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Medium: Found Objects
Red Orange & Cream African Rusted Metal Composition "Three Abstract Figures"
Located in Cape Town, ZA
Nyasha Mashumba, having been the apprentice of Mark Hilltout, has now started to carve out a career for himself as artist and designer, utilizing the medium and craft he has mastered...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Metal, Steel, Iron
"Summer", Red house with landscape needlepoint wrapped around book sculpture
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Summer" is an original piece by Ulla-Stina Wikander that is free standing. This piece is made from sourcing vintage needlepoint embroidery and expertly wrapping it on and around a s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Thread, Found Objects, Textile
"Edwards" - Found Object Assemblage Robot Sculpture, 2025
By David Lipson
Located in Denver, CO
David Lipson's "Edwards" (2025) is a striking found-object assemblage sculpture that reimagines mechanical components into a humanoid form. Standing 26.5 inches tall, this meticulously crafted piece fuses vintage industrial elements, including a repurposed electrical meter as the torso, metallic coils forming the limbs, and canisters elegantly supporting the figure. The sculpture embodies a nostalgic yet futuristic aesthetic, reminiscent of early robotics and steampunk influences.
David Lipson assembles robot sculptures...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Found Objects, Mixed Media
"Wedding Boar", Taxidermy, Sculpture, Dimensional Paint, Puff Paint, Dot Pattern
By PJ Linden
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This pink, blue and green artwork titled "Wedding Boar" is an original sculpture on found object (taxidermy wild boar head) by PJ Linden measuring 20”h x 27”...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Paint, Found Objects
UNTITLED LUXURY ONE-OF-A-KIND CHESS SET
Located in West Hollywood, CA
This beautiful one-of-a-kind chess set designed by artist Cyrice Griffith using found objects to create a luxury art deco inspired functional piece of art. The artist utilizes the c...
Category
2010s Art Deco Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Found Objects
Rooster Totem (Unframed)
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Rooster Totem" is an original artwork made from Letterpress, coque feather, mixed media by Katie VanVliet. This piece is shipped in the pictured white frame and me...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Found Objects, Mixed Media, Color
"TV", needlepoint woman on horseback wrapped around vintage television with plug
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"TV" is an original piece by Ulla-Stina Wikander is a free standing sculpture. This piece is made from sourcing vintage needlepoint embroidery featuring a woman on vintage television...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Thread, Found Objects, Textile
"Cream Wall Phone", Fruit still life embroidery covering
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Cream Wall Phone" is an original piece by Ulla-Stina Wikander that can be wall-mounted or be free standing. This piece is made from sourcing vintage needlepoint embroidery and exper...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Thread, Found Objects, Textile
R.I.P. Kobe
By Ruby Silvious
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This purple, white, beige and orange painting titled "R.I.P. Kobe" is an original artwork by Ruby Silvious made of watercolor and gouache on used tea bag. This...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Found Objects, Watercolor, Gouache, Tea
Hokusai Covers VI - Abstract Oil + Collage Work on Book Cover, Yellow + White
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Jane Skingley b. 1963
Hokusai Covers VI, 2025
mixed media on old book cover
26 x 17 cm
10 1/4 x 6 3/4 in
signed
Jane Skingley paints seascapes and landscapes in oils. Her first exhi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Found Objects, Mixed Media, Oil
Chiaroscuro
Located in New Orleans, LA
Paul Villinski's "Chiaroscuro" incorporates his signature butterfly motif with a found antique frame. This unique piece dazzles with its shimmering gold leaf finish, with the bespoke...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Metal, Wire, Gold Leaf
"Pink Hair Lady", Portrait of Black Woman in Sewn Textile Collage
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Pink Hair Lady" is an original artwork by Eustace Mamba and measures 14"h x 11"w x 1.25"d. The artists cuts, arranges, sews, and collages fabric and paints to create layers of textu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Textile, Paint, Mixed Media, Canvas, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic, Gouache
Biography of a Drive-By: wall sculpture by Black African-American artist
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is a two-part wall mounted painting / sculpture this integrates found objects and photographs into an acrylic painting on the top, and a wooden shelf with bullet casings and coins below. This is a conceptual, abstract work of art that is a powerful homage to lives lost through calculated gun violence in American cites. signed by the artist.
PROVENANCE: Exhibited in "Portals + Revelations: Richard J. Watson," the African American Museum in Philadelphia, Oct 2021 - Mar 2022.
