Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Lesley Anne Spowart, an abstract artist hailing from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, is renowned for her transformative creations that blur the boundaries of mediums and styles. With a di...

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...

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...

Aleksandra Batura (b. 1982 in Augustów) a Warsaw based artist. She learned a Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. She studied at the Faculty of Paintin...

Almo wonders about his identity, the countries he has lived in, his daily routine and how he creates himself. An outsider who has made the world his home, skin, and citizenship, and ...

Almo wonders about his identity, the countries he has lived in, his daily routine and how he creates himself. An outsider who has made the world his home, skin, and citizenship, and ...

Almo wonders about his identity, the countries he has lived in, his daily routine and how he creates himself. An outsider who has made the world his home, skin, and citizenship, and ...

In this contemporary geometric abstract painting in oil on canvas, Rebekah Andrade’s practice explores the intricate language of abstract painting, navigating through the diverse rea...

This contemporary figurative painting of a swimmer is by Pat Service. In her decades-long and storied career, Canada’s Pat Service has explored a variety of genres, moving from trad...

The organic aesthetic and textures of Peter Kuttner’s original boho minimalist artworks are the result of patient layering and unique uses of media. Through a combination of collage ...

Artwork Details Artist: Marilina Marchica (1984, Agrigento – Italy) Title: Landscape Year: 2024 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 89 × 116 cm canvas stretched on wooden support Auth...

In this contemporary painting in acrylic on canvas mounted on a shaped panel by Elizabeth Gourlay, carefully ordered blocks of color in a luminous, grassy shade of green frame two th...

Matt Magee Map - Spirit Level, 2020 Oil on panel 48 x 48 in (121.9 x 121.9 cm)

This contemporary floral painting presents an elegant composition of delicate white blossoms gracefully arranged in a clear glass vase against a rich, vibrant blue background. Evokin...

Neerja Chandna Peters' visual language aims to evoke a sense of synesthesia, perception beyond the obvious, and jump into a journey of self-discovery and awakening of the soul. Neer...

Lilly Muth's architectural paintings transport viewers on a visual journey to a different world, where imagination knows no bounds and the boundaries between reality and fantasy blur...

"Atmospheric ambiguity and a love of structure are long-time preoccupations and both are central to my work. Driven by a persistent curiosity to see where the work will lead me, I wo...

This piece is a bold depiction of interior scene of a nude woman putting jewels in her hair. Nemethy uses techniques borrowed from early Tiffany stained glass windows...

A painting by Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline. “Untitled” is a contemporary figurative painting, oil on canvas by Canadian Conceptual artist Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline. The artwork is sig...

Red Hot Chili Peppers No. 48 is a unique oil on vinyl painting by German contemporary artist Doris Marten, dimensions are 30 × 30 cm (11.8 × 11.8 in). The artwork is signed, sold un...

"In the world of still life and landscape, conceptual events meet one another – the structural meets the narrative, the small stands in the space of the large, and color has a chance...

This year, 2024, the artist Ruth Vidal (1998, Isla de Arousa) launches her latest research into painting and games. These works are based on the references that the artist draws from...

Barber Schaumann is a contemporary artist known for her vibrant, abstract interpretations of the female form. Her work combines bold colors with modern, geometric shapes, blending el...

As glossy and reflective as the finish on a sleek corvette, this electric green, geometric wall sculpture by Lori Cozen-Geller is inspired by California car culture, 1960’s minimalis...

Swedish artist Jonas Fisch’s imagery is vibrantly buzzing with colorful commentary on society - past and present - morphed into figures, words, and shapes. His heavily layered canvas...

Sveta Hessler (Russian, born 1973) "Night Life" 2025 Oil Paint, Canvas, Stretcher Bars The artist signed the bottom right and the back of the painting. In "Night Life," Sveta Hessle...

Colorful abstract geometric still life painting by contemporary artist Tina Ruyi. The work features blue, red, and yellow bubbles rising up out of a bright blue wavy tub with a grid ...

Stunning carved abstract calligraphy artwork on wood panel by Bahrain artist Ali Al Mahmeed, Signed verso. Size: 29.5 x 48 in / 75 x 122 cm (framed). Spanning over 30 years, Ali Al ...

