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Medium: Wood
ORBE N°1. Abstract Wall sculpture. Metal Intervened with pigments on wood.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist finds inspiration in the exploration of various discarded materials, transforming them into three-dimensional sculptures full of transparency and life. She uses small piec...
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2010s Minimalist Wood Mixed Media

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Metal

Ramona
Located in Mill Valley, CA
A mixed media sculpture of wood, acrylic, and prismacolor.
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2010s Contemporary Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Wood, Acrylic

Shes Watching Mixed Media Painting Collage Wall Construction FIgural Abstraction
Located in Surfside, FL
"She's Watching" Mixed media collage, assemblage, gestural painting on masonite. Hand Signed in ink and titled verso. It does not appear to be dated. I am estimating it is from the 1980's. It has some Postmodern elements and similarities to Transavanguardia is the Italian version of Neo-expressionism. Francie Bishop Good (American, 1949-) Francie Bishop Good was raised in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She currently lives and works in South Florida and New York City. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Bishop Good is twice recipient of the South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship, and the State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship. She completed her Graduate Studies at Maine Media College, Rockport, Maine, International Center of Photography, New York, New York, Master of Arts, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, B.F.A. University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, William Allen High School, studies under James Musselman Her museum solo shows include the Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL, Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, FL, and the Hilliard Museum, Lafayette, LA. Bishop Good's work has been shown at David Castillo Gallery, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL. Griffin Museum of Photography, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, and AMbrosino Gallery. Recent museum acquisitions include Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, The Patricia & Philip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL and the NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL. Selected Group and Invitational Exhibitions NSU Art Museum, Remember to React: 60 Years of Collection, Fort Lauderdale, FL Frost Art Museum, Connectivity: Selections from the Collection of the Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL Dual Roles, curated by Laura Marsh, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood FL David Castillo Gallery, gallery artists, in terms of collage, Miami Beach, FL Multidisciplinary, curated by Dimensions Variable, Open Source Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Cornell Museum, Artistically Speaking, Boca Raton Museum of Art, FL. People and Places, Photographs from the Collection, summer 2015 Frost Museum, FIU Miami FL, 25 Inches, The Faces of the Permanent Collection Locust Projects, Smash and Grab, November Annie Wharton Fine Art, Los Angeles group show, summer Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale ,The Art of Caring summer Women to Women, collaboration with Samantha Salzinger, Bakehouse Fredric Snitzer Gallery Boy oh Boy, Summer Show Miami A.I.R. Gallery, The Man I Wish I Was, curator Kharis Kennedy Photo Miami with Nina Arias, Miami, FL December Alva Gallery, New London, Ct Being Good: Women's Moral Values Art Basel with Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL 51st Venice Biennale, Italy Poles Apart / Poles Together, International Artists' Museum, White Box Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, FOCUS ON: New Photography, National Museum of Women in the Arts, FL Transitory Patterns Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL Optic Nerve Selected Collections Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Ma. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Ct. Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL Frost Museum of Art, Miami Florida Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, Florida Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida Sagamore Hotel Collection, Miami Beach, Florida Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Refco Collection, Chicago, Illinois Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania New World Symphony Residence, Miami, Florida Art in Public Places, Broward County, Florida Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Florida William Gates III (Bill Gates) Monica and Richard Segal Saks Fifth Avenue Asides from being an exceptional artist she is also a passionate collector. Photographs by Cindy Sherman and the late feminist artist Ana Mendieta, collages by Kara Walker, a watercolor by Louise Bourgeois, Cecily Brown, Tracey Emin, Teresita Fernandez, Carrie Mae Weems, Nan Goldin, Barbara Kruger, Catherine Opie, Lorna Simpson, Kiki Smith, Mickalene Thomas, and Kara Walker. are among 100 works by leading contemporary artists donated by philanthropists David Horvitz...
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1990s Post-Modern Wood Mixed Media

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Masonite, Paper, Mixed Media, Oil

