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Item Ships From: California
Atlantic Ocean Series - #4 NS - Ocean, water, landscape, nature - unframed
By MAE Curates
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Atlantic Ocean series places a little contextual history of this scenic image with its maritime history at that spot with the interplay of the elements - wind, clouds, water - on...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
She Disappeared into Complete Silence (AD14507) - large abstract photograph
By Mona Kuhn
Located in San Francisco, CA
In the series 'She Disappeared into Complete Silence' (2014) Mona Kuhn takes a new direction into abstraction.
She turns to a highly austere and restrained reductionist geometry and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
"LB31" Abstract Photography 72" x 48" inch Edition of 4 by Giuliano Bekor
By Giuliano Bekor
Located in Culver City, CA
"LB31" Abstract Photography 72" x 48" inch Edition of 4 by Giuliano Bekor
72" x 48" inch
Edition of 4
Printed on Archival Metallic Paper
Mounted on Aluminum with a 1/4 Museum Acr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Metal
Cascade (Kings Road) - observations at the Schindler House in Los Angeles
By Mona Kuhn
Located in San Francisco, CA
In Kings Road (2022) Mona Kuhn lyrically reconsiders the realms of time and space within the midcentury architectural elements of the iconic Schindler House in Los Angeles. Built by Austrian architect Rudolph M. Schindler in 1922, the house was both a social and design experiment and an avant-garde hub for intellectuals and artists in the 1920s and ’30s.
The body of works incorporates chromogenic color prints, reflecting vignettes and materials of the building's emotional architecture, juxtaposition with unique solarized gelatin silver prints capturing traces of an ethereal human presence.
Cascade (2022)
Kings Road: A Rudolph Schindler House
60" x 45" / 152cm x 114cm / edition of 3
40" x 30" / 102cm x 76cm /edition of 12
limited edition photograph printed under artist supervision + accompanied by signed artist certificate:
artist signature label (8x10")
signed/editioned/dated/titled by the artist + stamped for authenticity
label is placed centered on verso of the mounted print
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About the artist
Acclaimed for her contemporary depictions, Kuhn is considered a leading artist in the world of figurative discourse. Throughout a career spanning more than twenty years, the underlying theme of her work is her reflection on humanity’s longing for spiritual connection and solidarity. As she solidified her photographic style, Kuhn created a notable approach to the nude by developing friendships with her subjects, and employing a range of playful visual strategies that use natural light and minimalist settings to evoke a sublime sense of comfort between the human figure and its environment. Her work is natural, restful, and a reinterpretation of the nude in the canon of contemporary art.
For the past two decades, the Los-Angeles based artist's works have been shown steadily, revealing an astonishing consistency in technique, of subject and of purpose. In 2001, Kuhn’s photographs were first seen by an influential audience during the exhibition at Charles Cowles Gallery in Chelsea, New York. Kuhn’s distinct aesthetic has propelled her as one of the most collectible contemporary art photographers—her work is in private and public collections worldwide and she is represented by galleries across the United States, Europe and Asia.
Kuhn was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1969, of German descent. In 1989, Kuhn moved to the US and earned her BA from The Ohio State University, before furthering her studies at the San Francisco Art Institute. She is currently an independent scholar at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Occasionally, Mona teaches at UCLA and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
Kuhn’s first monograph, Photographs, was debuted by Steidl in 2004; followed by Evidence (2007), Native (2010), Bordeaux Series (2011), Private (2014), and She Disappeared into Complete Silence (2018/19). In addition, Stanley/Barker Editions published Kuhn's Bushes & Succulents in 2018. In 2021, Thames & Hudson published a career retrospective titled Works. Kuhn's most recent publication Kings Road (2022) with Steidl accompanies a multi-dimensional museum traveling exhibition shown in Europe and the US.
Mona Kuhn’s work is in private and public collections worldwide, including The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Hammer Museum, Perez Art Museum Miami, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Kiyosato Museum in Japan. Kuhn's work has been exhibited at The Louvre Museum and Le Bal in Paris; The Whitechapel Gallery and Royal Academy of Arts in London; Musée de l’Elysée in Switzerland; Leopold Museum in Vienna Austria, The Polygon Gallery in Vancouver Canada, Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan and Australian Centre for Photography. Mona Kuhn lives and works in Los Angeles.
