Op Art Mixed Media
OP ART STYLE
The Op art movement emerged in the 1960s, mirroring the counterculture of the time in its embrace of visual trickery, graphic shapes and bright colors.
Spreading across Europe and the Americas, the style — whose name is short for “optical art” — influenced advertising, fashion and interior design before fading in the early ’70s.
Op art remained significant, however, for artists and scientists interested in the nature of perception. And today, it’s seeing a resurgence of interest from collectors and interior designers.
Op artists played with the principles of perception, manipulating line, shape, patterns and color to create the illusion of depth and movement. They drew on and evolved methods developed by past movements, from Impressionism to Abstract Expressionism, to produce intense visual experiences.
All the Op artists shared a focus on the gap between what is and what we perceive. Each, however, had a distinct approach to the issue and a unique visual style.
On 1stDibs, find a collection of Op art that includes works by Josef Albers, Bridget Riley, Jesús Rafael Soto and more.
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Style: Op Art
Granat (Garnet) Negatif - dazzling 3-D carved, painted wood Op Art piece, Signed
Located in New York, NY
Victor Vasarely
Granat (Garnet) Negatif, 1967
3-D color painted and carved wood relief
Hand signed in black ink on the Denise Rene label on the back (see photos), Edition 8/50
Frame ...
Category
1960s Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Wood, Ink, Mixed Media
Cityscape Kinetic Optical Op Art Painting on Plexiglass by L.L. Long
Located in Atlanta, GA
A striking composition created by American artist L. L. Long and dated 1980. The artwork features a kinetic optical Op Art geometric cityscape design using reverse spray paint on a L...
Category
1980s Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Lucite, Plexiglass, Spray Paint
CSW 2024.2 (coral orange vibrant grid painting on wood optical fine lines)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
The series "Mångatas" explores the marriage of chance-derived gestures with exacting grid geometry. Built upon a multilayered convergence of aerosol painting and hard-edge technique...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic
CSW 2024.4 (Aquatic whisper of emerald artichoke turquoise green grid painting)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
The series "CSW" explores the marriage of chance-derived gestures with exacting grid geometry. Built upon a multilayered convergence of airbrush painting and hard-edge techniques on...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic
CSW 2024.3 (Crimson red veiled echoes color-field grid painting on wood)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
The series "CSW" explores the marriage of chance-derived gestures with exacting grid geometry. Built upon a multilayered convergence of airbrush painting and hard-edge techniques on...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic
Bubbles
Located in West Hollywood, CA
In “Bubbles” the artist skillfully employs color theory alongside a meticulous and repetitive layering technique on wooden panels. This deliberate approach not only captures viewer’s...
Category
2010s Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Plaster, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Aurora
Located in West Hollywood, CA
In Didem Yagci’s artwork “Aurora,” she intricately layers cut wood panels on plaster, creating a mesmerizing symmetrical design. The wall sculpture is animated by a flawless gradient...
Category
2010s Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Plaster, Wood Panel
Grey tinted Rainbow (Geometric Abstraction) dazzling Op Art framed assemblage
Located in New York, NY
RICHARD ANUSZKIEWICZ
Grey Tinted Rainbow, 1992
Assemblage with 14 Color Silkscreen and Lithograph
Edition of 40
Pencil signed and numbered 11/40 on the front
Frame included: elegantl...
Category
1990s Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Lithograph, Screen, Mixed Media, Pencil
Atomic Kate
Located in Belfast, GB
Atomic Kate
Silver Leaf and Black Glitter Dust on Board
113 x 113 cm
44 1/2 x 44 1/2 in
"I have always been fascinated by motion. What fascinates me with this craft is to capture th...
Category
2010s Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Glitter
La palette de l'amour | The palette of love
Located in Belfast, GB
La palette de l'amour | The palette of love
Mixed Media
54 3/4 x 54 3/4 in
139 x 139 cm
Unique
"I have always been fascinated by motion. What fascinates me with this craft is to cap...
Category
2010s Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
A Grid like Marilyn
Located in Belfast, GB
A Grid like Marilyn
Mixed Media
113 x 113 cm
44 1/2 x 44 1/2 in
"I have always been fascinated by motion. What fascinates me with this craft is to capture the viewers attention. But...
Category
2010s Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Tout pour mon amour | All my love
Located in Belfast, GB
Tout pour mon amour | All my love
Mixed Media
54 3/4 x 54 3/4 in
139 x 139 cm
Unique
"I have always been fascinated by motion. What fascinates me with this craft is to capture the v...
