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Contemporary Art

CONTEMPORARY STYLE

Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.

Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.

The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.

Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.

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Style: Contemporary
Color:  Green
Minimalist Color Field Painting in Dark and Lime Green (C16-2)
Located in Hudson, NY
Acrylic on 3 wood panels Each panel measures 6 x 24 x 2 inches Suggested installation is 1-2 inches between panels, which can be oriented in any direction Overall measurement for pic...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Acrylic, Wood Panel

Spiegel
By Antje Dorn
Located in Kansas City, MO
Mixed media Year: 2009 Signed and dated by hand Size: 23.0 × 16.4 on 28.3 × 20.3 inches COA provided Solo exhibitions (selection) (K)=catalogue (B)=artist book 1992 GO -TO, WMF-Haus/Leipzigerstrasse, Berlin 1995 ÖL,ÖL,ÖL, Croxhapox, Gent, Belgium 1995 COOKIE PARK, Wiens Laden, Berlin (B) 1997 QUIT, Museumsakademie, Berlin (B) 1998 HEAVEN HAS HOLES, Boekie Woekie, Amsterdam, Netherlands 1998 QUALITY STREET, Eine Vitrine, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau (B) 1999 HEAVEN HAS HOLES, Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin 1999 0,0 TOTAL, Museum Folkwang, Essen (B) 2000 0,0 TOTAL, Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin 2001 DOSENZIMMER/BERNSTEINZIMMER (room of cans / room of amber), mit Friederike Feldmann, Galerie Station, Mousonturm, Frankfurt a. M. 2002 MOTORGIRLS, Kunstbank, Berlin 2003 MOTORGIRLS, Galerie Thomas...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Swan lake - Aerial color photography
Located in New York, NY
This aerial photo was not not manipulated or staged and was taken from an airplane. It can also be custom size!!
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Watercolor 7
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: watercolor on Arches paper Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native an...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Elusive Question - Ink and Watercolor Drawing on Paper in Green and Blue Colors
Located in New York, NY
Andrei Petrov's Elusive Question is a 15 x 22 inch abstract ink and watercolor drawing on paper. It is a lyric abstraction in green with accents of blue. This precious drawing stands...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Autumn is coming
Located in New York, NY
This aerial photograph was taken by Klaus Leidorf from an airplane (which he also flies). It was not staged or manipulated and can be custom size.
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Tape, Archival Pigment

Four
Located in New York, NY
This aerial photograph was taken by Klaus Leidorf from an airplane (which he also flies). It was not staged or manipulated and can be custom size.
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Tape, Archival Pigment

Straight Line - aerial landscape photography
Located in New York, NY
This aerial photo was not not manipulated or staged and was taken from an airplane. It can also be custom size!!
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Splinters, Lumens
Located in New Orleans, LA
2017 Acrylic, enamel, pencil, paint pen and collage on panel 20” x 48” Jenny Day is a painter who divides her time between Santa Fe, New Mexico and Tucson, Arizona. She paints a fra...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Enamel

Before breakfast
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor creates evocative single-scene narratives in her whimsical and often elaborate photomontages. Working intuitively, Taylor combines 19th Century photographs, found objec...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

"Expedition 1", expressionist, whimsical, green, oil painting
Located in Natick, MA
The paintings, "Expedition 1" and "Expedition 2" by artist Anita Loomis were conceived as expressionistic interpretations of the hopeful aspirations of people traveling to a new part...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Green Skull Monoprint - Contemporary
Located in New York, NY
This original, museum quality monoprint by renowned print maker Bill Flick features his signature skull design in shades of bright blue and green. Comes signed by the artist. BILL ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Paint, Monoprint

Party, Dan McDermott, Original art, Figurative Painting, Oil on Linen
Located in Deddington, GB
Dan McDermott' painting 'Party' is an original oil painting on linen. This artwork is sold unframed, measuring at Size : H 50 cm x W 70 cm x D 3 cm. Dan McDermott’s dynamic painting...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Linen, Oil

