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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:  Orange
Framed Photography, Landscape Prints, Orange Rock Prints-Strokes of Lava
Located in Delaware , OH
Framed Photography, Landscape Prints, Orange Rock Prints-Strokes of Lava ABOUT THIS PIECE: This art photography piece named "Strokes of Lava" was part of ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Rag Paper, Color

For Sorrow or Inspiration Bandana
Located in Washington , DC, DC
These were a limited timed released where they were only sold for about a month. Would look amazing framed. Comes folded as issued in original envelope. Christina Quarles...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Cotton, Screen

Red Bloom, Botanical Silkscreen Print, Dark Magenta Flower with Green on Yellow
Located in Kent, CT
In this bright botanical work in pulled ink, silkscreen printing and hand-drawn lines on paper, a single dark magenta flower with verdant green leaves and stems is dramatic against a luminous yellow gold background. Signed, titled, dated and numbered on recto. Edition 5/20. Framed in a white washed ash frame with UV glass, 35 x 25.75 inches (unframed), 41.5 x 31.25 inches (framed). Brooklyn-based artist Nancy Blum uses botanical motifs to create images that are universally associated with growth and continuity, aiming to propel comprehension of the connectedness of all beings within the limitless energy operating throughout this world. Blum's large‐scale works on paper, rendered in ink, colored pencil, gouache and graphite, portray a fantastic realm in which flowers own the space. Using a variety of 16th and 17th-century botanical images, from Chinese plum blossoms...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Ink, Archival Paper, Screen

Phil Greenwood, Reeds, Limited edition landscape print
Located in Deddington, GB
Reeds by Phil Greenwood [2021] limited_edition Aquatint Etching Edition number 150 Image size: H:48 cm x W:59.5 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Aquatint

Summer Kiss (Nicosia)
Located in London, GB
Following a BA in Fine Art at Portsmouth, Brian Bartlett was awarded a travel scholarship to the USA, where he gained his Masters Degree at the University of Eastern Illinois. Brian...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Still Life with Spices, Large Colorful Painting by Yankel Ginzburg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Yankel Ginzburg, Khazakhstan-American (1945 - ) Title: Still Life with Spices Year: 2003 Medium: Acrylic on Wood, signed lower right Size: 30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm) Frame...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Acrylic

"Telepathy and Ecstasy" Contemporary Geometric Hard-Edge Abstract Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary abstract painting by local Houston artist Emmanuel Araujo. Currently featured in the show "5 Artists 5 Rooms" at Reeves Art + Design in Houston, TX. Artist Biography: ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Untitled (Impossible Barrel Vault)" Contemporary Architectural Abstract
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary abstract painting by local Houston artist Chris Cascio. Currently featured in the show "5 Artists 5 Rooms" at Reeves Art + Design in Houston,...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Spray Paint, Acrylic

Multicolor Bathing Cap
Located in North Adams, MA
Silkscreen on 2-Ply Museum Board 38 x 30 inches Edition of 20 2014 Carole Feuerman is one of the world’s foremost hyperrealist sculptors. Her resin, bronze and marble sculptures of swimmers and bathers evoke notions of tranquility and serenity. Feuerman’s life-like works are nearly indistinguishable from the subjects that inspire them. Her newest silkscreen edition is a testament to the same sense of realism. Soft and subtle blends of color support the tactile qualities of her bathing caps...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Screen

"Kalinykaliypa" Aboriginal Acrylic Painting by Beyula Putungka Napanangka
By Beyula Putungka Napanangka
Located in London, GB
Beyula Napanangka paints the desert honey Grevillea (spider flower) Dreaming story called Kalinykalinypa, which she inherited from her grandfather. The flower is a bush delicacy for ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

'Halloween Pumpkin' Photorealist Still life painting of an orange pumpkin
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Contemporary Orange Still Life Painting 'Halloween Pumpkin' by Barbara Vanhove. Inspired by the Dutch Masters. Perfect for this years Halloween inter...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

French Contemporary Art by M.-P. Autonne - Where are Hummingbirds ?
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic & ink on wooden panel
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Acrylic, Wood Panel, Ink