Category
2010s Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Mangata 31 (small scale gold grid painting abstract flora wood op art)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
The series "Mångatas" explores the marriage of chance-derived gestures with exacting grid geometry. Built upon a multilayered convergence of aerosol painting and hard-edge technique...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic
Red kinetic diamond points
Located in Brussels, BE
By great Master Optical Art YOSHYUKI MIURA (Japanese),
kinetic sculpture strictly limited to edition of 5. Signed and dated on the base 2022 Edition 1/5.
Hand painted acrylic on st...
Category
2010s Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic
Mangata 3 (small scale gold grid painting abstract wood contemporary op art)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
The series "Mångatas" explores the marriage of chance-derived gestures with exacting grid geometry. Built upon a multilayered convergence of aerosol painting and hard-edge technique...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic
Mangata 3 (small scale grid pastel painting abstract wood contemporary op art)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
The series "Mångatas" explores the marriage of chance-derived gestures with exacting grid geometry. Built upon a multilayered convergence of aerosol painting and hard-edge technique...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic
Mangata 44 (small scale gold grid painting abstract wood floral op art)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
The series "Mångatas" explores the marriage of chance-derived gestures with exacting grid geometry. Built upon a multilayered convergence of aerosol painting and hard-edge technique...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic
Frost and decimals 2023.1 (small blue abstract wood dark minimalist painting)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
The series "Frost and Decimals" explores the marriage of color Fields with exacting geometry. Built upon a multilayered convergence of aerosol painting and hard-edge techniques on wo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic
Mangata 20 (small scale gold grid painting abstract wood contemporary op art)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
The series "Mångatas" explores the marriage of chance-derived gestures with exacting grid geometry. Built upon a multilayered convergence of aerosol painting and hard-edge technique...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic
Untitled Mod Op Art 1967 Painting on Silk
Located in Surfside, FL
Label from Obelisk Gallery verso.
Henry C. Pearson (October 8, 1914 – December 3, 2006) was an American abstract and modernist painter. Pearson was born in Kinston, North Carolina, graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1938, and studied theatrical design at Yale University. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps in the Second World War, designing maps for the Okinawa campaign, and then re-enlisted to serve in the US occupation of Japan, where he was influenced by Japanese art and theatre forms. Henry Pearson is perhaps best known for a mildly optical manner of painting, featuring a mutable labyrinth of undulating parallel lines, which somewhat inadvertently linked him to the Op Art movement of the 1960s. Although included in the Museum of Modern Art's landmark exhibition The Responsive Eye in 1965, his work displays an intuitive rhythm and poetic elegance that falls well outside of the calculated, often hard-edged quality normally associated with the Op group of artists.
Pearson came late to the visual arts. His first career, in theatre design, was cut short by the Second World War. He entered the U.S. Army in 1942, and at war's end requested duty in occupied Japan, where a prolonged contact with Japanese culture nurtured a passion for painting. Upon his discharge from the army, in 1953, he enrolled in the Art Students League in New York City, where he studied with, among others, Reginald Marsh and Will Barnet. Inspired by Malevich, he turned to rectilinear abstraction, and employed it as the dominant means of expression in his painting between 1954 and 1961.
As early as 1959, however, sensing an incipient decadence in his geometric canvases...
Category
1960s Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Silk, Paper, Mixed Media
Piano Keys Rock -- 2023
Located in Washington, DC
EMBEDDED MESSAGES / TERMS
Sing us the song, you’re the piano man / Sing us a song tonight / Well, we’re all in the mood for a melody / And you’ve got us feelin’ alright - BILLY JOEL...
Category
2010s Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Other Medium
Canopic Prestidigitation
By Nancy Graves
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Over the course of her prolific and radical career, Nancy Graves became a master of translating the primary data of soft science disciplines such as archaeology and anthropology into empirically informed, expressive works, such as "Canopic Prestidigitation."
A large-scale, 23-color lithograph, Canopic Prestidigitation is as technically masterful as it is conceptually layered.
Graves combines the Egyptian visual lexicon of the afterlife and allusions to European Renaissance masterworks to catalyze heuristic understandings of cross-cultural communication—Figures rendered in the hybridized profile-portrait style of Egyptian hieroglyphs float through a swirling and subtle maze of neo-classical architectural suggestions, while a disembodied hand reminiscent of Michelangelo’s "The Creation of Adam" reaches out through a frothing red portal. A cast-paper representation of Horus perches in the bottom right corner of the work, a nod to the symbolic language of the print and Graves’ multi-disciplined artistic approach. When read together, the elements of Canopic Prestidigitation become an artistic interpretation of the intangible qualities of social science...
