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Contemporary Art

CONTEMPORARY STYLE

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.

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Style: Contemporary
Gaze
Located in Oslo, 03
Edition 3 Six-color silkscreen print, custom engraved frame
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Screen

Peace Harmonist 1, Elisia Nghidishange, Mixed media sculpture
Located in Windhoek, NA
This artwork formed part of Nghidishange's exhibition titled 'Ehafo' held at the Namibian Arts Association in 2022. Nghidishange was born in Eenhana in northern Namibia. This printma...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Wire

Altered Madonnas, Camilla Hanney, 2020, Cast and handbuilt porcelain
Located in London, GB
Cast and handbuilt porcelain, gold lustre
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Luster, Porcelain

NYC Man. Contemporary Hyper-realist Portrait
Located in London, GB
Jeremy Andrews Contemporary NYC Man Oil on canvas, signed Image size: 85 x 92 ¼ inches Framed
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

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Oil

The woods give comfort II
Located in Oslo, 03
Black stoneware
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Ceramic

Filament I, Contemporary, 21st Century, Pigment Print, Limited Edition, Edition
Located in Zug, CH
Joana Vasconcelos, Filament I Filament I, Contemporary, 21st Century, Pigment Print, Limited Edition, Edition Pigment Print Edition of 25 111.8 x 85.3 cm (44 x 33.5 in) Signed and nu...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Pigment

Blossom Moon Jar Drawing 9
Located in Seoul, KR
ABOUT THE ARTWORK Cut-outs on A4 paper/ Collage work for Blossom Moon Jars Series. About Moon Jars The characteristic of the method of making moon jars is the technique of making an...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Paper, Glue

RGB Kudu
Located in PARIS, FR
Unique piece Created in 2015 109 x 61 x 48 cm " My work investigates the slippery intersection between the digital world and reality. Specifically, I am interested in how we experie...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

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Plywood, Ink, Acrylic

Nest
Located in PARIS, FR
Unique piece Created in 2015 38 x 23 x 33 cm " My work investigates the slippery intersection between the digital world and reality. Specifically, I am interested in how we experie...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

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Plywood, Ink, Acrylic

Trinetra VI
Located in Singapore, SG
Trinetra VI in her blood-coral form, dives down to the bottom of the ocean to push back the putrid oil spills, the reeking sludge and the rotten waste generated by petrification and ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

By the sea #5
Located in Singapore, SG
"My sea scapes captures a feeling or memory of being on that beach. ""The energy at the beach and along the shore soothes my soul. I can really become one with my work when creatin...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

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Canvas, Oil

Thelxinoe 2/4
Located in PARIS, FR
Edition: 2/4 Casting date: 2018 Signature engraved on the back Pollès’s power of giving life to the bronze by infusing it with a carnal quality enables him to combine the breath o...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

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Bronze

"Jimi at Woburn Festival 1968" framed B&W photograph by Michael Putland
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Jimi at Woburn Festival 1968" framed black and white photograph by Michael Putland of Jimi Hendrix at the July 6, 1968, Woburn Music Festival in England. "Jimi at Woburn Festival 1...
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1960s Contemporary Art

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Photographic Paper

Ageless Beauty
Located in New York, NY
About the artist: John Joseph Hanright is a contemporary painter and assemblage artist who brings together a combination of vintage and contemporary imagery to form paintings that ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Resin, Acrylic

014
Located in Almaty, KZ
Bismildin (b. 1987) is a Kazakh photographer belonging to the young generation who actively collaborates with fashion publications, exhibitions, and social projects. Working primaril...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

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Metal

"Ciervo" - figurative animal sculpture, translucid resin, blue deer
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
The artwork of Alejandra España is an invitation to her intimate cosmogony. In it, she displays modules to give meaning to the observer through the co...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

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Resin

"Wolf - Cherry", unique animal sculpture, ceramic, sgraffito technique
Located in CANNES, FR
Unique, original work of art, made 100% of ceramic, hand-signed, siliconized underneath. Original composition of a classical sculpture with a graphic design in sgraffito technique. ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

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Ceramic

"La lluvia de la semilla" colorful, figurative, organic, ink painting
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
Through fluid strokes, rhythmic details, and archaic beings, the work shows us the artist's interest in exploring color. This abstract landscape is built by stages of primary colors,...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

