Abstract Photography
ABSTRACT STYLE
Beginning in the early 20th century, abstract art became a leading style of modernism. Rather than portray the world in a way that represented reality, as had been the dominating style of Western art in the previous centuries, abstract paintings, prints and sculptures are marked by a shift to geometric forms, gestural shapes and experimentation with color to express ideas, subject matter and scenes.
Although abstract art flourished in the early 1900s, propelled by movements like Fauvism and Cubism, it was rooted in the 19th century. In the 1840s, J.M.W. Turner emphasized light and motion for atmospheric paintings in which concrete details were blurred, and Paul Cézanne challenged traditional expectations of perspective in the 1890s.
Some of the earliest abstract artists — Wassily Kandinsky and Hilma af Klint — expanded on these breakthroughs while using vivid colors and forms to channel spiritual concepts. Painter Piet Mondrian, a Dutch pioneer of the art movement, explored geometric abstraction partly owing to his belief in Theosophy, which is grounded in a search for higher spiritual truths and embraces philosophers of the Renaissance period and medieval mystics. Black Square, a daringly simple 1913 work by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, was a watershed statement on creating art that was free “from the dead weight of the real world,” as he later wrote.
Surrealism in the 1920s, led by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Meret Oppenheim and others, saw painters creating abstract pieces in order to connect to the subconscious. When Abstract Expressionism emerged in New York during the mid-20th century, it similarly centered on the process of creation, in which Helen Frankenthaler’s expressive “soak-stain” technique, Jackson Pollock’s drips of paint, and Mark Rothko’s planes of color were a radical new type of abstraction.
Conceptual art, Pop art, Hard-Edge painting and many other movements offered fresh approaches to abstraction that continued into the 21st century, with major contemporary artists now exploring it, including Anish Kapoor, Mark Bradford, El Anatsui and Julie Mehretu.
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Style: Abstract
Signed limited edition purple art print, Color abstract photo, Square, Diamond 3
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
' Diamond 3 ' - Limited edition pigment print
Limited Editions of 5
Signed + numbered by artist, with certificate of authenticity
This is an Archival Pigment print on fiber based p...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Untitled (2155): still life photograph w/ antler, bone
abstract shadow pattern
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is an archival pigment print depicting an abstracted still life printed on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag 308 gsm by artist Paul Cava. It is from the "Table Top" ...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
"Acacia ARM1" Abstract Photography 60" x 48" in Edition 1/4 by Giuliano Bekor
Located in Culver City, CA
"Acacia ARM1" Abstract Photography 60" x 48" in Edition 1/4 by Giuliano Bekor
Acacia series
Title of artwork: ARM1
Year: 2020
Printed on a high-quality museum-grade archival photo p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Bling 15-Signed limited edition abstract print, Contemporary brown Photo, square
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
'Bling 15' - Limited edition pigment print
Limited Editions of 5
Signed + numbered by artist, with certificate of authenticity
This is an Archival Pigment print on fiber based pape...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Me
You: framed abstract black
white photo collage w/ nudes, insect, heart
By Jenny Lynn
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
"Me & You" is a black & white framed silver gelatin collage photograph with images of nudes, insect, heart, key, and other abstract elements from artist Jenny Lynn's "Extrapolations"...
Category
1990s Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Something 99, Mixed Media Digital Print, 2016
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
The process consisted of creating a very small image and having the computer attempt to fill the rest of the art space, resulting in stretched and distorted shapes...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Cracked Paint
By Brett Weston
Located in Buffalo, NY
Signed and dated on the front of the mount. Limited edition of 35. Number 17 of 35. From the “Twenty Photographs, 1970-1977” Portfolio.
Category
1970s Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Floral Study 246: still life black
white photograph w/ abstract flowers, large
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is an archival pigment print depicting an abstracted still life printed on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag 308 gsm by artist Paul Cava. It is from the "Flora" series, which is one of three...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Tell-Tale PhotoTotem: stacked wood cube sculpture w/ black
white photographs
By Jenny Lynn
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
"Tell-Tale PhotoTotem" is a sculpture created from four solid wood cubes, with each of the 16 visible sides holding a different original black & white silver gelatin print (photograph) from artist Jenny Lynn...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin, Wood
"Pool Donuts" original framed and signed photograph by Roman Crescimanno
Located in Dallas, TX
This finely framed photograph beautifully captures a moment of tranquil abstraction. The image features the silhouette of pool donuts resting on the bottom of a pool, their round sha...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$1,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Combination Green (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
Combination Green (Abstract Photography)
C-print — Unframed.