Emerald Sky I is a unique oil on wood painting by contemporary artist Joachim van der Vlugt, dimensions are 40 x 40 cm (15.8 × 15.8). The artwork is signed, sold unframed and comes ...

Painterly bands of bright lemon, aqua, white and verdant green point to beach, sand and sky in this modernist triptych by David Sorensen. Through his painterly modern compositions, celebrated Canadian painter David Sorensen (1937-2011) sought to “give voice to the inner reality.” In the paintings from his last years, Sorensen offers solutions to the nature of abstraction – wresting nature and the horizon from pure form and brilliant colour. Born in Vancouver in 1937, Sorensen studied at UBC and the Vancouver School of Art under Arthur Erickson...

Colour and dynamic graphic design find company in this new abstract painting by Viktor Mitic. The Southern Stripe series explores the power of colour to convey positive emotion. Each...

In Portuguese, the word ‘Saudade’ means ‘missing’ and conveys a nostalgic longing for an absent place or person. The emotion in this abstract painting by Montreal-based artist Shiree...

Thoughtfully combined sections of varying textures and areas of pattern, stripes, circles, dots and undulations in cheerful, exuberant color. Little moments in luminous shades of sky...

"Is it Ever..." Surrealist Painting (FRAMED) 40" x 26" inch by Booboo Stewart TITLE: Is it Ever What You Thought it Was Booboo Stewart, born in Los Angeles, is a prolific artist kn...

In Les Reliures en Lumière, French contemporary artist Sophie Dumont captures the tactile beauty of stacked books bathed in a gentle, timeless glow. The painting offers a close-up co...

Clean and precise, carefully ordered blocks of color in light blue and light green are lively and vibrant while thin, delicate lines in blue and navy frame the shapes. Signed, dated ...

A leading abstract painter in his lifetime, Dan Christensen drew from a range of Modernist sources to produce colorful, luminous compositions that featured giant dots, whirling loops...

Urbanisme lineaire I is one of the latest contemporary modern painting relief wall sculptures by French-Dutch artist Olivier Julia. The relief is made from dozens of individually cut...

After months of isolation during the pandemic, Craig Albright and his 11-year-old daughter started a daily tradition of an afternoon drive. When online classes came to a close each d...

This contemporary minimalist painting of a swimmer is by Pat Service. Highly regarded as one of Canada’s finest landscape artists, in her decades long career Pat Service has also ex...

A contemporary, bright, colorful acrylic painting on canvas with lime green, periwinkle, golden orange, yellow and burgundy red stripes against a luminous light aqua blue background....

From the series Horizons – Sunset 2023 Handwoven painting, linen, cotton yarn, acrylic textile paint, 40 x 50 cm. ‘Horizons’ are a symbiosis of two disciplines of art, Painting and...

Agnieszka Zawisza (born 1970) is a painter, visual artist and art teacher. She studied at the Warsaw Art Academy, Department of Painting (1994-2000),...

"Visions of the Metropolis" - Original Surrealist, Oil on Canvas Original oil painting from Bay Area artist Travis Flack (American, 20th Century) from the series "Visions of Metropo...

30 x 22 inches oil paint, cold wax medium on 100% cotton, 140 lb Arches Oil Paper with deckled edges The painting goes to the deckled edges of the paper—a floating frame is suggested...

Description: Blue Landscape is an original abstract painting by Italian artist Marilina Marchica, created in 2025 using pure pigment on Paper. The artwork measures 50x70cm . This pie...

Assemblage No.03 is an abstract piece by contemporary German artist Doris Marten, part of her Sound and Vision series. Oil on vinyl mounted on Alu-Dibond, diameter: 60 cm (23.6 in). ...

This artwork depicts a perfectly synchronized dance across an ocean of empty space, inspired by the "Astronomical" section of the Jet Chocolate Bar Natural History Album (1986 editio...