Imagine
Located in Paris, France
Varnish, Pigments and photography on wood. The work of Edouard Buzon is a book of inner journeys, a dreamlike wandering paved with signs, numbers, fragments of unfinished sentences....
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2010s Contemporary Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Wood, Varnish, Photographic Paper, Pigment

Archipelago 8
Located in Torino, TO
Archipelago 8, Acrylic on glass, silver salt print from smartphone, wood and aluminum frame, 24.5x15 cm, 2024
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2010s Contemporary Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Glass, Wood, Plate Glass, Acrylic, Wood Panel

"WavyBlue" Wall Sculpture-wood, orange, red, navy, blue, modernism, mid century
Located in Marmora, NJ
"WavyBlue" is a minimalist and modernist maple wood wall sculpture that brings bold statement to wherever it is placed. The piece was inspired by my love for simple bold colors and...
Category

2010s Modern Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Wood, Paint

A sense of belonging - diorama of the interior of a vintage 80s dining room
Located in New York, NY
Hanging crafted wood wall sculpture with a mini diorama of a vintage 80s dining room that can be seen through a viewfinder. Batteries included. More informa...
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2010s Contemporary Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Felt, Wood, Mixed Media

"CALANDRA" Abstract Mixed media painting 48" x 96" inch by Cameron Michel
Located in Culver City, CA
"CALANDRA" Abstract Mixed media painting 48" x 96" inch by Cameron Michel Michel has been an apprentice to established artists Matthew Barney (NY), Ste...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Resin, Wood, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Channel
Located in Mill Valley, CA
An abstract walnut ink painting on book boards.
Category

2010s Contemporary Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Walnut, Ink

Large Judaica Copper Repousse Sculpture Relief Plaque Arie Merzer Bezalel Era
Located in Surfside, FL
Arieh Merzer (Israeli, 1905-1966) Copper relief sculpture panel in gilt frame Framed dimensions 18 X 26.25, copper 14.5 X 22.5 Arieh Merzer ...
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Mid-20th Century Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Metal, Copper

"Birth of Christ" after a Russian icon of the 15th century. Oliver Samsinger
Located in Segovia, ES
"Birth of Christ", after a Russian icon of the 15th century. Tempera and gold leaves on gesso, wooden board. Dimensions: (H) 68 x (W) 52 x (D) 4 cm. This icon sums up the events of the birth of Christ. At the top left the three wise men from the Orient approach on horses. ABOUT THE ARTIST Oliver...
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1990s Byzantine Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Gold Leaf

Untitled 15, 16 and Untitled 17. From the Mexican Ryōan-ji Series.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Ryōan-ji is the Japanese Zen temple in Kyoto, a monastery that gave rise to the idea of ​​the purely abstract Zen garden that inspired this series Francisco Larios’ works are done by...
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2010s Abstract Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Gold Leaf

Untitled 23. From the Mexican Ryōan-ji Series.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Ryōan-ji is the Japanese Zen temple in Kyoto, a monastery that gave rise to the idea of ​​the purely abstract Zen garden that inspired this series Francisco Larios’ works are done by...
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2010s Abstract Wood Mixed Media

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Gold Leaf

Untitled 17. From the Mexican Ryōan-ji Series.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Ryōan-ji is the Japanese Zen temple in Kyoto, a monastery that gave rise to the idea of ​​the purely abstract Zen garden that inspired this series Francisco Larios’ works are done by...
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2010s Abstract Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Gold Leaf

Untitled 20. From the Mexican Ryōan-ji Series.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Ryōan-ji is the Japanese Zen temple in Kyoto, a monastery that gave rise to the idea of ​​the purely abstract Zen garden that inspired this series Francisco Larios’ works are done by...
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2010s Abstract Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Gold Leaf

Elf King
Located in Mill Valley, CA
A mixed media sculpture of the human figure using Alaskan cedar, found metal, semi-precious gemstone, and steel.
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2010s Contemporary Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Metal, Steel