Leandro Franco - Lips Trilogy #1
Located in New York City, NY
Leandro Franco Lips Trilogy #1, 2020 (Fashion Photography) 20 x 20 inches 50 x 50cm edition of 13 Archival Pigment Print Signature Label. Signed, titled, numbered and dated by th...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Untited (2018), figurative portrait, female face, street art, geometric pattern
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Untited" (2018), by Brittany Williams, based in the Finger Lakes region of NY state Figurative portrait, female face, profile portraiture, geometri...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Wood Panel, Acrylic

"West Texas Sunset" Peach and Blue Contemporary Abstract Landscape Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Abstract contemporary landscape painting by Texas artist, Nathaniel Sing. This piece features a west Texas building contrasting against a peach and navy bl...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Rome hystorical palace, orange view by oil contemporary italian painter Reggio
Located in Milan, IT
Mario Reggio is a contemporary Roman painter with an extraordinary ability to interpret his hometown in an innovative and metaphysical way. While Mario Reggio’s favorite subject is h...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil

Black Prophet (Marcus Garvey) 3
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Print Offest Ink on Linen Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria Signed on the front side and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Linen, Ink

Inconstancy - Painting by Salvatore Travascio - 2003
Located in Roma, IT
Inconstancy is an original painting realized by the Italian artist Salvatore Travascio in 2003. This is a modular piece, made up of 3 acrylic pain...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Acrylic, Wood Panel

Indian Shining, Acrylic, Ink on Canson Paper by Contemporary Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Kapil Anant - Indian Shining - 8.3 x 11.8 inches - each (unframed size) Acrylic, Ink on Canson Paper, 2021 ( Set of 25 ) Inclusive of shipment in rolled form. Kapil Anant was born...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Paper, Ink, Acrylic

Hallway III (Suburbia) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Photography, Portrait
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Hallway III (Suburbia) - 2004, 20x24cm, Edition of 1/10, digital C-Print based on a Polaroid, Not mounted. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory No. 430.01. This pro...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Orange, Hawkweed, and Montana Agate
Located in Denver, CO
Sarah Winkler is a British born, American contemporary landscape painter who has lived most of her life abroad in countries such as Malawi, Africa and Brunei, Borneo. She has lived in the US since 1989 and has spent over two decades living and working in California and Colorado. She studied Art and Earth Science at William Paterson University and combines both subjects in her landscape and environmental artworks. The artist is best known for her monumentally scaled, color rich, luminous paintings that interpret the geological storied past and eventful present of the formation of the American wilderness landscape. She incorporates ground water, crushed rock and materials from the landscape in her paintings to create moments of connection, exploration and discovery. Winkler has exhibited in solo and group shows nationally in galleries, regional museums and art fairs since 2004. Her work was recently showcased at the LA Art Fair, Art Aspen and the Jackson Hole Art Fine Art Fair. In 2019, Winkler was selected by US Ambassador, John Pommersheim and the curators of the Art in Embassies program to participate in a 3-year International exhibition at the Ambassador’s residence in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Winkler was also invited to exhibit at the Colorado Governor’s Residence in Denver. Her artworks are in many private, public and corporate collections. These include The Phoenician and Mountain Shadows Resort, Paradise Valley, AZ. The Hilton West Palm Beach, FL. The InterContinental St Paul, MN. The Cosmopolitan Hotel of Las Vegas. The Viceroy Aspen. Ritz Carlton, Denver, CO. One Empire Pass, Montage, Deer Valley...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Acrylic, Panel

Pop Flower 46, Bright Orange Mandala, Green, Maroon, Dark Burgundy, Blue Center
Located in Kent, CT
This multicolored drawing has a beautiful, soft mottled texture created with Judge's unique powered pigment technique. Pop Flower 46 is a predominately orange mandala shape with a gr...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Rag Paper, Pigment

A brief movement after death 22
Located in New York, NY
A brief movement after death 22 2017 Pigment print with china marker 18.25 x 24 inches (46.4 x 61 cm) $4,500 This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