"Most of my works are supported by memories of the past and suggested realities. Issues of social politics, ancestral references, and astral projections are presented with fragmented elements...
Category
2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Acrylic, Panel, Found Objects, Mixed Media
"Everywhere and Nowhere", Sarah Detweiler "Hidden Mother" Woman in Grass
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Everywhere and Nowhere" is an original painting by Sarah Detweiler and is made from oil paint on gallery wrap canvas with preserved moss edges. This piece measures...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Oil, Mixed Media, Found Objects, Canvas
Canopy Vase, 2024 - Abstract Oil Painting on Found Book Cover, White + Red
By Daisy Cook
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Canopy Vase, 2024
oil on found book cover
20 x 15 cm
7 7/8 x 5 7/8 in
signed, titled and dated verso
Daisy Cook is a British painter of landscape and still life.
Cook creates abs...
Category
2010s Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Found Objects, Oil
Cabinet of Curiosities - Contemporary salvaged wood found objects Sculpture
Located in DE
Lesley Hilling is a self-taught English artist known for her intricate constructions made entirely from salvaged wood and found objects. Her work reflects a deep connection to the pa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Wood, Found Objects
Jo Yarrington, Raging Women Behind The Veil, 2020, Mixed Media
Located in Darien, CT
Jo Yarrington has always been interested in chance and the found {moment, object, person}. How random experiences click in to place, form a narrative, reveal a truth. All the work ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Linen, Thread, Found Objects
"I Give Myself Grace Now", Woman Surrounded By Laundry in Oil and Embroidery
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "I Give Myself Grace Now" is an original painting by Sarah Detweiler and is made from oil paint, recycled fiber packing material, crochet thread, acrylic mirror tiles on canvas with acrylic painted edges. This piece measures 48”h x 36”w and ships with a gallery-issued Certificate of Authenticity.
In Unmasquerade, Detweiler positively redefines the ADHD term of masking as a purposeful and playful act, as her figures wear novelty sunglasses, fur suits...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Oil, Found Objects, Mirror, Thread, Canvas, Acrylic
"How Does My Hair Look?" Assembled hair scrunchies, vibrant, synthetic fibers
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"How does my hair look?" is an original piece by Sarah Detweiler made from scrunchies, synthetic hair, and yarn. This piece measures 32" diameter.
Detweiler has found catharsis and joy in recalling her own experiences as a child of the 80s and a teen of the 90s, during what seemed like a simpler time. Likewise, the "Memory Palace" collection offers a reprieve from the strange and complex reality of life in the 21st Century, for adults and children alike, inviting viewers to fall “down the rabbit hole” into a warped reimagination of vignettes from Detweiler’s youth.
The exhibition title refers to a mnemonic memorization technique known as the “Method of Loci” through which information is retained and retrieved by conscious mental association with a specific physical location. In the context of Detweiler’s work, each painting, object, and installation functions as a “room” in the artist’s “memory palace,” with specific memories encapsulated therein. The visual representations of Detweiler’s memories are skewed from reality, like the memories themselves, from super-sized silly putty to hand-stitched static from the late-night glow of a television set.
About Sarah Detweiler
Sarah Detweiler is a Philadelphia area-based visual artist translating her experiences into figurative and narrative mixed media paintings. She has a BFA in Visual Communications from University of Delaware and a master's degree in Art Therapy from Pratt.
Sarah is an award-winning artist who has shown her work in solo and group exhibitions in galleries across the country and virtually. She exhibits regularly at Paradigm Gallery in Philadelphia where she has had 2 sold out solo exhibitions. Her work has also been seen on television and film...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Textile, Synthetic, Yarn, Found Objects
"Communication", floral needlepoint on vintage headphones and walkie talkie
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Communication" is an original piece by Ulla-Stina Wikander that can be a free or wall mounted sculpture with variable arrangements. This piece is made from floral vintage needlepoi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Thread, Found Objects, Fabric, Textile
"Some Spain" (Abstract, Neutral, Graphic, Bold, Black & White painting on Wood)
Located in Paris, IDF
SOME SPAIN
2021
Paris, France
Graphically bold, yet cerebral, this textured, abstract piece offers a rich color palette. Painted using oil, acrylic and plaster, and executed on an ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Wood, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
American Surrealist pipes and playing cards spirit of Magritte abstract Montage
Located in Norwich, GB
I love this extraordinary American surrealist piece - a collage/montage, an assembly of objects in a velvet-clad box/frame - for a number of reasons reasons.
