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Item Ships From: Florida
Scepter
d Isle Rose Large Format Flower Photo 24X20 Color Photograph Beach House
By Peter C. Jones 1
Located in Surfside, FL
Scepter'd Isle English Rose Photo The Tappen House, Little Compton, RI (Rhode Island). Hand signed and numbered. small edition of 15 (these are on Kodak pro...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Florida - Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Red Dahlia Flower Large Format Photo 24X20 Color Photograph Beach House RI
By Peter C. Jones 1
Located in Surfside, FL
Red Dahlia, Flower, Floral Photo The Tappen House, Little Compton, RI (Rhode Island). Hand signed and numbered. small edition of 15 (these are on Kodak professional paper not Polaroi...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Florida - Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Sunset in the Red Room Large Format Photo 24X20 Color Photograph Beach House RI
By Peter C. Jones 1
Located in Surfside, FL
Sunset in the Red Room, The Tappen House, Little Compton, RI (Rhode Island)
Moody photos of a summer vacation house at the beach.
Peter C. Jones is a fine art photographer, docum...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Florida - Color Photography
Materials
C Print
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 Florida - Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
1970s Mona Lisa Photo Collage Photograph Pioneer Female Aviator Feminist Pop Art
By Vera Simons
Located in Surfside, FL
This one Mona Lisa, some with glasses drawn on, cut and torn newspaper, collage, assemblage and looks like a Guerrilla Girl ad in a pattern and decoration style. It is not signed or ...
Category
1970s Assemblage Florida - Color Photography
Materials
Mixed Media, Newsprint, Photographic Paper
Mauve Earth Shine Photo Mosaic Collage Photograph, Female Aviator Feminist Art
By Vera Simons
Located in Surfside, FL
SIMONS, Vera (1920 - 2012)
Vera Habrecht Simons, was a German/American aviation pioneer, aeronaut and photo collage artist. She played a very important role in balloon development...
Category
1980s Assemblage Florida - Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Sports Watch Abstract Photo Mosaic Collage Aerial Photograph Feminist Aviator
By Vera Simons
Located in Surfside, FL
This one depicts a sports wristwatch over an aerial city or field landscape and is titled "Time Frame". It is signed and dated.
I believe it might be Amsterdam or London.
SIMONS, Ver...
Category
1970s Assemblage Florida - Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Wrist Watch Abstract Photo Mosaic Collage Aerial Photograph
By Vera Simons
Located in Surfside, FL
This one depicts a sports wristwatch over an aerial landscape and is titled Clock Garden. it is signed and dated 1979.
SIMONS, Vera (1920 - 2012)
Vera Habrecht Simons, was a German/...
Category
1970s Assemblage Florida - Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Peacock Feathers Photo Mosaic Collage Photograph, Female Aviator Feminist Art
By Vera Simons
Located in Surfside, FL
This one depicts an abstract assemblage of peacock feathers in a pattern and decoration style.
SIMONS, Vera (1920 - 2012)
Vera Habrecht Simons, was a German/American aviation pionee...
Category
1980s Dada Florida - Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
1979 Square Time Indiana, Photo Mosaic Collage Aerial Photograph, Female Aviator
By Vera Simons
Located in Surfside, FL
SIMONS, Vera (1920 - 2012)
Vera Habrecht Simons, was a German/American aviation pioneer, aeronaut and photo collage artist. She played a very important role in balloon development a...
Category
1970s Arte Povera Florida - Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Space Field, Digital Iris Print Muse X Large Photograph on Heavy Paper
By Victor Raphael
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 Expressionist Florida - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Dresden Pre Occupation Inkjet Photograph Color Photo Print Arches Kevin Hanley
By Kevin Hanley
Located in Surfside, FL
body of work: “Sentiment and Vagrancy”
series: “Dresden Pre Occupation”
medium: Ink Jet print on Arches
size: 28″ h x 30″ w
Kevin Hanley was born 1969 in Sumter, South Carolina and received a Master of Fine Art from Art Center College of Design and a Bachelor of Fine Art from Otis Parsons College. Hanley is a multimedia artist and an associate professor at Art Center College of Design who also works professionally in TV broadcast and graphic design. He currently works and lives in Los Angeles. His International group exhibitions include: "The 50th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia," Venice, Italy, "Site Santa Fe Second Biennale," Santa Fe, New Mexico, "Index," MOCA, Los Angeles and "Delta," Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris, France. His solo exhibitions include: ACME, Los Angeles, I-20, New York, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo and Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne. Articles and reviews on Hanley's work have appeared in Artforum, Contemporary, Flash Art, Frieze, Kultureflash, The Los Angeles Times and The New York Times.