Edition: 4/5 + 2 A/P
This early work from Caldicott's acclaimed Tupperware series exemplifies his ability to breathe li...
Category
1990s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Summer Sea - Unique Abstract Colour Darkroom Print, Custom Framed
Located in London, GB
“Colour gives me a new way of working - in complete darkness. It seems contradictory that to produce colour you need to work in the dark. You blindly feel your way around the paper w...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Glass, Wood, Archival Paper, C Print, Color
$2,264 Sale Price
30% Off
Irons and Tomatoes: still life color photograph w/ abstract shadow patterns, lg
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is an archival pigment print depicting an abstracted still life printed on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag 308 gsm by artist Paul Cava. It is from the "Table Top" ...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Crohy Sea Arch, Rock Beach, black and white photograph, landscape, limited
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art seascape - landscape photography. Crohy Sea Arch and the black beach in the stormy waters of Ireland. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 9. Signed, title...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Wall Canvas 1
By Chaco Terada
Located in Dallas, TX
Valley House Gallery recently presented "Listening in the Silence" — our first solo exhibition of work by Chaco Terada, a native of Japan who has called Dallas home since 1992. Born ...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Silk, Sumi Ink, Pigment, Archival Pigment
Kachchery
By Gina Parr
Located in Deddington, GB
Kachchery – Limited Edition Contemporary Abstract Landscape Photograph by Gina Parr [2019]
limited_edition
Photograph printed on 310gsm Hahnemuhele German Etching paper with archiva...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Paper, Photogram
$1,748
Untitled (Subway Turnstiles)
By Peter Marks
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled (Subway Turnstiles)
Collage with 6 photograph elements
Unsigned
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Condition: Excellent
Image Size: 5 7/8 x 8 inches
Support Sheet: 14 x 17 inc...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Gears, Katie Hallam, Abstract Art, Cycling Art, Sports Art, Photography
By Katie Hallam
Located in Deddington, GB
Katie Hallam
Gears
Digital photograph
Limited Edition Photograph on Alluminium
Size: H 60cm x W 95cm x D 1cm
Sold Unframed
For all the sport enthusiasts out there, this high-en...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Digital
Stairway to Beach, Portugal, fine art black and white photography, landscapes
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to orde...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital Pigment
Bleed # 202124 (Abstract photography)
By Paul Snell
Located in London, GB
Bleed # 202124 (Abstract Photography)
Chromogenic Print Face-mounted 3mm Matte Plexiglas - Unframed.
Edition: 3/3.
Paul Snell combines traditional and digital techniques to explor...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
Bleed # 202171 (Abstract Photography)
By Paul Snell
Located in London, GB
Bleed # 202171 (Abstract Photography)
Chromogenic Print Face-mounted 3mm Matte Plexiglas — Unframed.
Edition: 1/3.
Work can be hung with either the WallCleat system (support bar sup...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
The Sand
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Edition 2/15
Archival pigment print
“Water's Edge” a collection of photos by Marian Crostic defines the power of the ocean
and the land which borders it. Having spent much of her l...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Stranded Boat, long exposure, black and white, fine art, landscape, photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to orde...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Combination No.2 (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
Combination No.2 (Abstract Photography)
C-print — Unframed.
Edition: 3/5 + 2 A/P
This early work from Caldicott's acclaimed Tupperware series exemplifies his ability to breathe lif...
Category
1990s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Cypress Hill Panorama, single Tree, black and white photography, landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art panorama landscape photography. Cypress trees in a hilly landscape in Ireland. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 9. Signed, titled, dated and numbered b...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital Pigment
Bridge Panorama, Zeeland, Netherlands, black and white art landscape photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to orde...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital Pigment
"Red for Love 2" Photography 18" x 28" inch Edition of 24 by Tetiana Kalivoshko
Located in Culver City, CA
"Red for Love 2" Photography 18" x 28" inch Edition of 24 by Tetiana Kalivoshko
"The Red One - That Is Love"
"The Red One - That Is Love" is a thought-provoking art series by Tetian...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Digital Pigment
Vintage Silver Gelatin Photo of Ibram Lassaw Modernist Sculpture (Photograph)
By John Reed
Located in Surfside, FL
The Photographer is John Reed. An East Hampton Photographer who shot Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Larry Rivers, Philip Guston, Conrad Marca-Relli, Syd Solomon, and James Brooks amongst other art luminaries.
