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Item Ships From: California
"Drift 15" Abstract Photography 30" x 20" Edition of 10 by Rowan Daly
By Rowan Daly
Located in Culver City, CA
"Drift 15" Abstract Photography 30" x 20" Edition of 10 by Rowan Daly
Digital print on Ultra Smooth Fine Art Paper
Unframed - ships rolled in a tube
DRIFT
Behind the scenes of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Digital, Archival Pigment
Project 12:31 [ House ] 48 x 69" / 122 x 175cm
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
PROJECT 12:31 [ HOUSE ] by Frank Schott
long exposure light drawings using motion graphics of scientific scans to recreate the human form
48" x 69" / 122cm x 175cm
edition of 7
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Giclée
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Hot Pretzel - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 16"x23"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater nude photograph of a girl diving in a swimming pool.
Original gallery quality print signed by the artist.
Digital archival pigment print on archival paper with metallic ...
Category
2010s Photorealist 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...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Metal
ATARI Imperatore - conceptual photograph of iconic video game in epic nature
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
ATARI Imperatore (2019) by Frank Schott
from a series of photographic observances capturing conceptual signs in nature
48 x 74 inches / 122cm x 188c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée
After Claude Monet: Chrysanthemums 1897, 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
Airfield - large scale aerial observation of aeronautical facility
By Erik Pawassar
Located in San Francisco, CA
Airfield by Erik Pawassar
23 x 40 inches (58 x 102cm)
edition of 25
signed
48 x 84 inches (122 x 213cm)
edition of 7
signed
archival fine art pigment print
signed & numbered by ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, 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
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
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
Into the dark (Deconstructivism) - Contemporary, Expired Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Into the dark (Deconstructivism) - 2020
- about the narrative potential of images.
20x20cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid,
Artist Inventory 4600.
Signat...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Burnout (Stage of Consciousness)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Burnout (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007
20x24cm,
Edition 1/10.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist Inventory # 8455.
Not mounted. ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Scream - photograph of an underwater reflection - archival print 16 x 23"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An abstract composition capturing the dramatic interplay between vibrant crimson and stark white elements. The photograph presents a swirling vortex of deep red textures that dominat...
Category
2010s Abstract California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper
Alice - photograph of an underwater reflection - archival print 25 x 35"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
“Alice” 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 masterpiec...
Category
2010s Abstract California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Wave II - large scale abstract photograph of water surface reflections
By Christian Stoll
Located in San Francisco, CA
WAVE II by Christian Stoll
large scale abstract photograph of soothing mesmerizing fluid liquid waterscape
58 x 58 inches (147 x 147cm)
edition of 7
signed
48 x 48 inches (122 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Giclée
Cloud Study V - 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 V by Frank Schott
60 x 48 inche...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
Delft Agapanthus (cyanotype painting framed to 35 x 28")
Located in Oakland, CA
This unique multistep technique is a combination of a painting and a photograph or monotype. Cyanotypes are a kind of alternative photographic process from the 1800s. The chemicals are different from those used in black and white photography. The light-sensitive chemicals can be used to print blue and white photographs from a large negative or a person can capture the silhouette of solid objects rather like an x-ray in blue and white.
In her Delft Garden series, artist Christine So first drew the outline of a plant in pencil and then painted it in a dark room —not paint– but with the cyanotype light-sensitive emulsion. When the painting had dried, she arranged plants on top of the painted silhouette in a pattern that would leave gaps like lace, carefully moved the entire bundle outside while still covered and then exposed the pattern multiple times at different angles to the sun, to achieve various shades of blue and white. The heavy cotton watercolor paper then needed to be thoroughly rinsed in order to stop the darkening process.
The silhouette here is of the Giant California Tree...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Mixed Media, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Life on Mars (My Desert Living Project) - Hatching
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Life on Mars (My Desert Living Project) - Hatching
Edition of 10, 40x30cm,
Archival C-Print.
Artist inventory E007.
Signature label and Certificate.
Not mounted.
Life on Mars ...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Life on Mars (My Desert Living Project) - Hatching
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Life on Mars - 2022 - Hatching
Edition of 10, 40x30cm,
Archival C-Print.
Artist inventory E006.
Signature label and Certificate.
Not mounted.
'Life on Mars' series is part of ...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
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.