Selected Exhibitions:
Seams Like Sometimes, ACME., Los Angeles, CA
15 year...
Category
1990s Contemporary Florida - Color Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Vintage C-Print Abstract Color Aerial Landscape Photograph Alex MacLean
By Alex MacLean
Located in Surfside, FL
This is an aerial view photograph. As an aerial photographer, MacLean aims to portray the history and evolution of the land from vast agricultural patterns to city grids, recording changes brought about by human intervention and natural processes.
Alex S. MacLean (born 1947) is an American photographic artist who is best known for his aerial photographs. His photographs have portrayed the history and evolution of the land from vast agricultural patterns to city grids, recording changes brought about by human intervention and natural processes.
MacLean graduated from Harvard College...
Category
20th Century American Modern Florida - Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
Faces, Vintage Color Photograph Digital Photo Collage Print Asian American
By Emily Cheng
Located in Surfside, FL
This was from Muse X publishers. It came in a plastic bag signed Emily Cheng. (the plastic bag is not included) It is on Fuji crystal photo paper. It depicts two Asian faces in a cubist, fractured way, with a woman (or man) holding a photograph over his/her face. It is a proof print and is not signed or numbered.
Emily Cheng (born in New York City, in 1953) is an American artist of Chinese ancestry. She is best known for large scale painting with a center focus often employing expansive circular images radiantly colored, radially composed.
Cheng received her BFA in 1975 from the Rhode Island School of Design and attended the New York Studio School. Cheng has exhibited widely in the US and in Asia. In 2011, Cheng created Charting Sacred Territories, an exhibition exploring world religions which opened in the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei (MOCA) , Taiwan (2011) and traveled to Hanart TZ Gallery in (2015),
Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China, (2015) and in Europe at the Palais Liechtenstein Feldkirch, Austria (2019).
Cheng has had numerous solo shows in the US and in Asia and is represented by Hanart TZ Gallery in Hong Kong. In 2007, Timezone 8 published a monograph of Emily Cheng titled, Chasing Clouds, a decade of studies, with essays by Kevin Powers and Johnson Chang. Emily Cheng has lived and worked in New York City since 1977 and teaches Asian Art History at the School of Visual Arts. Influenced by a wide array of eastern and western artists including Van Gogh, Gauguin, Manet and Giacometti as well as de Kooning, early Philip Guston and Jackson Pollock. Nicolas Carone and Leland Bell were both among her teachers as well as Elaine de Kooning.
Selected solo exhibitions
Ille Arts, Amagansett, New York,
Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China, (2015)
Hanart T.Z. Gallery, Hong Kong,
Zane Bennett Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico, (2013)
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Taipei , Taiwan (2011)
Louis Vuitton Maison, Kowloon, Hong Kong, (2010)
Ayala Museum Makati, Philippines, (2006)
Plum Blossom Gallery, New York, NY, (2004)
Schmidt/Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO (2001)
Metropolitan Museum of Manila , Philippines (1997)
John Post Lee Gallery, New York, NY, Projects Room (1997)
Contemporary Arts Center , Cincinnati, Ohio, 1994
David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY, (1992)
Lang & O'Hara Gallery, New York, NY,
The Bronx Museum of the Arts , Bronx, NY, (1989)
White Columns , New York, NY, (1985)
Selected group exhibitions
Art Basel Hong Kong , (Hanart Gallery) , Hong Kong, 2017
China Institute, New York, NY, 2014
Beijing Art Fair, Beijing, China, 2013
Museum of Chinese in America New York, NY, 2010
Kidspace, MASS MoCA , Williamstown, MA, 2010, 2005
Museum of Contemporary Art , Shanghai, China, 2009
Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong, China, 2009
Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China, 2008
Contrast Gallery, Shanghai and Beijing, China, 2008
University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum , Tampa, Florida, 2006
Hong Kong Arts Centre , Hong Kong, 2004
American Academy of Art , New York, New York, 2004
Longmarch Project, Beijing, China, 2002
Sotheby’s , New York, NY, 2001
Newhouse Center, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY, 2000
Katonah Museum of Art , Katonah, NY, 2000
National Academy and Museum, NY, 2000
Municipal Museum of Gyor, Hungary, 1999
New Museum of Contemporary Art , New York, NY, 1998
De Cordova Museum and the Computer Museum , Boston, MA, 1994
International Graphic Biennial, Muveszeti Museum, Hungary, 1995
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts , San Francisco, CA, 1994
Drawing Center, NY; traveled to Corcoran, Washington D.C., Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica CA; The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis MO; American Center, Paris, France,
Cone Editions Gallery, New York 1990
Anina Nosei Gallery, New York, 1988
Greenville County Museum of Art , South Carolina, 1988
North Carolina Museum of Art ,
Hallwalls , Buffalo, NY, 1988
Grace Borgenicht Gallery , New York, 1986
Tibor de Nagy, New York, 1985
Asian American...