This is for the original vintage photograph. I believe the inscription is in the hand of Ibram Lassaw some also bear the photographers stamp.
Lassaw was born in Alexandria, Egypt, of Russian Jewish émigré parents, he went to the U.S. in 1921. His family settled in Brooklyn, New York. He became a US citizen in 1928. He first studied sculpture in 1926 at the Clay Club and later at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York. He made abstract paintings and drawings influenced by Kandinsky, Sophie Tauber...
Category
1970s Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
2 Large Format Abstract Unique Color Photo Polaroid Pulls Ellen Carey Photograph
By Ellen Carey
Located in Surfside, FL
Ellen Carey
Unique pair of photo art Polaroid panels
Untitled, Red Moire Positive (Polaroid Pulls)
Dimensions: H 75" x W 25.5" x D 2"
From a series...
Category
1980s Abstract Photography
Materials
Polaroid
The Quiet Stars 003 (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
The Quiet Stars 003 (Abstract painting)
Acrylic on linen on wood panel — Unframed.
This new artwork series, "Quiet Stars," is a commentary on the modern world's reliance on technolo...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Linen, Acrylic, Wood Panel
The Quiet Stars 006 (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
The Quiet Stars 006 (Abstract painting)
Acrylic on linen on wood panel — Unframed.
This new artwork series, "Quiet Stars," is a commentary on the modern world's reliance on technolo...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Linen, Acrylic, Wood Panel
The Quiet Stars 008 (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
The Quiet Stars 008 (Abstract painting)
Acrylic, photographic print on paper on canvas — Unframed.
This artwork will be shipped rolled in a dent-resistant tube.
This method is espec...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Archival Paper, Photogram
"Metamorphosis" Mid-Century Abstract Painting by Pawel Kontny, Textured 1960s
By Pawel Kontny
Located in Denver, CO
Discover the striking beauty of “Metamorphosis,” an original abstract painting by celebrated mid-century artist Pawel Kontny (also known as Paul Kontny). Created in the late 1960s to...
Category
1960s Abstract Photography
Materials
Marble
Dark Materials VI by James Sparshatt. 67x45cm C-type Print w/ Acrylic Face Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
There is a something about being a child on the beach where the sheer exuberance of running into the waves transcends the normal social barriers, and the shared exhilarance allows fo...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Photography
Materials
Metal
Side Effects, Depth of Winter, Skiers 06, abstract aerial landscape photograph
Located in New York, NY
Kacper Kowalski began his career as a landscape photographer, far before
the preeminence of drones or Google Earth, strapping himself into a
gyrocopter and exploring his native Pola...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dissolve #201901 (Abstract photography)
By Paul Snell
Located in London, GB
Chromogenic Print Face-mounted 4.5mm Matt Plexiglas - Unframed
Backed with Dibond and C-channel hanging system + keyhole option.
Edition: 1/3 + AP
Paul Snell combines traditional ...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
The Universe of Each Moment 08 5329
By Chaco Terada
Located in Dallas, TX
"My artwork is always in progress. There is not a goal. There is not a category for my work. It is all about enjoying the process of every moment.
On a blank sheet of washi calli...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Universe of Each Moment 08 5694
By Chaco Terada
Located in Dallas, TX
"My artwork is always in progress. There is not a goal. There is not a category for my work. It is all about enjoying the process of every moment.
