You'll Simply Love These Abstract Art Prints For Sale!

Feb 28, 2020

A centuries-old process of creating artwork by printing found itself at the forefront of contemporary art as horizons of the visual reflected the cascading transformations of human experience that placed reproducibility at its core. Abstract artists embraced printmaking as a medium that intrinsically embeds this seismic societal change and which allowed them to create abstract art prints that are bolstering an innovative artistic expression inherent to the abstract art. Today, more than ever, printmaking evades strict classification as its traditional four basic categories (relief, intaglio, planographic and stencil) are blended with digital, photographic and 3D printing blurring and transcending their boundaries. From Jackson Pollock to Willem de Kooning who separated an image into different layers only to merge it in the most unusual fashion to Ed Ruscha, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Kerry James Marshall and Frank Stella who expanded the confines of the medium in the most novel and unique ways -- printmaking continues to evolve into exciting, inspiring and unpredictable technique. At IdeelArt, you can buy abstract art prints that convey the compelling and persuasive beauty of printmaking. Please, scroll below for our weekly selection of the most amazing abstract art prints.

Stephen Maine - Pitched Planes 137

This series of unique relief prints explores lucidness of the constituent patterns as they meld in various layers. The relief prints are made using printing surfaces of different industrial products, printed with woodcut and etching ink. The limpidity of all layers creates an optical blending of hues disclosing Maine’s ever-lasting fascination with color and its material properties.  The viewer becomes immersed in the emerging spatial depths as the illusion of the third dimension appears. Maine is an American abstract painter, writer, curator and teacher whose paintings engage and extend contemporary ideas about color, composition, surface, and process. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Stephen Maine - Pitched Planes 137, 2004. Relief Monoprint. 61 x 48 cm.

Elizabeth Gourlay -  Note d

Note d reveals Gourlay’s sophisticated visual vocabulary that is distinctly allusive and metaphorical. Her meditative approach to colors, lines, and forms, creates persuasive compositions with complex networks of shifting shapes. Gourlay discernably selects her colors applying an extensive palette that results in strong compositions reflective of her emotional states as well as her thorough observation of nature and architecture. Gourlay is an American abstract artist whose work emerges from a progressive process of layering color, lines, and forms. She lives and works in Chester, Connecticut.

Elizabeth Gourlay - Note d, 2017. Monotype on paper. 43.18 x 35.56 cm.

Marcy Rosenblatt - Netting

Rosenblatt is an acclaimed paragon of process art that emphasizes the creative journey rather than the final deliverables. Her principal focus is the erratic and unconstrained actual doing, and each and every layer of paint in Netting is like a veil waiting to be removed until the viewer reaches the moment of creation. Rosenblatt’s use of household products like paper towels creates unusual textures that further engage the viewer. Inspired by the ideas of revelation and obfuscation she develops a semantic interplay of what is seen and what is hidden from us. Rosenblatt is an American abstract process painter. Her paintings and prints are layered, colorful and complex. Born in Chicago, Illinois, she currently lives and works in New York.

Marcy Rosenblat - Netting, 2016. Monoprint on Arches paper. 56 x 46 cm.

Anne Russinof - Ribs 12

For Russinof color is everything - Color serves to create a window onto natural space and light. Ribs 12 are her visceral emotional reaction materialized through paint deeply embedding her initial visual stimulus in color. As she adds layers, color relationships evolve; depth gradually appears and form triumphantly emerges. Russinof is inspired by the search, an unfolding mystery and suspense that announce the fascinating interaction between layers of wet paint. Her work feels spontaneous and intuitive concealing the intentionality and preparation behind it. Russinof is an American abstract painter whose work examines color and structure in a gestural, expressionist manner. Born in Chicago, Illinois, she currently lives and works in New York.

Anne Russinof - Ribs 12, 2017. Monotype. 46 x 41 cm.

Pierre Muckensturm - 16.7

Muckensturm’s exploration of printmaking initiated in 2010 further adds to his lasting interest in time and perspective. 16.7 highlights his infatuation with constancy and temporality revealed through an unsettling dichotomy between a repetitive and cyclical nature of time and singular, isolated events that are disrupting that harmony. Muckensturm unleashes his creative process by applying gestural marks, scrutinizing them and transforming them gradually as he explores how their altering in size, shape, depth, magnitude, and orientation convey different meanings. Muckensturm is a French abstract painter and printmaker whose visual language is one of harmony, calmness, and timelessness. Born in Strasbourg, France, he currently lives and works in Colmar.

Pierre Muckensturm - 16.7, 2016. Aquatint copperplate printing on BFK Rives paper 250 g. 65 x 150 cm.

Jill Moser -  Pink Mama

This fascinated example of screen print captures Moser’s profound immersion in the history of written language and semiotics behind every mark. Pink Mama showcases gestural brush marks that feel spontaneous and unrestrained, but which evolve through a methodical, indexical process. Initially diverging pink and red brush marks conjoin resulting in the emotional and vivid composition that echoes Moser’s deepest affective states. In her works, she balances the revelatory and interpretative level actively engaging the viewer. Moser is an American abstract artist whose work explores the intersection of painting, writing, and the animated image. She lives and works in New York.

Jill Moser - Pink Mama, 2018. Screen print. 78.74 x 76.2 cm.

Joanne Freeman - Covers 1 Ultramarine

Series Covers is Freeman’s personal homage to mass media cover visuals from the mid-century popular culture. She merges the quality and feel of traditional fine art prints with the low tech graphics of pop culture. Freeman’s reductive, abstract visual language is disclosed in a reduced palette - singular color accentuates the interplay of ground, foreground and their relationships. Covers 1 Ultramarine embodies her attraction to mid-century graphic design aesthetics that results in images that convey the intensity of physicality, emotion, limitation, and randomness. Freeman is an American abstract painter who creates minimalist reductive paintings and works on paper, featuring hard-edged abstract forms and bold, vivid, gestural markings. She lives and works in New York.

Joanne Freeman - Covers 1 Ultramarine, 2017. Aquatint made with oil based Charbonnel Etching Ink, printed on 100% rag paper Copperplate Warm White. 71 x 66 cm. 

Melissa Meyer - Love Me Tender

An astounding visual tribute to Presley’s hit Love Me Tender reveals Meyer’s diverse inspirational base that spans dance, popular music, movies, and architecture. This etching piece encapsulates her strong enthrallment with color and line. Vivid palette and glyph-like brushstrokes convey profound, idiosyncratic aesthetics. In Love Me Tender her calligraphic and graceful touch creates a rhythmic dissonance while her vibrant colors emanate lively, lyrical expression. Meyer is an American abstract painter and printmaker. Her energetic, colorful compositions express emotion and the transitory essence of reality. She lives and works in New York.

Melissa Meyer - Love Me Tender, 2003. Etching. 68.5 x 63.5 cm.

Featured image: Stephen Maine - Pitched Planes 137, 2004, installation view.
By Jovana Vuković