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Medium: Found Objects
"BEACH CIGS" Assemblage cigarette sculpture
By Jim Houser
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "BEACH CIGS" is an original painted sculpture by Jim Houser made of assembled objects. This piece measures approximately 7”h x 12”w x 3.5”d. It includes the pictured cigarette...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Found Objects, Acrylic
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
"WELCOME TO MY BOOK COLLECTION" Vibrant Assemblage, Still life sculpture
By Jim Houser
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "WELCOME TO MY BOOK COLLECTION" is an original artwork by Jim Houser and is made of assembled objects. This piece measures approximately 2...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Found Objects, Acrylic
Untitled Curio Appropriation
Located in Bozeman, MT
Patrick Dean Hubbell is Dine' (Navajo). He is To'ahani'(Near to Water Clan), Born for Dibe'lizhini (Black Sheep), Maternal Grandfather is Kinyaa'aanii (Towering House People), Patern...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Canvas, Found Objects, Oil
"Pelvic Pelt" Abstract, dimensional paint on found object
By PJ Linden
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Pelvic Pelt" is an original artwork by PJ Linden and is made from dimensional paint on found object. This piece measures 22”h x 25”w x 6”d.
Born 1985 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. PJ Linden is a New York City and Pennsylvania-based fine artist known for her abstract, three-dimensional work. She paints with machine-like precision, creating microscopic patterns on found objects, fashion, and technology. Linden got her start working with Patricia Field, creating custom, one-of-a-kind art and fashion under the name Wonderpuss Octopus. At Field's iconic, namesake boutique, Linden's work caught the eye of celebrity clients including Beyonce, Willow Smith, Kelly Osborne, and Solange Knowles...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Paint, Found Objects
"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
Remington Rand A, Vintage Typewriter Machine Gun, conceptual wall sculpture
By Éric Nado
Located in Dallas, TX
Typewriter Machine Guns by Eric Nado - "Remington Rand A - Mitra Lettres" is created from very unusual material - a vintage typewriter. The series ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Metal
Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 4, 2019_acrylic, steel, player piano rol
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...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Steel
"Siamese Horse Cat with Foal Kitten" Found vintage ceramic animals
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This figurative sculpture titled "Siamese Horse Cat with Foal Kitten" is an original artwork by Debra Broz made of secondhand ceramics and mixed media. The ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Found Objects
"A FLATNESS IN THE EYES", Assemblage Wall-Hanging, Found Objects, Threat, Paint
By Jim Houser
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This artwork "A FLATNESS IN THE EYES" is an original assemblage artwork by Jim Houser. Incorporating various dimensional elements and techniques, such as painting and found objects, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Thread, Found Objects, Acrylic
Siamese Horse Cat
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This figurative sculpture titled "Siamese Horse Cat" is an original artwork by Debra Broz made of secondhand ceramics and mixed media. The sculpture measure...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Found Objects
Waiting to Exhale, Accumulation Cigar Sculpture by Arman
Located in Long Island City, NY
A unique sculpture by the French artist, Arman. This collection of world-class cigars encased in clear resin is a quintessential piece from Arman's 'Accumulations' period in which he...
Category
1990s Modern Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Epoxy Resin, Mixed Media, Found Objects
"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...
Category
1940s Folk Art Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Fabric, Glass, Found Objects
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
Superpowers
By Kelly Kozma
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This fabric work titled "Squeaking By" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma made of hand embroidery, stickers, glitter paper and acrylic paint on paper. The piece measures 13”h by 1...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Fabric, Thread, Found Objects
KINDS OF PLANTS
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Wood, Found Objects, Acrylic
Andra Samelson, Pemarom, 2013-2022, 1300 + cds, Edition of 5, Abstract Sculpture
Located in Darien, CT
The word in Tibetan for lotus is “Pema.” In Buddhism the lotus is a symbol of purity. The lotus is planted and rooted in the mud, but grows up through the water and into the vast sky...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Mirror, Plastic, Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Other Medium
Hokusai Covers III - Abstract Blue + White Oil Painting + Collage on Book Cover
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Jane Skingley b. 1963
Hokusai Covers III, 2025
oil and collage on book cover
27 x 18 cm
11 x 7 1/8 in
signed, titled and inscribed on a label attached verso
Jane Skingley paints sea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Found Objects, Mixed Media, Oil
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
In the Nick of Time: African American collage painting w/ found objects & figure
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Found Objects, Acrylic, Panel, Leather, Fiberboard
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
Vector (right)
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Metal, Wire
"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
$4,680 Sale Price
20% Off
Swans
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Swans," 2013. Found materials collage. Figurative, abstract, pattern, swans, yellow, orange, red, purple, black, blue, and white.