Category
1990s Conceptual Florida - Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
Faces, Vintage Color Photograph Digital Photo Collage Print Asian American
By Emily Cheng
Located in Surfside, FL
This was from Muse X publishers. It came in a plastic bag signed Emily Cheng. (the plastic bag is not included) It is on Fuji crystal photo paper. It depicts two Asian faces in a cubist, fractured way, with a woman (or man) holding a photograph over his/her face. It is a proof print and is not signed or numbered.
Emily Cheng (born in New York City, in 1953) is an American artist of Chinese ancestry. She is best known for large scale painting with a center focus often employing expansive circular images radiantly colored, radially composed.
Cheng received her BFA in 1975 from the Rhode Island School of Design and attended the New York Studio School. Cheng has exhibited widely in the US and in Asia. In 2011, Cheng created Charting Sacred Territories, an exhibition exploring world religions which opened in the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei (MOCA) , Taiwan (2011) and traveled to Hanart TZ Gallery in (2015),
Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China, (2015) and in Europe at the Palais Liechtenstein Feldkirch, Austria (2019).
Cheng has had numerous solo shows in the US and in Asia and is represented by Hanart TZ Gallery in Hong Kong. In 2007, Timezone 8 published a monograph of Emily Cheng titled, Chasing Clouds, a decade of studies, with essays by Kevin Powers and Johnson Chang. Emily Cheng has lived and worked in New York City since 1977 and teaches Asian Art History at the School of Visual Arts. Influenced by a wide array of eastern and western artists including Van Gogh, Gauguin, Manet and Giacometti as well as de Kooning, early Philip Guston and Jackson Pollock. Nicolas Carone and Leland Bell were both among her teachers as well as Elaine de Kooning.
Selected solo exhibitions
Ille Arts, Amagansett, New York,
Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China, (2015)
Hanart T.Z. Gallery, Hong Kong,
Zane Bennett Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico, (2013)
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Taipei , Taiwan (2011)
Louis Vuitton Maison, Kowloon, Hong Kong, (2010)
Ayala Museum Makati, Philippines, (2006)
Plum Blossom Gallery, New York, NY, (2004)
Schmidt/Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO (2001)
Metropolitan Museum of Manila , Philippines (1997)
John Post Lee Gallery, New York, NY, Projects Room (1997)
Contemporary Arts Center , Cincinnati, Ohio, 1994
David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY, (1992)
Lang & O'Hara Gallery, New York, NY,
The Bronx Museum of the Arts , Bronx, NY, (1989)
White Columns , New York, NY, (1985)
Selected group exhibitions
Art Basel Hong Kong , (Hanart Gallery) , Hong Kong, 2017
China Institute, New York, NY, 2014
Beijing Art Fair, Beijing, China, 2013
Museum of Chinese in America New York, NY, 2010
Kidspace, MASS MoCA , Williamstown, MA, 2010, 2005
Museum of Contemporary Art , Shanghai, China, 2009
Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong, China, 2009
Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China, 2008
Contrast Gallery, Shanghai and Beijing, China, 2008
University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum , Tampa, Florida, 2006
Hong Kong Arts Centre , Hong Kong, 2004
American Academy of Art , New York, New York, 2004
Longmarch Project, Beijing, China, 2002
Sotheby’s , New York, NY, 2001
Newhouse Center, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY, 2000
Katonah Museum of Art , Katonah, NY, 2000
National Academy and Museum, NY, 2000
Municipal Museum of Gyor, Hungary, 1999
New Museum of Contemporary Art , New York, NY, 1998
De Cordova Museum and the Computer Museum , Boston, MA, 1994
International Graphic Biennial, Muveszeti Museum, Hungary, 1995
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts , San Francisco, CA, 1994
Drawing Center, NY; traveled to Corcoran, Washington D.C., Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica CA; The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis MO; American Center, Paris, France,
Cone Editions Gallery, New York 1990
Anina Nosei Gallery, New York, 1988
Greenville County Museum of Art , South Carolina, 1988
North Carolina Museum of Art ,
Hallwalls , Buffalo, NY, 1988
Grace Borgenicht Gallery , New York, 1986
Tibor de Nagy, New York, 1985
Asian American...
Category
1990s Conceptual Florida - Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
Faces, Vintage Color Photograph Digital Photo Collage Print Asian American
By Emily Cheng
Located in Surfside, FL
This was from Muse X publishers. It came in a plastic bag signed Emily Cheng. (the plastic bag is not included) It is on Fuji crystal photo paper. It depicts two Asian faces in a cubist, fractured way, with a woman (or man) holding a photograph over his/her face. It is a proof print and is not signed or numbered.
