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Medium: Found Objects
Abstract Perspective Rusted Metal Composition "Geometric Series 1B"
Located in Cape Town, ZA
Nyasha Mashumba, having been the apprentice of Mark Hilltout, has now started to carve out a career for himself as artist and designer, utilizing the medium and craft he has mastered...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Metal, Steel, Iron
Colourful Rusted Metal Composition "Abstract Colours"
Located in Cape Town, ZA
Nyasha Mashumba, having been the apprentice of Mark Hilltout, has now started to carve out a career for himself as artist and designer, utilizing the medium and craft he has mastered...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Metal, Steel, Iron
Abstract Tree Rusted Metal Composition "Trees Series: 1B"
Located in Cape Town, ZA
Nyasha Mashumba, having been the apprentice of Mark Hilltout, has now started to carve out a career for himself as artist and designer, utilizing the medium and craft he has mastered...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Metal, Steel, Iron
Margaret Roleke, Holy Wars, 2015, children's toys, spray enamel, wood panel
Located in Darien, CT
Roleke creates politically aware work. Her wall reliefs are composed of multitudes of plastic toys, oddly sexualized Disney characters and Happy Meal trinkets. Through investigation ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Modern Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Plastic, Found Objects, Spray Paint, Wood Panel
Surreal Contemporary Figurative Mixed-Media Sculpture Found-Object American
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
Green and Orange Abstract Rusted Metal Composition "Geometric Series 1"
Located in Cape Town, ZA
Nyasha Mashumba, having been the apprentice of Mark Hilltout, has now started to carve out a career for himself as artist and designer, utilizing the medium and craft he has mastered...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Metal, Steel, Iron
Moody Gray and Brown, Forest-Inspired Painting on Canvas by Katherine Filice
Located in Hollister, CA
"We Become the Breath, Silence and Light Between the Leaves" is a 39.5 x 23-inch painting on buried canvas and the newest work by Katherine Filice, composed of ink, charcoal, embers,...
Category
2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Canvas, Chalk, Charcoal, Found Objects, Archival Ink
Jo Yarrington, Orchestrations, 2016, Found Objects, Plexiglass
Located in Darien, CT
The installation, Orchestrations, explores the vernacular in vintage piano roles. The physical perforations in the piano roll paper, coded notations for sound, act as a vehicle for l...
Category
2010s Post-Minimalist Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Plexiglass, Found Objects
Richard Klein, McDonalds (El Nino), 2024, 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
Tool-Box
By Mary Shaffer
Located in Glen Ellen, CA
This "Tool-Box" installation by Mary Shaffer includes all nine slumped glass and found metal tool sculptures, as well as the custom, painted wood wall cabinet for display...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Steel
$21,000
"Senufo (Gbon) Statute of Royalty, " Wood, Ivory, & Cowry Shells created c. 1940
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Senufo (Gbon) Statute of Royalty" is a sculpture by thr Senufo peoples of Gabon. It is wood, mixed fiber, textiles, and cowry shells.
14" x 8" x 3"
The...
Category
1940s Tribal Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Wood, Found Objects
"Kryptonite Wares", Found Objects 2015/2019, Chartreuse & Red, House Paint
Located in Detroit, MI
"Kryptonite Wares" is a clever and humorous collection of both superfluous and everyday objects purchased from the Dollar Store. It is a wry comment by the artist on the overabundanc...
Category
2010s Assemblage Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Plastic, Wood, Found Objects, Lights, Mixed Media, House Paint
"Inside/Out: Nipple Bucket I, " Mixed Media Sculpture by Timothy Andrew Kussow
By Timothy Andrew Kussow
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Inside/Out: Nipple Bucket I" is a sculpture created by Timothy Andrew Kussow. The artist signed the piece. It was created with a feed pail, aluminum, rubber nipples, fur, and steel....
