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Medium: Found Objects
ELLA Assemblage Artwork, Contemporary Acrylic on Wood, 21st Century
ELLA Assemblage Artwork, Contemporary Acrylic on Wood, 21st Century

ELLA Assemblage Artwork, Contemporary Acrylic on Wood, 21st Century

By Jim Houser

Located in Philadelphia, PA

"ELLA" is an original assemblage artwork by Jim Houser measuring 10" x 10". Jim Houser was born in 1973 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the city where he currently resides. He is a s...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Wood, Found Objects, Acrylic

KINDS OF PLANTS, Original Acrylic Artwork of Plant Kinds on Wood, 21st Century
KINDS OF PLANTS, Original Acrylic Artwork of Plant Kinds on Wood, 21st Century

KINDS OF PLANTS, Original Acrylic Artwork of Plant Kinds on Wood, 21st Century

By Jim Houser

Located in Philadelphia, PA

"KINDS OF PLANTS" is an original assemblage artwork by Jim Houser measuring 18" x 18". Jim Houser was born in 1973 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the city where he currently reside...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Wood, Found Objects, Acrylic

Hokusai VII - White + Blue Abstract Mixed Media Painting on Found Book Pages
Hokusai VII - White + Blue Abstract Mixed Media Painting on Found Book Pages

Hokusai VII - White + Blue Abstract Mixed Media Painting on Found Book Pages

By Jane Skingley

Located in Kingsclere, GB

Jane Skingley British, b. 1963 Hokusai VII, 2025 mixed media on vintage book pages laid onto canvas 60 x 60 cm 23 5/8 x 23 5/8 in signed and titled verso Jane Skingley is recognised...

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21st Century and Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Mixed Media, Found Objects, Canvas

"Ceremonial Hunting Shirt - Yoruba, Nigeria, " Glass Beads, Shells, & Cloth
"Ceremonial Hunting Shirt - Yoruba, Nigeria, " Glass Beads, Shells, & Cloth

"Ceremonial Hunting Shirt - Yoruba, Nigeria, " Glass Beads, Shells, & Cloth

Located in Milwaukee, WI

For the Yoruba people of Nigeria, beads and shells are applied to ceremonial garments and headdresses. Beads are an important part of Yoruba culture. henry John Drewal has written th...

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1940s Folk Art Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Fabric, Glass, Found Objects

Flame on Bamboo, Found Objects Dadaist Lamp Sculpture by Garry Bennett
Flame on Bamboo, Found Objects Dadaist Lamp Sculpture by Garry Bennett

Flame on Bamboo, Found Objects Dadaist Lamp Sculpture by Garry Bennett

Located in Long Island City, NY

Flame on Bamboo Garry Bennett, American (1934–2022) Date: 2008 Assemblage Bamboo Lamp, Signed and dated on bottom Size: 10.25 x 5 x 2 in. (26.04 x 12.7 x 5.08 cm)

Category

Early 2000s Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Found Objects

Vestiges spectrales II (texture, organic, biophilic, sand, pastels, mix-media)
Vestiges spectrales II (texture, organic, biophilic, sand, pastels, mix-media)

Vestiges spectrales II (texture, organic, biophilic, sand, pastels, mix-media)

By Melisa Taylor Metzger

Located in Quebec, Quebec

Vestiges spectrales II is a large-scale mixed-media painting on canvas that transforms the surface into a textured terrain where the visible and invisible intermingle. Built from lay...

Category

2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic

Large Pink, Cream & Red Abstract Rusted Metal Composition "Razor Wire: Study 1"
Large Pink, Cream & Red Abstract Rusted Metal Composition "Razor Wire: Study 1"

Large Pink, Cream & Red Abstract Rusted Metal Composition "Razor Wire: Study 1"

By Mark Hilltout

Located in Cape Town, ZA

Mark Hilltout has always been drawn to the random, the discarded and the broken. Car dumps fascinate him - he is attracted to the broken edge, not the perfectly straight line. For th...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Metal, Steel, Iron

Another Unrendered Quasi-Articulated Substitution, Wall Sculpture by R. Melee
Another Unrendered Quasi-Articulated Substitution, Wall Sculpture by R. Melee

Another Unrendered Quasi-Articulated Substitution, Wall Sculpture by R. Melee

By Robert Melee

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Robert Melee Title: Another Unrendered Quasi-Articulated Substitution Year: 2006 Medium: Beer bottle caps, Plaster and Enamel on Wood, signed verso Size: 40 inch Diameter

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Enamel

Hokusai Red VI - White + Red Contemporary Abstract Mixed Media + Found Book Page
Hokusai Red VI - White + Red Contemporary Abstract Mixed Media + Found Book Page

Hokusai Red VI - White + Red Contemporary Abstract Mixed Media + Found Book Page

By Jane Skingley

Located in Kingsclere, GB

Jane Skingley British, b. 1963 Hokusai Red VI, 2025 mixed media on vintage book pages laid onto canvas 60 x 60 cm 23 5/8 x 23 5/8 in signed and titled verso Jane Skingley is recogni...