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Aquatint

"Bedroom Action" Photography on Aluminum, Figurative, Nude, Color
Located in New York, NY
"Bedroom Action" Photography, Dye Sublimation on Aluminum, Removable Censor Bar Limited Edition of 5 This piece is signed on verso, includes gallery label, and certificate of authenticity. Leah Schrager is an artist who works between the web and New York City. She graduated in 2015 with an MFA in Fine Art from Parsons, The New School. In her work, she photographs, appears in, augments and markets her own image. She is interested in the line, movement and, biography of the female body. In 2010, she founded a new form of therapy as Sarah White, The Naked Therapist, followed by online performance @OnaArtist (Instagram 3 million+). Her project, “Ona,” an artist and musician, evolved out of the question of celebrity as art practice. With her performances, Schrager explores themes of sexuality, representation, and distribution. Her practice is situated in a contemporary hotbed of female (in)appropriateness, arousal, celebrity, fandom, and commercialism that seeks to explore female biography and labor in today’s global society. Schrager has been compared by journalists to such seminal figures as Marina Abramovic, Marcel Duchamp, Laurel Nakadate, Diane Fossey, and Sigmund Freud. She and/or her work has been profiled in 1000′s of media outlets, including Art Forum, Monopol, The Huffington Post, Vice, Viceland, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, CBS News, ABC News, The NY Daily News, and Playboy. She has exhibited with The Museum Of Sex, Johannes Vogt Gallery, Castor Gallery, Roman Fine Art...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Metal

Red 03
Located in Almaty, KZ
Bismildin (b. 1987) is a Kazakh photographer belonging to the young generation who actively collaborates with fashion publications, exhibitions, and social projects. Working primaril...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Metal

Electromagnetic Power Station
Located in New York, NY
This is an imagined view of an Electromagnetic Power Station charging away somewhere in the multiverse. The image measures 9" H x 12" W; the paper measures 11" H x 15" W. I am both ...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Gouache, Rag Paper, Other Medium

Women on Top
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Limited Edition, Unique Variant Print. Two women in round toed-pumps with skirts blowing in the wind, three men in overcoats with hats in their hands. This flirty diptych was inspired by the glamorous style of the 1960's, turning the tables and putting women on top, men below with hats off. + Cyanotype hand-printed on Arches BFK Rives French watercolor paper + Deckled Edges on all four sides + Signed and editioned on front in pencil + Letter of Authenticity + Printed in Los Angeles, CA WHAT IS A CYANOTYPE? cyan = blue type = print Cyanotype is a historic photographic processes, invented in 1842 and used by Anna Atkins–the first female photographer. The process involves coating watercolor paper with light-sensitive chemistry made of iron salts. Photographic negatives are laid on top, exposed in the sunlight, and then washed in water to develop into the deep Prussian-blue unique to cyanotypes. Brings a moment of beauty and conversation to any space. ABOUT THE ARTIST: Alexandra DeFurio...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Film, Watercolor, Magazine Paper, Color, Photogram

Blue Poppies
Located in Singapore, SG
I love to paint the blue poppies as they are truly blue with delicate and fragile petals. The journey of the blue poppy is that of triumph and optimism, tha...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

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Canvas, Oil

Cystophore
Located in PARIS, FR
Edition: 2/4 Casting date: 2009 Signature engraved on the back Pollès’s power of giving life to the bronze by infusing it with a carnal quality enables him to combine the breath of...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

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Bronze

Wo ist die Revolution -Contemporary, 21st Century, Ai Weiwei, China
Located in Zug, CH
Wo ist die Revolution -Contemporary, 21st Century, Ai Weiwei, China Wo ist die Revolution, 2019 Inkjet Print Edition of 180 190 x 100 cm (74.8 x 39.3 in.) Signed and numbered In min...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Inkjet

Midnight Madness - Witches on Night Flight
Located in Miami, FL
Pioneering female illustrator Gwenda Morgan creates an exuberantly complex image of a squad of broom-riding - pointed-hatted witches with black cats in tow. They fly through an inky black moonlit sky and are witnessed by only a rooftop owl. With the simple means of black and white, Morgan has rendered a highly charged composition that pluses with electricity. The whole image is on the cusp of being abstract while being representational. It is brilliantly designed with great attention to detail and is evocative of a sorcerer's malignant powers. Unframed. not signed Printed from the original block as part of the suite of 8 prints that accompanied the limited edition book Diary of a Land Girl, Whittington Press, 2000. The suite of prints was included with the first 50 copies of the book, and a further 8 suites were printed, from which this print comes. Gwenda Morgan (1 February 1908 – 1991) was a British wood engraver. She lived in the town of Petworth in West Sussex. Early life Morgan was born in Petworth, her father having moved there to work at the ironmongers, Austen & Co, of which he later became proprietor. He was the son of a Welsh-born military farrier. Education Following school in Petworth and at Brighton and Hove High School, Morgan, studied at Goldsmiths' College of Art in London from 1926. From 1930 she attended the Grosvenor School of Modern Art in Pimlico where she was taught and strongly influenced by the principal, Iain Macnab. The Grosvenor School was a progressive art school and the championing of wood engraving and linocuts fitted with its democratic approach to the arts. Works Morgan was commissioned to illustrate a number of books published by private presses. For the Samson Press she produced the frontispiece for Duke Hamilton...
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1950s Contemporary Art

