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Medium: Found Objects
Baile con SombraX-21st Cent., Contemporary, Abstract Sculpture, Recycled Objects
Baile con SombraX-21st Cent., Contemporary, Abstract Sculpture, Recycled Objects

Baile con SombraX-21st Cent., Contemporary, Abstract Sculpture, Recycled Objects

By Lukas Ulmi

Located in Barcelona, Catalonia

Full title: "Baile con Sombra X" Lukas Ulmi’s work unveils the hidden beauty of shapes taking stones, seemingly static forms, incomplete or meaningless objects and turning them into...

Category

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

Materials

Found Objects, Mixed Media

Bayou

Bayou

By Eric Rhein

Located in New York, NY

Eric Rhein “Bayou” 2010 Signed, verso Gelatin silver print, sterling silver, bronze, and found objects 25 x 21 x 4 inches (63.5 x 53.3 x 10.2 cm), framed This work is offered by...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Silver, Bronze

Monochrome Accumulation No. 3001, Mixed Media Acrylic on Canvas, 1988
Monochrome Accumulation No. 3001, Mixed Media Acrylic on Canvas, 1988

Monochrome Accumulation No. 3001, Mixed Media Acrylic on Canvas, 1988

By Arman

Located in New York, NY

Monochrome Accumulation No. 3001, 1988 by Arman (1928-2005) Acrylic paint tubes and acrylic paint on canvas 40 ¼ x 32 ⅞ inches framed (102.235 x 83.5025 cm) 36 ¼ x 28 ¾ inches unframed (92.075 x 73.025 cm) Inscribed (SA) and numbered (3001) on the reverse Provenance: A.H. Graphics, Stockholm Private Collection, Europe Sotheby's, London, Contemporary Art, 20 March 1997, Lot 74 Description: This mixed media work titled "Monochrome Accumulation No. 3001" by Armand Pierre Fernandez, typically styled as "Arman," is a brilliant collage of found objects and traditional painting techniques. The bright, monochromatic yellow...

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1980s Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Found Objects, Acrylic

Sensor IX - 21st Century, Contemporary Art, Abstract Sculpture, Recycled Objects
Sensor IX - 21st Century, Contemporary Art, Abstract Sculpture, Recycled Objects

Sensor IX - 21st Century, Contemporary Art, Abstract Sculpture, Recycled Objects

By Lukas Ulmi

Located in Barcelona, Catalonia

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

Category

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

Materials

Found Objects, Mixed Media

Bruce - 21st Century, Contemporary Animal Sculpture, Figurative, Recycling
Bruce - 21st Century, Contemporary Animal Sculpture, Figurative, Recycling

Bruce - 21st Century, Contemporary Animal Sculpture, Figurative, Recycling

By Miquel Aparici

Located in Barcelona, Catalonia

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

Category

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

Materials

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

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...

Category

2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Found Objects, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Glass, Wood

"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...

Category

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...

Category

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

Materials

Textile, Yarn, Found Objects, Wood

Colors of the Real World 71 (2022)
Colors of the Real World 71 (2022)

Colors of the Real World 71 (2022)

By RH Doaz

Located in Jersey City, NJ

Aerosol, oil and wood stain on reclaimed oak wood by street artist and muralist RH Doaz. Earth tones, metallic, folk art style, inspired by Hungarian textiles...

Category

2010s Street Art Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Wood, Found Objects, Oil, Spray Paint

“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...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Concrete

"Cornbread I Start This Shit 1965 Stop Sign" Graffiti and Street Art
"Cornbread I Start This Shit 1965 Stop Sign" Graffiti and Street Art

"Cornbread I Start This Shit 1965 Stop Sign" Graffiti and Street Art

By Cornbread

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This artwork titled "Cornbread I Start This Shit 1965 Stop Sign" is an original artwork by Cornbread made of acrylic paint on a retired street sign. The piece measures 30"h x 30"w an...

Category

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

Materials

Found Objects, Acrylic

"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...