I love the fact that it depicts pipes, among the most iconic images of the surrealist movement, rooted in Magritte’s famous 1929 painting which depicts a pipe accompanied by the caption “Ceci n'est pas une pipe” (This is not a pipe). Marcel Duchamp loved using pipes...
Category
1930s Surrealist Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Clay, Glass, Paper, Found Objects, Wood
"Joy Abstracted", Portrait of Black Girl in Sewn Layered Collage
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Joy Abstracted" is a one-of-a-kind piece created from Eustace Mamba, as part of his ongoing series of sewn mixed media portraits. This wall-hanging collage is made from sewing and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Textile, Paint, Mixed Media, Fabric, Canvas, Thread, Found Objects, Oil,...
"Mustard Wall Phone", Vintage needlepoint embroidery covering telephone cradle
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Mustard Wall Phone" is an original piece by Ulla-Stina Wikander that can be wall-mounted or be free standing. This piece is made from sourced vintage needlepoint embroidery and expe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Thread, Found Objects, Textile
Hokusai Ocean Blue III - Abstract Mixed Media Work in White + Blue on Book Pages
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Jane Skingley b. 1963
Hokusai Ocean Blue III, 2024
mixed media on vintage book pages laid onto canvas
50 x 50 cm
19 3/4 x 19 3/4 in
signed and titled verso
Jane Skingley paints seas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Canvas, Found Objects, Mixed Media
I'll Show You Mine, If You Show Me Yours
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: house-paint on upcycled WWII era quilt
Becca Fuhrman (b. 1988, Boise, ID) is an interdisciplinary artist who specializes in multimedia large-sca...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Found Objects, House Paint
"Unfolding #3" pressure printed monotype of unfolded package boxes on paper
By Yoonmi Nam
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Unfolding #3" is an original piece by Yoonmi Nam made from pressure printed monotypes featuring layers of unfolded package outlines, creating dimension and abstraction. This piece m...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Found Objects, Sumi Ink
Sweet Confection Finale, John Garrett, 2023, Wall Hanging Installation Sculpture
By John Garrett
Located in St. Louis, MO
John Garrett was raised in southern New Mexico by parents who were both educators. They instilled in him an appreciation for the handmade with their collections of Native American a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Metal
Reach
Located in New Orleans, LA
Available in multiple color/finish options (inquire with gallery).
Installations are made to order, sizes and shapes of butterflies vary.
Unique, open edition.
Ships with installation template and loaner tool kit.
Installation can be arranged with JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY.
*Reach is a series of pieces with the same composition and butterfly elements. Variations in the materials (found
aluminum cans) and in the finishes result in subtle differences making each Reach piece unique within the series.
PAUL VILLINSKI has created studio and large-scale artworks for more than three decades. Villinski was born in York, Maine, USA, in 1960, son of an Air Force navigator. He has lived and worked in New York City since 1982. A scenic route through the educational system included stops at Phillips Exeter Academy and the Massachusetts College of Art, and a BFA with honors from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1984. He lives with his partner, the painter Amy Park, and their son, Lark, in their studios in Long Island City, NY.
His work has been included in numerous exhibitions nationally. A mid-career retrospective, “Farther,” is currently on view at The Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke, VA, through July, 2018. Recent solo exhibitions include “Paul Villinski: Burst” at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, TX and “Passage: A Special Installation,” at the Blanton Museum, University of Texas, Austin. Recent group shows include “Material Transformations” at the Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery, AL; “Re: Collection,” at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY; “Making Mends,” at the Bellevue Museum of Arts, Bellevue, WA; and “Prospect .1,” an international Biennial in New Orleans, LA. “Emergency Response Studio,” a FEMA trailer transformed into an off-the-grid mobile artist’s studio, was the subject of a solo exhibition at Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, TX; the exhibition also travelled to Ballroom Marfa, in Marfa, TX; Wesleyan University’s Zilkha Gallery, Middletown, CT; and the trailer was featured in the New Museum’s “Festival of Ideas for the New City”, in New York, NY.
Villinski’s work is widely collected, including major public works created by commission. “SkyCycles,” three full-scale “flying bicycles...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Metal, Wire
Leslie Fry_Held_2014_glazed vitreous china, pigment_Feminist Figurative_Kohler
Located in Darien, CT
Leslie's public projects respond to site, history and the body. Figures are female or hermaphroditic, of imaginary descent, often melded with animal, architecture and plant forms. I ...
