Contemporary Abstract Paintings
CONTEMPORARY STYLE
Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.
Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.
The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.
Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.
Find a collection of Contemporary prints, photography, paintings, sculptures and other art on 1stDibs.
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Style: Contemporary
Jade - Colorful Vibrant Abstract Southwestern Inspired Still Life Painting
By Will Beger
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Will Beger and his contemporary-minimalist paintings, take on an entirely unique approach to southwest art. Influenced by his youth and inspired by nature, he effortlessly captures a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
68 x 78 in. / 5.6 x 6.5 ft oil on canvas abstract expressionist
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a large, vibrant and bold piece of abstract expressionist oil painting on canvas.
Painting subject to availability and 1stdibs buyer protected purchase and shipping with re...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"My Possibilities are Endless" Abstract Butterfly Painting Acrylic on Canvas
By Ash Almonte
Located in New York, NY
The Butterfly series for Ash began as a sentiment to her late Father. Butterflies began to appear in unexplainable ways after his passing, the artist later discovered that Butterflies represent spiritual rebirth, transformation, change, hope, and life - she goes on to say: "The butterfly series draws inspiration from Rivera's quote 'Butterflies can't see their wings. They can't see how truly beautiful they are, but everyone else can.'" After coming to the fruition that Butterflies pose as not only a symbol for beauty and rebirth, Almonte felt a feeling of deep comfort. Her passion for sharing this message of hope and renewal through her colorfully diverse canvases is achieved with resilience leaving her audience glimmering much like the inner voice and the spark of Joie de vivre that fuels her purpose in life to create. This piece is painted on thick gallery wrap canvas and is signed lower right and on verso, it comes with hanging wire on verso ready to be displayed.
Art measures 48 x 48 inches
Inspired by vibrance and an optimistic outlook on life, Ash Almonte is recognized for her distinct abstract expressionistic style. She is best known for her series of Chandeliers, Butterflies, and Fashion from the Seventh Avenue Design District. Almonte's award-winning works can be found in private and permanent collections around the world. She is motivated by change, compassion for others, and miraculous phenomena that can impact others for good.
Her flair and admiration for fashion and art have been a staple of her life since childhood. As a young girl, she would experiment using anything she could find to make art; from tearing apart bushel baskets at her father’s fruit stand, to tearing out old magazine clippings from her mother's magazine collection; anything and everything around her could potentially be used to create. She would continue to seek out opportunities throughout her young adult years, as her love for fashion grew, allowing her to collaborate with celebrity stylists creating looks for top billboard artists, as well as apparel worn at New York Fashion Week for designers Sherri Hill...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Chrysanthemums
Located in Zofingen, AG
This elegant floral painting features soft, graceful chrysanthemums painted in delicate pastel shades with touches of golden patina. It brings a feeling of warmth and quiet sophistic...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Dream Abstraction #14" - abstract painting - colorful work on paper
By Eilis Crean
Located in Atlanta, GA
This work on paper is a colorful abstract featuring hues of red, green (citron), black and pink.
It is framed without glass in a natural wood frame measuring 27 by 34 inches. The ar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Beloved 8
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fields near Leckhampton, Original painting, Contemporary artist
Located in Deddington, GB
An expressive palette knife oil painting depicting the rocks on the beach surrounding the breakwater in Bude, with the vibrant Cornish sea in the background. The thick, textured appl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Large Celestial Mythical Horse Painting Acrylic Gouache Ink on Canvas Blue
Located in Versailles, KY
Large Celestial Mythical Horse Painting by Alex K. Mason "Wardusa", Acrylic Gouache Ink on Canvas, Blue, White, Gold, Yellow
This painting is part of a constellation series I did f...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic, Gouache
Forest on the Edge of Town
Located in Bozeman, MT
This piece is a diptych.
Bayard Hollins' work explores the link between abstraction and figurative representation. Although the lines back to classical realism can be traced, Hollin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tropical Garden VIII
By Alanna Eakin
Located in Deddington, GB
Tropical Garden viii by Alanna Eakin [2021]
original
Oil paint on wood panel
Image size: H:25.5 cm x W:25.5 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:0.5 c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Good Earth III by Joachim van der Vlugt - contemporary painting, landscape
Located in Paris, FR
Good Earth III is a unique oil painting on canvas by Dutch contemporary artist Joachim van der Vlugt, dimensions are 110 x 200 cm (43.3 × 78.7 in).