Imprints / I Am Yourself: House. Art wall abstract sculpture installation
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Imprints/I am Yourself is a work of collection; a collection of images augmented by Casey Waterman to create a habitat where paralleled materials, connotations, and ambiguity comment...
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2010s Contemporary Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Glass, Plaster, Walnut, Vinyl

Imprints / I Am Yourself: Triangle. Art wall abstract sculpture installation
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Imprints/I am Yourself is a work of collection; a collection of images augmented by Casey Waterman to create a habitat where paralleled materials, connotations, and ambiguity comment...
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2010s Contemporary Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Glass, Plaster, Walnut, Vinyl

Imprints / I Am Yourself: Hall. Art wall abstract sculpture installation
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Imprints/I am Yourself is a work of collection; a collection of images augmented by Casey Waterman to create a habitat where paralleled materials, connotations, and ambiguity comment...
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2010s Contemporary Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Glass, Plaster, Walnut, Vinyl

Imprints / I Am Yourself: Girls. Art wall abstract sculpture installation
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Imprints/I am Yourself is a work of collection; a collection of images augmented by Casey Waterman to create a habitat where paralleled materials, connotations, and ambiguity comment...
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2010s Contemporary Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Glass, Plaster, Walnut, Vinyl

Visions
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: Wood, cutouts from books TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author, and educator. For over three decades he has made his home in...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Wood, Paper

'Mumbo Jumbo' - large-scale abstract, 3-D, sculptural, black and white, wood
Located in Atlanta, GA
This large-scale multi piece work features organic and undulating wood-cut shapes. Black and white. Colombian-born, Atlanta-based artist Esteban Patino...
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2010s Contemporary Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Wood, Acrylic

Booberry
Located in Bozeman, MT
Electric Coffin is coded within art history and ideologies from archetypes of mysticism. We explore found truths from modernity and a personal historical perspective. A process-drive...
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2010s Contemporary Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Wood, Acrylic Polymer, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic

"DEUTERIUM" Abstract Mixed media painting 48" x 96" inch by Cameron Michel
Located in Culver City, CA
"DEUTERIUM" Abstract Mixed media painting 48" x 96" inch by Cameron Michel Michel has been an apprentice to established artists Matthew Barney (NY), St...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Resin, Wood, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Swallow in Flight, Animal Art, Original Gold Bird Art, Still Life Art, 3D Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Sally-Ann Johns’ striking work often depicts everyday birds and animals, sometimes portraits, displayed in a unique and exciting way. Set into a gold lined box, they conjure images o...
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2010s Contemporary Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Metal

Never Again
Located in Mill Valley, CA
A sculpture of books referring to the burning of books.
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2010s Contemporary Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Wood

Untitled 16. Mixed Media Abstract Gold Leaf Painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Ryōan-ji is the Japanese Zen temple in Kyoto, a monastery that gave rise to the idea of ​​the purely abstract Zen garden that inspired this series Francisco Larios’ works are done by...
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2010s Abstract Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Gold Leaf

At 5:30
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Largely self-taught, Hutchison has developed and innovated methods and mediums including hand-building and bending Plexiglas forms to facilitate her artistic process. Notably Hutchis...
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2010s Abstract Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Plexiglass, Birch, Mixed Media

"Social Isolation" Glass Abstract Sculpture Figures Aluminium Wood Steel
Located in Benahavis, ES
This contemporary Sculpture " Social Isolation " features a stunning combination of cast aluminum and glass figures, was created by DM and Jennifer Baker, from lost wax cast glass, ...
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2010s Abstract Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Metal, Iron

Contemporary Limited Edition Los Angeles Screen Prints
Located in San Francisco, CA
Set of 4 Limited Edition "Los Angeles Print Series, Group 3" by Rick Rodine This is a rare opportunity to acquire the artwork of a very talented artist! Mixed media acrylic and scr...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Wood, Acrylic, Screen