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Woodcut

The Incarnation
Located in Singapore, SG
For this painting the artist found inspiration from the religious poem on the ‘Sarvesh’ incarnation of Lord Mahadev. This work illustrates the beauty of that poetic description.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

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Paper, Sailcloth, Tempera

Red 01
Located in Almaty, KZ
Bismildin (b. 1987) is a Kazakh photographer belonging to the young generation who actively collaborates with fashion publications, exhibitions, and social projects. Working primaril...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

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Metal

Loops (Sky Blue)
Located in New York, NY
Jonas Noël Niedermann LOOP (Sky Blue), 2022 Blown glass 11.50 x 8.50 x 4 in.
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Blown Glass

"Summer Idling" Figurative painting, Nude, Watercolor on Paper, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Painting: Watercolor on Paper, Framed Dimensions: 18 in x 24 in, Framed 23 in x 29 in Unique Signed on Verso, includes a certificate of authenticity. Elena Chestnykh was born in Nov...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

"Lioness - Protea", unique animal sculpture, ceramic, sgraffito technique
Located in CANNES, FR
Unique, original work of art, made 100% of ceramic, hand-signed, siliconized underneath. Original composition of a classical sculpture with a graphic design in sgraffito technique. ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

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Ceramic

Kate Spade Birch Way with Dragonfruit, 2019
Located in Lenox, MA
From "The Good Dishes" Collection Kate Spade Birch Way with Dragonfruit, 2019 30" x 20" Photograph Archival Pigment Print Edition of 5 + 2 APs Signed in Verso Artist's Bio: US, Bor...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

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Archival Pigment

Untitled (from the series A Bee in the Rose)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Erica Kelly Martin is an artist and photographer, based in Los Angeles, whose work centers on recurring themes of identity, transformation, and the paradox of human existence, conden...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Archival Pigment

Shooo-(I)
Located in Seoul, KR
ARTIST STATEMENT My work focuses on the relationship between ‘Writing and Drawing’. From a distance, it appears to be a drawn image but a closer look reveals innumerable minute handw...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

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Ink, Paper

Keeping my Story 1, Elisia Nghidishange, Mixed media sculpture
Located in Windhoek, NA
This artwork formed part of Nghidishange's exhibition titled 'Ehafo' held at the Namibian Arts Association in 2022. Nghidishange was born in Eenhana in northern Namibia. This printma...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Wire

A Promised Land - I
Located in Stamford, CT
Presently I am working on a series of charcoal drawings titled “A Promised Land” which is the result as well as a logical progression of my current engagement with art and ecology. The series drew inspiration from my reading of Pranay Lal’s Indica: A Deep Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent (2016). The book’s focus on sheer life force and exuberance stemming out of India’s natural history and the science behind life not only inspired me but also forced me to think deeply about the state of life on the planet. The title, therefore, is ironically suggestive of the way humankind is (mis)treating natural resources to fulfil its unbridled greed. The series across thirty or more drawings attempts to build an apocalyptic vision of life where the natural world and the animals who inhabit it bear the brunt of over-exploitation. The first out of the six drawings which are complete by now shows the dead root-like structure of a tree which looks fossilised and bears the expression of a dissatisfied creature which seems to be stranded on a lonely landscape. The second drawing is that of a neatly fleeced skeleton of a blue whale on a patch of land. The image brings to the forefront issues of poaching and illegal hunting of whales for commercial gains. The third drawing again deals with the same issue but this time the goriness of the misdeeds of humankind is in the shape of a decaying carcass of an elephant. It is half covered in decayed skin and half visible revealing the rib cage. The fourth drawing is a highly metaphorical one where a large pile of elephant tusks is seen neatly arranged and bears an uncanny resemblance with a human pyre. The fifth drawing is that of a synthetic net left on the landscape. The image is a telling account of the ill effects of fishing which results in bycatch thereby impacting the water beds...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Paper, Charcoal

"CARRIE LANE CHAPMAN CATT" Painting, India Ink on Paper, Portrait, Feminist
Located in New York, NY
Dimensions 11 x 11 in, framed 16 x 16 in Unique Signed on recto by artist, includes a certificate of authenticity Indira Cesarine is a multidisci...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Paper, India Ink

1613 - 21st Century, Contemporary Art, Abstract, Acrylic Painting
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Maria Paola's creative process dwells on a permanent search for the beauty hiding within our state of mind. Coda examines and translates the vibratory element of beauty that goes bey...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

L'origine de la civilisation (the origin of civilization)
Located in PARIS, FR
Circular oil and acrylic painting by artist Wenyu Zhu. This work shows a dreamy scenery. Looking from a distance, it seems like a huge coral reef in deep sea, and there are some shiny jellyfishes around it. Taking a closer look, we can see some more meaningful signs, like Oracle bones, and some animals on the coral reef. At the same time, there is also a woman with traditional Chinese clothes...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

