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Medium: Found Objects
Vanity (sin 7), Original Abstract Painting, 2020
Vanity (sin 7), Original Abstract Painting, 2020

Vanity (sin 7), Original Abstract Painting, 2020

By Dyanna Dimick

Located in Boston, MA

Artist Commentary: A piece playing with the ideas surrounding vanity and youth, and the influence of it at a young age. The makeup carries a toy quality and the baby rattles blend in...

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

Materials

Acrylic, Pastel, Found Objects

Portal IV
Portal IV

Portal IV

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...

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2010s Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Ceramic, Fabric, Wood, Found Objects

Woke
Woke

Woke

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...

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

Materials

Wood, Found Objects, Mixed Media

Pile-up at The Gates of Hell
Pile-up at The Gates of Hell

Pile-up at The Gates of Hell

By Bobbi Meier

Located in Boston, MA

Artist Commentary: Abstract forms emerge from remembrances of disco dancing, Earth Wind & Fire, darkness, heat, perspiration and glitz. Materials are twisted into ambiguous shapes, s...

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

Materials

Wood, Found Objects, Other Medium

Early American Op Art sculpture by Jerry Foyster
Early American Op Art sculpture by Jerry Foyster

Early American Op Art sculpture by Jerry Foyster

Located in Colfax, CA

Jerry Foyster, (1932- ), is a pioneering American Op Art artist based in New York. He exhibited in the seminal 1965 exhibition called 'The Responsive Eye' held at the Museum of Mod...

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1960s Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Found Objects

Portals
Portals

Portals

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

Fabric, Wood, Ceramic, Found Objects

Common Ground No 1 a textural painting featuring earth tones and blues
Common Ground No 1 a textural painting featuring earth tones and blues

Common Ground No 1 a textural painting featuring earth tones and blues

By Katherine Filice

Located in Hollister, CA

Abstract painting by Katherine Filice, created with ink, stucco, mica, charcoal, and found objects on a wood panel. Part of the artist’s "Common Ground" series, this work explores ma...

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2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Charcoal, Found Objects, Archival Ink, Wood Panel, Mica

Common Ground (No.6) A gorgeous contemporary, sculptured diptych on wood panel
Common Ground (No.6) A gorgeous contemporary, sculptured diptych on wood panel

Common Ground (No.6) A gorgeous contemporary, sculptured diptych on wood panel

By Katherine Filice

Located in Hollister, CA

Abstract diptych painting by Katherine Filice created with layered ink, stucco, mica, charcoal, and found materials on two wood panels. Part of her "Common Ground" series, this work ...

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2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Charcoal, Found Objects, Archival Ink, Wood Panel, Mica

Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture, Marble Base, Brass Rod, Mixed Media, Feathers
Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture, Marble Base, Brass Rod, Mixed Media, Feathers

Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture, Marble Base, Brass Rod, Mixed Media, Feathers

By Lindsay Pichaske

Located in St. Louis, MO

Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture, Marble Base, Brass Rod, Mixed Media, Feathers Since graduating from the University of Colorado in 2010, Pichaske has risen to attention in the art wo...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Marble, Brass

“Water Melon” unique surrealist fruit on vintage food tray, pop art oil painting
“Water Melon” unique surrealist fruit on vintage food tray, pop art oil painting

“Water Melon” unique surrealist fruit on vintage food tray, pop art oil painting

By Anthony Ackrill

Located in Sag Harbor, NY

Ackrill presents to us his humor in "Water Melon." A juicy slice floats gently above a surreal body of water, beneath a blue sky. The composition is centered within a vintage, plasti...

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

Materials

Found Objects, Oil, Plastic

"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

"As the Crow Flies" -- Assemblage by Kat Flyn

"As the Crow Flies" -- Assemblage by Kat Flyn

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 ...

Category

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

Materials

Wood, Found Objects, Mixed Media

Richard Klein, Holiday Inn Nocturne, 2020, Found and altered objects assemblage
Richard Klein, Holiday Inn Nocturne, 2020, Found and altered objects assemblage