Surfboards 2
Located in New York, NY
Fun, vibrant mixed media piece featuring 4 surfboards. On wood. About the Artist: Allen's work has gained recognition world-wide for it's complex layering of mixed media works that create a narrative of modern American culture. His work today is a culmination of many years of painting, thinking and experiencing. He blends urban street art with his background of typography, mixed media collage, and abstract expressionism into each of his urban pop expressionist works. The son of fine artist / commercial artist Harrison Allen, Mark learned a lot very early from his talented father. His think training also includes a bachelor degree in commercial art from Texas...
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2010s Pop Art Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Wood, Mixed Media

Magdalena
Located in Mill Valley, CA
A mixed media sculpture of a human figure using wood, acrylic, prismacolor, and a found object.
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2010s Contemporary Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Wood, Found Objects, Acrylic

"Light Through Water", Contemporary, Mixed Media, Sculpture, Hand Made Paper
Located in St. Louis, MO
Glover did not begin her career as an artist. After receiving an MBA from Harvard Business School, she served as an international consultant in strategy, industry best practices, and...
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2010s Contemporary Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Birch, Acrylic, Archival Paper

Float No. 15, Waterscape, Acrylic, Resin, Abstract, Blue, Green, Flowing Water
Located in Riverdale, NY
Float No. 15 by Jennifer Glover Riggs is an acrylic and Resin painting on Wood. It is 30 x 30 . It has a watery feel with blues and greens. It is filled with movement and color. ...
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2010s Contemporary Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Wood, Varnish, Acrylic

Homage to Malewitsch - contemporary homage art in boxes of Kasimir Malewitsch
Located in Hamburg, DE
"Homage to Malewitsch" is an original mixed media artwork by Volker Kuhn. The work is hand-signed and numbered by the artist below the artwork on the mat. It is a witty reference for...
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21st Century and Contemporary Assemblage Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Wood, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Carlo
Located in Mill Valley, CA
A sculpture of wood, acrylic, enamel, and found objects.
Category

2010s Contemporary Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Enamel

Contemporary Wall Sculpture Painting Installation House Brick Architecture
Located in Buffalo, NY
Russell Targ (2018) by Gary Sczerbaniewicz. Wood, laser-cut MDF, acrylic, ink.
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2010s Contemporary Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Wood, Ink, Acrylic, Fiberboard

High Trail, 3-D Diorama Box by James Dilnot
By James Dilnot
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: James Dilnot Title: High Trail Year: 2006 Medium: Wooden Diorama Box with Cutout Birds, labelled and stamped verso Size: 7 x 23 x 3.5 in. (17.78 x 58.42 x 8.89 cm)
Category

Early 2000s Folk Art Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Wood, Paper, Mixed Media

Forrest Walk
Located in Buffalo, NY
A contemporary conceptual sculpture by Dianne Baker titled "Forest Walk" created in 2013 with wood, metal and leather.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Metal

Red Line
Located in Bozeman, MT
Suzanne Truman was born In Phoenix, Arizona; raised on farms and ranches in Arizona and California until her Family moved to Kentucky when she was 15. She returned west after attendi...
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2010s Contemporary Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Wood, Encaustic

Leather woven artwork with grey fringes on wood
Located in San Francisco, CA
"Horizon" by Cécilia Lusven is handwoven from linen and off-cut leathers. Lusven's signature style involves hand-cutting the leather scraps into same size fringe pieces that are then...
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2010s Abstract Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Leather, Textile, Linen, Wood

Dark Moon VI
Located in Mill Valley, CA
A wall sculpture made using cedar, black paint, and graphite powder,
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2010s Contemporary Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Cedar, Acrylic, Graphite

'Ruark', by Sunni Mercer, Box, Photo and Found Object Sculpture, 2021
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
'Ruark', by Sunni Mercer is a sculptural mixed media wooden box measuring at 2 x 5.5 x 3.75 inches. Sunni uses found objects and photos in addition to the dark brown wooden box...
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2010s Contemporary Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media, Wood