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Paper, Found Objects
Open Surgery
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Open Surgery," 2013. Found materials collage. Figurative, abstract, pattern, candle, anatomy, yellow, tan, green, red, purple, black, blue, and white.
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Paper, 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
Trinket Net No. 3, 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, Brass, Copper, Steel
"#159 – SLEEP", ink, pencil, gouache, vintage book page, hemingway, poetry
By Amy Williams
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"#159 – SLEEP" is from Amy Williams' series "A Farewell to Arms" – wherein the artist works directly onto page 159 of a found copy of Ernest Hemingway's WWII romance novel. The artis...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Paper, Found Objects, Ink, Gouache, Pencil
Eastern Puma - Contemporary Mixed Media Animal Sculpture (Yellow+Red)
By Yulia Shtern
Located in Gilroy, CA
"Eastern Puma" is a wonderfully morbid sculpture created by the Canadian artist Yulia Shtern. This piece is part of her Mini Zoo Series depicting beautifully decaying remnants of species on our planet that are currently endangered. An unfortunate truth of our current society that is often forgotten. Shtern creates these beautiful pieces to draw the viewer in and force them to engage with reality head-on. Follow our gallery, or message us for more works by Yulia Shtern and special pricing.
From the artist "My new series of sculptures Magical Zoo observes this calamity through the prism of the wonder and playfulness of the natural world, through the miracle and majesty that is found in each and every animal, big and small, aquatic and land. The medium of the series consists of post mass consumption up-cycled material: paper products, packaging, non-recyclable plastics, fabric leftovers, other items that would have otherwise gone to a landfill. All the color on the finished sculptures comes from swatches of the up-cycled material itself. The only other substance added to the work is the transparent varnish glue. The pieces in the series are produced in an environmentally sustainable manner. Magical Zoo creates its own reality through the dualism of a colorful, whimsical representation of an animal whose habitat has been destroyed by industrial expansion or deforestation. Or an animal that was a hair away from going extinct, or an animal that could be next unless we do something today to stop this tragedy. The element of magic makes it easier to cope with the fact that our planet is dying...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Adhesive, Varnish, Found Objects, Mixed Media, Newsprint, Papier Mâché, ...
$234 Sale Price
25% Off
Hokusai Covers V - Abstract Mixed Media + Collage Calligraphy Work, Pink + White
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Jane Skingley b. 1963
Hokusai Covers II, 2025
mixed media on old book cover
26 x 17 cm
10 1/4 x 6 3/4 in
signed verso
Jane Skingley paints seascapes and landscapes in oils. Her firs...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Found Objects, Mixed Media
"#71 – THEN IT'S HOPELESS?", ink, pencil, gouache, found vintage book, poetry
By Amy Williams
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"#71 – THEN IT'S HOPELESS?" is from Amy Williams' series A Farewell to Arms – wherein the artist is working directly onto page 71 of a found copy of Ernest Hemingway's WWII romance novel. The artist selects certain words and phrases from the page to isolate as a poem, and then draws, inks, redacts and paints the rest of the page according to the text of the poem. Here the poem reads: "Then it's hopeless? / But sometimes I cannot hope. / I cannot." Note the poem is outlined in dark red and purple radiating lines, while outside there are lighter violet, blue and white lines.
From Amy Williams – "My recent work is focused on making treated book pages using a found vintage...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Paper, Found Objects, Ink, Gouache, Pencil
"Caress of Water, " Mixed Media Sculpture
Located in Chicago, IL
Based in Chicago, IL, contemporary artist Michael Thompson creates unique kites, collages and mixed media works assembled from material fragments of past and present collected in his...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Stone
Sounds of the Sea Vol. III
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Brass, Copper
Diary 2 by John Garrett, 2017, Mixed Media Wall Hanging Sculpture, Contemporary
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
Fabric, Plaster, Wood, Found Objects, Mixed Media, Other Medium
Spirit of Ecstasy - Pop Art Sculpture
By Alben
Located in New York, NY
Cheeky references to pop culture and the societal context.
