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Item Ships From: Continental US
Möbius Mermaid - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 35x50"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Radiating with mythic sexuality, the mermaid’s topless body becomes fluid, her multiplying naked breasts and her scaly tail swirling into the hips of a real woman form a Möbius Strip...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
The Scream - photograph of an underwater reflection - archival print 35"x51"
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 Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Moonlight II - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment 24" x 36"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
A beautiful and sophisticated underwater photograph of a young naked woman swimming in the pool. This is a monochrome photograph close to black and white with reach aquatic tint. T...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Spark - underwater nude photo - print on aluminum 8 x 12"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Alex Sher’s underwater photograph “Spark” ignites the water in a boiling fiery scene. The pale tones of the skin contrast sharply against the velvety reflections of red that consume ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Metal
Minimal Landscape of a Sand Dune in Namibia, Black and White Photography
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"Sanctuary"
This award-winning, best-selling image highlights the surreal relationships within mother nature.
The print series Dunes: Landscapes Evolving documents the magnificent...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Moon Birth" Photography 16" x 16" in Edition of 24 by Olha Stepanian
By Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"Moon Birth" 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.
Availabl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Wabi-Sabi (Sidewinder) - 9 Original Polaroid - Unique Pieces
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Wabi-Sabi (Sidewinder) - 9 Original Polaroids - Unique Piece, 2005
DECONSTRUCTIVISM, 2000 - present.
About the narrative potential of images.
each Polaroid
7.8 x 7,7cm (image area)
...
Category
1990s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Polaroid
Into the Sky (Deconstructivism) - Contemporary, Expired Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Into the Sky (Deconstructivism) - 2015
- about the narrative potential of images.
20x20cm, Edition of 10,
digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid,
Artist Inventory 20275.
Signature ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Wallscape VII (Green Door) - abstraction of urban textures and palimpsest colors
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Large scale photograph of mesmerizing monochromatic emerald surface abstraction, from a series of photographic observances capturing urban textures and color palettes
Wallscape VII (Green Door) by Frank Schott
48 x 60 inches / 122cm x 152cm
signed edition of 7
32 x 40 inches / 81cm x 102cm
signed edition of 25
archival quality fine art pigment print
limited art edition published by Edition EKTAlux
artist signed + numbered certificate of authenticity
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About the artist:
Frank Schott grew up in Germany and attended the prestigious Academy of Arts in Cologne, studying under Professor Arno Jansen, who was an early influence.
Moving to California in 1998, Schott's work has evolved to include the epic landscapes and deserts of the American West as well as architectural, conceptual and more formal environments from both home and his travels.
Influenced by a number of photographic piers and precursors such as Candida Höfer, Andreas Gursky. Thomas Struth. Jeff Wall, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Steven Shore...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment
Vinnytsia 22 - underwater nude photo - print on aluminum 8 x 12"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Vinnytsia a tiny Ukrainian town hit by Russian missiles on July 14 2022. There were no military installations neither industrial objects. Putin’s regime was targeting civilians as a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Metal
Salsa - underwater nude photo - print on aluminum 8 x 12"
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 Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Metal
Siesta - underwater nude photo - print on aluminum 8 x 12"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
The nude girl of Sher’s “Siesta” drifts to sleep as her dreams encroach upon her. As her naked body begins to shimmer into an aqueous form of its own, the bubbles of air transform in...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Metal
Barely There
By Niko Christian
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Niko (aka c-nik) is a multidisciplinary artist, currently based on a pixel in a city that never sleeps, quietly working to create peace from chaos in surreal arcs ...
Category
2010s Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Abstract Persian calligraphy limited edition photogravure ink print, black/white
By Nazanin Moghbeli
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Nazanin Moghbeli is a Persian American artist with training in Persian calligraphy, miniature painting, and music. The abstracted calligraphy text in her "Words from My Mother" seri...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Photogravure
Flow II (framed) - epic scale photograph of abstract liquid water cloudscapes
By Christian Stoll
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photography of mesmerizing color compositions of liquid cloudscape painting in water, hypnotizing abstract liquidscapes from the body of works titled 'Flow'
Flow II by C...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Plexiglass, Inkjet, Giclée
Vintage Color Abstract Art Landscape Photography Large C Print Photo Terry Evans
By Terry Evans
Located in Surfside, FL
TERRY EVANS (American b. 1944)
"Terraced Plowing," September 4, 1990,
Color photograph (chromogenic print, C Print) on photo paper, dated and hand signed...