Intimate Duo 134 - Mixed Media Assemblage Contemporary Art Wall Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Intimate Duo 134 - Mixed Media Assemblage Contemporary Art Wall Sculpture Intimate Duo 134 is from artist Linda Stein's Brush Assemblage series, where she combines foun...
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1980s Contemporary Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Metal

"Bold" acrylic on wood panel
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Amy Smith is a self-educated contemporary artist. Born in New Jersey, she moved to Los Angeles where she found inspiration, mentors, and support in the Street Art community. In her Collage Portrait Series, Amy Smith uses photography, and layers of hand cut stencils, and torn recycled fashion magazine pieces to simultaneously represent her love of fashion and her contempt for excessive consumerism. In addition, she showcases female portraits to empower and unify, creating a space to feel connected to oneself and to each other. Smith’s mixed media collages have been shown at Wallspace, Saatchi’s The Other Art Fair, La Art Fair to name a few and been part of auctions such as revered Julien’s Auctions...
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2010s Pop Art Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Wood, Acrylic

"Abstract Antique Ebony Wall" Abstract, Seascape Painting, 21st Century, Acrylic
Located in Dessau-Rosslau, Sachsen Anhalt
Artist: Roger König b. Dessau, Germany (1968) Master student of Kurt Schönburg, HWK Halle, Germany. Art Awards Winner 2019 - Art Fair Leipzig Acrylic, Clay, Paper, Wood on Canvas ...
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2010s Abstract Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Clay, Acrylic, Wood, Paper

THREE CUBES (CUSTOM WOOD PAINTING)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on custom cut wood. Hand signed on verso by the artist. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonable offers will be co...
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Late 20th Century Op Art Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Wood, Acrylic

ADORNED OBSOLESCENCE 02 - Sculptural Wall Hanging w/ Found & Repurposed Objects
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
In ADORNED OBSOLESCENCE 02, Liz Miller creates a sculptural wall hanging piece which builds on the juxtapositions between strength and malleability, archite...
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2010s Contemporary Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Wood, Mixed Media

Anticipation - contemporary art in boxes artwork by Volker Kuhn, design art
Located in Hamburg, DE
"Anticipation" is an original mixed media artwork by Volker Kuhn. The work is hand-signed by the artist below the artwork on the mat. 28 x 25 cm framed in a silver-gold wood-framing ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Assemblage Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Wood, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Augustine
Located in Mill Valley, CA
This is a wood sculpture of a head and trunk using acrylic, prismacolor, and found objects.
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2010s Contemporary Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Wood, Found Objects, Acrylic

Judaica Imagery on Wood Contemporary Pop Art Manner
Located in Surfside, FL
A silkscreen mixed-media work that exhibits the word "Forefathers" in Hebrew across the bottom of the piece.
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Wood, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Black and White

Le Matin au Cafe, Contemporary Mixed Media and Wood Sculpture by Robert Clerc
By Robert Clerc
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Robert Clerc Title: Le Matin au Cafe Year: circa 1990 Medium: 3-D Painting and Collage Multiple Edition: 12 Size: 21 x 20 x 3 inches [53 x 51 x 8 cm]
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1990s Contemporary Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Wire

GLENROSE AVE. - Embroidered Scene of Glenrose Ave in Nashville in Wood Frame
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
This piece was inspired by my families’ journey of becoming displaced. Glenrose Ave. was our first home in America and a time of transitioning into a new society.
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2010s Contemporary Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Thread, Wood

"SSB1" Mixed Media Wall Sculpture (wood, white, black, gray, mint, modern)
Located in Marmora, NJ
SSB1 (Shou Sugi Ban) is a modern mixed media wall sculpture made from MDF, enamel, lacquer and stained shou Sugi ban pine wood. The pine was charred and then brushed back to create a...
Category