Grounded in a postmodern vernacular, Alben’s paintings and sculptures are a pastiche of art historical moments including P...
Category
2010s Pop Art Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Epoxy Resin, Mixed Media, Found Objects
Sway
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
$9,000
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
Paintbrushes I
By Arman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Arman, French/American (1929 - 2005)
Title: Paintbrushes I
Year: 1991
Medium: Paintbrushes and Oil Paint in Epoxy Resin Sculpture, Signature and number inscribed
Edition: 20,...
Category
1990s Dada Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Epoxy Resin, Found Objects, Mixed Media, Oil
$15,000
After 77 Years, Again in Fear? - Mixed Media Assemblage on Canvas
By Irena Orlov
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Title: "After 77 Years, Again in Fear?" - Mixed Media Assemblage on Canvas
Discover the powerful and thought-provoking artwork "After 77 Years, Again in Fear?" by acclaimed contemporary artist Irena Orlov. This original mixed media assemblage, measuring H34" x W57", masterfully incorporates various dimensional elements and techniques, including painting and found objects, to create a captivating abstract piece with a profound global message.
Medium and Materials:
This extraordinary artwork is a mixed media assemblage on fine art canvas, skillfully hand-stretched over 1" deep wood stretched bars. The artist's creative vision weaves together an intriguing combination of materials, including plastic, original World War 2 chemical gas masks, copper mesh, and small metal round container...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Bronze
$60,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Contemporary, Mixed Media, Hanging, Sculpture, Wood, Metal, Glass, Found Objects
By John Garrett
Located in St. Louis, MO
Contemporary, Mixed Media, Hanging, Sculpture, Wood, Metal, Glass, Found Objects
John Garrett was raised in southern New Mexico by parents who were both educators. They instilled i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Metal, Steel
After 77 Years, Again in Fear? - Mixed Media Assemblage on Canvas
By Irena Orlov
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Title: "After 77 Years, Again in Fear?" - Mixed Media Assemblage on Canvas
Discover the powerful and thought-provoking artwork "After 77 Years, Again in Fear?" by acclaimed contempo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Bronze
$60,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Contemporary Mixed Media Wall Sculpture, Installation, Crocheted Found Material
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
Found Objects, Mixed Media, Other Medium
Patricia Miranda, Dreaming Awake, 2020, nightdress, cochineal dyes, plaster,
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
Fabric, Thread, Dye, Found Objects, Plaster
"Taahhutlu" Monotype with Chine Colle and Watercolor, Found Object Collage
Located in Soquel, CA
Contemporary abstract painting and found object collage composition with stamps, money, various types of paper, and watercolor by Michael Pauker (...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Found Objects
"Son Temps", Contemporary Abstract Found Object Collage with Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful contemporary abstract expressionist collage/oil painting by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b.1957). Antique stamps, currency, and letters from different places a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Found Objects
Jo Yarrington, blue cylinder with red weaving and codes, mixed media, 16 x 12 in
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, Archival Paper
"Saved from the Cannibals" Contemporary Abstract Painting w Found Object Collage
Located in Soquel, CA
A unique contemporary abstract expressionist painting with collaged found object elements, including a torn page from Robinson Crusoe, vintage stamps, and old letters by Bay Area art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Wood, Mixed Media, Oil, Magazine Paper, Found Objects
Sylvia Schwartz 3, 2018, fabric, 16" x 15"
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Fabric, Plastic, Silicone, Found Objects
Study in Green with Pearls, 2021, Matt Smith
By Matt Smith
Located in London, GB
MATT SMITH (BRITISH)
Study in Green with Pearls, 2021
Black Parian, Found Ceramic, Freshwater Pearls
29 x 14 x 14 cm
11 1/2 x 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.
(MS206)
£ 4,000.00
UK-born Matt Smit...
