$3,750
"Party Down Productions" Contemporary Colorful Abstract Expressionist Painting
By Benji Stiles
Located in Houston, TX
Recent group shows include Collect it For the Culture 2021 (curated by Robert Hodge) where he showed work alongside more than 30 artists including – Rick Lowe, Robert Hodge, Ann John...
Canvas, Oil
$3,850
"Garden #3" Pastel Green, Pink, Gray, and Blue Abstract Contemporary Painting
By Benji Stiles
Located in Houston, TX
Recent group shows include Collect it For the Culture 2021 (curated by Robert Hodge) where he showed work alongside more than 30 artists including – Rick Lowe, Robert Hodge, Ann John...
Canvas, Oil
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H 21 in W 27 in D 1 in
Contemporary Surrealist Elephant Serigraph Edition 40 of 100
Located in Houston, TX
He began his artistic career through Rick Lowe's Project Row Houses in Houston, Texas and held his first solo exhibit there in 1994.
Lithograph
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H 60 in W 48 in D 1.63 in
"Desert Mercy" Contemporary Pastel Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting
By Benji Stiles
Located in Houston, TX
Recent group shows include Collect it For the Culture 2021 (curated by Robert Hodge) where he showed work alongside more than 30 artists including – Rick Lowe, Robert Hodge, Ann John...
Canvas, Oil Crayon, Oil
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H 60 in W 48 in D 1.63 in
"Chaos Calms" Contemporary Pastel Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting
By Benji Stiles
Located in Houston, TX
Recent group shows include Collect it For the Culture 2021 (curated by Robert Hodge) where he showed work alongside more than 30 artists including – Rick Lowe, Robert Hodge, Ann John...
Canvas, Oil Crayon, Oil, Graphite
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H 60 in W 48 in D 1.63 in
"Tag 1" Contemporary Pastel Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting
By Benji Stiles
Located in Houston, TX
Recent group shows include Collect it For the Culture 2021 (curated by Robert Hodge) where he showed work alongside more than 30 artists including – Rick Lowe, Robert Hodge, Ann John...
Canvas, Oil, Oil Crayon, Found Objects
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H 50 in W 40 in D 1.63 in
"Secret Garden #2" Contemporary Pastel Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting
By Benji Stiles
Located in Houston, TX
Recent group shows include Collect it For the Culture 2021 (curated by Robert Hodge) where he showed work alongside more than 30 artists including – Rick Lowe, Robert Hodge, Ann John...
Canvas, Oil Crayon, Oil
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H 30 in W 24 in D 0.75 in
"Untitled (Oil)" Contemporary Colorful Pastel Abstract Expressionist Painting
By Benji Stiles
Located in Houston, TX
Recent group shows include Collect it For the Culture 2021 (curated by Robert Hodge) where he showed work alongside more than 30 artists including – Rick Lowe, Robert Hodge, Ann John...
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
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H 40 in W 30 in D 1.63 in
"Lick" Contemporary Colorful Pastel Abstract Expressionist Painting
By Benji Stiles
Located in Houston, TX
Recent group shows include Collect it For the Culture 2021 (curated by Robert Hodge) where he showed work alongside more than 30 artists including – Rick Lowe, Robert Hodge, Ann John...
Canvas, Oil, Charcoal
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H 60 in W 48 in D 1.5 in
"Texas Landscape #4" Contemporary Colorful Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting
By Benji Stiles
Located in Houston, TX
Recent group shows include Collect it For the Culture 2021 (curated by Robert Hodge) where he showed work alongside more than 30 artists including – Rick Lowe, Robert Hodge, Ann John...
Canvas, Oil
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H 60 in W 48 in D 1.66 in
"Abstract 2 Square Red and Blue" Contemporary Pastel Geometric Abstract Painting
By Benji Stiles
Located in Houston, TX
Recent group shows include Collect it For the Culture 2021 (curated by Robert Hodge) where he showed work alongside more than 30 artists including – Rick Lowe, Robert Hodge, Ann John...