Richard Klein, Holiday Inn Nocturne, 2020, Found and altered objects assemblage

Located in Darien, CT

In the mid 1990s Richard Klein started working with found glass objects, including bottles, drinking glasses, ashtrays, and eyeglasses. Initially, Klein rejected any object with commercial or advertising content, but in 2015 he became fascinated with the promotional content that was screen printed on ashtrays from the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s. This period was before smoking was looked at as being primarily a negative habit, and iconic American businesses, including Howard Johnson’s, International House of Pancakes (iHop) and Holiday Inn, all produced promotional ashtrays printed with their graphic identity. By the time Klein became interested in these objects, the businesses had either ceased to exist, or had changed their logos, and many of their signature buildings, which where examples of classic, “Pop” roadside architecture, has been torn down or repurposed. The artist wanted to connect the glass objects with the business’s sites that were still recognizable and spoke of their history, so he began researching where original buildings still stood. Klein then embarked on a series of road trips to photograph these sites with the intention of combining the photographs with the promotional glass objects. This led him to as far south as Maryland and as far north as upstate New York from his home in Connecticut. In the case of Holiday Inn, it wasn’t their buildings, but their iconic illuminated sign that appeared on ashtrays, so he sought out a standing example of the sign he could photograph. As it turned out all had been removed years before from the hotels' properties and the only working example was indoors at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. He did, however, find out that there was one still standing, surprisingly, in Beruit, Lebanon. He found an image of it on the web and used it to make Holiday Inn (Beruit). In 1973 Holiday Inn changed their tagline from “The Nations Innkeeper” to “The World’s Innkeeper” as they expanded overseas, including the Mideast. For the hotel chain it was bad timing: the disastrous Lebanese civil war began in 1975. In the war, the different Lebanese militias involved in the conflict, including the Nasserites, Christian Phalangists, and the Lebanese National Movement engaged in what came to be called “The Battle of the Hotels” where they each occupied a major high-rise hotel in central Beruit. The Phalangists commanded the Holiday Inn, which they used to fire with both light arms and heavier weapons at the militias in neighboring hotels. Klein used the photo of the heavily damaged Holiday Inn sign as I thought it spoke in a curious, offhanded way about American cultural imperialism in juxtaposition with an ashtray that proclaimed Holiday Inn to be “The World’s Innkeeper.” In the work Holiday Inn (Nocturne) the artist utilized a found, 35mm slide of a Holiday Inn sign at night at an unknown location as the basis of the photograph in the work. Richard Klein is a Connecticut-based artist, independent curator and writer. As an artist, he has exhibited widely, including the Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase; Caren Golden Fine Art, New York; the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; Hales Gallery, London; Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; James Barron Art, Kent, CT; The Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, OR; Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA; Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, NY; Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY; Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT; Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY; Exhibit by Alberson Tulsa, OK; Incident Report/Flow Chart Foundation, Hudson, NY; ICEHOUSE Project Space, Sharon, CT; Kenise Barnes Fine Art in Kent, CT and with ODETTA Gallery at the Equity Gallery in New York City.. Reviews of his work have appeared in Two Coats of Paint, Whitehot Magazine, The New York Times, Sculpture Magazine, Art in America, and The New Yorker. In the summer of 2024 he will be the first Artist-In-Residence at Peck Ledge Light...

Category

2010s Assemblage Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Metal

Richard Klein, Expo 67, 2017, Found and altered objects assemblage
Richard Klein, Expo 67, 2017, Found and altered objects assemblage

Richard Klein, Expo 67, 2017, Found and altered objects assemblage

Located in Darien, CT

In the mid 1990s Richard Klein started working with found glass objects, including bottles, drinking glasses, ashtrays, and eyeglasses. Initially, Klein rejected any object with commercial or advertising content, but in 2015 he became fascinated with the promotional content that was screen printed on ashtrays from the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s. This period was before smoking was looked at as being primarily a negative habit, and iconic American businesses, including Howard Johnson’s, International House of Pancakes (iHop) and Holiday Inn, all produced promotional ashtrays printed with their graphic identity. By the time Klein became interested in these objects, the businesses had either ceased to exist, or had changed their logos, and many of their signature buildings, which where examples of classic, “Pop” roadside architecture, has been torn down or repurposed. The artist wanted to connect the glass objects with the business’s sites that were still recognizable and spoke of their history, so he began researching where original buildings still stood. Klein then embarked on a series of road trips to photograph these sites with the intention of combining the photographs with the promotional glass objects. This led him to as far south as Maryland and as far north as upstate New York from his home in Connecticut. In the case of Holiday Inn, it wasn’t their buildings, but their iconic illuminated sign that appeared on ashtrays, so he sought out a standing example of the sign he could photograph. As it turned out all had been removed years before from the hotels' properties and the only working example was indoors at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. He did, however, find out that there was one still standing, surprisingly, in Beruit, Lebanon. He found an image of it on the web and used it to make Holiday Inn (Beruit). In 1973 Holiday Inn changed their tagline from “The Nations Innkeeper” to “The World’s Innkeeper” as they expanded overseas, including the Mideast. For the hotel chain it was bad timing: the disastrous Lebanese civil war began in 1975. In the war, the different Lebanese militias involved in the conflict, including the Nasserites, Christian Phalangists, and the Lebanese National Movement engaged in what came to be called “The Battle of the Hotels” where they each occupied a major high-rise hotel in central Beruit. The Phalangists commanded the Holiday Inn, which they used to fire with both light arms and heavier weapons at the militias in neighboring hotels. Klein used the photo of the heavily damaged Holiday Inn sign as I thought it spoke in a curious, offhanded way about American cultural imperialism in juxtaposition with an ashtray that proclaimed Holiday Inn to be “The World’s Innkeeper.” In the work Holiday Inn (Nocturne) the artist utilized a found, 35mm slide of a Holiday Inn sign at night at an unknown location as the basis of the photograph in the work. Richard Klein is a Connecticut-based artist, independent curator and writer. As an artist, he has exhibited widely, including the Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase; Caren Golden Fine Art, New York; the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; Hales Gallery, London; Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; James Barron Art, Kent, CT; The Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, OR; Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA; Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, NY; Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY; Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT; Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY; Exhibit by Alberson Tulsa, OK; Incident Report/Flow Chart Foundation, Hudson, NY; ICEHOUSE Project Space, Sharon, CT; Kenise Barnes Fine Art in Kent, CT and with ODETTA Gallery at the Equity Gallery in New York City.. Reviews of his work have appeared in Two Coats of Paint, Whitehot Magazine, The New York Times, Sculpture Magazine, Art in America, and The New Yorker. In the summer of 2024 he will be the first Artist-In-Residence at Peck Ledge Light...

