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Water Slide by Barry Cawston. 120cm x 100cm C-Type Print with Acrylic Face Mount
By Barry Cawston
Located in Coltishall, GB
, where the interplay of complementary colours transforms the essence of distinctive urban originals
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
H 39.38 in W 47.25 in D 0.04 in
Water Slide by Barry Cawston. 120cm x 100cm C-Type photographic Print only
By Barry Cawston
Located in Coltishall, GB
, where the interplay of complementary colours transforms the essence of distinctive urban originals
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
H 39.38 in W 47.25 in D 0.04 in
Garden No.4, 2023 Archival Pigment Print by Chris Thomaidis, Toronto, Canada
By Chris Thomaidis
Located in Toronto, ON
of 5
Chris’s work is based on the simple narratives of the everyday captured in urban and natural
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
H 33.3 in W 26 in D 0.07 in
Winter Garden No.10, 2023 Archival Pigment Print by Chris Thomaidis, Toronto
By Chris Thomaidis
Located in Toronto, ON
”
Edition of 5
Chris’s work is based on the simple narratives of the everyday captured in urban and natural
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
H 32.5 in W 26 in D 0.07 in
Blade No.2, 2023 Archival Pigment Print by Chris Thomaidis, Toronto, Canada
By Chris Thomaidis
Located in Toronto, ON
of 5
Chris’s work is based on the simple narratives of the everyday captured in urban and natural
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
H 32.5 in W 26 in D 0.07 in
Winter Garden No.8, 2020 Archival Pigment Print by Chris Thomaidis, Toronto
By Chris Thomaidis
Located in Toronto, ON
”
Edition of 5
Chris’s work is based on the simple narratives of the everyday captured in urban and natural
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
H 33.9 in W 24 in D 0.07 in
Winter Garden No.12, 2023 Archival Pigment Print by Chris Thomaidis, Toronto
By Chris Thomaidis
Located in Toronto, ON
”
Edition of 5
Chris’s work is based on the simple narratives of the everyday captured in urban and natural
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
H 32.5 in W 26 in D 0.07 in
Botanic No.2, 2023 Archival Pigment Print by Chris Thomaidis
By Chris Thomaidis
Located in Toronto, ON
”
Edition of 5
Chris’s work is based on the simple narratives of the everyday captured in urban and natural
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
H 32.5 in W 26 in D 0.07 in
Drvo, 2023 Archival Pigment Print by Chris Thomaidis, Toronto, Canada
By Chris Thomaidis
Located in Toronto, ON
Chris’s work is based on the simple narratives of the everyday captured in urban and natural environments
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
H 32.5 in W 26 in D 0.07 in
Visoka Treva, 2023 Archival Pigment Print by Chris Thomaidis, Toronto, Canada
By Chris Thomaidis
Located in Toronto, ON
of 5
Chris’s work is based on the simple narratives of the everyday captured in urban and natural
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
H 30 in W 30 in D 0.07 in
Sina, 2023 Archival Pigment Print by Chris Thomaidis, Toronto, Canada
By Chris Thomaidis
Located in Toronto, ON
Chris’s work is based on the simple narratives of the everyday captured in urban and natural environments
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
H 33.3 in W 24 in D 0.07 in
Wallscape I - abstract photograph of painterly details of blue toned surface
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
capturing urban textures and color palettes, painterly abstractions of beautifully decaying surfaces
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Untitled
Located in Ridgewood, NY
aging patinas and the rawness of urban decay. Some of these spaces feel like an expansion of
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Photography
Materials
Acrylic
Wallscape I - abstract photograph of painterly details of blue toned surface
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
capturing urban textures and color palettes, painterly abstractions of beautifully decaying surfaces
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Inkjet, Giclée
City Hall
By Liz Hickok
Located in Sante Fe, NM
"I create glowing, jellied scale models of urban sites, transforming ordinary physical surroundings
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Lower Manhattan, Jelly NYC
By Liz Hickok
Located in Sante Fe, NM
"I create glowing, jellied scale models of urban sites, transforming ordinary physical surroundings
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Camelback Mountain, Scottsdale in Jell-O
By Liz Hickok
Located in Sante Fe, NM
"I create glowing, jellied scale models of urban sites, transforming ordinary physical surroundings
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Architectural Color Pool Photo: Hotel with Blue Moon-like Sphere, White Frame
By Anna Dobrovolskaya-Mints
Located in London, GB
Dobrovolskaya-Mints' first project in an urban setting, highlighting the absence of human presence and prompting
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
H 43.31 in W 63 in D 1.58 in
Overpass
By Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber
Located in New York, NY
, these landscapes now appear abused and in decay, and it is uncertain how they will continue to (d)evolve
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Rift
By Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber
Located in New York, NY
, these landscapes now appear abused and in decay, and it is uncertain how they will continue to (d)evolve
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Fall Monument
By Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber
Located in New York, NY
, these landscapes now appear abused and in decay, and it is uncertain how they will continue to (d)evolve
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Concession
By Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber
Located in New York, NY
, these landscapes now appear abused and in decay, and it is uncertain how they will continue to (d)evolve
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Winter Monument
By Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber
Located in New York, NY
, these landscapes now appear abused and in decay, and it is uncertain how they will continue to (d)evolve
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dawn
By Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber
Located in New York, NY
, these landscapes now appear abused and in decay, and it is uncertain how they will continue to (d)evolve
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sentinel
By Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber
Located in New York, NY
, these landscapes now appear abused and in decay, and it is uncertain how they will continue to (d)evolve
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sirens
By Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber
Located in New York, NY
, these landscapes now appear abused and in decay, and it is uncertain how they will continue to (d)evolve
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Arch
By Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber
Located in New York, NY
, these landscapes now appear abused and in decay, and it is uncertain how they will continue to (d)evolve
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Utopia
By Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber
Located in New York, NY
, these landscapes now appear abused and in decay, and it is uncertain how they will continue to (d)evolve
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Large Scale Photograph Archival Pigment Print, Detroit Color Photo Doug Rickard
By Doug Rickard
Located in Surfside, FL
photographed scenes of urban and rural decay.
