Foxes
By Melissa Pokorny
Located in New York, NY
Her work is held in collections at Orange County Museum of Art, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the Richard L. Nelson Museum at UC Davis, San Francisco Museum of Mo...
Mixed Media, Ceramic, Found Objects, Vinyl, Inkjet
Portal #1
By Melissa Pokorny
Located in New York, NY
Her work is held in collections at Orange County Museum of Art, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the Richard L. Nelson Museum at UC Davis, San Francisco Museum of Mo...
Mixed Media
Night Garden
By Melissa Pokorny
Located in New York, NY
Her work is held in collections at Orange County Museum of Art, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the Richard L. Nelson Museum at UC Davis, San Francisco Museum of Mo...
Mixed Media
Apple Peeler
By Richard Kagan
Located in Westwood, NJ
Richard Kagan, born in Philadelphia, followed a circuitous path to become a photographer. Beginning with street photography using a meterless Asahi Pentax as a student at Temple Univ...
Silver Gelatin
E.M.M. II Skull
By Gabriel de la Mora
Located in Surfside, FL
., USA ARTIUM, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Compostela, Spain Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation ...
Paper
Untitled # 10
By Anna Minnick
Located in Kansas City, MO
Materials : Multimedia Date : 2016 Dimensions : 8″ x 6″ Anna Minnick's work explores the struggles of identity and mental illness. She hopes her work forms a dialog about these issu...
String, Glass, Wood, Photographic Paper
Transitioning
By Gwen Samuels
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary: Transitioning is part of my sculptural dress series. I was interested in experimenting with open and closed spaces and colors transitioning from yellow to pink. ...
Wire
125
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
[Tucson, AZ / Santa Fe, NM ::: b. 1981] JENNY DAY (b.1981) is a painter who divides her time between Tucson, Arizona and Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned an MFA in Painting and Draw...
Paper, Mixed Media
155
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
[Tucson, AZ / Santa Fe, NM ::: b. 1981] JENNY DAY (b.1981) is a painter who divides her time between Tucson, Arizona and Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned an MFA in Painting and Draw...
Paper, Mixed Media
Artifact 3
By Jennifer Nehrbass
Located in Bozeman, MT
Jennifer Nehrbass is a painter living and working in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She was born in West Bend, Wisconsin in 1970. She received her B.S. in Art and Textile Design from the U...
Wood
Effigie
By Susannah Hays
Located in Sante Fe, NM
SUSANNAH HAYS approaches her photographic practice as a philosopher experiences poetic material renderings of our phenomenological world. Investigating tangible objects, each of her ...
Archival Pigment
Sunburst
By Gina Phillips
Located in New Orleans, LA
GINA PHILLIPS is a mixed media, narrative artist who grew up in Kentucky and has lived in New Orleans since 1995. The imagery, stories and characters of both regions influence her wo...
Acrylic, Wood
$500
H 18 in W 12 in D 0.5 in
"Thread", Contemporary, Abandoned, Industrial, Black and White Photograph
By Rebecca Skinner
Located in Franklin, MA
Rebecca Skinner’s “Thread” was photographed at an abandoned silk mill and is part of a series documenting the loss of industry in America. The 18 x 12 inch black and white photo with...
Metal
131
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
[Tucson, AZ / Santa Fe, NM ::: b. 1981] JENNY DAY (b.1981) is a painter who divides her time between Tucson, Arizona and Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned an MFA in Painting and Draw...
Paper, Mixed Media
Seventy
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The subject is the conflation of woman and home. In the previous “Anonymous Women: Draped” photographic series, a lone woman is hidden in a vignette within the drapery, where she per...
Archival Pigment
181
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
JENNY DAY is a painter who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Arizona, a BFA in Painting from the University of Alaska Fa...
Paper
Candlestick Telephone
By Richard Kagan
Located in Westwood, NJ
Richard Kagan, born in Philadelphia, followed a circuitous path to become a photographer. Beginning with street photography using a meterless Asahi Pentax as a student at Temple Univ...
Dividers
By Richard Kagan
Located in Westwood, NJ
Richard Kagan, born in Philadelphia, followed a circuitous path to become a photographer. Beginning with street photography using a meterless Asahi Pentax as a student at Temple Univ...
Blowtorch
By Richard Kagan
Located in Westwood, NJ
Richard Kagan, born in Philadelphia, followed a circuitous path to become a photographer. Beginning with street photography using a meterless Asahi Pentax as a student at Temple Univ...
Reamer
By Richard Kagan
Located in Westwood, NJ
Richard Kagan, born in Philadelphia, followed a circuitous path to become a photographer. Beginning with street photography using a meterless Asahi Pentax as a student at Temple Univ...
Hermaphrodite Caliper
By Richard Kagan
Located in Westwood, NJ
Richard Kagan, born in Philadelphia, followed a circuitous path to become a photographer. Beginning with street photography using a meterless Asahi Pentax as a student at Temple Univ...
Pipe Wrench
By Richard Kagan
Located in Westwood, NJ
Richard Kagan, born in Philadelphia, followed a circuitous path to become a photographer. Beginning with street photography using a meterless Asahi Pentax as a student at Temple Univ...
Silver Gelatin
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.
The sculptural lithograph is part of the inimitable artist’s “Ruckus” series, now on view at the Brooklyn Museum.
See why the famed photographer's celebrity portraits have graced magazine covers and become headline grabbers in their own right for five decades and counting.
Part art, part seating, they offer a fascinating meditation on life’s dualities.
From Chanel to YSL, the logos of some legacy fashion houses spark instant brand recognition and have come to symbolize a kind of luxury that feels at once aspirational and attainable.
Cofounders Krista Scenna and Jill Benson highlight the work of underexposed talents and connect them with new collectors.
On the 25th anniversary of his innovative Crystal Haze collection, the designer revisits its origins.
Brought together by a love of jewelry with meaning, Adam Shulman and Heidi Nahser Fink built a brand that celebrates ingenious design and fine craftsmanship.
British portraitist David Bailey gets up close to his celebrity subjects.