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Conceptual Art

CONCEPTUAL STYLE

In 1967, artist Sol LeWitt wrote that in “Conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work.” He was giving a name to an art movement that had emerged in the 1960s in which artists were less focused on their medium being something traditionally “artistic” and instead engaged in using any object, movement, form, action or place to express an idea.

LeWitt’s work was featured alongside an assemblage of notes, drawings and outlines by other artists in “Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art,” a groundbreaking show at New York City’s School of Visual Arts curated by Mel Bochner, another leading exponent of Conceptualism. Building on radical 20th-century statements, like Fountain (1917) by French artist Marcel Duchamp, Conceptual artists around Europe and North and South America were not interested in the commercial art scene and rather directly challenged its systems and values.

Stretching into the 1970s, this movement has also been called Post-Object art and Dematerialized art. Conceptual art reflected a larger era of social and political upheaval. Pieces associated with the style range from Roelof Louw’s Soul City (Pyramid of Oranges) (1967) — a work of installation art that sees fresh oranges stacked into a pyramid from which visitors are allowed to take one orange away — to On Kawara’s “Today” series, which saw the Japanese artist carefully painting a date in white acrylic on canvases consisting of a single color from 1966 to his death in 2014. Artists such as Ed Ruscha, who created the Twentysix Gasoline Stations book — a collection of photos of gas stations that is widely said to be the first modern artists’ book — made photography a major platform for Conceptual art, as did Bruce Nauman, who burned one of Ruscha's books and then photographed it for his own.

Conceptual art’s legacy of questioning artistic authorship, ownership and how to work with complex ideas of space and time had a significant influence on the decades of culture that followed, and it continues to inform art today.

The collection of Conceptual photography, paintings and sculptures on 1stDibs includes artworks by John Baldessari, Jenny Holzer, Lawrence Weiner, Joseph Kosuth and others.

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Style: Conceptual
Mud Flat, Contemporary Lithograph by Dennis Oppenheim
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Dennis Oppenheim Title: Mud Flat Year: 1977 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 100 Size: 41 in. x 29 in. (104.14 cm x 73.66 cm)
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1970s Conceptual Art

Materials

Lithograph

Cobalt Vectors, Abstract Lithograph by Dennis A. Oppenheim
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Dennis Oppenheim, American (1938 - 2011) Title: Cobalt Vectors Year: 1979 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 150 Size: 41.25 in. x 29.75 in. (104.78 c...
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1970s Conceptual Art

Materials

Lithograph

Tim Southall, Destination Unknown, Contemporary Art Print, Affordable Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Tim Southall Destination Unknown Limited Edition Print Edition of 45 Image Size: H 15cm x W 20cm Sheet Size: H 26cm x W 32cm x D 0.1cm Sold Unframed Pleas...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Paper, Etching, Monoprint

Alexandre Arrechea Evidence Sculpture 2006 Limited Edition
Located in Madrid, MD
Sculpture “Evidence” by Alexandre Arrechea – Limited Edition (2006) Discover “Evidence”, a striking sculpture by the renowned Cuban artist Alexandre Arrechea (b. 1970, Trinidad, Cub...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Resin

Hoyt Lake Buffalo New York
By Max Collins
Located in Buffalo, NY
A unique wheat pasted photograph onto found wood by American conceptual artist Max Collins (b.1988). This work was featured in a unique exhibition curated...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Found Objects, Photographic Paper

Deseo Insular VIII. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Nude Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist was enchanted by some images he had a relationship with since childhood, working them into iconographies, such as the image of the fisherman carrying on his back a cod alm...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment

Well Before….the Trusty S.C.O.R.E.* Crows
Located in Buffalo, NY
Peenemunde 1943—During World War II, German rocketeers developed Vergeltungswaffen or "V" weapons at the German rocket facility Peenemunde, built in 1937. The first civilian employee...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Found Objects, Mixed Media, Oil

Large Conceptual "Last Book of Life" Photo Etching 1970s Pop Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Last Book of Life. (Photos from a dinner of Richard Nixon’s with Chou En Lai’s various views of Chinese chopsticks) Photograph etchings Printed on Stonehedge black paper Hand signe...
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1970s Conceptual Art