Category
1990s American Modern Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Crossfire - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 14x23"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater nude photograph of a young woman processed in an abstract black and white symmetrical composition.
Original gallery quality archival pigment print on archival paper sig...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
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)
45" x 60" / 114cm x 152cm
edition of 8 + 2AP
30" x 40" / 76cm x 102cm
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
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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.
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 Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Stratosphere IV - large format photograph of abstract liquid water cloudscapes
By Christian Stoll
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photography of mesmerizing color compositions of liquid cloudscape painting in water, hypnotizing abstract liquidscapes from the body of works titled 'Stratosphere'
STRA...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
Wallscape VII (Green Door) - abstraction of urban textures and palimpsest colors
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photograph from a series of photographic observances capturing urban textures and palimpsest color palettes of Italy
Wallscape VII (Green Door) by Frank Schott
32 x 40 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée
Backlit Image - Fashion Week Paris 2016
By Kristy Sparrow
Located in Soquel, CA
Spectators in silhouette viewing an immense display of vintage camera flash accessories. By Kristy Sparrow, an American, Paris-based photographer. Signed and numbered by the artist. Presented in a black wood frame. Image, 20"H x 30"W.
Kristy Sparow has had a lifelong love affair with photography. After many years developing her career in Los Angeles, she made the move to Paris in 2009 where she has been consistently working at the top of her trade in fashion, music, and entertainment, with images regularly seen in major media around the world. She has worked the runway for most major designer brands, including the CBS live Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, and on behalf of the Arab Fashion Council, she was the solo photographer at the end of Saudi Arabia’s first-ever 2018 fashion show in Riyadh. Chanel, Estée Lauder, Justin Timberlake and The Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation are among those on her client list. Kristy has received many Best Of acknowledgements for her work, and feels fortunate for the opportunities to travel and to be a part of many memorable moments—including a weekend in Switzerland photographing...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Carrara I - large format photograph of iconic Italian marble quarry
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Signed large scale original photograph of the Mediterranean marble quarries in Carrara, Italy, iconic material source of classic Italian art and architecture, captured with a large format camera to allow epic scale print sizes with incredible image details
Carrara I...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Giclée
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 Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Kokar, Finland (Rock Formation)
By Pentti Sammallahti
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Pentti Sammallahti was born in 1950 in Helsinki, Finland. Sammallahti was surrounded by works from his grandmother, Hildur Larsson, who was a photographer in the early 1900s. Sammallahti has been photographing the world around him with a poetic eye since the age of eleven. At the age of nine, he visited "The Family of Man...
Category
1970s Minimalist Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Möbius Mermaid - underwater nude photo from series REFLECTIONS acrylic 33x48"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Radiating with mythic sexuality, the mermaid’s topless body becomes fluid, her multiplying naked breasts and her scaly tail swirling into the hips of a real woman form a Möbius Strip...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Archival Pigment
Qana, Palestine Large Mixed Media Conceptual Abstract Painting
By Dennis Balk
Located in Surfside, FL
From his show Hashish at Michael Steinberg Gallery (bearing their label verso)
Reviewed by Roberta Smith in the New York Times.
Abstract Expressionism meets graffiti photography. Cy Twombly in cyberspace. Existential physics. The trajectories of car bombs. These phrases came to mind at the show of Dennis Balk's new work, made during the last three years while he lived in Bahrain and traveled primarily in the Middle East.
The show is dominated by black-on-white gestural drawings on canvas from Mr. Balk's Faith Thumbnail series. Full of graphic and even painterly nuance, they turn out to have been made completely on the computer. In a smaller room, the Exhausted and Ideographic series features gaudy, vertiginous digital mixes of colorful photographs.
Originally a performance artist, he became known in the art world in the early 1990s for improvisational diagrams that brought different historical narratives into collision. One work in his solo debut at American Fine Arts in SoHo in 1992 charted the lives of Ho Chi Minh and Abraham Lincoln -- both fathers of their countries in different ways -- across white paper napkins. His 2003 exhibition at that gallery was titled ''Particles + Waves With Plausibility,'' as is a recent book of his work.
