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Contemporary Mixed Media

CONTEMPORARY STYLE

Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.

Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.

The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.

Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.

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Style: Contemporary
Cashel Ireland 3, Mixed Media on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
digitally manipulated photography, printing on cotton, hand quilted, gallery-wrapped on stretched canvas, ready to hang :: Mixed Media :: Contemporary :: This piece comes with an off...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Meander (Female Figure in Quilted Dress with Collage Lake Landscape)
Located in Hudson, NY
Meander (Female Figure in Quilted Dress with Collage Lake Landscape) by Olan Quattro 2025, gouache, paper, and acrylic on wood panel, 24 x 18 inches Olan Quattro's subtle and sophis...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Paper, Acrylic, Gouache, Wood Panel

"Soil Horizons (Sub-Soil As Far As the Eye Can See)" - earth pigments - abstract
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting features hues of brown, orange and pink. Heather Bird Harris is an artist, mother, and educator based in Atlanta and New Orleans. Sh...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Canvas, Watercolor, Graphite

New Beginnings
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Is it the end, or the start of something new? Acrylic, Latex, Aerosol, Mixed Media. Jordan Barker is a New York City based mixed media artist. Initially inspired by found objects, h...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Latex, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Spring Rain by Chen Yiching - Contemporary nihonga painting, flowers, wisteria
Located in Paris, FR
Spring Rain is a unique painting by contemporary artist Chen Yiching. The painting is made with mineral pigments on Japanese paper mounted on wood, silver leaf, dimensions are 110 × ...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Silver

Pansy, Contemporary Circular Photo Collage with Found Photography
Located in New York, NY
Pansy is a richly layered circular photo collage by contemporary artist Heather Cox, composed of found photographic fragments meticulously arranged into a floral, mandala-like form. ...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Mixed Media, Photographic Paper

Joan Miró Vinyl Record Art
Located in NEW YORK, NY
1960s Joan Miró vinyl album art: Raimon and Joan Miró were close friends that first collaborated on the 1966 album Cançons de la roda del temps. In 1979, Miró designed a cover for t...
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1970s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Lithograph, Offset

October Air
Located in BARCELONA, ES
The artist applies the underpainting in approximately five to six layers, building a rich texture of brushstrokes that adds depth and atmosphere to the work. Although this process is...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Canvas, Mixed Media

AAR April #5
Located in Morton Grove, IL
paper and ink on cloth covered and gessoed board
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Gesso, Paper, Ink

Untitled
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Capelán's work stands out for its rigorous handling of diverse artistic techniques and procedures, ranging from drawing to installation, including painting, printmaking, photography,...
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1990s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Canvas, Mixed Media

Untitled
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Capelán's work stands out for its rigorous handling of diverse artistic techniques and procedures, ranging from drawing to installation, including painting, printmaking, photography,...
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1990s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Canvas, Mixed Media

Medellin
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This body of work by Miguel Angel Ríos from the early 1990’s mark an important period in his career, and he has made a name for himself with his ‘Mapas’ which are in various importan...
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1990s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Paper, Ink, Pins

Big Blue
Located in New Orleans, LA
Non-objective artist Aimée Farnet Siegel works with color and line through the medium of hand-painted and manipulated paper. Her works inhabit space outside the two-dimensional plan...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

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Acrylic, Canvas

“Fragment – Silicone Cast Wall Texture Sculpture, Original Artwork
Located in Agrigento, AG
silicone cast on frame Size: 24 × 36 cm Framing: Custom handmade wooden frame – ready to hang Year: [insert year] Signature: Signed on the reverse Certificate of Authenticity: Includ...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Silicone, Wood

Untitled
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Quinn, Marc Title: Untitled Series: Stardust Series Date: 2012 Medium: Mixed Media archival pigment print with paint and metallic dust Unframed Dimensions: 8.267" x 1...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Untitled
Untitled
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Stephanie Todhunter, Donna, Mixed Media, 2019
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Stephanie Todhunter Title: Donna Year: 2019 Size: 8"x7"x4" Material: Plaster of paris, found objects, spraypaint, alcohol inks
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Plaster, Found Objects, Ink, Spray Paint

Let It Go, Mixed Media on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
A powerful gestural and beautiful abstract piece about the healing time we spend at the sea. The painting is part of a series done after a poem of Erich Fried called "Wenn Du zum Mee...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