Emily Cheng (born in New York City, in 1953) is an American artist of Chinese ancestry. She is best known for large scale painting with a center focus often employing expansive circular images radiantly colored, radially composed.
Cheng received her BFA in 1975 from the Rhode Island School of Design and attended the New York Studio School. Cheng has exhibited widely in the US and in Asia. In 2011, Cheng created Charting Sacred Territories, an exhibition exploring world religions which opened in the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei (MOCA) , Taiwan (2011) and traveled to Hanart TZ Gallery in (2015),
Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China, (2015) and in Europe at the Palais Liechtenstein Feldkirch, Austria (2019).
Cheng has had numerous solo shows in the US and in Asia and is represented by Hanart TZ Gallery in Hong Kong. In 2007, Timezone 8 published a monograph of Emily Cheng titled, Chasing Clouds, a decade of studies, with essays by Kevin Powers and Johnson Chang. Emily Cheng has lived and worked in New York City since 1977 and teaches Asian Art History at the School of Visual Arts. Influenced by a wide array of eastern and western artists including Van Gogh, Gauguin, Manet and Giacometti as well as de Kooning, early Philip Guston and Jackson Pollock. Nicolas Carone and Leland Bell were both among her teachers as well as Elaine de Kooning.
Selected solo exhibitions
Ille Arts, Amagansett, New York,
Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China, (2015)
Hanart T.Z. Gallery, Hong Kong,
Zane Bennett Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico, (2013)
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Taipei , Taiwan (2011)
Louis Vuitton Maison, Kowloon, Hong Kong, (2010)
Ayala Museum Makati, Philippines, (2006)
Plum Blossom Gallery, New York, NY, (2004)
Schmidt/Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO (2001)
Metropolitan Museum of Manila , Philippines (1997)
John Post Lee Gallery, New York, NY, Projects Room (1997)
Contemporary Arts Center , Cincinnati, Ohio, 1994
David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY, (1992)
Lang & O'Hara Gallery, New York, NY,
The Bronx Museum of the Arts , Bronx, NY, (1989)
White Columns , New York, NY, (1985)
Selected group exhibitions
Art Basel Hong Kong , (Hanart Gallery) , Hong Kong, 2017
China Institute, New York, NY, 2014
Beijing Art Fair, Beijing, China, 2013
Museum of Chinese in America New York, NY, 2010
Kidspace, MASS MoCA , Williamstown, MA, 2010, 2005
Museum of Contemporary Art , Shanghai, China, 2009
Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong, China, 2009
Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China, 2008
Contrast Gallery, Shanghai and Beijing, China, 2008
University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum , Tampa, Florida, 2006
Hong Kong Arts Centre , Hong Kong, 2004
American Academy of Art , New York, New York, 2004
Longmarch Project, Beijing, China, 2002
Sotheby’s , New York, NY, 2001
Newhouse Center, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY, 2000
Katonah Museum of Art , Katonah, NY, 2000
National Academy and Museum, NY, 2000
Municipal Museum of Gyor, Hungary, 1999
New Museum of Contemporary Art , New York, NY, 1998
De Cordova Museum and the Computer Museum , Boston, MA, 1994
International Graphic Biennial, Muveszeti Museum, Hungary, 1995
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts , San Francisco, CA, 1994
Drawing Center, NY; traveled to Corcoran, Washington D.C., Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica CA; The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis MO; American Center, Paris, France,
Cone Editions Gallery, New York 1990
Anina Nosei Gallery, New York, 1988
Greenville County Museum of Art , South Carolina, 1988
North Carolina Museum of Art ,
Hallwalls , Buffalo, NY, 1988
Grace Borgenicht Gallery , New York, 1986
Tibor de Nagy, New York, 1985
Asian American...
Category
1990s Conceptual Florida - Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
Faces, Vintage Color Photograph Digital Photo Collage Print Asian American
By Emily Cheng
Located in Surfside, FL
This was from Muse X publishers. It came in a plastic bag signed Emily Cheng. (the plastic bag is not included) It is on Fuji crystal photo paper. It depicts two Asian faces in a cub...
Category
1990s Conceptual Florida - Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
Graffiti Art Photograph Silkscreen Print Wall New York City 1970s Pop Art
By Jon Naar
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Photographic
Subject: Cityscape
Medium: Silkscreen of Photograph
Surface: Paper
Country: United States
Dimensions: 21.5" x 28"
Street Art, Urban
Jon Naar is a British-Americ...