On a blank sheet of washi calli...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Chrysler Building" New York Series Abstract Photography, Giclee Print 2/20
By Hatice Besun
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Chrysler Building" Abstract, Expressionist, Photography, Giclee Print, 2/20
Creator: Hatice Besun
Creation year: 2025
Dimension: 42x28"
External Dimension( with white border) Heigh...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment
Lights in Motion Photograph Chromo Photo Kodak Professional Endura
Located in Surfside, FL
Artist Unknown. From Muse X Editions. An (now defunct) LA based innovative publisher of limited-edition prints, Muse X has launched its first group of prints and is just beginning to make itself known to artists, curators, dealers and collectors. Among works just off the press are otherworldly landscapes by Barbara Kasten and Oliver Wasow, a sizzling sunset by Peter Alexander, abstract compositions by Pauline Stella Sanchez and Jennifer Steinkamp...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
Dark Materials II - James Sparshatt - A photograph of youngsters on the beach
Located in Coltishall, GB
There is a something about being a child on the beach where the sheer exuberance of running into the waves transcends the normal social barriers, and the shared exhilarance allows fo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Metal
$1,927 Sale Price
20% Off
Undercurrents (2/6/22)
- abstract photography - black and white photograph
Located in Atlanta, GA
This photograph is of an edition of 10. Paper size is 28 by 36 inches, this listing is for an unframed print. Additional sizes are available.
Atlanta-based photographer and master ...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Carbon Pigment
Untitled (2159): still life photograph with antler and abstract shadow patterns
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is an archival pigment print depicting an abstracted still life printed on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag 308 gsm by artist Paul Cava. It is from the "Table Top" series, which is one of t...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Diptych No. 57812 / No. 57813 (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
Diptych No. 57812 / No. 57813 (Abstract Photography)
Photography / Archival pigment print — Unframed.
Artwork exclusive to IdeelArt.
Available on request - 2 weeks turnaround.
So...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Ink, Archival Pigment
No. 57851 (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
No. 57851 (Abstract Photography)
Photography / Archival pigment print — Unframed.
Artwork exclusive to IdeelArt.
Available on request - 2 weeks turnaround.
The photographic artwor...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Ink, Archival Pigment
Space Field, Digital Iris Print Muse X Large Photograph on Heavy Paper
Located in Surfside, FL
These are from the 1990s printed at Muse X and never framed. they are unsigned and unnumbered but from a very small edition. they are quite beautiful.
Victor Raphael was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1950. He studied art and theater at California State University Northridge and graduated from UCLA. He has exhibited throughout the nation and abroad. In 1996, his work was among the 50 best examples of Polaroid photography included in Polaroid 50: Art and Technology, an international touring exhibition commemorating the company’s 50th anniversary. He works in a wide range of media spanning painting, photography, filmmaking, printmaking, and digital technology. He creates complex and beautiful images that expand conventional views of time and space. For the past three decades, Raphael has produced a unique body of work by merging traditional media such as painting, photography and printmaking with modern electronic media, including video, digital printing and interactive technologies. In addition to his central themes of the exploration of the cosmos and aspects of travel–through space or time–and their visual records, the artist has developed an important body of paintings, in which water, for instance, and its protean and timeless qualities, form an important part. His photography process of digitally manipulating NASA photographs of planets and other natural celestial phenomena into Polaroid prints, and next altering them by hand with metallic paints and gold and metal leaf.
Education: University of California, Los Angeles, B.A., 1973, Magna Cum Laude
California State University, Northridge, 1968-1970
SELECTED ONE AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, From Lead Into Gold
Oregon Jewish Museum, The Heavens Spread Out Like A Prayer Shawl
Skirball Cultural Center, Illuminated Reflections: A Bill Aron and Victor Raphael Collaboration.
Cypress College, Victor Raphael & Clayton Spada Collaboration: From Zero to Infinity
Karpeles Manuscript Library and Museum, Santa Barbara, CA, Jean-Pierre Hebert & Victor Raphael: Illuminated Collaboration
Cypress College, Paris Polaroids: Art In The City Of Lights
Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Victor Raphael: Envisioning Space
(20-year survey with catalogue)
Santa Monica College, Space Fields, Abstractions and Jackson Pollock 1980-1991 (catalogue)
Richard Green Gallery...
Category
1990s Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Bleed # 202181 (Abstract Photography)
By Paul Snell
Located in London, GB
Bleed # 202181 (Abstract Photography)
Chromogenic Print Face-mounted 3mm Matte Plexiglas — Unframed.
Edition: 1/3.