Oil
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H 48 in W 40 in D 0.1 in
"Untitled (Gray, Green, Brown)" Contemporary Pastel Yellow Abstract Painting
By Benji Stiles
Located in Houston, TX
Recent group shows include Collect it For the Culture 2021 (curated by Robert Hodge) where he showed work alongside more than 30 artists including – Rick Lowe, Robert Hodge, Ann John...
Oil
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H 60 in W 48 in D 1.66 in
"Moonrise #2" Contemporary Pastel Abstract Red, Yellow, and Blue Painting
By Benji Stiles
Located in Houston, TX
Recent group shows include Collect it For the Culture 2021 (curated by Robert Hodge) where he showed work alongside more than 30 artists including – Rick Lowe, Robert Hodge, Ann John...
Oil
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H 50 in W 40 in D 1.66 in
"Cake Bake Birthday Hat" Contemporary Pastel Expressionist Abstract Painting
By Benji Stiles
Located in Houston, TX
Recent group shows include Collect it For the Culture 2021 (curated by Robert Hodge) where he showed work alongside more than 30 artists including – Rick Lowe, Robert Hodge, Ann John...
Oil
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H 60 in W 48 in D 1.38 in
"Untitled (Pink and Green Abstract)" Contemporary Pastel Expressionist Painting
By Benji Stiles
Located in Houston, TX
Recent group shows include Collect it For the Culture 2021 (curated by Robert Hodge) where he showed work alongside more than 30 artists including – Rick Lowe, Robert Hodge, Ann John...
Canvas, Oil
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H 60 in W 48 in D 1.38 in
"Untitled (Green and Grey Abstract)" Pastel Contemporary Expressionist Painting
By Benji Stiles
Located in Houston, TX
Recent group shows include Collect it For the Culture 2021 (curated by Robert Hodge) where he showed work alongside more than 30 artists including – Rick Lowe, Robert Hodge, Ann John...
Canvas, Oil
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H 30 in W 24 in D 0.75 in
"Untitled (Blue Dots)" Contemporary Pastel Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting
By Benji Stiles
Located in Houston, TX
Recent group shows include Collect it For the Culture 2021 (curated by Robert Hodge) where he showed work alongside more than 30 artists including – Rick Lowe, Robert Hodge, Ann John...
Canvas, Oil, Found Objects, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Graphite
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H 40 in W 30.13 in D 2.63 in
"Abstract #14" Purple, Green, Blue & Yellow Abstract Contemporary Painting
By Benji Stiles
Located in Houston, TX
Recent group shows include Collect it For the Culture 2021 (curated by Robert Hodge) where he showed work alongside more than 30 artists including – Rick Lowe, Robert Hodge, Ann John...
Canvas, Oil
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H 60 in W 48 in D 1.63 in
"Untitled #2" Pastel Green, Pink, Gray, and Blue Abstract Contemporary Painting
By Benji Stiles
Located in Houston, TX
Recent group shows include Collect it For the Culture 2021 (curated by Robert Hodge) where he showed work alongside more than 30 artists including – Rick Lowe, Robert Hodge, Ann John...
Canvas, Oil
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H 60 in W 48 in D 1.66 in
"Six Windows" Contemporary Pastel Abstract Expressionist Pink & Yellow Painting
By Benji Stiles
Located in Houston, TX
Recent group shows include Collect it For the Culture 2021 (curated by Robert Hodge) where he showed work alongside more than 30 artists including – Rick Lowe, Robert Hodge, Ann John...
Oil
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H 36 in W 48 in
"West Texas Fern" Contemporary Colorful Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting
By Benji Stiles
Located in Houston, TX
Recent group shows include Collect it For the Culture 2021 (curated by Robert Hodge) where he showed work alongside more than 30 artists including – Rick Lowe, Robert Hodge, Ann John...
Canvas, Oil
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H 29.38 in W 23.38 in D 2.13 in
"Licks and Sticks" Contemporary Pastel Expressionist Abstract Painting
By Benji Stiles
Located in Houston, TX
Recent group shows include Collect it For the Culture 2021 (curated by Robert Hodge) where he showed work alongside more than 30 artists including – Rick Lowe, Robert Hodge, Ann John...
