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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The Glass House, After Robin Hill Photograph by Vik Muniz
By Vik Muniz
Located in New Canaan, CT
Vik Muniz The Glass House, after Robin Hill Digital C print Measures: 20 in. x 29.6 in. Accompanied by a complete signature label Edition of 25 U...
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"Photograph of a Grecian Bust" by John Dugdale
By John Dugdale
Located in NYC, NY
"Photograph of a Grecian bust" is a cyanotype print by John Dugdale, edition 2/6. The print is 16" x 20" matted and framed to 24" x 27.5".
"The Divers" Sepia Photograph After George Hoyningen-Huene
By George Hoyningen-Huene
Located in New York, NY
"The Divers", by famed photographer George Hoyningen-Huene, c. 1930, printed later. Unsigned. Seemingly shot on the French Riviera, the grand make-believe and glamour of this famous ...
Paper
$6,440
H 7.25 in W 9.75 in D 1 in
Andy Warhol, Joe Dellasandro, ‘Flesh, 1968’ Black & White Photograph 1968, 1978.
By Andy Warhol
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Andy Warhol, Joe Dellasandro, ‘Trash’, 1968 (1978), Black & White Photograph. Large silver gelatin print. Printed in 1978. Provenance: Archive of After Dark Magazine, New York. T...
Paper
$1,800
H 32.25 in W 27.3 in D 1.3 in
Christo / The Pont Neuf Wrapped / Project For Paris, 1984 Lithograph
By Nouvelles Images, Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Located in New York, NY
Christo / The Pont Neuf Wrapped / Project for Paris, 1984 / Collage En Deux Partes Offset lithograph in colors on woven paper, published by Nouvelles Ima...
Paper
$1,300
H 1 in W 9 in D 9 in
Biker in a Mirror Black and White Photograph Gravure Print by Burk Uzzle, 1980
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Biker in a mirror black and white photograph Gravure print by Burk Uzzle 1980 Gravure print (1984, France). Burk Uzzle is an American photojournalist, previously member of Mag...
Paper
Contemporary Photograph of a Sliced Apple
Located in Sheffield, MA
Caroline Kaars Sypesteyn of Berkshire Artisanal is the artist who has created this black-and-white photographic print on linen of a sliced apple. Titled "Apple Portfolio Print." The ...
Linen, Wood
Photograph of Male Nude by Greg Gorman
By Greg Gorman
Located in Atlanta, GA
Artist: Greg Gorman (American, b. 1949) Title: Rex and Gregory, 1988 Gelatin silver print Image size: 18.75 x 14.75 inches Paper size: 19.75 x 15.875 inches Frame size: 24.8 x 1...
Glass, Wood, Paper
$233
H 21.26 in W 14.18 in D 0.02 in
Venetian Serenity: Capturing the Essence of Calle della Madonna, 1890
Located in Langweer, NL
Photogravure of Calle della Madonna, a street near Ponte di Rialto in Venice, Italy. This print originates from 'Calli e Canali - Streets and Canals in ...
Paper
Pictorialist Photograph Nude Wood Nymph by Charles Cook Circa 1910
Located in Rochester, NY
Pictorialist photograph of nude woman in a forest interior by Charles Cook. Silver print. Circa 1910. Charles J. Cook was a painter and pho...
Paper
$950Sale Price|42% Off
H 13.5 in W 10.5 in D 1 in
Vintage Nude Black and White Photograph by Josef Ehm
By Josef Ehm
Located in Rochester, NY
Vintage black and white photograph, photography by Josef Ehm. "Resting Model II", circa 1960s, gelatin silver print. Josef Ehm: Czech, 1909-1989. Born in Habartov. Apprenticed i...
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Mammoth Photograph of Notre Dame
Located in Rochester, NY
Grand tour 19th century photograph of Notre Dame Cathedral, late 19th century. Matted. Unframed.
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Vik Muniz: Upside-Down Demolition Limited Edition Print
By Phaidon
Located in New York, NY
Photograph Digital c-print Measures: 19.78 x 16.00 in 50.2 x 40.6 cm Edition of 25 This work comes with a Certificate of Authenticity and an artist signed label on verso. T...
Paper
The Glass House, after Robin Hill Photograph by Vik Muniz
By Vik Muniz
Located in New Canaan, CT
Vik Muniz The Glass House, after Robin Hill Digital C print 20 in. x 29.6 in. Edition of 25 Unframed
Paper
Happy View by Vik Muniz
By Vik Muniz
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Vik Muniz. Happy View, 2015, two lenticular prints and nine pair of artist-designed sunglasses in a custom lucite case (custom sunglasses case and cleaning cloth included). Measures: 24.75 H x 20.75 W x 4.25 D inches, edition of 40 plus 5 APs, individually numbered and showing printed signature on interior of cover and on each pair of sunglasses, In collaboration with our partners at LizWorks and Selima Optiques. 5% of all proceeds benefit Escola do Vidigal, a free art and technology program founded by the artist in Rio de Janeiro to promote visual literacy. Vik Muniz, known for taking everyday materials and twisting them into unexpected imagery, has created Happy View, a playful visual pun that turns the perceived 3-D world of a lenticular into reality. Happy View consists of a wall-mounted, custom-designed lucite display box that has the presence and scale of a medicine cabinet. It features two new lenticular images...
Plexiglass
Fleur De Lys Wallpaper by Vik Muniz
By Vik Muniz
Located in Jersey City, NJ
The design for this wallpaper by Vik Muniz relates to the artist’s Pictures of Garbage series and shows a traditional Fleur de Lys pattern fashioned out of garbage and then photograp...