Category
1970s Street Art Florida - Color Photography
Materials
Screen
Space Field, Digital Iris Print Muse X Large Photograph on Heavy Paper
By Victor Raphael
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 Expressionist Florida - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
You (Five Children) Vintage Cibachrome Print
By Marianne Courville
Located in Surfside, FL
Deaccessioned from an important corporate collection.
You (Five Children)
From NY Times review:
The large color photographs give no hint of their pains...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Florida - Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Vintage Large Format Abstract Unique Color Photo Polaroid Photograph Ellen Carey
By Ellen Carey
Located in Surfside, FL
Untitled, Unique photograph. Center panel from larger scale installation. Shot in the 20X24 format. (this measures about 20X20 inches)
Ellen Carey, American artist and photographer.
Ellen Carey resides in Hartford, Connecticut, and teaches at the Hartford Art School. She holds a B.F.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri, and an M.F.A. from State University of New York at Buffalo. Her photographs have been exhibited at numerous galleries and museums, including the International Center for Photography, New York and the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has received many grants from her home state of Connecticut as well as the Massachusetts Council of the Arts, New Works Grant, New York State Federation for Artists Grant; and a National Endowment for the Arts Award. Her photographs are in the permanent collections of The Art Institute of Chicago; the Baltimore Museum of Art; Brooklyn Museum of Arts; Chase Manhattan Bank; Coca Cola Corporation; Fogg Art Museum; George Eastman House; International Center for Photography; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others.
Abstract photography, sometimes called non-objective, experimental, conceptual or concrete photography, is a means of depicting a visual image that does not have an immediate association with the object world and that has been created through the use of photographic equipment, processes or materials. Some photographers pushed the boundaries of conventional imagery by incorporating the visions of surrealism or futurism into their work. Man Ray, Maurice Tabard, André Kertész, Curtis Moffat and Filippo Masoero were some of the best known artists who produced startling imagery that questioned both reality and perspective.
Both during and after World War II photographers such as Minor White, Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith and Lotte Jacobi explored compositions of found objects in ways that demonstrated even our natural world has elements of abstraction embedded in it. Beginning in the late 1970s photographers stretched the limits of both scale and surface in what was then traditional photographic media that had to be developed in a darkroom. Inspired by the work of Moholy-Nagy, Susan Rankaitis first began embedding found images from scientific textbooks into large-scale photograms. By the 1990s a new wave of photographers were exploring the possibilities of using computers to create new ways of creating photographs. Photographers such as Thomas Ruff, Barbara Kasten, Tom Friedman, and Carel Balth were creating works that combined photography, sculpture, printmaking and computer-generated images.
Any boundaries that remained between pure artists and pure photographers were eliminated by individuals who worked exclusively in photography but produced only computer-generated images. Among the most well-known of the early 21st century generation were Gaston Bertin...
Category
1980s Abstract Florida - Color Photography
Materials
Polaroid
Birds, Cibachrome Photograph Print, Signed Conceptual Art
By Brenda Zlamany
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a proof print. signed and marked bat (for bon a tirer or good to print)
This is a single print from 1998 Birds. Suite of eight Cibachromes. Edition of fifteen. 10″ × 10″. Muse [X] Editions.
Brenda Zlamany has shown widely in the United States and Europe. Her work has been reproduced in The New York Times Magazine, Artforum, Flashart, Art in America, Art and Antiques, and The New Yorker. She was born in New York City in 1959. 1976 - 77 Yale College Before College Program, New Haven, Conn. 1981 Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. (BA)
Stanley William Hayter s Atelier 17, Paris. Tyler School of Art, Rome. 1984 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine.
Select Museums:
Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei;
the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution;
the National Museum, Gdansk;
Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent.
Select Collections:
Cincinnati Art Museum;
Deutsche Bank;
the Museum of Modern Art, Houston;
the Neuberger Museum of Art;
the Virginia Museum of Fine Art;
the World Bank;
the Yale University Art Gallery.
Select Commissions
the World Bank,
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
the New York Times Magazine (Marian Anderson for an article by Jessye Norman, Osama bin Laden for the September 11, 2005, cover, Jeffrey Dahmer)
Select Grants and Awards:
Fulbright Fellowship (2011),
Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant (2006–07),
New York Foundation for the Arts Artists’ Fellowship in Painting (1994).
MacDowell Colony (1995, 1992, 1986)
Yaddo (1997).