Category
2010s Feminist Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Iron
Cloud
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: found aluminum cans, wire
Available in multiple color/finish options (inquire with gallery).
Installations are made to order, sizes and shapes of butterflies vary.
Unique, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Stainless Steel
$18,000
"Afternoon", Forest landscape embroidery covering book and sunglasses
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Afternoon"is an original piece by Ulla-Stina Wikander that is a free standing sculpture with variable arrangements. This piece is made from sourcing vintage needlepoint embroidery o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Thread, Found Objects, Textile
Surreal Collage: 'Willful Blindness'
Located in New York, NY
Mixed media collage: found objects, watercolor, pastel, and printed matter on masonite. Framed in plexiglass box frame.
Barnett, a surrealist artist incorporates discarded mechanica...
Category
2010s Surrealist Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Pastel, Found Objects, Watercolor
"Edward 40 Hands", Hand drawn/painted figure on wheatpaste & collage street sign
By Sean 9 Lugo
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Edward 40 Hands" is an original contemporary wall-hanging artwork by Sean 9 Lugo, known artistically for his murals and street art . The main figure displaying classic street wear c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Paper, Found Objects, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Permanent Marker, Aquatint
Feather Wall Art, Tree Rings and gold leaf, 2021
Located in San Francisco, CA
"Growth Rings IV" by Spanish artist Henar Iglesias is a one of a kind organic shaped abstract partridge feather and gold leaf work. This work mimics the growth rings of a tree. The f...
Category
2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Gold Leaf
Specimen 21 - Framed Sea Nature Hand-dyed Violet Purple Fiber Sculpture, 2020
Located in Kent, CT
This contemporary wall mounted fiber sculpture, Catherine Latson's Specimen 21 reads as an artistic rendition of a beautiful sea specimen. Rich, jewel-toned purple hand-dyed cotton t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Wire
World Of Chaos, Original Painting in Acrylic on Canvas, 2021
Located in Boston, MA
World Of Chaos, Original Painting in Acrylic on Canvas, 2021
Artist Commentary:
This piece highlights the relationship between nature and humans.
Keywords: light, day, abstract, wa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Pastel, Found Objects
"Cornbread Change The World 1965 Shield", Acrylic on Street Sign, Graffiti
By Cornbread
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This artwork titled "Cornbread Change The World 1965 Shield" is an original artwork by Cornbread made of acrylic paint on a retired Amsterdam street sign. The piece measures 80cm / 3...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Found Objects, Acrylic
Vintage 1970s Pop Art Americana Patriotic American Flag Denim Jeans Hand Sewn
By Jean Jacques de la Verriere
Located in Surfside, FL
Pop Art American Flag in Handsewn Patchwork Denim.
I had another with a label from OK Harris Gallery verso. This one does not have that label or the label Label from Pratt verso (Pratt MFA '75)
Not positive of the year
Hand signed
Genre: Modern
Medium: Denim Jean Textile Fabric, Mixed Media
Country: United States
Dimensions: 14 X 28 inches
This is a textile wall hanging tapestry "painting" made from vintage jeans.
JJ had a masters (MFA) from Prat and studied at Hunter college for many years. He was a master jeweler and goldsmith for 50 years, a musician and a photographer. He made a living working with photography, jewelry, bronze sculpture and antique restoration. An artwork in denim fabric by a French Post War & Contemporary artist living in New York City, Jean de la Verrière, An untrained, art brut, 'outsider' artist, now 85. He sold some of his denim patriotic flag works through OK Harris gallery in Soho in the 1980s, one went directly to Ralph Lauren, according to the artist. He is also known for sculpture. particularly his working model, fully functional guillotine sculptures. Artist says he was influenced by Pop Art particularly Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns works. He was in the New York art world along with his artist friends Bernar Venet, Arman and Claude Gillie. He fabricated and cast jewelry for some of his friends. This has a Sterling Ruby feel to it but was done a generation earlier. This is assembled like a quilt and was influenced by early American folk art. Jean Jacques De La...
Category
20th Century Pop Art Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Cotton, Cotton Canvas, Found Objects, Mixed Media
Leslie Fry_Stand_2025_ceramic, cast iron base, pigments_Feminist Figurative
Located in Darien, CT
Leslie's public projects respond to site, history and the body. Figures are female or hermaphroditic, of imaginary descent, often melded with animal, architecture and plant forms. I ...