Category
1990s Dada Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Metal, Steel
South Africa (Apple Trees): Colored Pencil Drawing & Unique Stamp
Located in Hudson, NY
South Africa (Apple Trees): Colored Pencil Drawing & Unique Stamp by Andrea Moreau
colored pencil and postage stamp on paper
11 x 11 inches
15 x 15 inches framed
This contemporary, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Paper, Found Objects, Color Pencil
"Around the World" -- Collage Wall Sculpture by Tony Dagradi
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, Wood
"Delivered and Discarded (negatives) #4" ink and layered cut Tyvek silhouette
By Yoonmi Nam
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Delivered and Discarded (negatives) #4" is an original wall-hanging piece by Yoonmi Nam. This piece is made from the flattening out packing boxes that the artist traces to depict t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Found Objects, Sumi Ink
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
“Pen Decline 1 - 2 - 3 in Grey” (Archeology series) Computer Keyboard Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Daniel Fiorda in this new series of sculptures, continues in many ways the themes that have infused his previous work. For the last several years, Fiorda has dealt with technology, obsolescence, with the trail of discarded tech that humanity leaves behind and what it says about us. The new work takes this thematic one step further. These new wall pieces feature barely concealed found objects, almost fully engulfed by concrete, and yet still eerily discernible: industrial gears, computer keyboards, objects that evoke industrial post-digital eras. This piece is a set of 3 artworks...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Concrete
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 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Wood, Paper, Varnish, Found Objects
$5,000
Cycloid
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Metal, Wire, Gold Leaf
$22,000
"Fox Hunt", wallpaper, acrylic paint, optical lens, screws, mounted on board
Located in Toronto, Ontario
“Fox Hunt“ is a wall relief panel by artist Heather Nicol, and measures 16x19x4“. Part of a body of work known as Brief Lives, this particular piece is comprised of wallpaper, wood, acrylic paint, screws and an optical lens...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Assemblage Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Glass, Wood, Found Objects, Board, Acrylic
"The Artist's Floor" - Abstract Assemblage
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract expressionist assemblage with found objects typical of an artist's studio floor by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b. 1957). Applied paint brushes, caps and tubes of paint, a few letters, putty knife, with splashes of color on wood. Unsigned. From the collection of the artist's work. Unframed. Image size: 11.25"H x 25.75"W
Bay Area artist and art educator Michael Pauker was born in New York in 1957 and knew he wanted to be an artist from the age of 15. He earned a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts at SUNY Purchase in his native state of New York. In 1989 he went on to earn an M.F.A at Mills College in Oakland and was awarded the City of Oakland Artist Fellowship in Painting. He has been a Bay Area resident since 1988. His work has been exhibited widely across the U.S., as well as in Japan and Costa Rica, and is included in the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Exhibitions include:
2007 Contemporary Art Museum, San Jose, Costa Rica
2007 “The Ebay Art Project,” Works/San Jose, San Jose, CA
2003 “Found Imagery: The Art of Collage,” Fresno Art Museum,Fresno, CA
2003 “Cut, Copy, Paste,” De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA
2003 “20th Annual Exhibition,” Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
2002 “40 by 40...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Glass, Plastic, Paper, Found Objects, Wood Panel, Wood, Oil
"Ultrablue Garden 05" Mixed Media Painting
Located in Chicago, IL
"Concrete Gardens" is a body of work that translates Patrick Burns' deep love of the land and complicated past into richly textured, mixed-media paintings with reverberating, monochr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Concrete
Sylvia Schwartz, Queen, 2018, canvas, fabric, paint, plastic
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, Found Objects, Acrylic, Canvas
Name Unknown
Located in New York, NY
Stainless Steel TIG Welding Rod, Aluminum, Fishing Accessories, Wire, Paint
Jeremy Bullis after David L. Bullis
Edition 1/5
Category
2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Stainless Steel, Wire
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
"Bacongo Statue, Used as Fetish - Zaire, " Wood, Glass Feathers, & Cloth
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This wood statue, used as a fetish, was created by an unknown Bacongo artist in Zaire. The Kongo people (also Bakongo) are a Bantu ethnic group primarily defined as the speakers of K...
Category
Early 1900s Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Fabric, Glass, Wood, Found Objects
Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls_Brushes, 2017, Organic Material, Found Objects, Pins
Located in Darien, CT
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 instruments or signage or other applications where light must be produced for long periods without external energy sources. Radioluminescent paint used to be used for clock hands and instrument dials...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Organic Material, Found Objects, Pins
"El Toro Loco", Hand drawn/painted cartoon bull figure on collaged street sign
By Sean 9 Lugo
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"El Toro Loco" is an original, collaborative piece by Sean 9 Lugo and El Toro made from acrylic, marker, ink on paper and mixed media on a decommissioned street sign . The cartoon bull figure is recognizable in the Philadelphia street...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Paper, Found Objects, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Permanent Marker, Aquatint
Loren Eiferman, Nature Will Heal, 108 Pieces of Wood, 2016, Wood, Found Objects
Located in Darien, CT
Over many decades Loren Eiferman has created and mastered a unique technique of working with wood—her primary material.
