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.
Find a collection of Contemporary prints, photography, paintings, sculptures and other art on 1stDibs.
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Style: Contemporary
Circle Spin
By Damien Hirst
Located in New York, NY
The Spin Circle series was
created with public collaboration at the Damien Hirst Spin Workshop to celebrate the opening of Requiem at the PinchukArtCentre, Ukraine.
Acrylic and meta...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Acrylic
Clear Swallows Giftbox (Qty 3)
Located in Napa, CA
Rob Snyder, a Northwest native, is a highly accomplished glass artist who resides and operates his studio on picturesque Vashon Island, Washington.
With nearly thirty years of ded...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Glass
Amber Swallows Giftbox (Qty 3)
Located in Napa, CA
Rob Snyder, a Northwest native, is a highly accomplished glass artist who resides and operates his studio on picturesque Vashon Island, Washington.
With nearly thirty years of ded...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Glass
Cobalt Swallows (Qty 13)
Located in Napa, CA
Rob Snyder, a Northwest native, is a highly accomplished glass artist who resides and operates his studio on picturesque Vashon Island, Washington.
With nearly thirty years of ded...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Glass
Cobalt Swallows (Qty 25)
Located in Napa, CA
Rob Snyder, a Northwest native, is a highly accomplished glass artist who resides and operates his studio on picturesque Vashon Island, Washington.
With nearly thirty years of dedi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Glass
See Me As I Really Am -- Print, Skull, Linocut, Text Art by David Shrigley
Located in London, GB
See Me As I Really Am, 2022
David Shrigley
Linocut, on Somerset 300 gr
Signed, dated and numbered from the edition of 100
Sheet: 50 × 65 cm (19.7 × 25.6 in)
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Linocut
South
By Ed Ruscha
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated in pencil lower right, Ed Ruscha 91. Numbered in pencil lower left, #31/50; workshop chop mark lower right; workshop number in pencil reverse lower left
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Lithograph
Tulip
By Liz Barber
Located in Napa, CA
Liz Barber pursued painting while obtaining her degree from the Massachusetts College of Art and Moore College of Art. She currently resides in Marietta, Georgia. Barber’s paintings ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Gouache, Graphite
The Baron Entertains - Naïve art, comical, colourful, Folk art, everyday life
Located in London, GB
Limited Edition
Beryl Cook's appeal was classless and she rapidly became Britain’s most popular artist. She was a ‘heart and soul’ painter, compelled to paint with a passion. Her pa...
Category
1980s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Screen
Gare du Nord - Naïve art, comical, colourful, Folk art, everyday life
Located in London, GB
Limited Edition
Beryl Cook's appeal was classless and she rapidly became Britain’s most popular artist. She was a ‘heart and soul’ painter, compelled to paint with a passion. Her pa...
Category
1980s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Screen
Dancing on the QE2 - Naïve art, comical, colourful, Folk art, everyday life
Located in London, GB
Limited Edition
Her appeal was classless and she rapidly became Britain’s most popular artist. She was a ‘heart and soul’ painter, compelled to paint with a passion. Her paintings e...
Category
1980s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Screen
Fun Time /// Adolf Sehring Oil Painting Children Virginia Landscape Realism Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Adolf Sehring (Russian/German-American, 1930-2015)
Title: "Fun Time"
*Signed by Sehring lower left
Circa: 1980
Medium: Original Oil Painting on Canvas
Reference: No. 1103
Framing: Within its original frame. Framed in a gold traditional frame with linen liner and gold filet
Framed size: 31.13" x 37.13
Canvas size: 24" x 30"
Condition: In excellent condition
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - Hagerstown, MD; acquired from Benjamin Art Gallery...
Category
1980s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil
Traces - Contemporary Olive Green, Coral Pink Abstract Poured Painting, 2021
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary abstract poured painting, the layers of English's tinted polymer create the depth and surface textures throughout the poured painting on Dibond panel. The shades...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Metal
Photograph - CiCi's Moon River - framed
Located in Los Angeles, CA
We love this work because the fashion shots are all set in a vast landscape of beauty and composed with poetic feel and look that is timeless and classic.