Category
2010s Old Masters Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Found Objects
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
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
"Pompeii, " Mixed Media Sculpture
Located in Chicago, IL
Based in Chicago, IL, contemporary artist Michael Thompson creates unique kites, collages and mixed media works assembled from material fragments of past and present collected in his travels. In his ongoing series of memory jugs, Thompson adorns stoneware vessels with a kaleidoscope of ceramic shards, found objects, and pocket-sized trinkets he collected over the course of his life.
Also known as forget-me-not jugs or spirit jars, memory jugs are African American folk art objects that honor a loved one who has recently passed. Small tokens and mementos of the deceased are gathered and affixed to the exterior of a jug or vase, an abundance of memories that celebrates a life lived to the fullest.
Michael Thompson applies this tradition to his own practice, creating tactile assemblages of this and that. Formed in the manner of collage, each jug honors the lost memories of generations past and his own memories of personally discovering each item. With varied sources for materials including Kyoto, Turkey, and Mexico, a great number of the found shards are 18th and 19th century ceramics...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Stone
The Greatest Show On Earth
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
It is a sign of an unhealthy society when fringe personalities are increasingly found not on the fringe but in its mainstream. They bring with them ignorance, prejudice, and irration...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Found Objects, Mixed Media
Arrival, Shipyards tales. Iron vessel wall sculpture. 49x42"
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Nir Adoni's metal vessels sculptures have become his signature art and are displayed in public buildings around the world.
We are offering limited editions ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Metal, Steel, Iron
Sylvia Schwartz 4, 2018, fabric, silk, wool, 14"H x 13"W
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Fabric, Found Objects, Wool, Silk
American Story No.1921
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
"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...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Canvas, Gesso, Textile, Oil Crayon, Found Objects, Acrylic
"#56 – BOTH WOUNDED A LITTLE", ink, pencil, gouache, collage, found text, poetry
By Amy Williams
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"#56 – BOTH WOUNDED A LITTLE" is from Amy Williams' series A Farewell to Arms – wherein the artist is working directly onto page 56 of a found copy of Ernest Hemingway's WWII romance...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Paper, Found Objects, Ink, Gouache, Pencil
"Duty Free"
By Chakaia Booker
Located in Astoria, NY
Chakaia Booker (American, b. 1953) "Duty Free", 2010, rubber tire assemblage sculpture, signed and dated on back, with two signed wooden cleats. 24" H x 24" W x 9" D. Provenance: Mus...
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2010s Assemblage Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Rubber, Found Objects
"Beach-Combed Mochaware, " Mixed Media Sculpture
Located in Chicago, IL
Based in Chicago, IL, contemporary artist Michael Thompson creates unique kites, collages and mixed media works assembled from material fragments of past and present collected in his travels. In his ongoing series of memory jugs, Thompson adorns stoneware vessels with a kaleidoscope of ceramic shards, found objects, and pocket-sized trinkets he collected over the course of his life.
Also known as forget-me-not jugs or spirit jars, memory jugs are African American folk art objects that honor a loved one who has recently passed. Small tokens and mementos of the deceased are gathered and affixed to the exterior of a jug or vase, an abundance of memories that celebrates a life lived to the fullest.
Michael Thompson applies this tradition to his own practice, creating tactile assemblages of this and that. Formed in the manner of collage, each jug honors the lost memories of generations past and his own memories of personally discovering each item. With varied sources for materials including Kyoto, Turkey, and Mexico, a great number of the found shards are 18th and 19th century ceramics...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Stone
Found Objects art for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Found Objects art available on 1stDibs. While artists have worked in this medium across a range of time periods, art made with this material during the 21st Century is especially popular. If you’re looking to add art created with this material to introduce a provocative pop of color and texture to an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, green, purple and other colors. There are many well-known artists whose body of work includes ceramic sculptures. Popular artists on 1stDibs associated with pieces like this include Reginald K. Gee, Katie VanVliet, Melisa Taylor Metzger, and Kat Flyn. Frequently made by artists working in the Contemporary, Abstract, all of these pieces for sale are unique and many will draw the attention of guests in your home. Not every interior allows for large Found Objects art, so small editions measuring 0.01 inches across are also available