Category
1990s Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Archival Paper, Handmade Paper, Lithograph
Picasso: "I do not seek, I find" -- 2021
Located in Washington, DC
* Youth has no age * Action is the foundational key to all success * It takes a long time to become young * The chief enemy of creativity is good sense * Learn the rules like a pro,...
Category
2010s Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Mangata 28 (small scale gold grid painting abstract wood contemporary op art)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
The series "Mångatas" explores the marriage of chance-derived gestures with exacting grid geometry. Built upon a multilayered convergence of aerosol painting and hard-edge technique...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic
Heuristic #05
Located in Washington, DC
3-d lenticulary photography
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Lenticular
"Space Cowboy II" Bright Teal, Neon Pink, and Dark Blue Circular Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Colorful neon abstract contemporary circular painting by Houston, TX artist, David Hardaker. This painting features various rings of shades of neon teal...
Category
2010s Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Resin, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Mid Century Modern Dimensional Ink on Acetate Stippled Op Art Mixed Media Work
Located in New York, NY
This refined mid century modern mixed media work was realized in the United States circa 1970. In dialogue with the Op Art movement of the time- popularized by such artists such as V...
Category
1970s Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Ink
in City and in Forest 13 (blue painting abstract wood royal navy cobalt grid)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"in City and in Forest 12" explores the assimilation of aerosol painting, pyrography and sanding techniques on wood. The artist engages her work with notions of repetition, graffiti and blur derived from the pictorial works of artists Jack Whitten...
Category
2010s Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Spray Paint, Wood Panel
Cascadia 8 (grid painting abstract wood contemporary vivid colors optical art)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
In Melisa’s optical and pulsating compositions, the natural world acts as blue-print while she explores the notion of the sublime through blur and precision. The artist develops an a...
Category
2010s Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Spray Paint, Wood Panel
MUSIC (DIMENSIONAL PIECES OF WOOD WITH MAGNETS)
By Stan Slutsky
Located in Aventura, FL
Original dimensional hand painted wood pieces with magnets attached to a square shaped wood. Hand signed on front and verso by the artist.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certif...
Category
Late 20th Century Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Drippin Paint
Located in Atlanta, GA
Stephen Graham
Drippin Paint
12" x 20.5"
Swarovski crystals on push pins
2017
South African-born Stephen Graham has been working as an Artist and a Designer in the Art and Creative ...
Category
2010s Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Board, Pins
Oscar Reutersvard Original Op Art Pen, Ink & Watercolor Drawing C.1990
Located in San Francisco, CA
Oscar Reutersvard Original Op Art Pen, Ink & Watercolor Drawing C.1990
Dimensions 8" wide x 11" high
Housed in a simple frame - Dimensions 15" wide...
Category
Late 20th Century Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Mickey Mouse
Located in Atlanta, GA
Stephen Graham
Mickey Mouse
Black Frame
Swarovski crystals on push pins
2017
South African-born Stephen Graham has been working as an Artist and a Desig...
Category
2010s Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Board, Pins
“Lozenge Land 2” Modern Abstract Blue, Green, and Orange Dimensional Op Art
By Jeremy Kidd
Located in Houston, TX
Modern blue, green, and orange abstract op art landscape. Through using 3-dimensional elements and realistic shading techniques, Kidd is able to great an undulating, futuristic lands...
Category
Early 2000s Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Resin, Plaster, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Digital
Interferences cercles noir et blanc
By Antonio Asis
Located in Tbilisi, GE
Wood and serigraph; signed; framed
Edition size: 15
Category
2010s Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Wood, Mixed Media
Interferences cercles rouge et blanc
By Antonio Asis
Located in Tbilisi, GE
Wood and serigraph; signed
Edition size: 15
Category
2010s Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Wood, Mixed Media
Interferences cercles de couleurs
By Antonio Asis
Located in Tbilisi, GE
Dood and serigraph; signed; framed
Edition size: 15
Category
2010s Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Wood
Asistype 4 - boule sur cercle
By Antonio Asis
Located in Tbilisi, GE
Antonio Asis created a series of 20 Monotypes - all unique pieces; signed
Category
2010s Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Steel
KELEIDOSCOPE (DIMENSIONAL PIECES OF WOOD WITH MAGNETS)
By Stan Slutsky
Located in Aventura, FL
Original dimensional hand painted wood pieces with magnets attached to circular shaped wood giving illusion of movement.. Hand signed on front and verso by the artist.
Artwork is in...
Category
Early 2000s Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
FAITH
By Stan Slutsky
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on canvas. Hand signed and titled on verso by the artist. Canvas is stretched.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reas...
Category
1980s Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Cascadia 4 (grid painting abstract wood contemporary vivid colors optical art)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
In Melisa’s optical and pulsating compositions, the natural world acts as blue-print while she explores the notion of the sublime through blur and precision. The artist develops an a...