Category

2010s Assemblage Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Metal

The Life I've Always Known Was Mine
The Life I've Always Known Was Mine

The Life I've Always Known Was Mine

Located in New Orleans, LA

Katie Yaquinto says of her work… My practice is rooted in identity and transformation. Working primarily with found and repurposed textiles, I assemble fragments into large, patchwo...

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2010s Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Canvas, Oil Crayon, Found Objects, Acrylic, Pigment

Cycloid

Cycloid

By Paul Villinski

Located in New Orleans, LA

Paul Villinski's "Cycloid" incorporates his signature butterfly motif with a found antique frame. This unique piece dazzles with its shimmering gold leaf finish, with the bespoke but...

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

Materials

Metal, Wire, Gold Leaf

Cangrejo - 21st Century, Contemporary Sculpture, Figurative, Recycling
Cangrejo - 21st Century, Contemporary Sculpture, Figurative, Recycling

Cangrejo - 21st Century, Contemporary Sculpture, Figurative, Recycling

Located in Barcelona, Catalonia

Aparici's work is characterized by simplicity, since most of his pieces bring together few elements, resulting in very elegant compositions with simple lines, which together with his...

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

Materials

Found Objects

Seeking Funn SEXY friends - mw4mw - 30 (NO ky SO oh)

Seeking Funn SEXY friends - mw4mw - 30 (NO ky SO oh)

By Carlton Scott Sturgill

Located in New Orleans, LA

"Seeking Funn SEXY friends - mw4mw - 30 (NO ky SO oh)" by Carlton Scott Sturgill. Born in 1971 in Cincinnati, Ohio, CARLTON SCOTT STURGILL received his Masters of Arts (Fine Art) fr...

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

Materials

Found Objects, Oil, Panel

"Red Lawnmower Guns" Hybrid Instrument Assemblage Wall Sculpture
"Red Lawnmower Guns" Hybrid Instrument Assemblage Wall Sculpture

"Red Lawnmower Guns" Hybrid Instrument Assemblage Wall Sculpture

Located in New York, NY

Lawn Mower Bass This sculpture designed by Ken Butler features a compilation of components including a lawnmower, many toy guns, a hockey stick and more. The body of the bass is an a...

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

Materials

Found Objects, Mixed Media

"Phizo, " Abstract Portrait Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee
"Phizo, " Abstract Portrait Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee

"Phizo, " Abstract Portrait Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee

By Reginald K. Gee

Located in Milwaukee, WI

"Phizo" is an original oil pastel drawing on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece on the back. It features an abstracted portrait with expressionistic marks ...

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1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Oil Pastel, Found Objects

Drifting Off
Drifting Off

Drifting Off

Located in New Orleans, LA

"Sounds of the Sea Vol. III" is painted on re-purposed drop cloth, embellished with black fringe and hung on custom brass hardware. Becca Fuhrman says of her work... My work aims t...

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21st Century and Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Brass, Copper

Teddy

Teddy

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 ...

