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Medium: Found Objects
"Was Happy Cancelled?", Wall-Hanging Sculpture, Rainbow, Bright Colors, Smile
"Was Happy Cancelled?", Wall-Hanging Sculpture, Rainbow, Bright Colors, Smile

"Was Happy Cancelled?", Wall-Hanging Sculpture, Rainbow, Bright Colors, Smile

By Kelly Kozma

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This wall-hanging sculpture titled "Was Happy Cancelled?" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma made of assorted & repurposed punched paper, hand-stitc...

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

Materials

Thread, Paper, Found Objects

Right On Fabric Sculpture, Hand Embroidery & Collage, 21st Century
Right On Fabric Sculpture, Hand Embroidery & Collage, 21st Century

Right On Fabric Sculpture, Hand Embroidery & Collage, 21st Century

By Kelly Kozma

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This fabric work titled "Right On" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma made of hand embroidery and collage on rag paper. The piece measures 13”h by 13”w framed. Kelly Kozma is a m...

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

Materials

Fabric, Thread, Found Objects

Joseph Fucigna, Burning Bush, 2001, Plastic, Found Objects
Joseph Fucigna, Burning Bush, 2001, Plastic, Found Objects

Joseph Fucigna, Burning Bush, 2001, Plastic, Found Objects

By Joseph Fucigna

Located in Darien, CT

Joseph Fucigna is a multi-media artist whose work is rooted in process, play and the innate qualities of the materials used. Through experimentation, play and innovation he creates sculptures, paintings and drawings that are known for their power to transform materials, inventiveness and odd but suggestive subject matter. The ultimate goal is to create an artwork that is a perfect balance between suggestive content, and the formal qualities of the material that allow both to be active participants. Joseph Fucigna received his Masters of Fine Arts degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He also attended the Triangle Workshop in Pine Plains, NY and worked with the renowned sculptor Sir Anthony Caro and critic Clement Greenberg. Fucigna is a full-time Professor of Art at Norwalk Community College and is the Chair of the Studio Arts Program. Fucigna has also taught in the Art Department at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. Presently, he resides and works in Weston, CT. Fucigna has exhibited nationally including shows at the Fitchburg Art Museum in Massachusetts, Real Art Ways in Connecticut, the United Nations, Grounds for Sculpture in New Jersey, the Lyman Allyn Art Museum in Connecticut, the New York State Museum in Albany, NY and the Burchfield Art Center in Buffalo NY. He has had one-person exhibitions at the Fred Giampietro Gallery, Sculpture Barn, Norwalk Community College Art Gallery, Artist Space New Haven and the Bannister...

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Early 2000s Arte Povera Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Plastic, Found Objects

Coin Cunt XLII Sculpture, Contemporary, Found Objects, 21st Century
Coin Cunt XLII Sculpture, Contemporary, Found Objects, 21st Century

Coin Cunt XLII Sculpture, Contemporary, Found Objects, 21st Century

By Suzanna Scott

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This piece titled "Coin Cunt XLI" is an original artwork made from kiss-lock coin purses and thread by Suzanna Scott. This piece measures approx. 4"x4", size varies Suzanna Scott is...

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

Materials

Thread, Found Objects

"*69" Vintage found object assemblage, aerosol, telephone cord, hanging ornament
"*69" Vintage found object assemblage, aerosol, telephone cord, hanging ornament

"*69" Vintage found object assemblage, aerosol, telephone cord, hanging ornament

By Sarah Detweiler

Located in Philadelphia, PA

" *69 " is an original piece by Sarah Detweiler is made from curly phone cords, repurposed decoration-only chandelier, spray paint. This piece measures 36”h x 15”w x 15”d. Watching ...

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

Materials

Found Objects, Mixed Media, Spray Paint

Coin Cunt XXVII: Navy Blue Sculpture with Thread and Found Objects
Coin Cunt XXVII: Navy Blue Sculpture with Thread and Found Objects

Coin Cunt XXVII: Navy Blue Sculpture with Thread and Found Objects

By Suzanna Scott

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This is an original navy blue sculpture from Suzanna Scott's ongoing "Coin Cunt" series made from a kisslock coin purse and thread. The piece measures approximately 4in x 4in. ABOU...