A brief movement after death 18
Located in New York, NY
A brief movement after death 18 2017 Pigment print with china marker 18.25 x 24 inches (46.4 x 61 cm) $4,500 This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

MEASURED ALONG THE GROUND #3
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph on paper. Sheet size 19 x 12 inches. Hand signed, dated and numbered by the artist. Edition of 300. Certificate of Authenticity Included. Artwork in Excellent Conditi...
Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Art

Materials

Lithograph, Paper

Orange Landscape Photography, Rock Prints, Large Wall Art-Splintered Amber
Located in Delaware , OH
Landscape Photography, Rock Prints, Large Wall Art-Splintered Amber ABOUT THIS PIECE: This art photography piece named "Splintered Amber" was part of a la...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Rag Paper, Color

Composition - Original Lithograph by Pietro Carabellese - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is an original lithograph, realized by Pietro Carabellese in the 1970s. Hand-signed on the bottom right. Numbered on the bottom left. Edition of 100 plus 20 Artist's P...
Category

1970s Contemporary Art

Materials

Lithograph

School Fun, Burnham Market - Multi-color vintage book photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
School Fun, from Richard Heeps series 'In The Treasure Trove', featuring the multicolour spines of the iconic children's Annuals, photographed in a vintage bookshop...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Mimosa, Sept 29, 2021
Located in Calabasas, CA
Artist: Donald Sultan Title: Mimosa, Sept 29, 2021 Year: 2021 Medium: Silkscreen with enamel inks and flocking on Rising 4-ply Museum Board Sheet: 42 x 42 inches (107 x 107 cm) Edit...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Screen

'Smooth evening' Photography 64" x 44" framed by Karim
Located in Carmel, CA
Edition of 3 1/3 The photograph comes with a certificate of authenticity and a letter of appraisal. Karim - 'Smooth evening' Photography on paper. framed. Karim is a very unique, ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

"In the Deep" Abstract Color Water Photograph, golden orange wave (Series 3, #8)
Located in New York, NY
Large Scale Limited edition color photograph, 40"x60" depicting an abstract waterscape that has a painterly feel. In this photograph, the artist has captured a cresting wave, amids...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Woman in Orange - Oil Painting by Anastasia Kurakina - 2018
Located in Roma, IT
Woman in orange is an oil painting on cardboard, realized in 2018 by the emerging artist Anastasia Kurakina. Mixed colored oil on canvas. This beautiful artwork represents a woman....
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil

Horse Block Painting Art Mixed Media on Canvas 40x60"
Located in Sherman Oaks, CA
One of a kind Mixed Medium on Canvas Artwork: Original abstract mixed media work on canvas, which combines new media - digital original hand painting, printed on canvas, then hand p...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas, Varnish, Archival Ink, Mixed Media

Nina, Mixed Media on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Mono print on 300lb Arches watercolor paper. :: Mixed Media :: Contemporary :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Frenzy (Sidewinder) - not mounted, analog, last Edition - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Frenzy (Sidewinder) - 2005 125x156cm, Edition 5/5, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive paper, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory No. 3048.05, Not mounted. This piece was used by the Salzburger Festspiele 2008 for the main image campaign. Stefanie Schneider, Sidewinder Exhibit • Galeries of the City of Salzburg • Galerie am Mozartplatz July 16 – August 29, 2008 “For love is as strong as death” – this motto, taken from King Salomon’s Song of Songs, is at the programmatic center of the Salzburg Festival...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Civic Building – Manaus, Eliza Southwood, Limited Edition Silkscreen Print
Located in Deddington, GB
Civic Building – Manaus, Eliza Southwood Limited Edition Silkscreen Print of 20 Silkscreen Print on Paper Size: H 97cm x W 67cm Signed and titled Silkscreen Print – A printing techn...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Linocut

Pop Shop I (4)
Located in Miami, FL
Screenprint in colors, on Coventry Rag Paper. Published by Martin Lawrence Editions. Reference Littman, K, & Haring K. Keith Haring, Editions on Pape...
Category