Materials

Etching, Photogravure

Anatomical bodies in Indian ink on paper, antique papyrus, human being
Located in Carballo, ES
Obsessive, meticulous, almost monastic, Kramer immerses us in a universe of graphic and sculptural repetitions. His drawings on kraft paper glued with rabbit glue recall both ancient...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Ink, Handmade Paper

Large Conceptual "Last Book of Life" Photo Etching 1970s Pop Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Last Book of Life. (Photos from a dinner of Richard Nixon’s with Chou En Lai’s various views of Chinese chopsticks) Photograph etchings Printed on Stonehedge black paper Hand signe...
Category

1970s Conceptual Art

Materials

Etching, Photogravure

Miller High Life, Trompe L Oeil Hyperrealism Decay Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Tom Pfannerstill was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1951. He earned is bachelor’s degree in 1975 from Western Kentucky University. Pfannerstill has been a full-time studio artist s...
Category

Late 20th Century Conceptual Art

Materials

Wood, Acrylic

The New Year graphisms 13. 1979, paper, silk screen, 15, 5x21, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
The New Year graphisms & 13. 1979, paper, silk screen, 15,5x21,5 cm Maris Argalis (1954-2008) Born in Riga. 1971. - graduated the Janis Rosenthal Riga A...
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1970s Conceptual Art

Materials

Paper, Screen

Russian love. 2002, oil on canvas, acrylic, collage, 60x40 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Russian love. 2002, oil on canvas, acrylic, collage, 60x40 cm Igor Leontiev (1957) - one of the leading independent painters in Latvia Born in Riga, La...
Category

Early 2000s Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Christo and Jeanne-Claude "Running Fences White" Print
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Christo, Title: Running Fences White Series: Running Fences Date: 1976 Medium: Offset Lithograph Dimensions: 25" x 39" Signature: Signed...
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1970s Conceptual Art

Materials

Offset

Amour is Pink, The Dream Art Project
Located in New York, NY
The photograph is available in three sizes. The print is proposed as a face-mount; it is mounted to acrylic at the front and Dibond at the back. It is ready to hang with a metal bracket on the wall. "Amour is Pink," a tranquil photograph by Anne Valverde, features the serene expanse of a beach at dusk, with the word 'amour'—French for love—spelled out in an understated neon script along the wet sand. The image is steeped in a quiet poignancy, where the vastness of the ocean meets the warmth of the sky, wrapping the scene in a gentle embrace. The sky is a canvas of soft pastels, where the blush of pink clouds hints at the sun's recent departure below the horizon. This celestial spectacle is mirrored by the ocean's surface, creating a symmetry that is both calming and introspective. The neon text 'amour' adds a layer of romanticism to the scene, its reflection on the wet sand doubling its presence, as if to emphasize the strength and depth of the sentiment it represents. Valverde's choice to place the text in such a setting invites contemplation on the nature of love itself—vast, enduring, and reflective of our own feelings. The beach, with its smooth sand and receding tide, suggests a place where emotions can be openly expressed and contemplated, while the encroaching night speaks to the intimacy and quietude that love often craves. "Amour is Pink" is a visual ode to the heart's landscape, where love is as expansive as the sea and as beautifully nuanced as the evening sky. It's a reminder that love, in its many forms, is a fundamental and beautiful part of the human experience, always worthy of reflection and appreciation. Since 2015, Valverde has been working on a neon light installation project in several countries, which she materialises through photography. The DREAM ART PROJECT Her portfolio “City Icons” in 2008 brought her work to public attention. A series about Iconic Monuments from Major cities like Paris, New York, Hong Kong, London, Dubaï… Writing with Neon brings together two passions for Anne Valverde: light and words thus incorporating her main medium of expression: Photography. Valverde brings artificial light to areas where electricity is absent, creating a dissonance in the landscape and an unexpected and dreamlike light, creating a new message, independent from preexisting signs and words. Valverde’s first message is "dream", as she invites the viewer to go past reality and reflect on open spaces for escape in a complex and tormented world. Some themes are recurring: an amused gaze on social media omnipresence, hyper-connectivity or even office language shortcuts. This contemplation of the natural landscape suddenly opens up to a perspective on social evolution. By inserting neon lights in her photographs, she initiates a return...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Photographic Film, Acrylic Polymer, Neon Light, Archival Paper, Photogra...