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Solo Exhibitions
2025
Mona Kuhn: Y Tu Desnudo será Un Gran Poema, Museum of Contemporary Art, Malaga, Spain
Mona Kuhn: Kings Road, Lianzhou Museum of Photography, China
2024
Mona Kuhn: The Schindler House, A Love Affair, Galerie XII...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Green Abstracted Ikat Photograph
By Janet Van Arsdale
Located in Soquel, CA
Stunning green abstract photograph reminiscent of Ikat fabric by Janet Van Arsdale (American, 20th Century). Signed in pencil lower left corner. Presented in black frame with double ...
Category
1990s Abstract California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Ink, Photographic Paper, Giclée
"Proxima" Photography 45" x 30" inch Edition 1/7 by Larsen Sotelo
By Larsen Sotelo
Located in Culver City, CA
"Proxima" Photography 45" x 30" inch Edition 1/7 by Larsen Sotelo
Giclee (Archival Ink) print on 310G Platine Fibre Cotton Rag w/satin finish
Not framed. Ships in tube.
Shot wit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée
Fleeting (Haley and the Birds)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Fleeting (Haley and the Birds) - 2013
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory # ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
"Modern Traditions 1" Photography 31" x 31" inch Edition of 7 by Olha Stepanian
By Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"Modern Traditions 1" Photography 31" x 31" inch Edition of 7 by Olha Stepanian
Printed on Epson Professional Paper
Signed and numbered by the artist
Not framed. Ships in a tube. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
EMDL-1 (Abstract Photography)
By Bill Kane
Located in London, GB
EMDL-1 (Abstract Photography)
Pigment on canvas - Unframed.
Edition of 3.
The Emanations series is an attempt to express the spiritual potential...
Category
2010s Abstract California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Canvas, Pigment
EM-46 Ratnasambhava (Abstract Photography)
By Bill Kane
Located in London, GB
EM-46 Ratnasambhava (Abstract Photography)
Pigment on canvas - Unframed.
Edition of 3.
The Emanations series is an attempt to express the spiritual potential of the most essential aspect of photography: light. Each work in the series began its evolution as a scanned image of a Buddhist thangka—a spiritual painting...
Category
2010s Abstract California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Canvas, Pigment
EM-78 Vajra 3 (Abstract new media)
By Bill Kane
Located in London, GB
EM-78 Vajra 3 (Abstract new media)
Pigment on canvas - Unframed.
Edition of 3.
The Emanations series is an attempt to express the spiritual potential of the most essential aspect of photography: light. Each work in the series began its evolution as a scanned image of a Buddhist thangka—a spiritual painting of a Buddhist deity—which was then blurred and stretched until all that remained was a distilled image of color and form. These reduced images were then printed onto canvases, resulting in what Kane refers to as elemental “representations of the light bodies of the Buddhas.”
Bill Kane...
Category
2010s Abstract California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Canvas, Pigment
EM-3 Vajrayogini (Abstract Photography)
By Bill Kane
Located in London, GB
EM-3 Vajrayogini (Abstract Photography)
Pigment on canvas - Unframed.
Edition of 3.
The Emanations series is an attempt to express the spiritual potential of the most essential aspect of photography: light. Each work in the series began its evolution as a scanned image of a Buddhist thangka—a spiritual painting...
Category
2010s Abstract California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Canvas, Pigment
EM-117 Asanga 6 (Abstract Photography)
By Bill Kane
Located in London, GB
EM-117 Asanga 6 (Abstract Photography)
Pigment on canvas - Unframed.
Edition of 3.
The Emanations series is an attempt to express the spiritual potential of the most essential asp...
Category
2010s Abstract California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Canvas, Pigment
EM-104 Geshe (Abstract Photography)
By Bill Kane
Located in London, GB
EM-104 Geshe (Abstract Photography)
Pigment on canvas - Unframed.
Edition of 3.
The Emanations series is an attempt to express the spiritual potential of the most essential aspect of photography: light. Each work in the series began its evolution as a scanned image of a Buddhist thangka—a spiritual painting of a Buddhist deity—which was then blurred and stretched until all that remained was a distilled image of color and form. These reduced images were then printed onto canvases, resulting in what Kane refers to as elemental “representations of the light bodies of the Buddhas.”