20x24 in. - Edn of 20
C p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
C Print
11:05 - Contemporary Beach Landscape Pink Clouds Blue Sky Ocean, 2022
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary landscape in oil on canvas mounted on panel, two figures stand by the shore of a beach, gazing out at the deep blue ocean, while fluffy, pale salmon pink cumulus...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel
Trail Mix
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Trail Mix
Date: 2024
Medium: Oil on wood
Unframed Dimensions: 27.5" x 17.5"
Framed Dimensions: 33" x 23"
Signature: Signed verso
Edition: Unique
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
White Lilies - Contemporary Botanical Still Life Flowers Teal Blue, 2018
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary still life painting in oil on linen of flowers arranged in a vase, the ivory petals and green leaves in the bouquet of white lilies are beautifully complemented ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
Mint
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Mint
Date: 2024
Medium: Oil on wood
Unframed Dimensions: 11.5" x 17.5"
Framed Dimensions: 17" x 23"
Signature: Signed verso
Edition: Unique
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
Owl Seattle
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Owl Seattle
Date: 2024
Medium: Oil on wood
Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8"
Framed Dimensions: 16" x 14"
Signature: Signed verso
Edition: Unique
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
"Pastel Morning" cool tone abstract painting of a pastel sky over the water
By Paul Norwood
Located in Edgartown, MA
Paul Norwood paints the world around him, blurring the lines between representation and abstraction. His loose, gestural style and bold, thick brushwork suggest rather than define fo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Piano - Contemporary Coral Pink Orange Abstract Patterns Blue Stripes, 2021
By Josette Urso
Located in Kent, CT
This contemporary, colorful abstract oil painting on panel is composed of carefully combined sections of various textures and areas of pattern, circles, dots and undulations, in exub...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Assam - Contemporary Oil Painting Dining Room Fruit Flowers Still Life, 2021
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary oil painting on canvas, there is a peaceful interior scene with a still life arrangement of two white pitchers, and delicate lilac and red flowers in a clear gla...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Murakami - Silver Panda - Panda and Panda cubs - unframed - last available
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is an original Murakami print. Sold unframed. Brand new. Handsigned and numbered out of 300 editions. Buyer protection by both 1stdibs and gallery.
Last one from our inventory....
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Offset
Cockatoo Whisper Birthday
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Cockatoo Whisper Birthday
Date: 2020
Medium: Oil on canvas
Unframed Dimensions: 36 x 30 inches
Signature: Signed verso
Edition: Unique
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
Duo in Clearing Skies
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Carolyn Reynolds' "Duo in Clearing Skies" is an enchanting oil on gold leaf painting depicting two hummingbirds against a dramatic, stormy gold background. The birds are positioned i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Gold Leaf
Cockatoo
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Cockatoo
Date: 2024
Medium: Oil on wood
Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8"
Framed Dimensions: 16" x 14"
Signature: Signed verso
Edition: Unique
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
Perry
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Perry
Date: 2024
Medium: Oil on wood
Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8"
Framed Dimensions: 14.5" x 12.5"
Signature: Signed verso
Edition: Unique
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
Maximilian
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Maximilian
Date: 2023
Medium: Oil on wood
Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8"
Framed Dimensions: 14" x 12"
Signature: Signed verso
Edition: Unique
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
Three Abstracted Female Figures in Blues, Book Club by Rebecca Jack, 2024
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
Rebecca Jack
"Book Club"
Acrylic on Canvas
40 x 70 in.