The artwork is signed, sold unfram...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Thalassa
Located in Chicago, IL
Thalassa
Oil on canvas
33 x 25 inches
Born in Thessaloniki, Greece, Kostis Georgiou studied stage scenery in Florence (1981-1982), painting and sculpture in the School of Fine Arts, Athens (1982-1986) with Dimitris Mitaras and Dimosthenis Kokinidis, as well as at the Royal College of Fine Arts, London (1985-1986) with Peter de Francia. His first one-man exhibition was in Thessaloniki (1974). Since then his work has been represented in numerous solo and group exhibitions all over the world and won several international awards. Recently, Georgiou's works were exhibited in a five museum tour in China.
Georgiou's paintings and monumental sculptures can be found in public squares...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Flying To Infinity - Abstract Colorful Hearts Graffiti Mixed Media Pop Artwork
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Amber Goldhammer’s vibrant heart-filled contemporary paintings invite you to color your love and let the joy flow. Known for her dramatic abstract compositions in acrylic on canvas, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Latex, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Nostalgia
Located in New Orleans, LA
full title: "'Nostalgia is, so to speak, an epidemic in New Orleans' - Harry Pelias, December 1971 (lemon yellow, translucent golden green, natural bohemian earth, manganese cerulean...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Plywood, Oil
Yang
Located in Atlanta, GA
Rather than re-creating a literal landscape on canvas or paper, I aim to express its essence in a rich and complex form of delicately painted organic subjects that float and trail ac...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Wood Panel
Carnival. Paper, wood, watercolor, 53x75 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Carnival. Paper, wood, watercolor, 53x75 cm
Atis Ievins (1946)
The exhibition by artist Atis Ieviņš reminds the very origins of serigraphy technique in Latvian art in the time of th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper, Watercolor
$430 Sale Price
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Rock Springs
Located in Bozeman, MT
Artist Statement-"I work in mixed media, laying down layers of spray paint, pencil, and traditional oil wash on wood or canvas before bringing in photography or other elements that c...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
ETNOGRAFICA BLANC V
By Kim Fonder
Located in Tulsa, OK
Kim Fonder
ETNOGRAFICA BLANC V
72.00 X 36.00 in
$4,300.00
Kim Fonder loves texture and touch. Her paintings and furniture reflect her infatuation with these two characteristics. Fro...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Umbra – Minimalist, Neutral, Brown, Beige, Contemporary, Modern, Buff, Taupe
Located in Woodstock, GA
Umbra! – Textured Abstract Earth Tone Painting by Michelle Thomas (24” x 48" x 2.5”).
“Umbra!” is a captivating contemporary abstract painting that explores the elemental dialogue b...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Alphabet of Geometry 61, Triptych. From The Alphabet of Geometry Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The series Geometric Alphabet is part of my series Geometric Abstract, in which the abstract game is used in the form of asemic writing with geometric shapes. Here Peters recreates h...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Archival Ink, Acrylic
Museum Visit IV - 21st Century figurative abstract - Girl in a Museum
By Martin Koole
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Martin Koole
Museum Visit IV
120 x 120 cm (not framed
Acryl on canvas
Martin Koole's paintings are distinguished from the work of other painters by his very headstrong way of applyi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Mountains - Contemporary Abstract Large Format Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
The artwork will be shipped rolled up in a cardboard tube
Aleksandra Batura (b. 1982 in Augustów) a Warsaw based artist. She earned a Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the Academy of ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Drenched in Green (Large Scale Contemporary Abstract Painting)
Located in New York, NY
A large scale (60"x48") acrylic and oil painting by Debra Drexler, an artist based in New York and Hawaii. Deep, light blues, aqua, teal, aquamarine and green forms weave and layer t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Canvas
"My Heart of the Ocean" Contemporary Pop Diamond Dust Oil Painting on Canvas
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Motivated by bold color and fast brushwork, we are moved by the simplicity and thick textured oil paints in these works. Shaoul’s “My Heart Collection” is a vibrant and energetic dis...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Glass, Oil, Acrylic
Isla 13
Located in New York, NY
Born in the province of Colón, Panamá in 1976, Thannyo De Freitas Navarro experienced an upbringing in which artistic
expression and earthly connection were...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
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By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: acrylic, flashe, collage, pencil, paint pen, crayon and glitter on canvas
Our gallery is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition of Tucson-based artist Jenny Day, enti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Glitter, Acrylic, Pencil
$4,375
Sheryl Roberts, Dearest Light, Contemporary Art, Affordable Original Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Dearest Light [2020]
Original
Landscape
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:30 cm x W:30 cm x D:5cm
Frame Size: H:34 cm x W:34 cm x D:5cm
Sold Framed
Please n...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Contemporary Abstract Black Cowboy Against Pink Western Figure Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary black and white western inspired cowboy painting by Texas based artist Nick Stevenson. The work features an abstracted black cowboy kneeling next to an animal against a ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Frammento – Casa di Famiglia is an original and unique Italian painting
Located in Agrigento, AG
Frammento – Casa di Famiglia is an original and unique painting by contemporary Italian artist Marilina Marchica.