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

Materials

Wood, Paper, Varnish, Found Objects

Hokusai Ocean IV - Abstract Blue + White Mixed Media Work on Book Covers
Hokusai Ocean IV - Abstract Blue + White Mixed Media Work on Book Covers

Hokusai Ocean IV - Abstract Blue + White Mixed Media Work on Book Covers

By Jane Skingley

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...

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21st Century and Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Canvas, Found Objects, Mixed Media

"Up North Birch Bark Series: Homage to Michelangelo Birch Bark Body" D. Barnett
"Up North Birch Bark Series: Homage to Michelangelo Birch Bark Body" D. Barnett

"Up North Birch Bark Series: Homage to Michelangelo Birch Bark Body" D. Barnett

By David Barnett

Located in Milwaukee, WI

"Up North Series: Homage to Michelangelo Birch Bark Body" is an original watercolor on birch bark by David Barnett. The artist signed and dated the piece lower right on the backing b...

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Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Found Objects, Watercolor

At sea between fossils and satellites 7 (blue organic copper abstract texture)
At sea between fossils and satellites 7 (blue organic copper abstract texture)

At sea between fossils and satellites 7 (blue organic copper abstract texture)

By Melisa Taylor Metzger

Located in Quebec, Quebec

"At Sea between Fossils and Satellites 7" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with art deco aestheti...

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2010s Color-Field Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic

Untitled

Untitled

By Troy Abbott

Located in Bozeman, MT

Troy Abbott is a multidisciplinary artist working in digital media. His work has been exhibited in the United States and Europe and is in many Private Collections around the world. T...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Found Objects, Mixed Media, ABS

"Breakfast in Merida (Homage to Carmen Miranda), " Wool Tapestry by Joan Summers
"Breakfast in Merida (Homage to Carmen Miranda), " Wool Tapestry by Joan Summers

"Breakfast in Merida (Homage to Carmen Miranda), " Wool Tapestry by Joan Summers

By Joan Ward Summers

Located in Milwaukee, WI

"Breakfast in Merida (Homage to Carmen Miranda)" is an original woven wool tapestry with velvet fruit by Joan Ward Summers. It is a decorative tableau which displays a background pat...

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1980s Expressionist Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Tapestry, Wool, Found Objects

At Delphi
At Delphi

At Delphi

By Anastasia Pelias

Located in New Orleans, LA

ANASTASIA PELIAS was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...

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

Materials

Wood, Found Objects

Compass
Compass

Compass

By Paul Villinski

Located in New Orleans, LA

medium: found aluminum cans, wire, Flashe paint Available in right and left orientations. Available in multiple color/finish options (inquire with gallery). Installations are made t...

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

Materials

Metal, Wire

Free Speech
Free Speech

Free Speech

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...

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21st Century and Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Glass, Found Objects, Acrylic Polymer

Moon Dance
Moon Dance

Moon Dance

Located in New Orleans, LA

"Cowgirl dancing by herself under the moonlight." "Moon Dance" is painted on re-purposed drop cloth, embellished with black fringe and hung on custom brass hardware. Becca Fuhrman ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Copper, Brass

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...

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

Materials

Enamel, Stainless Steel

Patricia Miranda, Lamentations for Rebecca; 2020, lace, cochineal dye, thread
Patricia Miranda, Lamentations for Rebecca; 2020, lace, cochineal dye, thread

Patricia Miranda, Lamentations for Rebecca; 2020, lace, cochineal dye, thread

By Patricia Miranda

Located in Darien, CT

Patricia Miranda's work includes interdisciplinary installation, textile, paper and books. The textiles incorporated in these new pieces are vintage linens from her Italian and Irish grandmothers and sourced from friends and strangers around the country. Each donation is documented and integrated into the work. Textile as a form that wraps the body from cradle to grave. The role of lacemaking in the lives of women both economically and historically is packed with metaphorical potential. The relationship of craft and women’s work (re)appropriated by artists today to environmental and social issues is integral to the artist's research. Her work is process oriented; materials are submerged in natural dyes from oak gall wasp nests, cochineal insects, turmeric, indigo, and clay. She forages for raw materials, cook dyes, grind pigments, ecofeminist actions that consider environmental impacts of objects. The process is left visible as dyestuff is unfiltered in the vat and finished work. Sewn into larger works, Miranda incorporates hair, pearls, bone beads, Milagros, cast plaster. The distinct genetics and environmental and cultural history of each material asserts its voice as collaborator rather than medium. The lace inserts a visceral femininity into the pristine gallery, and exerts a ghostly trace of the history of domestic labor. The combination of earth and lace references human and environmental devastation and the conflation of nature and women’s bodies as justifications for exploitation. Mournful and solastalgic, they are lamentations to the violence against women and the earth. Patricia Miranda is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, educator, and founder of The Crit Lab, graduate-level critique seminars and Residency for artists, and MAPSpace project space. She has been Visiting Artist at Vermont Studio Center, the Heckscher Museum, and University of Utah; and been awarded residencies at I-Park, Weir Farm, Vermont Studio Center, and Julio Valdez Printmaking Studio. She received an Anonymous Was a Woman Covid19 Artist Relief Grant, an artist grant from ArtsWestchester/New York State Council on the Arts, and was part of a year-long NEA grant working with homeless youth. Miranda currently teaches graduate curatorial studies at Western Colorado University, and develops programs for K-12, museums, and institutions such as Franklin Furnace. Her work has been exhibited at ODETTA, NYC; ABC No Rio, NYC; Alexey von...