Category

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

Materials

Found Objects, Acrylic

Open Surgery

Open Surgery

By Kilroy Savage

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

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...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Paint, Paper, Found Objects

Frame

Frame

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...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Wood, 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...

Category

1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Canvas, Found Objects, Oil

Esplanade Promenade

Esplanade Promenade

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...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Paint, Paper, Found Objects

"Kryptonite Wares", Found Objects 2015/2019, Chartreuse & Red, House Paint
"Kryptonite Wares", Found Objects 2015/2019, Chartreuse & Red, House Paint

"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

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

“Pen Decline 1 - 2 - 3 in Grey” (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...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Concrete

Paintbrushes II, Accumulation Sculpture by Arman
Paintbrushes II, Accumulation Sculpture by Arman

Paintbrushes II, Accumulation Sculpture by Arman

By Arman

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Arman, French/American (1929 - 2005) Title: Paintbrushes II 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

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

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

By Matti Havens & Gregory Kramer

Located in Darien, CT

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

Category

2010s New Media Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Wire

Loren Eiferman, Nature Will Heal, 108 Pieces of Wood, 2016, Wood, Found Objects
Loren Eiferman, Nature Will Heal, 108 Pieces of Wood, 2016, Wood, Found Objects

Loren Eiferman, Nature Will Heal, 108 Pieces of Wood, 2016, Wood, Found Objects

By Loren Eiferman

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

Caballo X - 21st Century, Contemporary Sculpture, Figurative, Recycling
Caballo X - 21st Century, Contemporary Sculpture, Figurative, Recycling

Caballo X - 21st Century, Contemporary Sculpture, Figurative, Recycling

By Miquel Aparici

Located in Barcelona, Catalonia

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

Category

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

Materials

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

"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

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

Glowgrass
Glowgrass

Glowgrass

By Rod Lathim

Located in West Hollywood, CA

Rod Lathim’s Glowgrass transforms a vintage wooden dobro into a fusion of sculpture, sound, and spirit. Rooted in the traditions of American folk, country, and bluegrass, the dobro h...

Category

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

Materials

Found Objects, Neon Light

"We're All Just Taller Children"Artist Self Portrait in Acrylic & Colored Pencil
"We're All Just Taller Children"Artist Self Portrait in Acrylic & Colored Pencil

"We're All Just Taller Children"Artist Self Portrait in Acrylic & Colored Pencil

By Kelly Kozma

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This sculpture titled "We're All Just Taller Children" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma made of colored pencil, ink & acrylic on paper, wood, chain and handmade origami wishing ...

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

Materials

Found Objects, Acrylic, Wood, Paper, Ink, Color Pencil

Leaf Winged Male

Leaf Winged Male

By Eric Rhein

Located in New York, NY

Eric Rhein “Leaf Winged Male” 1999 Signed, verso Wire, paper, and found objects 26.25 x 21 x 3.25 inches (53.3 x 8.3 cm), framed This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.

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1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Wire

Breathless Civilization - Mixed Media Assemblage on Canvas
Breathless Civilization - Mixed Media Assemblage on Canvas

Breathless Civilization - Mixed Media Assemblage on Canvas

By Irena Orlov

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Breathless Civilization "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 a...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Bronze

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

Richard Klein, iHop II, 2018, Found and altered objects assemblage
Richard Klein, iHop II, 2018, Found and altered objects assemblage

Richard Klein, iHop II, 2018, 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

Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls, Camel Hair Brush Display, 2018, Found Objects, Metal
Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls, Camel Hair Brush Display, 2018, Found Objects, Metal

Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls, Camel Hair Brush Display, 2018, Found Objects, Metal

By Jo Yarrington

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...