This work explores the theme of memory and architecture through the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Untitled 2 - Contemporary Abstract Large Format Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
The artwork will be shipped rolled up in a cardboard tube
Aleksandra Batura (b. 1982 in Augustów) a Warsaw based artist. She earned a Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the Academy of ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Maggie LaPorte Banks First snow on Corn Du and Pen y fan, Original Painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Maggie LaPorte Banks
First snow on Corn Du and Pen y fan
Contemporary Welsh Landscape Painting
Acrylic on Canvas
Framed Size: H 43cm x W 53cm x D 6cm
Framed in a White Wood Frame
Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look.
First snow on Corn Du and Pen y fan is an original bright landscape painting by Maggie LaPorte Banks. On November 1 st. I awoke excited to see the first snow of the year on the Brecon Beacons...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Abstract Composition
Located in Astoria, NY
Andy Miller (American, b. 1950), Abstract Composition, Oil on Canvas, impasto details, deep red-brown, with artist's studio stamp to verso, reverse with green color field composition...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Breakwater Rocks, Bude, Original painting, Contemporary artist
Located in Deddington, GB
An expressive palette knife oil painting depicting the rocks on the beach surrounding the breakwater in Bude, with the vibrant Cornish sea in the background. The thick, textured appl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Restrained Supersaturation No.18 (Fuck that world) by Ahn Hyun-Ju - Painting
By Ahn Hyun-Ju
Located in Paris, FR
Restrained Supersaturation No.18 (Fuck that world) is a unique painting by contemporary artist Ahn Hyun-Ju. The painting is made with polyester, pigments and acrylic resin on alumini...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Metal
Root VIII by Joachim van der Vlugt - Semi-abstract painting, blue tones, tree
Located in Paris, FR
Root VIII is a unique oil on canvas painting by contemporary artist Joachim van der Vlugt, dimensions are 150 × 120 cm (59.1 × 47.3 in).
The artwork is signed, sold unframed and come...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Root IV by Joachim van der Vlugt - Semi-abstract painting, blue tones, tree
Located in Paris, FR
Root IV is a unique oil on canvas painting by contemporary artist Joachim van der Vlugt, dimensions are 150 × 130 cm (59.1 × 51.2 in).
The artwork is signed, sold unframed and comes ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Elysium IV by Joachim van der Vlugt - Semi-abstract painting, grey colour, dark
Located in Paris, FR
Elysium IV is a unique oil on canvas painting by contemporary artist Joachim van der Vlugt, dimensions are 130 cm × 160 cm (51.2 × 63 in).
The artwork is signed, sold unframed and co...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
TN830-D by Hachiro Kanno - Calligraphy-based abstract painting, diptych, blue
Located in Paris, FR
Permanescence TN830-D is a unique ink and acrylic on canvas diptych painting by Japanese contemporary artist Hachiro Kanno, dimensions are 100 × 140 cm (39.4 × 55.2 in). This diptyc...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
Root VII by Joachim van der Vlugt - Semi-abstract painting, green tones, nature
Located in Paris, FR
Root VII is a unique oil on canvas painting by contemporary artist Joachim van der Vlugt, dimensions are 130 × 180 cm (51.2 × 70.9 in).