"Old Glory" Hand Embroidery with French Knots and Historical Imagery
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Old Glory" is an original piece by Han Cao and is made from hand embroidery on found vintage postcard from 1924, with cotton thread. This piece measures 11.25" x ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

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Thread, Found Objects, Photographic Paper

Untitled
Located in Bozeman, MT
Rooted in observation and fueled by a curiosity about the behavior of objects and handicraft processes, Carly Glovinski makes paintings, sculpture and works on paper that often teeter between representation and abstraction. Letting craft techniques like weaving inform her mark making, her work mimics everyday objects and highlights geometric pattern and structure found in textiles, while exploring the resourceful attitudes associated with domestic craft and rural communities that prioritize placemaking in concert with nature. She received her BFA from Boston University in 2003 and is represented by Morgan Lehman Gallery...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite

The Horse s Way, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Draped in a colorful blanket and holding a bamboo birdcage, a regal horse strides purposefully against a backdrop of distant mountains. A pair of swallows fly...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

The Motion Keeper, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
This expressive work portrays a rearing horse and rider with vivid energy and movement. Created with oil paint, pastel, acrylic paint, charcoal, and oil sticks,...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Mid-Century Modern Collage, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A collage of fragmented images forms a structured, imagined space. The work contrasts nature and architecture, interior and exterior, and geometric precision wi...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Mint Julep - Framed Abstract Sage Green Botanical Floral Still Life Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Dynamic and abstracted still-life artworks are the specialty of Georgia-based artist Kellie Newsome. Her work is characterized by a loose and expressive style emphasizing line struct...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Color Pencil

Red Sunset - Acrylic on Canvas and Plexiglass Neon
Located in London, GB
Hanibal Srouji Red Sunset, 2014 Acrylic, fire on canvas and neon in plexglas 17 5/8 x 17 5/8 x 5 7/8 in. 45.0 x 45.0 x 15.0 cm
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Canvas, Plexiglass, Neon Light, Acrylic

Allowing 2
Located in New Orleans, LA
Materials: acrylic painted paper on Birch panel Non-objective artist Aimée Farnet Siegel works with color and line through the medium of hand-painted and manipulated paper. Her wor...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

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Birch, Paper, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Collective Liberation
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Collective Liberation is comprised of a photograph, acrylic paint and resin. The base materials for the work are a wooden paneled canvas that supports the adhesion of a rolled photog...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Resin, Found Objects, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Photographic Paper

That Day
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Contextually within the framework of postmodern Neo-pop and Post-pop, Miller utilizes a semiotic process of mining familiar pictorial codes from the popular culture of his youth for ...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Canvas, Paper, Acrylic

Sunset Enclosed, Handsewn Abstract Textured Textile Collage, Fiber Art Blue Gold
Located in New York, NY
Eozen Agopian’s Sunset Enclosed (2025) exemplifies her signature mixed-media practice, fusing fabric collage, stitched thread, and expressive paint. In this work, geometric forms in ...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Fabric, Thread, Acrylic

Come On
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: silkscreen on bulletproof glass Skylar Fein was born in Greenwich Village and raised in the Bronx. He has had many careers including teach...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Come With Me - Street Art, Urban, Graffiti, colour pop
Located in London, GB
Born  Robert  Keith  Court  on  November  2nd  1970  in  the  market  town of Romford,  Essex,  England  to  a  working  class  family.  Courty,  is  his childhood  nickname  adopted  for  signature  reference  to  his  collection of signed neon artworks. Since  1987  Courty  has  dedicated  his  life  to  the  study  of  neon  lights and  immersed  his  mind  in  creating  beautiful  works  of  art  with  the  use of  vibrant  colours,  lighting  technology,  typography  and  the  written word,  predominantly  with  the  use  of  the  iconic  light  form  known  as 'Neon'. A  respected  and  well  known  English  craftsmen  of  the  100  year old  art  of  glassblowing  neon  tube  lights,  Courty  has  reached  master neon  glass  blower  level  and  is  forever  exploring  and  pushing  the boundaries  of  hand  made  neon  light  use  in  the  world  of  art  & sculpture from his East London based studio. Not  a  classically  trained  artist,  Courty  has  chosen  to  work  from industry  ground  level  and  has  spent  a  lifetime  working  hands  on  with creative  minds  from  around  the  world  in  the  art  &  design  arena, turning  ideas  and  visions  into  'illumination  reality'  on  a  spectacular level.  This  has  earned  him  the  reputation  of  being  'the  man  to  go  to' for  high  end  neon  fabrication.  Being  company  owner  of  commercial illumination  specialists  'Signs  Of  All  Kinds'  and  art  world  specialists 'Creative  Neon',  Courty  is  in  a  unique  position  to  produce  high  quality neon  art  that  combines  his  own  personal  creativity  with  his  knowledge and  technical  expertise  that  culminates  in  a  beautifully  crafted  light  art piece...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Glitter, Board