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2010s Feminist Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Ceramic, Fabric, Thread, Dye, Found Objects

Patricia Miranda, Lamentations for Ermenegilda; 2020, lace, cochineal dye, thread

Patricia Miranda, Lamentations for Ermenegilda; 2020, lace, cochineal dye, thread

By Patricia Miranda

Located in Darien, CT

Patricia Miranda's work includes interdisciplinary installation, textile, paper and books. The textiles incorporated in these new pieces are vintage linens from her Italian and Irish grandmothers and sourced from friends and strangers around the country. Each donation is documented and integrated into the work. Textile as a form that wraps the body from cradle to grave. The role of lacemaking in the lives of women both economically and historically is packed with metaphorical potential. The relationship of craft and women’s work (re)appropriated by artists today to environmental and social issues is integral to the artist's research. Her work is process oriented; materials are submerged in natural dyes from oak gall wasp nests, cochineal insects, turmeric, indigo, and clay. She forages for raw materials, cook dyes, grind pigments, ecofeminist actions that consider environmental impacts of objects. The process is left visible as dyestuff is unfiltered in the vat and finished work. Sewn into larger works, Miranda incorporates hair, pearls, bone beads, Milagros, cast plaster. The distinct genetics and environmental and cultural history of each material asserts its voice as collaborator rather than medium. The lace inserts a visceral femininity into the pristine gallery, and exerts a ghostly trace of the history of domestic labor. The combination of earth and lace references human and environmental devastation and the conflation of nature and women’s bodies as justifications for exploitation. Mournful and solastalgic, they are lamentations to the violence against women and the earth. Patricia Miranda is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, educator, and founder of The Crit Lab, graduate-level critique seminars and Residency for artists, and MAPSpace project space. She has been Visiting Artist at Vermont Studio Center, the Heckscher Museum, and University of Utah; and been awarded residencies at I-Park, Weir Farm, Vermont Studio Center, and Julio Valdez Printmaking Studio. She received an Anonymous Was a Woman Covid19 Artist Relief Grant, an artist grant from ArtsWestchester/New York State Council on the Arts, and was part of a year-long NEA grant working with homeless youth. Miranda currently teaches graduate curatorial studies at Western Colorado University, and develops programs for K-12, museums, and institutions such as Franklin Furnace. Her work has been exhibited at ODETTA, NYC; ABC No Rio, NYC; Alexey von...

Category

2010s Feminist Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Ceramic, Fabric, Thread, Dye, Found Objects

Jo Yarrington, blue cylinder with red weaving and codes, mixed media, 16 x 12 in

Jo Yarrington, blue cylinder with red weaving and codes, mixed media, 16 x 12 in

By Jo Yarrington

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 ...

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2010s Conceptual Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Linen, Thread, Found Objects, Archival Paper

Jo Yarrington, Red Weaving and Codes, 2020, Mixed media, 15 x 12 in

Jo Yarrington, Red Weaving and Codes, 2020, Mixed media, 15 x 12 in

By Jo Yarrington

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, Wax, Archival Paper

Jo Yarrington, Red  Code Mapping, 2020, Mixed Media, 7 x 13x 9 inches, Text
Jo Yarrington, Red  Code Mapping, 2020, Mixed Media, 7 x 13x 9 inches, Text

Jo Yarrington, Red Code Mapping, 2020, Mixed Media, 7 x 13x 9 inches, Text

By Jo Yarrington

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, Paper, Found Objects

Ellen Hackl Fagan_Seeking the Sound of Cobalt Blue_Paver 2_2020_found object
Ellen Hackl Fagan_Seeking the Sound of Cobalt Blue_Paver 2_2020_found object

Ellen Hackl Fagan_Seeking the Sound of Cobalt Blue_Paver 2_2020_found object

By Ellen Hackl Fagan

Located in Darien, CT

Seeking the Sound of Cobalt Blue is a series of paintings and sculptures that have been created since the spring of 2014. Using domestic construction materials from her garage, extras from home improvement projects or the garden, have been captured, much like a photogram, but with paint, not silver. By blending photography and painting, Fagan finds that the patterns created with industrial, mass-produced objects around the house and garage, speak to her interest in producing paintings that link to sound. These works are portraits of the artist’s home, its history, and the materials used to build that maintain her home. Ellen Hackl Fagan builds connections between color and sound using installations, interactive games, and collaborative projects that combine color-and-texture saturated paintings with music...

