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15 Contemporary Abstract Painters We Adore

These exceptional up-and-coming contemporary abstract painters create original artwork for every taste and style.

contemporary abstract painters

You gotta love abstract art: giant swaths of color, organic shapes, amorphous figures, splashes and splotches, and expressionistic brushstrokes. The right abstract painting can be a statement piece for any room.

Art is so subjective; it’s all about what makes you feel something. My number one tip for selecting art that resonates with your personality: Find a piece you love, then walk away from it, and if you’re still thinking about it two hours later, buy it!

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Check out the contemporary abstract painters below and see if their work jumps out to you.

We Hope You Love These 15 Contemporary Abstract Painters As Much As We Do

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1. Abreesha Jones

Abreesha Jones was raised in Moreno Valley, California. The Southern California native first discovered her artistic niche while in high school, where she discovered her natural talent for painting. Abreesha went on to study various aspects of form, space, and color manipulation during her attendance at the distinguished Otis College of Art + Design, based on the west coast of Los Angeles. She creates artwork that inspires, reiterates self-love, and emphasizes development.

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Connecting Vibrations, acrylic on canvas, 36 W x 24 H x 2 D in
abstract expressionistic painting
Chocolate Expression, acrylic on canvas, 40 W x 30 H x 2 D in

2. Ana Dévora

Ana Dévora was born and raised in Madrid. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from UCM Madrid, a Master’s Degree in Cinematography at Shot Academy In Rome, and a postgraduate in Cinematography from the GCI Los Angeles. Her work has been exhibited in Museum La Neomudejar, Madrid, Conde Duque Madrid, White Box NY, La Casa Encendida Madrid, LACDA, LA, LIFE FRAMER, Officine Fotografiche Rome, and in film festivals like Cannes 2011, IVAHM’17, InShadow’17.

fragmented abstract painting
WHAT R U FIGHTING FOR, Medium Acrylic on wood, 160 x 180 cm, 2019
INTERFERENCIAS DO BAHIA, Acrylic on Canvas, 63.8 W x 55.1 H x 1.5 D in

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3. Angus Martin

Angus Martin is a Sydney-based artist. He is greatly influenced by colors and music. Through his art, he is able to capture the essence of music lyrics and quotes. These lyrics or quotes trigger his internal visions, drawing him to paint them. Moreover, each piece that the artist creates attempts to invoke an emotional response from the viewer based on their own experiences.

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Angus Martin
Journey-Of-Self-Acrylic-contemporary-abstract-painters
Journey-Of-Self-Acrylic-on-Cotton-Oak-Frame-A1-59.4cm-84.1cm

4. Arielle Austin

Arielle Austin is a contemporary abstract painter and facilitator based in Austin, Texas. Post-college, painting became an emotional outlet, a form of therapy, as well as spiritual healing for her. Furthermore, the process of creating allows her to express the things in her heart that she doesn’t always have words for.

In The Wait, contemporary abstract art
In The Wait – Acrylic on 16″ x 20″ canvas
Releasing The Tension, abstract art
Releasing The Tension – Acrylic, pastel on 20″ x 24″ canvas
Holy Ghost, abstract art
Holy Ghost – Oil paint on 48″ x 36″ canvas

5. Fuen Chin

Fuen Chin is a Malaysian-born Chinese artist. She creates calligraphic floral paintings and uses bold mark-making and rhythmic compositions. When she was five years old, her late grandparents ran a small herbal shop. Fuen worked with her grandparents and discovered the importance of Chinese herbs and the stories around them. The stories she heard and the visions she had about those herbs inspired her to create calligraphic botanical paintings. Through her paintings, she expresses her fascination with horticulture and the life span of plants.

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Golden Roses II abstract art
Golden Roses II (2021)15.8 W x 15.8 H x 0.6 D in Radius 20cm x Depth 1.5cm Acrylics on round canvas
Golden Roses I abstract painters
Golden-Roses I (2021)15.8 W x 15.8 H x 0.6 D in Radius 20cm x Depth 1.5cm Acrylics on round canvas
Golden Hour VII abstract art
Golden Hour VII (2020) 34.6 W x 56.7 H x 1.2 D in Acrylic, Ink & Emulsion Paint on Canvas

6. Jean-Luc Almond

Jean-Luc Almond is a British-born artist. His work is greatly influenced by Victorian photography and black and white film stills. Jean-Luc’s obsession with the materiality and texture of the paint creates tension within the thick surfaces of his paintings. He finds this truer to human experience, uncontrolled, imperfect, not static but shifting and in flux.