Berlin
Located in London, GB
Spray paint, pencil, ink, watercolor on paper. Unframed. Peter Soriano works on relatively large sheets of Japanese paper with a tendency to work from something observed, ideally ar...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Paper, Ink, Spray Paint, Watercolor, Pencil

Japanese Contemporary Art By Kojun - Shiko 678
Located in Paris, IDF
Lego, plastic model, gold leaf, noodle, resin, paper, wood Central piece: W95 × D95 × H195 mm Side pieces: W80 × D85 × H77 mm This collaborative work, which began with a common interest in Buddhism, explored the idea of expressing the sacred within everyday life. As artist and Zen monk...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Gold Leaf

Lawrence Weiner, Wir sind keine Enten auf dem Teich - 1990, Signed Print
Located in Hamburg, DE
Lawrence Weiner (1942-2021) Wir sind keine Enten auf dem Teich, wir sind Schiffe auf dem Meer, 1990 Medium: Screenprint on Bistrol card Dimensions: 35.5 x 70.5 cm (14 x 27.8 in) Edit...
Category

20th Century Conceptual Art

Materials

Screen

Untitled II. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Nude Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
José Sierra painted his body as a tribute to Afro-Colombian and pre-Columbian cultures, documenting the performance in photographs that portray him in erotic and suggestive positions...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment

Deseo Insular X. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Nude Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist was enchanted by some images he had a relationship with since childhood, working them into iconographies, such as the image of the fisherman carrying on his back a cod alm...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment

Sculpture, abstract record player: Kristallo
Located in New York, NY
The artistic collaboration of Kelly Bugden + Van Wifvat has produced a thought-provoking body of sculptures, paintings, and constructions. Nature, childhood memories, and everyday ar...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Brass, Steel

Abysmal, 2021 Contemporary digital print
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Style: Contemporary, Modern, Conceptual Small study for the series “Rare Earth"
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Metal

Christo, Corridor Store Front (Monuments) - Signed Collage
Located in Hamburg, DE
Christo (American-Bulgarian, b. 1935) Corridor Store Front (from Monuments), 1968 Medium: Collage (two-part screenprint on Bristol board, with mounted transparent plastic sheet, with...
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19th Century Conceptual Art

Materials

Plastic, Board, Screen

Cave paintings on paper, Indian ink, hand drawing, leather papyrus style
Located in Carballo, ES
Obsessive, meticulous, almost monastic, Kramer immerses us in a universe of graphic and sculptural repetitions. His drawings on kraft paper glued with rabbit glue recall both ancient...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Ink, Handmade Paper

LeWitt, Composition, Ficciones (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Silkscreen on vélin Saunders Waterford, St Cuthberts Mill paper. Paper Size: 8 x 7.625 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Ficciones, 1984...
Category

1980s Conceptual Art

Materials

Screen

Fritz Horstman, Formwork for the East River, 2017, Wood, Latex Paint, Wood Panel
Located in Darien, CT
While working on a large building project several years ago the artist, Fritz Horstman was struck by the poetry in the unfinished state of the construction site. He was drawn specifically to the space between the plywood walls that were raised as formworks for the pouring of cement. That space could only exist for a few hours before the cement truck arrived, but in that moment it was a revolving abstraction of potential, delineation, growth, and destruction. Once filled it was gone: the plywood was stripped away, the earth was backfilled. To suspend that moment he began building models of formworks. Leaving them unfilled, they are perpetually unfinished. From models based directly on architecture, Horstman expanded to forms found in the landscape. Making a formwork that depicts constraint upon the landscape is not exactly a reversal of the formwork’s function, but it asks different questions than a formwork designed for a building would. Why would you make a cement creek? What is the relationship between a flowing creek and poured cement? Is this a barrier or just delineation? For River Woman ODETTA, in addition to several small sculptures in the Flat File, Horstman will install Formwork for the East River, which describes that river’s shape as it flows from Rikers Island to the tip of Manhattan. The 3 x 18 x 7 foot sculpture...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Wood, Latex, Wood Panel