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2010s Arte Povera Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Concrete

Andra Samelson, Microcosm 2, 2016, Canvas, Wood, Found Objects, Acrylic Paint

Andra Samelson, Microcosm 2, 2016, Canvas, Wood, Found Objects, Acrylic Paint

By Andra Samelson

Located in Darien, CT

Andra Samelson’s work explores the relationship of microcosm and macrocosm, the celestial and terrestrial. Her imagery is often associated with molecular and galactic systems. Combin...

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2010s Abstract Geometric Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Found Objects, Acrylic

Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Scrapings #1), 2016, Wood, Paint, Found Objects
Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Scrapings #1), 2016, Wood, Paint, Found Objects

Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Scrapings #1), 2016, Wood, Paint, Found Objects

By Liz Sweibel

Located in Darien, CT

The freestanding sculptures in this portfolio are made from the “sticks”: a pile of found wood that Sweibel has been pulling from to make new works since about 2002. The pile consisted of more than a dozen four- to seven-foot lengths of hardwood, each an uneven inch in depth and width. The sticks were warped, with worn yellow paint on one side and raw wood on the other three. Over the years she has painted the raw sides of the sticks, cut the wood into shorter lengths, and sliced paint off – and kept the residue from these actions. Sweibel has also made sculptures ranging from full-length sticks to tiny stick splinters. She built these sculptures using sliced-off paint. Timeworn materials and objects have an intelligence that the artist looks for and listens to. Shaping and reshaping material to find new form and elicit new insights in the material itself is the territory she is mining. The limitations of the process are its strengths. Her work is concerned with fragility, precariousness, adaptability, and strength. It is a visual response to powerful yet unseen forces - like wind and thoughts - that threaten, propel, ruin, and protect. Liz Sweibel is a multidisciplinary artist working in drawing, sculpture, installation, and digital photography and video. Her spare, personal language of abstraction transforms ordinary materials into statements about connectedness and responsibility: every action has an impact, the effects persist in space and over time, and we are accountable. By drawing attention to simple, ordinary “stuff of life” and referencing both shared and personal history, Sweibel’s work explores and reflects back fundamental experiences in response to our world and relationships. Her intention is to reinvigorate viewers’ awareness of the everyday – in its raw beauty and precariousness – in hopes that they might bring heightened senses of sight and care to their daily lives. Sweibel has participated in solo, two-person, and group exhibits in New York, Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, Michigan, and Tennessee since 1998. In 2016, Sweibel’s work was in the group shows Lightly Structured at Sculpture Space NYC, Precarious Constructs at the Venus Knitting Art...

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2010s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Wood, Paint, Found Objects

Compass
Compass

Compass

By Paul Villinski

Located in New Orleans, LA

medium: found aluminum cans, wire, Flashe paint Available in multiple color/finish options (inquire with gallery). Installations are made to order, sizes and shapes of butterflies v...

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

Materials

Metal, Wire

Sylvia Schwartz, 5, 2018, wood, fabric, paint, 7" x 10" x 2"

Sylvia Schwartz, 5, 2018, wood, fabric, paint, 7" x 10" x 2"

By Sylvia Schwartz

Located in Darien, CT

Schwartz received a degree in fine art from the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, Australia, and later studied sculpture at Columbia University. Her work has been shown in...

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2010s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Fabric, Plastic, Wood, Found Objects, Acrylic

Sylvia Schwartz_1, 2018, wood, fabric, paint, 15"  x 11" x 1"

Sylvia Schwartz_1, 2018, wood, fabric, paint, 15" x 11" x 1"

By Sylvia Schwartz

Located in Darien, CT

Schwartz received a degree in fine art from the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, Australia, and later studied sculpture at Columbia University. Her work has been shown in...