First, she begins with a drawing of an idea. Then she takes a daily walk in the woods surrounding her studio and collects tree limbs and long sticks that have fallen to the ground. She never chops down a living tree or uses green wood. Eiferman allows the wood time to cure in the studio to make sure it won’t check or crack.
Next, she debarks the branch and looks for shapes found within each piece of wood. Using a Japanese hand saw, she cuts and connect these small shapes together using dowels and wood glue. Then, all the open joints get filled with a home made putty, which is then sanded so she can see the newly formed shapes. This process is until the new sculpture appears like the original line drawing but in space. She wants the work to appear as if it grew in nature, when in fact each sculpture is composed of over 100 small pieces of wood that are seamlessly jointed together. Her work can be called the ultimate recycling: taking the detritus of nature and giving it a new life.
We have all at one point or another picked up a stick from the ground—touched the wood, peeled the bark off with our fingernails. Her work taps into that same primal desire of touching nature and being close to it. Trees connect us back to nature, back to this Earth. Her work has a meditative quality to it—a quiet, calming energy.
Her influences are many; from looking at nature and plant life on this Earth to researching the heavenly bodies in the images beamed back from the Hubble Telescope. From studying ancient Buddhist mandalas and designs to delving deeper into quantum physics. And from researching mysterious manuscripts to studying the patterns inside our brains.
For Invocation, we are exhibiting her newest body of work, inspired by the illustrations found in the Voynich Manuscript. This 250-page book, is believed to have been written in the early 15th century, of a mysterious origin and purpose.
Written in an unknown language and currently housed at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book Library, the manuscript has eluded all attempts in the intervening centuries to decode or decipher its purpose and meaning. This enigmatic book is divided into 6 different sections (herbal, astronomical, biological, cosmological, pharmaceutical and recipes).
Having discovered the images contained in this codex over the Internet, Eiferman felt an immediate, profound and inexplicable connection to this manuscript and its creator.
The artist is currently transposing the “herbal” section of manuscript into sculptures. This section has drawings in it of plants and flowers that do not really exist in nature—past or present. These aren’t just pretty images of flowers—they also contain the wacky root systems and seemingly out of proportion leaves, stamens and pistils.
Loren Eiferman was born in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BFA from SUNY Purchase. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout the Tri-State region including gallery and museum exhibitions in the Hudson Valley and Connecticut. Her work is included in numerous corporate and private art collections.
In 2014 she was awarded a NYC MTA Arts & Design art commission to produce steel railings...
Category
2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Wood, Found Objects
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
Hitchhiker
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Better late than never."
"Hitchhiker" is painted on re-purposed drop cloth, embellished with teal fringe and hung on custom brass hardware.
Becca Fuhrman says of her work...
My w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Gold Leaf, Brass
Diamonds, 2024 - Abstract Geometric Oil Painting and Collage on Found Book Cover
By Daisy Cook
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Diamonds, 2024
oil and collage on found book cover
21.5 x 15 cm
8 1/2 x 5 7/8 in
signed, titled and dated verso
Daisy Cook is a British painter of landscape and still life.
Cook...
Category
2010s Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Found Objects, Oil
Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 6, 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
Gregory
By Joe Brubaker
Located in Mill Valley, CA
A sculpture of a man.
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Wood, Found Objects, Acrylic
At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 12 (texture, organic, biophilic, sand)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 12 (horizontal) is a luminous, mixed-media painting by Melisa Taylor Metzger from her decade-long series At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites (...
Category
2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
Cat Is Very Smart, Contemporary Mixed Media Painting by Konstantin Bokov
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Konstantin Bokov, Ukrainian/American (1940 - )
Title: Cat is Very Smart
Year: 1999
Medium: Acrylic on Board and Found Art Collage, Signed and dated
Size: 20 x 16 in. (50....
Category
1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Found Objects, Acrylic, Board
Margaret Roleke, Holy Torture, 2016, children's toys, spray enamel, wood
Located in Darien, CT
In the body of work for “Child’s Play” Roleke has created diminutive worlds in which toys tell the story of consumption, consumerism, war, and the misuse of power and religion. The m...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Enamel
Margaret Roleke, Religious Toys, 2016, children's toys, spray enamel, wood
Located in Darien, CT
In the body of work for “Child’s Play” Roleke has created diminutive worlds in which toys tell the story of consumption, consumerism, war, and the misuse of power and religion. The m...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Enamel
Linda Cunningham, 'Edge of Change III', 2015, Pastel, Acrylic Paint
Located in Darien, CT
Unexpected materials, found and manufactured, perch precariously on torn edges and bifurcated sheets of large paper. Here, fluid calligraphic lines are posed against the veracity of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Pastel, Acrylic, Wood, Charcoal, Cotton Canvas, Found Objects
Jo Yarrington, Conversation with Lovejoy, 2020, photo wax Xerox_combined 10 x 18
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
Found Objects, Wax, Photographic Paper
Seashell Eyes
Located in New Orleans, LA
"It’s okay to be a little superstitious."