__________________________
Rebecca Jack, an intuitive painter, creates vibrant, figurative works that highlight the beauty o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Into the Blue Study - Contemporary Violet Botanical Tree Painting on Mylar, 2018
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary botanical painting in acrylic on Mylar, layers of foliage grace delicate branches in shades of deep violet on the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Mylar, Acrylic
Animal Vegetable Mineral - Contemporary Abstract Pattern Opal Mixed Media, 2021
Located in Kent, CT
Crushed opal and aquamarine in light blue with dry pigment and wood ash are adhered with polymer medium to create a layered geometric pattern on light green and gray painted paper. W...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Precious Stone, Acrylic Polymer, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper
Field Painting October 27 - Contemporary Landscape Autumn Blue Sky, 2021
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary landscape painting in oil on panel, a peaceful outdoor scene is set in autumn with a delicately painted field beneath a gray, cloudy sky, beautifully capturing t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Sister Midnight - Contemporary Abstract Pattern Landscape Painting Blue, 2021
By Gabe Brown
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary oil painting in linen mounted on panel, carefully ordered patterns, geometric shapes and delicate lines in bright teal, light green, robin's egg blue and pale pe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Linen, Oil, Panel
Duck
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Duck
Date: 2022
Medium: Oil on wood
Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8"
Framed Dimensions: 14.5" x 12.5"
Signature: Signed verso
Edition: Unique
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
Sentinel II, study
Located in Greenwich, CT
Unique
Peter Kirkiles Biography
American, b. 1966
Sculptor Peter Kirkiles stresses that the inspiration for his metal sculptures comes from the satisfaction of the process of fabri...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Bronze
Moody Mermaid (Green)
By Adam Umbach
Located in Greenwich, CT
Adam S. Umbach Biography
American, b. 1986
Adam Umbach was born in Chicago, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. After being inspired from an early age by the modern...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Enamel
The Conversation II
Located in Greenwich, CT
Signed lower left
Elizabeth Higgins (Canadian, b. 1960)
Elizabeth Higgins describes herself as an abstract figurative and landscape painter. Everything around her serves as a potential subject, an inspiration to begin a painting. Fidelity to the landscape, the figure, or the still life is relative, as she isn’t interested in literal depictions; instead, it’s the abstract relationships of these shapes and colors, the abstract pictorial design that drives her work.
Higgins’ paintings are rooted in the tradition stemming from Courbet, Derain, Bonnard, Matisse, Morandi, German Expressionism, and the Canadian Group of Seven (also known as the Algonquin School of landscape painters, 1920–1933). She is influenced by the work of her artist-teachers Paul Resika—himself a student of Hans Hofmann—and Robert De Niro, Sr. (1922-1993), as well as the paintings of contemporary artist Peter Doig. Her artistic evolution stretches across this continuum.
It is the “in-between”, the hovering between representation and abstraction, that interests her, not the labeling effect of details; instead, she aims directly at the spirit of the painting—of making something come to life. John Goodrich wrote in her catalog essay, “Elizabeth Higgins’ direct brushwork and simplified forms suggest an energy, but crucially, reveal a painter who knows the power of color…”
Elizabeth Higgins was born in Toronto, Canada, in 1960. As a Helena...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Currency #249. Original Migrant Woman Portrait, Circular Wooden Coin, Dark Blue
Located in FISTERRA, ES
This artwork, Currency #249, features a detailed profile of a woman painted in naturalistic tones, set against a rich dark blue background. Surrounding the portrait, the Spanish text...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Wood, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Looking at Picasso
Located in Greenwich, CT
Elizabeth Higgins (Canadian, b. 1960)
Elizabeth Higgins describes herself as an abstract figurative and landscape painter. Everything around her serves as a potential subject, an inspiration to begin a painting. Fidelity to the landscape, the figure, or the still life is relative, as she isn’t interested in literal depictions; instead, it’s the abstract relationships of these shapes and colors, the abstract pictorial design that drives her work.
Higgins’ paintings are rooted in the tradition stemming from Courbet, Derain, Bonnard, Matisse, Morandi, German Expressionism, and the Canadian Group of Seven (also known as the Algonquin School of landscape painters, 1920–1933). She is influenced by the work of her artist-teachers Paul Resika—himself a student of Hans Hofmann—and Robert De Niro, Sr. (1922-1993), as well as the paintings of contemporary artist Peter Doig. Her artistic evolution stretches across this continuum.
It is the “in-between”, the hovering between representation and abstraction, that interests her, not the labeling effect of details; instead, she aims directly at the spirit of the painting—of making something come to life. John Goodrich wrote in her catalog essay, “Elizabeth Higgins’ direct brushwork and simplified forms suggest an energy, but crucially, reveal a painter who knows the power of color…”
Elizabeth Higgins was born in Toronto, Canada, in 1960. As a Helena Rubenstein...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Haritalodes Basipunctalis - Contemporary Moth Wings Archival Pigment Print, 201
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary, hyper-detailed archival pigment print on watercolor paper, a moth with light brown and bright yellow markings is dramatic against a solid white background.