Untitled IV. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Nude Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
José Sierra painted his body as a tribute to Afro-Colombian and pre-Columbian cultures, documenting the performance in photographs that portray him in erotic and suggestive positions...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment

Christo, Lower Manhattan Packed Buildings (Monuments) - Signed Print
Located in Hamburg, DE
Christo (American-Bulgarian, b. 1935) Lower Manhattan Packed Buildings (2 Broadway and 20 Exchange Place, from Monuments), 1968 Medium: Offset and screen print on Bristol board Dimen...
Category

20th Century Conceptual Art

Materials

Offset, Screen

Silver gelatin print from Ruven Afanador "Sombra" series, stamped on verso
Located in New York, NY
Untitled portrait from Ruven Afanador "Sombra" series, silver gelatin print, artist print. This work is featured in Afanador's 2004 book 'Sombra" which combines elegant, erotic port...
Category

Early 2000s Conceptual Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Tippie Comic Strip Original Art - Female Cartoonist
Located in Miami, FL
An early example from pioneering Female Cartoonist/ Illustrator Edwina Dumm, who draws a comic strip from her long-running cartoon series Tippie which lasted for almost five decades. Signed and dated Edwina, 9-25, matted but unframed. Frances Edwina Dumm (1893 – April 28, 1990) was a writer-artist who drew the comic strip Cap Stubbs and Tippie for nearly five decades; she is also notable as America's first full-time female editorial cartoonist. She used her middle name for the signature on her comic strip, signed simply Edwina. Biography One of the earliest female syndicated cartoonists, Dumm was born in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, and lived in Marion and Washington Courthouse, Ohio throughout her youth before the family settled down in Columbus.[1] Her mother was Anna Gilmore Dennis, and her father, Frank Edwin Dumm, was an actor-playwright turned newspaperman. Dumm's paternal grandfather, Robert D. Dumm, owned a newspaper in Upper Sandusky which Frank Dumm later inherited. Her brother, Robert Dennis Dumm, was a reporter for the Columbus Dispatch, and art editor for Cole Publishing Company's Farm & Fireside magazine. In 1911, she graduated from Central High School in Columbus, Ohio, and then took the Cleveland-based Landon School of Illustration and Cartooning correspondence course. Her name was later featured in Landon's advertisements. While enrolled in the correspondence course, she also took a business course and worked as a stenographer at the Columbus Board of Education. In 1915, Dumm was hired by the short-lived Republican newspaper, the Columbus Monitor, to be a full-time cartoonist.[2] Her first cartoon was published on August 7, 1915, in the debut issue of the paper. During her years at the Monitor she provided a variety of features including a comic strip called The Meanderings of Minnie about a young tomboy girl and her dog, Lillie Jane, and a full-page editorial cartoon feature, Spot-Light Sketches[3]. She drew editorial cartoons for the Monitor from its first edition (August 7, 1915) until the paper folded (July 1917). In the Monitor, her Spot-Light Sketches was a full-page feature of editorial cartoons, and some of these promoted women's issues. Elisabeth Israels Perry, in the introduction to Alice Sheppard's Cartooning for Suffrage (1994), wrote that artists such as Blanche Ames Ames, Lou Rogers and Edwina Dumm produced: ...a visual rhetoric that helped create a climate more favorable to change in America's gender relations... By the close of the suffrage campaign, women's art reflected the new values of feminism, broadened its targets, and attempted to restate the significance of the movement.[4] After the Monitor folded, Dumm moved to New York City, where she continued her art studies at the Art Students League. She was hired by the George Matthew Adams Service[5] to create Cap Stubbs and Tippie, a family strip following the lives of a boy Cap, his dog Tippie, their family, and neighbors. Cap's grandmother, Sara Bailey, is prominently featured, and may have been based on Dumm's own grandmother, Sarah Jane Henderson, who lived with their family. The strip was strongly influenced by Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, as well as Dumm’s favorite comic, Buster Brown by Richard F. Outcault. Dumm worked very fast; according to comics historian Martin Sheridan, she could pencil a daily strip in an hour.[6] Her love of dogs is evident in her strips as well as her illustrations for books and magazines, such as Sinbad, her weekly dog page which ran in both Life and the London Tatler. She illustrated Alexander Woollcott's Two Gentlemen and a Lady. For Sonnets from the Pekinese and Other Doggerel (Macmillan, 1936) by Burges Johnson (1877–1963), she illustrated "Losted" and other poems. From the 1931 through the 1960s, she drew another dog for the newspaper feature Alec the Great, in which she illustrated verses written by her brother, Robert Dennis Dumm. Their collaboration was published as a book in 1946. In the late 1940s, she drew the covers for sheet music by her friend and neighbor, Helen Thomas, who did both music and lyrics. During the 1940s, she also contributed Tippie features to various comic books including All-American Comics and Dell Comics. In 1950, Dumm, Hilda Terry, and Barbara Shermund...
Category