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Canvas, Linen, Oil, Acrylic

A HOLE IN ONE II - Hyperrealism / Contemporary / Doughnut / Golf Lover
Located in New York, NY
Original Oil Painting by Elizabeth McGhee
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

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Oil, Panel

"Portrait of a Lady" Steel Sculpture, Plasma Cut and Welded
Located in New York, NY
Dimensions 17.5in x 14in x 9in Unique, Signed on verso, includes a certificate of authenticity. Indira Cesarine is a multidisciplinary artist who works with photography, video, pain...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Steel

Sable bust
Located in Knysna, ZA
Large sable bust cast in aluminium, with wall mounting and textured finish. African decor, ideal for your home, office, game lodge and interior decorator...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Metal

"East Coast Summer" Painting, Oil on Linen
Located in New York, NY
This painting is unique
, signed on verso, and includes a certificate of authenticity. Annika Connor is a modern-day Renaissance woman. Primarily known as a Contemporary Romantic pa...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Linen, Oil

Sea of tranquility
Located in Fairfield, CT
Oil on canvas
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Canvas, Oil

Letto matrimoniale
Located in Milano, MI
Giuseppe Bergomi was born in Brescia in 1953. After attending the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, he held his first solo exhibition as a painter in his ho...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Bromoil

Zeus
Located in Miami, FL
Approximately 10,000 U.S pennies.
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Mixed Media

Golden Lotus #1
Located in Singapore, SG
"It's a mythological based painting. I try to do a dramatic composition in this painting. A illustration of ""vagbat gita "" Helps to build the unic composition. That time when Lord Krishna...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

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Tempera

"Sparkling Day" Landscape Painting, Beach, Watercolor on Paper, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Painting: Ink and Watercolor on Paper, Framed Dimensions: 41 in x 52 in, Framed 42 in x 55 in Unique Signed on Verso, includes a certificate of authenticity. Elena Chestnykh was bor...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

White light
Located in Fairfield, CT
Graphite on clayboard panel
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2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Board, Graphite

Tree of life (forest green)
Located in Fairfield, CT
India ink on paper. Price does not include framing.
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2010s Contemporary Art

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India Ink, Archival Paper

Satsuma Town, Kagoshima Prefecture (C-2318)
Located in New York, NY
4 x 5 inch contact print (image size), on 8 x 10 inch sheet, edition 10, signed on verso LARGER SIZES AVAILABLE - please inquire. Toshio Shibata is one of Japan's leading landscape ...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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C Print

Crying Clown
Located in New York, NY
Portrait
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2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil

Ditch plains
Located in Fairfield, CT
Oil on canvas
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Canvas, Oil

Marvel's Macbeth
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas. Engaging. Ben Affleck's batman homage. About the artist: “There's a dry ironic twist to Paul’s paintings that give the work — while realistic — a postmodern ...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Canvas, Oil

Rebirth
Located in Miami, FL
“Rebirth” 2023 30x40 in Acrylic on canvas $3000 ------ Camila Rosa is a Brazilian Artist and Illustrator based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. She started her life as an artist in 2010 with a...
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2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Flowers and Butterflies" Figurative Painting, Nude, Nature, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Painting: Ink and Watercolor on Paper, Framed Dimensions: 24 in x 20 in, 29 in x 25 in Unique Signed on Verso, includes a certificate of authenticity. Elena Chestnykh was born in No...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

"Heads Will Roll" Textile Fiber Art, Discarded Clothing, Figurative
Located in New York, NY
"Heads Will Roll" Textile Fiber Art, Discarded Clothing This piece is unique, signed on recto and verso, and includes a certificate of authenticity Linda Friedman Schmidt is a German-born American artist known for her emotional narrative portraits created from discarded clothing. She was born stateless in a displaced persons camp, the first child of Holocaust survivors who discouraged her interest in art. Her artwork depicts a reality informed by social, political, and feminist issues as well as a traumatic family history. Through a process of unmaking and remaking, she explores the potential of art to mend, transform, and heal the self and society. Her earlier artworks continue to endure today as they address inequality, violence against women, and the general sense of unease and vulnerability that has been heightened by the pandemic. Her artwork has been exhibited extensively in the USA in group shows at venues such as the American Folk Art Museum, Allentown Art Museum, Montclair Art Museum, Morris Museum, and many others. It has been selected for exhibition by prestigious curators such as Judy Chicago, Faith Ringgold, and renowned art critic Donald Kuspit. Her work has been shown internationally in Japan...
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2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Fabric, Textile, Mixed Media

Stacked Cake: Black on Pale Pink and Grey
Located in Fairfield, CT
Unique; water-based enamel paint on paper bags
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Enamel

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