Bill Kane...
Category
2010s Abstract California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Canvas, Pigment
EM-54 Palden Lhamo 2 (Abstract new media)
By Bill Kane
Located in London, GB
EM-54 Palden Lhamo 2 (Abstract new media)
Pigment on canvas - Unframed.
Edition of 3.
The Emanations series is an attempt to express the spiritual pote...
Category
2010s Abstract California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Canvas, Pigment
EM-12 Red Tara (Abstract Photography)
By Bill Kane
Located in London, GB
EM-12 Red Tara (Abstract Photography)
Pigment on canvas - Unframed.
Edition of 3.
The Emanations series is an attempt to express the spiritual potential of...
Category
2010s Abstract California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Canvas, Pigment
EM-3 Vajrayogini (Abstract Photography)
By Bill Kane
Located in London, GB
EM-3 Vajrayogini (Abstract Photography)
Pigment on canvas - Unframed.
Edition of 3.
The Emanations series is an attempt to express the spiritual potential of the most essential aspect of photography: light. Each work in the series began its evolution as a scanned image of a Buddhist thangka—a spiritual painting of a Buddhist deity—which was then blurred and stretched until all that remained was a distilled image of color and form. These reduced images were then printed onto canvases, resulting in what Kane refers to as elemental “representations of the light bodies of the Buddhas.”
Bill Kane...
Category
2010s Abstract California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Canvas, Pigment
$6,937 Sale Price
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EM-117 Asanga 6 (Abstract Painting)
By Bill Kane
Located in London, GB
EM-117 Asanga 6 (Abstract Painting)
Pigment on canvas - Unframed.
Edition of 3.
The Emanations series is an attempt to express the spiritual potential of the most essential aspect...
Category
2010s Abstract California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Canvas, Pigment
Untitled (Traintracks) - based on the Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Traintracks) - The last Picture Show - 2004
38x37cm.
Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Arti...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
EM-3 Vajrayogini
By Bill Kane
Located in London, GB
Pigment on canvas - Unframed.
Edition of 3.
The Emanations series is an attempt to express the spiritual potential of the most essential aspect of photography: light. Each work in ...
Category
2010s Abstract California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Canvas, Pigment
EM-36 Padmasambhara 2
By Bill Kane
Located in London, GB
Pigment on canvas - Unframed.
Edition of 3.
The Emanations series is an attempt to express the spiritual potential of the most essential aspect of photography: light. Each work in ...
Category
2010s Abstract California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Canvas, Pigment
"Adam" Black & White Photography 16" x 16" in Edition of 24 by Olha Stepanian
By Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"Adam" Black & White Photography 16" x 16" in Edition of 24 by Olha Stepanian
Printed on Epson Professional Paper
Signed and numbered by the artist
Not framed. Ships in a tube.
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
EMDL-1
By Bill Kane
Located in London, GB
Pigment on canvas - Unframed.
Edition of 3.
The Emanations series is an attempt to express the spiritual potential of the most essential aspect of photography: light. Each work in the series began its evolution as a scanned image of a Buddhist thangka—a spiritual painting of a Buddhist deity—which was then blurred and stretched until all that remained was a distilled image of color and form. These reduced images were then printed onto canvases, resulting in what Kane refers to as elemental “representations of the light bodies of the Buddhas.”
Bill Kane...
Category
2010s Abstract California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Canvas, Pigment
$8,671
EM2020-59
By Bill Kane
Located in London, GB
Pigment on watercolor paper - Unframed.
Edition of 10.
The Emanations series is an attempt to express the spiritual potential of the most essential aspect of photography: light. Ea...
Category
2010s Abstract California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Paper, Pigment
$1,032
Blue Space Light - Planet of the Apes 07 - 21st Century, Polaroid, Abstract
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Blue Space Light - Planet of the Apes 07 - 1999
58x56cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid.
Signature ...