The artwork is signed, sold unframed and comes...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Washed (purple, violet)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Black on White 4
By RETNA
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
RETNA (b. 1979)
Black on White 4, 2025
Acrylic on Paper
30 x 22 in (76.20 x 55.88 cm)
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$25,000
This is Where it Begins - Colorful Love-Themed Urban Graffiti Pop Artwork
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Amber Goldhammer’s vibrant heart-filled contemporary paintings invite you to color your love and let the joy flow. Known for her dramatic abstract compositions in acrylic on canvas, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Latex, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Begegnung
Located in Wien, 9
In his painting, Robert Hammerstiel is in constant search of the balance and harmony of form. In his drastic reduction to the physical essentials and the colourful placarding, he cre...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"End of the Trail" Oil on canvas 46x38" Southwest Pop Street Art
Located in Southampton, NY
We are please to announce that we are now representing the Contemporary Pop Art cowboy and cowgirl paintings of the artist Matt Straub. We at the gallery...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dialogue with Nature #28 by Maho Maeda - Abstract painting, red tones
Located in Paris, FR
This work is full of gentleness and inspired by the observation of nature. It is a celebration of love, tenderness and passion between two beings. It could therefore be the ideal rom...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wood, Cotton Canvas, Ink, Acrylic, Pencil
Light’n’Lines No.33 by Doris Marten - abstract painting, optical illusion, blue
By Doris Marten
Located in Paris, FR
Light’n’Lines No.33 is a unique oil on Alu-Dibond painting by contemporary artist Doris Marten, dimensions are 150 × 110 cm (59.1 × 43.3 in).
The artwork is signed, sold unframed and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Eternal Etna - Dramatic abstract landscape sky painting
Located in Silverthorne, CO
"Eternal Etna" is a dramatic abstract landscape with a bright dynamic sky and fiery palette of crimson, umber, and gold. It was inspired by the ever-flowing volcano, Etna, in Sicily....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Lady Justice" Abstract Figurative Painting 67" x 106" inch by Karim Abd Elmalak
Located in Culver City, CA
"Lady Justice" Abstract Figurative Painting 67" x 106" inch by Karim Abd Elmalak
Karim Abdel Malak's layered multi-media works are influenced by the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wood, Mixed Media, Oil
Sweet Butterflies - Abstract Skinny Tall Textural Mixed Media Painting on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles artist Amber Goldhammer paints dramatic abstract compositions in acrylic on canvas featuring energetic brushstrokes. Goldhammer uses her contemporary paintings to express...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Latex, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Ink
Fury III by Joachim van der Vlugt - contemporary painting, seascape, blue, water
Located in Paris, FR
Fury III is a unique oil painting on canvas by Dutch contemporary artist Joachim van der Vlugt, dimensions are 100 x 130 cm (39.4 × 51.2 in).
The artwork is signed, sold unframed and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Naiad by Mathieu Piffeteau - Abstract painting, color gradation, illusion, green
Located in Paris, FR
Naiad is a unique oil on canvas painting by contemporary artist Mathieu Piffeteau, dimensions are 200 × 200 cm (78.7 × 78.7 in).
The artwork is signed, sold unframed and comes with...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Klage (Die orangene Stadt)
Located in Wien, 9
In his painting, Robert Hammerstiel is in constant search of the balance and harmony of form. In his drastic reduction to the physical essentials and the colourful placarding, he cre...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Black Splash - abstract painting, texture painting, 3d painting
Located in New York, NY
This unique abstract painting by Eyal Gilboa is from his latest body of work.
