Contemporary Paintings
CONTEMPORARY STYLE
Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.
Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.
The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.
Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.
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Style: Contemporary
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Winston (AM416)
By André Monet
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Inspired by cinema, photography, music and literature, Monet has a natural connection and sense for the current society and his contemporaries. His signature conceptual assemblage of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Panel
The Typewriter Under The Bed - realist, interior, Ukraine, Israeli, oil/canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Dmitry Yuzefovich’s charming, intimate and curated compositions often seem hauntingly familiar. His realistic paintings tell a story—this one of a be...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Above Below
By Fabian Jean
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Fabian Jean graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Concordia University. He has had solo exhibitions in Montreal, Toronto and Halifax and has been included in several group exhibitions throughout Canada including, recently, Rideau Hall, Ottawa. Jean’s work can be found in public and private collections, including the Department of External Affairs (Canadian Embassy – The Hague), Musée du Québec, Royal Bank of Canada, Summit Maritime and the Royal Victoria...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
d'Ombré 3 (grid painting abstract geometry optical grey yellow green patterns)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
In Melisa’s optical and pulsating compositions, the natural world acts as blue-print while she explores the notion of the sublime through blur and precision. The artist develops an a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Wood Panel
Warm Sunset Over Grass - bold, colorful, minimalist, abstract, acrylic on paper
By Aron Hill
Located in Bloomfield, ON
The Canadian landscape—that inspires the fun and fresh compositions of Aron Hill, a Calgary-based artist. A new series of acrylic on paper features their characteristic graphic form ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Berlin Blue with Coral
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Jennifer Hornyak was born in England, where she studied at the Grimsby School of Art before coming to Canada. For more than forty years, her work has been exhibited in prestigious ga...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Roam - soft, cool, textured, abstracted landscape, mixed media, acrylic on panel
By Sharon Kelly
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Sharon Kelly’s ethereal, dream-like mixed media pieces are inspired by her love of oceans and waterways. The abstract artist uses generous brush strokes i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Leonard Cohen (AM418)
By André Monet
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Inspired by cinema, photography, music and literature, Monet has a natural connection and sense for the current society and his contemporaries. His signature conceptual assemblage of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Panel
Dock 8 (Red Lozenge) - minimalist, abstract waterscape, acrylic on canvas
By Pat Service
Located in Bloomfield, ON
BC artist Pat Service spent almost a dozen summers at Professional Artist’s Workshops in Emma Lake Saskatchewan. A series of paintings were inspired by those memories, including seve...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Multiples (Oil Painting, Impasto, Impressionism, Colorful, Pastel, Warm, Daisy)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Genevieve Hamel
Multiples
Oil on Wood Panel
Year: 2024
Size: 12 x 12 x 1.625 inches
Signed by hand
COA provided
Ref.: 924802-2092
Together we are always stronger. Daisies in the mea...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Inspiration de vie, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
As a painter I love people in different situation and many colors :: Painting :: Contemporary :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Little Girl Dress Shoes, Set Of 2 Original Paintings, 6"x6" Each, Pink And Black
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
Little Girl Dress Shoes - This set of two original paintings showcases delightful pairs of little girls dress shoes. Each pair is adorned with unique delicate features. The classic M...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Little Girl Dress Shoes #3, 6"x6", Original Painting, Childrens Art, Pink, Black
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
This original painting showcases a delightful pair of little girls dress shoes. Adorned with delicate pink polka-dot bows, these classic Mary Jane style shoes are set against a pink ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Saucer Of Larks 3 - rich, expressive, colourful, abstract, oil on canvas
By Mel Davis
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Mel Davis is often inspired by nature to create expressive and colourful abstract compositions. This piece uses gestural markings in black to suggest birds in flight against a deep b...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Let There Be Love - colourful, lyrical, gestural abstract, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
In this beautiful new work by Alice Teichert, a universal symbol of love--the image of flames appears to explode from the canvas in golden hues against a deep red, green and blue bac...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Crayon
All Smiles, rose
By André Monet
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Inspired by cinema, photography, music and literature, Monet has a natural connection and sense for the current society and his contemporaries. His signature conceptual assemblage of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Panel
Morning Smile (DUO) - colourful, lyrical, gestural abstract, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
The radiance of a smile seems to be symbolically captured in the silvery shiny multiple layers of this gorgeous duo by Alice Teichert. In these elegant compositions, Teichert uses tr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Crayon, Acrylic
d'Ombré 3 (grid painting abstract geometry optical grey yellow green patterns)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
In Melisa’s optical and pulsating compositions, the natural world acts as blue-print while she explores the notion of the sublime through blur and precision. The artist develops an a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Wood Panel
Little Girl Dress Shoes #1, 6"x6", Original Painting, Childrens Art, Pink, Black
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
This original painting showcases a delightful pair of little girls dress shoes. With a hint of shimmer in the detail, these classic Mary Jane style shoes are set against a pink backg...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Mixed Media
Rondo 1 - bold colourful, geometric abstraction, modernist, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Kramer’s modern and graphic paintings express lyrical, geometric abstraction via a harmonic interplay of syncopated shapes of various sizes and colours.