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21st Century and Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Canvas, Found Objects, Mixed Media

Eden
Eden

Severine GallardoEden, 2021

$3,840Sale Price|20% Off

Eden

By Severine Gallardo

Located in Santa Monica, CA

Headdresses; embroideries, felted and crocheted yarn, stones, linen, and old photography.

Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Felt, Linen, Found Objects, Mixed Media

In the Nick of Time: African American collage painting w/ found objects & figure
In the Nick of Time: African American collage painting w/ found objects & figure

In the Nick of Time: African American collage painting w/ found objects & figure

By Richard J. Watson

Located in Bryn Mawr, PA

"In The Nick Of Time" is an abstract collage / painting created from acrylic and found objects on leather mounted on round MDF panel. The work itself is 20" diameter, framed to 23" diameter in a wide, dark brown round wooden frame with two bronze painted rings. It includes several photograph of figures. It is signed and dated along the lower edge. 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...

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2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Found Objects, Acrylic, Panel, Leather, Fiberboard

Biography of a Drive-By: wall sculpture by Black African-American artist
Biography of a Drive-By: wall sculpture by Black African-American artist

Biography of a Drive-By: wall sculpture by Black African-American artist

By Richard J. Watson

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

Surreal Contemporary Figurative Mixed-Media Sculpture Found-Object American
Surreal Contemporary Figurative Mixed-Media Sculpture Found-Object American

Surreal Contemporary Figurative Mixed-Media Sculpture Found-Object American

By Philip Kuznicki

Located in Buffalo, NY

One of a kind mixed-media sculpture by Philip Kuznicki from the Spirit exhibition. Comes in its original frame. Born in Dunkirk NY, Kuznicki started his career working for artists su...

Category

2010s Surrealist Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Found Objects, Mixed Media

Vestiges spectrales II (texture, organic, biophilic, sand, pastels, mix-media)
Vestiges spectrales II (texture, organic, biophilic, sand, pastels, mix-media)

Vestiges spectrales II (texture, organic, biophilic, sand, pastels, mix-media)

By Melisa Taylor Metzger

Located in Quebec, Quebec

Vestiges spectrales II is a large-scale mixed-media painting on canvas that transforms the surface into a textured terrain where the visible and invisible intermingle. Built from lay...

Category

2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic

At Sea Between Fossils & Satellites (large-scale textured painting sand organic)
At Sea Between Fossils & Satellites (large-scale textured painting sand organic)

At Sea Between Fossils & Satellites (large-scale textured painting sand organic)

By Melisa Taylor Metzger

Located in Quebec, Quebec

"At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites" is a large-scaled textured mixed-media painting that explores the connection between the ancient and the celestial. Created with acrylic, late...

Category

2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Bronze, Copper

Vestiges spectrales I (texture, organic, biophilic, sand, pastels, mix-media)
Vestiges spectrales I (texture, organic, biophilic, sand, pastels, mix-media)

Vestiges spectrales I (texture, organic, biophilic, sand, pastels, mix-media)

By Melisa Taylor Metzger

Located in Quebec, Quebec

Vestiges spectrales I is a large-scale mixed-media painting on canvas that conjures a ghostly seascape where traces of time and matter converge. Using collage, impasto, and embedded ...

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2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic

"Withdrawn" Contemporary Pastel Abstract Mixed Media Sculptural Painting

"Withdrawn" Contemporary Pastel Abstract Mixed Media Sculptural Painting

By Benji Stiles

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

Paper, Oil, Graphite, Wood, Found Objects

Potential

George HermsPotential

$6,800Sale Price|20% Off

Potential

By George Herms

Located in Santa Monica, CA

Beyond Baroque Literary Art Center Gift direct from the Artist Consigned to ViCA

Category

Early 2000s Assemblage Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Found Objects

Assembler Violeta N: 1, and N: 3 Diptych. Abstract Mixed Media Wall Sculpture
Assembler Violeta N: 1, and N: 3 Diptych. Abstract Mixed Media Wall Sculpture

Assembler Violeta N: 1, and N: 3 Diptych. Abstract Mixed Media Wall Sculpture

By Fanny Szyller Finkelman

Located in Miami Beach, FL

For many, rusty materials, pieces of glass or plastic fragments are not rubbish that should be left in the trash can.Finkelman's creative sensitivity has made these materials irrepla...