Archive C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artis...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Summer Interlude I (Deconstructivism) - Contemporary, Expired Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Summer Interlude I (Deconstructivism) - 2020
- about the narrative potential of images.
40x40cm, Edition of 10,
digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid,
Artist Inventory 5901.
Signa...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Jelly Fish - Contemporary, Expired, Polaroid, Photograph, Abstract, Ryan Gosling
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Henry and the Jelly Fish'(Stay) with Ryan Gosling - 2006
48x46cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and certificate.
Ar...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
She Disappeared into Complete Silence (AD14491) - large scale abstract photo
By Mona Kuhn
Located in San Francisco, CA
Large scale photograph of reflective golden architectural abstraction
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.
AD14491 (She Disappeared into Complete Silence)
60" x 45" / 152cm x 114cm
edition of 8 + 2AP
40" x 30" / 102cm x 76cm
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, Paris, France
Mona Kuhn: Kings Road, Kunsthaus-Göttingen, Germany
Mona Kuhn: Kings Road, Jackson Fine Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
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
Blue (Deconstructivism) - Contemporary, Expired Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Blue (Deconstructivism) - 2015
- about the narrative potential of images.
40x50cm,
Edition of 10,
digital C-Print, based on the Polaroid,
Artist Inventory 3962.
Signature label ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
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.
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
Dusk (Deconstructivism) - Contemporary, Expired Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Dusk (Deconstructivism) - 2015
- about the narrative potential of images.
40x48cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Signatur...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
"JM Basquiat-GB1" Photography (FRAMED) 50" x 40" inch Ed. of 8 by Giuliano Bekor
By Giuliano Bekor
Located in Culver City, CA
"JM Basquiat-GB1" Photography (FRAMED) 50" x 40" inch Ed. of 8 by Giuliano Bekor
Original fine art photography by Giuliano Bekor
Signed and numbered by the artist
Title: Basquiat s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Metal
"JM Basquiat-GB3" Photography (FRAMED) 48" x 48" inch Ed. 1/8 by Giuliano Bekor
By Giuliano Bekor
Located in Culver City, CA
"JM Basquiat-GB3" Photography (FRAMED) 48" x 48" inch Ed. 1/8 by Giuliano Bekor
Original fine art photography by Giuliano Bekor
Signed and numbered by the artist
Title: Basquiat se...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Metal
Revisions (Deconstructivism) - Contemporary, Expired Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Revisions. (Deconstructivism) - 2020
- about the narrative potential of images.
20x24cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid,
Artist Inventory 15714.
Signatur...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Salsa - underwater photograph from series Reflections - print on aluminum 24x36"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
“Salsa” 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 masterpiec...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Metal
"Modernismo M37" Pop Art Photography 48"x48" in Edition 3/12 by Giuliano Bekor
By Giuliano Bekor
Located in Culver City, CA
"Modernismo M37" Pop Art Photography 48"x48" in Edition 3/12 by Giuliano Bekor
Title of artwork: M37
Inspired by Piet Mondrian artwork
Year: 2012
Printed on a high-quality museum-gr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
Creature II ( 48 x 68" / 122 x 173cm )
By Christian Stoll
Located in San Francisco, CA
CREATURE II by Christian Stoll
from a series of still life photographs capturing fantastical creatures made of found objects and organic materials
( 48 x 68" / 122 x 173cm )
editio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival 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
Kaleidescope (Zuma Beach) - Polaroid, Analog, Abstract, Contemporary
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Kaleidescope (Zuma Beach) - 2004
29x28cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory #20434....
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Metal
"Emulsion 10" (FRAMED) Photography 48" x 72" inch Edition 1/6 by Giuliano Bekor
By Giuliano Bekor
Located in Culver City, CA
"Emulsion 10" (FRAMED) Photography 48" x 72" inch Edition 1/6 by Giuliano Bekor
Print size 48x72 Inches
Artwork finished size 48.5x72.5 Inches
Limited edition 1 of 6
Artist proof 2...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Laminate, Archival Paper, Digital
Dreamscape (Wastelands) - Contemporary, Abstract, Polaroid, Expired, Photograph
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Dreamscape (Wastelands), 2003
20x20cm
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist inventor...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Blue Space Dark - Mindscreen 09 - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Abstract
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Blue Space Dark - Mindscreen 09 (Night on Earth) - 1999
58x56cm,
Edition of 10.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate....