Pr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Graphic Landscape - Contemporary Painting Clouds Blue Sky Brown Mountain, 2024
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary landscape in oil on panel, ivory clouds float in an idyllic pink sky over brown rolling hills and mountains. Signed, dated and titled on verso.
David Konigsberg...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Field Painting November 5 - Contemporary Landscape Autumn Tree Fall Leaves, 2020
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary landscape in oil on panel, a peaceful outdoor scene in late autumn, with a tree with dark reddish brown leaves with hints of golden orange above a delicately pai...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Mulholland Drive, June 1986 -- Print, Homemade, Still-life by David Hockney
Located in London, GB
Mulholland Drive, June 1986, 1986
David Hockney
Homemade print in colours executed on an office colour copy machine
On Arches Text wove
Signed, dated and numbered from the edition o...
Category
1980s Contemporary Art
Materials
Rag Paper, Color
Life On Easy Street
Located in Napa, CA
Michelle Andres is a contemporary American oil painter, writer and poet who draws from nature to celebrate joy and hopefulness in our often challenging world. She has worked in abstr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Up Valley
Located in Napa, CA
Michelle Andres is a contemporary American oil painter, writer and poet who draws from nature to celebrate joy and hopefulness in our often challenging world. She has worked in abstr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Field Painting July 1 - Contemporary Landscape Tree Lilac Flowers, 2022
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary landscape in oil on panel, a peaceful outdoor scene in summer of delicately painted violet blue flowers in a green grassy field beneath a tree with dark green le...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Field Painting July 19 - Contemporary Landscape Tree Clouds Flowers, 2022
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary landscape in oil on panel, a peaceful outdoor scene with a grassy field with violet blue flowers beneath a tree with dark green leaves and rolling hills in the d...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Garden Light 4933
Located in Napa, CA
Surrounded by artistic inspiration from a very early age, Kate Salenfriend learned most of her technical skills from her great-grandfather, Stewart Robertson, the registered Californ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Gold Leaf
The Best 4939
Located in Napa, CA
Surrounded by artistic inspiration from a very early age, Kate Salenfriend learned most of her technical skills from her great-grandfather, Stewart Robertson, the registered Californ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Gold Leaf
Jump Before the Little Woods - Oil Painting Figurative Landscape Field, 2008
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary figurative oil painting on canvas, a figure float over a field with their arms outstretched while cumulus clouds float in the sky overhead. Signed, dated and tit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
River 4
By Liz Barber
Located in Napa, CA
Liz Barber pursued painting while obtaining her degree from the Massachusetts College of Art and Moore College of Art. She currently resides in Marietta, Georgia. Barber’s paintings ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Gouache, Graphite
Meandering Light
By Craig Mooney
Located in Napa, CA
Craig Mooney makes paintings of dramatic moments and heightened emotionality that are known for being expansive and expressive. Though a representational painter, the artist incorpor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Serene Light
By Craig Mooney
Located in Napa, CA
Craig Mooney makes paintings of dramatic moments and heightened emotionality that are known for being expansive and expressive. Though a representational painter, the artist incorpor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
City Night
By Craig Mooney
Located in Napa, CA
Craig Mooney makes paintings of dramatic moments and heightened emotionality that are known for being expansive and expressive. Though a representational painter, the artist incorpor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
10' Yesterday AP2 - silver nitrate patina
By JD Hansen
Located in Napa, CA
jd Hansen is an accomplished sculptor known for her innovative and evocative three-dimensional works. Her sculptures often explore themes of nature, the human form, and emotional exp...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Bronze
Poppies - Contemporary Botanical Landscape Green Field Red Flowers, 2020
Located in Kent, CT
This contemporary landscape painting in oil on linen depicts a peaceful outdoor scene of delicately painted red flowers in a green grassy field, beautifully capturing the idyllic fee...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
Night Sky 4926
Located in Napa, CA
Surrounded by artistic inspiration from a very early age, Kate Salenfriend learned most of her technical skills from her great-grandfather, Stewart Robertson, the registered Californ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Gold Leaf
Summer Day
Located in Tulsa, OK
"Summer Day" by Brandon Reese is a stunning mixed-media work measuring 60 x 72 inches. Crafted from wood panels, clay, paint, carbonates, and oxides, this large-scale piece is richly...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Clay, Wood, Paint, Mixed Media
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