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2010s Conceptual Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Metal

Snakey, 10 x 13 x 4 inch, Glass Beaded Surface on Mixed Media, Jan Huling

Snakey, 10 x 13 x 4 inch, Glass Beaded Surface on Mixed Media, Jan Huling

By Jan Huling

Located in St. Louis, MO

Snakey, 10 x 13 x 4 inch, Glass Beaded Surface on Mixed Media, Jan Huling Jan Huling was born in Chicago and raised in St. Louis. After attending the Kansas City Art Institute she s...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Glass, Plastic, Found Objects, Mixed Media, Other Medium

Jerome, 15.5 x 11 x 9 inch, Glass Beads on Found Object, Jan Huling

Jerome, 15.5 x 11 x 9 inch, Glass Beads on Found Object, Jan Huling

By Jan Huling

Located in St. Louis, MO

Jerome, 15.5 x 11 x 9 inch, Glass Beads on Found Object, Jan Huling Jan Huling was born in Chicago and raised in St. Louis. After attending the Kansas City Art Institute she started...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Glass, Plastic, Found Objects, Mixed Media, Other Medium

Dudaway, 23 x 16 x 10 inch, Glass Beaded Surface on Mixed Media, Jan Huling
Dudaway, 23 x 16 x 10 inch, Glass Beaded Surface on Mixed Media, Jan Huling

Dudaway, 23 x 16 x 10 inch, Glass Beaded Surface on Mixed Media, Jan Huling

By Jan Huling

Located in St. Louis, MO

Dudaway, 23 x 16 x 10 inch, Glass Beaded Surface on Mixed Media, Jan Huling Jan Huling was born in Chicago and raised in St. Louis. After attending the Kansas City Art Institute she...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Glass, Plastic, Found Objects, Mixed Media, Other Medium

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

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

By Mihail Sorin

Located in Long Island City, NY

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

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Early 2000s Surrealist Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Canvas, Wood, Found Objects, Oil

"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

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

Class War: Mixed Media Artwork: Hand Embroidery on Vintage Photo
Class War: Mixed Media Artwork: Hand Embroidery on Vintage Photo

Class War: Mixed Media Artwork: Hand Embroidery on Vintage Photo

By Han Cao

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This piece titled "Class War" is an original piece by Han Cao and is made from hand embroidery on found vintage class photograph from 1958, with cotton and silk thread. This piece m...

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

Materials

Thread, Found Objects, Photographic Paper

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

Rama, 15 x 9 x 4 inch, Figurative Beaded Sculpture on Vintage Kewpie, Huling

Rama, 15 x 9 x 4 inch, Figurative Beaded Sculpture on Vintage Kewpie, Huling

By Jan Huling

Located in St. Louis, MO

Rama, 15 x 9 x 4 inch, Figurative Beaded Sculpture on Vintage Kewpie, Huling Jan Huling was born in Chicago and raised in St. Louis. After attending the Kansas City Art Institute sh...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Glass, Plastic, Found Objects, Mixed Media, Other Medium

Devil's Shoe, 8 x 10 x 6 inch, Glass Beads on Found Form, Jan Huling
Devil's Shoe, 8 x 10 x 6 inch, Glass Beads on Found Form, Jan Huling

Devil's Shoe, 8 x 10 x 6 inch, Glass Beads on Found Form, Jan Huling

By Jan Huling

Located in St. Louis, MO

Devil's Shoe, 8 x 10 x 6 inch, Glass Beads on Found Form, Jan Huling Jan Huling was born in Chicago and raised in St. Louis. After attending the Kansas City Art Institute she starte...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Glass, Plastic, Found Objects, Mixed Media, Other Medium

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

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Wood, Paint, Found Objects

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

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Steel

Look
Look

Look

Located in New York, NY

Stainless Steel TIG Welding Rod, Aluminum, Fishing Accessories, Wire, Paint Jeremy Bullis after David L. Bullis Edition 1/5

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2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Stainless Steel, Wire

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

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

By Richard J. Watson

Located in Bryn Mawr, PA

This is a two-part wall mounted painting / sculpture this integrates found objects and photographs into an acrylic painting on the top, and a wooden shelf with bullet casings and coins below. This is a conceptual, abstract work of art that is a powerful homage to lives lost through calculated gun violence in American cites. signed by the artist. PROVENANCE: Exhibited in "Portals + Revelations: Richard J. Watson," the African American Museum in Philadelphia, Oct 2021 - Mar 2022. "Most of my works are supported by memories of the past and suggested realities. Issues of social politics, ancestral references, and astral projections are presented with fragmented elements...