Goat with Cat riding on its back, earth tone sculpture: Soul to Soul
Located in New York, NY
Elizabeth Jordan is an emerging artist working primarily in sculpture. Her work uses multiple materials to produce unique, organic forms. In early 2016, she participated in an exhibi...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Wire

Hypomnema, Wall sculpture. Handmade from an oriental rug.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Hypomnema. A term that is composed of the ancient Greek preposition Hypo-Mneme and literally means “commemorative memory.” It is the meeting of several layers in an object, the memor...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Textile, Mixed Media

WOMAN IN POOL (JUDAICA ART)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original watercolor and glitter on paper. Hand signed on front by the artist. Sheet size 21.75 x 15 inches. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. ...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Paper, Glitter, Watercolor

"Was Happy Cancelled?", Wall-Hanging Sculpture, Rainbow, Bright Colors, Smile
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This wall-hanging sculpture titled "Was Happy Cancelled?" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma made of assorted repurposed punched paper, hand-stitc...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Thread, Paper, Found Objects

Hector Frank s Cuban Figurative Portrait on Wood
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Despite international acclaim as one Cuba’s foremost living artists, Havana born Hector Frank never received a professional artistic education yet specialized in electronics. Now, in...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Canvas, Found Objects, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Fingerprint Book Sculpture: "The Scarlett Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Located in New York, NY
"I started creating fingerprinted pinned books after seeing a photo of Americans being lynched in the south popped up in my social media feed. I was shocked and horrified to see it. ...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Have You Seen This Person
Located in Bozeman, MT
This is a very active and textured painting in a vertical composition. There are multiples collages on a blue background. The main focus is a person in red holding a a black star, along with other figures and lit up homes. Paint also drips down that canvas. At the bottom of the painting is a grey Saturn. To see more images of this piece, please message us. Casey McGlynn grew up in rural Ontario, where he would sit in front of the television and draw on old grocery bags and scrap paper tirelessly, creating self-taught surrealist pop art. McGlynn attended the Ontario College of Art and Design, however, he was not enrolled in the visual arts. McGlynn’s work contains reoccurring symbols such as animals from his upbringing, birds from his studio window sill and numbers that derive from when he memorized math tables in his early years. McGlynn’s work is as much about revealing the truth and expressing emotions as it is about documenting actual fact. His paintings reach into a wealth of historical influence and skill. Creating symphonic glyphs on rudimentary, raw quilt-like patterns, the works simultaneously evoke rural Southern quilts...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Canvas, Oil Pastel, India Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic

The Last Stand
Located in New Orleans, LA
assemblage sculpture: wood stadium-like stands with 13 hand-carved & painted people, 1 resin & wood figure, painted reversible wood carnival game clown with one side a smile and the reverse a frown, hand-painted wood flag...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

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Found Objects, Mixed Media

Water Tower Sculpture: Stool Pigeon
Located in New York, NY
This image is from a mini fanzine created by the artist and spread through downtown New York. If pigeons could talk would they rat us all out. Instead of framing his work he prefers ...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Mixed Media, Acrylic, Gouache

"After the Rain" hand painted tea set with birds, swallows, ravens, cardinals,
Located in New York, NY
Sascha Mallon’s stoneware tea set, “After the Rain” features a hand-painted underglaze of soaring ravens and swallows on the central teapot. Each of the accompanying teacups (nestled on cashmere crocheted doilies) depict a different bird: a hummingbird, a raven, a blue tit and a cardinal. Sascha Mallon’s sculptural set relates to her narrative storytelling style and creates a conversation amongst the birds. The total set includes 5 hand-sculpted pieces: the central teapot and four teacups with saucers and crocheted doilies. Sascha Mallon, "After the Rain Tea Set", stoneware, cashmere yarn doilies , underglazes, clear glaze ravens and swallows teapot: 10.5”x 7.5" x 4” humming bird cup: 2.5” x 41/4" x 41/4” raven cup: 2.5” x 4” x 4” blue tit cup: 3 1/4" x 4" x 4” cardinal cup: 2.5” x 4" x 4" Sascha Mallon has exhibited her work in Austria, the USA, Taiwan, and Germany. In 2021 she has 4 solo shows: At the Woodstock Artist Association and Museum, at Front Room Gallery...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Ceramic, Porcelain, Yarn