Category
1990s Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Yellow Flower (The Last Picture Show) Polaroid, 128x126cm, analog vintage print
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Yellow Flower (The Last Picture Show) - 2005
128x125cm,
Edition of 5,
analog C-Print, based on the Polaroid,
hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper. (matte)
Ar...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
"OPTASIA 02" Abstract Photography 39" x 39" inch Edition 3/5 by Giuliano Bekor
By Giuliano Bekor
Located in Culver City, CA
"OPTASIA 02" Abstract Photography 39" x 39" inch Edition 3/5 by Giuliano Bekor
OPTASIA 02
39" x 39" inch
Edition 3/5
Archival pigment print.
Not framed. Ships in tube.
OPTASIA 02 Inspired by a Corinthian mosaic floor from a Roman villa decorated with a medal, bearing the head of Dionysos, the god of wine, theatre and religious ecstasy, 2nd century AD.
OPTASIA series
A palimpsest of forms and emotions
OPTASIA is the new body of work by Giuliano Bekor, the internationally acclaimed photographer, perpetually in love with Greece and Greek culture. On show for the first time, the collection is part of the Life Art Festival 2018 in Greece and an ideal opportunity for the photographer to create artworks inspired by emblematic ancient treasures: Cycladic art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
"One Heart" Black & White Photography 31" x 31" in Ed. of 7 by Olha Stepanian
By Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"One Heart" Black & White Photography 31" x 31" in Ed. of 7 by Olha Stepanian
Printed on Epson Professional Paper
Signed and numbered by the artist
Not framed. Ships in a tube.
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Untitled (Traintracks) - based on a Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Traintracks) - The last Picture Show - 2004,
38x37cm. Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Easy Rider
By Nick Veasey
Located in Napa, CA
We live in a world obsessed with image, what we look like, what our clothes, houses, and cars look like etc. Nick Veasey counters this obsession with superficiality by using x-rays t...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Digital
$10,800
Breathing III (Deconstructivism) - Contemporary, Expired Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Breathing III (Deconstructivism) - 2015
20x20cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid,
Artist Inventory 15808.
Signature label and Certificate.
Not mounted.
T...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Untitled (Paradise) - Contemporary, Nude, Men, Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Paradise) - 1999
20x20cm.
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory No. 19888.
N...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Unfinished Bridge (Stay) - Polaroid, 21st Century, Brooklyn Bridge, New York
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's work was used for Marc Forster's movie 'Stay'. Featuring Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling. Naomi and Ryan were both portraying artists and Stefanie's ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Cloud Study VII - large scale photograph of dramatic cloudscapes in summer sky
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Large scale original art photography from a series of dramatic cloud atlas and abstract sky scapes observations above the Pacific Ocean
Cloud Study VII by Frank Schott
75 x 58 inc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment
Waterhole - Planet of the Apes 05 - 21st Century, Polaroid, Abstract
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Waterhole - Planet of the Apes 05 - 1999
58x56cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certif...
Category
1990s Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
"OPTASIA 14" Abstract Photography 39" x 39" inch Edition 3/5 by Giuliano Bekor
By Giuliano Bekor
Located in Culver City, CA
"OPTASIA 14" Abstract Photography 39" x 39" inch Edition 3/5 by Giuliano Bekor
OPTASIA 02
39" x 39" inch
Edition 3/5
Archival pigment print.
Not frame...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Seeside (Zuma Beach)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Seeside (Zuma Beach) - 2004
48x47cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory #20430.
Not m...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Metal
Untitled (Traintracks) - based on the Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Traintracks) - The Last Picture Show - 2004,
38x37cm.
Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Ar...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Final Season 0941
By Alyson Belcher
Located in Burlingame, CA
Alyson Belcher's Final Season is a photographic meditation on the fragility and quiet resilience of life, shaped by personal experiences of loss and the witnessing of loved ones in d...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Paper, Carbon Pigment
She Disappeared into Complete Silence (AD14558) - large abstract photograph
By Mona Kuhn
Located in San Francisco, CA
In the series 'She Disappeared into Complete Silence' (2014) Mona Kuhn takes a new direction into abstraction.
She turns to a highly austere and restrained reductionist geometry and distilled formal purity, connecting the interior to the exterior, the visible to the hidden. These reflections cause one to linger, as they merge to create a dynamic equilibrium of tension, spaces and rythms.