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2010s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Fabric, Plastic, Wood, Found Objects, Acrylic

Sylvia Schwartz 9, 2018, wood, fabric, paint. 10' x 16" x 2"
Sylvia Schwartz 9, 2018, wood, fabric, paint. 10' x 16" x 2"

Sylvia Schwartz 9, 2018, wood, fabric, paint. 10' x 16" x 2"

By Sylvia Schwartz

Located in Darien, CT

Schwartz received a degree in fine art from the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, Australia, and later studied sculpture at Columbia University. Her work has been shown in...

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2010s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Fabric, Plastic, Wood, Found Objects, Acrylic

Vigilante II - 21st Century, Contemporary Art, Abstract Sculpture, Recycling
Vigilante II - 21st Century, Contemporary Art, Abstract Sculpture, Recycling

Vigilante II - 21st Century, Contemporary Art, Abstract Sculpture, Recycling

By Lukas Ulmi

Located in Barcelona, Catalonia

Lukas Ulmi’s work unveils the hidden beauty of shapes taking stones, seemingly static forms, incomplete or meaningless objects and turning them into authentic sculptures where weight...

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

Materials

Stone, Iron

Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 1, 2019_acrylic, steel, player piano rol
Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 1, 2019_acrylic, steel, player piano rol

Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 1, 2019_acrylic, steel, player piano rol

By Jo Yarrington

Located in Darien, CT

Jo Yarrington’s photographs, prints, works on paper, glass sculptures and architecturally-based installations have been shown in exhibitions at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Yale University, Cornell University, the Museum of Glass, the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Artists Space, St. John the Divine Cathedral, Grounds for Sculpture, the Museum of American Glass and ODETTA, among others. International exhibitions have included Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow Cathedral, Glasgow University, Galeria Sala Uno and Centro de las Artes de Guanajuato. She represented the United States at the Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates and participated in the Berlin Biennial. in 2010 she received the Bronze Prize, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia. Yarrington is a recipient of artist grants and Fellowships from the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism. She has received Residency Fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Museum of Glass, the Museum of American Glass, the Bridge Virtual Residency/ SciArt Center, the Lucile Walton Fellow/Mountain Lake Biological Station, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Anderson Center and the Ucross Foundation, among others. International grants and fellowships have included the Banff Center for Arts and Creativity/Canada, SIMS Residency/ Iceland, Cill Rialaig Artists Residency/Ireland, the Burren College of Art Residency/Ireland and the American Scandinavian Foundation. She is a Professor of Visual and Performing Arts at Fairfield University and lives and works in New York City. STATEMENT In site-specific exhibitions, public art commissions, collaborative and individual projects Jo Yarrington has used varied combinations of glass, waxed surfaces, found artifacts and experimental analog photography to investigate the way we perceive – searching for, experimenting with and developing throughout a sensory-based vernacular. Her mostly translucent materials function as physical framework and symbolic membrane. Light, both natural and ambient, provides a kinetic or time-based element to her work. Scale and the integration of architecture are also pivotal components. In the 6-part installation for the two-person exhibition Illuminated, Yarrington continues her interest in the connections between vision, sound and language. In Mute-ability: Compositions 1 – 6, her title for this light-based comprehensive work, she combines the words mute and malleability. The work focuses on found piano rolls, a music storage medium, originally conceived as coded notations or ‘note control data’ for music produced in pneumatic player pianos...

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2010s Conceptual Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Steel

Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 2, 2019_acrylic, steel, player piano rol
Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 2, 2019_acrylic, steel, player piano rol

Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 2, 2019_acrylic, steel, player piano rol

By Jo Yarrington

Located in Darien, CT

Jo Yarrington’s photographs, prints, works on paper, glass sculptures and architecturally-based installations have been shown in exhibitions at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Yale University, Cornell University, the Museum of Glass, the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Artists Space, St. John the Divine Cathedral, Grounds for Sculpture, the Museum of American Glass and ODETTA, among others. International exhibitions have included Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow Cathedral, Glasgow University, Galeria Sala Uno and Centro de las Artes de Guanajuato. She represented the United States at the Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates and participated in the Berlin Biennial. in 2010 she received the Bronze Prize, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia. Yarrington is a recipient of artist grants and Fellowships from the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism. She has received Residency Fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Museum of Glass, the Museum of American Glass, the Bridge Virtual Residency/ SciArt Center, the Lucile Walton Fellow/Mountain Lake Biological Station, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Anderson Center and the Ucross Foundation, among others. International grants and fellowships have included the Banff Center for Arts and Creativity/Canada, SIMS Residency/ Iceland, Cill Rialaig Artists Residency/Ireland, the Burren College of Art Residency/Ireland and the American Scandinavian Foundation. She is a Professor of Visual and Performing Arts at Fairfield University and lives and works in New York City. STATEMENT In site-specific exhibitions, public art commissions, collaborative and individual projects Jo Yarrington has used varied combinations of glass, waxed surfaces, found artifacts and experimental analog photography to investigate the way we perceive – searching for, experimenting with and developing throughout a sensory-based vernacular. Her mostly translucent materials function as physical framework and symbolic membrane. Light, both natural and ambient, provides a kinetic or time-based element to her work. Scale and the integration of architecture are also pivotal components. In the 6-part installation for the two-person exhibition Illuminated, Yarrington continues her interest in the connections between vision, sound and language. In Mute-ability: Compositions 1 – 6, her title for this light-based comprehensive work, she combines the words mute and malleability. The work focuses on found piano rolls, a music storage medium, originally conceived as coded notations or ‘note control data’ for music produced in pneumatic player pianos...