For many years, Brenda Zlamany has painted portraits of other artists, including Chuck Close, Alex Katz, and David Hockney. She has also been a subject for them; as she puts it, “we are professional posers.” Recently, however, she has worked to paint portraits of those whose gaze is more internal—monks and nomads in Tibet, aboriginal people in Taiwan—creating large bodies of portraits that investigate the limits of the genre. She returned, with her daughter, to Hockney’s studio in 2014, not only to sit for him but to paint him once again. Her practice involves the long sittings and intense looking required of traditional portrait-making.
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, text and photo combinations by Bill Barminski and Nancy...
Category
1990s Conceptual Florida - Color Photography
Materials
C Print
The Pantheon I, Rome, Italy
By Mac Oller
Located in New York City, NY
The Pantheon I, Rome, Italy, 2019
(Churches of Rome)
32x40 inches Edition of 9
Archival Pigment Print
UNFRAMED
Also available in:
48x60 inches Edition o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
B&O - Tangential - Pink Floyd - The Wall, World Records (Photograph)
By Kai Schäfer
Located in New York City, NY
Bang & Olufsen Beogram 4004 - Tangential - Pink Floyd - The Wall,, World Records (Photograph)
Edition of 3
Mounted on Plexiglas
Framed
Kai Schäfer is an acclaimed German photographe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
A Yard, Mezilles Burgundy France. Field Of Flowers 1986 Vintage Color Photograph
By Frank Gohlke
Located in Surfside, FL
Size is without frame.
French Burgundy wine country farmhouse yard scene with flowers.
Frank Gohlke (born April 3, 1942) is an American landscape photographer. He has been awarded ...
Category
1980s American Modern Florida - Color Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Punta Della Dogana
By Mona Kuhn
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Signed C-print, numbered 5 of 8.
Acclaimed for her contemporary depictions, Kuhn is considered a leading artist in the world of figurative discourse. Throughout a career spanning m...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Conceptual Contemporary Art Color Photograph, Social Commentary
By Carole Conde
Karl Beveridge
Located in Surfside, FL
Referencing immigrants and the disabled. Social commentary conceptual artwork.
Provenance: Deaccessioned from a New York University.
Condé + Beveridg...
Category
Late 20th Century Conceptual Florida - Color Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
UNTITLED (RED ROSE) Elisabeth Montagnier Photograph Mounted to Aluminum
By Elisabeth Montagnier
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Contemporary
Subject: Nature
Medium: Photograph
Surface: Aluminum
Country: France
Dimensions: 19 3/4" x 19 3/4"
Dimensions w/Frame: 19 3/4" x 19 3/4"
Still life photograph, r...
Category
Late 20th Century Florida - Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Large Cibachrome Color Photograph LA Woman Artist Dress, Feminist, Photo C Print
Located in Surfside, FL
A large scale Cibachrome photograph.
An abstract work from the series titled, "Fairfax Ladies," (the historic old Jewish neighborhood of Los Angeles) produced 1983. The subject was created through by placing diaphanous fashion garments onto photo-sensitive paper, embellishing them with objects, paper bits, and flora, and layering in painterly surfaces with scratches, completely covering the image. The series won a prize in the BCibachrome competition (1985), sponsored by BC Space Gallery (Laguna Beach, CA), and was exhibited at "Robin Valle: From Darkroom to Digital, Works from 1974-2009," posthumously presented August 2009 at El Camino College Gallery (Torrance, CA). Work presented under plexiglass in a custom wood frame.
Work Size: 39.5 x 29.5 in.
Framed Dimensions: 43.5 X 33.5 X 2 in.
Valle, Robin Joy (1953-2009)
After receiving her BA from SMU and an MFA in Photo/Cinematography from the University of Illinois in 1977, she moved to Los Angeles. Valle exhibited her one-of-a-kind Cibachrome photographs at galleries and museums locally and nationally. In 1982, she was selected for the NEA funded, "Life in LA" project, sponsored by the Los Angeles Women's Building. Valle taught photography at many Southland colleges as well as the LA County High School for the Arts. She was one of the first LA based photographers to explore digital media, receiving an Innovative Instruction Grant from Chaffee College in 1989 to create their first photography class in digital media. In 1998 she became a member of the full-time faculty at El Camino College, where she was instrumental in developing the Digital Arts program. Her work ranged from Black and white photographs to colorful, intricately layered patterns that command the gallery walls.
It isn’t surprising that she, along with fellow art instructor, Joyce Dalal, contributed largely to the ECC art department’s merge towards digital art. As one of the first local photographers to explore digital media, she was crucial to the development of the Digital Arts Program.