Dennis Balk is an educator, visual artist, writer, media designer and playwright based primarily in New York. Balk has an MFA Degree from California Institute of the Arts. Throughout the 90s and 00s he was an Art Director and media designer for television, outdoor, print and emerging tech and social/ media at; Arnell/ Bickford Associates, Frankfurt Gipps Balkind, Foote Cone & Belding and McCann Erickson, New York. At Amster Yard, the conceptual agency within McCann Worldwide, Balk was involved in concepting high-profile campaigns that ran both domestically and internationally. As an interactive and exhibition designer, Balk has designed significant exhibition work for; Princeton University (The Firestone Library), The National Building Museum (Washington DC), The Jewish Museum (New York) and The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington DC) in conjunction with the offices of James Ingo Freed. Balk has taught and lectured at a variety of Universities, most recently; UCLA in the Department of New Genres, the Università IUAV di Venezia, Yale University, Otis College of Art and Design- Public Practice MFA and as Coordinator of the Department of Fine Arts/ Computer Graphics at the New York Institute of Technology, Bahrain Campus. Since the late 80s his art work has addressed, in multiple formats (including several productions of his plays), the conditions of narrative and the narrative aspects of historicizing the present. His work has been exhibited internationally and reviewed extensively including; Artforum, Filosofia e Questioni Pubbliche, Bookforum, Art in America, Paper Magazine and The New York Times. While in New York, his primary gallery representation was with the seminal gallery, American Fine Arts. In February 2009, INOVA at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee presented the early work survey titled, “Dennis Balk - Early Work 1890-2090”. His recent publications include; “Dennis Balk/1890-2090” (2010-channel 171), “Dennis Balk The Arabian Gulf” (2010-channel 171), “ash” (2009-channel 171), “Colin de Land, American Fine Arts” (2008-powerhouse books), and “particles + waves with plausibility” (2006-powerhouse books).
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 2011 Jack Bankowsky, Rosetta Brooks, Ingrid Schaffner, Nicholas Frank, Christina Valentine, Dennis Balk, Jennifer Bolande...
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Canvas, Ink
Dune, Oceano
By Brett Weston
Located in Carmel, CA
A stunning dune by famous Brett Weston. It's most probable that it was taken in Oceano California with a large format camera.
Exceptional printed black and white silver gelatin phot...
Category
Late 20th Century Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Kokar, Finland (Abstract Rock Formation and Swimming Swan)
By Pentti Sammallahti
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Pentti Sammallahti was born in 1950 in Helsinki, Finland. Sammallahti was surrounded by works from his grandmother, Hildur Larsson, who was a photographer in the early 1900s. Sammallahti has been photographing the world around him with a poetic eye since the age of eleven. At the age of nine, he visited "The Family of Man...
Category
Early 2000s Minimalist Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Kokar, Finland (Abstract pattern on Rock Formation)
By Pentti Sammallahti
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Pentti Sammallahti was born in 1950 in Helsinki, Finland. Sammallahti was surrounded by works from his grandmother, Hildur Larsson, who was a photographer in the early 1900s. Sammallahti has been photographing the world around him with a poetic eye since the age of eleven. At the age of nine, he visited "The Family of Man...
Category
1970s Minimalist Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Temporal Perception 361 (Diptych) (Abstract photography)
By Serge Hamad
Located in London, GB
Temporal Perception 361 (Diptych) (Abstract photography)
Archival C-Print — Unframed.
Edition: 1/12
Available in 2 weeks turnaround.
Sold as a diptych. Each element size is: 45 x 30...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Eternal Recurrence #3. Large limited edition color photograph
By Natasha Zupan
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Eternal Recurrence #3 by Natasha Zupan
Archival pigment print of photographic paper
Image size: 60 in. H x 53.5 in. W
Edition of 5
2015
All Prices are quoted as "initial price". ...
Category
2010s Pop Art Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Pink Flight - underwater nude photograph - print on paper 42" x 53"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater photograph of a naked young woman with broken umbrella. The photograph is artistically modified into a fantastic warm tinted picture. The piece looks quite abstract with c...
Category
2010s Photorealist Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Temporal Perception 119 (Diptych) (Abstract photography)
By Serge Hamad
Located in London, GB
Temporal Perception 119 (Diptych) (Abstract photography)
Archival C-Print — Unframed.
Edition: 1/12
Available in 2 weeks turnaround.
Sold as a diptych. Each element size is: 45 x 30...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Bush Encased by Sand Dunes in Namibia, Africa, Minimalist, Vertical
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"Haven"
In this award-winning image, a lone bush is encased by a delicate sand dune, as if nature has protected it in a loving embrace.