AD14558 (She Disappeared into Complete Silence)
40" x 30" / 102cm x 76cm
edition of 8 + 2AP
60" x 45" / 152cm x 114cm
edition of 8 + 2AP
limited edition photograph is printed under artist supervision and accompanied by signed artist certificate:
artist signature labels are 8x10 in size
signed, editioned, dated and titled by the artist, and stamped for authenticity
label is then placed centered on verso if the mounted print
__________________
About the artist
Acclaimed for her contemporary depictions, Kuhn is considered a leading artist in the world of figurative discourse. Throughout a career spanning more than twenty years, the underlying theme of her work is her reflection on humanity’s longing for spiritual connection and solidarity. As she solidified her photographic style, Kuhn created a notable approach to the nude by developing friendships with her subjects, and employing a range of playful visual strategies that use natural light and minimalist settings to evoke a sublime sense of comfort between the human figure and its environment. Her work is natural, restful, and a reinterpretation of the nude in the canon of contemporary art.
For the past two decades, the Los-Angeles based artist's works have been shown steadily, revealing an astonishing consistency in technique, of subject and of purpose. In 2001, Kuhn’s photographs were first seen by an influential audience during the exhibition at Charles Cowles Gallery in Chelsea, New York. Kuhn’s distinct aesthetic has propelled her as one of the most collectible contemporary art photographers—her work is in private and public collections worldwide and she is represented by galleries across the United States, Europe and Asia.
Kuhn was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1969, of German descent. In 1989, Kuhn moved to the US and earned her BA from The Ohio State University, before furthering her studies at the San Francisco Art Institute. She is currently an independent scholar at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Occasionally, Mona teaches at UCLA and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
Mona Kuhn’s first monograph, Photographs, was debuted by Steidl in 2004; followed by Evidence (2007), Native (2010), Bordeaux Series (2011), Private (2014), and She Disappeared into Complete Silence (2018/19). In addition, Stanley/Barker Editions published Kuhn's Bushes and Succulents (2018) with a debut at Musee Jeu de Paume in Paris in 2019. Thames & Hudson published a career retrospective titled Works. Kuhn's most recent publication Kings Road with Steidl accompanies a multi-dimensional museum exhibition in Germany and the US.
Mona Kuhn’s work is in private and public collections worldwide, including The J. Paul Getty Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Hammer Museum, the Perez Art Museum in Miami, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Kiyosato Museum in Japan. Kuhn's work has been exhibited at The Louvre Museum and Le Bal in Paris, The Whitechapel Gallery and Royal Academy of Arts in London, Musée de l’Elysée in Switzerland, Leopold Museum in Vienna Austria, The Polygon Gallery in Vancouver Canada, Australian Centre for Photography and Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan.
Mona Kuhn currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
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Solo Exhibitions
2024
Mona Kuhn: Between Modernism and Surrealism, Houk Gallery, New York, NY
2023
Mona Kuhn: Kings Road, Galerie XII...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
"Removal of Self #70" Abstract Photography 22" x 14.5" in Ed. 1/1 by Ben Cope
By Ben Cope
Located in Culver City, CA
"Removal of Self #70" Photography 22" x 14.5" inch Edition 1/1 by Ben Cope
Medium: Photo on deconstructed paper
Ben Cope is a Georgia native graduating from Columbus State Univers...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Pigment
Succulents 09 - large format photograph from the series Bushes and Succulents
By Mona Kuhn
Located in San Francisco, CA
From the series 'Bushes and Succulents' (2018), Mona Kuhn’s artistic response to the ongoing currents in contemporary feminism. Reminiscent of Georgia O’Keefe’s floral paintings, you...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin, Giclée
"Acacia ARM11" Abstract Photography 60" x 48" in Edition 1/4 by Giuliano Bekor
By Giuliano Bekor
Located in Culver City, CA
"Acacia ARM11" Abstract Photography 60" x 48" in Edition 1/4 by Giuliano Bekor
Acacia series
Title of artwork: ARM5
Year: 2020
Printed on a high-quality museum-grade archival photo ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
Private Pool - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment 43" x 72"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
“Private Pool” is a part of Alex Sher’s popular series REFLECTIONS - underwater photographs that could be almost mistaken for abstract paintings as they bring up recollections of mas...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Succulents 01 - large format photograph from the series Bushes and Succulents
By Mona Kuhn
Located in San Francisco, CA
From the series 'Bushes and Succulents' (2018), Mona Kuhn’s artistic response to the ongoing currents in contemporary feminism. Reminiscent of Georgia O’Keefe’s floral paintings, your eyes wander around the graceful lines, not knowing exactly what you are looking at. The images are a celebration of the female essence - confident, raw and elegant, yet confrontational and unapologetic.