"Seashell Eyes" is painted on re-purposed drop cloth and hung on custom brass hardware.
Becca Fuhrman says of her work...
My work aims to...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Brass, Copper
Heads or Tails
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Call it in the air, heads or tails?"
"Heads or Tails" is painted on re-purposed drop cloth, embellished with peach fringe and hung on custom brass hardware.
Becca Fuhrman says of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Brass, Copper
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 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Brass, Copper
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Brass, Copper
Kathleen Vance, Newtown Creek Waterway, 2017, Found Objects, Acrylic Paint, Wood
Located in Darien, CT
Kathleen Vance explores environmental issues such as water conservation and protection through positive stewardship of the land. She looks to convey an appreciation of nature and tra...
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2010s Conceptual Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Wire
Surreal Contemporary Figurative Mixed-Media Oil Painting American
Located in Buffalo, NY
One of a kind mixed-media object collage by Philip Kuznicki from the Spirit exhibition. Comes in its original frame.
Born in Dunkirk NY, Kuznicki started his career working for artis...
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2010s Surrealist Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Found Objects, Mixed Media
Surreal Contemporary Figurative Mixed-Media Sculpture Found-Object American
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...
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2010s Surrealist Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Found Objects, Mixed Media
At sea between fossils and satellites 7 (blue organic copper abstract texture)
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
"Still Life Sand #1"
Located in Astoria, NY
Beatrice G. Epstein (American, XX), "Still Life Sand #1", Sand and Oil on Canvas, signed and titled to verso, labeled "Still Life" to frame, wood frame. Image: 14.25" H x 18" W; fram...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Canvas, Found Objects, Oil
"#152 – GOOD GIRL", ink, pencil, gouache, found vintage book, hemingway, poetry
By Amy Williams
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"#152 – GOOD GIRL" is from Amy Williams' series A Farewell to Arms – wherein the artist is working directly onto page 152 of a found copy of Ernest Heming...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Paper, Found Objects, Ink, Gouache, Pencil
“Where The Dogwoods Bloom” Dimensional forest painting by Katherine Filice
Located in Hollister, CA
"Where The Dogwoods Bloom" is a 16.25 x 11.75 x 3-inch sculptural piece made with ink, paper, bark, embers, and found natural elements. Deeply rooted in the forest, Katherine Filice ...
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2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Found Objects, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
"SOMEWHERE ELSE #2", Watercolor on Sal Leaf Plate, Black Frame, Green, Red, Tan
By Eva Ennist
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Eva Ennist, a mixed media and fiber artist, travels extensively through the Far East, gathering materials and techniques for her practice. The artwork "SOMETHING ELSE #2" uses materi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Watercolor, Organic Material, Wood, Found Objects, Mixed Media
Lisa Levy, You Give Good Gratitude, 2014, Mirror, Plastic, Marble, Found Objects
By Lisa Levy
Located in Darien, CT
Dr. Lisa's Ego Championship Trophies
Lisa Levy is a painter, conceptual artist, comedian and (self-proclaimed) psychotherapist.
Lisa's visual career started when she was 3 1/2 ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Assemblage Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Marble
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
Arrival, Shipwrecks stories. Iron vessel wall sculpture. 23.5x11"
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 ...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Metal, Steel, Iron
Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Splinter 2 ), 2014, Wood, Paint, Found Objects
By Liz Sweibel
Located in Darien, CT
Liz Sweibel primarily makes sculpture, installations, and drawings. She uses a spare, personal language of abstraction to explore liminal spaces and unseen forces: wind, history, va...
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2010s Minimalist Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Wood, Paint, Found Objects
Sim (Irish-Listener)
By Nancy Legge
Located in Mill Valley, CA
A sculpture of a figure using stoneware and found objects.
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Stoneware, Found Objects
At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 9 (blue vibrant abstract art deco texture)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"At Sea between Fossils and Satellites 9" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with art deco aestheti...
Category
2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
"Bouquet, " 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...
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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
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