The print series Dunes: Landscapes Evolving...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Peonies Breaking Pattern: Abstract Still Life Photograph of Pink & Green Flowers
By Lisa A. Frank
Located in Hudson, NY
Colorful, Maximalist style floral still life photograph of pink, green, yellow, and cream colored flowers and succulents
Archival digital print, made to order
24 x 24 inches, editio...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Digital
Kokar, Finland (Abstract pattern on Rock Formation)
By Pentti Sammallahti
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Pentti Sammallahti was born in 1950 in Helsinki, Finland. Sammallahti was surrounded by works from his grandmother, Hildur Larsson, who was a photographer in the early 1900s. Sammallahti has been photographing the world around him with a poetic eye since the age of eleven. At the age of nine, he visited "The Family of Man...
Category
1970s Minimalist Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Temporal Perception 114 (Diptych) (Abstract photography)
By Serge Hamad
Located in London, GB
Temporal Perception 114 (Diptych) (Abstract photography)
Archival C-Print — Unframed.
Edition: 1/12
Available in 2 weeks turnaround.
Sold as a diptych. Each element size is: 45 x 30...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Close Up Flower Sabattier Photograph
By Pat Truax
Located in Houston, TX
Black and white close up photograph of a flower. This photograph showcases the Sabbttier process or the results of solarization. The photograph is not framed.
Artist Biography: Pat ...
Category
1960s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Wilhold Up the Mirror Photograph and Mixed Media Assemblage Wall Hanging Artwork
By Dennis Hopper
Located in Surfside, FL
Dennis Hopper, (American, 1936-2010)
Mixed media sculpture
"Outmolding Older Concepts (Wilhold Up the Mirror)", 1961, photo and assemblage,
Ace gallery and Easy Rider Production labels verso 27"h x 40"w x 5"d.
There is broken mirror glued into the wooden collage box with the ceramic head that is attached to the front. I assume that is how it was made.
Provenance: Estate of Pentti Kouri, NYC; Ace Gallery, Los Angeles; Exhibited MOCA, Los Angeles, 2010
From a 1997 interview with Hopper where he references this piece "Right now it's very intense. I had a show that travelled Germany, about 15 different museums. Sunday we go to Denmark; I'm showing the early assemblage I did in 1961 which was the signal for conceptual art. I'm just two days there, then I'm going to Venice to meet Julian Schnabel - Count Volpe's given us a place to paint in Giudecca. Then I'm going to Documenta in Germany to hang another show, then I go back to LA on the 21st and start a film on the 23rd."
Notes/Literature: Dr. Pentti Kouri(1949-2009) was a Finnish economist and venture capitalist with partner George Soros. He built his prestigious art collection with the goal of opening a private art foundation focused on his interests in Minimalism, Arte Povera, Conceptual and Text-based art. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of Dia Art Foundation, and on the boards of Tate, London and the Guggenheim Museum, New York. In addition, a portion of his collection forms the core of the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, Finland
Hopper made his film debut alongside James Dean in 1955's Rebel Without a Cause. Both lost souls from dysfunctional households, they gravitated to each other, smoked dope and took joy rides. When Dean died, Hopper saw himself as the natural inheritor of his rebellious mantle and, revelling in his nickname of "Dennis the Menace", gave it to Hollywood with both barrels; so they dropped him. Dennis didn't make another Hollywood movie for seven years.
Frustrated by the deliberate stifling of his film career, Dennis turned to art and photography for creative stimulus, beginning with abstract subjects such as landscapes. His cutting-edge conceptual art became established round the world, with exhibitions in major cities. At home in the dining room stood one particularly interesting work, a white plastic box, eight feet long, that had an aluminium shaft sticking out of it, and two very large balls. It was called The Perpetual Erection Machine. Before Tracy Emin and Damien Hirst, there was Dennis.
In 1961, Hopper took part in an international photography competition in Australia with a contribution of five abstract photos, which he called Pieces. He won first place.
Soon after, Hopper married Hayward, daughter of the film producer Leland Hayward, whose credits include The Sound of Music and South Pacific. The wedding party of Hopper and Hayward was held in August at the apartment of actress Jane Fonda, a childhood friend of Hayward, who introduced Hopper to her younger brother Peter Fonda. Their daughter Marin was born in 1961, and they moved to Bel Air, California. Soon afterward the famous Bel Air fire destroyed their home, including approximately three-hundred Abstract Expressionist works and hundreds of pages of poetry that Hopper had begun in the mid-1950s. Hopper and his actor friends Dean Stockwell and Russ Tamblyn were close to many artists in California, especially assemblage artists Edward Kienholz...
