Ross Bleckner Art
Influential contemporary artist Ross Bleckner is renowned for his large-scale abstract and figurative paintings that convey themes of change, loss and memory. Using recurring symbolism such as flowers, birds, urns and candelabras, along with patterns like stripes and dots, Bleckner’s immersive works elicit a hypnotic effect while suggesting ideas related to the body, health and disease.
Born in 1949 in New York City, Bleckner later studied at New York University alongside artists such as Chuck Close and Sol LeWitt. He went on to study at the California Institute of the Arts, graduating with a Master of Fine Arts in 1973.
In 1979, he began exhibiting with Mary Boone Gallery. During the 1980s, Bleckner became one of New York’s most prominent emerging artists through paintings that tackled the emotional toll of the AIDS crisis, particularly on the gay community. Bleckner’s powerful works depicting multicolored volumetric circles, or “cells as seen under a microscope,” garnered acclaim from art critics and collectors. In 1995, he became the youngest artist to have a retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
In recent years, Bleckner’s paintings, watercolors and abstract, landscape and still-life prints have continued to capture international attention. His works have been exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, Kunstmuseum Luzern in Lucerne, the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern and the Gropius Bau in Berlin.
Bleckner’s art is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
On 1stDibs, discover a range of Ross Bleckner’s prints, paintings and drawings and watercolor paintings.
1990s Ross Bleckner Art
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Early 2000s Ross Bleckner Art
Etching, Aquatint
1990s Op Art Ross Bleckner Art
Permanent Marker, Lithograph, Offset
1960s Abstract Geometric Ross Bleckner Art
Acrylic, Board
20th Century Abstract Ross Bleckner Art
Oil, Board
Late 20th Century Contemporary Ross Bleckner Art
Watercolor, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Graphite
1960s Contemporary Ross Bleckner Art
Graphite, Paper
1970s Contemporary Ross Bleckner Art
Canvas, Oil
1970s Contemporary Ross Bleckner Art
Canvas, Oil
1990s Abstract Ross Bleckner Art
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ross Bleckner Art
Etching, Aquatint
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ross Bleckner Art
Etching, Aquatint
1990s Ross Bleckner Art
Archival Pigment
2010s Ross Bleckner Art
Archival Pigment, Rag Paper
2010s Ross Bleckner Art
Rag Paper, Archival Pigment
2010s Contemporary Ross Bleckner Art
Archival Pigment
1990s Contemporary Ross Bleckner Art
Archival Ink
2010s Ross Bleckner Art
Archival Pigment, Rag Paper
2010s Ross Bleckner Art
Rag Paper, Archival Pigment
2010s Ross Bleckner Art
Archival Pigment, Rag Paper
1990s Ross Bleckner Art
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1990s Ross Bleckner Art
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1990s Ross Bleckner Art
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1990s Abstract Ross Bleckner Art
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1990s Contemporary Ross Bleckner Art
Archival Ink
1990s Contemporary Ross Bleckner Art
Archival Ink
2010s Abstract Ross Bleckner Art
Archival Pigment
1990s Ross Bleckner Art
Screen, Silk
1990s Ross Bleckner Art
Screen, Silk
1990s Ross Bleckner Art
Screen, Silk
20th Century Ross Bleckner Art
Aquatint, Etching
2010s Contemporary Ross Bleckner Art
Lithograph
2010s Ross Bleckner Art
Archival Pigment
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ross Bleckner Art
Etching
20th Century Ross Bleckner Art
Aquatint, Etching
21st Century and Contemporary Ross Bleckner Art
Aquatint, Etching
21st Century and Contemporary Ross Bleckner Art
Etching
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ross Bleckner Art
Etching
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ross Bleckner Art
Etching
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ross Bleckner Art
Etching
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ross Bleckner Art
Etching
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ross Bleckner Art
Etching
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ross Bleckner Art
Etching
2010s Ross Bleckner Art
Etching
1990s Ross Bleckner Art
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1990s Contemporary Ross Bleckner Art
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1990s Contemporary Ross Bleckner Art
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Early 2000s Contemporary Ross Bleckner Art
Paint, Archival Pigment
1980s Abstract Ross Bleckner Art
Mixed Media, Archival Paper
20th Century Contemporary Ross Bleckner Art
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21st Century and Contemporary Ross Bleckner Art
Archival Pigment
21st Century and Contemporary Ross Bleckner Art
Archival Pigment
21st Century and Contemporary Ross Bleckner Art
Archival Pigment
21st Century and Contemporary Ross Bleckner Art
Archival Pigment
21st Century and Contemporary Ross Bleckner Art
Archival Pigment
1990s Ross Bleckner Art
Archival Ink
1990s Abstract Ross Bleckner Art
Archival Ink
1990s Abstract Ross Bleckner Art
Archival Ink