2010s Modern Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Wood, Paint

116
Located in Miami, FL
This unique and colorful painting has natural texture with natural pigmented soils on wood. It is Textured with 10 year seasoned slaked lime. Minerals from iron and copper mine. Pyri...
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2010s Abstract Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Limestone, Copper

"SSB6" Mixed Media Wall Sculpture (wood, white, yellow, blue, green, navy)
Located in Marmora, NJ
SSB6 (Shou Sugi Ban) is a modern mixed media wall sculpture made from MDF, enamel, lacquer and stained shou Sugi ban pine wood. The pine was charred and then brushed back to create ...
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2010s Modern Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Wood, Paint

Plaster Sculpture Relief Art Deco Plaque WPA Artist Peace Swords to Ploughshares
Located in Surfside, FL
Size includes wood mounting. George Aarons (born Gregory Podubisky, in St. Petersburg, Russia, 1896 - died in Gloucester, Massachusetts 1980) was a distinguished sculptor who lived and taught in Gloucester, Massachusetts, for many years until his death in 1980. He had, many students in the area and he designed Gloucester's 350th Anniversary Commemorative Medal. Aarons moved from Russia to the United States when he was ten. His father was a merchant. He began taking drawing classes during evenings at Dearborn Public School in Boston as a teenager and went on to study at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 1916. Aarons later moved to New York City to study with Jo Davidson, and other Paris-trained masters at the Beaux-Arts Institute. He eventually returned to the Boston area and established studios in Brookline and Gloucester, Massachusetts. During his lifetime, he was recognized internationally and won several prestigious awards. Aarons had studios in Brookline, Massachusetts and Gloucester, Massachusetts where he produced large bronze and marble figures and wood carvings. He produced several projects for the Works Progress Administration including a group of three figures for the Public Garden (Boston), a longshoreman, fisherman and foundry worker, as well as a large relief (1938) for the South Boston Housing Project and façade of the Baltimore Hebrew Congregational Building (1956). His works are at the Museum of Art in Ein Harod, Israel; Fitchburg Art Museum in Massachusetts, Musée de St. Denis in France; Hilles Library at Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Hillel House at Boston University in Massachusetts. He did reliefs for Siefer Hall at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts (1950); Edward Filene (the founder of Filene's Department Store and a philanthropist) on the Boston Common; Fireman's Memorial in Beverly, Massachusetts; a memorial to Mitchell Frieman in Boston; the U.S. Post Office in Ripley, Mississippi; and at the Cincinnati Telephone Building; the Combined Jewish Philanthropies building in Boston (1965); and a commemorative medal for the 350th Anniversary of the City of Gloucester, Massachusetts (1972). Characteristic of his era, George Aarons was among the foreign-born American sculptors of the early 20th century who started their careers as academicians and evolved into modernists and increasingly abstract artists. Over thirty pieces spanning the length of this sculptor's career were featured in this exhibition, including work in various medium bronze, wood and original plasters. Like his contemporaries, Aarons experimented with direct carving in wood, and he was one of the few academically trained sculptors who consistently cut his own works in marble. His early work was classically inspired figurative work, along with sensitive portraits. Some of his most powerful sculpture comes from his middle period, when he worked through his emotional pain following the global realization of the Jewish Holocaust. He depicted humanity deep anxiety over this tragedy with figures that are at once symbolically charged and movingly beautiful. Aarons late work consists of radically simplified forms that continue to reference the human form and often are carved directly in wood and stone. Aarons summered and taught classes on Cape Ann for many years before moving to Gloucester full-time with his wife about 1950. While Aarons is best known locally for his domestic-scale works, he also executed numerous monumental, public commissions that can be found throughout the United States in cities such as Washington, D.C.; Baltimore, Maryland; and Cincinnati, Ohio; as well as in France and Israel. As noted in a Gloucester Daily Times Article, Aarons wanted his sculptures to honor the struggles and nobility of people and rail against the evil done against them. And that was why, even as his work grew more and more abstract, stylized and simplified, he never