Trained at Yale University ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Vivace 11 - colourful, geometric abstraction, modernist, acrylic on panel
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Modernist Burton Kramer finds inspiration for his abstract paintings in the beauty of a musical beat. In Vivace 11, one of a series, geometric shapes in bright green, golden yellow, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Vivace 12 - colourful, geometric abstraction, modernist, acrylic on panel
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Modernist Burton Kramer finds inspiration for his abstract paintings in the beauty of a musical beat. In Vivace 12, one of a series, geometric shapes in blues, pinks, greens and yell...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
ICE AND SHADOWS, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
“Long, blue, spiky-edged shadows crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first scarce discernible, gradually deepened and suffused every mountain-top, flushing the glaciers and the harsh crags above them." John Muir. This is an Original Palette Knife Abstract Glacier Painting...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Persistence of Blue - bold, vibrant, gestural abstraction, acrylic on canvas
By Lynne Fernie
Located in Bloomfield, ON
An ethereal cloud of deep blue floats across the canvas against a backdrop of fiery red, dashes of orange and black paint drips in this vibrant acrylic by Toronto’s Lynne Fernie.
“...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Movimento in D
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Born to Sicilian parents in Tübingen, Germany, and raised in the culturally charged cities of Montreal and Sicily, Blandino studied art and design at local colleges in Montreal. He then embarked on a successful career as a freelance illustrator, working with architects, designers and advertising agencies before shifting his focus to the world of fine art. Blandino’s paintings are informed heavily by his Sicilian heritage as well as the baroque style.
Where Carmelo Blandino...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
d'Ombré 2 (grid painting abstract geometry jewel tones green patterns art deco)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
In Melisa’s optical and pulsating compositions, the natural world acts as blue-print while she explores the notion of the sublime through blur and precision. The artist develops an a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Wood Panel
Self Portrait (Selfie) - graphic, pop-art, acrylic painting on canvas
By Viktor Mitic
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Utilizing a pop-inspired aesthetic with bold colour blocks and a simplified portraiture design, Mitic riffs on the ubiquitous selfie culture, comical filters, and more deeply, survei...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Cream Rose with Pink - small dark green, orange, figurative still life oil
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Creamy coloured flowers against a dark green and orange background, with a patch of pink in front in this evocative sophisticated oil composition from master Jennifer Hornyak.
Horny...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Helio - blue, silver, violet, yellow, gestural abstract, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Bright white and radiating heat, and somehow contentedness, Helio shines like the sun on a blissfully hot summer afternoon. Teichert's painterly line, like the smooth, continuous, os...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Crayon, Wax Crayon, Acrylic
Spontaneity - Inspiring shades of pink, fuchsia, and yellow
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This colourfield, awash with peony pink, suspends a grey wave that appears as though it is passing through. Working with a new medium and a new palette, Teichert is communicating wit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Crayon, Wax Crayon, Acrylic
Allegory No 8
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A central motif in mauve emerges from a maze of overlapping, brilliantly colored -- teal, sun yellow, black and white -- shapes and patterns in this bold canvas by Sylvain Louis-Seiz...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Panel
Allegory No 7 - graphic black and white geometric with bold pink and yellow
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Overlapping shapes and pattern in dazzling colors; lemon yellow, hot pink, deep orange are arranged like a puzzle in this playful canvas by Sylvain Louis-Seize. The intimately sized ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Mats Sundin
Located in Toronto, ON
Original - Acrylic on Paper
Hand Signed by Stephen Holland
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
CoCo Chanel
By André Monet
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Inspired by cinema, photography, music and literature, Monet has a natural connection and sense for the current society and his contemporaries. His signature conceptual assemblage of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Panel
Avenue - contemporary, orange, blue, red, abstract, tondo, acrylic on panel
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This contemporary colourful abstract tondo painting is by Sylvain Louis-Seize.
Overlapping shapes and patterns in dazzling colors are arranged like a puzzle in this dynamic tondo by...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Panel
In Other Worlds - pink, navy blue and turquoise abstraction, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Milly Ristvedt explores the emotional potential of color and form -- spheres of turquoise and sapphire blue float in a sea of vibrant mauve. A band of light pink divides...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Living Things - large, bright, colourful, yellow, abstraction, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Drops of violet balance the movement of luminous yellow orbs in this elegant chartreuse composition by Milly Ristvedt.