Work can be hung with either the WallCleat system (support bar supp...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
Bleed # 202160 (Abstract Photography)
By Paul Snell
Located in London, GB
Bleed # 202160 (Abstract Photography)
Chromogenic Print Face-mounted 3mm Matte Plexiglas — Unframed.
Edition: 1/3.
Work can be hung with either the WallCleat system (support bar sup...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
1991 "Gate" Large Scale Signed Vintage Silver gelatin Print Photograph
By Zeke Berman
Located in Surfside, FL
Gate Taught Version 1991. Large format silver gelatin photo. signed and dated.
Zeke Berman’s still lifes are fabrications derived from the material of ordinary and intimate experience, reconstituted to satisfy the demands of improvised play, monocular vision, and the special characteristics of photographic description. They are concerned with the pictorial aspect of sculpture and the provisional nature of realistic indication. In the central tradition of still-life art, they aim to establish an unsuspected order in the congregation of unremarkable things.
Since the late 1970's Zeke Berman has been making singular, studio-based photographs. These works reflect his long standing interest in visual cognition, optics and
the intersection between sculpture, photography and drawing. The formal range of his work and his sculptural use of materials is varied, original and idiosyncratic. Berman’s work has been collected and exhibited in museums such as The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan, Whitney, Art Institute of Chicago and LA
County Museum. His work was featured in the first New
Photography Exhibition, 1984, at MoMA. Awards include Guggenheim, NEA and NYFA Arts Fellowships. Berman lives and works in New York City.
from MOMA A World of Its Own: Photographic Practices in the Studio examines the ways in which photographers and other artists using photography have worked and experimented within their studios, from photography’s inception to the present. Featuring both new acquisitions and works from the Museum’s collection that have not been on view in recent years, A World of Its Own brings together photographs, films, and videos by artists such as Berenice Abbott, Uta Barth, Zeke Berman, Karl Blossfeldt, Constantin Brancusi, Geta Brătescu, Harry Callahan, Robert Frank, Jan Groover, Barbara Kasten, Man Ray, Bruce Nauman, Paul Outerbridge, Irving Penn, Adrian Piper...
Category
1990s Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Pink Hole (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
Pink Hole (Abstract Photography)
C-print — Unframed.
Edition: 4/5 + 2 A/P
This early work from Caldicott's acclaimed Tupperware series exemplifies his ability to breathe life into ...
Category
1990s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Iona Sun (eclipse and energy), Red, Black and Blue Abstract Large Photograph
By Paul Kenny
Located in London, GB
Iona Sun, 2010 from a Limited Edition of 3 plus 2AP.
Signed by the Artist.
‘The work, building on themes developed over fifty years, tries to find the awe-inspiring in that which is...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Silent Echo I: abstract light
color photograph w/ silver, blue, red,
green
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is an archival photograph printed with Epson Ultra Chrome Pigmented Ink on Hahnemuhle Fine Art Rag paper with a 2 inch white border. It is part of the "Refracted World" series, and is from an edition of 50 prints. It is signed on the back..
Diane Lachman’s photographic pandemic project began in March 2020, when Covid 19 forced us to shelter at home. After a year of experimentation with the refraction of natural light through prisms, she created complex and vibrant images that reflect our experiences during these tumultuous times. By observing the change of the position and quality of light and shadow each day, she developed a new sense of the passage of time. Her photographs reflect the desolate days of this period as well as the bright days when we experienced hope. The "Silent Echo" series recalls the strange quiet and isolation she experienced during the shut down. The daily act of photographing the color and light gave her a sense of balance and purpose.
Lachman’s inventive abstract paintings and photographs emphasize the expressive power of color. Her work has been the subject of twelve solo shows. Most recently, an exhibition of her pandemic photography project: “Refracted World” was shown in July 2021 at Muse Gallery in Philadelphia. She participates in many juried and invitational group shows. Currently, Lachman is the acting director of Muse Gallery in Philadelphia where she has been a member since 2010. Her paintings are represented in numerous private and corporate collections, including Temple University School of Medicine, the Howard Gittis Student Center Art Collection at Temple, the Art Collection at Park Towne Place in Philadelphia, and the Lankenau Medical Center.