left behind the form of the human figure that had been his focus from his earliest works. Aarons told the Gloucester Daily Times in September 1954 that he found it hard to remember at just what age he started studying art, but he recalled that the nude model had to partially dress when he was in class because he was so young. He initially studied painting and drawing at the museum school, but he once said he became fascinated by sculpture when he met an established sculptor at the Copley Society in Boston who invited Aarons to his studio and offered him some clay to "play around" with. After he graduated, he apprenticed under sculptors Richard Brooks, Robert Baker and Solon Borglum. He worked as a carpenter, shipbuilder, dishwasher and chimney sweep. He fashioned architectural decorations, including figures for fountains and now and then a few commissioned portraits. He returned to Boston by the early 1920s and began to exhibit his own works and get commissions for portraits, fountains and reliefs. His sculptures from this time are dreamy and romantic in the realistic, academic style of the time. A painted portrait of the young Aarons that is included in the North Shore Arts Association exhibit shows a determined fellow with dark brown hair, a suit and bow tie. However, in 1922, this determined young artist was living with his parents on Calder Street in Dorchester. In the 1930s, Aarons adopted the streamlined, monumental style of the socialist works of the time. Aarons made money, as he would all his life, from commissions, selling his personal work and teaching sculpture, but the Depression of the 1930s was tough for everyone. So Aarons found work though the federal Works Progress Administration, one of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal programs. He received his first major commission when he was asked to create a public sculpture for the South Boston Harbor Village public housing project around 1937. He was elevated to the position of supervisor for the project and received a corresponding $5 pay increase to make his weekly salary $32. The raise convinced him he was fit to marry and he proposed to Gertrude Band, an attractive brunette dancer whom he had been dating for more than a year. They were married before the Harbor Village project was dedicated on Labor Day 1938. Aarons' design featured a brawny, larger-than-lifesize fisherman, longshoreman and a laborer flanked by a boy and girl at either end to portray the children who would live in the apartments. Aarons elected to do the piece in cast stone to employ carpenters and laborers as well as craftsman for a total of 10 men. In his sculpture, Aarons focused more and more on the theme of oppressed people as he worried about the spread of fascism and Nazism during the 1930s, World War II and after. He had done pieces during the mid-1930s about the oppression of African-Americans, including "Negro Head," which is in the North Shore Art Association retrospective. After the war, he also delved into Jewish themes and became increasingly known as an important Jewish artist, leading to commissions from Jewish organizations across the country and abroad. "He gets into raw emotion. Some people describe him as an expressionist because of the emotion (in his work)," Reynolds says. But Aarons, also sculpted sensual sexual nudes...
Category

20th Century Art Deco Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Plaster, Wood

"HARLEM CANDU" Abstract Mixed media painting 48" x 96" inch by Cameron Michel
Located in Culver City, CA
"HARLEM CANDU" Abstract Mixed media painting 48" x 96" inch by Cameron Michel Michel has been an apprentice to established artists Matthew Barney (NY), Sterling Ruby (LA), and The H...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Wood Mixed Media

Materials

Resin, Wood, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Wood mixed media for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Wood mixed media available on 1stDibs. While artists have worked in this medium across a range of time periods, art made with this material during the 21st Century is especially popular. If you’re looking to add mixed media created with this material to introduce a provocative pop of color and texture to an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, pink, red, purple and other colors. There are many well-known artists whose body of work includes ceramic sculptures. Popular artists on 1stDibs associated with pieces like this include Scott Troxel, Nemo Jantzen, Stefan Traloc, and Elizabeth Jordan. Frequently made by artists working in the Contemporary, Abstract, all of these pieces for sale are unique and many will draw the attention of guests in your home. Not every interior allows for large Wood mixed media, so small editions measuring 0.1 inches across are also available

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