Vik Muniz is a Brazilian artist currently working out of New York.
Muniz is well known for his broad range of experimental works. While he started his career as a sculptor, his practice today is almost entirely photo-based — creating works but then photographing them.
Muniz’s interest in human visual understanding is the running theme behind the majority of his work, of which a photograph called Key, from Earthworks is a perfect example. The "Earthworks" series also includes images of electrical outlets, tobacco pipes, footprints, scissors, dice, paper airplanes, envelopes, and coat hangers. The juxtaposition of intimate, inanimate objects and the living, changing landscape renders this photographic series truly striking.
Muniz's innovative and shifting methods of visual communication are what constantly earn him recognition and admiration internationally. He frequently destabilizes the conventions of the art history canon by revisiting or appropriating conventions and icons but realizing them in unconventional materials and creative strategies.
Muniz's work can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Tate, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art to name a few.
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Medusa Marinara - Peter Norton Christmas Gift by Vik Muniz
By Vik Muniz, Bernardaud
Located in Soquel, CA
Medusa Marinara - Peter Norton Christmas Gift by Vik Muniz Every year since 1988, technology entrepreneur and avid collector Peter Norton commissioned an artist to create an origina...
Porcelain
$500 / set
H 1 in Dm 11.5 in
John Glick Signed Set of 5 Plates Modernist Stoneware Glazed Ceramics Plum Tree
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
A modernist stoneware glazed ceramic set of 5 plates by Detroit artist John Glick of Plum Tree Pottery. Circa late 20th century. Glazed in earthtones. Artisisnal yet functional and m...
Ceramic, Pottery
Astronomici n.1 Decorative Plate by Fornasetti
By Fornasetti
Located in Milan, IT
This hand-decorated porcelain plate is adorned with exquisite zodiac designs, making this a true collector's item. Any minor discrepancies are the result of craftsmanship and attest ...
Porcelain
Fruit Salad Plates Design by Giovanna Amoruso Manzari for Limoges France
By Limoges Elite Porcelain 1
Located in Neguri, Vizcaya
Giovanna Amoruso Manzari hand painted partial table service for Limoges, decorated with fruit, flowers, and butterflies. Measure 8.66 inches / 22 cm * Request info for flatware pric...
Ceramic
$1,920Sale Price / set|32% Off
H 0.79 in W 15.16 in D 12.01 in
Limoges Bernardaud 62 Pieces Fine Faience Dinner Service
By Bernardaud
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
Exquisite fine cream faience tableware set adorned with scattered roses and gold trim. The set consists of 62 pieces and would be ideal for casual dining, or would make an eyecatchin...
Faience, Paint
$3,600 / set
H 0.5 in Dm 9 in
Set of 10 Foley 19th Century Arts & Crafts Dessert Plates with Shaped Rim
By Foley China
Located in Great Barrington, MA
This is a set of ten Foley China, England dessert plates with an unusual and distinctive Arts and Crafts pattern that takes your breath away. The striking combination of colors in co...
Porcelain
1970’s German Christmas Schumann “noel” Dessert Plates - Set of 14
By Schumann Arzberg 1
Located in Charleston, SC
This festive pattern was produced by Schumann from 1970 through 1980 and is now discontinued. It features a Christmas tree center on white with red trim. I’m not one to seek out a lot of holiday specific decor but these were prettier than a lot of holiday plates...
Porcelain, Paint
$4,800 / set
H 0.75 in Dm 10.75 in
12 Lamm Dresden Arts & Crafts Raised Paste Gold & Cream Dinner Service Plates
By Dresden Porcelain, Ambrosius Lamm
Located in Great Barrington, MA
This set of 12 dinner plates are made by the iconic Ambrosius Lamm Dresden in a rare Arts & Crafts style decoration featuring a clear white cent...
Porcelain
Sonderborg Castle Porcelain Plate by Royal Copenhagen
By Royal Copenhagen
Located in New Orleans, LA
This plate by the celebrated porcelain firm of Royal Copenhagen features a wonderfully detailed seascape complete with ships and a quaint Danish village surrounding the Sonderborg Ca...
Porcelain
$5,500 / set
H 1 in Dm 10.75 in
Set of 13 Minton Dinner Plates Soft Blue Green Raised Paste Gold Leaf Pattern
By Minton
Located in Great Barrington, MA
This set of 13 Minton dinner plates feature the iconic "Eau de Nils" enamel border which is a soft blue green, described as the "wat...
Porcelain
Tiffany Studios New York Bronze Doré Large Plate or Charger
By Tiffany Studios
Located in South Bend, IN
A gorgeous Arts & Crafts or Art Deco period gilt bronze large plate or charger By Tiffany Studios (signed to the underside) New York, USA, Early 20th Century Measures: 14"W x 14"D...
Bronze
$717 / item
H 2.5 in Dm 8.66 in
Fruit Salad Plates Design by Giovanna Amoruso Manzari for Limoges France
By Limoges Elite Porcelain 1
Located in Neguri, Vizcaya
Giovanna Amoruso Manzari hand painted partial table service for Limoges, decorated with fruit, flowers, and butterflies. Measure 8.66 inches / 22 cm * Request info for flatware pr...
Ceramic
Tiffany Studios New York Bronze Doré Plate or Charger
By Tiffany Studios
Located in South Bend, IN
A gorgeous Arts & Crafts or Art Deco period gilt bronze plate or charger By Tiffany Studios (signed to the underside) New York, USA, Early 20th Century Measures: 9"W x 9"D x 0.5"H...
Bronze
Caravaggio's Medusa 'Medusa Marinara' by Vik Muniz
By Vik Muniz
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Caravaggio's Medusa (Medusa Marinara) Designed 1999 Cast porcelain Measure: 12½" diameter Limited edition. Caravaggio’s Medusa (Medusa Marinara) features an image of Muniz’s recreation of Caravaggio’s Medusa (1590, Gallerica degli Uffizi, Florence) rendered in pasta marinara. The pasta “drawing” was then photographed and digitally printed on this porcelain plate fabricated in France. This sought-after edition was published by the Peter Norton...
Porcelain