Miriam Schapiro, "Curtain Call" 2002 Hand signed, dated and titled verso and signed and dated recto. acrylic paint, digital images, glitter and textile fabric on canvas, tooling with gold leaf embossing around self edge of painting. size: 60 x 50 in Miriam Schapiro (or Mimi Schapiro) (November 15, 1923 – June 20, 2015) was a Canadian-born artist based in America. She was a painter, sculptor and printmaker. She was a pioneer of feminist art. She was also considered a leader of the Pattern and Decoration art movement. Schapiro's artwork blurs the line between fine art and craft. Her paintings contain craft elements because crafts and decoration is associated with women and femininity. She used icons that are associated with women such as hearts, floral decorations, geometric patterns and the color pink. In the 1970s she made a small woman's object, the fan, heroic by painting it six feet by twelve feet. This bears the influence of the Pattern and Decoration movement artists such as Brad Davis, Mary Grigoriadis, Joyce Kozloff, Robert Kushner, Kim MacConnel, Sonya Rapoport, Miriam Schapiro and Valerie Jaudon. Shapiro was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Her father was an industrial design artist who fostered her desire to be an artist and served as her role model and mentor. Her mother was a stay at home mother who worked part-time during the depression. As a teenager, Schapiro was taught by Victor d’Amico, her first modernist teacher at the Museum of Modern Art. In the evenings she joined WPA classes for adults to study drawing from the nude model. In 1943, Schapiro entered Hunter College in New York City, but eventually transferred to the University of Iowa. At the University of Iowa, Schapiro studied painting with Stuart Edie and James Lechay. She studied printmaking under Mauricio Lasansky and was his personal assistant, which then led her to help form the Iowa Print Group. Lasanky taught his students to use several different printing techniques in their work and to study the masters' work in order to find solutions to technical problems. At the State University of Iowa she met the artist Paul Brach, whom she married in 1946.. By 1951 they moved to New York City and befriended many of the Abstract expressionist artists of the New York School, including Joan Mitchell, Larry Rivers, Knox Martin and Michael Goldberg. Schapiro worked in the style of Abstract expressionism during this time period. Shapiro and Brach lived in New York City during the 1950s and 1960s. During this period Shapiro had a successful career as an abstract expressionist painter in the hard-edge style. In December 1957, André Emmerich selected one of her paintings for the opening of his gallery. Schapiro not only honored the craft tradition in women's art, but also paid homage to women artists of the past. In the early 1970s she made paintings and collages which included photo reproductions of Mary Cassatt's and Georgia O'keefe's paintings. Early in her career, Schapiro started looking for maternal symbols to unify her own roles as a woman. Her series, Shrines (1963), was her first artistically successful attempt at compartmentalizing her life roles. Her painting, Big Ox No. 1, from 1968, references Shrines, however no longer compartmentalized. The center O takes on the symbol of the egg which exists as the window into the maternal structure with outstretched limbs. Her series, Shrines was created in 1961–63. It is one of her earliest group of work that was also an autobiography. Each section of the work show an aspect of being a woman artist. They are also symbolic of her body and soul. In 1964 Schapiro and her husband Paul both worked at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop. One of Schapiro's biggest turning points in her art career was working at the workshop and experimenting with Josef Albers' Color-Aid paper, where she began making several new shrines and created her first collages. In the 1970s, Schapiro and Brach moved to California so that both could teach in the art department at the University of California. Subsequently, she was able to establish the Feminist Art Program at the California Institute of the Arts, in Valencia with Judy Chicago. The program set out to address the problems in the arts from an institutional position. They wanted the creation of art to be less of a private, introspective adventure and more of a public process through consciousness raising sessions, personal confessions and technical training. She participated in the Womanhouse exhibition in 1972. Schapiro's smaller piece within Womanhouse, called "Dollhouse", was constructed using various scrap pieces to create all the furniture and accessories in the house. Each room signified a particular role a woman plays in society and depicted the conflicts between them. Along with Nancy Spero, Joan Snyder, Joyce Kozloff, Audrey Flack and Judy Chicago, she is from that first generation of Jewish American feminist women artists and includes Judaica in her work. Schapiro's work from the 1970s onwards consists primarily of collages assembled from fabrics, which she called "femmages". As Schapiro traveled the United States giving lectures, she would ask the women she met for a souvenir. These souvenirs would be used in her collage like paintings. Her 1977-1978 essay Waste Not Want Not: An Inquiry into What Women Saved and Assembled - FEMMAGE (written with Melissa Meyer) describes femmage as the activities of collage, assemblage, découpage and photomontage practised by women using "traditional women's techniques - sewing, piercing, hooking, cutting, appliquéing, cooking and the like..." She was involved in Abstract expressionism, Minimalism, Computer art, and Feminist art. She worked with collage, printmaking, painting, femmage [fr] – using women's craft in her artwork, and sculpture. Schapiro not only honored the craft tradition in women's art, but also paid homage to women artists of the past. In the early 1970s she made paintings and collages which included photo reproductions of past artists such as Mary Cassatt. In the mid 1980s she painted portraits of Frida Kahlo on top of her old self-portrait paintings. In the 1990s Schapiro began to include women of the Russian Avant Garde in her work. The Russian Avant Garde was an important moment in Modern Art history for Schapiro to reflect on because women were seen as equals. Schapiro also did collaborative art projects, like her series of etchings Anonymous was a Woman from 1977. She was able to produce the series with a group of nine women studio-art graduates from the University of Oregon. Each print is an impression made from an untransformed doily that was placed in soft ground on a zinc plate, then etched and printed. Her image is included in the iconic 1972 poster Some Living American Women Artists by Mary Beth Edelson...