1980s Contemporary Art

Materials

Screen

Fireweed, Jasper, Bitterroots
Located in Denver, CO
Sarah Winkler is a British born, American contemporary landscape painter who has lived most of her life abroad in countries such as Malawi, Africa and Brunei, Borneo. She has lived in the US since 1989 and has spent over two decades living and working in California and Colorado. She studied Art and Earth Science at William Paterson University and combines both subjects in her landscape and environmental artworks. The artist is best known for her monumentally scaled, color rich, luminous paintings that interpret the geological storied past and eventful present of the formation of the American wilderness landscape. She incorporates ground water, crushed rock and materials from the landscape in her paintings to create moments of connection, exploration and discovery. Winkler has exhibited in solo and group shows nationally in galleries, regional museums and art fairs since 2004. Her work was recently showcased at the LA Art Fair, Art Aspen and the Jackson Hole Art Fine Art Fair. In 2019, Winkler was selected by US Ambassador, John Pommersheim and the curators of the Art in Embassies program to participate in a 3-year International exhibition at the Ambassador’s residence in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Winkler was also invited to exhibit at the Colorado Governor’s Residence in Denver. Her artworks are in many private, public and corporate collections. These include The Phoenician and Mountain Shadows Resort, Paradise Valley, AZ. The Hilton West Palm Beach, FL. The InterContinental St Paul, MN. The Cosmopolitan Hotel of Las Vegas. The Viceroy Aspen. Ritz Carlton, Denver, CO. One Empire Pass, Montage, Deer Valley...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Acrylic, Panel

Untitled
Located in Palo Alto, CA
The color etchings that Stanley Whitney produced in 2017 are musical and improvisational with a spectrum of colors created in a grid that reinvigorate the mind and spirit. Each so un...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Etching

Acrylic Painting / Portrait / Figurative/ Museum/ Abstract/ Contemporary
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams was a painter, art educator, and writer. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1952, he received a B.S. in 1976 and an M.A. in 1983 from Buffalo State College. Adams’s work is includ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Yasmina - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Pigment Print, Portrait, Pop
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Edition of 50 The Françoise Nielly limited editions are available as pigment prints on aluminium: durable and colourfast hi-definition images with a ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Pigment

Life and Breath
Located in Burlingame, CA
Artist Jill Keller Peters abstract color-field oil paintings communicate ideas through color. By juxtaposing pure and vivid hues that speak to each ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Coco Chanel Icon III /// Contemporary Street Pop Art Painting Fashion Model
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-) Title: "Coco Chanel Icon III" Series: Icon *Signed by Graves lower left. It is also signed, titled, and dated on...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas, Paint

Speckled Corn Kachina, Dan Namingha, lithograph, Hopi, kachina, blue, orange
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Speckled Corn Kachina, Dan Namingha, lithograph, Hopi, kachina, blue, orange hand pulled limited edition lithograph signed and numbered by the artist Glenn Green Galleries also pr...
Category

1970s Contemporary Art

Materials

Lithograph

Poetic - Contemporary Art, Yellow, Red, Flower, 21st Century, Portrait, Diptych
Located in Berlin, DE
Poetic (diptych), 2014 Acrylic on canvas 39 3/8 H x 55 1/8 W in. 100 H x 140 W cm (reproduced at page 66, in the catalogue 'Mythical Flesh' by Mark Gisbourne, Diana Dochia - Printed ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Price Tag
Located in Montreal, Quebec
For the exhibition Panorama of the Anthropocene, Oli Sorenson presents an array of works created in a hybrid style that evokes the square layout of Instagram, the pixelated landscape...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Kalamkari Design 2, Acrylic on Canvas by Contemporary Indian Artist “In Stock”
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Harinath N - Untitled - 12 inches (Dia) (unframed size) Acrylic on Canvas. Can be sent framed or unframed as per requirement Both : 1970 Harinath is a Kalamkari artist from Srikalahasti, holy town in Chittoor district. He has been doing this traditional art of Kalamkari from 35 years and has received many awards for the same. His Kalamkari artworks recite the stories of Tree of Life, Indian God...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Of a Difference in Which the Differences Are Inseparable
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A group of figures heads for icy distant mountains. A familiar enough scene of polar explorers hauling their sledges. Yet somehow this does not quite fit the heroic mold. The ice and...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