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

Materials

Thread, Found Objects

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

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

By Melisa Taylor Metzger

Located in Quebec, Quebec

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

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2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic

Dead of Night Hand Embroidery Sculpture in Fabric and Thread
Dead of Night Hand Embroidery Sculpture in Fabric and Thread

Dead of Night Hand Embroidery Sculpture in Fabric and Thread

By Kelly Kozma

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This fabric work titled "Dead of Night" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma made of hand embroidery on paper. The piece measures 13”h by 13”w framed. Kelly Kozma is a mixed media ...

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

Materials

Fabric, Thread, Found Objects

"Squeaking By", Fabric Sculpture, Hand Embroidery on Paper, 21st Century
"Squeaking By", Fabric Sculpture, Hand Embroidery on Paper, 21st Century

"Squeaking By", Fabric Sculpture, Hand Embroidery on Paper, 21st Century

By Kelly Kozma

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This fabric work titled "Squeaking By" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma made of hand embroidery and photographs on paper. The piece measures 13”h by 13”w framed. Kelly Kozma is...

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

Materials

Fabric, Thread, Found Objects, Paper

"Mystery Friends" Deconstructed and Reimagined Secondhand Ceramic Figurines
"Mystery Friends" Deconstructed and Reimagined Secondhand Ceramic Figurines

"Mystery Friends" Deconstructed and Reimagined Secondhand Ceramic Figurines

By Debra Broz

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This figurative sculpture titled "Mystery Friends" is an original artwork by Debra Broz made of secondhand ceramics and mixed media. The individual sculptures measure 3.5"h x 2.5"w x...

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

Materials

Ceramic, Found Objects

Catching Blessings: shadow box painting & collage w/ figures & found objects
Catching Blessings: shadow box painting & collage w/ figures & found objects

Catching Blessings: shadow box painting & collage w/ figures & found objects

By Richard J. Watson

Located in Bryn Mawr, PA

This is a shadow box construction approx. 13" x 9" x 2.5" with painted and collaged materials including historic photographs of Black figures and other found objects. Encased in a dark wood frame under glass. 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...

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2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Found Objects, Acrylic, Glass

R.I.P. Kobe, Painting on Tea Bag, Tribute to Kobe Bryant
R.I.P. Kobe, Painting on Tea Bag, Tribute to Kobe Bryant

R.I.P. Kobe, Painting on Tea Bag, Tribute to Kobe Bryant

By Ruby Silvious

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This purple, white, beige and orange painting titled "R.I.P. Kobe" is an original artwork by Ruby Silvious made of watercolor and gouache on used tea bag. This...

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

Materials

Found Objects, Watercolor, Gouache, Tea

"A FLATNESS IN THE EYES", Assemblage Wall-Hanging, Found Objects, Threat, Paint
"A FLATNESS IN THE EYES", Assemblage Wall-Hanging, Found Objects, Threat, Paint

"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, ...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Thread, Found Objects, Acrylic

Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Scrapings #10), 2016, Wood, Paint, Found Objects
Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Scrapings #10), 2016, Wood, Paint, Found Objects

Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Scrapings #10), 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

"Marginal Madonna" Abstract Relief with Rorschach Patterns Sculpture
"Marginal Madonna" Abstract Relief with Rorschach Patterns Sculpture

"Marginal Madonna" Abstract Relief with Rorschach Patterns Sculpture

Located in Soquel, CA

"Marginal Madonna" Abstract Relief Sculpture Carved sculpture and painting by Mickey "Kano" Kane (American, 20th century). This large-scale relief sculpture features The central fig...

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1990s Other Art Style Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Resin, Found Objects, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Handmade Paper

Minimalist Mixed Media Botanical Painting "Branch #1"
Minimalist Mixed Media Botanical Painting "Branch #1"

Minimalist Mixed Media Botanical Painting "Branch #1"

By Derek Lynch

Located in Soquel, CA

Minimalist Mixed Media Botanical Study Painting Botanical "Branch #1" This mixed media painting by Derek James Lynch (American, b. 1959, 2003 presents a botanical study rendered in ...