Before computers became commonplace, Valle’s techniques show a digital influence. “Her work was always inventive”, said ECC art curator, Susanna Meiers. An effect that can easily be done now with a few mouse clicks on Adobe Photoshop, required a long process of rubbing dye into the actual photograph in the ’70s. Her methods of illustrating were just as unique as the topics themselves. Photographs of the violent Chinese protest at Tiananmen Square in 1989 where military response murdered protestors in large numbers included photographing images from her television screen. “Crime Stats/ Hollywood” was a theme she dedicated to the gang violence around her neighborhood in the early ’90s. With washed out gang members as the focal point,
and graffiti as well as mapped out grids of Los Angeles as the backdrop, Valle’s layering, collage-like technique is continued on and more developed. “There is a fanciful, imaginary quality of her work,” said Meiers. From her quirky pieces of birds, zebras, and even dinosaurs enveloped in patterned, colorful, designs to her more serious themed feminist pieces, her eclectic, colorful style breaks through. Her feminism is on display in “Expectations” which illustrates women’s ability to “look good and produce children.” A bright human embryo steals your attention dead center, with a “June Cleaver” type 1950’s woman smirking at you from either side of it. A mustard yellow backdrop, brings the entire piece together illustrating society’s views of women as well as her playfulness as an artist. “Robin was terribly funny and had a laugh that would just set people off,” Meiers said. The art curator designed a section of the gallery similar to Valle’s apartment. A bright pink shelf...
Category
1980s Contemporary Florida - Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Dutch Delight by Hans Withoos
By Hans Withoos
Located in New York City, NY
Fine art inkjet print on special paper rag
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Hans Withoos career spans more than twenty years worldwide. After graduating from the Art Academy. He specializ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Color Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Sleeping Beauty
By David Drebin
Located in New York City, NY
David Drebin
Sleeping Beuty, 2015
30 x 45 inches
76 x 115 cm
Edition of 10
48 x 72 inches
120 x 183 cm
Edition of 7
Chromogenic Print
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Color Photography
Materials
C Print
No Title Landscape Photography by Cristiano Xavier
Located in New York City, NY
Archival Pigment Print
Mounted and Framed
Museum Standards
Available sizes:
40 x 60 inches edition of 7
48 x 72 inches edition of 7
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Explosive Growth (Floral Photography, Flower)
By Hans Withoos
Located in New York City, NY
Fine art inkjet print on special paper rag
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Hans Withoos career spans more than twenty years worldwide. After graduating from the Art Academy. He specializ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Color, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Fashionista
By Hans Withoos
Located in New York City, NY
Fine art inkjet print on special paper rag
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Hans Withoos career spans more than twenty years worldwide. After graduating from the Art Academy. He specializ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Color, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Black boy on a table
By Hans Withoos
Located in New York City, NY
Fine art inkjet print on special paper rag
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Hans Withoos career spans more than twenty years worldwide. After graduating from the Art Academy. He specializ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Color, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Milkmaid Portrait
By Hans Withoos
Located in New York City, NY
Fine art inkjet print on special paper rag
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Hans Withoos career spans more than twenty years worldwide. After graduating from the Art Academy. He specializ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Color, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Ocean Drive Miami Beach Hotels South Beach, Color Photography, Mitchell Funk
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Quintessential South Beach's Ocean Drive image where neon lights of the street merge with nature's lights in the sky.
The resulting image of moody magentas and radiant blues is an ...
Category
2010s Street Art Florida - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet
Fight for family
By Hans Withoos
Located in New York City, NY
Fine art inkjet print on special paper rag
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Hans Withoos career spans more than twenty years worldwide. After graduating from the Art Academy. He specializ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Color, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Explosion of Freedom
By Hans Withoos
Located in New York City, NY
Fine art inkjet print on special paper rag
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Hans Withoos career spans more than twenty years worldwide. After graduating from the Art Academy. He specializ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Color, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Meeting of beauties
By Hans Withoos
Located in New York City, NY
Fine art inkjet print on special paper rag
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Hans Withoos career spans more than twenty years worldwide. After graduating from the Art Academy. He specializ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Color, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Pisano, Abstract Photography, Archival Pigment Print, 2010-
Located in Miami, FL
Pisano captures a rare and intimate moment in which history, restoration, and poetry intersect. In this photograph, Eduardo Rezende frames the statue of Niccola Pisano partially veil...