"The Pond in Golden Light" Contemporary Acrylic Painting in the style of Monet
Located in New York, NY
An abstract expressionist acrylic painting on canvas with wonderful color combinations of whites, pinks, orange and effortless lines and shapes. Inspired by Claude Monet's Lilly Pads...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Untitled (Candles), 1998, rare cibachrome proof print
Located in Surfside, FL
A rare unsigned proof print from Muse X. this is the original Cibachrome print on heavy metallic photography paper. this is an original vintage color print c print. Lyle Ashton Harris (born 1965) is an American artist who has cultivated a diverse artistic practice ranging from photographic media, collage, photo montage, installation art and performance art. Born in the Bronx, Harris was raised between New York City and Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. He graduated with a BA from Wesleyan University and received his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. His work explores intersections between the personal and the political, examining the impact of ethnicity, gender and desire on the contemporary social and cultural dynamic. Known for his self-portraits and use of pop culture icons (such as Billie Holiday and Michael Jackson), His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the 52nd Venice Biennale. His work has been acquired by major international museums, most recently by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His commissioned work has been featured in a wide range of publications, including The New York Times Magazine and the New Yorker. In 2014 Harris joined the board of trustees at the American Academy in Rome and was named the 10th recipient of the David C. Driskell Prize by the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. Born in the Bronx New York City, He currently lives and works in New York City and is an Associate Professor at New York University. Education Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, 1992 National Graduate Photography Seminar, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, 1991 Master of Fine Arts, California Institute of the Arts, 1990 Bachelor of Arts (with Honors), Wesleyan University, 1988 Works in Public Collections Los Angeles County Museum of Art Miami Art Museum Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Museum of Modern Art, New York Princeton University Art Museum The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York The Studio Museum in Harlem The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Selected Solo Exhibitions 2010Untitled (Black Power), Cokkie Snoei Gallery, Amsterdam Netherlands Ghana, CRG Gallery, NY 2008Sketches from the Shore, The Neil L. and Angelica Zander Rudenstine Gallery, Harvard University,Cambridge, MA 2004Lyle Ashton Harris, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France Blow Up, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL Rrose is a Rrose is a Rrose: Gender Performance in Photography, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (catalogue) Traveled to The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA Bang! The Gun as Image, Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 1998Distillation, Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland Alchemy, in collaboration with Thomas Allen Harris, New Langston Arts, San Francisco, CA. Traveled to Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (catalogue) 1994The Good Life, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY Face, Broadway Window, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY Selected Group Exhibitions 2014Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York “The Progress of Love”, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX “The Romare Bearden Project”, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY 2011 “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture”, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY (catalogue) Kreyol Factory, Grande Hale de la Villete, Paris, France (catalogue) S&M: Shines and Masquerades in Cosmopolitan Times, [Co-Curator], 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York University, New York, NY 2007 Think with the Senses, Feel with the Mind, 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (catalogue) (NOT) GAY ART NOW, Curated by Jack Pierson, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY 2005 Male Desire Two, Mary Ryan Gallery, NY African Queen, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY The Squared Circle: Boxing in Contemporary Art, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN 2002 Typical Men: Recent Photography of the Male Body by Men, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow Goddess, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY Welcome, Curated by Renato Bianchini, Citta Sant’Angelo, Pescara, Italy 1998 Diana.98, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland Millenovecento, Galerie Analix B Polla & C Cargnel, Paris, France Black Nudes: New Identities, Gay Games Amsterdam 1998, Amsterdam, Netherlands Portraits, James Graham and Sons, New York, NY The Paranoid Machine, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Published Photographs Stanley, Alessandra, “Berlusconi, The Return,” The New York Times Magazine, April 15, p. 40, (photographed Silvio Berlusconi) Hyland, John, “Hot Chicks, Cool Rooms,” The New York Times Magazine’s Fashions of the Times, Spring Issue, p.185 2000Portraits of Cuban Link, Fat Joe, Jermaine Dupri, Jill Scott...
Category