Category
1990s Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Memory of a Dream (29 Palms, CA) - including the book 'A Half Forgotten Dream'
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Memory of a Dream (29 Palms, CA) - 2009
including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 2024.
20x...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Blue II (Deconstructivism) - Contemporary, Expired Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Blue II (Deconstructivism) - 2015
- about the narrative potential of images.
40x50cm,
Edition of 10,
digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid,
Artist Inventory 3963.
Signature label...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
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.
Archive 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
"Echoes No.11" Photography 40" x 40" inch Edition of 20 by Giuliano Bekor
By Giuliano Bekor
Located in Culver City, CA
"Echoes No.11" Photography 40" x 40" inch Edition of 20 by Giuliano Bekor
Original fine art photography by Giuliano Bekor
Signed and numbered by the artist
Printed on fujiflex mou...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Metal
Liberace II ( 60 x 48" / 152.25 x 122cm )
By Christian Stoll
Located in San Francisco, CA
Liberace II by Christian Stoll
an epic scale photograph of mesmerizing texture details
( 60 x 48" / 152.25 x 122cm )
edition of 7
signed
40 x 32 inches / 122cm x 81.25cm
edition o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Cloud Study I - large format photograph of dramatic cloudscape sky
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
an homage to Caspar David Friedrich, towering thunder clouds over the Mediterranean Sea, captured with a large format camera to allow epic scale photograph...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Giclée, Black and ...
Spring Madrone IV (30 x 22" cyanotype painting)
Located in Oakland, CA
In her Delft Garden series, artist Christine So first drew the outline of a plant in pencil and then painted it in a dark room —not paint– but with the cyanotype light-sensitive emu...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Mixed Media, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Spring Madrone III (30 x 22" cyanotype painting)
Located in Oakland, CA
This unique multistep technique is a combination of a painting and a photograph or monotype. Cyanotypes are a kind of alternative photographic process from the 1800s. The chemicals a...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Mixed Media, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Spring Forest Floor (30 x 22.5" cyanotype painting)
Located in Oakland, CA
This unique multistep technique is a combination of a painting and a photograph or monotype. Cyanotypes are a kind of alternative photographic process from the 1800s. The chemicals a...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Mixed Media, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Spring Poppies (30 x 22.5" cyanotype painting)
Located in Oakland, CA
This unique multistep technique is a combination of a painting and a photograph or monotype. Cyanotypes are a kind of alternative photographic process from the 1800s. The chemicals a...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Mixed Media, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
She Disappeared into Complete Silence (AD7517) - large scale 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.
AD7517 (She Disappeared into Complete Silence)
30" x 40" / 76cm x 102cm
edition of 8 + 2AP
45" x 60" / 114cm x 152cm
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.
__________________
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
"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
Salsa - underwater nude photograph - series REFLECTIONS - archival pigment 43x64
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
In Alex Sher’s “Salsa” we are entranced in the spiraling movements of the topless dancer encased in vibrant reds and electric blues. The nude woman clutches the fabric to her body as...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Her Own Universe - underwater nude photo - series REFLECTIONS - 21x35"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
A naked woman floats in space illuminated with shimmering stars and saturated swirling gasses of solar systems. Similar to the geometric eroticism of Picasso, with color fields and b...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Girl - Planet of the Apes 09 - 21st Century, Polaroid, Abstract
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Girl - Planet of the Apes 09 - 1999
48x47cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist Inve...
Category
1990s Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Peacock's Flame (Stay) - Polaroid, 21st Century
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 Sc...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Untitled (Traintracks) - based on a Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Traintracks) - The last Picture Show - 2004
50x50cm. Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival 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
Scratched Paint - Large Scale Textural Photograph
By Bill Clark
Located in Soquel, CA
White Paint Splatters - Large Scale Textural Photograph
Detailed macro photo by Bill Clark (American, 20th Century). Clark has taken a photograph of heavily painted concrete that ha...
Category
1990s Photorealist California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Breathing III (Deconstructivism) - Contemporary, Expired Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Breathing III (Deconstructivism) - 2015
- about the narrative potential of images.
20x20cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid,
Artist Inventory 15808.
Signatu...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Cloud Study IV - 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, Archival Pigment, Giclée