Category
2010s Abstract Florida - Color Photography
Materials
Canvas, Archival Pigment
Wherever You Look, You See The Chrysler Building: Eldridge Street
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Although minuscule within the image's pictorial space, the Chrysler Building is still quite visible even from Eldridge Street in the Lower East Side. This is accomplished through the...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Respiro, Abstract Geometric Photography on Cotton Canvas, 2010-2025
Located in Miami, FL
Respiro continues Eduardo Rezende’s poetic investigation of construction-site materials, revealing beauty in what is often dismissed as temporary or utilitarian. In this work, a turq...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Florida - Color Photography
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Archival Pigment
David Burdeny - Heads Together, Kenya, Africa (BW Photograph)
By David Burdeny
Located in New York City, NY
David Burdeny - Heads Together, Kenya, Africa (BW Photograph)
Archival Pigment Print
Signature Label
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Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
David Burdeny - Elephant Mother and Calf, Amboseli (Africa)
By David Burdeny
Located in New York City, NY
David Burdeny - Elephant Mother and Calf, Amboseli (Africa)
Archival Pigment Print
Signature Label
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Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Wherever You Look You See The Chrysler Building: Brooklyn Heights
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Warm late afternoon light illuminates a view of Mid-Town Manhattan from Brooklyn Heights. The supertalls of New York are lined up like soldiers at attention and are framed by the glo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Chihuly Glass sculpture; Flora-Coral Gables, FL- Photograph
By H. Allen Benowitz
Located in Miami, FL
H-Allen Benowitz is a self-taught photographer, born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, and a graduate from the Interboro Institute of Business in Manhattan, migrated to Miami, FL in the 19...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper
Happiness is the Chrysler Building
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
In the present image, we see people engaged in more than just a moment of fleeting pleasure. This tightly packed group of mostly tourists exhibits a profound level of joy and well-be...
Category
2010s Surrealist Florida - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Still life with Watermelon, NY
By Irving Penn
Located in Miami, FL
Phillips de Pury Collection of Alain Dominique Perrin
Printed 1985, One from an edition of 21 dye transfer prints
Signed Irving Penn Verso
Literature: Szarkowki, Irving Penn Irving...
Category
1940s Modern Florida - Color Photography
Materials
Dye Transfer
Wherever You Look You See The Chrysler Building: Long Island City Industrial
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A simple yet complex structure always characterizes Mitchell Funk's work. In present work, the first concept is that old New York City icons emerge above new construction. The secon...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Purple Haze Two- Super Natural Series- Limited Edition of 10
By Cheryl Maeder
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
In the Super Natural Series, I want to evoke a mysterious, lyrical world through the interplay of color and light. Fusing the natural world with my inner world, I create visuals tha...
Category
2010s Abstract Florida - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
Porthole #8
By Jami Goldman
Located in New York, NY
Ed. of 15
Dye infused aluminum photograph
Series: Portholes, abstract realism
Jami Goldman is an American fine art photographer, with over 30 years experience behind the lens. She...
Category
2010s Florida - Color Photography
Materials
Metal
Porthole #5
By Jami Goldman
Located in New York, NY
Ed. of 15
Dye infused aluminum photograph
Series: Portholes, abstract realism
Jami Goldman is an American fine art photographer, with over 30 years experience behind the lens. She...
Category
2010s Florida - Color Photography
Materials
Metal
Darker, Three
By Cheryl Maeder
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
30 x 45 inches ($5200) and 40 x 60 inches ($7200) limited editions of 10, printed on Archival Watercolor Fine Art Paper, 335 gram weight, signed by the artist.
Cheryl Maeder was b...
Category
2010s Realist Florida - Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Chihuly Floats; Coral Gables, FL- Photograph
By H. Allen Benowitz
Located in Miami, FL
H-Allen Benowitz is a self-taught photographer, born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, and a graduate from the Interboro Institute of Business in Manhattan, migrated to Miami, FL in the 19...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper
Chrysler Building, Jewel - Like Art Deco Gold Crown
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The metallic crown of the Chrysler Building reflects the golden light of sunset, giving it a jewel-like appearance. It's as if an elegant woman could wear it on her wrist. Horizonta...
Category
2010s Art Deco Florida - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Reflections, Photograph, C-Type
Located in Yardley, PA
Picture from Ocean Avenue at South Beach after a big storm. :: Photograph :: Color :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to ...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Florida - Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Burlesque Show Place Pigalle, Miami Beach
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Burlesque Show on Miami Beach, Collins Avenue facade, featuring a vintage car, with Kathy King and Cindy Ember headlining at the Exciting International Revue on Collins Avenue, Miami, 1974. This was what a strip club...
Category
1970s Pop Art Florida - Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Blue Two- Supernatural Series Limited Edition of 10
By Cheryl Maeder
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
In the Super Natural Series, "I want to evoke a mysterious, lyrical world through the interplay of color and light. Fusing the natural world with my inner world, I create visuals th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
Reading Room, Naples, Italy by David Burdeny
By David Burdeny
Located in New York City, NY
Archival Pigment Print - UNFRAMED
21 x 26 inches - edition of 7
32 x 40 inches - edition of 7
44 x 55 inches - edition of 10
59 x 74 inches – edition of 5
Ask us for custom frami...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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