Succulents 01 (2018)
60" x 45" / 152cm x 114cm
edition of 5 + 1AP
40" x 30" / 102cm x 76cm
edition of 8 + 2AP
limited edition photograph printed under artist supervision + accompanied by signed artist certificate:
artist signature labels are 8x10 in size
signed, editioned, dated and titled by the artist, and stamped for authenticity
label is placed centered on verso of the mounted print
__________________
About the artist
Acclaimed for her contemporary depictions, Kuhn is considered a leading artist in the world of figurative discourse. Throughout a career spanning more than twenty years, the underlying theme of her work is her reflection on humanity’s longing for spiritual connection and solidarity. As she solidified her photographic style, Kuhn created a notable approach to the nude by developing friendships with her subjects, and employing a range of playful visual strategies that use natural light and minimalist settings to evoke a sublime sense of comfort between the human figure and its environment. Her work is natural, restful, and a reinterpretation of the nude in the canon of contemporary art.
For the past two decades, the Los-Angeles based artist's works have been shown steadily, revealing an astonishing consistency in technique, of subject and of purpose. In 2001, Kuhn’s photographs were first seen by an influential audience during the exhibition at Charles Cowles Gallery in Chelsea, New York. Kuhn’s distinct aesthetic has propelled her as one of the most collectible contemporary art photographers—her work is in private and public collections worldwide and she is represented by galleries across the United States, Europe and Asia.
Kuhn was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1969, of German descent. In 1989, Kuhn moved to the US and earned her BA from The Ohio State University, before furthering her studies at the San Francisco Art Institute. She is currently an independent scholar at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Occasionally, Mona teaches at UCLA and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
Mona Kuhn’s first monograph, Photographs, was debuted by Steidl in 2004; followed by Evidence (2007), Native (2010), Bordeaux Series (2011), Private (2014), and She Disappeared into Complete Silence (2018/19). In addition, Kuhn's monograph titled Bushes and Succulents has been published by Stanley/Barker Editions, with a debut at Jeu de Paume in Paris, in 2019. A stunning career retrospective of Mona Kuhn's works has been published by Thames & Hudson, Spring 2021. Kuhn's forthcoming publication Kings Road, will be published and released by Steid this Fall 2021.
Mona Kuhn’s work is in private and public collections worldwide, including The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Hammer Museum, Perez Art Museum Miami, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Kiyosato Museum in Japan. Kuhn's work has been exhibited at The Louvre Museum and Le Bal in Paris; The Whitechapel Gallery and Royal Academy of Arts in London; Musée de l’Elysée in Switzerland; Leopold Museum in Vienna Austria, The Polygon Gallery in Vancouver Canada, Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan and Australian Centre for Photography. Mona Kuhn lives and works in Los Angeles.
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Solo Exhibitions
2021
Mona Kuhn: Works, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
Mona Kuhn: Works, Flowers Gallery, London
Mona Kuhn: Works, Galerie XII, Los Angeles + Paris + Shanghai
Mona Kuhn: 835 Kings Road, Art, Design and Architecture Museum, Santa Barbara
2020
Still Light, Jardin du Bra'haus, Montée du Château, Clervaux, Luxembourg
Mona Kuhn: Early Depictions, Flowers Gallery, London
Mona Kuhn: Intimate, UP Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2019
Bushes and Succulents, Euqinom Gallery, San Francisco
Mona Kuhn: She Disappeared, Jackson Fine Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Life on Mars (My Desert Living Project)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Life on Mars - 2022
Edition of 10,
40x30cm,
Archival Fine Art Paper.
Artist inventory E004.
Signature label and Certificate.
Not mounted.