Category
2010s Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Spray Paint, Wood Panel
INFERNO (PAINTING ON WOOD)
By Stan Slutsky
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on wood giving 3D appearance. Hand signed on verso by the artist.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity i...
Category
Late 20th Century Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
SPECTRUM (DIMENSIONAL HAND PAINTED WOOD)
By Stan Slutsky
Located in Aventura, FL
Original dimensional hand painted, custom cut and mounted wood. Hand signed on front and verso.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reason...
Category
Late 20th Century Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
SPRING (DIMENSIONAL PIECES OF WOOD WITH MAGNETS)
By Stan Slutsky
Located in Aventura, FL
Original dimensional hand painted wood pieces with magnets attached to square shaped wood giving illusion of movement.. Hand signed on front and verso by the artist.
Artwork is in e...
Category
Early 2000s Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
DREAM WEAVER (DIMENSIONAL HAND PAINTED WOOD)
By Stan Slutsky
Located in Aventura, FL
Original dimensional hand painted, custom cut and mounted wood. Hand signed on verso.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonable offer...
Category
Late 20th Century Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Modern Green, White & Black Abstract Geometric Kimono Collagraph, Masterplate #1
Located in Soquel, CA
Unique mixed media work created from a Master plate for collagraph printmaking, featuring a bold and modern geometric kimono shape in green, white, and black, by Patricia A. Pearce (...
Category
1980s Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Silk, Masonite, Ink, Acrylic, Gesso
COSMOS (DIMENSIONAL PIECES OF WOOD)
By Stan Slutsky
Located in Aventura, FL
Original dimensional hand painted wood pieces attached to a square shaped wood giving illusion of movement. Hand signed on front and verso by the artist.
Artwork is in excellent co...
Category
Early 2000s Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Gift From the Sun (black)
By Eric Ernst
Located in East Hampton, NY
Gift from the Sun 15"x15" $1150
8 color ultra chrome HD archival digital ink on archival paper.
Editions of 25
Print to Order
About the Artist:
Eric Ernst was born in Norwal...
Category
2010s Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Busta" 38x50" illusion on canvas
Located in Southampton, NY
This illusionistic work on canvas titled "Busta" is a collaboration between two artists, Joe Doyle and Diane Rosenblum. The surface of the canvas is completely flat but a remarkable ...
Category
2010s Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Archival Ink, Pigment
CURVES (CIRCULAR PAINTING ON WOOD)
By Stan Slutsky
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on circular shaped wood. Hand signed on verso by the artist.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonable offers will ...
Category
Late 20th Century Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
LINEAR WEAVING (DIMENSIONAL HAND PAINTED WOOD)
By Stan Slutsky
Located in Aventura, FL
Original dimensional hand painted, custom cut and mounted wood. Hand signed on front and verso.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reason...
Category
Late 20th Century Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
SOPHISTICATED
By Stan Slutsky
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on canvas. Hand signed on front; signed and titled on verso by the artist. Canvas is stretched.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity in...
Category
Late 20th Century Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
PERSPECTIVE (CUSTOM WOOD PAINTING)
By Stan Slutsky
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on custom cut wood. Hand signed on verso by the artist.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonable offers will be co...
Category
Late 20th Century Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic, Wood
SPIRAL RAINBOW (CIRCULAR PAINTING ON WOOD)
By Stan Slutsky
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on circular shaped wood. Hand signed on front and verso by the artist.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonable of...
Category
Late 20th Century Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
BOX I (PAINTING ON WOOD)
By Stan Slutsky
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on wood giving appearance of 3D and movement. Hand signed on verso by the artist.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. All re...
Category
Late 20th Century Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
HEXAGON (HEXAGON SHAPED)
By Stan Slutsky
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on canvas. Hand signed on front; signed and titled on verso by the artist. Custom framed as pictured in a hexagon shape.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
STAGES
By Stan Slutsky
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on canvas. Hand signed on front; signed and titled on verso by the artist. Canvas is stretched.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
THREE CUBES (CUSTOM WOOD PAINTING)
By Stan Slutsky
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on custom cut wood. Hand signed on verso by the artist.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonable offers will be co...
Category
Late 20th Century Op Art Mixed Media
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Op Art mixed media for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Op Art mixed media available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add mixed media created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of purple, blue, green, orange and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Stan Slutsky, Melisa Taylor Metzger, Patrick Rubinstein, and Antonio Asis. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Acrylic Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Op Art mixed media, so small editions measuring 10.24 inches across are also available. Prices for mixed media made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $340 and tops out at $56,670, while the average work sells for $3,150.
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