New Suburbia, Hayward (Weed Wacker), from New Suburbia
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 5 Signed, titled, and numbered in black ink on print verso. Series: New Suburbia Bill Owens was born and raised in California. After volunteering in the Peace Corps he pi...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

The Orchard
Located in Sante Fe, NM
GARDENING AT NIGHT is Cig Harvey’s latest body of work, and explores notions of time, family, nature and home. While Harvey’s previous work, You Look at Me Like an Emergency, focused...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

C Print

Dragonfly Pond
Located in Lyons, CO
Color woodcut with pochoir, Edition 30 In all of Morinoue's work there is a compelling sense of place--the ocean shoreline, lava flows and Japanese gardens. He is a patient observ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Woodcut

Hatton Garden Snooker Club, London, UK
Located in New York, NY
24 x 19.25 inch digital chromogenic print Edition 15 + 3 AP Signed, titled, dated and editioned on frame label provided Neal Slavin, a native New Yorker, began photographing gro...
Category

1980s Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital

Horses, East Hampton
Located in Miami, FL
Signature: Signed , dated lower right, Edition 2 /15 Printed later, unframed, other size available Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Photographic Film

Cloth, string and Kite #5- Large abstract landscape green water landscape photo
Located in New York, NY
The photographic series called 'Trespassing' explores encounters between human and nature. Human-made objects are placed into a landscape, shot with a long exposure in order to recor...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

C Print

Untitled
Located in New York, NY
The tactile and nature-infused Freedom series extends into the world with densely cut paper compositions. They embody the flow of self-knowledge, and explore the feminine, harmony an...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Wood, Paper, Glue, Foam Board, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Linked (green and black)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Jeremy Scott (Smiley Face)" - Abstract Fashion Photography - Winogrand
Located in Atlanta, GA
Landon Nordeman is inspired by the work of Garry Winogrand and William Eggleston. Described by New York Magazine's The Cut as their "backstage photographer extraordinaire," Nordeman...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Like Ice in the Sunshine No. 08
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print, framed to 34.5 x 34.5 inches Signed, titled, dated and editioned on label verso. In the latest series by Simone Rosenbauer, entitled Like Ice in the Sunshine...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

In The Green
Located in Berkeley, CA
Chris Brown In The Green Color soapground and spitbite aquatints with softground. Edition of 20
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Etching

Green Line
Located in New York, NY
Klaus Leidorf was born on June 5th 1956 in Bonn (Germany. After a few years working as research assistant at the University of Marburg and employee at the Bavarian State Office for t...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

C Print, Plexiglass

The Bird's Nest
Located in Sante Fe, NM
GARDENING AT NIGHT is Cig Harvey’s latest body of work, and explores notions of time, family, nature and home. While Harvey’s previous work, You Look at Me Like an Emergency, focused on defining Home, GARDENING AT NIGHT celebrates the growth and discovery of building a life once you’ve arrived. Far from literal and linear, Harvey crafts...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

C Print

Lizard Cup
Located in Morton Grove, IL
silkscreen
Category

20th Century Contemporary Art

Materials

Screen

Beatles 27
Located in New York, NY
30"x40" edition 5, signed on the reverse This photograph was taken in India at the Ashram where the Beatles stayed and wrote many famous songs. The abstract composition in aqua an...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

No Sugar to Melt
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

On the Threshold
Located in Palm Desert, CA
An oil and alkyd on canvas depicted in abstracted geometric shapes of glossy black, yellow green and yellow red by David Row. Signed verso, "#400, 1996, Oil/Alkyd/Canvas, an arrow up...
Category

1990s Contemporary Art

Materials

Alkyd, Canvas, Oil

Would
Located in New York, NY
Exhibiting internationally since the early 1990s, Suzanne McClelland’s practice includes both large-scale paintings and works on paper, often extracting fragments of speech or text f...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Etching, Woodcut

Art Visions #2
Located in Dallas, TX
Gail Norfleet earned her BFA at The University of Texas at Austin, and her MFA at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Among others, she has had solo exhibitions in Dallas at The...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Glass