Category
2010s Feminist Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Iron
Song from my Father by Lesley Hilling - Contemporary salvaged wood Sculpture
Located in DE
This tower is a deeply personal piece for Lesley Hilling, dedicated to the memory of her father, Pete Hilling (1926–2016), and men like him—those who worked with their hands, repaire...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Wood, Found Objects
"Silence", Embroidered portrait of woman with bird book and sunglasses sculpture
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Silence" is an original piece by Ulla-Stina Wikander that is a free standing sculpture with variable arrangements. This piece is made from sourcing vintage needlepoint embroidery of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Thread, Found Objects, Textile
Saturación, Luminosidad & Destornillador. From The Composition with Tools series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The “Composition with Tools” series engages observers with quirky and playful truisms, gently leading them toward deeper reflections. Jose Ricardo Contreras...
Category
2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Wood, Found Objects
Hokusai Indigo IV - Abstract Mixed Media Calligraphy Painting on Vintage Pages
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Jane Skingley b. 1963
Hokusai Indigo IV, 2025
mixed media on vintage book pages laid onto canvas
100 x 100 cm
39 3/8 x 39 3/8 in
signed, titled and dated on reverse
Jane Skingley pa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Canvas, Found Objects, Mixed Media
"Dripping Dots - Rainbow Surf" Colorful Abstract Oil Painting on a Surf Board
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
With layers of bright oils and whisking brush strokes, the paint is able to shine and shimmer in a very unique pattern. The artist uses thick textured oils and hand embellished piece...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Found Objects, Oil
"The Analysand" Large-Scale Contemporary Abstract Found Object Assemblage
Located in Soquel, CA
Contemporary large-scale abstract assemblage oil painting with various paint brushes, paint tube, and other found objects affixed to the surface of the canvas with a brown and black ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Canvas, Found Objects, Oil
"Delivered and Discarded (positives) #4" abstract collage of sumi ink on Tyvek
By Yoonmi Nam
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Delivered and Discarded (positives) #4" is an original wall-hanging piece by Yoonmi Nam. This piece is made from the flattening out packing boxes that the artist traces to depict t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Found Objects, Sumi Ink, Synthetic Paper
"Tripod", Reconstructed egg assemblage
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Tripod" is an original piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from eggshells, mica, and PVA. This piece measures 10”h x 9”w x 6.5”d.
Kate VanVliet is a sculptor and p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Glue, Found Objects, Mica, Organic Material, Acrylic
Brave Little Tailor
By Tony Dagradi
Located in New Orleans, LA
TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author, and educator. For over three decades he has made his home in New Orleans, performing on tenor ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Wood, Paper, Varnish, Found Objects
"best in the west" framed vintage ephemera collage embellished with crystals
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"best in the west" is an original piece by Danielle Krysa, who curates vintage imagery with feminine embellishments to create trophy silhouettes in her newest UNDEFEATED series. This...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Paper, Glitter, Found Objects
"Wire Songs", Contemporary, Mixed Media, Sculpture, Plied Wire, Aluminum, Metal
By John Garrett
Located in St. Louis, MO
John Garrett was raised in southern New Mexico by parents who were both educators. They instilled in him an appreciation for the handmade with their collections of Native American a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Metal, Wire
"Cornbread The King Of Graffiti Shield (Blue)", Acrylic on Street Sign, Graffiti
By Cornbread
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This artwork titled "Cornbread The King Of Graffiti Shield (Blue)" is an original artwork by Cornbread made of acrylic paint on a retired Amsterdam street sign. The piece measures 80...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Found Objects, Acrylic
Rift Valley, sonde IV (texture abstract painting canvas bronze Earthy organic )
Located in Quebec, Quebec
“Rift Valley, Sonde IV” is an evocative mixed-media composition that captures the raw essence of nature through its textured, multilayered surface. The earthy palette—browns, ochres,...
Category
2010s Color-Field Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
Pipe Dreams: African American collage painting w/ photographs figures, objects
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is an abstract collage / painting created from acrylic and found objects. It is framed in a wide, dark wooden frame with gold accents. It includes several manipulated historic photograph of figures in many guises, arranged as if on stage. It is signed and dated by the artist lower left.