A New American Picture depicts American street scenes, located
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Annette Cords, Local Generation, 2014, Tapestry, Wool, Cotton
By Annette Cords
Located in Darien, CT
urban vernacular of graffiti to scientific recordings of decaying particles, I am
interested in our
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Abstract Photography
Materials
Tapestry, Wool, Cotton
H 47 in W 40.5 in D 0.5 in
The Mission 16th and Dolores, San Francisco in Jell-O
By Liz Hickok
Located in Sante Fe, NM
"I create glowing, jellied scale models of urban sites, transforming ordinary physical surroundings
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
C Print
Large Latin American Modernist Oil Paintng Women with Fruit
By Alexis Duque
Located in Surfside, FL
: "Imagine Architecture: Artistic Visions Of The Urban Realm”, “Caribbean: Together Apart Contemporary
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Coffee + Cigarettes
Located in New York, NY
comment on sexuality, decay and reassembly, mechanical reproduction and corporate branding, and the
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Newsprint, Lithograph
The Musician, Large Lating American Modernist Oil Paintng
By Alexis Duque
Located in Surfside, FL
featured in several publications, including: "Imagine Architecture: Artistic Visions Of The Urban Realm
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The Theater
By Jeremy Harris
Located in Brooklyn, NY
photographing the urban decay of abandoned buildings throughout the country. Harris’s beautifully lit and
Category
Contemporary Color Photography
Vanitas
By Jeremy Harris
Located in Brooklyn, NY
photographing the urban decay of abandoned buildings throughout the country. Harris’s beautifully lit and
Category
Contemporary Color Photography
The Color of Temperance: Embodied Energy No. 3
By Julie Schenkelberg
Located in New York, NY
premonitions of collapse, suggesting both the utter destruction of war, calamities, or urban decay, but also
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Digital
The Color of Temperance: Embodied Energy No. 1
By Julie Schenkelberg
Located in New York, NY
premonitions of collapse, suggesting both the utter destruction of war, calamities, or urban decay, but also
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Digital
The Color of Temperance: Embodied Energy No. 2
By Julie Schenkelberg
Located in New York, NY
premonitions of collapse, suggesting both the utter destruction of war, calamities, or urban decay, but also
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Digital
Chernobyl 2
By Felix Forest
Located in Potts Point, NSW
Forest’s ‘Chernobyl’ is a haunting realisation of Forest’s teenage dream to visit the eroded, decayed city
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Pigment
Chernobyl 1
By Felix Forest
Located in Potts Point, NSW
of Forest’s teenage dream to visit the eroded, decayed city; built, then abandoned after the world’s
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Pigment
Urban Redux, Rivington Street #1
Located in Asbury Park, NJ
of urban landscapes in the process of transience and decay. The images act as environmental portraits
Category
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Mixed Media, Archival Pigment
Arthur Tress (American b. 1940) 'The Voyage' Rare Signed and Numbered Photograph
By Arthur Tress
Located in Ft. Lauderdale, FL
neighborhood of Coney Island where he spent hours exploring the decaying amusement parks. Later, during five
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Photography
Materials
Paper
H 24.5 in W 23 in D 1 in
Arthur Tress, American b. 1940 'Claire De Lune 1976' Original Signed Photograph
By Arthur Tress
Located in Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Coney Island where he spent hours exploring the decaying amusement parks. Later, during five years of
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Photography
Materials
Paper
H 14 in W 11 in D 1 in
Arthur Tress 'Hockey Player 1972' Original Signed Photograph
By Arthur Tress
Located in Ft. Lauderdale, FL
surreal neighborhood of Coney Island where he spent hours exploring the decaying amusement parks. Later
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Photography
Materials
Paper
Blue Addiction
By Anyes Galleani
Located in Los Angeles, CA
fascination for urban decay.
Anyes Galleani
Born and raised on the Italian Riviera, Anyes Galleani came to
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Mixed Media
Large Latin American Modernist Oil Paintng Women with Fruit
By Alexis Duque
Located in Surfside, FL
: "Imagine Architecture: Artistic Visions Of The Urban Realm”, “Caribbean: Together Apart Contemporary
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The Musician, Large Lating American Modernist Oil Paintng
By Alexis Duque
Located in Surfside, FL
featured in several publications, including: "Imagine Architecture: Artistic Visions Of The Urban
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Bay Bridge
By Liz Hickok
Located in Sante Fe, NM
"I create glowing, jellied scale models of urban sites, transforming ordinary physical surroundings
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Arthur Tress, 'Boy on Road 1996' Original Signed and Numbered Photograph
By Arthur Tress
Located in Ft. Lauderdale, FL
surreal neighborhood of Coney Island where he spent hours exploring the decaying amusement parks. Later
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Photography
Materials
Paper
Untitled 1020
Located in London, GB
techniques and processes of street art, they are rooted in the visual language of urban decay. His
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board, Pigment
Chernobyl 13
By Felix Forest
Located in Potts Point, NSW
Forest’s ‘Chernobyl’ is a haunting realisation of Forest’s teenage dream to visit the eroded, decayed city
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Pigment
Untitled #3 (Hanging out)
By Alexis Adler
Located in London, GB
blossomed by feeding off the lawless decay.1
The neighbourhood is New York’s Lower East Side. The pioneers
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film
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