Virginia. Oil on Wood. contemporary abstract painters
Virginia. 60 x 46cm. Oil on Wood
woman in hat contemporary abstract painters
Woman in Hat 40 x 30cm. Oil on Wood
Smile, contemporary abstract art
Smile. 40 x 30cm. Oil on Wood

7. Jeffrey Tover

Jeffrey Tover is an award-winning abstract painter who lives in San Francisco. Jeff’s works are full of colorful gestures and marks. His motivation is to create images that are dynamic, entertaining, and intriguing. In addition, artists like Jackson Pollock, Willem DeKooning, Joan Mitchell, and Cy Twombly have often inspired his work. Jeffrey enjoys the complexity and the freedom of creating work that has no representation.

Coachella Valley contemporary art
“Coachella Valley” 48×48 Mixed Media on Canvas 2021
“Los Angeles” contemporary abstract painters
“Los Angeles” 48×48 Mixed Media on Canvas 2018
“Night Ride” contemporary abstract art
“Night Ride” 30×30 Acrylic on Canvas 2014

8. Julia Crystal Kirillova

Julia Crystal Kirillova was born in UK. She creates volumetric abstract artworks from resin, natural semi-precious stones, silver shavings, and mirror mosaics. The artist looks at the world through the prism of the beauty of mineral stones, because as a child she was fond of the science of mineral stones and collected minerals. Her artworks are a portal to the perfect world of paradise. When the viewer looks at this portal, his consciousness is cleared of fuss and stress and is transferred to the world of paradise fantasy.

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Ice cream contemporary abstract painters
Ice cream 3D Sculpting, resin on wood, Diameter 50cm
Eye of Poseidon
Eye of Poseidon 3D Sculpting, resin on wood, Diameter 50cm
A bird's eye view of the valley abstract painters
A bird’s eye view of the valley 3D Sculpting, resin on wood, 50*60cm

9. Lisa Carney

Lisa Carney was born and raised in an artistic family on the Gaspe Peninsula. She now lives and works in Sainte-Anne-Des-Plaines, Quebec. Both locations inspire her desire to create with their scenic panoramas full of life. Lisa paints in acrylic with an energizing color palette and uses the drip painting technique. She works intuitively and aims to create harmony between textures and colors. Her abstract paintings are known for a minimalist approach to the landscape that plunges the viewer into an unusual world.

Orange Blossom contemporary abstract painters
Orange Blossom, 2014, acrylic on wood panel, 20×20 inches
Sugar and Spice contemporary abstract painters
Sugar and Spice, 2020, acrylic on canvas, 20×24 inches
Midday Dream, contemporary painters
Midday Dream, 2020, acrylic on canvas, 24×36 inches

10. Matthew Dibble

Matthew Dibble is a British-born artist. After decades spent running a construction business, he approached his art like a true craftsman: with watchful attention and professional confidence. Matthew creates gesturally abstract and figural paintings with an element of choreography. After graduating in 1978 from Cleveland’s Cooper School of the Arts, an establishment-defying academy, he has forged his own path artistically. He continues to be fascinated every day with gestures and actions in his work.

Biggest Kingdom contemporary abstract art
Biggest Kingdom (oil on canvas) 74 x 84″
Clever Shandy contemporary abstract painters
Clever Shandy (oil and newsprint on canvas) 58 x 76″
Healing Antenna abstract art
Healing Antenna (oil and canvas on canvas) 53 x 49

11. Matthieu van Riel

Matthieu van Riel was born and raised in in the Netherlands. He uses bright colors and emphasizes landscape features, such as the flatness of the Dutch landscape in his paintings. Moreover, his work is inspired by walks in flower fields, heathlands, polders, and rugged mountainous regions in Scandinavia and the Alps. In these paintings, he shows light, space, immateriality, and emptiness as the essence of the landscape.