'Life on Mars' series is part of my ...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid, Archival Pigment
"FSA50" Abstract Photography 50" x 40" inch Ed. 1/10 by Giuliano Bekor
By Giuliano Bekor
Located in Culver City, CA
"FSA50" Abstract Photography 50" x 40" inch Ed. 1/10 by Giuliano Bekor
Facescape Series
Title of artwork: FSA50
Year: 2014
Printed on a high-quality museum-grade archival photo pape...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
"Modernismo M6" Abstract Photography 40"x60" in Edition 2/10 by Giuliano Bekor
By Giuliano Bekor
Located in Culver City, CA
"Modernismo M6" Abstract Photography 40"x60" in Edition 2/10 by Giuliano Bekor
Title of artwork: M6
Inspired by Piet Mondrian artwork
Year: 2012
Printed on a high-quality museum-gra...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
"Submersion SM6" Abstract Photography 48" x 48" in Ed. 1/10 by Giuliano Bekor
By Giuliano Bekor
Located in Culver City, CA
"Submersion SM6" Abstract Photography 48" x 48" in Ed. 1/10 by Giuliano Bekor
Submersion series.
Title of artwork: SM6
Year: 2010
Medium: Photography
Print size: 48x48 Inches trim b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
"Submersion SM12" Photography 48" x 48" inch Edition 1/10 by Giuliano Bekor
By Giuliano Bekor
Located in Culver City, CA
"Submersion SM12" Photography 48" x 48" inch Edition 1/10 by Giuliano Bekor
Submersion series.
Title of artwork: SM6
Year: 2010
Medium: Photography
Print size: 48x48 Inches trim bl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
"Emulsion 15" Abstract Photography 48' x 48' in Edition of 10 by Giuliano Bekor
By Giuliano Bekor
Located in Culver City, CA
"Emulsion 15" Abstract Photography 48' x 48' in Edition of 10 by Giuliano Bekor
Emulsion Series
Title of artwork: EM15
Year: 2010
Medium: Photography
Print size: 48x48 Inches trim b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Digital
"M40" Abstract Photography 60" x 60" inch Edition of 10 by Giuliano Bekor
By Giuliano Bekor
Located in Culver City, CA
"M40" Abstract Photography 60" x 60" inch Edition of 10 by Giuliano Bekor
Modernismo series
Title of artwork: M40
Year: 2012
Medium: Photography
Print size: 60x60 Inches trim bleed
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Strangers (Deconstructivism) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Strangers (Deconstructive) - 2022
Edition of 10,
49x48cm.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Artist inventory number: 18894.
Signature label and certificate.
Not mounted. ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Succulents 05 - large format abstract photograph from Bushes and Succulents
By Mona Kuhn
Located in San Francisco, CA
Large scale abstract limited edition photograph from the series 'Bushes and Succulents' (2018), Mona Kuhn’s artistic response to the ongoing currents in contemporary feminism. Reminiscent of Georgia O’Keefe’s floral paintings, your eyes wander around the graceful lines, not knowing exactly what you are looking at. The images are a celebration of the female essence...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Jackson Pollock, Study 5
By Robert Weingarten
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed and editioned on front of print. Edition of 10. Made by Robert Weingarten in the artist, Jackson Pollock's studio.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Untitled (Traintracks) - based on the Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Traintracks) - The last Picture Show - 2004
38x37cm.
Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Arti...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
After Henri Matisse: The Goldfish 1 1912, 2017
By Carol Inez Charney
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --In 2013, I first saw Carol Inez Charney’s striking semi-abstract photographs depicting details of modernist architecture partially ob...
Category
2010s Abstract California - Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Anesthesia - underwater photograph from series REFLECTIONS - acrylic 36x54"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
“Anesthesia” is a part of Alex Sher’s popular series REFLECTIONS - underwater photographs that could be almost mistaken for abstract paintings as ...
Category
2010s Abstract California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Archival Pigment
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UNTITLED
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
from a series of works capturing conceptual signs in iconic landscapes
captured with a large format camera to allow epic scale print sizes with incredible image details
CLOUD STUD...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment
Cloud Study VI - large scale photograph of dramatic momochromatic cloudscape sky
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
An homage to Caspar David Friedrich, towering thunder clouds over the Pacific Ocean, from a series of dramatic cloud atlas observations and abstract skyscapes above the winter sea, c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink
