelic era and POP ART movement.  The Fordham Road shopping district offered the young budding artist a fount of inspiration in the form of vibrant Rock & Roll, “black-light” posters in the windows of “head-shops” and the elaborately colored wardrobes of the hippies crowding the boulevard. The pivotal shift in V.P.’s artistic expression was fueled in 1968 by the sight of a Peter Max designed billboard.  Armed with magic markers and acrylic paints, V.P. recreated the vibrant designs from Max’s billboard, the music posters in store windows and the paisley patterns of the shirts the “flower children” favored, as well as the names and slogans painted on the walls of the neighborhood.  The early seventies brought with it a wondrous sight passing overhead on the sides of the elevated trains. NYC Subway Graffiti had arrived.  Looking up and seeing the esoteric names intricately rendered in multi colored swirls and strategically placed on the sides of the trains completely enthralled V.P.’s creative and adventurous spirit. Compelled to be a part of this fascinating movement he watched and rode the subways, deciphering the names and studying the “styles” on the steel rolling art gallery. Using his artistic influences and skills with markers, V.P. created his first moniker “SONIC-ACE” and obsessively drew it in colorful flowing letters to develop his own style.   At age 13 he set out to traverse the city, facing dangers and overcoming obstacles to enter an unknown and secretive world in order to join those who inspired him.  By 1974, he would change his moniker to “VICTOR-161” and paint hundreds of train cars and soon be admitted into the world famous graffiti clique “WILD STYLE” - an honor bestowed due to peer recognized artistic and stylistic abilities.  (WILDSTYLE was created/coined by the iconic TRACY-168)  V.P. was a well known and respected “writer” who “pieced” with revered writers of the day, under the aforementioned monikers including aka’s T-BOLT-123, SULFA-ONE, FANTA-ONE, BOND & ACES.  V.P. retired from painting NYC subway trains in 1977 with occasional excursions in 1986,1987,1988,1999 & 1992.  He continuously expanded his artistic pallet, studying Art History & Graphic Design in college while seeking knowledge from masters in chosen fields of art.  His works have shown in independent galleries nationally and are sought after by international collectors, with numerous private commissions. He has been featured in several best selling books and magazines focusing on graffiti art as well as his status of having been a part of the 1970’s “Golden Era” of NYC Subway Graffiti. V.P. works with a variety of mediums including aerosol paints, oils, water color & acrylic paints, often combining mediums as well as blending POP, graffiti and abstract styles of painting onto wood, canvas and metal.  His professional artistic background includes commercial art and design, logo design, silk screening, printmaking, large commissioned public murals, sign painting, pin striping and airbrushing cars, sculpting, metal fabrication, woodcarving and tattooing. Exhibitions:  Fashion Moda (BXNY) Group Show 1980/Fun Gallery (NYC) group show 1981, Beef Gallery, (LA) Group Show 1981, Gallery International (NYC) Group Show 1985, Susan Greco Gallery (NY) Group Show 1990, Shady Side...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Surreal to Conceptual Distortion Color Walls With Montreal Museum Napoleon
Located in New York, NY
Barbara Rosenthal’s Conceptual Photography is a concrete manifestation of complex inner stresses from external realities of all kinds: physical, familial, political, religious, time, space and relentless travel. Rosenthal begins by shooting surreal photographs in a kind of trance-state. She believes that the resultant images, and the Conceptual Distortions created from them, reveal elements of both her particular personality and psychological states, and reach the same in the viewers’ own. In artist’s own words: “I gave myself a camera and promised not to interfere.” During this decade of relentless exhibition and travel, Rosenthal has been shooting several hundred rolls of color and BW 35mm film with analog Olympus OM...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Surreal to Conceptual Distortion Color Walls With Post-hospital Bathtub Photo
Located in New York, NY
Barbara Rosenthal’s Conceptual Photography is a concrete manifestation of complex inner stresses from external realities of all kinds: physical, familial, political, religious, time, space and relentless travel. Rosenthal begins by shooting surreal photographs in a kind of trance-state. She believes that the resultant images, and the Conceptual Distortions created from them, reveal elements of both her particular personality and psychological states, and reach the same in the viewers’ own. In artist’s own words: “I gave myself a camera and promised not to interfere.” During this decade of relentless exhibition and travel, Rosenthal has been shooting several hundred rolls of color and BW 35mm film with analog Olympus OM...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Victory goddess NO4
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