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Tulip Field Curve abstract art
Tulip Field Curve W315xH382x08 inch oil on canvas 2018
Rapeseed Field Birds Eye View contemporary art
Rapeseed Field Birds Eye View W197xH217x08 inch vinyl acrylic on canvas 2020
Color and Light in Landscape contemporary abstract art
Color and Light in Landscape W963xH35x09 inch oil on paper 18x mounted on canvas 2018

12. Max de Winter

Max de Winter was born in the Netherlands. He finds inspiration from everything around him: for instance, photo images of CD covers that appear in newspapers. But in his studio, all that keeps him going is his own Imagination. Max de Winter mostly works with acrylic, in combination with pencils, markers, and tools he can scrape and scratch with.

Told you so! contemporary abstract art
Told you so! Acrylic on canvas H80cmxW100cm
Monkey business contemporary abstract painters
Monkey business Acrylic with tape structure on canvas H100xW120cm
The Trendsetter contemporary abstract art
The Trendsetter Acrylic on canvas H130xW95cm

13. Naomi Yuki

Naomi Yuki is from Osaka, Japan. She gave up everything to become an artist. Naomi took the exam to enter an art academy when she was 34 and the rest is history. What she creates is the essence of things, to be aware of our souls. Through her work, she wants to convey something positive yet ironic about humans.

Cosmos, Inside contemporary abstract painters
Cosmos, Inside – oil on canvas-80x80cm-2021
Plant Puddle contemporary abstract painters
Plant, Puddle – oil on canvas-80x80cm-2021
Scape Space contemporary art
Scape+Space – oil on canvas-45.5×45.5cm-2019

14. Nena Stojanovic

Nena Stojanovic was born in 1973 in Ivanjica, Serbia. Her education and background are not art-related but she always longed to be an artist even though there were always other priorities in her life. Nena uses enamel and aluminum paint for her abstract art on various materials such as wood, canvas, and paper.

 Target contemporary abstract painters
Target-painting on wood panel-60x50x1 cm
A story from Southwest Serbia abstract painting
A story from Southwest Serbia-painting on canvas-150x100x2 cm

 

Surprise of magical rays contemporary abstract art
Surprise of magical rays-painting on wood panel-50×49.5×0.7cm

 

15. Vicky Barranguet

Vicky Barranguet has lived and worked in New York City since 1997. Her work explores the idea of escaping the limits of the conventional canvas format. Vicky welcomes the viewer to reflect and see her paintings as an open door to a different world, where color, expression, forms, and brushstrokes, may connect and align in some way with their own emotions, values, and life experiences.

nothing.held.back abstract art
Nothing held back-Acrylic on canvas 36×50 inches 2020
All about you, contemporary abstract art
All about you-Acrylic on canvas 50×30 inches 2020
Roads not taken contemporary abstract painters
Roads not taken-Acrylic on canvas 78×78 inches 2018

Conclusion: Contemporary Abstract Painters Highlighted

As you can see, we selected a variety of dynamic and talented contemporary abstract painters from around the world to feature in this article. Each artist has his or her unique viewpoint and process, leading to breathtaking variation. Out of any kind of art, abstract tends to be the most personal because it isn’t representational so you can interpret it your own way. In other words, when you see a piece of abstract art it could mean something completely different to you than it means to your neighbor, your boss, or even your spouse.

All of the artists featured here have mastered the fundamentals of painting and are recognized by collectors and galleries globally. We’re honored to be able to feature their art.

Here are all 15 contemporary abstract painters we covered in this article:

  • 1. Abreesha Jones
  • 2. Ana Dévora
  • 3. Angus Martin
  • 4. Arielle Austin
  • 5. Fuen Chin
  • 6. Jean-Luc Almond
  • 7. Jeffrey Tover
  • 8. Julia Crystal Kirillova
  • 9. Lisa Carney
  • 10. Matthew Dibble
  • 11. Matthieu van Riel
  • 12. Max de Winter
  • 13. Naomi Yuki
  • 14. Nena Stojanovic
  • 15. Vicky Barranguet

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