Lachman studied at Rhode Island School of Design and the Cleveland Institute of Art. She earned her BFA and MFA degrees at the University of Pennsylvania, where she taught drawing and color theory from 1993 to 2013. Her intuitive approach to her work complements her years of teaching Josef Albers’ “Interaction of...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Pigment
Heartbroken: abstract photograph commemorating George Floyd w/ blue green
gold
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is an archival photograph printed with Epson Ultra Chrome Pigmented Ink on Hahnemuhle Fine Art Rag paper with a 2 inch white border. It is part of the "Refracted World" series, and is from an edition of 50 prints. It is signed on the back..
Diane Lachman’s photographic pandemic project began in March 2020, when Covid 19 forced us to shelter at home. After a year of experimentation with the refraction of natural light through prisms, she created complex and vibrant images that reflect our experiences during these tumultuous times. By observing the change of the position and quality of light and shadow each day, she developed a new sense of the passage of time. Her photographs reflect the desolate days of this period as well as the bright days when we experienced hope. The dark, somber colors in "Heartbroken" convey Lachman's reaction to George Floyd’s death and the resulting world wide protests.
Lachman’s inventive abstract paintings and photographs emphasize the expressive power of color. Her work has been the subject of twelve solo shows. Most recently, an exhibition of her pandemic photography project: “Refracted World” was shown in July 2021 at Muse Gallery in Philadelphia. She participates in many juried and invitational group shows. Currently, Lachman is the acting director of Muse Gallery in Philadelphia where she has been a member since 2010. Her paintings are represented in numerous private and corporate collections, including Temple University School of Medicine, the Howard Gittis Student Center Art Collection at Temple, the Art Collection at Park Towne Place in Philadelphia, and the Lankenau Medical Center.
Lachman studied at Rhode Island School of Design and the Cleveland Institute of Art. She earned her BFA and MFA degrees at the University of Pennsylvania, where she taught drawing and color theory from 1993 to 2013. Her intuitive approach to her work complements her years of teaching Josef Albers’ “Interaction of Color.”
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Pigment
Cedar: original abstract drawing on altered color landscape photograph
By Ava Blitz
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is an original colored pencil drawing layered over an original archival pigment print using alternative process photography. Image measures 14" x 20" on 16.5" x 22" Hahnemühle German Etching 100% rag paper. Ava Blitz...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, Archival Pigment, Color Pencil
Burning (Red) Bush: original abstract landscape painting on color photograph
By Ava Blitz
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is an original gouache painting layered on an original inkjet print using alternative process photography. Image measures 8" x 8" on 11" x 8.5" paper. Ava Blitz...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Gouache, Inkjet
Untitled DYSMORPHOLOGIES SERIES (hair magnification in grid) Mounted to Aluminum
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Contemporary
Subject: People
Medium: Digital, Print
Surface: Metal
Country: United States
Dimensions: 49 3/4" x 38 3/4"
This extra large montage of photographs is mounted onto aluminum from Ken Gonzales-Day's dysmorphologies series.
Ken Gonzales-Day's interdisciplinary and conceptually grounded projects consider the history of photography, the construction of race, and the limits of representational systems ranging from the lynching photograph to museum display. The Searching for California Hang Trees series offered a critical look at the legacies of landscape photography in the West while his most recent project considers the sculptural depiction of race. Profiled began as an exploration of the influence of eighteenth century "scientific" thought on twenty-first century institutions ranging from the museum to the prison and extended to the sculpture and portrait bust collections of several major museums including: The J. Paul Getty Museum; The Field Museum, Chicago; The Museum of Man, San Diego; L'École des beaux-arts,Paris. The Bode Museum, Berlin, Park Sanssouci, Potsdam; The National Museum of Natural History, Paris; The Yale Center for British Art, New Haven; among others. Gonzales-Day lives in Los Angeles and is Chair of the Art Department at Scripps College.
Fellowships and Grants
Chercheur Accueilli, Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art (INHA); COLA Individual Artist Award; Art Mattes Grant; Mid-Career Award, California Communtiy Foundation; Durfee Fondation ACG; Graves Award for the Humanities; Visiting Scholar/Artist-in-Residence, Getty Research Institute; Senior Fellow, American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution; Fellow, Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy; Van Lier Fellow, ISP, Whitney Museum of American Art; Rotary International.