1990s Contemporary Art

Materials

Color

LONG STANDING #1
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph on paper. Sheet size 19 x 12 inches. Hand signed, dated and numbered by the artist. Edition of 300. Certificate of Authenticity Included. Artwork in Excellent Conditi...
Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Art

Materials

Lithograph, Paper

"TWO ROSES", watercolor, flowers, petals, rose, pink, green leaves, beauty, love
Located in Toronto, Ontario
TWO ROSES is a new watercolor on Fabriano paper by Fleur Thesmar. The artwork measures 30x22", and is a striking composition in tones of rose, pink, gold and green. It's a courageous work of art, seemingly a reflection or a symmetry but of course they are two distinct, complex flowers. From Fleur Thesmar – "Standing on top of each other like mystic roses...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

Young Boy - Lithograph by Jean Cocteau - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Young Boy is a black and white lithograph realized by Jean Cocteau, French draftsman, poet, essayist, playwright, librettist, film director, and actor, who lived from 1889 to 1963. ...
Category

1930s Contemporary Art

Materials

Lithograph

Oxydation III
Located in Miami, FL
Born 1952, Saint Simon, France Jean-Pierre Rives is an internationally renowned sculptor, and painter, as well as a Hall of Fame rugby player. After retiring from rugby in the early 1980s, he discovered the work of sculptor Albert Feraud. Discussions with the artist inspired him to pursue his own art practice, working scraps of abandoned steel into fluid, curvaceous forms. In his frequently monumental work, the softness of the curve is juxtaposed against the hardness of the material. Rives says about his practice, "I always seek to bring 'lightness' to the ‘heavy'; romanticism and poetry to the rigid; and sculpt an industrial masterpiece that harnesses innovation with energy. My sculptures are pieces of reality: their rust marks a measure of time, honouring the past while celebrating the future." Rives has exhibited his work in galleries, museums, and public spaces around the world including the Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris (an honour previously held exclusively by Rodin), Sculpture by the Sea (a renowned international public sculpture...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Metal

Rish and Foses 2 - expressive, colourful, abstract, oil on canvas over panel
Located in Bloomfield, ON
In this lyrical abstract work by Mel Davis organic shapes and fluid lines intersect in a playful horizontal composition. Using form and colour-bright blue, red and black contrast wit...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Panel