Manhattan Skyscraper Abstract Multiple Exposure, Kali, Abstract Photography
Located in Miami, FL
This trailblazing in-camera multiple exposures of New York buildings with the moon was done in 1972. It's not just an image that pushes the boundaries of visual imagery but it is a t...
Category

1970s Conceptual Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Dwellings 5
Located in New York, NY
This series “Dwellings” is comprised of pieces of mixed media on wood panels. The artist uses wood panels 5 x 5 inches each as base that is painted ei...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Wood, Paper, Acrylic, Permanent Marker, Monoprint

Business Man Rises Above the Manhattan Skyline - Staged Photography
Located in Miami, FL
A two-inch plastic toy figure of a suited man is placed on top of an extended firetruck ladder. The toy truck and man are placed on the roof of a Brooklyn Heights building and positioned directly in front of the lower Manhattan skyline. At the time, it was the very center of of world commerce. The two-inch toy man raises above the tallest and most important buildings , including the recently finished World Trade Center Twin Towers. Clearly, this man is above it all and this photo is more than child's play. The work is signed, numbered 2/15, dated and titled lr. printed later, unframed, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper Robert Funk is a pioneer of toy, doll, miniature, plastic thingies and staged photography. He also photographs his own paintings. Most of his work is done on location. He does not use photoshop to strip in images. He doesn’t take photographs he creates photographs and has works dating from 1973. He was widely published in the 1970's and early 1980's. As an undergrad in painting, he studied with first-generation abstract expressionist Robert Richenburg...
Category

1970s Conceptual Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment

FORT DE SOTO WAVES #36, St Petersburg, Florida 2013
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This large format, color-photograph belongs to Jay Mark Johnson's wave series - the images from which depict the rhythmic cycling and recycling of oceanfront waves as recorded on remote coastlines around the world--in Hawaii, Florida, California, the Caribbean, Great Britain, Australia and South Africa. These artworks belong to the artist’s ongoing inquiry into the possibilities for timeline photography. For this decades-long project Johnson employs an unconventional camera system to produce seamless delineated renderings of familiar events as they occur over time. The results present an altered view of our surroundings. Artworks from Johnson’s timeline series have been exhibited extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe. They can be found in the permanent collections of the Bundestag (German Parliament) in Berlin, the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie at Karlsruhe, the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, the Phoenix Art Museum, the Langen Foundation, Hombroich, Germany, the Peter Klein...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Aluminum

Three Empire State Buildings, 1976
Located in Miami, FL
Late light strikes two metal souvenirs placed on a ledge and set against the midtown skyline. Shot with a 20mm lens with maximum depth of field to rende...
Category

Conceptual Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

The Weight of Man in Olympus
Located in Rye, NY
This sculpture represents the idea of human balance in infinity. The symbol of construction while balancing a feather, symbol of freedom and lightness.
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Plaster, Found Objects, Mixed Media

Solar Eclipse, Acrylic Painting by Jack Goldstein
Located in Long Island City, NY
Solar Eclipse Jack Goldstein, Canadian (1945-2003) Date: 1984 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 72 x 72 inches
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1980s Conceptual Art

Materials

Acrylic

Hub, 310 Union Wharf, 23 Wenlock Road, London, N1 7ST, UK
Located in New York, NY
Hub, London Apartment is from the artist’s ongoing Specimen Series, in which he creates 1:1 fabric replicas of domestic items, including appliances from his previous New York City ap...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Stainless Steel