Oil, Canvas
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H 61.13 in W 49.25 in D 2.25 in
"Abstract (Gray Study 1)" Contemporary Pastel Expressionist Abstract Painting
By Benji Stiles
Located in Houston, TX
Recent group shows include Collect it For the Culture 2021 (curated by Robert Hodge) where he showed work alongside more than 30 artists including – Rick Lowe, Robert Hodge, Ann John...
Canvas, Oil
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H 61.13 in W 49.25 in D 2.25 in
"Abstract #5 (Orange Dot)" Contemporary Pastel Expressionist Abstract Painting
By Benji Stiles
Located in Houston, TX
Recent group shows include Collect it For the Culture 2021 (curated by Robert Hodge) where he showed work alongside more than 30 artists including – Rick Lowe, Robert Hodge, Ann John...
Canvas, Oil
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H 61.13 in W 49.25 in D 2.25 in
"W.T.L. Sunset #1 (West Texas Landscape)" Pastel Abstract Contemporary Painting
By Benji Stiles
Located in Houston, TX
Recent group shows include Collect it For the Culture 2021 (curated by Robert Hodge) where he showed work alongside more than 30 artists including – Rick Lowe, Robert Hodge, Ann John...
Canvas, Oil
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H 20 in W 16 in D 1.5 in
Contemporary Colorful Pastel Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting
By Benji Stiles
Located in Houston, TX
Recent group shows include Collect it For the Culture 2021 (curated by Robert Hodge) where he showed work alongside more than 30 artists including – Rick Lowe, Robert Hodge, Ann John...
Canvas, Oil Crayon, Oil
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H 40 in W 60 in D 1.63 in
"Untitled (Grey Abstract)" Contemporary Pastel Expressionist Oil Painting
By Benji Stiles
Located in Houston, TX
Recent group shows include Collect it For the Culture 2021 (curated by Robert Hodge) where he showed work alongside more than 30 artists including – Rick Lowe, Robert Hodge, Ann John...
Canvas, Oil
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.
Bring audacious experiments with color and textures to your living room, dining room or home office. Abstract paintings, large or small, will stand out in your space, encouraging conversation and introducing a museum-like atmosphere that’s welcoming and conducive to creating memorable gatherings.
Abstract art has origins in 19th-century Europe, but it came into its own as a significant movement during the 20th century. Early practitioners of abstraction included Wassily Kandinsky, although painters were exploring nonfigurative art prior to the influential Russian artist’s efforts, which were inspired by music and religion. Abstract painters endeavored to create works that didn’t focus on the outside world’s conventional subjects, and even when artists depicted realistic subjects, they worked in an abstract mode to do so.
In 1940s-era New York City, a group of painters working in the abstract mode created radical work that looked to European avant-garde artists as well as to the art of ancient cultures, prioritizing improvisation, immediacy and direct personal expression. While they were never formally affiliated with one another, we know them today as Abstract Expressionists.
The male contingent of the Abstract Expressionists, which includes Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Robert Motherwell, is frequently cited in discussing leading figures of this internationally influential postwar art movement. However, the women of Abstract Expressionism, such as Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell and others, were equally involved in the art world of the time. Sexism, family obligations and societal pressures contributed to a long history of their being overlooked, but the female Abstract Expressionists experimented vigorously, developed their own style and produced significant bodies of work.
Draw your guests into abstract oil paintings across different eras and countries of origin. On 1stDibs, you’ll find an expansive range of abstract paintings along with a guide on how to arrange your wonderful new wall art.
If you’re working with a small living space, a colorful, oversize work can create depth in a given room, but there isn’t any need to overwhelm your interior with a sprawling pièce de résistance. Colorful abstractions of any size can pop against a white wall in your living room, but if you’re working with a colored backdrop, you may wish to stick to colors that complement the decor that is already in the space. Alternatively, let your painting make a statement on its own, regardless of its surroundings, or group it, gallery-style, with other works.
The artist and activist is the subject of a new show at Washington, D.C.'s National Gallery of Art.
Manhattan's Acquavella Galleries is showing a group of the artist's monumental works that have never been seen together.
Koloman Moser smashed the conservative conventions of art and design in fin-de-siècle Vienna. On the 100th anniversary of his death, the Austrian designer is being celebrated for his radically modern creations.