"Color is the magical sensation and substance, the 'philosopher's stone,' that for me represents hope in a time of great challenge for us all." Milly Ristvedt
Milly Ristvedt (b. 1942, Kimberley, BC) MA, RCA, began her career in Toronto in 1964 after studies with Takao Tanabe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Purple Rose Song - colourful, geometric abstraction, modernist, acrylic on panel
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Precisely painted orthogonal shapes in tints of turquoise, green, violet and indigo are composed in dynamic balance by Burton Kramer.
The apt title of this acrylic on panel reveals ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
The Wrestler with Gold - bright, colorful, abstract shapes, acrylic on canvas
By Aron Hill
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Inspired by the famed modernists like Jack Bush, Aron Hill creates playful, contemporary artwork. The colours are bold—hot pink, red, yellow, sea blue with black accented by a circle...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
John Lennon (AM415)
By André Monet
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Inspired by cinema, photography, music and literature, Monet has a natural connection and sense for the current society and his contemporaries. His signature conceptual assemblage of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Panel
Tipping Blue
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Jennifer Hornyak was born in England, where she studied at the Grimsby School of Art before coming to Canada. For more than forty years, her work has been exhibited in prestigious ga...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Elements - vivid, blue, grey, silver, iridescent abstract, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A constellation of white orbs interspersed with calligraphic glyphs dances and spins on a dark ground in this canvas by Alice Teichert. Layers of translucent acrylic create infinite ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Crayon, Acrylic, Glaze, Color Pencil
Split Green Shape with Long Yellow Line - colorful, abstract shapes on canvas
By Aron Hill
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Bold, graphic shapes and lines dance on a neutral ground in this acrylic on raw linen by Aron Hill. Evocative of early modern abstractions such as those of Kandinsky, the work explor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Raw Linen, Acrylic
Black Painting with White Cloud - playful intersecting abstract shapes on canvas
By Aron Hill
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Aron Hill’s fun, colourful abstract work is often inspired by forms and colours found in nature. The Calgary artist loves bold organic shapes and a fresh, modern palette. Both are on...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Scripting - rich, colorful, lyrical, gestural abstract, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Calligraphic lines visible, almost forensically, through a burnished pool of layered bronze-orange acrylic continue in a secretive glyphic at the foot of the square canvas. The whole...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Canvas, Acrylic
Winter Solstice - purple and green grid, geometric abstract, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A Canadian artist created this abstract painting, its geometric pattern in green and indigo blue.
Milly Ristvedt’s masterful and intuitive use of color and geometric form are evide...
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Peach Sky - yellow, blue, pink, landscape, contemporary, acrylic, resin on board
By Peter Hoffer
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A lone tree set against a subtle peach-coloured sky has a serene and moody presence in this landscape by Canadian artist Peter Hoffer. Hoffer has created an entire series of tree por...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Resin, Acrylic, Panel
Night: The Canvas House - pop-art, minimalist, contemporary, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Pachter has often used the tent as a symbol of the country, of military history, and the journey implied by the use of the tent, and of course, the primary symbolism of the pyramid. ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Galaxy - vivid, colourful, lyrical, gestural abstract, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Translucent layers of periwinkle, blue and steel-grey compose the background of this rich and energetic painting. Dragged horizontally across the canvas are thick bands of black, wh...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Box
By Ciba Karisik
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This painting is a small jewel. What is in the box? What was in the box? This old wooden trunk has seen at least a century of treasured belongings. Ka...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Morning Mist Composition - dynamic, modernist abstract, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Canadian artist Otto Rogers has captured the subtle colours of a morning mist floating through the landscape in this abstract acrylic painting. A palette of gold, blues, green and bl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Zart and Vair
By Simon Casson
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Simon Casson’s paintings are singular statements of pure uniqueness. Their contemporary abstraction inflicts its imprint upon the often capriccio paintings, through predatory slabs o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Beach, Painting, Acrylic on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
Landscape study. Small paintings are sometimes used to create larger paintings these painting are full of ideas and are very authentic. All works are copyrighted and all rights are ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Birch, Painting, Acrylic on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
Landscape study. Small paintings are sometimes used to create larger paintings these painting are full of ideas and are very authentic. All works are copyrighted and all rights are ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Brat (Original)
Located in Toronto, ON
Original - Acrylic on Canvas Board
Hand Signed by Emma Uber
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Falderals I
By Simon Casson
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Simon Casson’s paintings are singular statements of pure uniqueness. Their contemporary abstraction inflicts its imprint upon the often capriccio paintings, through predatory slabs o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
All Its Moments
Located in Montreal, Quebec
The work of painter Scott Pattinson (born in 1974 in Toronto, Canada) may be seen in the context of an early 21st century resurgence of formalism unburdened by the meta-narratives of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
PICASSO AND NEW TECH GADGETS, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
New Original Acrylic painting by an Award-winning Artist Excellent Condition. I have always been very impressed by New Tech and unique style of painting by Pablo Picasso. The art s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Contemporary paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
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