Terry O'Neill - Roger Moore as James Bond, Photography 1970, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
British actor Roger Moore poses with a gun as James Bond. Publicity shot from 1973, for his first Bond movie: Live and Let Die. It's the only time Bond used ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Loops & Curves Blue/Red
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 1999, this etching and aquatint on white Somerset Textured paper is hand-signed by Sol LeWitt (Hartford, 1928 - New York, 2007) in pencil in the lower right margin and is ...
Category

1990s Conceptual Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

Karl Lagerfeld
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 2015, this color screenprint is hand signed by John Baldessari (National City, 1931- Los Angeles, 2020) in pencil in the lower right margin and is from the edition of 50. ...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Screen

Totem of Unmeasurable Memory, 1995 Assemblage of 7 silver gelatin prints
By Lewis Koch
Located in Surfside, FL
Totem of Unmeasurable Memory, 1995 Assemblage of 7 vintage silver gelatin prints Lewis Koch lives in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. After completing undergradu...
Category

1990s Conceptual Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Ascoltando Il Sole II
Located in Rye, NY
With these pieces Mattia is painting a self-portrait in a unique and creative way without the typical technique of using paint with brush strokes. Mattia starts by creating molds then ice sculptures with color...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Ascoltando Il Sole I
Located in Rye, NY
With these pieces Mattia is painting a self-portrait in a unique and creative way without the typical technique of using paint with brush strokes. Mattia starts by creating molds then ice sculptures with color...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Ascoltando I Fulmini Listening to Lightning Green
Located in Rye, NY
With these pieces Mattia is painting a self-portrait in a unique and creative way without the typical technique of using paint with brush strokes. Mattia starts by creating molds then ice sculptures with color...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Ero Seduto Guardando Il Tramonto - I Was Sitting Watching the Sunset
Located in Rye, NY
With these pieces Mattia is painting a self-portrait in a unique and creative way without the typical technique of using paint with brush strokes. Mattia starts by creating molds then ice sculptures with color...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Io Su Poltrona Pensando Al Lui Me On An Armchair Thinking About Him
Located in Rye, NY
With these pieces Mattia is painting a self-portrait in a unique and creative way without the typical technique of using paint with brush strokes. Mattia starts by creating molds then ice sculptures with color...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Ascoltando I Fulmini Listening to Lightning
Located in Rye, NY
With these pieces Mattia is painting a self-portrait in a unique and creative way without the typical technique of using paint with brush strokes. Mattia starts by creating molds then ice sculptures with color...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Stars and Stripes - SOLD - Commission Available
Located in New York, NY
Pop Art. Mixed Media sketch on paper. Floats on white matte and framed with white frame. A celebration of America via the Flag. Vintage feel. Background from artists vintage ...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

Conceptual Abstract
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media Original with resin finish from world renowned artist with unique, one of a kind style. About the Artist: In his prolific career is a culmination of textbook artistic...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

New Dawn - Digital Art
Located in New York, NY
Digital Art. Female form with city scape. Produced on metal with white 2 inch border. About the Artist: Chad is more than just a freelance artist, he ...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Metal

Spectrum
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media Original with resin finish from world renowned artist with unique, one of a kind style. About the Artist: In his prolific career is a culmination of textbook artistic...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

Long Line - Original by Craig Alan
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media Original with resin finish from world renowned artist with unique, one of a kind style. Homage to apple. Humorous. About the Artist: In his prolific career is a cu...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Resin, Mixed Media

My World
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media Original with resin finish from world renowned artist with unique, one of a kind style. About the Artist: In his prolific career is a culmination of textbook artistic...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Resin, Mixed Media

Life Happens
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media Original with resin finish from world renowned artist with unique, one of a kind style. Homage to the late great Amy Winehouse. About the Artist: In his prolific car...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Resin, Mixed Media