Ventana
Located in Napa, CA
Oil, charcoal, wax, pigment, and graphite on canvas. Alison Haley Paul is a contemporary painter of lavishly textured landscapes full of nuanced color. Her work conjures up connotat...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Canvas, Charcoal, Wax, Oil, Graphite, Pigment

Undercurrents: Support - figurative - black white - cut paper - Kara Walker
Located in Atlanta, GA
'Undercurrents: Struggle' is a black and white figurative work made of cut paper. Jerushia Graham is inspired by the works of Elizabeth Catlett, Kerry James Marshall, John Biggers, Leo & Diane Dillon...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Archival Paper

Teddy
Located in Napa, CA
KOLLABS is a collaborative project between artists Luis Garcia Nerey and Anke Schofield. In their work, they create compositions juxtaposing undomesticated animals within domestic an...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

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Resin, Mixed Media, Panel

Beginning of the Work Day
Located in Southampton, NY
For the month of December we are offering very special pricing of at least a 20% discount on all of the paintings at the gallery. A few are discounted as much as 50%. If you see a pa...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic

The Rainbow, Books, Photography and Oil on Canvas, Mixed Media
Located in New york, NY
The Rainbow, 2025 by Roberta Fineberg (RF) is a 20" x 19.3” x 1.75" contemporary mixed-media work, photography and oil on canvas. The work is signed, titled, and dated by RF (on vers...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Oil, Canvas

Superman...!
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: hardcover book, acrylic varnish [New Orleans, LA ::: b. 1952 - Queens, NY] TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author, and educa...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Rattlesnake
Located in Bozeman, MT
"By placing figures into fantastical landscapes, I allow the viewer a glimpse into what might be reality, or not. This practice allows me to push the boundaries of what a past/presen...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Mixed Media, Archival Paper

The Mystic
Located in Bozeman, MT
Matt Flint is a painter from the mountain town of Lander, Wyoming. He grew up surrounded by woods, animals, and family. As a boy, He spent endless days creating art and exploring the fields and woods around him. Now he spends time with his family, painting, and exploring the rugged Wind River...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Mixed Media, Panel

Raw Minimalist Textured Paper Composition in White, 2024 - Carte Mute II
Located in Bruxelles, BE
Silvia De Marchi (b. 1967, Melzo, Italy) is an Italian painter currently based in Italy and represented by the Grège Gallery. Her artistic practice reflects a deep exploration of mat...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Paper, Glue, Ink, Mixed Media

Schrödingers Bird 15
Located in Berlin, DE
Scratching, pastel chalk. Signed and dated 'S. Schüffler 2021' lower right. From the series 'An Experiment on a Bird'. On white Mi-Teintes paper, Canson.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

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Chalk, Pastel

Button Reliquary - Contemporary Abstract Mixed Media Sculpture for Desk or Table
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Atticus Adams' organically composed modern metal sculptures embody the transformative power of art, illustrating the creation of beauty, meaning, and emotional impact from industrial...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

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Metal

Serenity of Chaos
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Collaboration between photographer John Mazlish & artist John Wright.
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Photographic Paper

Wall sculpture: Meret 2
Located in New York, NY
Samuelle Green’s work has always been multidisciplinary. Throughout all her mediums; painting, drawing, sculpture, and installation, there is a common thread of subject matter – tha...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

The Sun and The Star, Diptych. Embroidery thread on canvas
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The Sun and The Star, Diptych From the Ventura Series Embroidery thread on canvas Frame size: 15.7 H x 23.6 W x 1.1 D in. Image size: 10.6 H x 13.2 W in. Individual size: Frame size:...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Gold

"Vestiges I" 32" x 83" inch by Neama El Sanhoury
Located in Culver City, CA
"Vestiges I" 32" x 83" inch by Neama El Sanhoury Medium: fabric appliqué on linen "Fragments of Time" series: Ultimately, El Sanhoury’s work is contemplated and generated in a tho...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