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Early 2000s Minimalist Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Found Objects

"Against Apartheid", Mixed Media on Linen with Assemblage Elements, 1982-1984
"Against Apartheid", Mixed Media on Linen with Assemblage Elements, 1982-1984

"Against Apartheid", Mixed Media on Linen with Assemblage Elements, 1982-1984

Located in Astoria, NY

Roni Nicholson (American, XX-XXI), "Against Apartheid", Mixed Media on Linen with Assemblage Elements, 1982-1984, signed, titled, and dated verso, unframed. 54" H x 54" W x 1.5" D....

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1980s Conceptual Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Textile, Linen, Wood, Found Objects, Mixed Media, Oil, Newsprint

Climb

Climb

Located in New Orleans, LA

Emily Holt says of her work... My work is a collection of objects made from paper and found material to suggest open-ended narratives on themes civic, architectural, and cartographi...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Paint, Paper, Found Objects

Habitat

Habitat

Located in New Orleans, LA

Emily Holt says of her work... My work is a collection of objects made from paper and found material to suggest open-ended narratives on themes civic, architectural, and cartographi...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Paint, Paper, Found Objects

"Middle of the Night Green Glow", Vintage Flip Phone Crochet Wall Art
"Middle of the Night Green Glow", Vintage Flip Phone Crochet Wall Art

"Middle of the Night Green Glow", Vintage Flip Phone Crochet Wall Art

By Nicole Nikolich, Lace in the Moon

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This piece titled "Middle of the Night Green Glow" is a one-of-a-kind original piece by Nicole Nikolich (Lace in the Moon) and is made from crocheted acrylic on MDF, with 16 colors a...

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

Materials

Textile, Yarn, Found Objects, Wood

"Loser, Loser, Double Loser (AIM Block Button)", Internet Culture Fiber Art
"Loser, Loser, Double Loser (AIM Block Button)", Internet Culture Fiber Art

"Loser, Loser, Double Loser (AIM Block Button)", Internet Culture Fiber Art

By Nicole Nikolich, Lace in the Moon

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This piece titled "Loser, Loser, Double Loser (AIM Block Button)" is a one-of-a-kind original piece by Nicole Nikolich (Lace in the Moon) and is made from crocheted acrylic and beads...

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

Materials

Textile, Yarn, Found Objects, Wood

Assemblage #5 (Ornithology Illustrations & Glass Slide with Silver, Gold Paint)
Assemblage #5 (Ornithology Illustrations & Glass Slide with Silver, Gold Paint)

Assemblage #5 (Ornithology Illustrations & Glass Slide with Silver, Gold Paint)

By Michael Pauker

Located in Soquel, CA

Abstract expressionist found object assemblage on wood with highly expressive silver and gold paint by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b. 1957). Against the raw woodgrain, the artist has attached several objects, including paper fragments of ornithological illustrations of birds...

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

Materials

Glass, Plastic, Wood, Paper, Oil, Found Objects, Acrylic

"Francisco G.", Mixed Media on Linen with Assemblage Elements, 1990
"Francisco G.", Mixed Media on Linen with Assemblage Elements, 1990

"Francisco G.", Mixed Media on Linen with Assemblage Elements, 1990

Located in Astoria, NY

Roni Nicholson (American, XX), "Francisco G.", Mixed Media on Linen with Assemblage Elements, 1990, signed, titled, and dated verso, unframed. 51.25" H x 54" W x 1.5" D. Provenance...

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1990s Conceptual Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Textile, Linen, Wood, Found Objects, Mixed Media, Oil

Waiting to Exhale, Accumulation Cigar Sculpture by Arman
Waiting to Exhale, Accumulation Cigar Sculpture by Arman

Waiting to Exhale, Accumulation Cigar Sculpture by Arman

By Fernandez 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...