Select Solo Exhibitions
Luis De Jesus Los Angeles; Galerie Steph, Singapore; The Vincent Price Museum, LA; Fred Torres Collaborations, NYC; Tufts University, Medford, MA; Las Cienegas Projects, L.A.; UCSD Art Gallery, La Jolla, CA; Steve Turner Contemporary, L.A.; LAXART, L.A.; CUE Art Foundation, NY, NY; Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA; Susanne Vielmetter Projects, L. A.; Cristinerose Gallery, NY, NY; White Columns, NY, NY, among others.
Select Group Exhibitions
Our America: The Latino presence in American Art, Smithsonian Institution; MDE11, Medellin, Colombia; COLA 2011, at LAMAG, Los Angeles; Spy Numbers, Palais de Tokyo, Paris;How Many Billboards, MAK Center, W.H.; State of Mind, MoPA, San Diego; Phantom Sightings, LACMA, L.A.(traveled); Encuentro Hemispherico, Bogota; Under Erasure, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin; Under Pain of Death, Austrian Cultural Forum, NYC;ArtMediaPolitique, DIX291, Paris; Viva Mexico, Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw (traveled); Past Over, Steve Turner Contemporary, L.A.; Crimes of Omission, ICA Philadelphia; Exile of the Imaginary, Generali Foundation, Vienna; Civil Restitutions, Thomas Dane Gallery...
Category
1990s Abstract Photography
Materials
Digital
I Wonder Will We Really Remember
By Henri Venne
Located in Montreal, Quebec
In the digital age, we collectively photograph everything all of the time. But how much does anyone remember from a scene or a moment when looking at a digital photo? Someone could g...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Paper
Space Field, Digital Iris Print Muse X Large Photograph on Heavy Paper
Located in Surfside, FL
These are from the 1990s printed at Muse X and never framed. they are unsigned and unnumbered but from a very small edition. they are quite beautiful.
Victor Raphael was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1950. He studied art and theater at California State University Northridge and graduated from UCLA. He has exhibited throughout the nation and abroad. In 1996, his work was among the 50 best examples of Polaroid photography included in Polaroid 50: Art and Technology, an international touring exhibition commemorating the company’s 50th anniversary. He works in a wide range of media spanning painting, photography, filmmaking, printmaking, and digital technology. He creates complex and beautiful images that expand conventional views of time and space. For the past three decades, Raphael has produced a unique body of work by merging traditional media such as painting, photography and printmaking with modern electronic media, including video, digital printing and interactive technologies. In addition to his central themes of the exploration of the cosmos and aspects of travel–through space or time–and their visual records, the artist has developed an important body of paintings, in which water, for instance, and its protean and timeless qualities, form an important part. His photography process of digitally manipulating NASA photographs of planets and other natural celestial phenomena into Polaroid prints, and next altering them by hand with metallic paints and gold and metal leaf.
Education: University of California, Los Angeles, B.A., 1973, Magna Cum Laude
California State University, Northridge, 1968-1970
SELECTED ONE AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, From Lead Into Gold
Oregon Jewish Museum, The Heavens Spread Out Like A Prayer Shawl
Skirball Cultural Center, Illuminated Reflections: A Bill Aron and Victor Raphael Collaboration.
Cypress College, Victor Raphael & Clayton Spada Collaboration: From Zero to Infinity
Karpeles Manuscript Library and Museum, Santa Barbara, CA, Jean-Pierre Hebert & Victor Raphael: Illuminated Collaboration
Cypress College, Paris Polaroids: Art In The City Of Lights
Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Victor Raphael: Envisioning Space
(20-year survey with catalogue)
Santa Monica College, Space Fields, Abstractions and Jackson Pollock 1980-1991 (catalogue)
Richard Green Gallery...
Category
1990s Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Bleed # 202150 (Abstract photography)
By Paul Snell
Located in London, GB
Bleed # 202150 (Abstract photography)
Chromogenic Print Face-mounted 3mm Matte Plexiglas — Unframed.
Edition: 1/3.
Paul Snell combines traditional and digital techniques to explore ...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
Eden. 2004, photography, 44x29 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Eden. 2004, photography, ice/sun/water, 44x29 cm
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$432 Sale Price
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