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Fabric, Linen, Mixed Media, Mesh

Trailer Park
Located in New Orleans, LA
The election of Donald Trump placed a spotlight on lower-class white families. This work lampoons the stereotypes we often have of those families. The piece is intentionally whimsical. The point is that until we see beyond superficial (and misleading) stereotypes, we have little hope of making any progress toward solving issues related to this, or any, class of individuals. --- Kat Flyn is a self-taught assemblage artist working presently out of San Diego. She began her career as a costume designer in Southern California. Over the years she amassed a trove of artifacts and collectables, which she began using to create assemblage art in the 1990's. In 2000 she sold her business and moved to Cuyamaca, a remote community in the mountains outside of San Diego to devote herself exclusively to her artwork. In 2003 her work was interrupted when the Cedar Fire swept through San Diego county and destroyed the forest, her home & studio along with almost all of her collections and works of art. Following the fire she relocated to San Francisco, where she spent a decade concentrating on her art in her studio in SOMA and exhibiting at galleries in the Bay Area. In 2015 she returned to San Diego and now works out of her studio in La Jolla, exhibiting there and in Los Angeles. Kat Flyn refers to herself as an Assemblage Sculptor and her works as Political Art or Protest Art. She separates herself from other assemblage artists in that she only employs “saved” as opposed to “found” objects in her work; and her pieces always have a political or cultural narrative to them rather than being surreal or abstract. She also constructs or refashions many of the pieces which she uses in her art – a soft drink box into a tenement building (Affordable Housing 2017), a jewelry box into a wheelchair (Last Lily Foot 2016), an old shoe shine box into a hearse (Katrina 2018). The result is her work is closer in appearance to Folk Art than Assemblage Art. STATEMENT: Strictly speaking I am an assemblage artist, but in fact I construct more than assemble my works. I search out collectables, artifacts and woodcarvings and then build scenes to make statements regarding American society. Even when using artifacts from earlier centuries, my theme is almost always about contemporary America. Social injustice, racism, sexism, and violence - aspects of our national psyche – exist in the present but have their seeds planted in our past. Additionally, the artifacts I use often are meant to amplify the meaning of the work. For instance, the Black stereotype wood figures I use in many of my pieces were almost certainly crafted by a White person. By using such artifacts I ask: what kind of society produces such items in the first place? In my art I make a strict distinction between found objects and saved objects.. A found object - which most assemblage artists use in their works - is devoid of intrinsic or emotional value, having been discarded by its owner as worthless or broken. A saved object on the other hand has retained value, either because it was intrinsically valuable or because emotional value had been added to it (such as a photograph, an old shoe, a vintage toy) and consequently it was saved rather than discarded. The fact that I only use “saved objects” often results in viewers being attracted to the individual pieces within my works rather than seeing the narrative I am attempting to portray. The pieces on display in this exhibit are from my American Home Series. I have assembled an array of old artifacts, carved figures, and iconic symbols, each spotlighting an aspect of living conditions within our borders; and as is consistent with my art, focus is placed on failings in our social contract – overcrowded tenements, trailer parks...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Loft on the Peninsula - Minimalist Scenic Nighttime Landscape Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gough’s interest in the elusive quality of memory has always been an invariable interest in his art practice. Rooted in memories of his upbringing in Newfoundland, Gough’s paintings ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Pendant Light
Located in Calabasas, CA
Artist: Andre Butzer Title: Pendant Light Year: 2021 Medium: Pendant light individually painted and signed by Andre Butzer. Includes hardcover volume in clamshell box...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Glass, Acrylic

Pendant Light
$12,000 Sale Price
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Go Forth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Mixed media on canvas.
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Go Forth
Go Forth
$5,600 Sale Price
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"Peep Show" Peter Norton Family Christmas Project 2001
Located in Soquel, CA
"Peep Show" Peter Norton Family Christmas Project 2001 by Anna Gaskell Paper construction of layers of printed photographs which unfold to create a fantasy peep-hole scene. Using ph...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Fabric, Paper, Board, Digital

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Find a wide variety of authentic Contemporary mixed media available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add mixed media created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, orange, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Chelsea Davine, Giuliano Bekor, Mark Jackson, and Anastasia Pelias. Frequently made by artists working with Mixed Media, and Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Contemporary mixed media, so small editions measuring 0.4 inches across are also available.

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