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1990s Modern Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Epoxy Resin, Mixed Media, Found Objects

Should

Should

Located in New Orleans, LA

Samantha Combs says of her work... In my work, the shower serves as both a literal and metaphorical refuge—a private site where the emotional and cognitive remnants of daily life ar...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Found Objects

Would

Would

Located in New Orleans, LA

Samantha Combs says of her work... In my work, the shower serves as both a literal and metaphorical refuge—a private site where the emotional and cognitive remnants of daily life ar...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Found Objects

Subterranean Shower Excavation: Cross-Section III

Subterranean Shower Excavation: Cross-Section III

Located in New Orleans, LA

Samantha Combs says of her work... In my work, the shower serves as both a literal and metaphorical refuge—a private site where the emotional and cognitive remnants of daily life ar...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Epoxy Resin, Found Objects

All of Your Unspoken Rehearsals Fermenting in the Corners

All of Your Unspoken Rehearsals Fermenting in the Corners

Located in New Orleans, LA

Samantha Combs says of her work... In my work, the shower serves as both a literal and metaphorical refuge—a private site where the emotional and cognitive remnants of daily life ar...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Epoxy Resin, Found Objects

Subterranean Shower Excavation: Cross-Section II

Subterranean Shower Excavation: Cross-Section II

Located in New Orleans, LA

Samantha Combs says of her work... In my work, the shower serves as both a literal and metaphorical refuge—a private site where the emotional and cognitive remnants of daily life ar...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Epoxy Resin, Found Objects

All Those Times You Remembered That Thing and then Forgot about it
All Those Times You Remembered That Thing and then Forgot about it

All Those Times You Remembered That Thing and then Forgot about it

Located in New Orleans, LA

Samantha Combs says of her work... In my work, the shower serves as both a literal and metaphorical refuge—a private site where the emotional and cognitive remnants of daily life ar...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Epoxy Resin, Found Objects

Price Cycles: Large Bold Contemporary Abstract Painting on Wood Panel w/ collage
Price Cycles: Large Bold Contemporary Abstract Painting on Wood Panel w/ collage

Price Cycles: Large Bold Contemporary Abstract Painting on Wood Panel w/ collage

By Mat Tomezsko

Located in Bryn Mawr, PA

This is a large, bold mixed-media painting on three separate 48" tall wood panels that hang vertically together to create a single composition. This dramatic piece will add impact t...

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2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Found Objects, Acrylic, Panel, Wood Panel, Magazine Paper, Newsprint, As...

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

"Cornbread Pink Canvas" Textures and patterns with Signature Tag
"Cornbread Pink Canvas" Textures and patterns with Signature Tag

"Cornbread Pink Canvas" Textures and patterns with Signature Tag

By Cornbread

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This artwork titled "Cornbread Pink Canvas," is an original artwork by Cornbread made of acrylic paint on canvas. The piece measures 16”h x 20”w. Darryl McCray, known by his tagging...

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

Materials

Found Objects, Acrylic

“Pen Decline 1 - 2 - 3 in Black” (Archeology series) Computer Keyboard Sculpture
“Pen Decline 1 - 2 - 3 in Black” (Archeology series) Computer Keyboard Sculpture

“Pen Decline 1 - 2 - 3 in Black” (Archeology series) Computer Keyboard Sculpture

By Daniel Fiorda

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...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Concrete

Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 4, 2019_acrylic, steel, player piano rol
Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 4, 2019_acrylic, steel, player piano rol

Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 4, 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

Mihail (Chemiakin), Found Art Collage and Painting by Bokov
Mihail (Chemiakin), Found Art Collage and Painting by Bokov

Mihail (Chemiakin), Found Art Collage and Painting by Bokov

By Konstantin Bokov

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Konstantin Bokov, Ukrainian/American (1940 - ) Title: Mihail (Chemiakin) Year: 1985 Medium: Found Art Collage with Paint on Canvas, Signed and dated Size: 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x...

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1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Canvas, Found Objects, Oil

Richard Klein, McDonalds (El Nino), 2024, Found and altered objects assemblage
Richard Klein, McDonalds (El Nino), 2024, Found and altered objects assemblage

Richard Klein, McDonalds (El Nino), 2024, Found and altered objects assemblage

By Richard Klein

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...