Category
1960s Conceptual Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Ceramic, Wood, Mixed Media
Essence of Life
Located in Storrs, CT
"Essence of Life" is a part of Christopher Kennedy's "Trees Revered" series. Please note that the image without the frame is a better representation of the actual image.
"This parti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
I am fleeting #8 and Mirages #6, Diptych. Color Photography
By Javier Rey
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Is a project that debates through the photographic image, the importance that humans have assigned to ourselves, and proposes a reconciliation with the reality of our own insignifica...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Bent Sound - underwater portrait of Njomza Vitia - archival pigment print 43x62"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
"Bent Sound" - An ethereal underwater fine art photograph that captures the intersection of music and movement through a portrait of singer Njomza Vitia. This submerged portrait tran...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Hemisphere I - large format photograph of abstract liquid cloudscapes in water
By Christian Stoll
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photography of mesmerizing color compositions of liquid cloudscape painting in water, hypnotizing abstract liquidscapes from the body of works titled 'Hemisphere'
Hemisp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée, Archival Ink
"Pygmalion and Galatea" Photography 31" x 31" in Edition of 7 by Olha Stepanian
By Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"Pygmalion and Galatea" Photography 31" x 31" in 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 Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Smoke - abstract photography
By MAE Curates
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a series curated by Modern Art Etc Los Angeles. The subject matter of the work is a series of abstract photography of smoke and light and the imagery presented.
Image dime...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Hemisphere IV - large format photograph of abstract liquid cloudscapes in water
By Christian Stoll
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photography of mesmerizing color compositions of liquid cloudscape painting in water, hypnotizing abstract liquidscapes from the body of works titled 'Hemisphere'
Hemisp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
David Burdeny - In Bloom 01, Kunming, China, Photography 2019, Printed After
By David Burdeny
Located in Greenwich, CT
David Burdeny (b. 1968. Winnipeg, Canada) graduated with a Masters in Architecture and Interior Design and spent the early part of his career practicing in his field before establish...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Digital, Pigment, Digital Pigment
Peonies Breaking Pattern: Abstract Still Life Photograph of Pink & Green Flowers
By Lisa A. Frank
Located in Hudson, NY
Colorful, Maximalist style floral still life photograph of pink, green, yellow, and cream colored flowers and succulents
Archival digital print, made to order
40 x 40 inches, editio...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Digital
"Bryant Park" New York, Giclee Print, Abstract Photography, Limited Edition
By Hatice Besun
Located in Brooklyn, NY
“Bryant Park” New York, Giclee Print, Limited Edition
Creator: Hatice Besun
Creation year: 2021
Dimension: 42 x 28
External Dimension( with white border) : Height: 43.6 inch Weigh...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment
Capricho - underwater photograph from series REFLECTIONS - archival print 16x24"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
From the dark, she rises. An eerie turquoise glow intermingles with the colors from the nude body of a woman, at least a part of a woman. Her breasts and arms breach the reflection’s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dusk (Deconstructivism) - Contemporary, Expired Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Dusk (Deconstructivism) - 2015
- about the narrative potential of images.
20x24cm, Edition of 10,
digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid,
Artist Inventory 20274.
Signature label an...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Abstraction 9
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Igor Vitomirov has over 15 years experience of working in photography. He loves nature and people and expressing their interactions with different emotions. Igor's...
Category
2010s Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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 a Polaroid,
Artist Inventory 15714.
Signature ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Spark - underwater nude photograph series REFLECTIONS - acrylic print
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
“Spark” 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 Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Archival Pigment
Möbius Mermaid - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 24x35"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Radiating with mythic sexuality, the mermaid’s topless body becomes fluid, her multiplying naked breasts and her scaly tail swirling into the hips of a real woman form a Möbius Strip...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Illuminated (Deconstructivism) - Contemporary, Expired Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Illuminated (Deconstructivism) - 2015
- about the narrative potential of images.
20x24cm, Edition of 10,
digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid,
Artist Inventory 20271.
Signature l...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Trouble - underwater photograph - acrylic print 28 x 48"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
A passionate furious energy radiates in the ripples of red that overtake the reflection. Intense motion, stirring the water into an explosion of bubbles we encounter “The Trouble...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Archival Pigment
Blue Space Dark - Planet of the Apes 6 - 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, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid.
...
Category
1990s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