Gilboa is using Blob painting, 3D art technique where colorful, layered blobs of paint are built up on a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic Polymer, Acrylic
Snowdrops - Contemporary Plants and Flowers Large Format Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
The artwork will be shipped rolled up in a cardboard tube
Aleksandra Batura (b. 1982 in Augustów) a Warsaw based artist. She earned a Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the Academy of ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Graphite
"Waterfall II" Contemporary Blue
White Abstract Mountain Landscape Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Blue and white landscape painting by contemporary Texas artist Max Kremer. The work features a clean, blue, contoured outline of a waterfall flowing through a mountain range set agai...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Layered Web" Acrylic and Spray Paint on Canvas, 48x30",
By Vince Coyner
Located in Southampton, NY
Your eye wanders the surface of this painting on canvas by Vince Coyner studying the movement and interactions of dots and stripes and dripped paint. Ther...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic Polymer, Spray Paint
F30 - Geometric Abstract Shaped Painting Apricot Orange Navy Blue Stripes, 2022
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary painting in acrylic on linen mounted on a shaped panel, two vertical blocks of color in dark lapis blue and soft, mottled orange are luminous against thinner neutral sections of exposed linen. Signed, dated and titled on verso.
Elizabeth Gourlay’s work is a meditation on color and form, a gradual yet progressive analysis leading to a complex vocabulary of shapes, color and line. Musical composition, emotional states and our collective subconscious resonate within bars, lines and blocks of color. The abstract forms emerge, layer and shift in precisely ordered, carefully composed rhythms. The artist contemplates the elements that make color in reduced forms come to life: size, flatness, relation to its edges, and how the presence of other colors affect how it is perceived.
Gourlay draws inspiration from shapes found in everyday life and in her studio. The observed shapes either remain as they are or become simplified to their essential geometric elements. Subtleties in color, area, edge or orientation are the catalyst for emotive responses. Palette is minimized; the artist rarely uses a wide palette within one work. Rather, a broad range of colors are explored and then reduced. Gourlay investigates color properties: complementary or analogous color, value, saturation and color harmony vs. color anomaly.
Elizabeth’s Gourlay’s work has been shown extensively throughout the United States. The artist was the recipient of numerous residencies, fellowships and awards including Artist in Residence at the studio of Sol LeWitt in Spoleto, Italy. Gourlay’s work has been written about in The New Criterion, Painters’ Table and Gorky’s Granddaughter, to name a few. Gourlay earned her MFA at Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT, and her BA from Edinburgh...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic, Panel
Black and White Watermark Painting on Canvas, 2024 -
Orage
Located in Bruxelles, BE
Moritz Berg is a young german artist born in 1994. He graduated in architecture and urban planning from the university of Stuttgart. He is currently based in Stuttgart, where he crea...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Large Modernist Figurative Abstract Oil Painting BASKET
By Marlene Bauer
Located in Surfside, FL
A Pacific Northwest native, Bauer was born in Vancouver, Washington, and has maintained a studio in Portland, Oregon since 1976. She attended the Pacific Northwest College of Art and the University of Oregon where she received her M.F.A. Since that time, she has exhibited her work throughout the Northwest while teaching art as an associate professor at Marylhurst University.
Bauer applies her modernist approach to her artwork, and her paintings become a sort of balancing act in reconciling her subjects and her techniques. Teetering between abstraction and representational, Bauer's houses are depicted as simplified forms, exploiting a universal iconography. The recognizable elements in her artwork – trees, buildings – are unconventionally depicted in wide patches of overlapping color, "pulling each painting away from literal interpretation." Marlene Bauer's abstractions stem from her interest in the visual dynamics of a quick impression of a landscape from a moving car or a glance out a window.
The artist has exhibited her work in solo exhibitions at the Laura Russo Gallery, the Elizabeth Leach Gallery (both in Portland), and the Davidson Galleries in Seattle. Bauer's artwork is included in many of the region's public and private collections including the King County Regional Justice Center, Bank of America, the City of Portland, the City of Seattle, the Oregon State...
Category
1980s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Clearest View - Sky Blue Teal Mint Rainbow Pattern Abstract Landscape, 2023
By Gabe Brown
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary abstract painting in oil on linen mounted on panel, carefully ordered patterns, geometric shapes and lines in vibrant prismatic shades of red, yellow, bright gre...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Panel
Contemporary abstract paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Contemporary abstract paintings 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 abstract paintings 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 Anastasia Pelias, Chelsea Davine, Waleria Matelska, and Anna Maria Caboni. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Fabric 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 abstract paintings, so small editions measuring 1.63 inches across are also available.