The other day I was sure I knew what is good and what is bad - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The other day I was sure I knew what is good and what is bad (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2015 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory # 13866. Not mounted. Offered is a piece from the movie: The Girl behind the White Picket Fence A tale told with blemished and expired Polaroid film about the hopes and dreams of an newly orphaned girl after loosing her parents who lived in Californian desert in an vintage Spartan travel-trailer . -filmed with Polaroid film stock and Super-8 footage, overlaid with poetic voice over monoloque - this feature film creates a dynamic kaleidoscope of words and pictures, a dreamy tale that channels Terrence Malick, Gus Van Sant, and pages torn from a lonely girls journal (Palms Springs life magazine / Caroline Ryder) Stefanie Schneider By Caroline Ryder Travel up a bumpy dirt road in Morongo Valley, the trail strewn with rocks, and you’ll come upon a gigantic 1950s trailer in pristine condition, ringed by a white picket fence, with cottontail rabbits hopping among neat little rose bushes that bloom in spite of the broiling desert heat. Inside the trailer are period accents—a vintage radio, vintage fridge, little crocheted doilies and dusty gilt-framed photographs. It’s a surreal home-sweet-home, an Americana fantasy as imagined by German artist and experimental filmmaker Stefanie Schneider whose work is so inspired by the desert landscape, she made it her home in 2005. “There’s a completely different light here than in Germany, a beautiful light,” says Schneider, whose 10 acre property in Morongo is dotted with vintage trailers. They surround her midcentury home, and serve as sets for her photo shoots or as guest lodgings for her friends from Hollywood and Berlin. “But what I really love about the desert is the desolation,” she continues. “The sense of hope for something that might or might not come. It’s easy to see our dreams projected in the desert.” Famed for shooting trailer park chic fine art photographs exclusively on vintage Polaroid film, Schneider recently completed her most ambitious project to date—a feature film made entirely of Polaroid stills (4000 images in total), the story set around her magnificent 1950s trailer. The film, called “The Girl Behind The White Picket Fence” tells the story of a broken-hearted girl who lives in the trailer. Her name is Heather, and she is played by model Heather Megan Christie, girlfriend of actor Joaquin Phoenix, and former partner of Red Hot Chili Peppers singer Anthony Kiedis, with whom she has a son. Heather stars opposite Kyle Larson (who plays ‘Hank’), a real-life gypsy fisherman who catches crab in Alaska when he’s not surfing in Southern California. Neither of the two had ever acted before, and never in the history of movie making has a director shot a film entirely on Polaroid film. “There was great difficulty shooting a film this way,” says Schneider, who, with her long straight hair, wide innocent eyes and thick-framed glasses, conjures an art-house Gretel. “If I had used a regular camera I would have had 36 exposures per minute, much faster and easier than using the old Polaroid camera which takes a long time to shoot one frame. Also, sometimes it doesn’t shoot at the exact moment you think it’s going to—but that’s really great because then you miss the perfect moment…and often those are the best shots.” Individually, the Polaroid photographs that comprise 29 PALMS, CA stand alone, but together and in sequence, filmed with super 8 and 16mm film stock and overlaid with poetic voice-over monologues, they create a dynamic kaleidoscope of words and pictures, a dreamy tale that channels Terrence Malick. Gus Van Sant, and pages torn from a lonely girl’s journal. The idea to shoot a movie in this way came about in 2004, when Schneider was working with leading German director Mark Forster (Monster’s Ball, Finding Neverland, Quantum of Solace) on his film Stay. She had met Forster at director Wim Wender’s birthday party in Hollywood. A few years later, Forster asked Schneider to shoot Polaroids of scenes from Stay as he filmed; he used those photographs for dream and memory sequences in the movie. For the first time, Schneider saw her Polaroids strung together in sequence, moving with rhythm like a flipbook, in the context of a story. When Forster urged her to consider making a feature film using that technique, the seed of 29 PALMS, CA was sown. She mentioned the idea to her good friend German actor Udo Kier, who also gave the idea a big thumbs up, and agreed to play the part of a mysterious shaman in the film. Thanks to her strong reputation in the art world and her Hollywood connections, getting talented people on board was the easy part (for a while, Charlotte Gainsbourg was pegged to play the starring role, although she pulled out two weeks before shooting commenced because she was pregnant and not fit to travel to the desert.) The hard part was finding the perfect trailer—and bringing it to the desert. “This trailer almost killed us,” says Schneider’s partner Lance Waterman, who lives and works with Schneider in Morongo Valley. After finding it on eBay, the couple drove to Utah to pick it up, the plan being to tow it all the way back to the high desert themselves. Bad idea. “We were driving down a hill with this enormous trailer behind us when we realized that if we wanted to stop, there would be no way to do so without the trailer crushing us,” says Waterman. Adds Schneider: “Lance was even giving me instructions on how to jump out of the truck, if we needed to.” Thankfully the road leveled and as soon as they were able to slow down and pull over, they called a professional towing company, which transported the trailer the remaining distance to Morongo Valley. Filming took place in Spring 2011 and 2012. Schneider recently submitted the film to major film festivals in Europe and the US, and it will be broadcast in 2013 by leading German television channel, Arte. While Schneider may come from a long tradition of photographers-turned-filmmakers—Stanley Kubrick started out as a photographer, as did Ken Russell (Tommy, Women in Love...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

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Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Shyamal Mukherjee - Bawa Biwi - 12 x 12 inches (unframed size) Oil Reverse on Acrylic on Acrylic Sheet , 2019 ( Set of 2 ) ( FRAMED AND READY TO HANG DOOR DELIVERED ) About t...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

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