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2010s Assemblage Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Metal

“Untitled”
“Untitled”

Yvon Prevel“Untitled”, 1987

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“Untitled”

By Yvon Prevel

Located in Southampton, NY

Original mixed media painting by the French artist, Yvon Prevel. Composed of painted fabric applied to canvas on a wooden stretcher. Signed verso and dated 1987. Condition is excel...

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1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Canvas, Found Objects, Oil

Spinner

Spinner

By Paul Villinski

Located in New Orleans, LA

PAUL VILLINSKI has created studio and large-scale artworks for more than three decades. Villinski was born in York, Maine, USA, in 1960, son of an Air Force navigator. He has lived and worked in New York City since 1982. A scenic route through the educational system included stops at Phillips Exeter Academy and the Massachusetts College of Art, and a BFA with honors from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1984. He lives with his partner, the painter Amy Park, and their son, Lark, in their studios in Long Island City, NY. His work has been included in numerous exhibitions nationally. A mid-career retrospective, “Farther,” is currently on view at The Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke, VA, through July, 2018. Recent solo exhibitions include “Paul Villinski: Burst” at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, TX and “Passage: A Special Installation,” at the Blanton Museum, University of Texas, Austin. Recent group shows include “Material Transformations” at the Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery, AL; “Re: Collection,” at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY; “Making Mends,” at the Bellevue Museum of Arts, Bellevue, WA; and “Prospect .1,” an international Biennial in New Orleans, LA. “Emergency Response Studio,” a FEMA trailer transformed into an off-the-grid mobile artist...

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

Materials

Steel

Can Man (Make Graffiti Fun Again), animatronic dancing spray can, black & gray
Can Man (Make Graffiti Fun Again), animatronic dancing spray can, black & gray

Can Man (Make Graffiti Fun Again), animatronic dancing spray can, black & gray

By NTEL

Located in Jersey City, NJ

Animatronic spray can sculpture by NTEL that dances and shakes its hips when plugged in. Made with felt, polymer and acrylic and includes cardboard black and silver brick wall. Gen...

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2010s Street Art Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Felt, Found Objects, Acrylic, Polymer

Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Scrapings #2), 2016, Wood, Paint, Found Objects
Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Scrapings #2), 2016, Wood, Paint, Found Objects

Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Scrapings #2), 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

“Untitled”
“Untitled”

“Untitled”

By Yvon Prevel

Located in Southampton, NY

Original mixed media painting attributed to the French artist, Yvon Prevel. Composed of painted rope with oil paint and found wooden painted pieces attached to a painted wooden backi...

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1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Canvas, Found Objects, Oil

At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 15 (texture, organic, biophilic, sand)
At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 15 (texture, organic, biophilic, sand)

At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 15 (texture, organic, biophilic, sand)

By Melisa Taylor Metzger

Located in Quebec, Quebec

At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 15 is a richly textured, mixed-media painting by Melisa Taylor Metzger from her decade-long series At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites (2015–2...

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2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic

Patricia Miranda, Dreaming Awake, 2020, nightdress, cochineal dyes, plaster,
Patricia Miranda, Dreaming Awake, 2020, nightdress, cochineal dyes, plaster,

Patricia Miranda, Dreaming Awake, 2020, nightdress, cochineal dyes, plaster,

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

Fabric, Thread, Dye, Found Objects, Plaster

“Pen Decline 1 - 2 - 3 in White” (Archeology series) Computer Keyboard Sculpture
“Pen Decline 1 - 2 - 3 in White” (Archeology series) Computer Keyboard Sculpture