In this contemporary painting on panel, pale lavender, pinky purple encaustic (pigmented beeswax) is accented with light lilac details in and light teal blue along the edge. Signed a...

Giampaolo Talani (1955-2018) The "mad scientist" of the art world, Talani created art out of virtually everything he touched. After completing his training at the Florence Academy of...

The Chandelier series for Ash portrays an inner mantra, that light is a fuel in which we all connect, the artist goes on to explain: "We all have a light inside of us and that light is how we connect in some realm; whether it be a mentor, a friend, a stranger, a nurse. It is this innate human connection that brings us together and for me, a chandelier represents the complexity and beauty of this and so the idea of providing this light for one another is what motivates me in this collection." Almonte is constantly developing her aesthetic, further breaking the barriers of how she applies paint onto the canvas by carefully manipulating her dried acrylic pallet. Cutting and reapplying the leftover paint onto new works of art, Almonte creates a refreshing and unique design that gives her work a new dimension and a more 3D-like feel. 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 60 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...

Sergio Nates Stratification Project Witness #7, 2022 Acrylic on canvas 19 x 36 inches This one-of-a-kind acrylic painting on canvas is stretched across wooden stretcher bars. Sergi...

Bursting with energy and imagination, this mixed-media piece blends childlike wonder with bold contemporary expression. Vibrant splashes of color, playful characters, and dynamic lin...

In paintings, drawings and prints, Michael Rich explores the beauty and irascibility of the natural world through an approach to painting that is visceral, physical and colorful. Of...

Horizontal stripes of color in gradient shades starting with hot pink in the center transitioning to dark navy cobalt blue and golden orange and luminous yellow at the edges. Signed and titled on verso. Audrey Stone has spent her lifetime being fascinated with color and line. Her paintings are explorations of these two elements, appearing in thick blocks of color and subtle color gradients. The boundaries between broad and narrow bands of color generate optical vibrations, stimulating visual processes for a viewer as the colors transition and inform an emotional and physical response to the work. Stone’s paintings present a dynamic opposition within graphic blocks of color in a perfect ordered symmetry, a simultaneity of excitement and calm, movement and stillness. Audrey Stone’s work has been exhibited across the US as well as in Tokyo, Vienna, Prague and Bulgaria. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, W Magazine, Times Union and New York Artist Circle, to name a few. The work is in the collections of Ameritas Foundation in Bulgaria and Credit Suisse among others. Stone earned...

Steven H. Rehfeld (American, born 1954) "Unfinished Union" 2022 Oil Paint, Canvas, Stretcher Bars, Wire The artist signed the back of the painting. This large-scale painting by Stev...

A luminous pale blue contemporary encaustic (pigmented beeswax) painting on birch panel accented with bright coral along the edge of the panel. Signed, dated and titled on verso. Jo...

Born in 1966 in Wroclaw. Works mainly in oil and acrylic painting. He studied at Wroclaw Academy of Fine Arts in the studio of Professor Konrad Jarodzki and Andrzej Klimczak Dobrzani...

'Freeway No. 13 (diptych) ' by artist Ryan Reynolds, who uses bold colors to depict contemporary life in this painting that is from his 'Freeway' series. Fantastic spiraling highway...