Constructivism - William Wegman (Colour Photography)
Located in London, GB
Signed and numbered on label affixed to reverse of mount Pigment print 44 x 57 1/3 inches Edition of 4 The dogs, bewigged and bedecked with outfits and props, demonstrate a wide ran...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Katherine Jackson, Little Oil Seeing Red, 2020, Glass Wood Steel, Plexi, LED
Located in Darien, CT
There are two Little Oil installations available with 6 sculptures each on top of LED light boxes. Katherine Jackson has been working with glass and light together for many years, Recently, she's been making glass castings of vintage oil cans, and displaying them -- singly, in small groupings, or in vitrines -- on light boxes. So far she has created about 90, each one unique. The series is called Little Oil, alluding to Big Oil, and sometimes Small Oils, as in oil painting. But “oil” can mean many things. It has been a source of light (sometimes from unconscionable sources) since ancient times as well as a source of eternal light in many faith traditions. Set atop lightboxes, where each work glows from within, these pieces can simply seem like vessels of light itself. At times, they appear to me to transcend their relation to oil altogether, appearing anthropomorphic or creaturely, even biological. These days, I think of them as archeological artifacts, relics of a past, oil-based, civilization. Necropolis is a print of a painting inspired by a map of the necropolis where the terra cotta soldiers...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Glass, LED Light, Pigment

Katherine Jackson, Little Oil Seeing Red, 2020, Glass Wood Steel, Plexi, LED
Located in Darien, CT
There are two Little Oil installations available with 6 sculptures each on top of LED light boxes. Two of the oil can sculptures depicted here are sold. Please contact the gallery for specific prices on individual prices and smaller light boxes sold with the sculptures. Prices range from $675 - $2050 including a small lightbox for individual sculptures. Katherine Jackson has been working with glass and light together for many years, Recently, she's been making glass castings of vintage oil cans, and displaying them -- singly, in small groupings, or in vitrines -- on light boxes. So far she has created about 90, each one unique. The series is called Little Oil, alluding to Big Oil, and sometimes Small Oils, as in oil painting. But “oil” can mean many things. It has been a source of light (sometimes from unconscionable sources) since ancient times as well as a source of eternal light in many faith traditions. Set atop lightboxes, where each work glows from within, these pieces can simply seem like vessels of light itself. At times, they appear to me to transcend their relation to oil altogether, appearing anthropomorphic or creaturely, even biological. These days, I think of them as archeological artifacts, relics of a past, oil-based, civilization. Necropolis is a print of a painting inspired by a map of the necropolis where the terra cotta soldiers...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Glass, LED Light, Pigment

'Caresses From Olympus' Mixed Media, Conceptual Life Size, Figurative Sculpture
Located in Rye, NY
With ‘Caresses From Olympus’ Mattia explores the journey that man takes every day to discover himself. In an era where migrants are at the center of humanity this sculpture tries to ...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Plaster, Found Objects, Mixed Media

Living Large
Located in New York, NY
Homages to Mr. Monopoly. Conceptual. Vintage magazines in the background to create the narrative. One of a kind. About the Artist: NELSON DE LA NUEZ is one of the most sough...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Watercolor, Newsprint

Meditation Man
Located in Rye, NY
The "Meditation Man," in his yoga pose, is in total concentration. His plumaged eyes could be interpreted as life's struggles as he continues to maintain his maximum mental focus. ...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Polyurethane

Six Rooms
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION John Baldessari Six Rooms 1993 Suite of 6 color offset lithographs with varnish and handwritten text 21 x 17 1/4 in. each Edition of 150 Pencil signed and numb...
Category

1990s Conceptual Art

Materials

Varnish, Lithograph, Offset

'Close Touching God' Mixed Media Conceptual Wall Sculpture
Located in Rye, NY
Artist Statement: With this sculpture I represented how every day man lives trying to outdo himself, almost in competition with himself and with others, in some cases feeling omnipot...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Acrylic, Ceramic, Wood

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