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2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Acrylic, Panel, Found Objects, Mixed Media

"Rushmore Rocks" French Knot Embroidery on Vintage Postcard by Han Cao
"Rushmore Rocks" French Knot Embroidery on Vintage Postcard by Han Cao

"Rushmore Rocks" French Knot Embroidery on Vintage Postcard by Han Cao

By Han Cao

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This piece titled "Rushmore Rocks" is an original piece by Han Cao and is made from hand embroidery on a found vintage postcard from the 1940s, with cotton thread. This piece measur...

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

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Thread, Found Objects, Photographic Paper

"Shrine of Democracy" Figurative, Embroidery on Vintage Photo
"Shrine of Democracy" Figurative, Embroidery on Vintage Photo

"Shrine of Democracy" Figurative, Embroidery on Vintage Photo

By Han Cao

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This piece titled "Shrine of Democracy" is an original piece by Han Cao and is made from hand embroidery on found vintage postcard from the 1960s, with cotton thread. This piece mea...

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

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Thread, Found Objects, Photographic Paper

"Red, White and Blew (2025)" French Knot and Hand Embroidery on Vintage Postcard
"Red, White and Blew (2025)" French Knot and Hand Embroidery on Vintage Postcard

"Red, White and Blew (2025)" French Knot and Hand Embroidery on Vintage Postcard

By Han Cao

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This piece titled "Red, White and Blew (2025)" is an original piece by Han Cao and is made from hand embroidery on a found vintage postcard from the 1940s, with cotton thread. This ...

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

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Thread, Found Objects, Postcard

Large Abstract Rusted Metal Composition "De Stahl Study 3"
Large Abstract Rusted Metal Composition "De Stahl Study 3"

Large Abstract Rusted Metal Composition "De Stahl Study 3"

By Mark Hilltout

Located in Cape Town, ZA

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

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Metal, Steel, Iron

Jo Yarrington, Uh Oh, 2020, mixed media, 3.5 x 4 x 8 in

Jo Yarrington, Uh Oh, 2020, mixed media, 3.5 x 4 x 8 in

By Jo Yarrington

Located in Darien, CT

Jo Yarrington has always been interested in chance and the found {moment, object, person}. How random experiences click in to place, form a narrative, reveal a truth. All the work ...

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2010s Conceptual Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Metal

Assembler Violeta N° 1 and N°2 Diptych Abstract Mixed Media Wall Sculpture
Assembler Violeta N° 1 and N°2 Diptych Abstract Mixed Media Wall Sculpture

Assembler Violeta N° 1 and N°2 Diptych Abstract Mixed Media Wall Sculpture

By Fanny Szyller Finkelman

Located in Miami Beach, FL

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

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2010s Minimalist Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Metal

"Untitled" David Hare, Abstract Surrealist Sculpture, Found Objects, Box, Dada
"Untitled" David Hare, Abstract Surrealist Sculpture, Found Objects, Box, Dada

"Untitled" David Hare, Abstract Surrealist Sculpture, Found Objects, Box, Dada

By David Hare

Located in New York, NY

David Hare Untitled, circa 1970s Mixed media 4 x 2 3/4 x 4 inches Provenance The artist Mercedes Matter, New York (gift from the above) Bill O'Reilly, New York (gift from the above)...

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1970s Surrealist Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Paint, Found Objects, Mixed Media

Sylvia Schwartz, Dressing-up_Detail, 2018, canvas, fabric, paint, plastic
Sylvia Schwartz, Dressing-up_Detail, 2018, canvas, fabric, paint, plastic

Sylvia Schwartz, Dressing-up_Detail, 2018, canvas, fabric, paint, plastic

By Sylvia Schwartz

Located in Darien, CT

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

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2010s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Fabric, Plastic, Found Objects, Acrylic

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