Simulation III
Located in New Orleans, LA
Bonnie Maygarden is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University in 2014. The destruction of Hurricane Katrina caused her to take leave of New Orlea...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Forward
Located in New Orleans, LA
After: “Getting Ready to Leave” by Chesley Bonestell (c. 1954) With Forward, I wanted an image with the clearest spatial hierarchy – back, middle, a...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Panel, Acrylic

Queen Anne's Lace
Located in New York, NY
Pair / Couple / Nature / Flowers / Family / Oil on canvas
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Link
Located in New Orleans, LA
Bonnie Maygarden is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University in 2014. The destruction of Hurricane Katrina caused her to take leave of New Orlea...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

"English Meadow- Adlington, U.K."
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing. Edition 1 of 25. If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is p...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

"Well Done", 2006
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing. Edition 1 of 25. If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is p...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

"Bolesworth Estate", 2006 Chester, UK
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing. Edition 1 of 25. If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is p...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Vertical Motif #8
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
American modern master David Hayes created graceful sculptures abstracted from organic forms over an artistic career that spanned six decades. His monumental outdoor sculptures conte...
Category

1970s Contemporary Art

Materials

Steel

Green photograph of Northern Lights by Anna Dobrovolskaya-Mints
Located in London, GB
This stunning artwork is part of the Zero F*cks Given project, which was showcased at the Photobastei gallery in Zurich, Switzerland in 2019. It is expertly printed in large format a...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Against Apartheid
Located in Köln, DE
This work by Arman from 1983 is part of the portfolio "Against Apartheid". In this year, many renowned artists decided to create a portfolio of printmaking works to set a sign against the Apartheid. There was also a touring exhibition. The complete project was supported by the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid. Please scroll through our seller storefront...
Category

1980s Contemporary Art

Materials

Lithograph

Green Boobs with Magenta Nipples Watercolor on Paper 22x30 Green Power
Located in New York, NY
The "ink dispersion " technique I began decades ago has evolved from abstraction into this figurative imagery. Working quickly while the paint is wet and allowing the water in water...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

Costolato Vase Light Green
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Murano Glass Costolato Vase Light Green, circa 1930 Blown glass 13.25 x 6.25 x 6.25 in
Category

1930s Contemporary Art

Materials

Glass

Green Shore
Located in New York, NY
After receiving his first camera at the age of 8 years old, self-taught photographer Antoine Rose developed an eye for the medium through his travels and time spent taking photos of ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Plexiglass, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Photographic Paper

Study for Landscape
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
David Hayes (1931 - 2013) Study for Landscape, 2001 Gouache on paper 22.25 x 30 in
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Gouache

Homage to Degas
Located in New York, NY
Created by Alex Katz in 2020, Homage to Degas is an archival pigment print on Innova Etching Cotton Rag paper. Hand-signed in pencil and numbered, the ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Spring Thistle (4/5)
Located in Nashville, TN
Reduction Method Screen Printing, or “old-school,” means using methods from the early 1900s, before photographic stencils were invented, when every part of the process was done by ha...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Screen

Honest to goodness, souvenir
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Ceramic, maple
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Ceramic

St. Barts
Located in Miami, FL
Carole Feuerman's prints are an extension of her fascination with swimming and water. This piece feature clusters of swimsuits, free of their practical use and presented as objects t...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Giclée

Balance
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Sergio Valenzuela “Valenz” is a contemporary Guatemalan artist who tells stories with everyday objects, primarily expressing them with graphite and acrylic on canvas. His artworks pr...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Graphite

Die Unterhändler_in (White Flag)
By Sebastian Maas
Located in München, BY
Sebastian Maas Die Unterhändler_in (White Flag), 2022 Oil on truck tarpaulin 190 x 270 cm (74 3/4 x 110 1/4 in) Collage-like, Sebastian Maas takes concret...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil

"GEMELOS", MesoAmerican, Mexico, myth, gods, twins, Aztec, Mayan, dream, statue
Located in Toronto, Ontario
GEMELOS, an oil painting on canvas by Anna Ortiz, measures 48" high x 40" wide. Gemelos is recent work and characteristic of the artist's practice – the pal...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Central Park 2
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Central Park
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Iman - the supermodel in boots naked in front of a green background
Located in Vienna, AT
Iman by Michel Comte a great artwork wich portraits the supermodel in front of a green background with a cigarette in her mouth. Other sizes and high-end frame on request. For dec...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Green Apple
Located in New York City, NY
20" x 16" on a 24" x 20" paper Edition of 30 40" x 32" on a 48" x 40" paper Edition of 5 Signed and editioned in pencil on recto. Titled and dated in pencil on verso Mounted and F...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

"Untitled, " Acrylic and Paper Collage on Canvas
Located in Houston, TX
This work was one of Long’s earliest compositions as an artist. Even earlier in his artistic career, Long was interested in exploring the intersection of various media, branching out into new innovative spaces. This work demonstrates the technique and forms at play that have since germinated into Long’s signature style. Bert L. Long Jr., was self-taught artist, was born in 1940 in Texas, grew up the Houston’s historic Fifth Ward and received his formal education from UCLA. Following a career as a successful master chef, Long decided to devote himself entirely to art in the late 1970’s. He began to explore folk art and assemblage to create a unique body of work, attracting the attention of Jim Harithas, then Director of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and artists John Alexander, Salvatore Scarpitta and James Surls. His life spanned an era of radical change in the American social climate, the influence of which can be seen clearly in his work. Long’s paintings and sculptures incorporate a high level of skill and sophisticated knowledge of art history, along with complex philosophical and social issues.  Long describes the philosophy behind his work as "a quest to help people diagnose their inner self," believing his art to be "the vehicle to help facilitate the process." “As artists we have the obligation to provide the world with art which communicates as truth. I believe that art has the power to heal our souls of their afflictions. I try to create art which helps to diagnose the prevalent conditions within our societies, hopefully providing an insightfulness which will help us all become brothers and sisters united in equality and compassion”                                       - Bert L. Long, Jr. The late Peter Marzio, former Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, said of Bert Long during the major retrospective of Long’s work at the museum: “Bert Long does not avert his gaze from that which is painful, but as [his artworks] testify, he also brings a spirit of joy and redemption to his art. We can all learn from this great artist.” Over Long’s 33-year career as a painter, sculptor, and photographer, he had several solo exhibitions at respected museums and was awarded many significant awards including the National Endowment for the Arts Grant in 1987 and the prestigious international Prix de Rome fellowship in 1990. Other notable awards of Long’s include the Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts Artist of the Year Award in 2009, the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Emergency Assistance Grant in 1997, the Houston Art League Texas Artist of the Year in 1990, the NEA Visual Artists Fellowship Grant, 1987 and the Bemis Foundation Residency in 1998. His work can be seen in over 100 private and public collections worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Houston Museum of Fine Art, the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, the El Paso Museum of Art, and the Instituto de Bachillerato in Spain. With a recent solo exhibition at the Houston Museum of African American Culture and an exhibition overseas which is pending featuring his work, plus interest from several national museums, Bert L. Long Jr. continues to be recognized as an important African American artist throughout Texas, nationally and internationally. Bert L. Long, Jr. "Untitled" 1978 Acrylic and Paper Collage on Canvas...
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1970s Contemporary Art

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Voyage Pittoresque #1 - Ruud van Empel (Colour Photography)
Located in London, GB
Voyage Pittoresque #1 - Ruud van Empel (Colour Photography) Signed and numbered on label on reverse Archival pigment print 30 3/4 x 55 inches, edition of 7 + 2 APs 43 1/4 x 86 1/2 i...
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2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Contemporary art for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Contemporary 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 Stefanie Schneider, Tyler Shields, Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde, and Richard Heeps. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Paper and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Contemporary art, so small editions measuring 0.02 inches across are also available.

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