1920s Conceptual Art

Materials

Ink, Color Pencil, Graphite

Half Dead, "Inflammatory Essay" (from Documenta 1982)
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Jenny Holzer is one of the most important and original artists of the 20th century. Her body of work, with its emphasis on text, is provocative and occasionally frightening, manipulating the language of folk wisdom, pop culture, and government slogan to produce a commentary on global issues including power structures, gender struggle, economics, voting, and warfare. Holzer's iconic "Inflammatory Essays", produced between 1979 and 1982, were first pasted on walls throughout heavily populated metro areas including New York, and shortly after in other cities. Unsigned and commercially produced, they subverted the conventions of advertising, graffiti, and public art. Each essay was in a different eye-catching color to maximize viewers' attention. It was also helpful when one Essay replaced an older one. The texts were derived from her childhood interest in rapturous writings. Holzer tried to emulate a similar style for her essays, yet borrowed from political theorists (notably Mao, Lenin, and Emma Goldman...
Category

1980s Conceptual Art

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

Andy Vision
Located in Red Bank, NJ
Narrative figures in various combinations of human, animal and natural forms are the main characters of this work. This blending of forms is reflective of nature, mythology and story...
Category

20th Century Conceptual Art

Materials

Copper

Unbridled Joy of Festivity - 21st Century Contemporary, Christmas Holiday, Child
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Festivity happiness, is the unbridled joy that both young and old experience during Christmas, most especially small children there experience during Christmas, and the way the holid...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Archival Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic

The Higher the Heels
Located in Bozeman, MT
This is a ceramic cowboy hat. Shae Bishop was born in a small cabin in Tennessee and grew up mainly in Louisville Kentucky where he spent his childhood half at his desk and half in the woods, cultivating his two main passions: art and reptiles. Choosing the path of a maker, he attended the Kansas City Art Institute where he earned his BFA in ceramics and art history. During his time as an undergraduate he also learned to sew clothing and began a studio practice that explored the relationships between ceramics and textiles. Connections between the medias’ cultural histories, pattern-making systems, and interactions with the body led him to start a series of wearable garment sculptures made of interlaced ceramic tiles. After completing a two year residency at Red Star Studios in Kansas City, Bishop moved to the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. While there he worked as studio assistant to sculptor Cristina Córdova...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Ceramic, Underglaze

Athenæum, Boston
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Athenæum, Boston 50 x 50 inches ed. of 10 $6000 60 x 60 inches ed. of 7 $9000 70 x 70 inches ed. of 5 $11000 signed and numbered on label, verso Paper is trimmed to the image: a...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

C Print, Lambda

Large Conceptual "Last Book of Life" Photo Etching 1970s Pop Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Last Book of Life. (Photos from a dinner of Richard Nixon’s with Chou En Lai’s various views of Chinese chopsticks) Photograph etchings Printed on Stonehedge black paper Hand signe...
Category

1970s Conceptual Art

Materials

Etching, Photogravure

Phillips Exeter Academy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Phillips Exeter Academy Library 60 x 50 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 70 x 58.5 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 80 x 66.8 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed a...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

C Print, Lambda

Bernar Venet Position of Three Undetermined Lines Charcoal and Collage on Paper
Located in Paris, FR
1984 Unique artwork Charcoal, cardboard, collage on paper Signed, dated and titled lower right Registered under the inventory number bv84d5 at Bernar Venet Studio 70.5 x 113.5 cm   ...
Category