“Pen Decline 1 - 2 - 3 in White” (Archeology series) Computer Keyboard Sculpture

By Daniel Fiorda

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 that showcases a black computer keyboard on a white background and they can be arranged for display in a variety of layouts. They come ready to hang with hanging hardware and they are signed by the artist on verso. Art measures 8.75 x 8.75 x 1.25 in (each) The overall sense is dystopian rather than apocalyptic. In Fiorda’s previous work, found objects were displayed as if unearthed from a bed of clay by a tacit anthropologist, perhaps decades into the future. A typewriter would be partially buried by dry soil and weathered by the passing of time. The underlying narrative was that of a future civilization unearthing the objects left by ours. Destruction or extinction was implied. In the new work, the obsolete technology is not found but rather engulfed by a new technology. Concrete, as a material and as a technology, has the capabilities to fully encase and envelope. In Fiorda’s new work, uniformity and the appropriation of old/new technology into new structures suggests a historical and technological challenge right around the corner, mirroring the ones in our recent past: the digital age fully replacing the analog world. These astounding sculptures, with embedded objects, are here to examine closely, and make connections between theme, material, and shape. Daniel Fiorda was born in 1963 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Of Italian ancestry, his lineage includes a grandfather highly respected as a wood craftsman, also his father was a craftsman in addition to being a musician and poet. Because a privileged life was not his, there was no university for Fiorda. In the Old World tradition of passing on knowledge from parent to child, he learned about machinery form his father, who recognized his son's talent and encouraged it. With some private tutoring, he began sculpting in high school using found objects. The press reviews of his first exhibit, at age 20, stated that Fiorda had a definite “poetic feeling”. With this encouragement, he continued to pursue his art. After leaving Argentina, he arrived in Miami Beach via a circuitous route and set up his studio in the South Florida Art Center. He has exhibited widely throughout the US including the OK Harris Gallery, Allan Stone Gallery in New York as well as the Heriard Cimino Gallery in New Orleans, Lélia Mordoch Gallery in Paris France and Lilac Gallery in New York City. Daniel was one of the winners in the 7th Annual Sculptures Competition (2003) held at Washburn University in Topeka , Kansas. Selected on the inaugural 2006 Palm Beach International Sculpture Biennale, and exhibited for the 3rd time in Sculpture Key West. He is an alumni Artist of ArtCenter/South Florida. Two Pieces from his “Convertible Couch projects...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Concrete

Peter the Great, Mixed Media and Oil Paint on Canvas by Konstantin Bokov
Peter the Great, Mixed Media and Oil Paint on Canvas by Konstantin Bokov

Peter the Great, Mixed Media and Oil Paint on Canvas by Konstantin Bokov

By Konstantin Bokov

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Konstantin Bokov, Ukrainian/American (1940 - ) Title: Peter The Great Year: 1985 Medium: Found Art Collage with Paint on Canvas, Signed and dated Size: 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40...

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1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Canvas, Found Objects, Oil

3-part painting construction by Black African American artist, w/ found objects
3-part painting construction by Black African American artist, w/ found objects

3-part painting construction by Black African American artist, w/ found objects

By Richard J. Watson

Located in Bryn Mawr, PA

This is an 3-part painting / construction (assemblage) created from acrylic paint, wood, glass, and found objects. It includes several historic photograph of figures as well as many scenes from Black African American cultural history. Each piece measures 23" x 7.75" x 2.5", and they can be hung close together or far apart, depending on the buyer's preference. All pieces are wired with the appropriate hanging hardware and are ready to install, no additional framing needed. PROVENANCE: Exhibited in "Portals + Revelations: Richard J. Watson," the African American Museum in Philadelphia, Oct 2021 - Mar 2022. "Most of my works are supported by memories of the past and suggested realities. Issues of social politics, ancestral references, and astral projections are presented with fragmented elements of 'real life' collaged and collapsed, as dreams are prone to do. If connections are made, all the better. I feel that life should remind us of our dreams." - Richard J. Watson Richard J. Watson is an icon in the Philadelphia art world. Much of his work relates to his experiences as a Black African American man. He is a graduate of Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1968), has taught at his alma mater, and has served in the Exhibitions Department at the African American Museum in Philadelphia since the 1980s. He has been exhibiting his work for decades, and has an extensive bibliography. His work is held in the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; the Uniworld Corporation; Sony; the Federal Reserve Bank; the City of Philadelphia; Sprint; the Church of the Advocate; the poet Dr. Sonia Sanchez; and the Woodmere Museum...

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2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Found Objects, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Glass, Wood

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