Art by Medium: Rubber

Artist's Statement: "Part a new series of paintings I have been working on that I am really excited about. I am incorporating a lot of media I have been exploring over the years -- ...

Artist's Statement: "Part a new series of paintings I have been working on that I am really excited about. I am incorporating a lot of media I have been exploring over the years -- ...

III (Wish #1, Wish #2, Wish #3) Set of 3 Wishbones - Peter Norton Christmas Gift Fanciful set of three different wishbones by Lorna Simpson (American, b. 1960). Three wishbones, one...

This piece was created using carefully curated materials that were then bound together. The materials used were all discarded and would otherwise have gone to a landfill. I repurpose...

This two panel stretched and dyed rubber piece was created by American contemporary artist John Drummer in the early 2000's. This work was featured in the exhibition "Jack Drummer" organized by BT&C Gallery and which coincided with the Burchfield Penney Art Center's exhibition "The Effects of Time". This is currently the only work available for acquisition. The Burchfield Penney exhibition that featured these rare pieces was voted one of the best 10 exhibitions that year in ArtForum's 2016 Top Ten by Matthew Higgs, who would later curate an exhibition of Drummers work for White Columns gallery that was reviewed by Art in America in 2017. John E. (aka “Jack”) Drummer (1935-2013) was an itinerant and mercurial figure. Self-taught as an artist, his earliest works from the late 1950s and early 1960s were included in several key exhibitions in Buffalo and New York City, including the first of Allan Kaprow’s legendary ‘New Forms, New Media’ exhibitions that he curated for Martha Jackson’s gallery in 1960. Drummer’s 1962 solo exhibition at the Gordon Gallery, New York received a rapturous review from critic Brian O’Doherty in The New York Times, who praised Drummer for his ability to “make something out of nothing”, describing his work from this time as “screens for the imagination,” a notion that could equally be applied to his later works on view at White Columns in a 2017 solo exhibition. Despite this early success, Drummer would soon leave New York City, returning initially to Buffalo, before moving to New Orleans and then California, before eventually settling in Hawaii. Very little of Drummer’s early work has survived, including almost none of the 300-odd, often large-scale, styrofoam-based sculptures he produced in Hawaii. On returning to his home-town of Buffalo in the early 1980s, Drummer would embark on an extraordinary body of work that would preoccupy him for the next two decades. Drummer’s late work is clearly related to, and expands upon, the histories of minimal, post-minimal and process-orientated art. His approach is empathetic with that of the Italian Arte Povera artists, sharing their interest and investment in ‘poor’ and quotidian materials. Working almost exclusively with ‘found’ materials, and specifically materials that had previously been employed and subsequently discarded in industrial and manufacturing processes, Drummer’s work of the 1980s-early 2000s was largely overlooked and unexhibited during his lifetime. Drummer’s late works employ the rubber ‘blankets’ – used in offset printing to remove excess ink during the printing process – as supports. These ‘ready-made’ supports often revealed aspects of their ‘histories’: their surfaces are typically marked with ghostly images and texts resulting from the printing process. Drummer would then work directly onto and into these ‘pre-prepared’ supports. Drummer’s late works often incorporate impressions taken directly from the surfaces of walls, floors, and fencing, etc. – ‘images’ created by laying the rubber sheets face down onto a desired surface, and then applying pressure from the back of the sheet to create a subsequent negative impression or image of that surface, likely a physically demanding process, akin to making a ‘brass rubbing...

Linda Stein, Highway, Bridge & Twist 296 - Mixed Media Metal Wood Contemporary Art Wall Sculpture In the 1990s Linda Stein began to work on a series called Blades, sculptural wo...

This piece titled "Expecting to Fly" is an original piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from 30 repaired chicken eggs, brass, rubber, steel, plastic, and mica. This piece measures app...

Linda Stein, Pumper 291 - Mixed Media Metal Wood Rubber Contemporary Art Wall Sculpture In the 1990s Linda Stein began to work on a series called Blades, sculptural works that incor...

Linda Stein, Loose Wire 295 - Mixed Media Metal Wood Contemporary Art Wall Sculpture In the 1990s Linda Stein began to work on a series called Blades, sculptural works that incorpor...

Abstract wall sculpture of a house footprint from his show titled "Blandtown," made of recycled bicycle tubes. Gregor is inspired by the works of...

An original conceptual sculpture by contemporary artist Dianne Baker, created in 2015 using wood, paint, metal, rubber and plexi.

“Over the last twenty years, I have put together an extensive amount of research towards the intersections and thresholds between painting, sculpture, and drawing. My aim is to produ...

Koji Takei works reference synthetic cubism in the most literal of senses. In cubist artworks, the objects are broken up, analyzed and re-assembled in abstracted form. These pieces...

Abstract wall sculpture of a house footprint from his show titled "Blandtown," made of recycled bicycle tubes. Gregor is inspired by the works of...

Abstract wall sculpture of a house footprint from his show titled "Blandtown," made of recycled bicycle tubes. Gregor is inspired by the works of...

Abstract wall sculpture of a house footprint from his show titled "Blandtown," made of recycled bicycle tubes. Gregor is inspired by the works of...

Abstract wall sculpture of a house footprint from his show titled "Blandtown," made of recycled bicycle tubes. Gregor is inspired by the works of...

Gregor Turk’s new series titled “CONFLUX” features wall-mounted box-like maps of global choke points, strategic locations where passage by land or sea is constricted. Coastlines are ...

Mixed media artwork by contemporary artist Gerald Wolfe. Gerald Wolfe received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from the University of Maryland in 1972, discovered his interest ...

Artist Statement: The object rotates is an element that has allowed man to evolve, know and survive, an element that is closer to the forms of nature, but created by man; An object so important that it could not only remain dirty and in the background, but clean and soft. Sculpture made from a tire...