PROVENANCE: Exhibited in "Portals + Revelations: Richard J. Watson," the African American Museum in Philadelphia, Oct 2021 - Mar 2022.
"Most of my works are supported by memories of the past and suggested realities. Issues of social politics, ancestral references, and astral projections are presented with fragmented elements of 'real life' collaged and collapsed, as dreams are prone to do. If connections are made, all the better. I feel that life should remind us of our dreams." - Richard J. Watson
Richard J. Watson is an icon in the Philadelphia art world. Much of his work relates to his experiences as a Black African American man. He is a graduate of Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1968), has taught at his alma mater, and has served in the Exhibitions Department at the African American Museum in Philadelphia since the 1980s. He has been exhibiting his work for decades, and has an extensive bibliography. His work is held in the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; the Uniworld Corporation; Sony; the Federal Reserve Bank; the City of Philadelphia; Sprint; the Church of the Advocate; the poet Dr. Sonia Sanchez; and the Woodmere Museum...
Category
2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Found Objects, Acrylic, Mixed Media
"LA ROC Cat Woman" Decorated Graffiti Street Art Mannequin Bust Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful street art, abstract Mannequin Bust decorated by artist Angel Ortiz. Here we find this stylish bust figure with the artist signature tag...
Category
2010s Pop Art Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Found Objects, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Earthy Abstract African Landscape Rusted Metal Composition "Green Trees Study"
Located in Cape Town, ZA
Nyasha Mashumba, having been the apprentice of Mark Hilltout, has now started to carve out a career for himself as artist and designer, utilizing the medium and craft he has mastered...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Metal, Steel, Iron
"Keeping Time" Contemporary Pastel Pink & Yellow Abstract Expressionist Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Exhibited in "Benji Stiles: A Human Day" at Reeves Art + Design.
In “A Human Day,” a solo show dedicated to the work of contemporary multidisciplinary artist Benji Stiles, we explor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Canvas, Gesso, Textile, Oil Crayon, Found Objects, Acrylic
"#70 – I AM TIRED", ink, pencil, gouache, collage, vintage, hemingway, poetry
By Amy Williams
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"#70 – I AM TIRED" is from Amy Williams' series "A Farewell to Arms" – wherein the artist works directly onto page 70 of a found copy of Ernest Hemingway'...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Paper, Found Objects, Ink, Gouache, Pencil
Highly conceptual mixed media wall sculpture Contemporary Cat charm rabbit foot
Located in Buffalo, NY
No Fear (Trapper Keeper)
UV print on aluminum, chain, jewelry, keychain, sticker,
Croc Jibbitz, rabbit’s foot, Tamagotchi
18x48”
2019
$975
Eternal Flame i...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Metal
Memo (Twilight)
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: aluminum (found cans), wire, blue Flashe paint
Unique, open edition
Available in multiple color/finish options (see second image on listing for options).
Installations are made to order, sizes and shapes of butterflies vary and can be oriented leftward or rightward.
Ships with installation template and loaner tool kit.
Installation can be arranged with JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY.
Paul Villinski is a professional visual artist who has created studio and large-scale artworks for more than three decades. Villinski was born in York, Maine, USA, in 1960, son of an Air Force navigator. He has lived and worked in New York City since 1982. A scenic route through the educational system included stops at Phillips Exeter Academy and the Massachusetts College of Art, and a BFA with honors from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1984. He lives with his partner, the painter Amy Park, and their son, Lark, in their studios in Long Island City, NY.
His work has been included in numerous exhibitions nationally, recently including the solo exhibition “Passage: A Special Project,” at the Blanton Museum, University of Texas, Austin; “Making Mends,” at the Bellevue Museum of Arts, Bellevue, WA; “Second Lives: Re-purposing the Ordinary,” at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY; and “Prospect .1,” an international Biennial in New Orleans, LA. “Emergency Response Studio,” a FEMA trailer redesigned and rebuilt into a solar-and wind-powered mobile artist’s studio, was the subject of a solo exhibition at Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, TX; the exhibition also travelled to Ballroom Marfa, in Marfa, TX; Wesleyan University’s Zilkha Gallery, Middletown, CT; and the trailer was featured in the New Museum’s “Festival of Ideas for the New City”, in New York, NY.
Villinski’s work is widely collected, including major public works created by commission. His studio is currently at work on “SkyCycles,” three full-scale “flying bicycles...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Metal, Wire
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