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2010s Conceptual Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Steel

Sylvia Schwartz 8, 2018, wood, fabric, plastic, 11" x 11.5" x 2"

Sylvia Schwartz 8, 2018, wood, fabric, plastic, 11" x 11.5" x 2"

By Sylvia Schwartz

Located in Darien, CT

Schwartz received a degree in fine art from the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, Australia, and later studied sculpture at Columbia University. Her work has been shown in...

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2010s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Fabric, Plastic, Wood, Found Objects, Acrylic

Sylvia Schwartz 7, 2018, wood, fabric, plastic, paint, 9" x 7.5" x 2"

Sylvia Schwartz 7, 2018, wood, fabric, plastic, paint, 9" x 7.5" x 2"

By Sylvia Schwartz

Located in Darien, CT

Schwartz received a degree in fine art from the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, Australia, and later studied sculpture at Columbia University. Her work has been shown in...

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2010s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Fabric, Wood, Found Objects, Acrylic, Plastic

Sylvia Schwartz_2, 2018, fabric, silicone, plastic, 14" x 13"  x 2"

Sylvia Schwartz_2, 2018, fabric, silicone, plastic, 14" x 13" x 2"

By Sylvia Schwartz

Located in Darien, CT

Schwartz received a degree in fine art from the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, Australia, and later studied sculpture at Columbia University. Her work has been shown in...

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2010s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Fabric, Plastic, Found Objects, Silicone

Sylvia Schwartz 3, 2018, fabric, 16" x 15"

Sylvia Schwartz 3, 2018, fabric, 16" x 15"

By Sylvia Schwartz

Located in Darien, CT

Schwartz received a degree in fine art from the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, Australia, and later studied sculpture at Columbia University. Her work has been shown in...

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2010s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Fabric, Plastic, Silicone, Found Objects

Sylvia Schwartz, Queen, 2018, canvas, fabric, paint, plastic
Sylvia Schwartz, Queen, 2018, canvas, fabric, paint, plastic

Sylvia Schwartz, Queen, 2018, canvas, fabric, paint, plastic

By Sylvia Schwartz

Located in Darien, CT

Schwartz received a degree in fine art from the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, Australia, and later studied sculpture at Columbia University. Her work has been shown in...

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2010s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Fabric, Plastic, Found Objects, Acrylic, Canvas

"Axtion, " Abstract Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee
"Axtion, " Abstract Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee

"Axtion, " Abstract Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee

By Reginald K. Gee

Located in Milwaukee, WI

"Axtion" is an original oil pastel drawing on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece on the back. This artwork features abstract marks in bright blue, purple, ...

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1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Oil Pastel, Found Objects

Matti Havens & Gregory Kramer, Lovelace's Tribute, 2018, Sound Installation
Matti Havens & Gregory Kramer, Lovelace's Tribute, 2018, Sound Installation

Matti Havens & Gregory Kramer, Lovelace's Tribute, 2018, Sound Installation

By Matti Havens & Gregory Kramer

Located in Darien, CT

Lovelace’s Tribute 2018 sung by Christina Tsers This installation is in honor of Ada Lovelace, generally recognized as the first computer programmer. Lovelace was the daughter of ...

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2010s New Media Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Wire

Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls Film and Vintage Projector, 2018, Film, Found Objects
Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls Film and Vintage Projector, 2018, Film, Found Objects

Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls Film and Vintage Projector, 2018, Film, Found Objects

By Jo Yarrington

Located in Darien, CT

This installation imagines the Radium Girls as abstractd subjects. Repeating a motif of a circle, signifying the mouth, this art object conveys a modern view of the these workers, tied in with repetitive actions in abstracted patterns. Radioluminescence is the phenomenon by which light is produced in a material by bombardment with ionizing radiation and can be used as a low-level light source for night illumination of instrument...

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2010s Conceptual Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Film, Found Objects

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