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2010s Minimalist Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Metal

Assembler Naranja N°1, N°3 and N°2. Abstract Mixed Media Wall Sculpture
Assembler Naranja N°1, N°3 and N°2. Abstract Mixed Media Wall Sculpture

Assembler Naranja N°1, N°3 and N°2. Abstract Mixed Media Wall Sculpture

By Fanny Szyller Finkelman

Located in Miami Beach, FL

For many, rusty materials, pieces of glass or plastic fragments are not rubbish that should be left in the trash can.Finkelman's creative sensitivity has made these materials irrepla...

Category

2010s Minimalist Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Metal

Nudo. Abstract Polished metal, metal knot, metal, and Glass. Wall sculpture
Nudo. Abstract Polished metal, metal knot, metal, and Glass. Wall sculpture

Nudo. Abstract Polished metal, metal knot, metal, and Glass. Wall sculpture

By Fanny Szyller Finkelman

Located in Miami Beach, FL

For many, rusty materials, pieces of glass or plastic fragments are not rubbish that should be left in the trash can.Finkelman's creative sensitivity has made these materials irreplaceable when she creates her sculptures. From The Assembler series Polished metal, metal knot...

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2010s Minimalist Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Metal

At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 14 (texture, organic, biophilic, sand)
At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 14 (texture, organic, biophilic, sand)

At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 14 (texture, organic, biophilic, sand)

By Melisa Taylor Metzger

Located in Quebec, Quebec

At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 14 is a vertical mixed-media work from Melisa Taylor Metzger’s decade-long series At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites (2015–2025). This piece ...

Category

2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic

At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 11 (celestial blue, texture, organic, sea)
At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 11 (celestial blue, texture, organic, sea)

At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 11 (celestial blue, texture, organic, sea)

By Melisa Taylor Metzger

Located in Quebec, Quebec

At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 11 (horizontal) is a richly textured, mixed-media painting from Melisa Taylor Metzger’s decade-long series At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites...

Category

2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Acrylic, Oil

Alti-Thronus, Surrealist Found Objects and Oil Paint Sculpture by Mihail Sorin
Alti-Thronus, Surrealist Found Objects and Oil Paint Sculpture by Mihail Sorin

Alti-Thronus, Surrealist Found Objects and Oil Paint Sculpture by Mihail Sorin

By Mihail Sorin

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Mihail Sorin Title: Alti-Thronus Year: 2000 Medium: Oil on Canvas with Wood Frame with Compass Tools Size: 27.5 x 19.75 in. (69.85 x 50.17 cm) Frame Size: 54 x 42.5 x 3 inches

Category

Early 2000s Surrealist Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Found Objects, Oil

Sway
Sway

Sway

By Paul Villinski

Located in New Orleans, LA

medium: aluminum (found cans), wire Unique, open edition Available in multiple color/finish options (see second image on listing for options). Installations are made to order, sizes...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Metal, Wire

Persephone
Persephone

Persephone

By Peyton Pickenpaugh

Located in New Orleans, LA

Peyton Pickenpaugh says of her work… In my work, I explore the hidden histories of women, feminist reinterpretations of myth, and the spiritual resonance of materiality. Through lay...

Category

2010s Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Ceramic, Fabric, Wood, Found Objects

Pressure Point
Pressure Point

Pressure Point

Located in Salt Lake City, UT

"Pressure Point" by Sarah Milne, mixed media, 8 1/2 X 5 inches (Frame size:16 1/4 X 13 1/2 in.), $325. I use old book pieces, ephemera, and subtle signs of life as my palette, and c...

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2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Paper, Found Objects, Mixed Media, Washi Paper, Magazine Paper

At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites II2, Mixed-Media Painting, 2010
At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites II2, Mixed-Media Painting, 2010

At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites II2, Mixed-Media Painting, 2010

By Melisa Taylor Metzger

Located in Quebec, Quebec

"At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites II2" is a textured mixed-media painting that explores the connection between the ancient and the celestial. Created with acrylic, latex, copper...