1980s Conceptual Art

Materials

Paper, Charcoal, Cardboard

Far Rockaway Seascape, Conceptual Oil Painting by Vladimir German
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Vladimir German, Russian/American (1940 - ) Title: Far Rockaway Seascape Year: 1988 - 89 Medium: Oil on Paper mounted on Board, signed verso Size: 18.5 in. x 26.25 in. (46.99...
Category

1980s Conceptual Art

Materials

Oil

Untitled
Located in Atlanta, GA
tony hernandez was born in Atlanta in 1964 and has been painting professionally since 1988. while he is a southern artist, his works are far from the re...
Category

20th Century Conceptual Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Original ink on Paper, Contemporary Blue Abstract Seaweeds , Waves
Located in Carballo, ES
Blue Minimal Painting is an original artwork realized by TUSET in 2020. The painting is unframed, we can frame it in natural wood or black on request. The title of this works is "F...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Ink, Handmade Paper

Caius Julius Caesar Octivanius Augustus, Dadaist Aquatint Etching by Enrico Baj
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Enrico Baj, Italian (1924 - 2003) Title: Caius Julius Caesar Octivanius Augustus Year: 1972 Medium: Aquatint Etching with Collage, Signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 24/7...
Category

1970s Conceptual Art

Materials

Etching, Mixed Media, Aquatint

Self Portrait #9 From La Piedra Sustituta II Series. Limited edition color photo
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-representation and a homoerotic gaze. Through his unique aesthetic, he creates abject staged environments that challenge tradi...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

There are only chickens around
Located in Zofingen, AG
This painting is an allegory for the modern life of a woman in the context of urbanization and mass culture, or an expression of the contrast between the natural and the artificial, ...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Stargazing - Lego Art - Original - C-3PO From Star Wars movie.
Located in New York, NY
Stargazing - Lego Art - Original - C-3PO- From Star Wars Movie. Made completely of legos. About the Artist: Joseph Kraham is an "engineering artist...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Birdy Dream, The Dream Art Project
Located in New York, NY
The photograph is available in three sizes. The print is proposed as a face-mount; it is mounted to acrylic at the front and Dibond at the back. It is ready to hang with a metal bracket on the wall. "Birdy Dream," a photograph by Anne Valverde, captures the ethereal beauty of a mist-enshrouded forest, with the word 'dream' crafted in neon lights, seamlessly integrated into the landscape. Valverde's artistry is evident in her ability to blend the artificial glow of neon with the organic forms of nature, creating a harmonious tableau that whispers of the unseen and the imagined. The forest scene is alive with varying textures of foliage, dominated by the large fronds of ferns that fan out across the frame. The mist rolls through the trees like a gentle tide, blurring lines and softening the world to a palette of muted greens and grays. In this dreamscape, the neon 'dream' is both a literal and figurative illumination—a call to the magic that lies in the heart of the wild. The neon text, positioned amongst the forest floor, is like a secret waiting to be discovered, a reminder that even in the dense and tangled growth, there is space for dreams to take root and flourish. The soft light from the sign pierces the fog, symbolizing clarity and hope amidst uncertainty. Valverde's "Birdy Dream" is a tribute to the quiet strength of nature and the power of dreams to persist in even the most unlikely places. It's a visual poem that invites contemplation, asking the observer to consider the myriad of dreams that live hidden beneath the canopy, in the soul of the forest, and within us all. Since 2015, Valverde has been working on a neon light installation project in several countries, which she materialises through photography. The DREAM ART PROJECT Her portfolio “City Icons” in 2008 brought her work to public attention. A series about Iconic Monuments from Major cities like Paris, New York, Hong Kong, London, Dubaï… Writing with Neon brings together two passions for Anne Valverde: light and words thus incorporating her main medium of expression: Photography. Valverde brings artificial light to areas where electricity is absent, creating a dissonance in the landscape and an unexpected and dreamlike light, creating a new message, independent from preexisting signs and words. Valverde’s first message is "dream", as she invites the viewer to go past reality and reflect on open spaces for escape in a complex and tormented world. Some themes are recurring: an amused gaze on social media omnipresence, hyper-connectivity or even office language shortcuts. This contemplation of the natural landscape suddenly opens up to a perspective on social evolution. By inserting neon lights in her photographs, she initiates a return...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Photographic Film, Acrylic Polymer, Neon Light, Archival Paper, Photogra...