Category

2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Bronze, Copper

Diptych Rainbow Landscape- cold wax, tissue paper, found object, and oil stick
Diptych Rainbow Landscape- cold wax, tissue paper, found object, and oil stick

Diptych Rainbow Landscape- cold wax, tissue paper, found object, and oil stick

By Majio

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

Diptych Rainbow Landscape- cold wax, tissue paper, found object, and oil stick over acrylic paint on panel, 2023, through a rainbow as a lens into the landscape. The many layers of l...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Found Objects, Wax, Oil, Acrylic, Tissue Paper

"Remember I was Ruin" Contemporary Abstract Mixed Media Installation

"Remember I was Ruin" Contemporary Abstract Mixed Media Installation

By Benji Stiles

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

Gesso, Linen, Acrylic, Paper, Found Objects, Oil

Surreal Contemporary Figurative Mixed-Media Sculpture Found-Object American
Surreal Contemporary Figurative Mixed-Media Sculpture Found-Object American

Surreal Contemporary Figurative Mixed-Media Sculpture Found-Object American

By Philip Kuznicki

Located in Buffalo, NY

One of a kind mixed-media sculpture by Philip Kuznicki from the Spirit exhibition. Comes in its original frame. Born in Dunkirk NY, Kuznicki started his career working for artists su...

Category

2010s Surrealist Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Found Objects, Mixed Media

Firecracker
Firecracker

Firecracker

By William Nelson Copley

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: William Copley Title: Firecracker Year: 1975 Medium: Oil on Canvas with Match and Firecracker, signed and dated Size: 12 in. x 12 in. (30.48 cm x 30.48 cm) Frame Size: 13 x 1...

Category

1970s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Canvas, Found Objects, Oil

At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 16 (texture, organic, biophilic, teal)
At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 16 (texture, organic, biophilic, teal)

At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 16 (texture, organic, biophilic, teal)

By Melisa Taylor Metzger

Located in Quebec, Quebec

At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 16 (vertical) is a richly textured mixed-media painting by Melisa Taylor Metzger, part of her decade-long series At Sea Between Fossils and Sate...

Category

2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic

Metal Landscape Composition "Airport Road, Cape Town"
Metal Landscape Composition "Airport Road, Cape Town"

Metal Landscape Composition "Airport Road, Cape Town"

By Mark Hilltout

Located in Cape Town, ZA

Mark Hilltout has always been drawn to the random, the discarded and the broken. Car dumps fascinate him - he is attracted to the broken edge, not the perfectly straight line. For th...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Iron, Metal

Metal Composition "Arum Lilies"
Metal Composition "Arum Lilies"

Metal Composition "Arum Lilies"

By Mark Hilltout

Located in Cape Town, ZA

Mark Hilltout has always been drawn to the random, the discarded and the broken. Car dumps fascinate him - he is attracted to the broken edge, not the perfectly straight line. For th...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Metal, Steel, Iron

Story Time
Story Time

Story Time

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

Paper, Varnish, Found Objects

At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites: Abstract Mixed-Media Painting texture
At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites: Abstract Mixed-Media Painting texture

At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites: Abstract Mixed-Media Painting texture

By Melisa Taylor Metzger

Located in Quebec, Quebec

"At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites I1" is a textured mixed-media painting that explores the connection between the ancient and the celestial. Created with acrylic, latex, copper ...

Category

2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Bronze, Copper

Surreal Contemporary Figurative Mixed-Media Sculpture Found-Object American

Surreal Contemporary Figurative Mixed-Media Sculpture Found-Object American

By Philip Kuznicki

Located in Buffalo, NY

One of a kind mixed-media sculpture by Philip Kuznicki from the Spirit exhibition. Comes in its original frame. Born in Dunkirk NY, Kuznicki started his career working for artists su...

Category

2010s Surrealist Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Found Objects, Mixed Media

Joker, Found Objects and Oil Paint on Canvas and Wood by Mihail Sorin
Joker, Found Objects and Oil Paint on Canvas and Wood by Mihail Sorin

Joker, Found Objects and Oil Paint on Canvas and Wood by Mihail Sorin

By Mihail Sorin

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Mihail Sorin Title: Joker Year: 2000 Medium: Oil on Canvas with Wood Frame adorned with Mini Playing Cards Size: 27.5 x 19.75 in. (69.85 x 50.17 cm) Frame Size: 54 x 42.5 x...

Category

Early 2000s Surrealist Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Found Objects, Oil

HUBLOT NACRE (thick paint round off-white biophilic textured painting sand shell
HUBLOT NACRE (thick paint round off-white biophilic textured painting sand shell

HUBLOT NACRE (thick paint round off-white biophilic textured painting sand shell

By Melisa Taylor Metzger

Located in Quebec, Quebec

HUBLOT NACRE is a small-scale, mixed-media assemblage on wood that captures the raw materiality and ephemeral beauty of the natural world. Created following a trip to the Caribbean, ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Assemblage Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Wood, Driftwood, Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Mixed Media, Acrylic, P...