In rhythm
Located in Zofingen, AG
This minimalist surrealist painting explores rhythm and movement through color and form. On a light blue background — symbolizing space and clarity — thin vertical red stripes occupy...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Dario Villalba - UNTITLED 2 Limited Conceptualism Spanish Contemporary Grey
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Dario Villalba - Untitled 2 Date of creation: 1975 Medium: Lithograph and photolithograph on paper Edition: 75 Size: 95 x 68 cm Condition: In mint conditions and not framed Observati...
Category

1970s Conceptual Art

Materials

Lithograph

Untitled #9 from Ruven Afanador "Sombra" series, silver gelatin print 2/5
Located in New York, NY
Untitled #9 from Ruven Afanador "Sombra" series, silver gelatin print 2/5 This work is featured in Afanador's 2004 book 'Sombra" which combines elegant, erotic portraits and nudes of...
Category

Early 2000s Conceptual Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Self Portrait #8 From La Piedra Sustituta II Series. Nude color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-representation and a homoerotic gaze. Through his unique aesthetic, he creates abject staged environments that challenge tradi...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Pizza Shark 2 v 2
Located in New York, NY
Renelio Marin is a visual artist with a diverse range of influences and styles. Born in Cuba, he received his graduate degree from the San Alejandro School of Fine Arts in Havana in ...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Color Pencil, Tempera, Permanent Marker

End of the USA
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Jenny Holzer is one of the most important and original artists of the 20th century. Her body of work, with an emphasis on text, is consistently provocative and occasionally frightening, manipulating the language of both pop culture and government slogan to produce commentary on global issues notably power structures and warfare. Holzer's iconic "Inflammatory Essays", produced between 1979 and 1982, were first pasted on walls throughout heavily populated metro areas including New York and other cities. Composed of anonymous statements, printed on friendly or calm colored papers, the statements were influenced by writings of major political figures such as Emma Goldman...
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1980s Conceptual Art

Materials

Offset

Robert Smithson, Movie Treatment for Spiral Jetty, historic Dwan Gallery print
Located in New York, NY
Robert Smithson Movie Treatment for Spiral Jetty, Dwan Gallery Poster, 1970 Offset lithograph poster 38 × 22 inches Unframed Rare, historic poster feature...
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1970s Conceptual Art

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

Large Conceptual "Last Book of Life" Photo Etching 1970s Pop Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Last Book of Life. Richard Nixon’s view of Chou En Lai’s chopsticks Photograph etchings Printed on Stonehedge black paper Hand signed, and numbered, by Levine in red pencil along t...
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1970s Conceptual Art

Materials

Etching, Photogravure

Madame X (original lego art with frame)
Located in New York, NY
Madame X (original lego art with frame). Made completely of legos. About the Artist: Joseph Kraham is an "engineering artist". He combines thousand...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Chinese Contemporary Art by Su Yu - Cospaly
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas Su Yu is a Chinese artist born in 1987 who lives and works in Beijing. He was an old student of prestigious art teachers as Shi Liang Chen Danqing at Oil Paintin...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with work and authenticity certificate
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Metal

Oscar Niemeyer Staircase, Light Pastel Tones Interior Architecture, Still-Life
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Sexy Miami Futuristic Cocktail Lounge" is a series of photographs by Ryan Rivadeneyra inspired by the Art Deco colors of Miami that show beautiful objects and textures arranged meti...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Photographic Film, Giclée, Archival Pigment

Garment of Hope 3 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa Girl
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Garment of Hope," a poignant masterpiece crafted by the skilled hands of artist John Ali, invites viewers into a world where innocence and resilience converge. This evocative artwor...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Nude #15 From Cuerpo en Tensión Series. Limited edition photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-representation and a homoerotic gaze. Through his unique aesthetic, he creates abject staged environments that challenge tradi...
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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

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