Garden Variety
Garden Variety

Hanna WashburnGarden Variety, 2024

$3,680Sale Price|20% Off

Garden Variety

Located in New York, NY

Recycled textiles, thread, batting, glazed ceramic, metal table, spray paint 34 x 22 x 18 inches Artist Statement I hand-sew compound sculptural forms that are constructed from clot...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Ceramic, Textile, Thread, Found Objects, Spray Paint

American Story No.1776
American Story No.1776

American Story No.1776

By Kat Flyn

Located in New Orleans, LA

KAT FLYN is a self-taught assemblage artist working presently out of San Diego. She began her career as a costume designer in Southern California. Over the years she amassed a trove of artifacts and collectables which she began using to create assemblage art in the 1990’s. In 2000 she sold her business and moved to Cuyamaca, a remote community in the mountains outside of San Diego to devote herself exclusively to her artwork. In 2003 her work was interrupted when the Cedar Fire swept through San Diego county and destroyed the forest, her home & studio along with almost all of her collections and works of art. Following the fire she relocated to San Francisco, where she spent a decade concentrating on her art in her studio in SOMA and exhibiting at galleries in the Bay Area. In 2015 she returned to San Diego and now works out of her studio in La Jolla, exhibiting there and in Los Angeles. Kat Flyn refers to herself as an Assemblage Sculptor and her works as Political Art or Protest Art. She separates herself from other assemblage artists in that she only employs “saved” as opposed to “found” objects in her work; and her pieces always have a political or cultural narrative to them rather than being surreal or abstract. She also constructs or refashions many of the pieces which she uses in her art, for example she turns a soft drink box...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Wood, Found Objects, Mixed Media

Rift Valley, sonde III (texture abstract painting canvas bronze Earthy organic )
Rift Valley, sonde III (texture abstract painting canvas bronze Earthy organic )

Rift Valley, sonde III (texture abstract painting canvas bronze Earthy organic )

By Melisa Taylor Metzger

Located in Quebec, Quebec

“Rift Valley, Sonde III” is a richly textured mixed-media composition that captures the interplay between organic and abstract forms, evoking the raw beauty of nature. The earthy pa...

Category

2010s Color-Field Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic

Memo (Twilight)
Memo (Twilight)

Memo (Twilight)

By Paul Villinski

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

Scurrula, Surrealist Mixed Media and Found Objects on Canvas by Mihail Sorin
Scurrula, Surrealist Mixed Media and Found Objects on Canvas by Mihail Sorin

Scurrula, Surrealist Mixed Media and Found Objects on Canvas by Mihail Sorin

By Mihail Sorin

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Mihail Sorin Title: Scurrula Year: 2000 Medium: Oil on Canvas with Wood Frame with Magnifying Glass Size: 23.5 x 19.75 in. (59.69 x 50.17 cm) Interior Frame Size: 54 x 42.5 x...

Category

Early 2000s Surrealist Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Found Objects, Oil

Ghost Piling
Ghost Piling

Ghost Piling

By KX2: Ruth Avra and Dana Kleinman

Located in New Orleans, LA

KX2 is a collaboration combining the strengths of artists and sisters Ruth Avra and Dana Kleinman who create mathematically inspired sculpture merging metal and painting. From a dist...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Enamel, Stainless Steel

Free Speech
Free Speech

Free Speech

By Rafael Pérez Alonso

Located in New Orleans, LA

Rafael says of his work… "The damn circumstance of water everywhere..." Born and raised on an island like Cuba, with all its peculiarities, my work borders on an obsession with themes such as insularity, identity and freedom. I frequently make both historical and everyday symbols my own to describe and question the environment that surrounds me through work with a marked social cut. I make art with any resource and/or material within my reach while taking advantage of the energy of recoverable objects and mixing them with traditional and contemporary supports and technologies. ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Rafael Pérez...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Glass, Found Objects, Acrylic Polymer

Rift Valley, sonde III (texture abstract painting canvas bronze Earthy organic )
Rift Valley, sonde III (texture abstract painting canvas bronze Earthy organic )

Rift Valley, sonde III (texture abstract painting canvas bronze Earthy organic )

By Melisa Taylor Metzger

Located in Quebec, Quebec

“Rift Valley, Sonde III” is a richly textured mixed-media composition that captures the interplay between natural and abstract forms, evoking the raw beauty of nature while offering ...

Category

2010s Color-Field Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic

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